Good evening everyone and welcome to the Arlington Board of Selectmen for our Meeting on Monday September 8th, 2014. It is a little past 715 and I do call this meeting to order Sorry for the delay. We we're trying out some new technology here in The hearing room and we're gonna hope that this goes smoothly. So thank you very much To start for approval, we have a proclamation for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month that I will read now before proceeding Whereas the National Institute for Health report Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease among U.S. children between infancy in age 19 And this tragic disease is detected in over 15,000 of our country's young people each and every year and Whereas on average five of our nation's children loses his or her battle with cancer Every day and many infants children and teens will suffer from long-term effect of comprehensive treatment including secondary cancers and whereas Founded by Ben Donna Rummer upon the death of his daughter Sophia 10 years ago Sophia's fund is dedicated to helping these children and their families in their battle against pediatric cancer and whereas Sophia's fund provides a variety of vital financial support to families battling pediatric cancer throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire thereby enhancing the quality of life for these children and their families and Whereas Sophia's fund also promotes nationwide awareness of Pediatric cancer and the need for greater recognition and research for the various forms of Pediatric cancer Now therefore be it resolved that we the members of the board of select men Designate September 2014 as 2014 as childhood cancer awareness month in Arlington so moved second We have a motion a second all those in favor. Please say aye. Aye Aye Oppose seeing none three nothing Thank you everyone Moving on we have a request for a vote to extend useful life of certain equipment for upcoming borrowers And a vote to proceed our treasure. Mr. Gilligan Thank you, Mr. Chairman members of the board. I appreciate your time this evening Before you is the long-winded vote To extend the life of certain equipment Those equipment items are listed in essence I'm requesting that the board take the vote to extend the life of these individual equipment items to six years Whenever Municipality issues a bond or borrows money There are several reasons for requesting that certain equipment have their useful life extended specifically in this case It is not only because the equipment will last us more than five years But with the way we're going to be structuring the borrowing. I'm actually Implementing an extended coupon such that we will not make our first payment until the next fiscal year And that will save the town money But in order to do that the bonds have to be issued in one five ten fifteen twenty year increments and That's from the sale date and therefore this equipment needs to be extended to six years in order to have Individual certificates at five year lengths Mr. Dunn entertaining motion Moved the maximum useful life for the departmental equipment listed below to be financed with a portion of the proceeds of the Borrowing authorized by the vote of the town passed May 14th 2014 under article 30 It's hereby determined pursuant to general laws chapter 44 section 79 to be six years And there's a list that's attached here That ends so move Second we have a motion in a second any further discussion Seeing none any further comments from the board seeing none all those in favor, please say aye aye opposed Thank you very much. Mr. Chairman. I regret being out of the office on Thursday and Friday and unfortunately had to use The photocopier to give you a copy of a spreadsheet Thank you I Would as I usually do I would have emailed this to the board this spreadsheet represents all of the Borrowing projects for the town and the upcoming borrowing I want to point out just a couple of things to you. We will be borrowing 14 million sixty eight thousand seven hundred and five dollars that includes the Approximately that includes the 21 projects under the capital plan as well as to water and sewer projects and permanently financing the Architectural plans for the central fire station. You'll see that down at the bottom of the spreadsheet I want to point out lest anyone think that there is an arithmetic error There are two columns that are off by approximately five hundred thousand dollars That is because whenever I do a borrowing I speak with the department heads involved Try and find a way to save money and in this instance when I made the phone call to the director of public works He said glad you called I can save us some money He expects to be able to do a half a million dollars worth of work on one of those water and sewer projects Internally and therefore Negate I need to borrow half a million dollars. It's great So we'll be saving we'll be saving on the borrowing we'll be saving on the borrowing costs. I also informed The town manager's office through the deputy and the director of public works that in the event that he that not $500,000 can exactly be saved and they need a little extra borrowing We can certainly do a short-term note at a moment's notice So the board doesn't need to worry about that at all My expectation is that we will proceed with the sale in in October So I will be coming back to the board once once we initiate that process My expectation also is that we will be timing our entry into the bond market into the borrowing market In such a timely manner that we will take advantage of any slight Advantages in interest rates to the town's advantage. Thank you very much We need another Motion is there a particular language on this or just no, it's just it's a personal vote that the board takes To confirm the treasurer proceeding. I move we advised a treasurer to proceed on the Items that he's got aligned for us second. We have a motion the second any further discussion Seeing none all those in favor, please say aye. I I suppose I think the board very much for its time Have a good evening in October. Thank you Moving on we have the consent agenda. We have minutes of meeting August 18th 2014 we have a request from the Arlington Center for the arts 15th annual Arlington Open Studios The and their request is for the Art Center to be open on Sunday, October 19th from 12 Noon to 5 p.m. We have a request for a waiver of resident only parking restrictions on Tufts and Foster streets for Saturday, October 18th in Sunday, October 19th We have a request for the placement of a sandwich board at the intersection of Mass Ave and Route 60 from Sunday October 12th through Sunday, October 19th And we oh, sorry, and we have appointments of new election workers John Flood Jill Lewis Mary Scott Donna Smith and Barbara Wagner With approval subject to all conditions is set forth. We have a motion sec second Now before we take a vote, I will be abstaining from a minutes of the meeting from August 18 2014 as I was not at the meeting But other than that I All those in favor, please say aye. Aye opposed Three nothing vote within abstaining Thank you and moving on we have appointments to the Board of Youth Services Libby Cole Thank you very much for being here with us You just thought tell us a little bit a little bit about yourself, please Sure. So resident of Arlington for the last three years or so Grew up in this area in Massachusetts moved back here with my husband. Who's a teacher? I work for a large public health and education non-profit doing prevention Work for youth and adolescents around the nation sort of the crux of my professional career So really excited to have the honor to potentially serve In the town on the Board of Youth Services and looking forward to that Thank you very much. I appreciate you willing to serve. Do we have any questions from the board? I'm delighted. No questions. Just I'm delighted. Thank you very much for volunteering You've got great experience to your resume and thank you for volunteering it to the town Thank you, and I just say thank you know I'd echo that and just say thank you You know the Board of Youth Services one of us highest energy and most important boards they do a lot of work around you know supporting the Arlington Youth Counseling Center and another important initiatives Youth that needs so we really appreciate when good people come forward and willing to serve Thanks anyone in the audience here to speak on this seeing none Did we have a motion? Second sorry we have a motion a second all those in favor. Please say aye. I oppose three nothing. Thank you very much Thank you Moving on another appointment to the Board of Youth Services Lisa Good evening. Good evening. I please tell us a little bit about yourself. Well, I am Lisa Pudula I have resided here in Arlington for over 20 years. I'm a town meeting member I have been getting involved with the Arlington Youth Counseling Center on a somewhat of a volunteer basis I've actually been doing a little bit of consulting with them I'm helping them with fundraising efforts and helping their staff members to kind of look at some initiating some Some long-term strategic plans. That was how I got interested in a board position. I am a professional fundraiser I work in development for Northeastern University right now I've been working for the last eight years in development in higher education So I understand the importance coming from the higher-ed side of serving our youth and getting them prepared For their futures and that was my interest in serving on this board Thank you very much. Do we have any questions comments from the board? I move approval and I've had the pleasure of working with Lisa on a number of campaigns And I'm really delighted to see her here help Helping out on the town side as well. Thank you very much. Thank you I'll I'll second and I'm sure you heard what I said about this being a high-energy board. So I know you'll fit right in Thank you any further comment seeing none Motion I made one. Yes. Okay. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed three nothing. Thank you very much Moving on. We have an appointment to the Human Resources Board Julie McKenzie. Hey Julie Please tell us a little bit about yourself. Um, I am a partner at Ruben and Redmond where I've been practicing labor and employment law for probably nine years I work mostly on behalf of Public agencies the nine state universities across the Commonwealth And I was interested in this position because It seems to dovetail nicely with my professional background and my interest in being involved in the town Although not too involved because as you can probably tell my personal life is a little busy So yeah, cool. Great. Thank you very much any questions comments from my colleagues No, I'm just delighted. I'm looking to resume here And I'm delighted to have this type of experience coming to the to the board and really thank you very much Especially knowing that you know life will be so hectic. So It's the same. I mean I you heard me say it earlier But it doesn't any it is no less true because I repeat it the volunteers that we get Make the town a much better place because of the work that you do and we do and we I really appreciate you coming forward and spending Your time like this I move approval second motion a second and oh, yeah, I'll just say thank you very much and nice to finally yeah We're all pretty bleary-eyed at 7 a.m All those in favor, please say aye. Hi. So what does it mean that she recognizes you but not you We go to different different gyms Thank you very much three-nothing vote Moving on license and permits we have a request for a common victory license for worry Um nine a Medford Street, please come forward. Good evening. I'm a pastor of a Korean church in Medford So she's our church at Deacon and I came here for help her if you may so Please don't be we try not to be too intimidating Yeah so She took over a restaurant 9a Medford Street but month and a half ago and the health department member Natasha came in and why don't you renovate everything and clean everything and new tile and Clean every you know every detail and the last week Natasha came, you know, this is a hundred twenty percent Satisfied Thank you very much I do and so I'm sorry. So Natasha is From the health department, okay, and Has Marianne we got anything in writing from them yet or no? Yes I have there were a couple of things that came in later than he then when we had put this out Okay, they're fine with it. Okay They they go through the same standard by the final inspection, but I'm Natasha actually called on this and said good to go Okay, thank you great That was definitely my big question because Based on the on the reading of the of the packet And so there's no alcohol license at this time, but you may apply in the future. Is that right? Okay? And all right, I don't have any other questions I move approval subject to all conditions, but specifically just making Particularly clear that we do have to get sign off from all the sub departments before the issue, but so it's approval with Those conditions Second all those in favor, please say I want to have a roll best the core ground restaurant All those in favor, please say aye. Aye pose three nothing Okay, I'll tell my brother lived in South Korea for about 15 years, so I'll look forward to having nice place to bring him Thank you Moving on so there was a request for a common victory license for a New restaurant at 1345 mass av but they couldn't be here tonight, so we will table that to the next meeting Moving forward citizens open forum Except in unusual circumstances any matter presented for consideration of the board shall neither be acted upon Nor a decision made the night of the presentation in accordance with the policy under which the open forum was established It should be noted that there was a three-minute time limit to present a concern or request Here for citizens open forum Please come forward Hello, my name is Clara Gabriel. I'm here to Actually the agenda says one parking space, but it's two parking spaces for 35 Wellington Street Would you want to wait until we get to that on the agenda certainly? Okay. Thank you We'll be there shortly I'm sure So no one's here for citizens open forum traffic rules and orders in other business 10 Discussion for the across Lexington program I Don't see mr. Stevens here I would kind of like to have some his feedback on this for what he is requesting in the letter Yeah, I mean I think I read that there were actually two two section two parts to it. I mean what the first part was was our endorsement of The the across Lexington piece, but the other part was us actually Initiating a communication with with Lexington, which it seemed like a different group in Lexington that was initiating that around the plant removals I'm happy if you feel more comfortable. I'm happy waiting for the whole thing. I Do support on this program. I do think that we I'd like his some feedback from so I think we'll wait till on mr. Stevens can attend a meeting to speak on this He wasn't going to be able to attend, but I thought I can't see you on the corner I thought so he said someone else would but nobody else from yeah, no no one here Should we maybe Just table it to the end of the meeting just in case somebody. Yeah, that sounds good for now Short mean today 11 we have a we had a discussion on the select man's handbook for From our colleague, mr. Greeley, but he fortunately can't be with us He's out of town on business so we will be tabling that till the next meeting as well Now request one space on street overnight parking at 35 Wellington Street. It's Gabriel. Yes. Thank you for all bearing with us is my understanding that there is Exemption possible for parking on street for people who do not have a driveway in Arlington It's I would like to request that for myself as I don't have a driveway at all available to me or My boyfriend at at our house Yes, mr. Don so I'm reading so in our packet we get like we get your request and we also get Reports from the public safety departments about it and so in the including I call so and they included I Confess I didn't actually drive by your house, but I relied on the photos that are here and it looks like there is a driveway There is a driveway that seems to go to 33 Wellington, but not 35 Wellington Okay It's it's it was told to me when I moved in the landlord was Very clear that the driveway went with the upstairs apartment, which is 33 Wellington and 35 Wellington So it's actually so it is attached to the building so the driveway is like part. It's on the property part of the parcel It's just but it's two different two different addresses. Okay, is it is it a condo or is it? It's a it's an apartment. Yeah not owned Okay Interesting so in general That wouldn't meet the credit so we don't we don't give out a lot of exemptions and Generally what in the times that we do There literally is no driveway and not only that there is no place to put a driveway like so if that someone has a piece of property And there's room to put a driveway and they just haven't chosen to do it We still won't even give the exemption so in a lot of ways Your request would fall more under that category and that it's physically possible to have A car there. It's just that you know, I understand it's your landlord as opposed to you, but I'm I guess so I'm inclined to vote no unless I am there's some piece of information I'm missing or I'm otherwise persuaded by my colleagues. Is there is there anything else that I you think we should know There are there. I mean the upstairs neighbors do have a car and they park it there Yeah, there are four for licensed adults that live on the premises And there is room for one car to park in that driveway without Crossing over the sidewalk, which obviously isn't really going to be doable So simply Okay, that reason Have you sought out any other potential parking areas? I know Officer a tow does note that parking available in the pond lane lot or Potentially even working out a different agreement with your landlord. I Mean I With the landlord it doesn't seem like anything is going to change in terms of that spot It's always been very clearly the 33 Wellington The The pond lane is less than ideal simply because of Well the 7 a.m. Must be out by versus I mean I know that a lot of cars with this exemption do park up on Lombard Even parking up there and being allowed to leave it even if I if I Leave town without my car for a weekend then I'm potentially ticketable so it's It's rough But yeah, I am I understand these are always pretty hard for us But you know where there are potentially some other options I'm gonna stand by officer a tow's recommendation and unfortunately, I'm not gonna support the sparking space overnight I'll be joining you on that too. Even though these are always very difficult, but it's It's very tough. We really do try to get hold of a very high standard as far as the extenuating circumstances I mean the types of things that we often will do where as if there's a situation with with is a Disability in the home or something like that was really truly extenuating and it's not Reasonable to go to the off-site lot one of one of the factors that Keeps us in this place is that the town has taken a Couple votes on whether or not to permit overnight parking and has emphatically chosen not to and at that point At least without speaking for other members of the board it becomes When when granting an exception you have to really hold yourself to I hold myself to a pretty tight Standard because I know that I have to respect that and I want to respect the will of the voters on that one So having said that I will with sympathy I'm still Move no action on this request There's a motion is there a second second second any further discussion Seeing none, so I'm sorry, but we have motion a second all those in favor. Please say aye. Hi Thanks for your time My agenda do you need a URL or do you? We're just having some technical difficulties here with our novice agenda, so please again bear with us Moving forward we have a discussion on the board and town manager goals Managed chapter lane. Thank you. Oh, yeah, I would I don't know if the town manager degree But I would prefer to have the full board here. I don't know is that Yeah, so I'll just say what my intention was tonight was to garner any additional feedback after making the updates to then make second round changes for eventual approval in the 22nd, but you're right that we're limited in the ability to Gain feedback from five. So I suppose if there is any feedback that any of you would like to give me tonight I think that's that would be fine. And um, perhaps Maybe if time in a sheffelin did have discussions with Colleagues that are not able to be here tonight That might be helpful as well moving forward to the next meeting. Yeah, thank you so Any comments feedback for Adam from the colleagues? Yes Mine is just in general. I didn't even I didn't have any specific change. I think it's I like the I like the I like both the structure and I like the way that we've been adapting the structure as each year comes around You know, it's not this that we don't have a one-size-fits-all planning on this, which is good because reality intrudes on that type of thing So I'm happy with it. I definitely plan on voting to approve it I just was hope I just think that it's Significant enough that I'd prefer we did it, you know, which and I'm this discussion is totally appropriate It's just when we actually vote. I'd rather we were all here five five. Oh works best for goals. Yes Yeah, I'm happy with it too. I mean, I think it accurately reflects our discussions for folks who aren't familiar What that we do meet for an entire morning generally in June With the manager and some other staff and the board and we we spend a lot of time going through each of these goals and kind of Using the previous year as a benchmark and and adjusting them as we go along And so I think this reflects What we discussed as far as the manager and and us very well. I know that We use the manager's goals in his Evaluation I Guess what we've done is kind of just iterate through towards the next year. We've I Wonder if we might want to consider a self evaluation at some point in the spring each year So how well we did against each each of our goals, but that's That's a broader discussion than this document itself It was just something I was thinking as I was reading through this that we generally iterate we Change them up based on what's what's actually happened during the year And do you mean the iteration is a good thing or a bad? Yeah, it's definitely a good thing. It's definitely a good thing But I don't know if we really sit back and do the exercise of take go stepping through what we had decided on the previous year And saying how did we do against that? Understanding that an awful lot of it is at the end of the day delegated to the manager So that was just a thought I had this weekend as I was reading through them But I think this reflects what we what we discussed very well Yeah, I am I do I like that idea Joe. I think I Would like to hear maybe what Kevin and Diane had to say about it as well before we do make any changes to how this works I do think it's important to have all five of us here for feedback That being said I really like the document Adam put forward I Agree that it accurately reflects the conversation we had and I think this is a that that's a really important morning for us every year this This is a pretty big endeavor, and I think it's one of the more important documents, you know that we Kind of we're working with the town manager put together every year, and I think it really sets us in the right direction So I am pretty proud of it So I think that that's what I have to say on it. I think that might conclude the discussion for now So I'll solicit feedback from the remaining two board members and then try to come back on the 22nd with a finalized document for approval That sounds great. Okay. Thank you for the feedback. Thank you Moving on This is a discussion for Nagaoka kill in our sister city relationship. I am sorry that I wasn't at our last meeting I do understand this did come up briefly, but as Yeah, my colleagues have seen in has been shared with others was a letter that I Believe myself in selecting really received from mayor Oda and Now I go cook yo and so prior to Writing a response From myself you I'd like to just make sure that I'm on the same page with my colleagues I think it's important. So in in my opinion. I think that I Do like the sister city relationship I think it is important for us and I would I intend and would like to Reaffirm our commitment as a town to our relationship with the understanding that it unfortunately does not look like Any select and we'll be able to travel there because the cost is pretty excessive Right now, but that being said, I don't Want this to come off that we are, you know trying to get out of The sister city relationship, you know, we did just have our 30-year anniversary and and I think it was a quite a great celebration where we commemorated a lot of great times that a lot of community members had as well as many of our You know cohorts in Japan have had as well and I am And I am that is my intention and I just kind of wanted the blessing of my colleagues That that is the direction that this board Would like to take it this time I completely support the relationship I know there's been a little bit of Friction over the last couple months and I just chalk so much of it up to the language difficulties I mean like it's that language makes everything harder and when you don't speak the same language it's very difficult and But we should I think we should absolutely I see no reason not to can proceed. I'm Delighted with it and I would just like to add that in a recent letter from mayor older He he was very happy with our relationship as well He I go I took from the letter that his sediment is the same as what I just explained. Yeah, I Mean I'm on the same page with you there. I mean I think we Would probably want to emphasize Maybe to them that you know We are volunteers here and many of the travels from our personal resources and it's just That's what makes it difficult for us to assemble delegations at certain times I would like it if we if we could thank him for Taking a look at the school exchange because it looks like he he did take another look at the school exchange and I'd like to Express appreciation for that because I do think that's a very important component of the exchange itself So I don't think it would come off as as lecturing or whatnot of actually we could maybe support him and his willingness to look at that again and As we appreciate it when those students come every year and our students have the opportunity I agree that that's a great piece of this relationship So what my intention is is to Draft up a letter that I hope will be before our next meeting that we can all endorse Fantastic, so thank you. And mr. Chair. I did want to note that the members of the conservation commission are here Thank you very much. Please come forward.  Stevens are Across lexicon. I'm not mr. I'm David white because they're white. I'm sorry. Yeah, that's a vision commission Nathaniel couldn't make it tonight And this is Mike Tabasinski from the cross lexina program Give your introduction to it about the program. We'll talk about our support of it Yes, thanks for hearing us today. Just give you a very short presentation to make you familiar with this Some materials were set in advance. I hope you had a chance to at least glance at those The cross just you know, we we did and we got them here. So Yes, okay, thanks So across lexington the acronyms stands for accessing conservation land recreation areas open space schools and streets in lexington The goal to develop 40 miles of wellmarked roots That in lexington a traverse connect conservation land recreation areas open space schools streets neighborhoods Basically to try to connect the town in a non-motorized way for recreation exercise and hopefully a little bit of a cultural mixing and Want to provide residents and visitors because Basically this concept doesn't end at town borders and there are no checkpoints to get between Arlington lexington And any other time? Yeah, people do cross all the time. I'm sure we know all about that And we want to provide more better opportunities for walking running cycling by providing guided paths that provide a pleasant off-street travel means for folks and Last year we rolled out We're lettering these routes like a B and C rolled out at root a and a root B for a total of about Oh, 10 miles of mark roots in lexington. They're quite successful well received by the public and so the project is Basically funded. It's a very inexpensive project on mostly the volunteers funds are either from CPA money or from some town money I'm told and they provide just for materials But as of now we have enough funds to do quite a few additional loops The ultimate goal will be have many loops with 40 or some odd miles so for a second round of Loops that we'd like to add we looked in East part of lexington and We found two really good locations for loops and they happen to include some Arlington properties namely some of the property owned by Arlington around the reservoir and Great meadows as well. So You know basically What we're here today is just to ask permission to mark Cross routes within those properties owned by Arlington and we'll just be doing marking We aren't building anything new. There's no new construction or new trails or bridges or anything We don't believe we need to go before any other commissions or or any other bodies to ask for permission for this And so I think in a nutshell, that's the permission we're asking for today Also Indicate across lexington in partnership with Arlington was a joint town We give we give full credit to who owns the land we don't we aren't really trying to put a stake in the ground and claim any I move approval, I think it's a neat program I'm glad that the great meadows is used. I mean I personally I only bike through it I've never actually gotten off my bike to wander around, but maybe if I see a better sign, I will who knows So I think it's great. I'm happy to support it I'll second and I'll just say I was very enthusiastic to to see this I'm an avid hiker and you know this this past summer my daughter and I took a We went 95 miles on the mid-state trail out in central mass, which is a multi-jurisdictional Trail as well and having clear wayfinding makes all the difference and that really is What attracts people to to these these trails? This really gets my wheels turning and I think about ways in which we could do something similar here in Arlington as well And I know there has been some talk about the mill brook and trying to develop that quarter quarter and such so I think you know putting Dipping the toe in this way I could see that it may be a catalyst for some similar initiatives here as well to connect up the the trails because connectivity is What it's what it's all about in these initiatives. I'm very happy to to to endorse this I Want to just confirm with either the manager or council though Are we the only vote that is that is required to allow this? I know that the great meadows comes under the board Does the reservoir land all come under this this board the reservoirs of the conservation commission? I Think that for the purposes of what they're asking for Your endorsement is all it's required. It's sufficient. Okay, just wanted to Sounded like that are already been checked But I just wanted to also note there's an app for this as well. I did note that Okay, I did note that very maybe coming to ask you about it, too Could you tell me actually a little bit about the group the the committee in Lexington that's been working on this the genesis of it? Yes, it's the called the greenways corridors committee and Initially, it was founded as the West Lexington Greenway committee someone really decades ago Even before I live in Lexington there is the inception of creating a route just to the west of route 128 That linked together all the open space over there including things like the power lines and the Burlington landlock forest and the Cambridge reservoir land and things like that. And so that project Started getting off the ground. It didn't completely get the fruition because we're being too ambitious Trying to create like a minute man type bike way over there There's too many environmental issues to do that. So we had to scale it back But another said well, why can't this idea really apply to anywhere in town? Sure So the name of the committee was changed to the greenways corridors committee so then we started to look at basically connections and right of ways and Since how we can create a system that that connects the whole town in a non motorized fashion It makes it very pleasant for people to travel. So Excellent, excellent That's great. I'm happy to support this. Yeah, no, I think I think this is a great idea as well, and I appreciate you bringing it forward Now are you familiar with the letter that mr. Stephen sent to us regarding Perhaps intergovernmental relations with the town of Lexington Now would you have any recommendations that you'd like to see us put kind of in with this Vote that we're going to take I think the truth. I think the path is a great idea I think we're also part of the panel and we have some some outstanding issues right in the reservoir as the letter indicates and the conservation mission in Lexington approved some funding for the reservoir aquatic But it got stopped higher up in Lexington Hmm Like to see better relationships in that regard many gain some support for the water chest of harvesting from the reservoir Okay, thank you mr. Chetland. It would be in that specific point if the board is interested my recommendation would be to support as you stated to support for the signs and then maybe take a position of Interest or support of pursuing financial Support from Lexington for water chest not another invasive species harvest species harvesting but not tying them together I think there's a bit of a history with those conversations in Lexington And I don't think holding a program such as across Lexington hostage would necessarily be an appropriate action for the board I agree with you. I just want to make sure I got the letter clear before we So Okay, so maybe perhaps we'll take two votes The first which we have a motion on to support the installation of the signs We had a motion and a second all those in favor. Please say aye. I Opposed three nothing votes. So those signs can go up which we are all looking forward to and up Do we have a motion regarding our? future You know discussions mr. Dunn I move that we both that we write a letter to Lexington Reminding them of the our joint responsibility for the reservoir and inviting their help in the for the funding and We all simultaneously ask the town manager to follow up with Lexington's town manager second We have a motion a second all those in favor. Please say aye. Hi Seeing none three nothing vote. Go. Thank you very much for coming tonight. I really appreciate it. Thank you Moving on quick meeting correspondence received We have a letter from the Attorney General's office regarding the approval of 2014 town meeting bylaw amendments And That is all of the correspondence received receipt Second I would just like to comment that I believe the acceptance of this letter officially marks the end of town council's first town meeting season Thank you very much Congratulations, the first of many Right Well, we're on that agenda item though Could I ask a question my little my little pet project the poet laureate? Does this mean that we can now advertise the that means we can now advertise to fill the selection committee, right? I don't know if that requires a motion or not because those those But we should probably write and write to the county appointing authorities let them know that it's It's clear. Yeah, they can make their appointments I don't know if we should do that in the form of a motion to send the letter Is there a process for that already those so we developed a process for them for the busking permits But I don't believe that we codify to process for my recollection I'll recall the bylaw just said that the selection to specify who the selection committee was and that they would actually set up the nomination Process and bring it forward to do we specify a chair? We didn't and that's a problem Did we and we specify but we do have a select one on that board, correct? No The body makes a recommendation to the board design of the of the town manager is on there, okay Interesting point. Yeah, would you like it the town manager to Could we would we vote to request that the town manager just notify appointing authorities that this is clear and and convene the first Yep, you do them. You are your designee convene the first meeting of of that Committee great. Yep Excellent to me No, I'll move that. Okay. Great. So we had a receipt. We had a second. All those favorably say aye. I opposed three nothing New business this is Sullivan. Well, it's just a reminder that we have town night this Friday night fireworks will be around a Dusk, we don't have an exact time so people should come 15 minutes earlier Then that so anywhere from 730 on please attend for the fireworks Reminded it to the select man that we begin town day on Saturday the 13th at 930 and we do have a select man's welcome And that's it. It's supposed to be good weather for Saturday Think is crossed. Thank you Doug no new business I have a few things First the recent announcement that with the hard work of the MAPC Mass dot has adopted a complete streets grant program Which would enable any community that adopts a complete streets policy to have access to grant funding for implementation of complete streets type projects So if there's no objection from the board I'd like to ask tack to put together a working group to come up with a complete streets policy to come back for the board's Consideration to get us in that pipeline Me and Mike Rademacher and Laura we never been talking about it We do it now anyways in the absence of a policy. So I think codifying it would be a very good idea There's already a few communities locally that have adopted policies. So there's a good framework in place for us to Copy from so again barring any objections. I'd like to Excellent idea to me. That's great. Sounds good Thank you Next Eve Margolis the management analyst has officially started as of today So I will bring her to the meeting on the 22nd to introduce her to the board We gave her a whirlwind tour of Arlington today. So I'm drinking from a fire hose for the first couple weeks Moonlight at the res the beach party to raise money for parks and recreation was Saturday night I got there a little later in the night and they had recovered from the thunderstorms that rolled in So I just have to say I have to tip my cap to Joe Connelly the director of recreation and all the members of the parks and rec commission that Put all the efforts that they put into putting it together And then everything that they did between 6 30 and 7 o'clock when people started to arrive to salvage the party By the time I arrived there everybody was having a good time and it was it was a really nice event So kudos to them. I think the chairman might mention this But I want to mention the the great work that the friends of the council and aging did yet again And putting on their 5k on Sunday, they really lucked out in the weather department. It was a great turnout So that was a very nice event as it has been for the past couple years and finally We're using novice agenda tonight Adam Kuroski and I continue to collaborate with the Selectman's office I'm going to move forward with going from the the demo version to the official version and Making hopefully what will become final changes into integration to the website and try to you know streamline all of the The kinks so we'll be we'll be you know in contact with that as the meetings go forward So I have thank you very much selecting them Election tomorrow Marry ends because so busy Marion so we're getting for a town day and she's what she's neglected to mention is that Also the Selectman's office is preparing for Tomorrow is primary of course in the state So if you are a member of one of the quote Designated major parties in Massachusetts or unenrolled you can show up tomorrow and vote in your primary for your candidates of choice And I encourage you to do that my second item is just a comment note to the my colleagues that This morning Adam convened a meeting of For a lack of a better word. It's kind of like a minimum working group It's a set of people who keep talking about minimum and I don't have anything specific to report but I just wanted to let you know that we continued to gnaw at it and it is a continues to be an intractable problem, but I Just didn't want you to think that we were forgetting about it Thank you. It's all I got. Thank you Thank you. I don't know much. I happen to be down at spy pond on Saturday the friends of spy pond We're running one of their cleanup efforts And they really have done a fantastic job the garlic and Belmont crew team was down there helping They also Honored a couple of people one gentleman's name. I didn't write down who has spent so much time Pulling the weeds on the cobblestones down there. I thought they were brand new cobblestones until they they explained it So take a look at it. It really looks beautiful down there they also unveiled a piece of Sculpture that was has been temporarily donated to the town by local artist Kevin Duffy. That was an ACC Funded initiative and it was really great. They were having the kids Compete to name it and I was able to congratulate some of the young people down there Who had helped our animal control officer rescue an actual swan? And as you all know, they've received proclamations from from the board and so I was able to personally congratulate the young people and was really Really extraordinary so Thanks go out to all of these volunteers in the community who you know all across the community I think we could all tell more stories from just the last couple weeks And I want to invite all my board members and everybody else to At noon over by Uncle Sam Plaza will be the official Ribbon cutting of the visitor information center that a lot of people Public works and ATED and a lot of folks have been working on it'll actually be the ribbon will be cut There'll be some school groups. They're singing a short little Ceremony that'll be at noon amidst all the other festivities at town day and Speaking of which I just want to thank the office, you know, we've been a little short staffed because of some Illnesses the last couple months, and I know that Mary Ann and Fran and the rest have been working really Overtime to keep things going and have a great town day and everything and so thank you very much for all of that Thank you. I am so I did have a list, but they it was chipped away at One for yes, as Adam mentioned yesterday was the Friends of Arlington friends of Arlington's Council on Aging 5k and Adam's a bit modest because he did place in the top 20 I believe and really it was like a bolt of lightning out of the starting line to to the finish And that really is an awesome event and they do a great job with it and I It's something I really enjoy every year For tomorrow town day The one other thing is that I was speaking with some colleagues before and telling them the good news that one of an Arlington resident who's also a town meeting member and also happens to be my cousin Mike Baker is getting an award for the work He does in the Jamaica playing community and he sets up, you know Quite a few events in it is really really integrated with all the residents over there And so I'm very happy for him and extremely proud of all the work. He does That being said I have no further new business so Move to adjourn second We have a motion and second all those in favor. Please say aye. All right the post Three-nothing vote. Thank you very much everyone


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Trying to take notes from a large textbook is super overwhelming, and medical school had to easily read 20-30 pages per lecture, and thus hundreds of pages each and every week. But here is the note-taking strategy that I used to help me ace all my classes without the excess time. Let's get into it. Hey friends, welcome back to channel. Today I'm going to break down the exact strategy that I used in medical school to go through a very hefty textbook and syllabus, and basically talk about how to take notes, how to use them effectively, and most importantly use it to be able to study for your quizzes and tests without having to go back and reread all your notes. So step number one is to really rethink how to take notes in the first place. So most students, including myself in both college and medical school, will take notes usually the wrong way. We often think of notes as one of two things. One, we try to make the information condensed town into something we can understand, and two, we try to basically transfer from one modality, being the textbook, to another, like an outline or a word doc, however you want to do it. But essentially it ends up being a big outline into a shorter one, and still we have no idea what it says and have not given any attention to the review process, which is the most important. And if you're anything like me as an early medical student, you thought you're being efficient by transferring your notes into like a nice word doc outline or a notebook, only to find out that you really had no time to actually master the content that you put in there in the first place.  And don't worry, I was in the same shoes, but two things that really helped me go from an average med student to somebody who was able to get A's on their tests is really asking two questions. When I was reading from a textbook, instead of thinking how am I going to make something into my own words, the two things I was looking for is one, what in the world is actually important in the paragraph set of reading? And then two, how do I want to transition that into something that can use later on to easily review? And the next few steps will get into both of them very specifically. So step number two is just do one task at a time. When I was in college and definitely as an early medical student, I thought it made sense to read something and then try to put it in my own words as a word doc or on the side and the margins of the textbook. But then I found the waste of time through context switching. If you're unfamiliar, context switching is basically a fancy word for multitasking. When you're doing something, for example, like reading the textbook and then writing your notes at the same time, you think you're being efficient, you think you're being effective. But over multiple studies, we found that when people are doing multitasking, even with just two activities, 20% of the energy and time you're spending is simply transitioning between the tasks. There's no effectiveness. That's about spending 100 minutes or roughly an hour and a half reading a syllabus chapter or a lecture. Then while I think I'm being efficient for the entire 90 to 100 minutes, really 20 of those minutes are simply me transitioning to figure out like, what did I just read? Writing it down and then going back to like, where did I leave off? And really that's the biggest issue. So if you want to read your textbook quicker, if you want to read it more effectively, stick to one task. So go through your reading and we'll talk about how to do that in a second and then come back and write your notes, which I promise you will be much more effective. So the big takeaway again, is that when you're faced with a huge amount of texts to really think about your reading and your note taking completely separately. Now let's actually get into the reading of your textbook and we get into step number three, which is to mark your notable topics and ideas. Now when you're reading through your textbooks, you're going to come across two or three paragraphs and if you took a step back, you'll be like, I understand the main idea here. Here's some pieces of details. And this is really what this section of this textbook is trying to go for. And then you'll do the next thing for the next table, the next graph, the next set of paragraphs. You kind of get the bigger picture. But you don't want to waste time later on by having to come back and try to figure out what the main idea is again. And so one of my favorite strategies to do in medical school when I was reading a really text heavy syllabus or something from a textbook, like for example, this is a textbook that I was given a study from my internal medicine boards. Usually I would do is I would read two to three paragraphs and try to get idea of like, what's the main idea here. And once I understood that, then I would try to essentially put a star or marking, you know, any type of notation to the margins of that paragraph to basically say, this is kind of the sentence that overall summarizes what you're about to learn. So then it's easy for me later on when I'm looking at all my markings to say, oh, like this is the sentence that refers to the big idea of this paragraph. And so a simple rule that I would give myself is to read about three to five paragraphs in the text, depending on how kind of heavy it was on information and may marking next to the lines of the sentence that it corresponded to essentially, these would be the things that I would want to take notes on. But because that I want to waste time trying to take notes now, I'm essentially just leaving a mark saying, come back to this later. If anything, if you forget, you can just read that line and say, Oh, like that's what I was trying to take notes on. Now you kind of know, and you have a little marker to come back to for later. Now, if you're given a textbook, obviously in the digital age in the form of a PDF or an ebook, you could definitely guys can check out the episode that we did on essentially how to remember everything you read. I go through an example of a PDF in that video, I'll link it down below. But the same concept, you can highlight the first line of that paragraph or the sentence that you want to be able to remember. And again, come back later and write your notes. So that way you can finish your reading and then come back and focus on your note taking. Now we are going to take a pause right here because I know I was there that you likely have questions at this point. Before we go into note taking, probably asking about like, what is note worthy? Like what is high yield? How do I know when I'm reading something that something is should turn into one of my notes versus just a piece of detail? I just kind of know is within the textbook. Great questions. Number one, definitely recommend you guys check out this entire video that I broke down on the Q&A method. This is like the method that completely changed my note taking strategy in medical school. And so again, I will link that down below to help tons of students. It's also the format of what we'll talk about later in this video. So make sure you guys check that out down below. Number two is to really focus on thinking about big ideas and then focusing and honing in on the details. So see the forest and then focus on individual trees. So when you're reading your three to five paragraphs, one of the big questions you want to ask yourself is like, what is the big idea that could be testable here? If you're learning about a disease in medical school, first things you want to know obviously is like, what is the disease? Why does it happen? And then eventually you'll kind of get into how do I treat it and specifically what medications do I use? And so when you're reading, you definitely want to think about your learning as a tree and branches. Think about everything as a tree. What is the main idea within the first three to five paragraphs you're reading? And then what bits of details do you want to add on to to make the tree look a little bit more complete? And then finally, number three, and this is really what made the transition for me being like a C to a B student to somebody who's getting consistent A's is as I was reading three to five paragraphs or whatever it may have been on my text, the main thing I'm looking for is what question could come out of what I just read? Like what would my professor like to ask about, particularly if you've taken multiple quizzes and tests from the same instructor before or for that same class, what would be fair game? What kind of things could I be test on? Now, if I could say, for example, they want me to understand how to recognize this disease on a microscope through pathology. And here this paragraph is talking about what it looks like under a microscope. I may want to start that and come back to it later because I know that could be testable. I could see how it could easily write a question with that being the answer. And this is the biggest transition that you can make as a note taker because now you'll start to look at paragraphs as essentially the test maker and not the test taker. What questions could come out of what I just read? And then you can find opportunities to make markings and highlights next to those sentences that would be those respective answers. And after practicing this method, if you're still struggling trying to figure out what the hell is important, a few recommendations that we give to a lot of our coaching students is sometimes just go watch a quick YouTube video, maybe like five, 10 minutes, you can watch this super fast on 2x and just try to get a foundation on the topic that you're about to read on. So if I was going to learn about a disease, it may make sense to watch a five minute video that somebody's like spent lots of time on, on that disease, then read the 20 to 30 pages that I was given at medical school. And if I saw something in the video and now it's in the text, that's how you'll, that's something that should definitely show up in my notes. And the more times you do it, you'll be able to say like, I've heard this multiple times but professor also mentioned this in class when they're talking, this is something I definitely want to take notes on. And on the note of coaching, if you are somebody who is struggling on their medical journey, get the grades you want and just spending way too many hours have no idea what to do next, click down below to just kind of see our coaching program just to see even if you're barely interested. The type of results that we've been able to get students within the span of just two weeks, frankly, will work with you for the span of anywhere from eight to 12 weeks. If you're interested more about those programs, I'll link it down below. Now step number four is to finally come back and to focus on your note taking. Now, I completely changed how I studied medical school once I discovered a very quick and efficient way of studying through Anki, which we don't talk about in this video whatsoever. But if you guys are interested, the most popular video that we have here on YouTube will be linked right here. I'll also link it down below. I'm super effective. I go over the basics of Anki.  But even if you're comfortable when you want to see some advanced strategies, I can really just change the game on how quickly you study and the grades you get. That video has been by far the most popular that we have here on YouTube. So I'll link it down below. But the first strategy that I was ever doing in medical school that, again, was still effective. The Anki one just worked a lot better for me, is basically what I'm about to go right now. And that's called the Q&A note taking method. So here's how basically I would do a Q&A method. So for example, this is the textbook that I use for my board studying. And essentially, when I was reading, I was looking for marks that I would want to come back to later. For example, here we're learning about gastroparesis. This is basically where the stomach has due to, you know, autonomic and neural issues won't do a good job contracting. So people have nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain. And so I'm finding sentences and lines that would be important to come back to and definitely be testable. So for example, this first line here, we're learning about essentially what gastroparesis is, the best way to test it. And then here, specifically, we're talking about dietary and medication things we should be knowing for.  At this point, I haven't really written any notes. But because I've marked this, now I'm going to go back and say like, let's try to quickly remember what I was going for. Okay, this is the diagnosis. This one's talking about how do we test it. And then this one's going to be talking about, you know, overall treatments, et cetera. And so now that I've been able to quickly refresh on what I want to take notes on, the most important thing is to actually go back to my note-taking method. Now, there are tons of ways that you can take notes. The most simplest that I used in medical school was having a word doc per lecture, and then writing down my notes in that fashion. And we'll talk about exactly how to do it. Now, as technology advance a little bit since I've been in medical school, you have tons of other tools, for example, like Notion, that you can do a lot of things on. But you can keep it, again, very simple and just doing this on a notebook or on a word doc. But I'm going to show you exactly how I take notes through Notion. All right, so now we are officially in our Notion database. This is essentially what we call the Notion method table that we use for a lot of our students in the level up your setting course. So if you guys are interested in just having access to this template and then being able to use it for your classes, that'll be linked down below. But essentially what this is, is just a growing table where you can look at every single lecture and then have all of your material in a easy note-taking fashion. So as you're going through your textbook, you can easily write the questions and the answers as well as the lecture syllabus or the page that it came from. In addition, the nice thing about Notion is that you can nicely categorize things. So if I was in biochem and I was learning a specific pathway about the CREP cycle, I could put CREP cycle. And then as I get closer to my quiz and test, if I feel like I was struggling with the CREP cycle, I can just tell Notion to show me all of the questions and answers, even if it came from various different chapters and lectures only about the CREP cycle. That way you can really perfect that topic. And using our Notion method that we've created for students, you can essentially come back and review over time and understand, did I actually review and do an initial pass on my material? Do I feel confident going into my exam, as well as how difficult something is? So you can use this Notion database that's in the level up your setting course for a variety of things, but also including external resources outside of your textbooks. If you're watching videos, you're using question banks, so many different things, but essentially your entire questions from your lectures from your textbooks is in one place. Now if Notion is something that is foreign to you, you can easily use something that we call the simple Notion method. Essentially, and when this is just a template, you can go and put all of your lectures in using the toggle function. So let's say I had just covered lecture one and I'm going into lecture two. You can essentially add all of your questions and notes from your textbook. So let's say now I have gone through my textbook and have found all my markings. Now I can find those respective questions that I want to come back to and mark down or my specific notes. And then I can put in all the specific evidences or if I'm too lazy, I can just put the page from the lecture or the textbook that it came from. And I can essentially do this for the duration of that textbook. Now if we use lecture one and we use our example from the textbook and said, let's go over a gastroparesis. If I just open this, you can see that I have my various questions from that section of the textbook that we were talking about. So I can use gastroparesis and I can put all the answers down below here in the toggle function. If I want to quiz myself, I can just, you know, quiz myself and then reveal the answer, which is really nice. Same thing for the treatments, using bullet point fashions and again, if you're lazy, you can just put the page number that it came from or screenshot things if you have a digital textbook. So the toggle function is very nice. It keeps it very simple. One advance and pro tip that we use and for our students that we work with one on one in our coaching system is we'll recommend essentially being able to stratify if a topic despite you quizzing yourself on it is something you're strong on versus something you're weak on. So let's say I've answered all of these three questions. Now I want to be able to say, is this question something I'm going to have a tough time remembering later because I don't feel quite as confident. In that case, I may want to move it to my weak point toggle kind of chapter or folder. And if I'm feeling pretty good about the treatment of gastroparesis, I can say I'm mastered and maybe I don't really know how to diagnose it quite yet or don't feel comfortable that I will in two weeks when the quiz or exam rolls around, then I can just put it into weak points. Now when you come back and review lecture one before your test and quiz, you can have all of the specific topics essentially within both the mastered and weak points and it makes sense that I should probably start with the questions in the weak point section first and then go to the master. If you want to do this on a daily basis, you can also just have a big master deck as well as a big weak point deck and move them according to lecture. I like to have as stratified per lectures that kind of know what was asked and learned through my textbook reading for the entire lecture or the entire chapter and then move one by one. But again, when I'm reviewing, I would come back to the weak points first and then once I nailed us down, I would move them into the master it section. That way every time I was getting closer to a quiz or test, I could say for this lecture or for this textbook reading, I feel confident about all the questions that I made for myself. And that again makes it very easy. So again, if you want access to the entire notion method and the entire notion database, that is included for all their students in the level every setting course. And if you're interested in working with us one on one to kind of implement a system like this or your personalized day to day and studying, just let us know in the midnight program, which I'll also link below. Now hopefully you guys get a lot of value so far, but I promise you we're not done. Step number five is to give yourself a timer for each and every phase. A lot of students will struggle with the note taking process because there's typically no end date. Everyone is basically saying I'm going to read this textbook till completion and even if that takes me two hours versus one hour, I'm going to do it. But you have to understand that the most important thing is actually reviewing those questions and the notes you make, not so much of actually putting them on an outline or a piece of paper. So you have to have some kind of time component when you're reading a textbook and definitely when you're making your note taking process. Now this time will be dependent on one, how long you take, how long your lectures are, how quick of a reader you are, but once you come to a baseline. So for example, if you have a 15 to 20 page lecture, let's say it takes you an hour. That means that you should mentally know that about 30 minutes I should be more than halfway through the lecture in my reading. That's because usually your energy level will dip, your efficiency will dip, and you'll typically not spend as quick of a time going through your lecture on the second half. So you already want to be past the halfway mark. So with 20 pages, you want to be on page like 11 or 12 by the 30 minute mark. This is a good way to be able to look at the clock and say I'm right on cue or I'm going too slow, I need to speed up. And once you find yourself kind of getting in a flow with the method, you may want to ask like how do I even do this even faster? Simple strategy is to take that one hour and cut it by you know 25 minutes or 25 percent. So if I'm spending 100 minutes on activity and say well let's try to get this done in 75 minutes. That means that same 20 page lecture needs to be done in 70 minutes. That means I need to be halfway now not in 50 minutes but actually at like 35-37 minutes. So having that quicker timer I promise you will force yourself to be more efficient as long as you're focused and not distracted in the rest of your environment. And as a pro tip you can do the same absolute thing which you're note-taking when you come your note-taking and saying how long does it usually take me to transfer my notes into a toggle function or a word doc? The answer is like it takes me 30 to 45 minutes per hour. You can say I'm going to try to do this in 45 minutes and then try to figure out where your halfway mark should be. If you're still taking notes on page five and you're already spending 30 minutes on what should have been an hour task you're too far behind and you need to speed up. In the same way if you're already more than ahead and beautiful you're right on cue and you may be able to finish that task even sooner. And I can't talk about note-taking without talking about how the hell to review them. So step number six is to systematically come back to your notes and your review process as predictably as possible. Now this is really what we spend a majority of our time doing when we coach students particularly in medical school of how to create a schedule where your note-taking becomes faster so then you know lecture one is going to be covered the first time on this day it's going to be covered the second time on this day. I'm going to guess that most people that are watching this probably don't even have a system where their note-taking is on point which is why you're watching this video understand and even less likely probably don't have a system where you can come back to that lecture the second time. But imagine if you can cover each lecture at least twice before each quiz and test. How confident would you go through? That's exactly what we help all of our coaching students do through a personalized step-by-step system over the span of anywhere from 8 to 12 weeks. Even if you're not sure if it's going to be for you I encourage you to just go click down below just to see the results that people have gotten and try to ask yourself is that something that I wouldn't want in my own life. But if you want to try to instill the system yourself you should be able to say if I'm covering and doing the notes on this lecture I'm going to be able to review this lecture for the first time and ideally the second time on these following days on my calendar should be kind of booked in like an appointment, no ifs and buts I'm negotiating around it and then you can see how predictable your schedule should be but now you know that every day every lecture is kind of plugged into your schedule to review again the first time and the second time before your quizzes and tests. Now if you got value of what we covered so far there's tons of free options that I promise you'll give value from. First definitely check out all the videos that we mentioned in today's episodes including the Anki video the Q&A video as well as the video on how to remember everything that you're reading I will link those down first down below. 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Aaron how confident do you feel in that spot in the ninth bases loaded with Aaron judge at the plate with the way He's swinging. Yeah, I mean, that's that's who we want up obviously tough matchup with Hendricks bringing in their closer in that spot and You know fortunately the first first pitch didn't Get him out of out of rhythm I think it settled them in a little bit and then he's obviously able to control his own there and get us out with a win And a really really good start to this home stand The White Sox came in playing pretty good baseball. Do you feel like your team made a statement the way they played over the last three days? I Don't know. I mean that's Look, we know we're a good team I feel like they're a good team But we're sitting here in May and we just this is about us playing You know our best baseball and trying to continue to get better and better each and every day and and feel like the guys are Doing a great job of that and so as far as statements, I don't know. I mean, we're just trying to play clean baseball With how well Chapman has pitched to start this season. Was it nice to see the team pick him up in the bottom of the ninth?  You know good to good for the guys to string together some really good at bats tough at bats against You know bummer and then Hendricks. Those are two tough customers. Obviously going up against them and Able to outlast them there and pick up Chappy there Justin Shackle, please unmute 35 consecutive school of settings for the starting rotation What impresses you the most about this recent turn through your starting pitchers?  Obviously Not a little bit different repertoire's but I feel like all of them have been on the attack and and really, you know Pounding the strike zone with their stuff, you know executing their full arsenal time and time again and I thought Jamo is really good and and today and another big step for him And I know it is early like you said Handling and sweeping a team like the white stocks. What do you learn about your team at this stage in the season? Well Look You know, we we have enormous expectations in that room. So and and also have the confidence That we're able to to play at that level. So You know, I don't know if it's sending anything This is what we expect. We expect to be a great team and and Now for the better part of a few weeks now It's starting to sink up and and we're seeing the results Greg Joyce go ahead Aaron. What did you see at a Clint Frazier today with three hits in the two stolen bases? Yeah, it's really good a big impact that last stolen base obviously sets up the inning in a good way, you know You know ultimately allows judge you to go to the plate, you know, he doesn't steal that base, you know, they don't walk DJ in that spot You know, who knows it's a different inning but but good at bats Ready to go And it was it was good to see him really have an impact on the game and and hopefully he can he can start building on that And we'd ask you or you've been asked before the game about the wild stretch You guys have been in is this the way this one ended today kind of seem status quo for for how things have become lately. Oh Walk off walk. Yeah, I mean look we've we've the good thing is we've won some games in some different ways I think there's been a common theme. Obviously the starting pitching has been terrific You know today credit to the White Sox for crawling back in against our bullpen and But you know the guys weren't going to be denied and and and had a lot of winning at bats Against against some really good pitchers there on the in the end for the Sox Go next to Lindsay Adler This point in season you guys still aren't hitting for a lot of slug But you're doing a lot of situational After the but we are what rust stretch you guys you guys are getting it done with a lot of situational Hitting After the rust stretch you guys had an April was there like a deliberate Decision to try to change the plate approach or are we just seeing the result of like better at bats? Yeah, I think it's more better at bats I know I don't think we've had a philosophy change or look we always want to try and have tough at bats Situational at bats and in certain situations when you have runners out there, you know Because we haven't seen the slug like we're gonna and Because our starting pitching has been so good as a result We've been a lot of close game So those those have been real meaningful at bats that in certain situations and and the guys have come up with a lot of big hits


But that's not the end of the story, is it? Did you say they become black holes? They sound really cool. Could you tell me more? Ah yes, that's right, little bear. They can become black holes if they are big stars. If not, they become neutron stars. But I'll tell you about those another time. Let's talk about black holes for now. So when the star explodes, it leaves behind its core, the very middle of the star, which falls in on itself due to its own gravity. Gravity is the force that attracts things together. So the core gets all squashed together due to this force. This means that there's a large mass, the stuff the star is made of, all squashed into a much smaller space. The pull of gravity becomes so strong that nothing can escape from it, not even light. This is why we call it a black hole. But if it's black, how can you see it? Oh well, they are actually one of the brightest sources of gamma rays. So in a way, they aren't black at all. They're very bright. We can normally tell where there is a black hole, not because of the gamma rays, but because we can see lots of planets and stars orbit around what seems like empty black space.  Black holes have a very strong gravitational pull, so attract lots of space stuff from all around them.  While they're gobbling up all this stuff, gamma rays are released.  Oh no, little bear, don't worry. Our sun is too small a star to turn into a black hole. Now there is also such a thing as a supermassive black hole.  Supermassive black holes are more massive, so have more stuff in them than a million suns put together. Scientists think that there may be a supermassive black hole in the middle of every galaxy. In fact, at the middle of our galaxy, the Milky Way, there is a supermassive black hole. The stars in our galaxy, including the sun, orbit around this supermassive black hole.  These jets are perfect for speeding up little particles to really high speeds, and also making gamma rays. The middle of the galaxies that make these jets are called active galactic nuclei, or AGM for short. We want to learn more about black holes and what goes on around them, like how they make gamma rays, and how they speed up particles. Wow, it's really hard to imagine something so huge. So black holes are still a bit of a mystery? Yes, plenty still to learn about and discover. Maybe you could make the next big discovery, little bird. That would be the best! I want to know all about what's going on in space.


And now outside Africa, an L-phoned and thin plane has crashed near a city in Tatarstan region, killing 16 people and injured in seven. The RIA news agency cited the emergency services as saying, and the plane had been carrying a group of parachute jumpers on board the emergency ministry said according to the Tas news agency. And it said seven people were pulled alive from the wreckage. The plane was let L-410 Tobolet, which is a twin engine, short range transport aircraft, Russian aviation, safety standards have improved in recent years. But accidents especially involving aging planes in far-flung regions are not uncommon.


how to use a scientific method or process to create knowledge and at the same time to use this process to solve problems. Nowadays understanding and competency on the scientific process and how to use it is now an imperative to function meaningfully in an increasingly science-driven society. Scientific knowledge is characterized by certain objectivity. That means one has to be unbiased if you are to practice science and the products of science must be an objective or unbiased knowledge system. It must also be credible as well as reliable. These are important in the creation of a scientific knowledge so that the result will provide you a logical and reasonable explanation of what you can observe as well as provide a probable predictions of events using the knowledge system. Talking about scientific objectivity and reliability and reliability this equates to the value of advocacy, critical thinking, faithfulness to the facts that you are using and the absence of personal bias. All this must be now inputted in the different steps in the scientific process mainly and most importantly is in the problem identification and formulation. I believe that research must be problem-driven. Secondly, in the hypothesis generation as well, in the hypothesis testing as well and more importantly also in how you interpret the results of your experimental or scientific activity. Karl Popper is a prominent science philosopher of our generation and he says that scientific objectivity is freedom and responsibility of the researcher to pose refutable hypothesis meaning that the element of falsifiability is always in the content and consciousness of the researcher. This means that any knowledge system must be in the form that it is falsifiable or it can be proven false rather than proven true. He also says that to test this hypothesis without relevant evidence and to state the results in an ambiguous fashion accessible to any interested person for them to evaluate for themselves. Thomas Kuhn who is also one of our science philosophers observed however that it is very difficult to be objective. It is always in nature that we look at things within our own perspective and therefore it is theory-laden. It is almost impossible to make observation without being influenced by one's belief or theory or mindset or paradigm. As you see here, science requires you to be objective yet it is acknowledged that we have difficulty being objective because we are by nature biased in how we look at things. Walter, who is one of the professors of the University of Queensland says that all scientists are directive to gather observations from the perspective of a particular theoretical framework. In other words, we see things from our own bias eyelets. We see what we want to see. We believe in what we want to believe in and we practice this every day without being aware that we are. Citing Albert Georgi who is a Nobel awarding physiology and medicine says that to see what everyone has seen, to think no one has thought about is the way to go and practice good science. Thomas Kuhn relates this to what he calls revolutionary science and he suggests the need to question current thinking by proposing alternative thinking and this must be something that is consciously done by anybody practicing science to always offer an alternative to what we have concluded. And this lecture is about the very critical role of always having alternative paradigms in how we practice science. Critical for one, to be scientifically objective to my mind in the practice of science is equipping one with a mindset that is less blind. Being able to formulate scientifically revolutionary questions that shall lead us to formulate global scientific models with more powerful explanatory and predictive values. The aim of this lecture is to provide some ways and insights in how one can be objective in the practice of science. It is not the intention of this lecture to dwell on the philosophical aspect of scientific objective. The central thesis of this lecture is that scientific objective in the conduct of the scientific method must consistently consider and weigh the merits of alternative theories in the formulation of the scientific question, the hypothesis, in the testing of hypotheses and as well and more importantly in the interpretation of the results. This is to avoid being dogmatically influenced by what Kuhn referred to as the pitfalls of the theory-led observations. The nature of science is that the most common misunderstanding about science is that scientists seek and find truth. They don't. They make and test models. Making sense of anything means making models that can predict outcomes and accommodate observation. Truth is simply a model and this is from Neil Chug-Sanfield who is an American physicist. So in other words, science is about developing models. It's about developing and knowledge systems as how we interpret what we deserve. It is not truth. It is simply a model. Now, if we look at the scientific process, the most common scientific process now is the hypothetical deductive approach and it must be in the context of this thinking of falsificationism. The alternative, of course, is the inductive approach but there are problems when we are to use the inductive approach and Hemphill in 1965 referred to the problems of the inductive approach as the Raven-Panagox. The most accepted now is the hypothetical deductive approach and following this process, there are some steps one has to follow. First and foremost, the problem and question identification formulation, hypothesis generation and formulation, hypothesis evaluation and testing to the experimentation and interpretation of the results. This is now what is most accepted protocol in the scientific process. Moving into the problem identification and formulation, the requirement is that it must be tested. What does it mean? It means it must be subject to experimentation and the indicators and the results are detectable, measurable, differentiating and discriminating. Another good example is the question, is the water hot or cold? Is this a scientific question? Can it be? It can be privately answered by different people and therefore not a scientific question. It is also not possible to design an experiment to answer the question. How to differentiate hot from cold? How to measure hot and cold? How to detect hot and cold? We now, as I said earlier, that alternative paradigms are very critical. The archaeological question, why is there an increase in the abundance of an organism over time in a defined area? And let us now analyze this in the context of alternative paradigms. We can look at ecology from different levels of integration or organization. One can look at it from the organismic point of view. We can look at it as well from the population point of view. A community point of view as well as an ecosystem level point of view. And each level has different fundamental assumptions. So if you have to ask the question, why is there an increase in abundance of an organism over time in a defined area? And if we are to look at this from the point of view of organismic framework or context, the question has to be looked at from the point of view of the physiological, behavioral, genetic, and morphological evolutionary adaptations of the organism. And if we are to compare this with the framework of population context, the question has to be looked at from the point of view of what is the intrinsic rate of the increase in population regulatory mechanisms involved in the population. Many, why is the population increasing and what are the mechanisms behind the increase? As you will see, the organismic is more looking at the behavioral, the physiological, and the evolutionary adaptations while the population context is more on looking at the system at the population level rather than organismic. Moving forward, if you are to now look at it from the community context, the issue or the question of why population increase can be looked at from the point of view of species richness in the community, why there are many species there and how it relates to population increase. It can be in the context of food work architecture, what is the complexity of the food work and how you relate this to the population increase. At a higher level of organization, one can look at it from the point of view ecosystem and how you answer this question from the perspective of what is happening to the energy level or flow in the system and the nutrient cycling and availability that allows the population increase. So this is what I meant by looking at alternative paradigms when we now look at a question in the conduct of our scientific research. Having said that, the question, why is there an increase in abundance of an organism over time in the defined area, can also be looked at from another framework. We can look at it as well from the evolutionary context. At the moment, there are two schools of thought of how evolutionary and adaptation evolved. First, schools as that organisms are subject to evolutionary forces that will optimize their fitness in their environment, meaning individuals and the population continuously evolve new properties that allow them to survive in an environment. The alternative, however, is organisms are subject to evolutionary forces, but the idea of optimization of fitness does not occur. So if you are able to interpret that question, the assumptions in the first school of thought is very much different from the assumptions that you are making when you are to adapt the second school of thought. Proceduring the merits of alternative contexts of frameworks and paradigms in the identification and formulating questions into scientifically testable form should lead one to be a critical analysis of the fundamental assumptions of one's worldview. And often, revolutionary science is attained when one goes to look at the basic and fundamental assumptions, and this is drawn when we ask questions and bring out alternative way of looking at things. In other words, having done something, one has to be cautiously always looking for alternative explanations, and this is what drives scientific process productively. By this process, objectivity is promoted, and eventually, if observed in the conduct of the scientific process, shall result to a kind of scientific model that is revolutionary with stronger exploratory and predictive properties. Moving now on to the second step of the scientific process, having discussed earlier the importance of alternative paradigms in the formulation of questions, let's now see how this can be important in hypothesis generation and formulation. A hypothesis is a possible answer to the question or a solution to the problem. The ductively generated, meaning using existing acceptable theories to explain or to provide answers to the problem or question, and these are from fundamental assumptions that have undergone rigorous scientific testing and prevailing accepted knowledge systems. There are certain characteristics of hypothesis. First and foremost, it must be testable, meaning it is supposed to be falsified. A common problem in the practice of science is that we formulate hypotheses in such a way that it cannot be falsified, and the only way, the only result, therefore, would be that it is accepted. Now, that is somehow for ourselves. We have to formulate hypotheses in a way that it can be rejected. Conditions are well-defined when to reject hypotheses. Experimental design must be in a way that it can reject rather than accept hypotheses. The word concepts that you are using must be well-defined, measurable, discriminating, and differentiating. Let us take an example. In the case of species identification, taxonomies, by experience, will have some idea, which is actually a hypothesis, of the identity of an organism, whether it is what family, genus, it belongs, or even the species being an expert in a group of organisms. After having done that, the taxonomies will pay out using a what we call a taxonomic key, which is actually a knowledge system developed by scientists themselves in the group of organisms that you are interested in. Hypothesis is accepted when the organism fits the taxonomic key in the description of the different organisms. Hypothesis on the other hand is rejected when the organism fits the taxonomic key description of another species. When the organism does not fit a known or undescribed species to science as a resulting conclusion. As you will see, parameters are well-defined. It is detectable, measurable, differentiating, and discriminating. What are the fundamental assumptions of the species concept model in taxonomy? First, species are evolving or constantly subject to change in morphology, physiology, behavior, and genetics. As they adapt to their environment, there are morphological differences between species, and these are evolutionary, stable, and consistently observable in all individuals of the species. These morphological differences, or what we call key species characters, are reliable indicators of the presence of a reproductive cup between species. And the reproductive cup is the ultimate determinant of species, at least for animals. Harry said that taxonomic species, as it is defined and operationalized, is not inclusive, meaning cryptic species cannot be detected by this instrument. What are cryptic species? These are morphologically scenic species, but are not interbreeding, and therefore they belong to different species. The species concept, as used by taxonomies, may not be functional when we have to talk about microorganisms, and to a large extent when we use it for plants as well. The point here is that the fundamental paradigm of a species, used by taxonomies, is not inclusive, and does not apply to all. If you are to search the literature, there are 126 models of what a species is. That is what we call morphological species concept, and this is based on the morphological similarities, and ignores other differences, such as DNA or inability to reproduce between individuals. There is also what we call the morphological species concept. Any group of organisms that currently or potentially reproduce with each other, there is also an ecological species concept. It defines a species as a group of interrelated organisms that occupy or adopt to a single niche. There is also what we call the recognition species concept, a set of organisms that can recognize each other as potential mates. There is also what we call phonetic species concept, a set of organisms that are phenotypically similar and that look different from other sets of organisms. Another one is phylogenetic species concept. Now, hypothesis generation and formulation must also bring to the open the relevant alternative paradigms that generated the hypothesis and are contextualized from the paradigm or framework that one is using, and I'm referring here in this example, the species concept that you are using. Now, what species concept do you use? One requires you to examine the more deeper fundamental assumptions of your framework, such as your concept of evolution, adaptation, speciation, and how you interpret natural selection, a very important mechanism in evolution. Alternative context of paradigms must be considered to maintain objectivity and credible scientific knowledge in terms of the exploratory and predictive value of the resulting scientific model and knowledge. The value of being mindful of the alternative paradigms from where the question, problem, and hypothesis are contextualized is a leading one to examine the most fundamental assumptions and understanding the working paradigm from where the question and hypothesis are based on and how this is differentiated from alternative paradigms. Being aware of alternative paradigms should lead one to identify and use measurable parameters that are discriminating and differentiating between accepting and rejecting hypotheses. The alternative paradigms should lead us to formulate hypotheses in a form that is falsifiable, as well as design experimental tests of hypotheses that clearly defines the scenario when to reject each hypothesis, both in the case of mutually acceptable and not mutually acceptable hypotheses. In closing, your assumptions are your windows on the road. Scrub them off every once in a while and the light won't come in and this is according to Isaac Asimov and to Bernard Baruch, millions of the apple fall. However, it was only Newton who asked the question of why and why probably what led Newton to ask the question is something that is quite inspiring. In other words, asking the question of why the apple fall when there are millions having seen the apple fall, probably at the time Newton asked the question this framework of looking at this world was quite different from the millions who saw the apple fall as well and this is the kind of science that we need. In school, we are taught to see things by teaching us the prevailing theories and laws of our scientific discipline. It is our hope that students after understanding these theories and laws will be critical enough and creative to provide their own original framework of how to see things, how to see the world and offer alternatives. This is, to my mind, how major discovery in science is made.


So we're in the process of sending out our pitching, about 2,000 pieces of equipment that's leaving Coleman worksite headed for Bergenhoney. Right now behind us we're pushing out about 500 pieces of rail that will go out in addition to military and commercial line hall. Our primary function is again the tagging, that is RFID tagging of every piece of military equipment, as well as the labeling that allows us to identify each piece of equipment as well as be able to track it along its path. So of those 2,360 pieces in the last two weeks we have tagged and labeled just over 1,200 pieces. In addition to the RFID tags we also have the satellite tags and so let's go on the trains and so we can pull up and on that electronic system and see where the train is into the movement. We can track when it's left, when it's arrived and so it's really neat to see just a big movement. We are a movement control team, MCT, 1172nd and what we're doing is we're receiving vehicles from Mannheim. Basically at the railhead which is about 30 minutes from here at Bergenhoney we get there when the train arrives. Early in the morning we're going to go and get eyes on every single vehicle by serial number, but then we're also using the electronic systems that we have to read the ID tags that are on every vehicle and then the Bundeswehr, the German Army will transport on their heads from the railhead here to Fallingbosel. We're at the gates, we're peeing again with the RFID tag readers to get accountability but then we're getting eyes on every vehicle. As we are the only MCT or reserve MCT in the European theater which means we get the opportunities to come participate in large operations like this as well as operations that take us to Poland, to Norway, to Slovenia. It's really been an amazing experience just mostly for seeing a large movement like this in the strategic piece of it. This is a great experience for somebody who's brand new to it.