What's happening YouTube thanks for stopping back by the channel today right here with the rust belt mechanic We are continuing our series with this week's nifty tools of the week. We've got a nice plethora We've got four banging tools here for you guys to check out some new to the market Some you might have already seen before But they've been nifty enough to help me out this week at work Make sure you guys stay tuned to check these out First nifty tool that we're going to be coming to this week is going to be the pros kit CP 382 This is a handheld zip tie Tension cutter tool. I guess that's if you want to you know, the way you really want to call it What it does is you insert these zip ties into the tool It pulls the zip ties tight to the correct tension, which is fully adjustable here on the handle You've got a setting anywhere from like one to four Anywhere from I think three pounds of pole to about ten pounds of pole on it So it's fully adjustable in whatever situation you're working on whether you're just putting a couple a little wire looms together You know or you're working with the plastic conduit that you really don't want to crush So you want to turn down that tension and you're going to insert your zip tie into the end of the tool Pull the trigger It's going to pull it to that certain tension and then flush cut snip the end of the zip tie off Which makes it fantastic for us mechanics who are getting back into the engine bay and working on these things Because this tool is going to flush cut that zip tie off So no more busted up knuckles scraped arms or anything when you're talking about the zip ties that you're installing with this tool Now this tool is available in many different outlets, especially over on Amazon It is available for right around thirty dollars You can pick that up just about anywhere else online that sells any kind of tools It is a great tool to have in your toolbox I would definitely recommend to you for you guys to get one of these if you guys are doing any kind of projects where you're Clipping and zipping a whole lot of zip ties Next tool that we're going to come to today is going to be the fexton emergency brake cable I guess remover tool for the cables where they crimp in between So a lot of the emergency brakes they're too long to have just a single cable, especially on larger trucks Now this tool I really really wish that I would have had when I was taking the cab off of my dermax because it would have made getting The emergency brake cable separated in the middle a whole lot easier where these emergency brake cables are put together There is a small crimp end that is crimped and then these two lines Which are the ends of the steel parts of the cable slide in together Lock into place and they're actually usually even crimped a little bit more So they're kind of a pain to get a hold of and get loose from those connections because the emergency brake is already tight What this does is you're able to put your cable end into the little forked portion right here And then all you got to do is just as simple as Pulling the handle and it's going to push the end of the cable through the little crimped portion of The emergency brake cable and it's going to pop the end right out for you guys It's a really nifty easy little tool and it's actually one of the cheaper tools that I've been Showing here on the nifty tools of the week at about 20 25 bucks or so It's going to save you a lot of headaches super simple tool Something that you guys really need to have in your box as well. If you guys are doing jobs like that Now the third tool that we're going to come to today is our matco This is a newer set the 12 piece hex grip Extractor ring set 12 pieces all metric and these things are absolutely fantastic I've had a chance to use these one or two times throughout this week This I would say is a really good alternative to like the snap-on FDX soxits They are made for bolts or fasteners that are up to 80 percent already rounded off What these things are going to be is the outside ring is going to be a 12-point Fastener where you're going to be able to get your socket on to and then the inside as you guys can see here has all these little teeth little grippers that are able to grab and grip on to Rounded fasteners now this piece is from nine looks like an eight to a 19 millimeter set which is you know just the standard socket set anyways The other only other thing that you guys are going to have to worry about is you guys are going to have to be able to use a 12-point socket on the outside portion of this How it works is you're going to have a two millimeter size difference in between the fastener and The actual socket or wrench that you're going to be using If you this thing is going to be the 18 millimeter that is going to be the size of Ratchet or socket or whatever you're going to be using on the outside And that's going to be to remove a 16 millimeter fastener It's going to be able to grip into there and the rounded off fasteners are going to be able to come out actually fairly simply It grips pretty decently You know exactly compared to the fdx sockets where you guys are spending two $300 for the set of those fdx sockets, which you know in essence fit really snug on those bolts to be able to grip them A whole lot easier whereas these this set coming in at 29.95 is a fantastic alternative. They're really nice, you know steel Exterior plated Looks like hardened material, so they seem like they're going to hold up I will be able to do some more reviews on these if they hold up over the next couple of months or so But already just getting the initial view on this one It's going to be a great alternative to those much more expensive rounded off fastener Tools that you're able to get on the market today I would definitely recommend to at least try and pick up a set of these like I said These are pretty new, but I think they're definitely worth trying out Now the fourth and final tool that we're going to come today is going to be our IPA tools number 7862 grease joint rejuvenator this is going to be for all your grease zirks grease fittings of any type and They're going to be able to rejuvenate any of the rusty crusty ones that you guys are unable to fill grease into Now having a look at this It's a three-piece set that's going to have your main insertion tool the tip and the tip Extension hose for those hard to get to grease zirks for you What it's going to do is you're going to be able to fill this thing with a thinner type oil You don't really want to fill this thing with grease as the tip and the nozzle will likely clog up for that one And you won't really be able to Actually use this how it's intended to so you want to pick up some stuff like this LACO part number 7904 zooms about oiler. It's going to be a really nice alternative Grease or oiling compound that's going to break those grease zirks ball Tips actually nice and loose for you It's going to have a nice little extendable end for you to get into your joints or anywhere that you need it to So it's going to be able to be used for a lot of other applications also What you're going to do is you're going to end up pulling the End out of the tool here. You're going to fill this in with the oil the penetrating oil you're going to get your Slide and put back into the tool And all you're going to be able to do at that point is put this thing right on to a grease Cirque and use a hammer and just hammer hammer right there on the end And this is going to force that oiling compound to go into the point of the grease Cirque and break it free going to put some of that oil into the zerk and free everything up for you at that Point you'll be able to use your normal grease zerk in solder use your grease gun and oil up the zirks Just fantastically. I actually use this on my truck one of the grease zirks was all frozen and rusted up and this thing worked fantastically Thing you want to make sure you do ahead of time is after you fill this thing It's going to have an air pocket in it So you're going to want to hold it up push it until the little Pentel end releases the air that's in the top of it because you know if you have a big old pocket air in it Air is compressible you hit it and you're just compressing air So it doesn't work as well that way so you make sure you get the air out of it and it works Absolutely amazingly and at the price of about 37 38 bucks just about anywhere including Amazon This is going to be a really great tool for breaking those rusted grease zerk open to be able to use them freely again Now the LACO oil lubricant does not come with it That's something that I ended up picking up separately to be able to go into it My TIFCO rep ended up selling this one to me. You can pick this up just about anywhere also for you know anywhere from three to seven dollars a Really great item and it works Lee like I said, I use it on the old dirty max and worked awesome I definitely recommend for you guys to pick one of these up last portion of this segment here I really want to be able to shout out a couple of other channels that I feel are just Absolutely killing it on YouTube both in the tools and automotive sector First and the one that we're gonna come to today is the maintenance man the maintenance man doesn't really do automotive But he definitely does a lot of tools. He does tool reviews shows you guys how to use them He's a maintenance guy. So he knows what he's doing.  He does an absolutely fantastic job at doing it He's a great follower of mine and I would definitely give a thumbs up to him and have you guys go and check him out Second one I wanted to give a shout out to a little bit larger channel It's gonna be gear heads gear heads is a fantastic channel when it comes to the automotive sector He does a lot of nice top five things between cars Automotive fixes gives you guys things to look out for when purchasing vehicles stuff That's gonna be wrong with those vehicles as well. He does an awesome job is very detailed He does live streams as well. He's popped in over at mine and over with Justin Dow as well He does a great job on his YouTube channel does good editing skills Definitely gonna be another great channel for you guys to check out also I know it's been a little while since the nifty tools, but this is what we've got a hold of I appreciate you guys stopping in we're gonna have a whole lot more to be coming here soon The finishing of the Duramax build that video is gonna be out here really soon Also, we're gonna be doing some more of the tools that I've done nifty tool videos on before We're gonna be doing some in-depth reviews on some of those I know some of you guys have asked for in-depth reviews and how to uses on some of those tools So I'm gonna do what you guys really want and we're gonna show you guys how to use these things properly and a General review of quite a few of them. I would say we'll be coming up here really soon So make sure you guys stay tuned to that one Make sure you guys go and check me out over on Instagram at Rust Belt mechanic as well And if you guys haven't checked it out me and JRC 54 are pretty much doing awesome on our tool heads crate service Which is a monthly subscription crate service for the tool head the tool lover in everybody It's 3599 and it's gonna be coming to you guys every single month. We've been doing a lot of themed boxes between Diagnostics electrical box cleaning and we've got tons more ideas coming out to you guys very soon as well I appreciate you guys tuning in make sure you keep watching for more and as always you guys stay awesome


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Hey guys, what's up? This is header from x trades and you know, we're just gonna go through another weekly Recap so to start off We're actually gonna switch it up. We're gonna go through three tickers that I mentioned last week and see how they perform Yeah, we'll do that to start off So the first ticker was a EHR. This was covered last week. So this one had a really nice gap up Yeah, it had really nice volume got some really nice follow-through on this Monday or last Monday and So far, it's just basically been flagging here. So perfectly healthy action. This one's incredibly strong Has been trending all year long. It's just been grinding higher and higher and yeah, it continues to act pretty well here Next up we'll take a look at Havana, so I was talking about this flag last week and Yeah, we were able to successfully break out Very clear flag, this was a really nice trade this one I actually ended up not taking it because Havana actually had made such a big move this year I needed more rest, but this one just continued to take off. So the breakout day was on Monday or Tuesday So broke on Tuesday. I was to buy and then it gapped up and there could have been An opportunity to sell into strength But after it took the lows out on this day or on the next day that would have also been a solid sign But overall this one's acting incredibly well, right? This one made almost 700% move from the lows this year But they are really incredible action in this name Then next up Coinbase. So I talked about this really big breakout last week And so far it's just been consolidating which is perfectly healthy action Yeah, this one still looks really really really good The volume is set up really nicely the weekly chart is set up really nicely It just needs to take that 109 level out and this one looks really good. Yeah on the weekly as well Yeah, really good action so much definitely a top watch But yeah, that's what we covered last week and yeah, we'll get into this week and how yeah this week's Mike analysis So we'll start off with the indices Start off with QQQ Take a look at the weekly chart So definitely got really extended, right? We tried to break that 382 level and we got really extended and now we're pulling back and perfectly healthy action nothing to be worried about So this is the trend line, right? there's a good chance that we can pull back to that trend line so Potentially we could see 370 worst-case scenario I think if we lose 370 then that's when we shouldn't really start getting worried But I think there's a good chance that we could revisit 370 And the console day off there But yeah, that's the key support level 370 key resistance levels 382 If we get back above that then we could continue running But I think a chance that will consolidate from a little while at least considering how extended we are and the same thing for the SPI So SPI actually held up a lot better. It's still under the weak green But yeah 453 is the key resistance level and this one's definitely very extended to and can use more of a pullback We got a trend line So same thing as QQQ It's extended here could pull back here to flat 444 level and just the rest for some time but overall still really good action and The SPI didn't pull back too much But I think we could see more football back in the next following weeks And that would be perfectly healthy action as long as that 444 level holds up and as long as we're building Builder building above that trend line, but yeah overall really good action on the indices and nothing to be worried about Yes, we did pull back But we did pull back because we ran up so much right so this is healthy action when you pull back a lot It's very normal to see I mean when you when you get so extended It's very normal to see pullbacks and just you expect some rest for the next couple weeks Expect some consolidation. All right. Now we'll take a look at the big caps first up Apple So Apple tried to break out this week At 198 almost hit that 200 level got close to it Yeah, but yeah guy extended and I was pulling back. It's still holding above that trend line So that nothing to be worried about still very bullish on Apple If that trend line does break then we could see a bigger pullback all the way up to 182 potentially It's actually another resist support level here. So 186 would be the first support level and then 182 But yeah, that's what I see on Apple Next up we'll take a look at AMD so AMD is It was forming this trend line and it broke pretty hard on Thursday. So that's very bearish But we're still just back in this consolidation So so it's not that bearish if you look at the bigger picture So as long as we're in between 117 and 107 We're basically just chopping right if we break 107 that's when we get really bearish and we can see a larger pullback but until then AMD is neutral for now and Yeah, we can just expect more chop Amazon So I'm gonna go to that 137 resistance level and it's now rejecting and it also lost the trend line Let me extend it. Yeah lost the trend line on Thursday and Friday see the little bit of continuation It's trying to form a hammer, but we'll see what happens But right now. Yeah, Amazon has to reclaim that trend line or we could see a bigger pullback And the first support level would be that 127.5 level overall This is normal action, right? Amazon's getting got extended and not just consolidating But yeah, nothing to be too worried about and then we'll take a look at Google So Google also tried to break that 127 level last week Failed and yeah, we're back in that in this consolidation zone. So neutral on Google It's bullish above 127 and it's bearish below 118 so those are the key levels to watch for Google Until we break either level. It's just you can just expect more sideways action. That's pretty much it for Google Submitter this one had a pretty significant breakdown, right? So on Thursday had a pretty big move down and on Friday another pretty big move down actually so this one actually clearly broke the trend line and It was actually a really good short play on Friday. It did. Yeah I'm recording this on Friday. So today would have been a really good short play, but First target would is that 289 level and I think a good chance we can hit that next week But we'll see what happens from there. So if I looked at the weekly chart here Yeah, there's no other real support level to 289 for that we could see a drop to 273 but yeah This is this was a really good short play on Friday, but yeah next up. We'll take a look at Microsoft Microsoft had a really big breakout really big volume on what was this Tuesday? Yeah, and now it's pulling back here again It's still really good action. It's trying to hold on to that 344 level, but we'll see what happens and There is a trend line here. So as long as it holds above that trend line It's still bullish and yeah, not much to be worried about this looks just like a healthy consolidation or how do you pull back to me and Yeah, nothing to be too concerned about Next up Netflix. So this one had earnings this week and a gap down pretty hard and got some continuation On Friday. So now we're back between this range here, right? So 448 we break that and I'd be a buy signal if we lose 419 and that would be a sell signal and too short but until then We're pretty much just neutral again, and we could consolidate for a while next up in video So admitted I got really extended here last week And then was consolidating first three days of the week and then on Thursday and Friday pulled back in pretty hard But still very very bullish on the end video. It's holding that trend line here So nothing to be worried about worst case scenario will come back to the 431 resist or support level And we'll see if that can hold if that doesn't hold then we could see a bigger pullback, but Yeah, we'll see what happens Overall still really good action on the Tesla so this is one of the more bearish ones so pretty big gap down from Pretty big gap down from earnings and then follow through on Friday So it lost that 262 support level, which is not good But 260 is also another key support level, but right now and after hours were at 256 So it's not great, but yeah, let's take a look at the weekly chart So if we can get more information So if we lose that 256 level next area of support is that 247 so that can be a potential target Yeah, Tesla was setting up really really nicely before earnings, but yeah now it's not looking as great But we'll see what happens And if you look at the bigger picture It could just meet it could just need more consolidation because we had a really big run-up rate So it would be perfectly normal for more weeks of consolidation and then tighten up and then break out again But right now you don't want to be long in the Tesla I want to be just waiting and see what happens from here So that's pretty much it for the big caps now. We'll take a look at growth stocks how they've been doing So definitely got really extended last week in this week right Definitely on Wednesday very very extended and then pull back in pretty hard on Thursday Friday It was like consolidation day But yeah, let's take a look at the weekly So on the weekly looks completely fine, right just looks like a consolidation bar Perfectly normal action. I think we could consolidate for a few more weeks and then tighten up and then break out But we'll see definitely some resistance at that key psychological level 50 So around but 49.75 ish 50 ish level definitely some resistance there So yeah, we'll see how it deals with that part for now I think we could just use a more consolidation tighten up a little bit more form some sort of flag and then break out again We'll see what happens Now we'll take a look at some individual tickers that been acting well first one is Airbnb This one's been acting incredibly well all week long This week was bearish for a lot of stocks, but this one's just continuing to show strength Stick like the weekly chart. So broke that big base and The flag it made a nice flag pattern on Couple weeks ago and then ever since then it's just been grinding higher and higher. It's a really good action Yeah, Airbnb is trades very choppy but First major resistance level is that 175 level and we just broke that 145 level So yeah, Airbnb has a lot of room to the outside here actually so I can yeah has room all the way up to 175 Obviously, it's not going to go straight up. I think we need some consolidation here since it's been up for four weeks in a row Now on the daily it definitely looks very extended So some rest would be good, but 145 could potentially be good by the dip area, but yeah, definitely keep this name on the radar Next up we'll take a look at Kava not sure how to say this but Kava has recent IPO and It's been building a really nice flag here really good action Yeah, it's tightening up here and it could potentially see a big breakout. This is a A plus setup a really nice flag action And yeah, it's been acting really well for a recent IPO And even though market pulled back in pretty hard this week. This one's been holding up really well. So definitely want to watch and See what else we've got your last one Uber So Uber is also acting really well like Airbnb even though This week was a red week Airbnb Uber has been just consolidating and they're forming a nice flag here Let's take a look at the weekly chart So, you know Uber has been spending higher and higher and Has resistant at 48.5. So not that much room to the upside here I think we're getting a little bit extended here. We can use some rest, but we're all really really good action on over This one's been acting incredibly well They always see what happens more consolidation can be good, but again This one's been showing a lot of relative strength recently. So they definitely want to keep your eye on this one and UPSD is one that I covered last week. It's about to go over this one. This one has It's one of the strongest stocks in the market right now. This one has just been going Up and up right those no breaks at all and even though it's pulling back It's pulling back very nicely and it's not giving back too much, right? It's forming a nice flag actually So this one was a clear buy when it looked at 38.7 level and then it also made another setup here Very short flag only it's only flags to it only flags for two days and then it breaks out. So this is What you want to see in a leader this one's definitely being accumulated right now And this one's definitely a top watch incredibly strong, but yeah, hopefully we get more of a pullback and A nicer flag, but this one's definitely a top watch again for next week as well. Oh, yeah, that's pretty much all I got for this week Thank you guys for tuning in


Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I'm Paul Gillis, your elected moderator. Tonight is a pre-town meeting, which means we're not voting on anything. We're just here to fulfill a legal requirement that a hearing, public hearing be held before a vote, which is now scheduled for tomorrow at 10 a.m. And the voting, Rachel, is here. It will be here. Now, I think I have to ask Sarah a question. Are you a resident of this town? I am not. I'm a resident of Berry. And would anyone here object that she has something to say? She could say it, even though she's not? Absolutely. Good. You're fully qualified. Thank you. The first article and the only article is Shell the Town Appropriate $21,600 to the Montpelier Senior Activity Center. And I will recognize Sarah Lipton, the director. Thank you. We're extremely grateful to be able to have this special election. We recognize that it's putting everyone through extra hoops and loops to be able to come to do this. But the Montpelier Senior Activity Center really is the hub for Central Vermont, for services, resources, engagement, activities for older adults. And that's really serving anyone 50 and over. One of the core services that we provide are Meals on Wheels. And we have roughly 20 residents of the town of Berlin that we serve Meals on Wheels to. And those meals are served four days a week are delivered, but it's up to seven meals a week for residents who need that service. Meals on Wheels are recognized nationally as a vital, essential service for older adults who are homebound. And unable to shop, unable to cook, are unsteady on their feet and, you know, can't prepare a meal. There's a variety of qualifications for older adults who need Meals on Wheels. And there is a Meals on Wheels provider in the city of Berry, who serves Berry in Berry Town. There's Meals on Wheels provider in East Montpelier. Well, they're sort of on the border of East Montpelier and Plainfield, but Twin Valley Senior Center. But we at the Montpelier Senior Activity Center, we're really fortunate and honored, honestly, to be able to serve Meals on Wheels to residents of Berlin and Montpelier. There is a senior center in Northfield that provides some of your residents with meals. We have this weird sort of split because Berlin is really long. So we serve the parts of Berlin that are closer to Montpelier. The funding that we are requesting is an increase from last year because the cost of providing meals is ever-increasing. The funding that we receive from the Central Vermont Council on Aging has remained static at $3.80 a meal. I'm pausing because I want you to hear that it's $3.80 a meal that we get from federal funding. It actually costs us over $14 for every meal that we serve. And in order to make up that difference, we rely on folks like yourselves who allow town funding to occur. We rely on lots of grants, so I'm constantly writing grants. We rely on donations from our members. We did a really robust March for Meals fundraiser campaign in March. We raised over $17,000 from the community around us. But we have to constantly work to make up that gap. The other really challenging factor for us with Meals on Wheels is that though we are part of the City of Montpelier, which is awesome and helpful, the funding we receive from the City of Montpelier only accounts for just under 25% of our budget, and none of that actually covers Feast. So we do ask for more funding from the town of Berlin than any of our other surrounding towns because we serve meals to you guys. We don't serve meals to any other town. We do have a wide variety of programs, classes, drop-in groups. Hopefully soon again, foot clinics, tax clinics, you name it. There's a lot going on at the Senior Center. We're about to host the first hybrid version of an AARP town hall with Senator Sanders on June 9th. And so we're opening the doors up and hopefully lots of people will come out. But the reason that we really, really are grateful to Berlin is that you are able, historically, $20,000 last year, I think the same the previous year, you've shown us that you're able to support the Meals on Wheels that we serve to your residents, the senior services and resources, classes, drop-in groups that we provide to your residents, and maybe some of you sitting in the room right now. So that's, I think that's really, I'm happy to take any questions. Any questions? Yes, go ahead. I just would like to make sure you understand. Yeah. The numbers get confused. Yeah, sure. So you said that your federal funding is $3 per mail. $3.80 per mail. Don't forget the $.80. That's important. But the actual cost per mail is 14. Yes, and I can explain that. Okay, do. Yep. So as I mentioned, the City of Montpelier does not provide any funding for the Feast Program. And what this, just so you understand, the City of Montpelier's funding only counts for the director position, the admin position, and the communications and development coordinator position, and none of my Feast staff. So the cost of a meal, actually, when it's all broken down, is covering two and a half Feast staff positions and benefits. All of the overhead expenses for, you know, propane, to run the stove, and composting, and garbage. And of course, all of the costs associated with purchasing ingredients for the meal, as well as the containers that we serve them in, and all of the costs. So if you look at all of the costs to actually serve those necessary meals, it's over $14 per meal. So, and that does or does not include transporting the meals? It does not. We rely heavily and entirely on an incredible constellation of volunteers. We have over 35 volunteers that are delivering our meals, and they're amazing. So, again, please, and somebody else take a turn if you want to. No, all evening. I just want to be sure I understand. I do not understand why Montpelier does not participate in this program. We do. Montpelier residents do receive meals. Yeah. That is a nut. I don't know how to explain. I think that what happened historically about 10 years ago, Meals on Wheels have operated in Montpelier for over 30 years. And I actually have one of my drivers who has been delivering for all of that time. But the city only took on Meals on Wheels about 10 years ago by the Just Basics Incorporated, if you're familiar with them. They founded the Montpelier Food Pantry, for instance, and they run that awesome organization. They came to the Montpelier Senior Activity Center and said, nobody else is running Meals on Wheels right now. Let's do it. And so the former director and Just Basics collaborated and they launched Feast as a senior nutrition program to provide Meals on Wheels, congregate meals where folks actually come in person to eat together. And pre-pandemic, it was like 100 people twice a week. It was a very exciting everybody got together twice a week for lunch thing. And then the curbside meals, which we switched to for the pandemic. We've just switched away from curbside. We're back to congregate. So come eat lunch on Thursdays. But the city, the funding is a little bit clunky because the Montpelier Senior Activity Center, we are operated through the city of Montpelier, but we only get that percentage of funding that we get. And for whatever consolation of reasons, they just never incorporated the financing. We get the funding from the Council on Aging, which has been pretty static. You know, I think a couple of years ago we got a 40% increase. It was, yay, 40 cents, but you know, still nothing close to what we need. But they're limited because it's federal funding. And so there's only so much. There are lots of people working really hard at the state and federal level to advocate for an increase to that funding. So if you ever want to plug into that, please do. But it's static funding. So the city just, it's sort of only, you know, we're not roads. We're not DPW. We're not fire. We're not police. We're the Montpelier Senior Activity Center. And so I think it's going to be a long, slow journey for the city to understand the full value of the community services that we provide. If I were a Montpelier resident, however, and I qualified for Meals on Wheels, you would provide it for me. Absolutely. Yes. And you do. And we do. And so there's 20 Berlin residents coming to Montpelier. Yep. So we currently have 65 clients. So we have, I guess if you divide that, it's about 45 Montpelier residents who receive Meals on Wheels, about 20 who receive Meals from Berlin. And then that's not including all the Meals that we serve at the congregate Meals. Yeah. So it's not including. Correct. Yeah. And that just simply varies. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So I wondered if you could explain why you couldn't ask for this money at the normal time. Yes. Instead of making us have a special... I know. And I'm really sorry about that. It was a combination of reasons. My first time through the town funding process, my boss was new at the time. And so I didn't quite have the oversight to know what timing I needed to get the signatures done by.  And so I missed the deadline. Long and short of it, human error. I'm happy to say that we've got really strong plans for the next go round. We will not be making you do this again. We already have the volunteers all lined up for going up to get the petitions in advance next time. It will not be any of the helm. I'm actually leaving my position at the end of June, but I'm setting everyone up for success next time. So how many meals are we actually providing with the $20,000? I mean, there's the Berlin residence, but then there's the Wall Street residence, and how many others are there? Yeah. It's a great question. There are also many provided meals through this $21,000. Yeah. So, and just to clarify, the funding from Berlin, it comes into the pot for MSAC. And some of that supports fees. Some of that supports our basic operations. Roughly said, though, and I wish I'd brought that form with me. I did the math. Someone has a calculator. Did you do the math? Is this the form? That's one version of it. Yeah. I don't know if that would help you. Yeah, it might help you. Yes, it actually does. Okay, yeah. So it's 6,700 meals for Berlin residents annually. And that's a guesstimate based on, or a rough guess based on how many clients that we serve getting seven meals a week. But not all of those are Berlin residents. Those are Berlin residents. So annually. So a couple of things happened. We have our contract with the Central Vermont Council in aging is to provide 14,500 meals a year at that $3.80 reimbursement. The pandemic happened and the need for meals increased. Frankly, not only economic need, but also a wide variety of reasons. More folks moving to our community who had need. Some folks who were unhoused who had need. There was a really big influx of clients and we maybe cared too much. And so we said yes to a lot of people and we wound up serving over 20,000 meals last year. So we are currently trying to reduce that number because we don't have a guarantee that we'll get reimbursement from the council in aging. So we're trying to reduce back to 14,500 meals, which doesn't mean taking away any Berlin residents. It's more that we have to sort of rebalance. The big thing that shifted with the pandemic is when the pandemic hit at the federal level, I'm not sure if it was through the Older Americans Act or who exactly ruled this out, but the qualification to receive meals on wheels expanded. It opened wide. It basically said anyone over the age of 60 who needs access to meals. Wide open. So we saw lots more people coming in the doors. And then as of April 1st, a month and a half ago, it came down, nope, not anymore. The restriction is you have to be homebound and there's a number of sort of like poverty index, qualifications, and so we're in the process of doing reassessments with all of our clients. Some are coming off anyway. We're about to actually meeting tomorrow with Twin Valley over in Plainfield, Eastmont failure. They have a new chef. They want to take on some of our meals that'll help us reduce back. So we're trying to get ourselves into a more sustainable situation and your funding will help us with that. Does that answer your question? Yeah, how many meals were you serving to like the hotel people over here? It was pretty minimal. I think we at one point, maybe the most clients we had was five, but it shifted kind of every month and some of those clients were coming in through the Vermont Center for Independent Living. And so those are for clients that are under 60 who qualify through all the different ways you qualify for VCIL support. We serve meals on wheels to VCIL clients. So a number of those folks were through VCIL, but I think at the most we had five. So now that the state's closing those down, that's not going to make a big difference for you both? It probably isn't. And again, the qualifications for meals on wheels have tightened so much that I don't know how much we can help with that situation. Yeah. I thought that people could get meals on wheels and pay for it. So that is something where actually we haven't, yes, and we cannot charge for our meals. For our meals, it's a federal stipulation of receiving the money that we get. We cannot charge for our meals on wheels if someone qualifies. However. Well, I'm telling you, that's someone who doesn't qualify. Right, right, right. So that's actually the model we're shifting to. So because of the restrictions shifting and tightening, we're looking at the possibility of being able to sell medically tailored meals is how we're framing it. So our meals are cooked to the specifications of the Older Americans Act. So there's strict dietary guidelines, low sodium, high protein, whatever. You have to ask my chef for the actual information. But we cook them to that standard and our chef is trained in how to create medically tailored meals. So say you just got out of the hospital and you need a renal diet or a diabetic diet or a vegetarian diet. We do vegetarian and diabetic meals now, but there was something more restricted. We can make those meals for sale. Our challenge right now is that we don't have enough funding to hire a lead cook to prepare those meals right now. So we're kind of in a waiting time to be able to achieve the amount of funding we need through some grants that we're working on to be able to hire that lead cook so we have enough capacity to make meals for sale. But yes, you're right. If someone wants to receive meals on meals but does not qualify, they can certainly purchase them. Any other questions for Sarah? Yes. Have you looked, because you say all money given goes in a park? Yeah. Okay. Have you looked at other means of stopping other opportunities or other classes or whatever that maybe didn't fly well or whatever? Sure. The good news is we don't have any classes that aren't flying well. We don't have enough students taking classes because people still aren't returning back from the pandemic. What we're doing to, we're doing a whole lot of things. So we're reducing costs for Feast by soon we're going to be shifting over to three days a week, three out of the four days a week that we deliver meals on meals, they'll go back to, we're going back to what we used to do which is reusable trays instead of wasting a lot of money on non-reusable trays. So that's one reduction. We're partnering with Bob Woodard at the very, I forget what it's called, hotel meals on meals, very meals on meals program which I can't remember the name, City Hotel Cafe. So we're working on partnering with him to do cost reductions in bulk purchasing together. So that's one area. Another area as I mentioned is essentially giving clients that are extra for us to Twin Valley to have meals made for. And some other sort of cost-saving measures. And one really, really beautiful one we have which I forgot to mention is the parks department launched a farm for us a number of years ago, three years ago called the Feast Farm and that grows five to ten thousand pounds of free produce for us. So we have beautiful, locally produced, organic produce in our meals throughout the year because we work really hard to put it away for the winter and use it all year. So there's a lot of, we also work very closely with the community harvest of Central Vermont and their local folks for you. So we incorporate five to ten thousand pounds of produce from them as well. So we've got all of those kinds of cost-saving things and then the other side of things is how do we bring in revenue. So again, we're looking at medically tailored meals to be able to sell meals to clients and we will certainly be reaching out to Berlin residents for that and through CVMC and other areas to see if we can come up with some partnerships that will allow us to really, in collaboration, that will allow us to sell some meals and of course we do tons of work with grants and sponsors and looking for sponsors for events and programs and meals and all of that and then the other really big campaign that we're launching is a membership renewal campaign. So pre-pandemic we had about fifteen hundred members. Right now we have five hundred. Where'd everybody go? So we're working really hard to bring folks back in. Part of what happened is in 2020 we decided before I was there but we decided, you know what? It's the pandemic. We're not going to do a membership renewal. So I think people got out of the habit of being a member but it hurt us financially. So we're working on bringing that back and doing a shift and asking folks who can become a patron to become a patron and give it a higher level. We're also looking at shifting how we price our programs, our classes. We, before the pandemic we had seventy-five classes. I don't know how they did it per semester. And we have to pay our instructors but we never charged that much for classes. We charge about two dollars and fifty cents per class. It's crazy. You can't pay instructors and make your ends meet on that. So I'm working on shifting that before I head out to make not only it possible to pay our teachers an equitable salary but some of our instructors are volunteers which is amazing but some need the salary they get from teaching but also make sure that we've got income coming in to support the finances of the center. So how do you get, to be honest with you, how do you get information about the CAC? We have a website with all the information on it and it's on this if you want to pick one up, they're over there. Okay. Is the website listed? Oh, Valley. The website's not on there. Well that doesn't help. So you go to the city of Montpelier Montpelier-bt.org and it's a backslash Montpelier Senior Activity Center. We have a weekly e-letter we've got monthly newsletter chock full of information we work really hard to be super transparent about all the things and sort of engage the community I think the real shift in our community is that in the past a senior center type place was a service to the community type of place and I think the shift now is we need to be buying for the community so we need you to tell us what you want and help us make it happen. Yeah. Don't take this the wrong way but Berlin is a small town. Yep. Do you have any figures of other communities that you serve and other communities that you ask for money? Yep. And how does Berlin fit in there for dollar wise for the other communities? Yeah, sure. So we receive support from East Montpelier, Callis, Worcester, Middlesex and Moortown and this year unfortunately I missed the Middlesex funding process for the same reason I missed yours but from I think the next highest amount we get is from East Montpelier because we're a very high population of members from East Montpelier and we're able to track all the data of who's taking our classes, who's coming to congregate meals, who's coming to our drop-in groups and so in order to calculate how much we ask from each town we look at how much traffic is coming in from each town. So I probably don't have it all completely in my brain. $21,000 that you're asking for tracks for 20 people, 20 members? No, it's not the entire story because that's just the meals on wheels that we serve. We also serve a lot of your residents through our classes, through our drop-in groups and I don't have that at my fingertips but I can certainly share that information. So we're looking at the total not only meals served to whom, from where but also classes engaged in to whom from where. So could you give me a layout of every community and what they... that's what I would like to do and what they... I can give you my email address and you can send me a message or I can get that to you. I can easily do that. I just can't do it for the second. The other thing, forgive me if I ask another question that was asked before about my hearing. For the town of Berlin, why wasn't this on the ballot back then at the town meeting? So I did already explain that but I... human error, it was my... I did hear you say that. Now, having said that when we all get done here and we're gone and we're coming back to vote tomorrow night? How many people are going to vote? Well, I suspect probably 30 or 40. But what's the... what's the ratio that is going to go? It's just like one over half or... I'm going to... This is no way to actually do this kind of thing. It's just information. Right, right. But I'm saying to take it out of the context and... It's not at her fault. But when we have something like this and even to vote, do you expect you're going to get the same number of people? No. Absolutely not. State law says if two people... if three people show up and two people vote for something, that's... And to me, I'm not...is there some way... This is to you. Is there some way that we can say, no, let's not do this? Because again, we're not touching the whole town of Berlin when we...tonight, we're not. Tomorrow night at the vote we're certainly not going home. But yet we're going to vote, you know, just say eight people show up and seven vote, yes. Well, that's what you get. I know. You get that when we don't follow normal procedures. This happens in most towns. They always forget. Okay, but I am in this room and I don't care about most towns. I really don't. Well, we're like most towns for that reason. East Montpelier did this with the Kellogg Hubbard Library. There was a misstep and they went through the same thing. And I will say that in order to get this meeting we went out and we collected signatures and we had, I think, 132 signatures, but more than that signed, but 132 valid signatures of people, so there's that Berlin voter, so there's that much awareness from the people that we met and signed. But I'll bet you out of that 132 with those people that signed it, 10 will show up. We have a lot, we've been connecting with all of our members, our meals and meals clients, as well as Corinne, I can't think of her last name. Who does the Berlin need to know? Yeah. So we've been posted there and from first form I think I had a bunch of people approaching, so. I just don't think this is the routine to go because 21,000 for the services and I'm not sure are we getting $21,000 worth of those services? If you want a perspective on the cost of the meals that we provide to your clients this just barely scratches the surface. It costs us about $95,000 to serve your 20 residents. Really? $95,000? Go play special My lord. Well, we have to pay our staff an equitable rate. That's what it's doing. It's helping to pay for staff, meals and everything that goes into that. So the support that we get from your town helps us to be able to ensure those meals. And if we can't supply We'll still serve them but we will be strapped and that's just the reality. I'm just curious about all the other towns it just seems like Berlin is getting a big trunk. Because we don't serve meals to anyone else. We do not serve meals on wheels to anyone else other than Berlin and Montpelier. So that's why the funding from Berlin is a higher request than any of our other supporting towns. To me that's not right just because we don't have that many people that do the meals on wheels but yet we need to pay more than the other municipalities and they probably got more people involved in the meals on wheels than Berlin does. Well, yeah because our meals on wheels clients only come from Berlin and Montpelier. We don't serve meals on wheels to anybody outside of Montpelier or Berlin. That's our contract with the council on aging. Correct. Okay. It's befalling but... It's complex. It is what it is. It's a complex system. I've heard rumors that there may someday be a meals on wheels site here in Berlin but we're not there yet. And in that time and place then we'll shift away from offering your meals on wheels and those will shift over and our town funding request will change. So, and historically we've been serving your meals on wheels and we operate even though we're part of the municipality of Montpelier we operate essentially as a non-profit because we don't have full funding. Do you get funding from Montpelier? We do but it only accounts for about not quite 25% of our budget which only accounts for core staff salaries and benefits which does not include increased staff salaries which is why the meals cost... That's a severe process of voting on their voting day. Yeah. And do you remember what the figure was that you asked for Montpelier? Yep, so for many many years we received about 134,000 for years and then two years ago when I came in as director I shifted it up I got an increase to 154,000 and this coming year starting July 1st we're getting 185 which is historic but still doesn't cover feast. Roughly figuring how many Montpelier residents take advantage of about 1,500. Okay. Any other questions for Sarah? There's another financial issue here and that is how much is it costing the town of Berlintet have this vote? Would you be... I know we all got postcards. Yeah, I didn't bring the dollar amount with me but my estimate would be probably right around $2,000. We did get postcards for everyone advertising in the newspaper trying to cut costs by using paper ballots instead of the ballot counting machine so it'll all be hand count. Trying to save money where we can but it is an added expense. Of course it isn't an option but we have this or not because the petitioners came in and that required the select work to call the meeting. Another question. The congregate meals, those are purchased meals. They're not necessarily meals on meals. There might be some people... Some people can't pay and that's fine. Those meals are also subsidized at $3.80 per older adult. Who fails out a nutrition survey, we can get reimbursement for that. We do ask for a donation at the door of about $10 if folks can. Some people are more generous than that, others can't be. And that's fine. $10 per meal. Which still isn't the cost of the meal but it helps. It's a tricky one. Honestly, I don't know whoever designed this program just didn't think it all through I think. It's substantial. It's substantial and it's also continuously growing because if you think about it not only have groceries actual products to make meals increase but we now have to pay a fuel surcharge with every bill that I sign for a delivery a shipment of food there's a fuel surcharge. It just keeps going up. And the fresh products that you were speaking of you do not have a cost correct. Which is great. We do a lot of fundraising work to support the parks department so they can run the farm and we have starting June 21st you're all invited. We have on Wednesday morning starting June 21st from 9 to 10 30 we'll be having our annual second annual feast farm stand so that'll be every Wednesday morning and though produce is for sale for a dollar or something ridiculous beautiful fresh farm produce available with music and good sound. Anybody else? Once the question is over we're done except we need a motion to adjourn. I so will. And is there a second? You can second it. All in favor of adjourning say aye and those opposed no. Meeting adjourned voting begins tomorrow here at 10 o'clock.


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Fe'n cael ei wneud hynny, dyfodol, ym mwy o'r ffiliwp yn fwy o'r ffiliwp, ond mae'n gwybod i'n gwybod i'r ffiliwp yn fwy o adegau sy'n gwybod i'n gwybod i'r llai i'n ddwylliant i'r llai i'r lluwydau o gyllidol, ond, mae'n ffiliwp yn ei ddweud i'r llai i'r llai i'r llai i'r llai. Felly, mae'n gwybod i'r llai i'r llai i'r llai i'r cwrwch Mae'r bobl yn ystod yn ymdill, ac yn wedi. A bod yna'r awl iawn. Adobi post script Type 3. Type 1 ddim yma'r cydweithio'r cydweithio'r cydweithio. A Type 3 ddim yma'r cydweithio'r cydweithio'r cydweithio, ac wedi'i ddechrau'r cydweithio'r cydweithio, dwi'n credu sut i ddim yn ddatblygu yn adobi cydweithio. Ameca OS wedi'u cefnod. Rasta efo'r cydweithio, ond raster can still be useful for some things. That one didn't take off because nobody uses the Amiga anymore. SCG Fonts was a short-term hack so that when people did some type and converted it to curves, you could save the curves and say this is what they were originally and we had the barest level of internationalisation that could just about do Arabic shaping and that was about it and it kind of sucked, but there we are. It was actually quite nice because the definition of a glyff was anything SVG can draw. Swallow the mic. Act like a rock star. Okay, so SVG Fonts, people mostly hate them because mainly they only come across them now because there are some iOS devices which can only use SVG Fonts for some reason. So, and these are going away, by the way, in SVG 2 there will be no SVG Fonts anymore. In Japan, NTT Dokomo Fones had coloured glyffs for emoji for Japanese teenagers to text each other on things. Okay, but that was in Japan so we didn't care about that here.  That's fine in print, it doesn't work very well on the web. On the web you have to do sort of CSS hacks like cull on before cull on after all this sort of stuff to try and hide the text away that you're duplicating. I mean these are all very clever but this should be a better way to do it.  There's an emoji just in case people haven't seen what these are. There's at least two Firefox rendering bugs in that page. Anyone here from Firefox? No, okay. If you don't know about emoji, there's one word in Japanese that you have to understand, kawai, okay, that's what you say whenever you see these things. All right. So that's what they are and the thing is they started in Japan but they then became deployed much more. Two other major Japanese phone vendors also put them on. They were almost interoperable. Unicode 6 made them actually interoperable and therefore there was a need. Suddenly people went having ignored the needs of chromatic fonts for ages and ages. They suddenly went, oh, I suppose the Japanese phones were going to have to do something about it then. So Apple came up with something called Svix which shipped an iOS 6. They did not bother to document it. It has been reverse engineered multiple times and since they can't be bothered to document it, I can't be bothered to talk about it. Google on the other hand came up with a similar proposal. They did document it completely. They provided some open source Python code to actually let you create these things. So you notice that the dates that we started off were 1984 and now we're up to 2013. Don't worry, just sit down. You're all right. So really this is kind of up to the minute stuff. In you come. You weren't here when I dissed your overlay stuff. It's okay. So basically emoji was the catalyst for change but it's not all you can do with chromatic fonts. Not by a long shop. So let's have a look at what Google have. There's a couple of tables which are by analogy to the monochrome tables already in open type. They contain a 32-bit blue, green, red alpha in that order. Premultiplied, which means you've not got much colour information for the highly transparent parts. There's a certain subset of ping tags that you can use if you know about ping that list is meaningful to you. If not, don't worry about it. There is no animation, although there is an animated ping now so I don't know what they would do if they get one of those. Probably just pretend it's not animated. And this is implemented in free type 2.5 in June last year which means that it's in a bunch of things that use free type like Android for example. Microsoft meanwhile, so both of these previous things that I talked about were raster. You can have more than one size but unless you've got the exact size that you want on the exact pixel grid that you want you're going to have to down sample from a bigger one so the advantages of hand-tuned obsessive pixel pushing go away really rapidly. Okay, so what Microsoft did was they came up with two new tags. One called colour, which contains basically a stack of true type outlines and one called CPAL, which is a palette. That means that they use a similar rendering path to existing true type. I say similar, not the same because you still have to take it. If you have a single colour and you rasterise it you will have a certain amount of anti-aliasing around the edge of the background colour. If you do that in a simple minded way with multiple colour things then just slap them all together you're going to have nasty white healers everywhere and it's not going to look good. Similarly, if you print it you'll still have to do blocking and trapping. It can only do solid fill because each of the individual components can only have a single colour fill. It does however have hinting which means that most of the type guys really like this one better than all the others because they can continue to do obsessive hinting on it. It however has no gradient animation and as far as I can see it can't really have them added very easily. It shipped in Microsoft Windows 8.1 in August. There was a presentation at Typecon in August last year where Michelle Perham demoed this and showed it working. I don't have Windows 8.1 I haven't actually seen it working myself. Just to give you an example this is the on-screen keyboard from Windows 8 with emoji which are in Glorious Monochrome. That is the same thing in Windows 8.1 using their own colour and sepal. It works, allegedly. This is the sort of thing that you can do with it. This is one of their demos. Oh, I'm doing well. 10 minutes. This is a font called Mingle. It's obviously based on the old American 19th century woodcut types. Complete with do not cut this book and all sorts of stuff. They obviously had loads of fun making this demo. But as you can see the top one is really solid colours and the bottom one uses three or four colours together to give the illusion sort of a gradient while not actually producing one. Okay, SVG and OpenType which, to be honest, is the one that I'm most interested in. It was started as a W3C community group. Why would you care that that was where it started? Because it comes under the W3C royalty-free licence. Which means that when we finish we've produced the final report. Everyone had to sign off on it and make pattern commitments on behalf of their companies. Which means that everyone has a royalty-free licence to use it whether they were involved in making it or not. And all of the companies who were involved in doing it have sort of a mutual non-aggression pact. If anyone of them sues the other one for patent infringement suddenly these free patent licences that they didn't know they had a licence to those patents all go poof and suddenly they're liable.  And this has been implemented in Firefox 26. As of Firefox 28 it's turned on by default. Okay, so what's in it? You have one or more SVG documents. Glyffs within a single document can share resources like gradients or filters or whatever it is. You cannot link across documents, across SVG documents. Also the actual document you're using it in has no access to the SVG. The SVG has no access to the document you're using it in. How many people have heard of CSS variables? Yes. I considered saying that but they're actually now called CSS custom properties for various reasons, but that's the same thing actually. So you can use these because, okay, colour fonts. These are great. Who wants to use the colours that were actually baked in by the font designer? You want to your own colours that fits into your own design. That's how you do it with SVG and OpenType. You use these CSS variables and custom properties. It does also use the CPAL table. We did a little bit of work with Microsoft once these proposals came out to harmonise it. So CPAL is actually shared between the SVG table and the Microsoft colour table. They can both use it. It's mandatory in the Microsoft one, it's optional in SVG. Originally there was a notion of having double sets so you could have a dark and light and a light on dark palette. That's sort of gone away now to a more general. You can have multiple palettes and name them and stuff. So what's good about it? Well, it keeps the expressive power of the graphics. You can do gradients. You can have opacity, you can have opacity masks. You can do clipping, you can have filter effects. You can have hatching, that's new in SVG2, but you can use that too. You can use animation, by the way, also new in SVG2. You're going to talk about that, aren't you? Never mind. Come to his talk about SVG2. You'll learn all the stuff that you can do in it. Anyway, basically all the graphic stuff is still there, which is good. And then for people who worry about security, it uses the secure embedded subset of SVG. This is the same as you would use if you had SVG as an image element in HTML. What that means is there is no scripting. Scripting can't kick off. It can't fetch external resources. It can't go off to the web and grab other things. It can't call back home and say, someone's just used this font. This is cool. Click, click, click, count. There's no interactivity. It can't track where your mouse cursor is or anything nasty like that. Also, there's another restriction. There are no text elements, kind of obvious. If you have a font and the font contains text elements, and the text elements have a font, you'll disappear up your own right. Also, no foreign object. A foreign object is how you put HTML inside SVG, and having HTML inside a font glyph definition would be just kind of weird. So we stopped that too. You can inherit. You can get the system fill and stroke and the dash array and all that sort of stuff. You can bring that stuff in. Use it how you want inside your SVG. So, for example, you could take the fill colour that's being used and use that as a stroke if you wanted. I should point out, by the way, that for SVG and OpenType, most of the other font formats that are vector, you'd have to draw a closed shape and fill it in. You can do that too, but you can also just draw a line and stroke it, which is another way to do things that's quite nice. And you can have overlaps as well, which is, again, nice. I thought I'd been wildly out of time by this point, which is why I was speaking really, really fast. Five minutes. Awesome. In that case, I can hit you with a slide of code. Who's going to tell me what that does? I already told you what the first three lines are. It says, no, you can't have text and no, you can't have foreign object. And there's two ways to define that. One is to have a spec that says you must never put this in here, but people will. So this does, if you put it in there, it doesn't do a thing. It doesn't produce any rendering. It doesn't appear at all. The rest of it is basically bringing in stuff from the environment. It's bringing in SVG2 properties here that get you the context. It's sort of like inheritance, except instead of being in a tree system, it's where something is used, not where it's defined in the tree. It's in a different place, which is useful here because the SVG document and the document you're using a font in are entirely different documents. So at the point at which text is using this font, the font can bring in what colours are being used right there and use them. Okay, good. So let's now look at implementations. For the sake of space, I've used two Euro signs to mean commercial because I couldn't fit it in. It's called font creator. It is cost money. It runs on Windows. It supports the Microsoft colour C-pal only. Let me know when you've got that photo. The slides will be on the web in a bit. But if you can't wait, that's fine. Here's one called glyphs.app, which I guess as you can imagine runs on OSX. It costs money. It supports something. The web page is quite coy about what it actually does and what it supports, but I believe that it exists. It is reading a Microsoft font, so apparently either someone is very good at photoshop or it can read the Microsoft proposal. Robo font also costs money, also runs on OSX and also does the Microsoft one. I don't know if it does anything else because again, their documentation is a little sketchy. Trans type, this also costs money, runs on both Windows and OSX. It claims to support all of the features. It claims to import SVG colour fonts, which it does not. I have a bug in for that. It claims to export SVG in open type, which it does not. It claims to export the Microsoft one, which it does and I've proved that, but since I don't have Windows 8.1, I can't actually run it, but I've had a look at the fonts and it appears to have the right bits in it. This is an example of, excuse me, this is an example of a font which was originally sold as a set of nine. It's called shuffle, you know, bring in nine different fonts, put it on the same text, overlay it, line it all up and put different fill colours on. It's based on Indian signpating techniques, so it's called kafil painter. So this is actually one font made in about five minutes using this tool, so that's quite cool. So far, these are all commercial. Google, as I mentioned earlier, has a Python script which lets you stick some pings into to make their format, which is okay. It's not exactly a development environment, though. Roberto Callaghan has a thing called SVG Open Type Workshop, which runs in a browser. You load in a font, you load in some SVG, it glues them together and spits it out. It's quite clever, but again, not exactly ideal. Implementations would be very welcome. Open source implementations would be wonderful for this sort of stuff. This is really cool. There are a lot of hands of people that are trying to keep their own interests or have their own agendas or whatever. There's a lot of expressive power that can be used here. Let's go on and use it. Questions? Are there any provisions that are switchable layers in these fonts? The last example you showed probably had different combinations of these nine individual fonts which would all make sense, basically. A mechanism to flip a switch and change the font. What you can't know, you can't move around the layers in opposite order. For the SVG one, they're in the order that the SVG document has them. They're in the order that they are on the table. What you can do is you can switch some off effectively by setting them to transparent black or transparent anything. That layer will then not show, but you can't flip the layers to the order that you want. Typically what happens in both of these is that you have a base layer which is black or something that's effectively the full back layer. That's where the metrics come from. Everything else has the same metrics but takes up different space. Takes up as much space as it needs to overlay and that sort of thing. You don't have to do just overlay fonts in SVG. The example I showed did, but you can do all sorts of other stuff as well. Other questions for Chris? Let's get some free software implementations of this. Thank you very much. How many people here could see yourself using this sort of thing if someone else made a tool for it? Yeah, that's what I thought.


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In this module, we will talk about again the some growth parameters in continuous culture. As we have seen in our previous module that the continuous culture and all the kinetic parameters is critical, we can say that dependent over the deletion rate. So, in this modules, we can say that when we say that as we have already discussed that what is chemostat, when we say that the whole fermentation kinetics and the growth rate is basically dependent upon some chemicals because in chemicals meanings, we can say all the substrate we are adding as a growth substrate, they are the chemicals. And when we say that there is a steady state that can be called as chemostat. So, here there is an alternative type of continuous culture which is sometimes when we can say that the chemostat is a turbidot state. This is a just different words that how we can use the term of chemostat and then we can change this chemostat into turbidostat. So, in this turbidostat, we can say that so, when the concentration of the cells is kept constant by the deletion rate which we can say that the flow of the medium that actually when we are adding something into the fermentation vessel and then the growth is happening that is basically the addition of the substrate and the growth of the organism combined effect on the turbidity of the medium have which have in the fermentation vessel. So, as well as we run this fermentation process, the turbidity of the medium or inside the fermentation vessel change. So, when we say that the growth will happen that change the turbidity inside the culture. So, when we say that we remain constant the turbidity of the fermentation vessels. So, that can be we check by the spectrophotomotorically. So, then we can say very a narrow limit of the change. So, that can be maintained not with this help of the substrate concentration not in term of the biomass concentration, we are not focusing the substrate concentration, we are not focusing that how much is the quantity of the biomass inside the fermentation, but we are only focusing the turbidity either that is due to the substrate or due to the number of the cells. So, sometimes it happen when there is a utilization of the substrate and there is the increase of the cell mass. So, by the depletion of the substrate turbidity reduced, but with the growth of the cells turbidity can increase sometime it happen when the medium color due to the substrate concentration is dark that can effect on the turbidity. So, this may be achieved by monitoring the biomass with photoelectric cells. So, the feeding the signal to the pump. So, when we say that there is a change in the turbidity that automatically send the signal to the pump to control the flow rate when there is a less turbidity then that will be decrease the dilution. So, if the flow rate will control with the turbidity meter that is attached with the photoelectric cells then we can achieve the state of turbidostat which is actually not the chemostat. So, the system other than turbidity may be used to monitor the biomass concentration. So, in this case when we say that turbidostat that is only when we only focus the turbidity of that, but there is another way by which we can have some steady state that when we only monitor the biomass concentration or so biomass concentration as we have studied in previous module that biomass concentration can be determined by various methods. So, that can be estimated by the carbon dioxide concentration or the pH change or by the respiration methods. So, if we estimating our biomass concentration so we are only focusing that how we can maintain the biomass. So, then that state if we are controlling our continuous culture with such growth rate determinant parameter so that state is known as a biostat. So, as we seen that what is the difference between chemostat, turbidostat and biostat. The biostat we have to clear about that the difference between this biostat term and another biostat term which is basically they use for the statistical implementation in the biology. So, that is another biostat that is biostatistics. So, this word which we called as the biostat that is basically the steady state conditions that is maintained through the biomass estimation inside the continuous culture fermentation. So, the chemostat is the more commonly used system rather to be turbidostat or a biostat. So, because it has the advantage over the biostat of not requiring the complex control system because that is very easy to control to maintain the steady state. However, the biostat has also the advantages over by turbidostat and chemostat with its own respect because it is more precise when we are talking about that what is the concentration of the biomass inside the fermentation vessel. So, when we are talking about that how this whole continuous culture have different changes with respect to the previous equation. We can see here that the effect of dilution rate on the steady state and the residual substrate concentration in chemostat. Then the microorganism with low K s value for the limiting substrate. So, how we can compare it with the substrate concentration? We can see that here there is a dark line is representing the steady state biomass concentration that how that is changed, but when such happening that the dotted line show the residual substrate. So, as well as the dilution rate will increase we can easily say when there will be a dilution rate increase then there is a gradually increase in the steady state residual substrate concentration that can be a maximize only up to a certain level. So, this graph can easily express that what is the difference between these two. So, as we have seen in the previous figure that the continuous culture behavior is hypothetically when we say that a bacterium with low K s value for the limiting substrate. So, with this increasing dilution rate the residual substrate concentration increased only to a certain limit when mu max will become the maximum. So, at that state we can say that that dilution when that become a maximum that we call as a critical dilution rate. So, the kinetic parameters of an organism when we can say that in a behavior of the chemo state that described by various numerical values why which is called as yield coefficient mu max and K s the monoid parameters. So, these can easily be expressed by these different parameters. So, if there is in a previous slide we have seen that if there is a low affinity with the K s, but in this graph we can see that when the K s value is high then how the dilution rate in steady state condition affect the fermentation conditions. So, you can see here that if there is a high K s value and then there is a biomass concentration decrease with the faster rate than in a low K s value and then the same case the residual substrate concentration increase with a rapid rate as compared to the low K s value. So, these two figures is very critical. So, when the growth in a substrate is a very linked with the K s value of that. So, if we know the K s value and the mu max which we called as the monoid parameter for any specific organism then that at what dilution rate there will be a mu max which we called as critical dilution or d critical. So, in such conditions when we say that the d critical is affected by different parameters that is mu max and K s. So, the larger SR mean substrate concentration the closer d critical to the mu max. So, however, the mu max can not be achieved in a simple steady state which we in a in a steady state which we called as chemostat. Because the substrate limiting conditions must always be sure to be prevail.