Hello, everybody. My name is Amri. I'm acting director of studies here at Life in Language, and I'm delighted to be here. So, I'll just jump straight in, and it's disappeared. So, I've got to have a little bit of a compression time today. Bear my soul, confess my sins in terms of communication. I'm starting to stray in at the deep end, talking about some of my communication breakdowns, and giving some concrete examples. And then I'll go on to discuss the why, the how, if they were the conference, indeed, of communication, and again, the technical. Looking at the functional, interpretive, and critical approaches to communication, because I think, having done a tiny bit of research, different, I told the water I found, they actually have something to say in some of the problems I've encountered as a newly recruited acting director of studies here. And then I'll go back to my initial problems, give some ideas of how I've coped with some solutions I've come up with, and some perspectives I've gained from having looked at the functional, interpretive, and critical approaches. So, compression time. So, in the different communication breakdowns I've had, I've asked myself, OK, how have I transmitted this message? Why has there been a breakdown? What am I not getting? Of course. Why is it that I thought the teacher or the student was listening to me, but later it been emerged it wasn't? In the spirit of being a teacher I thought some reality over me. So, we have exhibit A, if you all know what this is, a beautiful, perfectly kept register. So beautiful that she's color coded. We have exhibit B, probably one more more familiar. Now, there are a very number of problems with spending on this register. For immigration, we don't have the attendance, for the teacher coming in to cover. What do I do? What lesson do I do? But, we have an exhibit C. Sit in the picture. And here we have a problem that occurred in August. A full class, we have a name on the top of the register. What does that mean? The student going into the wrong class. The teacher not communicating that to me. The student not communicating it to me. Instead going to the agent. I get the letter, I get the agent letter. Maybe the following week, maybe a month, maybe last week. So, I communicate to the teachers. Please, if the student goes in, not on the register, don't allow them in. This has been constant with me. Luckily, eventually they got through and they missed teacher as you'll see. Check to the new register and actually she found the student. So, it does get through. It doesn't always get through. In my question, how, I repeated it, teacher's meeting, how is this not getting through? I ask myself, what is it I'm not communicating properly here? So, parking, even that aside from it, a month to the why and the how. So, let's start with a simple definition of what is communication. And it's communication is the process by which information is transmitted and understood. Well, we know that's a bit problematic because it's not always transmitted accurately. It's not always understood. So, I like the behaviorist definition, which sees communication as a symbolic process by which individuals act to exchange perceptions and ultimately build a knowledge bank for themselves. It recognizes that it's perceptions that we are exchanging and not ultimately building that knowledge bank. So, why do we communicate to get things done, to bring about change? Another why we will see, George Finley referred to 95% of the time we spend on communication a study by Vince Berger in 1973 found that in that particular study he managed to spend 80% of the time on communication, information, transmission, activities. And then the how, well, we transmit verbally, non-verbally, and then the phone face-to-face, notices, well, we could pass some notices here. And also that non-verbal, and you're probably all familiar with this, 55% of that is transmitted non-verally, 38% by the tone of voice, and only 70% by the tone of words used. So, you have to be so careful of what you're transmitting, the non-verbal message that you're sending. So, in a face-to-face communication, talking to a teacher, am I transmitting non-verally the seriousness of this message? Is it the suggestion, or is it, yes, I really wanted to do that? Another how is the challenge of communication we use? Nadine mentioned a face-to-face. Management texts emphasise that it's so important not to underestimate the complex interconnections that we can make, we can form in unanticipated face-to-face encounters. So, this could be traditional water cooler exchange or going into staff room chatting with the staff, as you do, building that trust to facilitate and improve your communication with them. It also allows for the maximum amount of information to be transmitted, so you've got the non-verbal, but you can also see the reaction. It's a two-way process. Media-richness theories suggest that we should match the media with the message. So, the more ambiguous the message, the more scope for misinterpretation, the more rich media should be, face-to-face, for example. So, think about what media you choose to transmit your messages.  The medium matches what it is. Again, the medium is the message, Mark Marshall McLean's medium and the message tells us that. In the medium we choose to transmit more information than the word, not more information, but it does make the message beyond the word itself. So, again, if you get a formal letter and head a note paper from the company's stamp, that's very formal, that sends you a message even before you read them in. If you have a face-to-face, yes, it allows for all that information, but it might be interpreted as informal and not really the law. The lens metaphor is perceptionist. It recognizes that communication is selectively perceived. We don't always receive all the information. Unlike what's useful to remember when you reflect on why some of the communication isn't as successful as we want. And listening? A plethora of studies from 1930 to 2006 all find the majority of our communication activities, the large proportion of those are listening, whether it's in work, in school, in play, in interaction. One of them, in particular, conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor in 1991, found my respect 55% of their time in listening activities in the communication. In 1995, Hasan Arland, I found that listening was perceived as an important component in communicative confidence and furthermore, that individual confidence was judged to be directly related to listening ability or perceived listening effectiveness. So how you perform as a listener reflects your performance as an individual in the company. So now moving on to the functional. The functional school of thought on communication sees communication as a metaphorical pipeline. So there is a sender and a receiver. Information goes through one way very linear. Functional sees communication. The purpose of it is to control, motivate, and inform your workers. It makes them a little harsh. And it sees an organization with containers in which people work and goods and services are provided. There is a communication as a mechanistic view of information flow, where there are prescribed routes and fine content. So imagine your management chart where you have a manager, a managing director at the top, teachers at the bottom. There is an indication of the information flow, communication flow. Who can communicate with whom? In what direction? It's usually downwards, as I've mentioned, not upwards. We'll come back to that later. Also, this school of thought allowed communication and information flow as discrete things. But these could be investigated within the organizational container in order to increase productivity. So it saw overall the metaphor where the machine predictable, communication was predictable, flowing in certain pathways. In reacting to this, and maybe something I prefer more, is the interpretivist school of thought. And this saw a conceptual shift from mechanistic to a constitutive view. So from the metaphor of the machine to the metaphor of the organism. So communication is something that exists in the workplace, but is rather than something that manages the workplace. So it recognized what's particularly illuminating and relevant, I think, about this is that it underlie the unpredictability of human behavior. How you might give the message to this room, everyone will react in a different way. You cannot predict. So it's not as robotic as the function of this school of thought. It recognizes people will react in different ways. It goes back again to the lens metaphor, the idea of selective perception and how it's so important to choose the right medium for communication. Moving on to the critical, the final one. We saw the critical definition of communication when we're looking at the what of communication. And the critical the critical school of thought and communication in terms of hidden exercises of power and managerial influence. The metaphors of voice and discourse allows you to study who is allowed to speak, to whom, and in what way. So again, you go back to that chart. Who is allowed to speak to whom? The managing director? Maybe he can speak to the lowly employee, but can the lowly employee initiate that conflict? And what? The expression or suppression of voice is one way that communication is seen within this school of thought. What is interesting is a study done by a global study done by the International Association of Business Communicators which highlighted the need for organizations to make significant changes and how they communicate with their employees in order to connect with them. In order to give them voice. There's been references by Nadine and I think in George in terms of feedback in Nadine in terms of the sessions where you allowed the teachers to have a participation in the project involvement. This is something that was highlighted by this study. Respondents said they wanted the opportunity to collaborate and actively contribute to their organization. And I think this is maybe something we miss sometimes in my problems in the registrations. Maybe I can say in the meeting, how do we deal with this? Teachers, they have the best ideas. They are on the ground. How can we give them a voice? Maybe it's problematic to implement but is it worth considering? So to move on. So to go back to my communication breakdowns and I think it's worth to go back and see what are those problems and to analyze them through the latest metaphor. And maybe the information is incomplete. It's been selected and preceded. Maybe my non-verbal communication of the message is giving a different message. So I rush into the staff room. I said, can you teach this class? Okay, yeah. Rush out. Teachers in terms of the class. Why? I didn't probably communicate that message. I didn't probably communicate the message that is so important to check the register. I have to how my communication spend that moment of focus, as you said George, 30 seconds of focus on that person without thinking, what am I to do next? What am I to do next? And that is where it's important to remember your non-verbal communication. What media do I choose to transmit? Do I do the face to face? Which is great. It may be perceived as conformal. Do I do both? Do I back it up? And I'm meeting recently. I can't subject. What is the register? What happens if students enter the class? It worked but the next week the problem came up again. It has to be repeated. And which students, as I said at the outset a problem was they were going directly to the agent. So I initiated this process around the time when I was first asked to speak at this conference. So I started reflecting, self-reflecting. Right. On Mondays, I'm going around to each class. I'm introducing myself. I'm telling them where they can come and meet me. Instead of them coming to me I'm going to meet them. I introduce them to some of the previous leaders. You'll get your book tomorrow, the letter change test. Yes. It also gives me the opportunity to get non-verbal feedback from them. They're sitting there like that. There might be a problem. They kind of look confused. Maybe I can follow up on that. It also gives them the opportunity to ask questions to me. Equally, on the Friday if I'm going to merge a class, open the class and they'll be changed I go and explain it. I usually say, couldn't use. Your class is going to be smaller. You're going to be, I'm re-arranging the class so the nationalities will be mixed. Explain to them why. And I have to say, now I haven't done any of this research on this. There have been fewer complaints. There have been fewer emails from the agents. And any email I have got have been reflecting back to the time before I implemented this. That's not to say it will never have been. In a feedback forum last week from a student who will be named this he said he wrote, sometimes our class has changed and I don't know why. This is strange. The student is communicating a lot. Maybe he's not in that Friday. Maybe he's hungover, maybe he doesn't get that message. So I'm not saying it will always work. But I just find the need to repeat, reach out and try to initiate as much communication and revisit as often as I can. So we're moving on to my next slide which is Any questions? Any questions? I can read those. APPLAUSE We're going to meet in the middle there and deal with any questions. Before I finish I have a list of the references of any bold and rash statements I've made in the book. So if anyone wants I can pass those to them. But if there are any questions anybody who has any questions about it? I just wondered in relation to the registration I very often find in our context as teachers it's often one person who is not doing it continuously. I kind of find the effectiveness of delivery in a general meeting. Because the individual who's not putting in the register is thinking she's talking to all of us. I'm not the only one who's in the register. And then the individual who's doing is like I'm hearing this again. I think I often feel that maybe managers are afraid to approach individuals. And also perhaps it's time consuming. I just wonder if you've come across that. Yeah, in terms of that I wouldn't deal with the particular teachers. As large a way as possible. And yes the filling in the register is one thing. My more serious concern was students going into class. I deal with that individually but I think it's also important to keep moving it. So it does get through. But you're right. It often is one of them. Thank you very much. Depending on the context within that particular team and the relationships you all have you could consider naming and naming as well. The relationships and how it's all set up but that could be a factor too. Yeah that is an idea. There is often a guy who stand up and say yeah I know it was me but you know I'm just terrible at paperwork. Where does a batch of armor on something like that. I'm creative though. I think it's the only thing for me. And these are all excellent teachers who do an excellent job. Thank you very much. Thank you.


Hello everybody! Watch this video to find out how to read a better-fast disk in a Windows operating system and how to gain access to files on a better-fast disk from Windows. With the permanently developing information technologies, many users have to face situations when they need to exchange data between different file systems and operating systems. In this context, one of the widespread tasks is to gain access to a disk with better-fast file system in a Windows operating system. Next to its advanced features, better-fast is becoming a popular choice for data storage on Linux and other similar platforms. However, by default, Windows doesn't support reading or writing data for better-fast disks. On the other hand, there are a few specialized apps that allow users to gain access to better-fast data from this operating system. And in today's video, we'll explore the rating of top tools for reading better-fast disks in Windows to find out how they can simplify data exchange between Linux and Windows. You'll learn how to read and copy files from better-fast disks in Windows and what apps provide maximum compatibility with this operating system. It is important to understand that the right choice of a specialized tool can make a lot of things easier when you deal with processing data and ensuring its safety. Better-Face, or B3 file system, is a modern and currently developing file system which was designed for Linux operating systems. It differs from many other file systems by its advanced features and an innovative approach to data storage. One of the key peculiarities is the use of a tree-like data structure applied to arrange data on the disk, which is known as B3 structure. Better-Face offers a number of advantages, including as follows. Control over data integrity. Better-Face uses data-integrated checks and copies to ensure data safety, which makes it a reliable choice to store important files. Snapshot support. Users can take snapshots of the file system, which helps to restore data to the condition it was in on a certain date. Cloning and compressing. Better-Face lets you create copies of files and supports data compression, which helps to save disk space. Rate support. Better-Face supports various disk arrays which ensures data protection and fold tolerance. Storage space management. This file system manages storage space automatically by removing unnecessary data. Better-Face has become a popular choice for data storage on Linux-based servers and desktop PCs because of its features and high reliability. And now, let's have a closer look at the apps capable of reading a Better-Face disk in a Windows operating system. The first one on the list is Hetman RAID Recovery. It's a powerful and multifunctional tool for data recovery and work with various file systems including Better-Face, which allows Windows users to restore lost files quickly and safely, rebuild disks and partitions, and perform other operations involving data. Although its main purpose is recovering data, Hetman RAID Recovery also has the functionality required to read any disks with Better-Face file system. It means that you can use this tool to access data on disks formatted in Better-Face and view its contents. Such feature makes Hetman RAID Recovery a versatile tool that may come in handy in all kinds of scenarios. For example, you can use this app to do any of the following. View the contents of Better-Face disks. You can open and view files and folders on Better-Face disks, which can be useful when all you need is just access to data on such disks. Copy files. Hetman RAID Recovery lets you copy files from Better-Face disks to other data carriers, which is convenient when you need to backup some information. File preview. This app allows you to preview files before copying, so you can choose only the items you need. Create disk images. You can make Better-Face disk images and save them to your hard disk for additional safety and backup. All in all, Hetman RAID Recovery is a useful tool to handle disks formatted in Better-Face file system, and it also provides you with access to data stored on such disks. Hetman RAID Recovery is a multifunctional software to recover data from Better-Face disks in Windows and ensure safety of your files and information. With all its useful features, you can restore lost files and perform other operations with data on Better-Face disks in a quick and efficient way. Another app on this list is Linux File System for Windows. This File System for Windows is a software solution meant to support Better-Face in a Windows operating system. This utility provides access to files at the system level, which means it works as a driver that lets you interact with Better-Face disks, read and write data, and perform other operations. Here are some key features and advantages of Linux File System for Windows. Complete Better-Face support. This tool provides full access to data on Better-Face disks that includes reading and writing files as well as creating new files and folders. Integration with Windows. Linux File System for Windows integrates directly into a Windows operating system, which allows it to work with Better-Face disks as well as with other file systems. Snapshot support. Users can take snapshots of Better-Face files system, which helps to restore data to its previous version. Ease of use. This tool features a user-friendly interface that makes working with Better-Face disks an easy and convenient task to do. Compatibility and performance. Linux File System for Windows offers a high degree of compatibility with various versions of Windows and excellent performance in reading and writing data. And data safety. This app ensures reliably reading and writing of data to Better-Face disks while preserving data integrity. Summing up. Linux File System for Windows is a reliable and convenient solution for Windows users who need to work with Better-Face disks. This lets you manage all data in a most efficient way and ensures information safety during interaction with this modern file system. One more tool to explore is WinBetter-Face. WinBetter-Face is a Better-Face file system driver for Windows operating system that allows interaction with Better-Face disks, reading and writing data, and other operations. You can download this driver from GitHub. For installation, right-click on INF file and select Install. Restart the computer after the installation. When you do it, the Better-Face disk should appear in the File Explorer. Here is a detailed review of WinBetter-Face and its key features. Complete Better-Face support. This driver offers full range of Better-Face functions including reading and writing files as well as creating new files and directories on a Better-Face disk. This driver integrates directly into a Windows operating system which allows it to work with Better-Face disks as well as with other file systems in using the File Explorer and other default Windows tools. High compatibility and performance. WinBetter-Face is compatible with various versions of Windows and provides excellent performance in reading and writing data, data safety. WinBetter-Face offers safe interaction with data stored on Better-Face disks which is essential to secure data integrity. In software, WinBetter-Face is an open source project which means its code is available for anyone and can be expanded. Summing up, WinBetter-Face is a powerful driver for Windows offering complete support of Better-Face file system and a number of additional features. Also, this driver can open a disk array like RAID. This tool unites the disks which used to make up a Better-Face RAID and shows them in the File Explorer as an ordinary physical disk where some data is stored. As to Therungan, it's unable to read information from the disks which used to be part of the RAID system. Yes, it does show the disk in the File Explorer, but when you look at its size, you understand it's not the RAID you used to have here. So this tool doesn't support reading data from Better-Face disks which used to make up a RAID system. And if you need to retrieve data from a damaged Better-Face RAID, try Hetman RAID Recovery. Hetman RAID Recovery supports all popular file systems types and RAID levels. This app displays the disks that used to make up the RAID as separate devices, but as you open any of the disks, you will see all the information that was stored on this disk array. Hetman RAID Recovery can be used as a reader for Better-Face disks since it can rebuild a damaged disk array automatically, and it's capable of recovering accidentally deleted files even if one of the hard disks is down. All you need is to scan the disk and save the necessary files to another physical disk. One more solution to read a Better-Face disk could be a bootable USB drive with a Linux operating system on it. Running a live Linux system from such USB drive on your Windows computer may just as well become one of the easiest ways to access a Better-Face disk for reading and writing some data. However, in this case, you won't be able to copy any information directed to a Windows computer. Summing up, today we have explored several tools for reading a Better-Face disk in Windows operating system. Some of them stand out because of their functionality and versatility, while others are very convenient to use. The final choice of the tool for the job is up to you. Bear in mind that the scope of your work with Better-Face file system in Windows may be limited, and no-toe Better-Face functions can be fully supported in each of the solutions we have covered today. Always remember that dealing with disks and files formatted in a different file system may have dangerous consequences. If you're using any third-party tools and drivers to read Better-Face disks in Windows, make sure you have backed up your stuff. Any wrong steps or system errors caused by a third-party driver can result in loss of important data. It is also crucial to backup your data and be careful when dealing with various disks and file systems. Of course, there are many other similar apps, but for this video, we have selected only the well-tried and popular tools. And that is all for now. I hope this video was useful. Don't forget to click the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Leave your comments under the video. Thank you for watching. Good luck.


So we're here at Compitex 2018 and hi, so who are you? Hi What's your name? So I'm Jerry from Roblox. I'm founder for this company Roblox actually is a platform for people to build the robot with all the modularized parts We have more than 500 different kind of blocks metal blocks. It's purely aluminum and also we have different sensors Yeah, you see You see this one. This is ultrasonic sensor from here. This is the robot we made Yeah, so we have different sensors ultrasonic sensor light following sensor light sensor sound sensor all the different sensors and the APP is also ready It is kind of hardware open source hardware. So with the hardware with the Sensors with the APP you can build robot as simple as we play with Lego How is this? So this is a kid. Yeah, this is a kid called Cooper's Cooper's is for about 10 years old. There are a lot of parts inside So this is the packing It is six in one by one bill white Robert. You can build at least six different kind of rubber Yeah, this is all the six is here. Yeah Yeah This is the same box same box inside all the parts how much this way is 170 u.s. Dollars is that the retail price retail price. So are you selling many already? We already, you know, we are start up a company Two year two year old, but we already sell to Australia, New Zealand, France, Ukraine Russia and Canada United States, but this box include these sensors all these sensors inside and this Yeah, all and these are LED metrics everything inside You can do these can you do more than this? You can do whatever you want. Of course After you learn from our Robert, you can just to build your idea with our parts Our target is to make people regular people have ability to build a robot to create This one is also built with the same kids. Yeah, right, right. This is also The same parts that you build this one. Yeah, so and you see here There's a we will launch this a model in next one one month. So this is a Elephant smart metal elephant. I should say this is the first Really because nobody's doing this only us the first This is a special because you know our job is purely is very good for education purpose So, you know for education the first thing is to make them Interest interest. So we try to make this a smarter elephant. So people the key that they are interested and they can play with it Of course, it can move. Yeah, but we have to turn on the battery and we can control by the apps and it will move Yeah, this is this one is following the lines. So this is a very basic anti-model Primary force there are also an accessory like falling sensor. So it will Recognize the black line. Yeah, so it will fall in the lines. This is very interesting Is it possible that the kids are going to make robots that can Cook food do the laundry watch the dishes When is this gonna happen when we are this time? I think this will be very Honestly speaking if you use my purse, it will be easy. Yeah, if you use what if you use a roblox purse Because the process is ready. You just to put together and program the rubber You can become a you can really use even because it is the quality is super good How do you how do you suggest normal bolts? Sorry, can you connect them with the screwdriver? Yes screwdriver. So we have a this is the key to inside But all the score driver or the tools is here inside So You want to say that I can open Let's do unboxing. Yeah So it's for sale in the USA and Australia or France New Zealand. Yeah, so this is a Let me show you So this kid this is not the 170 this is a bigger one. This is a this is small one the entry one for primary school The entry one this one is $90. So this is the packing go inside so we have all the certificates CFC say yeah and So this is the inside all the different all the sensors by the motherboard. So let's go Go inside See here there Look at this So How is your platform different from other robot system? I think one of the most differences so we are metal You know for the construction set most of the cases is plastic, right? So we all the kids they play with Lego, but this one is a metal thing metal Robert And another thing is this is a open source hardware. It means you can program it with With all the from entry level programming language to advanced language We have a you can look at here. So this is called dragon job Graphical programming language you just drag and drop here. You will start coding So this is for six years old, but you know for the young kids to learn coding Is it based on the system open source? This is based on scratch scratch scratch is Graphical programming language made by MIT. So now most of the cases For for kids to learn coding they all use this platform. So it's the best. Yeah now. I should say it's the best It's the best for kids Of course, we support we also compatible with C++ Python JavaScript and even Apple Swift, you know Apple or the big companies is also promoting This educated coding education. You have a school driver school driver. Yeah, all right. Let me see. I have a school driver Okay, we open up this box to see the PCB. What is it? Oh, no, this will be hard. This is the chipset will be At mail At mail we use at mail chipset. Arm Cortex M4 Arm will we will develop another board or we'll be arm based. Yeah, but this one is not arm based Yeah, yeah, yeah at mail yeah 2560 All right


Hey everyone, welcome to figure fantasy. We have here the recipes for Jade Rabbit Pastry Shop, and I'll actually flash this here. Just a couple of notes for the recipes and just a couple of tips, okay? So secret recipes you have actually five. The sixth one would be any combination, okay? So let's start off with what is the best, what is the best combination recipe you should use. More or less, I would recommend depending on your situation, it doesn't really apply to everybody else, but based on experience, I usually run out of Advanced Care Skill, that's one. Which is number four? For Yoke Bomb here. So this is, for me is a priority, and the other is the other priority would be Fish Bones. Fish Bones and Advanced Care Skill are the hardest to farm, so these are your musts. So again, take note for any other combination other than these five will yield you Fish Bones. So you could you could probably put four eggs or four sugar or four beans or four nuts, that would yield you Fish Bones, okay? So the least that you're gonna be getting here is at some point would be gold, the least. Stamps and clovers you will be needing especially if you're starting out and the end game you will be needing more of the stamps. So I would suggest that you also save on stamps. So Advanced Care Skill for level up of parts of your figures, the next would be Fish Bone and the next would be your stamps, which would be your Union Jade Rabbit. So those are my tips for you guys for this stage. I will put this or these secret recipes in the description of the video so that you could have a second look at it and you don't have to come back to the video. Okay, so that is it guys. So hopefully these these tips helped you and hopefully you could farm for the right item that you need by this time. So thank you very much guys. Take care. Stay safe. This is The Warden and I'm out of here.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. I am back with a scrapbook layout I know it's been a few weeks I've just been so busy with some commission work and other things just sometimes take over and I haven't really had the chance so I'm back and I have been having fun I've been catching up so I'm sharing this really fun colorful layout with you today and it's using the new Dream in Color collection from Rotie Studio and I actually purchased this about four weeks ago I think now and I have played a little bit with it but I haven't really you know had a good kind of go so I have brought everything out for this one and you can see that I briefly showed you some of the stuff everything will be linked in my blog and I'm just going through the paper here so this is the 12x12 paper pack really gorgeous beautiful print stripes sparkle you've got the foiling through there it's unicorns it's magical it's whimsical it's just really really nice so I pulled out a few here as I wasn't too sure which one I wanted to use yeah I was going to I had the idea initially I was going to be cutting kind of strips from all different ones and then I decided to go for something a bit different so you can just see here I'm kind of playing around now the photo is one of me and some of my bestest friends from school we've known each other a long time and this was from my birthday in January this year they surprised me in a to a lovely kind of like a it was just like a really nice kind of lodge we had a hot tub and we're all there in our robes and it was just a really lovely two nights away with the people I love the most so yeah I wanted to scrap it this layout so I'm going through these are the pack of dye cuts that you get you can see there you get some really really again really fun lovely images and sentiments and just smiley faces and hearts and all that kind of stuff so I've pulled out a few there to the right and then I've just brought in here this is my ink spray mist by Cosmic Shimmer I can't remember the colors I'm using here again I will share them it was just a real nice kind of turquoise and then I brought in a pink color as well and I just let the paper absorb the color so it didn't take long to dry then I'm bringing in some of my red tape here this is my double-sided tape and I'm creating some strips just different lengths along the bottom and I so I do some vertical and some horizontal strips and this is just from the double-sided glitter technique that I shared last week beginning the last week loads of you really liked it and are going to give it a go it's been around for years it's something I've done lots as well but I just thought I was going to do it again because I picked up some really nice glitters which are here from B&M in the UK these are £4.99 for all of these glitters and I just thought that these colors in this collection worked really well with the colors that I'm pulling out now in the glitters so you'll see what I'm going to do in a second but I'm just pulling out those real nice kind of real bright fluorescent colors there so I've covered all of the area that I wanted with the double-sided tape and then I'm just peeling off one at a time and I'm going to sprinkle a different color of glitter so those of you that watched that tutorial last week I'll link that in here as well actually for anybody that's not seen it because I made some really nice cards I'm just going along and I'm just spreading out and pushing all the glitter into the double-sided tape it won't stick anywhere else apart from that double-sided tape so you can see on the ends I just kind of cut them on an angle just to give it a little bit of you know something there rather than just the blunt edge and it took to the the glitter the sticky tape really really well actually and you can see there just how well now when you see me put the next one on they almost look like the same so I think kind of the the iridescent the yeah hang on a minute when I do if you see now when this kind of when I rub it around you see it looks like the same color below and I think that's just my lighting obviously hitting the glitter and it just creates that same color but once it all comes off there we go you can see all the different colors and in real life it looks great so I'm just now going to start framing that photo so I already had it printed with a white frame that's what I was going to say and then I am going to frame it with this flower background although you don't really see a lot of it I just like so it had little bits of all the colors kind of poking through and then I will pop it as well on the purple this one here there are three I think it is of each design so I wasn't too worried that I was cutting into this particular sheet so I do really like it I'm going to use it for a layout but I wanted that matching purple you know frame there just around just so you can really see the the other pattern paper underneath so that's my photo kind of already now and I've popped some foam adhesive on it to just give it some dimension and now because I'm sticking this on top of glitter I'm using my strong tacky glue there just to make sure it does stick down over that surface just above the bottom glitter strip there just so you can see that and I think it's starting to look really good so now I slowly start to bring in all of these die cuts and just play around I haven't stuck anything down as yet I'm just kind of deciding you know where roughly I want things to go what bits I want to use and what I don't I end up sticking some bits down and then I take them back off again so I haven't kept the whole kind of process of this because I did kind of go back and forth with it a little bit so it does jump ahead in parts but I just wanted to kind of give you an idea of how long these things take sometimes sometimes they're really quick this layout took about an hour and a half in total so I did go away have a cup of tea come back got distracted with the phone call and yeah so once it's it wouldn't usually take this long this is a lovely saying I really like this and it says stay close to the people who feel like sunshine these are people along with a few others that aren't in this photo and my best friend Kate are the people that I would tell anything to I can trust them with my life they are wonderful people so yeah I really liked that little cut out there now this one happiness is this I did stick down and I ended up taking that away so although it goes there I just I don't know after a while I just thought it's all a bit too much so I just took that one off because I just wanted that one in the yellow to really kind of stand out these are the epoxy stickers so that one I just popped in the photo says smiles and then this is the one that says besties which I just thought was great and obviously it all matches because it's from the same collection so I'm just popping that one just lining it up with the lines on the paper there which was quite easy to do and these are all the little stars oh no sorry these are the arrows I bring in the stars in a moment so they were facing the other direction I'm just flipping them around so obviously it's pointing to the photo now starting to kind of really cement everything in place so sticking it all down because like I said I don't tend to stick everything down until I'm 100% I've got a hashtag birthday because it was my birthday weekend got the rainbow and then I'm bringing in these are from the sticker embellishment pack so I've got best of times friends for life good times and fabulous I'm bringing in there and just above that it says soul sisters which I thought was another nice one as well which is on that glitter strip so now I'm bringing in one of these gorgeous these are called the metal trinkets and they're little stars you get nine in a pack I've got two packs this one's just got rainbow colors in it but there are ones that say cute and sassy be free or free spirit things like that it's a really nice and you can have them hanging from mini albums your diary planners things like that then I'm bringing in some of the little stars which again were from the epoxy sticker pack and now I've just got some of my perfect pearls ranger mist I was just covering the photo and I just went over and stuck that and sprayed it all over and then I trimmed the actual layout down and then I framed it with white just again let it kind of pop and stand out more and now I'm finishing my layout with some white neva drops because I think again I just wanted that to work with the white frame around the photo the white frame around the layout and then the white neva drops and the little white stars so just thought that kind of balanced it and there you have it really really fun glittery happy bright layout to remember that really fun weekend and my gosh we had a giggle so I hope you've enjoyed this layout I will get back on track again and be sharing them every Sunday again I've already got a few banked now so but yeah sometimes just things you know you know what it's like they just get in the way but um yeah I hope you've enjoyed it as always I will link all of the supplies I've used and I'll be back again next Sunday with another layout thanks for watching bye


This is Bill Doyle on Vermont issues and I'm very delighted to appear before this panel with Jim Spalding, the Chancellor of the State College System and with whom I've spent many, many years. How many years did we spend together? We spent 16 years in the Vermont State Senate. I learned so much from you, Bill. Oh. It was a pleasure. We were on the Education Committee for a while together and we served 12 years on the Government Operations Committee under your leadership. Well, and I must say that having said that, I could not have served with a person who worked so hard at this job as Jim Spalding, as a senator. Thank you. And I'm glad to be here today. We're really grateful to have you here. So I basically am thrilled to have you here because there was an article in the Seven Days which made me nervous about Vermont State Colleges and I think you're the guy with the answers. Okay. And so what colleges and universities are part of the Vermont State College System first so that we have a full overview? That's good. And because I actually don't remember exactly what was said in that article so I don't know whether it was referring to the Vermont State Colleges System or to colleges and universities generically in Vermont. In Vermont. I think that's what it was. So I'll talk about both if you want to. But the Vermont State Colleges System itself is made up of, I'll do it in alphabet, actually I'll do it in not in alphabetical order. I'll start with Community College in Vermont. So we have 12 locations throughout Vermont. So we like to say there's a community college site within 20 miles of any Vermonter out there. And interestingly about a third of the courses taken through CCV now are online. So there are locations around the state and online and they primarily deliver associates degrees and courses and direct job training and workforce development activities for businesses. So for example at our Global Foundries or Brattleboro Hospital they'll do programming specifically for the employees. So some of them are students enrolled in an associates degree program and some aren't. They have a place like Community College in Vermont. Over the decades they have had a somewhat older student body and that's still not abnormal but an increasingly a number of young Vermonters coming out of high school are going to CCV because it's the most affordable route to get their college education. So that's Community College and we have Vermont Technical College which offers both associates and bachelor's degrees and one master's degree program too in computer science. And Vermont Tech is known mostly for its engineering technology programs whether it's mechanical, civil, electrical, computer. And healthcare? Yeah, people don't really realize that a lot of its enrollment and growth in recent years has been in nursing and allied health. And that's probably going to be a continued growth area and they also through history have a dairy management program. It's the only dairy program actually in Vermont now and still has a working farm at the Randolph campus. Vermont Tech also has a campus in Williston and there's one dorm there but it's primarily a commuter campus and is obviously in a growth area there. So Vermont Technical College, associates and bachelor's and also does a lot of specific workforce training for employers in Vermont. Then we get to our more residential four-year bachelor's and master's programs and we used to have three of those, two of them have been unified in Northern Vermont University. So we have Northern Vermont University with campuses in Johnson and in Linden. There used to be Johnson State College and Linden State College. And if we have time later we might get back to why did we do that and what do we hope to accomplish with it because it's a pretty big move. And then finally, Casselton University down outside of Rutland and Casselton, Vermont. A really wonderful university and it's bachelor's and master's and has offered new programs and has international students from like 35 countries and I think it's 27. I think NCAA athletic teams and so it's quite a wonderful place. So that's the constellation. Some people are confused that well is the University of Vermont part of the Vermont State College system and it's not. It is a public college, it's independent, it's you know student body undergraduates probably 75 to 80 percent out of state students at the University of Vermont which is the reverse of what you find in the Vermont State College system. But it's got its own governing body and so forth so it's not. And then we have just in the constellation of colleges and universities we have you know a large number of independent or private ones so everything from a Norwich to a Champlain to a Goddard to you know all kinds of around the state. Yeah, but we're at Casselton Community College, Northern Vermont University and Vermont Technical College. So Jeff would you tell us some of your priorities of the Chancellor? Well I mean you know it's all about trying to serve students but my priority is pretty simple and that is to actually put our colleges and universities on a stable financial foundation and that's not easy to do in today's climate. You know people might not realize that there are 25 percent fewer seniors in high school this year than there were 10 years ago. So if that's your traditional customer base it's getting smaller and what that means is the competition between the colleges and universities out there over a decreasing customer base is intense and the average discount rate at the independent colleges is about 50 percent. So if you were to say gee look at that expensive tuition of 40,000 the average person is paying 20 like half of it and you know that probably can't go on forever but that's the competitive world we're in so it's like one you know you've got fewer fewer people graduating from high school we hear about that all the time in terms of the K-12 system fewer students and mergers and all that kind of stuff like that well obviously that means there are fewer people graduating from high school and furthermore you might be interested to know that actually in 2016 was the smallest number of births in Vermont since the Civil War and 2017 had fewer births in Vermont than that so you know when I look at it go okay well those are the students are going to be going to college you know 17 18 years from now so is this going to get is the population sort of trend got to reverse itself it doesn't appear that that will be the case how much if Vermont it's losing population does have anything to do with what you're talking about you know it's interesting we're not the only ones losing population I mean this is a big big trend across the country certainly in northern New England you know Maine and New Hampshire have have the same dynamic we don't have a lot of immigration up here I wish we would and I appreciate the fact that at least our governor governor Scott welcomes people from other parts of the world and we'd like them to come but they often you know are not anxious to move to Vermont and you know it's not and actually another challenge that we have so we don't have a lot of immigration and you know a lot of times these days we go through trends where people want to be in cosmopolitan areas and back in the 60s and 70s they wanted to be out in the hills of Vermont and at the moment people are gravitating towards the city so you if you were in Pennsylvania or Georgia and went to the rural parts of those states you would find basically the same dynamics in terms of their their populations and they're you know all having to adjust to meet that for it's a good question but it's it's so the population is decreasing particularly in young people I mean if you were to look at you know the projections for how many people are going to be in Vermont that are over the age of 65 in the next ten years that's gonna gotta that's gonna double so it's like the old people older people and you put it that way they're more and more they're living longer and thank goodness they are being more vital for longer periods of time but that that that segment of the population is getting bigger it's on the other end when it's getting smaller and has a lot to do with a lot of different things it's not just that people don't want to be in Vermont but Vermont happens to be relatively highly educated even though in the upper echelon though not in the lower oh yes one of my questions really is why is Vermont supporting so much elder care when it's not having its own young people put in college right that part to me does not make sense if you want young people here you have to give them a certain amount of respect right so that they feel like they can afford to have children or they can afford to be part of the community because they're respected so the Vermont State College system the ones I mentioned we are the de facto extension of the pre-k-12 system into the post-secondary years like nobody else I mentioned the University of Vermont but you know others too back in the day Champlain College was 80% Vermonters it's now 80% out of status you know Vermont State College system we're like 85% Vermonters and half of our students are the first in their family to go to college and you know and nearly half of them are Pell eligible which means they're a modest income and we're proud of that so I don't really have anything to say that you know we're not trying hard we take students I mean I have so many stories of students that come to Vermont State College is they couldn't have gone to college anywhere else and they come and they don't always succeed and you know by the way if you're gonna be taking students that you know have haven't had a family culture of going to college and realizing that it's not easy and you're gonna be homesick and you know they're gonna push you a little bit and so forth it's harder for them so we have to build up a support system but you know just as a as an example I mean if if you looked at the students that are going to Middlebury College is one of the colleges in Vermont every one of those students is academically prepared every one of them has you know almost every one of them has a as a emotional support system at home and they've got the resources to really support them down there and that's different from in-state yeah not very many and why is that because the in-state well because prepared like that no I don't think so I think I think actually you know I mean the mission of my institution the Vermont State College's system is for the benefit of Vermont you know we're all about Vermonters a place like Middlebury is it's an educational institution for the world located in Vermont its mission isn't Vermont its mission is turning out you know I don't know what well-rounded professionals and critical thinkers from anywhere and they happen to be located but our mission is all about Vermonters and yes we want to have some out of status and we'd like to have international students we'd like to have a diversity on our campuses not only because it helps us financially but it's good for Vermonters to have a more vibrant diverse community to go to college with so you know why don't I think your question is why don't more Vermonters go to college and it's it's this is you know you are on to something here in Vermont we have one of the very highest high school graduation rates in the country and our results are pretty good yes there are people that are graduating from high school that aren't prepared but if you compare there they're always gonna have some of that and you know back in the day we just said just let them not go let them not finish high school but you know there's been an emphasis to try to keep people in high school my point is that our results on any measure compare favorably with those around the country so we're graduating most of our students at one of the highest graduation rates and relatively performing well compared to other states one year later we have a very very sorry record of sending kids to college 40% of the students that are graduating from high school do not go to college actually they don't go on to any kind of post-secondary education so here I would say they're not going into apprenticeship program they're not taking you know an associate's degree they're not getting a credential or bookkeeping credential or anything and that's a problem and by the way you know 60% of the students in the lower economic status group do not go on to any kind of post-secondary education so that's a huge equity problem you have in the state of Vermont but you know one of the difficulties that our counselors in high schools have at least this is my personal observation is that they're so busy dealing putting out fires and you know dealing with with with immediate critical situations that they don't have the time to spend helping students think about their post-secondary careers wouldn't that be beneficial for your group incredibly let's do it I don't understand somebody very recently who is a post-secondary guidance counselor in Middlebury and whether this is true or not I don't know but she told me she was the only counselor post-secondary counselor in the state at a high school and I would believe that you know and and by the way she was introducing me to a student and a mother of a mother a single mother and a student nobody had ever been to college before and there she's she is her mission is to try to help her you know go to college and and again I mean I'm using the word college loosely here because it could be an apprenticeship or something else although you know let's not kid ourselves I mean virtually 90% of the jobs if not 95% of the jobs that created in this country since the great recession of 2008-9 have required a college degree so is it is it is it a true statement that not everybody needs to go to college that is a true statement but most of the jobs that are being created in particularly the higher level jobs require a college degree associates or bachelors and isn't that fundamentally linked to our ability economically as a state I mean those two things like you're absolutely right so I don't understand why that would be like on the forefront of legislators like why don't we have school counselors pushing Vermont students to have the support system in place when they get to junior year that they say I'm going to Castleton I'm not gonna go do drugs I'm not gonna get pregnant I'm not gonna be a you know deli girl I think it's not that those are bad things we need them we do but it's not fair to say nobody's got any asset that Vermont needs we have to get our taxes done from Connecticut or New Hampshire because we don't have anything different with you somewhat is like I just said what we we have 12,000 students within the Vermont State College system of like 10,000 plus our Vermonters and half half of them are the first in their family to go to college so it's not like none of them are it's just that too many aren't and I would argue that cost is a big factor in that I think I have a funny thing about it because all of my girlfriends there are five of us from Central Vermont went to small amounts of schooling of our own financial situations after we were in pretty not good situations otherwise I mean no further of education no future discussion on anything literally just thrown out there like have a nice day and so now it's 25 years later my friends kids are doing the same thing that we did and you know we were all powerhouses so I don't understand why we weren't an asset why we weren't called into education I yeah I'm interested I mean it's a lost asset I hope that doesn't happen anymore yeah and I think and by the way it needs to start you know we can't wait till 10th grade okay you need to start you know at the very latest working with students and their families in middle school right it's one of the reasons why I and their pros and cons this but one of the trends you see around the country is there's more states basically offering tuition-free college and you know for example in Tennessee it's limited to community and technical colleges two years in New York it's now you know if your family I think it's if the family incomes under 120,000 you can go tuition-free to any one of the college their community colleges and you know we don't have that in Vermont but I think you know and people would argue by the way that you know in a place like New York a lot of the benefit of that is actually going to people that actually could afford to pay for college but they're now want to take advantage of it you know it is limited to a hundred twenty thousand dollar family income and for two you know two to work or family that's not it sounds like it but it's not a high-income family so I'd say you know higher income than that don't get to take advantage of it. I still think the 1% can afford college the rest of us still need the help. No question about it. No it's your absolute way I don't disagree with that. We have a tremendous equity issue in this country and I say it's getting worse it's getting harder for the lower-income folks to go to college although you know at the same time you know I would say there are opportunities for people to pursue college or a post-secondary education that they might not be aware of you know for example a vermoder who gets into the University of Vermont and is Pell eligible so that would mean you know their family income might be you know it varies depending on number of how my kids are in the family and so forth but let's say under fifty thousand dollars goes tuition and fee free to the University of Vermont. Now it's not easy to get into the University of Vermont but for you know those those lower-income students to get in there is no tuition to go there and we're really trying to up our tuition in a place you mentioned Castleton well they have an agreement with Community College of Vermont that you know if you graduate with an associate's degree from CCV Community College of Vermont you can continue at that same tuition level at Castleton to try to make it affordable people you know you talk about Vermonters I'm familiar with the one I won't I won't name her but she'll know it if she was watching a student from you know Belvedere Vermont home school went if nobody in the family had been to college before went to Johnson State College now Northern Vermont Johnson on a full four-year scholarship from the National Science Foundation was she driven you know was she you know academically able yes she was but but she didn't have a lot of family you know expectation or anything else like that and it was a free free four years and now she's got like a two hundred thousand dollar post-secondary fellowship out there with the I think it's the first one in the state colleges system I only mentioned those things because it the expense the tuition we have the lowest state support in the country for our public higher education system that translates to the highest tuition in the country and even though Community College of Vermont is our most affordable option it's still probably the most expensive tuition in the country and there's a direct direct link a direct cable from like the lowest state support in the country to the highest tuition in the country because you know you got to get your revenue somewhere and back in the 1980s bill when when you were you know in the state Senate and I was in the state Senate the Vermont State College has got roughly 50% of its revenues came from the state and 50% came from tuition now about 15% comes from the state and 85% from tuition that means Vermonters pay the highest family share of their income to send their kids to college in the country and there's no doubt in my mind that that's one of the reasons why we don't have a lot of we have too many Vermonters that are not going on to post-secondary because they think they can't afford it and in many instances they can't afford it and they don't want to take on excessive debt chance like some other way to talk chance of responding to talk about some of the greatest challenges as cancer well thank you for asking the biggest challenges are pretty much what I just mentioned that we get such low-state support that we are we are very very reliant on tuition and you know we have a declining number of customers you know students we are increasingly facing families you know that they tell me that the Gen Zers which are students that are coming into college now they're born about the year 2000 and subsequent are increasingly price-conscious so they're not interested in going and getting a bachelor's degree to be good good citizens and worldly thinkers they're going to college because they want to get a job when they get out and if they don't see that return on investment I mean I'm exaggerating a little bit but that's that's that's a current real thrust right now students want to know wait a minute here if I'm going to go spend four years on tuition what am I getting out of this and you know I think what we would like to have people understand is that you know when we talk about a northern of my university you know were you taught for a very long time at Johnson or a Castleton they're not just getting a liberal arts education that's going to make them a worldly thinking they're getting a liberal arts education with a strong link to the professions and with extensive internship and experiential opportunities are going to help them get their first job and jobs along the way you have to understand that I mean a lot of the the the professions out there that you might think of now probably aren't going to exist in ten years so if you just go in a very narrow I've got a simple skill and that's all I that's all I know and I'm not able to you know think critically and I'm not able to analyze I'm not able to work with people and and think broadly you're going to be stuck in a in maybe that one area that might not even exist into the future so the challenges are low-state support, declining number of traditional students, very skeptical parents and students, price competition that's very tough and new providers that are coming in so you know there are like you know I mean there are plenty of online providers and there are new for profit institutions that are coming in we should be very skeptical of by the way but you know we have a ton of challenges we also have strategies to try to address every one of those so those are the challenges and they're big but we also have opportunities. Well let's talk about the opportunities and talk about what we're doing to solve the challenges that you enumerate. Okay well you know number one an opportunity is the group of folks that Sophie has talked about. The 40% of Vermonters that are not going on to any post-secondary education. The 60% of the lower income group that is not going on to any kind of post-secondary education after after after high school. So for us well if we could get that from 40% not going down to 20% not going that's good for them it's good for the state of Vermont and it's good for us we are working very hard on retention that would be you know in late person's language keeping your customers we have too many students that come you know and again we have we take we have our valedictory students you know you will remember that at Johnson we have wonderful students and how many of your students are turned out to be legislators a lot of them they contribute to their community. A significant number. A significant number but you know I mean we also take a lot of students that have struggled in school struggled at home and you know they they come to the Vermont State Colleges and sometimes we don't have the support system that allows them to succeed and they don't they don't stay. So you know if we can actually help those students that are now dropping out of college to stay that's good for them that's good for the state and that's good for us as well. Then we need to serve you know the group of students that are adults and you know there are 60,000 Vermonters that have some college but never completed and you know we're trying to develop more flexible delivery systems so weekend programs seven week semesters online you know ways that Vermonters that can't you know they might be working or they might be raising a family they can't go Monday Wednesday and Friday at 10 o'clock in the morning they need to have some other delivery and we're we're working on that as well and then we're you know we're doing some pretty creative things like like Northern Vermont University which is up and running we have our first class of students there they're very excited about it. If it wasn't if it was a sort of typical environment where you know finances weren't an issue we probably couldn't have pulled that off but I think people knew that wait a minute here you know we're committed to maintaining campuses in Lyndon and Johnson and we need to make sure that the dollars we do have are spent on things that matter to students so at Northern Vermont University with those two campuses we now have one president Elaine Collins is doing a great job we have one CFO not two actually we have one executive assistant for presidents not two on each one of those campuses and in the first year just in the transition here we save over a million dollars in executive management higher level management expenses and salaries and benefits and you know what we're seeing which is more exciting to me is actually increased opportunities for students so now the professors at Johnson and Lyndon are getting to know each other and you know a Ben Loos who's an eminent physicist and teaches physics at at Lyndon taught also at Johnson this past spring and loved it and I believe he's back there this fall so there's a lot of synergies there some of the classes that were too small to run when we can do them across two campuses are actually big enough to keep running so more opportunities for students both in the classroom and some of the extracurricular and travel opportunities we have it's it's pretty exciting so you know that's another one we're trying to like be creative and do shared services and then we're you know really need to make our case to the legislature that you know there is an impact of like such low-state funding and it is that too many Vermonters are not going on to college well I think like you said too I think a support system that actually recognized young people in Vermont when they're young I mean because literally like I have one girlfriend I was telling you she was great and calculus she was the head of her field hockey team and no one ever approached her about going to college not ever in the whole time that we were at you 32 and that was very common and so I've taken I'm one of those people who has multiple little bits of classes from here and there and the the those classes work fabulously but for my friends who were educated here and feel that they're not actually good enough to go to college you know those are the people I would love to see your program actually step up and and ask we know you'd be great we we have a place for you and like you're saying you know the legislative asset is huge to have that be recognized as a you know this is your economy this is what is going to make it possible for you to come and retire in Vermont is if you have educated sophisticated you know helpful people in the community and there are lots of them here and you know a lot of people aren't aren't appreciated and I'm so I'm glad to have this opportunity to talk with you about it do we you know I'm not sure this is right but I'd like to think that at the you know the high schools are doing a better job of counseling students than maybe they did 20 years ago I'd like to think that I hope that's the case yeah it's kind of hard for us because of high schools you know don't necessarily make it easy for you know like us to come in we they have nice college nights and you can go to those but it's hard a lot of students don't go to that so you know we'd like to do our part and you know one of the things we are trying to do another one of our strategies is just to let people know what we have to offer within the Vermont State College of System because sometimes you know I mean it's always gonna be the case you know my my daughters went to 12 years of Montpelier public schools and they both went out of state to college and by the way neither of them came back right and they're in their upper 30s now and I doubt they will come and they're quite successful well they are but but oftentimes my point there is like you know the majority of times once we go out of state they're not coming back there are also there's the minority times when people go out of state and do come back and that's great too but you know I see too often people are paying more to get an experience out of state when they could have stayed at one of our own colleges and if they'd gotten a good experience here the odds are higher that they would stay here and we'd have a better you know at a child-bearing age where you know it would help our demographics so Jeff is Romano for an affordable state in which to live well everything's relative and so you know compared to where you know my daughter is she is a physical therapist at a rehab hospital and in Boston the housing I don't think she'll ever be able to buy a house in that area so I mean you know actually I mean housing in Vermont is less expensive than other places post-secondary education is more expensive in Vermont so I would say you know the taxes are pretty high here but I on an affordability level it's probably you know in most instances in my opinion not really out of line with other parts of the country and in this particularly in New England you know if you go out to the Midwest in some of those places you can go to a state that doesn't have an income tax you know New Mexico or you know South Carolina or someplace like that it's probably less expensive to live there but we also have to understand that you know we have something like 620,000 people in Vermont and Vermonters have a commitment to a desire for a lot of services and when you're trying to try to provide that for a small number of people you know it does it does cost makes it it's more expensive for people but I actually don't think our cost of living is all that out of line I think our cost of post-secondary education is definitely out of line like I said we have the highest tuition in the country in-state and out-of-state tuition it's always been like that I mean when I was looking at colleges you could go to Berkeley for a thousand dollars a semester so and then UVM was 8,000 at that point so I mean it's always sort of been that way but why aren't Vermonters being looked at as an asset you know the I have another example of a friend who comes from an old farm family and he can't read and we were educated next to each other okay and I I struggled to learn how to read on my own because people you know I was special ed and that profoundly affected me to the point where I will never have confidence in myself as an adult with an education because I was special ed you know and that happened to what 40 to 60 percent of our working force in the state of Vermont right now and then those are your those are your numbers that you're looking at of who's not getting educated and why is that and is special ed actually helping us and are those people actually an asset or should they be sent to Siberia I mean you know what's happening here are we are we appreciating the people who are our assets and so here's a guy who now can't run the family farm because he's not educated enough and to whose benefit was that was that so that his family would have to sell off the farm in order to afford him existing here in the state of Vermont because he's not an asset you know what I mean so it becomes very personal to me and I become furious about it because my friends who are valuable to me aren't engaged in a society that they are forced to live in and that part of it is it's damning to the outcome of everyone and that part of it for me is so sad because you know here's a love this guy is a love he's got lovely children he's a wonderful brother and a wonderful son and he cares about the people in his life but no one actually cares about him and his ability to participate and and that part is you know that's why I think a lot of people do drugs right so I would say that the people that are working in public education are doing it because they have a commitment to children and families and they take they're passionate about it are there people that unfortunately have not gotten what they needed out of the public education system or out of the public higher education system probably but you know we're always trying to do our job better I'm not an expert in special education I would be surprised if 40 to 60 percent of the students are in a special ed it's 75 percent actually I don't know I'm very surprised yeah do it please do because I mean these are the numbers that have got me so worked up is because my peers on a mass scale are being swept under the rug so that people from other states can come in here and live comfortably and that's fine except that you know Vermont actually has an astounding groundwork for survival in difficult situations we need it all we need in a miserable climate status we need we need everybody so Jeff before we end this program are there any questions we might have asked well there's one of the thing I just like quickly to mention that one of the I think exciting initiatives that Vermont has done is is our dual enrollment and early college opportunities for students and you know every high school student now now has a legal entitlement to take two college courses while they're a junior or senior furthermore you know when you're a senior you can actually combine your senior year of high school and your first year of college might remember Bill there was something called the Vermont Academy of Science and Technology at Vermont technical college well now all of our state colleges have something similar and you know I remember actually being right here in the studio interviewing a young man from Bakersfield last spring who you know in the middle of doing his taps was an early early college student at Johnson was the first in his family to go to college and he had done his dual enrollment and now he's doing early college and what that meant was when he graduates from high school he can go and enter college as a sophomore and you know I've seen our statistics that show that students that are from free and reduced luck so a lower income level that do dual enrollment or early college are 20% more likely to continue on to post-secondary education than if they didn't so you know I'm very excited and if they're students or parents or grandparents that are watching thinking about gee you know I've got a junior or a rising senior that are thinking about how they're going to make their their year more productive or I want to get them to think about you know how they can better themselves I hope they'll take a look at our early college and do enrollment programs and our website is www.vsc as in Vermont state colleges dot edu that can take you to whatever you want to know as it's balding many thanks for your contributions today so nice to see you both thank you for coming it's really nice to have you here thank you


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Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the Everton News Daily, the day after the night before Everton picking up three points against Wolves with that fantastic 2-1 win last night. Carlo Ancelotti, obviously very very delighted, it is a great result. If you win here, you have to have a good performance and we played a good game. We were solid defensively, we attacked well and we were good on the flanks. The game was in the balance and in the end we won thanks to Michael who scored a fantastic goal. We adapted for the players who were available, they were not so tired after the FA Cup. The positions of Hamers and Guilfee up front were really good and we adapted well to the characteristics of our players. Obviously we were missing centre forwards and he said without with Charleston and Dominic it was more difficult to score but throughout the game we played well defensively and got a result. To be focused defensively helped us, have a good game and Lucas did really well. He was not so happy to play in that position but he did that for the team. The first goal was a fantastic combination between Lucas, Hamers and a Wobie. And also obviously Abdelhaid D'Corey got suspended as well, the manager said on that he is a key player, it's a fantastic sign in summer, he's a fantastic guy and a fantastic professional. I think he deserves a rest so it's not so bad. He was asked about the team news ahead of the game with the weekend, he said with Charleston is available for sure, Dominic I don't think so but with him we have to pay attention, we have to be careful and when he is ready he can play. So it sounds like Carlo Ancelotti is ruling Dominic Carven-Lewan out of the game at the weekend. If that game goes ahead by the way, there's still a lot of talk that the game will not go ahead because Villar have yet to open their training ground which means that they would have very little preparation. I don't think that's a reason on its own but clearly if they don't open it within a couple of days you would imagine they've still got a very big Covid issue which could give extra time for Dominic Carven-Lewan. I don't forget the next Premier League game isn't for two weeks, we do have the game in Sheffield Wednesday, week on Saturday or Sunday which doesn't have to involve Dominic Carven-Lewan as such, he could have a Charleston front if he's fitting ready to go. Obviously Abdelad, the call I would have to save the suspension against Villar or Leicester City, whichever comes next for also after waiting table. Fantastic victory last night, it was a good performance. Just moving on, looks like a couple of Everton's young defenders could be leaving the club one on loan and one paymentally. Jared Branford is very close to moving to Blackburn for the rest of the season, that would give the player a real chance of playing games in the championship. I won't forget his sign, this sign last year for Everton and he's played five Premier League games, finished the season really well for Everton and this would give him a really good chance because he hasn't really, obviously hasn't been involved, got that injury early on when we played against Salford and he hasn't played a couple of games for the other 23s. Obviously he's been on the outside, so this would give him a really good chance to fear that his football education ahead of the summer and then we can reassess the situation but it's exactly what someone like him needs at this stage. Hopefully he'll play as well, that's the most important thing, that he'll play games for Blackburn as well. John Joe Kenny, as we've mentioned before, Bayley, very interested in the player, yet to make any talks with Everton, an inquiry but it's believed from sources close to Bayley that they're really interested in the player. The player himself, I think would obviously be very happy to go and start playing silly in the Premier League for another, I think Bayley would suit him down to the ground. Obviously he's not going to look in at the moment with players ahead of him, which makes him hope it isn't a right back and he's playing ahead of him and the Sheamus Coleman there as well. And Everton are looking at a long-time replacement for Sheamus Coleman, so it sounds like John Joe Kenny's days are numbered and if Bayley come up with a good offer, I think that'd be a good move for everybody. Another news, Lewis Dobbin, the young centre forward, looks like he could miss the rest of the season, it's feared that he'll need surgery and if he does on an injury, he will be missed the remainder of the season. And that's it, that's about it for today on the Everton news daily. Jarrod Branford, as I said, that could happen tonight or tomorrow, him leaving the club to Blackburn, that one looks like it's nearly ready to happen. And the Villain News were not sure when that's going to come out about if that game is suspended. I'm sure they'll give it till probably Saturday, I would imagine, till that would be confirmed or I'll have to just wait and see, won't we? There you go, thank you for watching, make sure to give this video a like, subscribe if you haven't already and you want more great videos, join us on page and thank you for watching, see you later.