Good evening, I'd like to take and call the Monday, July 16th regular select board meeting to order to my far left is meet Kelly, Wayne Lamerton to my right is Angelina Capron. And I'm Brad Town, the with us is Diane Isabel, our treasurer and Dana Hadley, our town administrator. And additions or changes to the agenda? I have none. Anyone else? No. Public comment? Hearing none, we'll move on. Treasurer's report. I've given the select board the June trial found with budget status report and delinquent tax report. Last week of the 10th, I printed the tax bills and mailed them out on the 11th and 12th. It took me the whole week to get the tax bill out. OK. Thank you very much. Approval, license, permits, vouchers, and applications? One of us has been to the check, so far we're better. Yeah. OK. Annual financial talent plan for highways? This is a piece of paperwork that we do every year for VTRANS. This year, I waited because of the grants that we received from VTRANS. But this needs to be approved by the board. It outlines our estimated cost of what we're going to spend for winter maintenance and for general maintenance, and what we're going to allocate a class 2 road and a class 3 road. It also outlines the projects we have planned for this construction season, the paving of Fisher Road, Painter and Pike North, Granger Road, and replacement of the culvert on Mirror Lake Road. So I just need you to accept it and sign it so I can submit it to the state. Did we have some money in the refrigerators? Or, finally, remember what we were talking about? Did we use that? No, we have some. You do. So, right. I'm not sure if we're going to need to hit that for the Mirror Lake. Ridgeson Road, probably, we're going to have to go into. And right now, I can't tell you how much it is. OK, so I just wondered why it wasn't in there. I mean, that's all right. I'm just checking it. I remember the conversation. Right. Do you accept this? Are we through it all? There's more discussion to come. We should have a motion in the set, just that first part. So I know we accept the annual financial plan for the town of Pine Ways as presented second. Any further discussion? Yes. Did we order the box code? No. We did? No, not yet. Are we expecting the engineering to be complete? I have been trying to talk to John Grenier. John's been on vacation, so I did call him. He's gone a couple of weeks after the last meeting, and I don't have an answer. But I will by next time. I did speak with John briefly about ordering the culvert, and he thought it was premature to do that right now. This was a few weeks ago, though. So we're basically not going to get it done this fall? I am hopeful that, of course, we're going to get it done. I think that John, the engineer, should call a couple of the precast people to see what the lead time is for a box order. He had mentioned that he thought that was a good idea as well. So he may have done that, I don't know. I heard 12 weeks ago. Is that the way you've done it? On the box code? That would be a problem. But I know what you're saying. August, September. The box code is going to be fast, though. Right, but if you don't get it till December. Because I've had a couple of them. The state won't let you dig after October. Right. Playing the water. I've had a couple of people ask me if it. The issue is that the permit, the fix, has not been approved by the state. I see. And so that's one. Well, that was suggested as the town order of the box code. And then whoever wins the bid can buy it. But at least that is ready when it's ready to be done. Rather than keep awarding the bid in September and then having to find out it's going to be approved. So you're saying order it now and have it. And if we don't use it, we could sell it somewhere. No, we will use it. We're just going to have to pay for it to pre-order this far ahead. Then sell it to the contractor. I see. But in most cases, the pre-cast company won't even make you pay for it. You just guarantee, the town's guarantee and they're going to buy a box over. And then when whoever wins the bid, they can buy it. But they're not going to make one on it. Hypothetically. Speculation. Right. But the concern is the later you get in the year, the further back. How big is it? The height, right now? No. The year-wide drawl. But that is it that would be $42,000. The engineer needs it. I mean, I'd have to go to the engineer. So Tim, if push came to shove, could you push those mounds of gravel around it, throw some steel over to drive over it for the winter? Or is it that shot? When I walk across, the problem we are going to have is if we do that, it's just going to keep, which it's done already.  No, it's just going to keep rolling back and then eventually your steel's going to drop down in there. OK. So what happens is it's not so much the flow going through the air, but when the wind blows, it comes back through there, through that culvert, through the wave action. Yeah. And that's what caused all the problems. Because we had to wind the air when it collapsed and then just everything went down. Is that a school bus route? Yes. Yeah, but I mean, last I knew they were picking the kids up on Black Road. The bus does go down in parks right there, right at the corner of Merrill Lake. I've seen them go down there, but can't go past. On the east side, on the field side? Yeah, the flat. No, then that's their turnaround. That's as far as they go. Because I said last time, I've been walking around there every morning and counting all the traffic for me today, about the cars, you know, to even. The last kids they pick up, I think, are Lagerstitz kids right there on Belknap and a lot at that intersection. They don't go out any further than that now. But somebody told me that there's only one child out there right now and they're bringing them to Black Road and jamming the kids. Yeah, I'm talking on the east side. I just, sorry I got off track. I was just talking several times about this culvert wonder if we've done anything yet. So if we could find out from John. OK, and I probably didn't understand of buying it and then selling it to the con. I don't think we'll have to buy it. I think we would call and get three prices of pre-guest concrete culverts, box culverts, find out who's got the best price, order one, and give the town would give a PL to the pre-guest company, which they would transfer to the contractor one. But then you've got one. Yeah, well, I think that's the difference between getting it done this year and not getting it. Sure, it's the middle of July. Right, right. So I guess the only one that really can be. And it's a little frustrating because it's all contingent upon a lot of factors. Right. Well, like you say, I mean, if the state hasn't approved the plan, we don't have the permit. The state won't give you a waiver to work after October 1st. We've got them before until November 30, but that's the way this is. But especially if the state held it up. I mean, if the state were ready, we would be more ready ourselves. We're ready? I mean, I don't know where John is, and I really should, but we're ready to go forward financially and all other questions. Now, Richardson will be going with a liner, right? Still? John hasn't given me the engineering report on that. That was the idea that it would make sense to go with a liner. Sorry to get off track. So any other discussion on this? Any none? Those in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Winner's saying bid openly. If I could just agree, there is a part two for this one, which the board also needs to sign the town plan, which is in addition to the financial plan, that we're guaranteeing we're spending at least $300 per mile, each mile of class one, two. We don't have, I mean, two and three of the highways. We don't have a class one. And we are. So in fact, I don't want to tell you how much it's spending per mile. So where does that come from? The tax payer money? No, no, that we're guaranteeing that we're spending $300. It's a procedure that PTRANCE just has us do. I have one more piece before you go. This is housekeeping order. Certification of compliance for town road and bridge standards. In 2014, the town adopted the town road and bridge standards and network inventory. And we are still complying with that. So it just needs to be confirmed. Can I steal your phone? Or is that a nice little somebody's phone? There are a couple of pens on the desk that we're going to use. You're welcome to use it. OK, winter sand bin opening? We received two bids for winter sand. One had a return address, so I knew who it was from, and the other did not. This is score, and here are the bids. I think that I'm going to recuse myself, not knowing who the second bidder is. You learn, you don't worry. That's a good teacher, right? I'm here to help you with that. She's also doing it as confidence. Tabor earth extractors. So the bid is from the Tabor earth extractors. They are proposing $10.25 for cubic yard. They've got all these things in there. And so the bid was calling for how much per 5,000 cubic yards. So $10.25 per cubic yard. Now, this is just saying it's a new truck on the line. So from Hebert excavation in Williamstown, Vermont, their bid is $8.50 per cubic yard for winter sand. It said they wouldn't be ready to meet the order till August 15th to have the material ready for hauling. $8.50. I was looking at it, $10.25 for wipe, but now I see 5,000 cubic yards. OK, all right, got it. The only problem I have is we got our sand from Larry last year, and it wasn't good sand. Well, I should have finished. Also, enclosed is a recent test of our material by Williamstown. I don't care what he's got. So what was rotten sand mean as to rocky? No, it's too much dirt in it. We had a hard time getting it to go through our sanders. The first year we got it from them was good.  The guys had to keep getting out and kicking their shoes to get it to drop down on the spinners. There wasn't as much rock in it if you sanded. And we got just a little bit of flurry activity. It just glazed right over. So it was icy. So we had to sand again. Does he know that? I haven't talked to him. No, I'm not having a good idea. He enclosed a testing form. Because we did specify some criteria that we were looking for. That's my only complaint. I mean, I talked with Larry earlier this year, but they hadn't started doing anything out there. It's not his pet. He gets his sand from Ed Furnham. And it's not a pet. They just dig a big hole and extract the sand. And then when you're done, they fill it in. OK, can you table this? And have you find out anything about that? Or is it worth it? Well, I mean, we got to buy it from somewheres. But I mean, that's two arms of difference. It's a $10,000. Yeah, it's a fair amount. Just under $10,000. I don't know. It's probably going to cost more to get truckers from roses or tapers, because they're a little further away. They're in north here? I mean, cheapest isn't always cheapest, but $10,000. Plus the additional mileage for truckers, right? I don't know that for sure. I mean, it's definitely further than that. I mean, I think that probably the only thing that we could do is to speak with Mr. Heaver about the quality. Because I think he should know if no one complains. Well, last year, I think that we were, it was us. And Brookfield came in and got some, bought some from him. And Norfield bought it. But they bought it in October. Because they didn't put it out the bed. And they just gave it to somebody. And the taxpayers over there said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And over $5,000 is going to go out the bed, the same policy that we have here. So they ended up had to put it out the bed. So it was the end of October when they got it. So does that make a difference? No, I just, I mean, they didn't have much choice. They had to get the sand because it was getting close to winter. Right, that's it. So when are the pits closed? When are the pits closed? Larry, Paul would say in Norfield in January. So I mean. So are we up against a deadline if we take another two weeks? Oh, it's definitely so, but I mean. I mean, all I can think of what we would do is just tell him that it's private. I'm going to have a wrong look at it. I know, I know Plainfield went and looked at it. Because they're having a hard time financing him. And he called me because Larry used me as a reference. And he didn't like it. He said he could pick it up and make it smaller. Stick it together? Yep. That's what we would be buying. Well, I don't know.  When they take these holes and extract the sand, do they dig the holes next to each other or are they digging? Oh, they're digging. Or they do an excavator. And they dig down with a net. They strip the top off, take the top soil off, and then he just digs down with an excavator and screens it. And then Williamstown has their pit just over the knoll there from them. And they have all kinds of fill, so they've got to get rid of it out of their pit. So they're hauling it over there and dumping it in the hole so they can fill it back in. Because that way you don't have to deal with them, Shaw, because it's not a pit. That was a great recognition. So you want to wait? Motion to table to next meeting. Motion to table? I had gone around and looked at some. LePage has just got good sand, but he got a big cheat. And when I talked to him down here, I went to East Lawnpere because they bought sand from him last year and it is good sand. He said he doesn't like the bit, but they got a bit sheet and I talked with his son last week and he said, I think we're done a bit, but they didn't. You must have done it. And they were at 850, because he told me what he gets. He said, I don't bet it's 850 if you like it at all. Oh, well. That's a bit. So even if you call it, so it's too late now to get sand from this thing? No, I mean, no, it's not too late. It's just we got to do it. Well, it is sort of too late because it has to be better. That's my point. I don't know, I'm spending a little while to find out if you can get us something better last year. I think it's worth a little bit of time. It's probably partially my fault because I didn't say anything to them after last year, but I went over and looked at it and they had just stripped. So they didn't have any sand screen when I was over there. But nothing's gonna change between now and two weeks. Is it just two weeks later or long? Well, he can't do anything until August anyways, so. Yeah, I was emotionally tabled until the next meeting. Oh, he's recusing himself. So we need a second. Oh, okay, I second. Should be any other discussion? All in favor of tabling until the next step, we're meeting? I mean, I didn't go over and talk to him.  Oh, I don't know. The first year we got it from him, it was awesome. You gotta come from there, then? Yeah. Same place. Well, it was in the little first, it was in a different section of the field, but they can't dig any more there because they're too close to somebody's brain. Well, in case they were significant, it was the other bitter I've accused myself of. Now that they're not, I guess I can be involved. Good. Let's go. You and maybe the haulers. Which we do need to speak about that, so. Now would be a good time. If this is a good time, let's talk about this. So Wayne probably will have to recuse himself. Our vendor last year was Jeff Newton for hauling. He has offered to extend the contract for the same cost we paid last year. And we have the ability to do that if you so desire. Well, if we do that, we're taking a risk that somebody may not, may bid lower. That's true. And if he's going to take and extend it, if he wants to extend it. Can you do that? Well, can I say something? Sure thing. We did the same thing with the gravel. We said that if the outfit that's furnishing the gravel would stay the same, that we would continue buying it. Northeast hell there twice the same, and so did Jeff. I'm not, I can tell you right now, you're not going to get anybody to haul it, cheaper than Jeff Newton. Because we've gone through this and everybody else has always been way higher. There's, the trucker in part of this is getting a slim to none. Tim Stone's only got two trucks now and there's Gratton's down to one truck. He had three at one time. Adam Stone's the only other one that he'd bid no later. So we can just roll it over? Apparently so. Yeah. Okay. You just, I mean we can put it out if you'd like me to do that. Well. The only other thing I got to say is, it's our time too. It's not as much as it is getting somebody to haul it here. You got eight, 10 trucks hauling in this do-yard. The short hauling. And it's tractor trailers or five of them.  A lot less time. I mean, we did 5,000 yards of sand and no time of flat last year. So in the bed, could you put a truck on it out? Don't really have to. I mean, because if they're not gonna haul, they always let me know they have no trucks to make them. So I don't have somebody to sit with here. I used to haul her sand when we bought from them. I mean, all they had was two trucks in it. It took all the summer to put it up. And it takes a long time to get a couple of trucks. You got to call this decision until you get sick to get a, actually we should because we need to know how far it's going to be to haul sand. Right, we don't know for sure where we're getting it from there. Gravel is sitting there waiting to get hauled. And I could use it. Oh. That's what we're mainly talking about with Jeff. Just gravel, but all the way down there. Did I move to continue the agreement with the Newton trucking? Okay, I second. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Sorry. In favor? Yes. Aye. Sorry. Motion carries. So when it comes to the sand, we'll have to take the trucking again. So what if you go look at the sand and it's awful stuff? What are we going to do? I'll go tomorrow. And if it's, I mean it's, to me it's costly for us because we had, we went through a lot of sand last winter. Well, it's done. Because we had this, yeah, it's time involved. Sure. So we're going to go back and see. Well, I don't know. I mean, I don't know if we'd have to re-bid it if somebody will outright sell it for the same price as a low bid. That'd be a little raw about that one. I just think that it, because they didn't bid. In a short distance, too. Right. Yeah, yeah. I'm not saying we shouldn't buy it. I'm just saying because they didn't bid by the deadline. I think we have to refuse the bids to entertain another price. But we should check. Yeah, I just have to feel for this for the more often. Okay. So I'll do that. That'll be a real point if Tim, because that's a good saying. Yeah, I mean, I've been busy and I've been gone. So I didn't get a chance to get out. But I know what Mike told me completely. So we are talking about the other vendor you were talking about that gave you a price that did not bid. The pay-in. Yeah, that's a short haul. That's your stuff about what? Yeah. Okay. Got it. Because you're going to save money in trucking. I think it was $4 and something in the yard to truck it last year. Can you? Is that something that you need? Yeah. I've got it. I'm pretty sure it was for something from the yards. Because they're just the other side of planks, pit on Route 14, we're down to names now. Okay, on hose machine? That would be Tim as well. Find your own hose machine. We got more times that we can't get a hose. And twice take out this out at Berrytown at nine or 10 o'clock at night. Keep us on the road, fly one last winter. And it's just to run down here and get a hose made when we get doing ourselves. I think it would pay for itself. So you just would keep inventory? Well, I mean, like, when I was at Marshfield, we bought our own hose machine because we were way out in East Badonk. And we just kept 100 feet of each size hose that we needed. What size hose did you run those trucks on? Three-quarter, half, and three-eighths. And what are the fittings you're going to need for it? Well, that's the thing. They wanted to sell me a whole array of fittings and I said, no, I don't want that. I mean, if I had five or six, I mean, four or six fittings of each size. It was great. 90 and 80. Yeah, and 45 and, of course, cats all GC. And then... Oh, JIC? JIC, I mean. And John Deere is flat o-ring. Flat face, you know? Yeah, flat face o-ring. So, I mean... A hand-folding. Yeah, in three different sizes. You know, just like the loader broke down last winter, blew a hose. We couldn't load no more trucks. So we couldn't do nothing. You sure those, the inch, inch, three-quarter, half. No, three-quarter, three-quarter, five-eighths and a half. There's a few three-eighths on the loader, but very, very, very minimal. That's all I mean. Nothing's much that, but how many inch hoses do you have? The ones that run there from the pump to the tower. And then another one to the sander controls. That's inch.  So, what's the price of this machine? $2,300. And got another guy that approached me at the truck show at Barry Auditorium, and he sells hose machines. It's called Midwest, and it's totally different. So, I'm not gonna be able to buy fittings around here. So, I mean, I'm gonna have to order everything and make sure I got plenty, and... So, which one were you going with? Gates. Yeah, Gates is the most common. And that's the $2,300. Normally, you get three quotes for amounts under $5,000. In this case, he wants 25, or this guy's 23, and then you had 2,500. And we weren't sure how convenient getting... His cell phone is Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and so on. Whereas here, you could go down to Sinal and get donated. I think that's a lot of things. Yeah, one fitting. Who was the vendor for the fittings? Sinal. Oh, me, Sinal. That makes sense to me. Yeah. That one owes you me that Saturday night would be roughly $2,300 by Monday. Okay. I'll move that we approve the purchase of the hose machine. Second. And I've, when I work for your course, I've made hoses, and we had, we didn't have a Gates, but they were all pretty basic, but in our school, we had a Gates hose machine. Thank you. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Aye. Those opposed, motion carries. Prove of select board minutes for 5, 21, 2018. We have the form planned. Yes. Jeremy, we're filling one pass for that meeting. You ready? Move to approve the minutes as predicted for the select board meeting of May 21st. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Prove of the select board minutes for 6, 4, 2018. We have the form for that. We do. Yeah. That was not only Jeremy, but Jeremy was not present. I move we get a pass, except the select board minutes for June 4th, 2018, as presented, seconded. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Motion carries. You cannot do the next one. Oh, Jeremy's not here. You need your own three of us. Can you be here for that? Do it. Were there four? No, it was just you and I and then Jeremy on the phone. Yeah. So I'll have to hold over. I'll bring that one back to you. Time administrator report, maybe. I have a few things. Late this afternoon, I did get an email from Michael Miller. Michael is the director of planning, community development for the city of Montpelier. And Montpelier is, and I'm just, since I got this at 410, I haven't really digested it, but they have applied for a grant to do a rail study between Montpelier and Berry for transportation. For people. For people. And. So they are, I will go ahead and forward this to you tomorrow so you can read it. And they're asking for a letter of support for the grant. So I guess I will bring it back to you next time, but this came in this afternoon and I'll forward that to you. We did get a letter from the town of Berry because in July, we have a new ambulance rate, which is as per the contract. So that's nothing, no surprises there. They are reminding us that this is our last contract year. We do have an option to renew the endless contract for two years and they've given us the prices that they would do that. This is a letter that comes every July. I was asked by Berry Town Thunder chickens. They are working on rejuvenating or doing some new trails, snowmobile trails. He is going to give me some more information, but what I have so far, it's basically two areas, one going from Applebee's getting over to the Irish Hill trails and one starting in the lot between Shaw's and Comstock Road getting to the same location. They both involve using town roads, which we eliminated the snowmobile ordinance two years ago, year and a half ago. So it is illegal to ride a snowmobile on a town highway unless it's a 90 degree crossing. So when I have more information, I'll bring that back to you, but that would require if the board wanted to support that. Who would they be riding on town roads? They want to use Black Road, which is a class four road you may have heard of it. They also want to use Brookfield Road to get out to the Irish Hill. Yeah, but how are they going to get from Applebee's to there? They're going to have to run across that road. Well, that is the other issue. Part of it would involve this property going across this property. So what they want to do is they want to come right over by your shed from Applebee's, come through this park a lot, probably go over by Mike Doniex. Yeah, but how are they going to get there though? I don't know. They've got wheels on those things. They're not going to get down through that depth. No, not at all. Well, if I could begin to man them, it looks like they want to use cross town. I don't know about it.  Because Norfield's involved in it too because they're trying to get so that people can get over here. They're trying to get over to Northfield. Northfield road all the way over to Fox? No, no, right over then. Oh, of course, I'll log in. They'll go up over. I was killed and come down by Ellie's Farm Market. But that's the city of Malperius land and I know that they've been talking with. Well, going across people's land, I mean, they would have to get the permission. I suppose they've got permission from Tinker's Sunnest and then they're gonna go on to Josh Walker's and he's one of them that's trying to get this done. Well, he's working on it, yeah. I would ask them to come in and explain where they were going. But it is quite a bit of travel on town roads. By visual aids. Visual aids are always good. Well, I mean, cross town's not a great road for us. They're gonna be in the world until they get up past. The other thing is a lot of these roads are paved. I don't see them. I don't know, what are the machines? And I'm concerned about coming through our driveway. Yeah, and I'm getting pretty rosy on that one. So, quick, back on the trains, do we have any liability for that that runs through the train grant? The train, that's all railroad property. Right, that was a pass. So, Montpelier's getting a grant. Well, I think what Montpelier and Barry want to do is have the, they used to have a shuttle thing. Yeah, with the train to go back and forth. And I think they're trying to get that started up again. They're saying that they're thinking of the three communities will be connected with a number of continuously operating rail buses to shuttle people back and forth. Being separated from the road, it will operate faster than fighting through the traffic. What's being separated from the road? How do you get to where you're going and get off the train? Well, I mean, they stop at the station out behind City Hall and Barry and Barry and Montpelier. And they go to the New Transit Center in Montpelier, right? Yeah. Oh. Mm-hmm. How would you answer that? And I don't know what they would do for Berlin unless they did something on the Partridge farm or... They could do with it. They could do with it at the Freistar. Yeah. They are talking about doing something at Partridge. A stop. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there's a traffic rail on that parking lot. Mm-hmm. But I haven't had that, you know, was it? Now, where it crosses behind the shopping center, that's on the other side of the river, right? Mm-hmm. Right, right, right. Just as you start up the hill and on the Partridge farm. But River Bubbles, right? It would be on this side of the river. Right. Yeah. Right around there before it crosses the street. Crosses the River of Medjugorje at the old hour-last time. Yeah. Yeah. You just can see that. Planned. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Well, they've been running some cars. With green. With green and all right. Well, there was discussion of some gentlemen about the bus cars. And those are all up in the Bombardier. Yeah, they're all up in the Bombardier place. Well, they put a lot of old pastoral cars in the head. Yeah. You know, there's self-contained. All these get from the Ericsson. When they got new subway cars, they bought the electric trains. They're up at the old Bombardier. So can those be converted just to cars? Well, I think that they can convert the engine to diesel. Yeah, they're self-contained cars, the engines, and the car. So would that be a train? I don't know. Oh, so it's just one car? Yeah. I think you'd see a lot of people use it, honestly. Well, years ago, they used to have they used to run a Christmas train from the old station in Montpelier to the one in Barry. And that one, I mean, I took my kids on it. That was pretty good until the train fell off the track. That could be a problem. They put a lot of money into the tracks. Well, they have to have this on their granite. Yeah, they can haul a granite. Yeah. What are the sounds of your videos, Nina? So that's all I have. You've got a minute. OK, approval of license, permit, vouchers, and applications. I'll move to approve general fund payable warrant 19G02 with checks 18242 to 18277. And the amount of $58,951.91, as well as payroll warrant 19-01 for payroll from June 24, 2018 to July 7, 2018. And the amount of $42,643.19, as well as June 2018 general journal and tax admin entries and adjustments. And the 2018 bank statement, reconciliations for general fund sewer commission and water division. Second. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Motion carries. And round table, T? No, thank you. I'll leave Wayne in there. Any executive session? Yes, please. I need an executive session for contract. That's it. Thank you.


We've been to the UK a couple of times this year, we're really good to see you here, but we've got a few questions from people online and one of them, Killing, they're asking you when are you going to come to Ireland? Yeah, no, I really want to go there, like I think it's wonderful, like it's amazing the landscape and the beauty of the nature, yeah. I have a question online from a lady called Marta here, when coming back from injury, when do you know that you're ready for competition again? It's hard to know, like because coming back from an injury, like you start training, and like it's hard to know if you're ready for like pushing this hard, but I think you need like physical pointers, like feeling, yeah it's kind of a feeling, like you need to feel like all the trainings, it's good, like you can really push on trainings, because if not it's too thin, but then it's, I think then during these first competitions it's important to be not expecting much, until you're really okay, if I drop, it's not a problem at all. So lower your expectations, lower your expectations, maybe the second or third race back in? Yeah, that makes sense. Okay, Janet Herring, another one online, she's asking what advice would you give each people for improving this sense, a lot of people have trouble with that, I think. Yeah, and it's not a easy solution, like you can work a bit like muscles, like of course you need a bit of quads and calves to go down fast, but like it's not because you have strong quads that you will be able to run fast in technical terrain, so I think it's downhill, it's a lot about balance and it's a lot about between the vision, like where you look and how your feet react on that.  You do balance things and then spend a lot of time in steep terrain. Yeah, yeah, or some like for example, mountain biking downhill or like skiing, like because then you start to get this sense of like your body, the position of the body and looking for and then it's to spend a lot, a lot of hours to get used and to start to listen, yeah, to watch the terrain. Another question from Alex up and down, he says, you know the summit of my life project, have you any intention to expand on that, have you got any other future projects? Yeah, yeah, summit of my life it's finished but like it was good because like finishing a project. Everest was incredible. Yeah, it was cool but the cool thing was that it gave me like a lot of ideas to do, so yeah for sure it's many, many ideas, I don't know which one I will go for first but yeah, it's many things. Yes, well the final question is Damian Boil, yeah, what strength work and stretching do you do to help your body go through the rigidity? I don't do my strength, like I think spending a lot of our running in the mountain and skiing is itself a good strength exercise so like mostly legs, I do everything outside. But I think it's important to do some core training to not have problems in the back and to have like a good position, so core training and some arms exercise. So like I do climbing regularly to keep it in the upper body work and some exercises for the shoulders and the arms, but I think for running itself, core running specific. All that is core, back, it's very important. And then before the end of the year, what kind of competition did you go in the mountain? Well yeah, now I'm off-season now, so I will start training next week for this season so it's mostly like until April I will be doing skiing, so I will not do the work-up, I will be doing work-up this year, but some big races like running in the mountain is kind of long, you can select cherry pickers. Yeah, yeah, mostly ski crossings until May and then yeah, I don't know yet what they will be doing in the summer, but yeah, some body, some of the old interest areas so like the gamma or seasonal these kind of races, one or two long races and they are so important. It's been a real pleasure to meet you. Thank you very much. Pleasure.


Okay guys, we got a little kit to build, from eBay, £1.5 pence and it is a 308 LED, 2.4 watts, what's that called, E27, screw fitting. Apart from the 38 LEDs, there's only like 6 or 7 of the components. I say that actually, it's not known. So what we got over here, we've got a bridge rectifier. So we've got four diodes. We've got a 100A and 2,470A. And a 100A resistor. This is a, I don't actually see, 2.2 microfarad, 400 volt, electrolytic and a 684, so that's 680 nanofarads. More 680,000 pico, polyester film. And a couple of wires. You've got a, these to go into the AC part of the board here. There's two little, you can see that, there and there. And then you've got these two to connect. Even though these are actually polaritized, they don't actually give you a polaritized wattage, you've got two blacks. But you do want to make sure you get those right around. The board is pretty self-explanatory. It shows you where the rectified diodes go. And also it shows you where the 100A resistor goes. It says 100 in there. And that just leaves it down to, this is just from memory, that the other two, 470 is just going to where the other two resistors go. Yeah, just get the old capacitor in the correct place. Bend over the electrolytic to make sure this fits snugly. Basically it will just go in here. And there's a hole, a little bit that sticks out. And there's a hole, and that's it. That just sticks like that. You could chuck a little bit of glue in there, a bit of hot glue. Or you can just chuck this on top. There's nothing there. Once the big capacitors are on there, there's nothing. If the board was the other way up, that'd be a bit of a problem. But as it's going to be this way up, it's not. I would say if you're going to give this to somebody or anything like that. Or even for yourself. Put a little bit of hot glue in there. Just to keep it in place if you're worried about it rattling around. I've made a couple of these already. I think they're quite good. So I ordered another five. Just got to find me some bayonet fittings that will allow me to screw into a bayonet fitting so I can fit my normal lights. 2.4 watts of power. That's nothing really. So I'm going to throw this together. I'm not going to have to do it on camera. There's nothing to see here really. I'll just check it together. This is really simply laid out. As you can see, positive and negative. It's marked on there quite clearly. Where things go. And then once you're done. You've got your positive connection goes there. Your ground connection goes on there. And that's that part wired. Like I say on this board here, you've got your AC. Two parts where you put the AC just here. Which is from there and you just screw it in. And they work. I'll tell you something I've noticed. From the two bulbs that I've got. One of the LEDs doesn't work in either bulb. In either array of these LEDs. One of them doesn't work. So it'd be interesting if I put this one together. See if all of them work. Or whether they all work. But if they all work. Apart from one. Let's check it together. Here's something I've noticed. I don't know if you can see that. It's got a big chunk missing out of it. This camera is rubbish at trying to focus. Really close. You can probably see that. I'm just trying to point out. There's a big old chunk missing. So I'm not going to use that one. Let's see. What is it? 407. Oops. Here we go. Why does it ever start being one on me now? You can buy these things. A million for half a pence. Alice. I feel you babe.  I don't know why they do that with the big long numbers. I don't want people to remember them. To just tell you where you can get a gazillion of these things. Oh no. Don't tell me that's the broken one as well. Or did I just... One up in there. Oh no that's the good one. I'll pick the broken one back up again. There you go. Going back to fast forward. So there we go. So now I'm going to... I'm going to turn this around like this. And push it down through the hole. Like I said there's a... I have to turn it around a couple of times in there. It basically just sits in like that. I mean you could. If you wanted to. Stick some tape down or something. What I'm going to do is I'm just going to push that. That capacitor over on those. I gave them that little bit of legs didn't I? And that's going to make sure. That when this is on. Even if that pushes down into the top. You know it's just going to push down on the side. I just noticed there's a bit of grubbiness on the sides. Especially if you could paint it. We're just going to make sure that we get the right way rather than this. Because things won't like it. So this is definitely the negative. The negative goes to the outer side on here. So I'm going to do that little... Just want a bit of... Just want a bit of solder. A bit of red jag. The negatives on. Just pull that solder up a little bit. So I can get to it. And then we've got a little bit of a little fiddle doing that. Lovely chubbly. Lovely chubbly. Right. So I'll push that down then. And that's it basically. So that's all in. That's just pushed down. I used to connect it. And they're positive to the middle and negative to the outer side. I'm just going to do a check. Make sure that's good. That's good. I'm going to push this down on top. It says on the destructions to test it before you put it together. Which is all well and good. As I say, it's a bit awkward once you've got it together to get it apart. But I don't find it still awkward to get it apart. It's a little bit of a fiddle to get it together. You need one of those little skinny screwdrivers. It's not even nice. You can just pull that. And try to just get it to go in there without every time you get one part to go in. A little bit here. Just round off these notchy bits. They're supposed to be here to make sure it gets a good you know, good and stays in really well. But I think on some of them when it just sticks out a little bit too far then it's not so good. That'll do it. That'll do it. Right. Put that. Just wind it down a little bit because the wires are quite long there. Put it over the hole. And now it's just junked off. Like I said, a little bit fiddly. Ah well. I'm actually doing it the other way around this time. I don't want to do it that way round. I want to see the components side is upwards and not the board. Right now just only just sand it off. That's just all. There we go. Look at that. She goes in nice and snug. As we want it. So it's not just going to pop out at all. If you are worried about it, I suppose once you've tested it you can always just pop it out. Press down on that. There is a very slight crack in the case. It's only for me so it's not going to make any real difference to my life. There we go. That's it. And is it? I can't really measure the... Well I suppose I could. Fapping about. See if this actually does 2.4 watts. I've got a watt meter somewhere. The mains watt meter. Energy. Jobby. But I don't know if I can just get my hands on it straight away. I'm not going to go try this now and see if everything works. Or just whipping out this bulb. If I turn that off you'll be able to see the change. So I'll take out the old bulb. Put it down there. There isn't a new one. I should have probably left the other light on but I don't know if you can actually see this one. Are you done or not? Okay. That's got that same pinky colour in it as well. If I take out the other bulb you can see that on the camera. And you can see it's this sort of pink around here. Let's put that back down there. I don't like the pinky thing. Let's whip that out. There we go. See? Around here. There's no pink. And up here. Okay you still got that going on with that flickering but it's a more creamier yellow light. Which is what I like. But I don't mind. The thing works.  You know, it works. It's cheap. It's just more solid practice. But I like the idea of these cheap little lights. What I want to do is put a little bit of soldering into this. I can just turn it off. It's around the place now. Yeah, cheap. £1.5. LED kit. 2.4 watts. That's what attracted me. 2.4 watts. I've put four of these in this room. I only have 10 watts but I've put the light into the area that I want. I'm not just having one bulb. 10 watt bulb. You know. Sort of dominating the light space. That was the whole idea. I just don't like it with this pinky sort of tinge to it. So I'm going to get on to it and say I don't like that. Have you got any with the airy tinge? Like the first one. That's what I wanted. But I'll build the other ones anyway. We've got a few more left to build. I'm going to get on and do them and see what they look like. Anyway, you watched so far. Cheers for watching guys. Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the next one. Bye.


Do you want to open up a coffee shop? Because in this video, we're going to be talking about how to create a coffee shop business plan that can make your dream come true. Hello friends, my name is Wilson, your friend in helping you build a thriving small business or a profitable food business. I actually want to know from you, why is it that you want to create a coffee shop? Let me know in the comments section below. Now without further ado, let's dive right in. So to start off, why do you need a business plan for your coffee shop? Because the reason is, you're not going to be able to raise funds, you're not going to be able to find a partner and you're not going to have clarity in building up your cafe. Now, when it comes to raising funds, you must have a business plan in order for you to raise funds from your friends, family, or even the banks. Why is that the case? Because they want to know what kind of plans you have in order for you to be profitable. It might take you a year, two years, or three years, but they want to see exactly the plan of action that you have, and then that way they can have much more confidence to put their hard-earned money in you. That's number one, raising funds. Second of all, if you're looking for a partner, a founding partner that can help you build this business with you, then you must have a business plan as well. Why is that the case? Because you must align your own vision with your partner's vision in this whole coffee shop business. Because if the alignment is not there, if the vision is not the same, then it's really hard to be able to bring them on board as well. And number three is to have clarity in your own coffee shop. Now, what I mean by that, it is because when you have a business plan, you're thinking about all the fundamentals, from the location, to the strategies, to the SWOT analysis, to your competitors, to your pricing, and all these things that you must consider. And on top of that, when you're building your business, you're going to be slammed with the left-right center of different types of problems. And when you're hit with different types of problems, it's very easy for you to be buried in the noise without seeing exactly what you need to do, without remembering all the strategies, which is a reason why, when you have a business plan, you can see through the noise and to really focus on what will drive your business forward. So then that way, you can have a profitable and successful coffee shop. Now as a disclaimer, before you flame me on, hey, this is not the proper business plan. I'm only going over all the essential part of the business plan, so then that way you can be up and running as soon as possible. Now with a further ado, let's dive right in. The first component you must have for your coffee shop business plan is your concept. Now what do I mean by concept? It means that what is the vision that you have that you're building out? Whether this is a mobile food truck that is only serving the most artisan cup of coffee or is it going to be a sit-in coffee shop that only serves three to five people? Or is it going to be a big coffee shop that you're going to have a lot of people come in, study and have meetings? For you to actually identify that and really write down what your concept is, it allows you to build out this entire plan to the tee. That means that if you're looking for just a mobile coffee shop, that means the equipment might be very different. That means your startup capital would be very different as well. And it allows you to actually be a lot more accurate when it comes to the forecasting, the amount of resources that you may need. And it also allows your investors, your partners and yourself to stay on course and to set the tone throughout this entire business plan. So make sure you have your concept and visually laid out in front of you as clear as possible. In addition to your concept, you must identify what is the problem that you're trying to solve in a marketplace? Because ultimately your job is not to create a coffee shop. Your job is to provide a solution to an existing problem. And what does that mean? That means that when people want to meet for business meetings, when people are looking for places to study and they don't have that place, the only place they can go to is Starbucks. And that's what Starbucks is solving, to be able to have a nice place for people to have business meetings, to be able to have a place where people can come and study. And that's the reason why Starbucks Moto is your second home. For you, you must identify what is the problem you're solving for your specific concept as well. The second component of building a coffee shop business plan is your team. Specifically, we're going to start with you first. Now for you, you need to identify exactly what you've done in the past and what you can actually bring forth to this specific business. So for example, if you have management experience from the past, you can talk about that and the strengths and what makes you so special and uniquely qualified to open up this coffee shop because that's really the pirate chance of your coffee shop's success. Now for a lot of our viewers, I know that you may not have the experience to begin with, then you must be resourceful. What does that mean? That means you count on the people you know and look at their networks. So for example, if you have an uncle that is doing important export and they know how to import coffee beans, that's a really big plus that you can put into this section as well because you would have that resource which I don't have and that would make you that much more likelier to have success over me, someone that doesn't have this kind of resource. So definitely sit down and really jot down all the different people that you know. Their background and how they can help you and propel your coffee shop forward. The second part of your team is that you must include other partners that you may have or the management team that you have created to build this coffee shop business with you. Same thing with thumb as well. You need to highlight their strengths and what they can actually bring forth to this business whether it be management skills or their network or the resources that they have is very important for you to highlight those items so then that way it gives a confidence to your potential investors, to the banks that hey, you know what, this guy has a pretty solid team, I'm willing to invest in him. And at the same time it really also challenges you and your partners to really count the resources that you may have. Send them this video, show them and let them write down exactly all their networks and the resources that these networks may have in order to help with your coffee shop business. As an example for you with our previous business 720 suites before we sold it, we have a really strong team. And the reason why we had a really strong team is that each of the individuals we brought in different strengths to the business. We all put in different things to the business that made us a very solid team in order for us to get a lot of good funding. Now as an example for you, one of our partner, he is the biggest distributor for bubble tea supplies in Western Canada. What does that mean? That means that we always get the cheapest cost of ingredients and that means we don't need to actually pay premium for our cost of goods sold. And that allowed us to actually attract more investors and funding from the bank because of the relationships that we have within our team. So for you, you must look at what your people and your team is bringing to the table. And when you don't know, then you must ask them what is the reasoning? What is it that they're bringing to the table to strengthen your coffee shop business? Whether it be resources, whether it be capital, whether it be just pure talent. Third component you must identify in your business plan for your coffee shop is your target market. Now who is your target market? It is the people that you're trying to help. Once again, I always come back to this. You're trying to create a solution to someone's problem. Whose problem are you trying to solve? For example, if you're trying to create a cafe for students to come hang out for late night so then that way they don't need to be stuck at home and they wanna be able to focus, then everything within your coffee shop must align to that. To give you a few examples, Wi-Fi must be free and must be strong because a lot of people are gonna come with their laptops and they are gonna be on your Wi-Fi network. And on top of that, you must have outlets, why? Because people need to charge their laptops.  The problem is the fact that these students don't have a place to study and to focus. And on top of that, you must offer food items. The food items that are quick grab and go eat so then that way they can really focus on their study. And these are just little examples of things that you can do to better serve your customers. Now it is time for you to identify your customers, identify exactly who they are so then that way you can actually serve them the best that you can. For us at 720 Suites, we have identified our customer avatar and actually created a sheet like this. Her name is Michelle. And we identify exactly who they are, from how old, from what school they go to, from what are some of their desires, some of their passion, what they're passionate about and to really have a good idea on who we're trying to serve. Now, everything we do from marketing to designs to the chairs are all catered to Michelle because this is the problem that we want to solve for them. Same thing for you. Identify exactly who is it that you want to solve and really come back to the concept idea, the concept of the problem you want to solve and who to solve it for. When you identify this to the T, then it gives confidence for your audience and actually for your investors and your partners to actually invest in you when you have this very specific. Now, if you want to learn more about the fundamentals of building a business, how do you align your values with your customer's values so then that way you can connect with them, connect with them so then that way they become a loyal customer and in turn for you to explode in sales. Then you must check out our link below. It is a free hour of masterclass that you should definitely check it out because that's where we are able to teach you, show you the fundamentals of building a profitable restaurant. Definitely check it out after this video in the link below. The fourth component you should definitely consider when building out your coffee shop business plan is location. Location, location, location. A lot of people talk about location but how do you distinguish between locations? There are two different types of location. First up is a destination location and second is a high traffic location. Now the difference between the two is that usually with destination location, the rent is much cheaper because there are not much traffic around that area. So for example, it might be a neighborhood tucked in the corner around the block coffee shop and those are really just not that much walking traffic so the rent is much cheaper and you need to be able to have reasons of what entices people to come by that neighborhood coffee shop. It could be because you have very good artisan coffee that really attracts people to drive all the way just out of your coffee or versus a high traffic location. For example, having a coffee shop right on downtown core that itself would have a lot of traffic and in turn potential customers for your coffee shop. However, with that amount of traffic that rent is much more higher than that. So for you, it's always looking at the prices versus the walk by traffic. Now, especially with what's going on in today's world right now, another thing you should consider is the density, what does that mean? Because a lot of people are now working from home and they're wanting a good cup of coffee then you would want to be able to consider having a location that is in a residential density location, what does that mean? That means that you must surround yourself in a lot of different residential areas so then that way much more people are willing to be able to order take out from you. So more things to consider because of the pandemic. Now as an example with 720 Suites, our first location we know we wanted to serve university school students. However, having a coffee shop at the university is very expensive and that's the reason why we had to make a decision whether to actually have that risk of putting in five to $6,000 per month and to have that traffic and to really bet everything on that or should we be situated a little bit further away from the university and have cheaper rent? We chose the latter, we chose to have a coffee shop, our location, our ice cream shop 10 minutes away from the university, still close by yet the rent was substantially cheaper so then that way it allowed us to actually try more newer things and to actually still be accessible for university students. And on top of that, the reason why we chose that location is because it is situated right outside of a bus stop that goes straight to the university. So that's why we really find that spot as a really good alternative to having a coffee shop inside the university. If you guys enjoyed this video and find value in this video, make sure you guys smash the like button and let me know this is the type of content that you enjoy. Now back to regular programming. The fifth component that you must have for your coffee shop business plan is your sample menu. Now I know a lot is still in the air and you're trying to figure everything out and you don't know exactly what you're serving. However, it is super important for you to actually have an idea of what you're proposing for your menu. Now according to exactly who you're trying to serve, your target market, you should actually allow yourself to build a menu that is serving for them. I'll give you an example of why that is the case because for example, we want to serve the students that is lacking a place to study. Now for the people that are coming in at 9 p.m., 10 p.m., they're looking for a sandwich or a soup to eat late at night or just noodles, then those would be good items to supplement your coffee shop that you're offering. That's how you're going to be able to come up with that menu. And on top of that, you need to identify how much are you selling these items for? What are your costs and what are your margins? So in that way you can really do a forecast, a financial forecast of how long does it take to make your money back. And oftentimes if you're just selling coffee as an item, you're going to have to sell a lot of coffees in order for you to make back your money. And that's the reason why even for Starbucks, they're selling cookies, they're selling muffins, they're selling chips, a lot of different things that they're selling along with coffee as well. So for you, for you to come up with this proposed menu, look at exactly who you're trying to serve and look at exactly what they need in order for you to come up with this proposed menu.  Ask them whether this would be a good item. Ask them how much are they willing to pay for it and actually go to your competitor's coffee shop and see exactly what they're offering. See how much they're charging. See what is popular and what is not popular for you to get a better insight on what you should offer to your customers. The sixth component that you need for your coffee shop business plan is design. Design is practically my favorite component of all time because I get to be able to have whatever I have in here to share with my investors, to share with my partners. And that's exactly why this is a very crucial component for your business plan because you want to be able to show people that you're working with exactly what you have envisioned in your mind. What are some of the color scheme? What does the vibe look like? What's the ambience within the coffee shop? How does your coffee, mobile coffee truck look like?  So then that way, you can actually submit this business plan to investors, to partners, to help them bring them into your world. That's the whole point of design to be able to actually bring what's here out on a piece of paper. As an example for you, whenever we sell locations for our ice cream shop 720 Suites, we always design renders for every single location, for every single proposal, for every single country that we're entering. We always have designs and renders because that really just shows our partners, people we're dealing with, vendors, exactly what we're trying to build. And it also allows me to see exactly what I'm trying to build and whether it is in line with what I believe in as well. So super important for you to do the same. The seventh component for your coffee shop business plan is your SWOT analysis. Now I know this sounds like a cliche that everyone is working on a SWOT analysis, but it is super crucial when it comes to building your coffee shop. Why is that the case? Because we need to identify what our strengths are, what our weaknesses are, where the opportunity lies and where the threats are as well. So diving a little bit deeper for each one is that for your strength, what makes you different? What makes you more successful than all the other competitors? Is it because you're really focusing on the ambience and you know exactly who you're serving and you want to create this massive experience all just for the students? And if that's the case, that is what's going to make you special within your neighborhood. Now, what are some of your weaknesses? If you are once again, if you're focusing just on students, we all know that students don't have a lot of money, more disposable income and they're going to sit in your coffee shop for hours on end, then we know that is part of your weakness over your competitors grabbing go. For us, it's really about exploring and understanding where our opportunities and where our strengths are, where our weaknesses are. It's okay to have weaknesses, but we need to be aware of them. Next up is opportunity. Where does the opportunity lie? Let's say for example, if you have a uncle that knows how to do franchising and you know you can count on him and as an advisor to coach you along the way, that becomes your opportunity where your competitors don't have because now you're building a business, building this whole concept and once it is a proven concept, then your uncle's going to be able to help you expand to other cities as well. That is an opportunity that is strictly for you. So identify what opportunities you have in the marketplace. Now lastly, threat. Let's say for example, you're choosing a location that is going to be redeveloped soon and you're choosing a location that already has three different coffee shops as well. These are threats that you need to put in your SWOT analysis because it just allows you to have a full picture of the business that you're trying to build, identifying all these different types of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats allows you to have this overall picture. So in that way, you can run your business successfully. On top of that, this is exactly what investors and your partners would want to see because ultimately they're not looking into investing a business that is like 100% bulletproof. They want to be able to see that you as the owner, as the founder, are aware of different exposures that you are exposed to.  The eighth component you need for your coffee shop business plan is marketing. What is your plan to gain that initial traction? What is your plan to gaining people to buy from you? What is your plan to going to market? Whether it be Facebook ads, whether it be influencer marketing, whether it be stunts, whether it be just promoting on university grounds, these are all different strategies that you must put on your business plan because this is a way to showcase to your investors, your partners, even yourself, a roadmap for yourself of hey, now that we built this coffee shop, how am I going to get customers? You don't want to build a coffee shop and then wait for people to come in. No, we don't want to be like that. We don't want to be sitting duck. We want to be proactive. We want to have a plan and strategy on how we can actually promote our coffee shop even before we build this coffee shop. And that's the reason what distinguishes people who are very successful and people that build a business and are not too successful and not to close down in the first year. You want to avoid closing down in the first year, which is the reason why you must plan for success. Understand what would bring in the customers, identify your list, so then that way it gives not only yourself the confidence, but also your investors and your partner the confidence to invest in you. So if you want to learn more about marketing, the different strategies that we use of 720 suites, how can you actually get people to talk about you for free? How do you get media attention? Then definitely check out the link below. We created an hour of free masterclass. That shows you exactly how we do that. Definitely check it out completely for free. The ninth and final component of a coffee shop business plan is the financials. Yes, I know this is a topic that everyone's waiting for. Everyone's excited about this. I know it's dry. I know it's difficult. I know probably you don't want to deal with this. However, this is the most important part of this whole business plan that your investors and your partners would look at. And it is also the most important for you when you actually have all the information there. And I'll tell you the reason why. Because if you don't know your numbers, you're basically swimming in the dark. You don't know for every cup of coffee you sell, whether you're making money or not. You don't know every month how much you need to make in order for you to break even. You don't know when you're actually gonna be able to make back your investment. And without understanding all these, then why are you creating a coffee shop? Ultimately, this coffee shop should be a vehicle to provide for you to have freedom of choice, freedom of time and freedom of financial burden. And that's the reason why you're creating this coffee shop. So understanding your numbers is key in doing that. What kind of numbers are we talking about?  And if you don't know these numbers, then it is very important for you to go out and find these numbers. If you don't know how much people are willing to pay for your menu item, then make sure you go out there and survey people to get the best numbers possible. If you don't know how much and what is the cost of per pound of coffee, then go to suppliers and ask them how much does it cost. The more accurate you are in identifying all the different costs for your coffee shop, the better it is for you to actually map out how and when you're gonna make back all your investment.  And it is up to you to always come back and revise, come back and revise as they give you more and more feedback. And the more this is bulletproof, the more that you're accounting for.  That is the worst thing that can happen. And believe it or not, more than 80% of the people that are running their business, they don't know their numbers. They don't know why and how to turn their business around because they didn't focus on the financials to begin with. So there you go, guys. The nine components of a coffee shop business plan you must have in order for you to actually get funding, for you to find partners, and for you to have clarity in building this coffee shop business. You must have these components. And if you're serious about building your own coffee shop business, then I highly recommend you to attend a free masterclass in the link below as we talk about how do you align your values and create the values so then that way, you can start attracting your loyal fans and to communicate and to connect with the people that you're serving. And lastly for you to explode in revenue. Follow this sequence and follow this formula so then that way you can have a thriving coffee shop. In the link below, attend it. Otherwise, I really hope you find value in this video. 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Individualism, a Reader, edited by George H. Smith and Marilyn Moore, narrated by James Foster. 14. Archbishop Temple on Bedding, Henry Wilson The Liberty Review, June 15, 1901 Henry Wilson, a Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army, was a frequent contributor to the Liberty Review, published by the Liberty and Property Defense League, until he was killed in a bicycle accident on January 8, 1907. He was Secretary of the Individualist Club, Treasurer of the Personal Rights Association, and a contributor to Auberon Herbert's periodical titled Free Life. In this article Wilson comments both on the moral double standard that was used when assessing different economic classes and on the uselessness of vice legislation. We all remember the French nobleman whose life had not been a pattern of morality, but who said when dying that he had no doubt the Almighty would make due allowance for the fact that he was a gentleman and would not be so hard on his peccadillos as if he were a plebeian. The Archbishop of Canterbury seems to share this feeling, for he said on May 20 in the House of Lords that bedding was certainly a vice when practiced by those who could not afford it. There are some men so strong that drunkenness does not seem to affect them, so of course in them it ceases to be a vice. When Captain Yelverton was asked at the Longworth trial if he thought seduction was wrong, he said it depended on the social position of the girl. Punch, years ago, had an amusing cartoon representing John Thomas lounging in his mistress's carriage and consulting his bedding book. To me it seems no more blamable in a footman who is an idle person to fill up the vacuity in his mind in that way than it is in his master. Gambling is, of course, an inheritance from our savage ancestors who, having no subjects of interest to think about, killed time in that way as savages do now all over the world. We ought by this time to have got rid of the pestilent heresy that wealth and position give us more license to indulge in idleness and vice than people in a humbler station. Virtue and vice ought to be independent of station or sex. There is nothing wonderful in the bishops of Hareford and London interfering. What good can a select committee do? Bedding has increased because more people read the papers and wages have risen just as smoking has increased among boys since cigarettes have become common. The facts are all well known and a committee can throw no new light on the subject. The bishops say that public opinion will be aroused. Let public opinion direct itself to the rich first and not wink at the bedding ring on racehorses or gambling at the clubs in Paul Mall while sanctioning raids on clubs of tailors and butchers or on men who bet in shillings at street corners. It is very amusing to hear the bishop of Hareford say that moderate legislation on this subject was not open to the same objection as legislation in restriction of the drink traffic or on the hours of shop assistants. It is something to hear a confession that legislation on the latter subjects is bad but there is still the delusion that a little of a bad thing is a good thing and that law can alter men's hearts. This has been Individualism a Reader edited by George H. Smith and Marilyn Moore narrated by James Foster Copyright 2015 by the Cato Institute Production Copyright 2015 by the Cato Institute


In this presentation, we will record the allowance for Delphi accounts and the bad debt expense for a time period using the allowance method. There are two methods we can use to record the allowance for Delphi accounts and the bad debt expense under the allowance method. So in other words, there's two methods for writing off the bad debt, the allowance method and the direct write off method. We are using the allowance method and now determining what the bad debt expense is or should be as well as the allowance for Delphi accounts with an estimate. There are two methods we could use under the allowance method to calculate this estimate. We could focus on the balance sheet or we could focus on the income statement and they're both relevant to look at. The more common method probably is to focus on the balance sheet and let the income statement kind of fall out where it may. Few different reasons for that one is that we typically often times concentrate on the balance sheet that way and try to tie out all the balance sheet accounts and then let the income statement which will be the other side of the entry, which will be a credit to the allowance and a debit to bad debt expense be what it needs to be and then the income statement will roll over. Part of the reason for this is the income statement will then roll over to the capital account and we'll be able to start over again where the balance sheet is a permanent account. So if we make it correct it should be better in the long run possibly. So that one argument for focusing on the balance sheet method two, if you look at a book problem the balance sheet method is a bit more complicated because we have to break out an aging as we'll do here typically and we also need to consider the fact that we already probably have something in the allowance due to the estimate from the last time period not to be an exact which it never will be and therefore we need some subtraction problem rather than just record in the result we get when doing the calculation. So for that reason allowance methods a bit more complex and therefore more favored for test type questions because there's different questions that we could ask about it but just recognize that the problem on the balance sheet side is that we have these accounts receivable that represents money that is owed to us by customers. We need to know that creditors want to know that number but we recognize that too it could be overstated given the fact that we know that probably some of those customers aren't going to pay us that's just how business works. So we're gonna we can't write off anything directly to the receivable account here because we don't know who's going to pay us but we could probably make an estimate about around how much we think is not going to be paid based on industry standards and that's what we'll talk about now rather than writing down the receivable directly which we can't do because we don't know who's not going to pay us and therefore we can't really track it in the subsidiary ledger down here based on who's not going to pass and we could also tell our reader more by making a contra asset account meaning rather than just netting it out here we could tell our reader this way hey this is how much is actually owed to us this is how much we think is uncollectable it's just an estimate however and if you subtract the two then that will give you the net receivable we exact we actually believe we're gonna get paid. Now we're gonna focus on making this number right this balance sheet side but there is a problem on the the income statement side as well meaning we have this revenue that we generated here and we probably are aware that any revenue we generated on account some percentage of it will be uncollectable and so we also want to record the other side of it which will do as we focus on the balance sheet will focus the other side will be bad debt expense which hopefully will do a good representation of matching up the revenue that will not be collectible in the form of bad debt so we'll match up revenue in the same time period that the bad debt will be expensed and we'll reduce net income in the proper time period by doing that now the the other method the percentage of sales method would focus more on making the income statement correct here we're focusing in and then it would let the it would let the allowance account balance sheet sizes fall and be where it may so we would focus on the income statement the net income being correct and let the balance sheet hopefully work itself out here we're focusing on the balance sheet and hopefully the income statement will kind of work itself out by being the other side of the transaction so let's do that now so for do the if we do the this method what we're gonna do is we're gonna take this accounts receivable one typical way of doing this and break out some type of aging so here's our 1 million 146 3 we're gonna break that out into some type of aging now this is gonna be a bit of an arbitrary breakout I'm just gonna put some numbers in here we would obviously have to if we had software the software would easily be able to break out how past due our debt is so if we say that it's it's within 30 days that's a do I'm just gonna bring out a number 170 1409 1740 and then we're gonna say that it's 30 to 90 days in the due period 141 945 and then 60 I'm sorry 30 to 60 and then 60 to 90 so that's 34389 again I'm just kind of making up these numbers as if you know we ran a report and this is the total accumulation of the accounts receivable that falls into these periods of do-ness within 30 days 30 to 60 days 60 to 90 days and then over 90 days which is I'm gonna say 2 to 9 to 5 and the point is that this should all sum up to the balance that we just looked at on the the subsidiary ledger this needs to be okay and then we're gonna sum this up and sum this up and that gives us our 1 million 146 300 once again if I'm just gonna scroll back over to the trial balance just to show that should be the amount there 1 million 146 300 that's the amount on the general ledger 1 million 146 300 we're basically just breaking up that information rather than just by date but by grouping of past due amounts the reason being is that we're gonna be able to estimate or we're gonna try to estimate that if something's more overdue we're not gonna try to make judgments about particular clients and see if they're not gonna pay us we're gonna try to make judgments based on how past do something is and industry standards to see if what percentage is not gonna get paid based on that so if it's if it's within 30 days we're gonna say that 2% is not gonna get paid where did we come up with that we just based on industry standards and past experience it's an estimate that's our best guess and then on 30 to 60 we're gonna say 4% just an estimate these are not gonna be exact these this is our best guess to try to tell the reader to the financial statements how much of this amount is not gonna be collectible 60 to 90 we're gonna say what 10% notice as we get older it's less likely that we're gonna collect on it because we've been trying to collect on it in this case for 90 days haven't been able to therefore we're gonna say it's very unlikely once it gets to that period that we are not going to collect on it so of these amounts these are the percentages we think are uncollectible if we multiply them out this equals the 917 40 times the 2% this one equals the 171 945 times the 4% and yeah we could of course copy this across the formula and it would work auto-fill it but we're just gonna do the calculations to note what we're doing this is gonna be the 34 389 times the 10% and this is gonna be equal to the 229 26 times the 95% and this of course is summing this up so if we add this this this this adds up to 50,000 for 37 so in essence we're saying this matches our total receivables what is owed to us this is how much of those total receivables we believe is uncollectible 50,000 for 37 now that's gonna be what we're gonna adjust our allowance account to be now if we scroll back over you'd think that would just be it and we can record our journal entry but there's one last step that often messes people up and it often messes people up because we're not given the trial balance when we work these problems so if we were we would say okay there's the 15,300 here's our accounts receivable we've determined that 50,000 for 37 is not collectible so we need to make this account 50,000 for 37 but there's 15,300 in there already why because it's in there from the last time period estimate that wasn't exact it's left over now it's usually going to be a credit because it's usually you know possibly our estimate was higher than was actually uncollectible but if it was a debit then you know we'd have to do an addition problem to do the calculation so in other words our calculation we need to make this number 50,000 for 37 in the credit direction because it needs to be a contra asset the opposite of this number so we need to make it go up in the credit direction we need to credit by the difference 50,000 for 37 minus 15,300 that would be a credit of only the 35,137 to get us to 50,347 now if this were a debit just recognize that that was a debit meaning we underestimated in the prior time period we'd have to get to a 50,433 credit which means we'd have to debit it 15,300 just to get it back to zero we'd have to credit it 15,300 to get it back to zero plus another 50,437 or 65,737 so that's a possible scenario as well ours has a credit balance so we're going to take the 50,437 minus 15,300 that's the amount we're going to be making a journal entry for it's going to be crediting this account and debiting the bad debt expense so let's do that we're going to do that down here we're going to debit bad debt expense we're going to put a cursor on k11 right-click and copy put that here in B 21 right-click and paste 123 going to do that calculation one more time because it's good times we're going to say this equals and we will say the 50,437 we wanted to be minus what's there which is 15,300 gives us that 35,137 we need to have it bring it up then we're going to put the credit which I'm going to use with our negative plug formula which will be negative of that number so there is our credit and that will be going to the allowance for doubtful accounts it has a credit balance we're going to increase it by doing the same thing to it another credit so we're going to copy k7 right-click and copy bring that down put that in B 22 right-click and paste 123 there's our journal entry let's record it out see if it does what we wanted to do what do we want it to do we wanted to make this number what we think it should be 50,437 so first bad debt here it is here it is on the trial balance second to last account it's in order assets liabilities equity income and expense here's it's going to be in the same order on the general ledger over here so here's our assets liabilities equity revenue and expense here's the bad debt expense in z9 we're in z9 z9 equals scrolling back over we're going to pick up that 35 137 bringing the balance up from zero by 35 137 to 35 137 that 35 137 also appearing on the trial balance bringing down net income and taking us out of balance by 35 137 we're then going to record the allowance for doubtful accounts here it is on the journal entry here it is on the trial balance third account on the trial balance and therefore third account on the general ledger we're going to scroll down here we have the open account on s13 s13 we're going to say that equals and scroll back over and scroll back down we're going to pick up that 35 137 credit and enter and that brings the balance from 15,300 up by 35 137 to 50,437 that being what we wanted to be this 50,437 and scroll back over sorry scrolling back and forth a little quickly we're going to scroll back over to the trial balance here so here's the 50,437 there puts us back in balance here so now our allowance for doubtful accounts is the one I mean our accounts receivable is 1 million 146 3 our allowance is what we calculated it to be 50,437 the difference between the due the debit minus the credit 1 million 95 863 represents the net amount that we actually expect to receive this amount of the receivable is supported backed up by the subsidiary ledger this amount is not because it's just an estimate the bad debt expense then falls out to do what it what it to decrease the net income so it's revenue minus the expenses which should align with the matching principle because hopefully this number represents the amount of sales here that we believe to be uncollectible and therefore the difference between the two gives us our net income which we hope is in alignment with the matching principle


The one thing that I tell people about how to make their upland game and their waterfowl taste better is to brine it. Now, I get my high mountain brine. I get it in these seven pound bags. That's how much of this brine that I go through. And there's organizations like Chapters of Ducks Unlimited and South Carolina Waterfowl that I have given these seven pound bags to. And it's changed the way their ducks taste. The whole concept of the brine is that with a duck or a goose or a pheasant, there's going to be a little capillary blood. There's going to be some juice in there. Where we lose a lot of people with cooking game is that they don't want it to be bloody. So they cook the snot out of it until it's overcooked, jerky-like. Not the jerky's bad, but I don't want my duck to taste like jerky. And if they would just brine it first, which is going to add moisture, it's going to add flavor. It actually kind of bleaches it out a little bit. The color of it becomes less dark. I've done taste testings where I've put ring neck ducks against mallards that were both brined overnight in the high mountain product. People couldn't tell the difference between the mallard and the ring neck.  It's much milder. It's lighter in color. You haven't changed the taste of it. You haven't soaked it in some kind of ridiculous marinade to not make it taste like duck. And with Thanksgiving, with a domestic turkey, if you brine your domestic turkey in the high mountain brine for 24 hours, pat it dry and then start the cooking. It's going to be more moist. It's going to cook faster and it's going to taste better provided that you don't overcook it.