What is up, everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul, where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And this week, as voted by all of you beautiful people out there, I am going to be focusing on how to be a better person.  And this is going to improve your mental health, but this is a topic I didn't think many people would want to hear about on my channel. Like I try to do a lot of things that are evidence-based and science-based, but these are things that have helped me out to be a better person that have greatly improved my mental health. And I could do like weeks and weeks and weeks worth of this stuff. So if you like these types of videos, please make sure to give them a thumbs up. Like this is just a bunch of life advice that have helped me out so much when it comes to improving my mental health. Like these are different things to go in conjunction with like meditation and therapy and non-narcotic medications and things like that. But anyways, this video I'm going to talk about like being useless, okay? And the opposite of being useless is being useful. So I'll be completely honest with you, completely 1000% honest with you because that's what I got to do on my channel. Yesterday I didn't upload a video. I had one planned out, but I didn't upload one because I was busy being useless, okay? So if you're like me, and this is a little bit of a follow up to an old video I did, really old video, a lot of you never even saw, but it's about how being in a pity party is the worst thing that we can do and how to get out of a pity party. And yesterday I was in a pity party, okay? Things are going on in my life. Things are changing. Things are happening. And things aren't going my way. And my brain and a lot of our brains default into me, me, me, me, me, why is everything so bad? Why don't people do what I think they should do? Why is everything so wrong? My life's terrible. Everybody's against me and all this stuff. And we sit in that and we sulk in that. And the problem is, is that we start to be useless to ourselves and others. So when we talk about the opposite of uselessness is usefulness, right? What's being useful, okay? It's our motivation. It's our drive. It's our passion. What gets us up in the morning is what makes us happy, all right? So what makes me happy? What makes me happy?  That's what makes me happy. But when I fall into this mode of self-pity and self-doubt and all these other things, I want to curl up in a little fetal position and just not move. I shut down and you might be able to relate to this, okay? And that's what happened yesterday. I pretty much shut down. Now I will say this. I got to go spend some time with my son. We went to the Esports Arena here in Las Vegas.  I had fun with my son and things were great. But the problem is, is that afterwards, you know, on the drive home and I was taking my son back to his mom's house, my brain started going again. My brain started going back into self-pity and anger and resentment.  And when I get into that mode, I shut down, right? So dad's gone, right? That charismatic, fun dad that my son loves so much is gone. And that's what I want you all to kind of think about right now, is when you get into modes of anger or depression or self-doubt or self-pity, like, how does it affect the people around you? What happens to the people around you? Are you able to be useful to them? Okay? Now, this isn't to say that you're always going to be in a great mood because you're not. That is a very, very, very unrealistic expectation. But the first step in this process is to acknowledge what's happening. To acknowledge that the people in your life are being affected when you go into this mode, right? For some of us, we're not able to be a good son or daughter. For some of us, we're not able to be a good boyfriend or girlfriend or a good husband or wife, a good father or mother when we get into that mode. So the first step in this is just to acknowledge it. What I did personally many years ago is write down the negative emotions I have. And I wrote down, how does it affect my usefulness to others, right? And I started to really see, I'm like, wow, my moods, my mental health really does affect the people around me. Now, the other part of it is too that you might want to write down is, how does this affect my usefulness to myself? And as I mentioned, I'm not able to do the things that I love, the things that I'm passionate about. That's why I didn't upload a video yesterday. This is what motivates me. This is what drives me. This is what makes me happy. So I got to get out of that. I have to get out of it. Now, this can come in many different forms, but one of the biggest things that you just need to do is this. And this is going to be a theme all week long, all week long. This is going to be the theme. Every single day you should have one goal, just one goal. And I swear to God, this will make life so much better. The one goal that you need to have is to be just a little bit better. Just a little bit better. See that? You see how close my fingers are together? Just a little bit better than you were yesterday. If you wake up every single morning with the goal to be just a little bit better than you were yesterday, you are constantly in this forward trajectory. Okay? Things will improve. Things will get better. And what does being better mean? It could be anything. It could be acknowledging your self-pity. It could be acknowledging getting into that slump. It could be acknowledging how you're not being useful to yourselves or others. Just acknowledging that, right?  You start being proactive about these things.  You start exercising or meditating or seeing a therapist or taking your dang medications, right? You start doing whatever it takes to be just a little bit better than you were yesterday. So this morning I woke up and this isn't even the topic I was going to do yesterday, but I woke up just reinvigorated because I was able to reflect on my day yesterday and say, man, I fell into pits of being useless and I don't want to do that, right? So today I was remotivated with that patch and that drive, that go-gettiness, right, to help others around myself, which also helps me too, all right? So do me a favor and please share this video. Please share this video if you know of people who like to isolate, get into self-pity, or if you think this video helped you. Share with others because I guarantee you're not the only one going through this, all right? But that's what I got and I would love comments below on what your thoughts on this are. What do you think makes you useless? What emotions make you useless to yourself and others? Let's have a conversation down below, okay? But if you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up.  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Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel for the second time of the day. I didn't even change shirts, man. Same shirt let's freaking go. Anyway, this is Team of the Year preparation video number three, and we're talking about SBCs and SBC Fighter, because Team of the Year is a massive time on the game. It's also one of the times where we get some of the best SBC content that we see all year long, with, of course, upgrade packs that are out. We're trying to pack Team of the Year cards, and that allows us to craft and complete other SBCs that are out in the game, like Icon Pack SBCs, which we got yesterday that's already in the game, and of course numerous flashbacks. They have done Team of the Year moments from years past, like if you guys remember the Gareth Bale, but Player Moments SBCs and the end of an era rune, end of an era cards, they might be throwing out special SBC, there could be anything and everything during Team of the Year. So I'm specifically talking about SBC Fighter, and actually League SBCs as well, and I touch on those for a bit, as we already have mentioned a little bit earlier in the week, but I want to look into those again as well. So we're going to be talking about the SBC Fighter section of the market, which we already had some content released in yesterday on Tuesday, kind of a preface to Team of the Year with the base or mid icon upgrade, which was released yesterday in FIFA as a SBC that's out for 30 days, I believe. This thing's out for a long time, man. And honestly what it is, is this is just an SBC that EA is putting out to sit here during Team of the Year. That will be something you can craft and use your fodder in as we go out this team of the year promotion. Now, there's going to be other SBCs like Player Cards and stuff like that that we will be able to craft, but an SBC like this is going to make the SBC Fighter Market move. And I want to take a look at last year because I feel like last year, of course, it's going to be sort of similar to this year, although we might see more SBC Market fluctuations because there's just more and more SBCs that are put out every year. There was a huge buy time for SBC Fighter last year on FIFA during Team of the Year and a huge explosion in price. And I want to talk about why that happened and how I think it could happen again this year, but you'll be able to swing trade SBC Fighter throughout the week as well. So, again, last year in FIFA we had tons of... We had an icon SBC that was repeatable that was out. We had Flashback, Dava Louise, Player of Moments, Brano Silva, among many other. I think we had like a Flashback Zlatan as well that came out last year around the Team of the Year time period. And I want to show you some graphs and it's very similar looking between a lot of these cards to see what happened last year because of Team of the Year and also kind of talk through where card prices are at right now, where I think they could go to, whether that's up or down, and also picking like the best return on investment in terms of which rating, whether it be 84s, 86s, 88s, somewhere in between, what rating is like the best to invest in around this Team of the Year time frame. So, we're going to start with the lower tier ratings, 84 rated cards, right? Right now 84 rated, that's last year, as per the quota. 84 rated right now in FIFA are like 7 to 8 thousand coins. They're up a little bit and if we take a look at some of these graphs, you can tell that this stuff has been on the rise recently, right? Colman used to be 3,900 coins, but now as we have more and more SBCs out in the game, these cards have started to go up with Icon SBCs and stuff like that, Player of the Months. This Colman card was 9,000 coins, 10,000 coins last week on Wednesday when that Icon SBC released. It's since been down towards the AK range, but I wouldn't consider this to be low, right? We take a look at 84s and yes, earlier in the year there were 4,000 coins. They're probably not ever going to get to that range again since we have more and more SBCs come out during the year. But let's take a look and show you what happened to 84s last year in FIFA. Aspiricueta and Jerome Boateng are our two examples. Take a look at this. Jerome, this is Aspiricueta. At the start of team of the year, January 6th last year on a Monday. So last year team of the year went from Monday to 6th until basically a week after that. So like Sunday or Monday, the 12th or 13th is where it ended. But as you can see, SBC Fodder was up a little bit, 7,000 coins. And then with all the packs after the first day of team of the year on that Monday, this Aspiricueta dropped from about 8,500 coins, 95 on the Xbox, down to 6,800 and 7,500 on respective consoles. And then look what happens the week after. He goes from 6.8k on Sunday of team of the year all the way up to 15,000 coins and basically extinct the week after that.  Good, of course, for SBCs with the links, right? So he might not have been the cheapest 84-rated on the market, of course, because of his links, his used in SBCs. But look at this skyrocket after team of the year. The same thing happened with Jerome Boateng, right? He started, you know, team of the year time period like 6,800 coins. He drops down to 5,100 coins on that same weekend and explodes. You know, a couple weeks later hits a peak of 8,800 coins. He's up to the high 8,000 range, 9,000 range on the Xbox.  Jerome Boateng only went from 5,000 coins to 8,000 coins. He didn't have his greater return on investment, right? One thing to keep in mind is that the outside players center backs this year as well are doing incredibly well in terms of SBC fodder for moving up in price percentage-wise. But take a look, right? We've had SBCs this year, right? Go inside of these cheapest players by rating page on Footbin, I'll put the link to this page down in the description of the video. But take a look at these cards and figure out which ones move the most, right? David Alibis, 12,000 coins right now is an 84-rated card. What's he been at as a low? He's been at, you know, 10,000 coins, you know, 10K, but he's been up to heights of, you know, 13, 14,000 coins, kind of closer to where he is now. When you're looking at these graphs from this year in FIFA, look at the center backs, look at a lot of these cards that are some of the most expensive 84s because technically the more you pay, the more that that means people are paying for these cards anyway, or yours are about 9.5K. If an SBC requires left wings, look at this guy, he was 13K at one point this year, went down to about 8,000 coins, now he's back up to 9,500, right? So what I want you guys to watch for on these 84-rated, especially, is a drop-off because of the amount of packs that are going to be opened in the next few days as we have Friday that comes out, right? Even though there will be SBCs that will be dropped during Team of the Year, people aren't, you know, really working away at a ton of those SBCs until, you know, maybe a couple days in actually because people are worried about upgrade packs, they're worried about the market, trying to pack Team of the Years, and then afterwards, when Team of the Years go out of packs and when they're done grinding the upgrade packs and stuff like that, that's when they look towards, okay, let me try to complete these SBCs. And again, I want to kind of explain why you see such a huge rebound after Team of the Year last year because basically what happens is everybody is grinding upgrade packs where they're packing guys like Inditi, you know, they're packing 83s, 84s, 85s, 86s, and they're doing SBCs and they're opening tradable packs and everything, right? It's all about grinding packs, trying to get Team of the Years. After that, though, you still have SBCs in the SBC section that are still there and people have all these coins after opening Lightning Rounds, after opening Saved Up packs after Team of the Year. People have a lot of coins. There's a lot of SBCs that are still out in the game, that are lingering after Team of the Year, right? Whatever flashback SBCs we get, whatever, maybe if we get a Team of the Year nominee sort of SBC, or of course the icon upgrade that we looked at, kind of like we had that Roberto Firmino freeze card that stayed in the game for like 20 days, the SBCs that we will see during the Team of the Year will probably have longer duration periods where you can complete them in FIFA in this Ultimate Team and be able to do them after Team of the Year. But of course, once Team of the Year is over, your supply on those packs and those upgrade packs stops.  They want to go finish that icon pack. They have coins to do it that they just got from Team of the Year with packs that were open and stuff like that. So what they do is they go out and they buy SBC fodder and that's why you see crazy, crazy rebounds on these cards like this because of desirable SBCs, repeatable SBCs, and the lack of supply after Team of the Year ends. That's why you see massive, massive rises after Team of the Year last year. This was literally, if you look at Espele Queda, his biggest rise of the entire year was last year after that Team of the Year promotion, right? And what promotion are we going to have right after this? Possibly Future Stars, right? That's another big promo where SBCs have been good and there's been a lot of hype cards that have come out during that period as well. That's why you see this stuff really go up in price because the amount of coins that are on the market and of course the lack of supply that we had during Team of the Year and as these guys get turned and turned more into SBCs and into SBCs, they of course have less supply. So that's why I really like the high quality, good cards with good links and good nations that we always talk about, like this Coman left-wing card, even in Diddy as a CDM, we looked at Alaba even though you're going to pay a little bit more per card. You might be buying Alabas during landing rounds at 9,000 coins when you could buy Coronas at 6K, but your Corona might have a cap or it might only go up to about 9,000 coins, right? It might only go up to 3K, but your David Alaba card might go up to like 15, 16, I don't know what his price range is, but it could go up even further. So you have a higher ceiling and for the cards, EA likes to do SBCs these days with a lot of chemistry. So that bodes well for center backs, right backs, right wings, left wings and center mids from popular leagues, popular nations. The cards that go up this year in FIFA, if you look through some of these 84s, and for all the ratings we're going to talk about, and you see which cards bounce around the most, those are going to be the ones that you want to buy because that's going to be the ones needed for those high chemistry SBCs. So we looked at 84s. Let's look at 86s. We're going to look at Bonucci and Muller, right? Muller was always one of the cheapest 86s. Bonucci was a bit more expensive because of his links, right? What happened last year with these guys? One kind of situation drops down to 13, 14,000 coins and it rebounds to 20,000 coins the week after a team of the year ends. Literally 10 days later, he has almost doubled in price for this Bonucci card. What about Thomas Muller? Thomas Muller was down at 14k and also rose to about 20,000 coins last year. Now, SBC fodder is more expensive this year. 86s, right? Right now they're 22,000, 23,000 coins. Some of them are at 24, 25k. These guys are not going to be 14,000 coins, right? Thomas Muller this year is an 86 rated card is not going to be 14k during team of the year. There's just too many SBCs out and people have too many coins this year. It's raising the SBC fodder market. Now, could this guy be down at like 18,000 coins? Yeah, it's possible, right? It could drop to 20,000 coins, but I don't think you're going to see prices for the 86s, even the 84s like we were looking at. I don't think you're going to see drop-offs to where these guys go below where they were before December. I don't think you're going to see 86s again at 14, 15k. I just think with the amount of SBCs on the market and with the amount of coins in this game, these guys are just going to continually stay high. Now, they could drop a bit after maybe this promo like in March or something when the game kind of collides down a bit and the game loses a bit of its hype. But with the SBCs we have out right now, especially if they do like party bags and stuff for future stars, these guys are just continue to go higher because people are willing to pay. That's one thing that I've learned in the past couple of years is that people are willing to pay just about anything for a sick SBC pack from EA, right? They're willing to pay just about anything to get a cool pack like a party bag or to finish an SBC. They just want that reward and they're willing to do almost anything to get there, right? So, Muller would be a good buy this year. Again, Benucci with a high rise or a high percentage point rise because of his links that he had during the team of the year timeframe. So, 86s are honestly, 86s have been some of the best to trade with like this year because their fluctuations are nuts, right? Verati, 25,000 coins. This dude was literally, this guy goes between 23 and 25K, probably goes like 21 to 26 where you can actually flip him at. He goes, those ranges all the time. He was 22,000, 21,000 coins yesterday on Monday. Boom, SBCs come out, the guy's 25K and boom, he's up here right now. So, I don't think I would buy SBC fodder right now, but again, what we're looking at is we're looking at a buy time on some of this stuff as possibly later in the week during team of the year. Now, it's still gonna fluctuate during the week, but I think you'll still see it continue to go down. It might take a big hit on Friday and then continue to go down with a couple spikes here and there, depending on the content they put out, but we'll be seriously watching those prices and I wanna look at 84s one last minute as well. I know this is getting a little bit long. I wanna look at 88s, sorry, because they rebounded pretty well to 88, David Silva, 26,000 coins during team of the year, rebounded up to 34,000. So honestly, if you're looking at a legit return on investment, 84 is with incredible links, might be some of your best buys. Now you have PK here, who during January went to 25,000 coins and then went back up to 36,37K for a peak the week after. So in my mind, I think this year that 86s are the ones that have been used the most, and if you think about 86s, they're all around more versatile, right? You think about from an 84 rated squad, you might use an 86 for an 88 rated squad and anywhere in between there, you might use an 86. So I really like the 85s. I like the 86s. Even the 87s a little bit, right? We're gonna be getting into team of the year timeframe where they're probably gonna require more of the 88 rated squads, 89 rated squads for the higher tier icons that they put out in this game. So I don't mind the higher rated stuff, but as you can see, like 89 Keelini last year during team of the year went from 34,000 coins to 43. That's only 10K up, right? Some of the other cards went 10K up that were lower rated and it cost less per card to buy them. Now 91 Oblak is somebody I wanna check on too. He went from 48K to 63K. So some of like the 91 rated cards that are in the game this year, those could be decent buys as well. Oblak, Lewandowski possibly out of packs, Allison if he wins the team of the year, Terstagen like the 90 and 91 rated cards, they have their place in this game too just because those big time icon SBCs that do come out in this game. So that's a lot of stuff that we're looking at for team of the year. Now one thing I can guarantee you with SBC fodder is there's going to be SBCs, there's going to be lots of them. It's just gonna be about timing when we see those cards dip and when we see them rebound during that time period. I think you will see again if EA does play it like they did last year you'll see a crazy rise on the SBC fodder after team of the year. Now if you bought SBC fodder earlier this week and you're still holding on to it I would honestly recommend you could cash it, right? You could cash it right now because it is inflated. We just looked at Verati who was 22,000 coins, 21,000 coins and is now up to about 25,000 coins, right? That's a nice little profit right before team of the year starts because I expect a lot of this to go lower with all of the saved up packs being more packs this year than ever because team of the year is later more packs than ever means more supply than ever and I think you can watch these guys will go down during team of the year. Yes, they'll bounce back at some point. We're gonna be in for a major club stock opportunity with these cards later on during team of the year. So I just wanted to point out a lot of that stuff. I think you guys get the point. I think the point has been pushed across that it's a great time to buy SBC fodder and especially exiting the team of the year time frame. We should see a big rise on these cards but they'll still fluctuate around during the promo because EA will release SBCs but there's also just so much pack supply out there that you kind of have to be careful with it as well. Again, number one thing is good league, good nation and look through again. Go to this page. I'll put the link in the description of the video. As I said, look through these, right? Look through these cards. See which ones fluctuate the most even if you're paying an extra couple thousand coins per card because it's just more expensive for that rating. That just means you might see more potential profit because it is needed for SBCs with higher chemistry. So that's the video today. Oh, shoot. I forgot to talk about league SBCs. One last thing, league SBC silvers, right? If you have not looked into this rewards tomorrow on Thursday and squad battle rewards on Sunday night if they haven't risen too much already. The one that comes to mind is West Brom, right? West Brom silvers are like extinct on this game. They're so expensive. But look at silver cards from the league SBCs that are available in this game right now because they are going to rise in that team of the year time period as well because people just want to get packs and packs and more packs. So definitely keep an eye on these cards on days that we have supply. Marquis matchups on Thursday with rewards could be a good time to do this as well. It's just people probably are going to be holding marquis matchups. So just watch the silvers. If you guys are familiar with the SBCs it's a great time to get on these because they should rise with less supply. The packs that are open during team of the year don't have many silvers. It's all rare golds, right? So I think you'll see a lot of the league SBCs stuff go up in price as well during team of the year because people will be grinding those league SBCs for packs to try to pack a team of the year card. So that's what I wanted to touch on with league SBCs. But if you enjoyed this video and it helped you out at all smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nate The Foot Account. Catch you later. Peace. Out.


Family Theatre presents Ricardo Montalban and Bill Williams. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents Now You See Him, starring Bill Williams. And now, here is your host, Ricardo Montalban. Family Theatre's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families and peace for the world. Family Theatre urges you to pray, pray together, as a family. And now to our transcribed drama, Now You See Him, starring Bill Williams as Pete. Although there is no truth in the following story, and we offer it only as a fanciful venture into the improbable, the strange disappearance of Dr. Emmett Stack, as Heron described, could take place tomorrow, without violating one physical law of the universe. Lieutenant Kemper Robbery. Oh, yes, sir. Right away, Captain. You know, I've been very patient with you these last weeks, you know that? I know that.  One of the white-haired boys. Well, let me tell you, since this Dr. Stack disappeared after those robberies, you'd do nothing but stand by the water cooler looking like a man in shock. Well, supposing I told you I am in shock, or pretty close to it. And I'd say you ought to close this private detective agency you're running on the city's time, and tell me what you know. I'm not sure what I know. I'm not sure at all. Well, then what do you think you know? Where Dr. Stack is? I hope you're kidding. I'm not kidding at all. We have been scouring the city and the county and the state for this guy, and you were... I think I can take you to within 50 feet of where he is, but it might not do any good. It's just a guess, but I'd say 50 feet would cover it. Pete, when's your vacation coming up? Sure, sure.  I'm not laughing. I think Stack is still in Van Rootens. The jewelry store? That's also just a guess. But it's warm in there and no elements, no weather. Well, we went over the whole place. We went over with a comb. Where could he hide? I don't think he's hiding. I think he's trapped. And if he's alive, I think he knows it. I got the first inkling of what Dr. Stack was up to last March when you sent Sergeant Gomez and me out to his house to check on Vincent, his lab assistant. Yes? Mrs. Stack? Well, I'm Mrs. Stack. I'm Lieutenant Kemper, Police Department. This is Sergeant Gomez. Hello? How do you do? May we come in, please? Well, of course. Is something wrong? We'd like to speak to your husband if he's in. Well, he's busy just now. He's working in his laboratory out behind the garage. I can tell him on the house phone if it's really important. It is. Do you happen to know Mrs. Stack if Mr. Vincent is with him? Why, yes, Sergeant. They've both been down there since about three this afternoon, just after lunch. Ralph, can I speak to Emmett, please? It's an emergency. Well, there are two gentlemen here from the Police Department. They'd like to see him. Well, all right. No, I don't think they'll mind. Yes, I'll tell them. They're just finishing up some tests. Do you mind waiting a few minutes? Not at all. Your husband's on the staff at State Tech, isn't he? Well, he was, but this last year he's been working independently. He was given a grant by the Maynard Foundation. He must be doing some very important work. Well, I seem to think so. Is that humming sound coming from down in his lab? Yes, it's some kind of power supply, I think. I don't know too much about it. Pretty hard to take an afternoon nap with that kind of thing going on. You get used to it after a while. Mrs. Stack, how long is Ralph Vincent been working for your husband? About six months, I'd say. Would you know how he happened to hire him? I think he was recommended by someone at the university. Why? Just curious. He seemed to be pretty good at his job. I'm sure he is, or Emmet wouldn't keep him on. Oh, Emmet, this is Lieutenant... Uh, Kemper. Oh, of course. Excuse me. How do you do? Uh, Dr. Stack, Sergeant Gomez. Good evening, Doctor. Sergeant, my assistant, Mr. Vincent, glad to know you. Mr. Vincent? What can I do for you gentlemen? Just a few questions we'd like to ask you. About what? Privately. Very well. Come on into the den. Beth, why don't you put on some coffee? All right. Want me to lock up, Doctor? Yes, Ralph. You might as well. Well?  Ralph Vincent. I thought so. You know his background? Of course I know his background. Why do you suppose I hired him? We were just going to ask you. I should think the police would have better things to do than go around hounding a man who... We're not hounding anybody, Doctor. Ralph has paid his debt to society. He served his time, and now I think he has as much right as anyone else to a decent job and a chance to make something of himself. No question there, Doctor. It just seems funny his landing a job like this, something he has no qualifications for. He has more than you think. As a physicist? Of course not. I don't need that kind of an assistant, even if I could afford one. But Ralph's a good precision machinist. He has a fair understanding of electricity, and he's not afraid of work. Do you have any idea where he was around 9.30 tonight? I know exactly where he was, down in the lab, with me. We've been there most of the day. This is pretty serious, Doctor. If he wasn't there and you're trying to cover up for him, I'm not trying to cover up a single thing. We've been working there together since just after lunch. Read him the report, Joe. At 9.36 tonight, a burglary was reported by the firm of our pens and Rogers Jewelers 206 Front Street. Jewelery valued at $18,000 was taken from the premises. No evidence of breaking and entering was found, but a man tentatively identified as Ralph Vincent, a former convict with a record of similar burglaries, was seen in the vicinity at the time of the crime. That's nonsense. Who was it that claims to have seen him? A night watchman. He chose Vincent's picture out of a dozen mug shots. Well, then if I were you, I'd check very carefully into the watchman's background. We're doing that. Because he's lying. Ralph's been here with me all evening. I'm still not sure what originally gave me the idea that Dr. Stack himself was behind the robberies. But remember that day a few weeks later after the custom job when you called Joe and me in here and took us over the coals? Look, you're going to have to give this Vincent idea up and start fresh. He's not your man. He's our best bet so far. Forget him. What about the watchman on the art pens robbery? Well, he's singing a different tune. He's not sure at all it was Vincent now. And on the two subsequent jobs there haven't been any witnesses in any way Vincent had an ironclad alibi each time. I'm not so sure I consider Dr. Stack's word an ironclad alibi. Pete, the man is a respected scientist. We have no reason to assume that he... Sir, speaking. No, just a minute. For you, Pete. Hello? Yes, this is Lieutenant Kemper. That's right. I'm the officer that called. I see. Well, thank you. Thank you very much, sir. Bye. Well, I've got a motive for you. A motive for what? For respected scientists to go around holding up jewelry stores. That was one of the administrators of the Maynard Foundation. Stack's grant runs out in two months and they're not going to renew it. So that makes him a crook? I'm just saying it's a reason why he might be. What you seem to forget, Peter, my boy, is that you started out trying to hang this job on Vincent. I'm still trying to. And why would he go around heisting jewels to help Stack finance his research? Why would he cut the dock in it all? Maybe in exchange for the alibi Stack gives him. Oh, that's pretty thin. You know, Pete, there's one thing about these robberies that makes me wonder if maybe we're not barking up the wrong tree. Yeah? No breaking and entering. All the jobs have an inside look to them. No broken windows, no pride locks. That's the point I was just about to make. Vincent might have a contact in one of those places, but not all three. It's just too much to swallow. Who's ever doing it is getting a lot of cooperation. Admit it. And they're all one-man jobs. That's still no proof they're done by the same man. I think this is where we're going off. So let's have it my way. Forget about Vincent and Stack and start looking for another angle. Well, we did just that. On the taxpayers' time, Joe and I followed orders and left Vincent and Dr. Stack alone. But after hours, well, we figured the way we entertained ourselves was our own business. It took a week of waiting, seven nights sitting in the hills behind Stack's laboratory before we finally got the break we were after. Hey, Pete. Yeah? Likes just went out in the lab. Anyone come out here? No. Sit tight. What kind of experiments is Stack working on anyway? You ever heard of a thing called the Lorenz Transformation? Yeah, no. It's a series of mathematical equations worked out by a Dutch physicist. Well, if it's a arithmetic, forget the question. Keep down. Someone just opened the door. Yeah, it's Vincent. Isn't Stack with him? I don't see him. He's locking the door from the outside. Well, the dock must still be there where we saw him go in together. And how come Vincent's locking him in and why are the lights out? There he goes around the other side of the building. I don't get this at all. Maybe Stack's in some kind of trouble. Vincent might have sapped him or tied him up in there. How do you like that? He's driving off in Stack's car. Got your key collection? Yeah, right here. Limber him up, boy. We're going in that lab. I think this one's got a key. Good boy. Inside. It's pretty black in here. Let me have your light. Yeah, here. Thanks. Hmm. No sign of the dock, huh? Nothing. How about that wall locker? Jacket? A pair of tennis shoes. That's all. Well, he's not here, partner. Figure that one out. There wasn't much to the place. At first glance, it didn't seem to have any more equipment than you'd find in the average high school physics laboratory. But there are a few exceptions. The small wind tunnel, for example, with a blower at one end. Electric hook up connected to the horizontal revolving disc. And lastly, the big microscope and the set of what looked like watchmaker's instruments. It still leaves us in the cold about where the dock is. Bring the light over here a little closer. Hmm. What's this look like to you? Wooden matches, little pieces of them. You look more like balsa wood to me. You mean that model airplane stuff? Hey, look. Look at the back of the table. Some pieces of thread. Some more of that balsa stuff. All tied together. Hey, look. When you unwind this, it's like a tiny model of those rope ladders you see on a ship. Yeah, a Jacob's ladder. How do you figure this kind of doodling ties up to big equations like the dock's supposed to be working on? A tiny rope ladder and watchmaker's tools. I don't know. It could, but it's pretty crazy. But it could to the arithmetic? Yeah. And maybe even the robberies. The thing I was telling you about, the Lorenz transformation, it's a mathematical formula that was used to work out a lot of the theories of relativity. The fourth dimension, that whole business. Man, where'd you get all this? Reading up on Dr. Stack and the work he's doing. I've been at it a couple of weeks now. You're going to lose me if you get in the Einstein. I couldn't walk five feet in that direction. But the Lorenz formula, what it proves is that as a thing moves faster, it gets smaller. I dug out that much anyhow. I'm kidding. Is that so in the books? This is a new thought, huh? It goes back quite a few years. Lots of people are working on it. Of course, when they say moves faster, they mean a lot faster, up around the speed of light. Which is what? 186,000 miles a second.  You asked me, I told you. You're trying to say Stack's got it worked out how to move something around that fast? Well, this is where it gets a little muddy. The way the scientists explain it, speed is relative. Like a thing can be moving fast in relation to one thing and seem to be standing still in relation to another. Like two kids riding along side by side on bicycles. They can reach out and shake hands as if they were standing still, but they're not. I keep going. Well, if you could paddle fast enough to get up around the speed of light, they'd get smaller and smaller. They wouldn't look that way to each other, but they would to us. Like I said, it's relative. Yeah, you better go back and finish that book. I finished it.  There's no telling what a smart guy like the doctor could do with it. Uh-oh. Probably from up in the house. Mrs. Stack. You think she's in on this, too? It doesn't look like it. If she knew where they were, she wouldn't be calling down here. What are you gonna do? Take a chance. Hello? No, Mrs. Stack. It isn't Ralph. It's Lieutenant Kemper. I wondered if you'd come down here. We'd like to talk to you. Mrs. Stack took a good deal of calming down. Even after she got over the shock of finding us rummaging through a husband's laboratory, she still couldn't believe he was implicated in any wrongdoing. Although she had no explanation of where he might be or why he would have gone out without telling her. So we sat down to wait the three of us in the darkened laboratory. About 1130, we heard a car pull up outside, and a few moments later, a key turned in the laboratory door. All right, Vincent. What?  You heard him mack up in the air. What is this? Where's come Joe? Ralph, where's Emmett? Mrs. Stack, I... Where is he? What have you done with him? Take it easy, Mrs. Stack. We'll find out. You guys got a warrant to do this? Yeah, we got a warrant. See it? Five fingers full, all doubled up. Tough guy. You're under suspicion of a felony, Vincent. We don't need a warrant. Wallet, pocket knife, bottle of capsules, some change. And that's it. Where's Dr. Stack? I don't know. What's the felony? You'll find out when we book you. Where's the doc? I told you, I don't know. We saw you both coming here around six o'clock. You left alone at 830, and he's not here. Now where is he? He left ahead of me. Not out that door, he didn't. And that's the only one. Ralph, no matter what kind of trouble you're in, I'll help you, but please tell us... Mrs. Stack, I don't know. But he was here with you. He left. That's all I can tell you. What are you doing, copper? Just looking at this bottle of capsules. Any objection? No. Now go ahead. Look all you want. Did you find something, Pete? Something odd, anyhow. There's only one capsule in the inn. The rest of the bottle is filled up with cotton. Is that the felony?  Also, the capsule's empty. There's a pinhole poked in each end of it and half a dozen more in the bottle cap. Oh, Lieutenant, while you're standing here talking about capsules and bottles, my husband... All right, Mrs. Stack. Joe? Yeah? Take her up to the house. Call downtown and file a missing person's report on the doctor. Yes, sir. Mr. Vincent and I will be along in a moment. All right, Lieutenant. Start pushing. I've had it before. Not from me. I don't figure you're going to be much different. You light it up like a Christmas tree when I told Joe to file that missing person's report. Did I? You birds are all the same.  So I light it up. What's that going to get me? Five to ten? Well, you won't find Stack. Don't you think I know that? No, I don't think you do. You stood for six months at that man's elbow and watched him work. What looked like a miracle. I know that much. And then he got desperate for money, and you got an idea, a nice double-crossing idea. Prove something. Guess yourself blue on the face, but try to prove something. Do you? I'll do for a study. This bottle with the empty capsule in it. Yeah? You think I don't know why it's empty? Well, you know the rest. There was nothing we could book Vincent on. So we never even brought him in. Next morning, we got the report from Van Rootens about the robbery. But by then, Vincent had cleared out after wrecking all the equipment in the Doc's lab. And you figure he still got those jewels they heistened? I don't know. By now, he may have even gotten rid of them. Look, if they've been friends... I said gotten rid of them. Thrown away, tossed in the river. But between the four jobs, it was over $100,000 worth. Who tossed that away? A man who didn't want a risk getting caught and facing a murder charge. You think Vincent killed the doctor? No. I think he just abandoned him. But it might come down to the same thing if we could prove intent and recover the body. But you don't think so. I doubt it. It's been two weeks, and that time a man could starve to death. Okay, Pete, I'm ready for anything. What's your theory? Dr. Stack had worked out a way to reduce things in size by somehow reproducing the same conditions they'd be under if they were moving at a speed that approaches the velocity of light. And then what? He probably tried it on a lot of things, even living things. I think that's why the big microscope was there, to study their behavior. And finally, he must have tried it on himself. If he did, how small do you think he'd get? From the evidence we found, I'd say about half an inch high. Pete... Look, if you're going to ask me how I feel or when my vacation is coming up, I'll stop right now and go back and fill out some forms. I was just going to ask. What evidence? Can I use your phone? Sure. 602, please. Joe? Pete. I'm in Captain Surf's office. Would you get that box out of my desk and the letters and bring them down here? Fine. You bet. Look, Pete, I'm, uh... I'm not laughing, but what good would it do a guy to be only half an inch tall if he was trying to rob a jewelry store? After it was closed, he could get into it through an air vent, cracking a window, or even a keyhole. And then how does he get the loot out? That's what the evidence shows. You admitted these had to be inside jobs. Well, I'll tell you frankly, Pete, I can't admit much of anything about this. It's too bug house. Okay. But it's the only way you can explain about half a dozen other things that are even more bug house. Like what? Like what happened to Dr. Stack the night Joe and I saw him go into his lab and not come out. You figure Vincent carried him out. In the capsule in the bottle with the air holes poked in the top. Uh, half an inch high? You got a better answer? Okay. What's the other five things? Make it just one. Vincent, seen by that watchman near the Arpennes Place just after the first robbery. With Dr. Stack in his pocket. Try for another explanation. See what you come up with. Don't get hot. I'm just asking. Come in. Come serve. Oh, come on in, Joe. This is the stuff you wanted, Pete. That's it. Just set it on the desk. This is just the way we picked this box up at the post office, Jack. Wrapped the way you see it. Returned to sender. It's been returned each time after each job. A pens, the next two stores and finally Van Rootens. Now here's the letter they used to send out ahead of it. They? Stack of Vincent. I'm not sure which they used a phony name on both ends. Mr. George Kellogg, Van Rootens Jewelers, 14 Chaucer Place. Read the body of the letter. Kellogg didn't have anything to do with it. He was just a way they used to get the box into the place. Here, sir. Mr. Waldo Tatum. That's a fake name, too.  If for some reason you should fail to pick up this package by the 25th of this month, will you return it to your postman? The contents are insured and we have made arrangements to cover the return postage. Sincerely, Mr. Allen Bates. That's another fake name. Post Office Box 26. That's the one thing that ain't fake, captain. That's where I picked it up. This was their way of getting the equipment in and out of every place they were going to rob. They mailed it in and the company mailed it out. What equipment? Undo the wrapping and open the box. What is this stuff? What's it look like to you? Well, a lot of toys. They're not toys. I think that thing's a miniature hydraulic lift. A man about a half an inch high could operate it very easily. And that's a miniature tractor. And those little things are gasoline canes. Now, the way Joe and I have it doped out, they mailed in this equipment to the store they picked out to rob. Then, after he made himself small, Stack would have Vincent bring him to the place in the capsule. Somehow he'd get inside, cut open the string on this box and put the equipment to work and open the front door. Once Vincent was inside, it was easy. He'd emptied the showcases, repacked this box with the equipment, put Dr. Stack in the capsule and the little bottle he was carrying and leave locking the door behind him. And a day or so later, the box would be given back to the postman and who's the why, sir. Pretty neat, huh? And you think Vincent left Stack behind half an inch high on that last job at Van Rootens? He didn't come home with him that night two weeks ago. I saw the empty capsule. Where do you think the doc might be now? Like I said, one possibility is that he's still in Van Rootens. Oh, you think there's another? Well, now Joe and I were talking it over. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, Captain, how neat and tidy they keep those places. So? Well, it's kind of an unpleasant thought, but, well, unless Dr. Stack was real fast on his feet, will you spit it out one or the other of you? Let's face it, Captain. I'll face it. By now, he might be inside somebody's vacuum cleaner. This is Ricardo Montalván again. Just what is prayer? There are many answers, you know. It could be called the opening of our minds and hearts to God or calling for divine assistance, praising or blessing God is another definition many people use. Actually, though, prayer is nothing more than just talking to God. The form it might take doesn't alter its value as long as the prayer is sincere. How it is done is not nearly so important as that it be done for the very simple reason that God asked us to by giving us the Our Father, Our Lord's Prayer. 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to the 44 for the first here's Gabbard and he's taken down they got him low Galeas Campbell will get credit for that and 10 from their own 24 pick up the blitz the ball is batted in the air and intercepted Campbell has hold of it and the Cardinals get there for 93 here comes the Blitz it's picked up he squares up he watches Gabbard then gets the blame Gabbard the tip pass unlucky watch out here that's a safety Campbell adds to a really good night throws but under a lot of pressure when the game once they got behind I just had no chance that time that's a big yardage loss for the New Orleans Saints here make it green is golden but that's Galeas Campbell you see the the force fumble and then Galeas Campbell trotting in give my tower give credit third and 23 after the penalty Galeas Campbell comes up with it in a huge jump I think so second and fourth team the fourth sack of Russell Wilson all right Savage get away another sack the fleet let's not forget you know we talked about Deandre Hopkins but the Texans are really down a couple of receivers Jalen Strong is suspended for this ballgame will fullers out for this ballgame so they're matched up together on the bottom of your screen Savage with pressure coming and drill by Galeas Campbell and that is a franchise record for Jacksonville for most sacks by one player in a game Campbell has three and a half in his first season with the Jets count in trouble again and he sacked fourth sack today by the Jacksonville defense Galeas Campbell who knocks it in the air already has a sack he has a deflection clip second down and four golf is gonna be tackled for a loss by Galeas Campbell his second sack of the game he really has right here just continuing effort and I love that secondary move after the first move is the first time he was just activated for today's ballgame they say he was down Galeas Campbell so third and ten Gabbard from the shotgun while protected and now the football comes loose they play for the Jaguar on fire not only does he sack the quarterback but how he continues to get these balls out is just unbelievable he has had a defense event spot third and seven Gabbard buried in the power of their captain number 93 just powers up inside in his ear saying run this play he tells everyone in the snap it's a complicit press cut able to avoid it for a moment but not the second time Galeas Campbell has here as luck is dealing you saw eight straight completion what a play by Galeas Campbell as he just as they did a season ago but 93 to your left side that's a tough matchup for Ali Cox it's the Jags that press got an 82 yards rushing against Jacksonville this is something they knew was coming they still have to get it down in the backfield though this time it's Campbell finishing off Watson if you just spread the ball around you're taking advantage of zone defense you've got to be able to look at the other guys because once they click and three as we start the fourth quarter he's on stadium give us the Henry and Henry lost the ball Jaguars got in there and they will take over Jacksonville on the recovery there's the shot right there by Wilson look like class Campbell ripped the ball out watch Campbell with the left arm yeah he pulled the ball away from Henry second time this season that Campbell is forced to fumble third down in 16 and pressure on Rivers and he'll be sacked inside his 30 by Galeas Campbell three Jones was also in that play third and 12th here they come again for his late and the pass is knocked down Galeas Campbell is so good at that doesn't hurt that he's six here talks about Galeas Campbell not getting the pass for us being a little consecutive giant plays for Campbell keeping it a one-score game when you're a man who is six eight yeah and you put your you put your arms up how tall do you become I mean how high do you got to get that ball so that's a 300 pounds get they got a hunt in the backfield hunt for release percent watch as he reaches out extends oh it's actually Campbell Galeas Campbell the second one to swipe at it I thought Houston when he reached out with that hand was the one that knocked it loose but it's Campbell with that left hand able to knock it loose


Hello and welcome to Tau Meeting TV's coverage of Tau Meeting Day 2024. This program is part of a series of forums we are bringing you in advance of Essex Junction's annual election on Tuesday, April 9th. Tau Meeting TV hosts forums with all candidates and covers the questions you will see on your ballot. Introducing you to community decision makers and connecting you with issues that shape your local community. You can find all of our forums at cctv.org or on our Tau Meeting TV YouTube channel where auto-generated captions are available. On tonight's program, we will be hearing from Raj Chala, City Council President and Regina Mahoney, City Manager. So thank you for joining us. Tonight we'll be hearing about the Essex Junction budget presentation. If you are tuning in live, we also welcome your questions at<PHONE_NUMBER>. If you call in, we will do our best to prioritize your question, though we will screen calls to ensure that none are repeated. We also ask that you share your name, the town you live in, and direct your questions to the council. And great, so it's nice to have you here, and I'm excited to talk about the budget presentation, so please. Well, thanks for having us. We'll just get started right away. First question on the ballot this year relates to the budget. You can see the question here. Shall the voters approve an annual general fund budget in the amount of $12,04,124 for the fiscal year of July 1 to 2024 to June 30, 2025? $11,110,346 of which will be levied in taxes against the city's grand list. It's important to note that this is the second full budget for the new city of Essex Junction. About nine months into the first city budget, still wrapping our heads around this transition. Primary expense increases for this year that we dealt with are salary increases, which were expected, and a fairly large health insurance rate increase. Act 76 child care tax was added this year. We added a move to finance billing coordinator from part time to full time. We had an increase in general liability and property and casualty insurance increases in our IT services contract, and we are seeing some costs related to setting up a stormwater utility for next year. As I said, the total budget is $12,4124. It's a 5% increase from the current year, FY24. The average home value to $280,000 will see $170 municipal tax increase. The rate right now is .9199. It will go up 6.6% to .9807. The impact of that, as I mentioned, will be $170 on a home value to $280,000. This figure doesn't include the capital improvement tax, which is voted on every few years. This will be on the ballot again this year, and that adds $28 to the average home. We'll talk about that in a few minutes. Our general fund revenues, primarily 91%, come in from property tax revenues, 6% from global foundries, and 9% come in from, I'm sorry, I was rowing on that, 91% property taxes make up 91% of the revenue, excuse me. 74% come from residential properties, 11% from businesses, and 6% from global foundries property. Those pesky labels on this slide don't show up. They don't transfer when we come by. I don't know what's going on with that. We can dive in a little deeper. The largest expense in this year's general fund budget is health and human services, which includes Essex Rescue and the police contract we have with the Essex Police Department. That's about 25% of the budget. The next highest level, the next highest budget department is our streets public works department, which is 13%. Recreation, the administration budget for the recreation department is 9%, and our Browno library accounts for 8% of the budget. Apologize for the labels on this slide, but that is a breakdown, and this PowerPoint will also be available on our city's website and available when we have our annual meeting on the first. So, then we've got just a number of other articles that we've got to ask, and so this is another carryover question from separating from the town. So, the state, I'll just read it, shall the voters of the city of Essex Junction set the property tax exemption for disabled veterans at $40,000, as allowed by 32, 3802, 11C, state statute, set exemption to remain in effect for future taxable years until amended or repealed by the voters. So, essentially, when we were with the town, this was already in place. The state law allows for a minimum of $10,000 for this property tax exemption for veterans who apply for it, and cities and towns can increase that to $40,000, so the question is on there to ask folks for that, and this is a question that once it's put in place, it will remain in place until it's repealed by a different vote. So, this doesn't carry over, they have to vote on this for this to happen? Yes. Great. Yep. And so, our article three, shall the voters approve extending the one-cent capital improvement tax, also known as the Economic Development Tax, as established in 2016, to be reconsidered at the annual meeting in 2027. So, essentially, the voters have been asked for this one-cent capital improvement tax two times now, originally in 2016, again in 2021, and now it's up for renewal again. If it's approved, it'll stay for another three years into FY26. This tax has really been pretty helpful in terms of getting another number of improvements really in the core of the city for a lot of number of different things between signage, utilities, bike racks, and really what we're intending to use the fund that's built up right now for is the match for we have a congressionally delegated project for renovating our Amtrak station right in the center of Essex Junction, which will be really excellent. We also have a CERC alternative project happening right now in Essex Junction called the Crescent Connector. We are planning for that construction to be finished in the fall of this year, and there are just a very minor number of improvements like bike racks and, I think, EV chargers that are the responsibility of the city for paying for that. So, this kind of, this fund can really help us do some of those things that just don't get covered by other bigger funding sources. So, it's been really pretty helpful. Article 4, shall the voters approve holding the 2025 annual meeting on Tuesday, April 8th, 2025? So, I'm not going to read the rest of that, but essentially we have asked the voters to set the annual meeting a whole year prior. Last year we actually had the voters put some charter changes in front of the voters, which will allow the city council to set that date by January 1 each year. The governor just approved those charter changes last week, I think. So, we'll be able to do some changes next year, but for this year we still have to stick with our charter as it existed prior. This question is on in order to set that date, and I think that's it. Article 5, we've got a moderator. Again, that's a position that was changed in the charter, so next year we probably won't have to ask for that anymore, but two city council members are up for election and two library trustee seats as well. Great. So, moderator position, what is that? So, the moderator traditionally moderated the actual floor town meeting style annual meeting. We have since moved to Australian ballot, so there isn't that same, you know, hand raising on the floor. And so, the moderator, we still have for the informational meeting, and so it's still a position that's in the charter. It just doesn't need to be elected by the voters. Great, great. Yeah, so just some upcoming dates. We're going to have another coffee chat. We've been holding a few of those in preparation and putting the budget together, as well as now that it's set for the voters, so that'll be March 28th at 6 p.m. We mail out a newsletter that explains these articles and has a brief summary of the budget, and that is arriving in folks mailboxes this week, which is great. We also mail the ballots as well, so those are arriving shortly. On April 1st, we will have our informational hearing. Again, that is also online only at 6 p.m. And then on April 9th, day after the eclipse, we will be having our voting day at Champlain Valley Expo in the Blue Ribbon Pavilion. Great. And the ballots that are mailed, is that automatic? Is that something people need to request? They are mailed automatically. Great, great. We should also point out the annual report is now available on our website. Folks want to download a copy of that. Are there printed copies? There are. Yep, so folks can either come in or ask us if they'd like one mailed to them. Great. Anything you are particularly excited about, or anything you're looking forward to for the city? Oh boy. You know, we're wrapping up a strategic plan, planning process. It was one of the things we wanted to do as we transitioned to becoming a new city. We've just launched a second survey for that, which will ask residents to prioritize some larger themes. And then once that closes, hopefully in the next four to six weeks, we'll have some results from the process. And we're really looking forward to diving into those results and seeing what's next. Seeing where the community wants us to prioritize and going from there. So that's something that comes immediately to mind. Great. The strategic process was pretty interesting. We've had a lot of pressure on that as other communities have faced as well from inflation and other rising costs. There really isn't anything, no real new initiatives in this. There is an effort to explore a stormwater utility, so there will be some costs there. Those costs will hopefully be recovered when or if that utility is set up. Not a lot of new initiatives in this. The increase is largely from an increase in expenses that are mostly out of our control, unfortunately. And that survey you mentioned is that available on the website? It is. It is. This URL takes you directly to our annual meeting page. But if you go to sxjunction.org, that should be able to find it right there on the front page. We're going to have that open for a number of weeks, so it'll be great if folks can participate in that. We've got all kinds of awesome things that people want to do, so it'll be really helpful to the council to sort of figure out how to kind of focus and prioritize that as we're moving forward here in the intro years of the city. Great. Well, if that's everything, then I'll close us out. Thank you very much for being here. Thank you for tuning in to TownMeetingTV's ongoing coverage of local candidates, local budgets and ballot items. You can find this in many other forums at cctv.org slash 2024. On our TownMeetingTV YouTube channel, voting for sxjunction is the day after the eclipse, April 9th. April 9th. And where's the location again? It's at the Champlain Valley Expo Blue Ribbon Pavilion. Great, great. Thank you very much, and thank you for watching and sharing with TownMeetingTV.


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I'm on Ross St. Brown rookie for the Lions disco. Livestka Chanel Jags Disco Kevin Y jets My main league is a is a dynasty league with my my friends that I grew up with That's a lot of fun purple disco Eagles Derek Barnett 23 at 35, so you're only drafted rookies in that for the most part in a very few handful of free agents So we draft like first week of June every year This is just all rookies Red disco Jamie and Davis Washington 16 of 50. Yeah, like I don't love that I think that is good, but I'm glad I have Lance in my back up disco down to cook Vikings Yeah, I'll do some more best ball drafts though for sure Love best ball disco rookie auto desvets Patrick Titans You go Titans But that's all strategy so much different Not a ton different, but it's pretty different purple disco damry-tunsel Texans 27 at 35 I know buns. I'm talking about something Samuel disco all out Darren Waller Raiders Almost pulled the trigger on a wall or a couple times and I was like, yeah, I'll wait. I got Dallas Carter I was happy about that. I think he's he's trying to have a pretty good year Eagles offense can be better than people think Disco fireworks Matt Stafford Rams. I Agree with Adelucas. I'd rather have Pollard as one like my third back Then Zeke is my one disco lockdown Aaron Donald Rams. Unless you have Zeke as your one in Pollard is your three. That's cool, too God Jonathan Taylor four of five Very nice on the Green disco, maybe neon green or lime green Very nice there for the Colts You went number one early, right rich took a boy. Yeah. Yeah, rich took Taylor number one, which probably would have done Disco rookie Ram two to a while. I'm glad I didn't have first pick though Disco Jags Mark Grinnell Cup at 3F. I felt was was fine. I would have taken the calf review was there a three Risky, but if he if he plays you're like guaranteed like to be very good Disco rookie bills Greg or so. I don't know if I would take JT number one if I had it I didn't have it. I wasn't thinking about it. Trevor Lawrence rookie Jags. Nice a blue disco Tom Brady for the Bucks Tom Brady, where is 18 of 79? Yeah, so that's like McCaffrey. I recovered. Well, I forgot who else I drafted But I I had these I had Nixon who was fairly steady for most of the year Someone else was pretty solid to put my strengths for my receivers, but I mean PPR they usually are Where was not she strapped? Blue disco Lions Billy Sims 30 79 what picket you have Seems pretty solid Could you take the second got Zach Wilson rookie and disco all-out Austin Eckler Chargers like Swift Disco rookie emergent Najee Harris Steelers wasn't Zeke Brad took Zeke Chavante Williams now Richard Chavante This rich was drafting because he was one was a swift. I like Swift Darius Tony disco lockdown tie-law for the Pats I like with a lot actually Red disco Bobby Wagner it's 2350 for the Seahawks Yeah, me too, Synvicta, I like those guys more rookie disco Dolphins Jalen waddle nice one there That's the photo variation for the Dolphins Who got Scrooge? I don't know if anybody took Dwayne a Scrooge Pink disco rookie Elijah Moore 6 to 15 for the Jets. I figured he'd be drafted 12 team league You probably should be drafted at least because he's the number of three receiver there So they can at least be a decent offense, you know, he might be Really of a roster spot, and I forget who picks great Disco rookie Colts pretty pay and it wasn't Sam wasn't no, that's weird Blue disco Ross Blacklock 24 79 Texans ronda more maybe no Sam took ronda more Disco Isaiah Thomas Panthers pickings Fireworks disco rookie Bears Justin Fields Yeah, no, I get it's in victim, but if he's like your last pick you could do a lot worse I guess disco Josh Jacobs Raiders. Yeah, Swift is good. He catches passes. He runs the ball That offense isn't as bad as people think it is not good But it's not as bad people think it is Tralance Niners rookie disco break Trevor Lawrence Jags Let's make sure that wasn't black one of one Yeah, I if you have to make a lineup. I don't like Metcalf. It's gonna be too boom-bust for me Disco David Johnson Texans, but in best ball. He feels pretty safe, you know all those touchdown dependent players As you hear a Steelers rookie disco Mike Evans or Mike Williams. Sorry chargers 43 to 50 Yeah, I wouldn't touch you out on anything either Like I guess it I guess it depends obviously depends like if somebody fell really far play, okay, it's like my fifth right receiver I'll take lock it got disco Nick Bosa for the Niners, but I trust lock it over Over DK Disco fireworks Raiders Darren Waller Yeah, walk Walker could be a decent pickup and rookie disco Otto Jets Elijah Moore They go jets My teams are I took some defenses earlier than I wanted to but I was looking at the board and I was like man There's just not a lot of really anything else. I guess I may as well get a jump on some defenses. I drafted The Niners, I think have the Lions week once I was like, that's a good spot plus the Niners are actually a good defense So maybe they end up being really good and I think I grabbed Grabbed the chargers. I was like, you know what this team if they can get a pass rush going They'll cause a lot of turnover. So I was like, yeah, you never know Rookie disco Otto Titans des Fitzpatrick second Fitzpatrick of the break Yeah, the bucks are in trouble man. They lost another one As in Victor, I don't know man At least we're in a weak division. You got a while to figure it out Purple Disco Seahawk Steve Largent 4 of 35. Yeah, Hawke is a beast I had him last year. I had Kittle and hawk.  So disco Rookie Colts, Dio Odi Ingbo Ah, Senvictus is the dark side I guess Rookie Disco, Ernest Jones-Rams Red Disco Dolphins, Byron Jones, 1950 Disco TJ Watt Steelers Disco Hype, Justin Herbert Chargers Disco Dan Marino Dolphins So Victor, what do you think the Dolphins are going to do this year? Undefeated. Uh, Disco Brilliant, Josh Allen Bills Lose, how dare you? That's it? That's all you're going to give me? Disco Texans killing or Zach Cunningham Here are the Boogie Balm and Fortnay Got Purple Disco Cowboys, Michael Gallup, number 12-35 Senvictus and I have friends on Epic Games Uh-oh, Sammy to get involved Yeah, Sammy too Devontae Smith, Rookie Eagles, Blue Disco Kidarius, Tony Giants, 22-79 And Disco Emergent, Trey Lance, 49ers That's going to do it, guys We just have three autos and then we had a really nice color here So we actually had Des Fitzpatrick, Elijah Moore and other Des Fitzpatrick And the Green Disco, Jonathan Taylor, Colts, four or five That'll do it, thanks again everybody We've got more football coming up


Maybe you need to scale back. Well, the film I'm talking about today is Whale Rider. It might be right up your canal. I was gonna say alley, but canal feels more appropriate because of the water and the whales. And let's start. Written and directed by Nikiki Karo, Whale Rider is based off a novel of the very same title. Actually, full transparency, I believe the book is called The Whale Rider and it came out in 1987. The film was shot in New Zealand. It has a very documentary style to it. Very kind of low budget, low res. Still very pretty though. Sometimes it's dangerous to follow a child actor throughout the course of a movie, but yeah, Keisha gets it. This girl is sympathetic. She's passionate. She wants to gain the admiration of her peers. And I do appreciate it going a little bit into the culture, which is something I'm sorely lacking. I am essentially a useless husk of skin and bone waiting for my time on this earth to come to an end.


Hi everybody, Dr. O here. This video we're going to cover Cook's postulates. So the name after Robert Cook, one of the most important historical figures in microbiology, we covered him way back in the beginning with the microbiology history lesson stuff. So he's really famous for a couple of things. These postulates, but also how he's kind of given credit to be the father of creating aseptic laboratory techniques and you'll see why he had to in order for his postulates to work. So he would have first used these postulates to prove that the causative agent of anthrax was the bacterium known as bacillus anthracis, so but we can use it in quite a few cases. But I really want to focus in on when we can't use it as well. So Cook's postulates are a way to try to prove that organism A causes disease Y, whatever. So you'll see here at the top that first thing is an organism that causes a disease should be absent from healthy or animals. So you see here that the healthy rodent has the, there is the organism is absent. So that's like kind of rule number one.  So number one, the suspected causative agent must be absent from all healthy organisms but present in all diseased organisms and that's very important. And number two, you take that and you isolate it and grow it in pure culture. So number two, the causative agent must be isolated from the diseased organism and grown in pure culture. So you take it out and you isolate it. So it's the only organism around.  So, so isolating pure culture is very important. He took this very seriously. He would have done rounds and rounds of isolating pure cultures, maybe six, eight different rounds of isolating pure cultures before he put them in the next animal. So step three, the cultured agent must cause the same disease when inoculated into a healthy susceptible organism. So he took that organism that he isolated in pure culture and gave it to another animal and it got the same disease or died the same way if it led to death. And then the last step in Cook's postulates, the same causative agent must then be re-isolated from this second animal and obviously be the same organism. So this is how you're able to prove that a certain organism is the causative agent of a certain disease. And this is very important and this was a huge deal back when Robert Cook came up with these postulates and actually did it, right? He proved the causative agent of several diseases. But I wanna talk about the ways this won't work. So number one, you keep seeing this term pure isolating, pure culture. Some organisms can't be grown in pure culture. So there are some organisms we just cannot culture. We're learning a lot more about that now. When you analyze samples genetically, you realize there might be four, six, 10, 20 times more organisms there than what you can actually grow on a petri dish somewhere. One good example would be like mycobacterium lepre. They have to grow it in the fat pads of rodents or like armadillos to get it to grow because there isn't an easy way to grow it in a laboratory and some organisms just cannot be grown. So if you can't isolate an organism in pure culture, then you really can't use these postulates. That's number one reason it won't work. Number two, if multiple organisms cause the same disease, you're gonna have a problem here. So think about like the cold or really lots of different things. Yes, you can prove that one organism is a causative agent of a certain disease, but you can't say it's the causative agent if there's multiple organisms that can cause the same disease. And then the last reason this won't work very well or when it won't work is if one organism can lead to multiple diseases. So you could take, let's say this first lab rat here died, let's say they have strepococcus pneumonia and they died of pneumonia. So you extract it, you isolate the organism, you grow it in pure culture and give it to another rodent and it dies of sepsis. And you give it to a third rodent and it dies of meningitis. See how one organism could cause multiple diseases. So those so cooks postulates very important. They were especially important back in the early history of microbiology, but you will see those are the three reasons that it doesn't always work. All right, so that is cooks postulates and the exceptions to those rules. I hope it helps. Have a wonderful day. Be blessed.