So between the three commissioners attending remotely and the two in person, we have five commissioners that constitutes a quorum to that effect to call the meeting to order at 4.05 p.m. The first item on the agenda is the agenda. Do I hear a motion to approve the agenda as proposed? I move we approve the agenda as proposed, Allen, really. Thank you, Allen. Is there a second? Jeff Schulman, second. Thank you, Jeff. Any discussion on the agenda? Hearing none, all those in favor adopted in the agenda is presented. Please signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? We have an agenda. Item three is public form. Is there, there's somebody in the lower quarter of the screen. I don't know who. You do have someone joining us. Okay, perfect. Yeah, there's somebody here in person and it looks like there's a couple of folks digitally. Yeah, okay. Ashley Adams, looks like she just raised her hands. A Collin Morrison and a Jenny Diary. Okay. Yeah. Great. Looks like Ashley and Collin have raised their hands. So I'm going to allow them to talk one at a time. Perfect. All right. Ashley should be able to talk. Okay. Can you hear me? Yes, we can, Ashley. Okay, great. Hi, my name is Ashley Adams. I own a manufacturing business in South Burlington and I rent to 14 families in the Chamberlain neighborhood. I'm here today because I'm disgusted by the callous remarks that I heard from commissioners at the last airport commission meeting.  The unfettered airport expansion that you support contradicts what every climate scientist is urging us to do, which is reduce and eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from every source. Expansion is there for a better future and has always been a part of working with us. These are the people who pay the cost of the climate. Ashley, you're breaking up. It's really hard to hear you. We're just getting every other word. I'm sorry, yeah, it sounds like it can actually be for sometimes if you stop and you want to try typing to her and just sign up. So I was just going to try to sign back on. Gotcha. Okay, so we'll circle back to Ashley if she pops back on. Yeah. Okay, I'm going to allow Collin to talk. Hi, Collin. Hi, can you hear me? Yes. Yes, we can. Great. Hi, everyone. Yeah, I just wanted to say that I know the commission has been recently discussing some airport expansion plans. I would argue that your charge at this point is to be stewards of the existing resources that we have. We had this conversation last year with the proposed expansion into the Chamberlain neighborhood in South Burlington. We know that at this point, expansion of the airport's footprint would likely necessitate removal of land for other purposes, notably housing in a time when that's a sincere need that our city has. So I understand that the airport commission and the airport in general has kind of a goal of growth, but I think that's at odds with what our city needs at the moment. So I would urge you to reconsider that goal. Thank you. Thank you, Collin. Ashley, you're back online, so I'm going to allow her to talk. Okay. Okay, so perhaps if you can hear me, you can tell me the best way to get my comments, my written comments to you. So we hear you perfectly clear if you want to try again. Oh, okay. That's great. I'm on a train. And the goal that I could go out again, I'm not sure where you stopped hearing me, but I'll pick up where I think you may have, or that may have happened. So we are living at a time of intense human suffering. People around the world who bear no responsibility for the climate emergency are losing their livelihood, their homes, even their lives, so that we can continue to live highly privileged lives that we lead and hop on a plane whenever we'd like.  Dispatch of climate emergency and not all of that. It's not all of us, we're not all of us, we're not all of us. All right, yeah. You want to hear again? You want to put it in the chat that she's going to use in her comments? Yeah. Ashley, if you have access to the chat feature, you want to send us your comment that way. Unfortunately, it just, you lost the signal again. Okay, well, it says chat is disabled. Okay, I can provide a cue to rectify this. Or you can email as well, and we can share that with the commission. In conclusion, Chair George, whatever you want to do, there's a couple of options here. Sure, either way, Ashley, I'll defer to you. If you want to email the commission, I believe all of our email addresses are on the website, correct, Nick, the airport website? Correct. Yes, so you can certainly email us that way, Ashley, or if you want to type it in the chat while the, when Hannah gives access, either way, we will definitely review what you have to say. I will go ahead and email everyone that I think that's the easiest thing to do. Okay, fair enough. Thank you. All right, thank you. I think we're good. We can work with you a little bit, but at least that's true of the city council. Yeah, no, you're right. I just want to let me know and take your comments, because they're lost, unless you're reading. That's right. Yeah. But, so, Tim, what we're just talking about is it's very hard with the chat feature of Zoom to actually recapture any of this. So the best option is to email. Okay, perfect. If you or any of the commissioners, if there is any comments, and then we can also post them at our next meeting, if that's something the commissioners interested in. Okay, thank you. Thank you for that clarification. It also looks like you have an additional person joining us, Dan Castri-Castrodona. And Jen, what would you like to talk? Oh, yeah, he does. All right, I'm gonna allow Shed to talk. Hi, everyone. I'm Jen Ricardi. I'm just with Dubois and King, and I'm just here to listen and find out what you guys have going on. Thank you for joining us, Jen. Thanks for having me. All right, and I will get person for Dan to talk. Hi there. My name's Dan Castrigano, and I was recently made aware of some of the comments that were made at the airport commission meeting last month, and talking about endless expansion in a climate emergency is one thing which we can't do. But then cracking jokes about selling snow to Sugarbush, when you're in charge of the airport and airplanes melt snow is callous and irresponsible. I'm a climate educator. I work with kids. I'm with my son right now, but I work with kids. And just hearing your comments is just incredible. Like I sort of was flabbergasted when I saw them. And then at the end, laughing about the decades of time it's gonna take to properly mitigate for noise when there's robust data on kids to learn worse because of aviation noise, cardiovascular health is worse, there's PTSD from veterans, there's immigrants and refugees when they hear aviation noise, they are traumatized because of their fleeing from conflict and war. And just everybody having a good laugh about that at the end of the meeting was just, I don't know, I'm kind of left speechless because it was so irresponsible and unprofessional. And I wanted all of you to hear that. Thank you. Thank you, Dan. Okay, I think we've heard from everyone. Yeah. Yeah, we're talking to the top. She's not good. She's good at everything. I think that's it, Dan. Okay, so no one else? All right, thank you. So we'll close down on public forum. Thank you for your comments, everyone. Next up is the consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the contents of the consent agenda as proposed? I will approve the consent agenda as presented. Do I hear a second? Second. Jeff Shulman. Thank you, Jeff. Helen Bailey, the motion. Okay, any discussion on the consent agenda? If I may, Tim, there's just a couple of things I want to point out. There is no document on the agenda. We'll post that as soon as we can. Okay, I was going to ask about that. With the final numbers for the month of February, as soon as we get them, we're just obviously collecting the final pieces of the month. We're again not quite there with passenger numbers prior to COVID compared to today. We are, however, this week in particular, extremely busy. I think folks are very eager to travel. One of the indicators, as Marie's going to point out later in our financial report, is our parking garage is extremely full, maximum filled right now. We've actually had tremendous help from the many employees of the airport. We've asked them to relocate. We typically allow employees to park within the parking garage during the winter months. However, we have no more space in the garage because this week in particular is a holiday or school vacation travel week. So very excited to accommodate that. We have our spring and summer schedules starting to kick off. Specifically, United Airlines is starting to use our brand new gate nine area, which is in the upstairs level of the terminal integration project. They're gonna be starting to use that tomorrow, I believe, with one of their main line, either Boeing 737 or an Airbus sized aircraft, which is fantastic news. So again, we're not quite there with pre-COVID numbers as far as passengers are concerned. But again, as I reported over several months, we're getting there. We're climbing into those future numbers. Our freight is also climbing. One of the things that Larry might share later on, I'm sure, is a new grant application that we're going to be putting in this year for a design of a new cargo ramp facility because again, our freight, and we track this by pounds is increasing. And right now we have two carriers that come to the airport. We have FedEx, and this is also reported on the passenger and statistics, our passenger and operational statistics strategy. And we had Wiggins Airways who contracts with both FedEx and UPS. So a high demand for additional cargo operations out of the Burlington Airport. And we want to be prepared for that operation. I still, I'm going to add a section to this report as well because our operations, number of takeoffs, number of landings, if you recall at past meetings, our operations are still extremely high, over 100,000 operations per year. We are now the busiest airport in the Northeast outside of Boston, Logan, on the number of operations landings and takeoffs at the Burlington Airport, which is going to continue into the future. The demand is here, and we're ready to serve our passengers. Great, thank you, Nicole. May I ask a question? Yeah, go right ahead, Helen. No, I'm really, I'm just curious. It's related to the garage being fulfilled. And I'm just wondering, I understand the larger planes coming in, which means more people potentially a need for more car, a parking space. So I'm just curious about, are we right-sized with the parking garage or, or not? Will that be as we get bigger planes coming in? I think that's absolutely something that we need to start studying. This is an anomaly week for sure. It's pretty consistent. Yeah, I understand that. But similar to what we've talked about in the past, where we have our peak hour demands, whether it's through TSA or at a particular holding space or a gate area, those hour period of time can be extremely busy. Granted, it's not just that hour in the parking garage, it's that fluctuation in the time somebody is actually traveling. So I think there definitely needs to be a study of, is this the right-sized parking garage? I think it is. I don't want to, I don't, I definitely don't want to jump to any conclusions. I think there's alternatives that we need to put in place for contingencies like this. Yeah. Well, that would be good. I mean, I'm not proposing that we build another parking garage or go up another couple of levels, but we need to have some alternatives. That's right. That continues because then people really get annoyed. That's right. And even if we have 5%, 10% of parking available, it's still very difficult to find that actual parking spot. You're still certainly going to take some time to go through the garage. So that also needs to be a consideration of affordable capacity, right? Luckily, we've had some contingencies. We started planning for this a couple of weeks ago. Started moving around some of our different folks that park, typically park in the garage, including our own staff. And yeah, we're busy, we're full, which is great. It's going to drop down next week once everybody's back home, but it's not going to be any different for April vacation. Right. Thank you. Commissioner, is there any other conversation on this topic? All right. I have a couple of things. So on the parking deck, two things. One, I know that we close off parking on the ramp as well as the uncovered third floor. Is that, for this week, is that still the case that that's a no parking zone? It is not. And we opened that about a month ago. Okay. And then our numbers were climbing. So the third floor parking deck has been open about 30 days, which is unheard of. We typically have not opened that up this early in the season. There's some operational and snow climbing concerns. Exactly. Opening that. But it is fully open. All of our ramp spaces are open. We just opened our last wrap last night or this week. Yesterday. Yesterday. And we also opened up additional overflow lots, oversized vehicle and overflow lots for additional folks as well. Okay. And then I guess we've never had this issue before, but if someone is attempting to park and they're taking their ticket, is there functionality that will say that the garage is full? Not on the screens. We were doing a large social media campaign and a large campaign that was on the news last night speaking about it as well to advise folks that it is busy, arrive early so that you can accommodate the time it takes to park or there's alternative ways of getting into the airport. I want you to drive to the airport. I want you to use the parking garage. But again, we are very full. Our pastor team led by Marie is also very much in tune with this. So a lot of times we'll have multiple folks in the garage. We'll either be guiding somebody with available parking spaces. There is still a couple of spaces on the fourth to fifth levels as well as direct home calls to our ambassador team. So if you do go in the garage, you can't find a parking garage and call our ambassador team and they'll help you guide the 192 additional parking outside the garage. We had our ambassadors, if anybody's come by the airport and you may even notice, you'll see that somebody with the yellow vats has been standing in the entranceway of the garage and we had multiple people in the garage that were, it was almost, I felt like if I had to describe like an event, like telling people where to go. And then as we opened up the ramp yesterday and as we had other parking, when we know people were coming off the floors, we had ambassadors at our station that were able to direct the traffic. So it was very much appreciated. They got a lot of positive feedback. This is something that's sort of above beyond what we would normally need to do. But even that it's harder or tighter, it just felt like the best that we could do to serve our customers. So they were outstanding. I mean, I'm very proud of the team for their hard work. Great, that sounds good. I just want to make sure that in the long run, we have something in place where if there literally are no parking spaces left in the garage that we don't have a bunch of people driving around trying to find something that doesn't really exist. Right. We're monitoring those numbers in real time. So, and we're monitoring as planes are coming out. And so we're keeping close tabs on that exact number so that we can have a best solution and handle.  We are not letting that happen. So we are finding places for people and finding a way for them so that they can, they can, you know, if they're here to fly out, that they are getting a spot to fly out. We also have hired some contractors to help move some snow around so that there also is additional parking spots typically where we stage or pile snow. Thankfully, you know, this year's been a somewhat of a mild year. So our snow piles typically, that we typically have are as large but we're able to kind of shift those around a little bit to open up additional spaces outside the parking garage. Got it. Okay. Thank you. And then the last thing which has nothing to do with the garage but going back to the minutes from last month, it actually notes that I was a present member on the minutes and I was not present. So I would like to have the minutes be updated from February to remove me from the member's present list. So hearing no other conversation, I would move that we, I would call the question, except modify the question such that the agenda be modified as proposed. All those in favor of approving the contents of the consent agenda, including the modified minutes of February's meeting, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? And the completes consent agenda. Next up is item five, construction update from Larry. Good afternoon, everybody. First of all, I'd like to say, I heard the word expansion thrown around. At this time, we are not really, we are not expanding off the immediate airport footprint with exception to the beta facility, which is an electric aircraft manufacturing facility and all the sound insulation projects we're doing in the area. Any projects with regard to expansion, they are expansion of our terminal, but they're replacing other areas which is going to make for ease in a more safe environment for our passengers and our aircraft on the airfield. So I just wanted to clarify that before we got going. So the few things I got to update, John, from last month or the parking garage, I did report last month that we're moving forward with electrical upgrade, lighting and fire alarm. We are progressing through, when COVID hit, we were going to be replacing the expansion joints in the parking garage. Some of them where there's water leaking down through, we are moving forward to get that project re-bid. We're also, if you've been in the parking garage, our stairwells need some serious work. There's humidity issues in their falling apart. So they need to be fixed. So that'll be part of that. And we've got a couple of beams that need to be repaired. So that is in progress of the design and getting out bid. Also to report on the residential sound insulation program, I have to report that we are pretty much finished design of 54 homes. There might be one that might be backing out, so it might only be 53. Those plans have gone through the FAA for their review. And we anticipate being out to bid by late March. We're also going to host a construction workshop. And we're going to break, rather than going out with one bid package for 53 homes, we're going to break it into two and go out the bid. So we can hopefully get the local contractors to get interested. And we're going to have a, along with that pre-bid, we're also have another meeting to invite a bunch of contractors in to get them interested. And that's going to happen, I think March 29th or something around that area there. So we are designed, we're in the midst of going out to bid for those 54 homes for sound insulation, sound insulation for the phase one. And I think you'll notice I relabeled them and read different phases because the FAA is looking at this different. So we're going to move towards there, the way they're phasing this project. So phase one will become phase two, the pilot program will be considered phase one. And then the next, well, when I get to it, the next year's project will be phase three or this next year. The South apron, we're awaiting issuance of the grant before that can be constructed, which will add to our general aviation apron area, which is also adjacent to the electric aircraft manufacturing facility. Nick already touched on the cargo apron. We will be applying for design only grant for the cargo apron. For the SRE building and new maintenance facility, again, will be built on within the fence, the existing fence of the Silling Knot into any neighborhood. The SRE building on airport property, the SRE building, we have done some preliminary conceptual stuff and cost analysis. And it's looking good to move into the next portion, which is scoping with the FAA, which is scheduled within the next two weeks. We'll be doing that. That scoping will lead to a full scope to do full design and bidding of that new facility. Burlington Tech Center, we've been working with them. They are gonna receive a $10 million grant to improve facilities here on the airport. So we're working on that. The Runway 1533 improvements project, we have done scoping with the FAA and move forward with design and scope. So for that project, which is just fixing existing facilities, airport payment plan update, airfield payment plan update, that's just a review of the condition of all our payments. So we can evaluate moving forward over the next several years when we have to do rehabilitation of those payments, both Runways, Aprons, Taxiways, and so forth. Noise reuse plan, there was one done years ago, but since that was done, there were some other properties that were acquired. So that just needs to be updated for requirements. And we are doing scoping with the FAA on that right now. And then the residential sound insulation program phase two, which is now gonna be called phase three, we are gonna apply for the money by May 1st for a grant to do those 54 homes, home improvements for sound insulation. And in that grant application will be the next design and bidding amount to the next homes we do for the next year. And anybody hasn't noticed a beta not only building their electric aircraft facility, they're also building a new hangar on the Valley West Apron. That's going on. If you guys are interested in going out right around, there's a lot going on out there. That's it for me, Tim, unless you have anything else. Are there any questions? For Larry? I have a question. In terms of the noise mitigation project, is there a point where they'll go back and evaluate whether what they've done to the homes actually is making a difference before we keep going through with all of the homes? That's the requirement. Once it's done, the decimal level gets checked to make sure we're meeting those requirements. Similar to how we did that acoustical testing in the beginning of the project where we had interior out here and what the difference is with the current materials, we're going to do the same thing. Because there is a lot of money. I mean, just to keep plowing along and doing stuff that's really nice, I have some new windows. And remember the goal here is to meet those federal requirements, which is the interior noise level of less than 45 decibels. I also had another question. This just is the, I think it's in this, the noise, what do you call it? Report, no, the map, the new map. Have we reached out to the community to let them know when, I was just asked that and I didn't know. Not yet, not yet. But I know Hannah and Larry and our consultant team, both with the HMMH and the New York Spain group are putting together a draft list of new technical advisory committee and regional advisory committee so that we can start the invitations and reaching out to those communities to see, did we miss anybody? Do we want to add anybody? Yeah, that's what it looks like the last time. So we want to make sure that each community, the regional planning committee, those folks are involved. We have that full list. We're just scheduling now, probably later March, we'll start having our first meeting to the tech meeting and all that type of stuff. Excellent, okay, thank you. Because they're not just the noise insulation project, the noise exposure map is coming online or being produced this calendar year. And the, what am I missing? The noise use and reuse plan also has to be updated this year. Thank you. Good. Another question. And Steven, talking about the parking garage you were mentioning that you're gonna start doing the some different maintenance because of COVID puts you back. When a parking garage such as this is built, what's the life expectancy? And is there any free budgeted ongoing maintenance funds that are set aside knowing that it's gonna have a lot of wear and tear? I have a good answer, but Marie probably has it better. We do have a long-term maintenance program with so much money each year. So Marie, you wanna talk about what we have for a plan?  And one of the things that we have when we work with the Confederation of Reviewers goes he put together a schedule and they put together a schedule for us to follow for like doing all sorts of maintenance. We are updating a little bit to tweak it because we got a little bit behind with COVID and trying to figure out, make sure that we are depressed like it's worse. But that plan helps us to maintain and keep this infrastructure solid and safe and the long-term structure. How long will it last? I don't think we have a plan for replacing that at this time but because it would be out in decades. But when it was built to the contractor say this is a 15-year structure and you wanna have the demanding for 15 years that's falling apart sooner than it was planned. I don't know about when it was built, maybe six or so years ago we did put together a capital plan for the next 50 years. Granted, 50 years is a very long time and it can change. We may not be using cars, but we might not be using cars. So that's exactly another part of the conversation of the expansion or the growth of the airport and maybe I don't use the word expansion although we are expanding, we are expanding. To meet the needs of the technology, the customer, the demand. And to understand it may look different in 10 years and it looks different. How often does the parking garage get a safety inspection? Multiple times a year, but a major one annually with both our insurance company and our engineering folks. So we got a review, but yeah, we respond. I'm sure you're aware of the places where it's looking pretty. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. So what happened is we actually had a contractor under contract when COVID hit and then they couldn't come into the state just addressing some of that stuff. So that set us back. So we're doing, we had that project designed, bid, ready to go, no contractor to get in here. Right, we had a, we had a contract before you could even like do it. It was, it was that logistically happening. Which is why there's not a choice this year to spend this two plus million dollars in the capital improvements or the necessary improvements out there, plus going back to what we were trying to do a couple of years ago and get that in place with joints and those types of things. And, you know, I mentioned the stairwells and I saw you shaking your head, but also some of the other stuff you're seeing on the lower levels, that is the next step. I mean, sandblasting, you know, all that type of stuff. So that will be the next one when we get these move forward. So this year and then next year. Thank you. All right, commissioners, anything else for Larry? All right, Larry, thanks for your report. Thank you. Next up is item six, the financial update from Marie. Hi, Marie Friedman. And this month you have the December, I've got information for December for our revenues or expenditures as well as the December recovery model. And then for the cash, our receivables from our grants, I've got that updated through January 31st. Those information is where it's available. We did draw down some money for operational. We got some reimbursement money under the CRISA grant and under the ARPA grant. So we are with some of these, even though we're doing very well with our revenues, we know that we're spending more on some repair and maintenance stuff, specifically in the garage, but also on some other areas. We're spending more on repair and maintenance. We're trying to, these are planned things and we're going ahead and doing that. So we are able to sort of strategically look and cover qualified expenses, specifically like salaries and things we're able to use these stimulus grants for it. It's very helpful for managing all of such projects. We do not owe any money on the grant anticipation note. In fact, we're still, I think we're still waiting for that grant anticipation note to close with a bank. It's taken longer, but we have not needed to draw down. We have not had any cash flow issues whatsoever. In fact, quite the opposite, but we will have that grant anticipation note in place and it will be available so that if we need it as we have some grants that we're waiting on and decide that we would like to draw down on it, we will have that option. Our year date revenues through November, almost $15 million, $14.8 million. That includes what I just mentioned, we did draw down some of the, about 1.75 million on the grants than stimulus funds. If I exclude that money for a second, our operating revenues were $3.1 million higher year to date. So for the first six months of this year compared to last year. So just, this is what we expected, but I think we're even doing a little bit better than what we expected in terms of our revenue recoveries. And these are good, that's good information. And I think the airport recovery model still, it's still very interesting. I like that to look at that and see where things are heading. The CFCs, the car rentals are really much better than we could have anticipated, but the recovery of our other revenues are continued to do very, very well. Parking garage revenues for the first six months compared to pre COVID, which was July through November, 2019, which was, that was a peak year for us actually at that point, our 101% of those revenues. So our garage continues to perform. And I just looked this morning and figured that in February, February compared to 2019 garage revenues, this past month was 106% of that. So our revenues are very strong in the garage. It makes sense since we're seeing the activity and traffic in there. Our expenses through, oh, I didn't change that. Our expenses through December, it says here in November, we're $7.7 million. It is higher, some of that is higher because we are now operating the QTA, which last year had just opened in November and late October. So we have some of our, we have fuel expenses. We purchased the fuel, but then the car rental companies reimburse us. So those are, those are, you know, it's really a little bit of a timing, but it's almost the same, the revenues expenses, but we have other operational expenses that we have with the QTA that we never had before. So those are going to make our expenses look a little bit higher, but we are getting reimbursed either from the CFCs or covering a lot of the operational, the utilities and the fuel costs are reimbursed directly from the car rental companies. We are also seeing some expenses increasing with related to salaries to overtime. Repairs and maintenance was another area that over last year that we're seeing that and salaries, we did have an increase and with a COLA overtime, we just were very short staff. It would not that we're short staff, but our staff are doing a lot right now in terms of covering a lot of extra things and just to keep the airport safe and keep it open. And so we are short staff. We are still, we are. I mean, we have minimized that. Right, we have then, certainly, you know, from the administrative office, it's been very short staff, but that doesn't affect the overtime because we are not paid overtime, but the, the thing is- Unless you want to change. No, no, no, no. I mean that in a joking way, actually, but like we've been not able to 100% fill the ambassador roles, you know, we've had some other areas that we've been, so it does in fact result in overtime if I have to have ambassadors covering, you know, 88 hours where I don't have people filling those jobs and then vacations. The good news is, as we speak right now, I have an ambassador that we just offered a job to and they've accepted, except they are trying to find housing, so they're up here this week to find housing. They're moving out of the state. Moving from out of state to take this job and he's downstairs right now shadowing our ambassador because he's up for the week and we have somebody coming at five that applied in this good candidate for a part-time position, so we may very well in a few weeks be at full staffing for ambassadors, which we haven't probably had since COVID. I don't even know the ones that we've had. So that, that will be very good for all of them. They work incredibly hard, so if you see them, just smile and say hello and thank them for what they do. Very proud of their hard work. Our cash is on as of the end of January with 5.8 million dollars. Hold it again, as I explained, it's holding very strong. Our cash flow is very solid. We don't have to worry about paying bills in a timely fashion and, you know, our cash levels are very healthy for us and I'm happy to report that and our airport receivable, our grants receivable is just under five million dollars. So we did get a couple of big payments. Taxiway G phase two, we got a pretty sizable about $1.7 million reimbursement in February for that one or I guess the end of January. So we have, we're doing well and I'll entertain any questions that you may have on any of this or any of the line items. I do have a question. Helen really, looking at all the stimulus grants summary. Yeah. So by April 5th, 2025, all of it, if I'm reading this correctly, will have to be spent. Yes.  I think I'll take that back. I'm very comfortable right now. I mean, that gives us, we're in 2023. It gives us quite, quite, this money has been very instrumental in helping us manage it during great time of uncertainty. It almost feels unreal now as we're stepping back. But we had a lot of, as other businesses did, there was a lot of anxiety that came with managing all such issues and watching the number of flights and the customers using the airport just really overnight evaporates. So very unusual time, but across, you know, across the country we were similar. So this money has been very instrumental. We are doing exceptionally well and we are spending the money wisely.  And it's been really incredibly helpful for us. So I feel very confident that what I've seen on the recovery of the revenues and where revenues are trending that we are going to be well, well able to cover any and all of our expenses. So I think we're looking to probably finish up spending the stimulus money by the end of next fiscal year. That's right. So 2025 I think is a very long term goal. Of course, obviously that's the expiration of the grant. Right. I also share Marie's confidence and feelings especially with our guidance that we are very comfortable you know, finishing these grants well before 2025 really next fiscal year so that we can just seamlessly move on and work with the concessionaires. It's in news, for example, is up 140%. They still don't even have the staffing to open up all their stores. But there's still up 140%, 40%. We're right back where we need to be pre COVID. There is some volatility with that, right? There's the inner line schedule. There's the ups and downs of running in the airport. So we need to make sure that we're taking advantage of this grant funding, make sure we're catching up on this deferred maintenance that we really needed to catch up on. And that's not just parking garage. That's this building, that's the future stuff and accommodating. I think we had a great conversation last meeting about all of these grants coming down the pipeline, the big projects, the North expansion project, the projects that I'll start explaining a little bit later on, the North renovation project. There's local shares to that. So we need to make sure that we're fiscally responsible, moving beyond these grants as well. Okay, thank you. And that's all, we'll keep it updated. Mr. Zahary, anything else for Marie? All right, thank you, Marie, for your presentation. We'll move on to item seven, the noise data. This is Hannah's presentation. So from last reported in our January meeting, we had 25 additional comments. The graphs are keeping largely the very, very similar percentages between the comments associated via town and by aircraft type. We've also added on there the map of the, excuse me, the phase one of the map of Poland's, those specific designated areas. And we will keep that each meeting and we'll adjust as necessary. I think that's it. The only other thing that I'll add, Hannah, is we did include on here an excerpt from the noise exposure map back in 2019. And that is the heat map of our radar data. The reason I showed it in this map is we're trying to extract this data and put it onto, as we've talked about in the past, put it onto the noise comment map so that you can see where the comments are coming from and where the majority of flights, of course, are going over. And some of them do correlate. So there is some regular reporting both from a comment point of view as well as from a radar point of view. Not quite there yet. I have a PDF of both of these. We just have to figure out how to combine these maps with our consultants. But I wanted to give you an idea what that's gonna look like. Great, we'll look forward to that. Commissioner, is there anything else on this segment of the agenda? All right, we'll move on to item eight, which is the director's report from Nick. All right, I have a few things for you. Just a quick couple of updates more or less to elaborate on what Larry presented earlier. I didn't just want to give you a recap of the North renovation project happening moving on right now. This is the two-ish million dollar grant from the FAA to renovate the North wing of the airport, the North concourse. Hudson News has officially relocated their store in the North. So they are no longer where they used to be. They are now temporarily set up as they go through some of their changes that they need to do based on this relocation. The relocation, again, just as a reminder, is because the new exit door is going exactly where Hudson News was prior to their relocation. And that door is gonna start being constructed over the next several weeks. The escalators are out. The floor is being completely renovated behind a construction wall. There's lots of temporary walls up. It does look a little tight in there right now, but once this project is completely opened up, it's going to be a very, very different seating area and experience for the past years, which we're all very excited for. There already is some improvements over there with some walls being removed and opened up and additional seating. Just a quick update on the project next, which is the North Expansion Terminal. That's the $34 million Congressional Directed Spending Bill. Thank you, former Senator Leahy. That bill, or excuse me, that project is in the design phase.  We'll have our architects come in, probably next month I'm hoping that we can come in and share kind of a broader vision of that and some ideas of what this terminal will look like. This is March 2023. We're hoping to be out to bid by March 2024. So we have a long, long design process in front of us, but very exciting nonetheless. And like Larry was saying, it is a different experience. Maybe we'll call it the North Experience Terminal. It is a different experience for our customers where it's replacing existing square footage. Some square footage is being removed and some is being added to our existing term. I'm happy to report, I sent you all an email yesterday. It was in the news. Yesterday as well, the whole team really should be sharing this major, major accomplishment, but another new grant to the airport. This is probably the most competitive grant that we've ever saw since I've been here. And this is a $2.09 million grant to start the design of the South end of our terminal. We would not have been able to start this design and if we wanted to, this would have been an internal funding mechanism which we are not in a position to do on a discretionary project like this. But with this grant, we're able to, so that we're prepared after our North project is completed that we can roll right over into our South project as well and really start making the airport look like those images over there. Yeah, I'll just keep rolling right into the next one. We talked a lot about parking garage repairs. One last addition to that is when you go looking into the garage, you'll notice that the signage is a little bit old, the paint is a little bit old and albeit some of the materials are a little bit old as well, that needs some help. So we're not only improving it, we're improving the lighting, we're improving some of the safety features of it as well but we're also adding brand new signs and new way of finding. So this will be essentially a one-way garage. So it's less confusing where people are kind of configuring rates on a single floor. They're gonna go into a very methodical approach to the garage and start finding parking positions a little bit easier is what the theory is. It's complicated and complex garage but I cannot wait even for that little project to improve the experience. I spoke again earlier about the summer airline schedules. I love thinking about summer, I think we all do. I think Dave Karn especially does, he's been working incredibly hard with the snow crews and the snow teams and the operation teams but our summer schedules are up with the airlines, the planes are still getting bigger. We're bringing back a couple of destinations. Denver is starting up in just a couple of months. Some country is gearing up to start their service. United Airlines, like I said, is starting tomorrow at multiple positions. They'll have three mainland aircraft every night here between the Airbus and the Boeing series. It's gonna be a busy summer. I'm predicting that it will be one of our busiest summers that we've had in a long time. Maybe the history of the airport on it if we're lucky. With that, we're trying to encourage more growth of air service at the airport. The demand is very high for specific destinations. I'll let everybody guess which one of the major destinations is that we get the most comments on. It's a lot warmer than here in Ferdinand but yeah. Orlando, Florida, you've been down in the Florida region and it is on our top, really our top three destinations or yeah, destinations where past years go. I'm gonna be on the road with the team quite a bit over the next couple of months throughout the summer and into the fall. The airlines finally opened up their headquarters that we can now be in person at their headquarters. We do this multiple times a year so that we can sell here or we can encourage additional air service at the airport and grow our incumbent airlines but also encourage new growth with new airlines. There are a few new airlines that you might have seen in the news throughout the feast that I am very eager to continue our conversations with. And then the final piece is just another quick thank you to our staff, not just the folks in this room who are wearing multiple hats every single day. We've had lots of things pop up, lots of water issues and hikers first thing and winter issues and lots of busy times, not just in this terminal but throughout the entire airport all over the place. So thank you to the administration team, the leadership team, the operation team are just nonstop. The multiple snow crews that we have, if ever you do see them, please thank them because while it hasn't been necessarily challenging to, well I should say that it hasn't been as challenging as maybe some prior winters, especially with this kind of very large fall spring that we had, we didn't have a lot of snow piles which we typically do right now. So even in event like these last couple of days or the events coming up on this Friday with snow, it doesn't make it any easier for the crews that are out there 16 hours a day. So a lot of thank you for them and that's a lot of reason why we really haven't closed this winter at all, this runway, lots of projects going on. So as they're out there, this isn't their real primary duties out here, they're also facilities maintenance, they're working on HVAC systems, they're working on patching taxways and runways. So they're moving and making sure that everything is accomplished for a safe winter, safe spring, safe year ahead of us. And that's all I wanted is just to leave it with a big thank you and I'll leave it with that. All right, thank you. Tim, first of all, congrats, Nick and the team on that grant. That's awesome news. I think I'd mentioned earlier, I have to hop off. Okay, Jeff. But I will see you all in our next meeting. Take care. All right, thank you for coming today. All right, commissioners, any comments or questions for Nick? No, just cheers. Cheers. We are busy, we're hopping, we're excited. A lot of things going on. Yeah, that grant is amazing. Congratulations on that effort. Thank you. Thank you for everybody. And I do think to just underscore the things that Larry said in terms of these grants that are refurbishing or rebuilding this existing plan or adding to it in ways that make air travel safer.  Those are, it is expansion, but it's, I think really important to our economy and the users of this airport. And while I am very sensitive of climate change and all that we need to do as a society and as a business, we also need to make sure that the people who live and work here can do that successfully. So I think you can continue to use the word expansion and we just need to, I guess, reiterate that it's not moving into the Chamberlain neighborhood. So mine has been drawn. Yes. The fence there. Good point. And it's really our existing footprint that we're trying to make more efficient and effective and user-friendly. And that's important to a lot of people. And sustainability is a very big part of that mission as well. You know, we're talking about a 1950s building that we're trying to renovate and work with and make sure that there's the best air movement in this building. The new building is 10 times better. The next building will be potentially geothermal energized and additional solar. So there's opportunities that we don't have in the existing building that we can't look at that responsibly. I mean, surely we're taking the position that nobody should fly because it uses too much carbon. But I just don't see that as a plausible pathway for the vast majority of people. I understand some people do and mine hats off to them, but they still use trains and buses. That's right. And we have a responsibility and a requirement, a federal requirement to make sure that we can accommodate. There's been hundreds of millions of dollars spent here with federal funds in the long, long period of time that we have that responsibility to make sure that we can accommodate the air travel if the demand is there. And that's exactly what we're going to do. All right, thank you, Nick. We move on to item nine, which is commissioner items. We didn't receive any advanced commissioner items, but if any commissioner has something they want to discuss, this would be the moment to do so. Tim, may I just say something? Sure. So this is my last week as a city councilor in Winooski. So I will not be, I'm not seeking reelection on time any day. So I think this will be my last meeting as an airport commissioner. So brief tenure, but... No, there's five more. Isn't it? No. Oh, that's right. This is March the last. And I discussed with the mayor, they're planning to try and do commission appointments with a new council configuration towards the end of March. And this is one of her priorities. So if she, either she or a new councilor will be serving on the commission at that time. But I didn't want to thank you all for welcoming me as a new commissioner, the extra time spent in explaining some of these big items at the beginning was really helpful and appreciate the work you're doing. So I just wanted to say thanks and let you know that that was coming. All right. Well, thank you, Jim.  So you can stay if you want to. That's true. That is true. That is true. All right. Thank you, Jim. Thank you, Jim, very much. All right. So move on to item 10, which is follow-up items. So 10.01 is the overlay of the flight pass. So we, I think we already talked about that. That'll stay on. I know you're continuing to work on the, on merging those maps together. So we will, we'll keep that on the list for next month. Item 10.02 is queue permits for taxis. Nick, you wanted to talk about that? I do. I don't have, I don't have an update for you from a legal standpoint, but my hope is that we'll have a better briefing for the commission to potentially make a determination to increase the number of queue permits that we allow at the airport. A queue permit being a taxi driver, a taxi company that specifically goes on a vehicle. Right now we currently sell 50 queue permits that are allowed out of the, out and into the Burlington airport. We've had a lot of, well, a lot of demands of passengers both in the parking lot. Those are also our taxi drivers as well, specifically in certain periods of time, mostly after 11, 12 PM. There's very few opportunities for a taxi driver. So my hope is to increase that number to hopefully accommodate additional competition in drivers for our passengers during that time slot. Okay. So we'll hold that for another month. And then we docked on 10.03 is the briefing on the North Terminal building. And I think we'll get into that in greater detail next month. Hopefully you'll be able to swing the architects to come in and have a conversation with us. That's my hope. I don't know what day April 5th is the next month's meeting. So I'm hoping we can break them in. We might not be ready for it. So it might be April, May timeframe that we'll have a much broader form of presentation of it. And this is for the North Terminal, yeah, let's get it. So that's follow-up items, unless anyone else has anything they'd like to add that came out of this meeting. All right. So then we move on to item 11, which is adjournment. I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Moved by Helen. In a second. Moved by Jim. All those in favor of adjournment, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. We are adjourned. Thank you, everyone.


Well, a cyber poet is a poet that is engaged with technology and technology based on the electronic medium, primarily the internet. And for me it was particularly liberating and interesting when I first came to this country and for the first time I was exposed to the screen. It used to be black with a palpitation of the cursor white like boom boom. So it was like calling you and I thought it was the perfect opportunity to establish a connection and through that connection to to create elements of interaction. I created prototypes of robots. I was really convinced that I wanted to present poetry from the point of view of a robot. That's why it's so important for me to create artifacts that delves into the idea of true communication through interaction in a new age, which is the electronic age in the 21st century. I think traditional poetry is important. It's beautiful. I still do it definitely but I think that we should challenge our way of understanding reading and experience in poetry.


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Today, YouTube officially announces support for 360-degree video, as well as considers an ad-free subscription service, and why is everyone so obsessed with a Meerkat? Hello, and welcome to YouTube News for March 18th, 2015. I'm your host, Alex, and I'll be walking you through some of the most important and interesting topics revolving around the YouTube platform. First up, YouTube has officially launched their support for the 360-degree videos. The YouTube creator blog has listed some examples of how you could use this new feature. You can let viewers see the stage and crowd of your concert, the sky and ground as your wingsuit glide, or you could even have your Choose Your Own Adventure video where people see different stories, depending on where they look. If you click the I button in the corner of this video, that is called a card annotation, which also rolled out to all YouTubers today. You're helpful for if you want to include informative content in your videos, so click that to see the 360-degree video playlist. Next up, YouTube is thinking about launching a subscription service for original content. I've brought this idea up in previous videos, but with these new rumors floating around, it looks like they're going to be offering this feature to videos that YouTube produces itself. It's also possible that these videos will be released to everybody at once. Even if you're not paying the subscription, it's just that paying subscribers wouldn't actually see any advertisements along with the content. Do you think this is a type of paid subscription service that's a good idea? Let us have a discussion in the comments section down below. Lastly, I had to bring up Meerkat because that's all anybody in the online video world seems to be talking about these days, because of South by Southwest. Meerkat is an app that allows users to live stream straight from their smartphone to all of their Twitter followers. It seems to be the easiest way to live stream instantly to any of your fans or followers, and all comments come in through Twitter replies. It would also be cool to see something this easy to live stream with brought to YouTube, but for now, I don't believe they have any plans to do such a thing. Do you think this dedicated live streaming app for YouTube would be beneficial? Tell us in the comments section below as well. And that's it for me this week guys, thanks for tuning in, and tune in again next Wednesday for the latest in YouTube news. The team have been announced with more than over 47 billion views, 164 million subscribers, and 1,600 videos uploaded in the past six months.


Roldo Sweaty, I think you had trouble at times today throwing strikes. We noticed that in today's game, it was so difficult to be consistent with the zone, executing the pitch of the track. Do you think today's game failed and didn't allow you to execute, to be consistent and execute a lot of strikes? No, no. I'm sure you didn't notice the strike, what you're fighting for, is what you're fighting for. Nothing in particular, you know, it's just there you have it being executing consistent strikes, you know, and something has happened to me this season. It seems like it's happened in waves this season. Just how frustrating has it been to not be able to find the consistency? Yeah, it's frustrating, you know, and sometimes it can be part of the game, you know, you just got to keep battling, you know. Do you think there's enough time to get right, that you'll be able to do enough to get it? Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do right now. Do you feel like you've done enough to make the postseason roster lose some reporting, that, you know, your spot may be at the toss? Entiende que el bullpen está bien, tiene mucho, mucho bueno lanzador en el bullpen. Entiende que ha hecho, tal vez lo suficiente para que sea parte de ese equipo, para esa post temporada que se viene. Yeah, you know, I wouldn't take those decisions, you know.


Hey everyone welcome back to my channel, I hope you're well. At the start of the year I made a video sitting right here called something like the book series I need to finish in 2020 and I said I would come back and I would react to it and that's what we're gonna do today. We're gonna go back and watch that video and see how many of those book series I have finished. I really have a bad feeling about this. I know we've got a couple weeks of 2020 left but I don't think I'm gonna finish any more series this year. Like I'm thinking about the books I'm set to read this year. I don't think any of them finish series and I also can't think of many series I do have to finish so like I'm quietly confident about this but I know it's probably gonna go terribly. Like I know I'm probably gonna lose. This is a competition with myself. Before we get into it make sure you subscribe if you haven't already and ring the bell button. That would make me so happy. So when did I make this video? Hang on. I need to connect my earphone. This was posted February 13th. Let's start. I swear that people die. But I'm like oh it's like hard did. Not gonna talk about book series yet but it's already not a start off great. Welcome back to my channel. Thank you as always for being here. Today we're gonna be... Oh okay first things first. I was like way too nice. I feel like in all of my earlier videos I was always too nice. I feel like in the past couple months I've been able to show even more of me and like sarcasm and stuff. I just feel like in these earlier videos I'm a bit more softly spoken and I'm just like you know. This is a video I hope to come back to at the end of the year and see if I've managed to finish all of these series. There is quite a lot here so hopefully I will be able to get through all of these. So the first series which I definitely want to complete in 2020 is The Diviners series by Little Boy. I own books one to three of this already. I have them all down here somewhere and book four is just about to come out when I'm filming this. It's not out yet. I like this quite a bit. I gave it four stars the first book in the series but I've heard a lot of people say that it improves as it goes along. Okay we're just gonna stop that there for a second. So I have read the first three in the series this year. Like I have at least done that. I had read The Diviners at the time in this video. I gave this four stars. I gave a layer of dreams. I think like a 4.5 or 4.75 it was very close to being a five and then I gave before The Devil Break Shoe I think like a 2.5 or was that just me being harsh? Maybe it was a three.  I feel like the series lost a lot of what made it so good on this one. A lot of the characters just went on weird tangents. A lot of the characters we've become really attached to in books like Layer of Dreams left. Like they just weren't, they were still there but they just weren't important, notable. Remember that? Tread. The story was all over the place. It was just not good in my opinion and I've heard from a lot of people, particularly I watched a vlog from Nicole the other day and she gave it like one star, King of Crows the last book in the series. I don't own that so like technically I have read all of the series that I own. I do want to get King of Crows very very soon just so I can tick this series off because you know like I've said I do love finishing series. Like I find such pleasure and such joy in finally being done with series. I am a bit nervous for it because I have heard a lot of bad things. Like I think it's people's least favorite in the series. Even people who love all of the books up until then don't really love King of Crows so I am just going to kind of be reading it to finish the series. I don't have super high hopes so that's a no. That is a failure first out the bat but I have at least read three and I've already got one left. That's not like terrible but let's be honest it's not great either that the first series that I wanted to finish I haven't. Like I have read 130 books this year. However I'm not made time to just finish that series. The mind boggles. I do not understand. So do you think I deserve better than that? Yes. The next series is one that I have been so excited to get through for so long and that is the Girls of Paper and Fire series by Natata and Yang. This is obviously the first in the series. Okay. And I already own the second. Okay so let's just pause that there. Give me a second. I have read both Girls of Paper and Fire and Girls of Storm and Shadow this year. Book three still hasn't come out. I think originally it was due for November but it has been pushed back. I'm not sure to when actually. When does it come out now? Oh my god what? It's now saying November 2021. I didn't think I had that long to wait. And I really scratched my head and I wonder where's God when you need him. I'm gonna give myself the point for this because I have read all that is out currently. Like I couldn't win this because the third one isn't out until end of next year. So I'm giving myself the point. This was Five Stars, one of my favorite fantasy books. Like I think the world in this is so incredibly magical. I think the girls, the relationship between these paper girls who are forced to sleep with the king, the way that grief and trauma is manifested in each of them in different ways. I think it's absolutely brilliant. This is sapphic as well if you're wanting a bit of female romance. This would be like my top recommendation. I have read Girls of Storm and Shadow. It was one of the earliest books I think I read this year. I think I read it in either January or February. Oh my god every time I say series, series thinks I'm talking to it online. I didn't love this as much. I think it's the general consensus is that this isn't as good. It's very much a travel book. I think I heard that Natasha Nyang originally wanted this to be a duology and it was changed to a trilogy and you can definitely feel that. There was just some pacing issues in this book and I think it could have afforded to be shorter or different things could have happened because it's very much just travelling from one place to another. However, I still love these characters. They are still some of my favourite characters ever. Leigh is just like one of my favourite characters to read from her perspective. So I'm very excited for the third one to come out next year at the end of next year but I'm giving myself a point because I have read all that I could have done and I just like love them together. Aren't they amazing? I need to take, I need to still need to take the Barnes and Noble sticker off of it. I still need to take the Barnes and Noble sticker off of it. The next series I want to get to is the Trudivia series by Maureen Johnson. These I believe are all out now or the third one is going to come out soon and it's just a bit of light hearted mystery. Okay, well, okay, well, hmm. I have read the first two in this series. They are just these super fun murder mystery books. I do really like these. I think they're both kind of like a four star. It's set at this boarding school that is known for excellence. It keeps jumping back and forth between a mystery in the present day and a mystery kind of like I think in the 1940s maybe when the school was originally set up. The third one did come out last year, I think at the end of last year, but I wanted to wait till it came out in paperback and it didn't come out in paperback to the end of this year because I wanted them all to be like paperbacks matching.  I think it came out in like November and since then I've been on a book buying ban. I will read it almost as soon as I get it. Like as soon as I buy it, I will read it. It's just that kind of book. This series are just so easy to pick up and to read and to enjoy. They're really something that's great when you're we're going to pretend we didn't see that. We are going to pretend we didn't hear that. So I am excited to read the last one. I just couldn't justify buying it. I was on a book buying ban once it came out in paperback and I've got so many books that I don't need it but I do definitely want to get it. I just haven't had a lot of time in terms of waiting for the paperback to come out. It only came out a couple months ago in paperback so I haven't had much time to buy it and read it. So it will happen but that is yet another fate yet so it's not going well. Okay the next series I really want to get to is the Renegades series by Mr. Mayer. I'm holding the second book in the series up because I prefer it in terms of the cover to the first one because I have the paperback from the first one. I haven't finished it. So I do just need to finish this series. Oh my god. The issue with this is again is an issue of buying it. I want the hardback right? I want the hardback so it matches this because I hate this and the thing is that the paperback doesn't even match this anymore but the only place that I can buy the hardback is Black Wells which is like a bookshop in the UK and like it's only $13.99. Like I should just do it but I find it really difficult to buy books. Like I know probably if you see like regular book hauls on my channel you're like she buys books all the time but I actually don't. Like I only really buy them nowadays for videos or on a spur of the moment trip to Waterstones. The majority of book hauls are very luckily books I've been sent. I'm very blessed that you guys send me books very often or I'm sent books in book box subscriptions or stuff like that and so I don't actually buy that many books. I should probably just do it. In fact I might even just do it after this video because it's only $13.99 and I know I should just do it. So this is all about superheroes and basically in this world you have like the good guys and the bad guys and our protagonist Nova she was raised by the bad guys. Her uncle was like the ultimate bad guy. I'm all like a bad boy though don't we?  She infiltrates the Renegades which are the good guys to like know more about them. She takes on this alternative identity with them but then she kind of like starts to like fall for one of the guys there and like it's this whole thing and she starts to make friends and it was an enjoyable series. I remember I hurt my foot at a step class. I hope you all like you all know what step is right when you're like at the gym and it's something like old ladies do but like I was there doing it. Up up down down good job. I fell off the step and I hurt my ankle so I was just like on the sofa all day and I literally read this book in that whole day and it was at a time that was very rare for me to like read books on a day like I never did that. Obviously I do it now more for like vlogs and stuff but I had never really done that before so these books read so fast and I do wanna read Supernova. Like Supernova was on my Christmas list last year and I had a very like I think I only had like six books, eight books on my Christmas list last year and I think Supernova was the only one I didn't get so I have wanted it for a long time but again it's just not been something that I have bought. So yeah this is another, it's another no. I haven't finished it. I don't really have an excuse. I should have just got Supernova and read it but I haven't. Oh this isn't going as well as I thought it was going. The next series I want to complete or at least get up to date with because I don't know how many there are gonna be in the series. I think it's gonna be quite a long one in the end but it is Heartstopper by Oseman. I have just read this book. Yay! Okay so they're right here as you can see with all my graphic novels. This is the book series that got me into graphic novels. I have read Volume 1, 2 and 3. I love it. It is the best graphic novel series known to man. It is beautiful, it is lovely, it is heartwarming. He fills my heart with warmth. This is the story of Nick and Charlie meeting, falling in love. It's the story of them getting to know each other. It's the story of them going on a school trip together and being in love and I just love them so much. It is just this beautiful story of these two boys falling for each other and becoming best friends and becoming each other's like partner through everything and helping each other and it's about being young in the UK. It captures that so well. I think there's only gonna be five volumes which is really really sad so I have read as much as I can. The current trend is that obviously I seem to be posting off last books in series. All of the ones I've failed at so far are because I haven't read the last book. Like that's something that's so frustrating is that it's so easy for me to finish them because I've only got to read one more book for each of them but I just keep putting off that last book and not buying that last book. There must say something about my psychology. So the only two that I have like finished are the ones that haven't finished. Like the series that haven't ended. These, I love them so much. I will always like read them as soon as they come out. They're absolutely incredible so I love them very much. So that's a win! Woohoo! The next series I want to complete by end of 2020 is Shadow and Bone Trimble G by Lee Bardugo. I enjoyed this. I gave it three stars. I didn't love it. Okay so I have read this entire series. I've read Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising. I didn't really like these. I think I gave it three stars. 2.752? Maybe? Yeah it wasn't really it let's be honest. It's not for main part. This is the story of Alina who is like a sun summoner so she can like summon light. She's like a human torch and it's the story of like war and the Darkling who is this very powerful man and Mal who is Alina's like kind of boyfriend and he's like not it. Oh my god I just can't stop my eyes rolling when I think of Mal. I'm glad I read it because now I can get on to Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. I still haven't read them. I read this series for the sole purpose of like feeling like I read this before I read Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. You don't have to but a lot of people said it helped with the world building but like I've left it so long now that I think it didn't even really matter. Like I think I didn't even need to do that. I think I'm going to be reading Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom sometime early next year. I've been meaning to do a video reading them because I'm going to do a sole video for them. I've been meaning to do it for months. It's just kept being pushed back. I'm very excited for the Netflix series. Ben Barnes could like I think he should just play every character in the history of the world. I love him. I adore him. I'm just happy that I've read a book series. Why have I finished this and not Supernova or King of Crows? Like why did I do that? Why did I actually read the one I was enjoying the least? I think I just wanted to get it out of the way and get it done but why did I do that to myself genuinely? For me the real reason that I want to get through this series is so I can then get through Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. I cannot wait to get to these. I've obviously heard such amazing things about them. I'm really hoping I'm able to read all four books that enable me to finish these by the end of the year. Well you didn't! Oh okay we've got to count that as a series. I have not read Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. Why would I put that on there when I hadn't only read Shadow and Bone? Why would I do that to myself? Oh my god no I haven't read them. They're over there.  Like I'm not I can't even look at them. Like I can't I can't even look at them. I haven't read them. Are you not ashamed of yourself? Are you not embarrassed? This is really embarrassing. Okay I'm sorry Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. I didn't read you. I will soon. I've wanted to read them like the whole year. I just haven't got around to making that video. Okay what's next? So the next series that I want to complete is Stalking Jack the Ripper.  I'm gonna sell code this series. Fuck! Oh! So again oh my god okay I'm not even listening to myself speak about it. Stalking Jack the Ripper by Carrie Manuscalco. I read the first one. I gave it three stars. I don't even own the second one. I haven't even got caused to finishing this series because I think I think it hasn't been a priority just because I didn't love this but I was in the mood for this series in October and November. I would have read it had I owned the second one but I just didn't and like I said I was trying not to buy books. This is a book about Audrey Rose right and then Jack the Ripper starts killing women and she wants to figure out who it is. I do want to continue on with this series. I do want to finish it hopefully. What am I saying? Hopefully I will finish it next year. Like if I were to buy the books I'd read them. It's just a matter of like I don't own them so I can't. And then the last series I hope to finish this year. I think I will definitely finish this and that is The Illuminae Files by Anna Hoffman and Drake Christoff. I love this. This is my first book of this year and I gave it 5 out of 5. Incredible. I have finished The Illuminae Files. I have read all three. I read them right at the start of the year. Like this is all five stars. I adore this series. I love it so much. This is a story of essentially like this big war between corporations. That's a very boring way to describe it. Each book focuses on kind of like two teenagers roughly. Three, two or three teenagers that are somehow playing a role in this war. This is all files from The Illuminae Group. So it is chat logs. It is emails. It is video surveillance. It is text from the AI. And so it is just told in this really unique way especially at the ends of the books. Like there's all these, it gets really cool. I loved this series. I really want to reread it. It's one of my favourite series of all time. All of my family have finished this series in this time. Like I'm pretty sure, I think my mum and my dad have both read all of the series and I just adore it so much. It is amazing. So I really recommend you go and pick this up if you haven't already. So the final, god this is laughable. The final count for have I finished the book series I was supposed to finish this year. I finished four. I haven't finished, how many is that? Is that five? I haven't finished five. Well done me. That is so terrible. Oh, that's really bad. Oh well, we just have to live with it. Like I said, a lot of them, I'm only like one book away from finishing it so I should be able to finish quite a few of these series next year. Maybe early on next year. Maybe I could push myself to finish these. Maybe I'll do a reading vlog saying like finishing series some point at the start of next year. Let me know if that's something you'd like to watch. If you have gotten to the end, is there a laptop emoji? If there's not, maybe one of the cameras. I don't know. Laptop or camera. I hope you enjoyed this video. I will see you very very soon with another one. Until then, I hope you keep well. Okay, bye.


In the first half of 2020, disasters displaced 9.8 million people and were the leading trigger of new internal displacements. We know that these numbers will grow as climate change worsens. Women and girls are disproportionately affected, and women make up 60 to 80 percent of small-holder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, livelihoods that are highly climate-sensitive. But they make up only 15 to 20 percent of landholders, which makes their return following displacement much more difficult. Moreover, when women and girls are displaced, they face much greater risk of gender-based violence. How can we best prevent the displacement and migration that is caused by climate change and better support migrants and host communities where prevention falls short?


Enrollment Key is a useful way to prevent users from gaining unauthorized access to a course despite the fact that they might be legitimate users of the learning management system. You just may have a reason not to grant them access to a particular course. So logged into the said course as a teacher, go to the settings block, course administration, resources, enrollment methods, go to self-enrollment, give this instance a name and we need to enable self-enrollment, now place an enrollment key. This is essentially a single-use password that needs to be given to the users that you wish to grant access, course access to. You determine the role you wish was signed and the enrollment period and so forth, custom welcome message, save changes. So if we log out as the teacher and we come back in as a student who wishes to gain access to a particular course, then prompted for the enrollment key, the single-use password that should be provided by the teacher. So they enter that, click enroll me, they're enrolled in the course.


The Browns are in town and looking for a little payback. But this isn't the same team the Titans took to the woodshed in the week one of last season. They have a new coach and a new identity. Brown at the 35, Brown at the 30 gets away. AJ Brown. Mayfield is sacked. But while these dogs might be feeling just a bit frisky, these Titans are going to make the wish they stayed in bed. Throws intercepted. Did he get in? Malcolm Butler to the house. Rock and roll in Music City. It's time to get Tennessee tough and send these dogs back to the family.