This is State Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. Hi everyone, welcome to Hawaii, the state of clean energy. This is a show that's sponsored partially by the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum, of which I am a member. And during my day job, I'm with the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, where I'm the Hydrogen Systems Program Manager. So on our show today, we have two guests. First is Shannon Tanganon from Hawaii Electric, a spokesperson. And she's going to tell us all the good things that Hawaii Electric is doing to support the mainland disaster relief effort in California. And I also have Kevin Davies from HNEI, who works in our grid start program. And he's going to talk about how we can get more PV on the grid. But first of all, Shannon's going to tell us about the really neat and good things that Hawaiian Electric's doing to help our fellow citizens on the mainland. Yeah, we're responding. We're answering a call for help from our member utility of the Western Region Mutual Assistance Group. So what it is is a lot of utilities in the Western Region of the United States that really answer the call when one utility is having issues as far as it is. Right now, California is recovering from a deadly and most destructive fire, the campfire. So we've sent 30 employees, crews from Hawaiian Electric, Maui Electric, and Hawaii Electric Light, our linemen. And so they're up there now. They arrived Monday. They arrived Monday and got through orientation and getting set up. And today I think they're actually doing work out there to help with rebuild infrastructure. That's really great. So what other benefits accrue to Hawaii? What's some of the benefits that by our sitting apart from helping our fellow citizens in need? Well, we're definitely bringing Aloha to California, to Butte County. We're also gaining valuable experience. The crews are learning a lot. They're going to be working in conditions that they don't experience here. And so that's always a good thing to experience and learn new skills. We're also, what it does for us is we're answering the call when California needs help. So if we ever, God forbid, have a catastrophic event here, we know that we can count on utilities such as PG&E to also help us in return. That's really great. So what's the projected, how long do we think they're going to be over there? They agreed to three weeks, but at that point we'll just have to assess whether they still need help, whether we'll rotate crews out. It's still unclear, but they've committed to three weeks. So that's going to be pretty hot and potentially, that might be even a little bit of danger still there, yes? Actually, it's more the cold. Yeah, because it's Northern California. So it's conditions that our crews aren't necessarily used to. So they had to be outfitted with cold weather gear. Wouldn't even have thought of that. Exactly. Let's go to the beach today. Exactly. So they're getting used to a lot of different experiences. So is there anything else that you want to say or is that pretty well the message? I think that's the message. I mean, we wanted to answer the call for help and we're getting a lot of good response from our community as well. Because we are bringing the Aloha Spirit to Buchanan. So many people have lost so much there. So we're trying to help them recover, rebuild, try to get them back to some kind of normalcy. Good. Well, thank you very much. Thank you. And thank you, Hawaii Electric, for doing that. Thanks. And also the other island, neighbor island electric utilities. Definitely. Great to hear we're doing that kind of thing. So thank you. So Kevin, first of all, where are you from and why are you here? Why do you kind of mean by here? I know why you're here is because I put the arm on the show. But why are you in Hawaii and what's your background? Well, I've had a long journey through engineering. I grew up in Virginia. I went to school in Pennsylvania. Worked for four years at Ford Motor Company in Detroit. Really? On alternative fuel vehicles. So I had product development type background there. And then I felt like I wanted to really dig in more in the research. And I always wanted my career to be about renewable energy. And I've had an opportunity to work with Hawaii Natural Energy Institute. Along the way, I got a PhD at Georgia Tech. I've been now in the grid integration group at H&EI. So we deal with trying to support the integration of more renewable energy from a research angle to help achieve Hawaii's goals towards that. So how long have you been here, Kevin? For five years.  I remember when you left. Did you call that a break? I said, man, this is a really good guy. I sure hope he comes back. Thank you for coming back and helping us out. We'll talk a little bit more. I think we're going to head for a break right now. And when we come back from the break, you can tell us about all the great things you're doing here in Hawaii at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute. So here we go. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. Hi, I'm Dave Stevens, the host of Cyber Underground. Every Friday here at 1 p.m. on ThinkTechHawaii.com. And then every episode is uploaded to the Cyber Underground. That library of shows that you can see of mine on YouTube.com. And I hope you'll join us here every Friday. We have some topical discussions about why security matters and what could scare the absolute bejesus out of you. If you just try to watch my show all the way through. Hope to see you next time on the Cyber Underground. Stay safe. Aloha again. Here we are back from our short break. And I'll have with me Kevin Davies from the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute. He works on microgrid projects. And he's going to tell us potentially how we can get more PV onto our grid, which is something we want to do to meet Hawaii's clean energy goal. So Kevin, tell us about some of your projects and your progress. Thank you. So for the last two years or so within our group at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, we've been focusing on better data acquisition. So part of our research, of course, is gathering data that allows us to do analysis that we need to do to help integrate more renewable energy. And so along the way, we used a lot of commercial off the shelf technology. We saw gaps in what we could achieve with that. We had deployments to Maui for years, gathering data. But some of the data didn't come back the way it should have. And at that point, we realized how much cost was going into acquiring this equipment. And it still wasn't doing what we wanted it to do. So at that point, two years ago, we decided, hey, let's try to build something ourselves. What I'm talking about is gather more data from the grid at the distribution level. So the neighborhood type level, more information on the voltage and current and electrical parameters of what's going on when there's lots of PV. And so that kind of developed as its own project along the way. Now we've had the opportunity to go for more funding from federal government to help develop that more. There's been more commercial interest in what we're doing. So it's kind of getting some of its own momentum. And along the way, we've had a lot of good work to be able to work on electrical engineering, the programming. We involved a lot of students from the University of Hawaii. So it's been a real learning experience and I think it's been valuable. But the end game is that we're trying to gather more information about the state of the grid in a very fast manner so that we can do our research, but then also support the utility with integrating more rooftop PV. And how did you do that? What trends? I mean, you saw the gap and the need. And so what did you develop to fill that gap and meet the need? Yeah, so we ended up developing a device that circuit board level, integrated circuits, the full range of electrical engineering and computer engineering and all that to develop the device. So it has a barless communications, it has data acquisition, it has GPS timing. All in that little device? Yeah, it's amazing the amount of technology that now is coming about that you have availability. And one of the sort of trends right now is this Internet of Things sort of revolution where right now we have computers that are all on the Internet, our cell phones are all on the Internet, but now it's going down more to the smaller devices that now can be connected to the Internet. So there's a lot of hardware technology that's out there for that. There's a lot of software that's open source. It's amazing how much has come about so that allows us to make a really small device a really amazing amount of computational ability. So now we're going, our research is always to take it to the next level and not just monitoring the information, but actually do computation on site to do certain analysis at high speed, report back the analyzed data, not just the raw data, but then also eventually go into the area of control. So if this device is out there at the utility poles, it's right there where it can eventually communicate with EV inverters, batteries, EVs, things that are on the grid and allow better connectivity. So will the homeowner see any of this data, or is it all come back to the grid? I think that, well right now we have our own website from within H&EI that is publicly available, but from a research standpoint, our data will probably come out as publications, as journal, that sort of thing, but then with some projects that we're proposing now with the government, we would more than likely have a public facing website that allows you to at least see some of the data coming in. There is an issue with balancing between confidentiality and our data is not at the home level, it's at the transformer level, but you have five to ten houses on that transformer, so it's a little bit of sensitivity that if you're publishing that real time information, there could be information that people don't want to have disclosed. So what's the status right now? I would have called it a black box, except it's not, it's a white box. First of all, can that be shrunk more, do you think? This is like a brass board or a working prototype, is that correct? Yeah, it could be shrunk more, that's not our major emphasis at this point, because our major target is to install this on the transformers, right? So the big metal cans that you sell on the telephone poles, that's where we're putting it, and at that point the size of something like this is not a big issue. The bigger issue is making sure it's easy to install and reliable, it handles the weather properly, it handles the temperature properly, utility doesn't have to go up and maintain it, because that's a really expensive thing. Those sorts of things are more the stuff we're working on now, like making sure all that is tested out well. Along with that, the thing has a lot of software in it, so for instance, we program that software, we test it in a lab, what's to say that in a month, we might want to do something a little different with it, program it a little differently, grab a little bit of different data, all kinds of things, or we might find a bug in our software. So we need the capability to remotely configure and adjust that software, do updates, as well as maintain security. There's a whole area of cybersecurity concerns, especially with the grid, now that more and more connected devices are on the grid, on one hand that allows more controllability, which is good, but it brings with it more risk, right? So have you deployed any of these in the field yet? Are they up and running? Yeah, we have a few running, one's on the University of Hawaii campus in a zero net energy building, another is at Arizona State University, we have a research program with them, we have one running with them, we'll be delivering 10 in all. We have interest that soon we'll be working with Alaska, University of Alaska. So in a cold climate? Yeah, they're very interested in, up there, there's a bunch of remote villages, right, that have power outages due to weather conditions, due to lack of fuel, due to all kinds of things, and they developed their own device to monitor some things, and they're kind of going this direction with their technology, but we realized that, hey, we could give what we have to them and work with them and develop it further, so the next couple of months we plan to get it there. We're beginning to talk to utility more and more, so it looks like there could be some possibilities for pilot projects there. And of course, through to the University of Hawaii, we look at technology transfer, right, because the University of Hawaii owns this technology, they'd like to get it out there. So have you applied for any patents? Yeah, we now have a patent pending as of about a week ago, so of course that's a long process as the patent office reviews it and infuse the claims, and they're back and forth, but we'll get some sort of patent out of that. So potentially you have a product that you could sell, or the University could sell, and have a royalty stream coming back to the University? Yeah, the way it usually works is the University is not in the business of building or manufacturing things, and we typically do the front-end research, so we might be developing the core technology, but then it usually would get, almost always would get spun off to another outside company. It could be a startup, it could be a large company, but there's some agreement through the technology transfer office at the University of Hawaii that they're maybe paying some upfront money for that ability to exclusive or non-exclusive license to that technology, as well as some ongoing royalties out of... And that all depends on case-to-by-case basis. Sure, but the bottom line is the University can recoup some expenses, and if it really takes off, actually make money, I mean the University would like to make money to support the University research program and just all the infrastructure we have up at the University, so that's a really good thing that researchers like you are being entrepreneurial and are looking at products that are marketable, there's a market for them out there in the marketplace, so that's really good. It's pretty neat to be able to bridge the gap between something that's useful for research, which is our main business, and then be able to see that it does meet a need in the real world, which is kind of my goal with it all along and it looks like it has some traction, of course, a long way to go, but it's going to need to be exploring that. So talk to us about your initial results. Is that something you can talk about? Yeah, well we have a graphic there, I think it's the second graphic on, I think I called it interface, and that's just showing some screenshots from our website basically. So which graphic would you want? Do you want to show that one now? Yeah, if they have available the interface slide, and it basically shows where we have our web portal that then allows us to see which devices are connected, and then... Let's have a look at that slide. That slide too, correct? Yeah, so this is just some screen captures of what we have going on, it's just up in the upper left is sort of an index page of which devices we have connected and their status, whether they're green or red, meaning connected or disconnected, and of course right now we're in a lot of research stage, so we break things a lot and they get disconnected and whatever. And this is not live, but this is a screen capture. The upper right you have sort of a dashboard type mode where it shows the frequency and the voltage in this case and many other things off the screen there. So it says frog, what's that? The frog is the name of a building on the UH campus. There's two buildings that were, I believe the manufacturer is actually named frog, and they are zero net energy buildings installed by the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, and so our colleague was able to allow us to install the device there and prove it out. Yeah, on a previous show we highlighted the frog buildings, the soft frog, like what's that mean? Yeah, so each device has a name or a tag associated with it. And so we're able to get data that's both historical as well as real-time updated in a lot higher fidelity than what we could otherwise get, meaning it's sampled a lot quicker, it has a lot more information behind it about harmonic information as well as fundamental. It allows us to do a lot more research out of it, and we believe that's valuable ultimately to the utility because as they try to integrate more rooftop PV, they need to have that information to know the state of the grid better. So specifically, if you can get a little bit more specific, without going too high tech on it, how do they actually do that? What's the process, the utility sees this information, what do they do? How do they respond to that? Can we add more PV based on the information that's coming out of your device? Right, right. So right now, when people applied to have rooftop PV installed, of course they have to follow one of the interconnection agreements, CGS Plus or one of the agreements that's worked out between Hawaiian Electric and the PUC. And then there's a study by the Hawaiian Electric to make sure that that installation is not going to cause issues with the grid in terms of voltage issues or overloading too much current through the wires that are there. And then if it's approved, the customer can go ahead and install that PV. Without more information, the utility needs to be a bit more conservative about that, right? So typically the university, the Hawaiian Electric, does not have monitors on the transformers to know whether they're violating their limits or not. They have to know by the engineering specs of what's been installed and the specs of the transformer. They do have information on it, but it's not real time high fidelity information on the actual conditions. So they have to build in a big safety wire. So you could imagine that if there's more information there, higher fidelity information, then those margins can be reduced. If we start to do controls through this system, then there's the concept of non-wires alternative in the grid. So the utility has a lot of infrastructure, right? Wires and transformers and poles. And that wiring was in large part developed way before there's PV on the grid. And so as people want more PV, I guess it's options on the table, do you upgrade all that? But that's enormous money, right? The idea of non-wires alternatives is that you're using smart devices that are controllable to help reroute power and defer power transfer so that it maintains within the limits without needing to have costly new copper and new transformers installed. So it's going to save a lot of money. It's going to allow more PV on the grid once everybody builds up a confidence level that this really works. So do you have any feel for... I know this is a tough question. This ballpark, how much extra PV do you think we could put on the grid? That's a really tough one. I might give it some trouble too. But I mean flip side, right? I look at when you fly in and out in Hawaii, you see that there's a lot of PV roofs, right? But think about how many roofs don't have PV and how many people want to have it. I see all these warehouses around the airport that don't have any PV on them. And when you look at our goals in Hawaii are to achieve 100% renewable energy, do we want to do that by using up land with more and more central PV or do we want to at least first try to maximize what we can get out of our rooftops which has already developed, already built up infrastructure that is to me waiting for more PV. But the other side is utility struggles with that because the grid wasn't designed for that. And so we're kind of stuck in technology like this. I think at least provides an option to... No one technology is going to break, fix that, but every little piece helps. That's our contribution at this point that we're working on. Have you had an interface with some of the solar installation companies to see what their read is on this? We scoped out a proposal with Sun Run as one of the installers and they definitely were interested in our technology, that particular proposal didn't go through but we definitely have those connections in that dialogue and everybody has their own technology take on exactly what infrastructure to go where and which new vices and that's research, that's science, that's engineering that nobody knows that one path but everybody tries and it all kind of eventually goes the right direction but it's kind of a messy process sometimes. So we have about three minutes remaining of the show, I told you it was going to go fast. So are there any other things that I haven't asked the right question about that you think we need to know? Yeah. Or that you wanted to talk about? I just want to emphasize that, you know, why Natural Energy Institute, we're really trying to focus on the right issues to really push renewable energy in a way and we work really hard at it. We're trying to be innovative, pulling new technology and it's an exciting time for a while with all the need that we have to try to achieve our penetration of renewable energy. Right. It's a difficult, multifaceted problem we got, you know, the engineering, the social aspects, the business, you know, all coming together with utility research, you know, government, it's a really complicated problem. So it's exciting to be able to be an engineer in the middle of that, you know. And the expense, I mean, you know, we have limited budget, everybody's got a limited budget and so if you can save a lot of money and that translates back to the rate payers by not having to replace all the wires, I mean that's a really good thing. Yeah. Well Kevin, we're at the end of the show, told you it would go fast. So I really appreciate you coming down. Thank you so much. And that's it for our show today and I thank all of you out there in TV Land for your attention to this and I hope you found it worthwhile. Aloha everyone.


What's up everyone welcome to a brand new pop video today. I'm discussing the Pikachu pop exclusive to target now This video is gonna be kind of a little bit of a rant a little bit of a story time And also a little bit of an unboxing and just showing off this beautiful gorgeous first Nintendo first Pokemon pop Now let me set my little Pikachu over there and let me get you to this Of course, you can hear the little battle music rallying up from the original Pokemon game fight besides that I put the battle music on because it literally felt like I was in the hardest gym battle boss ever And it also felt like I was just trying to catch the hardest wild Pokemon in the whole entire world And either I was battling this thing and I kept killing it or the ball just kept wobbling wobbling wobbling And it was so freaking annoying. It was just such the hardest thing So I want to give you guys my rant my story on this and maybe how target can improve their Exclusivities and I'm sure a lot of you pop collectors who have dealt with target before know how hard this is now I've been staying up like past midnight every single night ever since the release of it because I've been trying to get this pop online They still haven't released it. They don't know when they're going to maybe that's not the company's fault Maybe Funko should provide a date for them little story time starting out Sunday morning I wake up at like 6 30 after just closing for my work the next night and I'm like, all right All right, I'm gonna try my luck with this pokey mom pop get up at 6 30 get over there by Maybe like seven. I know they at least have six. I know they at least have six pops there So pull up. I see some people waiting. There's five people that walk up. I'm the sixth one. They said yep There's six pops. I'm like awesome. I'm guaranteed at least one another guy walks up around after an hour of us waiting And we tell them there's only six and he's like, oh, maybe look at more So we all said this the guy's really cool. Everyone's pretty cool except this last guy last guy walks up shows up at like 756 we tell him. Hey, there's only there's only six amount of pops.  There's four cashiers open. Each person gets a cashier and besides those people so I walk up Don't follow the rules. I'm a rule follower. I try to follow the rules. I know how it is to work in retail I don't want people acting like dicks. So I'm sitting there sitting behind the line and The lady in front of me is just using cash while while the guy drops the money like it's not the cashiers fall Like I get that it's retail your stress. Well, these people are weird. I'm weird I'm a pop collector understand that the guy behind me who stole about 757 Decides to get out of line, which the guy who was seventh in line was actually pretty cool He's like, ah, there's only six. I'll just leave he just left Guy was behind me decides to cut in line and after a cashier was trying to get off He harassed her and told her hey like get me that pop grab me that pop grab me a pop I need that pop right frickin now. I need it. I need it. I need it I'm in a rush and she's like, well, you're like still behind. She's like, no, no, no I was six in line. I need this. I need this. I'm like, no, no, no I was totally just I got up in line told the guy to grab the pop and The guy was just being such a dick took the pop paid for it and I left and I said some things I shouldn't have and given I did get Dr. Ian Malcolm sexy pose from Jurassic Park, which was cool Like I'm glad I got this pop I've been looking forward to it, but I was so disappointed because I wanted the Pikachu pop Like Pokemon like one of my biggest childhood things Pikachu is like one of my favorite anime characters in general So I'm like damn it.  It's like humanity at its finest and later on I found that pop I found that guy I found a picture of his profile on eBay or offer up one of the two and the dude was selling for like 80 bucks So big middle finger to you guy pretty much the rest of that morning I called every store within like a 30 mile radius all saying sold out we sold out right in the first minute So some couldn't find the box some couldn't find that which that's not the first on the blame I know it's in the toy sections of sometimes a little hard to get mixed in I have friends who work at Target So I understand that mess and so I'm like freaking out I'm getting pissed call one and I had a buddy tell me like hey This one has five left. I was the only one waiting line. It's like 25 minutes away from me All right, I drive they tell me to still have them.  He bought three of them and I kind of made a comment I was like, okay It's only supposed to be like one per person the guy the cashiers like I didn't know that blah blah They didn't tell me anything. They said I can sell as many as possible sells all three does one jackass and Leaps later on I found again that same guy's profile also on eBay selling them for like 80 bucks each Big middle finger to you guys and I get it like the flipping essential Maybe you're trying to buy a different pop you want, but most people sell this for a living Just kind of made me mad like this pop just came out like sit on it if you're gonna sell it Whatever so couldn't find the pop went home laid back down a little bit pissed off Humanity in general and the disrespectful people and mostly I was just mostly mad at that first guy like that's where I got So whatever it was like trying to trade people for this pop. I was trying to do everything I couldn't find I was not gonna spend 60 bucks to a flipper to buy the damn thing whatever Next day rolls around still nothing. I'm checking brick seek which if you guys are trying to find this pop I recommend brick seek 100% this get the style number of a Pikachu here this morning. I wake up I'm about do some midterm stuff online and I just decided to check it for the hell of it because I was just pretty much staying up till midnight waiting for the thing to go online and So I'm sitting there and I see a couple stores have them so I give them all a call three of them said no one of them said Yeah, we just pulled the box out. I'm like, oh my god. It's nine o'clock. How many you have he's like I can't disclose that but we do have a couple so I'm like dammit This place is like 25 minutes away. I drive I haul my butt all the way over to tempi marketplace Again, it's like 25 minutes away from me. I didn't brush my teeth. I threw a shirt on I put some flippy floppies on Going out in public flip-flops.  There's three left and thank God I got one of those three and the other three were pretty torn up the boxes are pretty screwed up This one's a little screwed up on the side, but I'm not I'm gonna complain I got the first Pokemon pop Pikachu exclusive target, which has done that exclusive target They're probably gonna have like a half Pikachu or a sunglass Pikachu Who knows but that's my rant a little story time target really needs to fix how they're doing it I think they should have came out with vouchers handed each person a paper and said hey You're getting a pop. That's it done a discussion Everyone else no more pops. Sorry. I think that's how they should do it every morning I get it. They're a business. They have their own way of providing it But I think that's the easiest way to do it And I think a lot of stores could learn from that GameStop does it hot topics do that box lunch does that it's always a single fine Line's very much more organized takes more time But seriously, it's the best way to do it and I hope they learn from this experience because this pop should not have been Not hard to get and it was and that's my tip to target That's my little rant and story time over this damn pop. Thank you guys for tuning in Of course though, let's get into the unboxing. Let's get into this and yeah Let's go to that again This is seriously a battle to get this one pop, but I caught it Caught it so happy I got this pop and this is seriously gonna sit in the behind me in my movie reviews Of course as you can see you can kind of get really up close in there You can kind of look around the box You can kind of just see that it's Pikachu nothing on the back yet announcing what other pops there are but I have to imagine there will be tons of other Pikachu and Pokemon pops probably chase versions Squirtle Squirtle sunglasses Charmander Charizard Mew Mewtwo and I hope they kind of do these more commons Maybe do the exclusives as the ones that aren't big Pokemon types But I really do hope that or maybe shiny shiny versions of characters can be exclusives. That's fine I don't care. I just I want to be able to collect them all. Alright, so as you can see here is the Pikachu It's very tiny it holds into my palm, but it is very tiny. It's very cute It's very adorable and I just like it like this pop honestly makes my life makes my life that I got this Funko pop and I'm so happy I got my own little Pikachu because I remember when as a kid I used to have an imaginary friend that was actually Pikachu and I'd always carried around so really happy I got that pop looking forward to the rest of the Pokemon lineup Hopefully they're way easier to get this and they don't feel like a damn battle or a gym battle or some struggle to get Any of these pops I really hope no I really want a Gengar pop though Gengar is my favorite Pokemon make that happen Funko, please and make it pretty easy to find of course guys I want to hear you guys comments down below what do you guys think of this pop? Are you guys lucky enough to get one of these pops? Do any of these tips help or did you guys have any horrible stories where you guys couldn't get one or it was very difficult for you Guys to get one Let's talk about this down below as Funko collectors as geek collectors and as people who love just nerd stuff in general Let's talk about it down below. Maybe what Funko pop what Pokemon pop you want them to make next It's also guys hit up sandwich on films down below there as well because you guys can get into advanced movie screens Check out some movie news and movie reviews just guys. Seriously. Thank you for watching this means the world to me And wait to talk with you guys next time. So of course stay classy


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overlord here We're gonna talk about Chucky the TV series in this video here today, and it looks like we are Going to get our first look or glimpse or people at San Diego Comic-Con Anyway, are gonna be offered their first glimpse at behind-the-scenes footage from the upcoming Chucky season 2 that We know is gonna air on the USA sci-fi network later this fall. We know it's also shooting out in Canada at this present time, so This is coming from an Instagram post and I'll actually just try to leave a link to an article So you guys can read about it, but the Instagram post I'm seeing here is saying and shout out to you Chucky updates 88 For this screenshot you put on your story But it says San Diego Comic-Con to offer first look at Chucky season 2 Creator Don Mancini Braddorf and surprise guests will commence at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday July 23rd from 645 to 745 PM for back with a vengeance a special event moderated by TV guys magazines Damian Holbrook featuring an exact Featuring an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at season 2 of the series now I don't really think they're gonna show them a trailer or anything like that. It looks mostly like I guess we'll just have Footage of maybe maybe let's say like the cast talking about the upcoming season with footage of them enjoying their time on set working on Season 2 and stuff like that. Maybe Somebody will share a little tidbits about what we can expect in the upcoming season Of course, I'll make a video talking about that maybe we'll learn some new specific details about what Lexie Devon and Jake are gonna be up to mostly though This doesn't sound like they're gonna get a look at an official teaser or an official trailer or anything like that It's most likely gonna just be a montage of behind-the-scenes footage with the cast and crew being shown sitting in chairs on set hyping up The movie not the movie the upcoming season of the series I meant to say something like that or could just be again Just a a montage of little literally behind-the-scenes footage with nothing else to it But that but chances are there's gonna of course be the cast Featured in the footage talking about it while it splits over or cuts to them shooting season 2 We'll get to see Lachlan Watson in their role as Glenn Glenn to probably get a better understanding of that I know some of you chimed in in my last video Explaining that maybe what they're doing is just literally having Lachlan play both of those children that we know existed at the end of See the Chucky since Lachlan is non-binary. So yes, they could do that going off of that But this is a nice little tidbit to see over here on this Instagram profile I found and I did again look up some articles and I'll leave links to one of them in the description for you guys to Know that they are gonna have footage of Chucky season 2 Behind-the-scenes footage anyway shown at the San Diego comic comic on now. I know some people are like well Who are these guests?  I hope we get to see Karen Barkley back in season 2 I hope we get to see So many different surprising faces in season 2. I know people want to see detective Norris back It looks like they they've literally all but confirmed outwardly with specific wording that Kyle survived that explosion Wish to me. I feel like I wish that would have just remained a mystery But honestly how how could that remain a mystery when you know? I feel like her name's been announced all over the place that a lot of people are just gonna be like Yeah, she she survived the explosion There's probably not even a necessity to have a scene shot like that to show us her surviving But they're more than likely gonna again show us how she survived or we'll at least get bits of dialogue from Kyle herself Explaining in a way and again, I will then go into a full belief that that scene with that explosion was completely useless Andy survived Devon survived Kyle survived. Nobody was in danger there. It literally was just there to of course Get your audience Emotionally invested in that occurrence, but there were no real stakes there given that nobody was hurt That's the assumption. I don't know maybe Kyle actually was injured from that explosion and she'll have some Some difficulties going forward in season two I'm really looking forward to mostly just catching up with Nika though the most to see what's going on with Nika Diamond City himself has already hyped up that Nika story isn't over and we shouldn't expect this to be the end of Nika Fiona Dorv I talked about this in other videos sounds like she's she thinks that Nika should get some type of revenge against Tiffany I hope we see something like that the prediction I have right now in my mind is that Tiffany will end up becoming a host for Nika soul for whatever reason because honestly it seems like there's a there's a plan to Potentially kill Tiffany in season two I see a plan going in going in effect from Chucky himself given what happened to him between him and Tiffany at the end of season one where Tiffany's life will be at jeopardy the human Tiffany because of what she did to Chucky at the end of season one and One of the dolls will spend their time trying to get Get Glenn and Glinda to kill Tiffany I assume and my prediction is that Nika will of course be Be full on for this especially considering that Nika also has a part of Charles and Chucky soul inside of her So there's a chance that I can see Nika subscribing to that if she sees that there's a plan to kill Tiffany because she's She's upset at Tiffany and if there's a chance for her to get revenge on Tiffany I feel like Nika wholeheartedly will take that chance and I'm also of course going off of the audition tapes that Surfaced online. I know I made a video about that too. I really do hope that she gets some type of vengeance I hope she doesn't end up losing herself because of it But I also wouldn't be too shocked to see that Nika is gonna end up in a new body by the end of season two Or halfway through season two she'll kill Tiffany and then join forces with Andy who again? I'm hoping we see some type of closure with what's going on with him in the Tiffany doll in the back of that truck from season one And what's going on with those dolls that need to be tell it need to be transported around the country because again It was very clear by the end of season one The intent is to take over the states take over America Worldwide domination or nationwide domination. I guess is the better sense So we'll see what happens there. It's nice to again know that San Diego Comic Con people in attendance will be Able to get some behind the scenes footage released to them or they'll be able to see it I'm safe and I can only assume it's gonna be released online shortly after that's my assumption doesn't mean it's gonna happen and The fandom who isn't present for San Diego Comic Con will get to experience with everyone in attendance will get to experience When they release this snippet first look behind the scenes footage of season two online and everyone of course will go That shit crazy over it I'll make videos about it if there are indeed tidbits about the upcoming season share my theories speculate as always and See what your guys's thoughts are on all of this But if you're someone who's actually gonna attend San Diego Comic Con Let me know if you're excited about this this first look at Chuckie You might have a chance to see or you're going to have a chance to see again If you're in attendance at San Diego Comic Con if you haven't already, of course, make sure you subscribe Turn on postification. You never miss a video in the description I will have links for social media accounts on Facebook Twitter and Instagram You can message me there, of course Any movies or reviews let me to cover in the future The last thing I want to say is that I really want to know what some of you guys want to see happen with Nica in season 2 I really want to know what you want to see happen with that character I know you've chimed in in other videos But I want to hear from some other people that I haven't really seen comment before what you want to see happen with Nica But with all that in mind guys, I'll see you in the next video


So, here's a good one. How would I look up the information of what people come to the clinic for? What's the most common reason people come to our clinic? So, what would I need to do? Well, if we look, I've got that visit table, and that visit table has a reason in there. And you see, we have an influenza a few times, influenza, annual wellness visit. So, we've got a few different repeat reasons. Well, what if I wanted to bundle those up and then sort of keep count of how many times any one of these showed up? All right, well, how would I do that? So, if we come into the create tab again, we go and get our query design tab again. I'm going to go ahead and add that visit table. Now, again, if I select reason and just reason, and I run this, I get a list of my reasons. Again, I'm going to see influenza a bunch of times. That's not very helpful for me because I would like this to be a little bit more distinct. And what we can do is actually we can group our data together. We do that by selecting this totals button right here. That's going to add in a new row. Notice all of a sudden I have this total section. And if I get grouped by and I run this, now all of a sudden you notice everything's grouped and luckily it's in alphabetical order. So, I see acute sinusonitis. Yeah, that one. Viral rhinophy, I'm not a doctor. Fifth disease, all right, I can say fifth disease. Okay, so how do I then get the count associated with this? Well, if you notice that group by, it actually has a few different options that we can work from, mathematical options a lot like our autosum inside of Microsoft Excel. If I double click on reason again, well reason, reason, this is going to look very, all right, that didn't be, wasn't beneficial, but instead of doing group by a second time, notice we get a few different options. One of them is count. Now all of a sudden I have my reason and I have my count. I'm going to group by each one of these reasons and I'm going to show a count to it. Now for my sake, I'm actually also going to add in a sort. I'm going to add a sort in to my counts in descending order. Because again, I want to see what are the most common reasons people show up. So what we could think in theory is I'm going to have a reason. I'm going to have the number of times that reason has shown up. So that's going to be a big or small number depending on how many times people have come in with that thing and I want the highest number appearing first. When I run this, I get annual wellness visit is my first option, hypertension monitoring, all right. So we have a lot of people who have hypertension. Flu as you can see is a very common thing, management visits and blood lipid monitoring. So we can see what is our most common one, people just getting checkups, versus our least popular one and we get a few of them, conjunctividitis follow-up, gastric reflux. That's easier to say.


What is the stage of your children's life that you miss the most? Wouldn't say favorite, because I'm sure you have favorite parts of every kid. But what stage do you miss the most? Tough question. That's really, really hard because they each have their own unique blessing that's hard to really compare. But I would say the stage where Ashley was 15, Alexis was 13 and Micah was 10 just before Ashley could drive where they were old enough to start watching the movies that I couldn't wait to start watching with them and the TV shows we started watching together and every meal and every activity we did was done in what was the beginnings of them relating to me in that transition from childhood to adulthood and watching that blossom that season probably. Nice, yeah, I'm still at the beginning so I can't really answer. Yeah, but I mean my first spot went back to when I used to give the girls baths every night. How do you change between the two of those? I say the girls because that was, even before Micah was born and then obviously I gave about bath to Micah and when he was really little the three of them were in the bath together but very quickly because of the age difference between Ash and Micah, Ashley could not take a bath with her little brother. Josh!  I'm Rick. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter. For more juicy content.  To everybody's sports and patronage. Thank you. To the accounts, to the like button. Yes. Woo, woo! Today we got a compilation video of this nostalgic Bollywood songs. Cool. And so this kind of goes over a whole bunch. It's one of those videos. Mashups. People like so. The reason I do these, even though they're like getting up to an orgasm and then not finishing. Yeah. Which is, can be frustrating. But it happens. It's that we also get recommendations because people are like, oh, you need to watch this one. Right, right, right. And so if there's ones in here that are nostalgic that we should react to that we haven't yet, I'm sure it'll be some that we recognize. Please let us know what those are. You know what I'm looking for? Somewhere in there, I'm looking for Akshay and Water. That's what I'm looking for. Nope, none. That was. Jab with that. Baby paste vanilla should hit. Chocolate. Chocolate, that's right. Chocolate, chocolate. Man, these are flying. Bye. Arjun Singh is gonna dominate this list again. And Shreya. Arjun. What is that? That's Arumon's voice. That's Shreya. Talosh? Half of these have been Arjun already. Oh, is that sexy Jackie Shroff? Hadi Haran, yeah, we love this. Zaddy. The song I hated and I love. I know, it's annoying. Was that Priyanka? I didn't see it well enough. Oh, we've seen this one. I think this is all for the same. There they are again. Same film, I think. Pretty shot. Sanjay Leela Montalico. Arjun, man. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, maybe right there. Arjun again. Shreya and Arjun. He's gonna own the list. He's on 75% of the songs. I think it's like after 2010 Nostalgia. Oh no, because KTJ was. Wow. So is Arjun Singh the most popular male vocalist in Bollywood cinema right now for the past 15, 20 years? Easily. Yeah, without question. Yeah, no, yeah. It's not a question. I don't think there's even a close second. Would it be Arjun and Shreya right now? Yeah, yeah. I don't know if it was 15 years, maybe more like. Maybe more like 10, five to 10. Yeah. There's absolutely no question that Arjun Singh is the biggest male vocalist. Him and Shreya. Currently in at least minimum Bollywood might be all of them. I mean, deservedly so. Both gorgeous voices. Yeah, I hope that wasn't a subject for you. I don't know. A couple of those things were for us. Yeah, I don't know what. Majority were not. I recognize quite a few. I don't know, maybe a fourth. And let me know. I think those were two Priyanka sightings. No. I think so. No. I got a pretty good Priyanka radar. No, you don't. You know, my kids were very close to Priyanka at the Jonas Brothers concert. Cool. Yeah. What about something? Brush with greatness. What about Sophie Turner? Was she there? No. No, wasn't there? She wasn't there. Joe was not watching his kids, clearly. Joe, wow.   Whoa! Hello! Good night, everybody. Somebody just spit out their chai. I'm very... Through the nose. With a little bit of Parle G, just stickin' in. Anyways, if there's one dinner that we have not reacted to, obviously please let us know what those are so we can watch them and react to them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hopefully this wasn't a subject for you. Let us know what other songs we can react to down below.


but I mean crazy right the nationals bullpen blows it again Dodgers bullpen kind of hangs on and Dave Roberts pretty honest asking the night what the world happened there you know he was one strike away from having a clean inning and after the two strike base hit off the bat of Turner it just the wheels came off really quite frankly and he's a guy that he's always had command but you know after that second hitter well after then he hit Eden with a cut fastball and from that point on he just really couldn't find it so tonight wasn't good wasn't a good night that's about as honest as you can be absolutely right and a win that that's in a win yes so look we saw it all on display the nationals bullpen gave it up again kudos to Justin Turner and the Dodgers bullpen held on did the job so which of these two teams JP are going to be the one to make the big bullpen move at the deadline the one that can and the one that should is the Dodgers the nationals will make a move I think we'll see them get maybe it's a Shane Green or Alex Kalamay I was told today they're looking at those names Ken Giles as well Daniel Hudson but after this game tonight the only name I'm thinking about in my mind is Flea Bay Vasquez absolutely that's the name that I just cannot get out of my mind right now for the Dodgers to go to they need a lefty compliment to Kelly Jansen and we just saw today a key roster move by the Dodgers down trail Will Smith comes up as their everyday catcher now they've got another prospect there a fellow catcher Keeber Ruiz he is the guy I believe the Dodgers could include in that deal to Pittsburgh to bring Flea Bay Vasquez to LA because you don't need to have two catching prospects there forever you have to think about what's going to make the bigger impact on your organization you have a team that's ready to win the World Series today right Vasquez under control through 2023 because of a great long-term deal the pilot signed him to to me that's a trade that has to happen Dodgers have to get Flea Bay Vasquez this is why you have prospects you know I mean to be able to have the room to make a move like this you go get it for leaping from Pittsburgh you'll be the National League representative in the World Series waiting for whoever comes out of the American League they have to make this move they have the team that's constructed they have the offensive depth guys they can plug but the weakness is the back end of the bullpen late in games and Jansen right now is this not his old self so you put him in there with Kelly now you have a three headed monster some depth down there it doesn't matter who closes check your attitude at the door check your feelings at the door we're all about winning a world championship and they haven't won since 88 so they have the team to do it right now they need to go out and do it I think your point is a good one they have not the Dodgers are great they have not made the big move they've got all the money on earth to make the big move right now now's the time they have to go and do it if they want to have a chance to break this drought by the way Dodgers and Nationals 13th and 14th in the National League of Loansafes so someone's got to make a move


Welcome. This is the Education Committee in the Vermont House of Representatives on Wednesday, January 12, and we are continuing our discussion on the state of our schools how are our students, our faculty, our staff, and our communities. And to that we are really pleased to have Jeff Fanon join us with that potential update so Jeff Fanon from the NEA welcome. Thank you. Good afternoon everybody. For the record Jeff Fanon executive director of Vermont NEA. Here today to talk a little bit about the state of schools. COVID it's been a busy week and a half. Just to put it bluntly the. It's been a bit of a chaotic week and a half since break. This was chatting with a parent. I've had conversations with parents and teachers in the last 24 hours that teachers are anxious they're scared, but they also the teacher with whom I chatted last night. Very much understands that they're in it for the kids. They're willing to do anything and everything for their kids they really are represent Brady I know that's it's been a bit of a confusion for most, but they're afraid they're scared and confused and the guidance isn't terribly succinct or easy to understand. And people interpret different things. So for example this week had a conversation electronically with some of the doctors about return to school once one has had COVID, and could one return when they are symptomatic. Past the five days, but still symptomatic and the answer is yes, in some cases, if they are improving. So in other words that the effects may runny nose may continue for some time, but that's a very subjective term, and it's less schools and the unenviable position of determining whether that is. If somebody is improving or has improved, they're fully vaccinated but still somewhat symptomatic. So the confusion is, is understandable. We are most for the most part most school employees are not doctors or epidemiologists although we're all becoming fast expert in the field I know what really triggered some of the confusion last week was the announcement Friday late of this state deciding to end the contact tracing. The email also talked about giving tests rapid test to unvaccinated students and unvaccinated staff. That did not go down well, I'll just say that so my board the Vermont NEA board which consists of teachers. The runs again and bus drivers para educators, teachers of all kinds all across the state met with Dan French Saturday morning. And about an hour, a little more than an hour with Dan French. That was, you know, vigorous conversation people were concerned that led to the statement we issued Saturday afternoon. And most of it dealt with the messaging frankly of how the change was messaged. I'm coral with the fact that contact tracing may be advisable that the medical community may think that that is the best approach right now. Unfortunately the medical community was not out front on that on Friday. And it left people wondering what was the reason for the real reason for not continuing with the contact tracing which we were told in October I think it was, was the way to go. The ground have changed, we understand that we're not blind to that fact we're in fact we're, we're very obviously aware of that teachers and school employees are right on the ground dealing with students and the, the Omicron virus it's just spiking. But then we, we just thought that it was important to have the medical community out front messaging that if the medical change if the changes result of medical advice based on the conditions on the ground today then that should have been the case and lead with that. The other piece. So there's three things that we're asking for essentially at this point. One is rapid tests for all students and staff need to be made available so that teachers don't bring into the school. The virus that students don't bring it into the school nobody's bringing it home to the school or even home to a loved one who may be at risk. So we make sure that we, we keep each other safe. And we think that the rapid tests are at least a good form of protection, or at least knowledge base. So we think that's important so that's going to be done at the school level and we think the state has got to have a hand in that and getting those tests out there I know that they're issuing tests and sending them out and you can sign on to the Department of Health website this morning because it was starting at 10am to get your tests sent home, but we think that ought to be used at school. Excuse me distributed at school, so that we make sure that everybody has it little concern that we're hearing from educators is many of the children who are most at risk, not for the coven virus but at risk. There are other reasons. They're the ones who won't likely take the test at home, they don't have the parental supported home. There's not a firm fixed family structure maybe that that we think of. So the teacher that I spoke with last night she said, she's got a, she's in elementary school. She said she she has a student who's raising a younger child at home essentially. And so the thought of sending that child home with a test. It's not likely to be used or use well so shouldn't that test be taken at the school on the way in. Things that we ought to think structurally about how we do this and how we do this well, because the realities on the ground or not that every kid can take a test home, or will take it at home. So we need to own that and comprehend that obvious shortcoming in the system. So what we're looking for our high quality masks, although cute masks, we all made a year and a half ago. The cloth ones. We did them in my house. Not me, thankfully. But they, they don't work as well as higher quality masks, and we think the higher quality mask KN 95s at least ought to be distributed at the school level for all students and all staff. We have the resources from the federal government we ought to apply them in that regard, and get that up to speed quickly. I'm going to pause here I see hand from representative Brady. Yes representative Brady. I have a question specifically about the masks. The goal that students would be wearing, I mean it's kind of a silly question that students would be wearing the high quality masks, and then are we talking about requiring it just again anecdotally. I see high schools that really struggle to work a paper or thin mask appropriately so I think there's a couple issues one is the supply of the masks and then the others who is wearing them adults generally are and are taking them at my school we have plenty. But is it that the adults want the kids wearing them to. And is that going to happen, just with asking or is that something that has to be mandated which would obviously get a whole lot more complicated. Well, certainly the school locally can make that decision about to mandate the mask I think you know there's no question about it there are school rules that we all adhered to back in my day and currently, there are other school rules. And, and one of those could be a mask requirement. So, you know, I think that that's easily done at the local school level I think it ought to be a mandate, frankly. People think it's better coming from the local superintendent or principal in the school. The notion is people should be wearing masks represent Brady and that's, and it ought to be and what we're hearing and I'm sure you've seen it in your school. The kids are not wearing them that well and people teachers educators bus drivers are all tiring of telling the kids pull the mask up where properly get it up over your nose. And wearing the mask in the chin does not work really that well. We know that. So I think wearing the mask properly and requiring it is the right way to go. Yes. Can I push that a little further and but who is requiring it because I think this is where it gets tricky. And it's going to be even harder if it's been on the schools. But the quality of the mask. Yeah, so understanding that the quality of math of the mask matters. We think the state should use its purchasing power to purchase enough masks for the school system at large.  You know, that is something the governor has said he's not willing to do and but it, it's left it to local schools to do and I think, you know, I can't change what the governor is doing necessarily. I think certainly the schools could do that on their own and require it. And they should. Help schools like if we guidance said students should be wearing, not just a mask but this kind of mask to then give schools coverage to say in, you know, and my school's doing it like yes please send your kid to school and a well fitting appropriate mask, but most kids aren't wearing. Okay, and 95 masks. I get that that's what I understand the meta. I'm not a doctor I don't I have not spoken with doctors about specifically. I've heard from the medical community that we need to be wearing better quality mask I heard Dr Levine say that the other day I think last week. So I do think there's been a shift in that we understand now that we need to be wearing better masks. I would suggest it's it's more recent. And so the messaging of that is important to come from the medical community because they are the medical experts. And I've worked very closely with Dr Lee. From UVM in the spring and summer over the mask mandate as a result of the emergency, the governor's, you know, emergency order that allowed the guidance then at the time that was issued I think in June of 2020. And it did have a mask mandate in it. And that order expired. And so that mask mandate went away. We weren't at the time aware that having better quality masks were advisable. I think in hindsight we might have put that in there. But we're all learning as we go in fairness to everybody and if that's what they're advising I think we should make that part of their guidance to schools yes. And I'm not saying K and 95 or better is the way to go. It would be helpful to schools if they were to say that clearly confidently and in stated as such. Just summarize. For the most part teachers want for unhappy with the way that the message was delivered and some of the lack of clarity of the guidance they're unhappy with that but now that we do have the message and we do have more guidance coming. What you're asking for is rapid tests be made available in the schools which we did here and I'm happy to say we do have a schools nurse in the room at the moment. And so the rapid tests are made available in the schools which I did hear from the secretary is in process we'll be following up with that. And you want high met high quality masks available that the K and 95 variety. Correct. And lastly, I'll just say the third item we think is important is to give superintendents, excuse me, the flexibility to pivot to remote or close the school. And in the interest of the well being of the school community without penalty. Right now I think there's a fear that they won't get waivers. If they close the school. And I think in the moment we're in with with COVID and Omicron and just truly in the in the rush that we're in right now. I think that they need to have that flexibility to pivot to what makes sense for their local school district. They need to get it safely. It's not a long term solution. We're not suggesting that but in in the immediate moment they need to have that. That assurance that they're not going to be penalized if they do. What's in the best interest of their schools, and it may be a preemptive closure. We, you know, I think there's nothing wrong with that. In the particular moment I am Dan French has said that they will grant waivers most likely if it's, you don't have enough staff or enough students to conduct school. But that's sort of after the fact, but he was he was quite clear with us on Friday, a group of us met with him. And I think again on Saturday that preemptive closures would not be waived. And I think that that has made superintendents perhaps a little bit nervous and anxious about well is this a preemptive one is this is not, I think they need to be given some authority quickly to allow for them to make those decisions on the ground. In the best interest of the school community. I'm really taking that up. We've drafted some language that we do it as part of session law will be hearing later as to what which is the best way to do that but I also wondering if you can stay in the room. I realized that we have. We have. I'm sorry, we're going here. We have Becca McCrae here is who is she's head of the president of the school Vermont School Nurses Association, and I think we would really love to hear from her on how great things are around in the world of school nursing. And perhaps if that's not the reality we're happy to listen to what is the truth. Our question where we where we are. Yes, we are interested in hearing about how are the, how are the schools, how are the students, how is the staff, how are the communities, and are the things that you would like us to do, and prefer that we did not do as well. So, if we can, you could just give us an update will be great. Yeah, so, as the president of the VA and as the district lead nurse of Burlington school district. I want to share with you that things right now are really stressed, and to be on stress, I'm going to say, I think we are at the breaking point of school nurses I'm sorry if I get emotional but I'm so tired right now. We're at a breaking point right now. And we are thankful for the partnership that Secretary French has allowed us to have with him this year and decision making. But we are at a point where school nurses are ready to quit. We are already a stress profession because we compete with hospital pay to hire nurses in schools. And we are working around the clock, literally, we have had, I personally have not had a day off before Thanksgiving, including weekends, and I'm working 5am to 9pm, every day. The new guidance that came out yesterday was a blow. It needed to say no more contact tracing period, and that tests are available to everyone for the whole week period. And to have a system by which everyone is picking up test kits to test, where it's not a burden on the school nurse to continue contact tracing. Our theme throughout this whole year has been how taxing contact tracing has become. And the reason we created a partnership with Secretary French was because it was becoming too much. And every time the state tried to help, it actually created more work for us. And so it created more hours of work instead of lessening the burden. I think the fact that we are still in a mode of evolved contact tracing where we have to still figure out what kids were in the classroom. What kids in the high school setting, how many classes they have and what kids are there to get tests in the hands of those kids, instead of having it be a simple. My request to Dan French and Mark Levine on Monday was make it simple, have every child pick up five tests on a Friday so that they have weeks worth for the next week. Make it simple. There's no other rules and regulations. And that might be because they don't have enough supply. There are probably things that I don't know that go into that decision making. But I think in terms of teachers and para educators, they're scared. They've been scared since the beginning of this pandemic, they don't understand the science, there is not enough education, and the disease is quickly moving and changing, but their stations at school and their, and their interactions at school have changed. And so therefore, their risk to this disease also has not changed because the mitigation strategies are still in place. And teachers don't understand that they're still safe. So it's hard to. Like all over the place. And every single person, such a personal situation also impacts their level of anxiety. I had a teacher this morning come to me in tears because she found out a student was positive in a classroom she had been in. She wasn't even near the student. She wasn't in the student's duration for a whole day, but her anxiety stemmed from the fact that she cared for her elderly father who had an underlying medical condition. And she didn't want the burden of being the one taking the disease from school to home. So I think there's a lot of misconception out there as well. But the reality is the anxiety is real. We need to address it. We need to, we need to say, I'm sorry, you're feeling that way. That's what I said to this lady. I said you have every way right to feel anxious. But I'm going to tell you the things that are keeping you safe and how you can continue keeping yourself safe. We need more of those conversations happening at a wider level. We need more behavioral interventions in schools. I think that the behaviors of students has risen. I think the mental strain on children, because it's also mental strain on parents, there's just been, I'm sure that everyone in this room has been affected by this in some way, shape or form. And I think we all can agree as a society, we're tired. And, and we just need to support one another. And I don't have any particular asks of you really accept that contact tracing needs to go away, because all it does is create more anxiety in a situation in the school that can be mitigated through testing in the community level. I don't know if anyone has questions, but I'll stop there for the moment. Thank you. Thank you so much for joining us today and you're going to make me cry thinking about what the nurses are dealing with as well. I'll just give you one more snapshot of what we're dealing with here. Okay, so when we were doing Delta in the fall, we were having like five cases a week, seven cases a week. I literally right now I'm sitting on 20 cases, we did 28 cases on Friday, we did 30 cases on Saturday, like it's just, it's insane. It's, you can't move fast enough to get right now with these 17 cases, or I'm sorry, we're at 20 cases. So in the 20 cases that we have today, we haven't even started contact tracing because we're trying to get tests in the, in the hands of kids who are on our current test to stay list, so that we can, we can relieve the stress of the pulling and their own position to help a test to stay in the morning to have kids be in school. There are so many strains on so many levels, because there aren't enough people to begin with and when we first started the test to stay conversation are a very first thing that we said as the BSSNA was we support test to stay, but it cannot rest, it's too much burden on the school district. And that was ignored. I'm going to be, I'm sorry I'm blunt, but it that was ignored.  And what we were told verbatim was, we know it's more work, but we need it to be done. And everyone in this pandemic is doing more than they signed on for is basically the message we got. Let me just clarify something with you. Yeah, my understanding is that the guidance removes the requirement to contact trace. It doesn't remove the requirement to contact trace it involves contact tracing. So, currently, before the new guidance came out, we would take a positive person we would determine what days they were in school while infectious. We would take their classroom and say, who did they sit near, who, who did who they sit near but for an elementary school classroom. It's the whole class because it's four hours or longer that they're together, they're all considered close contact. There's a new guidance where they're saying that we don't have to contact trace but anyone that that child was in class with the close contact. We still have to do the same data pool of who was in school that day in that classroom and who is the close contact in that class. In our high school and middle school, who we were doing via seating charts who were you near, and we had maybe five close contact. Now we have the whole list of students in each of those classes. So a whole list of students times eight periods a day. It's more people that need to be determined close contact that you then have to contact all those people. It's still the same amount of work. It might have quickened it up a little bit, but it's still contact tracing. You can call it whatever you want but it's still contact tracing because you still have to figure out who was in the classroom when they were exposed. Representative Austin. Yes, I'm just wondering is the anxiety among the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. Yes, and most people out. Yeah, most, most of our employees are vaccinated, but the anxiety level. It doesn't matter whether you're back there or not it is through the roof representative Brady. I just want to see if I can get really clear and would you say at this point test to stay should go away and we should essentially assume all kids are in test to stay regularly because of the transmissibility so they should have access to testing weekly, if not daily. And therefore you don't need a program around it but we need the amount of tests in order for all students to be testing regularly. Correct. And I honestly don't think that the schools need to be the hub for that. I think that in general, people should be testing regularly in the public. Like, not just for school, but for any event you're going to you should be testing. So I think tests should be accessible in the community regularly. But that's part of their plan I did. I did listen to the press conference yesterday when they were like, and test will can be mailed to your home. But I don't think this is just a school issue. I just want to put that out there. But yes, I don't think test to stay is required because if parents have access to test that they can test on a daily basis. Then it's the parent responsibility. We can get the test in their hands, but we have to trust that people are doing the right thing. Representative James. Thanks I'll try to, I'll try to turn all these swirling thoughts into a question. About about test to stay. I had also been hearing. I think similar to what you had said Becca that this was placing a very big burden on school staff to be administering test to stay in the schools. So on school nurses and on teachers and on staff that were, you know, running the program. In the shift to, you know, basically in shifting this program to the homes. What I worry about with what you just suggested is testing supply, you know the supply of kits. And, you know, from what I can tell about the pilot program that they're rolling out to try to get kits directly to Vermonters. I know it's like you can have one, one packet with two kits in it or two packets with two kits in it or something and so I wonder if, if supply is going to be a problem with test kits, wouldn't it make sense to prioritize schools and and school children for that limited supply. Yes, and I would also remind the committee that test today was designed for unvaccinated people only contact and with the change in guidance from the CDC and Vermont Department of Health. With the new year. It has changed the concept of today, because now all the people who are vaccinated more than six months ago also have to be enrolled in test to stay. So the numbers have increased significantly at the high school this morning we tested 171 kids. Our middle school we tested 150 kids. So the people who were in that first wave of vaccination and the 12 to 17 year olds are now considered unvaccinated test to stay. And the, okay, thanks. Yeah, sorry. That's probably your question. No, it did I yeah and I guess I was, I was not aware. Until you know I heard you this morning that I had sort of thought that the guidance was shifting us away from from. You know, I guess I wasn't clear on the, I thought the contact tracing was going to get significantly less burdensome but it sounds like that's not the case. Okay. I definitely heard that there was a that the degree of contact tracing that you've been doing really doesn't produce the result that a very important result with the current variance so that made a lot of sense to us when we heard it so I am disappointed to hear that you're still feeling the burden of it. Representative Conlon. Thanks, I do tune out I had to tune out for a second so I might miss the answer to this question. I just think that if we had unlimited supply of home test kits. I assume that the goal would be to, to remove this from the schools completely. And I suspect that we're doing a little bit of a hybrid because of supply issues. I think we had in a perfect world we could just let the, let this be a community issue. How confident are you and your colleagues that the, basically the community at large will sort of do what's asked of them, and be, you know, upfront with their use of the information. In the beginning of this pandemic school nurses have always felt that we weren't very confident in people doing the right thing, which is why there are so many rules for re entering school and you're sick right now. I think that, ultimately, we have been told being this pandemic, we have to trust that people are doing the right thing. And with the newest guidance, not requiring antigen testing after five days. It's, it's a recommendation not a requirement and so this is out of our hands really and with a new variant, it is also so easily transmissible that the time by the time you realize that it's there already been through there, and it's already affecting people before you even get the word out that they're a close contact sometimes even. So, ultimately, with this new variant, the thought process in the public health world is that the majority of people are going to get this variant in a very quick timeframe, which creates herd immunity. Eventually, and then we'll hopefully see a downward trend in COVID period. And that statement you just made, which I think we're probably as a society evolving toward. That's kind of like saying, let's just treat this like the flu, people are going to get it or they're not. Correct. Let's let's just sort of back out of this completely. How do we treat it as if it's any other communicable virus that we deal with on a day to day basis. Correct, which is a mind shift, right. So like we all have to mind shift from this is a deadly disease to this is now endemic. This is like the flu now. Yes, kids are going to come to school sick, but guess what they were during COVID too. So we're going to, we're going to shift back to what we were before COVID in a few short weeks, hopefully. And I guess that, and I just think this is a fascinating debate public health debate. And, and frankly, I'm evolving toward that point of view as well and I think we're seeing college campuses evolve that way. But that doesn't help the teacher that came to you in tears, concerned about contracting COVID. Yep. But I just sort of wonder how is that any different than fear of contracting the flu and bringing that home. So I think the other piece of education that we really need to widespread is that every kid, every teacher, every para that gets this disease is now an immune person to the disease, making the school and the classroom a more safe environment than prior to anyone having COVID. Yeah, but thanks very much very, very interesting. Thank you and thank you represent common great questions representative Austin. Yep. So my understanding just watching Dr. Fauci and you know these news conferences is that the vaccine was never touted as preventing you from getting cold. It was, it was touted as that you wouldn't be hospitalized and you wouldn't die. So I'm just wondering how many do we have numbers of teachers who have been hospitalized or children who haven't hospitalized that are vaccinated. I don't have those numbers. The public health office may have those numbers to my knowledge, to my knowledge, only one child in Vermont has died of COVID and they were unvaccinated. I don't have any numbers of teachers or any subset group of that nature. But I will say that in the contact tracing work we've been doing, where we have a classroom that has a lot of kids that have had COVID. Now on in this, like of the Delta variant. Now in this way, there aren't as many positives in those classrooms. Thank you. Thank you. So you're what you would like to see is that we just be done with contact tracing. Generally, and you'd like to see antigen tests available to to kit for kids at school that they could pick them up at school. Can you help us a little bit with the need for masks and how kids are doing with wearing wearing masks and 95 months. So I think that this is a district by district difference, like there's, there's a wide variety of what what people are doing right so like I can tell you that my district is ordering can 95 masks for everyone period. I've already given them out to teachers and Paris, but we don't have them yet for kids, but we are ordering them for kids. And that was my superintendent's decision. But I think with the science and what we've been hearing in the last few days and weeks about Omicron is that the cloth masks are not as effective and that the can 95 are better is what the science community is saying. But we also have to remember that schools have more mitigation strategies in play than the general public. So I think that people forget forget that sometimes like that, we have been requiring these mitigation strategies to be happening in schools whereas like if you go to the bank or the grocery store or restaurant. They're not requiring them as much. And then it has to be masked at all times, hand washing is encouraged like multiple times a day distancing is encouraged as well. So I think that there isn't. We just have to remember that there are those other mitigation strategies I think the biggest mitigation strategy contact tracing is a mitigation strategy. We have been doing I think the other mitigation strategy that isn't talked about a lot is that we ask people to stay home when they're sick. And some people make it a policy. I think that for too long in our world, we have all gone to work right and we've all spread our germs at work. And I think that even with this new variant, when Delta came out, we were seeing teachers come to school sick because they thought they had allergies which with the first variant, you could do. And with the second variant because running nose was a symptom everyone thought they had allergies but they were really carrying COVID school. So I think, you know, that is one of the biggest strategies and I in high schoolers were seeing people come to school sick because they're afraid of missing class and missing work and getting caught behind. We asked high schoolers just that just so you know that we asked a group of high schoolers why they thought their peers were coming to school sick and what they've been hearing from their peers who are sick that come to school and that's what they said. That they felt too pressured. They felt that they would fall behind and that the teachers will be mad if they weren't there. But in terms of supply you're seeing you're okay in terms of staff, working on students. And then the other other concern is just the ability for a child to wear and 95 mask for extended periods of time. That is a kindergarteners can't wear mask all day, like that's a myth. They're down here. They're down here in their mouth. Right. So, yeah, they have them on but are they wearing them properly and correctly in the way that they're supposed to be know. And, and I'll say that high schoolers are horrible mask wearers. They wear them like this to be cool. Like, yeah, let's be cool. So I think that, you know, I'm always about let's educate people, let's get the message out so that they know and can make an informed decision about what they're doing. So we need to educate them and I said this to my school district all the time we need to educate them on proper mask wearing again like the more we message it out the more we say it the more successful they're going to be at proper mask wearing. And the student representative to our school board actually said that there is a student group that's very concerned about the mask wearing at our high school. So there is definitely also student anxiety and fear around what their peers are doing or not doing correctly. In terms of but I just want to be really clear like there are districts that probably don't have these things in place so that Burlington's doing but what their resources are. Thank you. Any other questions at this time, representative Austin. I want to say thank you so much Becca. You know I think the committee does too about the work you're doing the work that school nurses are doing we so appreciate this extra burden I mean I was an educator and I know how the work that nurses did just in a normal day without any pandemic so I just, you know, just want you to know how much I appreciate it. I, and I believe the committee does too. Thanks, I think that the only thing that that just you just made me think of is that I want to be really clear with you guys that the regular work that school nurses usually do in schools is not being done. So that also impacts the anxiety of families that have kids with health needs. It impacts students feeling like they have to go into a nurse's office really quickly. Whereas like we would have usually spent our time trying to help the student trying to make them feel comfortable in school with their whatever needs they had. So that's not being done, but it's definitely not being done to the degree level of which we would like it to be done and what our profession has always been. There's a huge tax caused by contact tracing and tests today that has impacted families and teachers in a negative way that we haven't even looked at yet, because we're all in reactive mode not in response like reflective thinking mode. Thank you. Just wondering if you can stay just a little bit longer I see representative common. Yeah, I'm sorry I don't know what our timing is here and I don't want to belabor things, but it was mentioned. She's not. I'm good. I do have a two o'clock meeting to go to somebody told me the other day that in New Hampshire mass aren't required in school or in many schools mass aren't required. I would have to share data to show whether that's a difference one way or the other. And I think my real question for you is if you were to do if you were to just run that your school, as you saw fit. What would you do about masks. I would have universal masking. You would. I would. I think. I agree with the American Academy of Pediatrics here, like it doesn't matter what percentage of vaccination status you have in your school it doesn't matter. If you like that, like the percentage doesn't matter, like you need to protect everyone because this disease doesn't care for vaccine or not. It doesn't care if you are susceptible that it can catch be caught by you so that it can remain in existence to long enough to spread to another person to remain in existence. So, you know, universal masking is definitely something we need to continue through Omicron and I think that I don't have any data for you on mass schools versus non mass schools but I would also wonder like, what is their disease rate in the school versus mass schools like I don't, I don't know. But I do believe in universal masking, because of the fact that the disease doesn't care to vaccinate or not. The other factor is that it's asymptomatic. So, if everyone in this room tested positive we would all have different symptoms. Some of us would be asymptomatic some of us would be super symptomatic some of us would be in bed for three days some of us would have a fever for a night and be fine the next morning. Like I have seen the gamut of and heard the explanation from positive families, and none of them are the same. Every son of Williams. Yes, I was just wondering if there is much of a concern when the mask wearing isn't staying in place and it's always hands to face adjusting those masks. Is that not a potential risk for creating germs, where they wouldn't be normally. Yeah, I think if you I think this is where I'm sure Jess has heard this like teachers are constantly reminding kids to put their mass on and I'm sure that that deteriorates instruction time, like and how much curriculum you can actually get through because you spend most of the day reminding kids to stop touching each other and make sure that your mask is up. Please put your mask up and I can't even tell you how many masks we go through a day. We were going through 75 masks a day in one building, just because kids were losing them at recess and they were, you know, like there's a million reasons why they need a new mask but chewing on them is like number one. I think, I think that you know when we when we talk about the nervousness. It's really, it's really interesting to observe this like in one school I have people who are super nervous about it and then I have a totally another school where the teacher doesn't have to enforce mass wearing in her classroom and it becomes a larger problem among her colleagues in the building, because then they feel they're at risk because their colleague isn't enforcing the same rules that everyone else is supposed to be following. I think that's where it's come and I think if we can remind ourselves and each other like we are only as good as the whole right so that's but it but it's definitely had an impact on on learning time with the with a number of reminders and sending them all down to get a new mask and we have some classrooms that have masks in them all the time because that's how how frequently they go through them. Thank you. Thank you. We are going to be remaining in touch with the agency of education we are going to be following up on the availability of tests. We understand that there's the rapid antigen tests but there's also the lamp tests I think that they're looking at possibly using in schools and making them available my understanding is making them available in the schools as well as in the homes was the recent testimony that we heard. You're finding masks are sufficient and I believe that there's a way to order online through the agency but that might not be correct. I thank you so much we may want to check back in with you. And I think that representative Austin did speak for the for the committee that we are incredibly appreciative of your work and, as I say to so many people in education please don't quit. I'm not. I'm trying not to quit but it's no.  But, but something's got to give and I tell this Secretary French almost bi-weekly, like this is not sustainable this is not okay we need to find a solution. And that's still my message. This is not okay, like working that many hours a day and a week is not okay. And you're in touch.  Yeah, so the BSFNA leadership team is in a nurse advisory group with him every other we have a bi-weekly, bi-monthly meeting. Okay, great. Thank you so much for taking the time to have your voice there. Not that they always make the shift we want, but at least it's nice to be a part of the conversation. Thank you. With that, I see it's 207 and I know you have another meeting so I want to thank you so much for taking the time to be with us today. Thank you all for what you're doing. I hope that we can meet again. We're all working on it. Bye bye. Well, I have for testimony right now, just checking in with the committee. We are, I am going to be speaking with with AOE about a little bit more in depth conversation as to where we are with testing and masks. I think we have things we can follow up in terms of contract contact tracing as well. I can see that I must have misunderstood what I had heard. Anything else before we go offline? This will be it for today. Tomorrow, Representative Austin. Quickly. I'm just assuming you said the BAA letter from our committee was edited and it had all the things we kind of had asked for. Yeah, the letter, the letter should be posted on our website now I think. Right now I have a chance to post it yet. I did put in a delay for a finance but we might have to do that by a bill they might not want to put that in the BAA we might have to do a bill. Tomorrow, so we have floor at three o'clock. Tomorrow we are going to continue our conversation about the state of our schools. We have Secretary French on again. We're kind of working because we heard quite a bit from him today. We do have him again tomorrow. We're in conversation to see if he might want to participate in our conversation about the miscellaneous COVID bill. That where we are looking at addressing the remote days in comparison to the work that he is considering the waivers and to see what what we think is the best route to go. And I am following up. I told you on that. And I don't have anything more to say. Anything from anybody. I've got a question. It's actually for the teacher if she would respond to, well, I just, I'm curious, do we have to worry about teachers striking or a mass exodus from the. Because I wonder how many are on the brink, you know, yeah. Unfortunately, we've lost that. The teacher association has left the room so we don't have we can't get that from him but certainly I would feel free to reach out to him directly. Question. Sorry, it's chaos every house. When Representative Hooper was asking are we should should we be worried about a teacher striking our one teacher leave it was. It was symbolic. Yeah, okay, I get it now. Yes. I don't get the sense that you we have to worry about teachers striking right now. I think that the sort of burnout is a huge range. You know, we're starting to be more turnover at my school than normal couple of really better teachers are already taking leave next year. I've seen a few of those on the school board that we've been approving. I don't think it's going to be a mass exodus but I think it's going to be a, you know, a trickle that will impact us because we're so small to start with. We just have some serious morale rebuilding work to do. I don't know how but. Well, my other question is, what do you think would be the the collective reaction to that testimony from the teaching community you think most teachers would agree with the bulk of what she just said or do you think there'd be a little resistance to sort of a cultural shift. Yeah, I think the nurses but just by the way. Right, right, but I just think to me it's what she's what she's highlighting is what I think we'll develop into a cultural hurdle you know if we have to convince the teachers to kind of embrace us a new normal. That could be hard. I think it's really next, you know, I think some teachers are there more than others, I think those. Those, especially those kids under five, which is true everywhere right now, you know, in a lot of sectors are feeling it the most acutely. I know my school that is definitely the teachers who are the most stressed are those that one their child kids are just open and close open and close like on a Roman basis and then they're concerned because our kids are in vaccine. So, you know, those teachers I think would have the hardest time with some of the things in terms of just give up contact tracing all together. That she's spot on this you know psychologically, even if it isn't totally rational some are so afraid of their safety or for their family safety. And like the issue is spot on about you know even something as simple we say buying the mask is only part of the problem. Our people wearing them are kids wearing them are you know it is exhausting. I could easily say a thousand times that I put a mask blue mask. I do this and look at kids and do this all day long, all day long. But they, you know, they're not we need some messaging from all levels and national level the state level about you know the importance of wearing them and a big review of why that's so important so I think people would agree with a lot of what she was saying, letting go of some things right now for a lot of teachers I think but also doing really hard and they would feel like. Yeah, but especially if people who are working from home are telling me to let go of things. And with hundreds of kids every day that feels that that feels difficult. But a reminder, but with the wonderful ideas that we want to come up with this is the year. Just is this the year to put anything more on schools and teachers. I think we got an answer.  I think is everything is important right now. Be kind be kind to your teachers, educational workers and help your workers.