Welcome back everybody. Thank you for being on this call and we are learning about the missionary journeys of Paul. I had mentioned to us that while he was at Asia, he was able to impact the different churches of Asia which are later talked about in Revelation. So let me just quickly show you the map of those seven churches. Yes, okay. So I'm sure these names are familiar. So Ephesus is where he was. But then, you know, these are the names that we see in Revelation. Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea. So his ministry was primarily in Ephesus. But the impact was in the entire region.  And earlier I have explained, though it says Asia, this is more like wet turkey. I think present day turkey is. So that is the region that was covered. All right. Let's come back to what we were discussing. Yes. So before we move on to chapter 20, another observation that we have was there were names of more people. So earlier, like when you begin Acts 19, Timothy and Erastus, he sent into Macedonia, but he himself stayed for a time in Asia, Ephesus. So we saw those names. Then who are the other names? We saw names like Gaeus, Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul's travel companions. Notice the team has actually grown larger. Luke never mentioned it.  Like very clearly or specifically to us. But our understanding is there are more people now. And that's the beauty of it. As you're traveling the church, number of people who are believing is increasing. Number of number of people who are serving is increasing. Number of people who are leading is increasing. So you got you have a few more names here. Then who else? Yeah. So here these are the prominent names. Now let's go to Acts 20. And what are some names that we will read there? So as we start off from the beginning of the passage, we see here. So the uproar had seized Paul, called the disciples to himself, embraced them and departed to go to Macedonia. Okay. So I'll quickly read that section. We'll see a few more names. When he had gone over that region and encouraged them with many words, he came to Greece. So notice that same pattern. They go back to the older places. Macedonia, which are the churches in Macedonia, which is like prominent church in Macedonia. A lot of things happen in Macedonia. Anyone? Which one? You can always turn the pages of your Bible. It's as simple as that. Maybe if you're looking online, then go back to the previous couple of verses and see. It is the prominent church of Macedonia. Do you remember the whole prison experience? Yeah. Yes. Correct. The Macedonian call. And then where did he go? Where was the major ministry? And they got imprisoned for it. Yes. Yes. The jailer and his household. But what is the name of that city? Church of Philippi, church in Berea. Correct. Very good. Thank you, Lyndon. So it is the church of Philippi where all this happened. And then they were imprisoned. And remember they had to leave and they had to rush. They went to a place called as Thessalonica after that. Thessalonica also they had a lot of problems. So then again they had to leave that from that place. And then they went on to Berea. So this is the journey, right? Second missionary journey. Great. So now coming back here. We notice that after his time in Ephesus and impacting the region of Asia, he goes, he departs to go to Macedonia. Same places, Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, all those places. Now, when he had gone over that region and encouraged them with many words, he came to Greece. Which place do we have today in modern Greece? Where did he minister in Greece? It's become a little bit of a geography lesson. History, geography. Athens or Athens. Okay. So that's the place where he went and shared regarding God. So he went there, he stayed there for three months, it says. And when the Jews plotted against him as he was about to sail to Syria Syria, what do we have in Syria? Antioch of Syria. So his home church is in Syria. Okay. Anyway, so when he was about to sail to Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia. So there's like a change of route. Now, notice the names. You'll find so many people who have actually joined the team of Paul. So there are some names here. So part of Beria accompanied him to Asia. Also Aristarchus and secondness of the Thessalonians. So do you see from each place there are leaders who have come up now and they are serving together. Now, when you look into the lives of these people and their backgrounds, even that is very interesting. It is said here Aristarchus and secondness of Thessalonians. So Aristarchus apparently is a name of somebody who's from like a royal background or someone who's from a very wealthy family. So that would be Aristarchus. But secondness is a name of a slave, like a slave person in those days. So can you imagine the impact that the Gospel has had? There are people on Paul's team who belong to people of different sections of society, languages, ages. So it's amazing, amazing how so many people are now serving the Lord and the way Paul actually equipped them. So what kind of equipping did Paul do? He taught the word that we are very clear because he spent a lot of time teaching the word and he also disciple people. We can understand through his own life because he took people along with him. He let people observe his life and Paul went through so many ups and downs and some times it seems like miracles are happening through his life. Deliverances are taking place through his life but on the other hand, there is so much of opposition where even Paul is scared for his own life. So we see that whatever journey Paul was going through, he was open about it. He let people see it. He let people go with him and in this way the people around him were actually built up and disciple because they were able to look at the life of Paul, look at the life of a leader and see his ups, his downs, how does he deal with it, all of that. So it's beautiful to really see how he was ministering the word, proclaiming the word, demonstrating the power of the supernatural and also discipling people through his own life. He took people along, gave opportunities. He didn't try to monopolize on the opportunities that he had. So a lot of lovely lessons to learn. So Aristaq is second is of Thessalonians, Gays of Derb and Timothy. Timothy of? Where is Timothy from? We saw that also. If you can recall. Thoros, he comes from Thoros. Yes, you could, not really. He held from another place, Lupeka. Do you remember we discussed that he took Timothy, he forcefully, yeah, someone, he forcefully circumcised Timothy so that he will be accepted by people later on in his ministry. Lystra? Lystra, there you go. Yeah, Lystra is the place that Timothy is from. Okay, so Timothy and Taikikus and Trophimus of Asia. These men going ahead waited for us at Troas. But we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unliving Bread and in five days joined them at Troas where we stayed seven days. So I'm hoping you kind of remember the map, Galatia, Macedonia, and the Asia region. So the journey is going on. So there are people now who are waiting for him at Troas. So they are there in Troas. We sailed from Philippi after the days of Unliving Bread and five days joined them at Troas where we stayed seven days. So when it says we stayed seven days, who's with them? Luke, Luke, Luke. Correct, Luke because he's the one who's writing and that's why when he says we, he's included in that trip and seven days they are in a place called as Troas. So in Troas again some amazing ministry happens. Let's see what this ministry is. Would somebody like to read it? And then I'll point out a couple of key points here from verse 7 to verse 12. Acts 20. Yes, please. Acts chapter 20 verses 7 to 12. Now on the first day of the week when the disciples came together to break bread Paul's ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight. There were many alarms in the upper room where they were gathered together. And in the window sat a certain young man named Eutychus who was sinking into a deep sleep. He was overcome by sleep and as Paul continued speaking he fell down from the third story and was taken and dead. But Paul then down fell on him and embracing him said do not trouble yourself for his life is in him. Now when he had come up, had broken bread and eaten and talked a long while even till they break he departed and they brought the young man in a lie and they were not a little comforted. Wow, so interesting. Raises a lot of questions in our minds. Questions such as, you know, why was this young man so sleepy? Eutychus, he was sinking into a sleep. Does it prove that Paul was very boring when he was, you know, in his preaching style? We don't know. We don't know. These are all questions that people ask. But some commentators they say that apparently people would work through the day and then come for the meetings in the night. So that is why he was tired. He had a lot of work that he had done and instead of resting, he had showed up at this meeting. And we also observe it says the first day of the week when the disciples came together to break bread. So that again shows us some key things such as, you know, when we look at the seven days of creation, the first six days got created and on the seventh day got rested. So there's this whole argument about first day, seventh day, which is the right day of the Sabbath and day to rest and all. But what we generally go by is what we see in the Book of Acts because here it says on the first day of the week. So that's why like Sunday is the day that we usually go to church, we worship. But yes, there are certain countries where they pick a different day where they worship the Lord. But then, you know, it's not necessarily about the day. So that first day of the week is a mention over here. And then it says the disciples came together to break bread. Also tells us that they probably had communion every Sunday. So it was like the church service when they all came together. Paul was going to go the next day. So seems like he wanted to say too many things. And so he went on and on. It says spoke to them and continued his message until midnight. I wonder if anybody preaches till midnight, you know, in our generation, whether people will stay or what they would just prefer an online service maybe, right? To just stay home. But in this case, they did not have any options. They went up to the so-called upper room or space and they are all gathered and Paul is going on and on and on till midnight. He's sharing the different things on his heart, preaching the word. Then what happens? This man who sat near the window, you take us, sinking into a deep sleep, overcome by sleep. When Paul continued speaking, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. So the scripture itself says that he is a dead man. Okay. This is all so challenging, isn't it? But thank God for the power of the spirit that God's people ministered with. Do you remember anyone else who was resurrected in the book of Acts? Dorcas. Dorcas, correct, correct. So who ministered to Dorcas? I think it's Peter. Peter, very right. So sort of similar miracles that you see. You know, Peter is going, doing all these things, Paul is doing all these things. So resurrection this time around, this person dies. And I mean, I can't even imagine what went through Paul. Like people would blame him. Your servant is too long, Paul, you shouldn't have preached.  Okay. But he just goes down. Thank God that, you know, he understood that he can minister to him. So he fell on him and embracing him said, do not trouble yourselves for his life is in him. So this man is now resurrected. And look at the, look at the focus of Paul verse 11. Now, when he had come up, had broken bread and eaten and talked a long while, even until daybreak, he departed. So after raising the dead man, Paul is continuing with the sermon, right? Till morning, many hours again, he preaches only then he leaves Troas. And, you know, thank God, you know, this young man is alive and the people are also happy. So, yeah, somewhat strange what happened in Troas, but great to see the power of God. Now from Troas, they move on to a place known as Miletus. So it's basically about just moving. So not so much of, you know, some key takeaway in the next couple of verses. Maybe someone can read it, someone different please. So I think Lubega has read and Jeffina has read. So someone else could kindly go ahead and read from verse 13 to verse 16. Acts chapter 20 verse 13 to 16. Yes. Then we went ahead to the ship and sailed to us. Then we went ahead to the ship and sailed to us. Okay. Something like this. There's some doubling up. So, Zellie, I would request you to continue please. And then whoever wants to read can read the next time. So you can continue now. Acts 20 verse 13 to 16. Then we went ahead to the ship and sailed to us. So they're intending to take Paul on board for so he had given orders intended himself to go on food. And when he met us at Osos, we took him on board and came to meet me. We sailed from there and the next day came opposite to yours. The following day we arrived at Samos and stayed in Trogolium. The next day we came to Miletus for Paul had decided to sell past officials so that he would not have to spend time in Asia for he was having to be in Jerusalem if possible on the day of Pentecost. All right. Yes. Thank you, Zellie. Thank you so much for reading those verses. And as we can observe, there are a good number of names of places. So I think it'll be better for me to just show you a map. That way you can register the places in your mind. All right. I hope this is noticeable. Yes.  So he goes to Macedonia. He spent some time over there. We just discussed Philippi, Thessalonica, Beria, you know, all those cities and again region is also kind of shown here. He comes back to Troas. So let's observe his journey back. He's coming back over here. You can see him at Troas. So this is where the miracle of raising Eutychus happened. And just now Zellie read, she read Assos, then, Medellin, Chios, Samos, Miletus. Right. So this is where he is finally at. Now, something, something that we will notice is that, you know, he can always go to Ephesus, right? It's so close by. Ephesus is just about here. But because of the opposition that arose, it is not safe for Paul to go to Ephesus. So there's something that he will plan to do right now in order to minister to the people, the elders.  And therefore we can imagine that the church has become strong and there are many leaders in the church. One of his, one of his desires is to encourage the people or the leaders of Ephesus. Just the way he went and encouraged in other regions, he wants to encourage in Ephesus. But it's kind of dangerous to go back into Ephesus because you remember Demetrius and all the uproar that took place. So what is he going to do now? We will see that he will, from Miletus, he'll call for the leaders of Ephesus to come to him because he obviously cannot go there. Now let's go ahead. Let's look at, okay, where is that? Yeah, this one. So from Miletus, once he talks to the leaders of Ephesus, he'll journey back. So you can see the arrows coming through, you know, Rhodes, Patara, and then he'll go to Tyre, I don't know how you pronounce it. Then Ptolemaeus, Caesarea, and finally to Jerusalem. So this time around, the third missionary journey, as you would see, starts at Antioch and it ends at Jerusalem. So let's continue and see what exactly he ministers to the leaders in Miletus. So we are now in Miletus. So it says, from Miletus, he sent to Ephesus and called for the elders of the church. And when they had come to him, he said to them, you know, from the first day that I came to Asia, in what manner I always lived among you. Serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears and trials which happened to me by the plotting of the Jews, how I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you and taught you publicly and from house to house, testifying to Jews and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. And see, now I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me. But none of these things move me, nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. And then we'll go on to say many different things, but let me just share from this passage first and then I'll go to the next. So what he's saying is two things. One is, he says, leaders of Ephesus, you know how I lived. You know how I served through good times and bad times and I drew people to the Lord. That's the first thing. Second thing, he says, God is speaking to me or the Holy Spirit is telling me that chains await me in every city. That means that there are tribulations or persecutions which are waiting for Paul. And you know, when we journey with God, we can understand his plans for our lives. So Paul was journeying so closely with the Lord that in the next couple of years, the things that were going to take place in his life, he was kind of aware by the revelation of the Holy Spirit. And so he's actually telling the elders what is going to happen to him. And he's saying that, you know, if I go to Jerusalem, then I don't know what all dangerous things are going to happen to me. But he is willing to be obedient to God. That's why in verse 24 he says, none of these things move me, nor do I count my life dear to myself so that I may finish my race with joy. And the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. So this is so similar to the apostles whom we saw in the first few chapters of the Book of Acts, full of boldness. They were not even afraid for their own lives. They were ready to preach the gospel, come what may. You remember the angel comes, it rescues Peter and John and says, go back to the temple and start preaching again. Boldly they go back. They're not afraid about what might happen to them. So something for us to notice is these people were so brave. They were so passionate. They were so committed. Life or death, they were willing to serve the Lord. And that's what Paul is saying. I know what's going to happen. Whatever's going to happen is not good, but I'm not afraid. I'm here to do what God has called me to do. Now let's move on. So he's still preaching to the leaders. So you know, you can imagine the scene and remember I mentioned to us there is a movie Acts of the Apostles. So I would recommend that you see it because they've tried their best to make it look as it may not be exactly how it was back in the days of Paul, but they've done their best. So you'll notice there that, you know, there's a gathering of the leaders and Paul is actually talking to them. He's in tears because it's full of love. He knows he won't come back. He knows he is not going to see them again in his spirit. So what are the emotions involved in talking to the leaders? That's the picture we get over here. So everything which is on his heart, he's ready to pour it out to them because it truly loves them. He has served them so hard and he's not going to see them again. So what are the other things that he mentions from verse 25? He says, And indeed now I know that you all among whom have gone preaching the gospel of God will see my face no more. Therefore, I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. Therefore, I have not shunned to declare to you the whole council of God. Okay. So what is he saying? He's saying, I may not see you. One thing I'm sure of, I did my job as an evangelist and as a teacher. So he's saying, I am innocent of the blood of all men. Simply means that their eternal future is at stake, which is why we have to preach the gospel. He has done it. He has already done it. He never let go of any opportunity. So he's saying, I did my job as an evangelist and he's also saying, I am not shunned to declare to you the whole council of God. So this is also a beautiful passage, a beautiful phrase, whole council of God, meaning I've taught you well. I've taught you thoroughly. What is the whole council of God? Any idea? Any thoughts on that? Whole council. Okay. Entire gospel of Jesus Christ. All right. Is it possible to teach or preach the partial council of the word of God? Okay. Very true. That's what we've done. So any examples of let's say the partial council as compared to the whole council? See, Paul is so brave and so confident. I taught you everything. That's what he's saying. So what is this whole council? I do think that this is when people are trying to preach, but they cut out some issues. For instance, there are people, especially some churches, I don't want to mention some, but there are some churches which mix their traditionals or their own culture into the region. For instance, you see like we have two sacraments that are preached in the Bible, the one of baptism and the one of Holy Communion. But you will find some people have also the prayer of the Sikh, they have confirmation, they have so many, anything you add to the gospel becomes something different. It's no longer the gospel alone. That's what I can say for now. Sure. So yeah, thank you. So what you're saying is that sometimes there are people who are preaching untruth or let's say even incomplete truth, which will lead to error in the lives of people. So as far as Paul is concerned, he has made sure that he has given the full picture of what the word says. So that tells us to be responsible teachers of the word. I think Colossians 2 15, if I'm not wrong or I don't know what that scripture passage is. Let me give you the right reference. Okay. Yeah. Timothy 2 15 where it says study to show yourself approved unto God. A workman that need needed be need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. What is rightly dividing the word of truth? So when we teach, we are responsible to ensure that it's interpreted correctly. And the truth is taught correctly. So then we may need to assess every subject in a proper manner and then present it to the people because what happens when people hear the teaching of God's word. They apply it because the word of God is for us to live out. So as a teacher, if we are not rightly dividing or rightly interpreting the word, then it may lead to wrong application. And if it leads to wrong application, it affects people's lives. So these are all the issues. And when Paul says the whole council of the word of God as you know, Lubeca pointed out and even Jeff in our sharing that Paul says, right. And I think it is in the Philippines. Philippians one verse 15 where he says some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife and some also from goodwill. So there are people who can preach with the wrong motives, only half the truth. Okay. But these are all the partial way of speaking the word of God. We must go away from it. Now, if we are not careful, we may also we may do that intentionally or unintentionally. For example, you know, I always wondered about the teaching of grace. We talk about how God's grace has saved us and you know, God's grace is upon our lives. Yes, all that is correct. But just because we are speaking about God's grace, it doesn't mean that a believer should not live responsibly or righteously. Because in some teachings, it seems like that like you do anything you want. God's grace covers you.  You don't have to be ashamed. It becomes very one sided. But if we go back to the verse that comes to my mind, I'll just tell us. Yeah. Okay. John chapter one and verse 14 where scriptures tell us the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And we have seen his glory glory as of the only son from the father full of grace and truth. Okay. So grace goes hand in hand with what? With truth.  Whereas the truth about righteous living, the truth about, you know, walking wisely with God. Those things cannot be hidden from the people. If we do that, it becomes one sided. So when we look at this term whole council of God, there's so much we can talk about it. Because what Paul was saying was very, very important. He's saying the way I have preached to you, you understood in wholeness how to worship correctly, how to live correctly. I didn't have the wrong motives. Neither did I give you the wrong interpretation of the word of God. So when you apply it, you will reap the good results of the, you know, what the word brings to you. So look at his confidence, how he's talking. This is the kind of ministry that he did among the people. And then look at his pastoral heart now. So far he said, as an evangelist, I have preached, I have as a teacher, I have taught. Now he's saying verse 28, therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to shepherd the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood. Now it's a very pastoral kind of an instruction there because he's saying the flock of God, the flock of God is who? The people of God. So he is using terminology like shepherd and flock because a shepherd takes care of his sheep. So we have to take care of God's people. He's telling the leaders, look leaders, God is the one he has given these people to us. And who made us pastors or who made us overseers?  And he says, always remember when dealing with God's people that they're not, you know, sometimes we say, oh my people or my church. But actually, technically, if you look at it, they've only been interested to us because these are God's people whom he has purchased with his own blood. And it is the Holy Spirit who has made us overseers upon God's people. So it reveals the kind of responsibility that we carry upon our shoulders. So these are all things that he is trying to make the leaders understand that the responsibility that you carry has come from God. And these are God's people. So what does he say? He says shepherd the church. Shepherd the church. We can talk so much about it, right? What is shepherding? You shepherd, meaning you have to guide them, lead them, nurture them, protect them. So much work is involved in shepherding God's people so that we can lead them in the purposes of God. So these are the instructions, departing instructions that Paul speaks to the leaders verse 29. He says, for I know this, that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. So he's also aware of times where false teachers, false prophets will rise from among the people. Now if you go and study the writings of Apostle Peter, Apostle John, all of them warn about times when false doctrines will arise. It's nothing new. Even in Paul's time, he's saying, be ready. There will be people who don't have the right motivation, who don't have the right teaching, but they'll still be kind of serving God. But you've got to be very alert. After I go, you'll suddenly find such people in your midst. And verse 30, also from among yourselves, men will rise up speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after themselves. Verse 31, therefore watch and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears. So the way he has prepared God's people in the word, in the spirit is that even when these tough days come with so much confusion, they will be able to stand. They will be able to, you know, fulfill what God wants them to do. I think I'm just going to stop here. We will look at Paul's speech or his instructions to the leaders some more in the next class. If there's anything that you want to discuss about, we can do that before we close in prayer. So Apostle Paul comes across as such a passionate person, isn't it? So passionate and so committed.  And we thank God for these testimonies. May we also learn from the lives of Paul and many others and live passionately for God. So let's just close with a word of prayer. I open it up for anyone to go ahead and lead, please. Yes, Lord Jesus, we want to thank you for this time. Thank you for teaching us from your word. Lord, we pray that help us also to be passionate, to be on fire for you, God, and always preach the whole gospel, God, and to bring people to your word, to your truth of God and help us to not dilute at any point of time of God, but help us to be very diligent in what you have given to us of God. We pray, Lord God, that we would be accountable to you and we would do with every work that we do of God. Let it bring glory to your name, Lord Jesus. We thank you for this time of learning. We give you praise in Jesus' name, we pray. Amen, amen. Thank you. Thank you everyone and have a blessed weekend. And those of us who are serving in churches, may the Lord strengthen you, that you may see His power and His glory. So, bye for now and take care.


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You should probably get one shiv out of them before they go blunt. Try them out. On what? On your joy cons. Ah. Can you think of any practical uses for this? This is one of them things like I just don't understand why. Leveraging your chances in Mario Party, I guess. Somebody steals your star one too many times. You just start poking them.   So you made me rate them. What are you rating this out of five? Can I rate them after I see them up? What? Because I don't want to give one too high or too low of a rating before I know who else is coming to the party here. I gotta find out. All right, this next one actually, we're gonna need another, hold on. I'm gonna get your dock but we're gonna have to be really careful because I don't want to scratch yours because yours is the cool one. I don't know if you would have seen this one while you were looking around the internet. I think it's a newer thing. Nope, I haven't seen him. Do you know what this is? Or is there a lock on it? Can you draw a correlation here? So nobody can steal your Switch dock? This one is absolutely ridiculous. This right here is probably the stupidest, I'm sorry to whoever made it, the stupidest Nintendo Switch accessory I have ever seen. I'm trying to figure out what exactly is this padlock? I'm guessing it's for someone who can't steal your Switch. I'm assuming that whoever made this had a sibling. Okay, continue with your theory. So this is to prevent the theft. So you don't trust your sibling that much. I saw people online saying it's for, if you invite friends around and you don't want them to steal the Switch. Okay, what kind of friends do you have? I know. You have to worry that they'll steal your Switch. Can you imagine? Can you imagine? Get new friends.  He invites you around and you get there. You have the key right before you. And this is on his Switch. And you're like, dude, what is that? And he's like, well, I knew you were coming around. So I locked my Switch to its dock. I don't think you can tell him that's what happened. Why else? I think you're just like, ah, yeah, I just... It'd be hard not to draw the correlation.  You're unhooking this thing and you're taking it regardless. You just get a dock out of it as well. I think, in theory, this worked for someone, but... Well, you want to rank that one? Or you want to give your thoughts on that one? No, I'm gonna wait till the end. Are you gonna use that one past this video? You always ask me if I'm gonna use it past the video.  You're gonna use it? No. You're worried I'm gonna steal your Switch? Not really a fear that I face on a daily basis. So this next one, I tailored it to your liking. And then one of them, one of them I've tailored more to my liking, but it's kind of generic. I got you little NES cartridges that you open up and you can store a Switch card inside. And I picked your favorite games on the Switch, the Pokemon, the Yoshi, which isn't out yet, but I'm assuming. Eventually, he'll go in there. And then Mario Rabbis, which you really liked. And then I got Super Smash Brothers because, I mean, it's cool. They don't fit! Well, I mean, not really. You had one job, man. It's like a millimeter too small.  It just kind of bothers me that it doesn't really sit flush in there. I feel like. I go, get ya. He didn't like that. I pick my teeth with it. He's chewing it. Well, at least someone has a use for it. I don't know why his first instinct when he doesn't know what it is is to just pick his teeth with it. I'm gonna bite it. I like them. I think they're cool. Even if you don't put the games in them, they're still cool to just like. They're cute. Yeah. I would lose them, but. Well, yeah. They yours.  But these are like. Do moose lose things? Clumsy moose. Simon, you are so in the way this video, man. Simon, I'm not in the way. This is the way. You're adorable, and I love you. But you're just dominating this whole video, man. You just experienced that one for yourself. I mean, it's hopeful. Right. Yeah, I did see these. You did? I like these.  I know, okay, sorry. I have two. You know, honestly, I think it's pretty cool. It is pretty cool. It's a shame that there's only one Pokemon game, though. I feel like this would be more for like 3DS games where you have several Pokemon games and you keep them all in the Pokemon. I could see that argument, but I feel like you could fit like your Yoshi's, your Splatoon's. Right, but it's not really on theme. Well, it's kind of Nintendo theme, you know? Also, I could have proposed with this thing. I've been like, I choose you.  Would you have said yes? I mean, probably, but for different reasons. What different reason? That's kind of cool. You're gonna use it? I don't know. This is what you did to me, by the way. Every time, you're gonna use it? You're gonna use it after this video? And then I'd be like, I don't know if I want a thing strapped around my neck all the time while I play my Switch. What? To be fair, though, you did use that, though. One time. Okay, what's next? Kind of like when you do yours and you buy me stuff, there's always that one that's like, almost completely irrelevant to Switch, but kind of relevant to Switch. This is my one of that. Open it. It is the world's- I like this. I saw it, I almost bought you this as a joke, so I'm glad that you bought it. It's the world's tiniest Nintendo Switch. It's cute. I like it. I like that the Joy-Cons are actually- Yeah, removable. And yeah, it's got a dock. You can put in a dock. It's really cool. Is it sad if this is my favorite so far? No, it's yours. Anything can be your favorite. Hey, you know what, actually? How much do you like this? What do you mean? I mean, do you want to keep it? Why? Because you can buy it from me for a penny. That way, everyone that complains and every single one of the videos that I shouldn't title it my girlfriend buys my Nintendo Switch accessories, not only is that correct in the first place, but if you actually buy my Nintendo Switch accessory for a penny, then it works in both ways. You've been having a rough time with that, huh? You want to buy it? Yes. All right, the next one, and the next one costs $100. And I'm not going to say that I regret it because I think a lot of people are going to get a kick out of it. It's just not exactly what I expected with that being said.  Put out your hands. Oh, geez, so wet. So slithery. No, no. So moist. I almost bite you this too. So bad it was really cool. Yeah, except you probably thought that's way too expensive and you didn't. I was like, he's not going to like that I paid $100 for this. And then you paid $100. Before I give my, and by the way, thanks again, Audible, for sponsoring this video because with the help of Audible, I've been able to actually afford this. This was $100 on its own. I spent too much money on this stuff. Look it over and tell me what you think. I'm confused by the wire. I went to, oh. So it's a dock. It's here. Let me show you the people. Pop it down on the table for a second. Put it right here in the middle. Oh, it's like an actual functional. It's an actual Nintendo Switch dock. And I'm really scared I'm going to scratch my Switch on it. Wow, okay. So with that in mind, just give me a little. That would explain why it costs $100. Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, that mechanic part to it. I think actually the amiibo's fit. The amiibo's don't fit there. They sit there. They don't sit there. I think in her picture, they had. No, it sits here. So that's kind of what threw me because I thought $100, okay, that's kind of expensive. I know how much it costs. I don't know how much work went into it, but there was a picture of the Mario wedding amiibo here. And I was like, oh, at least they get the amiibo out of it. No. It's cool in an entire concept and theory, but what do you think? I think it's really cool. Okay, well, I mean, if you like it, it's yours anyway. It doesn't matter if I like it. So how about we rank these things or to like your favorite to your least favorite? No, that's hard. Listen, I'm sorry. If you don't think this is the worst thing on the table, I know this is supposed to be you ranking it. I need to, but I don't think- I'm just for my own peace of mind take. I don't think I'd be able to sleep at night if you didn't put that one as the literal most useless thing on this table. And someone's gonna fight me in that in the comments. My best friend is an ex convict, and I'm really worried he's gonna steal my switch at night. I would love that. Send it to me. My brother breaks my, I'm on my third switch. My brother's broken two of my switches. I would love to lock it up at night under chain and key. I don't hate any of these. Like that's- No, I mean- I think that's important to note.  I didn't buy- I just don't need it is the thing. Yeah, I relate. To what? Nothing. Nothing. And then your favorite favorite is the little miniature switch, which I had a feeling you'd find adorable. Yeah, yeah. I guess it counts. He counts. Another reminder, if you want to meet both Kim and I, we're gonna be in California later this month on the 23rd and 24th. If it's past that date and you're watching this in the future, you already missed us and you'll never see us again because I'm probably dead. But if you want to come, use code Beat Him Up so check out for 10% off. Thanks once again to Audible for sponsoring the video. Really appreciate it. Make sure to click those links down below if you want to get a free audio book.  I forgot my own outro. 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Hey everyone, this is Dr. Ruscio, and let's discuss three simple steps you can take to improve your female hormone balance, especially if you're suffering with PMS, irritability, mood swing, cramps. There is good news, there are three fairly simple, effective and natural things that you can do to improve those symptoms. And let me start off by documenting one of these, which is vitamin D, then we'll talk about gut health, then we'll talk about some herbal supplements that can also help you. But the big thing I wanna touch on today, and we'll cover two studies to substantiate this, is that vitamin D does seem to be able to help women with the symptoms of PMS. So let's jump in by looking at the two studies that have documented this. Firstly, I'll put the abstract up here on the screen, high dose of vitamin D supplementation can improve menstrual problems, dysmenorrhea or cramps, and premenstrual syndrome in adolescents. So these authors start, vitamin D has a crucial role in female reproduction, possibly through its effects on calcium homeostasis, cyclic sex steroid hormone fluctuations, or neurotransmitter function. They set up a study where they looked at about 900, just under 900 adolescent girls, and they put them on once weekly, 50,000 IUs of vitamin D. Now, that would break down to about 7,000 IUs per day, or of the vitamin D that I use in the clinic, that's about three to four drops. So it sounds like a lot, but it's actually not a supremely high dose. And after the intervention period of roughly nine weeks, here's what they found, and I'll put the results up here on the screen. PMS significantly reduced after the intervention. Dysmenorrhea or cramps significantly reduced after the intervention. PMS and cramps or dysmenorrhea together reduced after the intervention. And vitamin D supplementation was also associated with the reduction in the incidence of several PMS related symptoms, such as backache and a tendency to cry easily, as well as a decrease in pain severity of menstrual cramps. Leading the researchers to conclude, high dose vitamin D supplementation can reduce the prevalence of PMS and dysmenorrhea, as well as has positive effects on the physical and psychological symptoms of PMS. So, great news. Now, another study was also published, and I'll put the abstract up here in the screen on this study. Vitamin D supplementation for premenstrual syndrome related mood disorders in adolescence with severe hypovitaminosis D or severe low vitamin D. Now, in this case, there were 158 girls given vitamin D or placebo. And again, here are the results. Anxiety decreased. These are all significant decreases, by the way. Anxiety, irritability, crying easily and sadness, and a lessening of disturbed relationships, while there was no improvement in the placebo group. Conclusion, on the basis of these findings, vitamin D therapy can be proposed as a safe, effective and convenient method for improving the quality of life in young women with severe hypovitaminosis D or low vitamin D and concomitant mood disorders associated with PMS. So, this is great news. This tells us that a simple vitamin supplement, vitamin D, can help improve PMS. Now, what if you're already taking vitamin D or if you have perhaps normal vitamin D levels and you would like to do more than vitamin D? Well, vitamin D certainly can be helpful and just to rehash this to make sure that you have your dosing work should be based upon some of these studies. A good place to start may be using three to four drops of the formula that I'm using at the clinic which is functional medicine formulations, vitamin D with vitamin K. It's a good idea to have vitamin K along with vitamin D. I won't go into details as to why, but certainly not a bad idea to have the vitamin K accompanying the vitamin D at three to four drops per day. So, not a huge dose. Now, I wouldn't do that dose forever. After a few months, I'd have your levels checked to make sure you're not getting too high and eventually having high levels of vitamin D. But for most people, the battle will be preventing low vitamin D getting into the normal range. Now, what if that in and of itself is not enough for the PMS? Well, fortunately, there's two other fairly simple things you can do to improve your gut, or I'm sorry, to improve your female hormones in your PMS, one of which is improving your gut health. We've documented a number of case studies here in the clinic whereby improving someone's or in this case, a female's digestion, making them less constipated, less bloated, have less abdominal pain or if they have diarrhea, less diarrhea. These things have all led to improvements in the correlating female hormone symptoms. And there's a comprehensive plan for that laid out in Healthy Gut, Healthy You. We're also working on a quick start guide for the Healthy Gut, Healthy You protocol and a quiz to help you see if you also have female hormone imbalances co-occurring along with gut imbalances. So if that quiz is ready by the time this video publishes, then we'll attach the quiz if not check back soon and that should be accessible through our home page. Now, thirdly, you can also use, in this case, I recommend two different herbal blends that help to balance estrogen and progesterone. And the ones that we're using are estero-harmony and progest harmony. Both of these are non-hormonal, meaning they don't contain any hormones, but rather they contain herbs that help to balance hormones. And I've seen these be very effective when women are doing everything else, right? Vitamin D, diet, lifestyle, gut health are all dialed in, but they're still not quite where we're letting them be. These herbs tend to give a gentle push for the hormones and get them in the right direction where sometimes these other interventions have not had quite enough punch to get us there. So by doing these three things, the vitamin D, improving your gut health and using an herbal supplement to balance your female hormones, there is an extremely high probability that you can see your female hormones balance and the corresponding PMS and cramps and irritability and sadness and moodability all increase. And if you're a woman suffering with these problems, I wouldn't go another day because you really don't need to. Fortunately, there are safe and natural solutions to help improve the majority of these cases. So this is Dr. Ruscio and I hope this information helps you get healthy and get back to your life. Thanks.


Okay, so as soon as you give me the nod, I will start. Okay. Hey, Chris. Chris. Okay, thank you. Hello. Welcome to the Development Review Board meeting for October 11, 2022. My name is Pete Kelly. I'm the chair of the DRB. If you are a Zoom participant, please make sure your name and your Zoom sign-in reflects your name. If you, on your participant toolbar, change it, if not, currently showing your name. This is a hybrid meeting taking place in town hall virtually on Zoom. All members of the Board and public can communicate in real time. Planning staff will provide Zoom instructions for public participation before we begin. All votes taken at this meeting will be done by roll call vote in accordance with the law. If Zoom crashes, the meeting will be continued to October 25, 2022. Let's start the meeting by taking roll call attendance of the DRB members participating in the meeting. Paul Christensen. Present. John Hemmelgarn. Here. Scott Riley is recusing himself consistent with the previous hearing. This is the one application that we are hearing tonight. Dave Turner is absent. Nate Andrews. Here. And the chair is present. That's four in attendance. There is a quorum. Let me find tonight's agenda. Recording in progress. Okay. So we will tonight we've got a public forum. That's an opportunity for people to address the board on topics not on the agenda. Then we have one public hearing tonight. That's a continuation of DP 21-18, the annex. Then we've got communication, final plans and other business review and approval of the minutes of September 27th, 2022, followed by adjournment. At this point, I will turn it over to Williston staff to walk us through Zoom instructions. Thanks, Pete. So just a reminder for Zoom participants to rename yourself on the toolbar or by messaging us in the chat. There's several folks in the meeting room tonight. Please keep your speakers and microphone off if you're joined on Zoom. Several features on your toolbar. You can adjust the microphone and video settings. Please keep yourself on mute when you're not speaking. You can message us in the chat for technical questions. Testimony will be taken verbally tonight. You also have the option to pull up captions on the toolbar and telephone participants. None are present this evening, but instructions there as well. We'll be using screen share tonight to share the development review documents. Normally, this is optimized by side by side view. You can toggle to prioritize the screen share or the videos based on your preference.  You can also join by phone audio by clicking the up arrow by the microphone and following the prompts on your screen. And you can message me or Andrew anytime during the meeting if you have any Zoom questions. Thank you. Okay, thank you, Emily. Okay, first up is the public forum. This is an opportunity for anyone either in the room or participating by Zoom or off the board on topics not on tonight's agenda. He raised hands? No. Okay. Anyone from the room? Okay. Hearing none, we'll transition to the public hearing. This is DP 21-18, who is here representing the applicant? I'm Dan Heil with TrueGal Consulting Engineers. Chris Snyder with Snyder Homes. Welcome, gentlemen. Staff goes next. This is a request for discretionary permit to construct phase one of the annex. This is the third time the DRB is holding a hearing on this application. Several revisions were made since the July 27th hearing. And tonight's staff is recommending that the DRB take testimony and close the hearing, deliberate, and issue a decision on this application. We're recommending approval with findings of facts, conclusions of law, and conditions of approval as drafted. I do have some edits to those items to discuss tonight. And particularly the DRB should confirm the number of benches and picnic tables they would like to see in the public park. Here is the hearing history for the application tonight. Conservation Commission and the HAC both commented on this application, and their recommendations are included as conditions. The Public Works Department has commented and has conducted interdepartmental review. They did not provide an updated comment memo on the revisions. They basically told me they took a quick glance and referred to their original comment memo and are looking for responses to that at final plans. The fire department also reviewed the application. They did provide a revised memo that's referenced in the conditions of approval. However, our condition of approval notes that several of their recommendations fall beyond the jurisdiction of the zoning bylaws and public workspecs, particularly related to the placement of street trees, curb to curb widths, etc. Those are dictated by the bylaw and can't be superseded. 48 comment letters were received at the time of mail-out, October 6th, and I did receive two additional comment letters over the weekends that I forwarded to you today. What follows is a list of the items that were discussed at July 26, the applicant's responses. Tonight I am being very brief because we had two extensive hearings on this application, so if the Board has any particular questions about the staff report, let me know. One major change that was made was related to the parking layout, so there was discussion about ADA parking for the community building. Originally it was proposed to be parallel parking spaces along Alpine Drive. They're now going to be angled parking spaces in order to provide the ADA space, and this has been okayed with public works. They'll provide an additional right of way in that area. And how was that change communicated to staff? That was communicated to us by email. So that will be reflected in the final plans? That is correct. This is the earlier version. I'm trying to find the one that Dan emailed to me. Can I say one thing, Emily? So that was a concept we had with the angled parking spaces, but we actually reverted back to parallel, and it was that email I sent you last Thursday, October 6. Yeah, that's the one I'm looking for. Yeah, I attached a PDF showing the parallel spaces, including one ADA space. So that was something we were throwing around, but we actually ended up reverting back to the parallel spaces with the ADA space. I'm going to take your time and find that seeing that we're on that topic. Here we go. And I believe this is the one that's in your packets as well. Okay. So as Dan said, they will be parallel parking spaces towards the eastern side. There's additional pavement space to provide the ADA access, and public works is okay with this. Great. Okay. Thank you. The applicant also will provide a sidewalk along Unit 87 from Baudry Lane to the multi-use path or the primitive trail. That revision is also included in your packets. In terms of the findings of fact, one important change to make is finding the fact number 20, number two, it should say two 66-unit buildings, not two 60-unit buildings for the apartment buildings. And then the DRB should confirm how many benches and picnic tables they would like in the public park. Okay. On proposed conditions of approval number one, I'm sorry, number two, B, is the Williston Fire Department memo. Is that dated? I have that dated as October 5th. And it's listed as a condition of approval to B and it's referenced as October 11th. Good catch. That should say October 5th as well. Okay. Emily, can you clarify one more time which is the findings of fact that have the change in the number of units? Correct. Any other edits? That's it. Okay. Okay. For the Williston Fire Department memo. What does not apply? Let me pull that up. So most everything related to access, the streets are designed to public work specifications and what other applicable roadway design standards for streets and parking access. The roadway, their comment, the roadway width on Bodry Lane and Alpine should be widened if street parking is allowed. The street parking takes into account the appropriate travel lanes, which I believe are 11 or 13 feet depending. Along Bodry. Bodry is 27 feet between Route 2A and Alpine and 30 feet between Alpine and Dunmore. There are comments that trees next to the roadway should be placed far enough from the roadway. The zoning bylaws and public work specs determine the street tree placement. And then several things about fencing for the retention ponds, the senior living elevators, that kind of stuff, is beyond the scope of the bylaw. Okay. And two provides a disclaimer that only to the effect that it complies with the bylaws. That was what I was most concerned about. Okay. Any comments on the fire department's memo? That's really the, that's really the only new item for tonight. I mean, I think the, by the language that's in the conditions of approval help address some of our concerns related to items that are seen to be above and beyond what we had planned on for using land amendment regulations. But in specific, and I think it's just, there's a couple of items that I think are important to, like for the DRV to be thinking about. And if this is a question, the roof access for apartment and senior living is requested to be via stairs. That changes the dynamic of how you, you may end up having a stair tower up on these roofs to accommodate that, that requirement. And so I just think that that's going to be something, it could affect the height of a building because, and then you also have to heat that. And it leads to lots of different things. And so I think it's something for the DRV to potentially talk to the fire department about if that's going to be something they're going to continue to ask for. The other. So, if that architectural feature were not incorporated into the design, how would roof access be obtained? So there's a roof hatch. So a set of stairs to a roof hatch that opens. So it's like those metal stairs in an access area and then you pop the hatch. Yeah. Basically it's what, six inches above the roof section. Yeah, with a curb. With a curb. Yeah. But that's. And it's accessible via stairs or via a ladder? So usually we have two. One which would be by stairs and the second would be by a ladder. So there'd be two different hatches. Yeah. But Emily, is this one of the items that is not enforceable by the DRV? Right, yeah. And that's why we've worded that condition of approval very carefully. It can be a wish list, but at the end of the day we can't enforce it through zoning. This is typically done by building? Correct. And so. Are you satisfied that you're properly covered? Covered on with the way condition of approval number two is written? The language reads correctly so that we can say we follow the bylaw. But we also have to go and meet with the fire department and work through their questions and concerns. And it's always good to understand how to be able to say that the DRVs say follow the bylaws which don't have that roof structure. You can absolutely say that with confidence and this is recorded. Yes. And one of the hallmarks of the Wilson DRV is that we follow the rules. And so if that's not in the bylaws, then it's not something that we feel we can mandate. Yes. And the only, there's two other items that I think are important retention ponds in terms of fencing. There's something that's basically guided by state permitting process, slopes and grades. And the state does require that in certain circumstances. But that we've designed the ponds so that we don't have to have fencing around the ponds for a number of different reasons. Okay. Point me to where that is. In the fire department. That's in the fire department. Thank you. It's three down from the roof access one. Thank you. Anything else? The only other item is the distance requirement. The building shall not be built less than 30 feet apart unless they have sprinklers or clad in cement support. And there are going to be houses and townhouses that will be built closer than feet apart. And we do not want to install sprinkler systems. As under code construction code, we're not required to put sprinklers in when they're 20, basically 20 feet apart. So in this case, they're requesting that it be 30. I understand. Okay. So correct me, Emily, if I'm wrong on this, but thank you for pointing those out. I had just one or two more. And it kind of goes along with what Emily was saying under access. It was talking about all turn, all turns must allow for the Williston fire aerial to turn and maintain their individual lane without needing to go into oncoming traffic lanes. So as Emily stated, the roads are built to the public work specifications along with the turn radii. So that may be hard to achieve given the Williston public work specifications. Okay. And then the one other one I had was the 10 foot recreational path shall be constructed to allow for fire department apparatus to drive on. We're constructing direct path to the public work specifications. Okay. So is that different than having allowing for fire department apparatus to drive on it? I don't know what public work specifications allow. Take that into account as far as the gravel base underneath that that's structurally sound for fire department apparatus to drive on that. What is the depth of the gravel underneath that? Okay. While you're looking for that, which is no problem. Take your time. I'm inclined to just go with the blanket statement that is proposed by staff because you've pointed out several. But if we start to cite them one by one and we miss one, then you're on the hook for it. And that's not the intent. Right. The intent is, is that you are responsible to be compliant with our bylaws and with general code. And if a department of the town of Wilson goes outside of those bounds, I think that, I think that what is written in number two covers all of us. And this is, this is, you know, I'm going to be, I'm going to be frank here and say that this, this is a, something that we've, we've had to address. And we probably on our side, the town side needs, we need to clean this up where there's requirements in, by, by departments of Williston that are nice to have, but are not, are not supported by the bylaws. And so that's on our end. And, and not for you to be burdened with. Are you, are you comfortable with the way conditions of approval number two is written in regard to the, to the overreach topic that we've been talking about? Yes. Yes. Okay. Okay. So at this point for, for DRV members, we've, we've had a quite, quite an extensive past hearings on this application. Tonight we are, we were waiting for the, a couple of town departments to weigh in. They have. We've gone over that those department memos. The applicant has provided clarification on topics relative to those memos. Is, is there anything, anything new that you'd like to bring forth at this time, DRV members? Yeah. I'd like to close a little one, one thing. I was in Dan's memo about the height of the townhomes. There's a, there is, I know a discussion in here. I guess I'd like to hear you kind of describe the, your height calculations and make sure that we all understand exactly what that roof profile is and how high it is above the ground. Yep. So from the finished grade around the building to the peak we're showing 36 feet maximum, but that's actually only 34 feet from the finished floor elevation. So that allows for two feet of flexibility around the building or the finished grade to be two feet below the finished floor elevation and given the grades on the site. You know, we believe that's achievable or that will be achievable to have the finished grade within two feet of the finished floor of the building. Therefore not exceeding that 36 foot maximum. I think two feet's the max. We've talked about eight inches, the finished grade around those townhomes may be as little as eight inches. So that were the case. We would have the, you know, one foot four inches. We'd be one feet four inches below that 36 foot maximum. But you're saying that maximum distance between the grade and that floor elevation would be two feet and that there are places where it's likely to be close to that. Yes. So therefore you're not interested in flirting with that infraction by increasing the slope of the roof. But if you made that with pallor then you would be in danger of not complying. Right. The two feet is our fluff for grade variation along the width of the six unit building. It's really the six unit building that is the most concerning because of the overall length of that. So we have to use that two feet over the six unit building. So that's why we've capped the slab from the slab elevation to the roof line at 34 feet to give us that. It's the, will you read the bylaw excerpt about this again for us, Emily? Yes. So the definition of height is based on average finished grade and then structured parking. The statement is where there's a commensurate reduction of surface parking and loading areas. So my interpretation of that, correct me if you view this differently, Emily. But in that, I think you're slightly short changing yourself because if you've got a two foot grade change over the course of a six unit width, then the average is going to be a foot. Hopefully. Hopefully. And so I think you're safe with your methodology. Yeah.  Right. The difference is I'm not sure how our bylaw requires that to be measured. Sometimes you take the low and the high and you take the half or sometimes you have to go every so many feet along there. So it keeps you from keeping it down low for all this whole thing and then raising it up at the last corner. Right. Can you provide some insight on this on the intent, Emily? I can. Yeah. So on our new dwelling checklist, it provides a diagram on how to calculate the average finished grade.  These are the contour lines. And then you average it to find the center point. So I think if they're feeling confident in their calculation, we would just be looking for that confirmation at the administrative permit. If later on down the road, they find out it's not going to be feasible, they could come back to amend. So I don't think there's anything, there's any harm in the DRB approving this tonight with the information that's provided. And so just for clarity sake, the roof that we're looking at on these townhouses and from the front face, the Eve, that's about six, a little over six feet tall. What is the slope on that shingle roof? This. Three and four, two? No, it's a five, five-twelve in that particular location. Okay. It was just over the limit for changing the roof materials. Because if you're four-twelve, you have to either do a different material, our preferences, if it's four-twelve or under, you have to change the product. Okay. So once you hit the ridge there, and it goes slopes back down on the backside, what is the slope there? And what is the material? That's a good question, and I would need to get that. I'm just concerned it's going to be a very shallow pitch. Yes. Right? I think you said that last time. Yes. Yes. I'm not sure to what extent we have control of that, but I think it's something I want to be careful about approving. These materials, I think, are inappropriate if that's the case. We would not be able to install asphalt shingles in a four and 12. No. I understand. I wouldn't do it, certainly in two or even three. Four I might consider. Yeah. But again, so I'm just wondering what the material is on the backside where it's much shallower. We can work on that. Or is it a flat roof to an internal drain to go off the backside of the building? We may end up having to do that on the six unit buildings. How deep are those buildings from front to back? They're like 40 feet deep. Because it's a garage plus room. So all good questions and things that I don't have off the top of my head. So what we could do is condition or add something that says, hey, be cognizant. Maintain that. We'll talk about that. Yeah. I mean, typically we don't get into. We don't. We don't get into design elements. In this particular case, you know, it's right at the height limit. Yeah. And so that's the reason why we're having this conversation. Yeah. Oh. I mean, it's not on that beautiful picture and that beautiful rendering you've shown us. We don't get to see kind of what that is doing. It's probably not an accident. It's a small gable and then it's like a man-sert roof along the back and then, well, I can't remember exactly how we're dealing with the center of the core of it. I almost need like the drone view from above. A little roof plan. All right. That's all the questions. OK. Thank you. DRB members, any other questions? You made an interesting statement about that.  No. I didn't say you can't ground. How did you say it? That we designed them with slopes so that you do not have to install fencing. OK. Per some regulation? The state has a regulation. The state does have a regulation and I would need to take another look at that regulation. OK. Right now we're not showing fencing there, but if it is required, this is going to require state storm water review. We can address it with the state at that time if fencing is required. But I would need to take another look at that. And what are the materials on your homes that are only built 20 feet apart? The exteriors. Final sighting.  Just out of curiosity. Have you? No. It's exciting. Let me tell you. And when you've got homes that are built that close together and it gets going, the first one is going to take the second one out. It doesn't matter how many firemen are there. It's just going to happen. Yeah. So you might want to think about the cement support, at least on the section between the two buildings. Just the thought. Yeah. I'm done. You're good? I'm good to rest. Okay. Now I'd like to open it up for any public comments. And if you do have public comments, please limit them to new information that has come forth since the last hearing. Are there any raised hands? A reminder to folks on Zoom to comment in the chat or raise your hand if you would like to speak as far as seeing no chats and no raised hands. But we'll give it a moment. Okay. One other issue I just remembered. Now that you've gone to parallel parking on your ADA, what side of the vehicle do most of the ramps come off of? So there's one ADA parallel accessible space and that's on the passenger side of the vehicle. The loading space is on the passenger side. Okay. As well as the ramp. So they're going to be facing in? Say that again? They will be, the ramp will be facing into the sidewalk. Yes. The ramp will be facing the loading space. I just want to make sure about that because I wouldn't want to see these guys have their ramp out into the street. That would be exciting. No. No. The curb cut in the ramp is right adjacent to the loading space. Okay. Thank you. Any raised hands? So far no chats and no raised hands. Okay. Okay. Any final words? One of the art, we would like to just, the concept plans have been provided for the artwork for the open space or whatever. We don't have final drawings or specifications or heights for those yet, but they do need to be of a certain scale that's representative and visual. And so what we'd like to do is submit those, you know, when we do the administrative permit for phase one. So for the site work infrastructure, we'd like to provide the drawings and scopes for the relation to what that is. And it's not very clear in the conditions to when those work will be submitted. Okay. But what condition is that? Right. We didn't really write a condition specific to that one. Yeah. The public art will be, the finding of fact number five states, the public art will be three sculptures of sufficient height, both to be visible and inviting from Alpine Drive. I think earlier in the staff report, I alluded to that they would be shown at final plans, but I think that's a condition the DRB could set if you want to see the art at final plans or administrative permit. I did do some research and it's noted in the earlier in the staff report on the art. They're about 12 feet tall and the wooden circle is about 13 feet in diameter. So if the DRB wanted to include more information, they could. So you'd like to submit it earlier than final plans? No. After final plan, the actual details of it, at administrative permit for the infrastructure. One of your art pieces could be a vertical pole with what looks like a kidney bean that happens to have a circle attached to it. Could be one of your art pieces. Yeah. Half court would be nice. Yeah. Okay. Any other final comments? Hi, is that Jim? Yes, it is Emily. My hand isn't working, so I just unmuted my mic. Hi, Jim. Hi, Jim Thornton, 44 Chelsea Place. I know you got it just recently, but is anyone going to respond to Don Mariseau's notes from, I believe it was the eighth? They really have some serious questions about which documents you're working from. Is it sub 93 six or 95 17 and which document was used for deciding how many units to be built with the streets, right of ways and so forth. I'm not going to read it, but I am asking is he going to get a response from planning and design review on that? Go ahead. Okay, sounds good Pete. So we did receive this letter and include it in the DRB's packets. One of the question was about the right of way and the connection to Finney crossing. The other connection was about a 20 foot emergency access, not a road. In my staff report, I gave a history of this property and prior development approvals that obviously didn't come to fruition because the site is currently undeveloped. So in the 1990s, there was a 55 unit concept approval. SUV 95. 17. That's loading on the screen. It showed a connection where Alpine Drive is to Essex Road as well as that road connection through Chelsea Common. So this was concept approval only. It didn't move forward further. And then in the mid-2000s, the Essex Alliance church approvals were issued. They received final plans in permitting, but they didn't act on them and start construction. I also referenced the Chelsea Commons final plan set. Chelsea Commons was approved, I think in 1994, before. The plat does not reference that 20-foot emergency access easement. And that is at the far southwestern corner of Chelsea Commons where today it intersects with Zephyr Road. So there's shown a proposed easement for 50-foot-wide for emergency access. And then it also has this would be running west to east to be dedicated to the town of Williston, part of the right-of-way that's now Zephyr Road. That 20-foot emergency access easement comes later on in the plans as part of the overall site plan for the Chelsea Commons neighborhood where it does reference a 20-foot-wide future emergency access. That's because when Chelsea Commons was originally developed, Zephyr Road did not exist.  So this was a dead-end neighborhood at the time. But that plat did show for the future connection both at that far southwestern corner and then at the northeastern corner, the right-of-way goes to what is today Dunmore Lane and then north to the adjoining property. So that road right-of-way always went up to the property line to where Dunmore Lane would future be constructed. The question was about why we're not taking into consideration that it was emergency access at that time. It's a moot point because this is accepted town right-of-way these are public roads and that easement connecting from Chelsea to this property, the annex property that is dedicated to the town as a future right-of-way. So it's not something that the DRB has the authority to ignore or revoke the by-law say, provide connection between neighborhoods where there's no physical barrier. And that's what the DRB is trying to do. And that's what the DRB is trying to do. It would ultimately be a decision for the select board if they wanted to abandon a public right-of-way the way roads become a class 4 road that's on maintain. It would be that same process but ultimately it would be a select board decision if they wanted to abandon any of their public right-of-way. So I'm not using 93 6 I am not using 95 17 those were provided just as historical context for the permit record. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Emily. Any other public comments? Seeing no chats and no raised hands. Thank you for your time and efforts and appreciate the focus that we've had over the multiple reviews of this project. As I said initially, I do believe all the changes that we have taken place through the town and public participation certainly has helped to allow this proposed neighborhood to be better proposed neighborhood. Thank you. I agree with all that that it's a collaborative effort and I think the end product is improved. Okay, I'm going to close DP 21-18 and is there a motion to approve the minutes? Paul has made the motion to approve the minutes as written. Is there a second? Second. John seconds it. Any discussion? Are these Andrews first run in minutes? Well done. Concise and clear, thank you. Hearing no further comments. Yay or nay? Paul Christensen. John Hemmelgarten. Nate Andrews. The chair is a yay. Four in favor, none opposed. Motion carries. Is there any further business to bring forth the DRV tonight? Any update on getting another member of the DRV? So far no. Okay. Is there something we can talk to directly or do we have to go through you guys? About knowing somebody? No about trying to get it to happen faster. Is Eric the one that's talking? Yeah, when I applied it was through the town manager. Yeah, it's through the town manager. We have it up on the website. I know Aaron Dickinson has been trying to do more outreach in terms of signage and, you know, it's right on the home page that there's volunteer opportunities. There's an opening on almost every single board in town. You know, I know there's been past comment in the DRV about the length of meetings and the time that they end and if form-based code, you know, goes through in his final shrink. Yeah, it could be more palatable agendas because there'll be fewer things on the DRV's plate and we can probably advertise that, you know, DRV ends 9.30, 10 p.m. maximum. The planning commission is really good about that. They're usually done 9, 9.15 rarely during form-based code and I think they would go to 9.30. I'm sure people probably have a perception that the DRV still goes to 11 p.m. midnight. I think in the past I've even heard of it 1 a.m. So nothing good happens after 9.30. Nothing good. It's certainly 10 o'clock. Okay, thank you. Is there a motion to adjourn? It's all moved. Second. Any discussion? All in favor of adjourning? Aye. Any opposed? Thank you, everyone.


Serial-focused ion-beam scanning electron microscopy, FIB, SEM, enables imaging and assessment of subcellular structures on the mesoscale, 10 nm to 10 m. We evaluated the choice of plasma ion source and imaging regimes to produce high-quality SEM images of a range of different biological samples. This article was authored by Maud Jumu, Thomas Glenn, Jake L. R. Smith, and others.


Dear students, in this module we shall discuss the methods of transmission of signal in a single neuron. A nerve cell receives inputs through tendrites or membranes of its soma. The soma or cell body integrates the messages from all inputs and determines if the response is to be propagated through active processes that is through the production of action potential or through passive processes that is through graded, electrotonically conducted messages. The information received at the receptor site produces a stimulus-generated local depolarization. This local depolarization can spread through two methods that is passive-electrotonic conduction that happens in non-spiking local circuit neurons while the active regenerative action potentials are generated in those neurons which have voltage-gated ion channels. First, we will talk about non-spiking neurons that do not generate action potentials. We will talk about local circuit neurons. These neurons are usually small in size and they lack voltage-gated ion channels. They have only resting potassium channels. These resting potassium channels do not generate action potentials because of these. To generate action potentials, actually voltage-gated ion channels should be generated. A cell that does not have these cannot generate action potentials. So, in these neurons, conductance depends on their passive electrical properties which include the capacitance and resistance. These cable properties make the exon comparable to an electrical wire. These cable properties affect the speed and distance of transmission of electrical signals in the neurons. Cable properties have some effects. For example, if a current passes through an electrical wire, some electrical current is lost. There is a loss. Similarly, these neurons that are working because of passive electrical properties have a little loss or decay in the current. This decay happens because of the resistance of the cytoplasm that it presents to the flow of ionic current. The second reason is that if the external membrane does not have insulation because the layer of myelin does not exist, then because of this, potassium ions, i.e., the current, outflows which causes the current loss. These local circuit neurons which are only a few millimeters in length can only conduct signals through graded potentials. And these graded potentials are transferred in passive electronic way from the exon terminal to the next neurons. These do not take the aid of action potentials. In all this process, the amplitude of signal is attenuated. This signal becomes weak as it reaches here. However, signals are still large enough at the exon terminals that they can be released by neurotransmitters. Compared to this, the neurons that generate action potentials have functional voltage-gated ion channels. And they have active electrical properties. These neurons carry electrical signals without decrement by producing regenerative action potentials. Such neurons often have longer exons and they can transmit signals to long distances.


The debate between raw and cooked foods comes up time and time again in a variety of diets, from carnivore to paleo to vegan. There tends to be some sort of push for the consumption of raw foods under the belief that they have more available vitamins, minerals, beneficial bacteria, and enzymes that are not present in cooked foods. But one thing's for certain, and that is that there has never been a group of peoples that has subsisted off of a raw food diet. Every indigenous group, every tribes group has consumed both cooked and raw plant and animal foods from incredibly high quality sources. So not only have we not seen a raw diet in the past, we haven't even seen a diet on modern food because these people were eating heirloom grains, wild plants or pasture raised wild caught meats. The food quality was much higher. So what we can assume is that these people obtained a very high amount of nutrition from both animal and plant foods. And if we look at the teachings of Weston A Price, the book The Fat of the Land about an Arctic explorer who had many meals with Inuit Eskimos, the one thing that is present in all indigenous diets is the fat soluble vitamin content from animal foods. So that is deemed, in my mind, to be the most important factor to look at in the diet. That is why today, we are going to look at the vitamin availability in raw versus cooked meat and kind of analyze what happens when we actually heat meat and why we might want to consider consuming raw meat over cooked meat in some cases. Now it is important to note that these indigenous groups did have preferences for each part of the animal and it could be as specific as liking the upper leg marrow cooked and the lower leg marrow raw. They might like the liver of one animal boiled and the liver of another animal cooked over fire, maybe one they even liked it raw. So there are very specific cooking preferences by these indigenous people for a variety of reasons. Now the nutrient loss from cooking meat is greatly dependent on the time, the temperature, as well as the method. The higher the surface area that's exposed to the meat, such as ground beef being sauteed in a pan, is drastically higher than pan searing a steak very quickly to a lighter temperature. The longer you cook the meat, the more of the surface area you expose, the higher the internal temperature of the meat gets for a longer period of time, the more nutrients you would lose. There's a huge difference between braising a pot roast in a dutch oven for an hour versus searing a steak blue 20-30 seconds on either side. The first one, you will lose a significant amount of nutrition. The second one, there's no real concern about nutrient loss. Now if we actually look at a table of what happens to a pot roast that is cooked for an hour, we lose about 60% of vitamin B6, 50% of vitamin B1, 44% of folate, 33% of vitamin B5, 25% of vitamin K, 20% of vitamin E, 10% of choline, and 9% of vitamin B12. Now it's important to note that they didn't test for some other fat soluble vitamins A and D, as well as water soluble vitamin C because they assumed that meat did not contain these vitamins, yet meat does contain these vitamins. But from this data, we can ascertain that a piece of meat cooked well done is going to lose anywhere from 30 to 55% of the B vitamins and approximately 20% of the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K. And vitamin C, one of the more sensitive water soluble vitamins, will be completely lost if you cook the meat extensively. So that's the main concern here. It's very important to keep in mind that this is a well done temperature. Most people that are cooking their steaks to medium rare medium, the nutrient loss is not going to be as significant as this. It's going to be maybe if I had to guess 5 to 10% of the fat soluble vitamins and maybe 15 to 20% of the B vitamins, you will lose a significant portion of vitamin C. So the main two things to take away are the need for a higher caloric intake through cooking food, as well as the initial nutrient content of the food being the most important thing. Because someone eating 15 pounds of well done muscle meat per week with a pound of liver is going to get more nutrition than someone eating 20 pounds of raw muscle meat. It's a very interesting analogy to make. And I guess some other aspects to take away here about why we might have cooked certain parts of the animal are how difficult it is to harvest the meat even with tools. There are just some parts of the animal that are so difficult to break down without boiling them or cooking them over a fire, you know, making the bones easier to break. There are various reasons in regards to actual food accessibility that we would have used fire or heat to extract more nutrition from the animal. So to me, it's very clear that a raw and cooked meat diet is the best of both worlds from both a caloric intake standpoint and a nutrient density standpoint, because you can cook the foods like muscle meat and fat and ribs, chuck, brisket, pieces that might have been very difficult to eat in a raw state. You can cook those down and eat them easier and extract more calories from them. And then when you have the more nutrient dense parts of the animal, like the liver, the salmon row, the brain tissue, the bone marrow, you can consume those foods in a raw state for their nutrition. To me, that makes the most sense from an indigenous standpoint from our ancestors. But what are the actual benefits of consuming raw meat and an entirely raw diet? For the most of my carnivore dieting history, I've consumed my meat seared on the outside with organs raw. But there was a period of time where I went completely raw primal for a few months and my appetite just became ravenous. In hindsight, I realized my body was not able to produce enough digestive enzymes, hydrochloric acid, and bile to digest raw meat as efficiently. So there is definitely a bottleneck in regards to your digestive system's capabilities with high volumes of raw meat. I increased my food volume drastically. I started looking to incorporate things like honey and dairy for some sugars that would digest easier and give me energy. Overall, I've always switched back to a cooked meat diet after trying to go raw for a period of time. But what are the hypothetical benefits of going on a raw meat diet? One of the biggest ones is satiety and satiation. Because raw meat has a much lower palatability than cooked meat. It doesn't taste as good. It satiates your appetite more.  But there's definitely some tie-ins to reducing food palatability and weight loss that can be benefited from consuming raw. And the only real argument that could be made for the benefit of a raw diet would have to be in regards to the microbiome. Because we know we can obtain adequate nutrition from cooked animal foods. There's no question about that. What we really have to debate is if the microbiome of someone consuming cooked animal foods is drastically different than someone consuming only raw animal foods. But if we look at what these indigenous people ate, they ate cooked animal foods, they ate raw animal foods, and they ate fermented animal foods as well as various wild plant foods. So it's safe to say the gut microbiome of these indigenous people was far more diverse even than a modern person on a raw meat diet. That is definitely something that is safe to say. If we look at studies done on dogs because there are quite a few done comparing raw meat diets in these animals to commercial feed, the dogs that were fed a raw meat diet did have healthier gut microbes than the commercial dog food diets. But this isn't a great comparison. This is like comparing a standard American diet to a raw meat diet. It's not like you're comparing a raw meat to a cooked meat diet. The best bet here is to look at what these indigenous groups ate, see how we could replicate it to some degree, and not worry too much about what the benefits are of going strictly raw. Because hypothetically speaking, if you have some cooked meat, some raw meat, and some fermented meat, even when you are eating those cooked meat products in your diet, you're still feeding the raw meat bacteria in your microbiome. You're not really altering the gut bacteria too much. Granted, you have a fairly reasonable balance of high quality animal foods that you're ingesting. There are definitely some interesting tie-ins to how a food is raised, to how it tastes in its raw state, and how that affects the food palatability. The reason a lot of people don't like raw animal foods is because of what we're feeding our animals.  I mean, same thing with organ meats and fat, where it's even more prevalent.  How the animal was fed correlates directly how it tastes. But what's interesting is cooking the meat covers this up.  So because of our lack of access to super high quality animal foods in the United States, not only are we cooking our meat and seasoning it more than we would normally do so in nature, we're also avoiding parts of the animal that are more negatively affected by this poor feeding regimen. Obviously the liver, the fat, the organ and off-cuts of the animal have a drastic taste difference, whereas the muscle meat isn't affected nearly as negatively. One other video I did where I tasted every single organ of a lamb in its raw state is interesting from the perspective of, you know, you're in nature. You just killed a whole animal. What foods taste the best out of that animal right when you kill it? From a hunter's perspective, from a perspective of a human indigenous diet, that will answer a lot of questions. If you take the ribeye, the New York strip, in a wild animal and compare that to the taste of the liver or the marrow fat or the kidney or any organ really, in its raw state, the organs and the fat will always taste better than the muscle meat. We are really out of touch with nature and how foods are supposed to taste. Liver is supposed to be sweet, slightly minerally and delicious, whereas most people associate liver with it like this bitter, astringent, like terrible thing that no one likes. It's because of how we're raising our animals. I mean, people will talk up and down about how they like carry-gold butter.  They'll say, oh, I need my steak to be cooked pink or well done. People have innate food preferences in modern society, just like our indigenous ancestors did. But if they actually had access to high quality versions of the food and tried these foods at various stages of their life, things would be drastically different from a cultural perspective. So all of these concepts in mind, regardless of what we're talking about, it always ties back into nutrient density, what our indigenous ancestors ate, and that you're getting adequate fat soluble vitamin intake in the diet. People ask me, Frank, is it okay if I cook my liver? Is it okay if I cook all my meat well done? Is it okay if I get commercial eggs or these eggs? Does the butter have to be raw? As long as the nutrient content is present in the diet, that is the one overlapping factor.  If your fish was frozen but it's wild fatty mackerel, it's still a great source of DHA. If you're buying a ton of grain fed meat and cooking it well done as your main caloric source, but you're having two pounds of liver a week for nutrients, that's great. The goal in the diet is always to achieve nutrient density and whether that's achieved on a raw diet or cooked diet, your body has two requirements. Getting enough calories and getting enough nutrients. If you can check those two boxes, things like raw versus cooked, the gut microbiome, all of these things are going to be an extra, perhaps not even 5% improvement in your diet. And a lot of that is going to have to be experimented with and you're going to have to try it for yourself to see what foods you feel better on. So overall, yes, we do lose some nutrients when we heat meat, especially well done for a long period of time, but the temperature that most people cook meat to is not too significant of an issue. Even if you have the same foods I consume, liver, salmon roe, whatever it may be, you can throw them all on the grill and cook them to whatever temperature you like. If the food was initially good quality, you're going to be achieving nutrient density. So this video isn't necessarily a reality check for people to look into a raw food diet. It's more of a reality check in regards to making sure you're getting enough nutrients in your diet and then possibly experimenting with the different digestion rates of raw foods. That being said, I just find it really interesting that I prefer to, you know, sear my meat on the outside, but leave the inside completely raw. So technically I'm on a raw food diet, but it tastes like cooked food. So maybe I'm tricking my body in some way, but who knows? If you guys would like to support the channel, please subscribe and share the video. If you guys are interested in increasing your nutrient density in a supplemental way, I do have some canned cod liver and cod liver oil supplements on my Amazon shop that will cover most of your nutrient needs. If you guys want to check out my story on Patreon about what I do, you know, I'm a triplet for those of you guys who don't know. So definitely check that out. If you guys do want to support me on Twitter on Instagram, please drop me a follow. And if you guys want to understand more about raw dieting and being introduced to a raw diet, you can contact me via email frankatofano.com or through the contact form on my website.


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