exciting episode of Stan Energy Man, Stan Osserman. Coming to you live from the windward side of Oahu, Kailua, Hawaii, and glad to be with you. So he's gonna be a little bit of a different show. It's gonna take off from last week's show where we talked about energy and power and the relationship and the differences between energy and power. But I'm gonna kind of focus on the power side and even get into a little bit of what we might be called non-traditional power or power other than directly related to energy. And even talk a little bit about some of the lessons learned that I hope we've learned from the current pandemic. So last week when we talked about energy and power, I said that energy was basically the source of motivation or mechanics to get things moving. So energy comes in many, many forms. You can have light energy, you can have sound waves, you can have nuclear energy, you can have heat, you can have motion, you can have gravity, pulling a heavy rock down a hill, potential energy. You have kinetic energy for two things banging into each other. You have a lot of energy, but the main thing that you have to understand about energy is the first law of thermodynamics, which states that energy can either be created or destroyed. It just changes form. So when people think about energy and whether we could actually run out of energy, I can safely tell you that if we ever run out of energy, we don't have to worry about it because none of us will be here. The entire universe from the atomic level up to the solar system level requires energy to keep it functioning. And so when you think about energy, and I said this last week, if you think about it at the atomic level, the example I've been taught is that if you had an atom, the protons and neutrons would be like a basketball sitting on the 50-yard line of a football stadium and that the electrons would be little tiny mosquitoes whizzing around in the upper bleacher section. So in essence, most atoms are empty of actual material other than these particles that are either stationary in the center of the atom, protons and neutrons, or the electrons whizzing around the outside. And then when you get to explaining what energy does for you and how you can change forms from heat energy to electric energy or light energy to electric energy or heat energy to mechanical energy and things like that, that's where the term power comes in. When you actually have energy doing work, some kind of work, that's called power. So you have a gasoline engine running off of gasoline fuel and it's turning the pistons in a crankshaft and giving you torque and power at your wheels for your vehicle and that's power. If you have a nuclear power plant that's super heating water into steam and running it across turbines, excuse me, that's another kind of energy. So that's another kind of power. Then you can have solar panels that take light energy and turn it into electricity, DC electricity. And then you can take the DC electricity and run it through an inverter and get AC electricity. So that energy doesn't get lost, it just changes from one thing to another and gives us the ability to do work so that we as people aren't using our own calories and our own muscles to do the work but we're using other things to help us get work done without expending our own personal energy. And I mean, you can even look at the body, the human body takes in food and oxygen and nutrients and stuff and we can move our muscles, our heart pumps, our brain works and it's all based on the same kind of energy cycles that provide us fossil fuels and things like that. Fossil fuels are basically solar energy that's been captured in part of this cycle of plants and when the plant dies and starts to decay underground or pressure and things like that, it turns into either coal or oil or natural gas. Methane natural gas is CH4, so it's four hydrogen and then one carbon atom but it basically comes from plants.  So anyway, when it comes to power though, there's, I say two kinds of power, there's a kind of physical power that we talk about with energy and then there's a nontraditional power but it's just as real a power. It's power that you're all aware of and I start to start to mention the different examples, you'll be able to appreciate it. You have military power. I mean, the military might have a country is certainly a power. In fact, the actual ordinance that military people use in combat to provide kinetic impact and bombs and things like that, that's basically kinetic energy. It's power using energy and kinetic forces to deliver a course of force on somebody else's army or military. So you have military power but that's not the only kind of power I mean, think about the other end of the spectrum. You have the power of love, you know, the power of love and the power of faith and the power that you have in religions and in meditation and things. That has a whole nother power to it on the other end of the spectrum that it's a lot harder to get your head around but it's just as powerful. Those faith and things like that have moved mountains and done tremendous things. You have economic power. You have companies that make lots of money and do great work and great philanthropists that take money and do powerful things with it for society and turn it into medications or feeding people that otherwise couldn't afford it. You have political power. You have the power of politicians to make laws and send those military people to war and establish national foreign policy and things like that and trade agreements. So that's all in the realm of politics but when you think about it, there's one more power that kind of has come into play in my mind, especially recently but in reality, I'm 66 years old and I've been around to see a lot of things in this world and in my mind, this last power that I had on my list is one that really has played a huge role and I guess the best way I could describe it is you'll quote, I believe it's from Shakespeare but the pen is mightier than the sword and in today's world, it's basically communications is a powerful tool. Information and communications is hand and glove between the two of them, probably one of the most influential powers that we see floating around today. So lessons learned during this COVID-19 pandemic that I think are important for us to take away, especially in that non-traditional power category are the fact that we've kind of experienced, intentionally or unintentionally, some things that have opened our eyes that have given us the personal energy and the personal power to recognize things that maybe we've just kind of been lulled into accepting or lulled into following or maybe just never really thought about it because we're so busy with our cell phones and our computers and our games and our movies and our TV shows and things like that. And so the two things that I really think shine for me in terms of this pandemic and power are number one, the fact that our American experiment in the Democratic Republic has insidiously been degraded over time. And if you try and explain the popularity of a Bernie Sanders and the socialist movement and stuff, you can probably say it's because a lot of people feel disenfranchised from the government. They feel like they're wasting their vote. Doesn't matter who you vote for because nothing ever changes. Voter apathy is higher than it's ever been up until probably the 2016 election. And people are just tired of wasting their time voting for people. And those people go to Congress and or to the White House or to their governor's office. The state legislature and things just never change except maybe get worse and very few things get fixed and a lot of things stay broken and there's crisis seemingly going on all the time and always nothing but problems. So in my mind, what I've seen over my lifetime of six decades is that in our federal government and in our state government, I've seen a lot of the power of the legislative branch migrate to the executive branch in a couple of ways. The legislature's supposed to draft the laws and it has the representatives of the people from the district level, the kind of like the community level in the house side and then from the state level or the broader population on the Senate side that are supposed to take and make legislation that helps guide our country and keeps us in a balanced budget situation and things like that and takes care of those big administrative things. But over the years, I've seen a lot of that power and a lot of that responsibility handed to the executive branch, to the governors and to the president and a lot of it's, I think because a lot of the legislative branches have just said, well, well, we have too much at risk. If we don't do this or that, we might not get elected. So we'd rather just push that responsibility to the president and the governor tell them to do it and then we don't have to risk putting our reputations on the line and risk not getting elected, especially on the house side where every two years you're up for reelection. So what we see is, we see a lot of the government shifting from the legislative power side back to the executive side. On the executive side is where all the people work. Not a whole lot of people work directly for legislators. I mean, they have their staff and things, but the majority of civil service lines up under the executive branch, under the governor, under the president. And when that happens and you develop a civil service and oh, by the way, I have 24 years of federal civil service, six years of state civil service and just shy of two years of county civil service. So I'm pretty experienced on civil service period and civil public workers unions and things. And have been a supervisor too. So I've had to deal with the union issues and also deal with the legislative folks and the congressional delegations for our state and the governor work with the governor quite a bit. So when it comes to watching that power shift, I'm a little bit nervous because in the civil service, we've got over the years is we have a larger and larger group of people who are not elected, who are appointed by elected officials, who get into positions, many of whom, if they're rank and file, they're not in SES level federal positions or senior state positions like department heads. They basically have a job for 25, 30 years. And it's almost impossible to fire a rank and file civil service person, especially if they're in a union, it's really difficult. So what we've got is we've got a big chunk of our government that is not elected. And if you don't like the policies and stuff that they're pushing and you don't reelect the president or whatever, nothing changes, the next president comes in unless he spends all of his energy trying to change the stuff to the way it should be and get rid of some of the people that aren't carrying out his policies, which you get is a lot of wasted time. Does this sound familiar to what we see going on right now? I think it's pretty obvious that we have a president that's frustrated by a bunch of people that he never changed out because he didn't have the bench to pick from and he's been fighting for three years. The other piece that comes with that shift of power to the executive branch is the fact that those executive branch departments, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Department of Land and Natural Resources or Education or whatever, they start to develop the EPA, they start to develop their own regulations and they start actually putting those regulations into play with penalties. So in essence, they're actually writing laws that aren't laws, they're just regulations, but they have the force of law. And then the courts, because of the way they were all structured, the courts will tend to back up the government and those rules as if they were laws. So our whole government system has shifted quite a bit and that's really one of the key things that has really gotten my attention over my generation, my lifetime. I've just kind of seen this insidious change in government to where back when I was a teenager or younger, the government had significant role to play, but it didn't control your life.  So I'm gonna talk a little bit more about that and then about the second part of non-traditional power that's really gotten my attention lately after we take a quick break. Aloha, I'm Krista Stadler, the host of Nonprofits Mean Business 2 on Think Tech, Hawaii. Nonprofits Mean Business 2 investigates the operational challenges and costs related to managing nonprofit organizations while encouraging our viewers to find a nonprofit organization that you're passionate about in our community. We are streamed live on Think Tech, Hawaii bi-weekly at 12 p.m. on Thursdays. Thank you so much for watching our show. We look forward to seeing you then. Mahalo. Hey, welcome back to Stan Energyman and Stan Osterman here. And we're talking about a kind of a transition from traditional energy and power into the non-traditional pieces of power that I've experienced over my life that are basically impacting our government and our foundational pieces of our constitution. You know, the constitution was designed so that unlike any other government that's ever existed on the face of the earth, that the power to run the country rested in the hands of the citizens. The term of, by and government, of, by and for the people is enshrined in what we call our basic tenants of our government, of our constitution. And our constitution gives us a framework of how the Congress is set up and relates to the president and how the military is set up and fits in the whole picture and how the states relate to the federal government. And then the first 10 amendments to the constitution called the Bill of Rights gives us things like, you know, our ability to speak freely, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to assemble, lawfully assemble and petition the government with grievances, the right to keep and bear arms, which I'd like to point out as a personal note, the right to keep and bear arms is the only Bill of Rights amendment that allows us to have any other amendments or any part of the constitution. Because if you give the government all the power, including the power of the civilians to arm themselves, then the government can have unlimited power over you because you can't fight back. So a lot of people think that the second amendment was just there so that the pilgrims could hunt turkeys at Thanksgiving and, you know, people could go hunting for their food and defend themselves in their home, all good things. But the second amendment is really there as a check and balance, which is what our whole system is set up with, a check and balance against an overpowerful government that won't listen to the people anymore. And that's just scared the bejeebies out of anybody that's thinking about, you know, taking down our government. It certainly has dissuaded a lot of the enemies of our country to ever invade this country when they realize that for every man, woman and child in our population, there's at least one weapon in the circulation. And that should scare a whole lot of people into making sure that we have the ability to demand by force, if necessary, a change in our government if it ever gets too tyrannical. But basically our government is starting to fall apart for a couple of big reasons. And if it was me deciding what were the key issues for the country today and what should be the key things that politicians should be campaigning on, they would be these three things. First of all, campaign spending reform. I don't think it's right that lobbyists and special interest groups should be able to go into a congressional members office or the president's office or the governor's office and say, hey, you know, we'd really appreciate this kind of work and or this kind of benefit or this kind of law. And oh, by the way, last year we contributed $100,000 or $10,000 to your campaign fund or we're contributing to this political action committee and they're gonna give you a big chunk of their money if you help us fight for this special interest or that special interest. And these special interests aren't just companies. A lot of people get, you know, bent that it's all big business and it's not like the NRA only who fight for Second Amendment rights and people say they're just a big lobbying group for the gun manufacturers, trust me there. We don't sell a whole lot of guns in the United States compared to military weapons that are sold all over the world that are made by other companies besides the ones that support the NRA. But there's also the folks from non-for-profits from churches, from church groups, all kinds of folks, lobby politicians. And it's gotten out of control. And we need to have campaign spending reform where say if you're gonna run for president, the government's gonna give you a million dollars to run your campaign.  And everybody's on a level playing field and it comes out of taxes. And we just cover it that way, but nobody can buy influence in our legislative or executive branch. The second thing I would do is term limits. Now, interestingly enough, a lot of young politicians promise when they come to Washington to introduce a bill on term limits and almost every year in the state legislature and in Congress, a bill on term limits does come up and guess what, it never passes. It never gets anywhere because if you're counting on the legislative branch to limit their power, and there's that word again, power, they won't do it. They just, they can't do it. They, it's like, they would be considered cutting their own throat if they limited their terms. I would think what would be reasonable is 20 years in Congress. That would give you 10 terms as a House of Representative member and maybe two or three terms as a Senator plus one or two or three terms as a Congressman. I mean, that's a 20 year career. And oh, by the way, some of those rules that the executive branch has set up in their departments, those are the same things that happened in Congress. The House and the Senate set up these rules so that they basically have seniority issues or the senior ranking person of the party that's got control of the House or the Senate can literally at this point in time, stop legislation and blame the other party for not doing anything because they can't. Because we've let Congress centralize power in one or two people. If you don't think that's true, just look at what's going on today with Nancy Pelosi. All by herself, one woman can sit down and say, hey, we want this law to go through. And then course all the members from her party to vote for it or show black ball them. And the ones that don't wanna vote for it, probably will anyway, because they're at risk of losing a bunch of their funding for their campaigns from the DNC or people will break from the party at risk and great peril because they really don't like the bill but they're doing it at great risk. And that's an unfair thing to put our legislators up against in their job where they have to play politics every day with bills and legislation as it comes through. That's just wrong. So campaign spending reform, number one, term limits, number two. And with the term limits, I'd also say refining the rules of the House and Senate. So we can't centralize power in just one or two people out of a body of 500 people where we can just stop legislation or basically force the president to use like President Obama said, I got a cell phone and a pen, I'll just write an executive order and make it happen. If the Congress doesn't wanna take action, I'll just make it happen and let the courts figure out if it's legal or not. That has a lot of weight and you've seen President Obama do it a lot and you're starting to see President Trump do it a lot because if Congress ain't gonna move, then boom, he'll just do it. And you know what happens then? We've got 500-something people sitting in the state in the US Capitol getting paid a lot of money with big staffs getting paid a lot of money and they're not doing squat. So if you're frustrated with government, start demanding that some of those things like term limits, campaign spending reform and getting rid of lobbyists as the last one and reforming the lobbying rules so that we can't have so much soft corruption filtering into our political process. So the second thing I think we've learned besides the impact to our country and our government from the power, the non-traditional power shift and we picked up from coronaviruses that we've kind of let too much stuff get outside our personal control. Right now, government and technology basically control us. And this virus kind of gave us a picture of that as people started getting frustrated because they couldn't go back to work or they couldn't leave their houses and they were being told by the government they couldn't even when a lot of times the quote-unquote scientific data really didn't justify some of the draconian limitations they put on everybody. They felt frustrated and they began to realize that insidiously over decades and decades we've given our government and technology the power to control us. And I mentioned last week in the show, imagine if the grid went down across the US for a week.  But if there is no grid power in a high rise in New York City or LA or a big factory all those people would be idle. No pay, no production, no nothing. People living in high rises, no electricity meaning walking up 30, 40, 60 flights of stairs or in New York City maybe a hundred flights of stairs. No water, because after a couple of days the water supply on the roof is gone they can't pump water up there so there's no water in the building to flush a toilet to drink to do anything with. A city without a grid would be total chaos in a matter of hours if not just a couple of days. It would be total chaos. And same with technology, my wife's a teacher was a teacher, she retired now but some of her kids would go to like a summer Hawaiian studies program. And when the kids would get out into these remote areas where there wasn't cell phone coverage some of the kids literally started having psychological issues where they couldn't be separated from their Facebook or their Twitter or social contact or being able to contact their friends or their parents like instantly and they would have to be sent home from these programs because they couldn't handle it. And it's like really have we gone that far and the answer unfortunately is yes. We've again insidiously after time we've just watched these things kind of go slowly away from us and we've accepted it. And so now if you take them away from us you're literally your life isn't at risk. And in reality that's where we get back to Stan the energy man's primary mission which is talking about clean renewable sustainable energy. We need to use the energy of the falls from the sky blows with the wind runs downhill with the stream of water through a hydroelectric turbine to get the electric energy we need. And we need to store extra energy in hydrogen or things that are non-carbon based storage mediums not just batteries but flywheels and hydrogen and things like that so that we can be self-sufficient and self-sustaining. We don't have to depend on other countries for fuel or for critical things like lithium or cobalt for our batteries. We don't have to depend on other countries for drugs and we certainly certainly should have become a socialist globally networked one big government thing and watch our broken government turn into a international broken system which is what all the socialist stuff will drive us to. So a little bit of a different twist on energy and power but I hope it gives you something to think about and I hope you'll really think about elections this year and what's important this year and take some lessons learned from this COVID pandemic and really understand and think hard about what you've got what you may have given up without knowing it and demanding a lot more out of our leaders and our government than we've been getting. So until next week is a Stan Energy Man signing off Aloha.


Hey, we're on 2k20 with it. It's been a month and we're returning to 2k20 just to see what things going like in this game I know people is definitely depressed playing this. I can't wait to load up with my top tier three-level score I'm gonna be so miserable today You have no idea how hard it was to convince myself to do this with my time And how even much harder it was to convince two other people to join me. Oh, he's paying me huh Why are the parks more lit than 2k21? Hold on. Yeah, it is yeah every court is active right now I'll be miserable looking at this square.  Wait, do the 19 servers close on or the 18 ones 19? Yeah, according to Joe knows it closes down today Hey, really? Imagine if you lived your life according to YouTube clickbait titles There would have been like seven catastrophic doomsday events that we're gonna break 2k21 if you just watch my videos this patch ruined 2k21 Is that a watermelon that's so racist Hey, he's giving you the moves. Oh, I like it. Huh? Yes, sir Yeah Do you have a list? Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to develop one. I'm just practicing because your YouTube career No, no, I can still communicate like this Hey, he was actually practicing. Oh, I thought you had someone with it the defense feels so much better Oh my god, it's better. Oh my god.  This is 2k20 after all darn it. Don't add.  So you guys 801 the end it's not an agent video without checking your jump shot. Exactly. You got to take a jump shot, right? Yeah, feel me.  I know my jump shot 98 Campbell. Let's get it, man I Yeah, let's go appreciate it Mike. Hey My fault, so let me do the three second offense. I'm so good at okay, buddy. Yo, yo God, I did not go in that direction. He just wanted to do that. This is a word play like game Man, there is nothing entertaining about this game. Oh, wow 8% by the way, just in case you thought that that was good defense Don't go. Let's go board tag Vortex Who gave it green vortex? I feel like LeBron right now Lock up lock up lock up lock up vortex step on the three. It's a miss. Let's go. Let's go.  Yeah, feel me. Give me those I'm out with it. He oh my god.  I look back at me now look at the boxcorp and subscribe to the channel man Scroll down hit that. Yo, have you ever had a girl gaming like nope? Oh, sorry, let me say that again Have you ever had a girl girlfriend? Oh, what do you think a gamer girlfriend more texts? What kind of girlfriends do you usually have that aren't girls cash? Yo rebound mine hoopers.  I was a hooper. I want to load a come on.  Oh And you're playing like a seventh option right now think about that What do you have savings on I do you mean to generous, bro?   Would you like to donate $20? I'm like what what what and they would shame you into giving Christina like $20, bro And the the worst part about it was is it's a tax right off for them because the donation is through them So they benefit from it. Why don't why doesn't the billion-dollar company just donate to Christina themselves? My $20 I make nothing compared to that fat people store They made my day worse just to get $20 out of me so they can get a tax right off So I stopped you up in there, bro, and I just wore tight shirts for a whole week Then I had to go back because I couldn't do that Help me help me help me help me help me Just get set a screen. It's got scream for help and set a screen by the way Hooper's hooper shows what you got from three man. I saw I saw I saw from half That's you time it Yeah, you have to at least time to cover it for a text. Oh, that's so selfish Orange bro, air quality must be dotted in the neighborhood. No, it's a forest fire going on right now Facts this must be California. No care.  Let him know how Yo, you are dogs, bro. Yo, I did you try to grab the ball in here past me I don't know what I have that square comfort. It's cuz you clicked it, bro There's the only way I would have happened if you clicked it. Yeah Game is literally cheating. How did that go air? Y'all see my shot meter, right? How does that air ball, bro? Why don't you like to get 21 though? Yeah, what's wrong with people they want nothing to change in a basket views like other game was too hard I just went and they made it easier. Yeah, bro They literally made the game easier and he's still didn't want to play it Yo guys, I've been like watching a lot of podcasts, but I can't find the right ones for me I don't know what yeah, dude There's one literally linked in the description called peer-to-peer where both me and legend a winning just talk about life stuff It could be 2k stuff or recent events or relationship or basketball stuff You know I'm saying so all of that bro. We just talk about whatever man. No cats link in the description Almost that a hundred thousand subscribers, bro I put out a tweet yesterday, and I was like I want to be like Jimmy Butler when I grow up It's almost like what the fuck?  Okay. How how do you expect to do that? Call them. It's like No, like what are you talking about? How do you think I got you to do this video?  Why did you stutter? I had a cup, right? You have to call everything out of Jesus First a list but not a stutter. Yes These are those parts where you're gonna. What's it called? Donate to the list foundation. Yeah, if you have a list We do not need donations Yo, it's worth that nobody sound like that, bro. We're gonna win a game with Jimmy Baller. Yeah, actually about to wait. I got you Jimmy I got you Jimmy Yeah, 5% battery and I'm getting a overheat symbol. What do you think that means? I know thing you should be fine But all right, let's keep playing.  I'm thoroughly depressed right now like I've literally I was so motivated right before doing this And right now I don't want to do nothing right now And that's because a 2k 20 no exaggeration This was one of the most miserable experiences of a video game.  It's just like it's the same like if something about this just doesn't put you in the right mood to Have fun. Oh my god What do you recommend this game for anyone? Game to people who want to feel less happy like if you if you're happy right now Or maybe you're miserable and you just want to feel more miserable. This is the perfect way to do that All right agent. We need you for three do this agent Danny green for three. Oh my god This game is so bad. I just wanted to end it won't end. All right, let me actually try hard I haven't done this in a long time. Let's go. I Don't lose to this team Was that my guy? No, but you just weren't guarding in so you just left your man open. That's what happened. No, no, you're Hey, either way the game ended and hopefully I can go back to being happy Ladies and gentlemen, this is still a truly miserable experience and still considerably worse than NBA 2k 21 I can guarantee you that if you're on new to the channel man subscribe And who you know what I'll do it right now. I do it today. So


That's for a make-up girl robot. Okay, uh, Sam, what is this? It's a team for Kris to creepypasta. Er, I mean trollpasta, I guess. And what's it called? It's called TF2-6-6-6-9-4-2-9-4-2-9-4-2-9-4-2-9-4-9-4-9 version. Holy crap, Sam, that's a lot of numbers for a creepypasta among my mean trollpasta. Yeah, and here's the funny part. It was written in such an overly disgusting and confusing way that it's considered as a trollpasta. I get the point, but let's read it. Alright, here goes. Hey man, you guys, just Sushiwile, I won an 3,033-year-old and I told you I want to show you tast-ass-thin-and-tap needed. Oh, I love the name, just Sushiwile. I like a bit of sushi for dinner. Sushi? Oh, here's a little joke. Hank Trutter accuses Walter White of being a Sushiwaka. Oh, that was Sushiwaka. Yeah, feeling a bit Sushi after playing Among Us, and I was the imposter. Yeah, that's kinda sus. Okay Mike, let's get on with the story. Alright. I was in that website called TF2Downloads.chump, and I thought his shy-ass verse happens as it once derived when I heard Man-I-Clike-14 downloaded and today I played this jazz-games and there's a weird shit-exon. Wow, I don't know if this TF2Downloads website exists. Yeah, and it was a Sushi virus when the story goes on. Oh hey, I smell Sushi beans in here. Oh Scotty, you're here to read this story too. What story? It's a Team Fortress 2 trollpasta on the infamous Joshea Lost episodes with he. And it was written in a way that a small kid would write, with garbled English and strokes. Please go read the rest of the story Scotty. Alright Sam. And I thought I said I'd keep on TF2. I at once back re-intended this girl on season re-crawl two pucks. And at once draw eight righty-eight chara even us HTE I tell us I say it too much. And I can't come to you because he's a sueyed 50-50 food scoffers. Oh Sam, I think Scotty's having a stroke from reading this. He couldn't handle the mess scribbled on a keyboard in this story. Well that's what I call a total freak out. I'm speaking to you in search of copyrights for your profit! Rudd! Huff. Huff! Uhh... Rudd! Run through the food after you've been browned for a year! You've finished Scotty. Well, we, I have never been better after reading that pile of garbage of a troll story. I feel like I'm gonna accept my fate. Did we just killed him after letting him read that extremely garbled troll pasta? Nah, he's fine. Let's take a look at the screenshots. Okay, the first one I gotta start is the heavy picture. And under the image, there is a caption saying, he views Skuntmore. I think it meant to say Heavy Screamer. Probably, Mike. Okay, the next one I'm going to review was the screenshot of the gameplay. And the caption said, And in that screenshot was the scouting game, after he fell down into a clumsy painful death. I see the chat in the screenshot. Here's what the two people in chat said. Yeah, that's all the screenshots. What other things we missed about Innistral's story? I forgot to mention that Just Sashile is actually 3,033 years old. Whoa dude, this guy's immortal. At least I hope he didn't look like an old man, but an immortal Chad. Yeah, also, judging by the keyboard gibberish, I think that the person had a stroke after playing the spooky version of Team Fortress 2. I see. Now let's spit out a better summary of the story. So an immortal Chad named Just Sashile was on a website called tf2downloads.com, or spelled just like that. He installed a version that has some kind of spooky purse in it. While Just kept on playing, he realized that some of the players were dying in-game, but not like killed by some of the enemies. It was a sudden cause that killed everyone.  Okay, let's conclude this story by reading out a few comments. This one is from Meatball Mars, saying, Oh God, I laughed so hard since I encountered this. Well we might have laughed so hard ourselves. Oh, here's one from X-X is so cool, saying, I'm so tired of the LeMando picture appearing at the middle or the bottom of these entire pages. Like, I know that the bottom of the wiki pages can have a load of irritating images in it. Take a look at any Mayway foods for example. Okay, the last one goes to Lollist Hewitter, saying, This is pretty dumb. Many spelling mistakes.  Like, Rub, you don't have to pull that awful word to Buddha in your way. That finally concludes this video.   Um, guys, what happened?


've just it plays warhammer I don't know what to tell you. Yeah Yeah, yeah, what does it? Especially that's legitimately npe Uh, the answer is overcharges the warplighting cannon and gets enrols. We want to get 12 mortal wounds Like that. Yeah You've got your merciless blizzard Skitter leap trick.  So that's not really impede. That's just that's just good play That's just a cool play. Yeah. Yeah, and you're right. There's not a lot. Yeah, right I mean, I just think there it's a it's a very fair army Um, very high variability of lists eight out of eight It's the only army I scored that got an eight out of eight on the variability of lists because I have been Making scaven lists since the time that book came out and I have never played the same list twice And I have used so many different things in that book. It is wild how many different ways you can build this in the scaven book it is a Paramount example of that kind of variability And so on they took some big hits on performance and healthy position and quality of the rules Even though there is some alignment there. It's not as good as it should be um in the current season It's not as good as other armies. Um But then like residents and that kind of stuff they killed on Yeah, is think was only shell ampie somebody mentioned that in the comment Ah, like the skateboard could be an issue previously, but that's gone. I can't launch it anymore Like don't charge him with a horde. I don't know what to tell you like Like Oh, oh Look, uh, as this is oxy strobin And I see what you're doing. Don't don't don't go there I'm being well behaved this show All right, let's let's have a let's not have a false equivalency hour here. All right Moving on. Sorry interrupted you residents. No, no, you're good They took a big hit on ease of collection total of 109 firmly in the sea territory I thought I'd rate them higher, but when I honestly answered these questions that was the answer And that was what was fun about this is like if I if I think objectively about or sorry if I think about Sort of how I feel about scaven and I love them Like they're one of my favorite armies to play I play them all the time You know near weekly and I love the game but like when I rate them across these things I'm like, yeah, there's obvious weaknesses and this really points it out, right? So That's that's also Yeah I think they're good one of those armies where again like, you know I talked with you about keegan graves a good good player at he went by about bug eater When you put scaven right now in the hands of folks who know what they're doing And you know the you they're one of those armies you can get a lot out of them with with experience and A lot of thought going into your list building and preparation. Yeah, I find them fascinating in that regard Is like they really can't punch above their weight. I think And in the hands of certain players So I know that that can't can't be true with every army, but I do think this is more pronounced than your average army Sure. Yeah, yeah Slaves and iron jaws were tied for my two highest firmly in the b territory both coming in at 123 points though for different reasons But across the board scored pretty well I like both of them though for very different reasons like iron jaws much lower on the quality of rules and stuff like that Or not much lower but lower Whereas hitting higher in some of the other categories So pretty in line with some of the other the other s2d results like firmly in that b territory Sons of badmout, we hadn't talked about them yet. So I rated them out They got a 98 Which I think puts them at the very bottom of c Right. Is that right? Like that's that's Rough, but I mean, there's just so much misalignment there between how you think they should play and how they do play really Yeah, like because they they feel like you think they'd be a go-forward and smash army But they're not their current rules are not that they they will just whiff like crazy and basically do no damage I don't know dude at least for my money I think always thought of them as an ambushing army and they have such a unique ambushing mechanic The sons of at least Oh, I'm sorry. I had I had beast of chaos for some reason. I just about a complete mental meltdown I thought you were talking about beast beast of chaos. You're all good.  I think would score pretty high I'm sure if I rated beast I'd actually put them for pretty firmly into b territory Um, I probably could have rated beast. It's just been a while since I've played them I haven't really played them in 3.0. So I didn't feel comfortable. I played the army quite a lot in 2.0 And had a great time with it I and this is what happens. Yannis when you read the chat and you try to talk just it doesn't it doesn't work It takes takes years to develop that skill. Tyler. You're good I was wondering how the giants were hiding for the ambush. That's right. Yeah, that's very sneaky It's on that one battle plan where you could remove d3 units. Yeah Um, no, I mean these guys just took huge hits in lots of categories Rules complexity all sorts of stuff But they are not what this is for because they lack the variety to It's a pretty broader picture of of psychographic profiles So they are one of those who will lose points simply because they Are not more than they are Yep. Yeah, that being said, it's the army I'm playing in the current season I'm pretty sure and taking tournaments. I'm going to take it to nash con in a couple weeks.  Like, what do I know? It's solid. It's solid right now. Yeah Like I still have fun with it, but I believe in this scoring Like I think I think this book has so much space for improvement in the future, but boy. Oh boy. Sure Uh slanesh and lumeneth at 84 folks 84 crushed them both The army I hate most and the army I love most came in at the same score That was a fascinating journey for me to go on. I just want to say that Like I like slanesh and or skaven are both the things I love most in this game and always will They're both my oldest loves in this game the armies I've played for, you know 20 years or more skaven are coming up on 30 actually as a matter of fact and But slanesh deep love and lumeneth I there's no there's no army. I hate more unabashed Uh lumeneth hater over here. Uh, I play against them all the time And uh, and and so I've I've I've had my fill Of this particular army Uh, I've spent I've spent so much of my life since this book released playing my games under the effect of total eclipse It's shocking It does make I I will say though. I've developed a pretty good skill for command point Uh, like how to spend my command points properly, but all when when you're so used to playing games where they cost double You get much better at like when do you actually need to use a command point? I'll say that so play understood under situations of scarcity Yeah, both gotten 84. I mean there's just there's just tons of places where both these armies lost points for me all over the place Can I ask a question? Sure. Are they beginner friendly armies? Would you say that? No No, neither There might be a connection between them being beginner friendly. So rules complexity and quality of rules here maybe I mean, that's why they both got threes out on the on the ease of collection, right? Um, but like but at the same time variety and painting Yeah, I gave them both max scores because I do actually think that they're both beautiful ranges Um, so there you go But I meant enough painting but playing Yeah, yeah, I got you. No, absolutely. Yeah, I agree with that No, I was just saying like when I when I took the holistic of the starter army into into account, right? Yeah, yeah Um And then finally my sole blight score was 108 putting them firmly in the sea territory Not that a little bit lower than some of the other people rated Um, so like I put them down a peg. I was I was docking them Uh, I didn't dock them quite as much like they're competitively I still kept them at an eight out of 10 for performance and a seven out of 10 for for healthy I think there are some obvious and by the way when I thought about that I tried to think about that in terms of all of their sub factions performance Which they've had a few really outsized and a few that are just like absolutely terrible All right, and so there's stuff like that that I was trying to think of like I don't think you're you're you're you're feeling in a healthy position if you decide that avingori is your thing Sure. Yeah, right Okay So that's my scores, but what are yours? Uh, so as I said, uh, we're gonna all I'll we'll all close out in a second But what I said as I said, yeah, I'm gonna grab a version of the excel sheet Um, I'll probably use this summary sheet for folks because it does have another tab with the full explanation on it So you can use either one you want there's the full explanation and it does have this Um, so I'll probably grab a version of this try to throw it into a drop box And then I will post it down in the show notes and I'll put it and I'll tweet it out as well Um, so the people can fill out this thing for themselves and see how they would score their own armies and stuff like that Or or armies they play against Um, and then we can share those around, you know, share out your results and what your scores came to I think it'll be really interesting if people people do that like dropped it You score it out yourself and then drop it down in the comments. How did your army score out? Um, love to see it Yeah, now Tyler, what are we where are we closing that? What do you think? So, Janis What ended up being your highest score and what was your highest score going in to this What was your prediction highest score and your actual highest score? I've raised it out a bit a few more that I did not share just to try it out and um I think the Orog walk clans have won for me And although I thought it would be slaves to darkness and after this show, I think um the general opinion would be that Slaves to darkness would be the winners, right? So we did not talk that we've come out quite strong so far and the results so far They've come out quite strong like like I think if we were just going to actually pick a best out of everything We've seen so far it would be s2d. Yeah So we are of course lacking more So more factions of course and they were not that For sarah fun, for example, um, I think salt light were one of my one of those where I thought, okay But there were some mixed experiences there as well. Um, yeah Again, I'm a beginner. So what do I know? I don't know all good All opinions are are valid here when you've got experience with the thing. Yeah, that's absolutely the case No matter starting a kiss because that beginner perspective matters, too It's not that's like saying somebody who's too deeply experienced that colors and biases them I don't mean that any negative way. It just means there's there's a bias both directions, right? Yeah Go ahead tell them So yeah going in I would have just Reading a blind I would have gas slaves to darkness as my number one Would have had a bias with nergal thinking nergal would be pretty high which it was in my personal rank I was surprised to score gets. I mean as I told you guys near the start that was the first one we went through on me A war the highest so I would be very curious to hear How some other folks feel about gets if I'm an outlier In that regard, uh, you know, as you did mention there are a number of factions I mean, we're not going to be here for four hours. Unfortunately We should be clearly but that somebody doesn't like to do four-hour shows He's he's negative. Sometimes you just have to pull up with him. I am your npe, Tyler We you know, we didn't touch on some factions We'd love to see comments people obviously will get this out. So if you we didn't do a faction, please do it You know ko I'd enough Let's zinch so with apologies to all of those events same question to you Where were you going in as your prediction and I wasn't tracking your overall scores? Where did you end up as your highest? Slaves and iron jaws type for my highest Um, I didn't think iron jaws would score that high, but I ended up like that was sort of just a natural thing Like I literally just tried to take each question in turn as I was answering it I didn't think about the broader army Um, I thought scaven would have scored a lot higher for me. I really did Like if you would have asked me I would have thought scaven would have been a super high score Just because of my sort of perception of them, right? Uh, yeah, and yet, you know, there it was We didn't get a boc because none of us boss had enough information, but we'll share this out I'd love to see some boc scores as well. Uh, unfortunately, we didn't we didn't get anybody who who played boc We tried to farm it out to to a wide group of people. So we had more than just the three of us Um, I thought the I mean, I did think that that lumeneth and slanesh would get a low score for me I was right. I mean, I'm just I'm outwardly biased. I can't help it Like I tried not to be harsh or mean, but like I just it's how I feel about the army Right like it is a subjective experience in the end and that's more or less how it came out Um, I thought sons would honestly score a little higher But I mean I had to hit them in all the places where they just failed fell down Right. Mm-hmm. So there was I think by the way, if I scored nergal an army. I don't generally like very much Uh, not very much at all. I think if I did score nergal, I probably could I played against nergal quite a lot and and uh I think my score might actually rate. I'm pretty high I think they I think my score honestly, Tyler wouldn't come in that much different from yours Like when I read your scores, I think your scores are more or less exactly how I would have answered nergal Um, so it is interesting when there's armies, you don't personally like or they don't attach to you But you score them out through this and you're like, yeah, no, that's That's a solid b army even though I don't like it, right? And it's the difference between kind of where your personal tastes a lot of fall and stuff like that So, yeah Really? Yeah, this was a little fun guys. Thank you again, Janice for doing this. Yeah, absolutely. Janice, great time Thank you very much There was one thing that I thought about on the way back home today. Um, this is not a os specific I think you could play around with 40k and you could compare 40k and a os and things like that. Oh boy Now we're getting somewhere Okay, thank you for having me. Oh, absolutely sir. Absolutely Uh, so with that, I will say thank you all of you for watching if you haven't yet hit that like button Hey, please do so Uh, we really appreciate it. It helps other people find the show and and all that stuff. It keeps us going Uh, but thank you so much hit like hit subscribe do all those things that make all those dings uh, and If you want to support the show you can there's a patreon link down below There's all the games that adam and I publish under snarling badger studios down below if you want to check those out Majestic 13 space station zero and rain and hell Uh, appreciate that that the tyler edits by the way. So he's also he's also involved in this project Uh, but at any rate, thank you all so much, uh for watching. We really appreciate it as always


when I heard this article was to support the request, but only for the life of the existing list. And Mr. Dunn brought that up to me again. And I just wanted to make sure the board was comfortable with the language that's in this proposal. Or if you don't think it's clear enough, I can make it more clear. But the home rule legislation that I've drafted to provide it to the board states that the candidate can be considered for appointment to the position of police officer when his name appears on the existing certification list. And he did represent to this board that he'd already taken the exam. I verified that, that he has already taken the exam. So the only thing this legislation would allow him to do is to appear on the list that's currently in place. My understanding is that that list was issued in 2011 and expires at the end of this year. And I thought he understood that when we brought that up. He appeared to, yes. I just wanted to make sure that the board was comfortable with that drafting. A motion? I move approval. And I will say that I was the one who was concerned about whether or not the language is clear enough. Now that's been explained to me, I'm totally satisfied. Second. I have a question. Julian, with, by the time if this list ends this year, and by the time the legislation is actually passed, would, could the legislation be too late for him to actually appear on? These are usually passed in the summer. The list is in place until December 31st. Okay, so. What I've been told. So if there are appointments off that list would be, you would be eligible for any, the way it's written is that the legislation would take effect immediately on its passage. Not the usual 90 day waiting period. I'm sure you know better than I do. So that when it went into effect, the proponent could be considered. If the board wanted to lengthen that, it could or you know, if he were not appointed and wanted to come back for an additional consideration, he could move for that again. But I think it's been standard practice over the last few years to allow one consideration. Okay. No, I'm comfortable. I just wanted to make sure that by the time, if there was a chance that he might not, not even be able to make the list and I knew I'd do this for nothing, but now I'm comfortable with that. And your motion, Mr. Dunn was on both 21 and 41. That was my intent. Is that appropriate? Yes, sir. Sure. Who seconded? Seconded. Further discussion? I'm sorry if I can be a bother. Okay. I just wanted to point out that a highlighted note to the board on 41, which is the table that's being provided is very preliminary table of easements. That is going to change before 10 meetings. I just wanted to make clear that the board knew that. Thank you. And just so we often vote final votes and comments all summed together. So, because we've already had the hearings and certainly it's been explained. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed. Okay. So now item 10, discussion, town manager evaluation. Adam said if he had a walk from Atlanta today, he would have just to be here for this discussion this evening. Late fall, even really it was late summer, early fall. Adam, if I'm remembering the dates right, but he asked us to hold a couple of offsite meetings at which we discussed goal setting with him. Both we had our input and he also provided a lot of input on that. And part of what came out of that meeting is that we were to develop an evaluation system for Adam. He'd like to establish a formal evaluation for his direct reports, but felt that what he'd like to do is see kind of the board's approach to how we would evaluate him and then from here he'll develop his own. So Adam helped us. So did Karen Malloy, our director of human resources. And they gathered examples for us, which they gave to us. And then we together kind of came up with our recommendations and developed a document which was handed out, I believe, two weeks ago. And that document was a combination of quantitative responsive and qualitative responses. So quantitative responses were from one to five. And qualitative, anybody could make any comments that they wanted. This board directed me and our director of human resources to get together after the five of us had all filled out that document. We took the five and we did the statistics. I used to teach statistics at Emerson. And I'm pretty sure these are all accurate. And then we also summarized the overall qualitative comments. So this board was directed to develop a summary document of which you have that in front of you now. So from here, first step is we need to make sure that each of you are satisfied with those summary comments. And is there anything you would like to edit on those comments? We don't necessarily have to do that tonight. But once you have approved the qualitative comments, the math is the math, right? But once you've approved the qualitative comments, then this summary evaluation would be made available. Both copies, if anybody would like it, in the select man's office and also in the human resources office. So there were nine categories that we rated overall. And this is now just a math score, because this wouldn't change based on anybody's input, because we've already done math. So on personal characteristics, most of these had three, four, five, or six sub points to it. We rated all of them one to five. One being, never does anything, doesn't at all meet expectations. And five being consistently exceeds expectations. That wasn't the exact wording, but it was right. Consistently exceeds, I think, was number five. So on personal characteristics, as average was 4.48. Professionalism, 4.35. Again, this can be made available if people want to see it. Public relations, communications, 4.5. Board support and relations, 4.56. Community leadership, 4.55. Organizational leadership, personnel management, 4.44. Financial management, 4.23. Planning and organization, 4.27. Overall evaluation, 4.6. So really, A is across the board, in my opinion, but that's taking together everybody's votes. In some cases, if someone put not applicable or they didn't rate it, we would only divide by four, obviously, so. So comments, or I don't know if you've all had enough time to read this and can approve it tonight, or would rather wait until next week, if any of you would like to speak to me, or Karen about any changes you'd like to make in any of the wording. Because that's qualitative, so that's not, you know, we tried to, as best we could, summarize each of the comments on there. Now, also, all five evaluations are public records, so if anybody really would like to see each individual's evaluation and comments, that also would be made available. But our responsibility was to come up with the summary evaluation. Did I go off track anywhere, Adam, and you're, anybody, and you put Mr. Dunn. I'm comfortable with the compendium that you put together. I think it, as far as I feel like my views are very well represented by this document. And I echo that sentiment, and. Sounds good to me. Okay, so then how about a motion to approve and we'll have, we'll direct Karen to just finalize and make copies available. And so this now, after this approval, is officially presented to you, Adam, as well. Okay, can I make a general comment? Yeah. So it's a kind of, I was a little bit amused when I read this report, because when I looked at the numbers, I could do the math and I could say, this means that I was perhaps one of the harsher critics numerically of the town manager. And I wanted to, I guess I wanted to give a verbal color commentary, which is that I'm very happy with the job that Adam is doing. And I really think that the town has done well to hire him. And I really, despite evidently being one of his harshest critics, I'm delighted that he's here. Well, thank you. I mean, the, but it all depends on how you look at a one through five scale, you know, three meets expectations. You know, the lowest rating he got on anything was a three. So there were no below expectations, no never meets them or anything. I mean, I would be proud to get this kind of an evaluation from a group of five individuals with five pretty strong personalities who have strong opinions. But so anyhow, you know, it's, you know, I think it's a testament to Adam, but it, I'll tell you, it took me a lot longer to do it than I thought it would. You know, I must say that it was at four. How many pages? Four pages, five pages? Yes. But we approved it before we used it, so. Move approval. Move approval. Second, I do have a comment too though. Mr. Curell. I just wanted to, you know, I echo Dan's sentiments. I'm very happy. And I think it's important to note to, even knowing that this is, you know, I dread my own performance reviews when I have to meet with my boss. But it's always, it's in a private office. It's between the two of us. And even knowing that this was very public, Adam was actually the biggest proponent to make sure that this got done and that we did this. And we do owe it to you. I think we owe it to any employee. But even knowing that, it shows self-confidence and a comfort with receiving, you know, the honest feedback from this board. And I think you've gotten it. I think you should be proud. And I think for one, I look forward to working with it many more years. And suggestions were made too. It's not like it was, you know, everything's perfect. One of the points one of you made was that, you know, when we look at Adam, we have to look at what he does day to day. But in truth, it's here from today, we'll know how really effective he's been in terms of the work that he has done for the time. I thank you all. I think you took it very seriously. I think you certainly spent a good deal of time on it. And Karen and I, I'll tell you, it was a couple of meetings. I actually liked doing the math part of it, but trying to, you know, get that right touch in the comments to make sure that we were fair to everybody. So on the motion by Mrs. Mahon to improve and present it officially to the town manager, although seconded by Mr. Kuro, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed. No, no, no, no, you cannot speak. I want to change that. I have no suggestions for improvement in your process. I want to thank the board for taking the time to go through the process. I think it's valuable for me. I think it's valuable for the board. I think it's valuable for the public to see the transparent process and know that together, you know, we're working on making sure checkpoints are met and that, you know, there is a dialogue about how things are getting done and when they're getting done. So thank you for taking the time. I know it was, like you said, Mr. Chair, a longer document than maybe some expected when they first picked it up, but I really do appreciate all of the feedback. So thank you. And you know, this was once a year and we'll redo this, I assume, under next year's chair. And maybe we'll re, I don't know if we need to redo the document or whatever, but all of us basically are dealing with Adam almost daily and if there's something we want done, he knows about it. If there's something that, you know, so we're doing our evaluation all the way along anyhow, but we're very lucky to have you and I believe you're doing an excellent job and I believe this backs that up and, you know, don't get stuck in Atlanta again. That has to be category 10. All right, let us all be there with you. Okay. Do we need an executive session tonight? Madam Council, new business. Mrs. Krupp-Pelka. Well, I like you talk about the select homes. Okay. Is that right? All righty. I thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you. I have no new things. Thank you. Mrs. Mohanen. I have a few of the really brief. I'm going to work with the Selectman's Office of my colleague's approval at the March 18th meeting to have a proclamation for autism month in April. We've done this every year, as well as highlight that the police and fire guns and hoses benefit Friday night, the 15th at seven o'clock down at the Ed Burns Arena, the proceeds go to autism research and support. So, and they've done that for several years now. So I'll compile that and get it and it should be a quick item. And then throughout the month of April or maybe at the beginning, I'll highlight two or three things, going blue again and stuff like that, the credentials and everything goes on. I do want to say thank you to the deputy town manager, acting town manager for getting us the memo from the Allington Catholic practice field. It answered all my questions, but one, and if I could just ask the town manager too. I mean, I know Dan Shine, but I've stopped from bringing this up because when we're at sporting events, I think it's unfair. The resident that abuts the practice field now, originally there were a lot of trees there that sort of buffered him from the old practice field in Summer Street, Bob Baterio, he had asked if we could ask them, we know we can't require them if they could somehow plant some vegetation knowing that it will take years down the road. Because the housing authority owns the house there now. No, no, he lives on the corner of Russell and I've been in his backyard and you literally can yell over to Summer Street. I don't know if you've ever been in Bob's backyard, but it definitely has changed. And I know we can't require them, but could we ask him maybe to plant three or four, whatever. So when I met with the principal of the Catholic, he said there is still some landscaping to be done in terms of planting and vegetation, but he also told me that the neighbors were all very happy with the project. It didn't appear as though there was... He's the only one. I'll get you his number, yeah. Definitely, definitely, because I was over at his house a couple of times. I mean, he definitely was saying, can you get me some relief? I spoke about at the appropriate time having the snow and ice meeting and I'll leave that there. I do wanna say that to people out there who forward emails or remarks or correspondence, not just bad, but also good. I got quite a number of emails praising DPW of several storms. I also pass on why couldn't you do this better. Dan Warren and Jimmy Dodger informed me that they do print them all out and at an appropriate time, they pass them out and pin them on the board and the employees down at DPW really do appreciate that. And they said it really gives them a boost. They wanna hear when they can do things better, but they do appreciate that. I would just ask the town manager when he thinks it's appropriate and that falls into my second thing. Allington High School will be hosting the league competition in the fall for cheerleading. I've had some conversations with Rob D. Loretto in terms of purchases we'll have to make, but I've been in three leagues now, Greater Boston, Dual County and Middlesex and I've yet to find a high school that I can say, oh, Allingtons can beat that in terms of aesthetics. So I don't know, I know Permanent Town building is discussing five, 10 years down the road, but if there's something, especially where we're hosting, at least that I'm sure there's gonna be some other sports because eight has come up. Woobam was the last one, that would be appreciated. And like I said, I'm also speaking to Rob D. Loretto who's doing a fabulous job. And then the last thing would be, and if you get us a report when it's appropriate from Permanent Town building, sort of when they plan on discussing Allington High School and Mr. Carroll may be able to help that too, in terms of when they expect it to go into the capital plan. And then the last thing is, and the manager can correct me if I'm wrong, I was speaking to Linda Hansen on Sunday and she brought up about the comparative pay evaluation. That's what I'm calling it, I'm sure it's not. And I think what she indicated to me was that it went out to bid only one group supplied an RFP. So she was told that we need at least three. And I think it went out to bid a second time. But I think the rule is if you go out a second time and you still don't get three, you get to move forward. And I believe she told me that she had a conversation with you or was gonna have continuing conversations with you in the unions about reporting something to town meeting this year. Is that right or? So, I... And if I misspoke, that's my not remembering correctly. What I'll say is I owe the board an update on the salary study working groups. There has been a consultant hire. Oh, he has been hired, okay. He's not collecting the data. I guess I was never familiar with it being a report to town meeting, but rather a report to the board and finance committee and the information to be public. Whatever. But that information over the next couple of months will start to be gathered. That salary study group will be brought back together and meet with the consultant and then the information will be gathered and shared. That should come together in the next two months. That's fine. Because I was told we started this process possibly a year ago and I'd like to. But that's all my new business. Thank you and I apologize. Mr. Burns. No, no business. Mr. Currow. Yes, just a few things. First of all, I just wanted to congratulate the Friends of the Robbins Library and the Arlington Garden Club on their Books and Bloom event, which they held the other night. You know, a lot of us, we go into the library and we're going in to do our business and we don't get a chance to really stop and enjoy the building and take it in. And this was such a great opportunity to do that. There must have been about 15 local authors who were there also who were set up and the opportunities to speak with them as well as some great floral arrangements from the Garden Club members and local businesses as well. It was really well done and supported our libraries. And while I'm on that, I should note we'd hope to have an update. I'd been speaking to Mr. Levergut and he had talked about coming in to update us on the library card challenge. As most people probably know, we unfortunately at the 11th hour were edged out by Belmont and Somerville. However, I believe our registrations for last month were twice as much as what they were last year. 135%. Really extraordinary effort. I know I made a promise and I always keep a promise. We have some logistical difficulties because I don't fit into the Clifford suit. At least I don't right now. So just when you least expect it. I wanted to note that the... Patriots Day Parade. What's that? Nice day. Whoa. Now he's your friend, Mr. Carroll. No, I was upset with him for putting me in this corner. You're on my list too. I want to note also the Arlington Education Foundation on March 24th, has their annual trivia be it's there when they're major fundraisers and they did put out a call for teams. We have a joint selectman and town manager team. So Mr. Byrne, myself and Mr. Chapter Lane will be competing there under the team name of Boys II Menotomy. And... But I'm bummed. Oy, oy, oy. They knew the music. I didn't. So that's... We'll have to do that in a minute. So wish us well. There are a lot of good folks who are there. Last week, Secretary Davy from the Mass Department of Transportation was in Arlington for a legislative briefing down at District 4. Mr. Chapter Lane, myself, our entire legislative delegation were there. It was nice timing because I think we each had a chance to kind of directly reinforce the message that was sent to Mass DOT after the public meeting we had on the Mass Avcarta project. We got to hear about the governor's proposals around revitalizing transportation. Unfortunately, as we all know the very next day, the speaker came out saying he's not gonna isn't looking to play along quite the way the governor had hoped. So we should all be paying attention to that. There's a lot of Chapter 90 funding that's at stake as well as other projects. And lastly, I just note, I think Ms. Sullivan had forwarded to the board an email I received regarding the Silver Maple Forest asking for this board to write a letter to the Belmont Conservation Commission, thanking them for their continued vigilance around the project and trying to protect not only Belmont but also the abutting areas of Arlington from the potential flooding of impacts and such. I don't know if that's something that the board is interested in taking up at this point. And I'm willing to put a motion. Well, we haven't used past, when Claire said I may, I'm sorry, we have submitted a letter in support the combined board of selectmen on that. If you want, I can archive what I have saved in Ms. Rowe and get that to the select committee. I don't know if perhaps we could just bring that back. Just so we have it on the agenda. And then everybody can look at it and decide if that's it. Oh. I did follow Corey Beckwith today, after I got Jareena. Yeah. She'll call me tomorrow because I think Diane, I think the rest of my descent from last year is Jareena. And I did find a letter from him I think it was May 2012 that was regarded as flooding. Right. Yeah, from Kevin Sands. Mm-hmm. So I'll get back to you tomorrow, Jareena. We have a letter from Chris and we can talk about it together. Have the whole board signed. Yeah, if there's some general consensus, maybe we should bring forward something the next. We've always endorsed their Silver Maple Forest and the Belmont Board of Selectmen have done our MuGar stance. So it's sort of been a collegial thing. Yeah, so maybe I can work on this with Maria and bring something forward to the board next time. Okay, which is a week from tonight, yeah. Yeah. Thank you. I'll set you up. Yeah, Mr. Denner. Two items tonight. Start with the bad news, then go with the good news. In our packet, we have a letter from the federal government that says what we expected was going to happen, which is the sequester of the funds being done at the federal level directly impacts our CDBG grant and our community development block grant has been reduced by 5% for this year. So I can't say that we're surprised by this, but it's a problem and we're gonna have to manage that through the CDBG fund. I will also say that so the CDBG subcommittee had its first meeting two, three weeks ago or something like that and we sat there and we went through the list of programs and we each kind of took a shot at defining the one that we think should be reduced and then was argued out of it by everybody else at the board because it's one of those things where it isn't even just a matter you're deciding like who doesn't get increased? I mean, there need to be cuts and we've chosen all these programs because we think they're all worthy programs. And so one of the things that I'm really intent on is as the federal government's funding for this is reduced, one of the things that's kind of natural is that the town starts taking that on, but that doesn't really scale either because for the town to do it we have to increase, for us to provide more services, we need to increase our taxes more. And so one of the things that I'm really trying to figure out is identifying specific programs on that list and finding the private solution that we can get in order to donate to some of these. And so at the meeting both Adam and Steve and I took on specific groups that we are connected with or have knowledge of that we think we could persuade perhaps to take a program off the book of the CDBG and hand it off to the private foundation. So I guess I would encourage the board to think about, A, when we're gonna take a vote on the CDBG funds at a future date, it's gonna be unpleasant and it's going to be very difficult. And insofar as that we can identify private funds to hand some of these programs off, so we can sit there and say, look, this program is still gonna continue, it's just happening on, it's essentially we're doing a handoff from a federal government to private. I think we should all think about that pretty aggressively. All right, that was my bad news. My good news is that today I had a fascinating meeting. Annie La Courte can put together Involution Studios, which is directly across the street and seeing the truth, graphic insights into Arlington budget for everyday citizens. They're interested in helping create a interactive online representation of the budget that you can kind of drill into and you can see where the budget money goes and where the money comes from and stuff like that. Alan Jones from the Finance Committee, Kersi Alson-Ampie from the School Committee, myself and Andrew Flanagan were there, plus three people from Involution. And it was by far my most fascinating meeting today. And our goal... I have so many things, I could say. You're bosses in this one. Other than this one, Mr. Greeley. It was my most interesting meeting before 11 o'clock today. I'm still not gonna say anything. Fingers crossed, we might have like a first draft of something available for town meetings when we come around to budget time. And it may not be that we can do this year's budget, but we may be like retroactively looking at last year's budget. But it's one of those things that it has potential to be really exciting. And it's being, you know, it's a gift from the company across the street, so I'm very excited about it. Wow. Well, they bring it here to show us, or will we... We would definitely, I think, we'll see, let's see how it goes. Like, I mean, I'm doing something a little dangerous and I'm talking about it before we even really started working on it. We just had a kickoff meeting. And so who knows in eight weeks, I'll be like, what? I don't remember anything about that. But hopefully, we'll be able to publicize a before town meeting and see where, yeah. Good, great. I shouldn't say before town meeting, excuse me, before we get to the budget section of town meeting. Like, I think town meeting will have started. It's just that the budgets are generally later on. That's it. Two quick ones. One is this Saturday, I got an invitation for an open house at the old Schwann Mill. Oh yeah, yeah. But I can't make it. So I didn't know whether or not the rest of my, but we did talk one night here about maybe us as a board going there for a tour. But I don't know whether the rest of you will be able to go on Saturday or not anyhow. But that is something I would like to explore at another point. But part of the reason I can't be there on Saturday is because the select tones had a gig at one o'clock at the senior center for the senior association. But I also have a couple of other meetings after that. So that's why I think the Schwann Mill is like one to five or something on Saturday after noon. Yeah, something to four. For me, traditionally Saturday events, just because of my family circumstances, I can't make the select tones. I mean, I used to be able to make the select tones for St. Patrick's Day on Saturday, so I apologize. But I'd love to do a group tour if we can do a different day, or if we just go individually. But I unfortunately can't do Saturday. They're actually offering for kids. They're offering, actually kids and adults, a mapping workshop in the morning that day that I'm doing with my kids. So I'll be there right before. I will make the select tones though. My kids don't know they're singing yet. But Joe, maybe talk to them about the board would like, you know, maybe if we just did it before a meeting one night if we agreed to meet there at 5.30 or 6.00. It would be easier. Just did that and then come on here to the meeting. You know, we at one point held meetings around town. So we held one at the public works. We held one at community safety. We held one at the central fire station. We moved the meetings around town at one point. Cable wasn't thrilled with it. I was gonna say, yeah, okay. So anything else? Move to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed. Good night.


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Novak Djokovic vs. Carlos Elcaraz is the final of Wimbledon for 2023. And both guys have been super impressive to get to the final. Djokovic entered the tournament as the number two seed and will take on Cashion in the first round. There's no problem for Nole, getting through in straights, 6-3, 6-3, 7-6. In the second round he take on Thompson and again, no problem for Nole, getting through in straights, 6-3, 7-6, 7-5. In the third round he take on Stambavrinka, but Djokovic was on another level on grass, getting through in straights, 6-3, 6-1, 7-6. In the fourth round he take on the number 17 seed, who be her catch? After saving set points in the first set, Djokovic would fight back to win 7-6, 7-6, 5-7, 6-4 to advance to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, Djokovic would take on the number 17 seed, Rubelev. But after dropping the first set, Djokovic would have to fight back to win 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 to advance to another Wimbledon semi-final. In the semi-final, Djokovic would take on the number 18 seed, Sina, who hadn't played a seeded player all week. And it showed, with Djokovic destroying him in straights sets, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6, to advance to another Wimbledon final. Elkhra started the tournament off as the number 1 seed, and would take on Shadi in the first round. There's no problem for Elkhra's getting through in straights, 6-love, 6-2, 7-5. In the second round he take on Muller, and again, no problem for Elkhra's getting through in straights, 6-4, 7-6, 6-3. In the third round he take on the 25th seed, Jarry. And after a couple of close sets, Elkhra's would eventually prevail in 4, 6-3, 6-7, 6-3, 7-5. In the fourth round he take on Baratini, the former Wimbledon finalist who had just taken out Diminor and Zverev along the way. And after dropping the first set, Elkhra's would fight back to win 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3, to advance to another Grand Slam quarter-final. In the quarter-finals, Elkhra's would take on the number 6 seed, Runa. And after a close first set, Elkhra's would get through in 3, 7-6, 6-4, 6-4, to advance to another Grand Slam semi-final. In the semi-finals, Elkhra's would take on the number 3 seed, Medvedev, who had just come off a 5-set epic against U-Banks in the previous round. Elkhra's destroyed Medvedev tactically, winning in straight 6-3, 6-3, 6-3, to advance to his second Grand Slam final. These guys have played twice before with their only Grand Slam match being at the French Open a month ago. Of course, Elkhra's cramped in the third set, so we didn't get to see both guys at full level for the entire match. Djokovic's won that one. This is a grass court, and they've never played outside of the clay court, so this is going to be different to what we've seen so far. Djokovic's going to win this one, and he's to serve well. He didn't have to play that well against Sinner, Sinner was way below his normal level. But against guys like Rublev and Hercatch, Djokovic's serve was the big key, especially against Hercatch, who was serving so well then. So he needs to serve well, and of course, he needs to get those ground strokes back. Valkyrie's going to win this one, he needs to bring the variety. Medvedev played so poorly against Elkhra's, he didn't force him to do much. But we did see the drop shot a few times against Medvedev, he's going to have to do that, and much more if he's going to beat Djokovic. What a matchup! It was such a hype match at the French Open. We're so lucky to get it so quickly after that. I didn't think we'd see this until the hard court season, but I'm going to help Djokovic to win this one in 5. I have to go over the experience on grass over Elkhra's in this one, and I also picked Djokovic to win the whole thing, so I'm going to stick with that one. And man, if Elkhra's beats Djokovic, watch out, tennis world will change. Let me know down in the comments below who's going to win this one.


So luck is pretty important. You could be the only person that has a particular idea on a particular day. Now where does the idea come from? Nobody knows where ideas come from. They come from our thought process, they come from conversation with people, they come from stimulation from the environment, but who knows. Anyway, when an idea comes to you, you may be the lucky one, you may be the only one that ever will have that idea. So you say, well that's a good idea, maybe I'll talk to some people. And then of course there's the luck of, did you do it right? When you stand out there at the launch pad and you see that your life work is standing on top of hundreds of thousands of pounds of explosive material, and you're trusting that everyone did their job well so it's going to work, you know that there's some luck involved in that because we could all make a mistake. And we do make mistakes, but usually we catch them. So that's part of our NASA process is we make mistakes and we catch the mistakes in our test programs. So that's how come we usually have good luck. We test and test and test.


They face the same challenges that an immigrant face a different language a different culture they have left behind The whole world that they know their neighbors their parents their kids Their neighbors their friends their whole identity And they came looking for the American dream to learn and at the end they only need you know a chance so in the first year they learn the Introduction to fundamentals all of the theory and then the chess program, which is the practical stocks and sauces soups all of the families of soups Something that in French is called me some plot which is everything ready pre-preparation how to peel How to have everything ready but cooking is easy But you know peeling onions chopping onions and slicing onions dicing onions preparing tomatoes for the next preparation That is what's really the same consuming, you know any in French that is called the mission plus so the students learn Learning is a process that doesn't really stop. You know, we all learn new things every single solitary day, but I find out that Technology is one of the biggest setback for them to really Reach all of their potential at the end of the first year in my opinion They are ready to take a job, you know as an entry level chef Anywhere because they have been exposed. They even learn how to make coffee They come for many different reasons. I will tell you a story We find the job for one student from Colombia So she came and say chef can I stay here in the afternoon and they have course come and give me a hand in the cafeteria, right? I close the door in the kitchen and say listen the employees went to the the cafeteria. Tell me what happened And she started crying, but she was happy, you know, it's not such is happy and then I said, you know what? I Just came from Baltimore. I Become a United States citizen today, and I don't have any other place to go and celebrate You know to feel the school is her home So we will cry because you know It was a very emotional moment that tell you How our students feel of the school as their home that we are their family


Hi there, my name is Matt. I'm with the Sacramento Zoo and we're here to help conserve water. Let's go into the zoo and check it out. Hey, behind me we have the lake exhibit here at the Sacramento Zoo. It houses our flamingos and many other various waterfowl. This lake exhibit uses a recirculating water filtration system so as not to waste water. The water heads off to a filtration area where beneficial bacteria will filter out the organic materials and return the water to the lake and that's where you'll see the bubbles there in the lake bringing the water back. This allows us not to have to drain and dump the water thereby conserving the water in the lake and maintaining a healthy environment for our waterfowl and flamingos here at the zoo. Many of the animals here at the zoo enjoy an aquatic environment and the river otters are no different. So we provide them a nice pool to have, to live in, play in and drink their water from. This is one of our keepers that takes care of the otters, Amanda at the zoo. Originally this pool has been built years and years ago and it was created as what we call a drop and fill. So it just fills up and then you pull the plug and all the water drains out. Basically we weren't able to keep it very clean. So what we did is we added a circulating system so that we're able to filter the water. So instead of having to drop and refill this pool on almost a daily basis, we were able to leave it as it is for about one week to two weeks and that allows many, many, many gallons of water to be saved. The otters seem to enjoy it. And they do, yes. So we're joining us today at the zoo and we encourage you to join us in conserving water.


Hey psyched goers, welcome back to another video all the support you've given us has helped us on our mission to make psychology and mental Health more accessible to everyone and we want to thank you for that so thank you now Let's begin when you were younger. Did you ever think that you'd be where you are now? There's no shame in admitting that you still haven't achieved everything you wanted for yourself yet Sometimes life just doesn't work out as planned But even when you know that it isn't your fault and that there are parts of life You can't control you might still find yourself feeling bad and frustrated Whether it's because you're comparing yourself to others or feel like you're falling behind like many others You might be guilty of being too hard on yourself for not measuring up But sometimes when you focus too much on how far you are from your goals You may end up forgetting how much you've actually already overcome So with that said here are eight signs to reassure you that you are doing much better than you may be giving yourself credit for Number one you know what you want Where do you see yourself in five years down the line? While you might not have everything planned out and your vision of your future might be a bit blurry It's a good sign if you know what you want Oftentimes people can spend their entire lives confused about what they want to do or what kind of person they want to be So as long as you know what you want, it's as good a stepping stone as any to working towards it Number two you value your relationships. Do you cherish the people around you as? Screenwriter Richard link later once wrote When you're young you're naive enough to believe that there's going to be so many people out there You're going to connect with but later in life. You'll realize it only happens a few times So if you're lucky enough to have people in your life who truly love accept respect and care for you Don't let them go Showing your loved ones that you recognize and appreciate your relationship with them takes a lot of self-awareness and maturity So if you do take the time to do it, then you're likely doing better than you think you are Number three you hold yourself accountable Have you ever blamed someone for something you've done? Knowing how to take responsibility for your actions, especially when things go wrong is something a lot of people struggle with Sometimes it can be a lot easier to pin the blame on someone else or to just complain about how unfair everything is But if you know or at least are learning how to hold yourself accountable for the choices you've made that led you to where You are now then congratulations. You have more self-awareness and emotional maturity than most other people Number four you want fewer material things Do you have a need to get the latest and most expensive product on the market? Another sign that you're doing better than you think you are is if you can appreciate the right things in life There are many people who believe that material possessions can define your happiness and success and have a habit of buying and hoarding A lot of things they don't actually need However, while these things may make you happy for a little while They'll find that it doesn't compare to true friendship or relationships that you have to work and build towards to bring you the most joy and happiness Number five you don't sweat the small stuff Are you quick to raise your voice when someone makes a mistake? Though it's understandable for us to get upset from time to time about certain things It's a sign that you're doing better than you think if you're able to manage your temper and take it easy on yourself When you mess up instead of dwelling on what you should have said or what you could have done You move on and focus on the good more than the bad and because of this habit You're more likely to feel happier and more at peace with yourself Number six you're grateful for what you have Do you take the time to really appreciate the things you have? It's easy to be pessimistic and to always focus on the things you want Perhaps it's chasing after your dream job or wanting to become a professional at something However, while it's good to look forward to your goals and dreams It's also important to cherish the people you're with and the things you have right now After all you don't want to be like someone who buries their head in their work until they've achieved their goals Only to realize and regret how they missed out on the important moments along the way The truth is pessimism comes naturally to us human beings It's in our nature to always be thinking that the glass is half full Since stress and anxiety can help us adapt to difficult situations faster Which just makes it all that more impressive when we go against our nature and choose positivity instead It's not easy being an optimist, but hey, you're grateful for what you have You know how lucky you are and you're immensely thankful for everything good that comes your way be it big or small What a wonderful mindset to have Number seven you learn from your failures Are you able to move on from your mistakes or do you tend to stay stuck on them? Whether it's beating yourself up for your shortcomings hating yourself for your flaws Or feeling so afraid of failing that you don't give yourself the chance to try It is easy to be paralyzed by fear and to let those mistakes define you and your future So it's definitely a sign of strength if you can choose the healthier way of coping Which is to learn from your failures so you can improve on yourself In the words of the late great Maya Angelou You do the best you can until you know better Then when you know better you do better. It's as simple as that And number eight you strive for continuous improvement Do you always look for ways to work on yourself and be better for that alone? You should be proud of yourself Striving for continuous improvement is already such an achievement in and of itself Because it shows that you're humble enough to admit that there are certain things about yourself and your life That you need to improve on there are so many people who feel stuck trapped and unable to break their cycle of self-destructive behaviors Because they stop trying to seek personal growth But no matter how old or how much you've accomplished It's always important to continue to do your best and push yourself to be better than you were before Has this list made you realize that you're actually doing much better than you first thought you were? Let us know in the comments below Then if you found this video helpful be sure to like and share this video with those who might benefit from it And don't forget to subscribe and hit the notification bell icon to get notified whenever psych to go post a new video The references and studies used in this video are added in the description below. Thanks for watching and we'll see you in our next video


The Houston Cougars just absolutely cooked on their Week 1 uniforms and I think these are the best we're going to see in the country. Look at these, they're a nod to the old Houston Oilers and usually the Houston Cougars don't stray away from red and white. So them going light blue here is an unreal touch. Check out the helmet here, the nice little script, Houston. I don't know if we've ever seen a college city NFL throwback crossover like this, but it's absolutely incredible and I'm here for it.


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Hi, I'm Will. I'm Ben. I'm Chris, and this is our review of MONSTER TRUCKS!  It's all about this guy, he had a broken truck, but then there's this monster that he finds. Are you? Every time it hits, it glows green. My favourite bit was when Chris leaned back the car because it was really awesome. Well then, we'll see about that. You like riding in my truck? She rides on a monster truck.