I'd now like to call the November 17th, 2020, Longmont City Council regular session to order. We already approved the minutes for October 27th. There's no minutes ready for this agenda, Mayor. Right, that's what I thought. Okay, cool. So do we have any agenda revision submission of documents or motions to direct the city manager? Mayor, there was one document revision, not an agenda revision noted in the substitute ordinance for ordinance 2020-62 for item 12A1. Let's go ahead and, Harold, it's been a big day with COVID-19 and the governor, and it's been a rough week. So do you want to go ahead and report to us? So I'm going to start with the final revised metrics. The old level read became level read, severe risk, long-term sustained metrics or multiple metrics met. And specifically what they're looking at is greater than 350 in 100,000 cases in a two-week incidents. It was just reported that the state CDPHE did move us to level read. Their county, they moved 14 counties. They indicated that they were going to move some other counties to orange. But the big change in level read when you look at high-risk populations is where we were in level orange, it was strongly advised to stay at home. Level read actually puts the high-risk populations in the stay-at-home category. So if you were in the orange level, it was up to 10 from no more than two households. So now they're saying no personal gatherings. In terms of schools, schools is a little bit interesting. So K through five in-person is suggested. Middle school, in-person, hybrid or remote suggested. And then high school, they're suggesting a hybrid or remote. Another significant change is really to the restaurants. And so now they're saying take out curbside delivery or to go orders or open-air dining in terms of offices. In the orange level, we were at 25% remote work where it was strongly encouraged. They're now 10% remote work is strongly encouraged. Gems and fitness centers are at 10%, 10 indoors per room or outdoors in groups of less than 10. And then critical and non-critical retail is essentially staying the same as it was in level orange, 50%. With events, any indoor events are now closed. Outdoor events have been reduced to 25% or 75 people based on the size. This is really what we're seeing in terms of what the governor's reacting to. So we're definitely seeing in Boulder County the growth, but we're seeing that really throughout the entire state. When you then look at the positive, the two-week testing positivity rate we're currently at 8.3%. But when you look at the positivity rate, we're actually at a lower level than Weld and Larimer. We've obviously been watching the young adult gathering public health order metrics. So what we can tell you on this is we're in the same spot that we were before. New cases and positivity worsened over the last week. And so we're just continuing to move in that area. So this graph really says it all. You can see that we hit a high of 326. We hope that the trend that we've seen recently continues in terms of where we're moving because that will make a difference in terms of the level red piece. And something that's important in this is, for a while we really started seeing fewer cases associated with college students. But now about 12% of the cases in the past week have been among CU affiliated Boulder County residents. When we look at this, the other change, and we hadn't seen this for a while, but we're starting to see it again, is actually the number of cases that are associated with long-term care facilities. And there are currently nine confirmed active outbreaks in the Boulder County long-term care facilities. Our five-day rolling average in daily case count is at about 220.6 cases per day. Obviously, if we continue on the trend that you saw on a previous slide, that number will continue to go down. And that's gonna be really important in terms of how we look at a potential move from red to orange in the future. So what I wanna point out here is the red line is actually Boulder. And you can see the spike when we had it with the university. And then, so we're right about there. Now we're gonna look at it in terms of municipality. So you can see in terms of what we've seen since the 1st of October and the cases per 100,000. We're now the highest. Again, this graph is just a different depiction and it gives you the same look at the data per communities. Dark blue Boulder, light blue Longmont, Louisville Lafayette Superior, and then all the other municipalities in this. And so Boulder, for last week had about 656 cases, Longmont, 598, Louisville Lafayette Superior, 230 cases, and then 183 in the rest of the county. Price cumulative rates per 100,000, they were in the 18 to 22, 23 to 24, 24 to 34 and 35 to 44. So basically that 18 to 44 range has really had the highest case counts recently. And I know this slide prompted a lot of conversation last week, but we are continuing to see increases in the number of cases of all school age groups when we compare it to the most recent two weeks. Now this is an important slide, 78.2% of the cases in Boulder County have a known race ethnicity. Again, seeing persistent large disparities among the Hispanic Latinx population. In the past seven days, 47.6 of our cases or 506 have been among the Hispanic Latinx and 49.3 or 524 cases have been among white non-Hispanic categories. When we look in the testing, again reminds you, 10-1, we're at 4.7, today we're at 8.5 or as of 10, 11, 16, 9 a.m. You can see how many tests we've been performing in Boulder County. This is just a different way to look at where we've been moving in terms of the positivity. This is actually a good sign. You know, and who would have thought when we were actually just before here and we were below 2% that we would be seeing this move to 8.5% is a good sign. All of that's gonna come into play when we look at the way they've constructed the new dial. Another example of what the different age groups have been doing over time. Seven day rolling average of PCR tests with positive results. We've had a lot of questions about hospitalizations. This is cumulative over time in terms of what we've seen. So this really talks about our hospital resources. We have 108 ICU beds available in Boulder County. Total 108 ICU beds, we have 19 available as of today. So we have 145 available med search beds, adult critical vents, 50 total, 28 available. Non-critical vents, you can still see that all of those are available. This is the statewide hospitalization piece. And so the blue is confirmed COVID-19. The brown is under investigation or the light tan under investigation for COVID-19 in terms of deaths among Boulder County residents who've tested positive. And you can see how from about June 6th to the end of September, anytime you lose a life, it's tragic for a community and a county, but it looked much different. We are starting to look similar to where we were in April. And I think that's part of what they're also looking at. About 71% of the deaths to date have been among the long-term care facility residents. And this is the key COVID data resources. I will also have the full side deck that I'll get to Don. Good evening, everybody. I'm gonna add three things here. I'm gonna talk about testing hospitals and then vaccinations really fast. We'll talk a little bit about the disproportionate amount of cases in the Latinx community. So Carmen, as Carmen always does, partnered with Public Health to develop some kind of targeted testing sites that we've done two of so far. We have bilingual staff down there, kind of resource kits available for everybody coming through. And both times we've done about 120 tests or so. The larger sites are ripping every day 100,000 or 1,000 a day. So I think the testing available in the community is good. We are hospitals. So today, unfortunately, we did break our previous record. We had 91 in the hospital today. In Longmont, we had 29, which is a significant number for Longmont beds. And I can give you those up-to-date numbers for today. They're a little bit misleading, no, because we don't break out COVID ICU beds versus regular hospital ICU beds. So those could be filled up with, you know, strokes, heart attacks, whatever. But as of this morning, countywide, we have 108 total, 72 of them, excuse me, 15 of them are still available. The med-surg availability right now is 112 in the county and 14 in the city. But I think the big message that Harold was giving really does hold true is they are full. The hospitals are very concerned about staffing. It's not only just fatigue, they've been doing it a long time, but their staff is also affected by quarantine sickness. But an important point is they are not seeing any, if any, spread inside the hospital. From July to September, there were nine deaths in the county. We had nine last week. So there's some trends that we would certainly like to get ahead of here. Quickly on to vaccinations. This is something we get asked a lot. And there isn't a tremendous amount of information on these yet. And there are significant logistical issues involved with vaccinating a entire world. So I wouldn't think about anything that's gonna be community available before March, April-ish. So we're not planning for any widespread distribution before then. There's, I have heard from the county is the contact tracing that they aren't trying to do, that the virus is so far ahead of it that they're really not trying all that much and they don't have the staff to catch up either. All right, that concludes our COVID-19 update. Thank you guys. Let's move on to special reports and presentations for the 2020 Colorado APWA Parks and Trails Award for the Dickens Farm Nature Area. Steve Randsweiler, Senior Project Manager for Public Works and Natural Resources. Parks and Trails Project within a large community and for Dickens Farm Nature Area. And we're very proud of this award. And I'm gonna turn this over to Pete Adler to present this award to the city council. Thanks, Steve. As was mentioned, my name is Pete Adler and I'm the Colorado Chapter Delegate to the American Public Works Association. On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Colorado Chapter of APWA, I'm here tonight to recognize the city of Longmont for the Dickens Farm Nature Area. All right, you wanna go ahead and read the consent agenda for us? You bet, mayor. Item 9A1 is Resolution 2020-122, a resolution of the Longmont City Council approving a cooperative agreement between the city and the Longmont Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 6. For January 1st, 2021 through December 31st, 2021. 9A2 is Resolution 2020-123, a resolution of the Longmont City Council approving a cooperative agreement between the city and the Longmont Professional Firefighters Association, International Association of Firefighters Local 1806 for January 1st, 2021 through December 31st, 2021. Sorry, 9B is Resolution 2020-124, a resolution of the Longmont City Council approving the Intergovernmental Agreement between the city and Adam State University for a Memorandum of Affiliation permitting educational experiences and counseling. 9C is Resolution 2020-125, a resolution of the Longmont City Council approving the Intergovernmental Agreement between the City of Longmont and the County of Boulder for the acquisition and management of the McLaughlin property. 9D is Resolution 2020-126, a resolution of the Council of the City of Longmont, Colorado, finding that the petition for annexation of a parcel of land located in Boulder County, State of Colorado, known as the River Anxation, generally located north of Boston Avenue and east of Sunset Street, substantially complies with the Colorado Revised Statutes, Section 312-1071. And 9E is Resolution 2020-127, a resolution of the Longmont City Council supporting public health agencies in slowing the spread of COVID-19. I would like to pull item B and E. Council Member Waters? I'd like to pull item A. I'm gonna move Consent Agenda, Less A, B and E. Aye. Opposed, say nay. Aye. All right, the motion carries unanimously. Okay, I move Resolution 2020-124. I'll second it. All right, all in favor of Resolution 2020-124, so you know for the debate, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. All right, Resolution 2020-124 passes unanimously. All right, let's move on to Resolution 2020-127. I was gonna pull that as well. Take a vote. All in favor of Resolution 2020-127, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. All right, Resolution 2020-127 passes unanimously. Go ahead and move Amendment 2020-02 to the 2020 CDBG Action Plan and close the public hearing. Second. All right, it's been moved and seconded. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. All right, great. Let's move on to item 12. Tonight, we have several folks joining us. I can't, I have representatives from Costco. Jennifer Murillo will be presenting on their behalf. Representatives from the Golden Family. And the development team that's been working on this. We were approached by a developer with the potential of locating Costco in Longmont. We realized we needed a new location based on the infrastructure and economics there. We didn't pick a particular location.  What are the benefits of locating Costco in Longmont? And so now I will actually turn it over to Jessica to talk about the Costco economic impact from her perspective. Thank you, Harold. So I'll just real quickly talk about from an economic development perspective, we typically look at retail and primary industry projects very differently. Retail projects we're typically looking at significant fiscal benefits, which you'll hear about the significant fiscal benefits, which are the direct dollars into city coffers that Costco location brings to the community. Mayor Ugly and members of council, Dale Rademacher, take a few minutes here and just step through some of the highlights and key elements of the particular agreement that's in front of you. Public-private partnership agreement or the P3 agreement, there's several key elements. As I mentioned, this is a 48 acre site. It's immediately south of Kenpratt Boulevard and immediately east of the harvest junction commercial and residential areas. This is a site plan that gives a little more detail for the proposed layout of the Costco facilities. I mentioned earlier, council, that there are several clawback provisions in the main contract to protect the city's investment. And with that, I'll turn it over to Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Jim Golden. Glad to pick it up from here. I'm gonna get into the financing and the project costs first. The total cost for the projects, and that's the Costco and the affordable housing project are $23.6 million. The city share of those costs are just below $13 million. The developer costs are $3.6 million and the Costco costs are $6.9 million. So this here are the city's project costs. Costco project is $9.9 million and the affordable housing is a little over $3 million. So now looking at that from a net basis after deducting the amount of estimated cannibalized taxes that would be drawing from other retailers, it would be just over $3 million of net new sales taxes in the first year. So in December 20, we'll be looking at the execution of the P3 agreements and the related agreements that we discussed. The agreement calls for sometime prior to July of 24 that Costco would move to open the warehouse. A quick note, I'd be remiss if I didn't thank Jennifer and Reggie Golden, two people that I really appreciated working through the details on this particular project. Dr. Waters. I move ordinance 2020-62. Second. All right, it's been moved and seconded. There's no further discussion or debate. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. All right, ordinance 2020-62, the substituted version passes unanimously. I'll move ordinance 2020-63. It's been moved and seconded. All in favor of ordinance 2020-63 say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. All right, ordinance 2020-63 passes unanimously. Dr. Waters. I'll move ordinance 2020-64. I'll second that one. All right, all in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. All right, ordinance 2020-64 passes unanimously. Let's move on to short term rentals. Mayor Bagley, members of council, Johnny Marsh, assistant city manager. This is a little bit of a continuation from our July 14th council meeting. So just to a reminder of the current definitions in the code, both for council, but also for the public who may be watching this evening. So again, here are some of the additional rental requirements that are currently at play. So some of the other items that we took notes on and I went back and watched the last meeting a couple of times to try to make sure that we got a general feel for some of the questions council had, but also some of the common themes. And I think really some of those themes were frankly around compliance and asking applicants really to be accountable for submitting documentation to us. So let's go ahead and vote. And the issue is the motion on the table is to direct staff to bring back in the ordinance, making it permissible for Longmont residents who have a second home in Longmont to use such home as a short term rental. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. Nay. So the motion carries five to two with council members Christensen and council member Peck opposed. Before we started tonight, Harold told me that we could take 12C and 12D and put it on a future agenda. Aye. Opposed postpone C and D to a future meeting. Second. Okay. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. All right. So the ayes have it unanimously. Let's go to mayor and council comments. Council member Peck. Thank you mayor Bagley. I'm gonna give a really fast update on some of the things that are happening on RTD if you don't mind. First of all, I wanna thank everybody who called in or emailed especially mayors and commissioners coalition and the Metro mayors on retaining that FISA account, the fast tracks internal savings account because not only did the board vote to retain it for two years, they put $17 million more into that fund bringing it from 120 million to 137.3 million. So that tells me if they can do that, perhaps maybe their financial picture isn't as dire as they would like it to be. Our new director who's gonna replace Judy Lubau is Eric Davidson. We are according to Phil Greenwald going to have the front range rail coalition come to our December meeting. We can use this $137.3 million to build platforms to pay for the engineering study to make it a shovel ready project to get funding from Dr. Kog and the federal government. Councilor Warren. Thank you, Mayor Bagley. I guess you can say anything you want to in public invited to be heard. I'd like to talk about free speech because when I write things in the newspaper I am representing myself. It says that in italics, right under my columns that my opinions are my own and don't necessarily represent the opinions of the city council or the city of Longmont. So I think it's a little bit disingenuous for people to call up and essentially initiate a debate about the personal statements of a member of the council at the city council. It would be slander if you could slander an elected official to say that I am against fracking. What I am against is what the people of Longmont are against which is paying for stuff that people in other cities get the benefit of. I'm not for fracking, but what I am for is protecting the people of Longmont from it. If Joe Salazar succeeds in forcing us to go to battle with those people because they're drilling underneath the city of Longmont and we lose that battle, then it could have us back to a situation where we have a well pad five miles from the swim beach at Union Reservoir inside the SUNY limits. And that might just be the beginning. And I'd also just like to end this little rant by saying that the sponsor of Senate bill 181 which is the law that not very good lawyer Joe Salazar is trying to use to get fracking bans for other cities. I do know that I don't want Longmont to have to pay for it so that somebody else gets a fracking ban. And that's why I wrote that column and it has nothing to do with city council business. Thank you, Mayor Bagley, just as a consideration of my colleagues as well as the city staff, I would like to let you know that I did participate in a panel for the Community Foundation of Boulder County Leadership Fellows Group this afternoon with State Senator Stephen Fenberg, State Senator Elect, Hawkeyes Lewis, County Commissioner Matt Jones as well as Boulder City Council member, Ginny Joseph. I did my best at all times to only relate council positions that were voted on and then making sure that all other positions were clearly my own as well as avoiding disparaging any staff members or council members even when baited directly. Outside of that, I would say that I was very encouraged by the other elected officials in what I felt to be synergy among the city, county, and state level elected officials as far as to some really good things that are going on at the state, county, and local levels for Boulder County at large, so thank you. That's Dr. Waters, you wanted to say something, okay? Well, I'd say good on Mayor Potem for not disparaging other council members or representing council positions, city and check for folks. Well, I just would, just a couple of thoughts. One is that I think the public invited to be heard portion of the agenda is one of the most important parts of the meeting. I mean, it was way more fun when we were in person and it's limited in this format, but I do think it's one of the great aspects of local government. It's the former government closest to the people and it's like every Tuesday night, it's a town hall. I just think it differentiates and distinguishes local government from other forms of government. When I get the chance to do that as a resident by writing a letter to the editor and people using their first amendment rights to criticize me for using mine and labeling it as whining, I just think that's an interesting commentary on how the process gets used. But just to set the record straight, I did write a letter to the editor. I didn't think anybody'd read it and I'm not certain that people commented on it I'd actually read it because it was really what I said was a total distortion what I heard tonight. For the record, I'm opposed to fracking inside our city limits and within 2,500 feet of our city limits. I voted for the 2012 fracking ban. I would vote for it again if it was on the ballot. We fulfilled our first obligation to Longmont residents and that is to act on the health of their health and safety. But my real opposition that I tried to assert as a resident not as a council member and I was explicit as well that I wasn't representing anybody's views but my own as a resident of Longmont. My objection was to a fundraising campaign to cover the costs for an appeal that would keep us as defendants in a lawsuit and have further deplete Longmont city resources to accomplish what we've already accomplished in a time of austerity. That was the concern. I'd love to be engaged with residents where we have a chance to go back and forth. It's interesting to have the comments where we can't respond when we're called out individually. Thanks for the opportunity, Mayor Bagley. Council Member Dile-Ferring. Yeah, so I wanted to add so last Friday I was in on that Zoom meeting and it was the special meeting for municipal officials with Governor Polis's response advisor. And it was really just, it was concerning to see the numbers, to see how we are progressively getting worse with this virus. But really it comes down to each one of us and our behaviors, our actions, washing your hands, taking this virus seriously, wearing your mask. You know, I keep asking questions about the sustainability. Let's look pinpoint specific for daycares, for schools, for different businesses that would warrant a different kind of structure for quarantine. But again, it's gonna come down to each one of us and our behaviors. Wearing your mask, social distancing, limit those gatherings. Do a little sacrifice on that end so we're not collapsing our economy, so we're not hurting our students, our children, and our mental health. So that's all I have to say. And we'll see everybody later. Thank you, bye-bye.


There are many different types of fire alarm panels and detection systems, however, these generally fall into two categories, monitored and unmonitored. Monitored is a direct alarm system to the fire brigade via the ASE.  These panels need to be identified as unmonitored. Maintenance needs to be carried out every six months by a qualified practitioner. All fire alarm panels are required to be checked weekly by the owner or manager. Many faults identified need to be referred to the maintenance company immediately. Tests should be conducted as per the Australian standard. Zone Plans Identified locations of clusters of detectors throughout your building, a zone plan must be located at the fire alarm panel.  Isolation of fire alarm panels cannot be done by owners, managers or staff.


Hi, my name is Rebecca Monti and I'm a counselor here at Student Financial Services. Today I'm going to talk to you a little bit about a monthly payment plan option. Our monthly payment plan is for fall and spring semesters. It allows you to spread your semester's bill over four or five monthly installments rather than on the semester due date. The enrollment fee is $60 per semester. It allows for convenient pre-scheduled automatic electronic payment withdrawals. There are no additional fees for ACH payments. Credit and debit cards are assessed a 2.85% service fee. The fall plan is five payments from July 1st through November 1st and the spring plan is five payments December 1st through April 1st. Getting early avoids a reduced number of payments and greater payment amounts. If you enroll before June 22nd, your first payment will withdraw automatically on July 1st. If you enroll after June 22nd, your first payment will be due at the time you sign up and the next payment will be on the first of the month after you sign up. For your reference, there are the dates for the spring 2023 payment plan. There are two ways to enroll. You have the student enroll or the proxy enroll. For student enrollment, my UVM portal for student access and you view bill and then enroll in monthly payment plan. Use the proxy portal for proxy access to view bill and enroll in monthly payment plan. Log in and click on student's name to see account information and then navigate to the view account and billing activity and make payments section. You will select the bill date and click on triangles to see the billing activity. And down below at the bottom, you'll click on monthly payment plan to enroll. Remember that the student or proxy may enroll in one plan per semester. And to determine the amount to budget for the semester, use the billing estimator at go.uvm.edu forward slash estimate your bill. Once you pull up the payment plan, it will show you the available payment plans for fall of 2022. Click on sign up for our new payment plan and then you can put in your amount on the budget worksheet. To review or make changes to an existing payment plan, click on the agreement details under active payment plans. You may also scroll down to see the scheduled payment plan installments and click on adjust balance. Payment plan payments show immediately on your account. Future payments show as pending financial aid or pending aid on the student's account. How is the plan reflected on your student account? Your semester payment plan amount will initially show as a pending payment on your account. As actual payments are made to the plan, these will show on your account as a payment and the pending plan will decrease as payments are made. It's important to review any remaining balance due or credit balance shown on the UVM account. Your monthly payment plan may be adjusted. If you need to make an adjustment to your plan, please do so through the billing account. Thank you for joining me today and please call us or email us with any further questions.


Hey mom doing good out here in Bulgaria gonna let one of the one of the newer medics try his very first IV Wish me luck. Happy Mother's Day. I love you Hi, mom. I just want to say I love you very much and thank you for everything you've done for me Thanks for being an awesome mom and a great grandmother I truly hope to be like you one day and Here in Bulgaria and thinking about you and the boys and my family every day. Happy Mother's Day mom Hey Carmen just doing a quick video to say Happy Mother's Day. Thanks for taking care of Barry and Cora You know on the way. It was a little crazy guys. So can't wait to see you guys. We'll be home soon. Love you I'm a mean Felicia las madres te quiero mucho y te extraño estoy haciendo cosas muy grandes para dar me Mom happy Mother's Day. Thanks for everything you do for Alex mags and I and Anna Thanks for being incredible mom to Anna and Reese can't wait to see you guys Hey mom, just want to wish you a happy Mother's Day. I'm out here in the beautiful country of Bulgaria with 214 aviation I'm helping them out Hanging out with the medics doing a lot of good training out here having fun flying around in some helicopters But I will see you in the end of the year in December when I get back home. I love you. Bye Hi mom. Hi Haley. Just wishing you guys a happy Mother's Day all the way here from Besma, Bulgaria I love you guys. I miss you both. Can't wait to see you Hola ma Felicia las madres la quiero mucho Aquí estoy en Bulgaria como le había dicho aquí todos estamos bien todo está bien y si Dios quiera nos vemos en el verano Cuando lo más pronto posible pero pues aquí todos estamos bien la quiero mucho y cuídese pronto nos vemos Hey babe, just want to say that thank you for being a great mother and a wife Just want to say happy Mother's Day. I love you. I'll see you soon Happy Mother's Day mom. I miss you. I love you. I wish I was home And hopefully we get to celebrate again soon and happy Mother's Day to Lydia as well You've been a great mother-in-law, and I hope to get to see you again soon Hey, babe, just in Bulgaria thinking of you, you know how it is I just wanted to wish you a happy Mother's Day, and I know you're excited to be a mom This is it. I hope it hits you in the feels but uh, you're everything to me. I love you I miss you and the Feliz Dia de las Madres Hey mother, it's me your boy just wishing you a happy Mother's Day Even though I'm across the world and I'm in Bulgaria. I'm still thinking about you I'm fortunate to have you as my mother my best friend and Everybody's lucky enough to know you and I just thank you for being everything that you are. I love you And I miss you and I can't wait to see you next Hey Amor just wanted to give you a shout out over here from Bulgaria thinking of you I honestly I couldn't have asked for a better mother for my kids, and we're just also blessed to have you in our lives And I just want you to know that you're the best Feliz Dia de las Madres, Te amo Hey mom Michelle happy Mother's Day sending my love from sunny Bezmer Bulgaria Wishing all the best can't wait to see you Hey mom.  I just want to say happy Mother's Day. I love you guys very much Thank you so much for all that you've done for me and all of my sisters and brothers You guys have been great showing us a lot of love throughout the years. I also want to give a big shout out to Kayla The mother of my kids Natalie and Hayden.  Thank you so much. Happy Mother's Day


I sense it's going to be awfully difficult now for Holder or Janowski to fire themselves into a qualifying spot. I'll tell you what, it's only going to take a very small mistake from Jason Doyle, from Jack Holder to be through. Carrying 30th speed, he's right on his tail. He's going to want to rattle his cage and force him into an error. He's trying awfully hard now. Holder, Holder from looking for a way through on the inside. Has to put the brakes on there with Doyle slamming the door shut. Smarsley's comfortable and left to go for the world champion. He's looking set for another final here this evening. Doyle hanging on, Doyle hanging on because Jack Holder's coming on strong. Holder with one last blast round the outside. We're looking at Smarsley. Oh, Holder's made a comeback and there's a hole there. Doyle hangles through. Another final for Doyle. He's been very consistent in making finals this year, hasn't had the best of fortune in them. And came second, of course, just two weeks ago in Tetoro, where that man won.


Law enforcement personnel from Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia joined Kentucky Office of Highway Safety officials today to share the importance of wearing seat belts. In 2016, 61 percent of those who died in a vehicle collision were not wearing seat belts. We'll be out enforcing seat belt laws heavily starting sometime the next month or so. With Memorial Day weekend coming up, many will be out traveling for vacation or visiting family and friends. The Kentucky Office of Highway Safety is reminding travelers that law enforcement will be out in force during the weekend. Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia are working together to keep those in our region safe. In the city of Williamson, we've noticed through previous campaigns and surveys that we've done we have a high volume of people not wearing their seat belt. We also have minor children that are not buckled up in seat belts or in safety booster seats, so we want to encourage those also because that one crash could cost you your life. The Pikeville Police Department understands the importance of seat belt usage. They say too many go day to day without wearing one. The Public City Police Department alone worked 3,786 traffic collisions from the year 2012 to 2016, and of those 3,786, there was 3,781 seat belt violations issued by police officers with the Bible Police Department, so that equals out almost one seat belt violation for every collision that we've worked. The National Click It or Ticket campaign runs from May 22 to June 4. Reporting in Pikeville, I'm Shelby Steele for EKB News.


Marriage is a beautiful gift from God. So here are three biblical keys to finding a godly spouse. Now, usually I cover topics like the Holy Spirit, prayers, spiritual warfare, and similar topics, but I've received so many requests for me to cover a topic like this that I knew that it would be helpful to cover it. So I'm giving you now three keys to finding a godly spouse. Let's go to Genesis chapter two, verse 18, where the Bible says, then the Lord God said, it is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him. Genesis 2.24, this explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife and the two are united into one. Now, before I give you these three keys, I think it's important to note that we must be rid of this religious mindset that says that it's an ungodly thing to desire a spouse or that it's wrong or selfish to want to be married. No, marriage is a beautiful gift from God and you should have no shame or embarrassment if you're praying for a spouse. So let's be rid of that religious mindset that kind of looks down upon people who are looking for a spouse as if it's some ungodly thing or as if their motives are completely wrong. And let's just get into what the scripture says. Number one, these are three keys to finding a godly spouse. Number one, find your calling before you find your spouse. Amos chapter three, verse three says, can two walk together except they be agreed? I've seen many ministries destroyed before they even began. I've seen many people derailed from their calling before they really even got started. Why? Because they picked the wrong spouse. Now, I'm not trying to scare you, but I do want to prepare you. It's important that you pick the correct spouse because if you pick the wrong person, it will affect your calling. It will affect your future ministry. It will affect your divine destiny. Many times I've seen people destroyed or I've seen their ministry greatly limited because they married someone who wasn't in agreement with what they wanted to do for God. They weren't willing to make sacrifices. They weren't willing to go all in. They weren't willing to support because they weren't in alignment in this area. So this is why it's important that you first find your calling.  It's important that you discover the call of God for your life or at least the general direction that God wants you to go. Because once you've become established in your calling, then you can begin to look for a spouse that's going to compliment that calling instead of contradict it.  And they'll constantly fight you on your calling. They'll constantly complain. They'll constantly contradict what God is telling you to do all because you didn't find the call before you found the spouse. It's important. Number one, find your calling before you find your spouse. Number two, use wisdom and prayer. Now, this may seem like it goes without saying, but I think it's important that we reaffirm this truth. Proverbs chapter three, verses five through six says this. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do. And he will show you which path to take. Sometimes we neglect involving the Holy Spirit because we're so rushed. Sometimes we're in such a hurry that we fail to consult with the Holy Spirit. We fail to ask the advice of the Holy Spirit. And in ignoring the Holy Spirit's input, we rush ahead into danger. This is why it's important that we commit to wisdom and prayer. You see, wisdom can be found in scripture. Now I know that you're not gonna find in chapter and verse who you should marry. It's not like you're gonna be reading the Bible one day and then you're gonna see the scripture that says you should marry so and so. Because that specific answer isn't necessarily in the Bible. I'll tell you what is in the Bible. What is in the Bible are descriptions of godly spouses. What is in the Bible are descriptions of godly character, descriptions of Christ-like nature, descriptions of the fruits of the Holy Spirit. And these descriptions, these truths become the principles and foundations upon which we build relationships and our understanding. And so as we look through the scripture, we gain wisdom. What is God's nature? What is true spirituality? What is spiritual maturity? And as we apply those scriptures to our everyday lives, we begin to see things more clearly. So you may not find the name of the one that you're going to marry in the Bible, but what you will find are guiding principles that give us wisdom for seeking out a spouse. And then apply to that wisdom prayer. Involve the Holy Spirit. Ask Him to direct you. We must be honest about what the Holy Spirit is speaking to us because I think sometimes that we pretend we know what the Holy Spirit is saying or we hope that He's saying something. And in doing so, we actually derail our divine destiny. Sometimes if we want something badly enough, we have the tendency to convince ourselves that God is blessing it when He's actually warning us against it. You see, when you apply wisdom, you begin to ask questions. You begin to wonder certain things about the person that you're pursuing. Things like, do they know how to choose happiness? What do we mean by that? Well, that's a very important one. For example, if you find yourself in a less than ideal situation, how does that person react? How do they react to tragedy? How do they react to inconvenience? How do they react when things don't go their way? Do they become dramatic? Do they cause chaos? Do they attack you? Or do they adjust? Do they know how to choose happiness? Do they know how to bring out the better side of you?  Do they cause chaos and emotional turmoil?   And wisdom would say, don't connect with a person like that. Don't marry a person like that. And we must lend our ears to wisdom. We must hear what the Holy Spirit is speaking. So I'll tell you how I met my Jessica. I was praying for God to send me a wife, someone to marry. And this was a season of my life. Trust me, I was praying, I was fasting, I was pursuing the will of God on this matter.  I knew that God had given me something special. And I didn't want to do anything to displease the Lord. I wanted to make sure that whoever I married would compliment the calling. So I began to pray. I began to look through the scripture for someone who matched the qualities as described in the Bible. And in Jessica, I found what the scripture described as a good wife. In Jessica, I found what the scripture describes as a godly person, someone who loves Jesus. So I'll tell you how it happened. One day I was invited to attend a birthday dinner for a friend of mine. And I went to pick up a friend who I was gonna take to that birthday dinner. His name was Georgie. And Georgie gets in my car and I'll never forget this. Soon as he gets in my passenger seat, I said this. I said, Georgie, today I'm going to meet the one I'm going to marry. And then I'll say, on January 1st, 2012, I met the one who would become my wife. And he looked at me and I said, I don't know why I'm saying that. It could be the Lord, but that's what I believe. And so we drive over to the birthday dinner. And I'm talking with my friends. I knew everyone at the table. And sure enough, in walks Jessica. And I took notice of her right away because I overheard a conversation that she was having. She was talking about the scripture. And the way she talked about the scripture was with such passion, such love, such zeal that I was attracted to that. So I'm listening to her talk. I see her. I see that she's a beautiful woman. I said, I gotta get to know this girl. So I text my friend who is sitting next to her.  So we switch seats.  I really did sense that. There was like this burst of euphoria within my soul. And I knew that I knew that I knew this is my wife. Now, how did that come about? That didn't come about necessarily just in that moment. Rather, I was able to discern that because I had committed myself to prayer. I committed myself to the wisdom of the word. I committed myself to obedience to God. And because I had the foundational principles in place, I didn't miss the moment when Jessica came along. So apply wisdom and prayer. Number three, make sure they're spiritually aligned. Second Corinthians 614 says, Being not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? Now, I'm gonna talk about two ways of being unequally yoked. The first is being unequally yoked with an unbeliever. The second is being unequally yoked with a believer who does not believe as we do. Now, when the scripture describes being unequally yoked, quite simply, it's talking about mindset, a frame of reference, a way of seeing and believing and thinking. And so to be equally yoked with someone is to be with someone who thinks the same, who has the same spiritual standards, who loves the Lord like you love the Lord. And so it's very obvious from scripture that believers should not marry unbelievers. Now, I know that there are different circumstances. Sometimes you're married and then you get saved and your spouse doesn't, and so now that's a different circumstance. That's a different message for a different time. But I'm talking to the one who is pursuing a relationship, pursuing marriage with an unbeliever. The Bible clearly teaches that that's not something you ought to do. You may say, well, you know, I heard the testimony of someone who pursued an individual who wasn't saved and that person ended up getting saved. Don't mistake God's mercy for God's permission. The word of God, not someone else's story should be our standard. And the Bible makes it clear that we are not to pursue relationships in this way with an unbeliever. So, biblically speaking, should you be in a relationship with someone who isn't saved, a romantic relationship or someone as a potential spouse? Absolutely not. You guys, I didn't say what the Bible did. That's what the Bible teaches. So, having clearly stated that, let's address the second point here, which is, should you marry a believer who differs from you on certain biblical doctrines? Well, that depends how primary those doctrines are. You see, if there are some differences in opinion, like, for example, like, was there a pre-adamic race? Okay, that obviously is not a central issue. That's just different biblical philosophy different biblical doctrine on something that doesn't really necessarily change the way you live. But, if you believe in the power of the Holy Spirit, if you believe the gifts are still for today, if you believe in speaking in tongues, then so should your potential spouse. These things are deep. These things are primary. These things are fundamental. And if you differ on these issues, it will cause problems later on down the line. What happens when you have kids? And one of you believes that they should be speaking in tongues or at least be learning about the gift of speaking in tongues and the other one thinks that's unbiblical. What will you teach your children when it comes to the spiritual gifts? What will you teach your children concerning the Holy Spirit? So it's important, not necessarily that you agree on every little doctrine, but to be at least equally yoked so that you're of the same mindset, of the same spirit in God's world, in God's church. In ministry, there is one big river. And in that river, there are many streams. Marry someone in your stream. Marry someone who is equally yoked with you lest you run into some major problems later on down the line. Let's recap. Number one, find your calling before you find your spouse. Number two, use wisdom and prayer. And number three, make sure they're spiritually aligned. Father, I pray that you would give us wisdom and understanding. Help us, Lord, to be attentive to the voice of the Holy Spirit. We thank you that everything happens in your perfect timing, but Lord, help us to recognize opportunities when you bring them our way. And Lord, I pray that we would apply your word and that we would apply wisdom. We thank you for the beautiful gift of marriage. And I pray, Father, that you would help that one believing now to find a godly spouse in the mighty name of Jesus, we pray. I want you to say it because you believe it, say amen. 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Okay, we'll welcome to this evening's webinar featuring activities from the NASA night sky networks shadows and silhouettes outreach toolkit nsn outreach tool kits come in boxes that usually look like this and this is the The one and so if you've got this little logo on it, then you know that you've got the right one and these are filled with A puffer of ziploc bags and a variety of materials with the that you need to do The activities your astronomy group may make regular use of them or they're unused on a shelf somewhere And it is even possible your group may have an entire set of these tool kits that no one knows about We've found out that there are some clubs that have every single one of them And a former member kept them in his basement or her basement And the newer board members don't know that they exist and so it's and if you're not sure Whether or not your club has these you can always give uh sent an email to To dav prusper and he can let you know whether or not your club has one of these So our goal is to help you make use of what you already have Or what you might have in the future as you log events and add to your collection of tool kits Research has shown that educators and all of you are educators when you engage your membership And the public in your various events will make better use of resources when they receive some professional development in their use This webinar is featuring activities from the shadows and silhouettes toolkit You can also find them on the night sky network website, which I think dav will put that link in the chat window here shortly So over the next half hour or so we will show you a few of the activities in the toolkit This is not meant to be exhaustive This is going to be just basically a survey of what's in the toolkit And as well as give you a chance to share how you have used the toolkit And and or how you engage your members of the public and learning more about Eclipses or other shadow and silhouette type events transit certainly fit into that So here's vivian to get us started Hi everybody so good to see your faces. I love this format so I can actually See some of you while I'm talking to you. Nice to see familiar faces Um, I just wanted to start with some really easy things that you can use from this toolkit These are some of my favorites that I pull out all the time. There's the sky watchers guide to the moon It's got a picture of the full moon and you can see some it points out some of the features of it It's also got a close-up of the pernicus up here um the impact craters and it's got a Reverse view that you can use if you're showing the moon through a telescope. So it's a really easy one to pick out You could just make copies. I like to put our clubs information on the back upcoming events and things like that These are all available. Each of these are available on the website And you can search just search moon and you would find most of these When you wouldn't find around the moon because it's not about the moon Is actually called a trip around the triangle and this is also a handout that you can just print double-sided You fold it in half and it's got a picture of the summer triangle not useful right this minute, but very soon It will be summer again and not raining and snowing And this gives you a picture of the summer triangle. This toolkit was actually Sponsored by the Kepler mission and it talks because the Kepler mission used transits in order to Find uh planets around distant stars We put this toolkit out in 2006 and there was an update to it in 2015 So oh if you are seeing a small small picture, you can click on my picture there and say pin video and that will You'll be able to see better in a larger view what i'm showing. I don't know if that helps Daniel was just mentioning that the picture was so small No, or you can hit the speaker view if you're looking at the gallery view you can switch to speaker view And it will isolate the one person who's speaking Right. Thank you. Good point. Um, uh, so I hope that helps um the The Kepler mission um And the seddie institute the search for extraterrestrial extraterrestrial intelligence Put this out with us um sponsored us to put this out for the night sky network And the trip around the triangle is used because kepler on the inside It shows the search area for kepler here between vega and denib And um, and it shows some of the things you can see in the summer triangle So and it lists them kind of by types of objects So it gives a little bit of context to what you're looking at in the summer We encourage you to also have somebody pointing out the constellations because that's Something that your visitors will be able to see wherever they are in addition to You can make check marks or try and see as many of these things in an evening as you can It's a nice summer um worksheet that you can do We often hand out a sticker or something at the end if someone gets one from each category If we have a big group of people at the telescopes, we try and encourage them to look at a Something that's on the website Yeah, all of these resources are on the night sky network website. This one's called trip around the triangle You can find lots of handouts and Um and sky charts and many things that you can just print out and use on the night sky network website Then before I go on and pass this on I want to show you one of my other great favorites And this one was a marnie baronson She she designed this toolkit a long time ago. Many of you know her if you've been around the night sky network for a while Um, and this one has to do with the how the how night rises Night doesn't fall it rises and it talks about if you have this is the earth here and of course the day side and the night side You can see pretty well After sunset if you look Um instead of looking at the west at the sunset if you look towards the east you can watch night rise And it's really beautiful. It's called the belt of venus Um, and there's been lots of discussions in our group about why it's called that. Um, it's pretty interesting But what happens is as the earth is turning and I've got the sun shining on the earth here Imagine my fingers are the atmosphere now the atmosphere is not nearly as thick as my fingers But imagine them here. So as you're turning the I think let's see if you can see it here You can watch as the shadow creeps up my fingers creeps up the atmosphere and eventually you'll become Night and you can watch as this is kind of a it doesn't go the other way obviously But if you're coming around and the night will creep up on The atmosphere so you'll see a band of a Blue gray kind of appear and there are great pictures of it in the write-up each of these Uh, right each of these activities has a full write-up. We're just giving kind of the cliff notes version here So there's lots more detail to it. You can find out a lot more So those are a few of my favorites and really easy ones just to pick up and talk about I think I'm passing it on to you Brian for some That involve a little bit more mood lighting Yes, it's definitely some mood lighting here and uh, I've got the one camera obscured and so I'm going to switch cameras here And so now I'm I have this nice work surface here I had to make some adjustments to the lights because a couple of things that Are interesting and it's going to be kind of a challenge to do in here because one of the ideas is going along with this idea of shadows and objects casting their own shadows is Why is it that the moon has phases? So what causes the moon phases? Well, there's lots of misconceptions that people have about the moon phases and they don't quite get the notion that Oh, it's the moon Shading shadowing itself And so one of the great things that you can do is that if you have some of these polystyrene balls some of the smooth foam balls and then Impale them on a pencil or a skewer or something like that And it's really cool that you can take this out And if the moon is up and vivian's got a really great picture to show us here So let's see if vivian can bring this picture up I hope you see it now. Do you guys see the picture? And I cannot because I've got That screen covered up right now Okay, we've got a thumbs up Okay, so fantastic And so what this is is you take this outside and if you have some sun that's still up And this works really great when the moon is up during the daytime Is you hold this up until the shadow on the white ball Matches the shadow or matches the phase that the moon is in and so now you kind of you have the configuration Of what the moon the actual moon is in around the earth is the same as the model moon The white moon ball is around your head And so then you could move it around your head with a very strong light source The sun is a fantastic light source for this And so you can move it around and see how the phases change It's really difficult to model that here in the studio We played around with it for quite some time and couldn't quite overcome the The geometry of how to do this Because it really does require you to be able to move in three dimensions and really We only have a couple of dimensions that we could move in here. So vivian go ahead and If you go ahead and stop sharing We're seeing you now. You're seeing me now And so one of the things is that we can imagine that we have the earth and if you Take in if you imagine that your head is in the position of the earth And so I've got a light source off here to my right And then you take the moon and you take the moon and you orbit it around the earth You're not going to be able to see the phases change On this but if you're on the earth in the middle there, you would be able to see The shadows change on the white ball Just the same way that they change on the actual moon in In orbit around the earth That also answers a common question of does the moon rotate We get that quite often from school children. They're tricked into that one often So they can decide for themselves Yeah, so many different things and so there there's some other things you can do So one of our favorite things to do too Is and this is something that didn't quite appear in there But one of the things that we like to do with groups is we give them a set of three balls And so here I have three balls Ball here a little bit smaller ball and a much smaller ball here And so I've got three balls here and so we can challenge visitors to an event and say Two of these balls are in the correct size ratios to represent the earth and the moon And so we can challenge them to select the two that they think represent the earth and the moon So you might get you know, there's a variety of combinations here that they could come up with and it's kind of interesting to find out Well, why is it that you chose that particular pair? You know, what is it that you knew? That you're drawing on to cause you to choose those two And so you get a chance to work with that and then if you actually give them some actual numbers Especially if you're working in a classroom setting Then you can have the people actually check to see which two Actually represent the earth and the moon It turns out that it's these two the middle sized one and the smallest one because we've got the Earth model here is about four times the diameter of the moon model here And so you could line up four of these little ones four of the little ones You know line across the earth And so then you could ask people how far apart do you think that they are? Now invariably we've discovered that if we set these down and ask people to You know, this is the size they're too Scale size wise and ask them to put them how far apart they think they should be and we've put them down like this Invariably, what do you think that people do? So what do you think people do and so you could uh You know, I mean, I can't see this but maybe Vivian could so um, you know drop something in the chat window or call something out Unmute yourself real quick. What do you think people typically do when you say put these two objects to how far apart you think that they would be Relative to one another they leave them there and say that's as far apart as they are Yep, Ken Yeah, Dave said they're too close Yeah, everybody thinks the moon it looks so darn close And so, you know, that's the very typical things that they leave it Well, you put them down there you must have put them down in the right spot And so maybe they'll take it and they'll take the moon and then well, let's see that's not quite It's a little bit too close. So I'm gonna move it to right there And they move it just a you know a little teeny tiny amount And so what this does is that you get you kind of find out what your visitors are thinking about And then you can bring out an actual model And so in the shadows and silhouettes toolkit and a lot of you also got these for the eclipse last year You can bring this out and here's our yardstick yardstick eclipse model And so when you set this up, they are set on here 30 inches apart We have a one inch diameter moon or earth down here And the moon is 30 earth diameters away and so you could set that this is conveniently In inches and so one inch and then 30 inches away is our quarter inch moon And so now we have this scale model where they are to scale size and to scale Distance and so people invariably are rather surprised. It's kind of wow. I had no idea. It was that far away Then you can challenge them to see if they can make an eclipse And so there's two kinds of eclipses, of course solar eclipses and lunar eclipses And so you're going to get them to be able to be the ones who make these and so here I've got this set up here I've got a white board back here to help us to align the shadows You discover that if you don't have a means to help align shadows It becomes very very challenging to get the shadows actually lined up And so I use that to line up and it's going to be real challenged about to see this Let's see if I can bring this a little bit closer. And so Let's if we line this up and so there you might be able to see that we have the shadow from the small bead On the earth down there. You might be able to see that we have put it into a shadow And so here we've made a solar eclipse and then most people will hopefully know that the reverse is a lunar eclipse And so on sunday we will have this where the moon is going into earth's shadow Another really great thing that you can do with this Besides modeling eclipses is that a lot of questions that people have you know, how many people come in and say oh gee What's a supermoon? What's a micro moon? And so what does that really mean? And so what the you can you can do is you can use this to be able to help demonstrate that it turns out that a supermoon is where the moon is Our model moon is about two inches closer about two earths diameter Closer it could be up to two earths diameter closer So two inches closer or during a micro moon. It might be two inches further away And so you think well gee that's not very much and you know, it's less than 10 in either direction So that's kind there's another opportunity to use this model to help your visitors understand both micro moons and super moons So now over to you, dave all righty, so Got our little fake sun here for our snake light um I'm going to be using this for a couple of activities uh demonstrating the transit activity and for the venus phases now first The venus or mercury phases It's called why does venus look like the moon? This is a short demonstration so you can grab one of the little stick models with the Little moon in there and once I'm just gonna Checking something on here Let me There we go. I'm just making sure I don't ramble. I have a timer so um Anyway, so what I recommend is holding a little stick like this and I'm going to turn off the lights So now we just have our beautiful fake sun and our beautiful model venus So you can see it's just as you orbit it around the sun you can already see how the phases are changing here and You can actually if you want to get really detailed with this you can find some demos online That uh also incorporate you can find basically a map of the solar system at its current state So if you're observing venus you can set this up next to your venus observations And then make all the geometry match so that you can make it look Exactly like venus looks now Which right now it's like it's pretty thin large crescent, which is pretty large and getting smaller as it's orbiting So this also works for mercury if you want to make it redo the outer planets You just put this on the other side of you you'll need a much more powerful light source for that though So but then you can demonstrate why the outer planets don't really have phases and why that is but In the process of demonstrating this you'll notice that you're also basically accidentally doing a transit itself so um With this You can Use this basically the same setup, but you'll might want to grab um A couple of sizes See what works best for you with this and your guests So we have a lot of little different models so you can stick on the things to use for this And for the transit authority activity It does two things it demonstrates the transits of venus and mercury on our sun And there is a transit of mercury this november. I believe on the 11th in the morning for folks in the u.s um So at sunrise This also works to demonstrate a How the detectors on kepler and now tests are measuring the brightness of stars to detect the planets Not viewing the planets themselves, and we'll show that in one second, but first Um, yeah pick your pick your little model. I'm going to pick the smallest Little ball here to demonstrate a mercury And you can just see yep as it goes across the surface. You see the transit there and You can also um with a group of people you can ask this group if they all see the transit and a lot of times Not everyone will and that's great because that shows how precise the angle has to be for us here on earth to Witness a venus or mercury transit, and they're pretty rare Um, they're not annual. It's every few years to every hundred years or so Um 112 years. I think something like that for the next one for venus Um, you folks will know that better than me um Now if you want to demonstrate Like how hard it is to see further away You can just walk back 20 feet And then like do the little ball there now have a hard time picking it up And that's a good intro if you want to demonstrate How um exoplanets are detected and that's my last little bit here. You basically just take a little white card And set it up near the ball And by taking another up like object and paying attention to the Card you notice that the overall brightness of the card decreases as the transit happens You can use different sizes of planets for different amounts of brightness decreasing And that's basically it and that's all I got for that one. And yeah, just Look out for that mercury transit. I hope you all have good weather for that in november cross fingers there And that's it Yeah, it's interesting because we didn't use unfortunately the stars are so far away. We can't see The the transit itself like we can see from mercury venus, but we can See how the light dims a little bit and that's the difference there Yeah, that's the big thing for um like when uh for a little kepler and test outreach is emphasizing that even though they're space telescopes They're not looking at the exoplanets. They're looking at like the evidence of them, but not directly Right, right. Yeah, okay Uh, I think I'm next and I was just gonna show Um, we have we get a question a lot about when's the best time to view the moon isn't The full moon a great time to view the moon and as we all know, you know, blow your eyeballs out If you look at it through a telescope, we're even binoculars. So, um, uh, one of the best times to view the moon is not during full moon and um As you see if you shine a light Um, like this being the sun on a ball Even this is a little bit of a wild because it's uh overexposing on this video But you'll see that you don't see too much detail right here. I've got a model of the moon You can make these in flower. You can uh do all have a really good time. The write-up's got a lot of ideas there Oh Uh, can you guys hear me? Okay? This rain is really loud I mean if you could it could be that you've got You know the model in front of your microphone Or if you could bump up the gain on your microphone, that would be great. Yep. Okay. I'll talk a little bit louder to start with I hope that's a little better um, well, you can see um when you hold the Flashlight at the side you see so much more detail on the moon when it's in a phase as opposed to a full moon uh when it's in a Smaller phase than the full moon, I guess And this is just showing why it's uh best to look at the moon when it's not a full moon Which is counterintuitive to a lot of people There are a lot of different ways of doing this and in our new moon toolkit Well, we hope to include some of the 3d models that That nasa has put out if you look at the spotting craters activity that um Dave just put up You'll see there's a link to you can make a 3d model of the lunar surface if you've got access to that often libraries Will have access to 3d printers and you can make a lunar surface that you can use it's not quite as messy as the flower and um, cocoa model that we all that's also really fun. Um, but not always An easy way to do that Okay, so that was the last of my Bit in the dark. Um, it's also you see a lot more wrinkles when Are at a phase it turns out much better for a full moon The full moon helps reveal the magic of instagram filters and um tv lighting Okay, oh, that's me next. All right, so I have a couple more and these are gonna be super brief because they're all pretty informal Um, this next one is called where the sunlight stars the sunlight stars and it's a power point presentation You can download it From the night's gonna go put the link up. Um after i'm done I'll just put it up right now And it's you can download it right here And what it basically does is you don't need to use the power point basically There's it's just an activity to discuss with folks um How rare are uh our type the sun the type of star our sun is actually is It's not the most common star in the universe And it's not the rarest But uh, it is pretty special and as far as we know, it's the most conducive to life There's of course debates about that and you know The life might exist anywhere. We don't know But the big thing is uh the stars that you're seeing in the night sky They're almost all giant stars. Um, which are about one percent of the Uh star types out that are visible for us Yep, there's only two other sunlight stars that we can see naked eye in the sky Um from where we are and it's aida cassiopeia and um Tau sedi Uh, if you're in the southern hemisphere, you can see the alfacentari stars as well not proxmo, which is actually the closest one So That's kind of that. I just put the download link for that power point there Um The other big one. So the next one is what is a habitable zone? This is a great one for scouts. If you're doing like a camp activity You can actually kind of incorporate the uh campfire into discussing the habitable zone But you know, if you don't have a campfire or you're restricted from fires Of course, we can you can simulate it with cellophane or some other fire for once For our sun a little candle for a dwarf star We can kind of walk through it's like they call the habitable zone the goldilocks zone Um because it's where liquid water is it's the temperature is not too hot. It's not too cold It's just right for liquid water to exist on a planet similar to earth in this particular area around the star So if someone is standing very close to the um fire You know or your fake fire, it's going to be kind of like mercury baron dry way too hot for any kind of water If it's too far out Can they kind of be like mars or any of the outer planets way too cold any y'all water there is ice You can mix it up by having people put on jackets and stuff to simulate atmospheres So that kind of changes things a little bit about habitability too and how we do it Um, and yeah, you can use a regular candle or a little like this that we include in the kit Or a fancy little led candle from the dollar store Um to kind of simulate what a dwarf star and it's very tiny habitable zone would be Um compared to our suns You can always like make a giant giant star Ask how big that habitable zone will be that's basically it It's a fun little interactive demo and it's pretty loose and um great for audience participation and uh That's it I'll put the notes in the the link in there too. Great. Thank you So that's kind of a survey about a lot of the activities that are in the toolkit And so what we'd like to do Is we'd like to hear from all of you and that's the beauty of using this format rather than the format that we use For the science webinars is that we can hear from you So we'd like to find out about how you go about using these activities How you go about engaging people Around these sorts of phenomena that we're looking at any kind of misconceptions that a lot of the people Might have that come to your events And so let's uh kind of see if we can hear from some of you Hello, so I just put that I just Michael I looked it up to see Yeah Yeah, it's kind of funny. It's like with alphas and tarry like it's a binary But the star is a g type and so is uh It's a g3 according to wikipedia for capela. So thank you Thanks don I'll speak up. I've got a terrible cold Oh, Michael, let me start it over. Let's see if I can cut Yeah, one comment about um one thing we had talked about Someone mentioned about the flower and I agree that the uh the 3d models are far better than the flower one of the things with A lot of people having gluten allergies sometimes that's uh, It's frowned on we're having flower at some things because you never know I've done the um phases with uh all different groups schools and girl scout troops and stuff problem I always have is Uh, I could really only Work with about six Students at a time You know, I tried once in a whole classroom So that doesn't work because it's difficult for uh the students to see it So usually the students are sitting like in tables of six or so And that works out so much better. So I just move my lamp over to the small table and then work with that small group Yeah, it is a challenge working with large groups, especially so many classes these days tend to be so large We like to if you can clear out the tables or find a large open space And put the lamp in the middle and kind of make a a big circle An extended circle around the lamp And that way you can look across and everyone can see each other Everyone can see you and so that's something that we've done with large groups You know, it doesn't necessarily have to be a class But maybe it could be even in an informal setting if you have a large group outside say at some outdoor event So that's that's one way that that we've been able to overcome that but certainly working in small groups is Is always good because then they can explore some of their own ideas Yeah, that's a good idea. Also when we've done our public meetings up on mount diablo Uh Just uh towards sunset Doing that activity works really good because the sun is somewhat dim And you then you could do a bigger group. Oh, yeah What ken said it was having trouble with uh With the large group. I've done it in the library With a whole bunch of families and I used a pole lamp It illuminated the light in all directions and everybody had a stick with a sphere on it and everybody would Do the phases around their head By standing in a circle around the light and that seemed to work with a large group Great. That's a good idea Also to share what I've done with that kit with that toolkit um There's a question. Why don't you have a faith uh an eclipse every time there's a new moon and a full moon And there's a really cool Thing that you construct in the toolkit that shows the way they the moon's orbit is angled and it's got You use a light around a table and you watch the shadow and you have this little moon going around a bigger sphere And we made a whole bunch of extra ones of those we we bought hemispheres and and we velcroed them together and we and we used cds and We made a whole we made 24 of them and I've done it with a large a large group of young astronomers where they sit around Separate tables with with lamps little lights around in the middle of each table and and it worked we were able to demonstrate that Only only one person would see the an eclipse around the table When the when the moon went into that little node spot Yes, that's what we did Except the uh the earth models which are the larger white sphere were on sticks And they they were able to turn the moon around, you know Revolve the moon around the earth and it worked it worked very well I had my biggest problem was to buy extra lights. I wound up buying these little Uh, I don't know these little holiday things. I don't remember what I used but uh That would stand on the table It worked very well That's fantastic Michael was talking about in the chat about the 3d models that nasa has they have an amazing repository of models Um print all sorts of things if you get Um a 3d printer or have access to one It's been really fun to have models of each of these things and talk about Where the Hubble Space Telescope is for example, or Something that you're seeing on the moon too Great, uh don Uh, great. Yeah, if you would like some more toolkits send us an email and let us know We're happy to get you any that you need that you don't have yet As long as you're actively logging events. We're thrilled to send more. So there are lots of them We have we've made about a dozen. This is one of This is our second toolkit Talk But uh, there I think there are nine that are available currently So there's a list on the website They are listed on the website. Yes So back to the 3d models and and we're going to have something Some instructions in the new toolkit that we're working on on on the moon Um, and we're probably at some point once we get the uh instructions that are easy to follow Both the lunar trek and so there's two sites on nasa lunar trek and mars trek And they're really really a high resolution with all the different data sets from all the different missions And they have a function in there where you can actually generate your own files To that you can convert into uh, and then use with a 3d printer to print out Any feature that you want? off the moon or off of mars and so at some point Um, we're going to ask, uh, our good friend brian day Who is one of the developers of them to get us some good directions that are easy to follow And we'll be posting those at some point Yeah, thanks for posting those two links dave You can actually if you just get on to i've done on lunar trek I haven't done the mars trek yet, but you can actually just make a um Some sort of rectangle and say give me the file to print this and it will give it to you in one of two forms So it's really easy Um to make happen I don't even do 3d printing and I could do it Sometimes finding the command is a little uh Challenging for people and so having a screenshot of saying click on this sometimes is uh necessary But we will get that at some point And michael, I completely agree about getting the visitors to actually handle all of the materials that is So engaging and so much more so than showing the demo actually asking them to figure it out on their own Way more interesting and they've remember it way better because they have discovered something on their own I agree Especially like doing things like do you want to be the moon? Do you want to be venus or a planet or whatever? It's kind of funded I'm that little bit That's something i've done with the uh, uh, the yardstick activity is uh, I actually went out and bought Additional kit so of the yardstick activity. So I have a total of nine um A lot of people might know that the girl scouts now have their Science explorer activities that they're working on and one of them is to work on identify And do the earth moon scale so I would set out all the yardsticks And I actually got the full-size yardsticks because those are a little bit easier for the kids to handle and On the other little thing that I did was I glued the uh balls on top of the uh toothpicks. So Um, they don't get lost that way. Um, because a lot of people will find that those balls are easy to get lost And uh, you set them out on a table and you talk them through that activity And have the kids actually work in groups of two or however many kids you have so they can work together and And uh working through the exercise of getting the right scale And then they can do the eclipse activities and things like that Then the other thing that we do is I have a basketball and a tennis ball So then you know, you have somebody be the earth and somebody be the moon and the kids can try to figure out How far away Is the basketball from the tennis balls so that we have that scale so now they have a pretty good idea about How far it is and they they can get pretty close and then we can measure it with a measuring tape about Actually how far that is which is like 23 Point one feet. I think something like that. So so that's what we do for for that activity The other thing I wanted to just mention is I I use the moon handout a lot I find that is one of the best uh moon handouts that we have Um to print out and have available for people They like to take things home and that gives them something in their hands as they're going around most of our outreach Star parties have some component of the moon up in the sky so they can uh have that handout With them when they're uh going to the different telescopes look in at the moon So that's what that's what we're doing here Is there anything missing from that handout that you would like we're going to do some updates for the 50th anniversary And that was one of the things we were thinking about if you guys have other things that you'd love to see on there If you can think of them now, let us know or if you think of them later, send an email. That would be great I love what david's doing with uh the art sticky clips as we do some similar things in our uh teacher professional Element that we do one of the things that we do as far as getting into the scale is we'll give each group Each pair of teachers a different baggie with a set of three balls kind of like what i showed here But they're not the identical three balls so that you kind of get away from having somebody be able to Oh gee, I don't know which one I should choose and then they look over. Well, what did they choose? Oh They've got a completely different set of balls than I do and so I can't uh kind of you know figure out what I'm so they actually have to rely on themselves to be able to come up with some sort of You know Their own model rather than getting someone else's model and so that's something that that we've done As far as the scaling activities and so david it's I I love what you're doing with the girl scout groups being able to have those Ratios allows you to do it at any size you want Well, and this is what it what it does too is that If you've done anything about the angular size of the moon and you realize and and that it's about You know if the real moon is up and you hold your pinky out It turns out it's about half a pinky and so if you've made your scale model correctly And so you put the earth here where your eye is and you got the moon out there Stick your finger out here and the moon is about half a pinky And so it's an interesting check that you can make it doesn't matter What size the balls are or what the distance are as long as the ratios And the scaling is correct every single time you have that if you're using the tennis ball and the basketball Then if you're where the basketball is the tennis ball will be about that big If you're using the one inch and the quarter inch bead the bead will be about that big So it's just that one is a whole lot closer Can you all hear me? Yep. Okay. I was just saying that In all the outreach that I was doing the I'm never hitting real problems with the balls and anything along those lines But my problem was mainly with the with the light source most of the light sources that that I had or I had access to even LED flashlights had a tendency to have really soft edges and really be Kind of a broad beam So it was really hard to kind of show the the really sharp edges You know, especially whenever you're talking about like a solar eclipse and things along those lines and so I just sort of I sort of Solved it. I had a friend of mine kind of build a flashlight with some high powered LEDs and I actually made like a filter slide to go in front of it and I could then Punch the whole sizes that I wanted in various millimeter sizes and I could make the aperture the size that I wanted And I could then adjust it accordingly for whatever type of particular Demonstration I was doing and that seemed to work really well. I just thought I'd pass that along I don't know where you could buy something like that Like I said, I had a friend of mine's electronics guy that built it for me But the aperture right the apertures in front of the light source definitely helped a whole lot Yeah And as Vivian notes, our favorite light source is the sun You know, the sun is far enough away and it's strong enough and and it's small enough It's it doesn't have that breadth and so you're always end up with nice sharp shadows as long as you don't have clouds Yeah, I was I was mainly talking about when you know a lot of times I'll give talks in the evening And you just don't have that source So one thing that if you if you know anyone that has an old overhead projector Get one of those those things actually work fairly well They they're they become rare commodities these days But sometimes you can find them used and get them for not very much Or maybe they're giving them away too. You never know A computer a computer projector works too, especially if it's far away okay Yeah, I was going to say that as well that the regular You know 3200 lumens projector that light is bright enough that you can do a pretty good A shadow for that Activity the other thing that I have is I bought like the most powerful lumen flashlight I think like a thousand lumen flashlight I got from a hardware store and That works pretty good But you have to you know have somebody play with you to get those shadows to work just right You know, this would be the sort of thing if if any of you have constructed any of these devices We would love to be able to Have you share some images or maybe something vivian? I don't know whether we have a means for people to share some of these ideas But I would love to be able to you know see some pictures and Be able to have people share some of these great ideas that they have Yeah, Dave has written up some really cool articles on hex that people have done to the night sky network toolkits and there are some really great ones places where you can put Oh, hey look somebody's sharing their screen Great Brandon look at that Cool Oh, yeah, it's got the full solar system kit and everything Wonderful Um, yeah, there were some great banner holders that people had constructed Yeah, please send them along and we'll um, we'll write that up And we always like to be able to uh, you know Give kudos out to the groups and Love to put your pictures of what you're doing in the newsletters You know, it gets boring when you just see pictures of us We want to see pictures of what you guys are doing I'll put the pictures up if you send them in to the night sky info And I'll often try to find them in the logs too There's always so many good pictures in the logs and we're working in a way And then future update to the website for folks to more easily Share pictures and logs if they want their records of their events, but that's Kind of far in the future at the moment, but for now Yes, like stuff that you've done with toolkits toolkit hacks like to call them I would like to write them up in articles and post them in the newsletter Share them on instagram and social media and stuff Yeah Please send us your your hacks They send us your your toolkits in use we love them And if there's a good picture we might even use it as one of the toolkit images on the resource page too We like to keep them updated and fresh and to show people actually You know what they're using them in in the real world too, which is always fun Rather than a couple of hands holding a ball or something which Works All right, do we have anything from anyone else? Yeah, I don't know. We're I just got Our internet here at the office apparently has become unstable. Maybe the storm or something. So Um, it happens when it rains a lot in in our area in san francisco. We get sometimes some some flaky connectivity Sometimes we get flooded not today yet though I think jarlon's got one of her Creations with her. Yeah, I was wanting to mention today. I just used this I made this little light box if you can see that it has a tiny little like a light and I used the yardstick Eclipse thing and and I used a dry erase board to cast a shadow upon Or any whiteboard I suppose would work but What I really liked about it. It gave a really nice Umbra and penumbra So you can actually see that and I can describe that to them too and it kind of looks like a Kind of like a real scenario. So I really enjoyed that and this light seemed to give me that effect Well, you get both penumbra and number. Wow, that's great That's hard to do. Yeah, it looked really nice. It was very defined and you can really describe it to them Because when you tell them about it, they just don't understand or grasp what you're saying But I was actually able to show it to them and so they really understood it And I even got some wow The next time you do that if you could get a photo of that, I'd love to see a photo of that in action Oh, yeah, sure I will do that. Thank you And Zahn's asking what kind of bulb you're using Well, let's see Let me check it out here. I made this little box and it's really kind of handy. It's got a little light switch on it It's on this side And I want to put a dimmer switch in it because it looks it works really well if you put a red light in it If you're doing something outside and you got a a nice big moon and you kind of use the red light to Kind of illuminate things if you want to but it's just a It's just a little bitty like a flood light, but it's a smaller one And it's uh, it looks like it's a 40 water 45 48 watts 45 watts So it's it's not a very big one, but it works great Is it an led? Is it an led or uh, no, it's just it's an incandescent. Okay So it gets really hot.  Okay. It gets warm It's an ancient laptop I wish you guys all clear skies and not too much snow or cold Michael was just saying it's wind chills predicted to be negative 10 on sunday Wow That is some fierce determination you have if you're getting out to view it then maybe you can view it from your window And warm. I hope you guys have clear clear skies That's remarkable. We're really spoiled here Temperature wise anyway temperature wise not fog wise Yeah, yeah One thing my students ask a lot of questions about is how come the lunar eclipse is red And we've had them try different things, but we've taken fish tanks And not no fish just an empty fish tank with water in it And shine a white light through it and you can do it with incandescent or probably led I haven't tried it with an led, but I think it would work And then you add a couple drops of milk to it And you will start to see the more milk you add it gets redder and redder So they get the idea that there have to be particles that are What are they doing slowing down the light and that's your longer wavelengths All right, we got time for another uh person to share I'll share one other thing. Uh, I haven't done the activity itself yet the transits But I'm going to be doing that at one of our next activities But uh, I was had a darn heck of a time trying to get a hole through the ping pong ball to get the snake light through So what I ended up doing I've I worked a I got a pen light with a you know It has a bright light at the end and I found some uh clear replaceable Like poster material whatever that stuff is called and uh, you put that on top of the light The light can shine right through and then you put the ping pong ball right on top of that And that lights up the the whole ping pong ball. So, uh, I was able to uh do that activity Without having to drill into a ping pong ball and and do all that sort of thing. So That's just one other thing I that I have set up to do Yeah, that's a good one Well, we're a couple minutes here uh up to the hour and so Dave and Vivian any closing comments from either of you Just thanks to everybody. It's really nice to see your faces and hear your voices Good luck with the weather on sunday Yes Stay toasty Well, that's all for tonight You'll be able to find this webinar along with many others on the night sky network website in the outreach resources section Each webinars page also features additional resources and activities