Okay, so welcome. I want to welcome our finance director Sean Mangano today. He is on a 24-hour budget bender answering all your questions. So before we launch into the questions and remind everybody that this is being recorded we'll be answering questions on our Reddit channel and via Twitter or basically any way that you can get us your question we're going to get it to Sean for him to answer. So before we get into that I just want to offer a chance for your town manager Paul Balkaman to give you any updates you might have. Yeah, so thanks Brianna. The couple things I want to mention one is that we had terrific opening of Groff Park yesterday. If you haven't been there you should definitely go check it out. We did not advertise in advance be out of the need for social distancing and so we invited certain key members of the community who had helped develop the park, LSEC Commission, CPA Committee, Town Councilors of course and members of the staff but go there check it out. It's a really wonderful new regional facility really paid for by taxpayers and grants from the state. So the spray park is not open yet probably will be open in a few weeks. August 1 is sort of our target date at this point in time but that will be another added feature to it. So beautiful new facility for South Amherst. The second thing is that we have the university announced their reopening plan starting in about five weeks. So we are we've been reviewing their their plans and what that has what that means for the broader community. So you'll be hearing more about that in the coming days as well. Great and Sean any any quick words before we launch into some of the questions for you? Sure I'll just give a brief status check of where we are in the budget process. So today we have our last budget hearing department review with the finance committee at 2.30 and people can join on to that meeting if they want to listen in. That meeting will focus on community services, planning and development and general government and then after tomorrow we have a public hearing on Monday the 14th which I think is at 7 o'clock Paul? Yes. So again can join in there and ask any questions that you may have and then depending on how things go the budget is slated to be voted on July 20th. That's great thank you for those updates and just a reminder to folks who do want to tune into those meetings. All of them are posted on our public meetings calendar at the bottom of our homepage and the links to join those meetings will be within each of those postings. So for the folks in the room to ask your question please use the Q&A function or raise your hand and zoom star nine from a phone. So feel free to start asking your questions. We have questions that have been started to come in through our Reddit channel so I might start with a couple of those. So our our first. Can you explain what the Reddit thing is that because that that wasn't something I knew very much about until it's brought up? Well I mean I might not have the best explanation of Reddit but it's you know focuses around different themes and communities where you can get really in depth in different threads and so we decided to take you know some governments who are using that to reach their community members where they where they are. In Amherst we have a Reddit community of about 924 members which isn't that that huge so we were just trying to kind of touch all bases with our with our Ask Me Anythings today. So we have gotten a few that have come in through there so that's that's been successful. So if you if you're on Reddit and you're watching this feel free to go check out that Amherst Community channel. So the first question that came in this morning around I don't know 4 a.m. would you say Sean? We got a question about this person this resident who lives on Potline Lane saw that there's about a 2.8% reduction in the budget and 2 million in capital reduction which is roughly 40% and they asked is it fair to say that the initial weathering of the storm will try to be offset by holding off on capital expenditures and their other question is is this just the calm before the storm and our towns and cities expecting the worst to come in FY22. Yeah so I'll just highlight some of my response that's on Reddit but there's I think a more thorough response there. So the the reduction we did make in capital was town funded capital we delayed some projects or put them on hold until we find out more information on our local receipts and state aid right we still don't have a state budget at this point. State has done a one-month budget for July and I think we're anticipating that they'll do at least one more one-month budget for August so we really don't have great information on what state aid will look like. So we did delay some capital projects and we'll have to revisit those in the fall with the Joint Capital Planning Committee. We do think that FY21 or that FY22 could be as bad or worse than FY21 depending on how quickly the state and local economy rebound. Again until we find out about state aid which is really dependent on the state economy it's hard to know how bad FY21 will be and how bad FY22 will be. We do have some information from the Mass Taxpayers Association which they've done some estimates of short falls and state and state revenue collections and things like that so we can get a sense of how big of a gap the state is looking at and that can help guide some of our decision-making. And the other big unknown that we don't have a lot of information on right now is whether the federal government will step in and provide some additional aid. So the federal government has given us some funds for COVID-19 related expenditures to offset those expenditures and we've utilized those. We submitted a request already for about 600,000 and I anticipate that we'll have another request in the next couple of months for you know another several hundred thousands of dollars of COVID-19 related expenditures for supplies, cleaning supplies, PPE, you know other equipment that's related to COVID-19. But as of right now we're not allowed to use any of that money from the federal government, the CARES Act money. We're not allowed to use that to make up any lost revenue and most towns and municipalities in the state are experiencing lost revenue from from the state home orders and the businesses that were closed during that time. So we make a long story short we do we are preparing for FY 22 to be another tough year that we'll have to do a lot of planning for. Great thank you. We got a bunch of questions in the room so I'll start with the first one here referencing page 6 of the FY 21 budget document that we have posted online. It says that the town gets 60,000 of revenue from Amherst College. What are they paying the town for? So Paul you may have the better sense of that one. I think it's something related to with ambulance receipts but I'll defer to you. Yes so that has to do strictly with the emergency medical services that we provide to the to the to the college. So they do a calculation every year based on the services that we provide for ambulance services in essence and it's sort of forward-looking we look at what we did the prior year and then that gets accounted for the next year. All right we've got another question here. Are restaurant revenues starting to rise significantly or not? So I don't think we have the information on that yet. I think you know we're talking about the meals tax. I think we've seen that the restaurants opening back up and Paul may have a sense anecdotally of you know if you've seen a lot of full you know full capacity restaurants but I don't we haven't started to see the data yet from that because there's a lag to when that those funds come in. Yes just to add on that so we mostly get our information at this moment in time from the business improvement district in the Chamber of Commerce and while many of the restaurants are up and running most by far most people want to sit outside. They're hesitant about going in inside so it's very weather dependent and so and they're doing a just a percentage of the business that they previously had done before so I think they're in survival mode. I think many restaurants may not survive the course of this entire economic downturn but I think they're all working really hard to expand their footprint outdoors. We've been working really hard to help them do that. We have outdoor seating in public way on North Pleasant Street, South Pleasant Street and on Amity Street. We've created eating areas on the North Common and in the bull above the on the bullwood garage. Johnny's has expanded out into the sidewalk. Jakes in North Amherst and Mission Cantina and South Amherst have taken over parts of their parking lot and so we're working with them to create as much outdoor eating space as they can to help their businesses but it's a it's a hard slog for them. All right so I'm going to move to the next question here. We have what line item in the revenue section of the budget would hold information about civil forfeiture by the Amherst Police Department? So that's a good question. We'll have to check with our controller who is the expert on the accounts and where different revenues go because the budget book doesn't get into the necessarily the nitty gritty of some of those types of things. So we'll get back to you on that one. I'm not sure if it's revenue that's within the PD or if it goes into a miscellaneous revenue for the general fund but we can get the answer to that and send it out. And I'm just taking a quick note here for the person who asked that question. We can follow up with you and we'll also post it when we get the answer to our Reddit feed as well where we'll put all the answers. So we'll share that out. Okay. What is the current plan for deciding how to spend the $80,000 for combating systemic racism? That's a really good question. So we knew that we needed to devote funds in order to take on this important task both I sort of see it in three different areas. One is talking about systemic and structural racism in our community as a larger discussion point which is going to be launched on Saturday led by the Human Rights Commission. The second is among town staff, the people here and others who are in our town staff who are interested in looking at our own biases and implicit or otherwise and how we operate on a daily basis and how we're doing things that contribute to systemic racism in the operations of the town. And then the third which has received the most attention is looking at how we deliver our public safety specifically police services. And, you know, having a group outside group, I mean outside meeting members of the community sitting down with police and saying, how do we do things? Why do we do it this way? Is there another way to do it? We purposely did not put the $80,000 in any one budget. I didn't want to put it in community services or police or town man anywhere because I wasn't sure how we were going to spend the money and but made a commitment that we would allocate these funds. And also we went to listen to the community and say, you know, here's where you should be addressing your time and your energy and your funds. So I didn't think it was in especially with this with this is not my is my role to secure the funds. It's the community's role to identify how those funds would best be spent. And I guess I'm going to follow up into someone says, okay, you say the community. What does that really mean? It means again, people are volunteering to step forward. We had a meeting the chief and I met with a number of community leaders who were initiated by the community leaders on an end is their meeting.  And so there are a lot of people who are stepping up saying we want to be engaged in this conversation. So as we start to expand that group and having more public, it's really hard to do in a zoom world. Unfortunately, we can't have a big meeting where everybody comes together and you get to see who's who's saying what. But we're so it does have to be a outside group. And I think this this conversation will continue at the town council level on the 20th when they start talking about about this topic as well. And I'll just use that, you know, as a reminder for anybody who does want to come into this conversation live. We've had some great questions that were sent through Q&A, but just raise your hand and we'll bring you into the room live. The only caveat is that we won't be able to see your face, but we can hear your voice. So next question I have here is what percent of our tax base in Amherst is commercial and how has that changed over the years? That's a good question. I don't have the numbers off my head. That's one area I haven't gotten into. I do know we have the same tax rate, whether it's commercial or residential, right? I don't think we have a tax rate here. But that's another one that we can try to pull up some of the information from our assessor's office and put that out there. There has been obviously a lot of new development in town lately. So we can get updated numbers there. Okay, great. You might have mentioned this a little bit earlier, but can you say what the expected timeline for approving the FY21 budget is? Yeah, so again, the finance committee will meet a couple more times. They're going to meet today, this afternoon, and wrap up the department reviews. And then Monday there will be a public hearing on the budget. And then I think actually the next day, that next Tuesday, I think the finance committee has made one more time to finalize their recommendation to the town council. And then on the 20th of July, the town council will meet and on their agenda will be to vote on the budget for FY21. And it'll be a full 12 month budget that will, for those who don't know, we're operating on a one month budget right now. And that full 12 month budget will replace the one month budget once it's approved. Great, thank you. Another question that came in to our Reddit feed just a few minutes ago, references UMass being online and the potential impacts to our Amherst community. And just, can we speak a little bit about how we think that's going to impact us this summer and fall? What UMass decides to do? Yeah, I mean, one thing we know is that the population of UMass is very important to the local economy here. We we saw that when they when all the students were sent home early and the impact that that had on downtown economy, but also like things like our enterprise funds, water and sewer consumption. We always have a drop off in the summer, but when when yeah, we see drop offs that are out of cycle, those things impact our budget. And so we're not exactly sure exactly how the configuration that UMass is looking at will impact the economy. We know that they're bringing back students, but there'll be a lot of online learning and and how often they're allowed to leave campus and things like that. A lot of that will impact will have will translate to an impact on our economy. So we're just going to know Paul staying closely in touch and providing feedback on the plan that UMass has. And we'll keep evaluating as we get more information. So this next question we've gotten in a couple different formats, but I think just to to keep it simple, we've had people asking, are we considering taking money that's already been allocated to the police department and reallocating that to different different programs in this budget or future budgets? Yeah, so the budget that I presented does not do that. It keeps the it holds the police budget level service level funded in essence. And that's what is being presented to the town council. And I think the reason for that is that making quick decisions at this moment without a plan. And what we want to do is not a wise thing to do for the town. I think the town council has expressed interest in having this conversation as as did the police chief and and so as do I and our finance officers in terms of how do we deliver services? Are they aligned with what the community would like to have the community would like to see the services delivered? So that's the conversation we will be having during the course of the next few months. We got a couple of questions too about education. And you know, Sean's probably well positioned to answer some of these types of questions. But how much are we spending on education per child? And this person notices that the school budget is increasing compared to other categories. And just how we compare to other communities in this in this spending. Yeah, so I got some experience there. So our per pupil student is about roughly $23,000 per student, which is more than a lot of our neighbors. And that definitely reflects the commitment to education that Amherst has had for a long time going back. You know, definitely since I've been here, but I know much longer before that. The in the budget itself, I think it's a little misleading that education is going up more than than others. There's a we basically said we were going to level fund the budget. And there's a adjustment we do every year that's separate from, you know, whether there's any budget increase, there's a there's adjustment we do every year for the elementary schools and the elementary school specifically around charter and choice tuition, the town pays it and then there's an adjustment to the elementary school budget. So this year just coincidence that charter and choice tuition went down for the elementary schools, which means we typically will then increase their budget a little bit, separate from whatever other funding adjustments we make. So their budget went up a little bit because of that, which is a retrospective thing that we do. Aside from that adjustment that we make every year, and sometimes it works the other way for the schools, sometimes they get less than other departments. And in fact, many years, I know this because I had to deal with it. And many years, the schools got less than the other departments because of this adjustment. Setting that adjustment aside, the region and the elementary schools came in below level funding, they actually came in $2,000 below level funding. We did let the elementary school in the region sort of work collaboratively. So that the elementary school wanted to come in a little bit more, the region came in a little bit under. And when and when you net out the two of those, they actually came in $2,000 under. So but again, if you look at the charts, you'll see it looks like it's a little bit of an increase. And that's because of that adjustment for charter and choice. It's not because of a programmatic change or anything like that. Okay, that's really good to know. So we have a question here, just kind of in general, how hard was the town's budget hit? This person is concerned, are we facing massive service cuts or layoffs for town employees in the next year, year or two? Yeah, I mean, the budget was hit very hard. You know, the exact number, any year the overall budget goes down is a tough year. And when it goes down as much as it did, I think, you know, over $2 million, it's, it's a real significant challenge. The good news is the town was in a really strong position to start this year. So we were able to weather the storm pretty well this year. And same thing with the schools, they were in a strong position. Going forward, if the economy bounces back, we could see things improve pretty quickly. If the economy stays where it's at or gets worse, there definitely will have to be some belt tightening as we move forward. And it gets back to what I said before about, you know, knowing more about what's going on with the state budget and what that's going to look like, which we don't have a good picture of yet. And also if there's going to be any federal aid to offset the impact to communities. Back in 2009, when we had, you know, a bad recession, the federal government, I know on the school side, they had some economic aid that went to school specifically to help with the, with the the revenue loss that the schools had. So we haven't seen that yet for this recession. But I know there are people that are lobbying for it. I know there's a, there was a national coalition of municipal officers or something like that that just recently wrote another letter to Washington, advocating for federal aid. And it's definitely something that I know we're also advocating for and talking to the town council about. And I'm just going to say a quick reminder to our live attendees that we're coming up close to our wrap time in about five minutes. So if you have any questions that you've come up with or you wanted to come into the room and ask them, please use the Q&A function or raise your hand, star nine for those of you on the phone. So I've got another question that just came in from the room. What metrics will be used to determine when the reuse it shed reopens? I miss it, but totally understand why it's closed for now. I miss it too, but I'm happy to hear about. Can you tell me more about what the reuse it shed is? I'm not familiar with that. At the DPW transfer station, there's a large shed with kind of any number of things. There's a book shed and just items that you want to get out of your house, but you don't necessarily want in the landfill and they're in usable condition. You'll leave it there or you'll take something from there. Gotcha. Yes, a very popular thing that the town has been able to offer and it is missed. But again, providing looking at guidance from the state and from our health director, it was clearly the one thing that we should be shutting down at the at the transfer station. I don't have a metric for when that will reopen. I think there's a we're in phase three of the governor's sort of four phase approach right now. He has said we entered phase three on Monday. And the thing that he said is that we will be in each phase at least three weeks. Phase three might last for much longer than that. So I'm guessing that reuse it shed won't be open for quite some time, unfortunately. But I can guarantee you when it does reopen, we'll have a ribbon cutting. And you'll be there first in line. That was a great question. OK, so let's get that one off. I did have another one that came in here. Let's see. And this is about fines and how that impacts the budget. So how are the fines collected from parking and traffic violations counted within the budget? Where does that revenue get recorded? So that is in. We have a transportation enterprise fund and a lot of that revenue goes into the transportation enterprise fund when we haven't been enforcing parking. So a lot of that revenue has dropped off. And at some point when we start reinforcing it, depending on how active downtown is, you know, we'll see that revenue start to go back up potentially. But, you know, we don't necessarily like fine revenue. It's not like the revenue that we want to see necessarily go way up. So but that's typically where it's located. But also just to add to that, since we introduced the app where you can pay by on your phone and the new parking kiosks, people have figured out ways to not overstay their meters. So we've had fewer parking tickets for people overstaying the meters, which has been a really good thing. So people aren't experiencing coming out from a restaurant and finding the ticket on their car, which is a negative thing for us. And we don't like doing it. But the reason we have people pay for parking and then enforce the parking is to encourage turnover, you know, in the downtown area, which is where the greatest need for parking is. And so that that's the reason you're being charged for parking. We have another question that came in through Q&A and going back to spending on APD, Amherst Police Department, how much money is spent by the Amherst Police Department in collaborating with police departments at Amherst College and UMass Amherst? I don't know if that's broken out as a specific line item. I know that they do collaborate and you know, there's definitely mutual aid there and cooperation, but I don't believe it's a cost that's necessarily tracked explicitly in our county system. Yeah, so we don't segment that out. There's a huge amount of communication between the three departments. There's an Amherst Police Department. There's the Amherst College Police Department. There's the UMass Police Department and there's Hampshire College Security. And so there is always very good communication amongst all those entities and through both our dispatch center and through our police leadership. But generally, each department is responsible for their own campus and we tend not to go onto the UMass campus very much and the UMass Police Department tends not to leave the campus very much, although they do communicate with each other on a regular basis because we have learned that having high level of communication especially when it involves students is a benefit to all the parties involved. All right, so we are coming to the end of our time but I just wanna say to everybody if you did have a question or you think of one later, Sean will be on the line until 11 tonight. So you can, any number of ways, if you- On the Reddit line. On Reddit, they'll be on Reddit until then but if you don't use Reddit or don't feel comfortable doing that, you can send your question to infoatamherstma.gov and I will get it to Sean as well as our Twitter feed or any which way that you wanna get that question over to us and we will get it posted as well as follow up with anybody that we said we needed to follow up with with answers. So any parting words from either of you before we wrap? I'll just say thank you for the questions and we do post a lot of information on our website at correct me if I get it wrong, Brianna but amherstma.gov slash budget. Yes. So there's a lot of information there. The full budget document is up there and then a lot of the presentations, information on capital and the elementary school is the library. We post a lot of information there. So that's a good place to start if you're looking for more information that you wanna digest at your own pace. I would just say that I think that's a really good point because there's an enormous amount of information on our website. We have an open checkbook where you can go in and see what checks we have written as a town. The budget page that Sean referenced has we tried to put all the budgets for all the town entities in one location, make it easier for folks. And then there's a lot of information that the accountants office posts every quarter on all their expenditures during the course of the year. So there's a lot of information on the website and we tried to do it just make it easier for folks to see how we're spending their money. And I just further add to that. There is a budget feedback button and tool there where you can review documents or even ask questions there if you happen to be on that page. And that'll go to the finance team and to the town manager. And you can look at previous year budgets there as well. We'll have the archive. I think it goes back almost 10 years. So yeah, all right. Well, thank you both. And thank you all for joining us. We'll get this recording up shortly in case you wanna reference it. Great, thanks Brianna. Have a nice day.


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They keep bringing that into their current relationship once they deal with their negative attitudes and behaviors so instead of trying to build something real, something that they know they are not capable of, they would rather just maintain an illusion of love an illusion of happiness, an illusion of being over you but they never experience real love. They never experience real happiness and they never get over you. Thank you for watching. I hope this video was interesting with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. If you like to donate, my PayPal link is in the video description. Coaching and inquiries you can email me at narksalvercoaching at gmail.com. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


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I'm not sure if these are power or not They are power so Press down and see it folds in like so now it's like showing both sides Make sure that you know that both sides are in full operating order Power windows power locks power mirrors Inside the bighorn package gives you the gray cloth interior There are no rips there are no tears on these seats very very clean. You get driver's side lumbar and power seat Factory all-weather formats. That's your switch for that LED light bar Auto headlamps power pedals. You can see you got radio controls on the back of the steering wheel and Inside you can see that this truck has 39,922 Miles instrument cluster is very nice and clean. I'll dim it there so we can see it a little bit better has the heated leather wrap steering wheel cruise controls on the right Bluetooth and information center controls on the left and like I said audio controls on the back of that steering wheel You do get these six-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift AM FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities on here as you can see the Sirius is actually activated right now Pretty cool Got all your other controls here can do your heated seats and heated steering wheel controls You can also check out the backup cam at any time and you can also check out that cargo cam Which actually just shows you the tonneau cover right now, but if you had a I Don't know a goose neck hitch hooked up or something or just to see in the bed You can do that too notice I didn't have to put it in reverse for any of that either but AM FM and Sirius This one has navigation capabilities You can add nav to this radio for $595 see your sales professional for more details and you can also do all your climate controls here Now if you don't like doing your climate controls on the touch screen and like the more tactile buttons We got that too down here dual climate control You got your knobs for your fan as well, and you also have your factory brake controller heated and heated seats and heated steering Well buttons stability control till Hall factory exhaust brake in your front and rear parking sensors You can turn those off and on turned out four-wheel drive hundred fifteen volt hundred fifty watt plug-in. Yes cell phone holder right there Passage side seat and floor mat are in excellent condition This truck smells very clean inside out and think it's ever been smoked in and the headliner is in excellent shape Map lights power sign rear window and your home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems Finally you have the 911 assist buttons in the mirror Those are features of the vehicle that you never have to pay a subscription for We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we will check out under the hood The back seats are just as clean as the front seats no rips no tears back here It does have the latch child safety system for all your child car seat needs power sliding rear window No rips no tears very nice these seats do fold up and it does have a load floor What's the load floor this goes down like that's collapsible floor that goes down flat Can put both sides down for your?  Here's a winter front for this truck and you got storage underneath there And we'll take a quick look under here You got in-floor storage with removable bins for easy cleaning you can put ice and drinks and stuff in there Or whatever you want and they come out for easily removable cleaning Nice all-weather format that goes all the way across here And last but not least you do have your child safety locks on the back doors We'll take a quick look under the hood I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video You will have been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside and out under the hood We had the 6.7 liter Cummins diesel engine base very clean was very smooth This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our server shop has a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have and checked And topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go See more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars trucks SUVs minivans wranglers half tons your quarter tons one tons you name it We got it go to our website www.SummitAuto.com Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at Summit Auto.com if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto Remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there in fact in a second You'll see a link to subscribe to our youtube channel and you left a link to more heavy-duty truck videos like this one You're ready if you've not been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website click those check us out And we really look forward to helping you with this extremely clean 2017 ram 2500 crew cab short box bighorn sport with brand new tires. 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Hi, everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com with 2021 Mosaic football cello pack break number 13 coming at you That's the last real we got to do to do a two box high-end division break. That's coming up in the next video First we got to do the pack big thanks to Alan Brian Chad Michael and Jimmy For grabbing all the spots here appreciate it all 32 teams are in here's the first dice roll second Dice roll will be for the giveaway part two and a one three times for names and teams one Two and three two and a one three times for the teams one two and three We got Detroit down to KC There's the first half of the list right there and the second half of the list right over here and let's alphabetized by a team and Let's print and rip. There's the list hot off the presses Thanks for spending a little bit of your Monday with us and Monday night football just underway If you want to vote in our poll I think we still have some time left Who wins the Monday of football game tonight rams? The the road dogs plus two With the Niners the short home favorites at minus two make a Fitzpatrick Crazy here. What about the exclusive? Kyler Murray King Camel all right, but nothing too crazy here, but the crazy part is Who's gonna win at those division spots? Let's grab everyone's names one through 32 new dice new list and it'll be the top four after 11 five into six eleven times. Good luck everybody one Two and eleven the final time Now from five on down it's gonna be sad times only the top four is gonna be a lot of sad faces here So Chad very close, but not quite five through thirty-two. Thanks everyone for giving this a shot. I appreciate it but it could be only four top four is Chad you're in Alan you're in Michael you're in and Alan again Alan with two of the four spots nice congrats to you Thanks everyone for trying. I'm Joe for jaspercasebreaks.com. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye


How well do you know you're fellow cosmembers? Oh God. So who do you think spent five hours a day training with Matala? I can say Paul. Lisa. Lisa! Damn! Of course for Ender's Game, right? Yeah. Actually I bet you I do. I'll ask it. Yeah. Yeah. Which of your co-stars favourite pizza topping is BBQ Chicken Cisla? Very sound. Yeah. It sounds like Stephen Graham. Who was originally casted to lead for the sci-fi film Jumper? For that I'll say Paul. Tom. Lipping Hell. Tom Starick. Yeah. Which co-star has Robert Pattinson as the godfather to their sister's child? Tom. Yeah, it's Tom. Which co-stars acting hero is a Humphrey Bogar, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro? Stevie. Paul. Paul. Well, damn. Who threw up whilst shooting a scene in a gas tank? Toby. Lisa. God, I'm really not very good at this.


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen, I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW or the Weight Watchers Baloo Plan. Happy Monday, it's Monday, so it's meal prep day. I have two pumpkin recipes for you and wait until you hear what they are. They're breakfast, they're dessert and then I have a really good, easy, realistic, on the go lunch recipe for you as well.  If you're new or you haven't yet subscribed, I would love to have you here. Hit the subscribe button and click the bell right next to it so you never miss a single video. Check out the description box down below for all three recipe e-books. We have breakfast, we have lunch and I just released the third e-book in the series, Dinner. It is fantastic. All three e-books have 15 recipes with all WW plan points included as well as calories. I'll be releasing the fourth and final e-book shortly so make sure you're stocked up on the three that are already out and available. Also, you'll find nutrition coaching where I offer personalized, to-you macros and calories. Highly, highly recommend. As well as one-on-one coaching if you wanna talk with me directly. Links, discounts to all my favorite things and of course my Facebook group. Come on over, join us there. We'd love to have you. Is also down in that description box. So we have some cooking to do. Let's jump in. ["Pomp and Circumstance"] For breakfast this week, we are doing everything pumpkin. We are making pumpkin pie or pumpkin spice overnight oats. I am really excited for this. I haven't had oats or overnight oats in so long. So let me show you what's in our recipe. First you're going to need pecans. The recipe calls for chopped pecans. I'm just going to chop these halves up. Fun fact, my in-laws live in Green Valley, Arizona which is the pecan capital apparently of Arizona.  So that's really fun. They're really, really good pecans I do have to say. You're also going to need some almond milk, vanilla extract, maple syrup, rolled oats, pumpkin pie spice. This is pumpkin puree. This was from a different recipe. This is what was left over from the can. This is the unsweetened one. So no added anything, just a canned pumpkin. And then you're going to need some jars for your overnight oats. So let's get started on breakfast. I didn't mention that you're going to need some sweetener as well. Of course I have the Lakonto monk fruit. This is my all time favorite sweetener. Of course I will link Lakonto in the description box with 15% off. So we're going to get started on our overnight oats. The first thing I'm going to make is the pumpkin puree. So I have a pretty small bowl here. I'm going to add half of a cup of the pumpkin puree, one teaspoon of vanilla extract, three tablespoons of monk fruit sweetener, three tablespoons of maple syrup, and pumpkin pie spice. The recipe calls for about three quarters of a teaspoon. I'm going to put in about a tablespoon because I love pumpkin pie spice. And then we're going to whisk this together until fully mixed. And here's the pumpkin pie puree. Now we can start assembling the overnight oats. So for the oats themselves, you're going to need a mason jar. This is, I don't even know what ounce is. I would say like a medium sized ball mason jar. We're going to add half of a cup of rolled oats. You can use quick cook oats if that's all that you have on hand. And then we're going to add half of a cup of almond milk. And I always like to kind of swirl that around. I just want to make sure that the oats are getting wet in the almond milk. We're making four overnight oats total. So the recipe says about three tablespoons of the pumpkin pie mix to each jar. So I'm going to add three tablespoons. And again, just give that a quick swirl. Look how pretty this is already looking with that pumpkin added. And then we are going to put our lid on and set these aside. And then we are simply going to repeat and make up the other three jars. I have my oven preheating to 325 degrees. I coarsely chopped up half of a cup of pecans. And I'm just going to put those out on a sheet pan. And we're going to toast these in the oven for about seven to 10 minutes, just until they get toasty. So pecans are out of the oven. They're nice and toasted. I'm going to let these cool for a couple of minutes.  You will add a couple tablespoons of the chopped pecans to the oatmeal. That way they stay nice and crispy rather than getting a bit soggy if you were to add them prior to them sitting in the refrigerator overnight. So let's go over the points and calories for our overnight oats. So our recipe made a four servings total. These look so good. They're going to be pumpkin spice goodness and the sweetness will come from the maple syrup and the Lakonto. We have our nice toasted pecans here. Again, you're going to add a tablespoon or two, just divide it by four to the top of your overnight oats before you eat them. So again, four servings. It is eight points on the blue and green plan, only five on purple because you don't have to count for the oats, but I can't wait to have this all week. I'll probably have this with either a hard boiled egg or a scrambled egg for a little bit of added protein. You could have it with some fruit, both of which are zero points. So I can't wait for pumpkin pie overnight oats. For lunch this week, I'm making chicken salad with broccoli and pasta. This is going to be so quick and easy. This makes a great meal prep, a great portable lunch to take to school or the office. I'm really excited for this. So let me show you what's in the recipe. First you're going to need some pasta and of course I'm using my fiber gourmet. This is a staple in my house. We really don't buy any other pasta. This pasta has the best taste, the best texture. It is only 100 calories per serving versus 210 of traditional pasta, which makes this pasta two points. That is it. For a full two ounce serving of pasta, two points versus five or six of traditional pasta. It also contains 25 grams of fiber, 17 net carbs and seven grams of protein. It's just such a good pasta. It comes in several shapes, elbows, penne, rotini and linguini, which is like a spaghetti noodle. They have the best price and the biggest selection. So I'll link nutrition down below for you. You're also going to need some broccoli, light shredded cheese, a medium red onion. This is half of a really large red onion. Some non-fat Greek yogurt, chicken, light mayonnaise, sweetener of your choice. Again, Lakonto monk fruit that is linked down below with 15% off as well. And apple cider vinegar.  I'm going to cook it here in a skillet. I sprayed it with some non-stick cooking spray, topped with a little salt and pepper. We want to get this cooked up and shredded.  I have some water coming to a boil and we're going to cook our pasta per package directions as well. While everything is still cooking, we're going to put together the sauce. So I modified the recipe and did one cup of light mayo and then one cup of non-fat Greek yogurt in place of two cups of light mayo that really helped reduce the calories and the points. And you won't notice the Greek yogurt at all when it's mixed in with the cup of mayo. Half of a cup of monk fruit sweetener and two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar. And then go ahead and give that a stir until mixed and set aside. I'm going to add the cooled and rinsed pasta to the salad mix. You can see I shredded up all of the chicken and I'm going to give that just a quick stir before I add in my broccoli and my red onion. I have my diced up broccoli, which I did cut into smaller chunks and then I diced my onion really small and I'm going to add both of those. And again, I'm going to stir to get those fully incorporated. The last thing we're adding into our salad is our light shredded cheese. This looks delicious. And lastly, we're adding two cups of light shredded cheese. And then also give that a big stir and that is going to complete my lunch meal prep. This looks incredible. What a perfect, easy, satisfying lunch. You have cheese, you have chicken, pasta, you have veggies in there with the broccoli and the red onion. This looks so good. I'm going to add just a tiny bit of black pepper to the salad and then let's go over points and calories. This big, huge bowl of pasta salad makes only eight servings. So that is quite a large serving. It is six points on the blue and purple plan, eight points on green because you do have to account for the chicken on the green plan, but this is a complete lunch. Pair this with some fruit and you have a perfect six or eight smart point lunch. I can't wait for this all week. For dessert this week, I have to say my husband is thrilled about this. I am making pumpkin cheesecake balls. These are incredibly low point. You're not going to believe it. Low calorie, the perfect pumpkin sweet tree would be great for Halloween or Thanksgiving. I can't wait. So let me show you what's in our recipe. First you're going to need some ginger snap cookies, graham cracker crumbs, powdered sugar alternative. This is the Lakonto powdered and of course again, Lakonto's link down below with a discount. And then these are the lilies, white chocolate chips. You could use baked believe chocolate chips, whatever your preference is. We're going to finish up that leftover pumpkin puree. You'll need some salt, pumpkin pie spice and one third less fat cream cheese. To get started on our cheesecake balls, you can see that I added two ounces of room temperature cream cheese. And then I'm going to add one tablespoon of the Lakonto powdered sugar. And then we're going to mix this together until creamy. I have 300 lilies, white chocolate chips total. I took just a handful of those, maybe 50, 60 of them and melted them down in the microwave. We're going to add one quarter cup, or I'm going to use just the rest of this pumpkin puree to that cream cheese mixture. And then we're going to add in that melted white chocolate. And once again, we're just going to beat this until fully mixed. We're going to add one quarter cup of graham cracker crumbs, about a teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice. Of course, I'm going to add more and more like a tablespoon. And then we'll pop in a pinch of salt. I counted out 12 ginger snap cookies. I'm going to put all my cookies in a little Ziploc bag. And then I'm going to use just the back of my measuring into crumbs. Now we're going to add those crumbs to the mix, stir everything together until fully combined. Here is the mixture. I'm going to cover this with some saran wrap and pop this into the fridge for a couple of hours. Three hours later. I just pulled out the mix, and now I'm going to roll these into little balls. We want them about the size of a teaspoon. So they're going to be small, but because they're cheesecake, they're super rich. So we're going to roll these out. My goal is 30 little cheesecake balls, but we'll see how many I wind up with.  I'm going to pop these back in the refrigerator for just a little longer until they've re-hardened. So I went ahead and melted down the remainder of the chocolate chips in the microwave. I did add a tiny bit of almond milk. It just makes it a little bit more creamy.   Oh my gosh, that looks so good. We're going to do that with all of the pumpkin balls. Alrighty, here are the pumpkin cheesecake balls. These look absolutely delicious. Troy and I are both super excited to have these this week. Mine aren't as pretty as they showed in the recipe, but I did try one and they are absolutely incredible. I'm going to pop these into the refrigerator. I want that white chocolate to really harden. And then I'll throw them into a storage container for the week. If you can get 30 pumpkin cheesecake balls out of your batch, they're only two points apiece, which is not bad at all for pumpkin cheesecake dipped in white chocolate. Now, as you know, I didn't quite get 30. So mine are three points apiece, which I don't think is bad. Like I said, very, very rich because they're cheesecake and white chocolate. So mine are three points apiece. Again, it just depends on how many you get out of your recipe, but I can't wait to dig into these this entire week. Thank you for joining me for this week's WW Meal Prep. I hope you enjoyed all three recipes that I shared with you. Don't forget these recipes are on my website, which I will link at the top of the description box. You'll also find my three recipe e-books. Don't forget to pick those up for the final fourth desserts snacks is released here shortly. Links discounts to all my favorite things, nutrition coaching, and of course my Facebook group. Don't forget to join us over there. We have a lots of fun things coming your way for the holiday. So come on over and join us there. Thank you again so much for watching. I hope you have the best Monday, the best week, and I'll see you in Wednesdays, what I eat today. Bye.


Hi traders, today during the webinar at 11 Eastern, we were watching the S&P E-mini, and we can see the cash open here at 930, and we noticed that there was a small uptrend ensuing. Initial move to the downside, but it started to creep higher and make higher highs and higher lows. However, we also started to notice here at 11, a shift in that order flow. We're starting to note that it's not breaking these higher highs here at these areas. In fact, we noticed areas of exhaustion with very little aggressive market buying up in these points. We also noted the large volume cluster here forming and starting to put the pieces together with the tape that we're reading here as well as the auction. We noticed them here on the offer at 67 getting aggressive. We noticed them starting to pull liquidity from the bid in these areas or at least staying down at lower areas. Therefore we started to anticipate a move from this point of exhaustion at 67 on down to at least this 65 and three quarters or maybe 65 and a half. We got exactly that move down into that area. We ended the webinar but we started to notice here or we can see how they got very aggressive on the offer. Lowering the offer. We noted in this area here how they're lowering that offer, but now look at them getting very aggressive a tick or two away from current price and providing very high liquidity up at 66 and a quarter and 66. Then they started to pull here at 65. We're looking for a continuation to come down at least test 64 and maybe 63 and that's exactly what unfolded. This was the beginning, this area that we noted during the webinar for this move down to about 58 so it's about a nine point move. We go over information like this every day during the live webinars, analyze the traded volume as well as the auction that you can see within Bookmap and this is going to give you insight to your trading levels of what's occurring really in the order flow. Come and join us during those webinars. I hope to see you there.


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Funeral Updates of James Ney Son of Prophet Shepard Boucherie Be advised that there shall be a memorial service for our three departed brethren on Wednesday from 10 o'clock hours at Miracle Tent, Pretoria Showgrounds. All stewards should attend and must wear their gowns. The memorial service for our departed three James Ney, Brian Glant and Best in Kama is currently underway at Pretoria Showgrounds in South Africa. Thousands are here, united in grief, to bore the truth and be self-evident that, in this day, James, Brian, and Best in Walk their last mile at the showgrounds they loved so dearly to be and to serve. Brian and Best in War selfless servants who, with their driving skills, have served God through transporting the bearer of the gospel to areas, far and wide, where needed. James doesn't need an introduction. God sent him to us to define true worship, to preach with a voice so heavenly, to sing with a tone of comfort, one that leads you to the city of angels. We shall always be comforted by the footprints of your work, the lives you touched and your contribution to the kingdom of God.


African, European, and U.S. maritime forces shared information, tactics, and techniques in Tanzania recently. This sharing is part of Cutlass Express, a multinational maritime exercise designed to increase safety and security in the waters off East Africa. The week-long exercise kicked off with teams practicing tactical combat casualty care and shipboarding procedures. One nation's team hopes to pass on the lessons learned to fellow service members back home. We know that if we go back to our country, we should continue training for, don't forget, everything which we learned. Now they are prepared to do a boarding operation. Also, they should be prepared to be like an instructor for another Mozambican. The participants will be tested on boarding, medical casualty, and radio communication drills throughout the exercise. Reporting from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, I'm Staff Sergeant Ashley Manns.


What I'm trying to say here is that the fort teaches us about this problem of inside-outside and so it's kind of a manifestation of colonial frontier logics and that forts are always on the frontier and they represent civilization and development. What happens is that four-cornered kind of manifestation of civilization eventually expands, right, takes over the whole territory and pushes the outsiders to the margins, right, so it's this fort teaching that's the problem here, right, and I would say one of the most insidious parts of fort teaching is this idea that everyone needs to come inside the fort and if you stay outside it's at your own, it's your own fault, you'll suffer the consequences of that and there's a Argentinian philosopher named Enrique Ducal, he talks about this in terms of the underside of modernity where there's this sort of underside of the sacrifice of people who don't consent to become modern, right, which I think is part of this as well, fort pedagogy, you know, and I think in Western Canada you can't travel very far actually without encountering a fort of some kind, a museum, right, so the fort has become a mythic symbol, I would say, of our country that tells a very strong and compelling story about the nation and the nationality and where it comes from. It's a creation story, you can say, in the West that excludes, it has to, right, so again back to this question, how did this happen? I know my answers are spent a lot of time around forts, why did they do that? Were they necessarily bad places back then? I kind of think they were gathering places, right, in Korea they call them Bejona, so gathering places and we know that most forts were put at places that were already significant to Aboriginal people, that's why they put them there, because they wanted people to be there already, so Rossdale Flats right down here was a major gathering place, this is what the old people tell us, before the fort was there, people gathered there, hundreds annually, they have sun dances there, thirst dance, they would trade, that's why the fort was put there.