Well, good afternoon and thank you all for coming. Last week marked an important day in the state's history. But as I said last Wednesday, the conversation about public safety is not over. We have more work to do to keep our kids and our community safe. Immediately following the averted Fairhaven incident, I directed the Department of Public Safety and all available resources, including state and local law enforcement, to conduct a statewide school safety audit. Those assessments were undertaken over the last several weeks and I'm pleased to say they've been completed. I'd like to thank the Department of Public Safety, all local and county law enforcement, the Department of Fish and Wildlife, and all school officials and personnel for their swift and diligent action. As I've said many times, public safety is the primary function of any government. And as far as I'm concerned, it rises to the top and is our number one responsibility. Just yesterday I had the opportunity to meet with students, teachers, and parents from Fairhaven. It's very obvious and understandable. There's a lot of apprehension and fear amongst the community. So I want parents across the state to know we are doing everything we can to keep their kids safe. And I want students to know we've heard you and agree you should not have to worry about your own safety when you walk into your school. As my team will share, we have strong protocols in place in many schools, but there are various communities in school buildings where additional work and efforts are needed. As governor, I have a responsibility to provide for the safety of our citizens, especially our kids, which is why I asked the legislature to appropriate $5 million to fund school safety grants. I'm happy to report the legislature is booking $4 million in the capital bill, which I hope will pass in the very near future, and the other $1 million will come out of the Homeland Security grants through the Department of Public Safety. The goal is to have a grant process be conducted in a relatively short time frame to ensure a majority of the work can be completed before students return this fall. I'd like to now, at this time, turn it over to Commissioner Anderson, acting Secretary Boucher, and Rob Evans, Vermont School Safety Liaison Officer, to report on the school's security assessments and to provide the details of the school grants process and timeline. I'll be bashful. Well, good afternoon, everyone. Tommy Anderson, Commissioner of Public Safety. Several weeks ago, Governor Scott proposed a multi-prong strategy to keep Vermont schools and communities safe. Frankly, in my view, it was a demonstration of political courage that is rarely seen, and I thank him for his leadership on this issue. As the Governor stated, one of his primary objectives is to make sure that we are doing all we can to keep our schools as safe as possible. In connection with this goal, he directed the Department of Public Safety to conduct a statewide school safety audit. The Agency of Education has been our partner in this, and I thank you, Heather. In about a four-week period, 172 law enforcement officers from 50 local police agencies, 11 sheriff departments, the Department of Fish and Wildlife, and every single Vermont state police barracks fanned out across the state and worked collaboratively with school administrators to complete these assessments. All told, 422 schools in Vermont took part in the assessments. I'm deeply grateful to the police chiefs and the sheriffs for their assistance. We could not have done this without them. I also want to publicly thank Rob Evans and Emily Harris, who handle the school safety issues for the Department of Public Safety and the Agency of Education as well as the school crisis team. They have been the backbone of this project and responsible for creating the survey, collecting the data, and then distilling all of the data and reporting the results. We've provided a three-page summary of the results of the assessments. They're over here. They're handouts over here. Overall, the results show we are doing a lot of things very well in Vermont schools and that they're taking safety planning very seriously. The results also show that there are some areas that we can do better. Here are some of the findings. 96% of the schools in the study have taken part in some form of emergency management planning preparedness activity within the last year and most expressed a desire to do even more. 96% comply with the state school emergency drill schedule. 83% of Vermont schools lock exterior doors on days when schools are in session. 9 out of 10 schools educate faculty, staff, and students on emergency response protocols prior to the beginning of each school year. 86% of schools have the ability to make an internal public address announcement when an emergency is occurring. Just last year, the Vermont School Safety Center recommended that schools develop a family reunification plan in the event of an emergency. This study shows that 86% of the schools have developed or are developing such a plan. Very good, given it was just last year that that was implemented. 85% of the schools have a system to identify, report, and evaluate school threats or concerning behavior. 71% of the schools are utilizing the Vermont School Crisis Guide, which serves as a template for school emergency operation plans. Equally important, the study also identified some areas for improvement in schools. While 80% of schools can lock some internal classroom and office doors from the inside, 70% do not have the ability to lock all doors from the inside. Why is that important? But without this ability, doors are either left unlocked or need to be locked from the outside. And logic would tell you locking from the outside may not keep someone out. So that, obviously, it could potentially pose harm to individuals within the school. As I noted earlier, the majority of schools have the ability to notify those inside the building of a danger with a public address system. However, half of all schools lack the ability to make the same announcements to people on the outside of the building. So we have the ability to do it on the inside, we're lacking the ability to do it on the outside. Half of Vermont schools do not require faculty or staff to wear identification tags or credentials during the school day. That should be standard policy across the state. Forty-four percent of schools have not communicated with parents or guardians about what they should do and what they should not do during an emergency. Educated parents are extremely important. Parents that know what to do in an emergency are much more likely not to hinder emergency type activities. We also made certain recommendations. The Secretary of Education and I made certain recommendations to the governor following the assessments, and those include the following. First we're recommending that before the beginning of the next school year, the Vermont School Safety Center provide all schools an updated list of school safety best practices that will include things like access control, visitor management, exterior door labeling, interior door locking, public address systems, internal communication systems, mass notification systems, and parent, guardian communications. We have recommended there be further development of school crisis plans to ensure schools are prepared to respond to a wide range of hazards and threats. We are also recommending there be additional training to provide schools, including active shooter response, behavioral threat assessment, and incident command training courses. With respect to the planning and training, we are recommending that the Department of Public Safety utilize one million dollars in Homeland Security funding to support schools in creating and updating school crisis plans and significantly enhance training and exercise programs. With regard to the anticipated capital funding for grants to enhance school security measures, we are recommending that the Agency of Education, the Department of Public Safety, the Vermont School Safety Center, and our school safety partners develop a list of recommended equipment and technology upgrades to schools that schools should consider when applying for these grants. We recognize that each school is unique. Each school will be encouraged to look at the list and develop the best type of plan that they have for these grants. Finally, let me just briefly discuss the grant process. The four million dollar in grant money the Governor's requested to legislate to appropriate will be earmarked to make security upgrades to school facilities. So these will be more infrastructure type projects. This money will be for things, as I just mentioned, things like security cameras, advanced door locking systems, and communication tools like PA systems and radios. The Governor's committed to getting these grants out to the schools as quickly as possible. Our goal is to award the capital grants by August 1st, so they'll have them before the beginning of the school year. Schools should look for the grant application no later than June 1st. We're going to try to get it out sooner than that, but it will be no later than June 1st. And we'd encourage schools to actually start looking at it now. They completed the surveys. They know really where their security needs lie. Over the next month, we will be engaged in a working group with representatives from the school community, emergency services in the state of Vermont to assist in developing the grant application criteria. What you're going to do to apply for the grant, what types of things you can apply for. And this would be, again, for the infrastructure upgrades to the schools. As I said, in addition to the four million dollars and additional one million dollars of federal home and security funding, we've made available. This money would be directed toward planning, training, and exercise support for the schools. I'll turn it back over to the governor. Thank you. As I said, on February 22nd, when I laid out the multi-level action plan with gun safety being only a part of it, I'm hopeful Vermonters will join in the responsible discussion. We must have about ways to reduce the underlying violence in our society in order to keep kids safe in our schools and our communities. Our goal will be to find real solutions and to take steps that will make a difference. I'm sure these conversations will be passionate and the solutions will not be easy, but they are important to our children, our communities, and to ensuring we remain the safest state in the country. While gun safety and school security can be part of the conversation, we must also focus on the root causes of violence. That is why today I'm creating by executive order the Community Violence Prevention Task Force. This group will be charged with identifying and recognizing the primary root causes of behavior which lead to violence against others in schools and communities. They will also lead the state's response to address these issues by ensuring full interagency and interagency coordination among state and local governments and schools. The task force will assess research and data already available to determine the underlying causes of violent behavior in our communities. Two, as requested by the House of Representatives, review any connection between excessive video game playing and the propensity to engage in violence. Three, identify best practices for schools and communities to prevent violent behavior including but not limited to identifying warning signs and how to report them. Recommending ways to improve prevention and report a bullying and harassment enclosing the operational gaps among the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Mental Health, the Agency of Education, law enforcement, and our schools. Four, identify opportunities to strengthen existing support systems to ensure every school and community has a local rapid reaction, early intervention team involving educators, mental health, social service professionals, and law enforcement when concerning behavioral issues are identified. Five, review opportunities for expanding school safety prevention and preparedness capacity in the Agency of Education and the Department of Public Safety and supporting the work of the Vermont School Safety Center. Six, evaluate the adequacy of protections for individuals including students and adults who report threats. Seven, explore the feasibility of stronger open source intelligence gathering by the Vermont Intelligence Center and the Cyber Security Center with Norwich University once established. And eight, review existing state health, mental health, education, and criminal laws, regulations, policies, and programs and propose appropriate legislative changes including changes to eliminate redundancy and breakdown barriers faced by communities and schools in coordinating action with state government. The task force will consist of not more than 14 members from within and outside of state government. The state members will include the Commissioner of Public Safety, the Secretary of the Agency of Human Services and Health, the Commissioner of the Department of Mental Health, the Agency of Education, School Security Liaison Officer, and the Secretary of the Agency of Digital Services or Designees. The remaining appointees to the task force will be broadly representative of stakeholders and may include, but not limited to, mental health care professionals, teachers, students, school officials, sportsmen, and or licensed gun dealers, veterans, security consultants, health care providers, first responders, state's attorneys, and cybersecurity professionals. This group will be asked to report back on preliminary findings and the recommendations this December. The unfortunate bottom line is that this world is ever changing and we need to do whatever we can to keep Vermonters safe. So with that, I will sign this executive order establishing this Governor's Community Violence Task Force. And I'll do that right now. And I thank all of you for your good work and look forward to a very productive conversation. With that, we'd be happy to answer any questions you might have in regards to this situation, this issue. What sort of oversight will there be? In terms of the surveys, the assessments that have been made. Yeah, so the way, in the grant application, there's going to be specific criteria as to what can be applied for, what type of equipment can be applied for. I think our goal is to have a list of equipment that fits the requirements of the capital bill, fits the requirements of what are known as school safety enhancements of our infrastructure, and then limit those as to what the schools can request. And during our process, those will be administered by the Department of Public Safety and we will have an audit process to make sure that the schools are spending the money for what they said they were going to spend the money for. So it's not for asking for cameras and then we're spending it on a roof. So there will be an audit process as part of our, as part of the DPS grant administration. Are they required to? I think we're going to work with, I think in the criteria, and we're still working through the criteria, but we will be looking to make sure that the schools are addressing the types of things that were identified in the surveys as being a problem. And particularly if we had, with respect to specific schools, we'll be also be looking at that. So when we're reviewing the grants and deciding what grants to give out to whom, those are the types of things that I'm confident we'll be looking at. Sure, so it could be things like security cameras. It could be things like locking mechanisms for doors. It could be things like PA systems that go both inside and outside of a school. That's an important component. So they'll be, it's things like that. And I think we identify them in both the memo and the handout that I've given us, the types of things we're looking at that would be really infrastructure improvements that really go towards security of the schools. Was there over $5 million enough to take care of problems? I guess, you know, the capital bill has a $25,000 cap on the grants, on the house version at this point. Which is in the Senate. So it's $4 million with a $25,000 cap on the grants. And, you know, we're hopeful that's gonna go a long way in creating some of the, or purchasing some of the infrastructure improvements that we need. I guess we all have to wait and see a little bit. Tom, but not all. I'm not so sure, I'm not prepared to say that, that, you know, it wouldn't address them all. Is there a pattern with the schools that are doing worse than others? Are they small schools or rural schools? I'm not sure, I can answer that question just on the data, you know, the compiling of the data, whether mining it down a little, I can't answer that question right now. And is the figure four or five million? It's $5 million, $4 million out of the capital bill, $1 million that will be utilized through public safety with Homeland Security grants. Did anything jump out and alarm you about? Not that I had seen in terms of the types of measures that they need, but possibly, I don't know if there's any reaction from Rob or from. Yeah, and certainly I can speak to a little bit. I appreciate the dialogue from schools about the need for more training, active shooter response in all hazards process for school emergency preparedness, but things like locking mechanisms that every classroom or office space has the ability to lock from the inside, as the commissioner had said, outdoor internal public address system, speaker system, so everybody in the community can be notified when a school emergency is taking place. Those are the things that aren't just utilized when an active shooter situation is taking place, but when any type of emergency is taking place. And we wanna make sure that we're spending money not only on the response side, but on the prevention side as well, because certainly the money well spent on the prevention is really where we wanna be on those types of things. But cameras, access control, visitor management, those are some of the best practices that the group will be forming for equipment to be purchased. Yeah, certainly fire code is an issue, so the things and the guidance that we will give is any of those types of mechanisms need to make sure that we're fire code compliant. But we talk about that when we talk about those types of response protocols, about some things may have to, everybody has to have an exit strategy, and those locking mechanisms can't keep people from getting out if the best response option is to get out. So there's a variety of things that need to be considered when these types of technologies are being put into place. What happens if a district or a school is accused of them? Well, this is certainly their prerogative. We did the assessments and wanted to give them the flexibility of determining what their needs are. They're the ones who are going to have to make application for this grant, and so it's totally up to them. I'm sure that Rob will be working with them in the future if they don't take advantage of these and identify ways to do so. And I see Jeff and Nicole and Jay from the principals and superintendents associations as well as the school board's association. We've been in great collaboration with those folks, and the need is there, and this is an opportunity for folks to be able to do things that maybe they haven't been able to do before. So utilizing those associations and the continuing dialogue that we have, we're just gonna reinforce the point that this is important for everybody. How much will that work with the public? We will not be releasing any of the data for security, obvious security reasons, but those parents will be able to identify with their schools, and if they seek to release the information, that would be up to them. But they're the ones that presented the information, so if parents have questions, they should contact their local schools. You have some areas of state that have no cell service, sometimes it takes place a long time to respond because of the geography. Will cameras, will panic button stop the parking? That's a question that I probably not qualified to answer. Will this help? We certainly think it will. In terms of cell service, that will be improving over time, particularly with the action we just took. It'll take a few years with the national effort, the first responders, and provide more cell service in some of these rural areas. Do you think the assessments will be public for the grants to be public? I think the grant awards will probably be public. I mean, again, for security reasons, we probably wouldn't be making public, specifically what equipment was purchased with those grants. So again, those are some issues we're working through right now, but I would not anticipate the specific things that are being purchased, again, for security reasons, but the overall grant award, what was awarded to what school may be public. Tom, what percentage of school time on SRO? Yeah, I think it says 21% in there, but we know that that may be a little bit flawed, because I believe that the Vermont Police Academy on the records has about 33 or 34 active school resource officers. That's a formal active school resource officer. Many law enforcement agencies across the state have an informal school resource officer program where folks are invited to come in and have collaborative conversations with local principals and superintendents. So we're gonna have to go back in and get the specific data on that, but I think it's probably lower than the 20% that's calibrated in the survey there. Not as part of this program. This is more for capital needs infrastructure, but certainly in the future, we'll have to have conversations about what the school resource officers. Any other questions about this issue? This is the point in time when you may or may not stay. Maybe other questions, and there may be some questions that you might be able to answer in other words. Thank you. Governor, those states board of education chair said that Rebecca Holcomb left concerns about your recalls containment. Did she express those concerns to you, and said them as a reason for putting that first? Well, again, this was something that was, I discussed with Rebecca Holcomb, Secretary Holcomb. This was for personal reasons. She thought it was the right time for her to move on, and it was all, it was totally her decision. So did she discuss her concerns about- She, we spoke about some of the challenges over the last number of years. She's had in terms of the tough work in Act 46 and so forth, and some of what the challenges are for the future. But again, she decided to move on for personal reasons. She thought this was the right time for her to do so. So your understanding from conversations with her cost containment did not factor into her decision to leave? I'm sure there were a number of factors that entered her thought process, but I wouldn't say that that came out as any particular reason for my conversation. I don't know what conversation she's had with others. Speaking of cost containment, there's only a few weeks probably left in this session. There's still a 5% property tax increase looming out there. Legislature doesn't seem inclined to take up anything you've suggested thus far. Is there anything else on that? I don't think there anybody is. Well, again, we gave them quite a list. We still believe that there's a path forward to accomplishing something to prevent property tax rates increasing this year. And we are fully aware as well that there's an opportunity to do so. So we'll continue to work in that regard. So you're just telling which thing on that list you think we get for $40 million today specifically because they said that you know, just sort of offering that list without sort of specifics on how the savings would be reached this year is not in turn to help? Well, again, if we go back to the conversations we had a year ago about a statewide healthcare contract that I believe is still an opportunity. In fact, as I understand it, I haven't seen any details yet, but the NEA has come around and decided that this might be an opportunity to do so. We look forward to the details and maybe there's some savings that could be booked there as well. The ratios that I've spoken about in the past are there. And there are other initiatives that we could look at that I believe would be beneficial and there's a whole list, but we'll narrow that down. What's gonna work for FY19? Well, again, we may not be able to book immediate savings in terms of, because I'm not asking again the schools to go back and do anything with their existing budgets. They've done the hard work. They did what I asked them to do. But if we could find an opportunity for savings over the next few years, what we'd look at it as an investment utilizing one-time money this year in order to do that to keep the rates where they are. So you'd use one-time money to catch the hole to keep the property tax rates level? If we can substantiate what the savings will be over the next few years, yes. Where's the one-time money gonna come? There's all kinds of opportunity in a $6 billion budget. Well, can you give us a few examples? Well, it's very fluid, obviously, and I'm confident we can find the money. It won't be easy, but we can find the money. What amendments does this say? That we can buy down those savings legitimately, that we find the savings. That could be one, right? Ratios could be another, an attrition over time, not immediate, but there are a lot of retirements that are going to happen over the next few years. How do we get to a ratio that makes sense for Vermont? Using one-time money last year is part of the problem we face this year. Aren't you just compounding things, kicking it down the road? Again, one-time money is a term of art. In some respects, that was money that was in the education fund to begin with. It wasn't my initiative, as you may recall. I identified $26.5 million in healthcare savings that I thought would put us on a path where we wouldn't be maybe where we're at today. But unfortunately, we had to come to agreement in some respects because I didn't want to go into the new year without any budget bill. So from my standpoint, I still believe there are opportunities to save that money. In 2014, when you were running for re-elections of the tenant governor, you proposed a statewide sort of school budget oversight process. Of some sort, I may be getting the details wrong, but is that something you still believe is a good step? Well, I believe the right step is for us to work together in some way to understand the position we're in today. We know that 25 years ago, there were 30,000 more students than there are today. We know we're spending a billion seven today to educate those 76,000 students. So we need to find ways to deliver a high quality education while understanding that the infrastructure that we have in place today doesn't match the number of students we have. And so I believe we can get to that point. It's going to take all of us working together in order to do so. But again, I haven't seen, it doesn't appear at this point in time that the legislature is totally willing to reduce the rate of growth in property taxes. So I believe Vermonters have an interest in that. And again, there's a path forward to doing so.  Well, I propose a few things over the last even couple of years since becoming governor that haven't exactly taken off. So I'm not sure that that proposal would have a lot of acceptance. So I try and deal with reality with what we can do today. And I believe that we have a path forward. We've identified $75 million worth of savings that could be utilized, and I believe we can do so. And get back to let's focus on the future and this cradle to career type of approach that I think is so important. More investments in early childhood care and learning, more investments in higher education, but trying to use the $1.7 billion that we've appropriated thus far in doing so. And I believe it's achievable, but it's going to take all of us pulling together in order to do it. The Senate just voted to override your veto. Have you explained where do you see the harm to the economy if that bill doesn't pass into law? Well, there's a number of factors in that particular bill. And I laid out in my veto message a path forward where we could agree to certain goals. But we're already doing most of what they want by executive order and by legislation that was passed in 2014. And for them to turn it around and complicate matters, I think isn't something that all of us would accept and certainly not our economy. I believe that, again, we have a process in place that is protecting our kids and I believe that we should just continue to do so. If they want to codify the executive order that I put into place, that would be fine. But there are certain aspects of that. And I'd like to have Peter come up and explain what we're doing today in order to satisfy those that don't believe we are. Thank you, Governor. In response to testimony last year on S103, we were supportive of moving forward with Intermediate Agency Committee on Chemical Management. The governor, through executive order last summer, established the Interagency Committee on Chemical Management. We have been meeting since this fall. We have conducted a thorough review of the overall chemical management in the state and are in the process of developing recommendations which we've shared with the citizen's advisory panel, which is also called for in the legislation, which is part of the executive order. So in regards to the ICCM, we're doing the work and we'd like to keep doing the work and we'd like to work with the legislature on a path forward to making sure that that work can continue. With regard to the part of the bill that changes the regulatory process for children's products that contain chemicals, is your concern more just generally that with sour the regulatory environment for businesses or do you see a direct impact on businesses that whose jobs because of that bill? No, I just believe that it was sour the relationship now that we have a process in place that's working and that they came together in 2014 begrudgingly. Both sides came together and came to agreement on something that does work. And I see it's only been in effect in some respects for about a year and a half. So why not let that continue to work? Other aspects of the bill as well, putting so much on one person, the commissioner of health and I may ask how I'll go ahead and step up and describe the problem with that. Yeah, so thank you, governor. So section eight of the bill concerned us because it basically puts the commissioner of mental health and the commissioner of health in sort of a one person decision-making box and the bar for the science is too low by my estimation, meaning one or two peer-reviewed pieces of scientific literature is not a very high bar to make a decision like that. And so two pieces, one, one person having that much power and authority concerns me and it should concern you and two, the science really matters and we have to have a higher bar than that and a process ensures that the process that Peter and the governor have talked about and so that's why we were concerned with it. So you're worried about your own commissioner of health having too much authority? So I would be concerned if I had that level of authority or if anyone did, meaning. What's the fear and how do they abuse that authority? So first of all, I'm not a chemical regulation expert or someone that does a lot of scientific research but if you take a look at peer-reviewed scientific literature, it is an advancement of science and advancement of knowledge. Often later on, there's new information that finds that that was the wrong direction to go in and so one person with a low bar for the science is a combination that I don't think we want. Having a, if you think about all the processes that AHS has for how we run our agency, it's all councils and boards and citizen engagement. I mean, so to do something where one commissioner has the say with very little scientific evidence is very concerning to me and I just don't like the process. But when you think your commissioner of health would have the knowledge and expertise to make a informed decision based on the evidence? So I love Mark Levine and when I was chair of the Green Mountain Care Board, I can quote Lieutenant Governor Phil Scott. He liked me being chair of the Green Mountain Care Board. He wasn't sure what was gonna happen after I left and so if Dr. Levine is there for the rest of his natural life and even further, then that might be fine but there will be another one and so this is about policy, not about the person and I think if you really read it and think about the way that we run our government, we don't do that. And so I think there needs to be a better process than that. But wouldn't just be the commissioner of health acting there would be the rulemaking process in your view that's not enough for the safeguard? I don't think so. I think there needs to be. I think that we've created a process in 2014 and everyone said it didn't get off the ground very quick but it's working now and moving forward. We should let this process work and see how that does and I think that's a better way. That's the Vermont way. Governor, is Deb Billido the right person to lead the Vermont GOP? Well, obviously the majority of Republicans thought so. She wasn't my choice at that point in time but I support her, she's running the party at this point. Do you think Vermont needs to be made great again? Well, I think it's a pretty great state as it is and I think it can be better but I'm not sure that that's the term that I would use. So is the party doing Republicans any favors by sending out this type of messaging, mimicking the president in a state that is not very fond of the president? Well, again, it wouldn't be the messaging that I would use but I'm not running the party. But you're happy with who is running the party? Well, I didn't say I was happy but I think she's doing what her constituents, those who voted for her asked her to do. So I'll run the governor's office the way I think it should be run and I'll let her run the party. Do you think it hurts you to have the Republican candidate to have that sort of messaging going out? Well, certainly, I think I've created my own brand and I believe that I'm a moderate independent Republican and I think there are many throughout the state but it would identify in that camp. Do you think it might hurt the Republicans' chances of either gaining ground in the house this fall or possibly even allowing the Democrats to retake the veto for majority? Well, again, it's not messaging that I would utilize considering the popularity of the president in Vermont but that's not my call. You mentioned building sort of your own brand. Do you see yourself separate from the Vermont GOP at this point? Well, I'm independent by nature and I've been doing this my entire political life so I'll continue to march forward with what I think is right and continue to do it the way I do it. Will you raise money for the Vermont GOP? I'm going to, if and when I announce my candidacy, I'll be raising money for myself. Why aren't you or your staff part of sort of discussions going on within GOP? They said like as opposed to previous governors, you haven't had anyone take part in conversations about the party's direction. They sort of feel like you're not even trying to... Well, we're busy doing what we need to do in this building and trying to do what we can for Vermonters and again, the party, everyone looks at the party apparatus differently. They have their own mission and I support their mission but I have my job to do as well. Are you proud to be a member of the Vermont GOP right now? I'm proud to be a Republican. I'm proud to be myself and will continue to be myself throughout whatever office I hold. Well, what about the Vermont GOP specifically? Are you proud of them? I'm proud of Republicans in Vermont. There are many who don't identify with the party apparatus but are Republicans. We have a tradition of regality, trying common sense, smaller government and I'll continue to try and advocate for that. The Republican Party has encouraged people to run on gun issue and encourage that kind of energy that's coming from some of the Republicans and encourage people to run for office that they're really passionate about against S-55, I guess. Have you talked with the party about how to message on the gun issues? I haven't spoken to the party about the messaging on that from that aspect.  You know, it's a very emotional, very polarizing issue as we saw last week and I continue to see, this is something that I believe, I believe the majority of Vermonters will come to understand this was the right step to make. The use of the, she represents the majority of her constituents, that's a very small number of Vermont Republicans who actually voted for her. Do we have a split in the GOP in Vermont? Well, again, I continue to be my brand of Republican and there are many, I respect the fact that there are many that don't agree with that style over my views, but I would say the vast majority of Vermonters do. Have you ever considered leaving the Vermont Republican Party? No, I have not. We've never run out of time. No. The VSEA is taking your administration to court over what they say is that they're negotiating. What do you think about that? Well, I think it's unfortunate, but they'll, they can do what they feel is necessary. It's not, they feel as though we, it's unfortunate we came to the point where we had to go to arbitration, but that was the process that was set forth and we adhered to it. So I believe that in the end, that this was something that the board felt that we were on the right side of. Do you think the labor board has politically inclined to support your administration over state employee? I'm not sure about that whatsoever. I think the board members are very capable, independently minded and are basing their reaction on the details. Obviously they thought we were on the right side of that. Thank you very much.


physics channel for physics please subscribe my channel hello and welcome back to another episode of physics partner welton hoofen was an electrical engineer who founded the first institute for electrical engineering in austria in 1883 he is known for creating an apparatus that demonstrate the effects of eddy current induced in a piece of copper moving in a magnetic field which is known as walton hoofen's pendulum the apparatus consists of a pendulum with a curved strip of copper at its lower end arranged so that it hangs between the poles of an electromagnet when the magnetic field is switched on the oscillations of the pendulum are damped and die away rapidly due to the induced eddy currents within the copper strip you can see here on the screen however when the copper strip has slots cut into it and it's replaced with a similar pendulum the oscillations are less damped even with the presence of a magnetic field this is because although an emf is still induced in the metal eddy currents cannot flow across the gaps allowing the pendulum to swing more freely this effect demonstrates the position of motion caused by the magnetic fields created by the eddy current in accordance with lens law let's talk about the finding of this experiment the finding were that the oscillations of the pendulum are heavily damped and die away rapidly when the magnetic field is switched on due to the induced eddy current within the copper strip when the copper strip has slot cut into it and it's replaced with a similar pendulum the oscillations are much less damped whether the magnetic field is present or not this is because eddy current cannot flow across the gaps allowing the pendulum to swing more freely you can see here on the screen and you can easily observe the difference of the oscillations so let's talk about the application of this pendulum walton hoofen's apparatus consisting of a pendulum was primarily used as a teaching tool for demonstrating the principles of eddy currents and magnetic damping in physics while there may not be any practical real-life applications for the specific apparatus the concepts it demonstrates have a wide range of application in various industries such as electrical engineering material science and non-destructive testing eddy currents are used in non-destructive testing techniques to detect flaws or discontinuities in conductive materials magnetic damping is used in various applications such as in the design of mechanical systems where it is used to control the motion of moving part and reduce vibrations so I think it's enough for today so thank you very much for listening and watching I hope you enjoyed the video I hope this video is useful for you so take care of yourself and don't hesitate to write an email if you have any question QD suggestion and even classes are required take care of yourself meanwhile see you in the next video goodbye


So, in this video, I'm going to show you how to build a website in under 5 minutes. Now, my name is John Prestani. I'm an internet entrepreneur. I've been doing this for years. But I'm going to show you how you can as well. Now, check this out. We're going to be going over a few things here. I'm going to show you how to register a domain. I'm going to show you how you can get a free website so you can get started. I'm going to show you how to choose the look of your website. And I'm also going to show you how to edit the content and put up some of your own content in under 5 minutes. And after that 5 minutes, I'm going to go over some advanced money techniques to start making money. So, let's get this started. I'm going to show you right here. Let's get into it right here on my computer. Let's go. So, building a website under 5 minutes. I'm going to show you how to register a domain. Choose the look, edit the content. Let's do this. So, first off, you have to get a website domain. Now, if you use one of my top 3 recommended hosting providers, the link will be the first link in my description, okay? So, go down there. You will get a free website but you have to pay for the hosting. Use my recommended hosting provider right here. Now, as you see, it's actually $2.95 a month but you get a free domain. So, usually you have to pay something like 10 to 25 bucks to register a website just like bluehost.com right here. But in this case, you'll get it for free and you're getting very cheap hosting, $2.95. Now, what you want to do is just sign up for the basic plan right here. Then we will come over to this page. We're going fast. We have to do this under 5 minutes. You'll want to select your domain name. Now, it doesn't really matter what it is. You can type in random stuff because nobody really looks at domain names anymore and you can check to see if your domain's available. I love hedgehogs do you and you can click next and see if it's not available. So, once you see that your domain's available, you want to sign up, fill out all this information. Again, you're registering domain. You have to fill out information for them to see your domain. Now, I suggest you register for the cheapest plan which is the $2.95 for 36 months. You get your primary domain registration for free. I also suggest you sign up for the domain privacy plus protection. Otherwise, you're going to get a lot of spam emails. You're going to get a lot of spam calls. Trust me. You don't want this information out there. I would just keep that checked. Everything else, I would just leave unchecked. You don't need any of that other stuff. Just the privacy and the cheapest plan. Then you need to enter in your credit card information to set up your website and you click submit right there. Now, after you sign up for a website, congratulations. You now have a website. Well, you have a domain. To put the website on it, we need to set it up. Go in the blue host. It'll look something like this. Now, you'll want to scroll down and you'll want to go to where it says my sites right there and you'll click that and it'll be blank. Have no sites. It'll say you don't have any sites. You'll want to click this button right over here that says create site right there. Now, I suggest use WordPress. It's been around for 10 or 20 or 30, 50 years. I don't know how long, but it's been around forever. This is what everybody uses. This is what has the most support. I have no idea what this new company is, but just forget about that and use WordPress right there. And there's over 10,000 themes. Now, the site name will just be my weight loss blog and maybe lose weight and drink. So, there's our website. Create a new WordPress website. Then we'll click next.  So, if those I love guinea pigs or I love hedgehogs, it'll be there. In my case, I registered a site called learnit.com. You don't need to select any of these. You can select all of them. They're free though. They won't cost you any money forever. You don't have to worry about any future charges from the free plugins. You can select them or not select them. It doesn't matter.  The information will be emailed to you. You'll have your password, your username to log into your site. Again, all of the details will be in your email. But what you want to do now is save this information here. And then you want to click this button which is log into WordPress. After you log into WordPress, you want to go over to the area that says appearance and then themes. See right here? So, there's a button with a paintbrush that says appearance and then there's themes. Click right there. In this area, you can choose your theme. Now, spend as much time as you like but there's lots of different themes here. Generally speaking, there's one, two or three column themes. You can have two thirds and one third, one third and two thirds. There's two columns and two thirds and one third. Whatever you like. Now, I'm going to use 2017 because that looks pretty.  Again, there's over 10,000 themes you can search from. Take your time. Have fun. Figure out how you want your site to look. Now, once we've logged into WordPress, we want to actually choose the look of our site. So, what we're going to do is we're going to go down here to where it says appearance. We're going to click that and then we're going to mouse over themes and we're going to select that right there. Now, once you're in here, you have over 10,000 themes to search from and there's different ways that you can search for themes. You can just scroll down. You can search by a color maybe. Now, there's over 10,000 themes here and in order to find more themes than the ones that are preloaded, you can just go click this button right here which says WordPress.org themes. This is where most of the free themes are. You can type in filter here. Type in feature filter and you could say, okay, I want it to just be one column and I want it to be a blog or maybe you want it for e-commerce. Then you can just say apply filters. Here you go. Here's some fun. Let's preview this one. Maybe we want our site to look like this. We want it to be kind of fun and we can put an image here, do all sorts of stuff. We put our blog posts and they show up every day here or maybe we want our site to look like this. We want it to be more of a gallery. We can preview this site right here. It's kind of like a gallery of different images or links. There's a number of different ways you can do things. If you're a photographer, you could find something that's more photo friendly for whatever you're doing. It doesn't matter. We're on a schedule here. We're staying with the standard theme here. Edit, welcome to Museum of Modern Art. Now, let's say you wanted to add a blog post. I want to do your first blog post. In order to add that, you would actually go up here to where it says posts and you click right there and you would click add new post right there. Now, by default, every website has a post called Hello World. It's kind of like an inside joke, I guess. Here we just add our title and we'd say, How I Lost Weight Drinking Beer. Then, you know, I'd say here's how and here are my recommended beers. Let's say that's our blog and in order to create a link here, we would just highlight this. We click that little link icon and we'd say, you know, whatever our site is, maybe we're advertising an affiliate link, whatever it is and boom, there we have a page. And then all I would do is click publish. Right up here, click publish. Now, we have our post and the last thing you need to do to activate your site is you need to come up here to where it says blue post, home. I clicked right there. Click this button that says launch your site right there or else nobody will be able to see it. And once we have clicked this link, folks, we are now live. Whoo! I hope you enjoyed that video. I think it was under five minutes. Registered a domain. We chose the look. Created some content. We created a blog post in under five minutes or something like that. I don't know. I'm not actually timing myself. Now, the next step is I'm going to show you some advanced money techniques to actually make more money from your websites. This is going to be especially useful if you're creating a website not just for personal or blogging or whatever. But if you're actually looking to create websites that actually get people interested in buying a product. Now, if you're just looking to build a relationship with people, whatever goes. Start your blog, link to it on your other social media and you'll start getting people coming to your website. You just continually post content on social media every day.  You can create a business very easily as long as you're consistent. Again, the payoff is huge. The payoff is monstrous. I make millions of dollars a year running internet businesses. Mostly hands-off at this point. I put in a couple years of work and it pays off far into the future. But in your case, you have to put in the work. You have to be consistent. It takes years and years of work to actually get anywhere.  So, faith, right? Faith, act out of faith and not out of fear. If you act out of faith and not out of fear, you're not going to be continually changing businesses and starting a social media and stopping a social media. Many people act out of fear. They say, I don't think this is going to work. I'm not going to do it anymore. And they stop or they never do anything at all. Work towards it. Now, while WordPress is nice and simple and easy and free to build websites, the way I actually build my websites is using a website builder called ClickFungs. It's non-technical. It's very easy to use. You aren't limited to certain themes. You can move and drag and drop things around as you may. There's also a lot of features built in specifically for people that are trying to make money from their websites. Specifically to help market products, to sell products and to make it happen. And if you want to give yourself the best advantage to actually sell products and earn money. Whether it is a food product, whether it is a some sort of product that you're drop shipping from China. Or whether it's just you're trading your information or salting or running an agency. ClickFunnels, it's the best for that. And it's built specifically to help you make money. Now, I register my websites through Bluehost and I use my hosting there. But I build my websites in ClickFunnels. And let me tell you a little bit about that. ClickFunnels, it says quickly create beautiful sales funnels. Again, this is not something like Squarespace which is just meant to show off your photography collection or show off your architecture designs. This is built to move product and make you money. And I make up to $700,000 a month with my online business. Check this out. A sales funnel is basically built to move people along from getting them onto your email list or your other social media channels. Built to make build value to make people like you. And also it's built to collect money. Now WordPress is not going to collect money for you. ClickFunnels will collect money for you via Stripe, Visa, American Express or MasterCart. It's ClickFunnels is even built to help you upsell people so you make more money and to deliver product if you're running an info product. So all of these things, again, if you are trying to make money with the internet, if you are trying to use the internet, if you are trying to use your website to make money, I encourage you sign up for ClickFunnels. There's a 14-day free trial right after you build your website. You build your website for free. But if you're looking to make money, try building your website with ClickFunnels. You won't regret it and you'll see there's so much training inside of the community. It's absolutely amazing. Now to get a bit into how much does it cost and all that stuff. It costs $97 a month. Now for most of the 13-year-olds that are watching this video on freaking portrait mode, flip that phone landscape mode. I know you're scrolling through the comments trying to see, you know, does this work for everybody? Get some confidence. Because this is important stuff here. ClickFunnels, it's $97 a month but it's worth every penny. Now I'm going to show you how to link ClickFunnels with your blog right now. So how to link ClickFunnels with your website. You'll actually go down here and you'll click plugins right here inside your site. You'll click plugins and then you'll click add new plugin. Now within here with WordPress interface, you'll just type in the keyword ClickFunnels right over here in the search bar. Now after you search ClickFunnels, you'll scroll down here. You will be able to select this thing right here and click install now. You'll say installing and congratulations. You installed your first plugin and you'll click activate. Sorry, I'm eating these macadamia nuts. I'm on the keto diet and I love macadamia nuts now.  It's really cool. So you click activate and then where you'll be able to connect things is you'll actually go over here right in between here. ClickFunnels and you'll click right there. New plugins you install will typically show up under the plugins area or they'll create their own little sidebar icon within WordPress and in order to connect things, you have to click finish plugin setup and then you will type in your account email and your authentication token which you just email ClickFunnels support. After you sign up, you'll just respond to the email and ask them what is your authentication token and then you'll be able to design beautiful websites. Let me just show you a little bit about how ClickFunnels works and how you are able to design beautiful websites using it. So let's say I want to check out my affiliate funnel. Let's check out this page for instance. This page I built with ClickFunnels. This already happened but this has a countdown timer that counts down minute by minute. It allows me to create a button where I mouse over it and it appears like that. Now let me show you an example of a beautiful website that I've built with ClickFunnels. Preview the page and I'll show you how we can edit it.  When you scroll the video can appear in the top right. When you mouse over buttons it changes colors. Everything is WYSIWYG. What you see is what you get. It's an editor and you can just design beautiful, beautiful, beautiful pages that are built to sell. It's kind of ugly but it's built to sell. Edit the page. We just click here and what you'll see very different from WordPress, everything is drag and drop. Let's say I want to move this element over here or let's say I want to change out this video. Let's say I want to change it to a YouTube video. I would just go to YouTube and I'd copy and paste the link of the YouTube video right there and that's what would appear in the video. Everything is very, very, very simple to use. Let's say I want to change the look and color of the button. I would just click on the color and I just click a different color. Oh I want it to be green or I want it to be purple. Now let's say I want it to change the look and feel of the text. Just click this button and I could say I want the text color to be blue or I want text color to be red. Just drag and drop and things change very easily. Let's say I want to add another picture. I would just click plus and I would say oh let's do image. What image do I want it to be? I just want it to be a stop sign.  I can move it over here easily. I can move my picture over here easily. I could do whatever I want without knowing any coding whatsoever. Whereas if you design your site through WordPress in order to really customize to look and feel of things you need to know a little programming or you need to hire someone. Whereas here I just move this over like that or I can just make this move it around just with the click of my mouse. So that's why I love click funnels because I don't need to know any programming and I can design sites and make up to $700,000 a month doing so. So that's the beauty of it and then you just click save or what not there. Everything is super simple and it's all done. Connect your site with your click funnels and suddenly your site becomes get the ability to make a lot of money. And that's not to say just click funnels the community and the trainings alone are worth a ton of money here. And what you'll see is if we go to the dashboard and what you'll see if you go to the dashboard of click funnels is they also have a lot of training to help you actually become successful online because click funnels is a website builder meant to help you make money. They have a lot of training to help you make money and you'll see here in the success past they have the affiliate boot camp. They have a 30 day camp to help you figure out what you want to market, how to market it. They give you website templates to get started and make it happen. Show how brick and mortar websites can make money. They also have documentaries on all of the people that are making lots of money. Thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars every single month with the websites they've built on click funnels. One thing you'll notice here too is they have awards. They have annual event every year. This is the click funnels 2 comma club award. I'm really proud to have received for getting 2 commas into my revenue. I'm making over a million dollars with the funnel that I set up with click funnels 2 consecutive years in a row that I've been using click funnels on my funnels. And it's just totally changed my business and made my life a lot easier. And all of the training I don't really go through the training. I already know this stuff. I'm making like a lot of money comparatively I guess. But if you're just getting started in business, all of this free trainings they have, the events they have, the community they have created can really help you get your start. Check it out. I hope that helps. Get your website started and let me know what you enjoyed the most about this video in the comments below. Looking forward to seeing you soon. One of my next videos makes you murder that like button and that subscribe button. I have a lot more videos coming out in the future. Looking forward to talking to you soon.


In this video, I want to talk about the derivative of the natural exponential function edx. Have you ever wondered why mathematicians like the number e, which is approximately, it's an irrational number, right? It's approximately 2.718281828. What's the big deal? What's so natural about this exponential? I mean, after all, we call the logarithm base e, which we usually call ln for short, the natural log or the logarithm natural. What's so natural about this number e? Turns out this video will actually answer that question. From an algebraic point of view, there's nothing really natural about e. But from a calculus point of view, everything is natural about e. It's the best exponential. The function e to the x has the property that it's equal to its own derivative. The derivative of e to the x with respect to x is e to the x itself. If you take the derivative of e to the x, it's just e to the x. It's its own derivative. With respect to the differential operator, e to the x is a fixed point. It doesn't move when you take its derivative, which is a very interesting concept. If you think about it graphically, that is to say, we were to graph the function e to the x, it would look something like the following. What we're saying here is if you take a tangent line at any point on the graph, the slope of the tangent line is actually identical to its height above the x-axis. It's very phenomenal. We'll see later on why that's such an important thing, but let's actually see the proof first. If we want to take the derivative e to the x, we have to look at a difference quotient. Use the definition of the derivative. It's going to be the limit as h approaches 0 of e to the x plus h. Notice if f of x here is equal to e to the x, then this right here is just f of x plus h. That's what it is. So we're taking the limit of e to the x plus h minus e to the x all over h right here. So we have our difference quotient, but it's an exponential expression on top, right? You have e to the x plus h minus e to the x. By exponent rules, you can take e to the x plus h and factor it as e to the x times e to the h. The benefit of this is that now you see that e to the x is a common factor, which we can factor out giving this right here. And when you look at the expression e to the x, it doesn't depend on h whatsoever. e to the x is a constant with respect to this limit process. As h is getting close to 0, e to the x is just still e to the x. So as such, we can factor it out as constant multiple. So this difference quotient turns into e to the x times the limit as h approaches 0 of e to the h minus 1 over h. And now this is the hard part. This limit of e to the h minus 1 over h as h approaches 0, this would normally be a difficult thing to do. But the good news is in our lecture series, we've already approached this limit before. In a previous video, we showed that this limit is equal to 1 as a consequence of the squeeze theorem. Take a look at the link that you saw on the screen if you want to see the details of that. What that does for us then is that if we finish this up, e to the x times this limit, which turns out to be 1, you'll get e to the x times 1, and we see that then the derivative of e to the x is equal to e to the x itself. It's quite phenomenal, really. So e to the x is its own derivative. The derivative of e to the x is e to the x. This is incredible, really is. You're gonna love this because it makes calculating the derivative involving e to the x so much easier. But math geeks like me also really love this because this property will be very valuable in the process of solving so-called differential equations, which is something we do in calculus all the time. So in a nutshell, this is an awesome property. In fact, the reason mathematicians first started considering the number e is because they wanted a function which exhibited the property that when you take its derivative, you get back the original function. And that's where essentially the number e came from. Let's put this into practice. Let's find the derivative of f of x equals e to the x minus x. Let's actually find the first derivative, the second derivative. We can keep on going, right? Because the derivative of e to the x is always itself, it makes it very easy to calculate these higher derivatives. If we take the derivative of f of x, we're going to take the derivative of e to the x minus x. But by the sum property, we'll take the derivative of e to the x separate from x, for which the derivative of x is going to be one and the derivative of e to the x is itself. So the derivative f prime is going to be e to the x minus one. If we then take the second derivative, we're going to take the derivative of the first derivative, which then gives us the derivative of e to the x is e to the x. The derivative of one is going to be zero, and so the derivative becomes e to the x. And then we see after this that all higher derivatives, like the third derivative, it'll be e to the x and all higher derivatives are likewise going to be e to the x, in which case it's a very simple calculation of the derivative of e to the x, it's always itself.