When the steam deck was first announced, I was pretty adamant that I wasn't gonna buy one I had my doubts over whether or not it was gonna have a lot of games to play because even at that time Proton was still kind of getting off the ground yet. It had gotten way way better But there were still a lot of games that had some significant problems on Linux So I had my doubts but also I've just never been that much of a gamer at least not recently So I couldn't justify spending the money on a steam deck and I've talked about that several times on the channel And on the podcast over the course of the last year. I had one pre-ordered, but Did decided not to actually go through with it. I pre-ordered it again And then then go through with it again. It just you know, I was so indecisive about it I just you know at the end of the day I just decided you know, I don't really need this thing, but I changed my mind so I have a steam deck and What I wanted to do today was talk a little bit about my first impressions and what changed my mind So we'll start off with that what changed my mind truly about the steam deck and why I decided to buy one Well, honestly, it was two things first of all, I want to do more gaming content on the channel Now I don't want to go all gardener Bryant on you guys So there's not gonna be a ton of gaming content on the channel So don't worry about that But I do want to do some more Linux gaming content on the channel just because it will broaden up the amount of topics That I have access to so I'm not doing all racing videos all the time even though I would I desperately want to so That's one reason I want to do more gaming content and maybe Get into more games because I have a fairly large steam library Most of the games I've never played before every time steam has a sale And I see a game that I might someday in the future Probably not want to play I buy the game and then it stays in my library forever And I never play it. So I have some steam games there for me to try so, you know, I I just Decided that maybe I want to be a gamer now You know I've started gaming channel or something become a twitch streamer something I don't know probably not but the point is is that you know I have some plans for content in the future based around Linux gaming and a steam deck will help me do that the other reason why is that I've seen some articles online from Organizations that aren't notoriously Linux forward or Linux friendly say astonishingly positive things about Linux on the steam deck and That kind of just made me think well, you know, maybe there really is something more to the steam deck than just being kind of cool So I had some money lying around and I decided to buy one. I bought the middle Ski you of it though the one that's right in the middle with this that 256 storage and The non-fancy screen and I've had it for four or five days now and I've been playing with it So let me talk about my first impressions. So the very first thing I thought when I got it out of the box was man this thing is much heavier than I thought it was gonna be and It's going to be very uncomfortable to game with for any significant amount of time And my opinion on that hasn't really changed all that much It is heavier than I thought it was gonna be and it's not the most Comfortable gaming experience I've ever had from a handheld console But then the last handheld console that I had was the ps Vita didn't play it very much because again, not a gamer but that was a lot smaller and lighter and That's just obviously the last thing that I have to compare it to before that it was the original Game Boy, so I Don't in terms of handheld consoles I don't have a lot of experience, but it was heavier than I thought it was going to be and while I've gotten used to I've been getting into the thing. I have gotten used to the weight of it because I've been playing it more often It still does shock me every once in a while about how, you know, meaty it is, right? It's just a very hefty boy. So I'm not saying that that's a bad thing really It's not it's the size of it doesn't bother me as much as it did when I first got it I've gotten used to it. It's not the most comfortable thing, but again It's something you can get used to the one thing that I really haven't gotten used to is the amount of heat that it puts out Now it does only put out the heat I don't know if you guys are able to see this it only does put out the heat through these vent holes here and That's good. At least they didn't put it on the bottom that could have been bad but it puts out a lot of heat and The more windows like game that you're playing the more heat it puts out So if you're playing Spyro for whatever reason Spyro is not well optimized for anything Linux It plays well But it doesn't like any hardware whatsoever and it kicks in the fan really bad and it creates You could it's very toasty now not the big deal because you're not gonna put your hand up here anyways, but You notice it. That's the other thing that I noticed so so those are the first two things that I kind of noticed You know whatever the other thing I noticed is that the buttons are really really nice like for the price of it I expected the buttons to be kind of mushy, but I Don't know if you can hear that or not, but they're very Very quicky and you know It was very surprising and the touchpad things on there that you guys might be able to see there Those are you know Not useful at all From the games that I've played so far now. I've only played three or four games But for the most part the the touchpads are completely Useless inside of a game I found myself using them sometimes in it in the you think like the UI or whatever if I can turn this on and show You like the UI here the you can you know, whatever I sometimes use the touch pads But most of the I find myself using the d-pad to navigate the UI too So I don't really have use of the the trackpad I know some people really like those things But I don't the other thing that I want that I've noticed over the last four or five days is that battery life is mediocre and honestly During gameplay I expected that there's not a big battery in here And it's running like full-on Windows games on that little bitty battery So it's not that surprising that the battery life doesn't last that long during gameplay What was surprising to me was that the standby wasn't better So I haven't played it at all today, and I charged it last night, and it's at 45 percent right now I've done nothing on it other than turn it on that one time. I just showed you so the standby time is Maybe there's something running in the background on my machine, and I don't know what it is But it's not that great which is unfortunate because I'm not gonna use it every single day But there will be times when I want to go use it that if I find that I go back to it and the battery is dead I'd be very upset about it right like it when I decided to game one of the reasons why I got away from gaming back in the Xbox 360 days I was never a big gamer then but it was more of a gamer than I'm now I had an Xbox 360 before they had a PlayStation 3 I think and one of the reasons why I got away from it Was because every time I went to the console to game which wasn't very often I'd always have to sit there through an update right and when their Xbox back in at least in those days When it had an update you had to do the update it forced you to do it You had no choice and it would sit there for like an hour and a half to update this thing Reboot multiple times and then by the time the update was done I didn't want to game anymore So if I have to charge this thing after it just sits there for a little while I'm a little bit disappointed because I'm gonna come to it You know in a couple days from now and decide I want to play some dead cells and it's going to be dead now I can obviously just plug it in and play it, but it still kind of has that same experience The another thing that I wanted to say about the hardware itself was that they put the I don't know if you'll be able to see this on camera but they have the USB-C the USB-C port up at the top and I'm of two minds about this first I think it is actually good design or I can see why it could be good design because when you're playing it You know against your chest or against your stomach You know you you don't want a cord bending down there. That'd be bad But also you don't want to cord dangling at the top. So I don't know if there's a good solution for where to put the USB-C I think they probably chose the best option. They possibly could but it would I don't know where else they would put it in order to make it better so it's just Simultaneously a good decision and a bad decision another thing that I really really Be awesome in terms of like power thing is if this had wireless charging And you could just set it on top of a wireless charger when you were done with it and just let it sit there and charge Forever and then your battery is always going to be full right? I know it's not good for the battery But it would always it would take away that whole standby Battery training thing that I just talked about so wireless the chart wireless charging in the next version would be really cool All right, so I talked about the hardware. It's very sturdy very Well made for the price. It's fantastic to be honest with you heavier than I thought it would be very sturdy in construction and The buttons are really good. So I should actually talk about the screen the screen is fine I'm not one of those people who has to have a 4k OLED screen I have two 1080p screens and sitting in front of me I have a 1080p screen there the TV that I have in this room is a 1080p screen You're getting a you're getting the pattern there. I don't need 4k can't tell the difference between HD and 4k I never have been able to and Probably just because my eyes are crap, but I don't need that big of a resolution on any screen So a screen that's like seven inches, you know, I don't need a huge resolution And I know this is only like what 720p or whatever is I didn't have a problem with it It looks fine I will say and this is where we can get into the software a little bit the biggest problem I have with the games that I have on there, which I'm first on I'm astonished at how well the games play So the games play like all granted. I haven't played a lot of games so far. I've been playing dead cells. I played a Rocket League I played a couple others a Spyro was one of them and I downloaded like dirt rally or something So there's like before games that I played so I haven't played a ton of games But the games play really well all of them are Windows games and they just they're they're very You know, like I'm not gonna I'm not pixel peeping and I don't see any drop frames because I hardly ever notice those things unless they're Blatons so the games play really well But the one thing that I wanted to say about the screen in association with the software is that when you're in game The text is really small now some of the games that you see in the store will actually tell you hey that the Some text in game can be really small and small and hard to read But I haven't seen a game that I've played so far that doesn't have small text like it's Astonishingly small now obviously not much you can do about it It's a small strain that either you can't make these some of it is just because I need to have my glasses on more often When I play games I should do that But the text is just kind of small and in some games like dirt rally that I was playing which I'm not good at it all because the controls are wonky I had to fix those but the text on that is like black on transparent white background and It's like in a really weird mono space font It's not well designed at all and does not work well on the steam deck It's just not readable like hardly at all So I have a feeling that as I go through more my steam library I'll probably see that more often because it's just kind of gonna be the thing like text is going to be super small And if you have vision problems like I do it's gonna be a problem for you I I found myself actually, you know Putting it right up against my face Which is not good when it comes to a screen in your eyesight trying to read the thing I've thought about a man magnifying glass before So it's not that great luckily on in the games that I've played so far specifically dead cells I'm having this problems because there's a lot of like stop and talk to characters and dead cells the The luck there is that the text doesn't go away until you press a key Which is good so I can maneuver however I need to maneuver it to actually be able to read it So that's one thing that I've noticed in terms of the software outside of gameplay the actual maneuverability of the OS has been really good The one thing that I've kind of been really astonished by is how seamless the SD card that I bought and the internal storage kind of interact with each other When I have a couple games that are on this the SD card You can't tell the difference between what's on the SD card and what's on the internal storage If you've been around for a long time you you know that SD cards are notoriously slow Like if you use it if you used one of the original like digital cameras back in the early 2000s late 90s or whatever Those cards which they weren't SD cards that I back then by the way, but you know the cards back then were Astonishingly slow some of them are actually loud And I had one that got super hot when when you transfer data to it So the storage technology has obviously come a long way since the last time I used this SD card It's been a while since I actually use an SD card because most phones these days don't actually have Expandable storage, so it's been quite a while. I was just kind of shocked at how well the the steam deck Integrates that integrated graphics or the integrated storage and SD card. It's actually really good One of my favorite features is actually resumed awake. So I I don't have much of a tension span for gaming I've already explained that I'm not much of a gamer But the one thing that I I love about this thing is that you can be in the middle of a game decide I'm just done playing with a game for a while and Hit the power button and it just suspends you come back to it It picks up right where you left off. That's fantastic and it's running on Linux Okay So if you if you have been running on Linux for any amount of time You know that resuming suspend on Linux is god-awful like it is so bad In some places sometimes your monitors won't go to sleep your your your laptop will just stay there The if you close the lid on your laptop sometime it doesn't go to sleep It just stays on or if it does come off it You know it messes up where your windows are the things are all over the place It just does not work well, and it never ever ever has Every once in a while you'll get lucky and it'll work fine But most of the time you're gonna have some problems every once in a while the fact that they can be running a game Suspend it come back to it and then continue on as if nothing happened. Oh god. That is just spectacular, and I hope that Linux developers everywhere are looking at that like oh man. We need to figure that out for everything That'd be so good, especially for laptops right be able to Dispend actually go to sleep or hibernate or whatever come back to see everything exactly the way it was before is Just really really good So that's probably one of my favorite features of it and because like I said I don't have the attention to sit there and game for hours on end I never have and the ability to just you know play for 10 or 15 minutes Turn it off come back the you know a few hours later continued the level that I was on really really good So yeah, those are my initial thoughts on the steam deck kind of just a rambly type video I probably could talk a little bit more about the hardware a little bit more about the software And if you guys want to hear more of my thoughts on the steam deck maybe in a full-on review or something You know in a few weeks leave a comment in the comment section below. I'd love to hear from you. I really like the steam deck I think it's fantastic. Do I regret not buying it from the beginning actually? No, I like the fact that I actually spent some time Thinking about it and thinking about my use case for it But also I allowed that time to pass and let them fix some of the major flaws that it had at the beginning from What I read in the reviews and now it's a machine that you can use it's very very stable It just works really really well And I didn't have to go through any of the guinea pig stuff that the rest of the people who bought it early did so I'm happy that I waited and it's a very good device. So Those are my thoughts on the steam deck if you have thoughts You'd like to share again in the comment section below. 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That's all I have to say about the causes of China's aging population. I've looked at three causes. First, China's policy of encouraging more birth in the 1950s and early 1960s. Then, the introduction of policies that favored smaller families, ending in one child policy in 1979. And finally, the social phenomena of think couples. Now I shall hand over to Thomas who will discuss the effects of the causes and the possible solutions for the problem. Thomas, over to you. Thank you, Wing. So this is Thomas. I'm going to briefly talk about the effects of the aging population and look at, at the same time, look at some solutions for these problems.


Yo, what up? It's your boy. That's the pipkins aka Jimmy no fro aka Jimmy the legend aka the legend of hip-hop Welcome to the site to go YouTube channel today's video topic that we will go over and discuss is titled What does your superpower say about you in this topic? There are six powers to choose from based on who you are as a human being Slash super hero and we are going to go over all six of them This article was brought to you by Khadija Salim shout out to you girl. Thank you for doing your thing By the way, I love your eyes. So without further ado, let's get started. Let's go. So here we have the article What does your superpower say about you? It was posted on October 12th while you scroll through your phone or Intentively stare at your laptop trying to begin the same work. You were supposed to have finished hours ago Have you ever daydreamed of teleporting to the intoxicating beaches of the Caribbean? How about having the power to move objects to trigger a fire alarm to pave the way for an early exit? You're not alone. There is a superhero living in all of us And our imagination is ready to set it free. If you had to pick just one superpower, what would it be? What does your superpower say about you? Number one telekinesis the power to move objects with your mind Telekinesis involves using specific thought processes such as concentration and calculation those who choose telekinesis Thrive on control and operate as perfectionists This power would allow them to be more efficient and use it to their advantage to rise to the top Number two Invisibility choosing when to be visible and when to become invisible those who choose invisibility mirror this personality style in their lives And choose when to let those close to them in and know when to shut the world out These individuals possess a great sense of balance and are able to be social and execute their responsibilities While being aware of when it is time to recharge their inner batteries number three Teleportation the power to physically move either matter our energy from one place to another in a matter of seconds Choosing teleportation as a superpower indicates that an individual is adventurous Spontaneous and willing to take risks the traveler leaves an impression everywhere they go and does not want to leave any stone unturned Complicated situations and heightening troubles do not stop this traveler, but rather reinforces a quick escape Number four flying the ability to fly at any speed or distance Those who choose flying as a superpower are true free spirits They do not like feeling locked down and love the idea of being free to spread their wings wherever they choose Flying gives you the ability to see different viewpoints allowing the individual to be more harmonious and calm number five Mine reading channelling the thoughts and inner dialogue of any person at any time The mind reader craves to understand others on a deeper level and bridge connections through patterns introspection is key in individuals who seek to mind read in using the information they gain allows them to be more Self-aware and adjust their actions to more and sink to others around them Depending on their intentions mind reading can be used to promote empathy or create a divide number six Time travel the ability to travel in time to both past and future events The time traveler loves to romanticize moments and spends a considerable amount of time paying attention to small detail Motivated to make change the time traveler is creative and lays the foundation to attain future gain as well as Rewriting history to create a ripple effect that crabs time Destruction about the author Khadija Slim She is receiving her bachelor's degree in psychology from Penn State University and is currently pursuing a master's degree in counseling Psychology at Cootstown University. If you want to know more about Khadija, the link will be in the description box below for all you to read her articles Thank you for reading. To me. This was really a fun topic We're all superheroes and we have these powers that really are based on us when you really think about it for me My power is number three teleportation. Yeah I'm a teleporter at times. You guys can know that I can be very spontaneous with what I do Plus I love to try new things little do something I've never done before When it comes down to taking the risk that's something I'll do. It's at the point where I don't even have to take a risk I just do it. I just want to make things happen and I do it whatever happens happens And I'm grateful for the whole entire experience. It feels cool to be a teleporter now Here are my three questions for this topic number one which superpower related to you the most number two Do you feel that this superpower is truly a part of you in number three? 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Okay, so this is a continuation of the previous lecture, so we have just seen that projective space is covered by n plus 1 copies of open sets which are isomorphic to affine n dimensional space. Now what I wanted to say is that from this the first thing that we should notice is that you know if you take any projective variety, a projective variety is an irreducible close subset of projective space then that projective variety if I intersect with ui I will get a projective variety and take its image I will get a projective variety I will get an affine variety in n okay and therefore from this you will get that any projective variety is a finite union of affine varieties okay, so that is so these are all corollaries of this of this construction. So these are all observations observations which are very important for us number one the projective space itself is a union of all the ui's I equal to 0 to n each ui isomorphic via phi i to an, so you have this to if x is a subset of pn then x is a union of from i equal to 0 to n x intersection ui. So any projective respectively quasi projective variety is covered by finitely many respectively quasi affine varieties okay and the most important thing is that any variety as therefore is a finite union of open subsets each isomorphic to an affine variety okay. So for that if you take pn or if you take a projective variety it is very clear that by the first two remarks that it is certainly a finite union of affine varieties the only case that one has to cover is the case of quasi projective or quasi affine varieties okay. So what I want to say is that if you take first of all I want to say that if you take a quasi affine variety that also can be covered by a finite union of affine varieties okay. So any quasi affine variety is a finite union of affine varieties why is this so because you see you take y inside some am this is irreducible closed which means that y is a close sub variety of affine space so it is a y is an affine variety and then in that you take a u non-empty open then this u will be a quasi affine variety by definition of quasi affine variety is a non-empty open subset of an affine variety and now y is z of p where p is a prime ideal in the p inside the affine coordinate ring of this affine variety am prime ideal so it is 0 set of a prime ideal because it is a variety okay irreducible closed subset so it corresponds to a prime ideal this is 0 set of that prime ideal and this of course any way this ideal is in this which is a polynomial ring in m variables and it is by Hilbert's basis theorem it is noetherian so the prime ideal p is also finitely generated any ideal is finitely generated so you can write if you write p as the ideal generated by g1 through gl by the Hilbert's basis theorem then you know that no this is not what I want sorry it is no what I want so I have so u is an open subset here alright what I want is a following I want to show that this u which is a quasi affine variety is a finite union of affine varieties I want to show that and the way to do that is to realize that the fact that y that u is a so the compliment of u inside y is a closed subset of y alright and it therefore corresponds to a an ideal okay so y-u is z of j bar where j where j in a of an is an ideal containing containing p okay this is what will happen so you see I have I have this quotient map quotient homomorphism from this to the affine coordinating of affine space affine coordinating of the affine variety y and this is just given by mod p okay and what is a what is y what is y-u it is a closed subset of y okay and y is already a closed subset of am so it is a closed subset of am also a closed subset of a closed subset is also a closed subset therefore it is given by an ideal in the in the am in the affine coordinating of the big affine space and in fact if you want to look at it it will be given by 0 set so in fact maybe I should not put j bar I should simply put j okay just put j it will be the 0 set it will be the 0 set of j and if you consider it as a 0 set in the full affine space okay and of course j will be an ideal which will contain p because zj is contained inside zp okay and now now j is generated by finitely many elements so g1 through gl okay and what will happen is and this is of course because any ideal is finitely generated because this is a noetherian ring this is a polynomial ring in m variables that is a noetherian ring by Hilbert's basis theorem or Amino Aether's theorem so this is finitely generated so if you take this as generators then of course if you take the compliment of j in the full affine space that will be a union of the basic open sets given by all these gis okay so you know Amk-zj will be union dgi i equal to 1 to l okay and therefore if you take if you take y-zj so y-zj which is u okay this will be Am-zj intersected with y okay and so it will be union i equal to 1 to l dgi intersection y alright and therefore but the point I want to make is that each dgi inside Am you know is an affine variety itself though it is an open subset of Am it is isomorphic to an irreducible closed subset of affine space of what dimension one more by the Rabinovich trick so this is so you know from Am so you have your Am plus 1k and you take the 0 set of gi into some extra variable t minus 1 okay so tm plus 1 if you want and you know that there is this there is a there is an isomorphism varieties like this okay each dgi basic open set in affine space is itself an affine variety okay which means it is isomorphic to an affine variety what is affine variety it is the affine variety given by g times gi times a new variable an extra variable minus 1 0 set of that in an affine variety of dimension one more we have seen this earlier so now what I wanted to understand is that you know y y is a closed subset of Am therefore y is also closed subset y y intersection dgi is a closed subset of dgi okay y is a closed subset of Am of the affine space so y intersection dgi is a closed subset of dgi for the induced topology therefore it will be and y intersection dgi is also irreducible that is because of the following fact dgi intersection y is a non-empty open subset of y and y is irreducible therefore dgi intersection y is also irreducible so the model of the story is that dgi intersection y is an irreducible closed subset of dgi and via this isomorphism it will give you an irreducible closed subset of this and therefore it will become an affine variety so I am just trying to say why each dgi intersection y is itself isomorphic to an affine variety okay and the finite union of all such is your u so what this argument shows is that any quasi affine variety is a finite union of affine variety and if you combine that if I if you combine that with with 1 and 2 okay you will get that any even a quasi projective variety will also be a finite union of affine varieties so if you put everything together you will get that any variety is a finite union of affine varieties okay any variety has a finite cover by open subsets each of which is isomorphic to an affine variety and thus we say that affine varieties are the building blocks of varieties okay so let me write that down here that is very important so thus dgi intersection y is a closed subset of dgi dgi intersection y is an open subset as long as it is non-empty it is an open subset and as long as it is non-empty is irreducible thus dgi intersection y is itself an affine variety because it is irreducible closed subset of an affine variety or something that is isomorphic to an affine variety thus u is a finite union of open affine finite union of open subsets each isomorphic to an affine variety so this is point number this is observation 3 that any quasi affine variety is a finite union of affine varieties and then 4 by 2 and 3 any quasi projective variety is a finite union of open subsets each isomorphic to an affine variety and the upshot of all this is the theorem that any variety whether it is projective or quasi projective or affine or quasi affine is a finite union of open subsets each isomorphic to an affine variety so sometimes we say this also in the following way we say that any variety admits a finite cover by open affine varieties okay that is one way of saying it the other way of saying it is that affine varieties are the building blocks of all varieties okay so let me write that down we may rephrase above any variety by open affine varieties the other way of saying it is that affine varieties are the building blocks arbitrary varieties so I mean the importance of this is you will see the importance of this in the following sense so the first immediate thing is if you are going to study if you are going to focus attention in a neighborhood of a point of a variety then you could as well look at an affine neighborhood of the point and reduce your question to studying a point on an affine variety that is an advantage okay so let me repeat that if you have a variety and you have want to study in a neighborhood of the point the variety then what you do is you choose a neighborhood which is an open set which itself is an affine variety okay the variety you started with may not be affine it could be projective could be quasi projective okay it could even be quasi affine but then if you want to restrict attention to a point you can find an open neighborhood which is itself isomorphic to an affine variety and then thereafter it reduces to studying a point on an affine variety okay so the advantages that if you are trying to restrict attention to a point or a neighborhood of a point on a variety is just enough to study points on affine varieties okay that is one advantage the other advantage is rather philosophical it is that when you it is it concerns the more general definition of what is called a scheme which you will see in a second course in algebra geometry so the roughly a scheme is something that locally looks that is locally isomorphic to something which is affine okay so the affines they build up what is called a scheme alright so you can so roughly speaking here you know if you take an affine variety you have its coordinate ring okay and then from the coordinate ring how can you get back the affine variety by applying max spec okay so you can say any variety is a is got by topologically at least as topological space it is got by gluing max specs okay alright if you take a variety which is which is covered by finitely many affine varieties okay then it is the same as saying that you are gluing all these affine varieties together to get that big variety okay but then each affine variety is a max spec of its coordinate ring so you can say that this big variety is gotten by gluing the maximums maximal spectra of these various affine coordinate rings okay and more generally the more more general thing is what is called a scheme and that is an object that you get by gluing just not maximal spectra but just prime spectra of rings okay so this is helpful this will be helpful later when you take a second course and as an example but I am saying that the philosophy is already here that affines are the building blocks okay alright so that is a very important thing now you know there is one fact that I need to prove I need to tell you that the only regular functions on a on a projective variety are the constants okay but for that I need I need to understand what is happening at a point okay in a neighborhood of a point and I also need to keep track of information of what is happening on an open set okay so I have to study regular functions in the neighborhood of a point and also regular functions on open sets and the devices that handle these things are respectively called the local ring at a point and the function field or field of meromorphic or rational functions okay which is what I am going to do next okay so so what I am going to do next is focusing attention at a point this focusing attention at a point so well geometrically study functions close to a point and algebraically commutative algebraically this is the same as studying local rings okay so so you know one important function between algebra and analysis is that in analysis you have the limit concept okay so you have a limit and therefore it helps you for example to take small neighborhood about a point and you can take smaller and smaller neighborhoods and using that you can define various things existence of a limit and then you can define continuity differentiability and you can do analysis but in algebra handicap is that you do not have any such notion of limit a priori so it appears that you cannot do for example study smaller and smaller neighborhoods of a point so it appears like that because to study smaller and smaller neighborhoods of a point I need smaller and smaller neighborhoods first but then the neighborhoods if they are open neighborhoods they are Zarisky open neighborhoods and Zarisky open sets are you know irreducible and dense so they are huge sets okay so you cannot think of epsilon neighborhoods as you would think of in usual analysis so it appears that it is not possible to do that kind of analytic study at a point but the answer is wrong that is not true the truth is that you can even though you do not have small enough neighborhoods the information is still available okay and that is that comes by studying so called local rings okay so if you recall a local ring in community algebra is a ring which has a unique maximal ideal okay and so in other words if you take its maximal spectrum it is just a single term okay and every element outside that maximal ideal will be a unit okay and you know conversely any ring with an ideal with the property that every element outside that ideal is a unit has to be a local ring with that ideal as a unique maximal ideal okay so these local rings are what we need to study infinitesimal neighborhoods around a point okay and we do it even though we do not have small neighborhoods Zarisky neighborhoods even though we do not have the notion of limit okay so let me explain so what we will do is so the idea is that in algebraic geometry whenever you want to study something close to a point you have to always think in terms of local rings okay so what I am going to do now is I am going to define the local ring at a point of a variety okay so the local ring OXP is the notation of a point at a point so I maybe I will use okay at a point P in the variety so here of course X is a variety so we are going to define this and how does one define it it is defined in a it is defined in a way in which which extends to defining local ring of functions of any type you can use this to define local rings of continuous functions local rings of differentiable functions local ring of if you want holomorphic functions and so on and so forth so the philosophy is very very general so what you do is that so you so you do the following thing define OXP tilde to be the set of all pairs U, F such that U inside X is open X is a point of U and F is a regular function of U okay so you would you look at pairs like this okay so what I am doing is I am just looking at regular functions defined on open neighborhoods containing oh yeah okay my point was not small x it was capital P so I will change it thank you for pointing that out I have taken my point as capital P right so you are just looking at pairs consisting of regular function defined on an open neighborhood of the point P alright and what we will do with this is that we will introduce an equivalence relation okay so define U, F equivalent to VG if there exist W open in U intersection V such that F recited to W is equal to G recited to W okay so you put this condition you define two such pairs to be equivalent if they define the same function in a smaller neighborhood of P okay of course you know this implies that this is true this implies that F and F recited to U intersection V itself will be equal to G recited to U intersection okay this will happen because you know F and G will now be regular function F recited to U, F recited to U intersection V and G recited to U intersection V will be two regular functions on U intersection V which is our ITU okay and if they are equal on they are equal on if they are equal on nonempty open set then they have to be globally equal I only have to ensure that U intersection V itself is reducible okay and I think that is alright because U intersection V is an open subset of U and U is reducible in therefore U intersection V is also reducible okay so these are two regular functions on U intersection V which coincide on an open subset of U intersection V therefore they coincide everywhere. So well though the equivalence only requires F and G to coincide on a small neighborhood containing of course I want P to be point of W that is very important okay probably I do not even need that I mean if it should not create any problems yeah probably I do not need this I do not need this but anyway I will add it okay yeah so this is an equivalence relation alright and now you define OXP to be so check this is an equivalence relation that is very trivial because obviously it is obviously reflexive symmetric and for transitivity as far as transitivity that is also quite obvious okay. So this is certainly an equivalence relation maybe I have to think for a moment about yeah so the point that when one thinks with respect to the usual topology one can be misled one should remember that in the Zariski topology any two non-empty open sets will intersect that is something that one should not forget. So you cannot have you cannot imagine a picture where you have three successive open disks the first and second intersecting the second and third intersecting but the first and third not intersecting that kind of a picture will never happen any two open sets will intersect any two non-empty open sets will intersect in the Zariski topology okay so that is something that you have to remember. So we take OXP to be the set of equivalence classes which is just OXP tilde modulo is equivalence set of equivalence classes okay and you have this so you know you have this natural quotient map OXP tilde to OXP and this is pi P if you want okay and this is this sense this sense an element u, f here to its equivalence class which I will put which I will signify by putting a square bracket this is the map okay.  So a germ of a regular function is represented by on some neighborhood of the point is represented by a regular function okay and it is also represented by another regular function on another neighborhood of the point if it is also represented by another regular function on another neighborhood then these two functions coincide on the intersection okay. So you know in some sense you must think of these equivalence class as defining a particular class of regular functions at that point so this makes sense as thinking of a function class of functions at a point right and two distinct classes means that they are they correspond to regular functions at that point which will not coincide on any neighborhood of the point okay because if you have two regular functions locally defined at the point and if they coincide in some neighborhood of the point then they will give rise to the same germ. So if you take two distinct germs they will correspond to regular functions which do not coincide in any neighborhood of that point that is what it means okay. So the moral of the story is that if you want to think of regular functions at a point and you want to distinguish them this is the way to do it okay so that is the first point the second point is that this is a local ring okay that is the point and more importantly you can do this whole construction not only in algebraic geometry you can do this in with respect to anything. So for example you could have started I mean you could be working on a topological space and you could just take you could fix a point P on the topological space and you could simply consider paths where you have a neighborhood of the point and you have a function which is continuous real valued or complex valued function okay and then you could add more conditions like you could make that function not just continuous you can make it differentiable if you want you can make it if it is complex valued you can make it holomorphic or analytic and you can put the same definition okay and you will see that again you will always land in a local ring. So this definition this whole process of identifying equivalence classes of functions which agree in a neighborhood of a point automatically produces a local ring so in a nice way you know this is how a local ring is completely an algebraic concept okay it comes out completely out of geometry okay if you restrict the if you want to you know restrict the study of functions good functions at a point you automatically end up with a local ring okay. So if I take my space to be an interval on the real line close interval on the real line and if I take my functions to be real valued continuous functions then I will get a I will get a local ring which corresponds to germs of real valued continuous functions okay or I could have taken the space to be the plane or some n dimensional euclidean space and I could have taken functions f which are defined on neighborhood of a point and which are c infinity which means which are infinity differentiable okay and then I will get the local ring of I will get the local ring of germs of differentiable functions c infinity functions and that is what you get when you look at a manifold okay and on the other hand I could also take an x to be a domain in complex plane or a domain in cn n dimensional complex space okay and I could have taken f to be I could take the functions to be holomorphic functions holomorphic in several variables okay which means which is equivalent to saying holomorphic in each variable separately okay. Then I will end up with again a local ring namely I will get the local ring of germs of holomorphic functions at that point so this method of producing local rings is completely geometric okay so this algebraic concept of local ring comes out through geometry in this way by restricting by trying to look at functions at a point okay. Now the fact I want to say is that this is actually a ring why this is a ring is because you can define addition and multiplication in fact it is not just a ring in our case it is actually a k-algebra it is a k-algebra and so let me write out fact o xp is a local ring is a local k-algebra this is the fact. So first of all how do you make it into a ring how do you define addition multiplication and so on so you define so the operations so you know if you give me u,f and if I want to add it to v,g this is the germ of u,f this is the germ of v,g okay mind you u and v are neighbourhoods of the point p therefore u intersection v makes sense that is also a neighbourhood of the point p. So I will simply define this to be u intersection v and f restricted to u intersection v which is the same as plus g restricted to u intersection so this is how I define addition then I can define multiplication in the same way I simply restrict and multiply on the intersection okay. So you can check that since I am defining these operations on equivalence classes you can check that they are well defined okay so this is my addition this is my multiplication and of course the make this into a ring into a ring which is competitive it is of course a competitive ring because the way the product of functions is competitive okay the function defined by f times g is the same as function defined by g times f okay because functions are defined product functions and some functions are defined point wise and therefore everything is point wise being done in the base field and the base field is of course competitive and so this makes it into a ring which is a competitive ring with unit element with 0 element the 0 element is very simple it is just the class of x,0 so you have the constant functions are always there so you take the function 0 on the whole of x that is a regular function and you take its germ that is a 0 element and unit element is given by x,1 you take the constant function 1 constant functions are of course regular functions always so that is the reason why the constants k the field base field sits in as constant functions in the ring of regular functions on any open set. So every if you take u any open set then o u is of course a k algebra because k sits inside o u as a constant functions okay so this makes it into a competitive ring with this is 0 element and this is unit element and further it is a local ring why because the subset mp m of p so let me write mxp to be the set of all germs u,f such that f vanishes at p okay. So you whenever you take a germ it is defined it is represented by a regular function on a neighborhood and you take all those take the subset which corresponds to functions vanish at that point okay. Then this is a maximal this is an ideal in o xp that is very clear because if a function vanish at a point then a function multiplied by any other function will also vanish at that point and some of two functions vanishing at a point will also vanish at a point so it is an ideal alright and every element which is outside that you take a function you take a germ of germ which corresponds to a function it does not vanish at a point it will have a it will have an inverse because the moment f does not vanish at p then by continuity f will not vanish in a neighborhood of p okay on that neighborhood 1 by f will be a regular function and f into 1 by f will be 1 on that neighborhood therefore every element outside this ideal is going to be unit and that will tell you that this has to be the unique maximal ideal for that local ring and that ring will be local with this unique maximal ideal. that any element outside mxp is of the form p, g with g of p not equal to 0 since g is continuous g does not vanish in an open neighborhood w of p and clearly 1 by g belongs to ow 1 by g germ of this into v, g is equal to x, 1 so every element outside mxp is a unit in that is an invertible element in this ring which implies that ow xp is a local ring with unique maximal ideal mxp okay so this is a local ring at a point of a variety okay and so there are so immediately there are couple of facts about this so the questions that you will ask is we have defined this local ring just using regular functions in a very abstract way can you really write it down commutative algebraically and the answer is yes you can write it down if you are looking at a point on an affine variety okay you can write it down as the localization of the affine coordinate ring at the maximal ideal that corresponds to that point okay and that is one fact the other fact is that the local ring will not change if instead of x you take an open subset which contains the point p inside x so instead of computing the local ring of x at p if I compute the local ring of u at p where u is an open subset of x which contains the point p I will still get the same local ring which means that you know u the local ring depends only on the neighborhood of p on a neighborhood of p it does not depend on the ambient variety okay so the moral of the story is that if you want to really work with the local ring at a point of a variety you know already that that point can be surrounded by an affine open because I have told you that any variety can be covered by finitely many affine opens and therefore the local ring of the variety at that point is the same as the local ring of the open affine sub variety at that point but then when you look at the local ring of an affine variety at a point there is a precise community algebraic expression namely it is the localization of the affine coordinate ring at the maximal ideal corresponding to that point. So this all this helps us to reduce study of local properties to study of local rings of affine coordinate rings okay so that is the importance so with that I will stop now.


So as a school teacher, this is nothing new for me. Everyone decides to sit back there. But we'll go ahead and get started so that we're somewhat on time. Right? I want to. So, welcome to the public meeting for the town plan here with the Planning Commission. 2024 is a year to rewrite a town plan. So we wanted to make sure that we reached out to our neighbors and that we got as much input as we possibly could. I will be the overlord for today if that's a proper term. My name is Jared Weiss. A lot of you probably don't know me. I'm new here. I moved here in August. I bought the yellow farmhouse on East Calus just south of the village, the old farmhouse cafe, the big old yellow house there. So that's where I live. But so we're here to get your input, your thoughts about what we should be including in the town plan. So we have some things here just to tell you about what a town plan is and the Planning Commission. And so I'll let some of the other esteemed members of the Planning Commission take over for just a second. My name is Gary Root. I've lived here for 40, 42 years. And I live on Route 14 in East Calus, about three quarters of a mile south of his house. A town plan. Is this the time for me to talk about a town plan where everybody can introduce themselves? Do a quick introduction and then we'll come back. Okay. I'm Vicki Arthur. I've also only lived here maybe a year and a half. I've got a house on Adamant Road close to Adamant and I have a background with floodplain management. I'm a contractor for the NFIP. I don't know how you feel about them these days, but I mostly work on developing the maps. I have a cartography GIS background. And I saw that they needed help when I guess the flood resiliency section of the town plan. So I volunteered and then eventually I joined the Planning Commission. Hi everybody, I'm Melanie Keene. We're really psyched to have Vicki and other new members, Jared to Planning Commission. I think we have an empty seat actually, just saying. And two empty seats, right, that's our Chair who insists on retirement from Planning Commission. I've been here since 1999 in the Adamant area on Martin Road since 2009 and on Planning Commission for a few years. And it's great work just saying if anybody wants to join us. Thanks for coming everybody. John, do you want to take over? John McCullough on Planning Commission. I'm also an administrator. Been here since 73. Is it? And I'm Jan Olson and I've been the Chair for the last five years I think. And I do appreciate all of you coming here this afternoon.  And with that, I think Gary was going to tell us what the town plan was about. The Planning Commission is primarily responsible for drafting two town documents. One is the zoning that controls how it controls land use and development in the town. And the other is the town plan which is an aspirational document primarily. As an aspirational document, a town plan really is supposed to list and develop what the town really wants for its growth and future. A town plan is an eight year document drafted by the Planning Commission and approved by the Select Board. And it's a valuable plan as an aspirational document. It's valuable just as a statement of who we are. I have an acquaintance that moved to Calis because he and his wife were looking at a number of different towns and so they read the town plan from each of the towns and they moved here because of our town plan. Yeah, you know, an engineer working on each other. Yeah, I've read the town plan. And a town plan is also, along with the zoning bylaws for the town, the town plan is a document that controls certain aspects of development. So the zoning administrator goes almost entirely off the zoning bylaws, but the Development Review Board, which is the second tier of authority in terms of zoning approval, they are experts not just in implementing what's in the zoning bylaws but also in the town plan. And then if you take another step up, if you go outside of the town, as far as the state agencies that have authority over development issues within the town, the town plan is the thing that they look at. Well, they might look at zoning, but they might not, but they always look at the town plan to make decisions on where certain things can happen and where they shouldn't happen and what things the town aspires to and what things the town really doesn't want to have happen in town. So the town plan is a very important document from that standpoint. The town plan is also the primary authority for the aspirations of the town in terms of getting grants. So if we write grants for things, those people are looking at the town plan to see that the will of the town supports the intent of the grant. Yeah, so we are glad you're here. Someone just came a month early. I'm so excited to be here. But the question we have is where do you see callus in eight years, right? So a town plan is in effect for eight years. So you're kind of looking out to the future and trying to figure out where is it that we want to be. And these are some of the things that Derry was talking about, right? It's to put the power back in local decision making. Influence the state when it comes to regulatory proceedings allows us to get grants, right? It allows us to have a plan so that we could say, and with that plan we need these grants, right? And other funds for community development and housing. So that's kind of what the plan is for. And that's why we're here, to get what you guys, what you think, what our neighbors think, what the community thinks about this next eight years. And where we should be in the next eight years. So these are the sections of the town plan. Now, I hope you all did your homework. We are going through each section before us late and taking forever on it. So hopefully that's why there's brownies. Now what we're really going to do is you can see we've put some post-its around it. And we're going to go through here in a second and just give you a quick rundown of the sections. And then we're going to ask you your thoughts on the different sections. So, and we want to give you some visuals. Visuals always help, right? Make you think of some things. So we've got some of the different sections here that we were going to go through. So, let's see. History and demographics. I don't know if you guys want to change our history or demographics. Go ahead and throw that up on one of the other issues if you'd like. But that is, that is the, I think the first part of the town plan, right? Just kind of going through the history. Usually the history and demographics. The last one was 2010 that we did. 2020. And then John, what is it, the American Community Survey? I'm going to draw from that as much as possible. But the 2020 decennial is going to be the world of stuff. Alright, so next we have Land Use Development. If anyone want to talk about that slide real quick. So, Land Use Development. This is interestingly a map of our town of Calis. Kind of centered in the red area is the historic Overland District. Anything, Orange is Village District. Yellow is Rural Residential. Green is Conserved. I can't remember what the pink was. I think that's River Quarter. Oh, the Town of Forest. And probably the pink is Malone's Resource Recreational. There's the other pink of Shoreland. Yeah, the other green on the other side there. This green up here is Malone's Property, which is Resource Recreational. So what happens is this is land development. Do we want to change any villages? Do we want to change any rural residential? What are the things you might want to change? Housing. Anybody know that this is a big issue statewide, nationwide. And so how we want to go forward with housing and how we do it smart and what we need to do when it comes to housing. I can't see it on there, but also like Airbnb's and those short-term rentals and those kind of things. So those issues. Anybody, feel free to jump in. Okay. And you're going to see that some of these topics interrelate with each other. Basically, we have three commercial areas in our town. That's where the three stores are. And so the planning powers that we want us to look, is there any of that availability of growth or development? I personally like the word sustainability, but anyway, they go with economic development. So if you wanted to develop a new commercial center in the town, where would you put it? One of the big issues at the last major rewrite of the town plan for economic development was the development of access to the internet. And we've made tremendous strides in that regard, but there are still areas of town that are where the internet is not easily accessible. Next slide. So agriculture. This could also be economic development, because your agriculture of Pooley Flats and the schoolhouse farm are an economics resource to us. If you decide how we want to do a plan, do you want to have more of these kinds of farms for future sustainability? If there were an economic downturn, how would Calis-5? Could I ask a quick question there? No, you can ask. Pete's Greens, the former Ligares, is a huge farm. Is that a positive impact on our town in terms of the economy? I don't know. I can't answer that because of the way, but you're right, I forgot about that. They no longer call that land Pete's Greens. What do they call it? John SUNY, something or another? I don't know the name of it now. Ligare Farm. What? Ligare Farm. And see, it used to be that they sold the vegetables there. Now it's built, I think, basically for raising carrots. I mean, and things like that, which it goes to Pete's Greens, which, yeah, it diversifies out by the state, but I don't think we as a town get anything for that, other than what he pays in property tax. Calis people do however keep asking about corn and strawberries. No. Flood resilience. I can say that Calis has a great flood plain ordinance. It is up to snuff. I've looked it over. So I think we also, you know, we have river corridors, everything. I'd say like in terms of regulations, we're good, but we all know there's a lot, you know, when it floods, there's a lot of damages to the roads. I know Curtis pond, the dam there is a hot topic that probably could fill up an entire town plan on its own. So, you know, there's all things that I think about in the future. And I think we had thought about putting the emergency management, the new emergency management under the flood resilience possibly. I don't know if it gets to me. Okay, next one. Natural resources and conservation. Very important for our town. How will we preserve the natural resources that we have and working with conservation? Where do we conserve? And there's a natural, I don't want to call it conflict, but there's a natural, where do you develop and conserve? And we have so much land that is there and we really have very little developable land. So it's really an interesting, I don't know, it's about dilemma, I guess, anyway. There we go. Our historic sites. If you've seen the new Memorial Hall, this is an older picture, right? It was the last spring, maybe. I'm trying to think of this. Anyway, there are historic sites, Old West Church. What do you want to do to keep this? And how do you want to keep it? What do we want to do with municipal services? We've already heard that the town office is small. Are you going to rebuild it? What are we going to do with the garage? Is there any way that we get back to using the town hall? I mean, the picture on the left is where the script of Old Town was being played that day. And the group was meeting there and upstairs and you could look out and see. So it would be nice to have certain nice things there. Energy is a big one. So I made a lot of these slides and I had help making them look pretty for my partner, but I will say, don't worry, that is a stock image of solar panels in the Goodwill. I don't know where it is. It's not in Dallas. Probably not even in Vermont.  And actually what we have in the current town plan states that basically our solar has to be within the confines of the house that you're at or the property that you're at. We don't have a lot of big overextended solar fields. What you want to do with electrical vehicles and all of that, that's education for updating your house if you have energy efficiency and how do you want to go about doing that. That's part of all of energy. So transportation is the same thing with municipal services, right? Yeah, same thing. And they kind of tie in. We don't really have public transportation. One time, just sharing, we had an energy, start of an energy committee and we were looking at where to put a parking ride and we couldn't find a place for a parking ride. So the rural transportation RTC bus goes, does it still stop at the post office? I'm not sure if it does. It does. I think they might have changed it. They probably changed it because they only had one trip in and one trip back into Marsville. So if you want to have affordable housing, I mean I'm just putting this out as you just think about it, if you want to have affordable housing, people have to work somewhere and they have to drive. And I think in the last demographics we saw that almost every house or every property owner has at least two cars. So if you build affordable housing and you put up eight houses, are you going to have to put 16 parking lots or spaces for 16 cars? How do you want to not do that? Transportation. I mean these are all the interrelated issues to think about. Kari, you can talk to it. So Kari Bradley, I'm not on the commission but I have volunteered to help out with the education chapter as a longtime school board member. And the district of course is a separate municipality at this point. But we happen to be doing a strategic planning process right now. In the final stages we have some draft goals and action steps. And we're obviously at a crossroads with education. How are we going to maintain a sustainable educational system throughout the community is a big question. And the other thing I mentioned is that also required in this part is early childhood childcare. So that's something that we should talk about as well. Yeah, so there's a lot of things in a community when it comes to recreation arts. The trails and all the different things that we have and that's available to us. So how do we want to continue to promote that? How do we want to continue to sustain it and help it grow in not just recreation but in the arts in all of those fields because we have great things to begin with. So how do we continue to support it? And in what ways does the town really support recreation in the arts? We can actually go all the way back to the one that just lists everything. So this is when we wanted to give you some time to talk to each other, grab some post-it notes, something to write with, and we've put the major sections of the town plan on the wall. We want to hear what you think. So what ideas do you have? What questions even do you have, right? So we wanted to just give you some time to talk to one another, put those things up, and then we'll come back and we'll kind of go through that and we'll talk about it and we'll see what questions you do have. We're here to listen. We're not here to give the ideas. We want to hear your ideas. And so we want to give you some time. We want to take a post-it note and a pencil to go around. What things do you think of? What do you want to see in recreations in arts and transportation? Economic development. What do you want to see? What should we be doing as we write a plan? What kind of things should we be doing? And what you might want to think of, eight years from now, what do you want Calis to look like?  So I can even write it on a sticky note if you want and then put it up on the board for you. That could be fun for me. It's like you're here. It's like you're in the room. So we'll just give you a few minutes. I'm wondering if we know what Calis demographics are. Are we, in fact, how old are we? Are we mostly old people? Yes. Like over 50% over the age of 65. Over 50% over the age of 65. Over 50%. So we've got a lot of big houses for all those old people. And all of us decide to have poor or help all of a sudden at the same time. Is there a place here in town where we might want some kind of co-generational house? Yeah. And if there's something that doesn't look like it fits or feel like it fits me, we can put the other one. We want to hear it. Quick question. When Jan was preparing for this and asking for these supplies, she asked for specifically different color sticky notes. Is there a meaning to the color of the sticky notes? I think we've gone away from that. Just put them where you want. What's going to happen is wherever the most post-it notes go, might tell us what the priority should be. If no one puts anything under transportation, it's not that it's not something we're not going to talk about, but it's not a top huge priority. So this will help us to just visually, we can see it. If there's one or a little lonely post-it note on transportation, we know that it's not necessarily a priority. It's still something we're going to talk about, but not necessarily one of our top priorities. But yeah, we're getting by with it. Couldn't it just be something you wanted questions about? It could be. Did you say about it? It could just be that people haven't thought about it. We're going to go around and we'll go back again. And see if there's questions. You can even put it in as a question. Yeah, if you have a question about one of the sections, go ahead and throw it on a post-it note. If you have a question that you want to remain anonymous, then you can just put it up there. You're also encouraged and you're encouraged to ask questions so that everybody can be stimulated by that. So I tried to inhale the town plan from 2016. Wow. 175 pages. Anyway, I blasted two of the last 75. One statistic that stuck out to me, in contrast to what was just said, it said as of 2010, the median age was 46, but 88% of the population of Calis was under 65. And somebody just said we're 50. I'm pretty sure it's 50. At least 50% over 60. Not much different. When I looked at it, that's why, I don't know, that's what I saw. I'm curious how Vermont is an aging state, but I thought that that was interesting that 88% was under 65 in 2010. Well, how many people in this room have turned 65 since then? You know, 14. That's why I'm so curious. I feel over 50% are over 65 now. That's a fair question. Because demographics too, I mean, these guys all know, we can build a plan, though, that makes it different. I have four kids under the age of 12. Yay! That's what Kat Fair said too. She said something to me.  But that brings a push-pull as well, right? You've got the services and the things needed for an aging population, while at the same time you've got a whole other section. You know, I look at it, I don't want my kids to play basketball. You know what I mean? So they're totally different things. So it does have a push-pull aspect to it. It's sort of along the same lines. I have a question about what this meeting kind of role it plays in, what happens after here when I look around the room and I think about who's represented here in the room, and are we, we are clearly not a great cross-section of the town here. I mean, everyone was invited. But the question is, are we making, are we the only people who are going to weigh in? I know that people will be invited to call you or write to you or whatever, but how aggressive must we be as a whole community across all of our cultural divides to make sure that we're getting what we want? That we're all getting what we want? We have, as the Planning Commission has really four primary sources of guidance for what goes into the town planning. Obviously it's our own opinion and as, you know, we all live here and we all look around and we're, and we particularly are intent on reflecting all of those different things. You know, we have to look at economic development. We can't just say, oh, we want to conserve everything. So that's a big piece of it. What goes on with the town committees is a big piece of, we will solicit information and gather opinions and needs from all of the town commissions and committees. You guys, you know, this is really, you're absolutely right. People who are silent all the time, they don't weigh in with as much authority as people who participate. And this is one very important piece of participation and we also are directed by the state. A lot of the elements in the town plan are things that are mandated. So, you know, that's how we form our guidance. Well, one question I have, too, is that there is, and this is maybe lots of water under the bridge and I certainly wasn't knowing this until last week, but there's grant money for sort of a facilitated process to get more, to recruit people from all parts of our town to come together and weigh in. If that's a very hard process to get people to come to a meeting. It's also a hard process to get the grants. I mean, it's somewhat difficult because you have to, I did ask the World Development and I still have to get a comment back. And because I wanted a real development to do a vote. They do three town meetings and Plainfield had it, Marshall had it. There's some other groups who do facilitating, but we had to get started. If you were to have asked for a grant, then it would have taken time to get the money applied and then to do it and they would have been spending all of this year doing that and we have to have the town plan done by the end of the year. I think in terms of process we've talked about having other town meetings or other just interested party meetings or surveys. Yeah, we've talked about doing surveys. We've talked about going to some of the groups, friends of Calis some of the different things and getting their input. So yeah, I mean, you're right. We need to try and get as much of the input as possible because you're right. Sometimes it's always the same people that will show up to stuff. This is literally the same people. Yeah. The usual suspects. Right. And so we do need to do that and we've had conversations. I think our idea was to have one to see where we were and then to go from there and go, okay, now we need to now we need to do acts. We've debated even back and forth do we have it in the different the different handlets in the different places, right? Do we do them all here? Like we've talked about that but we wanted to have one to Jan's point to get the process started. I knew to it too. Like I know I'm supposed to write parts that I haven't done any of it because I wanted to wait until I hear things. Right? And so I think that's what we're doing but your point is not lost. We do need to make sure that we get and if you wanted to be a survey taker for the planning commission we would love to. I mean, I was actually thinking more like, you know, pie breakfast at the school or spaghetti at food. Food. Food. Free food. Free food and conversation. Yeah, planning commission is going to be working on this for the next six months and we eat twice a month and there's food. There always is food. Yeah, Gary always drinks this thing. And there is, by the way, food over there so stand up and start talking. Yeah, so take some time grab some post-it notes talk to each other and let's see what we can get. We'll give you some time to just think about it and give us your thoughts. I'm distracted by the fact that there are brothers. I'm hoping you're allowed to have another. Stop talking. They're brothers. Yes. Okay. Yes. I just had an audience to talk about it. I looked at this in the state. I thought it was a double-edged but it's a double-edged. Yes. Well, no. Okay. According to the Maritime Community Survey it says 20% 20.1% is 65 years older but I remember when I looked at the 2010 census I joined all the tables for a size of 20 census. Okay. But I will I don't know if I'll be able to join all the tables in this class. Wow. Absolutely. Yeah. No. I thought it was it was like 50% with the negative size. So, oh my God. Oh my God. So, yeah. So, you're right there. Yep. Yeah. You're right. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.  If I were the The group Be there Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I just Yeah. This is my 11th year. Right now the only comment is from Scott about how the Planning Commission formed 50 years ago. 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