Hey guys, it's Tilly and I'm doing an update on my nano-riMo for you all that we'll be swearing in this video because I find that in this point in time it is definitely needed for me to get all of my feelings out about my nano-riMo so far. How far is my nano-riMo coming along?   And what I have written has been absolute trash. I think the packet of crisps I just written sounds better than what I've written. And to be honest, the only reason I haven't deleted what I've written is because I needed that word count. And even then I'm only sitting on just over 14,000 words.  I'm not really letting nano-riMo affect my mood too much. Like I'm still so much in love with my story that it doesn't matter if it's going to take me a month to rewrite it, or if it's going to take me three months or a year to rewrite it as long as I still like my characters and I still like where it's going and how much it has improved since the first draft I've done, that I'm kind of happy with that. I honestly don't think I'm going to finish nano-riMo for the first time ever. But you know, I'm totally okay with that. This is 2016, bad things happen, but we all endure and we're going to get through it.  Anyway, you guys know about my characters and if you don't know about my characters, I will leave a link below to the character vlog that I did of my nano-riMo like at the start of the month. I introduced you to my six main characters who are constantly six amazing soldiers who are on a mission of their life. I don't think I've actually told you guys explicitly like what happens in my story. So I'm going to do that for you. You guys will find out my storyline or I'm going to get like totally passive aggressive and swear at myself a lot. So don't hurt my feelings. Basically the way that I picture my book is that it is actually going to be like a five book series because you know, why would you just start with one book?  So that's what I've decided to do. So basically the first book is just meeting my characters and getting people very attached to my characters because what's better than you know, just killing people randomly than killing off characters that people really like. Yes, I am that kind of writer. So we have my six main characters and basically these are just trained soldiers. I don't really know what they're doing. The king hasn't given them any advice on what their future holds. They're kind of on the assumption that they're just going to go and be sent inside the border tower that's where most of the other soldiers go. But at the same time, they do definitely have priorities over regular soldiers. Like the king keeps them in the side of the palace. He had them tutored every single day from a young age. In fact, he sits with them himself. He sends them out on missions daily. So obviously they're not just regular soldiers, but to them they're starting to think like what could he possibly want them for. But the king definitely has plans for them and those plans, you know, they're plans. So my soldiers start off this book on a mission capturing basically this big gang leader and they return him to the king and pretty much he gets arrested and put into the dungeons.   And then he calls in our protagonist who is called Ansley and pretty much tells her that he's sending the group on this once in a lifetime mission. This will deem what their future will hold. And basically it's going to be the first mission they do outside of the palace walls. So they know something's happening then they've got to pretty much find this posing country who they are pretty much at the brink of war with. They have sent a general over the line, which is completely out of the terms of the contract. So they're going to find this general and bring him back to the king. So they have to travel pretty much. They all have their own horses and it starts off that way. One day ride out of the palace and they run into trouble. They find a Baltine regiment that has completely attacked these civilian merchants and a small battle ensues. And you kind of see what the characters are like in these situations. Things don't go too well. So the Baltine group managed to get a few soldiers away. So they are going to pretty much go and send word to this general that's supposed to capture. So they're going to have to change their entire plan of attack now and go secretly to him. So they continue on their journey, not saying any ins. They're not trying to alert anyone that they're staying really covert and like camping out and getting angry with each other and stressing and also very excited because this is like their first big mission. After this, they're going to be able to figure things out and they're happy to get outside the city walls and just hang out together. I'm going to have to like draw a map for this because it's like super confusing, even in my head. But basically the place where the general is staying is on the edge of a cliff. And so originally they were just going to plan on dressing up as the other soldiers and going inside. But once they get there, they realize it's a really tough situation. They have no chance at all of just basically walking through the front gates. Honestly, who has this mind at picking up really different and outrageous plans of attack? She decides that the best they do is to climb up the cliffside because obviously that's how you're going to do it.  Them.  Like it's going to be something that's not only going to surprise the readers, surprise myself, but also surprise the characters. They're on this chase in the general. They have to make a really quick getaway when they've got hold of him because people are now alerted that they're also in the building and one thing leads to another and one of these precious characters end up dying. Then the general also kills in the middle of all this mishap, which isn't too bad. Like the order from the king was to have him dead or alive, preferably alive, but you know, you can't really help it in some situations. So then the other five members of our team managed to escape and we actually witnessed like the ride back and how this death affects certain characters who were their friends with them and it's like hopefully going to be really emotional all of your heartstrings because like even my thought of this character dying absolutely kills me. And I literally wrote this character in to die and they became my favorite character and it's going to gut me.  And then as for the rest of the books in the series, it's going to have different like things happen. There's going to be two wars during the entire series. There's going to be plenty of character deaths happening and I also really want to deal with PTSD in this book as well and people that don't always have happy endings. So I just want to say that like it's going to be one of those series where characters aren't going to be safe even if they're a main character or a favorite character. No one really is going to be okay and it's going to have realistic aspects kind of woven throughout it and hopefully it'll all just come together really nicely. But I don't actually know. Shit, that was a lot of talking. So there you guys have the actual like plots to my book, my first one that is not subject to stay the same. Things can change very easily.  I don't really know because I am too invested in this story to even take a step back and look at it as an outsider. So yay for 14,000 words. Nave for not being able to write 50,000 in one month. I just know now it's not going to happen. But don't fear, I'm still going to try to do it. I'm just happy that like things are going well to be honest. So you guys should definitely leave a comment below and let me know how your nanorimer was going or what stories you guys are currently writing or just anything about you. Like how are you guys? Are you guys okay? Are you still happy? Are you reading lots? I love you guys. So anyway, thank you for watching and hopefully I'll see you guys again soon and until then have a lovely bookish day and hopefully great things happen to you. Hey guys, it's Tilly and today I'm here with another T.F. unboxing and if you guys don't know already I pretty much love the way I chronicle this though. I'm going to tear straight into this when I rip it open and I'm going to show you every damn thing that's inside of this box.


Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey guys, good evening everybody. Welcome to another edition of the access to trader.com nightly wrap-up show where everybody is doing well. I hope everybody had a fun weekend, a great weekend, a relaxed weekend, and hopefully everybody had a good trading day. If you are brand new to the channel, welcome aboard. Thank you for tuning in, spending a few minutes of your life with us. And most important part is thank you very much for giving yourself the opportunity, giving me the opportunity to kind of show you the way I look at the market. On a day-to-day basis. So let's talk about the tape. First and foremost, congratulations for everybody who had Tesla. Tesla had a really, really great breakdown. Really great breakdown from the 254 level, 252 confirmed, the 50-day moving average. If you watched the weekend update, we talked about a potential move to that 238, 240 level, unbooked beautiful move. I mean, absolutely beautiful move, and you can see it right from the word go, gap down to three points and went all the way down to 238, which pretty much closed the cycle on this whole interval, right? It traded right into this rising support. We'll get to the ramifications of Tesla in a second. I do like the way it put in the haver here, kind of reclaimed back support. And it's actually really setting up here maybe for one or two-day potential bounce back into this 252 level. And that's kind of the key. There's a shot here, if you look at the 60-minute view, right? It's getting very, very tight here that if it reclaims back this whole 60-minute channel that started all the way back to Friday, it actually could get a tradeable bounce back into the 252 level where it broke down, first of all, on Friday session. If you correlate that with the five-day moving average and you correlate that with the 60-minute supply, you can see both of them have rising or actually declining supply going back into 252. What was very, very impressive what the Bulls did today, if you guys remember on the video on the weekend, we talked about the Bulls have to hold on to this 357, 50 level held back-to-back days Thursday and for Friday. Well, we had a nice gap down today and that was one of the reasons why Tesla was able to go down 7-8 points today. I'm pretty confident to say pretty much all this covered close to that 238 level. Great job. Again, all you guys, what I like what the Bulls did, the market gap down, Qs traded all the way down to 355, 90s and then they came back and reclaimed Friday's lows, which were a very, very important thing and they kind of started to bounce here. If you look at the dynamics of the tape today, you really don't see anything that's going to really stand out. Sure, that was pretty impressive that the Bulls reclaimed rising support, but if you look at the action today, pretty stale. They're pretty, pretty stale today. You had the Dow up 40 points, the Nasdaq up 60 points and you had the S&P up 17 points. If you thought the market was slow, Tay, the volume was slow, it was slow. We literally only had one natural pivot, was a pivot on NVIDIA. NVIDIA in the morning, everything else was slow and that was because Tay is the last night of Yom Kippur. It started yesterday, ending tonight at sundown at 6 o'clock, so the reason why that's important, is because a lot of the really big hedge fund managers, a lot of them are Jewish, they're celebrating. Yom Kippur is the day of atonement, so you have a lot of people off today, a lot of big managers off today. You have the David Einhorn's, the Stevie Cones of the world, the Easy Emblem Balance, so you have a lot of big decision makers not there and that's why you saw a lack of range, a lack of volume. They come back tomorrow to work and you also saw a lack of really big production in the options market, very limited amount of big bets being placed and that was because of the holiday, but tomorrow everybody should be back to work and when you look at what the market did today, you can make two cases. The first case was, well, nobody was around to continue to sell this market. Is it really that big of a deal that the market came back and reclaimed Friday's lows? I think it is. I think the scoreboard is the scoreboard. Like I've been saying, from every area, every interval that when we lost the 50-day moving average, the market's just not going to go straight down. We are, don't get it twisted, right? We are below the 50-day moving average and we're barely held on, so I think there could be, in the next day or so, there could be a tradeable dead-cat balance going back to the 5-day moving average of the queues. You can see here the 5-day correlates to the 62-level. This is where we kept on getting rejected. If we do indeed have a balanced spot for tomorrow, the queues might have a shot. It might have a shot to get back to the 262-level. Obviously, we're also prepared to the downside as well. It's very, very important that, again, if you watch this video, it's very, very important that you do prepare yourself on both sides. Well, I'll give you guys some ideas for tomorrow both long and short, but if the queues do sustain a tradeable area, you could see a dead-cat balance going to this 362-level. If that's the case, watch out for the rejection there. That's the most important part. If we do reject, if we go back and we test this 362-level and they get rejected, we're going to turn around and start going lower. Look at the SPYs. You kind of have the same scenario going on. We talked about, over the weekend video, the potential move to 429. Well, I guess we're at the low today. It was right. Today was low. Clay Taze low was 428-72, but technically, that also works.  Stocks just don't stop randomly. We talked about in the video that a SPY should next stop should be 429. That was the low. We talked about in the video that Tesla should have a measurable soft potential landing at 238-240. Guess what? 238 was the low. Technical analysis is not a farce. It's not something that's made up. People will just take random numbers out of the sky. These are real numbers. There's nothing really random about the market. This is why stocks usually stop at areas where they shouldn't. If you embrace technical analysis, it's going to be a much easier way to try to figure out what happens next in price action in your individual name. If you look at the Russell today, again, just continues to be the redhead of Stepchild. No offense to any redheads out there. But again, it's a trailer. The speculation money is just not there yet. It's just not there yet. Before we get substantially bullish, number one, all three indexes have to reclaim this orange line, which is the five-day. That's kind of what we talked about in the Qs, the 362. Before we even talk about potential something more than the dead cat balance, we need to reclaim 362 on the close on the Qs. Again, there's a flip side. Use today's lows as a reaching point, a measuring point for the rest of the week, because if we start building below 356, and we talked about those August 18 lows on the weekend video, and it seems that a lot of stocks, if they don't hold, if the Qs don't hold today's shadows, they will be testing those lows. So let's talk about some ideas for tomorrow. Like I said, today was literally one pivot. After covering the Qs, after covering the test of the last batch, did anybody really need to do anything today? And new market was dead. We only had one pivot here. If you look at the 60-minute view, and this is kind of what we talked about, sneaky channels. If you've watched anything in the PS60 theory, the workshops, the importance of these sneaky, sneaky channels that pretty much nobody looks at. They're not the highs, they're not the lows. It's just this channel that's building, building, building. And when it finally gets above the channel, it usually does give you a nice pop. A nice little pop for us on the video, a couple of bucks. Again, nothing huge. You're not going to get anything huge. Again, the stocks had no real strength. There was nobody around. There was no strength. There was no weakness. There was no fear to go down. There was none reduced to go up. It was just a matter of just kind of take your cash flow and move on for the day. So let's talk about some ideas for tomorrow. Let me give you guys some longs, some shorts, and we'll see what the natural duration of the market could be for tomorrow. Again, let's start off with Tesla. Again, I love the stock. Okay, I don't pick a direction. I let the market kind of decide which way I'm going to look at it. But look at this bottom channel here, right? It's kind of the same thing. So take a look. Do a snapshot, right? Do a snapshot on NVIDIA. You see this whole channel here, right? You see how the bottom of the channel here was playing out this morning. Then finally got above the bottom channel on finally what? Right? So look at Tesla, right? It's a carbon copy. Look at Tesla. You have exactly the same forming. You got this bottom channel forming. And if Tesla could just reclaim back this Bollinger Band, you know, who knows? I think we could get a move. We could get a move back to the 50-day moving average, roughly 252. Let's watch it, right? Again, let's watch it. We have to be prepared on both sides. So let's definitely keep an eye on it. Keep an eye also on this recent IPO, KVYO. The reason why I'm saying that is it's relatively new. It's only five days. Tomorrow will be a full week. As you can see, it's got to rejected last two or three days in the same channel here above. If KVYO starts building above this channel, who knows? This thing wakes up here. Let me give you guys some short ideas as well. Look at crowd, right? Look at crowd. Crowd is holding onto this linear regression line for dear life. It's held now four times. Four times in the same area. Keep an eye on crowd. This thing starts losing its linear regression line. It could get hit. Look at Oracle, right? Oracle, if you guys remember, had bad earnings, attempted a debt cab balance. Guys, look how close this thing is to reaching or at least touching its earnings lows. One to watch, definitely one to watch for tomorrow and a name like NET, right? Watch NET for the next couple of days. Again, it's building a base here. It can't reclaim the five-day moving average. Watch the bottom channel here. If this thing starts finally confirming this whole bottom channel that started again August the 18th, right? This thing could start getting hit as well. So we're prepared, right? We're prepared from the long side to the short side. Do I think tomorrow is going to be a premium session? No, but you only need one. You only need one, right? You only need one. And when you have stocks that potentially could always give you four, five, six points, like what other trades do you possibly want that's going to pacify your ego, right? So you only need one. You don't know, right? You only need one. So if we could get a debt cab balance tomorrow, I'll watch Tesla. I'll watch the video. Maybe we get a second move as well. But the key is, guys, take every day, one day at a time. There is no pressure to trade. Nobody needs to feel like they're missing out on something. You know what I'm missing out on? What did you possibly miss out today? Right? If you didn't come in short Tesla, what did you possibly miss out on today? Right? That's still a point.  Take what the market gives you. Don't stress. Don't rush. Stay patient. Take a deep breath at the open. Let your game plan kind of provide the data to what you're doing for the day.  Tomorrow is less than premium. Maybe tomorrow is not the greatest day for you specifically for your account size, for your experience level to maybe go all in, right? We'll save your chips for the premium days. I think we could get some value tomorrow for sure. But I don't think this as well as we have aces. Let's wait for them to confirm. But you never know. That's why we play the game. Guys, have a great day. God bless. Happy Monday. And I'll see you all tomorrow. Take care.


I know the deen Fajr Sheikh He's giving us reasons for Takfir Sheikh. It's about to be sunrise.  Say good morning to the people man. Good morning So you guys this about it Guys, let me know in the comment section. What is this? What is this type of statement? Let me know guys Can can I say the statement is recorded? What's that gel? Guys, let me know in the comment section. Can it wasn't say good morning? Can it wasn't say good morning? What are you laughing? Let me know in the comment section No, I said a good line you mess me up. I'm gonna say it again because I like that line But I didn't mess up.  Anyways guys, welcome to vlog number three. You guys see it starts always fighting man. Always Okay, what I did I say I recorded before A clip and I say welcome to vlog number three at the end of the vlog I'm gonna put what Mufti Mank told Mufti Muhammad Muneer in terms of LGTB almost like she all of that and then I said if you didn't watch vlog number one Then go back and watch it So we've got the traditional water beans It's perfect No, you don't do that People they know you for uh for the style, you know the the thos going with the Going with the shoes Simple man simple guy simple guy. So let us know man. What what what will you take from here? Nice? Look at that Sergio, Genie. Okay 80s flex. I was always around older people on the phone, huh? On top of so no doubt perfect for five minutes of faith But he's small, but like he's like Old-school type, you know me Look at that That go perfect with a fresh white though Jim Chan Kofi, whatever You can't lose you any of this stuff I think people have you for For the, you know, little tutorial on uh on the Hadid disciple stuff Yeah, you know which one I got I got this one I got this one I got this man. I was about to wear it today until until until you told me we're going to the Gambian Yeah, but that's after you can wear no shake. That's crazy. Which one of these you think Me You sure this is the man side Yeah No, you don't do that I'm gonna get you guys exclusive Uh, how did the disciple will do? Tutorial before we go I remember Peace and blessings to everybody why not first and foremost Peace and blessings All right, all right, okay guys we out here after the class these brothers they're about to eat for the first time in the day I was trying to say I was trying to say first and third out since I said first time But I mean by the third time And that's really well the first time the first time of the day Well, yeah, man working with the brothers It's kind of cold To be honest There was a brother who However, however due to the fact that that's such a serious claim Uh, and the other day. Alhamdulillah. I got the chance to meet a Mufti Makin person I'll tell you this and I'll say this I'll break the rules just a little bit for you He personally explained to me and he has no need to explain anything to me. He's older than me He doesn't have to explain anything to me, but he did He said I never ever said or claimed and I never ever allowed homosexuality in Islam I believe And what I actually told the reporter and a journalist is a homosexuality and lesbianism Gender changing and all these things are haram It's a major sin and it's an abomination and it is not allowed in Islam I never ever said that but what I did say is that we live in secular lands Western lands and which the golden principle of the western civilization is freedom of religion So if you want to be a homosexual go ahead Meaning that's not the sharia. That's not Allah and his messenger the ruling of the qtab and sunnah That's your own personal preference. That is your discretion. I have no authority.


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Instead of the appointment of the administrator, it should say appointment of acting as on the administrator Who made the motion Bards, did you just join us? There is the minutes the minutes of the March 16th and March 30th meetings and a liquor license for the Waterbury American Legion Chris it's built Yeah to those who are on the phone When you're going to speak if you could identify yourself, please especially if you're making a motion your voices don't sound all too dissimilar from the speaker, so Let us know who you are when you talk would be helpful. We'll try to speak up any public I don't think there's any public on there is all there. I don't think so Yeah, we We we don't have any information about the number of cases Except what we get from the state's Department of Health how they are reporting it is You know up to them. It's we don't have We don't have any reporting mechanism or any means to count So we just have to tell you what we know and what you know, Barb has just told you that It's in place to enforce this it's it's a directive from the governor and you know, we're doing our best to to shut our facilities down as best as practicable and Relying on relying on the public to do the right thing They're essential, especially if it's a repair if you have someone who has this curious you let the rule changes Questions for me. I'm doing on my position seven Well, we need to get I think who's that I read your email I think I said to a one point these type times, you know, we have to mitigate that what's your opinion on that like Take a lot of action on reducing our password as much as we can so they can do what we need to do Responsibility that we can't maintain the same or more staff in the same building I believe that we need to take action with strong action too But the easiest way to do that is by looking at our class sizes overall I'm not saying class sizes of like 75 kids in class So I'm talking about going to work through the state standard. So we don't have some schools like 23 24 Now especially Right That's correct From Not I will forward to you guys the agenda But you can also get and there is the information for the zoom which is the harrowing unified union school district website The board agenda there is to join No, I don't I really don't think that you'd have to warn a meeting if more than if more than two of you Ended up on I think you would you could be clear that you're just speaking for yourself It would be hard to to warn a meeting at this point, sorry, it's too late to do that So if there were more than two of you on well, even if they're only one of you on Unless you're kind of delivering the board's recommendation, which would be voted on tonight You could only speak for yourself The meeting will be in there and muted by the chair and that one is public comment The chair will allow this will hunt you This is the first time we're going to do meaning for this so it could be Learning experience depending on how many people are Is there Anything to get your name on the list, do you know how many people you might be going up again? There's two people Mike So from what I understand from Caitlyn The board chair is that there are there are two candidates who have submitted their names anyone who's a voter in water where you can Submit their name for consideration to the board Mike Frank has done it and Scott Culver has done it and Scott sent an email that I believe all the select board got last week You know talking about his candidacy Meaning all the hardwood unified unified union school districts Make to get an H you you sd.org and you click on board and Then there will be the meeting to the Just just a question Does the board desire to make a board recommendation as far as the school director is concerned You're just going to leave it to the school board and your individual comments if you attend the meeting They can't do that You can't have an email meeting That would violate the public the open meeting law You're in a meeting now if you want to discuss it. This is the time to do it This is this is the last time the board is meeting before Wednesday and you cannot do this by email or by Even Culver Culver see you Lv er Acting zoning administrator Great, we sent I sent out to you on Saturday policy that was drafted by Joe McLean our attorney and He felt it was important given the sketchy information we had about when Steve was last Actually appointed as acting zoning administrator that it'd be best to do it again As I told you last week Dena is Going to be laid off. She's she worked last week. She's working this week from home She did issue a couple of zoning permits last week But as as we go forward through this Stay at home and the fact that she's not going to be able to review any of these Applications or work with the BRB for for Permits that are in the pipeline already It's important to have a zoning administrator and this policy makes clear that the acting zoning administrator has the full authority to issue permits Make decisions on permits make decisions that permits are complete Full authority to do this work. So our recommendation is that you would a adopt this policy That was sent out to you So it's a policy regarding the duties of the acting zoning zoning administrator and then once you adopt that policy Then I think would ask you to appoint Steve lots Beach as the acting zoning administrator The planning commission met by phone by conference call this afternoon To appoint Steve as the acting zoning administrator or to nominate him to the select board They did that this afternoon. So the process is all in place. So we need the policy adopted and then Chris maybe I could just add something This is all enabled under state statute and in the past. I've typically been appointed by the select board on a Temporary basis if you will think we as bill mentioned, we couldn't find documentation of the last appointment Which may have been more ongoing, but the state statute actually requires that the town put this policy in place just to clarify what the roles and responsibilities are for the acting zoning administrator so it's this will put us into conformance with statute and it the other thing that the planning commission recommended in their nomination is that you would appoint me on an ongoing basis. So we Don't have even after the COVID-19 pandemic is over when Dean is on vacation then I could I Could take over as acting zoning administrator So the idea of the acting zoning administrator is not that we have two people doing the same work at the same time but this is in the absence or physical absence is the way Joe put it in the policy so When when Dean is not physically present here Then I would step in other circumstances typically a vacation or you know extended leave for some other reasons Yes, it would be the appointment would be continuous until you rescinded it or until I retire Well certainly yeah, I think through the this COVID-19 pandemic. I definitely will have the capacity to do both the planning Commission is not meeting until the end of April or until the stay-at-home order is lifted and There are other projects that we have on going but I think you're right The zoning will definitely take the priority because there are our deadlines in statute about when we have to issue DRV decisions as you know Mike from being having been on the DRV and then Deadlines on issuing permits. So that will definitely be the be the priority for me to make sure we meet all those deadlines and Keep the ball rolling with any permits that do come in things have slowed down a bit, but we still have a fair amount of activity You know anxious to get permits in place as well So we'll see we have the capacity to be flexible and we work out a system here Where I can work from home most of the time and then be in the office when things need to be mailed and Coordinated with Carl or specific to that position. I got it. I got it. I got it all set good No, just just the appointment as the acting zoning administrator and it goes on until you say he's not so Chris Okay, we didn't talk about it yet, right so Excuse us will just wait until we Get to you. Okay? Thanks so Chris Katie asked for this To be on the agenda. So maybe We should allow Katie to speak first Fire is also still on the phone to be able to report what's been going on in the The weekly telephone calls that you know, this is a this is a subject that has been discussed there as well So, why don't we let Katie go first Chris? initially surprised and concerned that I hadn't heard that our newspaper alley would be ending So I was kind of worried about that so I started the discussion on the front porch forum about it to see if other people were feeling the same way and Quite a few of them were some of them reached out to me by email expressing their concern and their support to start up a new newspaper if that was something or to reach out to Tom Kearney himself and talk about what are some possible ways we can help out the paper whether it's People buying yearly subscriptions or having a cost associated with it. You buy it at a local store. However you want So there's been talk about that there's been talk about people Starting up a weekly newsletter. That's just online And I've had some contact with Gordon Miller and he's been talking with some people as well to start up something that Can be newsworthy and go community-wide I'll let Lisa talk in a second, but I was in contact with her and she does cover The Harwood school board and the Harwood sports the Valley reporter is not one of our papers and record And our only paper of record right now is the free press Times are yes. I'm sorry So there is that So my initial reaction was just concerned and I would like to know what everybody else on the board Feels about it. And if they think that a community newspaper is a necessity This is maybe a question for Lisa, but I pretty much think I know the answer assuming That your paper is not going to do Mission to all folks in one very the way it's done We had used for 15 or 20 years before the water very record was created where we have a new stand present and we have subscriptions and we have Well, it is a piece of which is the actual PDF of the paper We don't actually right now have the resources to mail the papers to every husband So we are committed to Cover your town and providing you stand present In your town and also we're very willing and able to Provide extensive online presence of renews period Do they tend to cover yours? What was we do attend to cover your town? We do attend to cover revitalize water very as we will work to continue our extended coverage of Harwood and The mainstream project and your ongoing issues including yours and that's very funny of some Organization, but if there's some there'd be some free Some are free papers and some are subscription papers, so I don't even actually know I would have to get back to you on that if our Newspaper book by which we mail the newspaper to our subscribers would allow for free distribution So I will certainly look into that. I mean, we do have the ability to provide online PMS of our entire paper Not actually have the ability and I will return to provide Free much like you are very record in the 12 years We don't have that ability because of our relationship to the post office, and it's Newspapers get When you go on our website, is there a fee to look at the news or is it available? There is no paywall. We do have we don't put all our stuff on my mind Although in the last three weeks, we have been putting pretty much everything online because it's such an unusual time Unusual situation to find ourselves. We've been updating our website gayly Probably three or four times a day. We've been treating Link to our website and Right Facebook update here. We've gone kind of 24-7 during this period Because it's so unprecedented, and I honestly don't see us going back once we've taken this lead to being so three-dimensional You see it only you'll plan to do any kind of paywall in the immediate future You know, I don't see a paywall coming. No, we couldn't Fairly expensive cost to clean the paywall Advertisers period like When all this is closed we Lost a bunch of print advertising. We have a very strong She was in support network Both donations and people Because of the vital role of the community They've been playing in how a town communicates with itself, right? But how are we possibly going to know what's going on in our town without a newspaper to communicate it? And when the water record announced it was stopping publication I was so sad for you, and we will Make sure you don't Avoid how do people know what's going on? Lisa can you just go over the space? You know every week the space in the newspaper is dependent on how many ads are in the newspaper So if you have a short week, you know, not all the stories are gonna make it and obviously it's called the ballot reporter So the valley is going to get the first take of the draw correct Thanks for that question You call the ballot reporter and You are part of our community We are based on friends, so the number of print advertising Depends determines the number of pages and what means the model we have recently adopted is roughly March 5th or 6th is that We're publishing stuff online and social media immediately and then the print issue is following us And we are committed to making sure that we are covering morning stories from water very every week because You need your community needs to know what's going on But we gave you correct the number of advertisement advertisers Determines the number of pages in the paper which determines the Of news we can print an issue which becomes The record the recording of history of how our communities come through is very difficult time Which is why we want to include you we you need a record of how you guys are surviving as well as the member of valley I think that I'm answering your question correctly right katie Yes, thank you from the last meeting and I will stay in touch with bill to make sure I know What's top of the agenda for you guys to report? Thank you This this is up for re-approval re-approval anyway Um, I sent this out. Byron has worked on this plan to update it. Uh, there were a couple of other Emails or documents that went along with it. So Byron, are you still on the line? Why don't you uh, just quickly walk us through what what this is about and what we need to do Water bearing on here would be often managing a potential upcoming disaster, which we are in one now that's a very It's not like a Material incident. We just have a damn frame with all that our power But if we needed to Go into emergency actions would define how we feel about doing that By adopting a plan every year you may use is how farmers maintain eligibility for FEMA funds And to repair any damage that occurs right now just late last week early this well today Uh, another came up from FEMA for public assistance funding, which is FEMA funds to help out With critical actions that are taken during this that they deliver disaster I don't think we have any right now or something. I we'd have to talk with Bill about Potential staffing for critical actions like roads, culverts and like that So they threw a lot more support repair funding chance any other time they would like to go They there are some changes and I'm not sure The copy that um, I want to thank Carla for sending us that out the bill to everybody On the actual document On page one dash two. There were some updates that I just made today and Those updates have to do with fire. I didn't realize you were I added roommate and your contact information in there The car would you And I sent out package the plan with the attachments last Friday and bill sent out. I think the current version today No, I I sent it out. I sent it out Saturday. Oh, um, I think that There might be some changes in the In that uh, daycare thing that you suggested barb Okay Friday The latest version you gave me So, yes And sometimes by bill shoveled up here in kristian And if you can't be here in person to sign up So maybe you do approve it in the record the uh minute record that Yeah, we can uh, we can email it to chris and he can sign it and then Send it back and then I can sign it. So I think we'll be all set there I'm happy to Uh, have you on a committee bike disaster planning? Yeah, sure. Go ahead the Senior center meals on the wheel in water, berries, a water bird medical center And anybody who might have been there also knows that waterberry health officer Uh, without the cost she was the first people that we're still I have spoken about organizing something Our needs out there that are ramping up Like for instance the meals on the wheel. Um, what they're seeing there the food shelf is their demand. Good name for fund The medical sector where the people get medical information if they need it um Was the code in 19? I guess month's worth of phone calls the Information everybody gets a copy every day of the state emergency operation Um situation report which is a constellation of everything that the state is doing And I did hear We get that somebody who is from the central department medical center is sharing that information with the doctors and nurses every week well every day Um In berlin at the hospital there So We know that the information here is good. We're trying to identify the gaps that are out here in the community And what the needs are and how to build it and so far it's been a valuable research Um And it's not terribly time intensive the uh, all the land our the the library has been We've developed a waterberry care um Form so that people who have these can get information You know that form whether it's paper or electronic And if people want to monitor services like delivering meals or picking up groceries and delivering them People get matched with the needs and so only the library has been doing that um, and that's working out Pretty well so far and bill's been on a couple of calls. I don't know if I can add those No, you hit the highlights. Thanks On that standpoint, I have a talk to Karen Nevin at RW For the potential of using that as emergency Potential emergency how they could have the businesses and she thought at this time that there are other resources with SBA small difference administration might be better fit for them that found a lot of meals on wheel maybe able to take advantage of the um The female one This is bill. Um Femal money, um Are they have they changed the rules pretty typically female Money is only able to help, um public entities They typically don't do a lot with private entities Please Thank you. Um, and just to start, uh, this is really just a Conceptual discussion. It's not I'm not going to ask for a motion tonight I want to kind of take your temperature or so to speak I'll bet pun I guess with uh, what's going on with the kovat 19, but um, I'm just looking I'm trying to think of things that That we might be able to implement that could help Employees and potentially the talent to a degree here. So I know this is a very complicated spreadsheet to look at Um, I I first thought about this about three or four weeks ago right at the very beginning of this episode And wondered, you know, if we're going to have to Consider laying people off or putting people on reduced hours. What would that mean? And I told you the first thing that I had suggested to my staff was that we were going to cut our time Um By it was it was five percent at that point This is before We got into the uh, stay at home order So we were just planning on everybody was planning on cutting back a little bit of time To try to conserve some resources Um But I thought everybody would be would be working that full 38 hours if if we were talking about 40 hour people Then the governor stayed at home order Came in place only essential services Were supposed to be actually working So we instituted some layoffs And we've had to keep some staff on and we will have to continue to keep some staff on To do work that the municipality needs to do And um as Time is going forward You know, you might have employee x Who is working maybe, you know, three days a week And needs to do his or her job and then You know It makes it difficult to do do we consider that a layoff and force them to Sign up for unemployment or do they take Sick or vacation time to make up the difference in in their hours and Initially, I was encouraging people to do that Then as I started to look at the records that we have about the sick time that people have available You know, I I don't want to put people in a position where they end up using up all their sick time When they're not sick They're just kind of staying at home for some time because they're ordered to and and we've got to reduce some hours but It's difficult for those folks because they're not working like half time or anything like that To file an unemployment claim. It's a process as Any of you who tried to file unemployment unemployment claims or had employees do it Keeping some people out of the unemployment system seems like it might be a good way to go So I just thought about well, is there a way that people can Donate sick time into a bank that other employees might be able to to use and of course If you're going to ask people to donate or give up time People who have not used a lot of sick time and have kept it in case, you know, they had a You know a serious illness and we've had employees who've had serious illnesses They need an operation or what have you and it's nice to have that sick time.  I'd like employees To have at least 40 days of sick time before they're even considered eligible for this And the people who are highlighted in different colors there Have more than more than that time And then the next column over shows how many days that they Have to donate how many days above 40 days do they have? And then as you move To the right it it monetizes those hours at their pay rate Now I'll stop there for a second our auditors We have a report in our accounting system and our audit report shows every year What our on-the-book liability is if we had to pay sick time So if everybody gets sick all at once and everybody used all their sick time You know, it's a it's a pretty it's a pretty high number And I think right now it's 193,660 dollars of sick time That the town carries as a liability on its books So it's as I said, it's typically unlikely that you're ever going to spend down that whole liability because we don't pay it out at separation So anyway, this concept would allow people to to To get paid For 20 percent of the sick time that they that they gave up that they were going to contribute to the bank But that's capped at 2,500 dollars. That's in the brown column over to the just right of middle and you know that if if This spreadsheet assumes that everybody who has sick time enough to donate would do it I've only talked to two employees about this One frankly was an e-fight employee that was bill woodruff and I I had a very brief conversation with Carla today. So nobody even knows that this is being considered or even talked about But that that brown column would show that if everybody Donated or sold their highest amount available. It would cost the town 11,633 dollars 630 dollars and then The next column over shows the amount that would be available to donate into the bank and then it shows you what people keep And then over on the far right it gets redistributed so this this This iteration and as there's there's an infinite number of ways to do this This iteration does not just dump a whole bunch of hours into an unassigned bank that people can then just go in and Use up it actually redistributes sick hours After this whole formula goes through and adds sick hours to employees Banks and it gives every employee um Even the ones who donate it gets even those people have some of their hours redistributed back to that And then you can see over at the far right that You know, it looks like there's more sick hours available after After redistribution than there are at the beginning. So if you go way over to the left The second column in says accrued six out six hours and you can see 7,047 At the bottom if you go over to the far right the second column from the right Shows that after redistribution is 7,266 So it looks like the number of six out six hours have actually got up And and they have but what's happening is you're redistributing hours That have a high monetary value.  So it causes the hours to go up but You can see here that if you look at the third column from the right after redistribution the Total hours that the total value available to the employees is a hundred and seventy thousand 497 And if you add that to the 11,630 that That would have been paid out to the donors that equals 182,128 of value Compared to the 193 660 on the books right now.  I'm going to stop talking there because You know, if this isn't anything that the board even wants to consider Then we'll we'll stop if it's something that you think is a concept that you might Want to consider we can talk about it Answer any questions that you have right now And we can come back to it later if we need to this issue before as much as i'm a big believer in having some sort of way to share sick leave I may be a little bit of polish too And it was more you would donate your annual leave that someone could use that for any purpose Uh, or some sort of debilitating disease, you know, you know None of us has seen anything like for there, but it's a reasonable comment Would you be more open to the discussion? Mike if asked what they would do first I mean, I I'm interested in this. I think this is a good idea. I'm not I mean, maybe if the percentage was lower, Mike, you'd be more agreeable to it, but I would definitely I'm interested in this discussion It is and you know, I always seem You know ways to donate to a a kind of bank But you could donate to a particular donor and I know some people Hey, you knew some People who are not good about their sick leave for whatever reason Or the reason that they needed to leave was not as justified I was left out to donate quick, you know, anyone who I knew, you know, especially if I knew the individual at all You know, because this was nationwide yeah, and and You know to be clear the The personnel policy says that you're not supposed to use sick time unless you're sick now You know when I started on this endeavor bank, I was kind of Starting off the way that that you did that, you know, we would We would simply donate time And put it into a into a universal bank if you will and then let people take it But There has been some conversation This was a couple weeks ago, but you know, there are some people who are reluctant To to say well, you know, gee whiz, you know, you've You've built up and are in that sick time Why you know, why should I get to take it from you? Even if you're willing to give it So there's there's that element I also In in this situation, I'm a little bit concerned, you know, if we weren't talking about COVID-19 And somebody came along and had cancer or something like that Sure, I mean Me for instance, if you look at my sick hours, I have 966 hours. That's as many as you can have I have taken sick time in the past But you know, I I'm sick a couple days a year maybe And I've been here long enough that you know, I've got a lot of sick time. So if I if I take Three sick days This year It takes me three months and then I'm back to what the maximum is So I could right now if I wanted to say, okay Every month that I accrue that That adds nothing to my bank Put that in a in a bank that anybody can choose from I I suppose You know, there's a few of us That could do that um, I'm concerned that people with more modest but With the ability at least the way I look at it to consider donating Um Unless they're going to get something for it. I'm not sure why they would do it. It's not It's not such a situation right now that That people have cancer or anything like that. We're just talking about this situation that we find ourselves in So I'm not trying to convince you or change your mind but from the from the perspective of Somebody who has a lot of sick time And from the perspective of somebody who has to enforce the policy It's a really hard policy to enforce If if a sick time comes up on You know an employee's time sheet They've called their their supervisor or they've called me and they say I'm I'm sick today.  It's like well I think we've already been paying a lot of people to to use their sick time And for somebody who wants to donate Sick time, we won't you know pay them 20 percent of the value of it that that sounds a little bit counterintuitive so Yeah, so the the budget the budget for every every department has a regular pay line in it In that regular pay line, you know for employees like the people who work in the office here You know you add up the number of hours in a year, which is 2,080 hours That's 40 hours a week times 52 weeks And you figure that people are either going to get regular pay sick pay or vacation pay or holiday pay And it doesn't matter what they take that that line item isn't any different So the there's enough money in the budget to pay Everybody to work the prescribed hours that we expect they're going to work You know, there are some people in the highway department It's a little bit of an estimating job because we never know how many Hours of overtime they're going to have in any particular year But for most of the other employees If if the line item is 75 thousand dollars It's pretty likely that it's going to be within You know a thousand bucks or so of of that 75 thousand because Almost nobody except the highway personnel works overtime So there's no piggyback out there Chris with $193,000 in it And if if everybody took all their sick time You know it's 7,000 hours of sick time for 25 people And 25 times 40 hours is Going to be way more than 7,000 hours. So there's money in the budget that It's not it's not a problem for the budget. Let's put it that way So I see that you have a cap of 25 hundred dollars. Did you say If that was going to be limited to a per year or is that lifetime of an employee in terms of how many times They could bank in themselves hours No, I I'm I'm looking at this as kind of a one-time deal mark that you know, I don't anticipate this Kind of going on and on and on forever It's just a matter of kind of redistributing what's on the books now. That was my thought anyway Yeah, um, I mean personally for me and if we're I think we we talk a lot about, you know, what what are the real numbers on what's the The whole impact of the impact on this scenario When I'm quickly reading unfortunately, my phone is 11,600 or whatever the number is So potentially made more of an opportunity for someone who sticks yet, but hey, they might need the weather You know, I think for me personally, I can make that decision pretty quickly. Say I'm going to support of this you know I wouldn't necessarily be in support of it was an annual thing that That all of them it could become compensation for someone and be a one-man compensation, but if it If it's more of a one-time thing to help someone is big and it's not a big number It's really gonna I care about it much. I I think I Can I make a comment? I agree with you mark. Sure. If you do more that's that's the As much as sometimes philosophically I may have a real looking etiquette of 11,000 dollars I don't see this being a problem But maybe I'll just one take the bill like that. We don't have enough hours for them to work You know, I'm sick with COVID or something else Lady Emily, they're sick leave toward, you know to avoid, you know putting them on other people are kind of alluded to that yeah, so so um I think this I think as far as the COVID is concerned This may help A couple of people so, you know, let's say again employee acts Is is doing an essential job And they're working, you know 33 hours Doing stuff that they have to do I can envision that employee using five hours of sick time To get up to the 38 hours that we're kind of asking everybody to at least You know to have that five percent reduction in their paid time So I could see somebody like that Using it to bridge a narrow gap as opposed to try to go through the process and claim unemployment for five or ten hours a week For the people who are laid off or the people like the highway department right now that are that are on half time now They're not going to use this so they can stay up to, you know, 38 or 40 hours They might use this If they get sick in in their 20 hour work week and they get sick They might use eight hours of sick time to pay them, you know get them up to 20 But it's not meant to get people who are working half time up to 40 might if nobody uses it the the Liability on the talents books Just You know goes down a little bit You know people the people who donate and get paid compensated for that Will will get get some cash out of it I'm suggesting that maybe We just talk about this tonight everybody who's in a situation of Being laid off has one more week to go in terms of You know in lieu of in lieu of notice, so they're getting paid so I'd like what I'd like to do is be able to To run this by the eFUD commissioners because again, I know, you know, we're two separate municipalities But from the perspective of the employees, we're kind of all We all feel like we're one organization and If if one entity the town does it And then eFUD doesn't do it. That's a little problematic. I mean at least I'd like to know going in so From my perspective, I'm not looking for a motion tonight chris The eFUD commissioners a meeting on wednesday and then Your next meeting is on the 20th, and I think we should meet on the 20th. I'll have A budget report to review at that time And then we can come back to this and if we think it's a good idea we can implement it then Does that work for everybody?  I've only talked to two people One town employee and one eFUD employee Okay, so are you looking to feedback from others? Can you speak louder? Can't hear I was just asking Bill how many people he's talked to so far about it And if he's planning if we want to discuss this at a further at another meeting if he would reach out and get other people's opinions That this would affect Yeah, I might do that Um, I wanted to talk to the eFUD commissioners first and then have have their comments just like I had had yours Um, you know I'm not I'm leaning towards more having the boards decide to do it as opposed to Asking the employees if the employees don't want to participate then it just rise up on the vine and we don't we don't move forward I really don't want to get into Talking to 30 people and getting 30 different. Well, could you do this or could you do that instead? So I'm so far. I've kept it very narrow in terms of who I talk to This is mark. I mean, I agree that once you turn it up there as soon as someone thinks that they might be able to get the percentage of to increase compensation For something I feel like we're making a decision as a board on just, you know For a little bit of money. I haven't just been afraid of all of a sudden everyone starts screaming while I want 100 percent or whatever Like we're trying to do something to help I agree mark and you know when I when I picked the 20 percent um I picked the 20 percent because You know, I wanted to make it attractive enough to some people who are at even at the lower end of the pay scale But that's why I capped it at at 2500 because I also don't want it to be Something where you know, the employees say, oh gee whiz. Look at that, you know He got $10,000 out of this. I don't I don't want that to be the case. So, you know, it's 20 to make it valuable enough for some people to say yeah, I'll do it but I don't want it to be a you know big windfall for anybody else in keeping with what Mike had said I I really don't you know the I think that I think if you look at this sheet and you see the the fairly small number of people that are able to donate and the fact that Everybody in the organization will get more sick time. I think I think it's you know The people who have no skin in the game no ability to really Donate I think they'll be happy to get more sick time added to their banks whether they need it through this crisis or they'll just have it going forward but I think people will be interested in it Mike Okay Late this afternoon. I sent out a memo that Nick Nadu had prepared for me. Did everybody get it? Yeah, I got it. Okay. All right. So I I don't have to read through it Last week my inclination was you know, we were getting we were getting comments from people Some asking facilities to be closed others, you know Counting us that it was great that that facilities were open but after the governor's order and kind of the follow-ups about Really social distancing, you know last week getting the word that you know when you're in public in places like Stores and the like when you have to go in there that they're recommending masks be worn We started to get some pretty amped up people who were concerned about Facilities being open. So I ordered Nick last week to close everything He had already closed the playground facilities The tennis court and the basketball courts were open We started getting reports that That in the tennis courts The first week or so that we put the nets up It was pretty much people, you know Father and a son were playing tennis and stuff like that. Well By the middle of last week, there were you know crowds of unrelated people that were gathering there, you know 10 12 at a time So we ended up blocking their facility We've had a couple of comments from folks by email who are not happy about this I told Nick to close everything And if the select board wanted to reverse my decision that they could do that I'm not recommending that you do that. It's seemingly that As time goes on more and more of the information that we're getting is positive about this It's too bad that we have to do it, but but I think it's the right thing We have to be creative about how we close the skateboard facility up in Waterbury center We put tape up around there and you know the free spirits that our skateboarders had Pretty quickly decided that didn't apply to them So we're going to do something to make it physically impossible to use it Katie's got her hand up I would just add to that point Even though that the skate park is closed now when the state police patrol of Waterbury center, they're always Or most of the time that I see They're behind the fire station anyway, so that you just they're already there Yeah The the police you mean? Yeah, the police the police are there I did send an email to lieutenant white the other day and just asked him to make sure that you know That his troopers that are doing patrols in Waterbury Understand that our facilities are all closed and I told him that I wasn't asking them to babysit anybody or to You know to stand guard at the facilities, but if they saw anything being used that they That they would Take note of it and and ask the people to disperse So that's that's kind of where we are with the facilities right now The dock park is really an e-flat facility, but that will be closed as well if it hasn't been already I think um And then you can see from Nick's memo here that You know some things that we have already advertised and taken in cash for like spring swim lessons some of the spring programming for adults the April vacation break camp We've had to cancel those we're in the process of refunding money to those people now We are Still working to hire a summer recreation program staff and a staff of lifeguard people It's a little bit challenging. I don't know what else folks are going to find out there the same kind of categories, but You know College kids are looking for a job And if you tell them that you don't know they're you know, they're going to continue to look until they have something More solid. So we're still trying to plan it as if we're going to be open um, I think there's some degree of likelihood I I don't have a percentage But it's possible that you know that this could even extend it to the summer and if that happens We obviously won't be able to have a camp Fortunately our budgets are built such that If we don't have the camp we don't have the staff and therefore we don't need the revenue to pay the bills so You know, I think we'll end up a little bit on the losing end if we don't Have ourselves the ability to do anything Except in the pool that will be a that'll be a Positive for the budget because we never take in enough money to pay for all the pool expenses So anyway, I'll stop there and let's see if you have questions or concerns You're talking about in the rec facilities or what? No, I mean just average downtown I wouldn't say it's a ghost town, but it's not busy. That's for sure You know, there's there's a lot less traffic Um So there is there is one recommendation on this memo. It's on the first side down at the bottom So there's a big there's a continuing push from people who want to sign up for the community gardens that We allow that to happen Um, you know, there's a small expense for us to do that. Uh, we have to pay somebody to To rototill the plots We already have a lease with green mount power. We have to pay that lease Anyway, because the lease is still in place but nick is recommending that We increase fees for the community gardens From $15 a plot to 25 and that would be for a single plot And a double plot would increase from 20 dollars to 35 dollars This is not really a COVID-19 issue What he says here is these increases bring us closer to that what other towns charge Some towns charge significantly more than we do Um, and you know over time we look at all of our fees, but, uh These if we're going to do the community gardens, uh, he thinks we should increase the fees to, uh to 25 and 35 respectively for single and double plots So that would need a motion I assume this document is somewhat flexible because I know we have You know certain kind of dates in there, but I know we don't know where we're kind of heading You know, we don't have to be optimistic, but I hope this is a living document that To be changed as a matter of fact, I probably tell you Take down the take down the tennis court next take off the basketball loops because if they have things like that out there People are going to use it and it's not even One good thing I did see today Speaking of Chris is quite a good thing So the the the tennis courts are locked now like so they can't they can't put And I did uh, I did ask about I did ask about I had somebody else had something Yeah, Bill, this is Mark. Um, how many plots are there? Do we have? How many what good plots? Yeah, I don't I don't know off top of my head mark. I want to say almost like 40 maybe Yeah, I think that echo Chris's point, you know, I I have big concerns about scarcity and availability of food and I really don't think that it's a big number to Take any kind of increase in speed. That's fine That's okay Do it next year Okay, okay I know you have to make your recommendations to the school board. I could not remind Got lettered my email. The only thing I could find was within Caitlyn email Is required to be included in a discussion Yeah, I think I think that was it mark. You're right. Um, she didn't didn't she kind of His whole email text to her is there. He kind of gives his What he thinks his qualifications are for the job, right? Yeah, yeah, that's that's the one I'm talking about So it wasn't from him. It was from Caitlyn There's an email from Scott on march 25th and you are cc'd on it. I can forward it to you if you'd like Yeah, you could sometimes they'd grab my email. I'm just working for it. I remember seeing it, but To make a recommendation on the board. I mean there's two people. Um, I really do appreciate that Michael King has reached out and also attended the meeting this evening But I I'd be a little I still feel like I have enough to make a full recommendation of the board for a specific individual Yeah, I think that's the consensus mark He was really unfortunate that he didn't want to participate today. I would think he would want to that Kind of swayed my decision a little bit so We'll we'll plan another one of these for the 20th of April Yes


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All day long I'm going to send out the letters to people, they send me back the letters, I'm a buy, sell, exchange, and sometimes a Mama-mummy you'll be surprised I'm even going to make a little bit of money. You should have seen me when I'm a walk-in-a-banker. I'm going to make a deposit, tell her is a scratch in my little bank-a-book. I'm going to say thank you, he says you're welcome. I'm a wave of goodbye to manager, shake hands with a bank-a-guarder, fill up with my fountain of pen and a walk-out. Hi guys, it's a pleasure to be a business man here. Today I'm going to figure my check-a-book and it's a show I'm going to get $35 into my balance. That's so wonderful, you know? Well, the government doesn't say I'm a no-should-spend-or-buy unless I'm a needy. This is to stop inflation. So I'm going to my high school and now maybe they give me advice how to invest in my $35. America, I love you. You like a papa to me, from ocean to ocean. All right, quiet class. I'll call the roll. Mr. Bascombe? Here. Mr. Howard? Here. Mr. Olson? Here. Mr. Schultz? I accept. Schultz, what do you mean by that remark? What remark? I accept. Mischparting, this is all done. Thank you, fellow boobers. Thank you. I always say, an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but a laugh a day does the same thing. And anyway, who can afford apples at today's prices? All right, Mr. Schultz. Now, class, let's get on with our lesson. I assigned you the chapter on conjunctions in your grammar books. Mr. Howard, will you tell us what is a conjunction? With pleasure. A conjunction? That's a place where two rare words can be heard. Conjunction? That's a place where two rare words meet. No, no, that's a junction. Oh, I'm sorry, of course. Fine. Now give us the correct answer, Mr. Howard. Certainly. A junction is where two rare words meet. Mr. Baskow, you may tell us what a conjunction is. Better still, give us a sentence using a conjunction. All right. The man took his money to put in the bank. Good.  And, uh... That's right. And what two clauses does and connect? I've been to hear you. I said, what two clauses does and connect? Huh? Well, now think of your sentence, Mr. Baskow. What did the man put in the bank? Oh, that's a $35. $35? Where did you get that from, Mr. Baskow? From my check account. No, no. Well, it must have been from a check account, Mr. Baskowling. I didn't have it in the cash register. Luigi, what's this with $35?  Are you surprised, Mr. Howard? Yeah. You're buying it, Luigi. You must have yet to get it. Pop! For you, $35, that was a lot of money. Yeah, that's almost enough to buy a pound of steak. I smile every time, but I'm only fooling. You can also get with it a couple of cucumber. Well, I like the way you all got off the subject and on to something else. Yeah, it's fun, isn't it? Mr. Schultz. No, please, please, Mr. Baskowling. Maybe you give me advice on how is the best one of us the $35 and then I'm going to help in the future. Well, perhaps we can turn this lesson from grammar to one on economics. I would say just let it accumulate. Mr. Howard, what would you do with an extra $35 these days? Invest it in the stock market. That is blue chips only. Blue chip for $35 you couldn't even get a poker chip. Luigi, I think I have the solution. Well, that's interesting. You have some ideas, Mr. Olsen. Yeah, and if I must say so, Ms. Wolding, I do think my idea is really the best of all. That's what I like. A nice, quiet, modest showoff. Can you please, please, let us in a talk. Well, I once made a general study of accounting methods and economics, Luigi. And I know quite a few things about business and finance. I would reinvest the entire capital back into the business. In this way, you can buy more stock at attractive prices, take advantage of cash discounts, meet your current expenses, maintain your facilities during the slack season, and cover normal season and expansion in other words. Olsen, there are no other words. You use them all up. Mr. Basco, I think Mr. Olsen's suggestion is excellent. I'm a thinker, sir, too, but what did he say? He said you should buy more stock for your store. Ah, Luigi, I do it all the time in my delicatessen business. When I sell something right away, I use the profits to stock up on my merchandise. How you do? Yes, sure. In fact, I made it a big purchase last week, you know. If you look in my refrigerator right now, you're going to find over 10 miles of Frankfurters. Class and Olsen especially, I'm going to thank you very much for your advice. When I'm going to get back to my antique shop, the first thing I'm going to do is order $35 a word to more of the antiques. That's very good, Mr. Basco. You just keep the investing back in the business. Today it's only $35, tomorrow it's $100. Next year, $500, then $1,000, then $20,000. $20,000? What am I going to do when I'm going to get $20,000? You could take out $35 and buy yourself a new zoo. Dear New England antique company, I'm thinking to build up my antique stock and I'm like to order three numbers from your colonial catalog. I would appreciate, hmm, appreciate, let me see. That's got a one api or a two pis. Three pis. Huh? Ah, Basco, hey, I didn't hear you come into my store. I just thought I'd surprise you little banana nodes.  Are you writing an emancipation of proclamation? No, Basco, I'm not writing a letter. And if I'm going to know you, Basco Ali, you read the whole thing already over my shoulder. What? Luigi, whatever I am, I'm not the sneaky type. Besides, you write your letter so small it's impossible to read. Who are the Basco Ali's? There's no secret. The first time in a long time I've figured out that my checker balance and I'm a goth the more than I'm an ain't the goth. Well, a pin of metal under him, he's a goth is the more than his ain't the goth. Must have made you very happy.  Yeah, how much it was you got? $35. Ooh, I hope you don't let all this money go to that melon head of yours. Well, there's no no worry, Basco Ali. That's just the way I'm writing this letter. My friends in the night of school, they're advising me to take the money and to buy more antiques with it. What, Luigi? How could you do such a thing? What are you talking about? I'm talking about inflation. Here, the countries are trying to stabilize the prices and you're pushing those prices right out of the stable. Yeah, but I'm a no-understanding, my friends.  What do they know about a big business in economics? Luigi, I've been here 27 years. The things I don't know about a business you could have put on the head of a pin. You're so right, Basco Ali. Everybody has a collar you pin ahead. That's the funny thing. When I say it, it's a come-out of difference. Now, Luigi, you just sit down and listen to me. I'm going to give you the benefit of my experience. Oh, thank you, Basco Ali. You're real a friend. Sure. Now, of course, you're with a $35 at the burn. You could have run that up to a couple of hundred very fast. How? Well, we could get some cards and play a little canazza. No, no, no, Basco Ali.  It's a clogged. I'm too good for you, huh? Well, all right, I'm going to make a new rule. A hundred points for four I the Queen. How are you like that? All right. I don't understand about that. Business is a before-pleasure, huh? That's what I'm alike to hear. Business is a before-pleasure. That shows intelligence. If there's a one thing I'm in no kind of stand, it's a stupidness. People with a no-telligence. Now, there's lots of ways to invest the money. One of the worst is the stocks. That's a bad, huh? Oh, that's terrible.  Basco Ali, I'm heard a lot about the oil. It's supposed to be good at tax-a-ways, too. What's your opinion on it? Oil? Very good investment, Luigi. One of the best. The government needs it. As long as there's an army, there's always got to fry potato chips and oil. Uh-huh. Then you think maybe I'm a better off to invest in oil.  Basco Ali, I'm so glad I got you to advise me. I'm glad you think so, Luigi. You know, thinking it over carefully, I got the best investment for you. Let me see. $35, but just about pays a half of it. A hundred invitations, a hundred envelopes, a flower, a license. Basco Ali, what kind of investment are you thinking about? Marriage it to my daughter Rosa. Not gonna do that. Luigi, that's a lifetime investment. That's a lifetime imprisonment. Besides, Basco Ali, I'm a kind of stop in a fleshing, and Rosa's got a more in a fleshing than anybody I'm in. All right, wise guy. You see, uh... Luigi, after all, you can't be mad on a fella for trying. No, no, Basco Ali. That's right. As long as he's in, he'll get the mad if there's no work. Who's mad? Forget it. And, Luigi, regarding investments, the thing you want to do is to protect yourself, right? Well, Luigi, what would you think if I said I found something that's never gonna change in a price? The price was the same a hundred years ago. Today is gonna be the same a hundred years from now. Real protection. Basco Ali, that sounds wonderful. What is it? Stamps. Stamps? Postage of stamps. The stuff you put on your letter to your mama mayor. Three cents a stamp, so it was a cost of three cents. Have you ever heard of Marshal of Fields running a close-out of sale and a postage of stamps? Never. It's impossible.  It would be a terrible insult to the Lincoln. Thirty-five dollars in a stamp, sir. It's always gonna be worth the thirty-five dollars. Right. Luigi, I can see I don't have to draw moon pitches for you.  All of the smart millionaires, they're taking their money out of cash, putting it into stamps. See what they call a stamp collector? I said enough. That's enough, sir. All right, now you wait to the post office. All right, then, goodbye, Mr. Quetzalcoatl. Goodbye. Oh, wait, wait. When you get down there, don't let them know what you're doing. Make them believe it's the mayor of the letters. Get on the line a few times. Get on the line a few times. Sure. It's all right if I'ma tell you about a stamp should be in a good day. But if you let somebody else get it wise, they liable to tell somebody else, that somebody else should tell somebody else. Before you know it, the worst thing possible is liable to happen. What's that supposed to mean? You liable to start a run on the post office. Before we return to life with Luigi, here's a suggestion that has proved helpful and enjoyable to millions of people. It's simply the idea of carrying a package of Wrigley Spearman chewing gum with you wherever you go. At work, out walking or driving, riding on the bus or streetcar almost any time and anywhere, you can slip a stick of Wrigley Spearman in your mouth and enjoy some mighty pleasant chewing. It's good for you, too, because chewing helps you feel more relaxed and free from nervous tension. Try it and see for yourself. Starting tomorrow, always keep a package of Wrigley Spearman chewing gum handy in your purse or pocket. Take a stick from time to time and see how much enjoyment it adds to your daily activities. And now let's turn to page two of Luigi Basko's letter to his mother in it. Well, Mamma Mia, Pasquale is giving me best idea of all who buy United States postage stamps. In this way, I'm a no-start in inflation and I'm a no-loser with inflation. Well, right away, I went to the bank to check for my $35 and I went straight to post office to buy the stamp window. Next? Yes, sir? Ah! How you doing, Mr. Stamperman? Well... It's a nice day, no? How's your business? All right, all right. Now, what is it? Oh, nothing, nothing. I'm just like some stamps. What denomination? Huh? What? What denomination? I'm Italian. But what's in this I gotta do with a stamp, sir? Look, Buster. Pleasure name is a Luigi. All right, all right. What's yours? Fred. Oh, that's a nice name. I'm a pleasure to meet you, Fred. And I'm a pleasure... Now, wait a minute! All right, now, how many stamps do you want? How many you got there? What? I don't wanna... I'm gonna wanna empathy you all out there. Look, how? Luigi.  Pleasure, pleasure. Don't get angry, don't get angry. I'm a comer to give you business. Oh, thanks. Now, what kind of stamps do you want?  Well, we have stamps starting from the half penny up to the five dollar stamp. Half a penny stamp for half a penny. That's right. What's a picture you got on this? Benjamin Franklin. Poor fella. It must be terrible to only have a half of your face on the stamp. No, he's got all his... All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. I'm a went there. Who's a picture you got on the other stamps, please? All right, all right. Now, look for yourself. All right. Washington is on the penny stamp. Adams is on the two-cent stamp. Lincoln on the three-cent stamp. Madison on the four. Monroe on the five. Adams on the six. No, wait, wait, wait. You said it before. Adam is who was on the two. That was John Adams. Adams is his son Quincy. He was president too. Oh, they keep it a business and a family, huh? Hello, look. How much do you want? I've spent enough time. Thirty-five dollars a week. Oh, well, now we're getting somewhere. How do you want those stamps? Just to put in a little browner bag. I don't know. I'd be great in the army. I'm only 40. Now, look, I... Oh, please, please, please. Please don't get excited. Give me... Give me, let me see now. Twenty Washington, fifty Lincoln, fifty Adams, twenty for the son of Quincy. I don't want to start a trouble in a family. All right, so let me see. Thirty-five a Jefferson, thirty-five a Jefferson. He's a wonderful man. He's a signed Declaration of Independence. And oh, yes, President Truman. Mr. President Truman is not on a stamp. Why? He's a no-taker, go to picture? Because I refuse to say why. All right, all right, all right. Please, give me thirty-five dollars a weapon and spread them all around so that no president is going to feel left out a little bit. Oh, look, look, Pasquale. Don't they look beautiful? The United States of Stamps. Yes, they're really beautiful. You know, Luigi, they're just like the United States bonds. The same company puts them both out. Yeah, that's right. The best company in the world, America. Well, go on, go on and paste them in the stamps in a book. Yeah. Pasquale, paste them in. That's going to keep them nice and clean a long time, huh? Oh, sure, sure. Yeah. Yeah. And what's the matter? Well, you like laughing like that? Oh, it's nothing. Nothing, Luigi. Luigi, my fellow boomer. Oh, hello, Schütze. Hello, Schütze. Are you in Pasquale, huh? Sure. Hello, Mr. Spaghetti Zellersman. It's a matter, Mr. Delicatessen, man. You want to start a trouble? No, but I know if you're around, as I'm already started. Luigi, what are you doing there? I'm a paste in the stamps in my book, Schütze. Luigi, you got it off stamps in that book to send it to Mars. Special delivery rocket, man. Yeah, well, Schütze, you see, I was a... Luigi, Luigi. Oh, Pasquale, I can tell you, Schütze, he's a good friend of mine. I'm sure I'm going to tell him, huh? You see, Schütze, I'm going to advise you from Pasquale, so I'm going to bought the antiques. How am I bought the stamps, sir? Stamps? Just plain bolster stamps? Yeah, I should say. Yeah, and what are the stamps, sir? Now, I'm going to beat the airflash.  I knew that would be trouble. Pasquale, it's just your idea of a good investment. No, no, no, no. Pasquale, that's... that's the... that's the same life you left before. It's a man.  The pop can see that.  What? Pasquale, you... Oh, that's a man, Luigi.  That's American custom. Yeah, but Pasquale is this. It's March 27. So what?  Can he get his money back for the stamps at the post office? Yeah, but the post office... but I'm going to get a ten dollars away to pass it in a book. Well, that was your own idea. I just licked the stamps and I said, hey, do something with them. Luigi, you stuck the stamps in a book, and now you stuck it in them. Oh, Luigi, if you would only listen to me, we could get the money right back. We would call up the zoo and tell Pasquale is the human hyena. I'm not sure, sir. That's Pasquale's idea of a joke. Hello. Hello, Mr. Basco. This is Mr. Hawkins at the bank. Yes, Mr. Hawkins at the bank. Mr. Basco, 25 dollars. Our teller just handed you the money, but actually you're overdrawn by that amount. But I figured I had it 35 too much. Well, you must have figured wrongly. You'll get 35 dollars at ten in the morning tomorrow. Goodbye. Pasquale is now as serious. My account in the bank gets overdrawn. Don't look on me. Luigi, that's the first time he's doing your favor when he says don't look on him. We're going to try to get your money back. Well, thanks for sure, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, happy April the Fool, everybody. Sure, sir. I'm going to have to get the 35 dollars. What am I going to do? I don't know. Maybe... Maybe I'm attacking the stamps, sir. Wash them off in a cellar. Yeah, wash them off, Luigi.  We're going to take your stamps. And we're going to... Who's the back of my little April the Fool? Are you made out of these stamps, sir? Oh, Pasquale was... Pasquale was a terrible... And the banker says if I'm a donor, get the money back. Don't worry, Luigi. I heard it's easy to break out of Alcatraz if you can swim underwater for three hours. Pasquale, that's not so funny. He'll take these beautiful stamps in your hand. Go ahead and take them. They're brought to me all of my trouble. All right, all right. I'll hold them. Luigi's lucky for you. I love you. He always out of you problem. Oh, you got a way out there? Sure. My daughter Rosa. Mummy, what a way out on a four-lane highway. Don't be so funny.  Rosa! Rosa in the copper custard. Say hello to Luigi. Hello, Rosa.  Rosa, show him what you've got in your hand for his a postage of stamps. Look, Luigi. Money. Now you're going to buy my postage of stamps? Sure. Now show him what you've got in your other hand. Here. That's a $2. That's for something you've got to buy, Luigi. What's that? A mirage license. Nothing a donor, Pasquale. I'm a rather learn how to swim underwater. Otherwise, I'd take your stamps to see if I care here. What's the matter, Pasquale? Nothing, nothing. Come here, Rosa, excuse us, Luigi. Hey, Rosa, look at this one penny stamp. Rosa, did Washington ever have a beard? No, Papa, why? He's got a beard and these stamps. Let me see. You know why? The government must have mixed up the printing machines and put Lincoln's a beard and a Washington's stamps. These stamps must be worth the fortune. Luigi, Luigi, I just dug up the money. Now, quick, give me those stamps.  Just a second, Schultz. Luigi, you don't have to go to strangers. Here's your $35. I'll buy them.  You get it? Luigi, I give you $50 for the stamp. $75. $100. That's all I got. I win. $101. Hey, Luigi. Thank you, Pasquale. And I'm sorry, Schultz. Luigi looks again as April Fool out of you. These stamps, they worth the fortune. Huh? That's right. You see, Washington has got a beard. Ooh, I could have kissed them right now. M-m-m-m. Papa, look. You got green ink on your lip. Hey, what's the big eye there? These are bids. Are they coming off? They ought to. I just drew them a half hour ago. Thankers of Wrigley Spearman Chewing Gum. Hope you've enjoyed tonight's episode of Life with Luigi. And they want to remind you that Wrigley Spearman Gum is a healthful, A healthful, enjoyable treat to bring home for you or for your family. 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