to use the project community space for gatherings and meetings in order to promote continued resident involvement in the greater community. The project will likely provide exercise areas as well as an outdoor walking trail for residents to maintain level of activity that promotes health and general well-being.  Let's hold it there. Okay. That's, thank you. Thank you, Ms. Brown. So none of that is what I think of typically as senior assistant living with food, with food preparation, medical staff on site, nursing staff, things like that. This is more age-restricted housing than with some, you know, with some community stuff, but it's more age-restricted housing than senior assisted housing. Is that a fairly? Well, I didn't go through the whole list, but a male dinner would be provided also. So you do a food service? There would be a food service. All right. Just one meal a day, you're saying? I think, well, no, but I'm trying to get, and I'm trying to understand the extent because my thinking is if you have, if you've got food service one meal a day, it's a different amount of staff coming in, different amount of food being delivered. You know, going back, that's where I'm going is not, you know, like what you're serving for meals. But what I'm thinking is, you know, do you have staff doing food deliveries that are, you know, for 150 people, three meals a day, seven days a week, is a lot different. Yes. That's what I'm trying to understand is what you're, how you're envisioning this. So it's called independent living with services. And the services do include one meal. And I believe that he said that there are things like, you know, some kind of a buffet breakfast could be available. Also, people can ask if they need more, more service, they can, they can get it, but that everybody will have a kitchen at it, you know, so that if they want to cook, they can. And, you know, I think, as I said, this is something where we haven't gotten very far into that. We're still working with the ZBA about what's possible. But if we keep moving along, we'll be defining these things much more clearly and doing a study that will give you exact details of what this particular community needs and would like to support. Thank you. Can I, following up on that, for people moving in, do you envision this is going to be more senior luxury where there would have to be a buy-in, like on assisted living things, or is this going to be strictly more affordable middle class affordable apartment, or are these going to be high-end rentals? I'm going back to 40B. I don't think that there's any sense that this is going to be high end, but it's going to be a pleasant place, you know. Talking in terms of cost, not in terms of amenities. That I can't say. I don't know, I don't know what, you know, it's not going to be high-end, but it will be, you know, there's competition in the neighborhood, and sunrises there, and nevel manners in the area, and so it will have to be working within the same kind of market range, I believe. Thank you, Ms. Brown. Anything further? Yep. Will Arlington residents and neighbors get priority in terms of any kind of ability to move into this? In terms of the affordable units, or in general? In terms of the affordable units, yeah. Mr. Havity, can I ask you to address that point? Sorry, Mr. Chairman, what was that again? So the question was raised about the affordable units and whether they can be, or there are certain set-asides for Arlington residents. So the town can have up to 70% local restriction, but that's a not-to-exceed number that doesn't mean you're guaranteed to be allowed to have that level of a local preference, and it's something that has to be approved by the subsidizing agency. So typically what I'll do is I'll include a provision in a decision that'll state that the local preference shall be up to the maximum allowable 70% subject to the OK of the subsidizing agency. The subsidizing agency is going to require the town to provide information that supports the need for the local preference, and I'm sure that Arlington will have substantial amount of information that will help to support that. Usually if you have a housing authority, it's got a waiting list of people that are looking for apartments or people from the houses or condominium units or whatever it may be. That's usually the sort of information that the subsidizing agency would be looking for, and presuming that you're able to satisfy subsidizing agency that there is a legitimate need for that level of local preference, then we'll be able to get to 70%. Mr. Chairman? Thank you. Mr. Hanlon? I would like to at least have stated, I think I did last time too for the record, not every member of this board is excited about local preference. Local preference in a town with a 3% black population has an obvious problem with it, and I understand that the purpose of the 70% maximum is to address that, but I'm not entirely confident that it does do that. Some other communities like Brookline have reduced that percentage, so I just encourage us not to take it as a given that we would either ask for any of it, or that we would ask for all of the amount that we might be entitled to if the agency where the subsidizing agency were to agree. So all I can say is that at least as of right now, for this board member at least, it's an issue, and I wouldn't tonight want to give any assurances that that's what would happen. And Mr. Chairman, the concerns raised by board member Hanlon are very legitimate. They are something that the board should take into consideration. Okay, thank you. Ms. Brown, is there anything further? Last question. On the affordable housing to the ownership, is it going to be a one-time affordable thing, or will they have an affordable deed going forward so that the next person who's buying that unit would also be able to afford it? Mr. Heverty? Mr. Chairman, there'll be an affordable housing restriction that will be placed on the unit, and they will be de-restricted as affordable in perpetuity. Great, thank you. Anything further, Ms. Brown? No, thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Hakim? Yep, hi. I'm GM Hakim, 10 Edith Street. I'm wondering, seeing that the building's footprint extends into the aura, the buffer area, what is preventing the applicant from reducing the footprint of the building so as not to infringe upon that area? Ms. Heverty, is that a question? Do you have someone to ask that question? Well, I think that the design that's been provided, there's been a lot of work that's been put into this, and we're really talking the exterior 15 feet of a small portion of the aura, and as John had referenced, the impact has been around on the plan since November of 2020. We're not increasing that amount, so if there's any confusion, I'm just sort of going to understand on the board that there's no increase into the amount of structure within the aura, and as I referenced previously, there are a number of projects in the town that have a substantially greater portion of the building within the aura. This is on the grand scheme of things, it's pretty minor, and I'm not trying to minimize the town's decision to make the aura a resource area under its local bylaw, but just to know that there is flexibility, and in terms of the design of the building itself, I'm not going to profess to speak to that as eloquently as probably John or Scott or Ken, the architect and the engineers on it. Can I just ask, the idea that the 15 feet that you mentioned, Ms. Kiefer, is insignificant in the grand scheme of things? I could just also say that it's just as insignificant to remove that 15 feet. Like logically, that would be basically the same argument, so just the design of the building, is there a reason like the profit basis or like the floor plan, or is there some reason why that the building had to be planned in that area if it was just as easy or insignificant that it could have been left out? Kiefer, I don't know who, you know, in doing the site layout would be other, I don't know if that's a question from Ms. Rahashen or not in terms of the site layout staying beyond that line. This is John. I'll start, but I think, you know, maybe Scott and or Art can chime in from, you know, the building is designed as, you know, if you recall back when Scott had the floor plans up, it's a, you know, a center corridor down, you know, the middle of kind of each of the wings of the building with, you know, residential units on either side of that corridor. So kind of a double-loaded corridor, if you will. You know, it's not easy to just kind of chop out that 15 feet, you know, then you'd end up really losing the units on that south side. It becomes inefficient. This is where I think Scott and Art could, you know, chime in. Very inefficient for construction, taking that down to the lower level in the garage, the basement level. Again, it's a 62-foot wide bay, which allows you to have head-in parking spaces and a 24-foot dry vial. It really, trying to just cut that area out does have a significant, you know, constructability and efficiency of construction component into it. So maybe Art or Scott Blasek would like to weigh in on that. Scott? Go ahead, Scott. Okay. I was gonna just say, I think John did a great job kind of outlining the main issues there. So the, I agree, the floor plan, you know, would become somewhat inefficient. I think the other thing that, you know, maybe we could have looked at was pushing the whole building closer to Dorothy Road, but we really wanted, it was very important to us, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, Art too, and John, to keep the building as far back from Dorothy Road as possible. So balancing those two factors, I think what we decided was to favor the distance of the building from Dorothy Road, given that perhaps, you know, just going into the ore, that small distance seemed to have been discussed, you know, previously and was, as John had outlined earlier, was always a part of the multifamily proposal. So that's kind of how in this scheme we came up with holding that line. That's my take on it. Yeah, that makes sense. And definitely, I think the town out there, the duplex is shielding that building from the road is the right choice. So just to be clear, the loss of those units, if the building were to be moved out of the, or just to carve those units out of the backside of the building, would that make the construction not profitable for the applicant? Well, how does that, my two cents to John and Scott, they're a great job of describing this, but to come back to the basics of laying out a building of this type, you have a double load of corridor. And as I think Scott said, that's 62 feet. Parking bands are about the same, and they actually fortunately fit together. So you can have parking below a standard building layout. And I think what you're suggesting is maybe you could take out one side of the parking or one side of the corridor, and that couldn't be done, not to make any kind of financially viable building. You'd have kind of half a building. And if you push it the other way, of course, you try to keep your corridors and the building layouts and your parking layouts, then you push toward Northy Road. And that means that you don't have room for the duplex townhouses, which of course was our whole point of was actually taking off a lot of the northern parts of the building to put in the townhouses. I'd like to add that we appreciate that how important it is to recognize the 100-foot buffer zone that Arlington has. And we've tried very hard to do that. It is not unusual for the there's a really on the bigger scheme of things. It's a sliver of land that is has been carved off. And as this keeper has said earlier in this hearing, a recent project had considerably more area carved off. And it is our intention to do a lot of landscape restoration, woodland restoration, over years in this project. And it seems like in the larger scheme of things, the 200 and some square feet that are involved is really not a very significant incursion. And maybe Ms. Kiefer could repeat her investigation as to the extent to which it's been recently a similar but I think we get the understanding of it. Okay. Yeah. All right. Thank you for your answer to the question. I understand the points made. Some of them are logical. I don't think that well another project did it so we can do it too is good justification. Some of the other reasons even do seem more justified. Not that one. But I appreciate your detailed answer. Anything further? No, sir. All right. Thank you. Hello. Shona Gibson 107 Mary Street. I'm at the end of Mary Street by little John. I wanted to share with the ZBA my perspective as a nurse practitioner specializing in care of the elderly for Cambridge Health Alliance. I spend a lot of my week going in and out of assisted livings and independent living buildings. So I'm very familiar with the folks who live in these buildings. I wanted to share my perspective that most people are not moving into these types of buildings unless they have they're they're becoming frail in some way. I don't see many people moving in at the younger end of the age range the sort of closer to 60. Most folks I see are moving in kind of over the age of 75 or if they're younger it's because they have some sort of health condition. That's very commonly a trigger for people to move housing. So I wanted to maybe just point out to people that it's quite possible that the population of this building is quite frail if not immediately upon the building opening at least within the first few years of it being opening that's just a sort of a typical scenario. And so the reason I point that out is that people naturally as they age often need more services. I've heard some of the services listed. I can tell you from my experience of close to 20 years working in these types of buildings that folks will require three meals a day being provided. Very infrequently do people actually use the cooking facilities in their buildings in their apartments. Some do most don't some end up having their appliances in their kitchenettes actually closed off for safety reasons that's not uncommon. Many people require a lot of assistance with personal hygiene bathing etc a lot of people require assistance with laundry usually there has to be common laundry areas people have to have aid services coming in. Some of these services I've heard will be provided by the building. I know in the independent building sort of that is called independent living with services that is I find to be a little bit of a notional difference between assisted living and independent living. I think it often is is intended to attract a different type of clientele but people kind of age in place and end up needing more services than the building might provide then those services end up being brought in by vendors. I just want to point out that that it does create a constant flow of traffic perhaps not high volume traffic but a constant flow of traffic all day long. Home health aides people getting rides to and from doctors appointments or others appointments certainly family members and lastly I think the last thing I would just mention is also quite a significant volume of emergency service visits. People fall people have medical emergencies for one reason or another emergency services are called. They often arrive at the building with blue lights flashing the police come first or the fire comes first eventually the ambulance gets there and the situation gets taken care of. I just want to point out that this happens either day or night. We're tucked in a little corner here with no direct access onto a major major street so all these all these cars and fans and emergency service vehicles obviously will be coming through the neighborhood. I think that's just another reason to reconsider whether a building of this size and scope should be placed in this location. Thanks very much. Thank you appreciate that. There are three names on the on the list and all of them have spoken before so I'm just trying to figure out if you're have a second comment which I would ask you to limit your time on or if you just left your hand up by accident. So I will start with with Mr. Ide. Yes thank you Mr. Chairman. I have a just a quick follow-up. So I mentioned the WB67 and how that trailer would get around from Lake to Little John and it was mentioned that that has been posted. Could you please tell me where I would find that what the name of the document is and what date it was posted with please. Great question. Mr. Thornton can you go ahead and forward that that comparison to me. I can't recall if it was specifically something that you had submitted to be posted or if it was just something you displayed during a meeting. Yeah that that is a great question. I will I will look for that document. I believe we sent it to the town as a response to Betas comments. I'm just not sure which which set of comments that was included in but I will I will look for that and send that to you. Okay. Did we discuss that at the at the previous hearing? Wasn't the previous one it was probably maybe the one before that or or even two before that? Okay. The reason I brought up is my recollection was at the last hearing on May 27. It was mentioned that I think it was still an ovation that so thank you very much. Thank you. It may be it may be attached to to the agenda for May 1st. I'm just trying to recall at the top of my head. Mr. Chairman. Mr. Hanlon. As long as Mr. Ida is up he had mentioned in going through a list of of issues that he was laying out a question about how it's consistent to say that this is really just a lake and the groundwater doesn't move but at the same time everybody knows there's lots of flooding that is going on and the water is coming from somewhere and I imagine that there are probably a lot of people who have that question and I wonder if as long as we're here somebody could Mr. Donovan or Mr. Hessian or whoever could explain why it is that that makes sense. Mr. Donovan. Sure you know it's very it's hard for me to comment on people's individual houses and what might be happening there but you know a lot of this from my experience is it's rainwater it's the depth of people's basements and it's the design of the slab and the material underlying the slab in these basements and if they have a sump set up how that is set up how deep it is how well it's connected to drainage materials underneath the slab and around the building I've been doing this for 40 years I've looked at a lot of people's you know basement drainage issues and all of these factors come into it and one of the most common ones is rainwater coming down next to people's houses that seems to be one of the most influential factors yes groundwater can be a factor but rainwater when you see water coming into your basement pretty soon after a storm more than likely it's a result of rainwater than groundwater when water falls on the ground it takes some time before it reaches the groundwater table it's not immediate it's not even the next day it may be a week later before it actually gets to the groundwater table and affects raising the groundwater table as a result of rainfall so I can't tell you why these people are having particular issues at their houses but we've the way we've designed these particular buildings is to be above the groundwater table and to be waterproofed such that water isn't coming into these buildings Mr. Chairman I wonder if Mr. Heshen has also been living with this issue now for about a year and I wonder if he has anything to add to that Mr. Heshen I mean with with respect to that specific question Mr. Hammond I think Mr. Donovan you know he answered it and just as an anecdotal story my house where I live I am my basement is basically right at groundwater just above the slab it's just above because I did an addition and I have a some pump pit that I never have to use but I can see the water but I lately have been having water come into my basement after heavy rains because I had a downspout problem and the water was discharging right at close to my foundation and migrating down and then into and at that you know at that place where the the foundation wall and the foundation and the basement slab join as you know limited but I think Mr. Donovan you know his he said it much more eloquently than I have been able to do over like you said over the past year that I've been living this thank you if I may Mr. Chairman I think right one of the comments that has been made by neighbors and I live far further away I don't see it as much as they do but beyond rainwater getting into people's basements from their downspouts or what have you the street actually floods you know so that there is water that comes up and lays on top of the space on the side of Dorothy Road so I don't want to get into it too far but thank you Mr. Hamlin for bringing that up it's a great question I really appreciate you digging into it thank you thank you um uh Miss Keith Lucas I wasn't sure if you had a second comment or if your hand was just up thank you Chairman Klein I do have a second comment if I may uh Heather Keith Lucas of 10 Mott Street Mr. I had previously brought up the concern about maintenance on the property I'd also like to address the safety on the property the town of Arlington and surrounding towns has spent significant resources uh both financial personnel volunteer hours from the community to support the homeless people who reside on the applicant's property this is a complex public health problem it's a community problem that requires sensitive and thoughtful humane approach and the applicant has made a financial proposal that ties converting a portion of their property to conservation while also using the 40B to build a financially lucrative business for their client converting a portion of the land to conservation and building on the remainder does not address the needs of the people who are homeless that have lived here for so long on the applicant's property and there is heroin use there have been fires there have been explosions residents for a long time have expressed a growing concern regarding a situation where someone would get hurt and I want to make sure the applicant is aware of the recent alleged assault that was made on our own Officer Kniff last week Officer Kniff allegedly had a weapon drawn upon him and due to his excellent training he was able to de-escalate this situation commendable police work later in that situation multiple rifles were found during a search of the area so I want to make sure the again the applicant is aware of these ongoing and escalating safety concerns from Mr. Havardy's prior comments I understand that contingencies such as maintenance and I imagine and hope that would also expand to safety contingencies are dependent upon the applicant not appealing such conditions irrespective of whether the ZBA approves the build in in any particular way I implore the applicant to engage in ensuring the safety and security of the neighborhood and residents to to truly engage in good faith discussions about the safety and maintenance and to consider have the ZBA consider conditions in collaboration with the applicant to reasonably address the safety of the neighborhood both current residents that include those people who are homeless and living on the applicant's property as well as our potential future neighbors as well thank you Mr. Chairman Klein thank you Mr. Moore I wasn't sure if you had an additional comment or your hand was just still up I'm Mr. Chairman I'm sorry I don't know how to on the telephone put my hand down so my bad thank you no no it's I admit I haven't the faintest idea how you would do it either so well let me try it I've gone ahead and done it for you um uh oh no I'm sorry I got never mind I gotta thank you uh Mr. Tinoleo hi yes uh Mr. Chairman can you hear me I can answer yes I'm Diego Janolio I live at 85 Dorothy Road so Dorothy Road close to the uh little john intersection facing the uh area where the project is um supposedly built yeah so I heard the conversation about the water table and the sun pumps so yeah I just wanted to share my experience about my basement the floor of my basement it's less than four feet below Dorothy Road and so there's something I experienced when it rains uh it doesn't so it doesn't necessarily relate to the uh rain but even a few days later the sun pumps keep working non-stop so I think this is speaks to the underground water table that we were mentioning before so just hearing my experience that's what happens I live uphill from this project and again my basement is less than four feet and I do experience uh the sun pumps working for days on a roll not necessarily right after it rains but you know it keeps going for several days so I just want to make sure that my experience is shared as a perspective of this project thank you thank you let me just ask the applicant to keep that in mind as well um so at this point uh we have run through all the people with raised hands so I'm going to go ahead and close the public comment period for this evening um we'll thank everyone for for all their input and especially for for being patient while we've made our way through the list um so at this stage um here we have a a fair number of points that were raised um we certainly have a lot of a lot of questions that have been asked um and we're looking for clarification on a fair number of points um I think one of the third of the most critical questions that was asked um is really sort of because we've had multiple iterations of the project we've had multiple um additions and deletions and modifications um it is there are some aspects of the project that's a little unclear as to exactly what is being proposed and what is being requested um of the board and so I think um the it would be certainly very helpful to the board and to the you know to the town in general we could sort of have a a revision to the plans that is a little bit more sort of definitive as to exactly what is being proposed and to link that with um specifically with with a a proposed set of conditions so we can sort of better evaluate what exactly is before us at this stage um and then that's something that we can ask to have uh yeah we can ask beta to take a look at the current proposal that came in I have forwarded a copy or forwarded a request to review the documentations both to the fire chief and to the director of health and human services to review and so I'm I'm waiting they've only had a couple days to look at it so I'm waiting for a comment back from them which I'm hoping can address some of these questions about emergency response and about sort of scope of services and how that how that would impact the town um and then we had touched briefly earlier about um sort of the disposition of the lowland areas so the the portion of the site where the building would be constructed is sort of the high ground um at the northern end of the of the the large the much larger site and the the disposition of that remaining portion um there is an ongoing effort between the town and the board and the the applicant to come up with um an agreement that um that can be put forward and so that would be tied to conditions on the um on the project itself and then going back to conditions um you know the obviously the draft decision that we had had started on earlier we sort of need to to scrub and start again in a lot of ways um so there is a fair amount of work that needs to happen both from from the applicant side and from the board side from the town as well so the at the moment the way that you know we have until currently we're scheduled to close the hearing before honor before June 25th um which is feeling awesome soon at this point um and so I would like to briefly ask members of the board to where where they stand at the moment in terms of um you know what how do they feel about the level of information we have so far what are their outstanding questions and you know what sort of timeframe do we need in order to be able to you know properly address these questions and concerns chairman mr handlin um I think that we need to we need to slow down a bit um I I understand we've so far we've basically extended the hearings meeting by meeting with the extension of the closing date which always being sometimes as little as the day after when we have the hearing but at this point I think that we are really close the general the general outline of what will be the proposal is now before us um today there were a bunch of questions that came up beta has looked at but it has not really had an opportunity to give us advice as to what the issues we should be concerned about are with respect to both wetlands and flooding and that sort of thing and also with respect to traffic so we have a very general idea but we're now at the point where we need to make a decision we need to think about coming to conditions and so forth and we really can't I mean I can sit here and and sort of repeat the things that came through my head during the course of today's hearing but that's really doesn't substitute for having our peer review engineers looking at all of this and telling us what the questions are and what possible answers are and getting clarification and so forth so I don't think we're at square one actually I think that we're very far along and we have a good framework that we have to work with but I think that we need to proceed in a methodical way starting with a restated application that enables us to say well this is what the proposal is this is what's in it this is what isn't in it and this is what might be in it depending upon further discussions between the board and the applicant I also think that it would be helpful going forward when we get to the point where we can actually are getting to conditions in sort of our our second effort to to put together a draft decision one of the problems that we had before was that we were doing this kind of in real time with a deadline looming over our heads and the result of that was that the applicant never really got to see more I mean they were just seeing work in progress bits and pieces of things and the conditions themselves didn't really have the input of the applicant on them and I would like to make sure that when we get into the point where we're actually having conditions that we understand where there's a disagreement on the part of the applicant and we can get those things resolved before the hearing closes because once the hearing closes and we're down to just writing the decision we can only guess about what the applicant's reaction is and we're not in a position of accommodating what might be completely reasonable concerns now obviously there may turn out that what we approve if we approve anything is going to be either in the applicant's view uneconomic or they may appeal for some other reason but surely we don't want to do it because we did something that we thought was okay that turned out not to be okay and that the everything is then comes unstuck because we didn't have enough of a conversation so I think that we need to carefully think about how much time we really need how much time beta needs to get back to us how much time the conservation commission needs to raise the issues that came up today and anything else that that beta may come up with and then to really have a consultation with the applicant to figure out what kinds of things we should can fit into this and what can't and that also is a time period that may allow us to make some progress on figuring out what to do with the lowland parcel and and how that should be dealt with both in terms of how it's disposed which we've talked about but also in terms of some of the other issues that that relate to it both the quality of what's what's there and dealing with with the other situations that require a lot of sensitivity we're not going to solve all those things and other agencies of the town government are going to have to be involved and so it's not entirely up to us but we need to make we need to allow ourselves to make progress otherwise I'm afraid that by running lap by lap rather than running the whole race we're going we're just we're really sort of not coming together as quickly as we otherwise could thank you Sam I appreciate that Mr. Chairman Mr. DuPont so I um I think that there's been a good deal of effort made at trying to respond to the concerns that have been expressed by the neighbors and by the town at large with respect to the type of building and I think that the engineering questions that have been raised I feel like those have been fairly well addressed my concern is more that I feel that I'm operating in the dark in terms of what the proposal actually is and I'm a bit disconcerted at the lack of specificity and I understand that when we came to this where it was being introduced as independent living and assisted living together and I believe it was Ms. Keeper who rightfully so said well you know what were your thoughts addressing the board what were the thoughts and feelings that the board might have with regard to this type of a proposal and I think that our response was generally speaking fairly positive but as I sit here tonight and it's been moved from the assisted and independent living combination to the independent living with services I paid very strict attention to what Ms. Gibson had to say because of her experience dealing with elderly populations and I realize that you know this is as I think she indicated you start out with a certain population in a certain condition and then that can change pretty quickly over time and and I think that you know when the question was put to Ms. Noise she made a reference and said he says and I believe she was referring to an expert that they have employed but what I am looking for is some much greater detail much greater specificity and a commitment to a specific plan which can tell us more about well how many people do you envision are going to be employed there providing meals and how many deliveries do you expect to have per day and how many people as they move sort of on that spectrum from being independent to more like needing assisted help how many people do you anticipate are going to be coming in to deal with those issues because I think what Ms. Gibson was describing is that you have a population which has in fact moved from independent to assisted living but not with the help of the necessarily with the help of the owners of the property because they're sort of doing it on their own so I really have very little feel for what it is that's being proposed and I think the suggestion is made by the applicant that we're the ones who should be supplying them with more direction as to what it is that we want to see them do and I look at it conversely I want to see them come to us and say you know here's what our expert says this is what we can expect to happen to a population of people between 80 and 90 here's where we think that you know they're going to cross over the boundary from independent to assisted living and as a result this is what we expect to see in terms of the numbers of people who are going to have to show up and attend to these people over time I mean that's the information I want to have because that impacts all of these suppositions that are being made about whether parking is adequate how many people there are going to be coming and going on a daily basis and the point was also made about the numbers of trips of emergency vehicles that are going to be coming into this area potentially at all hours of the day and night so I would like to know in much more detail and with some greater level of commitment what that is supposed to look like based upon the representations of the expert who they believe you know that has a great deal of information to share which raises another point which is how do we then take information like that and how do we assess that information because at this point we haven't had an opportunity to have someone who is familiar with that type of you know project and that type of a population which begs the question about should we have our own expert looking at the sorts of findings that I'm requesting be shared with us by the applicant. Thank you. Mr. Chairman can I speak to that issue because I think I have something that could be helpful. Please Mr. Clifford. The person we've referred to tonight is our consultant or whatever we have we know we know the organization very well and we know the person very well and I went back and looked at some of my notes and he knows how many trucks arrive for bread, for fish, for here's a lot of information that I'd like to bring you into this because I think you're making a very good point I really appreciate your point Mr. Devon and I think that you know the ball is in our court to speak to this because it is an issue I mean the people there are sort of predictable but it's all the services that come the trucks the food the medical services and this group it's a company it's a fairly large company and they manage or own a number of facilities that you all know of in the area so he has facts and figures about all these things and so this is this does not need to be a mystery and I think I certainly wouldn't you know take away your your thought to hire your own person but I think you need to see how credible this person and this organization's information really is because they manage so many highly respected facilities of this type in the area and we've worked with them over a period of 20 years we've owned as developers a facility with them for a number of years and so this is this could be I think really speaks to the issues you just brought up which I think are are quite legitimate thank you I think that would be quite helpful Mr. Chairman can I just want the other thing that I that just to add to Mr. DuPont's list is as I listened to Ms. Gibson and began thinking about what happens when people who start at roughly my age and get older and failure and the underlying structure here is basically that a basic level of service is one meal a day and and your rent is covered essentially within the scope of the of of your buying the apartment but at least the business model that's been described means that increasingly services that people may require as necessities were at least a very valuable very valuable things student get beyond doing the laundry into lots of other things as well and I would like to understand better the sort of the social position of the people who occupy the affordable units once so much of the cost of maintaining themselves in this or maintaining oneself in a facility of this kind is coming from what you pay over and above your rent which by hypothesis many of these people would be hard put to afford and you get the emergence of a potential discrimination or not discrimination but just a sense of difference where the policy is supposed to be that people sort of blend right in that that they're not isolated as the affordable people but the ones who don't have aids may turn out to be the the ones occupying the affordable apartments and I don't have a pre I don't really know enough about how this all works but and I would love to have to have the opportunity to discuss this with with someone but it is giving me some pause that that there's something about the underlying supposition of 40 b projects that seems to be slightly askew in the proposal and I would like to understand a lot more about that thank you Jim for the question from the board at this point okay so I guess that there's a couple different questions in front of the board at the moment so one there was very specifically obviously we have to continue hearing that's Mr. Handlin's earlier point you know we can we can continue for two weeks but then we are basically a day shy of the the closing period so I guess and you know are we I guess a question for his keeper to discuss with her with her client is you know what sort of a time frame do we do we really you know what sort of time frame really makes sense in order to you know be able to fully that that these questions to be able to come to a much better sense of what what exactly the request is of the board and you know enable the board to to reach a decision that where the board is comfortable knowing um both what the what the applicant's opinion is of the of a potential decision and knowing that the you know the board having a set of confidence into what the outcome will be with the uh what once the decision has been rendered as to whether you know what the you know that that what we're agreeing to is what what is actually before us on the table um if we're if we are um going to be agreeing with an application um and so at this point yeah I think we would be I don't know if we can you know specifically requested this you know at this evening I don't know if you guys would even have a sense as to what sort of a time frame would be appropriate not for the board necessarily has a sense as to what sort of time frame would be appropriate um but I think what I would propose this evening is if you know obviously we would request a continuance and then at that next hearing I think we would one of the first topics we want to discuss would be you know what is a realistic time frame to to fully vet you know all the outstanding questions on this on this new proposal um so that we can come to you know come to a more final agreement um without as you know as Mr. Hanlon said you know sort of constantly kicking the kicking the can slightly down the road Mr. Chairman just as one additional thing if if we wanted to one possibility might and again this is depends upon it's up to Ms. Kiefer and and Gwen and the applicant um but it has been raised to talk to the consultant uh that that art did if that is doable in a hearing that has basically two per person two purposes one is to deal with those issues and just to have that out and if that can be done in two weeks and the second purpose is to agree on a timeline um that might provide a way of moving things along and giving us giving ourselves the opportunity to proceed in a more deliberate fashion does that sound amenable to to Ms. Kiefer and to pardon Gwen well the one uh Stephanie the uh I think what you're proposing uh is that we we somehow bring the information that are that our consultant would have and bring him bring him in yeah so we need to talk to him so I I think what we have to do before he's at a time frame he's a very busy fellow because he's uh so let us talk to him yeah I'm you know 100 with you on this and uh see what we can do to get him to come forward and uh you know I've grilled him on a lot of this stuff you know how many trips and who brings the fish and that kind of stuff I know he knows all this stuff but I think you want to know it so you know we didn't bring that tonight yeah uh so uh let's see if we can get in here because I think it's important um I mean why don't you I don't know how you handle that but we can't guarantee anything until we talk to you know our mysterious fellow that we haven't had but well I think we can certainly um continue you know continue to joy date certain and then determine specifically what the the topic will be as we get closer to that date um but obviously knowing that you know this is what we would prefer to be able to discuss because this I think we'll get at a lot of the questions that are still out there in regards to parking and traffic and you know use of the site in the and those kinds of issues um so the the two dates that I had sort of in mind um so the board does have uh hearing coming this afternoon Tuesday um but we could either look at either Tuesday June 22nd or Thursday June 24th um you know the the board typically meets on Tuesdays but we have for this hearing we have slowly shifted to meeting on Thursdays and I don't know if Tuesdays or Thursdays are better for um for anyone where are the ones I've seen in your phone there's a pencil in the 27th Mr Chairman I'm not available either the 22nd or the 24th ah okay I am available on the 29th if you want to do a second I believe we have so we have two other hearings on for the 29th as well Mr Chairman if if it turns out that the hearing I mean it's it's 1130 and we've we've really dealt with practically everything tonight if we have a delimited topic which might actually just be timing if nothing falls together uh but if we had a hearing just on the issue of of how you what and what a uh independent living with services means and and and that sort of thing we might be able and we hold everything including the comments from the public to that subject matter we might be able to do that in in an hour hour and a half and still be able to handle the cases we already have for that night okay um if that's the case um would it make sense do you think Mr Hanlon to to start the hearing at 630 with this topic and then move on to our the other two hearings thereafter well it might enable us to go to bed earlier certainly and I I'm fairly I'm fairly certain um and Rick you can develop really I think you probably know this that the hearing notices have gone out for the June 29th hearing correct I have Mr Chairman okay for 730 730 okay there would be no issue there if we were to put this in for 630 on the same evening no we can do that I believe one of the cases on the 29th might take some time uh the other one is not so can time consuming should be straightforward okay because June we're going to June 20 we'll see if we can give us would those be amenable with 630 with 6 30 p.m on the 29th of June yeah we we we can we can work with our schedule we have we if that's the the best time uh what we can I think it's really an issue of uh our the person that we'd like to bring in so absolutely so I we will do our best to to do that and then try to do that in the next couple days okay I appreciate that okay so then um Mr Chairman I think one thing that the board needs to take into consideration is the potential that the ability to hold these remote hearings will no longer be in place very good point the legislature is working on an extension authority to to conduct the remote hearings but I am not heard that anything has been passed just yet and otherwise I think uh June 15 marks the end of the emergency order yeah I think the we've we've been advised since the 15th is the last date we can hold a remote hearing presuming it's not extended there's no extension correct but I think at minimum you need to when you do your continuance continue to town hall that may very well be true there's a possibility that it may also be removed right and the the advice from council has been to essentially sort of you know to indicate that you know if the that it will be held on zoom unless that is no longer an option in which case will be held at town hall and to refer to the town website for additional information um so if we were to continue to the to June 29 that would be after the close of the hearing on the 25th so we would need to push that out now um how far should we push that Mr Chairman I think that the so to the purpose of what we're doing right now is to give us our time give us a time I mean I would be willing to kick the can down the road on this one because the main point it's sort of like a temporary injunction you're trying to just basically give yourself time to actually work out what the real final date is after you've learned more about what the scope of the project is so I I mean I'd love to hear what Ms. Kiefer has to to say about where to do that but I don't think that we necessarily have to to know that tonight I think that what we need is to know on the 29th if that's where we're going what we think the schedule is that brings this to a conclusion so um thank you Mr. Hanlon I think that I mean there's been a a number of points that were raised this evening that we're very happy to um your clarification on our further address um there was a comment I think I think Mr. Hanlon you may have said something about um the applicant to submit a reapplication I just want to clarify that there was something you said along that line that I was like no it wouldn't be a reapplication um but and I don't think that that's what you meant um no I don't recall that I that I said that but I think that that the chairman is the chairman in starting it sort of was looking for some sort of a restatement I think is maybe the words that he meant so that we knew exactly what so we knew what the application is as of now given that there have been so many moving parts over time I think that was the idea yeah and I think that's a very fair point we're very happy to um um provide you know what what the proposal is what it is not in case there's um concerns um of prior um project proposals and how they play with this um and and to do that and to provide updates um with respect to the specific questions that were asked for this evening and then the other component obviously is you you want to have a little bit more detail um as to what is seen living with services what does that entail and and things like that and um Art and Glen are very much in favor of providing that for you um and and another piece of this is obviously um the the timing of when beta has an opportunity to review the updated traffic and that because I think that um everybody here the board the applicant the community um we've been at the steering process for a very long time and at some point we need to just say let's let's make sure we wrapped up all of the real loose ends and and you know at some point you're not going to have 100 precision on every single thing but it's going to be subject to a condition that you know that something is further provided within the final plan that are consistent with whatever so um I'm giving you somewhat of a long answer to your short question I apologize for that but my suggestion would be that um with somewhat similar with your you know short term kick the can if we are back before the board in the 29 um with the with the intention of um kind of flushing out better detail for the board um the limited scoping what is um what are the various components of what does senior living with services need um but I think it would also be helpful if we could build into that um a time when we're going to get responses from beta because I think that responding to comments that were received this evening together with the kind of peer review comments um we if we could do that in one fell swoop we would it would help you know in addition to um kind of restating what things are but then to be able to do one kind of concise set of we're responding to what we heard the um uh this public hearing and then we're responding to or we're you know taking into account what the peer review has said so I'm not trying to put beta on the spot but if they potentially have a time frame when they can get back to us I think the information gathering can can end maybe sooner than we think um because I think that a lot of information has already come forward and a lot of it is just fine tuning or or clarifying so everyone knows because as you said there's been a lot of information there's been a lot of iterations to the project so um if we can kind of dovetail our our efforts into you know something on in terms of the the program of the senior living with residences and then responding to the additional questions and um having an ability to absorb peer review and respond to it or to address their concerns or say we agree with that we would agree with that as a condition you know or oh they haven't understood this let us provide as good information that perhaps is missing so um with with that said I think that maybe if we just continue the dates the hearing date um which was the first question so we have the the 29th for the next hearing and then the conclusion of the hearing if we just do that to like the beginning of the second week in July and I think that by June 29th we're going to have a good sense of what additional information needs to come in and and really where we are okay so if we were to extend the hearing to say July 13th sorry to continue the hearing sorry extend the extend the peer the review period right I understand what you meant yes I'm okay with July 13th um Art and Glenn if you have a just one thought and trying to move this forward is I think in the next few days I'll try to get you out the uh the name and organization that we're talking about here and a list of their projects which are local and I think uh you know get that out to people to you all in time that you know you could maybe check these out I think they're all well established projects projects with a great track record the company has a great track record and I think it would it would aid when you when you do listen to this person speak you know we'll add to his credibility which of course is what we'd like to have him be able to demonstrate uh if you had that information so Stephanie I think we should try to get that lined up as quickly as possible and get the names out and the places not um so they can be circulated Mr. Chairman yes please could I raise I mean July 13th is a Tuesday and uh I thought I remembered that Mr. Haverty has advised us in the past that it's not a good idea to set the date for to extend the date for closing the hearing to the very date that you may intend to to meet on account as you never can tell what might happen um and so I wonder if we're planning on thinking about wrapping everything up on the 13th if that's something that is a serious possibility we probably ought to pick say the following Friday the 16th as as the closing day just to give us some some flexibility uh and make sure that that I'm just done make sure that I'm foreseen things don't suddenly put us in a very awkward position thank you uh would that be a benelope Haver I'm amenable is it July 16 okay okay then so with with all that um so we would be extending the review period to uh Friday July 16th and then we would be continuing the hearing um to June 29th at 6 30 p.m right um then with that um I have a motion to extend the statutory 180 day period for conducting the public hearing to Friday July 16th so moved or seconded whichever is more important it has moved have a second second um mr. Dupont hi mr. Hamlin hi mr. Mills hi your work hi mr. Revolac I know mr. Revolac was having technical issues earlier he may not still be with us okay mr. Ford hi thank you and the chairs I um may I have a motion to continue uh this public hearing until Tuesday June 29th at 6 30 p.m so moved thank you second second second thank you mr. Dupont hi mr. Hamlin hi hi your work hi mr. Ford hi chair votes aye so we are continued on this hearing until June 29th um so then just to um next time a visit is why I typically do is just review our upcoming meeting edification just we have most great so the next hearing of the board is Tuesday June 15th which is at 7 30 p.m which is a continued hearing for 11 65 armaments Tuesdays afternoon um then we will have a hearing on June 29th uh at 6 30 p.m which will be a continued hearing for Thorndike Place will also be a first hearing for uh projects at 10 Sunnyside and 55 Sutherland and then those are the hearings that we have currently scheduled then on Friday July 2nd is the close of the public hearing on 11 65 Armistice Avenue and Friday July 6th will be the is now the scheduled close of hearing for Thorndike Place everyone has those dates and those dates will um it should be up shortly on the Zuni Board of the website and on our online calendar and agendas so we are at the end of tonight's hearing thank you thanks to everyone for their participation in tonight's meeting of the Arlington Zuni Board of Appeals I appreciate everyone's patience throughout the meeting especially wish to thank Rick Valarelli, Vincent Lee, Kelly Linema and all the others who um constantly assist us in preparing for and hosting our online meetings uh please note the purpose of the board's recording of the meeting is to ensure the creation of an accurate record of the proceedings it's our understanding the recordings made by ACMI will be available on demand with ACMI.tv within the coming days or weeks um if anyone has comments or recommendations please send them via email to zba at town.earlington.mni.us that email address is also listed on the Zuni Board of Appeals website and so to conclude tonight's meeting I would like to ask for a motion to adjourn so moved thank you can you have a second thank you Mr. Rourke world call vote Mr. Dupont aye Mr. Hanlon aye mills aye your work aye Mr. Ford aye the chair votes aye we are adjourned thank you mr chairman thank you thank you everyone thank you


This is JSA TV and JSA podcast, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Dean Perine and welcome to JSA TV. We are coming at you on location in beautiful Miami, Florida at Metro Connect 2020 and I am here with Mr. Glenn Johansson. Glenn is the president and CEO of Light River. Glenn, welcome to JSA TV. Dean, thanks very much. Always good to be back here with you and here at Metro Connect once again. Outstanding. So Glenn, lots going on over there at Light River.  Well, I appreciate that very much. It has been a great year. It's been another one of our record years thrilled 2020 and shaping up pretty well also. But in 2019 was really exciting for us to several reasons. One, because we moved into our brand new software development and client center in the Bellwork facility in New Jersey, the old original home of Bell Labs transmission and optical networking. In fact, the location where the Netflix software platform was actually born years ago. So it's thrilled. In fact, for many of our employees to be able to come back. But we've got a lot of great recognition for the Netflix platform and where we've been taking it the last few years. We've also seen in 2019 really the culmination of a multi-year effort to scale the business, increase the capacity in all parts of the business across the entire country. We opened our new logistics center in Salem, New Hampshire. We opened the new software center in Holmdel, New Jersey. And this week, we're actually going live in just two days with our new upgraded facility in Concord, California, where we'll now have a 40% increased space capacity. And with new new processes in our business, we're actually going to be able to increase our capacity in our factory to build factory built networks by three to four times and have the ability now to move approximately a billion dollars worth of equipment and materials through that facility for our clients. All right, Glenn, I think you need to slow down. Lots going on, obviously. Yeah, I'll bet. I'll bet. So I almost hate to ask 2020. Obviously, 2019, just now in the rearview mirror, but 2020 look as good, huh? Well, very much so, yes. So we were actually, once we finished this facility, we started building out our facility in Salem, New Hampshire, be our second factory built network facility. So I'll be able to provide even closer, tighter support for our customers on in the East Coast and other parts of the country, continue to build out our engineering sales and that feel support throughout the country. You'll also see us continue the innovation in our product lines, Netflix, you'll see a lot more in the way of capabilities, functionality. We're working on the new whole new user interface concept we call Scoreboard, which is much more about the experience our users get when they're using the Netflix platform. I love it. Now, we talk a lot about the partners, we talk a lot about customers, but you talk a lot about your employees, you talk a lot about your people and you talk about them a lot. How come? Well, you know, everything starts with people. It's people make a business. It's where you start is where you finish. And you can't have a great business without great people. But at the same time, because we've got great people, it enables us to have great customers. We do believe that ethics and values in those old fashioned kinds of items still matter a lot to people. We view our role as a trusted technology expert and advocate for our customers very seriously. And if you don't treat people in that ethical manner, you know, it's hard to hold onto our moral high ground when you're working with vendor partners and making and recommending technology decisions. And we do a simple rule of thumb in the business. And one of those is that if it sounds wrong, when you say it out loud, it probably is. Glenn, I love it. And thank you very much for being with us here today. We really appreciate it. Right much. It's always been a pleasure to work with you and your team and look forward to seeing you again. Outstanding. Thank you, Glenn. And thank you viewers for watching JSA TV and listening to JSA podcast. We'll see you soon and happy networking.


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Welcome back everyone. Today I'm going to show you how to edit a text file using only GitHub. The reason you might want to do this is because there's a lot of resources posted as text files on GitHub. So for example, we have the digital forensics discord server, the law enforcement resources section provides links that could be interesting for law enforcement or any digital forensics practitioner. It's just a simple read me text file written in markdown language. I am editing now the digital forensics discord server law enforcement resources. I will put a link below for the discord server if you want to join and discuss things about digital forensics. These law enforcement resources basically it's just a link right now they only have one resource listed but then they also have kind of a short tutorial about contributing to the project being able to edit these text files is a good way to contribute back to open source projects very quickly and easily rather than writing complicated code. So the first thing you have to do if you want to edit these files is create an account and log in. I've already logged in I've already created an account and I have a group Defer Science group in GitHub that I'm going to copy the repository to. So if I want to make any changes I have to make my own copy first, change my copy and then submit my changes to the original owner. Anytime you want to edit anything on GitHub you're going to create your own local copy and then modify that copy and then submit it for review. So I'm going to go to the law enforcement resources section and to create my own copy of this that I can edit I need to click on the fork button. Okay so right now two people have forked it so I'm going to click fork and then it says where would you like to fork this resource. J.I. James is my account but I want to put it into my group so if you have a group or you have multiple accounts they'll be shown here you'll probably just have one account and then just select that account. I'm going to copy this to my Defer Science group and then it's forking the the resources page and it'll only take a second. Okay so then now if I go back before we only had one repository if I refresh you can see that I have law enforcement resources now. If I click on law enforcement resources I have all of the same files as the original repository. Okay except the difference is this is owned by Defer Science. If we go back Digital Forensics Discord server still owns their own copy but now I have my own copy that I can do anything with that I want. Okay so the next thing we're going to do is go to the readme file that's usually the file that we're editing you can see that there is a pencil icon once you've created your own copy you should have a pencil icon for the readme go ahead and click that and then we have a code view of the data or in this case a text file so what I'm going to do this is written in markdown there's lots of resources online about how to code in markdown it's very straightforward I won't go into that too much but we will just start editing this just like a normal file we have our law enforcement resources and if we have one hash that's a top level heading two hashes is a second level heading three hashes is a third level heading all right and then we have contributing to the project as a second level heading so I am going to change this view a little bit let's look at what it actually looks like top level second level third level well this is going to be a little bit confusing once we start getting a lot of different resources in here so I'm also going to change their formatting a little bit as well as add some links all right so the first thing I'm going to do is under max mind I'm going to add my own link so I just start typing like normal I just put in two return keys and I'm going to add the Sherlock database and this is basically a database for mutual legal assistance it has legislation from a lot of different countries and a lot of good contact points and information for cybercrime investigators so this is a good resource for law enforcement so I'm going to go ahead and copy that url of the resource I want to add and then I need to create a new heading because it's not IP resolution services it is international corporation or mutual legal assistance so I'm going to do a second level header and I'm going to say mutual legal assistance resources and then so now I've created our heading the next thing I need to do is just type what I want but we would have a list of a lot of different things so I'm not just going to make a paragraph let's go ahead and create a bullet point so I just use the star sign with a space next to it and then I've created a bulleted list so I can just basically keep going down and making more bulleted items so now I just have one so I'm going to say UNODC Sherlock okay and then this is legislation competent national authority list and treaties okay so that's basically it so I have UNODC Sherlock legislation CNA list and treaties well this is just text right now so it's not totally useful because the person still has to go look up what UNODC Sherlock is so I'm going to add a link remember in a link there's two parts to it the part that the user sees and the part that you are actually going to the URL so the part that the user sees I want it to be UNODC Sherlock so I'm going to use a square bracket on the beginning and then a square bracket at the end of that okay and then that creates a link view and then we type in a curved bracket and then a URL and then finish with a curved bracket so we have a straight bracket straight bracket curve bracket curve bracket with text and URL inside okay so now we've created a link in there so let's go ahead and preview that we should have a new heading called MLA resources we should have a bullet point with a link and a little bit of a description here so click on preview and then that's exactly what we have here so MLA resources UNODC Sherlock and I can click on it and then we have a little bit of a description and that looks a lot cleaner than actually a couple of these things up here so let's go back and change the rest of that formatting so instead of MaxMind being its own little section I'm going to go ahead and remove that remember I'm not removing this on the original user's document yet I can submit these changes to the user that created this but this is only changed on my copy okay so I'm going to create a bullet point we have MaxMind and then I'm going to do the dash again just to keep it consistent and then I need a link for MaxMind and I've already looked it up because they didn't add the link so then we have square bracket, square bracket, curly bracket, URL, curved bracket okay now I can just take a quick look at the preview again and we have MaxMind with our description and that looks a lot better the next thing I want to do is we should always have one space between the heading and the text that's just the way the standard usually goes and then for contributing to this project that's actually not a tool so I'm going to go ahead and make this a first level heading just to see if it looks better yeah it kind of separates it a little bit more okay so that's pretty much all there is to it just some basic editing I've added some links in here and now whenever people go to this to my page they can see those changes once I save them so commit changes give it a title we have to scroll down to the bottom we want to commit and commit is just saving so what did I do I added Sherlock link plus formatting okay added Sherlock plus some formatting the reason you want to do this is because for yourself like you can keep track of actually what you did and for whoever you're going to share this with they can see the changes that you've made and understand really quickly in one sentence basically what you're doing so try to make this commit statement as descriptive as possible without being too long since we're just doing a text file I'm going to commit directly to the main branch that just is where I'm saving it at so then click commit changes and that just means save it back to your local path so now we can see the changes I have my two links here and that's that's pretty much it so now my copy has been updated we can see that it was updated 15 seconds ago and then the important thing here is this branch has one commit ahead of digital forensics discord server main where I copied this from it says that I have changes that they don't have so then we have two options here contribute and then fetch upstream so if their copy on the digital forensics discord server was also updated at the same time and they have changes I don't have then I can do fetch upstream and I will download all of their updates okay but what we want to do now is contribute this back to the community right so I can click contribute this branch is one commit ahead of digital forensics discord server main so what we'll do is create something called a pull request and what this does is basically flags them and says hey I have changes you guys can include these changes if you want to so we're creating a pull request we had didn't change a lot so it does say able to merge and then in the bottom you can see that I have my title and you can see that I have all of these different changes that I've made everything in green is what I've added everything is red is what I've removed and then that's pretty much it I can review this so then if everything looks okay click create pull request again I have my description there so the more descriptive your description whenever you send this over to the person who created the file originally they can just read that description and say oh yeah they've added a link okay good so make sure your description is as descriptive as possible here that way they can make a quick decision and then just hit create pull request and then now we're back over in the digital forensics discord server law enforcement resources so this is not my local copy we have pull requests on their side that's one that means that they have one update that needs reviewed right they're not going to let you just push your changes directly to their repository they need to check it first so this pull request goes into a queue and then the author basically gets to decide when those pull requests get implemented in their code my account wants to merge from my repository okay no conflicts that's good and then you can even leave a comment so sometimes they might ask for more clarification if it's a complicated update but most the time if it's something simple like adding a link most likely they'll just accept it or or reject it directly without too much discussion so we are back in the law enforcement resources we have our pull request if I look at their copy notice they don't have those links yet they have not updated their copy but if I go over to my account if I go to my account law enforcement resources I do have those updates right so if they accept my changes then their copy will also be updated if they reject my changes then my copy is still changed and their copy is not so it's that's why it's called a fork because they could go in different directions so that's pretty much it for editing a text file in github and then submitting it back to the original community this is a really really good way to interact with the community because it's very straightforward you can do this with documentation you can do this with adding links editing documentation is a really good way to give back to the community because so many people are using documentation so we have to make sure that they are up to date but sometimes they kind of get neglected so if you want to start working with the community somewhere just doing this kind of thing is a really good way to begin okay so I hope that was useful for editing text files on github and hopefully contributing back to the community thank you very much


My name is Anna-Christina Hofgren and I am a socio-linguist. My fellowship aims to find out why European universities are increasingly teaching their courses in English rather than in the local language, whether this is French, Dutch or Swedish. Intriguingly, there is evidence to suggest that the switch to English happens unintentionally as an unforeseen consequence of the implementation of specific forms of governance that centre on competition and metrics. So what we'll be doing is to bring together conceptual tools from linguistics and political science in new ways that will enable us to understand how specific forms of academic governance might have unintended linguistic consequences. On a more practical note, we'll also be developing a best practice framework to ensure that teaching and learning in English does not have adverse effects on individuals, institutions and nations. By doing so, we'll be engaging in knowledge exchange between the UK and the EU, thus strengthening post-Brexit collaboration.


Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make these really quick and simple little kind of Easter baskets. I actually first made these which are just little nests with eggs in and there's a chocolate Kit Kat bunny in there as well and I was just going to drop these around to some of my friends and then I thought it'd be quite nice to have a little basket and that's when I saw that Trimcraft had put up their free downloads so I'll share the link to their downloads they're really really nice I haven't printed them all off because this is actually going to be my last Easter project. I might make some bunting and just post some pictures up on my Facebook page but in terms of tutorials that will be it but I have a huge amount of Easter tutorials so if you do still want to make some last-minute crafts then I'll share the playlist up here actually and there'll be links as well on the blog post but when they done the downloads I just saw this lovely gingham print and I just love the soft pastel colors and I thought it would work really well with these gorgeous brads that my friend Kimmy sent me a while ago. I still got a few left for some more projects but I've kept some for myself you know forever kind of thing and then the rest I'm going to be using on craft projects but they're just really nice but one of the toppers that you also get with this when you print it all off is this here. I actually scaled it down to five by seven because I liked the size of the Hello Spring so I just cut that out of there with my two inch circle punch but you've also got high thank you happy birthday just a note just for you so they're really nice things to just maybe you know leave on someone's doorstep so I've made these and if I take that out you can see how it is just really sweet this all moves they're just really cute so if you are doing you know you've got the children at home and you're doing like a little Easter egg hunt they would be quite sweet for that as well but nice as little table favours favours as well very very quick and easy to do so I'm just going to jump straight into this video so you just want one sheet of five seven and a quarter squared so this is what I've got here so this is seven and a quarter squared and you want to score it two inches on all four sides so two two two and two now when you cut this this was printed onto a piece of A4 300 gsm cardstock and I just run it through one piece at a time whenever you want to print onto cardstock obviously if you've got a much more robust printer than I do then you could probably put more pages in but a lot of people ask how I print onto cardstock and I just feed one in at a time and just print one at a time rather than multiple but when you cut it if you cut along the eight and a quarter side or the eight and a half side first you'll get this strip which is then the handle okay so yeah when you cut it you'll see there how mine was together something was at the other side you get what I mean anyway yeah there we go so it was something like that okay and then you've got that section as well which you can use for your mats and layers if you do want to decorate it a bit differently but this is all you need so you just now want to fold and burnish all of your score lines okay and then you want to pick a side any side and you're going to cut up both the score lines to the first score line okay so you've got that square piece there and then again you've got the square there and then just flip it to the opposite end and just cut up those two score lines again so these are you know this took me no time to do these I whipped them up very quick and then you just want to cut little wedges off of those four squares again just to make everything nice when we fold it all together okay so you want something like that it's a very simple box shape that's all we're doing and then we're just adding the handle to give it that basket look so now you just want to add some glue you can use your tape as well to one of the tabs bring it under the side piece and around to create one of the sides or the corners there of your box okay and then go to the next one and again bring up that side just so you get a nice finish there and then if you go to the opposite end and kind of do these at the same time because you'll be folding it inside that box so just cover that one and then that one there like so just bring them both in and then it's just much easier and less messy if you're using liquid glue to get those both in there and you can just you've got that wiggle room as well which is always good like so so it's now up to you where you want to punch your holes for the basket I'm doing them on the sides where we've got all this here because it's almost like it's reinforced so if you've got something that is a little bit heavy the handles will be able to you know hold against the extra layers of cardstock there so I'm just going to give that a minute to dry with the handle so it's the full length of my A4 but if you're using 11 inches and that's fine as well just put a nice curve in it and then you just want a hole punch it's entirely up to you how far up you go I probably say I'm going up three quarters of an inch so on that end and on this end you can follow the lines on your pattern as well if you're using something similar like so and then again this is the sixth one now so I kind of know where I'm going but I'm just in the center just pushing it in as far as I can again it's about three quarters of an inch down if you want to again mark it with a pencil just so you know you're getting it all bang on you can see there and then you just want to grab your brads you may not have you know brads you don't have to use these you could just stick the handles directly either inside with some glue there and you might want to put a decorative you know flower or something like a die cut or a stamped image you can do that as well and then just pop that through and you've got that little hinge kind of effect with your handle and again bring those two together and split that open just kind of shape it a little bit but there you have a very sweet and very easy little basket so now I'm just going to take my foam backing off of there and just pop that in the center and you're finished a basket and how quick was that so here's my last nest to go in this is number six and I'm just going to sit that in there and isn't that adorable love them I hope you've enjoyed this very quick little tutorial on just a nice little way to make these little baskets to hold some sweet treats like I said they're great for maybe a little mini Easter egg hunt in your back garden or to have as a little favor on your Easter table or doesn't even have to be Easter themed it can be a birthday anything you want you can put a candle in this as well but these are now going to be on their way and I'm going to be popping them outside people's doors knocking standing back and then seeing their faces when they open the door to see this little gift on the doorstep so yeah so thank you for watching today please give me a thumbs up if you have enjoyed the video consider subscribing if you haven't so you get to see more fun tutorials and I'll be back very soon thanks for watching bye


The surge of new and modern technologies has caused a major shift in the approach to lesson planning and delivery within the education system in St. Lucia and the world. Through the St. Lucia Connected Program, the Curriculum and Materials Development Unit CAMDU has been engaging teachers in training in the use of open education resources, OERs, which are free online resources that teachers can utilize and adapt to their lessons, making it easier for students to understand and learn. Acting Curriculum Officer for Media Technology Karen Rainey says CAMDU is hoping to build OER content resources for all teachers at the primary and secondary levels in St. Lucia in order to share and collaborate, utilizing local resources instead of depending on external ones. She says the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College is currently running a program for teachers under the project for technology-enabled instruction involving three different streams. Stream one will be the full certification. Stream two we have teachers doing animation and audiovisual production and for stream three which is today we have teachers doing design and lesson plans and OER content. With OERs you are able to remix and once we have the proper licensing on the Creative Commons and you adhere to the licenses and you do your attributions you are able to remix that and make it more localized for your students to be able to reach every single person that you can. Being creative in content formation is the mission of Stream two which was facilitated by digital imaging and animation specialist Janelle Ross. She says the whole plan is to engender a new crop of teachers that are creative away from the chalk and talk. So instead of just sitting with your class in a little you know with your blackboard writing you now get them engaged into creating videos as part of assessments so we're encouraging teachers to not just only create their own content which is relevant for St. Lucia and the Caribbean but to also engage their students so that they can develop the skills that they need for the 21st century. Chief of party with the St. Lucia connected program Royston Emmanuel hopes the sharing of the newly created templates using free online software will foster a new dynamic educational approach at no cost to school teachers eliminating the need to purchase expensive programs. I think the goal of training in any technology learning is to expose teachers to tools that are free that are open source that are easily used and also to engender a spirit of sharing among teachers. Okay because if I pay for tool it's highly unlikely that I want to share my resources with anybody but if those tools are easily accessible and free to use then it kind of more or less encourages teachers to share because the investment they made wasn't a financial one. I know they invest time and effort but I guess it would be easier because they did not pay for those tools which is kind of restrictive. St. Lucia Connected is a program developed by World Education Inc. and the Department of Education Innovation and Vocational Training to empower youth and educators to become digital literacy leaders in their communities and to increase the island's capacity for resilience. From the communications unit of the Ministry of Education Sustainable Development Innovation Science Technology and Vocational Training I am Chris Sattney reporting.


This beautiful wonderful lady she just recently gave her life to Jesus Christ and got water baptized So we want to hear from you Kimberly Who invited you to hungry Jen? And how did you receive Jesus Christ? Let's face the people So I got invited by my friend Priscilla She was texting me like to come she was inviting me to her baptized and I would make so much excuses to not come to church and I was like she's like she invited me to Wednesday service. So youth group and I was like I was like, yeah, I'll go I Came and it was it was a feeling that I never felt before because I'm not I haven't been to church like My family doesn't really go to church a lot. So This was a new experience for me. And so what was the life before you received Jesus Christ? And what are the changes that you see now after giving your life to Jesus? So changes that I have noticed is like When I would have problems, I would just like be like why is this happening to me? Like, you know, I wouldn't pray to God now I get myself like I'm driving or I'm at work and I get myself like praying, you know, like and it's now It's constantly in my life That is amazing. Let's put our hands together for Jesus Christ And we're so happy and I want to notice I mean something that she said that her friend invited her and this is so important to step out of a comfort zone and Push the embarrassment fears aside and actually invite people because if you and I we don't invite People that we work with or we hang out go to gym with they will not come many people They actually want to come but just because we are not stepping out. They have they feel awkward So I'm gonna encourage every single person here we all have people around us like Kimberly our friends and Co-workers and we have in a couple of weeks our Easter service coming up I'm gonna ask you to step out this time and bring someone with you because they want to receive Jesus Christ Some of them they just don't know about it yet and God is so amazing He loves people and he wants to give them salvation and change their lives break addictions and things like that Okay, and so Kimberly I know if you can pull up the picture where she's she got baptized. That's her Yep, come on. Let's put our hands together for Kimberly. She took that step We congratulate you for giving your life to Jesus Christ and getting water baptized Which is next step if you have given your life to Jesus Christ and you have not been water baptized yet The next step is to get water baptized And so we congratulate you on that and can you please share a word of advice to people who might be? They want to give their life to Jesus Christ, but they feel awkward or what should they do? I Tell you not to double-think think it because I was double-thinking it a lot and it was not actually it's not that bad So you guys should definitely do it Thank you Kimberly, thank you. Come on. Let's put our hands together one by one watching this content I hope this was a blessing to you if you're like me and you like to click on things Click on this subscribe to our channel and the content will come to you every time we post it And remember the best is yet to come


It is with profound sadness that the Office of Governor-General, the government and people of St. Lucia have received word of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Her Majesty as Head of the Commonwealth and Queen of St. Lucia has served us with great pride and dignity and will be surely missed. The government and people of St. Lucia joined the rest of the world in mourning the passing of Her Majesty. We extend our deepest condolences to His Royal Highness King Charles III and the Royal Family on this very solemn occasion. Your official period of mourning commences today, September 9, 2022, with the 96th gun salute by the Royal St. Lucia Police Force from 5.30pm on the premises of Government House. May Her Majesty rest in eternal peace.


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