All right, it's the last talk, so I'll be quicker. So what I want to talk about is open science with open data on the open web using open source. But that's just because I knew that the real title would never get accepted. Spreadsheets. So what I want to present today is the collaboration between three really cool projects, some of which you've heard before in this conference and that's stencil and substance and one that I'll present a new and that's PubSuite. So we'll go through each of these individually to just explain what they are and how we work together as a team. No, no, no, it's about Spreadsheets. So Spreadsheet is an interactive peer application for organization analysis and storage of data. Should I go on? So what is Coco? Oh, did you miss that one? I'll have the slides after the talk so if you can ask questions. So Coco, Coco is the organization that I'm presenting here today and that's the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation. We call it Coco for short, even though it doesn't make any sense. But it's Coco for us because that was the easiest to pronounce. Coco Foundation is a new foundation. It's about Adam Six, seven months old. Yeah. And we just recently got a fine amount of funding from the Moore Foundation and we've been initially sponsored by the Shuttleworth Foundation. So we really want to thank them for making Coco possible. I really like how Jeremy before gave pictures of people. I think that's important, like to connect the people to the projects. So in the last minute I added that. I didn't have the foresight to do it before, but I added it after Jeremy's talk. So Coco was founded by Adam Hyde and Kristen Ratan. And Adam Hyde had several projects in the open source space before. And then the activism around knowledge production. So things like Book Sprints is a company that he founded where you basically write a book with a group of people in a week. And Kristen Ratan was a publisher for PLOS as her last position. And then decided to find Coco. So Coco is working on this project called PubSuite. And what is PubSuite? PubSuite is this project for... It's a framework where you put together components for knowledge production. So say for example you wanted to have a science blogger. Like nothing like that exists. That's really funny. Like there is no blogging application out there where you would be able to add equations, add references, add figures and present that in a scientific way. It just doesn't exist. That's funny. So that's one of the things you could do with PubSuite. For example you take the text editor, you take the post editor, you take the users manager components and you bring them together to form a science blogger. And then there are other applications that you can build with PubSuite. It's for a lot of the applications in the knowledge production sphere that we want you as the community for Coco to build. And it will help you along the way and will present the best examples. So for example the first thing that we're building is a science blogger. And we're building a book production system. All of this is based in open source. We are very open to the way we run our meetings, to where our source code is, where we chat. Everything is open. So anyone who feels the need to form some kind of knowledge production system just come talk to us and we'll walk you through it and we'll help you along the way. Because I think there's a lot of people who want specific things to work in a specific way and they don't have any support in doing that. So if you want that, come to us. We'll help you. This is how PubSuite looks right now. And it's just a mock-up. We have an actual demo and it's nowhere near as pretty as this. This is just pretty. And it's based on the work that our UX designer has started working on since about two weeks ago. So she's very new on the project. So things will improve in UX-wise. Right now, this is how we want PubSuite to look. This, for example, is a science blog. It's very simple. That's the whole thing. Why doesn't this exist yet? You have a list of posts. You can edit them. You have a list of users. You can add permissions to them. You can say, hey, userX, you're a contributor. You can create a new blog post. Hey, userY, you're an admin. You control everything. That's it. There's no magic there. But all of these components are individually developed, and they come together in this whole. So the user's manager is developed individually. The post manager is developed individually. And you bring these together to form a whole system. So I haven't talked about the other parts of the project. That's substance. So what is substance? The two developers of substance are sitting there in the back. If you could raise your hand. I'm Oliver Superstars. They're working on a web-based text editor. And they've been doing that for the last four years. For six years. So it went through a lot of the initial pains that a text editor on the web would have. And they've gone through that. So if you want to use Prozmer, don't. Just use substance. Substance went through all of this. If you know a bit about how text editing works in the browser, it's very fraught with differences between browsers and cross-browser compatibility. And some things work weirdly in its own browser and the other. Substance went through that. And they produced a lot of very cool, final, production-ready text editor-based products. So you can follow them on substance. And there's substance on the web page. Oh, there they are. Michael and Oliver. Putting the people to the project again. And then the last part of the project, and the collaboration is Stensilla. And Stensilla is data-driven documents. Some of you were at the previous talk where Mike and Oliver gave a demonstration of what Stensilla is. It's basically this templating language where you can include R code and run it in a browser context. And then it has two parts. It has a sheet and a stencil. And I'll demo all of that a bit later. So you get a good idea of what Stensilla is. And it's made by this guy from New Zealand. This is a common thing. We have a few people from New Zealand, actually. I don't know what it is about that place, but it inspires something in people. So Nakomi is working on Stensilla. And he's been working on this alone. And he, I think, just recently got a lot of attention by being on top of Hacker News. And people are recognizing the effort that he put into making this project. So I think things will pick up in terms of who the contributors are. If you feel like you could contribute, do check him out and reach out to him. He's very friendly. So demo time. Hopefully my everything is, wow. And that's never happened before. It's a good sign. It's gonna go well. Okay, so first I want to demo an initial configuration of Popsuite and that's the science blogger. So just quickly, you create a new blog post. So this would be a separate component. What you see now is the post manager. You create it, ah, demos. I love demos. So you create it, you go into the editor and enter some abstract, enter a title. And then the fun part begins when you want to add references. So you can search Crossref and you can say cats and dogs. I think that's a common theme here. You search for cats and dogs. And now it goes out to the Crossref API and if Internet works, hopefully. Come on, Internet. Okay. That's a bummer. I'll try that again. There we go. Supplemental information. That's pretty okay for the query that I put in. CSV, that makes sense. So you add the reference and then in the paper or in the blog post that you're writing, you can insert a citation. You say I'm citing this supplemental information and the references build automatically and the whole site rock is in there, like the metadata that is, the reference is in the document. And then you can go further. So you can say, ah, I want to insert a figure. So you say insert figure. Hieroglyphic pepper. That's an interesting one. So spreadsheet, 4,000 years old. You title it. Wow, that's a great typo. And then when you, again, when you're entering the text, you can say referencing. And you say cite the figure and you cite the figure. And again, this figure is cited.  You go to the main page, to the landing page. And you see this post, and I say this. We just started working with a UX person. So please forgive the brutalist look. But if you click read more, you get the entire paper in an elife lens kind of reader. So this is a substance reader. And this is basically what you need for scientific blogging. That's it. There's nothing more that you would want. So this is version 0.2. And in 0.3, I think the one thing that people still miss is collaborative editing. So two people can write on the same blog post at the same time. And that's courtesy of substance who worked on the back end, the OT transformation that made that possible. So that's the science blogger demo. And then we have the sheets demo. So sheets would be the stenciler sheets. I will just bear with me. So you create a new sheet. You edit it. And that's the spreadsheet. So you go... This is backed by R. So I can do things like a1, a3, b1, b3, boom. And I have the plot that's coming from R. And what is more, I can then take... I can take this address. Right now it's a bit rudimentary, but I can take this address. I can create a new stencil, which would be the blog post scientific document. I say, create it, edit it. Well, hello there. And I say, paste the address, select B4. Sorry that the interface broke with the low resolution, but here we go. Ah. Okay, it's not gonna work. Because the interface broke because the resolution is too small. But you would select this and you would say insert and it would go to the stenciler to the stenciler sheets and get that figure. And if you change any of the parameters when the figure was generated, it would update here. So you can imagine this. You would have some simple analysis going in the sheets. Spreadsheets are something that people are really used to working with. So you would have something simple in there, do some R statistics, and then create a figure included in the blog post. And if you change anything in the analysis, the figure will automatically update. So that's the sheets demo. And there are some. If you go to stenciler.la, you have the real spreadsheets with real analysis with this platform. So that's the demos. But then I had a really good idea yesterday. It was amazing. So imagine that you could follow the feed of DOIs minted in real time.  But minted DOIs or newly created DOIs is a signal of where papers are published. So if you could look at that and geo-locate the affiliations, you could know where science is coming from. And if you plot that on the globe, you'll have this real-time map. I think DOIs are like 20,000 a day or something like that. So you'll have a real-time map every few seconds of where science is happening. I was like, that's so cool. I should do that. And I tried. And I came up with this. It spins. And I think there's... There's maybe... not somewhere. So imagine that this is a real-time view of the scientific output of the human race. But with DOIs. But if they were, if they were, when somebody publishes a paper, that's usually the end of life in terms of how the paper will change. Usually the publication of a paper is the final step. There's nothing beyond the publication of a paper. Compare that to open source. When you publish your project, there's the dot somewhere in Russia, when you publish an open source project, that's when its life begins. And this is something that we at Calco want to bring into science. We want it to be okay to send a typo correction to one of the leading experts in neuroscience. That should be fine. If I look at my open source contributions, a lot of them is like hey, there's a typo in your reading and then the person says thank you. And it's amazing. We should do that in science. And this is something that we at Calco at least hope to build the tools for. Because it's also a social problem. And we want the world to look like this. Connected. So the world of science, not just like dots, isolated dots on the globe. But connected dots. Things that people improving other people's paper. Even if that's just a single line or a typo, or just like oh, you misspelled your name. Or some silly thing like that. It should be a collaborative effort that doesn't stop with just an isolated publication somewhere in Russia. That's it. And this is just a quote from Marcus which I think resonates with how open source works. Why do we contribute to open source projects? Those of us who do. What drives you to make that typo change? What drives you to update the package JSON of some module somewhere? I think you get something from it and we're made to help each other. That seems weird, but if you do a lot of it, you kind of get into that mode of helping others. And it's really nice. If we could do that in science, that'd be great. And that's really the end. Thanks. Datasets do not come kind of due to help you with that? We don't. We only query the Crossref API right now. And then Crossref's API doesn't include Datasets, obviously. But I mean, it's not technologically it's not a big issue. The bigger issue is what is the usefulness of citing Datasets and what can we do to improve that? Yeah. We can do it. Technologically, it's possible. One of these PubSuite documents actually written now to get a window or something so that if I send a correction to your email where does that come out? Or is it running a PubSuite instance for you somewhere? So this is, so PubSuite would be, all of our code is hosted on GitLab and our self-hosted GitLab instance. But a PubSuite document right now is an XML that Substance produces and it's not something that I would consider interchangeable with other platforms. But just two weeks ago Substance worked on a Jax editor and those of you who know Jax is a format that's used widely in science and when we have the Jax editor the next step is is very simple. If you put that anywhere even if it's Git or it's wherever people can then edit that and that's the interchange format that we think will support at least initially though we have other ideas like the HTML is one of them and so forth. But right now Substance has a working Jax editor which will include as a component in this. A condensed question maybe but why didn't you just build a WordPress plugin? And I don't need to like create your work and to sound like why did you but yeah I wanted to elaborate on because it takes a lot of effort to get people to do platform or they don't have a blogging as other platforms I think it's a very different group of people that we're addressing WordPress is a great CMS system but it will be hard to get other people to contribute to WordPress. We could start with WordPress we could make a plugin for WordPress but the inertia that WordPress has or the I wouldn't not inertia I would call it a rebounding force that it has when people talk about WordPress is something we consider the barrier if you want to sell people on WordPress it's a much harder sell than if you want to sell them on something that is new that has their intentions in its scope from the initial conception that is not kind of hacked on like we thought about what is useful for knowledge production and we built it into the platform from the get go so there's not work arounds that we need to do in order to support those that we think people will need built into the platform What is your audience do you much as all scholars? It's scholars yes but also people from other knowledge production industries such as book production or Wikipedia like organizations or anyone who deals with a collaborative generation of knowledge which I think is almost the entire web like one of the cool things we imagined is XKCD the comic there's an XKCD editor that you can create your own comic and if we plug that into as a component into PubSuite we can have everyone can have an XKCD comic that would be great and it's not entirely related to science it's not related to book production it's just something that generates knowledge and it's something that we'd like to support I wonder what your target audience is science bloggers they often use for workshops so how do you get them to use your tool because they have to then they publish on WordPress and would go back and have to somehow import again to WordPress so how do you manage that? So I think the back and forth between WordPress is not in our scope right now what we would be more concerned with is how do you get people out of WordPress into PubSuite and this is something we haven't handled yet actually we haven't talked to a lot of people that would be using WordPress so if you know people who are using WordPress to publish scientific content that would be great if you could connect us this is the user that we're looking for to ask them what they need Mark I spent some time writing plugins for WordPress to do things like citations but I think that's just something you can do but I think having a fresh start doing things is a way forward WordPress is a because a huge platformer can many things it's possible to do that but it's not the only way to think logging needs WordPress I think it's really short-circuit especially because like the next step will lead you short of the shortness that you have sort of little programming you have code that's executed when figures aren't generated when you publish the blog post it's just you can't get there to get through the first step but then it's just messy Oliver? I think it's not misleading just to put the login use case into the center also there is a full-fledged publishing system where editorial processes writing processes everything management it's way more complicated than just logging and logging is one easy to start on. One of the use cases for PubSuite is a journal platform you would have a component for workflow management you would have a component for editors you would put this together and form a journal platform that's basically our main use case that's maybe why I didn't mention it because this is the thing that we really want to do this is maybe a follow-up to Oliver's comment but I see a huge potential to take this to the classroom and use classrooms as a test bed especially students are submitting where they have to make references if things are automatically formatted it sort of takes away that complexity of really bad formatted submissions of papers you have like Cincilla where you can actually run our code for in a spreadsheet for people who are both from who are or just using spreadsheet I would say if there's training documentation or anything that educators could use and bring that into the classroom I think that would be a huge way to get usership that's an awesome idea I'll start that early and convince them that this is the whole way to go cool, that's a cool idea, thanks alright, thank you


I'm in the mood for life simply because you're near me. Do love birds so damn cute? Alright, I don't know about you but I'm pretty excited to work on a photo with these two little guys. What we're going to do is talk about noise reduction. And there's a couple of ways that we can tackle noise reduction. We could do it right here inside of Lightroom under the details panel or we could extend on some of the things that we've been doing with the Nik Collection free plugin Lightroom and Photoshop plugin because they too have noise reduction software. And it really just depends on the photograph and the results I'm getting, whether I like to do it inside of Lightroom or use the Define. But I will say that 9 times out of 10, I find myself going directly to the Define feature just because it's so easy. It works really, really well at preserving the detail even after it's reduced the noise. And with that said, I want to just touch on one thing before we jump into that software. When it comes to noise reduction, basically in a nutshell what we're doing is blurring the photograph or blurring the pixels in the photograph in order to reduce some of the noise. And so the trick or the art to reducing noise in a photograph is get rid of the noise but preserve the detail. And sometimes that's a little bit easier said than done. But I do find that this Nik software or this Nik plugin works pretty outstanding. So I'm going to show it to you. You won't believe how easy it is and hopefully you'll find yourself using it. So let's jump into Lightroom and show you exactly what it is I'm talking about. So here we are looking at these two little fine, lovey-dovey fellow foxes. I like you a lot. And if I click on this photograph to just zoom in here so you can kind of get a better sense as to what's going on, clearly you can see that there's some grain in the background here. And even if I look at my camera settings, I was only at an ISO at about 500. So this could be due to that ISO. It could also be due to light particles in the air. And when you have a shallow depth of field that light particles could be getting picked up in the image. It's up to you how much of this noise you want to take out. Some people actually introduce or add noise to their photograph because they like the texture. It sort of reminds them of their days when they worked inside a film. But that's not something that I like. And most people that you talk to today that work in the digital realm like to clean the image and have something as clean and precise as possible. So what we want to do is go in and reduce this noise. Now like I said, you could go into the details section here and look at the noise reduction and kind of work with that. But I'm not going to do any of that in this tutorial. We're just going to jump straight into the define nick filters. So let me show you how we do that. We're going to go up to photo. We're going to go to edit in. And if you've already installed these plugins, you'll see all of your Nick collection right here. And what we're going to do is jump to define. And when we do, like we said in the previous video, this is going to take us to an external editor, which means we are now leaving Lightroom and going to a completely different piece of software. I'm going to choose to edit a copy with Lightroom adjustments because I've already made some corrections to this photograph. I think I cropped it and did some lens correction type stuff. And I want those to be part of the adjustment. So I'm going to include that. And once this feature opens or once this tool opens up, you're going to notice that there are these little white dots in the photograph. And basically what that's doing is it's telling you that these are the areas of the photograph that have been measured for noise. And based off this measurement, it's going to go through and apply automatically what it believes is the correct amount of noise reduction. Now with that said, if I look down here in the loop in the bottom right hand corner, you can see that there's a right side and a left side. There's a line splitting the difference. And if we look at the right side, you can see that that's clearly much less noisy than the left side. But if I want to look at an area that actually has more detail in it, I can actually do that a couple of ways. I can click and drag on the loop. You can do the same thing inside of Lightroom to move this around. Or I can choose this little pen here, this push pin feature. If I select that, I can go over to the photograph and put this pin near an area that has some detail. In this case, there's a little bit of a fuzziness around the ear. So I'm going to go here and I'm just going to click on the photograph and that's going to lock the loop so that even if I move my brush around or my mouse around like I'm doing here, you notice that the loop stays the same. And what that allows us to do is look in the loop a little bit more carefully and decide whether or not the detail has been kept or if there was too much noise reduction applied. Like I said, for the most part, I pretty much just run it and then I hit save. And that's it. I don't typically ever find myself needing to go into any of these settings up here to reduce or under method to manually make the corrections to this. Just the default settings alone in this program work awesome. So if you want to apply some noise reduction, select your photo, go into define, run it, and then just save it. And once you hit save, it's going to process this file, take it right back into Lightroom. Again because we made a copy, we're going to have two files. We're going to have the original file and now the second file with the noise reduction. Again if I go down here in my film strip and look, I can see that here is the image with the noise and here is the second file with the noise reduction applied. From here, once the noise reduction is applied, I just continue editing it, doing anything that it is that I want to do to it. And that can happen here inside of Lightroom or you could take it to Photoshop and continue editing it there. But in this case, reducing the noise is super simple. I actually think that this plugin works better and easier than the features that are built into Lightroom. Just one man's opinion, so don't kill me, but that's what I believe and that's why I use it. Hopefully you enjoyed this tip. If you did, give us a thumbs up. As always, we appreciate your support. Thank you so much for watching. We'll catch you in the next episode. My name is Adam. I'm out.


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Once again, we got a small college in a small town with some big possibilities. But let's figure out how you can get admitted and check out the campus. What is this? Chai Omega Sorority. Chai Omega Sorority? Okay, cool. What kind of sorority, guys? Like, the fun kind, the smart kind, the academic kind, all of them? Like that you want to be. All right, Ms. President, here you go. That's you. Of course, you got to talk to the cabinet. I understand. So Chai Omega is a women's organization that focuses on philanthropy and community. We work with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. We have fundraisers every month. And we have a lot of different women from a lot of different organizations on campus, a lot of teams on campus, a lot of different clubs. And we all come together to form one big happy family. When I've talked about evidence of people, like, they're like, ah, this is like middle of nowhere Pennsylvania. Like, there's not going to be any international students here. But my freshman year, our class was 600 students and about 120 of them were from China. Yeah, I remember they did a survey freshman year and almost everyone responded. Like, this was the most diverse place they've been. And it's like in the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania. Yeah, so anybody, Amish people. Yes. Like, there's horse and buggy guys down the street and you guys have like, yeah, hundreds of international students. That's crazy. Yeah, it's actually, it's a lot more than you would answer. Yeah, that's really cool. To find Chai Omega on Instagram, we're Chai Omega underscore FNM. And on TikTok, we are the same handle. Chai Omega underscore FNM to see all of our content. And you can go on every day, chaiomega.com, to find more info about our nationals. Woo! So as a Pennsylvania boy myself, I figured I would explain a little bit about where we are. This is Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It's a small town located about an hour away from Philadelphia. Now, to understand Pennsylvania, there's essentially three regions. First, there's Pittsburgh. That's the best city. Then there's Philadelphia. That's an OK city. And then there's the rest of Pennsylvania. And Lancaster is in the rest of Pennsylvania. The rest of Pennsylvania consists of a lot of small towns and a lot of nature. And you'll also find a lot of Amish people.  They don't use electricity or drive cars. And there's a whole bunch of Amish communities around here in Lancaster. So like, this I think is the most iconic rest of Pennsylvania spot that I've seen. Seriously, stay out of Philly, though. Like, we don't like them over there. Pittsburgh boys. Effidem oozes history. So this place was founded in 1787, which makes it one of the oldest colleges in the United States. And right here is former president James Buchanan's house. Like, literally, history just kind of leaks out of every pore here. And it fits with the vibe of these buildings. I love the way this campus looks. It's retaining that historical feel and really keeping that original vibe that it had so long ago. The city even built a park right here behind the university. So like, this isn't actually part of the campus, but it might as well be, because it's a giant public park located right next to the college. Pretty great. I love how these classroom chairs have little cup holders on the side. Like, awesome touch. I've never seen a chair like these before. I get a very, like, chill, comfortable vibe here at F&M. Like, there's a lot of funny signs. And even, like, on classrooms, there's memes put on the walls and windows. Just to let you know that they're doing serious things, but they're not taking themselves too seriously. And I like that a lot. It is my pleasure to introduce you to Hannah. She oversees all the international admissions. She's a wonderful person, and she took some time to talk to me today. So we're going to talk to her a little bit about the programs here and the admissions process and what you can do to make your application stronger. My name is Hannah Kim. I'm the Associate Director of International Admission here at Franklin and Marshall College. And I'm Leah Hoffman, the International Admissions Counselor at Franklin and Marshall College as well. We are a liberal arts school, which means a lot of our majors are meant to be very holistic. So our students are going to be taking classes in many different fields here to learn core skills in things like reading, writing, research, critical thinking that they can use in any major. We do offer over 60 different majors and programs here. Some of our most popular ones that are sometimes a little bit unique to a liberal arts school is definitely our business program. Economics, philosophy, biology, psychology, those are also very big for us as well. We are a test optional school. We have been for a really long time. We definitely like to take a lot of our students' cultural context into consideration, choosing great references, having counselors who know them well, being able to speak to who they are as a student and to the academic caliber that they're performing at. We do offer need-based financial aid to our international students. We are one of the few schools in the United States that does actually meet 100% of determined need for our international students. All right, so you got a beautiful campus. They meet 100% of demonstrated need. They've got excellent programs. What's the catch, all right? So, as a small college, they only admit about 5, 600 people a year, which means it's gonna be very competitive to get in here, and so you're gonna need to really bring forward your best application possible. They put a lot of emphasis on a holistic review, so it's not just a test score. It's not just having perfect grades. You're really gonna wanna impress people here with your essays, I think, and also the other activities that you do. That's what they're interested in hearing about is you. Make sure you get an interview too. Show this kind of college who you are. Liberal Arts colleges can actually get to know everybody who applies, because they only take in like a few hundred people, so it's easier for them to really make that decision based on you and your personality and not just a couple of numbers on a piece of paper. So this is the whole residential area, and Leah told me a lot about it, so let's hear from her about how F&M makes it easy for you to get integrated, make new friends, and really engage in these living learning communities. So all of our freshman students will be divided into one of five houses where they'll be with around more or less 100 other incoming freshmen. We really set them up as living and learning communities. Each house will have one faculty member who is going to be their day one faculty advisor, but also having the support as an individual for students dealing with time management, home sickness, or even just the big changes that come with being away from home in a new country for the first time. Now, one of the cool things here that I like about F&M is that even though it's an undergraduate-only institution, and so it's mostly focused on just getting you through that bachelor's degree, they have a ton of research opportunities. Two thirds of our students do participate in research opportunities. Around 40% of our professors' published work is actually co-authored by our own students as well. So a lot of students leave F&M with published research to their name. Even when they go to graduate school beyond, they've already had these experiences that maybe a lot of other students haven't had before. So if you would like to apply and you're interested, we are available on both the Common App and the Coalition App. Early Decision 1 deadline is going to be on November 15th. We also have an option for Early Decision 2 on January 15th, which is the same date as our regular decision for any of our students coming in for the upcoming fall. If you're interested in learning more, you can visit our website at fandm.edu or you can email us at our international admission email account as well. Thank you so much. So that's how you apply and if you're interested in leaving up your application a little bit more, you can hit us up at prepscore.com or just leave a comment below if you got any questions about F&M or wanna let me know where you want me to go next. All right, I'm back in my car. It's been an awesome day at F&M. I wanna say big thank you to Hannah and Leah. It made my day awesome and this campus really does it all for itself. It's a beautiful university. You should absolutely check it out. It's one of those few in the United States that will meet you in the middle with your financial aid. So don't be afraid to apply. See what happens. If you get in, it might just change your life. Thanks for watching and I'll see you next week.


There we go. There we go got the baby blues on today the beacons as I said last week are becoming my one of my favorite go-to shoes Especially on recovery days, even though today.  We'll see we'll see stay tuned and it's Monday Which means a new week and new opportunities right to push our fitness forward or Backward maybe this is your time to rest and I do just want to mention that I am a break is coming Did I mention this yesterday a running break is coming? I really believe in taking time off from running It's not quite time yet. Maybe it will arrive sooner than I hoped for because of my my plantar fasciitis We will see staying flexible in the training plan finishing out 2018. All right guys And I will yes, of course let you know which shoe won the voting if you voted four days ago as to which shoe I should purchase next and review for you guys It's come and stay tuned, but first let's go get around it Come on come on it's eight miles at seven thirty a mile in this in the new balance beacons. These beacons are out of control I love this shoe. I love the beacons. I'm very interested in the vongos as well But right now this might be my favorite shoe. Okay, the taping I did I taped back at the house And I need to do better at taping For my planter until it goes away Anyway, I learned a method for taping on YouTube and essentially it's it helps it helps It doesn't it's not gonna fix the plantar fasciitis But it basically helps relieve the plantar fasciitis until I can take a break Which I already mentioned is coming in December. I am going to take a big break, but not quite yet Okay, going home and good run eight miles got it done. Oh time for dinner time for dinner Oh She love the foot feels very very very very very good So that's good, huh? That's such a relief. Yeah, it's feeling bonus Jonas honey You probably just saved us $3,000 Seriously, I know I'm really happy to hear that That's right YouTube we're eating we're eating dinner and I'm just sharing We do highs and lows at the family dinner table and that is my high for sure because at my foot Feels really good really strange, but I'll talk more about it later, but whoa Yeah rupture rupture tear strain pull miracle Michael's on the stairs on the ground. Good job. Taco. Oh All right today's run on Strava. I uploaded and I put the title as Virtually pain-free running and that's the truth after of it the first mile was a little sore a little tender But after that It was very difficult to find the pain now I don't know if that was just because of the tape job that I did on the foot before I started running I'm not sure anyway very fascinating and yes, the tacos were delicious Okay, we are jumping in to the comments of the week and we're gonna start off with one on Strava from Dave Griffiths Dave, thank you for the comment. He said just ran a five kilometer PB personal best time trial Out on my local streets in the cold and dark inspired by your YouTube channel now watching today's vlog I need recovery tips Dave. Thank you for the comment Congratulations, and that's amazing like in the cold and dark you lace him up You get out the front door and you go set a personal best in a time trial like that's amazing congrats Dave So that's the first comment of the week from Dave the second one hold on the second one is from YouTube from Oh, I'm not gonna say his name right at Etienne block Etienne block I'm not exactly sure how to apologize, but he said this on YouTube Fun exclamation point and this was in connection to the vlog about is running fun And he said fun exclamation point. I'm a bodybuilder who got over substance abuse by hitting the gym I've been going to the gym two to three hours a day for the past five years I started running this year as a new challenge I told myself that I'll run till I enjoy it then I can stop fast forward seven months later And I'm totally in love with running. It makes me feel calm and just awesome. I enjoy it now, but there is no way I'll quit now. I'll just be a bodybuilding runner until the day I die. Thank you for all the positive vibes Thank you at Etienne. I'm just gonna say it that way Thank you so much for that comment And I'm just so excited for you that first of all you beat Substance abuse that you found your outlet and something to help kind of guide you through this life Which I know we're all you know many of us out there like struggle with different challenges in this world And so the fact that you're first of all willing to share about your challenges and then also about how you overcame your substance abuse Amazing. Thank you for sharing a part of your story and you get the comment of the week And yes every week I give a shout out to the best comment in the previous seven days All right onward to the next topic and now the moment you've all been waiting for What will be the next running shoe that I purchase and review for you and again I'm here to attempt to put my ear to the YouTube glass to listen to you guys as close as possible Like what type of content do you want you already answered that question? What type of running shoes are you interested in and that was the question I asked four days ago and therefore today I went through all of the comments and Wrote down on a spreadsheet right here. I got it all listed for you wrote down on a spreadsheet What is the next running shoe you would like me to purchase and review for all of you? And so here are the results I tallied them up Thank you for your patience and getting to this point of the video, but are you ready? I'll do the top shoes here in a second But there what here are some honorable mentions honorable mentions Solomon snow cross four points in of mud claws only one New Balance Vongo only one sketchers razor three three votes Hoka Clifton five three votes and then the Soccany Peregrine eight two votes So again, those are some honorable mentions. Hopefully we will get to those shoes at some point I'm very interested in the new balance Vongo.  Let's get to them. Are you ready? There's a three-way tie for third place three way tie for a third place each with 12 votes The ultra escalante one point five the Reebok float ride run fast and the sketchers go run Ride seven all three of them tied with 12 votes. That was amazing three of those three shoes tied for third place Second place and it was close guys The Soccany freedom ISO to the Soccany freedom ISO to Amazing 15 points. Thank you 15 votes and number one on the list for the next shoe for me to purchase and review for you The Nike Vamaro 14 now. I realize it is a shoe that is about to be released Everywhere. It's already live on a couple places So hopefully I can get it get my hands on a pair very soon but the Nike Vamaro 14 will be the next shoe that I purchase and Run in and review for all of you and yes, the keyword of the day is 14 the number 14 down in the comments Did I mention the Nike Vamaro 14 had 17 votes and the Soccany freedom ISO to had 15 votes? So we're talking very close I will go with a Vamaro 14 this time because that's what you guys voted for that one won But the freedom ISO is definitely on the radar. So don't don't be disheartened. There's a good chance. It will be Coming soon. We'll see we'll see in the question of the day now I realize I've asked similar questions to this one. I realize that But I don't think I've asked it quite in this direct way and it's it's fairly open-ended But in yes, it is connected to shoes because today's video is about shoes But essentially Nike won this round, but I want to know what has been your go-to running shoe brand through throughout your entire life for me, I Would probably have to go with Nike Mostly because at the University of Colorado we were sponsored by Nike So we got in free Nike shoes for five years that I was there But I wanted like a lot of you are talking about Brooks and the Brooks ghost and the Brooks Glycerins and a lot of you are talking about new balance a lot of you about Sock and he so what is the brand? Loyalty that you have the most with is another way to phrase that question of the day Thank you for letting me know why you love that brand and what like draws you to Adidas to Nike to Reebok to new balance to Sock and he to oh my gosh Skechers is like a new one that I have no familiarity with so let me know down in the comments I would appreciate it. We're signing off tomorrow a long run and Potentially the Merrill 14's. I don't know. I don't know.  All right See beauty work hard and love each other. Thanks for being here


Hi again, in this lesson we're going to talk about exponentiation or how to raise number to power in Python programming language. Let's say that we want to multiply number 5 3 times, so we could do that by typing 5 asterisk 5 asterisk 5 and we will get result. 125. On the other way we could use double star sign to easier get the same result. So if we want to multiply number 5 by itself 3 times, we will put number 5 as our base. Then we'll put operator double star and after this operator we'll put our exponent. Our exponent will be 3 because we want to multiply 3 times our number 5 and we will get the same result. This operator is also great because we can use it to provide as an exponent some floating point number. You could say for example that you wanted to find number 5 raised to power one and a half and with usage of this operator we could easily get the result. That's all in this lesson. Thanks for watching. See you in the next video. Bye-bye.


Okay, good evening. I'd like to call the Monday, May 1st 2023 town of Berlin select board meeting to order With us on my left is Flo Smith Dave Sawyer is here via zoom To my right is Tor Nelson and Joe Stubb with us also is Vince Connie town administrator and Diane Isabel town treasurer Additions or changes to the agenda? I happen to have a couple of additions. I admitted putting on the agenda the Mowing roadside mowing bit They will be back today. We received one like to like to include that and then I received a note from the state AOT regarding the Riverton Route 12 bridge And the sidewalk and they're looking for an agreement and writing from us regarding the winter maintenance Just quickly discuss that with the board as well Okay, you said Tim was going to be in here Tim is with us, okay? Public comment hearing none Makaya Burrington right away permit. Yes, this is the one that we we talked about at the last meeting We rescheduled they weren't able to make it and we really wanted Tim to meet and speak with them and he has So Tim, I know you're here. Do you want to? Reach them on your discussion? Or not Now can you hear me? There we go Okay So yeah, I spoke with them a few days after that last meeting but they were very clear What they were exactly going to do when I spoke with them because I Don't I don't think they wanted to lose both entrants or to lose their existing entrance Add so there was a few options that were discussed was that they might just make their driveway that they have now currently bigger or Move to the new entrance and take out the old entrance I Don't believe they're on here tonight again. Are they? No, they're not here again When I left it he was gonna let me know he was gonna talk with the contractor that's doing the work and He was gonna let me know on what option they were gonna pick and I haven't heard from them yet I know there was an excavator there last week on by today. If everything's gone now, so they haven't done any of the Drainage work that they were gonna do Assume they're coming back at some point so Tim they were also I didn't hear you mentioned this but they were unaware of the state changing that Intersection off route 12 as well. Correct. They were not aware of that not not They were not aware of it when they were when they filed for this permit. No They're aware of it now, right? You made them aware of that. Yeah and You know, it sounded like They want to add more parking because if they have any visitors they have to park on the side of Chandler Road And that's what they were trying to change the driveway is was to add for more parking but He was discussing we discussed about him potentially removing some of the fence in front of the house and making their Front entrance a little wider and then making the driveway bigger in front of their house and Like I said, I don't at this point I don't know which option they're gonna go with if they're gonna leave the existing and make it bigger or move Move the driveway up the hill So they really haven't given us a definitive answer Okay, so I have a question here the permit says The construction of a new driveway and eliminate the old so I don't see options here Honestly, were they the ones that supplied the the picture the Google Earth picture of some sort Okay So I don't I don't necessarily see that this permit has options I mean just the permit itself is to eliminate one and Create a new well, I think I think they were under the influence that they were gonna be able to keep and Have some sort of loop driveway Well, I don't see Lou and I see eliminate Yeah, I know and they also include under the description of work to be done excavate old drive and new culverts but they also include that the Construction of the new driveway was to eliminate the old driver safety. Did they speak to you about their concerns regarding safety? It was it was mainly in the parking They have no parking so if they have gas they parked on the side of Like the end of their driveway and somewhat out in front with the white fences that was their safety concerns and He has a construction trailer for his work that he parks next or in front of his garage and Like when he's backing it in He's out kind of in the road but he wasn't Like I said, he he bounced around a little bit on which way he wanted to go if they were They were not gonna do a new driveway if they were just gonna make bigger parking in front of their house And keep the existing driveway like he was Back and forth when we when we spoke about what Their better options could be Well, I mean until they know what the state's gonna do I think they're gonna be in flux anyway Well, I think if you know in that site in the state gonna redo that that that Intersection right there on channel road. I think if they leave it where it's at They're gonna have a longer driveway. Anyways, once that's reconstructed if it stays on that lower end of the house Yeah, my assumption is if they if the state is gonna bring that road over narrow it up to one, you know Actual just left and right intersection like I explained to him like that hole where the road is now is gonna be turned into grass or potentially could be added on for parking for them or whatnot like I Don't know how I'm sure the state is gonna keep it as their right away. I'm sure they're not gonna deed anything back over to the adjacent landowners No, but that being said if that channel road comes down and it turns a little to the right to you know To square that up and their driveways on that lower end the state just can't block them off right there That's gonna give them a longer driveway to to still be on channel road because they're not gonna want to exit on to On to the main highway.  It would just be At this point is it is it the best solution to go back to them and say, you know, right now It's not approved We want to wait until they determine what their final design is gonna look like before we can approve it And they're waiting on to see what route what's gonna happen with the route 12 and how far that's gonna move I'm sure at this point but yeah to Joe's point right it says remove and replace that's not what they're planning on doing right now So they're gonna have to redo this permit for what they actually want to do anyway Correct. Well, I Mean, there's multiple solutions that can come out of this but we're just guessing right now As far as I got from them like if they're not gonna put in that new driveway They're gonna use the existing one they are and make a parking area in front of their house on their lawn Right, but that's not on this permit. So either way they have to redo the permit And I don't think that you're gonna give them two curb cuts to their property anyways So it'll be just the one what I would hold off until until we know what's happening On that intersection personally Is that a motion to table? I that that's what my motion would be. I would table this until till we've got more information Either State on what's happening on that entrance That was my recommendation right from the start was We should wait till there's an actual definitive answer from v-trans On what that intersection is going to look like where everything's going to be and how much is going to change there before We do this and people spend money and then they have to all get ripped back up because it's not going to fit into the Scope of work that they're planning on doing there Well, since we have a motion, do I have a second second now we have a discussion Is it so tim basically when you talk to them they weren't clear on on just what they were going to do No No, he was going back and forth like they were going to put that entrance in temporarily at least To access the property for the equipment and a dump truck To do the work But then when they were there this past weekend they just took the fence down and they came in from the driveway with the excavator and did what they did out front and Um, the excavator was gone today when I went by there. So I don't know what they're I don't think they know what they're gonna do. Yeah well, all right the uh Any other discussion on this? comments All those in favor of tabling All right Those opposed motion cares Uh Can you reach out to them and explain what's going on? Yes And maybe they'll have a better idea Yep Um, okay, please approve vacation carryover. Okay, there were a number of questions Regarding what was in the contract and such in your handouts and what I said to you There's uh, there's the information that clarifies exactly what's in the contract. What can be carried over? And how much are they asking to carry over they were asking to carry over an additional 40 hours additional 40 hours for one year. Yep Due to military Right I think there's a family And a military yeah, there's actually two military leads and one family leave and somebody probably going to Another country for a month. These are all separate things. Okay, so again the assumption is there's going to be a bit of a Strain on the remaining to make To do overtime to cover those shifts I guess my only concern is It's not really a concern. Just more of a heads up I can see this happening again next year Yeah, exactly. I'm not opposed to it. In fact, I'll make the motion to approve I don't know if I can say or an increase of 40 hour carry over for one year for that two department union members Second That as long as at the end of the year we don't exceed the number of hours that were on the contract For the carryover that they needed those hours be paid out at the end of the year I wouldn't want to see it carried over You know past the year I think there's a what's there? There's a time limit. I mean there's a carryover amount of what was it 60 hours or Whatever the hours were So at the end of the the calendar year, I'd like to see that that was paid out I don't want to see that carried over, you know In a cure a cure more than what the hours of the contract allows, right? I don't mind it for that one year So if if the if the amount is 120 hours that they can carry over They've got 125 at the end of the year because of this we pay them out those five hours So they don't exceed the 120. That's what you're saying, correct? Yes. Yeah How often does this happen First time is this first time for them. Yeah, I think that there was a time that myself You know fairly stress stressful job and the time off and away from the office and out of the car is important Uh paying them off is better than anyone Curing more or losing it But the time off is is definitely important. It is any other discussion on this All those in favor Those opposed portion carries They can building and property ordinance So this was joke. Is this something that you might want to This was brought out and um so again, I uh Didn't reinvent the wheel. I went looking in the plagiarized with pride This document my best practice Was that best practice best practices? Okay. We'll go with that much much better terminology I looked at three or four and tried to you know find the best out of all of them and what fit The town of Berlin the best and this is what is the result of that this draft Um, it's far from perfect, but it's a place to start If we want to go that way and have an ordinance for that This is a place to start kind of baseline it We get to to fit what we think the needs are And what brought about the need for this? Well, uh, I think it was me Well, so there there's some some we have some vacant buildings in burlap and some of them have been put out You know for the whole world to see on social media. Um, I also know uh, recently Like k and w would just close their doors You know, and that's that's off the beaten path and not you know very visible to to the travel public and with the discussion of hilltop closing their doors to some of the A reduction in residents reduction residents whatever that might be. Um, I was just afraid of what where they might be taking up residents And so I said something to this Did his homework came up with this Back to you building is that the one on granger road by the way, sorry about that. It is T. W. Yes, is it on granger or is it on industrial? You have access of the rear access is on the industrial The real question with this is Do we want to start the process to have this ordinance in other words, you know, I draft it make it public It's got to be out there for a certain number of days. We have that public hearings on it Well, I mean you stop and look at it now the only We got there are probably several Buildings that are vacant At least two with a mile of each other In this ordinance is what constitutional vacant building like his k and w they're probably going to be storing equipment and stuff like that It's not going to be probably a daily use thing for a while. But what would constitute It being vacant if somebody has a property that is used for storage It wouldn't necessarily be vacant. So how do you determine that? I guess what you're considering a vacant building It's kind of defined in section two. There's a number of bullets statements in there They kind of define that again for discussion All right The trouble I see is you'd have Staples building is still vacant Has been for a while. Yeah Yeah, and I wouldn't worry too much about that Falling into just repair. It's not necessarily vacant That is storage for shops They are using it they are using it Okay Actually, Dave, I think section four even breaks down the definition of definitions a bit better I'm just seeing if I can pull it up while I'm on here. Okay, and if we were to improve approve this this would require a Building safety officer Well, we can change the wording, right? And this is Really just a draft to spark the discussion tonight If if the board elects to move forward with that then I'll clean up the draft I will, uh, you know schedule the put a schedule together that shows the public hearings You know the public notice it's gotta You know go in the face all those things I'll put a schedule together um with a cleaned up draft For the get it out to the board to review and comment on and have it at the next Next meeting or the meeting thereafter to start the process That's the real question is that we want to start the process To establish this ordinance I can see I can see the need for for for such an ordinance I you know without reading over what it is. I think that maybe it should be investigated whether we go forward with this uh And it may be put it on the next meeting to To dig into it a little bit give us some time to dig into it I think her as well. I think that would give us the time necessary for the review and advance And thank you for your time putting this together And for your suggestion I make the motion that we table this discussion Until we can review it more in its entirety and bring it back to a future So I'll circuit that motion any further discussion All those in favor Motion carries um Throw up the two roads and discussions or for discussion and approval to meet Yes, again the senior package Three Documents shows the location of the roads And a picture of actually both the roads the the brownsville's expansion portion as well. It shows you better to find Mr. Tim would you like to talk to those? Uh, so I guess which one you would you guys like to start with? I would Brownsville's Okay, so Brownsville extension you guys are all familiar with it It just Brownsville goes over crosses the road takes the right goes out to the private road Brown mill extension is a short little Road, I don't even know how it became a road at this point, but it's probably 50 to 75 feet long Just about enough to get a truck off the normal road and It's kind of a pain to deal with in the winter time There's not a lot of place for snow And pretty much we're plowing the end of somebody's driveway They had some concerns down there last year that they didn't like the way we were plowing it Because there's no place to put snow And they thought we were leaving an excessive amount of snow Up in their driveway causing damage to their property and so forth and it's Been that way as long as I know nothing's really changed on the way we've been doing what we're doing down there but they said that we've been causing property damage for A lot of years I guess so Like I said, it's it's just barely long enough worth of the town road to just barely get the truck up in there And then there's ledge on both sides and we got to push it up around the ledge and dump it off and So What are the statutes as far as throwing up a road? Again, there's a lengthy lately There's a well-defined process that we have to go through as far as putting out notification holding public. I think it's two public hearings um before to bring it to the public And what are the requirements to take and change it from a class Three to a class four That's defined in the orange book and I don't know those off the top of my head I'd have to look and see what's required for that But I think it's something similar as well to change that we have to go through public hearing at least one What makes more sense to me is that throwing it up just taking turn it down to a class four or a trail And the town still has the right to weigh and We don't have to be maintenance That's that's a good option. I will I'll look at the details for that And uh bring that back to the board Hey, I think it's the same gem for um for uh, what is it? You know what a name for it town highway 74 town highway 74 That's the same story Well, that one. Yeah that one is we just push up it and push it off to the side, but um I can't believe nobody's ever been hit there yet with the amount of traffic because we have to back back out in route 12 And it's pretty much you're backing out into there blind the dump truck People go into the opposite lane, you know, I mean we're half out. I've plowed it a couple of times You know when I'm going by for mic and stuff if it's not done yet and You'll be half out on the road people just go into the opposite lane to go around you instead of giving you the right Away of backing out into the highway Like so there's no place to turn around in there and it's Somebody's gonna get an accident down there sometime for plowing 70 feet of road that really isn't Enough for us to even be in there with a dump truck Is there a drive off of that? It used so I've gotten a few stories from it. We used to plow all the way up to the house To turn around up in the door yard the house burnt um Probably close to 20 years ago. I think now In that time frame and there was nothing there for a while. So they didn't do anything to the road and then somebody bought it I believe or at least rebuilt the house and then they Asked for the bottom of it to be plowed up to the railroad tracks and They kind of started doing it again and uh But like they didn't want they didn't want us to cross the tracks. They didn't want to store up in there That there was no place to turn around once they Redid everything up there I don't know what this is the case where there's there's just there's one house on the other side of the tracks that this goes to One home And you're saying there's about 70 feet of road to to route 12 and Yeah, I don't think it's that one. Maybe it might not even be that far Where there's a resident on there, so I guess we got to see whether we can resort revert that to a class 4 I don't know that you can though I know I was saying that to you I think that the people that are going to be affected have to agree to it Exactly, and I think that you're gonna you create a A liability issue if there was a problem up there and trying to get the fire department and stuff up in there Where we don't you know what I mean where it's already an established Class 3 road or something. I I don't know what you're doing that situation So actually we have bins to find out Yeah, is there a class 4 or a trail that goes beyond that house? Not that it shows on the map Okay Right now I believe the town maps show it only goes to their railroad tracks And then it's theirs from there out Yeah I think the only reason they ever cross the tracks before was just to get it to a place to turn around There's no place to put a turn around there neither is there. No, there's a there's an old Seller hole on the right hand side and then on the left hand side. There's all the trees and railroad tracks and it's We cleaned it up two years ago To try to make it a little easier to plow and it My memory serves me correct. It's quite a bit of ledge on the left hand side out in where the trees are Of course, would it be safer to plow with the pickup truck? We don't have somebody who runs the pickup every time Not every time Well, I guess probably the thing to do then is then just reach out to these folks and start the discussion Okay So I'm just looking at the orange book now and basically I'm just gonna plot some things because it's a class 4 Highway is going to be established by the way. That's not a long two or three. We do that The slight board shall determine which highways are class 4 town highways talks about trails should not be considered highways Why is it important to keep a class 4 do they have to be maintained class 4 highways Maybe maintain to the extent required by the necessity of the town The public good and the convenience of the inhabitants of the town or maybe reclassified using the same procedures for laying out highways and meeting the standards In section 302 this title Well, I have a motion to allow vince to move forward with this So moved Your second Any other discussion Those in favor Motion carries Um, okay town in pantmouth policy So that's another discussion um So Three weeks ago a longer. There was a meeting that's with um, berry law failure in berlin town administrators and police jeeps and such to talk about Trying to prepare for the reduction in the residents allowed on the program by the state at the hotels There was going to be some people vacating Examples of numbers to maybe 40 people say for example in the area together Basically on the street How are we going to manage that? What's what's it going to look like? Nobody really knows Um, well tell your talk a little bit. They had been working with the leagues of cities and towns in advance of this And they had developed this encampment Policy Procedure whatever you want to call it um Hand in hand with vlct. So vlcts have a look at this again. This has been uh, I I asked Well, there you did is what I'll ask them out later if we could use that as a baseline If they can send it to us to develop one Obviously for me to bring to the board as well To see if they wanted to move forward with the development of this type of policy to to help Really it's a tool to put some some guidelines in place on how we manage Encampments we know we have them We know they're out there, but what do we do if if A small group of people put it in a place that makes residents or others feel unsafe How do we manage that there's no guidelines for that? What are the police do right? But they don't have to do So this kind of put some guidelines to that and I'll try to provide some direction as well That's under under the fishing game regulations and there is a enforceable Thing in in in their laws about camp sites. It's right. It's right in the state thing and and that If it's pushed they have to enforce that that is a state law that is Enforceable under the fishing game regulations. It's clearly spelled out in there. I know we need something, you know, Locally, but this is on a state state thing and it's right in the fishing game regulations about these campsites No, but does that talk about campsites on private land private land and state lands both Says right in there. I mean, there's a whole Whole thing on it. I know that they don't care about getting a ticket losing their hunt and fishing license, but It is in the regulations Hey bud, I guess that's something I can certainly take a look at as well. Yeah No, I think we need to move forward with something but but there is that is Because I remember we had that encampment down there off. We were talking off of the river road down there So is that I guess my question on that though, Dave is If that's fishing game that that's a state Enforced one if if fishing game Decide that they're not going to do anything and it's still a problem for the town What's the town's recourse at that point if we don't have yeah, no I agree. We need one but there is there is there is one in place with on the state level now It's just anything else. It's enforcing it And but yeah, I do feel that we need something on a local level as well Because that would be my concern. We call we call the state on it. They don't do anything Well, and then also the cleanup provisions The world can end here.  It's a mess down there And that's on the landowners to pick up a lot of that stuff and and and and there's all kinds of hazardous debris down there Yeah, the one off the river though, most of that is located on the town portion of the property Not the landowners unfortunate. Yeah, unfortunately for him And I've already talked to Vince about the possibility of having communities people who have to serve their community service Do some of this. Yeah, we're gonna talk about that too because I got a Response from them that I included in your package Yeah Let's see here. So anything else on The town encampment. No again, the question is the same as the previous one. Is it something that We want to entertain moving a bit forward with there's a board want to review it. I mean, it's a preliminary draft. It's very similar Um, I made some subtle changes to differentiate between obviously month player completely not completely but A lot of differences between them and us and how we what we have and how we would do things So there's some subtle changes there But it's a it's a preliminary draft to promote some discussion if we want to move forward with that Well, you should take and look at state statute with fishing game also so you can plagiarize that Well, for sure. I will And then again, I'll uh at some point I'll I'll do similar month player I'll run if I lose cities and towns to get their perspective on it as well well Motion to have vince pursue this Exactly Any further discussion? Yeah So down in riverton, there's a swimming hall Just uh next to the bridge that's the trestle the trestle behind the fire station further down. Yeah Well not behind but anyway, is that is that like it's not necessarily a park or anything But but that would fall underneath this as well. Okay. Yeah, if there was one there. Yeah, for sure Anywhere town All those in favor Motion carries Emergency management plan annual update for approval So you have a cop. There's a hard copy on the on the table of the I think it's 46 pages pages Yeah, just that the state every year requires uh updates to the emergency management plan Must be submitted between town reading day and the first of may so Then updated some things deleted some businesses that are no longer in existence Some things have been added names have changed in a few places that sort of thing so The rest of it is all basically the same Something that's come up is that the the contact information and the appendices is Uh It changes quite a bit and it might not be having an annual update is sufficient. So I was Hoping with your permission The main part of the plan is the first Four or five pages That's the state provided Guidance it and has our most of the crucial information and the significant context So that that's something That you're signing the implementation plan To disable the proof the the rest of all the appendices or annexes are Just the contact information addresses emails that sorts of things So i'm hoping that that can be updated as needed and not have to Go through this review cycle every You know every time but And my hope would be to update that on a more frequent basis Could be anywhere from as whenever we find something needs to be changed like the bowling Alley Family center down there. It's going to have new ownership. We can have all the details on that yet They're going to be closed for a month here. I guess and and reopen in june. So hopefully at that time we'll know More about it inside put that in the plan That sort of thing but so the main part is the I can say those first five pages Up added some information That the state review of the last year's submission noted that we didn't have in there and they were in an omission Or something that should have been filled in and I've clarified that So hopefully they're This day will be happy with it this time around. There won't be any holdups with Getting it approved I move that we adopt the local emergency management plan effective may 1st 2023 and authorize the Vice chair to sign on behalf of the town The second okay second any more discussion All those in favor Those opposed motion carries Very thorough. Thank you. Thank you very much for your support Thank you. Thank you. Okay, approval license of permit vouchers and applications I got the script I move that we approve payroll warrant 23-22 for payroll from april 9 2023 to april 22nd 2023 paid on April 26 2023 the amount of 60,937 dollars 90 cents further payable warrant 23 g 20 with checks 22905 to 22 944 for payables in the amount of 156,147 dollars and 33 cents And also the april looking south bank statements for the general fund sewer water checking accounts And lastly the april general journal entries second Any further discussion All those in favor Motion carries, please don't forget to sign them There's a lot just You said we had uh since tim's here. Let's take and do the aot bridge. Yes, okay So in your package you'll see and You should see a note from Mr. Goudreau Adam Goudreau of the state He's looking what he's basically just looking for is for the addition of this sidewalk on the new bridge in riverton Confirmation from the town that it will maintain the sidewalk in the winter He wants that via email and writing and then they'll then they'll proceed with the conceptual plans for that sidewalk On that bridge And then they want to work on a formal agreement after that So that's just a one-pager in your package from them Looking for that Jim Is it gonna With the design of the bridge as it is Is there any way that the town can go through there with a plow truck and just wing the snow over the edge? Yes, I haven't really seen the complete design, but like there's an open sidewalk compared to what's there now, right? Yeah As I understand it though the sidewalk is going to be six inches above the roadbed or Some measurement above the road bed raised to some yeah to separate the road road bed from the from the sidewalk I'm assuming it's going to be kind of like the The Bailey bridge there by the high school in Montpelier You know that style Yeah So I'm just wondering if any way you'd be taking go down through there with one of the plow trucks and just wing it over I We could probably definitely wing it off But you know, I mean without having any speed it ain't gonna go More I guess it depends on the the style of rail that they put on the edge Like if it was open enough that the snow would go through it Then yeah, it would probably open up and stay open But if it's if it's going to hold the snow We're end up we're going to end up just packing the snow up against the rail That's it'll fill in the sidewalk eventually and we'll have to Go down with a loader or something and then again like All right, then we're going to have to set up a sign package in route 12 and like It's a lot of Not that you know, I mean we can do it all but it's you know, I mean To set up a sign package in route 12 go down there loader and clean that bridge off when it's a state bridge Like I guess we'd have to figure out the right way of doing it at that point whether you know I mean if that wasn't working we might have to look at a different option Well when they were when they were discussing the design of the bridge, I thought it was going to be a fairly open Guard I'm not a guard rail, but a railing system probably just steel tubes It's like a fence So to my understanding east my pillar has this type of agreement already in place Oh, yeah, right there at 14 and two. Yes. Um, can we get a copy of that agreement just so we can kind of see an idea of what in fact the state's going to be expecting from us I mean initially on a little bit hesitant about a range of this and so we See exactly what's going to be expected of us. I don't think we're really equipped to take on us around some responsibility at this time We do want to See what we can do as far as serving the needs of the residents in that area Well, the other thing is is the bridge as it stands now one of the residents has been Snowblowing the bridge or at least the uh, the sidewalk. They've been somebody's been clearing the sidewalk I you may know more about it than I do tell I don't know a lot about it other than somebody's been doing it If you get down to it, that's probably been a liability for the state or for the town Allowing them to continue See I was thinking of I'm thinking more of the state By the thing if the resident was doing that what If you could take and put them on as a part-time employee for just the Snowblowing or if the liability is now a liability for the town But it's not I don't think it's necessary on reasonable one depending on what the state would expect us to do Yeah, but I you know, I would see more Yeah, instead of just a concept that we're going to take care of this, you know, what does it look like? What is exactly are they're going to be requirements for us? You know After some of the inches or You know Yeah, and if if we go through and clear and the State comes through and covers it up again. Are we going to have to go back out and just all sorts of Stuff like that, which I'm sure the other towns have already Spurred out And here again, I don't want to plagiarize anybody, but there might be best practices out there Somewhere When does this not be into the town? I mean into the state Again, they'd like it as soon as possible like anything, but I'll I'll give him a call tomorrow Tell him what I'm doing and uh See how he responds to that and I'll tell him where we're at Well, I'm skeptically open-minded on this. I guess I would say Okay, um entertain a motion to have vince pursue this So I'm a lot of pursuit Second Any further discussion? All those in favor On Motion carried. So vince you'll have that for us next meeting. Yes, I'll have something I'll have a copy of what he small player does What their agreement looks like? hopefully a A date that the state needs our answer by as well And if I get that in advance, I'll also forward to you guys in between so you have a chance to look at what it means as well Okay, uh Mowing bins Over here Let's give it to Joe. Sorry, I've been open Mr. Dexter, let's see. I'm writing to submit a bid for the 2003 roadside mowing season post bid is a single pass mowing all set up all class two and three roads $5,000 And second pass on paved roads Would add a $700 to the bid I'm going to question Is scheduled to be performed using a John Deere to about 25 55 55 Goes into 90 horsepower Put through the five foot rule more The the five thousand is this I believe the same As last year's I don't think you raised this price did you Speak to him on the multiple passes on the yes bridges and whatnot. Yep. Yeah tim actually talked to him as well He dares for everybody's information. We had one other person contact about bidding I asked him to provide me What he was interested in bidding on and what we had I got no response It was published in the newspaper for five days as well. They hit the RFP for the bid Um, this is the only bid that that we have received It is insurance. Yep. He has it and he'll provide the information again. He's done it for us for the last three years four years Even over the town for probably five to six years they've been How do you compare the bid against the requirements in the RFP? They meet he meets all the requirements I make the motion to approve the bid received from donnell dexter For the 2023 roadside mowing season Proposed bid being Plus two and three roads five thousand dollars. That's the first pass and second pass on paved roads would be The 700 additional and the discussion that we've had with him in the fact that he has the insurance And he's been doing a funny job for us over time So total of fifty seven fifty seven hundred with the first and second pass Second Any other discussion on this? Hearing none all those in favor Motion carries Okay minutes approval of Did you find out about that in your package since you asked there's a statement from The leagues of cities and towns um their legal office on their evaluation of that And they basically say the minutes belong to the board Not the individuals that were or are on the board now. So it just belongs to the board They think it's fine for the current board to decide whether to approve previous minutes Okay Approval of march 20th 2023 minutes. I make the motion to approve said minutes And with just one Change and that's to take out page five because it's blank. Otherwise perfect So By the way, they also went on to say that there is no state law This has minutes have to be approved many boards do it as best as best practice Oh, that's good All right Any other discussion on those minutes hearing none all those in favor All right motion carries minutes for march April 3rd 2023 I make a motion to approve the monday april 3rd 2023 minutes with just four individual punctuation adjustments on One on page three one on page four and two on page five And i'll give those to vent so that can be done It's punctuation only Here a second any other discussion on those minutes hearing none those In favor miss the eye Motion carries Minutes for april 17th 2023 I make the motion to approve the minutes of monday april 17th 2023 with just one Not necessarily a revision, but I recommend on page three To uh, check on the spelling of ray lee mooney ur's first name and include your last name Other than that everything else is fine Here a second second any discussion All those in favor Motion carries round table Dave okay, so tour nothing sir Joe a couple things May 13th is a saturday. That is going to be an open house for about 70 fire departments within the state of the month There has been a lot of articles in the paper a lot of articles in the news anyway about Just uh tough to find staffing And so like I said, there's about 70 fire departments that are uh taking in this and berlin is one of them Just to allow people to stop in to see what they can do as a volunteer and it's not necessarily all You know putting on the gear and going to the calls it's other Other duties that also happen at those stations That's may 13th In berlin will be tended to So the other thing is we have um a vote coming up in august Right is that what we we've cited upon for the petition for that's what it's petitioned for um, if we go forward with this I would really like to see A non-binding vote Set out for the town residents To determine if the berlin fire department becomes part of the municipality or state is Independent it's kind of just uh Get a get a feel for where the town residents How they uh they look at that Well, non-binding vote doesn't necessarily have to be Doesn't necessarily have to be um Warned Does it What do you saw I I'm not more than I have to Yeah, it's more of a survey. So yeah, it's more of a survey that I can I can check it's been Rachel. Yeah I'll find out through bscd And as as soon as we uh find out if that's still good to move forward on I think I'll put it out there in front of the porch forum I don't social media We'll get a lot of town residents to come out nothing else to answer that one question Thank you, okay in the um I can't think of anything else at this Vince I only have one And that's to answer your question about Getting hold of the state on their program for health. Again, it's in his responses in your any package They're evaluating basically they're evaluating the future of the community restitution program The program was shuttered during covid and it's struggling right now Once they decide on the program They'll ask the district manager mike sweeney Um for our area to touch base with us Based on whatever their decision is on that program So I was just thinking it wouldn't be just for us. It'd also be for Montpelier barrier Where he has he's the guy that's going to reach out once they determine what they're going to do the program They're going to bring it back or do whatever So our decision is there's no decision right now on that I was just saying it'd be an easy way or not an easy way But be a way to take and get some of these campsites cleaned up to get the trash out Shovels and bridges in the winter maybe. Hey, that's an idea There is another option not necessarily available to us this year But is the diversion program It's outside of the department corrections program, but they've got a lot of their clients Are under community service Requirements as well Um, maybe I'm concerned about this year. So they were not on Top of the morning So they're not on the bias I can still reach out and see if there's interest there I think even with the uh with Community service from the department of corrections. We still had to pay something Nothing's going to be free here Certainly, I mean when they were shoveling You remember they were shoveling the hydrants The fire hydrants were the town And they were they were um I think it was maybe five dollars an hour or so. It's not much. Yeah Not for the But the trouble the only thing that that would bother me about Having them do the shoveling on the bridge the bridge. It's it's not something you can do On a schedule Right Yeah, I'd be I'd be hesitant about the the bridge, but um, you know, some of the other Doubting captains and stuff might be more impossible. We still have to shovel the hydrants And then snow you stop with the hydrants and you move to a bridge It's just kind of one thing But no, I mean when they did that when they did the hydrants They didn't do it every time in snow. They just they wouldn't clear them out We've we've had we've had uh that that program that we've had people from that program come in and Rooms in our power station. Yeah Something really very similar to the size of this These are all fresh We definitely if if they're going to clean up on these encampments We just to do our due diligence and kind of bring their awareness of of some of the hazards there Picking up because I I did walk one of them and There was a lot of needles and stuff around there. So They had to have some supervision and uh protective gear Yeah, well, I mean, I'm sure that the DOC can provide or they have a Place where they can get some gloves that would be suitable For that. Yeah Any elements? No, that was it for me. I thought of one other thing. I was hoping joe would speak to I've seen that he's already spoken. I've seen it in the media Regarding the two norwich university students that assisted the fire department graduation was at norwich this past weekend And now they are moving forward in their lives And you have their names and I wanted to see if you would you know vocalize it here So all town residents so Peter Sandry and Reno George They were they came to the Berlin fire department from norwich university. They were with us for three years and Very vital to the the department and the community and And truly the department and community will miss them Very much so And I thank them for their service. It was very beneficial to all of us Have you reached out to norwich for some more always? Well, okay, um If there's nothing else I'll entertain the motion to adjourn some All in favor A lot was quick Well, thank you guys we'll see you