Hi, welcome once again to Action Item. I'm Peter Barris and this is Wikibon's weekly research meeting where we bring together some of the best minds in Silicon Valley to talk about some of the trends that are most important. We're broadcasting from here in the Cube studios in beautiful Palo Alto, California, in the studio I'm being joined by George Gilbert and David Foyer, and on the phone we have Neil Raden, Jim Cabilis, Dave Vellante. Team, thanks very much for being part of this conversation today. What we're going to do today is we're going to bring forward some of Wikibon's predictions for 2018. In a previous show we discussed what we learned in 2017. So some of the trends or some of the expectations that didn't play out as expected. This year we're going to dig a little bit deep into what we think is going to happen in 2018, and it all starts with the proposition that even as we go through significant industry change, we're not necessarily going to see the economics of the industry change as fast, which leads to prediction number one. David Foyer, what is it? So my prediction is that volume is going to take a key role in the evolution of disruptive technologies. So for example, in AI and IoT and in true private cloud, volume is going to be the key determination of when it starts to take off, when it starts to hockey stick. So this has been something that's been featured in the industry for a while, Dave, but give us an example. What's the relationship between volume and AI? So if we take the relationship between AI and volume, AI is going sideways and I would predict that it's going to go sideways in 2018 because every implementation is a snowflake. Until there are solutions out there which can be delivered in volume by vendors, then that'll be the point that things will take off. So an example, for example, automated cars, they are AI, when they start to come out in volume, there'll be volume manufacturers, volume of the sensors, volume of the processors, the ARM processors, volume of everything there will drive down cost and make those implementations. And it's still software, so we're still worried about support and service on a very, very broad scale. That leads to our second quick prediction. Dave Vellante, build on this notion of volume. What's going to be the impact on a lot of the innovative smaller companies in 2018? So, Pierre, my prediction is you've got to go scale or go home, aka go out of business. So we expect massive industry consolidation is going to take place in the next two years, certainly through 2019. The business models of VC-backed tech startups are getting smashed by cloud and to a great extent open source in a turnabout from the historical norms, innovations and cost reductions from the largest cloud players are moving at a pace that's faster than many of the most startups are able to deliver. So finding white space is much, much harder. We see private equity as playing a key role here, providing capital for M&A and doing roll-ups that are going to create scale and large portfolios that can compete. So Neil Raden, as we think about what Dave just said, one of the key things that's happening is a lot of money is being put into some of the new technologies that are intended to provide more intelligence in a lot of different places. One of the large company leaders at indicating or describing how this was going to play out was IBM of its Watson story. What's been going on with Watson? What's our prediction for how that's playing out and likely, what's a likely 2018 scenario for IBM and Watson? Not well, not the sugar coated but Watson's been a dismal failure. And I think that IBM is going to reassess their whole approach to cognitive computing in 2018. Numbers don't lie, let me give you some numbers from 2016, they obviously don't have 17 yet. But these are reliable numbers from some institutional clients of mine. Their goal for 2016 was over 8,000 clients. They achieved 500. Their goals for business partners was over 4,000 and they achieved 329. So the numbers speak for themselves. Watson hasn't caught on. It's a solution in search of a problem. It was a marketing stunt really that someone thought could be turned into a $20 billion per year business. It's not even a product really, it's dozens of subsystems that are linked with APIs. Some of them are interesting but most already are available in the open source world. Well, one of the things we talked about last week, Neil, was the idea that we're going to see more buy as opposed to build and we talked about the volume play there. And then we asked the question, is there going to be more softwares? Are there going to be more services? It sounds like IBM's play to be a dominant player in AI related services has not gone as well as expected. Is that kind of where we are right now? Well, yeah, if you look at one of the more public failures of Watson, which was MD Anderson Cancer Center, they pulled a plug on the project after $62 million. But IBM only got about $20 million at that. The rest of it went to PWC. So how they intend to split that business between global services and their partners, I really don't know. And the failure of Watson and MD Anderson wasn't entirely IBM's fault. A lot of it had to do with PWC's project management. And a lot of it had to do with the people of Anderson who basically started the project by looking at a very well understood type of leukemia that had a well understood etiology and treatment options. So when the authors looked at it, they said, we haven't learned anything for $62 million. And that's been repeated in other projects. So it sounds like this is, again, tied back to the idea of scale, volume and related issues. But it also sounds like there's a lot of question, ultimately, about what is AI? What is an AI? What role is Watson going to play? Is it going to be private data? Is it going to be public data? A lot of questions are going to emerge over the course of next year. But there are domains where AI, ML, DL are likely to have some important success. And George, we've got a prediction about where they're likely to be successful in 2018. What are we thinking, what's one domain where we think at least machine learning is going to have a significant impact in 2018? Well, keying off David's point about volume, volume economics, we think that IT operations management is going to be one of the first horizontal applications that embeds machine learning. It's not about presenting, modeling and tools to developers. It's just a heart of the application. The reason it's important, there's really two, two key reasons. We're building out shared ephemeral infrastructure, which is very different from the dedicated silos that we had for mission-critical applications. And this infrastructure and the application landscape on top of it is extremely hard to manage. And machine learning can help greatly. And I think investment in that will be driven also by a realization that this is training wheels for IoT in the sense that you're monitoring machines through data telemetry that they throw off and you're using models to figure out how they should be operating versus how they are operating. So this is significant implications across IoT, ML, and how we get to volume because it's a controlled and pretty well-defined space. By that I mean, but nonetheless, it's related to the problem space. By that I mean that bespoke applications, whether they're from AI or whatnot, are going to create new needs for new types of monitoring, but the classification of the tools and the classifications of the devices that will be monitored are pretty well understood and they're controlled by the IT industry. So they ought to have pretty good definitions. Is that what we're thinking here, George? Yes, precisely. And the bespoke pieces can be modeled because they fall within a well-known domain. But I just want to add on the go-to-market side that keys off of what Dave Valente said, which is that these IT operations management applications, they can come from cloud vendors, they can come from enterprise software vendors, but especially the ones that are going to be hybrid cloud, they're going to need enterprise sales forces to get them to market. You hear millions of, virtually millions of startups say, I'll go to market strategy is land and expand. That doesn't get you enterprise-wide and for that you need an enterprise sales force, most expensive migratory workforce in the world and startups don't have them. And that's why one of the reasons we will see roll-ups for scale. So we've talked about the need for scale, the impact on startups, the impact on big companies like IBM. One of the domains we think this is going to play out most successfully is an ITOM, IT operations management for some of these new technologies, but underneath all of this is a lot of new complexity because of distribution of function, distribution of data, distribution of application, and there needs to be a new technology concept that allows for that distribution to take place under control. And we talked about this a few weeks ago, but Jim Kabilis, what's our prediction for the role that blockchain or blockchain-like technologies are going to take in facilitating this new distribution of capability around digital business? Yeah, blockchain we're predicting it will be as fundamental to the growth of the worldwide digital infrastructure and digital markets as 30 to 40 years ago, TCPIP was to the growth of what became the web and the internet and why is that? Well, when you look at the basic principles for development of any infrastructure, when there's an innovation on the infrastructure side that is shared or standardized, robust, meaning secure and distributed, it quickly becomes a common bond enabling growth of sharing and teaming and markets and so forth. So really it's a layering process where we had TCPIP and DNS and URL providing a shared address space. Layered on top of that was public key infrastructure, which is the foundation of the security that makes blockchain so strong, you know, PKI and SSL and all that. As an enabler, that's another robust shared common infrastructure. And then on top of that, what we see now is a distributed, robust shared record of transactions. That's blockchain and really blockchain as an enabler for the new generation of digital crypto currencies, such as Bitcoin, enabling a shared robust and distributed currency or means of payment across the worldwide economy. So in many ways, blockchain as an enabler for this new generation of truly robust and shared currencies and transactions with a mutable secure to share record is just going to be a growth accelerator for the world economy in the 21st century going forward. So many respects, technology takes off when network formation occurs. TCPIP was a foundation for network formation for distributed computing. What we're basically saying is that blockchain becomes a crucial feature of how application networks get constructed over the course of the next 10 years. Have I got there right, David, before? Absolutely. That's the key is the guy who sold his first telephone was a genius. The second was easier and it gets easier and easier as that network grows and blockchain is a key contributor to the development of those networks and a one-to-one relationship, many, many one-to-one relationships that can occur from that away from centralization and to a much more distributed environment. So I think we got time for one more prediction really quickly and I'll bring it up and then I want to open it up for conversation because this is an interesting one. We come back to this notion of global network formation, blockchain being what we think or blockchain like technology is being a crucial element of that. But let's talk about how the relationship between technology, the cloud and global economies are likely to evolve. For the most part, when people think about the cloud today we think of US-based companies. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, IBM, also in there, but there's some other companies that are going to have a say on how the cloud industry evolves over the course of the next five years. Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu. So our prediction is that in 2018 we're going to see a lot more conversation about the role that China plays in establishing some of the new rules for how cloud application networks and security plays on a global basis and that's going to facilitate the emergence of Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu also on the global stage as cloud computing companies. What are your guys' thoughts? Dave Vellante, let me start with you. Well I think we're going to see the emergence of the, we've seen the emergence of the China cloud and we're going to see that seep through other parts of Asia Pacific. As we discussed earlier as a team in our private meeting Europe is going to be a very interesting pivot point because if China can control at least portions of Europe and use that as a lure for China that's going to give them a leg up on global cloud. So that leads ultimately to a series of questions about what will be the relationship between formation of cloud industries, the evolution of the cloud industries and geopolitical concerns and I think what we need to do guys is dedicate an entire research meeting to that question because it's going to be one of the most important dictators of how the industry evolves over the next few years and ultimately how businesses and enterprises need to start establishing crucial partnerships with their key and strategic suppliers. So look in the last couple of minutes we want to do our action item round. Now what we do here at the action item show is we start off having a conversation and then we go into the action item. What are you going to do differently Monday as a consequence of the information we're talking about? So let's do that now. Hit some action items. What you heard from the five, six predictions that we talked about. David Floyer, what's your action item? So my action item is for CIOs and CTOs is to take a pause on IoT and look for vendors that have solutions which can be put in easily and quickly and span OT and IT in the IoT space. Neal Raiden, what's your action item? Well I think there's a lot of activity around AI and there's going to be an explosion of it in 2018 but most of it's not really going to be AI it's going to be machine learning and machine learning is really just math and floating points. AI is different, right? AI is neuroscience, it's neurology, it's biology and physics and sociology. It's more science. I think that some machine learning is there on that horizon that AI, but it's not. So we need to make sure we're clear about what announcements and what technology is machine learning versus artificial intelligence. Jim Cabela, what's your action item? My action item is to revisit IBM's prospects in the AI market and deep learning going forward and revisit our positive note actually because IBM was actually turned around their cognitive strategy in the last year where they focus on the power AI platform which is really framework agnostic and so forth. And really the AI space that's actually shaping up is different from one that IBM had always envisioned at the start of this decade. And so really in 2018 we're going to see IBM come on strong I believe as a provider of the core, one of the providers of the core, get framework agnostic, deep learning, a development of platforms in the industry. That's my prediction. David Vellante, what's your action item?  And as part of that, I think you've got to find to George's point, distribution channels and distribution partners that can help you with go-to-market at scale or you're in big trouble. George Gilbert, action item. We've been talking about sort of the cloud wars and my recommendation to CIOs and senior IT leaders would be that if you want to hedge your bets, you don't want to be all in on one cloud. It's not dividing a workload across different clouds. Pick a cloud for a workload or for an application because portability is sort of more of a dream than a reality. It's not about moving containers around. You're in an API ecosystem, you're subject to data gravity. So it's almost like if you're going to do the equivalent of distributed computing, you're going to put some part of the application on one cloud and some part in another cloud. So the action item is be smart about the relationship between new style of applications and architecture and cloud choices. Okay, let me summarize the meeting very quickly. This has been a great conversation about predictions in 2018. You expect to see more from us over the course of the next month. It's going to be a major theme of ours in November and into December. So quickly the findings are these. The technology industry made a major mistake with the dot com boom. And the mistake was a presumption that technology change necessarily meant economic change. That is a false assumption. The economists of technology have been pretty well understood for quite some time and they're going to assert themselves even as we go through the significant transformative period in the technology industry. And the economics of volume are going to continue to be important. And we expect that those economics coupled with the three factors of what's driving cloud architecture decisions, the realities of physics, geopolitical concerns and intellectual property concerns are going to lead to some significant changes in 2018 that we've only just conceived of. One, we expect that we're going to see an emergence of true private cloud that will continue to be crucial to how businesses think about their information, technology, overall infrastructure and plant. And that's going to have an impact ultimately on where AI gets developed. More from software vendors based on volume. Two, we expect to see a significant impact on ultimately what happens in the VC funded world as startups which have historically just presumed that there was no need for go to market, that everything was going to be a try and buy and then we'd scale from there, start to hit the business realities of the consistency of the economics of volume. Three, IBM we think is repositioning and some are paradoxically is likely to become more successful as a consequence as a provider of the technologies that make possible some of these new comprehensive, complex AI and related oriented technologies and not just as a service provider. Very importantly, ITOM is going to become increasingly important and we'll see AI, machine learning be an essential feature of that. In fact, one of the places where we learn how to do it right. And the final one is a lot's going on with blockchain but we expect greater distribution of applications, greater distribution of data and the security technologies and the technologies for bringing that together and supporting the network formation of data and applications must be in place and that's going to be a major area of technology innovation in 2018. All right, so this closes out our action item for this week. Once again, I'm Peter Burris. I'd like to as always thank the Wikibon team for participating with me today and we look forward to once again visiting with you from the CUBE studios here in Palo Alto, California on the next action item. Thank you very much.


Two rakaat tu naish, two rakaat only, if it is done sincerely with pure heart and sincere intention, it's like you've done or you do a lot of rakaat for thousand months. One sadaka, so every khair that one does on a night of kador, not only salah, even sadaka, often ages we have so many often dimension last night and I encourage you to dig out into your pocket and support some of these good charity organizations who are reaching out to the poor ones who are reaching out to those who are less advantage. If you give sadaka tonight on a night of kador, you will be giving the reward of giving sadaka for thousand months.  There is no merciful Lord than our beloved Lord. Companions of Rasulullah came to Rasulullah and they were telling Rasulullah, of course this is one of the reasons as to why this verse was revealed and there are other reasons. And they were describing one man from Bani Israel that this man he worked tirelessly in the way of Allah for about thousand months, working in the way of Allah, establishing the true teachings of monotheism. Then Allah revealed unto holy prophet, why are you worried all my sahaba? Laylatul kadri khairon, thousand months back, but you've been giving only one night, that one night. If you make good use of it, khairon is not saying equivalent to alfishara. It's better than thousand months. And then the next one Allah say, tansalul melaikatu warruhufiha. The same thing in Arabic, when it tansalul melaika, tansal is fil mudari, it's a continuous tense. It's not past tense, it's not tansalatul melaika, that the angels came down and that's it. He said the angels continue to come down. And he has called us in Tafasir of Quran, he said why Allah use continuous tense is because they began coming during the lifetime of Rasulullah on the night of Qadar and they will continue coming down each and every night of Qadar until the day of khairon. Angels will keep on coming, therefore Allah said melaika. And not only melaika warruhufiha. Or you can see in the Quran, what is roh? Imam Mujaafir said arruhu wa a'adamu minal melaika. Roh is the higher and greater than melaika. Some scholars said this is the Roh, that Allah sent to prophets of Allah to strengthen them to either do miracle or to continue loving Allah where Allah says about Jesus, alaihi salam, wa ay adinahu beruha kudus. Some said it's jibraeen. But Imam Mujaafir said no, Allah said tansal melaika warruhufiha. See he says melaika, jibraeen is part of melaika. So roh is a unique creature of Allah who will come tonight and help us and support us and strengthen us in the course of our amal and take our message to our beloved imams aligimu salatu wa salatu. Therefore some scholars said roh, masdaru rezek wa masdaru saada. Roh is the source of the risk we will be asking for tonight. It's the source of the afia, the health we will be asking tonight. It's the source of the blessings that we will be asking tonight because I know all of us sitting here, we have awanis, there are so many things I'm sure we've prepared to ask Allah, tabaraka wa taala. So the roh, come in, it is a blessing for the umma of Rasulullah. Aleyhi alafu tahiyati wa alibaiti al-isma wa tahara. And then of course the last one is what? Salamun hiya hatta matla al-fajr. Now you see on this night, beginning of this night is salam. And the ending of the night is salam. Which sort of salam is this? This is salam from angels. Allah sent angels to us to pass salam and to us. This salam is a very unique salam. You see in Quran Allah says on the day of qiyama, when the people of jannah go to jannah Allah will send salam to them. Salam. That's salam of Allah. To the servant of Allah will be in jannah is better than whatever is in jannah. It's not only that. Even people before they go to jannah salamuna aleykum tiptum fadukhuluha khalideen.  Tiptum you are fortunate. Fadukhuluha khalideen. Enter permanently into this jannah. Is that all? No. When Ibrahim aleykum salam was in fire, what made the fire cold? Salam of Malaika. Of course from Allah. Ya zid yana wakuni iberdan wa salaman ala Ibrahim.  So tonight also in this night of kada there will be the salam of the angels of Allah. Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Right from the beginning of the night up until fadukh. The angel will be saying salam salam salam salam salam to each and every one of us. Now in conclusion. Apart from this salam that angels will be passing unto each and every one of us. What will be their major role and responsibility tonight? What reason our topic is the central role of angels on the night of kada. They play crucial role on the night of kada. And to understand that we go a little bit back to Quran. You see when you look at Quran Quran always talk about earth and heaven. Khalaka samawati kwa ala earth for instance. Or one aya yusabihu lillahi mafis samawati kwa mafila. Allah always will talk about the earth and the heaven. Now let's look at heaven. Why always Allah talking about earth? Allah talks about earth because earth is the headquarters of Prophet of Allah and Awliya Allah. Prophet of Allah this is the headquarters. So therefore Allah will never forget about the earth. This is where Prophets and our Imams aligi Musalatu wa Salam are. And this is where they play their role. And one of the major role of our Prophets is that they are witness over our deeds and actions. Look at Musa. Fakaifa is jina min kule umma tibi shahili. Wa jina bika alaha ula i shahili. Allah talks about Musa alagi salam. And Musa witness over the actions of his people. Not only Musa, our beloved Prophet. Wa qabalika ja alana kum umma tan wasata. Lityakunu shuhada alana. Wa yakuna Rasula alaikum shahida. Rasul is shahi. He witness over all our deeds and all over our actions. The same we have aya. We talks about Jesus alagi salatu wa salam. Ma'adum tu alayhim shahida. Ma'adum tu fihim. Falamma tu wa faitani. Kuntantaraqiba alayhim. Isa said I was witness over all the deeds and actions. But when Allah you've taken me from this dunia, you then become witness over the actions. So therefore, one of the crucial role of the Prophets is to witness over all our actions. Tonight, we are coming to display actions. Actions of Ibadah. Actions of Aaman. What all witness over actions. Imam Mujafur explain alayhi alafu tahiyatu wa salam. Inna aamaalakum tu uradu alayna fi sahaifin min kibali lmalaikah. Imam Mujafur. Imam Mujafur alayhi salatu wa salam said, You these and your actions are shown to us by the angels of Allah. So the crucial role of the angels tonight when they come and you are serious with your aamal and you are attentive towards the aamal and you are sincere in doing the aamal that angel will show your deeds to the Imam of our time. Imam Muzaman will witness our deeds and actions tonight. Therefore, angels when they come and you are saying salam they will convey our salam to the Imam of our time and they will tell our Imam Fulan, Fulan, Ali Scotland, Muhammed Mughlo, Jawad they are here making Ibadah, making aamal. All our names would be mentioned by the angels and our beloved Imam of the time will see the names of his beloved angels who love him and follow him and Imam will be happy to see the names of all of us by the end of tonight. And lastly brothers and sisters in our Rewiah as we all know there are three possible nights. Yes we mentioned earlier on seek for the night of Qadr or look for it in the last ten nights but the three nights we have Rewiah from Imam Ali Salatu Salam our beloved Sifi Imam. Night of the 19th night of the 21st and night of the 22nd and our Rewiah strongly is on the night of the 23rd like tonight. Therefore if you read some of our Rewiah this night is called the night of Johani. Johani was one desert duela who always wanted to go to Medina and he would ask the only prophet of Islam peace be upon him and his family when is the best time for me to go to Medina he would always ask Rasulullah the Rasulullah when they told him the best night to enter Medina is the night of the 22nd of Ramamaw. So therefore you need to Rewiah that night is named after him the night of Johani. Imam Ujapur said the first night is the night of Takdir 19th is the night of Takdir Takdir is simply means you put your foot touch you lay the foundation of what you want and what you want to give away your sense you have to give away your sense and the second night is the night of 19th is the night of Ibrahim some call it the night of Qadar that is the night where Allah Tabaraka Wata'ala will look at our faces and look at how we came together in the mosque of Hussainiya for the Amal and for the Ibada and Allah will sanction whatever action that we undertake on that night tonight is the night of they call it Laylatul Ibrahim it is the night of authority and approval of Allah Allah is going to approve tonight so maybe you ask something on the first night and on the second night you insisted a little bit on it tonight insist more and as I mentioned if you truly want Allah to accept you and to forgive you do tawbatan nasuha sincere pentans tawbatan nasuha musuri sincere pentans sincere pentans require setting conditions number one before we begin with the Amal regret your past let's all do that regret your past number two pledge that I'm going to be good tonight is the last night who knows when whether I will be alive next year pledge this base on the teachings of Amirul Makhmini pledge ya Allah I will not go back again I use not to wear hijab from tonight my hijab will be in touch I used to be lazy when it comes to my Salat Establishment from tonight no I used to take unlawful substance from tonight over list them, bring them out outline them pledge I will never go back to them again I want to be a new person after the holy month of Ramadan I want to be a person who ends for Allah and his presence in his life so number two pledge these are conditions for the acceptance of our Doha and Makhmini number three you pay your wajibat what do I mean by wajibat how many Salat you owe how many fast you owe how many had you owe probably how much homes you owe for instance I'm not saying pledge tonight is not possible it's not practical pledge make a plan in your mind strategic planning that insya Allah from tonight I'm going to start paying back what I owe slowly but surely based on my capability Allah is happy with that number four who could not people's rights you've taken somebody's wealth you've taken somebody's valuable think of paying it back give it back to the person or send him a message let's look inside I will give it to you or else we can't make doha it doesn't have any positive impact in our lives unfortunately and then number five we should be ready to forgive those if you want Allah to forgive you should be ready are you ready somebody has wronged you are you ready to forgive if you do not forgive Allah will not forgive you we need to be willing to forgive whoever has wronged us then Allah tabaraka wa ta'alawil fagima then after that after when these five are met then you say astakfirullah rabbi once you do astakfirullah after these conditions Allah will accept you and of course in Wariwai Rasulullah mentioned that don't go laylatul qadar when you are not in talking terms with a mu'min I'm not talking to you you're not talking to me now we come together in the most crying and believing with Allah when I don't want to reconcile with you therefore the first two raka'a we do that's significance and we have teachings about these two raka'a one fadila of the two raka'a is that whoever does the two raka'a before the Ahmad he will be forgiven and his parents will be forgiven so when we ask to do two raka'a let's all stand, rise up and do the two raka'a and also we recite these three chapters of Quran Rome, Ankhabut, and Dukhan we have ria'at from Ali al-Bayt ask to why we recite no time to believe at the point but the kumori why we have is that one ria'at whoever recites suratur Rome on a night of qadar Allah tabaraka wa ta'ala will ask the angels who are between the earth and the heaven to ask for forgiveness on his own behalf but understand the meaning of the chapter because he's talking about the sincere servant of Allah Allah wants you to be sincere He wants you to be a proud servant like the way Imam Amir al-Mukminin was proud servant of Allah and then of course the other two chapters we have also ria'at whoever recite them in Ankhabut and Dukhan wajabat lahuli janah janah becomes wajib obligatory opponent to enter but definitely just reciting suratur Dukhan, Ali filami it's not going to work out look at the meanings because they come on power point and it's so important you understand what you are reciting we not here to recite the Dua for the sake of reciting the Dua we here to recite the Dua and Amal so we obtain what we ask Allah and it has positive effect on our life so Imam said if you recite these two chapters then Allah tabarko alawul grant you janatul third house


Thanks for checking out this movie review video This is for the 1978 giallo film the pajama girl case and it shot in Australia So that's why I didn't say Italian giallo film, but many people who were Italian involved in the making of this film now Right off the bat. I'm gonna say I have said in my reviews for giallo films. I didn't like all that much or I thought were a That every giallo film is worth watching at least once that they're all fun. Well, I think I found my Exception to the rule at this point. This is the 38th giallo film I've seen and I finally hit the wall where This is one. I just would not recommend really like this is not a good film and it's not even a good giallo film Like there's not enough giallo fun To it in a bad way to even make it worth anyone's time in my opinion Especially because the runtime's like I don't know like an hour and 42 minutes or something like that The story is not there for it Definitely not there for it and that's the biggest problem with this film in general is the story is bad.  It's very slow I mean a lot of giallo is slow, but there's a lot of interesting stuff going on and they're getting there So like you have a lot of fun to keep you entertained This one not so much in the beginning a little bit more. Yes, but as it goes on Oh, it really drags horribly So this one's written and directed by Flavio Mogherini who also did the film lunatics and lovers Okay, whatever This was actually inspired by a real murder from 1934 in Australia, which as I said, this is where they shoot the film They actually Show Australia quite a bit, you know, they make a very big point of showing a lot of Particularly Australian structures in the film the one main one. I forget what it's called the one in Sydney I don't remember what that's called. It's very recognizable when you see it, but Yeah, so it's you know One of the very interesting things about the music in this film, which by the way whenever there's lyrics In music in this film. Oh my god, that's like the worst music ever But then after I started hearing it enough I was just like I'm kind of looking forward to that because it's like a so bad It's good type music and at least there's a so bad. It's good something in this film But anyway, the score is actually done by riz or telani Now some people may be thinking oh riz or telani. That sounds familiar Well, I'll tell you why it sounds familiar because he's done first of all, he's done tons and tons and tons of scores Like I think he has like 200 and some imdb credits for just for doing music for films But here are some other films he did scores for so sweet so perverse Seven bloodstained orchids don't torture a duckling seven dead in the cat's eye Killer crocodile killer crocodile 2 and probably what he's most well known for cannibal holocaust A lot of people know the cannibal holocaust soundtrack a lot of people comment on how great it is That's riz or telani and riz or telani unfortunately worked on the pajama girl case This one's a bad one So the opening song is very weird anytime there are lyrics it's weird and the singing the other thing is the actual Singing with these songs is unbelievably flat and I mean from a tone level. It's just very flat and there's not a whole lot of Range To be honest I don't know. I'd be interested to hear from someone who like legitimately likes the music in this film Not just I mean the the the songs with lyrics. That's what i'm referring to because other than that fine like the music's fine So thompson who's kind of you know, he's the old detective who's been retired obviously Who's honestly the best character in the film the only character that I really cared about at all because all the other characters are very flat Um, don't have good back stories and just aren't good people aren't anyone you would actually root for So like either they're just very disinteresting or they're terrible Yeah, so they really kind of failed on the front of creating good characters except for thompson Who doesn't stick around for the whole film who should have I mean even if he wasn't going to be around for the whole film at least keep him for the overwhelming majority of it I think they made him exit like halfway through the film or a little bit after halfway There's way too much of this film without thompson because he is actually an enjoyable character And all the scenes with him were probably the best scenes in my opinion So thompson actually really advocates hard for taking the case In the very beginning when they first find the dead body of who you end up finding out is Now here's the thing IMDb says her name is glenda, but they call her linda in the film because I was watching with dub So i'm just going to call her linda for the purpose of this but know that IMDb says glenda so I don't know if it's glenda in the italian version and Um linda in the american version. I just don't know so i'm refer to her as linda So thompson. Um, yeah, so you get the idea that he's very bored in life You know, he makes comment about being retired and he advocates so hard for like, I want this case. I want this case It's obviously He has nothing else to do with his life like he needs some sort of feeling of purpose Uh, but unfortunately, that's kind of what ends up leading to his demise in the end Very unfortunately for the viewer especially because that's the only interest Um, so initially there was a gun that was shown in the glove box of I guess he was like the sugar daddy of linda Uh, so there was a gun shown when she opened that glove box So I thought that it was gonna end up leading to like oh something's gonna happen with this gun and maybe This sugar daddy guy is gonna end up being the killer, but it was like a total Like it didn't mean anything. I guess maybe it was there for a red herring Maybe but i'm not willing to give this film that much credit to be honest So note that pajamas on the dead woman were yellow There's actually a lot of occurrences of yellow in this which I believe are just supposed to be references to giallo This happens in other films. It happens a lot in the case of the bloody iris They put yellow like everywhere and they actually even Use yellow to kind of give you hints as to what's actually going on and who the killer is But um with this film they have yellow in a few places the main places They have it like I said the pajamas are yellow that she's found dead in Linda that is and then the scene where linda Has sex with the three guys, which is On many many level i'll talk about it later, but on many levels like horrible scene Anyway, she Going up the stairs to the I guess it was a hotel room at that point It's it has like yellow glass with yellow light coming through one of the guys is wearing a yellow shirt She's got the yellow pajamas that she was found dead in and then There's a yellow sheet on the top or a yellow comforter on top of the bed that she goes up to so Very clear references to giallo because giallo means yellow in italy so yeah Anyway, or in italy and I should say According to linda evalyn tried to Try to not go home so much so that she potentially feigned sexual interest in linda I thought that whole storyline was going to end up going somewhere The only thing you actually get out of the the situation with evalyn and linda Because she was the one that she was telling her sugar daddy Really didn't want to go back to her house is what it seemed like which made me kind of think initially that the dead body found Was evalyn But then you find out that like what's really going on is they're showing two stories at once Which are the investigation story and then all the events leading up to linda actually being killed and then revealing Oh, she was the dead body basically, which is a great idea. I'm fine with that idea I think it's a really cool idea and I like that they did that but It was just executed very poorly in my opinion So and and I thought that the evalyn story would have a lot more to do with something I mean the only thing is after she tells her initial story about how she didn't want to go home And she kind of like slept with her a little bit The only other time she pops up is when she sends her the pajamas like that's it So I was like, it's just and there's a bunch of that type of stuff in the film.   It's just like I don't How did how did he get them there? Like there's so many like Left field like out of nowhere type things I did think it was funny though that he was beaten off when they found him And then the fact that Thompson when they're about to leave after you know questioning Questioning him a little bit like he's like, how fun I thought that was pretty fun Like it goes back to Thompson is the best character man He is the best character in this and had he been in it more like a lot more And they didn't need to have the whole flashback portion of like showing all the events Leading up to her dying. They could have just explained it because it's not even interesting like it's literally not interesting None of those characters are interesting. The events aren't even interesting They're actually a big letdown for the whole mystery of the thing Hate it, but anyway, uh, so it was an attempt the whole thing with Quinn, you know Beating off it was an attempt to connect him as a murderer since the corner It already settled some sort of sex maniac because in these giallo films. It is always a sex maniac Um, oh which by the way something else I meant to say by now So I'll just throw it in here. Is it this films from 1978? Which is like well after the big period for giallo films like giallo films were only popular through like 1974 So like four years later this shows up. So I don't know if they were trying to restart something. Obviously. This is not a good way to do it with such a bad film, but yeah The real sex maniac appears to be roi And he watches the muppets after sex too So, uh, roi is the Third lover of lindas because she's got her sugar daddy. She's got antonio Who she ends up? Marry I guess she doesn't I'm marrying him. I'm unclear on that and then she has roi Now I just thought it was funny like roi was very sexual with her So I thought oh, maybe roi's the killer because he's extremely sexual but once again a red herring, but He was watching the muppets.  He was terrible You can see how jealous antonio gets when guys are checking her out when she's working That's when antonio was hanging out on that boat like Where people were having dinner and she was waitressing and he kept seeing all these guys checking her out And he was just like getting visibly pissed off So you could kind of see like His anger issues and things building so it does make sense for his character when he you know goes too far And he ends up actually accidentally killing linda so It's insane that the police put her body on display Yeah, I didn't understand that. I mean it's something that if it was in a better film I would be like okay.  So like the acting wasn't very good The idea of it wasn't very good. It didn't really fit Didn't fit anything nothing fits with this um, it was kind of unclear on who linda's sugar daddy it was by the way because A large portion through the film. I was like, who is this guy? Is this her father? Like age-wise, obviously it could be her father But they're not acting like father and daughter and then eventually they were talking about I think it's when Antonio and roi were fighting in the car And I think in uh, roi had said something about going her going back to her sugar daddy And I was like, oh, that's gotta be who that is and then that's kind of further bolstered when she goes to him And she's having dinner with him at like the clubhouse. It was like a golf club or something Notice how lavish and comfy glendis time with roi is versus the dichotomy of her life with antonio That looks like kind of a beaten up dingy apartment with you know lights coming through was like green and red light strobing In the bedroom because of where they're located Uh, yeah, and then also just like personality wise like antonio Not a good personality. Like obviously I was saying he was he gets very angry very quick.   And then why does she go along with it to like marry him like it makes no sense She has these other options a lot of the stuff with the script makes absolutely no sense And it makes her a very unsympathetic Character too.  It makes her overly sexual too Even when she doesn't want to do anything like I'm getting to that. But yeah I like the guy with all the birds. He was actually a fun character, but obviously he's barely in it He was such a free-spirited individual and he was so open about the issues with his wife The one he married just for citizenship. I thought that was funny. Um His interaction with thompson was good Like those were the two best characters right there If he would start then teamed up with thompson and they would have gone and solved the investigation together That would have been cool. But alas. What could have been All the stuff stuff with linda's two relationships is very slow It really really really slows this film down and that is the biggest problem That's why I was saying like they could have just gotten rid of that because it's not that interesting. It takes forever It's more of a disappointment than anything in the end when you find out how things actually went down It's just like, uh, this is not interesting at all And then I freaked out when thompson got killed. I flipped out. I'm like, are you kidding me? This is the best character in this damn thing He was such like a surly bastard, but in the best way possible I loved thompson. He was great. Like he should have had his own movie Like this movie should have been is but when he got killed someone else should pick that character up and made a whole movie Where's just thompson? They sure love showing antonio just stroll around Downtown just I at one point I was like is this like a propaganda film for like visit australia Because they showed so much scenery that it was just like Is this like is there a point to this? Is this what we're doing now? I didn't get it I like the scene where linda's yearning for a better life while antonio tells her she could be the next cleaning lady That's right.  He's got all this money. I could be with my sugar daddy who has no name apparently He's got all this money and it's It just why it doesn't make any sense why she is where she is It just doesn't make sense The scene where linda goes to have sex with the three guys That's the one that features a lot of yellow But it is also a horrible horrible sex scene in so many ways. Uh, it doesn't like I understand It's there because when they found the body they said that she was raped by multiple men So that's the explanation of why she had the semen from multiple men in her But what's the real purpose? Like you didn't even need to have that as part of them examining the body Like that didn't need to be found like it adds nothing to the story If anything it just makes her even less Relatable it makes her even worse of a character because to deal with her just feeling like blah about life She just offers to have sex with these three guys for a hundred bucks It doesn't make any sense.  Like the scene is very uncomfortable. It's very disgusting It's very exploitative. It's nasty and it's just It's horrible. It like it's disturbing too. It's just like why like why would you even do this? It adds nothing to the story and this is one of the things like It's the 70s, you know rape was used a lot in films and this it feels like borderline rape in the scene. So It's just it I'm glad we're past that that stuff like we just don't need it There are still films where You know a properly done rape scene does add to the film if it legitimately adds to the story But it needs to be very specific and then it really adds to the story in an important way Um, but I'm glad we've moved away from doing stuff like this in the the pajama girl case because totally pointless Uh, it's pretty farfetched That thompson actually solved this case before he was killed I didn't see any real indicator that he really solved anything or even got remotely close to solving anything Um, it's such a stretch. It kind of seems like they were just like and then magically he somehow solved it and then just Is like what I don't understand. I don't understand Antonio just spinning in slow motion after he gets hit by the bus at the end Horrible looks awful. I laughed at it because it's very laughable the way it looks Just garbage. Just this film's garbage. Everything's garbage. It's an awful film. I can't recommend it to anyone Ugh I like the idea to intercut the investigation and the events of what happened But the story was so stupid and the investigation wasn't engaging That's the other aspect of it unless it was like thompson related stuff The the investigation wasn't even that engaging like this film fails on so many fronts The script was bad. The script was very bad Flavio, what the hell? Come on The film feels very unfocused very meandering case in point all the scenes of antonio just walking around town I mean, that's what the whole film kind of felt like was just walking around town looking around Terrible, man Lots of garbage characters Thompson was the only one that mattered and yeah, that's it That's basically all I got to say about it. I mean it I am impressed that it took me till 38 films of giallo In order to find one that i'm like this sucks and I actually keep a list of all the giallo films I've seen and have them ranked after I watch them I kind of like figure out where they should go and this one just immediately went to the bottom before this The night eveline came out of the grave was the bottom and seeing this I was just like Oh man that the night eveline came out of the grave is like way better than this and that movie's got a lot of problems I was like, oh So I am very interested to hear what other people have to say about this film. So please put it in the comments Oh my gosh Out of five stars with half stars in play. I'm just gonna give this one and a half stars Uh, and it gets to one and a half basically because of thompson because he does have some good scenes basically Yeah, that's about it I don't unfortunately. Oh, I forgot to show that I own this thing That's the worst part. I own this I don't I'm not gonna watch it again Like I'm definitely not watching it again unless somebody wants to see as much giallo as they can and I'm like, all right Watch this crap But anyway, I mean it looks good arrow video did a good job putting it out, but it's Okay, so anyway, give me your comments on this. Do me a quick favor hit that subscribe button That's your way to repay me for watching this crappy movie No, it's your way to repay me if you like any video I've ever done and I'm also just trying to grow this nerdy horror community here Um, because it's fun. 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I will call us to order at 731 Perception of Guests. Hello. He says without a trace of sarcasm. Agenda revisions, anything to add? I would like to make an revision at 3.2 at 46. I don't think it has to be extensive. Any other agenda revisions? Public comments and correspondence. We're done. Approve the minutes of 521-18. I would make a motion to approve the minutes of 521-18. I'll second that. Any discussion? None of those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? I'm staying. No, thank you. On to 3.1 Board Goals. So I'll make a motion, but before I make the motion, I would just offer from my perspective some clarification that even though I'm going to make a motion to adopt these three goals as our own, I don't mean it to be exclusive of if we, I don't want lots of goals, but if we had an additional goal that was important to us, we would certainly decide to do that. I'm not saying we need to be limited to these three, but my motion will be to adopt the Supervisory Union Board Goals as each month's Pealier Elementary School District Board Goals. I'll second it. Thank you. Is there any discussion of the Board Goals? I had a question, Marcelle. Our calendar is very similar to this, so that it was goal oriented, right? And it's very similar to these goals anyways. Should I change that language to reflect this? In terms of building a work plan? Well, I think community engagement was already in there. Yeah, the three goals are very similar. They're very similar. It's just the wording is different. Yeah, I support changing the wording. Okay. And I also as part of the discussion support what Steven said, because we're not limited to these, but these are the main goals in concert with the SU board. And then the only other comment I had was that we had, we didn't really talk about it at the full board meeting, but we had a lengthy discussion at the executive committee about that we would be at Liberty at least in goal two for the quality committee. And I wanted your input on being able to change, I'd be interested in what Alicia has to say, and what the board has to say in changing the timeline of the, oops, this is here. So in goal two, well, goal two has a suggested timeline. Yeah. And they gave us the liberty to change it as needed, but I don't want to, you know, neither of us want to do that without, it was left to the quality committee to change it as needed, but we also, I don't want to make, making our recommendation without touching base with you. I would be very comfortable for our board giving the quality, school quality committee the same leeway that the executive committee did. Essentially what the executive committee did is we recognized that they were the content experts and they'd been working with it. And if an adjustment in the timeline made sense to them because of the work they're doing, we would accept that and that these timelines were just intended to be guidelines. What's the pirates of the Caribbean and the pirates code is more like a guidelines and a law. We just want to move them a little bit so they align better with what we're doing. So not wait until January to, okay. So we'll. Any further discussion of the board goals? All of those in favor of adopting the board goals as moved by Steve, please say aye. Aye. Opposed to Epstein? Thank you. Act 46. So I asked to put it on. I mean, the next time there's a meeting to discuss is it'll be a full board. So I don't have a lot that I felt like I needed to say, but it made sense that perhaps we at least have a brief discussion of what we've read and what anyone wants to say so that when we head into the full board it's something at least we've touched on. I act and since I made the motion, I guess I'll start the conversation. I still think we should have the meeting, but I agreed with a lot of what Susan had to say that really this is a recommendation and we're really not going to know anything until November on the report. But as the way I was with Act 46 the whole time, I think what we should think about coming now in June and what we should spend some of our time in June on is coming up with a timeline so that this is when the Board of Education is going to be in the June, considers it and it's reasonable to assume that the Board of Education might, like the AOE did, provide an opportunity for the SU to do another pitch or respond or whatever so that we would need to do things I think in June to say if the Board of Education wants a response who would provide that response what would be the makeup of that group it might be the same group, but structurally we would have in place a scheme and a timeline on who would respond what the response would be, when the response would be, when the Board of Education was required where we might fit it in, those kind of things and then even thinking, okay we're going to hear something one way or another in November so should we make some preparations to meet additionally once that's done because it's budget season, it's reasonable to consume, we might need another meeting to, so for me that's the real purpose I know a lot of people will have opinions and voice, you know, pro and con and all that but for me the June meeting really should be about organizing so that we just have a plan to move forward it doesn't say what we're going to do and until the Board of Education has it I mean they have it but it's now up to them to make a decision they're not going to make a decision that by next month you have to done blah blah blah but one thing I'd like to avoid is any kind of coming out of the June meeting a little group of people writing another response or big paper or anything prematurely we need to just sit back and see because I don't think and this is just a little polyanomy but I don't think they're going to meet and say by July 1, 2019 you have to have all this in place because budgeting and all of that is such a big deal in schools that I believe there will be that's not what they said so they're going to provide us with articles of agreement and we have to be operational by July 1, 2019 so there's no... but the Board of Education hasn't acted on it yet that's what the AOA said now it has to go to the Board of Education but in November if they say you'll be merged by July 1, 2019 that's not changing because it's been written into law so those deadlines... we would have to go into lobbying to change that but not the articles of agreement because that's something they came up later with the Board was in favor of consolidation but there is a lot of devil in the details of those articles I think there's a time and Donna had a meeting where she kind of explained some of the ones that they were recommending I haven't seen them I don't know if you've seen them but the point is they're not asking us to develop them and say these are what you're doing that's sort of like the part that we lost we gave up that chance we can add but I agree with Stephen and with Lindy what she was saying I was in the June meeting as just planning and having the group go and present to the Board of Education I think it would be a mistake to change our message to the Board of Education because of what we receive right now we have to stand behind us united with what we put forward and do the best we can to convince them that that's the best course for our district and then if they come back in November and they say, no, we can still be doing you know, working before Is there an opportunity for going before them before November? There is, yeah, there is the Board of Education is going to be meeting between June and October and it's going to be similar to what we did with the department today But they haven't set aside a meeting for all these groups but I don't know the schedule they haven't invited specifically yet but I know that that's their intent they don't want to look like they're just rubber stamping what it was sent to them so we would have that opportunity and I really think that would be a mistake to change because of what we hear right now now we move away that would be a mistake Well, that would be up for the public to do not the Board to do if the public came forward with some uprising but they wouldn't go to the Board it would be more about lobbying their legislators or something, I don't know No, but I guess somebody could go to the Board But the public outcry might I don't see it happening But the question is what would the public outcry be over Yeah Right So, I mean one of the things that that fettered our discussions was that we had to be within the law so there were very specific constraints around debt and stuff so the State Board has a lot more flexibility in building those articles of agreement than the Act 46 committee had for better or worse And they have quite a few that they said have to do that from this process Yeah, and I And they did call out that community engagement is important whether that's just a way to responsibility for Yeah, I think that was just like You know I won't say what I thought about that comment So we would plan a meeting on Well, I mean that's the direction I'll try to drive I mean, certainly there are going to be people that want to get up and talk and you know, I don't expect Matthew's going to try to prevent that and you know, people make impassioned pleas But anyway, from I don't expect to hear anything I haven't heard So for me, I think the value of that is you know, a plan and a structure because just like how we were going to respond to the AOE rather than each board doing their own individual work I mean, I think what we could potentially agree on is a similar group to carry the same message to the Board of Education that here's what our here's what our request is it hasn't changed the agency of education didn't support it but that's still how we feel And then in November if if it's supported then it's just dead we don't have to do anything if it's not supported then we should have some thoughts and some structure on if it's not supported then on this day in November this day in December we'll have a full board meeting to discuss and respond or begin to talk about what's going to happen because potentially it could be a very ugly year Yeah, I was I was not completely surprised I was heartbroken just because I see how we are moving in all these directions that we all are being so productive and we have all this that this again would be another destruction of the work that we're doing and you know, it's just like you're a very positive person I mean, I look at the policy committee stuff and I look at the goal stuff one board doesn't think they can support these goals three goals for their own and some districts want to go their own way on policies and anyway, that's all I just that's what I'll push for is a timeline and a plan I agree Okay, reports to the board Any questions about that was huge it was awesome, just like your first it was a lot of work I was just really excited to see the amount of meetings that you have had with teachers and I was just like when? After April break until graduation there is really not a minute in the day that's not scheduled and over scheduled and double scheduled but if you tell me you're busy So, it's not a question but I don't know if it's a question, one of the I'm trying to find my notes out on the computer my computer just died you say you have enough data ready for kids coming in the summer of that reteach part for this summer from is it taking account the loss that we have in the summer or is that just from the data we have right now where to start Okay so all of our SBAC results are in they're embargoed until June 15 but they're in so we can look at them and we did a comparison between our start of 360 across the year results in SBAC the hope was that it would be correlated in the days which is great so it means next year it will be a good predictor because this is the first year we use start of 360 reading and in that so it will be a nice predictor in the fall and in the winter for those students and how they can perform and how to provide interventions so what we've done most recently is just look at all of the data identify those students who have kind of been on the fence in the yellow we call it those who aren't significantly below but those who are not meeting the standard and came up with a plan for everyone of those students how will you address their needs and what will that look like in the winter in the fall where the month of September is typically a month where we do beginning of year assessments and don't have to teach intervention blocks those students will have interventions starting with K-1 and we've done that for the last couple of years but I feel like our data is getting better each year so that we can really identify the kids those are the kids you tend to see have a summer slump so getting them so that's what I was wondering we use the results based on spring when we give the assessments in the fall a lot of them have regressed some but we still know that in the spring they need those interventions we have some students so if a student is on a plan they can participate in summer services so it doesn't need to just be a child on an IEP which is great we have kids who are on like EST plans who need interventions who will participate in summer which people will help with the summer slide last question there was one bullet about homework you have buy-in so it's fascinating today is a communication taking module which was around getting on the same page with our communication and family and when I showed the school wide results I gave each teacher their own results so the survey asked parents to identify their child's class or teacher and the teacher got just those results but I showed school wide data is very similar to homework so we are not in alignment and the goal is that we will be in alignment next year so whether that's safe or homework I can say I shared the agreement that we came up with basically children kindergarten through second get no homework or their homework is to go home and play games with your family that level grade three through sixth it's all over the place depending on the teacher and it has been and we do have agreement to be more in alignment because this doesn't really your agreement or whatever it is that's more of a philosophy which it took a lot of time to get us to be on the same page that's what I was wondering but the specific agreements around say there's the 10 minute rule no more than 10 minutes per grade so if you're in fourth grade you should never have more than 40 minutes so it's that type of an agreement another agreement so we had some classrooms who had large projects who have had children have seen these projects we talked a lot about those what's the purpose of those who really is doing that which is independent should not be the entire family spending 40 hours because not every family can do that and what happens is you see in the product a huge discrepancy and that's not fair once you go to the Home Depot and buy all the materials to build their medieval castle some spend hundreds of dollars and some can't spend 10 dollars so it's really it was a lengthy conversation that went across a number of sessions specifically in grades 4 through 6 and then there's other things that we talked about confining on middle ground because we have teachers who really believe strongly in those in compromising and maybe there's one take home kind of assignment or something I think you're saying that questioning why what is the purpose because if there's not an educational purpose that comes out of the diorama for the house or the whatever then just because we've done it for 25 years educationally may not be parents are expecting when my kid gets to this grade we're going to do this so I think asking those why questions is really important of the staff but the other thing is we have parents who that is they were used to a traditional experience they were used to that kind of homework and they believed that their children should have it so there's definitely parents who are doing what should be happening so it's working with that too yeah they're definitely they're fun if you have the time and all of that to do that I can see it being a real challenge for a child to navigate that if they don't have the same support and then it ends up calling them out right that's really hard it makes it so that we provide opportunities for those things to happen at school and have the materials because if I do toothpicks and marshmallows and you have bricks and mortar like the bridge project that they used to do and they're building it at school everything is provided even the tribal boards which sound silly but it makes a difference not all families can do that so those are the kind of details that we worked out that as unit teams we had to come to an agreement that if you were asking a child to do something you need to provide the materials for them to do it I mean we talk about community engagement but that's the kind of thing where there may be opportunity for that there are community members who would be happy to come in and help that could be tapped right have no ties to the school other than living in the community or working in the community and spending time with some of our students but it still does ask the question of why that's a really important question to just keep asking so we're hoping to see if we can and what I told the teachers both around the homework and communication because they're both touchy subjects is that I feel like as a staff our culture is strong enough we can have these difficult conversations and I couldn't have said that a few years ago and they were difficult conversations they were not and nobody was very unhappy about having them and nobody was already thrilled about them and especially the one today I showed them a high graph of the results and about 50% of parents are getting communicated with weekly and about another 50% are getting communicated with maybe less than monthly so that was eye-opening for staff who maybe the ones communicating weekly and don't know or the ones who communicate once a month and have no idea others are sending things out so regularly that's great thank you fiscal report so there's just a cover page that basically pretty much the closed down it's under action you'll see a couple of things the board order there's a board order going around there isn't one because you just did one oh that's right we just had a meeting we just had a couple of things right so we're making a change so we are we have hit the target of the 4% with the closed down just finding some savings where we didn't spend fully in liquid chips and some utilities tuition we closed down that Steven you had asked a question about whether all those checks right in the same exact amount that's shown on here our final payment and then there's a question around the technology so last year for this year we had set aside a razor 26,000 and what has been is 11,000 that bottom line it's in the full board packet yeah it was like 25 it's like I saw it I don't know if there are any questions about the closed down I was a little confused when Lori explained it and that was just me so when we see and this is just the numbers this way that she may sound like we are moving a bunch of money for a lot for big capital stuff in ours but she added our school yeah she said some of the schools it looked like we had a big deficit but it had to do with us setting money aside we set money aside still for the early retirement that we did there's still money set aside for that I think that's what Lori was talking about you look at that money that would she said it in the way of capital improvement capital that we're going to have coming down that's probably the way it was for most of the schools yeah we'll set some capital money aside pretty soon probably at this point there is it's the future retirement years two and three the technology thank you and then I have a whole bunch of things for you to sign but that is coming next yep having a brain we're all done we don't need action on these reports right no I think by sign he just signs can I ask a question before we move into action stuff there so Flora you actually believe that I listen to you and hear what you say I don't want this to be a burden but one of the things we're going to start looking across the SU is on helping board members understand trauma is that a good way to describe it so I'm wondering in a reasonable request if it would make sense for our so for our staff to make some recommendations to the school board on what they think it would be important for us to become informed about around trauma not and so a very casual not hours of work you know it could just be hey here's an email board's interested on what they should know I don't think I don't care but seem like a good chance we hardly ever ask the staff to you know what do you think we need to know I know Flora is particularly passionate about this but it's true it's a topic that we're beginning to get interested on you know what should we know and I think the staff might be able to provide some real good recommendations on you know spend some time on this this is what we see you know I experience this and found it very useful or whatever help us inform our way forward just a question for you I know the first thing they're going to say is the the movie and learning about the ACES scores and what that means I know that there's other things that I missed or them and share with you but that so you talked round and round about this last month was there there was no about seeing the movie there's a commitment to address it it I don't think it's going to get addressed in the retreat the problem is the reason I bring it up it might be something that we want to be proactive on at a local board level or we could just say hey East Montpeliers decided we want to move on this topic this is what we're doing this is what we're doing it any other board or community members are welcome so I would suggest we have the film Washington Central I would suggest you just set up the time and watch it without a facility I would watch it I think you can watch it multiple times and get more and different things out of it it's a lot to take in but it's really useful and even if you've watched it on your own just so you have that background of what people are even talking about that would be my recommendation there's also a YouTube video from Dr. Harris she's seen it and she has a YouTube that is like 20 minutes or 25 minutes that is really you will find trailers on it and you'll find and I think it's a place so that is as a entire staff of WCSU and I think it's a good I just don't want to jump to a solution without I know you're confident and I'm sure that's what we'll hear but it's not often that I think of the staff it's a funny thing to say but from an advice perspective and I just think it's a way to respect them for their knowledge or at least their realization of where the problems are even if they have no clue on what to do and then hear from them to help us decide how we're going to go forward I'm happy to ask them for specifics and the only other thing I would say to you that I know that they would agree with is your support financially so we were in a situation in the fall where we had numerous students of trauma background severe trauma background you saw the data behavior at the beginning and they came needing a lot of support and you provided that right we had to add staff to support those children and I think just your awareness of and knowing when I come to you it's because staff have come to me enough and I have seen that there is this need and just having that kind of understanding that those of you who are in the building see the need but those of you who aren't can appreciate that we don't go to that last resort until it's the last resort and that's something that is we need your support in that but I will ask them for other specifics but my just off the top of my head I think that resilience is a great starting place however you can do it is WCSU doing the Alice so the principles will be the reason I brought that up thinking of the boards is in our district where I work they had all the board members trained in the Alice which is the lockdown and I thought I thought that was kind of odd personally but the teachers are all getting trained before school starts and it's the buzz I mean it's the big thing and what you're supposed to do for threats but I thought it was interesting that they had the board and I'm wondering if it's so that the board understands if there's financial ramifications why you know if they've been trained they may understand everyone in our district jokes because the minute it's brought up I bring up the bucket of rocks but if we have to buy a bucket of rocks for every classroom if you've been through the training you would understand that and I thought well maybe that's why they had the board members trained but the first time we could get all the teachers trained are those in service days before school starts when we have that capacity so I don't see so we're not anywhere near where Barry is with that but it's definitely been something we've been talking about that was looking into the training we're training embedded trainers and did you guys do the trauma first a couple of years with NFI that's great thank you so I think that was a good encapsulation of board goals including but not exclusive okay action agenda approved the blanket authorization for check orders for FY18-19 that's page 4 on our board packets looks like we have something to sign as well you need to all sign everywhere you need to sign in addition but you'll see do we need to do another motion or just sign I think we just have to sign because we already did a motion full board right full board now we just sign them no we didn't you didn't do all of them we didn't approve a blanket authorization oh we did just we approve for the superintendent to sign documents but we're proving them through our signatures here but we should do a motion anyway page 4 it wouldn't hurt to do a motion better safe than sorry because we signed the board orders but we still approve maybe could approve all of these yeah I'll make a slate yeah and then I can I just say 5.4 is different that is the setting so I would make a slate for the three awards yeah award blanket authorization for check orders award revenue anticipation note and award investment jeez I don't think we can do them as a blanket this is different there's separate actions yeah and there's you know I would make a motion that we approve blanket authorization for check orders for FY1819 I'll second it any discussion all those in favor please say aye aye that's the one we have to sign award the revenue anticipation note on page 5 second I'll make a motion oh yeah there are aren't there yeah or no any discussion of the revenue anticipation note all of those in favor please say aye aye award the investment bid so that's the second half of that page wait a minute what did we just approve the revenue anticipation note this is the first one we have to award it to somebody to community bank community bank yeah it's right here so it would be a motion to approve the revenue anticipation note bid to community bank NA NA yeah it's gotten so confusing not authorized cause the other one is community national bank there's two in berry and it's really confusing okay so we've gotten through the revenue anticipation note and we are now on to the award the investment bid and I made the motion so I now say the investment bid to community bank NA Darcy seconded that one any discussion of that one all of those in favor please say aye aye and finally approve reserving 11,951 dollars for technology confused one of mine clerk one is mine it's different so there's that's the board authorization there's the community national bank tax revenue anticipation note yep is this just another continued on the assignment then so that's where lindy has to sign this and then this is same revenue this is where I'm confused this is look like this it's an extension of the same thing but it's not the same language okay so so I don't see it then where's the award the investment bid it might be one page because both bids are being given to the same bank community bank it always says a header of tax revenue anticipation borrowing so that's the tax anticipation that's what they all say this is all borrowing well the anticipation has borrowing on it is one of them the art yeah this is all the same thing it's all the same thing maybe they just need a whole bunch of copies no it's the same in the same document yeah okay well that's easy yeah I just didn't see one for that investment while you're doing that I'll approve it I'll move it we'll move the $11,000 technology then but it's something that we have to sign I wonder if we just have to do it see this one says has to be signed this one doesn't right here it says needs to be signed this one we just have to pass first okay cool what is this one I'm just going to go with I'm just going to pass it okay so we do also have a motion on the floor reserved for sorry reserving $11,951 for technology I'll second it and I'm sorry who made that motion did you know I did she was trying to sort through our documents and get us organized and then I just confused you it's easy to do okay reserving $11,951 is that a transfer out of somewhere to somewhere or is that from fund balance okay can fund balance versus so there's it's a different line the way I think about it and it's probably it's a very lenient way of thinking about it but fund balance is basically the savings okay capital is untouchable and it's only for capital and has to be approved by the board although we don't touch fund balance either without coming to but that's the line you always see on the bottom of the cover page and then technology fund balance is its own line we didn't use to have a line for technology we would spend now we're trying to foresee ahead and have a balance set aside for technology because we know that technology tends to be fairly cyclical so it's good to set some money aside so that when the big bill comes in four years we don't have to find all the money for the big bill so last year we set aside 26 696 and this year and I don't have I can find it we budgeted some set aside as well that was it instead of the bottom so next year you're going to see all year thank you but there's a substantial no that's okay it doesn't mean 11,900 it's just perfect okay I have a motion one more question so why wouldn't we just round that up to 12,000 versus just a little more where did the bill come from was it a percentage it's like a capital plan but it's a tech plan it's on need um it just seems like an odd number 11,951 it's probably a percentage of something that's what I was thinking an anticipated assessment or it may have been the exact number that it took to get down to a 4% fund balance that is true that could be I mean I don't have a problem with that that has been the goal of because we do that we get these oddly specific numbers and we were below 4% most of the year because of our increase in staffing needs 4% because ideally it's the cross section of those two needs but in discussion on transferring funds we're not going to transfer any funds to capital it happens analogous this is the projected because we're in a good place capital I want to keep making a guess just know that I use money from the local budget wood chip money to purchase our furniture we have a lot of chairs we purchase we have not purchased any chairs since way before construction so similar to past years when there is a lot of money left in any line wood chips this year rather than coming to for capital it's used at an operating budget so that we don't need to touch rather than burning them you built with them this year that's all and if we get real tight you can burn the old chairs so the special education we're good to smash them up and burn those for one winner for running out of money and you who? shut me up so I have a motion and a second to approve reserving $11,951 for technology is there any further discussion all of these in favor please signify your approval by saying hi hi opposed abstain thank you we don't have a board order future agenda items we have talked about Act 46 an input from the staff I'm from I wasn't paying to your very close attention I know there's going to be another meeting how is that going to be scheduled? he's doing a doodle poll and he gave some dates like between June 19th and I think it's probably going to be June 18 when the executive committee is because the executive committee is already happening so it would be nice to not there's an executive meeting on the 18th that's not the graduation oh 8th grade graduation June 19th and 28th were dates between then 6th grade graduation I would hope that other than a few administrators for this full board meeting you wouldn't have to be there because it's just Act 46 it's good to hear though welcome to the comments so don't have it on the 19th take my place I can't come on the 19th because it's 6th grade are there other end of the year retirements and things that are going on not evening between the 19th I just meant in general I mean you have people leaving there's no celebration on the 20th Patty yes for every time I mean there's no game yes you have one tomorrow it's been so cute to hear tomorrow's the staff not the community next week is the community our principal's been there for 45 years Patty's husband there's a lot going on there together how many kids they have affected under life they're so cute 8.0 board communication I don't think we have anything which brings us to our favorite item which is the tournament I just wanted to do what Matt did and just thank you she had a birthday this week too so just thank you for all you do we appreciate it and we know that you operate 198% without food sometimes so thank you we all appreciate it and it's my pleasure we know it's a good hands the school absolutely until she lets the phones go down the phones yeah I'm sure she's got the phones down so the phone guy came in we don't need to record this so what's a journey a journey we're adjourned we're adjourned