normally does but starting early. We got the 6.30 start time and I'd like a motion to go into executive session. The personnel matters. Does that mean I tune out? Yes you can join us back at 7 Virginia. Oh I'm sorry I didn't realize that. That's all right no worries. I'm new to this.  Yep okay thank you. I'll head on out. And so that was a motion. Is there a second to go into executive session? Yeah I'll second that. Okay so let's take a vote. Cliff. Hi. I'm an I. John. You're muted John. I think he's frozen. Yeah he might be. Okay so Rose do you want to vote? Yes I. Okay so the motion is included inviting Alfie into the executive session. Yes thank you very much. Okay Katie's here. Thank you Katie. All right let's call the meeting to order. Is there public comment for items not on the agenda? Yes not. Are there additions or changes to the agenda? All right hearing none. Sandra. Cliff can you call up Sandra's treasurer's report please? Yeah give me a sec here. While he's calling it up I can tell you that we are for all intensive purposes on track with both expenses and revenues. There are some line items that look as if they're over but they're typically the COVID expenditures that are reimbursable. Most of them have already been reimbursed. That goes for highway and for general government. So I'm happy to take questions about anything in particular but we're really in good shape. Good so I just have I just have one housekeeping item just so we have it for the minutes. Katie who is um who are the folks Dell users IP? I'm sorry? There's a box that has two uh a couple sitting in what looks like a beautifully windowed room and it says Dell users iPad. We just need for the minutes who they are but you have to take yourself off and mute so we can hear you. Okay hi hi it's Laura and Patrick Purcell P-U-R-C-E-L-L. All right thank you so much. Sorry Sandra. Sorry Sandra go ahead. That's okay. Delinquent taxes are coming in. We started out the end of the tax collection effort down $175,000. We are at $75,000 at this point in time. So taxes are coming in nicely. 2019 taxes are all but collected at this point. There is one parcel outstanding for $365. That person has contacted me. He does intend to pay that in full. So we are really looking at collecting our hopefully most of our 2020 taxes before the end of the fiscal year. Now we don't typically do that. We get to the end of the fiscal year and we might be at $40,000 that still needs to be collected but that also comes in generally in the next couple of months. So we're really on target on on all fronts at this point in time. Sandra that's really impressive and I think when we were you know in the early stages of the pandemic almost a year ago we were this is exactly we were concerned that this would not be the case. I'm wondering I'm just merely a matter of curiosity are you hearing from others around other of your peers is just kind of the general experience around the state that maybe we're all hunkering down and not spending our other our money in other places we actually are it's easier to pay the taxes I have not heard that everyone is really working on their town meetings and elections at this point and I don't know when other folks are experiencing weird calluses is in good shape at no matter what happens I think we're good my can my only caveat to that is of the $75,000 that is out I have had very little I'm married couple do you think and you can swipe across why didn't it just what's going on you Colleen moot Colleen you shouldn't mute yourself anyway I've had very little contact with the folks that are on the list and this is about the time of year that the letters which are informative become more let's say persuasive to get that money in so I think we're going to be good all right well we'll look forward to future updates and let us know if you need any support all right we'll do any questions from anyone any anyone on the board have questions no anybody else all right excellent work Sandra thank you thank you all have a good night you too all right and we've already um I don't see Toby so I'm guessing that means he has no update and Alfred has no update as well hey Peg you want to share whatever you're drinking all right so um I would love to all right so it's red wine from the maple corner community store there you go so um Curtis pond homeowner's association who's going to be speaking on your behalf I will um Colleen we didn't know if you were going to be here so I'm prepared to speak so Colleen if that's okay with you I'll just go ahead let me interrupt for a second Cliff are we supposed to be recording this meeting oh we don't do that anymore since Orca is recording it we don't have to record it ourselves okay I guess I want to make sure that wasn't an error okay sorry Heidi okay no problem so hi folks um I know most of you but for folks who don't know me I'm Heidi Thompson and um I'm a member of the Curtis pond damn exploratory group and um we are here some of us from this group are here just to say hi and to introduce ourselves and to tell you a little bit of what we're up to um we're kind of an offshoot of the Curtis pond association which as many of you know was formed about three years ago um we're of a group of about about seven or so core members that have been meeting since the fall sometimes we've had more than seven um and um I want to you know first acknowledge that um in the early 2000s a lot of you know John and and others did a lot of very very hard work um on the dam and exploring issues of ownership and how's it going to get paid for and you know dam studies and there was the task force that was formed and um kudos to you all you all did an amazing amount of work and we know things kind of fell apart related to um ownership and how it's going to get paid for but um what we've been doing in about the seven meetings or so are just trying to educate ourselves about those issues um we know that there is a lot of work to do um it's a complicated issue with ownership and insurance um again how it's going to get paid for um but we are just chatting together and um asking questions learning along the way and um we just wanted to make our presence known to you we're not here to of any we don't have a big ask um but we we are pretty clear that the dam needs to be repaired um as many of you know there was a 2019 study that was done that said the dam in essence is not in great shape um of course there was that Du Bois study a number of years ago and um with climate change very much in our midst another Irene would take the the dam down and it would fail and as again many of you know if it did fail um the state would not issue a permit for it to be repaired um so you know the Curtis pond association has been focusing on lighter issues like beavers although removing the beaver debris has not been no pun intended no not a light heavy lifting there but um you know lily pads removing some lily pads figuring out what to do about the lily pads and then vases but we are just feeling more of an urgency to deal with the dam repair issue um and want to move forward and you know want to ultimately work with you all and uh so we will we'll be coming again but I know Mark Mahaley has a few things to say and again thank you for having us here really appreciate it and I just provide a point of clarification or two absolutely um yeah thank you guys and thank you Heidi for putting all this together I know you're instrumental in getting this thing going thank you um there's points of a couple points of clarification um one and I think you all know this the engineering design and plan plans have been approved by the state the hundred percent plans have been approved by the state drawn up by duboyan king um yeah duboyan king um with regard to the ownership the town and its attorney our illegal research we confirm we know who the owners are it's the father gills um and rather than debate it and because we arrived at with father gills attorney an arrangement where their concerns over admitting to ownership even though the chain of title goes directly to them um it we rendered that more or less moot because we reached an agreement and the state was part of this um that we could apply the town despite not being owners of the dam we could apply for the the permits and secure the permits which was um required the state to change protocol and we've done that and upon construction of the dam and completion of the dam once that is done the and it receives that final engineers uh as built certification and final set of plans rendered approved by the state then the town at that point in time what has agreed to take take ownership of the dam in the vermont league of cities and towns insurance plan that we insured a town and town facilities and buildings under would then cover uh would then provide insurance coverage for liability um going forward with the new dam so we have that kind of all set up it's ready to go and really the only thing holding this thing up is the funding piece um it was last estimated to be 400 000 i would bet you'd want to add another hundred to that now uh because cost of concrete is just skyrocketed but that's all i wanted to put on on the table and let you folks understand that yeah sharon um i just my question is only to see a show of hands of the folks who are here as part of the curtis pond dam group okay yeah great yeah mark i was wondering like is there a is there an ecct thing no no no this i just happened to have a camp on our curtis pond and so got drawn into this but okay and it's all i think i'm pretty positive uh you know we're looking at each issue to see if we can find preliminary approaches that it'll be a win win for the people of callas for the town the users of the pond and the owners of land around it i've met with state officials and public and we've met with public and private insurance folks and talked several times to paul gillies who was one of the attorneys involved and we're looking at approaches on each of these issues and i know john i'm going to want to talk to you more but once we get a better grounding we want to return to you and discuss next steps the key issues are yeah the father gills own it but they don't want to own it so the question is what's the best way to resolve title in a way that title companies will live with and the bet that involves the best entity to take title i'm not sure it is the town it might be the town it might be a special district and then i've talked to pacif frank satin who's the deputy director of pacif and they would probably ensure ensure it either way depending on who takes it if it's in private ownership insurance is very difficult but then we're looking at possible approaches to dam renovation what's changed is that ben green is now the chief dam safety engineer and i think his attitude is very different than the prior guide there are distinct possibilities that might be less expensive for approaches to the dam but that remains to be seen and then and finally of course we're going to have to revisit the financing approach in a way that works for everybody because that's what we really want to do is is revisit this we have an urgency this time we're there we want to work with the town and we want to avoid replaying exactly how it worked the last time around and so we've luckily hannah smith who is the deputy general counsel of a and r it's an ex student of mine and she met with us with oliver pierce the lakes and ponds program manager at a and r and ben green and they're very positive and very helpful really helpful i think there's a general sense that people really want to resolve this they will positively they they want to this has been around a long time and so i'm optimistic that if we kind of are patient and do a lot of educating along the way and are kind of slow and careful this time around we can do something and when we know a little more and have talked to a few more people we'd like to come back to you and talk about next steps if that's okay with you but right now we're just letting you know we're nosing around but i'm glad that you're keeping us and keeping us and we'll keep us updated so we appreciate your work rose did have her hand up a while ago um i just wanted to let everybody know that um i became involved with the select board back in 2003 and from time to time i searched the minutes that i've been keep the keeper of select board minutes so i have my computer open in front of me and i came upon select board minute search for the Curtis pond dam from 2003 to 2009 and it's a 16 page document and it contains a lot of really good detail about what transpired it talks about the engineering studies it talks about recommendations um it just talks about everything that's happened since 2003 and i would be more than happy to email this to you mark um i don't think i have any other emails for anybody else um in your group but i know i have your email mark um and i'll also email it to the other members of the select board um but it just talks about the condition it talks about financing it just gives you a really good historical what we've been talking about since 2003 that's excellent rose thank you very much yeah yeah john um i know we're not going to get into the weeds tonight and by the way i hate that saying what i say it um it's overused we want to talk about weeds look at Curtis point yeah we'll get into the uh whatever um the one of the of the four hundred thousand dollar bill for rebuilding the or putting a dam ahead of the existing dam the concrete dam uh a large portion of that cost close to 25 percent was the coffer dam right which was being required by um quite frankly alan quackenbush of the wetlands program working with lakes and ponds we tried to push for an allowance so that we wouldn't need the coffer dam for you know three weeks we would do it in the summer um when you know the the species are can migrate into safer places as the pond is dewatered it's not an option in colder weather in the fall because they've all gotten it gotten to the mud to hibernate and then it can be found it's it's less of a risk to the biota um they can seek cover um and we try to have that dialogue actually given the the straight arm and actually alan quackenbush said as long as i'm here i'm not going to allow that well he's no longer there so that that might be an option mark uh that that would avail itself and that would take take a lot off the sticker price and it might be helpful i think that would be helpful we discussed that when i met with ben green and oliver pierce and and hannah and they acknowledged that what it is is the wetland folks want to go one way and the dam safety folks want to go another and you know how that will i think but we can take we can take another run at that the dain the interesting thing is um well just in a few words a dam has to meet a thousand-year storm you don't one way to do it is to raise the dam another way to do it is to armor the dam so that if there is a thousand-year storm and it's over topped it can stand to being over topped and my understanding is that that approach was not really available to us the last time around but i could be wrong but it is available to us now then green is definitely you know open to that but i think that's down the road a bit i mean i think dam design is one of the things that you know we're all going to have to look into and i think what happened john in oh 304 we have to selectively use all the work we put in but not be wedded to it if we've got a different cast of characters at the state and the coffer dam is definitely something to revisit your right right what he's talking about everybody is that you got to obviously to build a dam work on a dam you can't do it if there's water up against it so one way to do it is to build a dam behind the dam that's temporary and dry it out and then you can fix the dam and another way is just to draw down the water temporarily and that's the ladder is much cheaper than the i mean hundreds you know six figures cheaper if i remember right last time the idea of drawing down the pond was not an option was that ellen clackin bush down i'm trying to remember right yeah i think yeah that's what i remember but i did explore we did explore um we first had hired if you go way back in the archives i apologize my connections bad here tonight um we did explore rebuilding the existing dam um and there was an engineer morris root who said he would he would uh put his engineering staff on plans to rebuild a laid up stone dam as as they were built back in the 1820s or whatever um he said they they are actually safer than concrete dams and there's a whole presentation he did for us i think uh barry bernstein dug him up the problem with his approach was not his approach actually he just never came through for us he's the guy right and he never came through he lost you yeah and every time uh yeah he was it got to a point where i mean he used every excuse but to doggate my homework uh but his his closest excuse to that was well my wife's school went to france on vacation and i wanted to help chaperone yeah so you know so we got rid of them and that's when we hired duboy and king and they're they're straight up engineers uh concrete dams are all they do and all they're willing to put their engineering licenses behind so um they're may armoring maybe it i know that there was concern that the dam was was uh tilting um although we had documentation that showed it hadn't really moved since 1973 when that was first noted but the engineers at the state were still remain concerned and we couldn't get them off the dime on that so if they're willing to accept that dam as as it exists as being somewhat structurally sound and it only needs to be armored up that sounds great you know we'll have to see yeah john you i think john you and i were both on the damn task force weren't we yeah yeah and the spillway needs to be enlarged that that is there's no debate about that and that's not a hard thing to do um but um it'd be great if there was an alternative to spending all that money um but there you know one concern and you know this is where i struggled with the town paying the full amount of it was that is in uh said before and maybe some of you some of the other folks um the the pond is in a mesotrophic state and personally i wish that if i if i could if we had the ability to sway the legislature and or the administration to to allow us as a test as a pilot project allow us to drain Curtis pond and pull out some of that material that sediment is loaded with nutrient and it's filled in the pond to the extent that we now get lily pads it's both a nutrient issue and a shallow depth uh issue and so that's why we're seeing the conditions that we hadn't seen here before um and they're only going to continue to progress and i struggled with investing quite frankly all the taxpayers investing four hundred thousand dollars in a pond that was literally on its way to becoming a wetland um so i would love to see that pond have its clock reset as it were um so that the water quality would improve and we wouldn't see this movement toward its final end state which it's it's moving fast toward so that that's i wanted to put that out there okay rose did you have your hand up again no oh okay um nick my neck so we're just talking about oh i guess that a way please so nick i don't know if you can hear me we're just having that damn damn discussion nick he's got audio now oh we were just having the damn damn discussion nick guess he's having trouble too setting yep we're uh in terms of our presentation i mean we're happy to continue answering questions but we we just wanted as Heidi said we just wanted to our presence know and tell you you're very interested this time around and and optimistic great thank you very much tag uh does anybody know how long it would take if they did let the pond drain out and you know what john was saying to get rid of some of the sediment etc which i would take for my garden some of it um is there anything any ideas that a whole you could sell the sediment right okay it could be a fundraise i always thought it could be a great fundraising mechanism um yeah i mean that i don't think that pond's ever seen industrial waste put into it so it should be relatively clean nothing's clean in our environment anymore but we use what we take out um right around my dock we use it in our garden it's it's incredible compost true yeah no it's it's full of nutrients and that's what the problem is so it would be great if we could get a pilot if we could market it mark mahaley maybe he can work his magic and convince them that this was sorry i'm i'm not great i'm not i'm newest to zoom my question was um did anybody hear how long that would take to have the pond drain down would it be a whole summer's worth of loss of using the pond or yeah you you would lose i i know what happened up at nickel's pond they lost summer but they're they had to drain that pond anyway because the dam was at risk of immediate failure and different than curtis pond if that thing failed it would have been a cause massive massive damage although curtis pond is a high risk dam as well most of the cern believe it or not is what not water flowing uh past a breach but mud consider part of the impound impound uh liquid so that's the concern okay is there any is there any further discussion on the dam or any more questions comments thank you for making time on your agenda guys you're welcome glad to hear glad to hear you're working on it thank you very much yeah this is great guys take care we'll be in touch there bye bye okay very good well that's good news all righty somebody coming in or off can't tell it's nick coming back to niece he he what i think a lot of folks are struggling with internet i know tonight is weird it seems like maybe it's the snow nick did you have something you wanted to add or eileen no i i just came to listen to the discussion thanks okay great no i'm just hanging out that's all and um nothing better to do okay thank you you're welcome so um just wanted to debrief a little bit on our meeting we had on saturday thanks to the magic wizard wizardry of our amazing technical person cliff emmons everything what went off without a hitch kudos and claps and champagne to you cliff we're making it all happen without missing a beat well we had a great team a lot of people helping out which made it a lot easier for me um and i think the big saving grace was agreeing to perform it as in the webinar format because that really preserved a lot of bandwidth and the issues that we were seeing tonight with so many people on board uh would it just been magnified considerably if we had tried to do it in the zoom meeting format yeah but i'm happy to serve i'm glad we were able to accomplish it yep yep it went off it went off very smoothly everybody was prepared um i think one of the counts when i was looking i think at one time we had like 48 attendees i mean the number kept going you know up and down but we had 12 i think was 12 panelists and then at one point we had 48 attendees so for a meeting on a saturday where there was really nothing to to vote on and nothing could be changed i didn't think that was too bad of a turnout yeah and i can add that um for the benefit of everyone here the uh zoom video um to get published and it is now available on the website uh denise is going to make an announcement on porch forum to let the community at large know that it's available for viewing i am also looking into posting it on youtube but there's a couple of extra steps before i can do that but i will get it on youtube and then we can also announce that to the town because um it'll probably play a little cleaner uh once we post it to youtube then it'll play off of the zoom cloud account which is where it resides right now and i don't think or i never i sent orca if i had several different emails for them and i sent them notices of the meeting but i don't know that they were really there i don't remember seeing them on as an attendee view yeah i saw some of the postings you did regarding um the meeting and attendees but uh you had posted or a separate post about using the gmail account and i don't believe that one ever got published no i think what happened is i i posted twice in one day and sometimes they limit you and that's what i found out that they post because the larger post i did included that same message so they didn't feel it was necessary to post the additional message okay so they make those kind of situation like that again what we can do is pull in judy and she can do one hosting and you can do the other yeah so um i don't know did any did anybody have any thoughts or comments on the informational hearing you know it was our first first time i have a i have a question um i i did get feedback that it went impressively well which i agree with um it went really well really really well um what was my question oh the fact that everybody um cliff is it is it exclusive is it the web webinar format that accounts for why the attendees couldn't they i understand they couldn't why they couldn't see each other i actually appreciate the bandwidth explanation um the fact that they couldn't either they could also not see but this is my hand over in the right hand column uh the list of names of who else was there is is that also a function of the webinar format that's correct okay it wasn't that also a decision we made at the rehearsal no that's uh something that's built into the zoom webinar format attendees can only see the number of people participating in the meeting they can't see the names of the non-panelists they can only see the names of the panelists okay so the only way then just so i'm understanding how this works so the only way then would have been to every time an attendee spoke was to make them a panelist is that what i'm remembering well when when the attendees spoke their name would appear on the screen much like you see orca's name on the screen right now yeah and then once the permission to speak is removed they just go back into the attendees tab but to be able to see their image um and while they're speaking you would have to make them a panelist and as we were practicing in the dress rehearsal we realized that created other problems and also really messed up the flow of things because there was an extra layer of delay while the attendee was bumped from the attendee list and brought into the panelist list and then that was duplicated when you reverted them back to attendee status right okay so it made more seamless by allowing people to participate as attendees only yep okay good thank you for that additional explanation okay i'm curious if they could see each other when they were there's a lot of messaging in the q&a so if someone posted a question or a response or liked it could they see who was writing it or did it just say attendee no it would have their name who asked the question and actually that brings up something else i'm wondering um i could download a file and put it into an excel format of all the questions that were asked at the meeting because we answered them verbally they won't have the answers to them but we could create that list of questions um and publish written responses to them for the benefit of the community if anyone thinks that might be of value i don't remember whether we maybe and did we did did gus um like articulate the question i don't remember yes yes he would read them out loud because we thought that would be a good idea because we didn't know how many people might be attending by phone they would not be able to see the questions on the screen right so every single question that appeared in the box gus would read it aloud say who asked it and then someone would step forward to respond to it so it's all there in the video yeah i well i think that's good enough because if you just post the questions and somebody's going to have a great idea of why don't you type all the answers out too clever right that's why i was saying if we did that then we would have to take the time to type out written answers i mean i think that you didn't already have to jump on that sure i'll i'm i will volunteer for lots of worthwhile things um yeah i don't i don't think unless unless we hear a huge outcry or something like that i mean i got i got good feedback um people were amazed at how smoothly it went compared to just like a regular zoom like we're doing tonight so my thought is let's just publish it as video or whatever you're calling it okay that's what we will do john are you john i want to know is john still there is he frozen there he's in the state house well i'm still here i got my video turned up because i'm having okay i wasn't sure if you were really there or not i i also would point out that um our webinar license uh will expire uh we only purchased purchased it for a month but um it is an option to keep in our back pockets if we know there might be a large turnout at a particular meeting we could opt at any point to purchase another month's worth of webinar so that we could handle a larger meeting with uh less hiccups like we're seeing tonight what's what was the cost with yeah um i have to go back and double check that it wasn't horribly expensive i want to say it was around 132 for a month oh okay that's not bad so if we ever needed it again we could just purchase it for another one-time monthly chart that's right as i recall it you it's probably a little bit more than a 132 dollars because as i recall if you purchase a year's worth it's 1400 dollars okay all right very good anything else on informational hearing anybody wants to comment notes questions i just want to say i think it went great you know i i think it it it couldn't have gone any better and you know kudos to cliff but everybody worked on it and you know yeah it was it was a team it was a truth it was a real team effort to make everything come together so yay i'll just add that i thought it'd be assuring that um so there could be an occasion in the future where we would need to have 140 people in a forum and i just it was sort of like a maiden voyage made me feel like okay we we hope we pull them off with 50 that's promising for a future yeah yeah all right um updates if everybody done with this topic it looks like i just googled it um if i'm looking at the right page on the zoom uh landing website it's 140 dollars a month for 500 attendees under for zoom video webinar yep that sounds right all right um john do you have any update for us on you want to give us some update on central montosan waste management district all of the things that have happened with that um well you know bill powell is our our primary rep there so i don't attend the meetings unless he can he cannot and then of course we as select board members denise and i interjected ourselves over the glass dumping issue um so as you all probably have read that case was settled um i actually in my professional capacity did a record request of the uh agency natural resources because the settlement agreement did not uh include admissions to the listed violations which i saw back when i worked there we that was a necessary prerequisite to settlement and the primary reason is so people couldn't run around say they did nothing wrong and behold i got my records request answered and the reason they didn't require is because they pj donovan changed the policy that had been in place for 25 years for no apparent reason and um i got a memo that explained why the the process before they changed it was so good and why it was important and then i went and changed it anyway so very odd uh i i smell political pressure and so i attend legislative zoom meetings and i testified before legislative committee environmental committees i will be tomorrow too um and uh these chitness all waste district official that actually directed the dumping testified last week that they did nothing wrong um and uh the state got it all wrong and they paid a $400 to avoid greater risk of cost of litigation so um this is what the world we're in and um unsunfortunate the dumping the waste that was dumped was not required to be cleaned up and will not be cleaned up there is it's viewable but through satellite imagery that's how large it is um and there it resides so i don't know i'm a little discouraged by it um dj donovan's using it as a campaign issue he's already campaigning i think he's going to run for governor uh that he's just this uh intrepid enforcer of the law and he's using this as his case one of his cases in point so uh regarding the district uh they did all they could i'm really impressed with our solid waste district i'm really happy with how they responded on short notice with you know a lot of information thrown at them they did a great job they wrote a nice letter um they did all they could do they um the select board our select board and our district and other districts and towns weighed in and it actually resulted in a better settlement agreement than they were contemplating um so as it could have been better but you know there was a $400,000 fine i guess it got their attention i hope it did um and i do know that i had a conversation with a legis a legislator i'm not going to mention the name at this point doesn't make any sense to do that but uh they're trying to get uh an after-the-fact evaluation of what were the circumstances that made put that resulted in the chitin solid district feeling they were so pressured that they had to dump the stuff and not inform the state they were doing that um and so you know that you have to at the debrief you know look at the situation on the ground and wonder do we need to reevaluate existing state policy and reassess where we're at and where we're not going or where we should be going or where we intended to go and maybe did not reach that those objectives and so i'm hoping that there'll be a a review a legislative review of the current state of affairs with regards to recycling and waste management in general and see if we can get state policy improved so we don't see a repeat of this and we actually see uh better systems put into play so that we uh are more effective at kind of reaching those goals of reduction um and reuse before we recycle so that's i got i guess all i got to say i talk a lot i'm sorry but that's where we're at not much to report from center of montsoil always district however thanks for being on top of that john okay um town hall i think there's not much town hall update um the election is being held um for in person at the town hall on march 2nd the office staff have made arrangements for the town hall to be cleaned before the 2nd is happening on the 25th they're going to come in and do a thorough cleaning and use the um whatever i forget what the name of the stuff is but it's a biodegradable safe spray they're going to spray all of the um you know the doorknobs and bathroom fixtures and things like that and it's supposed to last the um i forget how long it is it's like three or four days or something like that yeah it's the same it's the same chemical or the same non-chemical that they use at the co-op to spray down the shopping carts and the bathrooms and doorknobs and all those kinds of things so um andy felice is working to get the um shoveling done and cliff you found you got the hardware for andy to install on that door yeah we're going to get the automatic door closers installed so that we don't have the problem of the doors not closing all the way when people are coming and going as they drop off their ballots and we need to uh do a tickler to alfie to remind him to make sure that the lot is cleared right and there's also been a request um because of the angle at the exit of the parking lot that uh he dropped some sand there right so you have any friends update come uh no friends uh didn't have their um meeting this month because we cleared the deck to allow me to work on prepping for the informational hearing but our next meeting is scheduled for uh the 11th of march and um we are working towards revising the management agreement so that we can present that to the board at a later date okay great great great and maybe you're sick of it but is there anything else on it to update us on um no the only thing to be aware of there is that uh we're coming up close to renewal time for our contract with rb tech and we'll be making arrangements at a future select board meeting to have ruben come in update the select board as to what they've done for us over the past year where they see the holes coming up in the coming year as well as an opportunity for us to as well as the office staff to make them aware of any issues that we need them to address and you'll remember that was that was one of the things that we asked them to do on a annual basis when we spent time over a year maybe two years ago checking out other vendors to see you know if we were going to switch vendors and one of the things that we talked to ruben about was annually giving the select board an update so we just need to schedule that to happen the contract comes up for renewal in early may so we're going to want to do that sometime soon and it's actually baked into the contract for them to do it so they're the ones who proactively contacted us and said okay it's coming up so we should get this on the schedule yep yep so they did what we asked them to do nick this is what i hope is uh getting close to wrapping up on the elder grant with two um it pieces one is we're still waiting on rb tech to come through with the two laptop computers and the other is the new website which has been kind of moving along at a crawl uh but judy's been slugging away with with uh office gov office they've um just just this week completed the graphic design phase and we did it's helping a little bit with that and are now starting on the content phase so um i'm only bringing up because uh the terms of the grant say that we this we should have had this finished on december 30th and i don't think anyone's going to come after us with you know with pepper spray and bull horns but um on the other hand we were hoping to get it wrapped up as soon as we can you know when you might have um something available to present to show the board where we're at with that yes i um i wouldn't i don't want to jump ahead of judy on this but um we do have a link to show the the graphic uh design and but but not the content so well maybe we can just do that out of you just select coordinating and ask judy yeah um okay great that'll be nice when it's done it's gonna look fabulous i'm sure it does look good good and with regards to the laptops um we have them now the ram find ram chips that we needed finally came in and it's just a matter of coordinating with everybody's schedule for a tech to get out and help the individuals get them up and running okay uh we will also um need to this was not part of the algae grant but um there are a few of the computers that we need to update with the current version of adobe acrobat so we'll be arranging that as well great um denise i missed the first part of nicks statement i said we got we're late on finalizing uh something required by some grant i what grant was that for the elder go ahead next yeah it's it's the grant that that helped us purchase um the updated website and uh for laptop computers and a couple of printer scanners and so on uh and we were supposed to have everything operational by december 30th but we when we were talking about that though we thought that they wouldn't come after us with pitchforks if we didn't have it done right right yeah all right thank you um that was a grant we we already received payment on right correct uh so i wouldn't worry about it okay well i'm the guy who signed saying i'll go to jail if we'll bake you a cake nick oh okay yeah i'm happy to drive you to the jail i've taken a bus yeah but you have to wear masks all right are there any other updates um i just want to uh note that this is the last meeting of our session um echoing all of the comments about twice the meeting i send rosa note in the chat and tell her i'm going to miss her say it out loud now um i don't like us cry and that but that means that that next our next regular scheduled meeting after town meeting is a the beginning of a new a new year a new era time to hit reset and so um i we are having an organizational meeting in our first meeting and i hope that we can dedicate the better part of our organization of the meeting to an organ to organizing kind of taking that time to step back and pause and say how are we going to work together over the next year and um order our ground rules what's our framework and just yeah walk into the new year with absolutely no assumptions and um and you know revisit all of all the i think we have a lot of assumptions and i hope we can revisit all those assumptions and test them with each other and put a framework in place for how we work together and all of that good stuff that an organizational meeting for a board should be about so looking forward to that okay um we have some minutes to approve does anybody want to say yeah that looks sounds great i i want to say it sounds great i'd like and that i Sharon sent us all a a summary and a lot of what's in there is what we've kind of over the years agreed to do but we've kind of been slow getting off the marker we've been inconsistent in all of us and applying us those kind of greed upon standards so i think if we get the stuff in down and writing and we can it's something to measure against also getting something in place for when you know me well i got another year and i'm out of here but eventually all of us are out of here even young katie she's gonna one day say you know i've been doing it for 45 years and i'm done um so um it'd be good to have a night organizational structure in place for the next next board to pick up with so i think it's it's in the interest of the whole town to do that so yeah Sharon sounds good you're welcome all right i yeah i just want to say thank you too and thank you Sharon that's really sweet but i read what you had sent around and i thought it was very well thought out very effective um and i just hope that you know you can hit the reset button um and i just want to say that this covid thing has really been not good and i just think we're all doing the best we can but it certainly in my view um is not efficient at all so i would hope that everybody has their button on you know the moment that meetings in person can um resume even with still masks or sitting six feet apart i think that there's something to be said for sitting in the same room so that's my hope that's my hope that we get there pretty soon the year is young i think we're all hoping for that rose thank you yeah yeah cliff you wanted to say something yeah i'm sorry i forgot something under the it update oh okay go ahead um if you scroll the bottom of the screen and click on reactions you'll see you have some new tools yes i thought they were very much they were very fun so just want to make sure everyone is aware of them there's a yes and a no button that we have now we have signs for we all have the ability to raise our hand and we have um prompts for hey slow this talk down a little bit or we should speed it up a little bit what is this okay oh slow down that's slow down speed up oh how clever how clever all right how much fun is that yeah this is it slow down i don't understand oh yeah it just it it just asks the speaker to slow down oh okay i was afraid how do you make it now how do you make it go away it'll pop away or you can click on it again and it'll go away oh oh there we go how how much fun is that okay talking about fun about um we're pretty much caught up with minutes i think we have minutes from maybe the 15th um first one i see is from two eight two eight okay i see basically three sets of minutes that looks like unless there's someone not showing up on my screen and i went through them today i didn't see any other inputs you know what i i thought i know i reviewed those and i thought i made a comment at the top but katie gave me a little tutorial today so um yes i did review those and they seem fine yeah i don't know where my comments went because i put a note at the top that i had reviewed them yeah huh okay is there anybody that has any comments or changes to the minutes does anybody want to i wonder can i just can i just ask well ask my question after you guys approve rose would you like to make a motion to approve the minutes sure i'd be happy to do that make a motion to approve the minutes of February 8th yeah thank you i'll minute i'll second that all right um anyone to vote i'm a yes rose hi cliff hi john yes jaren uh i'm gonna abstain okay you wanted to make a comment i just had a question okay um did anything come up i didn't see it in the minutes but i'm just curious about the trees committee no that didn't come up i figured it would be in the minutes if it had but yeah no i know that i know they're working on it but it they didn't bring it up and 15th and 17th i think are combined right katie yes other than a few minor typos that i'm sure katie would catch on a reread i didn't have anything when i reviewed these and again i know i looked at those and thought that i found some typos and made a note at the top but again they're not there but like i said katie gave me a tutorial today so i can hopefully do a better job going forward i see her i see comments here from you denise on page um there it is yeah i think that was that it was it anybody else continuation yeah anybody else no it looks good to me is that a motion rose yeah i'll make a motion that we approve the minutes from february 17th and february 15th and february 17th okay is there a second i think johnny's seconded oh did he okay all right are you ready to vote Sharon and hi okay thank you and i'm an i rose i cliff hi john hi okay that takes care of that um i would like to make a motion for the board to go into executive session to discuss a personnel matter denise we do have the minutes of the informational hearing that we could approve if you want to oh i don't i haven't looked at those okay i don't know if anybody else did we'll hold off on it but i do want to say great job katie and i'm amazed you caught everybody's name as well yeah you do a fabulous job thanks guys thank you so we're gonna um i'll make a motion that's a motion to go into executive session to discuss a personnel matter at 806 right is there a second by second okay let's vote Sharon hi i'm an i rose hi cliff hi and john hi all righty thank you katie thank you orca thanks everybody


Hi everybody, my name is Sarah Lean and I'm a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. You'll often hear me talk about how you can use Azure Migrate to migrate your on-prem environment up into Azure. However, today I want to talk about how you can actually leverage Azure Migrate to look at the virtual machines that you host in AWS or another Cloud provider. Regardless of where your starting point is, if you're looking to migrate workloads into Azure, the first thing you should really be focusing on is doing a discovery or an assessment of your current environment. And that's where Azure Migrate can actually come in and help you. It can assess your current environment so it can collect information about your servers, simple things like the name, the IP address, the operating system, what level of patches that you have applied to that server, and also some of the more complex things that happen within your server, such as the dependencies. So what servers does it talk to? What services does it leverage? What ports does it leverage? How often? Et cetera. And what we want to do is actually use Azure Migrate server assessment tool within this AWS environment that we have. So let's dive into the video and I'll show you how you can do that. The thing that we want to do within the Azure portal is actually create an Azure Migrate project. So when you create an Azure Migrate project, you're asked some simple information like what resource group do you want to store this project in? What do you want to call it? And what geography do you want to use? Now, the geography is all about where that metadata is being stored. It's not necessarily about where your actual VMs will be migrated to. It's more about that metadata that you're collecting and what region will it be stored within. Now, the sixth section is to look at what tooling you want to add to this project. In this case, we're really only talking about the assessment. So we're using the Azure Migrate server assessment tool, and then we can leverage that to discover our environment. Now that the project's created, what we want to actually do is embark on that discovery journey. So what we have to do is click on the Discover icon. When we do click on that Discover icon, we're asked a bit about the machines that we're wanting to discover. Now, we're going to pick the option that says non-virtualized or other. And this is around being able to actually assess these virtual machines that live on AWS. What it'll give us here is a downloadable file, and this downloadable file will set us up for actually installing the necessary Azure Migrate server assessment tooling onto a server within our AWS environment so that we can discover the machines. So the process of installing the Azure Migrate server assessment tool is actually quite simple. All you have to do is take that PowerShell script that you've downloaded and actually execute it on your server. Now you can use a dedicated server within your environment, or you could repurpose another server. So once the PowerShell script has executed, what it'll do is automatically launch a browser session and it'll start to load the tool. Now the Azure Migrate server assessment tool is all used or interfaced through a browser session. So once the tool has launched, it'll start to work through some of the prerequisites that the tool requires, such as the licensing terms, checking that it has internet connectivity to authenticate and communicate with the Azure portal, as well as checking the time and also if it's the latest version. Now hopefully if you've just downloaded it from the Azure portal, it will be the latest version, but potentially there may be an update that you have to apply. But those first prerequisite steps are quite quick and straightforward to work through. The next stage is to actually register your Azure Migrate appliance with your Azure subscription. So at this point, you will be asked to log in to your Azure subscription, pick the Azure subscription that you have. If you have multiple ones, you'll be asked to pick the right one. You'll be asked to pick the Azure Migrate project and that is the one that we created earlier on. And then give the appliance a name and that's just so that you can look at it within the portal and identify the machine that it has identified. The next stage is to provide some information about the servers that you actually want to assess. So in this case, we're looking to discover two of the servers that we have in our AWS environment. So we provide the names of the servers and we also provide some credentials so that the Azure Migrate tool can pull some information around those servers. Once it's pulled in those details and it's authenticated that it actually can get to those servers with those credentials, it will start its initialization and discovery. Now it could take five or 15 minutes or even longer for some of this information to actually start to populate within the Azure portal. What I always say to customers is to leave the discovery running for as long as possible. So potentially you want to look at leaving the discovery, collecting information about your server environment for at least 30 days or a month. And that shows you can get an overview of what's happening within your server environment because often what you'll find is there's a one-off task that maybe runs at the end of the month, such as maybe your payroll applications and you'll get a good idea of the performance of those servers and you'll find out when they peak and when they don't peak, et cetera. So please leave the discovery as long as possible but at a minimum we genuinely say 24 hours to get the basic information that you need. After a while when we go back into the Azure portal we'll be able to see those discovered servers and we can see those two AWS servers that we asked the tool to assess. Now we've got some basic information, server name, IP address, what memory it has configured, how many disks and how much storage it has initially. What we actually want to look at is dependencies. We want to look at what these servers communicate with so that we can get a good overarching picture of what we need to move and do we need to move these servers together? Do they need to be paired together? Do they communicate? Are they part of the same application, et cetera? Diving into the dependency mapping we can start to see some more information around our servers. We get that overview again of some basic information, name, IP address, the operating system, the service package information and we can also start to see where it communicates. We can start to see those paths and what processes communicate with what ports, what other clients, what other servers, et cetera. Now the environment I'm using here is just a lab environment so it's not very detailed rich in terms of dependency mapping. Obviously, when you're using this within your production environments or even your development environments, you'll get a much richer picture of what's happening within your servers because let's face it, our servers don't work independently. There are tons of communications going between each of our servers within our environment. Now that we've got an overview and we've collected some information around our AWS environment, what we want to do is pull together an assessment that actually shows us how much it would cost if we were to move these servers into Azure. So what we want to do is create that assessment. Now we can assess these virtual machines either to host them as Azure virtual machines or we can look at hosting them as Azure VMware solution virtual machines. In this case, we just want to move them as a virtual machine so we're just gonna pick that assessment type. We need to give the assessment a name. It's really just for our purposes those that we know what that assessment does so we can leverage it later on. When we start to look at the assessment properties, this is where we can actually get quite rich and quite detailed with the data and how we assess it and how we transpose it into something that makes some sense to us. When you look at the server assessment properties, there's a lot of information that you can configure. Now what we are gonna do is actually create a performance-based report on what our virtual machines would look like if we based on how they're currently performing. Now I always say create two reports. Create one that gives you information about what it would be like if you hosted your virtual machines on Azure as they currently are with all the settings, with the configuration and see what that looks like and then run that performance-based view and see what it potentially could be like because let's face it, we were probably all guilty of actually over-sizing our virtual machines so as we avoid any performance hits. What we can do if we've collected enough performance-based data, we can actually get a proper view of what our servers would look like and potentially how much money we could save if we were to right-size them and have them size within Azure appropriately based on their performance. Now once that assessment has completed and calculated its data, we can interact with that report and we can see various things. We can see the Azure readiness of our virtual machines. We can see an overview of the cost for that virtual machine, for the compute and the storage. So the Azure readiness is actually quite an important part of the report to look at. It'll give you information around if there's any flags or any warnings that you need to deal with before you look at moving these virtual machines into Azure and that could be something like the operating system isn't supported or is a legacy one and you need to think about whether it's right to move it into Azure, et cetera. It also gives you information around what tool would be the best for migrating it and potentially if you've done a performance based report it'll give you an Azure virtual machine size which may not be the same size that you are using currently wherever it is hosted. Now you can interact with this report and have a look at the information that it's collected and is basing its sizing information on. You can look at how much CPU utilization has been used on that server while it's been doing its data collection and then understand how it's recommended certain sizes and certain migration paths as well. And obviously it gives you that indicative report about what it would cost to host these virtual machines within Azure. So hopefully that's given you a good overview of what Azure Migrate can do for you if your virtual machines are hosted in AWS and what assessment data that you should be looking at and focusing on. Now Azure Migrate can actually assess your virtual machines whether they are on VMware, Hyper-V, if they're physical and like we've just talked about in another cloud provider.  Have a look today and see what Azure Migrate can do for you.


The Mumford & Sons Gentlemen of the Road concert was a big success, earning the city nearly $54,000 in fees, but raising some questions about holding events like this on a regular basis. Last week Mayor Brennan, City Councilor Kevin Donahue and City staff held a community meeting to give residents of Munjoy Hill some information about the concert and to listen to their concerns. Brian Knoblock spoke with Councilor Donahue about the feedback they received. Councilor Donahue, you spent a lot of time listening here today. What did you hear? I heard a lot of different things, but I heard people who were pleasantly surprised with how well the operation of the event went, but with a lot of good critique about small items and large items that could go better, should we entertain this sort of event in the future? There was a fair amount of discussion about the use of public facilities for private purposes. What did you hear about that? Some analogies were drawn from public facilities, is this the same as renting out the Merrill Auditorium? Clearly it's not. There's an opportunity cost to the neighborhood and to the public at large when the park is not available for everybody's benefit. So it's important to document that there is a different public benefit that's easily understood. In this instance we make arguments about economic benefit, about multiplier effects, about the nightlife benefiting for that night, hotels, bars, restaurants, all having a good day. I think one of the things that we necessarily need to see is a positive impact is a positive impact for the neighborhood. The impacts, negative impacts on the neighborhood were really confined to loss of the park for a day or two. The positive impacts we'll see in the investment in solar trash compactors that will be around the neighborhood and paid for by the promoter. What specific concerns did you hear tonight? Similar concerns that communication at the outset when an opportunity presents itself be more forthright and be seeking input from the beginning. This was a very fast process and opportunity which was moving quickly and city staff took initiative to seize the opportunity and rightly or wrongly it left a lot of us in the neighborhood and indeed on the city council playing a little bit of catch up. In the end we try to be boosters moreover than party poopers but concerned listeners both before the event and after the event to understand what the neighborhood impacts are and what they fear they could be should we do this again. Andrea Mihaver is president of the Munchoy Hill Neighborhood Association. She talked about the feedback she's received about the concert. It's from the gamut. There have been a couple. There are a few people who are quite upset about the concert but other than that it's been, you know, it was a great event, seemed to be really positive but here's what didn't work and there were, you know, some logistical things that didn't work. The food, the water running out, we heard that from a lot of people. The prom being basically cut off for four days as opposed to one that was some concern from people, you know, those kinds of things. There's also a fair amount of concern about public facility being used for a private event. Speak to that a little bit. Yeah, we did. We received actually probably, I would say the majority of our feedback was around that because, you know, people express that this is a public park. It's where we go to enjoy it every day and is it really right philosophically speaking to charge money for an event for that. But I think most of the people that express that concern said, you know, if it was done on a smaller scale, not smaller scale meaning smaller concert but less often, you know, they could handle a once a year type of thing but if it became a regular event that would be of concern to them. So that was, I think, most of the feedback that we got. Portland Mayor Michael Brennan talked about finding the right balance for the use of public facilities. Probably four or five times a week we use public space for for-profit ventures in the city of Portland. From Merrill Auditorium to the ice arena to the expo, you name it, Hadlock Field. So I don't know if this particular event is uniquely different from things that we do all the time in terms of using public facilities for for-profit ventures. The Easter problem is a precious asset to the city of Portland and we should do everything we can to protect and take hands with that asset. In this particular case I thought it was a good use of the asset and I thought the benefit to the city, you know, several people mentioned this but we ended up on a long stage and we did well. Councillor Donahue, going forward, what happened to all the information and data that you heard here tonight? Well Mayor Brennan and I at prodding from some of the members of the public are seeking an executive summary from staff about lessons learned from the execution of this event and dealing with how to resolve, address some of the issues that were brought up by members of the public tonight and by email prior to tonight so that it serves as a policy document, not a policy document, a management document to help future administrations because we don't know how long it will be, deal very well with this sort of opportunity in the future and so that the public has a reference point for the lessons learned just so that we're dealing with more than folk wisdom.


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In the game, Stringing Numbers, players in grade kindergarten through 4 work together to create a number that satisfies a goal on a cue card. To play this game, use a deck of playing cards. Remove the kings, jacks, and jokers. Use the Stringing Numbers cue cards for the grade levels of the players. Gather players into pairs. Give each pair of players 6 playing cards. Flip over the top cue card. Read the cue card aloud and place it in the center of the table. Players then work together to create a number sentence that fulfills the requirement on the cue card. Here, we can see players working together to create a number sentence that equals a multiple of 25. They find one solution and write out the number sentence that they find. The team earns a point for each card they used. Now, let's look at the natural flow of the game in this video. We see that first the players take some time to look at the cards they were given. Then, one player arranges the cards in a way that she believes works. Finally, another player asks, does that work? Players worked a little longer on the same task and found that they could use all of the cards. After the game has included, ask players questions like, what does it mean to be a factor of another number? Or, what does it mean to be a multiple of another number? Other good questions to ask players are, are multiples and factors related? How? What is a composite number? And what is a prime number? There are plenty of variations to this game. In Stringing More Numbers, each player's dealt two cards to combine to make a multi-digit number. For example, if you're dealt a 5 and a 7, you can use the numbers to make 57 or 75 to help reach the goal on the cue card. In this version, you earn points by being the team who gets closest to the required goal. For Stringing Numbers Extended, more advanced players can use exponents, square roots, factorials, and other more advanced operations. Play using one, two, or three-digit numbers. Playing Stringing Numbers is fun for players of all ages. It promotes teamwork while players have fun with math. Click on the instructions link on the Regional Math and Science Center website to read the game rules, or just re-watch this video. Have fun playing!


This is the only thing that you need due for vision, happiness, release from pain, and the complete escape from sin, all to be given you. Say only this, but mean it with no reservations, for here the power of salvation lies. I am responsible for what I see, I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve. And everything that seems to happen to me, I ask for and receive as I have asked.  Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken, and all effects of your mistakes will disappear.


Patrick Payton was born January 9, 1909 in County Mayo, Ireland. In 1928, he emigrated to the United States and settled in Pennsylvania with others in his family. After high school, he pursued theological studies at Holy Cross Minor Seminary in Indiana and then Holy Cross College in Washington, D.C. Payton would become ill with tuberculosis in 1938, and the prognosis was grim. He could choose to undergo a risky surgery or simply to pray. He chose the latter, and within a year he was on his way to recovery. Upon ordination as a priest, Payton was assigned to the diocese of Albany, New York, where he became involved in radio programming originating from Albany and Schenectity. Convinced by the power of prayer, Payton utilized some contacts he had developed in his area and he made a cold call to Bing Crosby to enlist his help in getting a new prayer-focused radio program on the Mutual Broadcast System. Payton may have been as surprised as anyone when Crosby said yes to his proposal, despite the fact the priest had limited experience in radio. And on May 13, 1945, Father Payton led a program featuring not only Bing Crosby, but New York's Archbishop Spellman and President Harry Truman. Payton's initial production was a success, and for the next two years he worked to get a regular feature on the airwaves. His hard work paid off through his family theater productions, and the radio series Family Theater debuted February 13, 1947 over the Mutual Network. It would be another year before it was heard on all the major outlets at a common time. As a sustained program, Father Payton worked hard to keep programming costs manageable and was always seeking donations to meet the show's budget. In the early 1950s, Payton's Family Theater productions expanded into television and attracted top talent just as the radio series had. New Family Theater radio programs ended in 1957, though it continued in reruns into the 1960s. However, the production company continues to produce films and web content to this day. In addition to media, Payton carried out many rallies over the decades that attracted millions of followers. Father Payton's health declined in the 1990s, and he died on June 3, 1992 in San Pedro, California. In 2017, Pope Francis declared him venerable, that is, heroic in virtue, which is one of the steps towards sainthood. Information for this synopsis is based on the program guide for Family Theater Every Home by Radio Spirits and written by Carl Shadow and from the website FatherPayton.org. For old-time radio researchers, I'm your announcer Patrick Andre. Thank you for listening.


Hi, Professor Gerald Friedman, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Department of Economics. And we're here today to talk about marginal revenue. What on earth is that? You'll find out. Let's start with you running a business. How do you sell more stuff? Well, I don't think you can advertise or do all those things, but from one moment to the next, how can you get rid of this extra inventory you have? You brought a whole lot of hats to the fish concert. They're doing a revival tour. And you brought a lot of hats and a lot of t-shirts. And you're getting to the end of the day and you still have a bunch left over. How are you going to get rid of them? You don't want to bring them home. You want to sell them. Lower the price. Sell more by lowering your prices. Now that will be fine. You all attract some new customers. Monisha over there isn't a big fish fan, but if you cut the price of t-shirts enough, she'll say, well, I can always use where the t-shirt inside out. So she'll buy a t-shirt. And it's a hot, sunny day, so she'll buy a hat also, even though it has fish all over it. Yeah, she'll live with that if it's cheap enough. That's fine for selling to her, but once you post those lower prices, you have all these fish fans who are waiting around to buy t-shirts. And they say, hmm, I would have bought that t-shirt at $30. Now we're selling it at $20.  So you're not only moving down the marginal utility curve or down the demand curve to attract new customers, but when you lower prices, you're also selling more, selling to the people who were willing to pay a higher price, you're selling to them at the new lower price.  That's all fine. But you're also giving a discount to the people who are willing to pay the higher price in the first place. You start out selling one t-shirt at $25, fine. So the second t-shirt at $23, you're selling two t-shirts now, the $23 t-shirt to the $23 buyer and the $23 t-shirt to the $25 buyer. So when you calculate your marginal revenue, the extra money you get by selling one more shirt, you get the $23 of new revenue coming from selling to Manisha. And from that, you have to discount $2 that you're giving as a discount to the person who was willing to buy it at $25. So your marginal revenue is not the $23 that you get from selling to Manisha, but it's $21. You go from selling one t-shirt at $25 to selling two t-shirts at $23 each. You have $46 total revenue instead of $25, an increase of $21. You sell the third t-shirt at $20. Now Manisha gets a discount, plus the $25 person gets a discount.  Your marginal revenue is less than the price you're selling. Your marginal revenue curve lies below your demand curve and you are getting less in additional revenue than the price of the stuff. That's critical for monopolies. And we'll talk about that next time. So thank you very much. Have a nice day.


Good morning, YouTube! That'll do, pink. That'll do. Family's in nap mode, pop is in errand mode. Here we go. Ending up after Nolan's getting the dirt out of the car and out of my hair. Allads and chocolate. Chocolate and salads. I know you gotta be careful with eating. You gotta be careful. As far as, like, what you put in your body. And, like, I want to put jet fuel into these legs for running as I continue to strive for some goals. So, I have a sweet tooth at times. Not a big one. I don't like candy, but I love chocolate.  I don't need cereal, per se, or ice cream. I do like ice cream, but like a sweet little, just a little bite helps a lot. Just to satisfy the palate, if you know what I mean. All right, so that's what that was. Got the errands done. Yeah, let's continue with the day, which involves this. I have a question. And I'm talking with Mary Walgus and I love you. I love you. Okay, ciao. Fresh flag. Fresh flag. Thank you, Uncle Troy, for the fresh flag. Appreciate it. Question of the day. And this is more of a practical. I'm very confident that you're not supposed to throw an American flag away. I know that and I believe you're supposed to burn it. You're supposed to burn an old flag like this one. But maybe you could just confirm that for me. I should know that. I know I could Google it very easily, but I'd rather hear it from you. I believe my next step is to burn the old one, but I just want you to confirm it. Could you do that? Could you do that? Thank you. Been meaning to do this for three months. Time just gets away sometimes. Time to protect the outside table. Verethane Ultimate Spar-Erethane Water-Based. Superior UV protection. Mold and mildew resistant. Seals out water. Always a glorious day when your mom shows up with pumpkin pie. Card. Send me pumpkin pie. Love each other.


Good morning. Hi, I'm Tan Copsi from BBC Media Action. BBC Media Action is the BBC's international development charity. And today I'm going to tell you how we can create better communication with rural youth. Rural youth, as we'll see today, have vast potential to create responses to climate change that improve lives. We're lucky today also, I thought I should mention, to have a lot of the people here, sort of young innovators and change-makers, and I'm really privileged to be among these people. People like Karen Twazon of the Philippines, who's working with young landowners to empower them through collective action, which is something we found was really, really important in the climate-ager study, which I'll tell you more about today. Also people like Autumn Joseph, who's worked in a war-torn landscape in Uganda, but he's helping restore that landscape, also with others. Okay, so better communication can enable effective action in response to a changing climate. Communication here can be a variety of things. I'm from the BBC, so one of the things I'm really interested in is communication through broadcast media, but it's not just broadcast media, it's face-to-face communication with a village elder, let's say. Today I'm going to tell you the stories of two people, one in Indonesia and one in India, and I'm going to demonstrate to you a bit how communication can change lives in rural areas. Everything I say today is based on data, so you know the climate-ager study is a gigantic study across Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and Vietnam. We conducted more than 33,500 interviews, and that included 8,500 interviews with young people in rural areas. I thought I'd better say here, as I have some friends with a quaint background in the room, young here is people age 15 to 24, but we're also including analysis of people age 25 to 34, so perhaps more of us in this room are young than we realized. Okay, if I could have the first slide, please. Second slide, in fact. Brilliant. Okay, this is Jenta. Jenta lives in Kalamantan in Indonesia. Oh, sorry, we can go one back, please. She weaves bamboo mats and she values her religion. She thinks life has largely improved over the last 10 years. As an example, she says they've built roads into her village, which means a greater variety of foodstuffs come in and out. But she's also noticed changes in climate. She thinks that rainfalls become less predictable and that temperatures have risen. In her area, she also feels that young smallholder farmers, but also other farmers are suffering from decreased agricultural productivity. And this is interesting because she also says that large palm oil companies in the province are doing very, very well and also putting pressure on her to give up her land. She thinks that a combination of these changes, development and changes in climate, have negatively impacted her life, particularly her ability to earn money. What's worse though is that she doesn't feel informed about how to respond to the changes she's noticing. And this isn't just Jenta in Indonesia. Across the region, only 10% of rural youth felt very informed about how to respond to changes in climate. Across the region too, a quarter of young rural youth are feeling a high impact on their lives now as a result of these changes. This can sort of have social impacts too. So if we move from Indonesia to Bangladesh, in one village in the northwest, people in the village were suffering from intense water shortages. This was a result of both a drought and a dam on the other side of the border in India. In this village, young men were really struggling to find wives because who would want to marry into a village with no water. But young people are responding and as we'll see today, young people can take action to respond to both changes in climate and resource shortages. A quarter of young people had already begun to change their livelihoods and we asked them, what does this mean? What does this mean to change your livelihood? In some cases, that was within farming, so people were alternating crops or trying new crops and techniques. In other cases, it wasn't necessarily so positive. So for instance, Jenta's husband now works for periods of the year in Malaysia. When he comes back, he talks about how he lacks the skills to be successful outside of agriculture. Another key point, Jenta here is worried about the future. She thinks she's experiencing impact on her life now as we touched upon on her ability to earn money. But Jenta, like half of young people across the 8,500 we surveyed, expects to experience high impact from changes in climate in future. Okay, now if we move to the next slide, I'm going to tell you how communication with rural youth and I stress with can empower them to create change. This is Cabralal. Cabralal is of course his nickname. It means either radio man or person who provides information. He lives in a community in Madhya Pradesh, which is also suffering from water shortages. Cabralal one day was listening to his radio and he heard on the radio an invitation to enter a competition, much like many people here. The competition was for young people to try out new techniques in farming. It was organized by an NGO in India called Development Alternatives. Cabralal got together with his friends and they tried out a variety of sort of organic manure and planted organic crops. Ultimately, the reason he's looking so happy is that he won the competition. The point here is that across the climate Asia study, we found young people who worked together, who felt more involved in their communities and felt that their communities acted together to solve problems were much more likely to be taking action and much more likely to be successful with that action. We also found that people who talked about these issues, who talked about food and water, energy and indeed changes in climate, were also taking more action. So my question to you here today is how can we inspire more Cabralals? How can we take what we do here today and transpose it? How can we talk to these people in language they understand? At BBC Media Action, we're trying to build on the findings of the climate Asia study and of course, as I said earlier, we're interested in broadcast media so we're trying to do this at scale. In Bangladesh, we're working with climate change experts and a state broadcaster to create something of a world first. It's a reality television show for young and indeed older farmers. We hope to reach tens of millions of people with a program that inspires people to take action. But it's a little more complex than that because it's not simply about providing information to an audience. What we hope to do is inspire people to transpose that information and use it in a local context. We want to use the program to stimulate discussion in communities much like those featured on the show and we want to challenge people to try and economically empower themselves. We're interested in featuring young entrepreneurs who are taking action in response to changes in climate. We also want to stimulate discussion because ultimately, as we'll see today, people are stronger when they act together. Okay, I'll leave you just with a final thought. Everyone who speaks today is going to tell you something interesting and fascinating but we're here in a hall in Warsaw. So how can you take what you learned today and communicate it with the people you know with the audiences you're familiar with? Thank you.


What is going on guys, welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here. Today I am back with another Fortnite video and today I bring you five things epic removed from Battle Royale. Now the list contains things you'd expect to be removed along with a weapon belief to be so OP. It was literally in the game for about 10 minutes and there was only one ever recording of it. But before we get into that guys, I am giving away 2800 V-Box to win. Make sure you are subbed to the channel and have that bell button ticked. Drop a like on this video and leave a comment down below. Winners are picked and contacted via YouTube direct message so good luck everybody. So let's get into it. At number five we have the ability to reload a bolt action sniper rifle without scoping out. Now actually do remember being able to do this and it made hitting that target for a second time a much easier thing to do as you didn't have to zoom out to reload the weapon. I guess epic clucked onto this issue and patched it so now you have to zoom out, scope out to reload that bolt action sniper. The thing about bolt action snipers compared to semi-auto snipers is the fact they do so much more damage so you can understand why this is being addressed. As if it wasn't the case, what would be the point of using semi-auto snipers in the game? For sure you could shoot quicker without scoping out but you'd do way less damage anyway. If we bought action snipers you didn't have to zoom out to preload the weapon. I wouldn't see the actual need for semi-auto sniper rifles in the game so it makes sense epic fixing this. Okay moving on in that fall we have the jump pad. Now most won't remember these, they came straight from save the world game mode. Basically used to sling you or an enemy in any direction opposite to the approach they took on standing on this jump pad. To be honest they were completely pointless in my opinion and when seeing them most people ignored them because there's just no need for them at all. Now a new jump pad has been included as we know and it's called the launch pad and this thing is on a whole new level and actually adds to the game in many many ways. Now did they have the idea of this launch pad when removing the jump pad? I ain't sure but either way the addition to add this and remove the jump pad made much more sense and it's a great little tool to help you out in many different scenarios. Some of the players I have seen using launch pads are truly incredible. I mean jump pads were that bad they even buffed them in save the world game mode. Okay so moving on and next up we have double pump shotguns. Now this one was split a lot of people didn't want this removed yet many people did. What this double pump is if you don't know it was a technique used to fire off the pump action shotgun like a semi-auto shotgun actually I believe you were able to shoot it even quicker than a semi-auto and it took at least two pump actions to get this to work. You can see it in action unscrewing now thanks to a palamine dark ninja. Now because these pump action shotguns weren't rare and you could get them in a few different rarities the odds of you being able to do this almost every game were high so many people picked up on this technique and used it and for many it became an annoyance as you really couldn't do anything about it especially at close range it was seriously hard to come back so it would take two pump action shotguns and you need to place them side by side in your inventory simply fire one switch to the other fire that switch back fire rinse and repeat until your clips are empty and it was a ruthless way of taking opponents at close range and I'm certain Epic didn't want this to be the case so they basically eliminated it from the game now if you use the pumps and have them side by side in your inventory once you shoot one and switch to the other there will be a slight cool down before you can fire again now there actually is a way to still pull this off but it takes seriously good timing I will link that video if I can still find it within the video description you can also do this with a newly added heavy shotgun and it works wonders thing here is though these are a lot harder to find but if you do manage to scoop two up use the same technique and it works incredibly seen by this amazing clip on screen now by Manny next up we have smoke grenades now smoke grenades in my opinion were one of the most useless things in the game the problem with these were and although they initially buffed them to make the smoke more prominent they still weren't used enough I mean I used these if I found them throwing them at my teammates I never used them in battle because they truly was no point you'd be taking as much risk of running into the smoke blind looking for an enemy who is hiding as you would without the smoke so it really was completely pointless to use I mean there's probably one in five or ten attempts where these things would actually work for you so I just thought they were pointless I really did so they have been averted by epic now it is believed that these will eventually be replaced by the recently found via data mined gas grenade now this I believe will work a lot like the smoke grenade but these will poison people trapped inside the smoke this I can see working and being useful as for when you come across people hiding in their own buildings you can simply love one of these into their creations and watch them run for fresh air so the gas grenade will be a decent addition in my opinion now we wait for these to be added and lastly people we move on to the Zapatron now this weapon I do believe I remember being announced to be added into the game and as soon as this happened it was removed now it was originally part of 1.6.3 release notes where they spoke about this weapon here check it out on screen now and it goes to show how long ago this was as it was being added to the game with squads and jewels the Zapatron can be used to fire electric blasts in short bursts or charged up to release an enormous amount of damage fire sparingly as south ammo is extremely limited this weapon is only available in supply drops now it was so rare for the short amount of time it was in Battle Royale that people thought it was a myth but it was in Battle Royale and two things here confirm it firstly the fact Fortnite tweeted this out saying it was removed we have disabled Zapatron we feel like it doesn't fit well in the current state of Battle Royale this is something we may revisit and also the fact that we have one official recording of this weapon in action in Battle Royale and here is on screen now now this footage does belong to Ionix TV whose channel can be found linked within the video description now this is the only footage we know of this weapon and to be honest it looks like an absolute monster that a weapon is still available in game within the Save the World game mode where I believe it was initially found so it ain't completely been removed you can see the save the rose footage of the Zapatron on screen now thanks to DRCG Ninja me personally I don't think it would be too bad of a weapon to have in game now with a few nerfs and this thing I believe could indeed be a fun weapon to use for sure but yeah people the Zapatron has been removed they did state their mail up into it within the future I doubt we'll ever see a game but what do you think let me know down below within that comment section but hey guys we have come to the end of the video if you enjoyed it leave no like really does help me and my channel out if you're new around here and enjoy daily Fortnite videos be sure to subscribe thanks again for stopping by people and hopefully I will see you and that next one always wrong