we're going to have an illuminated sculpture trail oh wow and the Tiana director which is the river walk in Dunlop and all kinds of fairies and illuminated sculptures are going to come alive to the backdrop of the full moon tonight sounds beautiful yeah there's a great mix of different things a great mix of different things and I think the team of our festival this year as always is children to have a children and family orientated and tomorrow of course we'll have our Children's Fund Day sponsored by Supervalue in the GA grounds in Dunlop and the entrance will be from the Dun from the Supervalue car park the entrance into the fund will be and then my big night is tomorrow night I'm going to see Ronan Collins it's going to be a cracker that one oh that's going to be an absolute cracker and I would advise I'm going out with my girlfriends and we're going to dine first and I would advise anybody in Dunlop that's thinking of dining before the show to make reservations because it's very busy especially I need someone as practical as you in my life I just think I just think you have well maybe you have it's just I need someone to make bookings for me you know you're right but that's going to be brilliant it's uh I wonder are there any tickets left because it's it's celebrating the show band era Ronan Collins is singing all the big songs Sandy Kelly is going to be there and Brangent Shine is going to be there and all Ronan's other the conquerors the conquerors which are hugely popular bands still of course all right listen brilliant stuff Mary you got all the plugs in except for the night until noon shall be in broadcast live on friday and David James been broadcast live on wednesday yeah that's from three is a two to five on i don't know i don't like once once it comes 12 o'clock i don't care when anyone else does now at least it's two thirty to five on wednesday two thirty to five and i'm there from nine till twelve some so nine on friday on friday yeah and good buzz around Dunlop as always katelyn yes absolutely um the girls and I walked up the main street on saturday when they first arrived and just calling into all the local businesses they were so appreciative of seeing all the Mary's and everyone everyone who saw the Mary's talking about the fact they saw the Mary's I think it's it's unusual there's nothing like it either I think this you know there's just something exactly something about it okay yeah listen uh it's been lovely seeing you again katelyn thank you um congratulations on your uh year Lena how are you still over there do you want to say hello to anyone or say anything to the not ask a question you think I should have asked I did all right did all right well done Lena and enjoy your last couple of days thank you um and whoever uh follows you has a tough act to follow because you've done a fantastic job and uh Mary Ward of course not the last time we've spoken to you over the course of the week but thank you very much for calling 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in over here yeah okay good thank you the Belfast Mary Roshin Costello how are you Mary how are you Roshin how are you keeping hi i'm good how are you good to have you in with us and the Birmingham Mary Katie Houston how are you getting on Katie I'm good thanks good stuff Shannon why did you decide to enter well I grew up attending my hometown Bayones Mary selection for as long as I can remember and I when Bayone took a little hiatus from COVID I kind of forgot about it until this past January when the selection was and I was asked if I potentially wanted to do it and I was like you know what why not and what's your connections if any to Ireland what did on the go yeah so my dad is from County Mayo he came to the United States when he was 21 about 36 years ago and ever since I grew up very immersed in my Irish heritage my family and I would come to Ireland every summer or holiday we can this is actually my 15th time in Ireland this summer that's okay so yeah I have a very deep connection to and what are you studying at the moment I just graduated from college I graduated from a small school called the College of New Jersey and I have a degree in communications with a double minor in music and speech and language therapy all right what do you want to do with that Shannon? right now I'm going to be substitute teaching at a school come September because I love to work with kids and I just want to see what my options are and see if maybe teaching or speech therapy is my route or anything that helps kids in some form yeah well you have that luxury don't you because the course allows you to choose your path as you oh yeah yeah it's great but you get great deal of satisfaction working with young people I take it yeah I worked I was a swim coach and a swim instructor for a long time and just the joy of seeing kids impress and like evolve with their skills over a period of time it's just so rewarding to see you make that impact on their lives all right okay and it's great to have you here Belfast Mary, Roshin, Costello your interest in law and politics that's what you're studying at the moment yeah so I recently just graduated from law and politics actually so I spent three years up at Queen's University Belfast and I graduated there but I've accepted an unconditional offer for international commercial and business law at Queen's obviously again in September to do my master's and you are also cheerleader as well are you yeah so I how do you combine those two so it's just really random actually so see my first year in halls I was put beside a girl who I'm my best friend so we were the same course roommate of ours and she told me about cheerleading but I was too late to apply the first year so I was gutted because I love the film bring it on like I watched it and I was like this is my dream I need to do this because like I'd like juvenile osteoporosis growing upside to give up support and what is that sorry if you don't mind because it's a good opportunity to get a bit of awareness out there at the same time yeah so Steve and I was about like was it like between 9-11 basically I wasn't really doing anything to like have a break and then like I was just getting injured and then like I had a weevil and I'd break two bones and I was like what's up with this so then we went to like the hospital and all this and like it did a lot of tests and all that and then they turned out I had idiopathic juvenile osteoporosis so they couldn't actually tell me why I had it because like a lot of my aunties would have it but they're in their 60s whereas I was like 10 yeah so it's a big difference big shot for a 10 year old too and heading into your yeah so I love sports like I did sports like five days a week I was in Russia CEO's in New Wara like is there anything I could do I would have done it so I like didn't do sports so I started back at cheerleading because I was like this is like a dream like I need to do it so then I joined Knights October 2021 and I signed up with a cast on my foot because I also broke something before that and I was like here I know I'll have a cast but like could I do it and I was like oh my god I know of course you'll sign up and I was like oh my god this is class so then I started cheerleading and I pure love it so you determined or stubborn or both I've had a both like you know it depends like my grip is like a great grip like we always had our stones like we just keep going till we get it like I may have been in cost half cost of chondridas I'll have other injuries but I haven't broken a bone because I cheer yet good stuff yeah and you're enjoying this week so far oh I'm loving it like it's so good like do you want to experience it before at all yeah so I am originally from Meenalek so I went like I grew up in the Rosses like I'm just going to Ross in New York so you know all about it I know all about it like my cousin was the 2014 New York Mary so then I was talking to her about it like every year I would go to the festival like you look up to the marriage you want to be a Mary so in fact I'm a Mary now and I get to experience it it's a real like it actually is amazing like just can't get over it it's way better than you could have ever expected wow I'm delighted to hear that Katie Houston's 22 and is the Birmingham Mary as well Katie how are you getting on thanks so much for calling in you're enjoying the week so far it's whirlwind isn't it it's busy I know speaking to people in the past it's tiring and you have to keep going and there's that expectation and it's tough isn't it yeah it's nice to often in a good way tough in a good way you are already in working in the construction industry and just looking through some of your notes I mean obviously you know being a woman in the construction industry there are trailblazers it's not as uncommon as it used to be but it still is not necessarily the norm do you find that yeah um it's I think it's different now but you're still like a lot of your leadership teams are all male but you'll get the odd one or two which is good they're great role models but there's still a long way to go in the construction industry I believe yeah and I think you have a really important role as a STEM ambassador and I presume you're promoting gender diversity showing people the pathway you know if you can see you can be it that type of stuff is that important to you yeah because I started my job so I was an apprentice to start off with so I didn't do the typical university route so I think being a STEM ambassador to promote apprenticeships is so important just because I probably wouldn't be where I am without my apprenticeship and all the experience that I've got from it so it's just quite important to me and trying to get a bit more diversity into the industry and learn because having more diversity into the industry will help us overcome problems that maybe the older generation may not be able to like overcome and just thinking of new ways to think new set of eyes, a new approach I mean it has to be and I really think that thankfully this country is waking up to alternative ways of achieving what you want to achieve and there's a much greater focus now here in Ireland on apprenticeships and what have you so that's great, it's great to see so what is your connection with this area, the festival how did you get roped into it so my mom is Ruscom and my dad is Johnny Gull but my granddad was from Buttonport and my granny's from Armore so like there was that connection to Dunlop you couldn't get much closer connection to Dunlop my granddad was a massive fan of the festival he passed away in 2020 but he would try and get to the festival every year from Birmingham and just like seeing him there and he always enjoyed it so kind of trying just once to get involved yeah I think you probably is a wee eye and you're very proud at the moment would you say I hope so all right okay listen we wish you every uh well I've got to say success but it's in the whole experience it's what's really truly important isn't it Katie Houston thank you so much indeed Rashin Costlow and Shana Neary all three of you thank you so much for calling in all right brilliant we are going to be joined now very shortly by our next three merries we'll take a very quick break and then we'll do that watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highlandradio.com when you want to get the job done you need screwfix need something fast easy with screwfix you can click and collect in as little as one minute need it early or late we hear you with 7 a.m to 8 p.m opening weekdays and early opening and weekends we don't clock off till you do simply shop online at screwfix.ie or in over 35 stores screwfix the choice of champions the highland video outside broadcast team are on the road once again tune in this wednesday at 2 30 for the jive time show with David James and friday morning for greg hughes and the 9 till noon show with both shows live from the heart of the 56th mary from dunlow international festival to celebrate their fun filled program of events check out the full lineup on maryfromdunlow.ie brought to you in association with cavernous supervalued dunlow okay we are back with our next batch of entrance into the mary from dunlow and we'll start with the geltalked mary rihanna niggila mcbryde no mcgillabryde one second i'm not finished my guesses all right i'm not finished my guesses come here rihanna it's lovely to have you in thank you so much chef for joining us the geltalked mary obviously a great interest in irish obviously yes i've grown up in the geltalked and i've been speaking it my whole life i've actually learned irish before i had english really so you schooled in irish and you so your first language are you kind of translating as you're speaking to me now no i'm used to the two languages now i went primary school it was all irish secondary school it was all irish and then when i went to college it was all in english so it was a big change for me and it kind of took me a while to get used to doing science in english which was a bit difficult but yeah and you hope to go on and focus on disease treatment and prevention so in what area or how do you sort of what would be a job that would fulfill that ambition of yours well i have quite an interest in Alzheimer's disease and certain types of cancer as well so i'd love to go down one of those routes and maybe do a bit of research and treatment preventatives all that kind of thing yeah which you'd have taken a great interest in the recent advances in in terms of potential Alzheimer's treatments and what have you and we have a great history here in donagall too in terms of cancer research as well let a kind of university hospital doing great stuff there sporty into your music what's your favorite thing to do outside of your study and what have you one of my favorite things to do is to play gaelic football with my local club Gidore CLG Gidore we have a great bunch of girls down there the senior ladies football team it's like a wee family down there it's lovely it's a nice break from the real world yeah and now it comes at you quick doesn't it the real world it's a nightmare all right dog Glasgow Mary's Caitlin Edelston good morning to you thank you so much for calling in thank you for having me uh why did you decide to get involved in this festival so i've been growing up coming back over to Ireland for the last like well since i was born and i've been this is my 20th year and done low for the festival just every year my granny's from Burtonport and my other granny was from Gidore so just growing up going to the two places and always being around the festival and then i got asked if i'd be interested and of course it was an honour so i'm just buzzing to be a part of it and you continue the tradition of being you know world-class Irish dancer as well there's so many Mary's over the years i don't know about world-class what it says here well you're a world world metal holder yeah it's world-class okay well that's just a fish there's a metal just to prove it okay and also an interesting music traditional music would you describe it as yeah i played with frank mccardle at st rock fantastic um and glas go for a good few years um travel to london and Preston for all britain splat and things like that so i loved it fantastic now everyone says when the and the no one advance that these bonds that form and it's a wonderful experience and you make new friends and genuinely people make friends for life as that surprised you as to how that kind of forms and the bonds that you make and how much you enjoy this experience with with the other entrance well honestly going into it i was a wee bit nervous because you know what can be like all female environments but i think we're all so lucky like the girls are absolutely amazing everyone is just on the same level and we all just get along so well it's great all right okay brilliant the wild mare i mean the was atlantic Mary is is even no d is that correct avian you're an entrepreneur i suppose so yeah well why will no one back up what they are who knows you are i told us about your entrepreneurship and so yeah i started a bakery business in quidore and so myself and realer actually both from quidore and but both situated on the wild atlantic way as well and but i started a bakery business unofficially when i was about 13 years old as a bit of a passion project a way to earn some pocket money and from that i suppose the business that i now have today uh group and i supply coffee shops all over the county here and um i'm also doing a bunch of occasional cakes for the likes of weddings and other celebrations so yeah i suppose it was just uh i had a bit of a backbone in my house with support from my family my dad runs his own businesses and he was like a 24 seven mentor to me i suppose and you have a big interest in social media marketing do you as well yeah how important has that been in terms of growing the business and sort of maybe you being able to achieve what you want to achieve get your products that get there getting the messaging out there absolutely and i think it's a huge part of anybody who's starting or running a business and to be trying to get your brand out there and speak to your audience and stuff and i've had the experience of doing that with my own business even when i'm traveling from place to place trying to learn about other cultures other foods it's lovely to connect with your audience and make sure that they know what you're learning and what you're doing all the time and also then my dad's businesses as well i've had the opportunity to kind of come on board on his social marketing team as well yeah and exploring other parts of the world or the cultures is important to you absolutely and i think there's something to learn everywhere and and i'd have a huge interest in going traveling to different parts of the world and learning about their cultures and foods as well next and stuff the philadelphia maria maria philadelphia mary is anmarie kafry mantay mantay mantay and where's that sir name from uh germany okay me and tai yes okay and uh tell us a little bit about yourself uh anmarie i'm 22 years old i am representing philadelphia and i just graduated university i attended villanova university right outside of philadelphia and i studied irish studies while i was there and how's your experience been so far it's been fabulous i've had the best few days ever and i'm really excited to continue on the week and keep seeing all of lovely donnie gall and if you've already sold it you don't look like the spice girls you had sporty spice you know and all this kind of stuff have you worked out who the spice is like angry spice singing spice moody spice i know but don't forget the word spice but have you sort of figured all that who's who's everyone's personality traits uh no i think we're all still learning each other a little bit but we're all um family um family and friends and travel are important to you aren't they absolutely yes i have such a wonderful support system and i'm very lucky my mother was able to join me here and donnie gall with me my oh that's lovely so it's an experience for her as well yes yes i'm not sure who's having more fun her me normally the mom the mom major yes yes she's my mom major for sure right and what is your irish connections if any or maybe you're just part of the irish community over in philly or maybe you're not i don't know tell us um my grandfather's family is from ireland so his mother is from county mayo and then his father was adopted so we're not quite sure exactly where in ireland he's from but we know that it's the gail tucked in this region so it's special to be here all right fantastic stuff and you's are all looking forward to sunday um i presume you are reanna as well i mean that's the big night isn't that is the big night yeah i really looking forward to that yeah i didn't ask anyone about party pieces or anything so maybe it's not fair but anyone got anything interesting here um well they're all interesting i'm gonna stand on their head um well i think with all the marys you're gonna have to bake are you gonna bake they're always hilarious i think i saw one with to do with eggs and i don't know there's a lot of eggs get a bit messy daniel seems to love that but anyway um well throughout all the marys anyway there's a whole bunch of different i suppose talents amongst us of course um we had a lovely day yesterday we were down in tealand and we were visiting you know sheev league we were spending some time we were in cotton kill and we had a lovely afternoon then in the rusty mackerel where we all kind of had a bit of a sing song and we have a few singers a few musicians amongst us a few dancers and it's just so nice to see all the girls coming together and you can see the confidence coming out during the week and people are stepping up and singing and playing their instruments and it's just so nice yeah it's a real growth spur to life isn't it because you're just completely talents together as well yeah so it comes together as like well if i'm not mistaken i think last year i don't know if it was on the friday of the sunday there was sort of like a collaboration between all the marys um i don't know if that's set a set of tone if you have to come up with something or not i don't know but anyway either way katelyn uh avin and uh anmarie it's been great avenues uh in and we look forward to seeing you over the course of the week thank you very much indeed all right okay we are bringing in our next entrance now if you want to say hello or pass on the comments or say anything you know the numbers 08 660 25 000 08 660 25 000 or give us a call on 07 491 25 000 all right now our next guests are taking their seats and obviously carolines banged all the cameras again but anyway sure look at all fix that kavin mary katey galligan good morning to you how are you getting on good to have you in where are you over there okay that's the second time i've got that all wrong how are you keeping i'm doing all right okay your primary school teacher already yeah i've just qualified for marino there in may so i've got a job in port leash in the girls go to port leash now for august right okay and it's all about getting your position full term or whatever yeah so i got a fixed time post so um it's great i don't have to worry about i mean it's not a maturity contract i'll have to worry about getting a job in january i'm there for the year fantastic you trailed a blazed a bit of a trail didn't you in becoming a first at the marino institute yeah it was the first year of the course yeah so those only 35 of us i think that actually did it and so it's great to have the teaching degree through the medial virus now yeah and you're another musician with a musical background as well yeah some parties with you lot i'll tell you that it's the mary band that's more than ourselves and you're a member of a choir as well so very musical yeah exactly uh and why did you decide to get involved in this um well to be honest i'll be completely honest i actually never heard of the competition that's good i think it's good we like it i need more of it yeah there's a lovely friend of ours at home and mave shard and actually has a house up in minacross and gavin asked her will we get a calvin mary and she just said yeah kitty galligan will do it so i must have volunteered script across my forehead or something she just knew i was right for the job so she bought me in for it and yeah now we're here and no regrets no regrets absolutely we've been having an absolute ball it's amazing and it's so nice all the girls in the house we're having such a crack and everybody's so lovely it's just so so lovely to be here our don goal mary is christina gallagher it's great to have you in shooter with us as well christina how are you keeping i'm good thanks rake how are you i'm doing all right um i just wonder christina at this point are you just enjoying it or would you be nervous about sunday because that's when you have to get up on stage it's being broadcast around the world i'm not trying to make you nervous but it is what it is uh or you're just living in the moment as it's because the week must be flying yeah it's going really fast i would say it was more nervous unlike friday and saturday before i'd met the rest of the girls and kind of knew what we were doing and stuff every day but since i've met the girls and spent more time with them i think everyone's more relaxed and as the other girls were saying like the confidence is going like growing a wee bit more so i think we're all just excited for sunday now like it'll be better speak because you're on each other's sports network support network isn't that the way it's so nice to have everyone so i'd say i'm less nervous now definitely and you have a really important job in that you're a full-time speech and language therapist with a in a specialist area tell us a little bit about that yeah so um i actually work in the letter kenny primary care centre just with kids probably from the age of like two to eighteen so i see them every day monday to friday i'm i love it in there yeah it's great just great seeing the kids coming in and making the progress and you've been with the term in ga club since the age of six yeah and do you still yeah i do yeah i took a few years off whenever i was in college when i came back to it now and it's so nice to be back with like all the girls that kind of went away to college at the same time and we're all back now and like just playing with your neighbours and going for cups of tea in their house after it's just it's such a good network of friends to have a bit of an opportunity to switch up because like a lot of people's employment and and their studies at the moment it's quite intense isn't it so you need those outlets just definitely yeah you do right okay uh our Dubai Mary is Adele Morgan um how you getting on Adele great to have you on the program as well hi there i'm good how are you i'm doing fantastic are you obviously living and working in deba at the moment originally from where uh Adele originally from Glasgow so i moved out to Dubai last year to teach so i'm now teaching out in Dubai how are you enjoying it well i love it it's a different world it's a totally different experience and vitamin but it's so worthwhile so it really is different isn't it you're racking up the debt no i don't have anyone i've spoke to over there they come home like late late with tons of debt because they're if you do it right if you do it right you don't need to yeah you can find the events that aren't as expensive yeah and uh we're not getting into the the the bigings and that's a bit but people in the teaching pro profession are treated very different though there's a great deal of thanks and respect and little gestures that uh you don't see in britain or anand if the truth be told yeah uh it's a totally different experience teaching in Dubai the children are great they're so enthusiastic to learn and the parents are so appreciative the amount of thanks you get over there it's just it's you're heard on the pedestal aren't you yeah you are you really are treated really well even in the community you're respected and you are we're putting a position of trust and authority which is lovely it's really nice it's very rewarding i would say really rewarding to have um and how long do you think you'll stay there for in other way the contracts are rewarded it's this you can't say 10 years as such but you would you you could see your future out there at least in the short to medium yeah you can have a rolling contract my contract is nice for two years i'll definitely be there next year i'll definitely be for two years however i think after the two years i think i'll go home have you managed to sign anyone up for the jubilee life yet i have i've been trying how many to everyone to come up over definitely all the girls are welcome for a holiday they'll stay with me anytime they like that's recorded now that is as we say in media circles on the record that's a that's a variable contract and um just briefly to then you've developed an interest in sign language what's that about or how did that develop or what happened or what did you see that made yeah so i was actually born with um right side unilateral microcha which is uh it's a deformation of my ear so i was born with lesser hearing so with hearing impairment so i don't need sign language personally however as i've grown older um i've realised that i don't have a disability but i have an ability to help educate people and just promote the importance of inclusion and helping to encourage other people i've been developing macaton in school i've been helping to promote that in my classroom and macaton isn't just for children who are deaf or hearing impaired it's for children who don't have ability to speak as well so i think it's really important to promote that inclusion not just for children who maybe have hearing loss but also just for all children to help build that additional language yeah it's a language that you don't need speech to have so anyone can develop the skill yeah for sure normalizes it as well okay brilliant stuff thanks very much Adele it's been lovely having you in studio with us as it has you uh christina gala her katie uh galligan any of you got any things you're going to do in sunday that can be revealed no no you still have to come and see yeah you have to get your tickets i'm going to go i'm going to go and i'm going to see uh i hope other tickets still available i wonder we must check that actually oh i think that might have been i think it might be sold out anyway i don't want to i think it was really quite quickly wasn't it okay uh but it's available just to remind you to stream on the tg kaha player uh kavin mary katey galligan donnell goll mary christina gala her and adel morgan the dubai mary thank you very much indeed of course we really appreciate it we'll speak to three more entrants after these hi the mayor can't take no ballie show nice to put these good joe shachta no shunt in the higher up the air for the tg in the randarola day and it's in figure lunacy till our heritage week punk hii cloridh with the core of iraq to let talk you don't lean right if you got iraq to and it's in green tea here to read the shot tool as iraq what a world bundle or in his back and it's open every day for summer 2023 experience the three lane multi-slide the whizzer the wave proven rapids the twister tornado and gravely speed slides the pirate scallion ship as well as our brand new gift shop booking essential get your tickets now at waterworld bundle or in dot com slash booking and find us on facebook and instagram transform your home with a visit to mcginley's furniture letter candy located at the port link business park just off the port road you'll find a huge selection of top quality suites beds and mattresses also slide robes and custom made dining and occasional furniture with prices to suit every budget see the great choice for yourself at our showroom mcginley's furniture port link business park port road letter candy click mcginley's furniture dot com all right big congratulations to all the ladies but a huge good luck to glasgow mary katelyn lots of love from orla henderson her wee dancing buddy say hello to the don low mary katelyn mccattle we're so proud if you love mom and family isn't that nice katelyn and the timing was perfect as well just as you took your seat the pressures on local katelyn or maybe the pressures off who's to say do you know what like it's been so nice just being able to show the girls around done though and done it because yeah because your role ends up being a little bit different because it's a journey of discovery for everybody else but for you obviously it's all familiar territory yeah so like yesterday you know we're off at sleeve league and a lot of the girls hadn't been there before and obviously it's such an amazing place yeah and it was just you know it's so nice to like show them all the different places because we're so proud of where we live and we live in such a beautiful place and how did you get involved in an interesting crocheting um do you know what i pick wee things up on youtube like um i sometimes i'm just bored in my room like that's where i learned to play the guitar as well just on youtube like i just pick up random things but i actually do love crocheting now but your love is salty you didn't pick out on youtube that came from the family no that came definitely from my dad and my brothers like my dad since he was young he's actually he was born in glasgo so he has always been very very very passionate about Celtics so it was unavoidable no it was unavoidable and you know you talked about your love of the area and your pride and the beauty of it and you do efforts to keep it that way as well don't you you can be quite active out and about and cleanups and what have you yeah is that here or where you live here so i'm from latcher originally so we do have a development committee in latcher so it is it's nice and when i'm home from college to join in the cleanups and we've also recently been trying to get our health centre reopened as well so i was on the committee for that as well and we've actually gotten a commitment now to get it reopened by the agency which is just brilliant and your wish is to become an occupational therapist yeah so i've started studying in goa to be an OT so i just started last year and so i suppose i got into it and because i want to work with people who have mental health difficulties that's where i'd like to specialise and i was able to do my placement in scaly place and that are brilliant so i already really enjoyed it yeah fantastic stuff our double mary is danielle varley uh danielle thank you very much for joining us how are you keeping me good very good stuff all right um you uh we've been talking an awful lot about going on to third level what people are doing you had to make a different decision or you chose to make a different decision in your life after you're leaving sir didn't yeah so i didn't go to college i went straight in to work in restaurants and i stayed same here in restaurants and we just in and everything yeah and um i then became a manager and then of a restaurant and in covid then everything shut so i changed altogether and now i'm working in logistics in frayford and right and what does that people say logistics is that problem solving fixing things what what it's getting something from a to b so shipments and like organize and transport and everything like that and clearing and declaring the stuff coming out to the country and danielle how did you end up getting involved in this um festival um oh my family is big into the country music anyway so they would have like known about it i wouldn't have really known about it but they would have been big into the country so my mom my nanny put me forward and told me i was going to be double mary so yeah i have to give a big show to me nanny because she's obsessed with danielle as well so yeah well you entered the right festival if you've been obsessed with danielle didn't really i couldn't let her go down so yeah this one's for you nanny all right okay but you're enjoying it of course yeah now it's brilliant the girls are lovely and we've had a great experience it's brilliant like for everything just to get out and see like a family from uh letter kenny and john's britain urie so i've never kind of been down this side of it so it's it's amazing to see yeah now you've got itchy feet haven't you you're hoping to do a bit of that means you're going to go traveling you're looking at me as you talk about my feet it's an old saying sorry you know you've actually feet to go traveling you've got good plans for that in the future want to go and just see the world and everything anywhere in particular not really just a bit of everywhere kind of thing just yeah yeah i get you uh kiara oh connor is the new york mary how did i do kiara hello there it's a american take on your name kiara yes lovely you must spend most of your life telling people that they'll do yes i do and honestly i usually don't correct people i usually they call me kiara my mom's name is carianne so i get called on craig everything so we're all in the same boat i i've failed your pain um come here how long have you been over when did you travel over to take part in the festival so i flew out of jfk in new york city on thursday night with my mom and we arrived friday morning my nana's from leatrum so on the way up to dunlow we stopped in manor hamilton and got to see all of our cousins oh wow enjoy the nice Irish food and really spend time together and catch up and it was honestly so nice your future hopes in teaching as well i'm in teaching okay excellent tell us what kind of work you doing yep so i'm a second grade so in america second grade the children would be about seven or eight so i teach special education so i teach in the Bronx in Woodlawn where i'm from and you're another person who loves to travel as well yeah i've actually studied in Galway for a semester and i was actually involved in best buddies which really carried on my interest of teaching students with disabilities it's a program at nyg that works with students with disabilities and people in the community that um have disability so that was awesome and it really reassured me that i was going down the right path and um i've traveled to Ireland i've traveled to spain italy and i have future plans for traveling in the next year brilliant and you're also a big sporting person as well yep so i grew up playing Irish football and i'm currently involved in our um same prejudice club i'm the vice chair person and in new york we have gaelic for girls which serves about 600 players with the different clubs in new york and i'm the secretary for gaelic for girls excellent brilliant stuff and our last marry to speak to today's the london mary erin uh doohan erin thank you so much for joining us how are you getting on great it's great to have you with us you are a year two teacher at st agustin's that's my second name believe it or not agustin uh i don't really often admit it but now seems like a good time uh currently a year two teacher at st agustin's catholic primary school in hammersmith in landon yeah what's life like there for you yeah absolutely love london i was actually born in london back in 1998 but then moved back home to chrisley um when it was under the year but then two years ago i decided to move to london just to pursue my teaching career yeah and how do you find it's a big change in life isn't it i mean that's uh is that a sort of a city school that you're in isn't it um what's on the suburbs it is in west london so hammersmith is quite central but my school is quite a small school it's a one-form entry which means there's one class for every like year and they all really quietly spoken so can you move forward a little bit um yeah so it's a one form entry skill and that means that there's one class for every year grip um it has a big catholic like irish community as well so a lot of the staff are from dairy and temporary yeah big wait list to get into the school i'd imagine to not as much as it used to be right okay because of brexit a lot of i suppose catholic nationalities like italians and french people they seem to have moved back to their home countries now okay interesting yeah right okay what do you do over there as well as that i mean you're into your sports do you like traditional music do you play traditional music or going to the gym is really i suppose i call that a sport yeah i'm really into like my health and my fitness so i like to go to the gym and spending time with friends mostly like teaching over there is quite a busy career these days are a lot longer and compared to here maybe in donnie gall um so just have you spoken to the debaim area have you yeah yeah no she's really recommending to buy to me so it has put the idea in my head i think so all right yeah the way she's talking about it okay but anyway whichever way it's all about growth isn't it your experience in life here london and who's to say what's in front of you and why did you decide to to get involved to who roped you in it's normally one or other uh in the festival um well i'm from creaseless so done loads only really over the road anyway to be honest so every year i'd went over with my family and my cousins and all that so katelyn finne she actually reached out to me and said would you be interested in entering and i said yeah sure i may as well like it's a bit of crack excellent stuff all right well listen enjoyed i'm sure you would all enjoy it's been great so far by everyone's tell me what he's doing after after this uh kiara do you know yep so we're heading to letter kennie shopping center to pick up a few bits yeah i'll have to check in another carry on but we are going to letter kennie shopping center to thank the sponsors and you'll be well looked after down there don't you know excellent stuff all right and um katelyn highlight for you so far the highlight for me was actually last night we went back to the bridge in and dania was singing and we just got to you know dance and jive with a lot of the locals and it was actually just so lovely to you know i i love dania and i i must say yeah he has that way with him doesn't he if you're not a fan you just meet him and then that's it's all done i know he's quite charming so as well as for someone who is it's quite literally an international superstar you know playing all over the world and yet he's just there in his own neck of the woods supporting something that's important to him i think it's lovely okay erin kiara uh dania katelyn best of luck to all of you thank you so much along with all of the others who called in it's been wonderful having you in here with us and uh enjoy the rest of it and enjoy the weekend and it's going to be fantastic okay back with more shortly at heki clark and langan insurance brokers they compare quotes from all the leading insurers so you get a great price home motor and van farm quality home travel and liability insurance they quote them all so if the worst happens you're covered for a competitive insurance quote today called heki clark and langan on 91 two double six double eight or pop into their office at bally mccool letter kenny heki clark and langan general insurance is limited trading as heki clark and langan is regulated by the central bank of ireland do your little 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for calling in and for that being facilitated as well by the organizers i really appreciate it right uh let me see we're going to say hello now to kathleen hi kathleen thanks for joining us on the program again i believe how are you keeping hi gregg how's it going yeah we're doing not so bad um feeling that we were back at feeling that we were back at square one yeah in terms of our topic yeah talk to us about the what where you're at now and sort of the history of the water supply kathleen okay um well to consider it's a bit coincidental um gregg this time last year um was actually when it occurred before yeah um we're based here in the minnacrush area down low just outside down low and our um group water scheme has been affected um it's the letter mcoward group water scheme so basically we've been uh told again uh second hand information i became aware of it yesterday afternoon when a facebook page or post popped up from a local community center to tell us that it was affecting our water supply um now i was aware that there was a discoloration in the water over the previous week or so um and um had checked what irish water yesterday and they had said that there was nothing there was no issues and then disappeared um now what seems to be the case is they're saying operational issues at the treatment um plant again which was what was said last year which is very big um and basically you know last year we were given no information similar um you have to go looking for it which is really disappointing in this day and age um you know the irish water have taken over um looking after of our water service and to say it's disappointing would be um an understatement um we never find out any information word last to know and then i'm sitting here with a family of four a young baby um where i'm reliant on water for making um formula bottles and whatnot and you know if i wasn't um paying attention to social media or to um possible i think someone said to me yesterday evening that they may have put it on the radio i didn't hear it but if i wasn't paying attention i'd be feeding my new baby if we go baby with this water it's scary and i think when i when i talk about social media too i think it's twitter uh and it's not really that clear you know you'd have to constantly be checking it you know it's not like facebook where it sort of pops into your timeline or whatever maybe they are on facebook as well i haven't seen them but it really is a worry especially even if you had a vulnerable adult at home who was just recovering from something in hospital you know whereby picking up something or some sort of a bug or whatever it might be uh really could have quite serious implications as bad as the the boil notices the communication is something i think that really needs looking at cathleen is that really what you're saying absolutely absolutely the communication is huge and like last year we were told you know it would be a short term situation i spoke to you mid september last year um which is quite worrying for me to think six weeks out from now that i could be coming back to you talking to you again and what you know is a time where you know it's a basic necessity in life with water um you know and as you said the communication is very very poor um we never had this problem when donnie gall county council were looking after the water and as you say operational difficulties that was another that seems to be a phrase that's coming into regular use now by irish water operational difficulties what does what what does that mean i think the public deserves to know absolutely if you ask me it's just a basic you know trademark reply in terms of you know a covers all areas so that we don't actually have to tell the people what the problem is um it's summertime you know the kids are off on holidays more water is being used um i'm nearly like a garden relation to kids when they're to tap in my house and make sure that they're not drinking anything cathleen this these boil water notices were bad enough but the price of all in the kettle now i'm sorry it you know to uh to service everybody's drinking water needs it's not cheap but you know what i mean like it's it's it's it's a factor now boiling kettles like that's just the real yeah it is a factor and even last night when i was boiling the kettles for my baby's bottle i'm not happy with the color of the water after boiling yeah now i would be honest with you i get you i know exactly what i'm having to buy the water on top of um the actual price of boiling it because you have to boil the bottle the water as well greg yeah of course um and they actually give that um guidance on the issuing of the notice that they put out Irish water that even if you buy bottled water you have to boil it as well so it's a double whammy in terms of price yeah how old's the baby cathleen she's eight weeks old oh my word right okay as if you had enough to be worried about without having to worry about brand franking you and then i've been landed with us but sure you know what um you get on with it um but it's just it's disappointing in this day and age that we are being subjected to the cycle carry on that you have to go public on it that you have to be an advocate for you and the community and it's the second time in less than a year greg that i've had to go public which is the worrying part right we we kind of got a general um we've got a kind of got a general response from ish air and it adds nothing to it uh unfortunately we're going to stay on top of it and see if we can get some sort of a timeline for that water returning as you say even with boiling if it's discolored you've got you're not going to you're not going to use the water you're not going to be using it right absolutely not kathleen we're going to pursue that thanks so much indeed best wishes to you and the family the notice is arising out of according to irish water operational difficulties at the lecher mackawad water treatment plans it's been put in place to protect the health of customers in the lecher mackawad port new rossbeg uh clean gore dukeri mean a cross dewy glentes road mahery initiative free upper island and far more areas um and as i say you know kathleen if it was on the radio she didn't hear it and also um as i say you can sign up and it's worth signing up to uh ishka erin for the direct messaging i did it comes through an emails but it's not going to catch everyone either because not everyone uses systems like that okay that's where we have to leave it on the program today


Oh hello everyone. So a digital photo, a document typed in word, an mp3 file, all stand alone born digital objects. The sector has a pretty good understanding of how to catalog these types of objects, largely because they have analog equivalents that have varied in format for years. The daguerreotype, the album in print, the color photograph, and the JPEG are all just different formats of the same type of content, but cataloging gets confusing when you have nothing familiar to equate it to. In 2009, Canterbury Museum was approached by NASA about the donation of the first satellite tracking dish used by NASA in the Antarctic from 1984 to 1993. The accompanying exhibit, which was then on display at the Antarctica Traction in Christchurch, was also offered at the same time. From the start it was clear that the satellite and its base were of interest, and curators were convinced that there was valuable information in the exhibition, but they just weren't sure how to describe it. I'll talk you through our thought process and the conclusions we arrived at, but first I'll give you a little background on the acquisitions process at the Canterbury Museum. Any object offered to the museum goes through the acquisitions process. The objects first put on an object receipt form, which when signed transfers ownership of the object to the museum. Next, the assigned curator writes a proposal about why the object is or is not suitable for the collection. The proposals then brought force to the acquisitions team, which means monthly. This team is made up of curators, registration staff, the director, and the manager best practice. The team then votes on whether the object should become part of the collection based on the proposal. And then once that happens, it's assigned a accession number and it goes into the collection. Part of the proposal process involves selecting a collection status for the objects. The museum has three internal classifications, permanent, information, and ceremonial. Objects in the permanent collection can be used for research and display, and they're eligible for conservation treatment if required. The information collection is mainly for hands-on items used by the Education Department or books used for research. The ceremonial collection is reserved for objects that might be loaned on short-term notice for a tangy or a similar event. The museum also has a set of internal data standards that dictate how objects are described and counted on the database. The count determines whether an object has one record with multiple parts, such as a T-set, or what if the object gets multiple records, like a photo album where every image gets its own record. And it's clear that the satellite was one object with multiple parts. You've got the satellite, you've got the base. But what about all this exhibition material, which includes these interactives here and these text panels? It gets a bit tricky. So the first iteration identified 17 objects, which you'll see there. Here the software is described as digital files and the hardware is described as computer. However, the acquisitions team felt that this description didn't make it clear that the acquisition actually consisted of a satellite tracking dish and a display. So it was re-described to make that distinction clear. Whereas before the computers on their implied parts were listed together, the cables and the monitors on the towers were now listed separately. And all the digital files were listed together, no longer recognizing the fact that there had been two separate gallery cask interactives. So if you go back here, you've got one there and another one there. So they were all lumped together. At this point in time, the digital collective policy was being drafted. The policy in its draft form states that all digital material was to be renamed by its accession number and stored in up to three different places on the museum service for backup. The digital files took up a huge amount of space on the servers, prompting a re-examination of the acquisition and how it was catalogued and stored. In November 2012, an acquisition review was carried out that raised some valid questions. What was the justification for retaining the object? Was it meant to be a functional exhibit or a non functioning prop? Was it important as a research tool? What about the long term preservation of obsolete software? Should they migrate the data to new formats? What were the costs and logistical implications of keeping the software functional? How long would it take to label and catalog 2,180 digital files folders? The content of the exhibit was the main interest. With the server space being a major concern, it was recommended that all files not necessary for the operation of the cask be removed from the backup drive. Similarly, if the touchscreens were intended as non functioning props, their operating files should also be removed from the server. Any functional images, video and text files were to be cataloged individually and renamed as per the conventions in the draft digital policy. A separate drive would be established for digital collection items, a second drive would store high resolution copies, and a third would store easily accessible low resolution copies for research access. Staff were now determined with staff were now tasked with determining which files were essential. Opening the digital files revealed a complex file structure. Were these folders essential or just packing? Packaging? What about the files that don't open? Are they broken or just an obsolete formats? What about copyright? These look like images from other institutions. Can we legally collect these and reuse them? As for the hardware, which cable goes with which monitor? Enlisting the help of the museum's IT staff person curators work to reassemble the units. Our surprise, some of the cables didn't work. Myson keyboard had to be plugged in to calibrate the screen. So to use this interactive, you had to press over here to get this part to work. So that was a bit of a surprise, but we did manage to calibrate one of them. The plugging in the mouse and the keyboard to do so loaded on a new driver. Had we just changed the original object? When we tried to run the programs, we discovered one kept glitching and it was essentially non functional. After several months of discussion and debate, it was concluded that the museum wanted to preserve a functional example of an early 2000s display. This meant kiosk.jar, this one, which was essentially non functioning and its associated hardware were nowhere needed. That's reducing the amount of space on the server. Now, according to the draft digital policy, all these files which I showed you here were supposed to be renamed with their accession number and part number. But there was some concern that that might mess up all the formatting and not allow the different parts of the software to talk to each other. Communicating this concern wasn't easy. Even though we all used computers, we're not familiar with how they work. So this is what was left of the functioning hardware. We did still need to add a couple pieces. So we started to think of some analogies that might help us clarify why we shouldn't be renaming all those files. So our first analogy was it's like a book. If you rename all those files, it's like ripping out all the pages and storing them separately. But then there's the caveat and this is from our collection that this book has inserts which are numbered as parts that can be pulled out and they've been numbered in case they get separated so we can put them back in. Not a good example. Then we tried a bag of archaeology. Now at the Canterbury Museum, we treat these as one whole. So it'll just be like a bag of charts from this site and they're not separated. They're not counted separately. This seemed to go over much better. But then there's the issue of needing to add a mouse and a keyboard and speakers and functioning cables. Curators recommended that the hardware be part of the information collection so we could easily change the parts and update it. But the acquisitions team was uncomfortable with this. They emphasize that the information collection is really meant for educational hands-on items and research books. This prompted discussion about whether adding a mouse and the driver to run that mouse counted as conservation. A member of staff pointed out that several carvings, part of the permanent collection currently on display, had had new power eyes put in. This was done in consultation with Iwi and everyone had agreed it was the right step. So with concerns about altering the objects of the lab, the acquisition was classified as part of the permanent collection with the caveat that we can add parts to make it functional. So there it is, reclassified. Fortunately, it's not just the Canterbury Museum that's had trouble wrapping its head around how to describe software. Matthew Fuller identifies it as a blind spot within the broader realm of cultural studies relating to computers. In his book, Software Studies, a lexicon. While current catalog standards may record what an object is in broad terms and where it's stored, this may not be enough and this is something we've touched on today. Of course, the first and the second edition book are different, but you access them more or less the same way. That may not be the same case for version one and version two of Piece of Software. So we need to record that kind of information so that future researchers can source emulators or hardware. One reason for this blind spot may be that software is often just seen as a tool without much thought going into the intentions of its use or why it was made. Matthew Kirschenbaum at the Maryland Institute of Technology has identified 14 different types of software based on the use and the purposes they were created.  Now, so there's one example. This is from the Library of Congress and they cataloged it as shrink wrap, but that doesn't really suit our example because it's a one-off piece of software that lives on a PC from circa 2003. So we see it as an object at the museum, but since it's a one-off, it's an artisanal product or software as craft. So basically, in summary, we've determined that it's very important to describe any system requirements running with the software, any cultural context surrounding it, but there's one question that I'm still not sure about. What about all those folders and files in the software? Do I have to count them as parts? Are there any questions? Discussions? Is anyone confused? I find it interesting that he looked at kind of cataloging published material when I kind of see this as being kind of an unpublished terrain and from my point of view, why he didn't consider looking at archival sort of principles like for instance, we would never alter the original order and we would never rename. Sort of playing with actually you change the authenticity of the items that you're dealing with once you're ultimately doing that, it goes back to our key principles. But yeah, just wondering why you looked at books as an example. When we look at collections, like large collections of huge, harbored collections that we deal with currently, and that's the vast norms that we deal with nowadays. But yeah. I think it's partially because our draft digital policy just didn't get finished and it only talks about Word documents and standalone digital, like JPEGs and things like that. And we were also trying to draw on the expertise and familiarity of the team. So there wasn't necessarily an archival knowledge on the team, so making that analogy wasn't very helpful. So we tried to go with the books, thinking about all the horror of pages getting ripped out and thought that might have an impact. Because I deal with thousands and thousands of books with numerical like crazy file structures and you know, it goes on and on and on, like totally undisciplined as far as what we file for them to get as well and you know, in the hit sales produce that are hyperlinked in between different documents within the system. You know, they're not just one bit, it's just the huge context around it. Good to know that there are other options out there. Is the draft strategy going to be completed? And would you like some help? Yes, I would like some help. Yes, I would very much like some help. What happened is our registrar came from Canada and decided he didn't like New Zealand. So he went home before finishing it. So we have a new registrar. Because I think, you know, you're not likely to say you're not the first person to go through this and we should actually be sharing some of these ideas because I would have said exactly the same thing, but you do not rename the file. And that actually, recording as much information about every individual file, like the file size and the checksum and the format type and all those kinds of things is essential. It's a lot of work, but there are tools that have been developed to actually help automate it. That would be helpful to know too. So I guess it's, you know, we have been talking to each other a lot to talk about in the library, but we don't get into the other cities quite so much, so it's useful for us to know that. Yes, so there's definitely an interest in Canterbury. It's not just Canterbury Museum that has an interest. We'll edit that camp a couple of weeks ago, talking to similar sector people. There was definitely questions about this and presented a similar topic and everyone was just as perplexed. So we could use some expertise and some advice. And this is kind of like being such a hybrid object. Yes. This is physical and digital. Yeah. It's dealing with lots of formats of technology and that kind of thing. It is really difficult. Like the typescreen obviously isn't going to work in 20 years. So how do you replace it? What do you replace it with? And that's kind of like how we deal with artworks. So we acquire sort of hybrid artworks that have digital components, physical components. And so we've got to see the questions that we go through that help us make decisions around what to connect and what not to connect. So... That would be fantastic. We'll talk later. Great. Is there any other question? Thanks, Gerona. That's actually a question for Adrienne and Toria. Go ahead. Yeah. Just on there, with Jonas, Antarctica, and Kasia. Do you guys... How do you deal with that? I mean, if... The idea isn't to play it in a simple year's time. Do you use emulation or how do you store it?  Well, I mean, we... We... At this stage, we would probably... Because we're not using emulation now. It could be, like, maybe two or three weeks and it could go on. So we'll record as much as possible. So things like actually reporting what the operating system is, the hardware that needs to run at that time. There's much information in the context that you can need to not collect them because you need to know that if you are not stimulated so that you can rebuild a virtual machine, that you retain a bit stream as much as you can so don't change it but document everything so that you at least have the original. Right now, we may not have the solution for doing it, but if we've got as much information that can later, then we might be able to do this. Still a risk of losing it. But you just, the thing about digital and the high-precision is documentation, documentation, documentation. Taking photos of a book and recording what the actual interaction is. Things like understanding that if you use the knowledge not calibrated here, she needs to know. So here, that's a non-issue so that you record there as well. It seems really daunting but then it becomes a collecting question should you collect it. If you're collecting it and you don't think you're actually going to be able to do it after the implementation given to somebody else or just predicting that the public hands are at risk of making costs for these things. Yeah, yeah, that doesn't talk much to you. Yeah, and just like you can't not use that. Like if we've done mistakes and we've probably acknowledged that you know probably certain things that we actually can deliver on provide access to like a huge issue for us currently is providing access to email clients. As we have, I don't know, everyone knows or the standard ones but we've got ones that are long since the Thunderbird but I don't know anyone's heard of that but you know and it's incredibly complex you know those are moving parts that are similar in a lot of ways because you need yeah, that there's huge and complex issues around digital logic in itself you know and the hyperventure of them as well but you just can't understand my documentation and you don't know like in how many years come how useful that documentation's going to be so you always have to take it straight away and like you were talking about you went to Sturkey damaged the files in the process so we do a process of we make right blocking things before we copy anything across to our system so we can have a verification process so we know that we haven't definitely 100% certainly haven't altered anything to do with those digital files once again. So, thank you Vint Joanna, that was good, thank you very much.


So let's begin. It's a 507. Welcome to the virtual public meeting of the Allington Housing Authority for a special board meeting. Wednesday, February 2nd. And as I said, it's 507. So we'll do a roll call. Brian is here, Nick. Yes. Here. And Joanne. Yeah, here. Urella has notified us that she's unable to join us. So we have a quorum. First thing in the gender is approval of capital improvement plan budget revisions. A, the electrical upgrade at the Chestnut Manor. Jack, you want to talk in the second is the common air flooring replacement Drake filler. So Jack. So just to give a little bit of background for the electrical upgrade at Chestnut Manor. As part of the insurance, the work that the insurance companies can be doing there related to the fire for those 20, 20 or 18 affected units. We're going to be upgrading electrical, you know, panels and things like that. So in order to take advantage of this opportunity there, we're going to try to get DHC to help us pay for upgrading the electrical panels and other systems in the building at the same time. We think it's a great, great measure will get rid of the existing electrical panels, which are dated and, you know, it will be a great opportunity to hopefully tap into the state funding to help pay for it as well instead of our typical normal, normal formula funding so I'm, I'm confident that the state's going to be supportive of this right now, based off the capital planning systems assessment looks like it'll be about a $409,000 project. And, but you know, obviously the full spoke of the project's not going to be included in this because 18 of those units are going to be covered through the insurance so it's probably going to be, you know, lower than this or however much lower than this. Mm hmm. Go ahead. I wasn't sure if you want me to move on to the next probably just wait for this one right. Yeah. So, in terms of about a simple motion to adjust the plan to for the upgrade electrical upgrade adjustment manner or if you're a number we ought to put with that or what I didn't see it in the agenda thing. The numbers not on the agenda, but it is on the, it's in the capital planning system, and the board packet. And I mean it's it's, it's a very broad assessment so I'm not, you know, I'm going to use the capital planning systems number for my revision but we'll see what the actual revision ends up being after DPS takes into account the insurance company. I don't see it so it's pages one and two and that in your attachment there. So I guess we need a motion to amend the budget accordingly for the ability to upgrade the electrical service adjustment manner. Second by God but I think you're on Muka. I'll second. Okay, so move by Nick second. So, is Sandy on here taking notes Jack or you take a note. I'm going to take notes you're recording it. Okay, yeah. So the motions move by Nick second by God all in favor at you in. Yes. Nick. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Yes. So we move on to number be common air flooring we put in a Drake. So here's some insight on this since I'm already doing a budget revision I thought it was a good time to consider some other needs within the portfolio and one minor need which will will have money for our formula funding is a common area flooring replacement at the cottages in Drake Village, one of our property managers down there did did a walk through recently and noticed that some of the carpeting was starting to punch up. And so we'll identify the hazard and I feel, you know, given the opportunity to address it right now with this other budget revision it's, it's timely and you know we'll be able to use this funding to do it instead of our regular operating budget. On simple do we have a motion to approve. We just have a common area. It's just that small walking area, you know you open up that that door, and then there's the stairwell that goes upstairs to the second cottage is carpeting and then the in all of them in all of them so it'll be 18 total hopefully that will be able to do, but but we would at least prioritize the ones that you know the carpeting is starting to punch up. Can I ask you a question. Yep. So it looks like it's going to cost 26,000 is that right, right around that I'm looking at it right. Yeah, so that and that's that's based off the capital planning systems assessment, which I utilize I just utilize the old components and the cost to replace those components. So that's that's what it's giving me as a price and, and you know hopefully, you know we'll be able to do all of them, but at least it has to, but we will be able to at least do the ones that need it. Okay. And then my next question is, how come we don't use those carpet squares that can be replaced if like one gets soiled instead of instead of it says roll goods. Yeah, and in these carpets the ones that are being replaced their their original with the building. So 1961 or whatever. Yeah. Oh wow. So it's just there. Yeah, they're very. So they might use the carpet squares commercial. Okay. I say that again, Nick. Do we have to put the carpet or does that make sense. No, I mean we're going to we're going to talk to the vendors and determine what's the best product to use. Okay. So do we have a motion to accept that. So moved. Second. Second. So, Motion to approve the flooring replacement drink is moved by second by Gar all in favor to win. Yes. Nick. Yes. Gar. Yes. Ryan is a yes we moved to number four of the proposed change order requests. Change orders one and two are relative to some additional abatement that needs to happen. Just it was unforeseen, you know, that they would have to do some additional plumbing in different areas and some additional work related to that's going to require some additional abatement. And then the change order three. It's, it's, it's a it's a good opportunity for us to replace the frozen gate valves at the chestnut manner bet in that area so we determined that, you know, it was worthwhile for us to address this as part of this project. So we expanded that as part of the project school. So I think we need three separate motions one for a one for B and one for C. Correct. Three separate motions. Do you think we need three separate motions for this. As long as you can show them clearly that in one motion you're okay otherwise do three separate motions if you can show change order number one in a vote on that change order number two, you know, center and then three and four, and that's okay. But you'd have to show that there's a vote on all four and if somebody didn't like, like, but okay or three then you definitely have to do three separate four separate ones. Okay. So we have three, we have three motions a B and C so does somebody want to make a motion. Yeah I moved to approve change or PCO dash 001 in the amount of $857 and 43 cents. I second it. Okay, so we a is moved by God second by Julian. All in favor Julian. Yes. Yes, Nick. Brian is yes. So we move on be the motion to be. Yeah, I will move to approve change order number two in the amount of 3375.45. We have a second. Second by Nick. So be is moved by God second by Nick. All in favor Julian. Yes, Nick. Gar. Yes, Nick. Brian is yes. Number C. I'll do that one too. I moved to approve change order number three in the amount of 1513.26. Sure. Second. I can buy Nick so number C is moved by guy second by Nick. All in favor Julian. Yes. Yes. Yes. Brian is a yes. So we have no other motions and, and just for the record, we have no other participants on this call. Right, Jack. There's three participants. Three. Okay. Sorry about that. I see it now. Okay. So we have motion to adjourn. I move to adjourn. Yes. You have to stay and talk to me about the herd field and what you've been doing with the people who are going to change it. Right. Cause I have to vote. I have to comment on it. I'll give, I'll give you a call right after this joint. Oh, you're not going to stay on. Okay. Yeah. There are other participants on the call. So we have to shift the call down. So we have a motion to adjourn by Nick. Second by. All in favor of adjourn Joanne. Yes. Yes. Yes. Brian is a yes. So thank you for making the time and meeting as a adjourned. Thank you. Thank you guys. Yeah. That was fast. Thank you.


A veteran quarterback will continue his NFL career. Drafted in 2005 in the seventh round, he is playing for his ninth NFL team. Ryan Fitzpatrick has signed with the Washington football team. Fitzpatrick is expected to be the starting quarterback with Taylor Heineke competing for the starting quarterback position but is expected that Fitzpatrick will be going into the 2021 season as the starter and Heineke will be the backup. How does this play out? Is this a good move for the Washington football team? In my eyes, 100% yes. If you have the money, if you have the cap space what the Washington football team did, offer that to a quarterback. Offer that to one of your weakest positions that was kind of held, holding you back and making a further playoff push. Heineke, he's great. He's wonderful but you want to go with someone that you can really trust and you know has done really well in the NFL and has proven to be a good starting quarterback and that is Ryan Fitzpatrick. You can't really trust anyone else on the free agent market more than you could a veteran like Ryan Fitzpatrick. What this team is doing, what Juan Rivera wants is this offense to improve. This defense already great. Chase Young is going to be a difference maker for years to come but this offense with an upcoming running back in Antonio Gibson as being the star player on this offense, that's pretty much it. You need a quarterback right now and I like Taylor Heineke. I like Ryan Fitzpatrick. You still need to make some moves and they could draft another one for the future but for the time being getting someone that's reliable like Fitzpatrick to be your quarterback with other weapons on that offense besides Tim McLaurin and Curtis Samuel, this offense has now improved and this team is much better than they were last season when you talk about them going to the playoffs and losing out when the wildcard round. So this defense is already great. This offense has gotten much better and they've really solidified their offensive line as well so that defense we already know can get it done but that offense in Washington, watch out for them.


We've completed all of the Hutt moments, and it is time to rip open an X Factor Choice Pack. Yo, what's going on Leaf Nationals? Leaf are back again, and welcome back to the channel. Today, I mean, I said it in the intro already, it's time to rip open an X Factor Choice Pack. I need McDavid, I need a McCarr, I need a Marner, any of the good ones please. So we have the 38 X Factor collectibles to trade in for the pack. So we get an X Factor Choice Pack, two power-up collectibles, and a Players Pack from this. So we're hoping for the best here. All right, boys, so we're going to do the Players Pack first. I have an 85 overall pack as well somewhere here, Guarantee 85, and then we will do the X Factor. So Players Pack first, I don't know. I doubt we pull anything in the Players Pack here. I really do, but I, you know, I could always be wrong, and I hope to be wrong, but I don't think I will be. We got 180 overall, 80 overall plus, and it's Steve's shot. All right, okay, awesome. All right, great pack, great pack. I'm glad that we opened that. That's great. 85 pack first, and then we do the X Factor Choice Pack, right? 85, who can we get? Who is it going to be? Someone good please. Okay, well, you will take an Eric Carlson. Could have been worse. Offensive defenseman. He's got elite edges, 88 speed, 88 excel, like he's fast. Great shot. Good hands. This is all around a good looking card. He's going to get used to the team. That's a W. That is a W pack for sure. It's time for what everyone's here for. The X Factor Choice Pack.  As I've been doing it all year so far, chat number between one and three please while I find a song. All right, chat is saying number two. We're going right down the middle. Connor McJesus is in this one. Not great, not great, not great. We're not off to a good start. We're not off to a good start. It's an okay looking card, but it's not what we want. It's not what we want. It could be worse, but it's not what we want. Chat's saying one. We're going one. Mick David. No, no, we're actually not like this is not good. This is not going to be good. It's not going to be good. This isn't good, boys. This isn't good. This isn't, this is not good. We're going to get screwed over here. I feel it. Three's got to be the one. I'm hitting A. The controller's down. I'm hitting A. Please. It's not good, boys. It's not good. I dashboarded. That's how bad it was. We may have got rammed in that pack, but I have some good news, and you're going to see it in a second. I'm going to take Udrow. That might be the wrong play, but I think Udrow looks a little better, man. Okay, but let me show you the good news I was talking about here, boys. We have another X Vector Choice pack. We traded in 50 players for this one. This one's got to be better. We have a choice of three in this one as well. All right, boys. It's got to be good. Connor McDavid, Kail McCarr, Mitch Marner, please. Chat's saying two again. We're going down the middle for the second time in this pack. Connor McDavid, welcome to the team. I need a second. I just need a second. I need a second. A few moments later. We're okay. Okay. Okay. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. We still have two more choices. We still have two more choices. Okay. That's good. That is actually good. I said Matthew Kutchuk was one of the ones I wouldn't mind. It's a good-looking card. He could get up to an 86. He's not that fast, but he's got good hands. He's got good shooting. He's hard to knock off for the puck. We'll take a Chuckie. We'll take a Chuckie. We still have one more chance at a McDavid or a McCarr, though, which is good. Connor, I'm calling your name, bud. Ooh. Ooh. Okay. Okay. Crosby's another good one. He's another good one. We're going to have a decision to make here. Is it Crosby or is it Chuckie? I'm not too sure. I'm leaning towards Crosby right now. Ooh. We have a decision to make here, boys. We have a decision to make. This pack was better, which makes me happy. We're getting an opinion of an expertise hot player. We got word from Don't Be Saw 20 that Crosby is a choice. We are going Crosby. Welcome to the team, Crosby. Chow is also telling me Crosby, too. So welcome to the team, Sid, not so much the kid. And this is what the team is looking like after the X Factor Choice pack, boys. The first line looks sweet. So we ended up making this Evgeny Kuznetsov because this card looks absolutely insane. We have him up to an 85. We could get him up to an 86. But I don't know if I want to do that because if I have to refund the tiers, I'm going to lose a power-up collectible. But looking at this card at an 85, man, 91 speed, 91 XL, 92 agility. Shots are insane. Hand stats are insane. And the check-in and defense are pretty good as well. So we have Kuznetsov on the first line playing with Austin Matthews and David Pasternak. The second line is 83 William Nylander with our X Factor Crosby and Kutrov. We ended up getting Crosby all the way up to an 85. I ended up buying his base card. I can't remember for how much. But we ended up getting this Crosby, which this card looks insane as well. When he gets more upgrades, he's going to be faster. His shot is going to be good. His hands are already insane. And we have beauty backhand and unstoppable force activated with him as well. And he's also playing with Nikita Kutrov. I think I said that already. The third line is looking pretty good with the breadman Artemis Panarin playing with Joe Sackic who we upgraded to an 85. And playing with our team billiardler, Marten St. Louis. And then our fourth line, Eliz. We have him for synergy reasons. This 85 Conor Bardard, which you guys saw in a recent pack opening video that I pulled him. And then Henry Rashard as well. Again, need him for synergies. Okay. And then on defense, we got Kail Makar with Jakob Slavin. Eric Carlson with Thomas Shabbat. And then Dougie Hamilton and Vince Dunn. And then in net, we do have Jake Audinger. And we have a couple synergies activated. Two-way defenseman, playmaking forward, sniper forward. And offensive defenseman. Now, I played a couple games with this team. The team feels pretty good, man. I'm going to be honest with you. I'm a huge fan of my team so far. I do need to make some upgrades to the fourth line eventually. But yeah, like playing online games, I come up against crazy teams, man. Like I've played a couple Mario Lemus and Wingretzky's already. A lot of people have those 87 team builders. So I feel like I'm a little behind with that kind of stuff. And I think eventually I got to work towards getting those 87 team builders because there are some insane team builders. But if you guys have any suggestions, any cards that you guys like that I can throw onto my team, let me know in the comment section down below. I'm always looking to improve my team and become a better hut player, obviously, okay? So if you guys have any suggestions on what I can do to upgrade my team, don't be afraid to comment that down below. Anyways, guys, that is going to be it for today's hockey ultimate team video. If you guys did enjoy it, be sure to drop a like on it. If you guys are new around here, make sure to hit the subscribe button down below for some more NHL24 content that I roll out three times a week on this channel. The X Factor Choice Packs treated us kind of nice. I still really wanted to that McDavid, McCarr, Marner, one of the big dogs. But you know what? A Sydney Crosby is A-OK in my books. And the good thing is we pull another X Factor down the road. We have three to do a re-roll and try to get one of those guys. But yeah, guys, like I said, that is it for today's video. Thank you guys very much for watching and I'll talk to you guys later. Peace.


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