Folks for the evening is decision-making in transitional play, okay? Blues are going to take one ball into this area. The reds are going to take one ball into this area. All right, at any given time, one blue can drop out into an end area. One red can drop out into an end area. All right, your only plan with your ball is a passing drier. There's no tackling. All right, don't interfere with the opposition whatsoever. As soon as one person drops out, can you pop that ball into them as quickly as you possibly can? Make sense for everybody? Ready? Get yourselves going in that area, please. Good. Good. At any given moment, when they feel it's right, they'll have a player that can drop out into either end zone and they hit that player. So we're just so in seeds about, bang, there's your spare man or there's your forward target. As soon as he becomes available, can you play the ball into him as quickly as you possibly can? Now the focus is, so if I'm playing for the Blues, if Flanney decides he's going to drop out, we're now looking at a third man support player going. So it comes out here. Flanney's dropped out. I'm going to fire it into him. There's your support player gone with him. Joined him in that area. Let's go. Pick the times. Pick the times. Good. It's got to be third man. Can't be the same man at the moment. Good. Good. Can you join quickly? So the focus is now quick. Can be slowing here. You're set. You're set. You're set. You're set. Bang. Change of pace. Let's go. Let's go. Who's going? Good. Good. Good. So who's dropping out? See the pitch up. Good. And who's joining quick? Good. Good. And we'll add it where there's a support player going in with him and then it will be that there's a transition where bang, ball goes into an end zone, but that's backwards in a game. The pitcher will be setting the ball backwards to then go long into the other end zone and join from there. So it'll be different scenarios, different picture painting, different seed sowing, if you like, but all on a post. We're now going to do it two ways. We're going to do it quick both ways. So it goes into the target play. Someone joins him. Doesn't matter who goes. We've got possession in the game here. Yes, please. We nick the ball. This is where, now we're going wearing a game first. Uh-uh. Now we're going backwards. The space is the players at the back. So we're going backwards. Bang. Then it's looking for that forward pitcher. Then it goes in. Bang. Then what happens? Then we support quickly. Makes sense? Take care with the quality and possession. Way to go. Good. Work it through the middle. If it's not right, don't do it. Bang. It's going. It's going. It's going. Needs to go equality. Join quicker. What's the problem in now? Staying obvious. Areas what? Areas tight. The area is tight.


n was penalized if you went over per pupil price but now they're removing the per pupil price penalty say that three times fast per pupil price penalty so so the schools have how much you think their tax is not going I don't know we I might know a little bit better at this next one but again they have similar challenges that um well there's a lot of fun a lot of programming either at the superintendent's level or the school level that has been funded with COVID funds over the last three years as well right so now that you know that has dried up so it's do you want that same level of service or do you not want that same level of service or maybe they were paying for two of these people but now they're only going to pay for one you know so I guess we were lucky we didn't get any COVID funding so I guess we get a lot of people and I think I think the governor you know probably throughout the biggest scare tactic he could 20 percent I don't think it'll be 20 percent but there's you know a significant increase is coming to everybody absolutely but I just think you know here we just have to start thinking about you know three years from now I mean we we've said two years now but you know we're gonna have to come up with that revenue that we're gonna set out on yeah um that's that argument that is arguing for the the for like this energy position to take it to the voters uh like we took the library to the voters uh it wasn't a select board decision to fund that that was a voter decision uh I would uh argue that uh that that's uh that it's appropriate when you're quote adding a service that you ask the voters if that's what they want to do uh but yeah we are all concerned about the costs we are all concerned about keeping down the cost and hopefully that's one of the things that will result from uh some of these programs that we're trying to provide I understand what you're saying Jean but I respectfully disagree in the sense that you know the select board's job is to present obviously to present a responsible budget and last year for example we proposed a budget which I felt very much was responsible and then the voters you're right added on money for the library money for you know skate park money for this money for that um and there was not a single question asked not a single question asked on that budget at all and I find that unnerving and I don't mean any disrespect but I feel like we're not saving somebody from themselves because I'm not standing there with an old-fashioned mimeograph machine reeling off their tax bills right there so I think that people have really big hearts and they want to do all these things but when it comes August 15th November 15th and we're in the office taking tax payments um it's difficult because we not only collect municipal tax we collect school tax so it's hard when you see someone coming in who's really scraping together their last penny and I think that people don't always understand that when they're standing at town meeting in March because they're not going to see that bill until July and they're not actually they're thinking oh it's a this on a tax rate or that on the tax rate so I just think that sometimes maybe it's too easy to kick it to the voters because when have they denied you you know what I mean I mean and I'm just this is more like a philosophical question Gene but it's just something that I personally struggle with that's all. So I had a couple of just okay questions in the budget quickly so the gravel we have there's $35,000 an increase in gravel year over the year what what is that so I took I reduced my salt budget and I added the diff I added money into the gravel budget I'm a ruler and because and and let me say I don't think I think I level funded sand hang on and I add okay I added money from salt to sand but we have places in town that everybody knows where we have graded the road to a nub so I level funded chloride and I added there was savings of $30,000 in salt and I added that to gravel so the money from salt went to gravel and I level funded chloride so that's really what I did there um you see what I'm saying right yeah I'm just kind of going back you know yeah you know not so many years ago our gravel budget was 15 or $20,000 a year right last year it was at its peak of 50 and now we're at 85 so well because I was trying to move salt into gravel because I mean look at we can do a very good example would be um peevine I mean there's just roads that we have not put any material on and I think Dave I'm sure knows of multiple spots where we have just graded the thing to bedrock and it needs material on it now yes I've picked up as much grant money as I can and we can do hydrologically connected segments but if we have a piece of road that's not near a river then we're going to eat that out of pocket so it was just uh like I said the first stop of the budget so it was just a thought and I know currently we're at did it did did we not also change the quality of the gravel we changed the quality of the sand okay so but there was a cost increase related to that was there right yeah there's 7% increase for most materials this year so yeah and there was an increase because we switched sand last year from regular to manufactured right okay and I would assume that some of the 71,000 that's been spent to date has got to be some FEMA it is yeah and I haven't made the can't imagine that we've done no oh so some of that actual for this year will come off of there yes it's going to get moved I just haven't we were just I just had to pay it that way and then I increased guardrail because we do have sections of specifically of campbrook road that need to be done obviously if you have any ends those are a huge priority and and guardrail pricing has gone insane so I did increase that budget I noticed a fire insurance went up quite a bit I mean quite a bit as in percentage wise went up $5,000 is that a yep it's well they bought a new they bought a their rescue truck now and so now they have two rescues they haven't sold one and just you know insurance price increase but what is highway rehabilitation that's like a capital road fund okay so you're you put an extra 20,000 into that I did because the good thing about that is we can use that for matching funds also too I want to work on our capital we need to do a capital road plan and I was just talking to Chris once he has a little more free time I have an extra map and I want him to come in and so that we can highlight in one color everything we did in 2019 and then highlight in another color everything we did in 2023 so that we can build a capital road plan based on that what haven't we touched and where I know this summer where we're going to do some work on dark with a grant that I already have secured so part of that is sorting that out so this this line item is different from a capital fund where it would it would roll over like unfortunately if we're looking to invest in a new grader right we put something into a capital fund and then we can build that resource and that's exactly what this is this is a capital this is the same okay that's what I was trying to sort out in my brain was is this part of a capital fund so if we don't spend the full you know 175 yeah it rolls over here it rolls it yeah and some of that really is to try to get the peaks and valleys right right so there is some you know and maybe I could cut back on my culvert budget because we just did a bunch of culverts so again I think what's going to help me is having a conversation you know going through with chris and sitting back and saying okay look these are all the places we did culverts in 2019 here's all the places we did culverts in 2023 so maybe I can dial some money back there but you know when you're going through it obviously the highway budget is the biggest budget so I always find that they also have the biggest need and I will say they told me they want an increase in tools to like 6 000 I added another five just because of my first go round I was only a 0.48 so then I doubled back through the budget I'm like okay I want to put more money in capital funds and I need to put more money into like gravel and into some road stuff so those are obviously the biggest complaints as I'm just kind of rifling through some of these so now that the state has passed down the reappraisal timeline again yeah so how much money do we have to put aside for our portion of the reappraisal and now that they're saying what every six or seven years you're gonna have it now so is that is that eight thousand dollars we have in there is that gonna cover us yes we do it on a cycle of six seven years yep and I'll make a note here to give you that but yeah because I had I believe that I believe so off the top of my head so let me make a note next to that to look at my capital plan because where is that um it's government operation oh here it is reappraisal okay so I'm gonna say print out capital schedule so I believe that it is but I could be wrong it's I have to go back I usually do the budget and then double back in my sometimes back in the capital but but that's what I had in the schedule and then just kind of looking at this inspired another conversation of probably it'd be nice if the rec if we could get the rec committee to talk to us in regards to what's their vision is for the next phases because they rather than just arbitrarily give them ten thousand dollars like what is the next piece and how long are we out on that like if if they say our next piece is two years away and we need fifty thousand dollars then maybe we should think about 20 or 25 or you know or or add some money to the well if you read their their most recent rec committee meeting minutes say that they have no project well I know but there's still stuff on the plan I know but I don't know that's why I think it might be fun to survey maybe I'm recalling this not from a select board meeting but I thought there was a moment when Ellie said that that was in an upcoming meeting they were going to start they were going to relook at the master and they just meant I looked at their minutes and I didn't see anything in there other than the fact that they didn't really have an ex-focus that's why one of my questions on the survey was the rec because that is an old survey those people have moved out of town so I would like to see what that is and I just threw the ten is a placeholder I just came across an old rec committee master plan and it kind of made me chuckle yeah it's like oh yeah I bet this is nothing like what they're thinking yeah so I'll email Ellie because I know I know they've done a lot over the last three or four years but and maybe they're maybe it's time for a pause but yeah what is the timeline for the next one so that we can start putting some appropriate money aside exactly yeah so or asking the voter structure for the next yeah yeah because so that was why that was my question on the survey was my number one question was we've got what is that and I think that surveys my own opinion is that surveys too old to be referenced and they're getting limited space now that they've got the addition on the skateboard park exactly so much room in that area and that's right and this is small stuff but I see in the town hall insurance went up again it did and I actually like that's going up and up and up and up every year well I will say this this is what I've got I just got this and I was working on it yes because I mean three years ago we were at 6000 and now we're at 12 and here's the deal this is what you get so I went back through and the town hall was higher so I ended up calculating my contribution to the town hall that I had been too low but I started doing the math this afternoon again because I was saying 70% for the town hall 29% for the town office 1% for public places so I'm going back now because they send us this whole breakdown so I did a quick version and that's what's in here but I need to sit back and go through the whole pages of insurance information that yeah it just seems like that one's just it's double it is four years but I think we covered yeah you didn't have the correct coverage before either and you had to choose at one point where you're going to get replacement cost or were you going to get the other valuation and you guys agreed that no you weren't going to build a replica of this if heaven forbid it burns down but so that change also Chris is less of an increase in more of a read or a proper allocation but I'm just starting to work and going back through it again and then another question I had here was so we had increased some of the appropriation money for appointed officials last year and then we were going to get some feedback like for instance um like that that help oh the health officer even though the health officer chose not to take a pay they were going to give us some information like how many hours they're working and so that we could build that into a budget going forward um and then get any good any feedback in regards to the ones that we did adjust to that well it made a couple people happy so I will say that so I can email Chuck Davis and I will also email the fire warden and ask Gary how many how it's worked out for them and um I mean I was able to talk talk to Chuck um a little while ago and he was telling me that he was actually quite busy he is quite busy you see him very frequently in the office he was in the other day he and I had a meeting last week on the early week before so quite busy and he might need uh oh he dropped they might need Paul back now oh that's right yeah he might need Paul yeah he has his assistant which is his daughter Melanie is his assistant um but he is he's amazing and he does such great work that you're just so lucky to have him so um worth the appropriation yeah so I can email Chuck and Gary for um approximate hours so and then again like I said I cut the list or budget so that's down 13.65 percent um and and I'm just assuming that you didn't have the White River Valley ambulance one yet you just no it's in there oh well I saw you had an increase by this figure you just I what I had was I have their increase but they do remember they're um on a calendar year so I take their number and then I increased the second six months by I think I did who won yeah I did two percent for the unknown six months so I get a real number for half they had a significant increase last year yeah so I just estimate I just threw two percent at it because I don't know what it will be and then of course you have the 13,000 which is the new part for the phase two so I'm also sure I'm quite sure that you're not happy about my increase to the parks budget so so you know I just have to mull it over but um well I think I think the tough thing is it's not so much I mean I think I think in order to get the quality of life that we want to see out of town I think right that we need to have that it just it burns you when you look at how much it costs to have somebody on the payroll it does it like it's not just like oh their salary is this it's the oh the benefits are $50,000 like yeah I mean that's like it is it's tough between that and the retirement and and remember last year we had no applicants zero applicants for lawn mowing and don't forget that because of child labor laws you know to run a lawn mower you'd think you know you would think a 16 year old could run a lawn mower but you know how are the states concerned so but we had no applicants so then I had to put it out to bid and I had one bidder so I there you go he's going to get what he gets I put the other two sections back out to bid and then I'm paying 65 bucks an hour to put up a fence because I have no staff to do it so um it's tough you know I mean if I'm as into the next person interesting that you're a full-time person when you add all of the the uh the costs to the town that are not salary for the individual that whole position comes to $96,000 when you add in health insurance and all the rest so you're you're basically doubling whatever the salary is exactly benefits yeah you're right it's so yeah that's a piece that most of our or many of our citizens probably don't fully appreciate how much when you hire a person is not just their salary but you can their salary plus another salary just for benefits right exactly you're right no I mean if you're trying to give a livable wage and be competitive plus you're right we have you know and honestly sometimes that's the deal that sells it for me is the fact that we have such a good benefit package I mean I can't you know you can drive the bus right now you got a CDL for 30 bucks an hour man I can't compete with that rate but I do have better benefits so if somebody sees the value in those then you know you're good so yeah when I do the payables every other week and I see what you know just taking like one big pine tree down in one of the cemeteries and they didn't even have to cut it up take it away they just threw it over the embankment and I saw that one bill yeah that was yeah pretty hefty and then all the lawn mowing and all the other little yeah contracting so the budget for for that person to hire full-time year-round is not that bad compared to the bills every other week that I see coming through yeah for subcontracting it's true I mean it's it's hard and I get it and it's a hit to the budget so I don't know we can double back to and go back through I can look closer at some of the issues um the road and I can also I did not have a chance to update all of my capital land schedules the only one I was certainly updated was a capital equipment schedule because we've done that with the equipment committee and obviously that's a big one there is they really need more money because after COVID since salmon you saw it with just car prices or personal vehicles imagine what a town truck goes for now but you know that we had budget for x is now over here and I'm going you know at some point we're just when are you not going to be able to save enough and you're actually going to have to go to the voters and borrow to purchase something you know and the last time I looked at that was purchasing a greater and I was like oh my god I don't even dare to stand up in front of the voters and ask for this because it was such an outrageous amount of money so what do we feel when it comes down to the uh well we call it the constable budget but um so currently in the model that we show right now that we're doing the 65 000 which would be the contract of services for the 18 to 22 hours a week and then we do have some signboards in there again to purchase which seems like we buy signboards every year we have been we've been buying two to replace then two new and we were looking for two more to go all and yeah we could skip it this year so he does not have a speed dolly but we have one so but if we you know if we have a back to him yeah I guess two front like one if we are going to have an increased presence in town okay Dave had to go if we are going to have an increased presence in town do we need to purchase any more of those speed signs I would say no you could and then two do we feel that the 18 to 20 hours is do we want to do we want to you know tip your toe into the pool and see how things go and then you know maybe next year we increase our services with them or do we want to go up to them more closer to 40 hours you know the 32 or 40 hour take service for 100 000 which you know if you took the sign card you know if you took that 8 000 there I mean we're already at 73 and you're only well that's my thing is if we went to you only one more one more cent on the tax rate to get your full you know get your kind of your full service right you could also go to 75 000 I mean look he's not going to turn down any money so if we went to him and said look 65 hours is going to get us you know 20 hours we could add another 10 grand and maybe we get to 25 hours because he's right we have been beneficiaries of click at our ticket and do I checkpoints you see people and that is good money I used to help oversee those plans and they are paying the officers plus mileage you make money as a town off that so we will benefit from that then the following year if we sold the cruiser and then dump the capital I don't have my town report with me so I apologize but if we dump the we also have existing capital money in the capital cruiser fund so if we sold the cruiser if we took that got rid of that capital money next year if he works out at 75 000 and you want to go to 100 or 115 you'll have some actual cash so the value of that vehicle is maybe five seven grand with all the equipment in it plus the money you're sitting on but um right which then you gotta be careful because it gives you a quick relief but then long it's not exactly maybe RTS funds right anything it might be better just put it in fund somewhere and yeah transfer to another fund or something but there is some but I mean I think you could easily I think you could go to 75 000 in this budget and and maybe get to he'd probably do 25 hours I mean the other thing too is obviously you know he's been in other towns and and and I'm assuming that obviously anything is better than what we have right now and if we bring him on now to start once we set an hourly rate and I can come into an agreement with him on a rate we could supplement him all the way through with the remaining money that we have through July and he rolls in so I don't know I mean it you know I mean and that's the tricky thing is obviously we can put him on the payroll now yeah and they can do some policing but we can't really see how it goes because we have to put budget together right I mean so it's like it's like what what does this is a one-year contract I'm a big proponent of having them start on the sooner side I'm curious what that does to our current constables because are they good I've already had the conversation not with Justin but with Oscar I told Oscar that we were moving toward that we were definitely going to sign with the Windsor County Sheriff okay that we were going to bring them into supplements some hours and that Oscar would be able to obviously exit that would be the expectation that he would be exiting to give all of his time to Royalton and that we could kind of phase him out in a respectful way and he was very it sounds like Roylton's down an officer they are and he was very he's at least on board because you know I don't know he is just understanding at least that piece of it before we make this yeah so no I already talked to him about that so um yeah I don't know I mean what do you think we're sitting here do you know you you obviously have a good head for the number because you have a you understand a business so your budget so do you feel like 75 trying to get us to 25 hours or you want to go yeah 32 32 hours 40 was a hundred 15 a hundred 40 hours is 125,000 rough yeah but that really helps because I mean I used to see Royalton police you know either Oscar or one of the other folks in the Royalton cruiser popping people left and right when they're when they're in town like right by the school in the middle of the summer I saw four cars get pulled over within 45 minutes the other thing is too is is I could say without naming names is there's I am expecting an additional $40,000 um at least possibly in appropriations that people may be passing petitions for so I don't even have that addressed in this budget but we may be looking at an additional $40,000 into this budget that's that's not here right now this is draft one and I just just kind of heard about that so yeah and the way that so that could happen is either they come to the select board and the select board agrees or the select board disagrees and makes some petition and then stand up in front of the voters and I I have never seen anybody be denied in front of the voters when they're making a play so when they're making a pitch for money because everybody is a worthwhile organization you know absolutely so they can make a pitch directly to the voters and then our budget here that we're scrutinizing every nickel to is all of a sudden $40,000 bigger and next year we're going okay well now we're supporting this and we're supporting that and we're going to lose our $50,000 so what happens is it's unfair to us in the sense that now we have to start I'm going to have to cut a position that I want because I need to make wrong for an appropriation that I guarantee you the voters are going to give not that they're not worthy because they are but then if I'm losing 50,000 in revenue you know I'm you know it's hard uh-huh I don't know what they're going to do right now so I'll know next week but still so it's another possible hit to the budget or not onto the budget that I can't manage and that you can't either because if it goes to the voters and they voted in then it's next year we're looking at a budget that's $40,000 bigger that we've had nothing to do with and you know that's the challenge and I'm looking at cutting a position that I want not because I can't truly afford it but because we're giving money away to that you know and again I don't mean that in a just respectful way it's just frustrating because I'm charged with keeping the wheels on the bus and and I'm inherently it's a valid point because it's you know when people are put in a room with others if they if they agree upon it or not agree upon it very seldom does anybody want to speak out against things like that and it becomes tricky because your taxes go up and when your taxes go up there's typically less and less people or more and more people get burdened with those taxes that then have to a type of service that they're used to having they may not have that anymore and then on the flip side to that then then there's human services that we provide in town that then go up and up and up because you know when you can't provide it at home you have to get it somewhere else and then you know it's just kind of a vicious circle that you keep chasing it is you know your taxes go up and you can't provide that service and you know now they're you know getting the service from somebody else that we're funding yeah so then that goes up you know it's just kind of you're going around and and nobody at town meeting day is going to stand up and say they're against the food shelf or they're against you know because they want to be crucified but at the same time they're hoping that three months down the road that when they go you know to break out their tax check that everything's gonna be great but then they find out it's $300 more and and they're like ooh yeah what happened what do I not buy this month and it's very difficult you know I would like you know if you're in the town office collecting and you have a couple that's really struggling that you know is in a in a retirement situation it's it's it's hard it's hard and um to to do that and and whether or not they're gonna get a bigger pre-bate if you are paying the full boat because you don't qualify for a pre-bate then you're paying your tax but your tax is going to go up because now you're funding a portion of a pre-bate so because the state's going to give more money that's going to it's just kind of this crazy pool and I'm not saying that everybody isn't worthy they are but if the town is going to become a bigger and bigger and bigger social service agency then you know we need to find owners oh my god well the problem is it's it's such a vicious circle because the more services you add then the more overhead you need to manage those services right and and you just keep building it and it goes around and around the circle eventually you don't break it apart or anything you know you need to think about so I I understand I understand what you're saying uh and you're repeating yourselves excuse me uh I do want to uh request that you muted yourself jean you just died out I just okay at my wrist I respectfully request that you take a look at the animal uh animal control line uh before next week uh if we go with uh what's that going to cost us if we go with uh uh Windsor County because that will not be oh Lindley just pointed out you missed that part because you had another meeting prior to this that's included in a 65 000 okay thank you you're welcome well assuming it doesn't all of a sudden become just an animal control issue all right I never said that so all right so when I redo the budget you want me to so I'm gonna have to double back and go through some numbers do you want me to what do you want to do for the constable do you want me to put it at 75 80 go right to 100 just so you can see what it looks like next week what's the huh 80 he's not gonna turn down a nickel so I mean he's a salesman so you can dicker yeah I mean I think it doesn't hurt us to see flowers gets us a hundred so and if he's saying 65 gets us 20 if we get to 80 I don't think it hurts us to see a version of the budget with a slightly higher amount you know whether that's 75 80 you know but just just to visualize it because I think at least then we can have that as part of the conversation and I'd be fine with dropping the additional solar signs for this year okay yeah um and I'll I'll email Ryan a Palmer Sheriff Palmer excuse me notice respect and um ask him what we could get for 80 000 and I'll remove the signs and I will go back through I'll email Ellie and obviously I gotta go I'm still working through my insurance numbers and I'll go back through um maybe you could give me your thoughts Chris on the road budget is certainly up your alley and then um three trillion yeah and then now I can come back more fine budget and I and I know over the course of I don't know now maybe it's seven years ago I don't know what close to when I started here we we were trying to get to uh more of a bell curve budget because we you know the town for the most part used to be you know fun fun at a very low level and then we need something that would spike and then come down and spike and come down and we're trying to get more of a bell curve and I this was back when Carl was on and we had kind of looked at a trajectory of the services that individuals in the town had said that they wanted and the curve was kind of more of like a two to three cent increase a year you know kind of was the of course inflation was only like 0.6 percent at that time um so I think anytime that we can kind of be in that area of like right now the way it is right now we're 2.4 cents so you know with some of these additions we're probably in the three and a half to four cent increase you know which is I'm in line with that and then I guess if you added inflation it's you know um it's not unreasonable right I think um obviously everybody would like to have their budget as least expensive as possible but and it's hard to you know you can only come up with so many non-tax you know revenue then there's just certain things we can't control how many people are going to register their dog how many land records how many houses are going to sell you know that sort of stop but you know unless we're going to put up a tool booth on you know jerk camera we should do it on camera my god would make a mint okay so they slowed down enough under mott 30 to get a freaking buck into the slot we'd be like yeah exactly okay so we get a week to mull through that so um the lister I'm assuming that since you didn't buck on that you're okay with the proposed plan of removing the lister's office the lister's putting that'll go on the warning go in front of the voters so we can make that okay so yeah I think we're just at the point where it just is what it is it's kind of like us phasing out the gospel like it just the times have changed it is it is and you've had a get some history with your lister's office so I think just bringing somebody in now outside so yeah all right we'd benefit all parties to have a little bit of a disconnect me exactly all right anything left on how on how madra reports just wanted to remind people that um the progress is at the standstill at the skate park so there is the fencing has been reestablished bigger signs are up now so nobody should be on the skate park or in that area it's it's all fenced off it's it's obviously a tripping hazard and what people don't realize is if you are a skateboard fan then you should know that if you're walking through the mud and walking on the park you are yourself ruining your own park because stones and mud and grit on your shoes on that skate park are gonna damage the ceiling the surface that we just put on it so we're respectfully asking people to just leave it alone and the rec area will do a grand opening in the spring once we can finish the sidewalk then it finishes off our land water conservation grant requirements and they can do a big you know grand opening and do something really nice are there any signs i saw the fencing that's up like but are there any signs that sort of explain that to like here's the reason to stay off of this well i did ask ellie to put up some signs and they were going to be doing a push on front porch forum and facebook there's only so much that people are going to read i mean you know i think if there's signs right in front of you you know a kid that might not be thinking about it who just wants to jump the fence because it's fun might read it go oh yeah actually i care about yeah i asked ellie to put up some signs we didn't really discuss you know exactly wording but they had agreed to do sort of an educational campaign about it so um so that's good and um ellie's just sitting there with a shotgun our our roadwork is almost done i think we have a little spot left on camp you know finley bridge road but i got a culvert in on saturday on perum so we obviously have the delay on camp brook road but i believe that our fema work is really wrapping up so i'd like i said i think the only project i have left is a little bit of work on finley and you're done right congrats yeah they're in a couple pictures and some yeah that's a huge way to get up the wrench and say what will you do with all this free time it's coach bath sleep yeah so i just want to remind you this open for you exactly you're gonna remind you uh that or do you still need to meet at 6 30 on monday we were changing because i have a game until six so okay or just start the meeting without me if somebody wants to sub in start the meeting and i'll be there when something done i mean i think if it's mostly budget discussions that makes sense for you to like that we just started a little late okay if that's the bulk of our meeting i'm hoping so i do 6 30 on the 18th 30 with that 6 30 on the 18th yep yep yeah it's a special day so yeah i had yes okay that or christmas huh jeffy that or christmas while we're at it whatever all right okay that sounds good for minutes anything else select select board meeting minutes from the 27th move to approve second hey all in favor all right it was kind of some other stuff in here bean had asked me to put in the packet so that's in here the um the ic committee the ic committee had it's in here the solid waste alliance had minutes in here um so you know there's a kind of a thing that was about it yep all right anything else to come before the board i know it's a little bit later meeting of course usually during budget season they run later but we just did the whole pretty much the whole budget run through where normally we just run through like half a dozen departments at a time so yeah it's nicer to look at it one as much as more difficult to put together it's still nice to once i get to school and i was been doing they they give you like little pieces they're like oh we're gonna have this that's like whatever i mean until we see the whole number like yeah it doesn't matter sure yeah right sounds good exactly kind of works enough all right so and then what are we gonna set up for our date for um the budget public informational yeah it has to be the monday prior to town meeting okay but we usually do two and we usually do them at our regular February meetings we'll probably yeah we usually do them at our regular February meetings anyways but um it has to be the monday prior to town meeting so i i haven't got a look at a february calendar i assume that'll be the second fourth but if not we'll have to juggle a little there okay sounds good uh those two adjourned okay so nindian denise move to adjourn julie all right thank you


Six abandoned projects in Ghana, which are just unbelievable. Unfinished infrastructure projects are common in many developing countries. Infrastructure is a top priority for governments, citizens, and funders alike due to its critical role in achieving social and economic development. As a result, seeing vital infrastructure development projects abandoned in the middle of construction is both irritating and perplexing. Ghana is a lovely West African country with abundant resources that is also peaceful and has beautiful structures. As you may be aware, Ghana has an extraordinary visionary of completed and ongoing projects, but this is something that the majority of people do not see. It is a sad reality that wonderful projects and structures are abandoned for a variety of reasons. Approximately one-third of all projects that begin never finish, accounting for nearly 20% of all local government capital expenditure. This startling prevalence begs the question, how serious is non-completion in comparison to other aspects of the political economy of public service delivery? While exact figures are difficult to obtain, this estimate of fiscal waste due to non-completion is comparable to Alkin's 2007. Estimate of resource loss due to corruption in road construction, 24%, and Finan and Misakos, 2016. Estimate of the percentage of public expenditure that is misalocated due to politically motivated distortions, 26%. Hello and welcome to Africa Reloaded. Let's take a look at this video to see some of the projects that, if completed, would have been gained changers for Ghana. Sixth, Ghana's SkyTrain project. According to Minister of Railway Development John Peter Amu, who announced the news in a road interview, the project will not proceed due to financial concerns. Right now, it's not possible. I don't believe a SkyTrain will be built in the next three to four years. The country will not have SkyTrain service. It's not imaginable, he said emphatically. Railroad construction takes a long time and a lot of money. A kilometer of railway line costs roughly four to five times as much as a kilometer of concrete infrastructure when it comes to developing an aesthetic road. The SkyTrain project aimed to develop a fully automated and highly efficient public transportation system powered by air propulsion technology and lightweight, high capacity cars. The project was expected to cost $2.6 billion. The proposed network would include five routes, four of which would be radial lines beginning at the Kwame-Krumah interchange and one looping around the city. There are currently no plans to continue the project, according to the administration. Five, the Ho Youth Center project. Cattle have been allowed to graze on the site of a $2.4 million multi-purpose youth sports center project that began in March 2018. On a regular basis, members of the public visit the site to collect fuel wood from the shrubbery behind the unfinished spectator stands and other structures. Mr. Benjamin Poto, member of parliament for Ho Central, paid a visit to the project site to see firsthand the project's stalemate. The 10,000-seater project was overseen by Wiccato Construction, a local contractor, and was scheduled to be completed in February 2019 under the National Youth Authority, NYA. There would be a fifth-of-standard football pitch, an A-lane athletics track, a tennis court, a basketball court, a handball court, a gymnasium, a counseling center, a youth ICT center, an entrepreneurial center, and a restaurant. Mr. Yao Simard, the NYA's regional director, declined to comment on the facility's condition when approached. The facility's goal was to provide a safe environment for children to practice their skills. However, the location is now home to discarded construction equipment, weeds, and rafters. 4. The Afari Military Hospital worth $38 million. Ultramodern oxygen cylinders and medical equipment worth over $38 million have been left to rust at the abandoned Afari Military Hospital in the Ashanti region. According to media reports, the hospital will have 500 beds and is scheduled to open in December 2018. However, the anticipation was not met. In response to a question about the project's delay, Dominic Niddywall, the then-Minister Designate for Defense, informed the Appointments Committee in February 2021 that work on the main facility was almost finished. Captain Smart, the host of Anwa Makai, revealed that some of the equipment will be used at the Children's Hospital, including magnetic resonance imaging, MRI machines. Other items include air conditioners, generators, pipes, cable, window glasses, louvers, concrete mixing machines, burglar proofs, tiles, building stones, and sandpiles. Anwa TV aired exclusive footage of medical equipment and devices on the hospital grounds being battered by the elements. The Kwame Krumi University of Science and Technology, KNUST, Teaching Hospital Project. Authorities at Kwame Krumi University of Science and Technologies, KNUST. School of Veterinary Medicine have renewed their call for the government to help finish construction on the abandoned KNUST Veterinary Teaching Hospital. Work on the project has been stalled for the past five years with instructors lamenting how the situation is affecting academic work quality. Administrators at KNUST believe that completing the abandoned the Veterinary Teaching Hospital Project will transform the school into a veterinary training powerhouse for not only Ghana, but all of West Africa. The prototype for this structure can be found at South Africa's Anders-Teport University of Veterinary Medicine. When finished, this structure will be the first of its kind in West Africa. Professor Benjamin Emigpe, dean of KNUST School of Veterinary Medicine, stated that this will be the largest structure ever constructed among West Africa's 16 veterinary schools. The location of the Ashanti region is intended to attract veterinary students from other West African countries, such as Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mali, Burkina Faso, and others, demonstrating that we are capable of providing veterinary medicine education. As a result, he's pleading with the government to help him finish the project as soon as possible. Two, Paloma Beach Resort. The Paloma Beach Resort in Takarati, if completed, would have been a watershed moment for Ghana's hospitality industry. It was supposed to be completed in 32 months, but it has remained a white elephant since then. The beach house was supposed to bring in a lot of money for the tourist industry, as well as a lot of money for the country. Failure to complete the project resulted in ruins. One, the Sagomit Ghana Housing Project. This abandoned construction project can be found in Prampram, Ghana, along the Aflora Road in the Ningo Prampram neighborhood. This project began 10 years ago in 2012 and is still unfinished. This abandoned housing project is possibly Ghana's most well-known, since it was Ghana Fume that pioneered public outreach in April 2021 when the public realized they had reached out to an incredible initiative. This project was supposed to be a 5,000 residential unit project with over 1,500 flats to help Ghana with its housing deficit. It sits on 300 acres of land and has one to three bedroom flats for low-income earners, the majority of whom are Ganyan. This project squandered $200 million in Ganyan tax dollars. Despite the fact that it was completed but never used, the government abandoned it and left it routed. As taxpayers, we expect the government to complete projects that will help the country's economy and bring long-term developments. It is disheartening to see abandoned projects that eventually end up as ruins due to a lack of funds or misappropriation and embezzlement. We haven't seen these abandoned projects, so we feel compelled to demand that something be done to salvage the situation so that the country and its citizens can benefit from them. Thank you for your time. If you enjoyed this video, please subscribe to our channel for future updates.


We're not live y'all. I'm writing today, so we're not doing no live. I didn't get a lot of sleep. We're recording this video. We're tired. We're worn out. We've done all the things. No, I'm showing them part of Dallas. Not even some of the things. Not even a tiny bit of the things. 100% of the things. Oh, I guess I should switch camera angles. So, we're gonna do a second layer four. So, if you have a piece that you don't really like and you want to change it up, this is what we're gonna do. Anyways, cue the stripper music. We did this piece a while back. I'm not a fan of it, so today we were gonna make it fabulous because it's kind of boring. It just looks like three fishes swimming head that way. So, I went and sanded it down so you can see all those like scuff marks that are on it. Don't be nervous about it. The first time I did that I was like, oh, what did I do? But now I know it's gonna be better after the second layer. So, I went ahead and remixed my resin. This is art coat by Stone Coat Countertop. You can get it from our store at artistledep.com or you can go to StoneCoatCountertops.com and get it and use art coat. Artists, nope. It's y'all. Y-A-L-L, all cats. No apostrophe. No apostrophe slash punctuation, et cetera. So, it's great stuff. It's a one-to-one resin. I went ahead and mixed my part A, part B, stirred it for three minutes until it's fully incorporated and there's no squirrels. You see the bubbles in there with that, so I'm gonna handle that. I think that was two different languages. I'm a Newtonian, sorry. I got my German and my something else. So, what colors are we doing? Stone Coat Countertop's white. This white, we are doing resin art from colorart.com. Red Raspberry Tint, one of the bright tints. Another bright tint called Bahamama Castellana. Okay, go away. Come on. Oh, and I should show you the red one. And then a just bright pigment paste. Right. Oh, that's like in your face, right there. We don't have the resin art in the shop yet, but it's fine. Yeah, the tints, there's other resin art ones in the shop, but not these translucent tints yet. I'm very excited to see how those work because I haven't used a powder that was translucent yet. Like, you want a translucent powder, you put like less powder in it. Less than an eighth of a teaspoon. So, this is this white. You don't want to use that much of this particular pigment in your resin. You just want to use enough to make your resin opaque.  There's no surface tension. And maybe too transparent. We'll make it work. It'll work with the tints because it won't be able to, it won't be more visible. Because at least they'll hold that white What? That's an awesome color. It's no shimmer. I will have these in our shop soon. I'm putting just an extra scoop because I want to test this transparent. Claim. This looks like you can't really pick it up on the camera, but it's like the most beautiful Caribbean type of blue. Or just that out, like the teeny tiny bit of teal green. So, it does kick up a little bit like regular powder would, but unlike how the other resin arts do. You know how like her other stuff probably just kind of melts into the resin. Yeah. It's kicked up just a little bit, but you do have to mix this like it's a true powder. Yeah, it takes a little bit more mixing than a paste, which is why I like a paste over powder because I don't have to worry about, I don't know if you guys can see any tadpoles on the side of the cup. It is transparent. It's chunky. I'm going to bestow this upon you as a teen clear situation. I always put a thin layer of clear resin onto my resin pieces, and that's for two reasons. I like having something down before I add my color resin, my tinted resin, because it helps to facilitate movement across the surface more easily. Also, it allows you to see your base layer through your top layer, and it creates a little bit of depth. Maybe if we long it up, it would help break up these little particles that are trying to stick together. I don't know, if you guys have used these resin art transparent products successfully, what do you do? Like, post in the comments and say give us some suggestions on what you do to get rid of the particles that doesn't break up. AKA the tadpoles. I'm going to open this red raspberry. It's an awesome color. It's brighter than it shows on there. It'll be brighter on this one. Yeah, that's more accurate. Yeah, it is. I don't know if it would be enough. I don't know, I'm here. Let's start torching it. Let's look at this one, too. Maybe we could get out too much for, because largely, as I was explaining in the videos, it's only like an eighth of a teaspoon for so much. So maybe Leslie, forget about it. Well, this one's mixing in a little better. This could be operated here and maybe revisiting this product. It doesn't have to try and see what we can do. I mean, maybe it'll be different when it's possible. I love this purple, but just resin. It's like molten. It looks like Midas was liquefied and put them down. No more touching for you, Midas. That's right. And then that gets a little changed entirely. And also that. I'm trying not to overload the resin. It's very important not to overload the resin because that's how it works. It will, and it might turn into a martial law club, and that's a lot of fun time. And if you don't know what martial law is, just put too much product in the resin. Oh, that's a good question. What you get will be a martial law club. It's like, take a marshmallow and put it on microwave safe plate and just watch it through the door while you're microwaving it. Put it in there. I can't pour with it. Some people have had success with putting a little bit of alcohol, like 70% proof or higher. Percent.  Anyway, so here we go. So I have the Bahama Mama Blue, the Red Raspberry, which is like a magma. Midas very magnet. And then the white by stone coat and then the gold by just resin. I have no idea what direction I'm going to go with this, but we're going to do it real quick. So doing this and just popping some of the bubbles that I mixed in, and I'm thinning out the resin a little bit to make it more easy to maneuver and manipulate the tincture. Also, there's a lot of cups in the house, so we're going to have some extra curriculars. So since everything's going this way, I'm going to go this way. It looks like murder raspberry. I know, it's very, it's very less magnetic than what it shows in this jar. It looks more like wine fuchsia. But even in the pot it looks more pink. It's probably because of that gold undertone that's there. Oh, oh. Very interested to see what it looks like against the white, like it's pushing it over. So some heat is a little bit like into resin. Sometimes I like to just push with this attachment and make some like mermaid cells like that. You guys. That sorcery, I'm digging it. So I'm going to put more white in the piece so that I can make more things like that. Hey guys, if I'm giving you a little bit of motion to close, are you going to make it? I don't think so. All right, because I was pressing my I don't even know what to do. I'm just going to hold it. That's fine. I just need the light a little longer. In your face. What the? I'm just going to brighten up this camera real quick. Talking about something. I know it, but stop. All right, so now I want to use this swiping paper. And you can make your own swiping paper. All you need to do is cut up some but why would you want a wax paper or picture paper? And it's so easy to use. You just need to make sure like you have the pencil with of resin touching the sorcery video. That's enough. So much with the swiping sheet. You guys. And then some sheets. I wish you could see this in person. You know what? Everybody says that like, you know, Eric comes out to say it too. Like, oh, I need you guys to totally see this in person. Oh, we'll do a a true color video. It changes it. It's seeing it in person is so much better. Like by miles. This is so rainbow up here because when you use any derivative of a gold or a yellow blue and a red, you'll get like this. So it is very transparent and those little temples are gone. They are gone. So I'm going to say this this tint is legit. I'm going to see how well it sets up. The striations. Yeah, underneath. So we'll do a true color video this one tomorrow, but super pumped with how it's looking right now. I'm going to run and take it into the dust free zone before anything gets on it. She goes out her own stunts. Tresa is me made. That's a wrap box. She gives zero box. She does give zero box. She is Tresa the fox. Oh, no, no, no. Yeah, we'll do a smush if we need to. Doing clusters is a great way to get rid of the rest of your resin. I don't know if you guys watched our video yesterday, but clusters out of here are some of our best sellers.  Yeah, utilize leftovers. And let's say somebody likes a painting, but maybe they either A, you can import it or B would like to have a matching set of posters to set out when they have this store. And then you can actually get it. You know, during Christmas time, I sell so many posters. So right now I'm just trying to cover anything that is raw. We have a video out on how to finish the back of these posters and I will see if I can link that in the description box for you guys. So now that everything is covered, we're going to heat it. I'm probably just use the heat gun after some gold. That's it, off of some things that like I'm serious. I can't even even like I couldn't even odd. You got some kilo on it. Y'all this glitter is the most legit. The camera wanting to pick it up. I think distable, but more. That's all the sparkles. Okay, I'll put it in the true color video. We put Facebook. All right, you guys, we're going to crash and get some Z's because I haven't had any Z's this week, which I have a loved every moment of it. It has absolutely nothing to do with the background here. Anyways, you guys, please take time to read all these things and join us on all the social medias is get some behind the scenes action. You can see what Jeff's up to tonight. If you follow us on that chat, so announcement. We're expecting four more pause. April 2019. I think I said that right. Oh, I know. Maybe the friend and why not? Anyways, you guys, we kind of want another, you never know what someone may be going through and check out all those things, follow us on all social medias to see when we go live, if we change whatever and whatever we're up to. Somebody else? Okay. So yeah, we'll see you guys on all the other social medias and tomorrow we are going to go live early. I think Den and I are going to do like a 48 inch alcoholic.  That's an idea. There was no truth to that. So with that being said, we'll see y'all. Mianna join our Facebook group. Are you still there? 18 days for people for updates on when our live will be. I'll go ahead and make an announcement in there. Make sure you answer the question. If you don't answer that question, I would say join the group. Yeah, that's going to make sure that you're not a robot or spammer. Anyways, you guys, we'll see you tomorrow. Mianna. Bye.


There is great power that happens in prayer when your prayers align with the word.  Nothing is impossible with God. The purpose of prayer is to fulfill the will of God in the earth. The purpose of prayer is to bring heaven to earth, to cultivate the kingdom of heaven throughout the earth. That is the purpose of prayer. Now, the will of God is a fixed river. It does not move. God is going to accomplish his will no matter what. But when I pray according to his will, when I pray according to his word, I'm pulling those broken pieces of creation into alignment with the will of God. Prayer does not change the will of God. Prayer aligns you with God's will. Too often we imagine that prayer is a way to persuade God to do something that he doesn't want to do. Like we're twisting his arm. Who among us is so persuasive that we can convince God to do something? Who among us is so wise, so insightful, that we can point out something to God that he didn't see first? So no, prayer is not about getting God to do our will. Prayer is not about getting God to get involved in what we're doing. Prayer involves me in what he is doing. Prayer aligns me to his will. Prayer does not change the direction of the river. Prayer puts me in the river. I don't know about you, but I want to be in the river in the flow of God's will.  And I want you to write in the comment section right now. I'm jumping in the river. Let the river take you. Flow with what God is doing. When it comes to the will of God, you can't fight it. You can't force it. You can't stop what he's doing. And you can't get him to do something that he doesn't want to do. But instead, flow with the will of God. John 15 says this, But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask anything you want and it will be granted. So often we want to just focus on the later portion of that. So often we want to just focus on the latter portion of this scripture. You may ask for anything you want and it will be granted. And we quote that part. Ask for anything and it will be granted. But what does it say right before? But if you remain in me and what my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want and it will be granted. Alignment accesses authority. If you remain in him, that's to walk as he walked. That's to surrender to his will. That's to be like him. And his words remain in you. That's to have your heart inclined to his statutes. That's to have your heart inclined to his will. Bend me to your will is what I pray, Lord. Bend me to your will. Make me willing to obey you. I submit my will to you. He bends you toward his will. And in that bending toward the will of God, in becoming aligned with the will of God, then we see true power. Why? Because when we remain in him and when his words remain in us, what we pray is aligned with his will. Another way we could put it, when you pray God's will, it will be done. When you pray God's word, it will be granted. It's not like some hocus pocus thing where I say these magic words and I say these special ritualized prayers or I pray a special script and that will get God to move and that will get God to respond. No, my friend. When you pray the word of God, you are agreeing with the will of God. That's why it works. Now, what does remain in me or abide in me mean? Let's dig deeper. 1 John 3, 24 says, whoever keeps his commandments remains in God and God in him. So the scripture here is talking about obedience and by this we know that he remains in us by the spirit he has given us. So when we walk in obedience, we remain in him. So knowing what we know from the scripture that remaining in him is walking in obedience to him, let's read John 15, 7 again. But if you walk in obedience, remain in me, that's what it means. If you walk in obedience to me and my words remain in you, in other words, it transforms your heart, transforms your will, transforms your desires, your desires now align with his will, then you may ask for anything you want and it will be granted. When I pray his will, that's when there's power. How do I know I'm praying his will? If I see it reflected in his word. 1 John 3, 21 and 22, beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God and whatsoever we ask we receive of him, watch this now, why? Because we keep his commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. So because we walk in obedience with him, then when we pray, there's true power. Well, why does that matter? Because the one who walks in obedience towards God is going to pray prayers that align with God's will. Psalm 37, 4 says this, delight thyself also in the Lord and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Delight thyself also in the Lord and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Now, why does this matter? Because when I delight in him, he becomes my desire. When I delight in his presence, when I delight in the glory of who he is, when I delight in his power, his nature, his being, then he becomes my desire. And so he's willing to give me the desires of my heart. Why? Because I've delighted myself in him. When I delight myself in him, my desires change. My nature is transformed. My thoughts are transformed. My mind is renewed. And now I begin to think like him. And not only do I begin to think like him, I begin to desire like him. Let me say that again. When I delight myself in the Lord, he becomes my focus. That focus of who he is, the revelation of his glory begins to transform me. And when I delight in him, I begin to think like he thinks, and I begin to desire like he desires. So then when I pray, the desires of my heart now are what he desires. Well, when you begin to delight yourself in the Lord, you gain a compassion for souls who are lost. When you begin to delight yourself in the Lord, you begin to grow more frustrated with the sin nature. When you begin to delight yourself in the Lord, your desire becomes God's will. You begin to love what he loves. You begin to hate what he hates. You want to see accomplished what he wants accomplished. And so when I delight myself in him, my nature is transformed. And therefore my prayers are transformed. That's why the scripture makes it clear that when we pray in his name or according to his will, or when we pray as someone who obeys his commands, when we delight ourselves in him, then he gives us the desires of our heart. Why? Because delighting ourselves in him transforms the heart and therefore the desires. And so obedience is alignment. Alignment accesses authority. When I obey him and my heart is inclined toward his statutes, when I begin to think like he thinks and desire like he desires, now I'm praying the word. Now I'm praying his desires. And so that agreement between heaven and earth, nothing can ever stop that. Now I as a person on earth, I as a child of God in the earth, come into agreement with God's will in heaven. Didn't Jesus tell us to pray this? Did not Jesus tell us to pray that the will of God would be done in earth as it is in heaven? Why would he have us pray that if it wasn't necessary to pray? Why would Jesus tell us? Why would Jesus command us to pray for the will of God to be done in the earth as it is in heaven if it wasn't necessary for us to pray that? Now I'm not saying that God can't move without us. What I am saying is that God chooses to not move without us in the earth. It's not that he can't, it's that he won't. He chooses to work in partnership with his children. At any moment that God wants, he can just transform the earth. At any moment that God wants, he can do whatever he wants. But he chooses to include you and I in the cultivating of kingdom culture in the earth. And so when we pray in the earth as someone who's aligned with him, our desires are his desires. Our thoughts become more like his. Now we pray in agreement, heaven and earth join hands and it's done. It's done. There's no stopping it. Why? Because you're praying the will of God. You're praying for his desires to be done in the earth. That's why when we pray in his name, it shall be done. That's why when we pray in his authority, it shall be done. That's why when we delight ourselves in the Lord, then we receive the desires of our heart. Now watch this. You can pray for what God promised. Now you begin to align your prayers with his promises. You begin to pray according to his will. You know his will by the word. And you begin to pray with his power when you pray according to his promises. You can pray to war in the spirit. Ephesians 6, 10-12. You can pray for the safety of your loved ones. It's in his word, 2 Corinthians 111. You can pray for the salvation of your unsaved loved ones. Romans 10-1. You can pray for the well-being of cities. Jeremiah 29-7. You can pray for the faith of others. I love this one. You can pray for the faith of others to be strengthened. Luke 22-32 gives us an example of that. You can pray for leaders and people in positions of authority. 1 Timothy 2, 2-3. Whatever God promised, you can pray. And when you pray what God promised, there's power. Why? Because you're aligning yourself now with heavenly things. You're aligning yourself now with the authority of the kingdom of God. And so when you become that vessel who submits to God's will by praying his word, now you're praying with real power. Now you are enforcing what God has already said. God's words have creative power. Our words have cultivating power. Thank God our words can't just cause things to literally and instantly pop into existence. I mean imagine if believers actually had the power to call things literally into existence. I think there would be a lot of chaos in our world. Maybe when you're driving in traffic on the way to work, you would speak another lane into existence. And then who knows what would go from there? Because many people would be speaking all sorts of things into existence. I mean if you have two Christians praying on opposite teams during a football game and both of them are praying for their teams to win, what then manifests there? Or if you're angry with someone and you should pray something out of the flesh, there would be many of our loved ones who wouldn't exist if we had that kind of creative power. So thank God we don't have the exact same power in our words that God's has. We have cultivating power in our words. In other words, we cultivate the culture of heaven. What we speak can encourage or discourage. What we speak can confuse or bring clarity. What we speak can cause lust or cause that lust to weaken its power. What we speak can be deceptive or truthful. What we speak does have effect. Life and death are in the power of the tongue, but creative power is reserved for God's words. Only what we speak, what God has already spoken, do we then see that creative power come into play? Why? Because you and I on our own do not have that creative power. We have cultivating power. God started the world. We steward the world. God created the world. We cultivate the world. We are stewards of God's creation, not the starters of God's creation. So God speaks creatively. We speak with some level of authority, but just to cultivate. So now when we repeat what God has said, when we pray what God has promised, then and only then do we see that creative power come into play. If God said healing, we can speak healing. If God said deliverance, we can speak deliverance. If God said that a miracle should happen at that moment and we align our prayers with his will for that moment, that miracle will happen. That's how it works to align yourself with the will and the word of God. When we pray according to the word, we're praying according to his will. And when we pray according to his will, we are accessing authority through alignment and we're truly backed by the power of heaven. I want to pray with you right now. I want to pray that you would be given revelation of the word by the Holy Spirit. And then I'm going to pray that you would be given faith to believe the word so that when you pray, when you align your prayers with the word of God and the will of God, you would begin to see results. Father, I thank you that by your Holy Spirit, you're bringing revelation of your word. I pray for that one receiving this now. And I ask you, Father, to by your Holy Spirit, cause them to know your word. Give us insight. I pray, Lord, teach us your will, teach us your ways, teach us your nature. And also, Lord, I'm asking that you would stir there faith, stir their faith to believe the promises that you have made, Lord, in the name of Jesus. I want you to say it because you believe it, right? Amen. Well, I believe God brought you here for a purpose. I believe that something was ministered to you that will help you. And now I'm asking for your help that we might reach even more people. All of our content is given away for free. Why? Because Jesus said freely you receive, so freely give. We don't charge for the gospel. All of the content is free. All of our events are free. Our online school is free. The way we support it is by faith in God and God moves the hearts of his people to give free will offerings to help us continue to reach more people. And so you believe in expanding the kingdom. 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Good morning y'all, welcome to Vlogmas Day 3.  Can't be happening but we fell off, it happens unfortunately. Cause last night was wild. I went to Cadets and he had friends over, he was hosting like a little taco Tuesday and it was pretty fun. Then I ended up having to sleep over, good thing go to because I didn't have no sheets on my bed cause I'm washing my sheets so it was convenient for me to go over there. I'm about to go ahead and take this off and get my morning started. I did want to go to a workout this morning but obviously I slept in a little bit. I really need to get back into my routine for like the gym and just everything. Why does this look so zoomed in? And there's a video I want to film today so I just want to get started with that. And we have fun plans later. My friend actually invited me out yesterday and she called me and told me about this event today and I'm just taking off my makeup with the Elemis Pro Collagen Green Tea. Y'all this smells so good. I think this is like, I don't know if this is new or I live in a division but I love how this smells, this smells divine. I'm just going to be working today after editing like a TikTok film's video. It's going to be a productive day. Yesterday was like my vlog day. I was experiencing symptoms. I always experienced symptoms the first week before my period.  Like, ugh. What if those are just the opera days of the week? I feel like Monday, Tuesday is like Friday and then like Thursday, Friday is like get ready for the weekend day and Wednesday is just like that. Opera day of the week. And then I always like to dip a clean face towel leg. And then wipe away my makeup with this. It works so good. Between the, and then I'm going to go on with my other cleansing bottles by Solution. Oh yeah, this smells amazing.   And I think I might have a hair day today. Y'all always ask me how long does my quick weeks last. It lasts about two weeks. Like a week and a half for me. Because I really love to do a hair routine in between installs. So I like to take the time to really, you know, deep condition, wash it, do a hot oil treatment or do an oil treatment before I even get it done. And my scalp is inching. And I need to go get a new shampoo and conditioner. So, the days when I wear makeup, I like the triple cleanse, if you will. Can also make your dialstone. And you don't want to wet it. It's going to go straight in. And I'm not going to do my full skincare routine right now. But I am going to go in with my Pharrell Bear device. Because I've been really consistent with this. And I see that my face is actually swollen last night. And this last weekend when I was in Wisconsin, I gave my mom one of these. So hopefully she's using it. And oh my god, y'all, last night when I was at the party, everybody was complimenting me on like my makeup and stuff. And I barely did anything. I was like, oh my god, thank you. And there was a makeup artist there.  And I'm like, you're asking me? You're asking me?  So I was like, wow. You did that, Kara. But I decided to tell y'all.  Oh my god. I know they sponsored me a few times, but won't tell you. This is so good. And then I'm just going to ice roll too. And then we're going to make a smoothie. But there's dishes in the dishwasher I have to put away. So yeah, after that I'm going to officially give my morning started. So let's go. Oh my god, y'all. This Fenty, the plush pudding? Yeah. My makeup came out so cute. But anyways, I'm getting ready to get to work. I just got my setup going, my Canon. I need a new camera because I literally just put a new battery in and it's already like half, like what's going on? Anyways, I'm about to fill my Amazon haul. So I got like all the products I've been using plus the clothing I want to mention. So yeah, this is just a little BTS. Y'all see the video, that video before you'll see this or whatever. But I just made me a little pick me up. It's not the best coffee, but it'll do for now. But yes. And this is what I have on. I just have on my, oh, I'm recording. I just have on my Amazon set that I love so much, like one of my faves. These Amazon earrings and yeah, I'm just kept the face bare. And today we actually have to go to IKEA because they finally came in stock of this lamp that I've been wanting. Y'all, it's so cute. It's the donut lamp. So I got to go pick that up right after this. But this should literally take me no longer than an hour.  So check my child in a bit. But yeah, I just had to show y'all and I'll link all the equipment down below. Like this light is like a, this light is different from this one. This one is my warm light and this one is like my bright light. I like both like a contrast or whatever. So, but yeah. And then also I use this hard drive to, but I'm going to talk about that in the end of my video. But yeah, I'm checking with your light, baby. So I just finished my video and I was going to go to home goods after I was done, but there's no way I was making it there. So I did get an IKEA order y'all and y'all this item lamp is always sold out. And I've seen it on TikTok and I was like, oh my God, that's so cute. And I really want to make my living room like a vibe. Like when this is done y'all, when I have seen it in the last Vlogmas Vlogs. When this is finished because it's not done yet. I want to put strip lights on the back of it so it glows. Like it's going to be such a vibe in here. It's going to be so cute.  And I love using like my lamps.  It's not a vibe. So I got the donut light. I'm not going to open it yet, but it's maybe I can open it. I'm going to set it out once my thing is done. I think I'm going to set it out at the end of it. And it's going to glow with the back strip light. I think it's going to look so cute and vibe-y. So it literally looks like a donut. It's orange. It's cute. So this is what it looks like. I'm not going to take it completely out, but this is what it looks like. And it just came back in stock today at IKEA, y'all. I had to hurry up and grab it. And it's already sold out. That's how popular it is. So I'm happy I got my hands on this mug. To eat this snack, y'all. Because I tried it the other day when I first got caviar. But I'm about to make me something to eat. I think I'm going to turn them out tonight. So that's what I'm going to have. But I'm about to put this away and clean up my beauty wrong real quick and transfer my files to my laptop so we can work on that. And I'm going to edit a TikTok.  It's delirious after having coffee and filming that video. So I have caviar and cream fresh. And I cannot wait to make my eggs in the morning with cream fresh because I've been wanting to make these fluffy eggs for the longest time in y'all. I messed this up the other day. And it's actually not bad. Like the cheeseiness from the Dorito and then the cream fresh. It tastes like sour cream to me, honestly. So I'm just going to have a little bit of this and then I'm going to change and then have a nightcap. So what you're going to do is take the Dorito with the cream fresh. I'm going to go in with the caviar. This is like rich people dessert. I mean snacks. And then it's going to look like this. Can y'all see? Yeah, there you go. And then next time I go to Whole Foods, I'm going to try a different caviar because I've seen this review on this one. This one is honestly like if all the flavors weren't there it would give them fishy because I tried it by itself. But whatever thing it just enhances the flavor. But I love caviar y'all. It's so good. Like I can't wait to try this tomorrow on an egg. Why is it so good? Like maybe because I like Dorito. I'm going to do one with a lot of caviar. I feel rich doing this. Today was actually a productive day. I actually need to edit a chicken stock. But I guess I'll just post it tomorrow. I was trying to do it today. But honestly y'all I know people will be like oh consistency, consistency. Consistency is good but consistency doesn't necessarily mean like every single day. Because like if you post every single day it's cool. But like really post to give a purpose. You know what I'm saying? What am I going to really take from this piece of content? What is somebody going to take from this piece of content that I'm posting? Especially on TikTok. Because people with tension swings are so short. And I feel like on TikTok I'd rather post quality than quality. You know what I'm saying? I'd rather post a good piece of content than try to post all these crazy content video ideas every single day. And normally when I'm making a TikTok things come to me. I know y'all ask me these questions all the time. That's why I'm just answering them now. Because it just came to my mind. We can have caviar talks. Caviar and Dorito talks. People want to grow on social media. Shit. I do do. And I just feel like my approach is now quality. Rather than quantity.  It's literally no race. It's no finish line. Because like I said before I want this for the long run. So it's no rush. Like I'm enjoying the journey. Learning new things. It's a journey. And you don't want to overnight success. You don't want people to forget about you tomorrow. Or like next week. You want to build a community. Like I built a community with y'all. And I love y'all. And yeah and they just rock with you to the wheels while off. And I'm so appreciative with y'all. For y'all. Like literally. I'm so thankful. For y'all. But yeah I'm just trying to think like because I'm just sitting here thinking like dang I didn't post my two TikToks that I wanted to today. I just posted a TikTok. And I'm going to just let it run its course. And I'll just be able to edit the other one tomorrow. And just really give quality. Instead of rushing it just trying to post it. You know. It's no rush. It ain't going nowhere. Let me get ready for bed. And I'll see y'all. Once we make that tuna milk. I'm trying to think if I want to expect some martini tonight. Do I want one? I don't know. Especially my tuna is just giving me grown and sexy. I kind of deserve it. But then again. Anyway. I'll see y'all later.


German Rheinmetall will deliver another 25 Lepid-1 tanks to Ukraine. The government of Ukraine signed a contract with the German defence concern Rheinmetall for the supply of Lepid-1 systems, including 25 Lepid-1A5 main battle tanks, 5 Bergpanzer-2 armoured recovery vehicles and 2 driver training tanks. Deliveries are scheduled for 2024. This is reported by sensor media outlet with reference to the company's message. The order, financed by Germany and worth several million euros, also includes training logistics, spare parts, maintenance and other support services, the statement said. According to the concern, the Lepid-1 systems are currently being overhauled at the Rheinmetall plants in Unterluss and Kassel and are being prepared for use. Rheinmetall continues to support Ukraine with constant supplies of tactical vehicles. Earlier the group was tasked with supplying Ukraine with 80 MADR infantry fighting vehicles. Most of them are already in the country, where they have proven their stability in current operations the company emphasised. Also Rheinmetall is ready to supply 20 more MADR BMPs as soon as it receives the relevant order. At the end of 2023, at the beginning of 2024, Ukraine will also receive 5 Karakal air mobiles. In addition, on behalf of the governments of the Netherlands and Denmark, the group will supply Ukraine with 14 Lepid-2A4 tanks next year. In addition to equipment, Rheinmetall helps the armed forces with ammunition, drones, medical equipment etc. Also a reminder that Germany handed over another package of military aid to Ukraine which in particular included 10 Lepid-1A5 tanks.


Welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosso here. I wanted to record a video today just sharing a couple of ideas best practices for recording zoom meetings that you're going to be later editing in something like a video editor and putting up onto the internet. Now I've done a previous video on this YouTube channel. I will put a link in the description showing how to do this process in OBS. So if you wanted to live stream a zoom meeting using OBS, it's very possible. It's a little bit tricky. There's a couple of steps involved in getting the guest audio, your audio guest camera, your camera, laying those things all out into a canvas and then streaming them onto the internet, challenging but possible. But if you are going to not be live streaming, you're going to be just taking a video interview with something like an expert, which is what I'm doing in about one hour with a gastroenterologist who's going to be the first video interview featured on this channel. Then you have the luxury of not having to figure everything out in real time. Now one or two words about that stuff you can do. So generally speaking, you're going to get the best performance if you record video locally. So if I record my video, as opposed to me recording, let's say the video feed from my webcam and microphone that's going up to the cloud via zoom, then downloading that file and editing locally that kind of workflow doesn't really make much sense. Anytime you're recording in a third party program like zoom, you're going to run the risk that it's going to have some kind of built in compression. Zoom is basically a meeting platform. It's important to remember that. So it's generally trying to compress your webcam feed, make it as lightweight as possible so that the latency is going to be minimized with who you're in the meeting in. Now that's well and good, but there is a bit of a problem here. And the problem is typically that webcams are only able to be used with one program at a time, at least in a bunch of Linux, which is what I use for my computing. That's the case. Now, a solution you can do is just rig up a couple of webcams. So I'm currently recording into my logitech webcam. What I could do is position another webcam off here. And that webcam would be let's say recording me into OBS with the same microphone. And the microphone could be used also with Zoom as the second webcam. I could even wear two different lavalier microphones and have a different microphone going into each program. Now the advantage of doing that would be that I'd have a very, very reliable, high quality feed and I could actually use something like a camcorder to record me. And for the purpose of keeping the video streaming more lightweight, I could use a webcam for the actual meeting. So that's the first best practice. What I want to demonstrate is a couple of settings that you can use in Zoom. And then I'm going to do a little test meeting. I have my Android phone here and I'm going to just invite myself to a meeting with myself and then end that recording. And then I'll show you what kind of an output we get from that process. So let's take a look now at the recording settings in Zoom. Okay, so I've just gone into my Zoom dashboard here and where you can find these settings is clicking on settings and then you will have here recording.  Now there are two things, two types of recordings you can do in Zoom. If you have a premium license account, you can avail yourself of cloud recordings. And this is what I'm going to be demonstrating in this video.  But realistically, guests are not going to want to go with the trouble. So if you're looking to use Zoom to do expert recordings for YouTube channel, I really, really recommend just paying for the premium Zoom. You can just do it for a month if you're very budget constricted, but it's really worth it to be able to record stuff straight into the cloud on the guest side. And then as I said, you can combine it with your own recording. So if you want to click on settings, don't click on recordings. A little bit confusing. And of course, all these features are only as they exist at the time I'm recording this next to click into recordings up the top here.  So under cloud recording, this is where we have the cloud recording settings here. And you can see the default setting is not this. This is something I've actually enabled record active speaker gallery view and shared screen separately. And that's what you want to turn on.  I just take that on the default position is we're going to record the active speaker with a shared screen. And the way that works in zoom is it's fine. It detects who's speaking and then it puts that webcam feed blows up the screen. Now that's probably going to work just fine if you're looking to do something simple, but you're going to be more powerful. If you do this, if you use this option, what you're going to get instead of just the one video feed of you speaking, you're going to get your video feed. You're going to get the gallery. You're going to get the active speaker feed. And you're going to get the gallery feed, which is going to be the two participants or however many participants you have all layer together. And shared screen is not that useful. But if one participant is doing a screen share and you want to just cut that in the video. So if you record a channel by channel, you're going to have much more flexibility and power when you're editing the interview and post production. Record an audio only file. That's an option. I actually just for the purposes of simplifying things probably would tick off because the audio is going to be in the video feed. But if you're looking to do something like produce a podcast version of the meeting and you don't want to just have to replicate the process of extracting audio from the recording, then go ahead and leave that ticked on. Save chat messages most for this kind of use case we could leave without. So those are the settings in cloud recording as you want to have them set up. Now there's one more setting that optimize recording for a third party video editor. And what it says here in the tooltip is this option ensures compatibility with video editing software you can use to modify the recording file. It will increase the size and it will take the time that it's going to take zoom to create that file in the cloud is going to be longer too. Nevertheless, obviously given that that's exactly what we're trying to do that makes sense to take on that option. So there are a couple of settings that are not enabled by default because most people recording zoom meetings are looking for more simple use cases of recording a business meeting and maybe putting that up to an internal file share or intranet or confidence. What have you. So if you're going to be doing this for the purpose of recording a video interview and putting that on YouTube then you want to add in these advanced settings. Now the one I don't recommend but it exists there is you can have the timestamp added to the recording and that'll embed the date and time of the actual meeting into video recording. But that is an option there if you want to have that. So now I'm going to go ahead and create a meeting and make sure zoom cloud recording is enabled in it. Okay, so just gone ahead now and opened up zoom and as you can see it's prompted with a default meeting there. So we're just going to go ahead and create a meeting and if you click make sure that start with videos clicked on or this is just going to be a test meeting but it's going to enable me just to hold up my phone record myself. But then I want to show you the different files I'm going to get. So actually just kind of put my phone facing my desk or something. So here is my my my visage and what I'm going to do now is make sure that I'm going to invite myself as a participant by going into participants. Clicking on invite and then clicking on a copy invite link that'll give you the password included in that hyperlink as well. And then I'm going to just send that over to to myself. Okay, so in order to do this I'm going to go ahead and click on the record button and I'm going to go for record to the cloud. And you can see I can do recording to this computer. So what I would recommend in terms of the workflow would be that you'd be doing this set this up in OBS then start your zoom meeting wait for your participant to join then go for the cloud recording. So I'm going to go for recording to the cloud connecting the cloud server and I'm just going to record about 10 or 20 or even 30 seconds of this fictitious meeting just for the purpose of demonstrating. So you can see here I'm going to actually go ahead and grab up the phone just to kind of do a bit of footage maybe a bit more useful for this purpose like this. I've got a notification on my phone saying the host is recording is I'm going to put my phone back down. And I think that's enough for a test meeting that I'm going to go now and just take a look at what files that zoom has generated from this meeting. Okay so two minutes later and I've gone ahead and received that email notification from zoom saying that your recording is ready now because we enabled the setting for editing that in a third party video editor. If it's not if it's something like a 45 hour 45 minutes one hour meeting it's going to take longer than a few minutes or just be patient. But when it is ready you're going to get an email notification from zoom telling you that your files are ready. Now once again I recommend before you do the meeting setting up a parallel camera and a parallel microphone if required. And recording your video feed locally so that you're not only relying on what zoom is capturing in the cloud that can be your backup if you really need to take your own speech from there. But it would be good to have always to have that backup option but just to make sure that you're getting a local recording as well so that's my recommendation for that. Now let's go ahead and take a look at what these files from zoom actually look like. Okay so I'm going to just go now and download these and as you can say it's going to be three different files and each one is going to be downloaded separately which is fine with me. And that's fine I'm just giving permission to Chrome to download multiple files. Now let us take a look at what these files actually contain. Now just one or two more settings that I glanced over earlier that I think it actually would be worth just explaining. Two more settings that might be of interest to you in that recording setting screen in zoom. One of them is you have the ability to automatically start the recording and what that's going to do is when you know a self-explanatory really when you start up your zoom meeting. Every zoom meeting is going to start recording now. The disadvantage here is that if you do a lot of zoom recordings this is going to end up taking a significant amount of space on your computer. But if you do choose to enable it you're going to have the option to record either locally in automatic recording automatic cloud recording sharing. Just going to actually turn that off. This option here automatic recording and you can choose whether you want that automatic recording process to start recording into the cloud or on your local computer. So again if you're just using a zoom account for let's say the purpose of recording interviews that automatic recording feature might be great.  So just be careful there. Now here's one I actually would recommend disabling. The default setting here for is disable participants name and the recording. So when you see those zoom interviews and it says who the person speaking is then that is why. Now that's again an advanced setting that by default isn't able. So I personally don't think that for most zoom meetings recorded you're going to want to see that little bit of text over late saying who's speaking. It's probably self explanatory. So just two more settings there that I would turn off and I just want to show what I would do with these in a video editor. Okay so just opened up these clips now what I want to show you is how I might actually use these if I was actually editing this interview. So I can just grab both of these clips now actually if I do that you're not going to get the separate clips. Let's just do one by one and you'll probably be helpful just for yourself to label which one was active speaker view and which one was the other one. So this one's active speaker view and this is going to be the side by side participant view. So what I might do for instance is at this point in time cut into let's say this clip and I'm going to cut here and I'm just going to take away this channel. Now what's going to happen if you watch the timeline preview here is going to be my active speaker view and then we're going to jump to the shared the joint speaker view with the two cameras there. Really the advantage of doing this is that you can control exactly when you're going to flip between the two and if you have that local recording and you've got a local recording on the host side. Then what you've got every option out there you're going to have your local recording zoom recording zoom gallery recording and guest recording and you can mix and match those exactly as you want in post production. I hope this video has been useful about how to how to do video editing using post production workflow for recording a zoom meeting. And if you'd like to get more videos about OBS zoom meetings and other technological subjects please feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel. Thank you very much for watching.