Welcome. Yeah thank you for joining us on fairly short notice. I'm Tim Briglin, the chair of the House Energy and Technology Committee, and Jared I've been reading some of the information that the Department of Health have been putting out on climate change. Yes. We didn't invite you in here to specifically talk about a bill. Okay. As an aside, we have a bills report committee right now that deals with climate change in a big way and how our state government would be involved in mitigating both greenhouse gas emissions and also addressing kind of adaption resilience issues. Okay. And some of those would certainly be related to how climate change affects people's health. Okay. And I know the Department of Health has in recent years done a fair amount of work on that and appreciate you sharing some of that work with us today. Sure. Welcome. Thank you. Happy to be here. Good morning. Good morning. I'm Jared Ulmer, climate health program manager at the Department of Health. And I wasn't sure exactly how you wanted to proceed. I have about 15 minutes worth of slides that I can walk through that kind of give an overview of some of the material you were asking about if you want to do something more just conversational less fine too. Yeah. We try not to be rude but we often interrupt. It's to help set up the conversation so it's set up for interruption. There are a couple of documents that you have that are listed on our committee's website. Okay. And so this one is just so I've got the right one up. This is the presentation that I could run through. Okay. You should also have there's our climate change and health and Vermont report from 2017 which is kind of it's it's like a 20 page summary of all the work that we had done to date on exploring climate impacts on health in Vermont. So it's kind of the extended summary of a 150 page report that we produced earlier. Okay. So those are the two main things. I think the other thing was just a link to our climate and health website. Yeah. Well I can just start walking through this presentation but feel free to interrupt and and we can chat in more detail about any of these. I just want to kind of give you an overview of some of the different things that we work on through the climate health program and just as a way of introduction. We were established in 2012 through a grant from the Centers for Disease Control. There's 18 cities and states on the map behind me that show the the different places that have received our similar grant and are continuing to be funded. So we have this kind of network of collaborators across the country and a really nice cluster of them in the northeast that are working on similar issues to us that gives us folks that we can compare notes with and work together on some of our similar initiatives like in the northeast tick-borne diseases and cyanobacteria blooms for example. I'm going to go on to the next slide which is just we always start acknowledging that climate change is happening. This frames all of the work that we do that Vermont's getting warmer. Our warm season is lengthening our cold season shrinking and we've also been getting wetter over time particularly with heavy rain events. Though we do acknowledge that there have been drought events sprinkled in these kind of weather extremes or something that we're coming to expect more and more of having extended wet periods and extended dry periods but overall expecting it to get wetter here over time. I'm going to go ahead to the next slide to jump into the health effects. So the seven health effects that I have on the screen behind me are the ones that we identified through some of our early analysis as being the seven that are probably most relevant for Vermont that we try to raise awareness about and work on various strategies to address and I'm going to step through those in the subsequent slides. Yes one slide each so it'll be pretty pretty quick. Can you go back? Oh yes. Just one back one more. Oh yes. The seven inch increase in precipitation? Right. Roughly what's Vermont's annual precipitation? How much it increases? I think it's about forty I'm forgetting how forty two inches is where we're at or where we started but around the forty to fifty inch so. Fifteen percent or there about increase? Sounds about right. Yep. Okay. So I always start talking about heat illnesses this is one of the areas that we focus the most on because there wasn't much attention on hot weather and health impacts prior to this program starting. We in some of our early analysis explorers of Vermont specific data that made it clear to us that Vermonters are experiencing health effects from hot weather at temperatures that we don't maybe don't think of as being that hot like mid to upper 80s we start to see emergency room visits increase and even for older adults more deaths on days that start to reach the upper 80s and warmer so we've looked at how we expect temperatures to change over time in the recent past we only have about six days a year that reach 87 or warmer and some of our climate projections that we've received from working with folks at the University of Vermont show that we we can expect the number of days reaching the mid 80s or warmer to double or even triple by mid century and we may have as many as three to five weeks of days reaching 87 or warmer by the end of this entry and just for perspective 2018 which was a really abnormally hot summer for us we had about 18 or 19 days that would have met this threshold so our 2018 was we kind of like to think of as a preview of what will become a normal summer for Vermont in probably 30 years so I know you have this with lower emissions and higher emissions so what is the time frame I'm sorry oh no I see it yeah sorry I think across the bottom it's progressing it further into the future right so depending you know lots of factors depending on how quickly we warm those are sort of our high and low and estimates for those different time periods and sorry can you so what happy to circle back to that and I I actually have two slides on heat because I want to talk about our projections and some of what we experienced in 2018 during the six-day heat wave that we had from June 30th to July 5th we were at 93 degrees or warmer for six consecutive days which was one of the hottest and longest heat waves we've had on record in Vermont three of the days the heat index which also accounts for humidity we had three days that it felt like it was above 100 degrees and one of the things that doesn't show up here is we had really high nighttime low temperatures for a couple of days during the heat wave Burlington Airport recorded the all-time highest low temperature of 80 degrees which is kind of odd thing to say but the temperature never dropped below 80 degrees I think it was the morning of July 2nd night of July 1st and what we observed during that time was that our blue bars here showing people calling 9-1-1 for some kind of a heat related complaint the purples are people going to the emergency department for a heat related complaint and the small green bars are unfortunately for heat related deaths that were recorded during or immediately after that that heat wave and these are really kind of unprecedented numbers for us on a typical early July day we expect one to two emergency department visits for perspective and we were seeing more like you know 15 to 20 on several of these days we've also never seen more than two heat related deaths in a calendar year and about the previous 15 years of data that we looked at so having four in a one-week period is pretty alarming fortunately those are the only four of 2018 but still four is you know too many from from our perspective and a lot of these the people that were affected or older adults that don't have air conditioning and often live alone so a couple layers of challenges there for helping keep people in that situation safe and healthy is there a particular geography here or is this the state of Vermont it's the state of Vermont yeah and we have tried to break it down in smaller geographies and the data get really noisy once we do so so these are average temperatures for the state then or these are these were at the Burlington airport right yes so shifting to tick-borne diseases and we can kind of love mosquito-borne diseases and with some of these we we've all heard and experienced the impacts of increasing Lyme disease and my bar at the bottom of the slide is anoplasmosis which is a little more severe tick-borne disease that's also spread by the deer tick the same as that spreads Lyme disease so we know we've been seeing increases in tick-borne diseases in the state we think some of that is attributable to climate change but it's certainly not just a climate change issue there's a lot of forest fragmentation and and just other habitat issues with the deer tick really expanding from areas to the south of us expanding further north over time as it's kind of repopulated reforested areas where ticks likely were hundreds of years ago and then when we deforested everything they were largely wiped out and a lot of their their hosts like deer and mice were wiped out yes so this past summer I had a tick on me and it was probably there for more than 24 hours okay I had it extracted I went took it to the doctor and gave me some oxacypeline okay okay but they called up Department of Health okay and I said I said that in for evaluation of whether they have Lyme disease and they said we won't do that okay yeah so when we look at 2017 to 2018 goes from 1,093 down to 614 I'm wondering how you track that sure reports that did my doctor report it as a possible infection okay sure and I can I can speak a little bit about this this is a protocol that our infectious disease folks handle which is not something that I'm directly involved with but as far as I understand when a doctor diagnosis that you have contracted a tick-borne disease which there are several different might assess that they're actually required to report that case to the health department and they they get classified as probable or confirmed depending on the severity of the symptoms and the type of symptoms so that's what's being shown here are cases that were reported by physicians as being probable or confirmed cases to the health department so it's not tick bites that's correct that's correct right which we the health department does track tick bites as well if you just went to see a doctor because of a tick bite we track those but those don't necessarily link to tick-borne diseases for example right are they required to report any tip points they're not that's just something that we can pull out of what's called syndrome or surveillance data that gives us kind of almost real-time information about why people are going to the hospital it's kind of used to detect give early detection of infectious diseases or if there was bioterrorism or something like that but we can use it for a lot of other things like tracking tick bites so postulate that the number of actual incidents of tick bites much higher than 614 oh absolutely yes no you're you're absolutely right about that these are just the subset of people that were symptomatic enough to go to the doctor and have a diagnosed and even these we think this is under reporting actual cases of Lyme disease since some people into being asymptomatic or just their symptoms aren't bad enough to to seek treatment so I think these are still under reporting you pointed out the drop to 614 in 2018 which is interesting and we think this is climate related in the sense that 2018 was very hot and dry which is not good and not a good environment for a tick to be in ticks like warm and moist which is part of why we have the climate concern the more the warmer and moisture we are that's better tick habitat for survival and reproduction and survival of the hosts that they depend on but you you cross this threshold of you know to you can get to warm for a tick and you can definitely get to to dry for a tick and 2018 was a very dry and very hot year so that's part of why we would attribute that that drop in 2018 I'll take that as an asset do you have any any notion of data from 2019 yet or I don't you don't because my mind just anecdotal experience around my house was that 2019 I saw a lot fewer ticks and I think it was also quite dry okay yeah maybe that's the reason why right now that could be there were two two big reasons one is the climate change but another is also when we are restoring habitats yeah there's been sort of this natural you know repopulation of the whole northeast after you know we clear all the forest forests have started to come back and you know so I have the deer and lots of other critters so the the tick population was really kind of concentrated in southern New England when our forest cover was at its poorest hundred years ago kind of guessing but but ever since then the habitat has been much more conducive for a tick so there's been sort of this natural expansion from southern New England that climate change helps speed to some extent by by making places further further north suitable for ticks but I guess my point was some of that repopulation would have happened without climate change it's probably happening faster and to just a greater you know population extent because of climate change my other question is that you know I've had a hundred job to make around ticks and moose okay seeing you know some pretty and I think I reached out to paint just is that something that is increasing ticks impacts on ticks on the deer I believe so but that's not something that we we directly track I think I think actually ag is highly focused on yeah right there are different types of ticks that's right ticks that affect me moose herds not the kind of carry slang disease but other bad things can impact because of the number of bites sure right that's my understanding too can you speak to the geographic prevalence of ticks in Vermont my sense was that you know even as recent as two three four five years ago I live in kind of central Vermont and we've had plenty of ticks for years okay but that if I make this question for you mark but as you get close to the Canadian border you don't see them as much and I don't know if you track kind of the geographic movement of the prevalence of you know some of these infections and where they occur geographically yeah and if you're seeing more prevalence in the Northeast Kingdom or sure Orlean's you know Franklin County relative to you know they've probably been in Windsor and Wyndham County for years right we have very good data on where people live that have acquired a tick-borne disease and that data shows you know often that is where they acquired the disease that data shows that the southern parts of the state Bennington County has sort of been the hot spot for a number of years you see more of Lyme disease and anaplasmosis and all of these in the southern parts of the state but that has been shifting north words and I don't know enough about the details for central Vermont but it certainly there's been lots of tick-borne disease prevalent in central Vermont for years it's it's still fairly rare that we see it in the northeast there have been cases of tick-borne diseases in the northeast and like I said we can't without a lot of investigation we can't determine if they actually picked up that tick in the northeast or maybe they were down in Minnington and then went back up so we there's some limitations to how we can interpret that data but we definitely see this gradient of more disease in the south and in west and kind of less as you move north and east is that still probably from the severity of our winters the difference I think it's a little bit these might be related but a little bit to do with the the climate and winter severity is a little tricky because ticks don't really mind being cold they kind of go dormant as long as there's usually as long as there's some snowpack which is a year that it'll be interesting to see how things go next year and only have snowpack they can basically go dormant underneath the snowpack nestle down in some you know mulch litter and they're fine we've talked to researchers that collect ticks put them in a freezer for later you know extraction or whatever they do take take them out you know months later put them on the counter and they start walking around so unfortunately where we've learned that cold really doesn't kill ticks but cold has a big impact on it has more of an impact probably on the deer the rodents the other animals that ticks depend on so if deer have a really bad winter that can affect the ticks the bad winter won't really affect the ticks directly though but I was also mentioning how the tick populations kind of radiated out from southern New England so I think some of it is just sort of that natural expansion from the south is hitting the south part of the state first about mosquitoes mosquitoes have not been much of an issue we haven't seen much mosquito borne disease the thing that was interesting this past year is that the agency of ag looks for the Asian tiger mosquito which is theoretically a Zika carrier but it's not the primary mosquito that carries Zika and can also carry other diseases like dinghy and chikungunya more tropical diseases so they found for the first time in Vermont one of these Asian tiger mosquitoes in southern Vermont a couple months ago whether they can actually reproduce and live in Vermont is kind of questionable it's still a really poor climate for them it could be that it was in a tire in the back of somebody's truck that drove up from the south and you know tourists exactly could be a tourist I mean that it actually is sort of the expectation for the short term is that any mosquitoes that could carry those tropical diseases a are really in mosquito terms are really bad at transmitting those diseases and be are going to be tourists they're not going to be here for much of the year so expect the risks from those diseases to still be relatively low that could change over time so it's something that you know we're all we're all tracking from the mosquitoes that are here now we occasionally see some diseases like eastern equine cephalitis or West Nile but those are still relatively rare and rare enough that I couldn't say there's any kind of trend of up or down the fact that you found one when the tropical mosquito probably indicated there's a lot more because right no I suspect you're right and you know from us it was it it seemed interesting as a as a climate change indicator we weren't feeling super concerned about the health impacts at least in the near term but that's my my expectation to is that there's more out there and the more climate changes the longer this tourists are going to hang around so something yeah we definitely want to keep tracking I guess the one other dynamic here that I didn't mention was that with our longer warm seasons and shorter cold seasons it just gives more days of the year that ticks can be active and that we're likely active outside with them depending on the research you'll see that ticks are active above the anywhere from like 30 to 40 degrees if there isn't snow cover they can be out and active so we do get reported cases of disease in December and January when we get thoughts and ground clear so the more you know the more days that we have that meet those characteristics above 30 no snow cover there's just more days that we're putting ourselves at risk with with ticks move on to extreme weather events which of course tropical starts from Irene is the first one that we always end up talking about but we've seen even with some of the the less impactful events that declare a few more declared disasters and the cost of those disasters has been going up over time there's certainly lots of great work being done to try to make us better prepared for for those flooding events and other storm events one of the things that we like to call attention to are some of the lingering impacts from from those events and again most of this was very pronounced around tropical storm Irene but there were a lot of impacts to water systems to food to food that people grow to food and people's homes because they lost power lots of at least anecdotes it's hard to get good data on this but lots of anecdotes about respiratory impacts that people experience during the cleanup of their homes or from going back to their flooded homes afterwards and from post-traumatic stress disorder following that event so there's lots of sort of ongoing health impacts that we wanted to keep awareness high about that you know once the event's gone and that immediate cleanup is gone there's there's still these lingering health impacts that we're concerned about fuel tank dislodge during the flooding related to that we've we've looked at some data some just drinking water data and recreational water data to see that it doesn't take flooding to to experience water quality impacts the the bars here there's a lot of data here but basically the darker the the bars those are representing heavier rain events and on the left we're we don't see much impact this is a E. coli detection so an indicator of bacteria in drinking water we don't see many of those in public drinking water period but we see more somewhat more when there's heavier rains and private wells that's somewhat common to detect E. coli at least 3% even under dry conditions and we see those numbers increase more and more following heavy rains and then in recreational waters we also see increases in E. coli at places that test the water for for swimming some of the beaches on like Champlain or state parks for example so the heavier rains are what washing and runoff carrying all kinds of you know whatever it may be that's that's leading to this water contamination so our expectation of having more heavy rain events in the future leads us concerned about more water contamination in the future so when there are heavy rain events usually what we hear about or combined subject overflow sure how closely do those correlate to this or is it a larger problem of general runoff yeah it's a great question this is just representing general runoff I would speculate this combined sewer over flow events certainly can contribute especially with the recreational waters since we do have some especially the ones you know along like Champlain that there some of the combined sewer overflows do dump out relatively near those so that's probably a contributing factor here but this is representing a much more widespread issue that combined sewer overflows probably aren't the dominant factor here and related to those cyanobacteria blooms are certainly an issue that we've been struggling with for for years with the main climate factor here being the lake has gotten a lot warmer over time some of the data that we've seen shows that depending on where you take the measurement the lake is warmed by 2 to 6 degrees over the last 50 years and cyanobacteria loves lots of nutrients and warm and calm waters so that's that's certainly contributing to the likelihood of cyanobacteria blooms and the runoff presumably it's also contributing to the cyanobacteria yeah we speculated is but we under as far as I understand there's such excessive nutrients in the lake already that it's it's hard for us to kind of disentangle the impact of new nutrient runoff from from any one event we tried to look into that in our data some so yes I mean the more we add it's not helping the problem but there's so there's so much nutrient in the water already that I think even if we cut off all those nutrient taps today we'd still be struggling with this for a while and the warming the warm water makes that more challenging calm water would bubblers for like waterfront properties have a meaningful impact or would it have to basically be everybody along the stretch like for town beaches yeah unfortunately way outside my knowledge I have seen some trials of some different systems like that to aerate and and some other kind of small-scale interventions I mean I think I think some of those have been demonstrated to have some impact in a small area but it's kind of like some of the tick interventions you may be able to address it in a small area but it would take such a huge resource investment to to apply some of those technologies at a large scale couple years ago on the UVM legislative summits there was a presentation by one of the professors or researchers on use of iron particles to okay to capture the phosphorus okay and precipitated out okay and I'm wondering if there has been any consideration of using technology like that yeah yeah I'm not sure that would be an entire thing but we collaborate with them on all the cyanobacteria work that we do and I can certainly check in and try to follow up with the committee I think this is my last impact slide just related to some air quality issues the slide I'm showing is about pollen and allergens where we've seen research from the Midwest that demonstrates that ragweed season has gotten longer in the northern the further north you go in the Midwest the longer ragweed season has gotten partially due we think to lengthening of the growing season but also due to more carbon dioxide in the air which essentially serves as fertilizer for for a lot of plants so we don't have any nice data like this for for Vermont or the East Coast but it's something that we track pollen data through one of the local allergy clinics and also track a couple of other air quality metrics ozone is something we were concerned about during hot weather events during the heatway we were talking about there were a couple days with high ozone levels too and that can really exacerbate some of the cardiovascular or respiratory conditions some of the wildfires out west have actually affected us to a low level with wildfire so we're still not expecting a whole lot of change in wildfire in Vermont especially if we get wetter but we're are kind of concerned about wildfire smoke from places upwind of us and what impacts that those can have here just one slide to to acknowledge that we're all affected by these these climate impacts on health but there's certain population groups that we tend to focus more on with our strategies and our outreach people that we think are probably disproportionately affected by these impacts and I've listed three categories here and I can give some examples but people who are exposed to climate effects so with the the heat illness example outdoor workers tend to experience higher rates of heat illnesses but also as I mentioned during the heatwave older adults that that don't have air conditioning for example in their homes or anybody that doesn't have air conditioning in their home is going to be more exposed to the impact of that heat event people with pre-existing health vulnerabilities I mentioned older adults tend to be more susceptible to impacts of heat for for biological reasons as our children but then up even other other people that don't fit in those age categories if you have a heart condition or a lung condition diabetes there's several conditions or medications that you could be taking that can make you more vulnerable to impacts from heat and people with limited adaptation resources so if you don't have the social network or the transportation local cooling center whatever it may be to help help you stay safe that's going to put you at higher risk so we kind of focus on where especially where these risk factors overlap and try to direct our our strategies there so as I was mentioning older adults being highly vulnerable at home without air conditioning especially those living alone so that's something that we try to work with partners on how do we address the heat conditions in the home or help provide safety checks or you know what can we do to help reduce risks for that really particularly vulnerable population and the last thing that I wanted to mention and I have one example to follow this is we like to talk about how I mean we do a lot of work on addressing climate impacts on health but we also want to talk about the potential health benefits of taking action to address climate change to today and we know that related to transportation strategies and housing strategies and other strategies a lot of those strategies can also provide health benefits and address some of the health concerns in Vermont I'm going to give a transportation example in just a second but I wanted also mention that we we try to work a lot with the state weatherization program and raising awareness about not just the sort of thermal hot cold benefits of weatherizing homes but there's often also improvements to ventilation that come with those weatherization services that improve indoor air quality you reduce moisture and mold there's a lot of research that shows that having a more energy efficient home it makes it cheaper but that also leads to reduce stress and more more money that can be spent on other things including healthier foods or paying your doctor bills or whatever it may be so they're sort of these indirect health benefits related to weatherizing homes and there's a couple of neat pilot projects going on not just with the health department but with some other folks as well that are trying to package weatherization and health services targeted to people that have chronic asthma or CPD or at a high risk for falling or injury in their home or different things like that I wanted to mention a transportation analysis that we just recently finished we just we did a hypothetical of if we met the comprehensive energy plan transportation goals by 2050 what kind of health impacts could we expect and we came up with some pretty big numbers using something called the integrated transport and health impacts model which is a model developed by some researchers in England and then applied in a couple places in the US that look at how travel behaviors and transportation technologies how changing those relate to changes in physical activity safety and air quality we found that meeting those comprehensive energy plan goals could save 2,000 lives by 2050 and save 1.1 billion dollars in terms of reduced healthcare costs and increased productivity while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles by 38 percent so we thought these are pretty big exciting numbers we dove into them in a little more detail to look at where those health benefits came from and what was really striking was how much of that health benefit was coming from walking and biking the gray bars up there are showing some of the air quality benefits from if we just electrified vehicles and I know that's a big just that's a big goal to meet but if we just electrified vehicles there would be some health benefits and 50 lives saved is fantastic and saving 10 million dollars is great but compared to some of the other strategies in the conference of energy plan the the big challenge for us is getting people more physically active and reducing our burden of product disease in the state so meeting some of those other other goals that get people more physically active and up saving far more lives and money than just electrifying and again I don't mean to be a little just electrifying because it's a huge goal and it's incredibly important for for meeting our climate goals but we want to call attention to there's a lot of health opportunity out there beyond vehicle electrification sure and I don't want to just in our limited time sure and the presentation materials you brought that much we can tease this apart but I'm really interested in this slide but I know there are different opportunities for people who you know want to walk to work or want to bite to work who might live in a more suburban area sure number month relative to a couple of the towns that I represent are very rural right and and frankly have an older population right my hobby is easy for sure a 75 year old to hop on a bike to ride to the grocery store absolutely so just trying to tease apart a little bit where the obvious opportunities are okay relative to certainly as you pointed out we want to get people into more fuel efficient or electrified vehicles and that's critically important right but some promoters are going to have more challenges and you know kind of accomplishing some of these things than other folks whether she was an age or because of geography yeah and so I'm just kind of interested in teasing apart it's just kind of low hanging fruit you know as it's our kind of towns and our you know more suburban areas or right are we anticipating that you know this type of transition and work as easily for you know people in Glover as in downtown bank right no it's a great question and very real challenges I think one of one of the points that we want to make with this is that there is clearly no one-size-fits-all solution for everybody and there may be communities that the walking and biking and transit strategies are clearly a better fit for and can be done more effectively at lower cost and I think focusing on the low hanging fruit first certainly makes sense whereas the electric vehicle strategies are gonna work well in other communities we also acknowledge that there's about 17,000 households in Vermont that don't have access to a vehicle so trying to think about what strategies can we work on to help improve access for for those folks affordability being a big challenge too with with relying on a vehicle I think the data I've seen shows it's something like 25% of income in Vermont on average is spent on on transportation so addressing the affordability pieces is obviously big too but we you know we try to we try to work with our local health offices on a lot of local policies that help either get more walking and biking facilities in place or focus on land use planning to to get more of the focus development we need to provide more low hanging fruit for for walking and biking I know some of those are really long-term long-term challenges but things that we're focusing on we also like to think about you know even in those suburban or rural areas often you're traveling to a place that you work in in Montpellier you work in Burlington where there's a lot of opportunity to do you know maybe not you might not commute to work on foot or by bus anytime soon but there's a lot of other opportunity to walk or bike or use local bus service to get to shops and services so you know how to think beyond just commuting and think about the other 80% of the trips we make are not are not commuting so how do we how do we take advantage of those and think about more focused activity centers where some of these other modes can be viable yeah I mean just as an example of that my hometown of Thetford has really expanded its parking right years and a lot of folks in my town tend to commute towards kind of Hanover way river function sure yeah and you know so the last five years the town from an energy standpoint has made it easier for people to have a safe place to park where there is schedule bus service that takes people up and takes them into that location every day so that was pretty straightforward and interestingly not related to energy but more health we set up in town a place for people to park their car not to commute with other people but a nice level place near the river for people to park their car and ride their bike to work oh nice okay you know there's probably ten cars in that parking lot every day okay people put their bike on the rack they grab over four hills to get there okay and work but frankly it wasn't energy related it was okay you know yeah so thank you for this presentation I thought it was really helpful some excellent demonstrations of the effects that we're seeing are what I'm wondering about is for instance with ticks walking biking is not protecting the monitors okay so I'm wondering if you can talk a little bit more what your agency what your department is doing right now to help the monitors deal with the effects of climate change to cope with those sure and I'd like to know if those are increasing strategies and programs static okay how they're evaluated sure determine whether or not they're adequate or okay great question it really depends by topic I'll just give a couple of examples hot weather preparedness is the area that I would say we've been focusing most of our energy on the last couple of years a lot of that to do with they're not being another clear leader on that topic right now in the state so that's sort of the gap that we've chosen to fill and some of them give you some examples of some of the things that we're working on one is we don't have a dedicated emergency response plan for a hot weather event so we're working on developing that that now in the unfortunate increasing likelihood that we do have you know multi-day hundred plus heat event that is going to require more resources than we would typically have available to throw at something like that having emergency plan in place is great but it really depends on a lot of the the strategies within that and that we work on in between emergencies so as I mentioned with older adults and some of their vulnerabilities we've been having conversations about how do we how do we support let me start by saying community cooling centers are great a great asset for some people if you can get to a place to stay cool if your home is has gotten untollerly warm but that doesn't work for everybody so we want to have a system where people in an emergency or preferably in advance of the murder in emergency can have a cooling system in place we have great structures in place in Vermont already for providing assistance with heating in the winters but no parallel for the summer we're trying to figure out how a program like that could could be operated and funded is something that we've been having conversations about so not to be argumentation really to try and understand the scale of work that's going on it means finding the right partners that could potentially implement a program like that actively actively yes yes we hope to have a draft ready to go by this spring so that we could maybe not adopt it but we could use it for action if needed this heat season that's our goal with a lot of these is having at least at least a draft or some kind of a process in place that is probably gonna need a lot of tweaking in revision but that will have some mechanisms because we know this has been an issue in the heatwave people call two and one say my house is hot I can't afford to cool it what can you do and they are amazingly creative and resourceful there and can come up with some ways to respond to a few of those but there's no systematic way of doing that so two on one is one of the our partners that we we're working with on this the folks they other folks in agency of human services that work more directly with older populations for example so these are very active conversations that we really hope and expect to see some some results from in the next couple months it is 211 currently operating 24 hours a day 365 I think they've gone back to that I'm not actually positive a related question and my information here is probably 30 years out of hate and whether it's you or somebody else in the room but in a former life when at the federal level there was lots of negotiation I like heat funding yes generally the northern states partnering with the southern states for very different reasons on how to support low income populations okay whether it was in the winter or whether it was helping people through kind of stressful heat times okay and lower income folks help with their conditioning okay to what extent do for monitors who are vulnerable whether for health issues or low income issues have access to like keep funding for air conditioning for electricity and certainly yeah we have that for heating right and fuel it's none right now okay there are some states that have some programs that support either purchasing units or subsidizing some electricity costs to run the units most of those are southern there are few northern state examples New York has a program but our program doesn't cover conditioning at all I was just going to say that I'm one of my former lives I was the weather position director in Burlington and I think it was late 90s that there was a hot spell in the Northeast and I don't know whether it was light heat to pay for it but for weatherization but there was an emergency air conditioning program that was implemented in August and I remember thinking that it was at the time you know these things take time but by the time it we actually got the air condition air conditioning installed it was September and it was not anymore but so I don't I don't think they ever did that again it doesn't seem like a really easy response to hot hot weather emergencies northerners are generally less able to relate to than we are cold if the we have a weather event where it's a week of 90 degree weather is there a comparable cold temperature that we could kind of relate it to to as far as the health risks to the population expected inspiring injuries etc would be like a week of 20 below yeah I think it's really hard to compare those the exposures are so different with for obviously there are people that are going to be very affected homeless people that aren't they're gonna be very affected during those cold temperatures most of us are gonna be okay because we're gonna run from heated place to heated place to heated place whereas that's not an option for a lot of remonters with the the hot temperatures so I think the the exposure is very different and the health impacts are pretty different I think the the best thing I can say is that our data shows that when when temperatures get to the mid to upper 80s we start seeing this this spike in emergency department visits so I mentioned that 87 degree number earlier which is a little arbitrary but if you look at days that reach 87 or warmer we see eight times as many emergency department visits as below 87 so that's what we've kind of keyed in on is that point and again 87 it's a little arbitrary so that's why I say mid to upper 80s that we start seeing clear health impacts in our data we haven't done a similar analysis like that on cold days to see if there's a really clear gradient there okay we're just great everything back cold as people keep their houses cool because they can't afford to heat them so it's a chronic issue rather than a acute issue that's a good point right there are people that run on a field sure well there's that you know there are conditions yeah something you didn't touch on and in the few minutes that we have left I want to make sure you there's good chance to comment on the health risks that you've noted on the earlier slide one thing you mentioned was mental health issues right and I suspect there are a lot of things to kind of pull apart there that's affecting kind of a mental health crisis yeah you know climate change actually being one of them right to what extent have you been narrow being able to narrow in on you know changes in you know whether whether events have had a right honestly about Vermonters we know almost nothing about the climate change connections to mental health there's just we've never found any good data out there to help us quantify or give us any kind of decent anecdotal data we know from national data that there's a couple of connections there that were concerned about one being just the kind of stress and anxiety about the issue of climate change is clearly having mental health issues nationally and globally certainly anybody affected by these different health issues there are mental health at least secondary impacts associated with with all of them that we have some some concerns about so we know that there are a couple of different pathways between climate change and mental health impacts that we have concerns about we just don't know much about how those are actually affecting Vermonters except for you know a few anecdotes we've had about again post-traumatic stress impacts after tropical storm Irene or some kind of one-offs like that that we've heard about but most of that's anecdotal and we don't really have any great data source for learning more about climate impacts on mental health in vermont right now great thank you for joining us this is really informative and helpful you're welcome happy to we might come back to you just to dig in on some of these other points particularly I mean you know as you were going through some of this presentation I was also looking through the longer report that you've given us and I recommend that other folks in the room to look at it a lot of really interesting more granular information there okay thank you thank you very much yeah okay just for committee members we are going to meet actually I'm gonna ask you Daniel for help we're gonna go through a few more bills after the floor let's say that floor is gonna be long today let's say that we will meet we're going to meet here 15 minutes after floor adjourns after we go through those bills we've got a couple of members joining us and so to be cognizant of their time from their committees if we could be here 15 minutes after the floor after that we have a report from efficiency vermont that they had done this summer again it's climate related about you know essentially energy insecurity and energy burden and after that and this is on me I would like to take a few minutes to go over the letter that I have now lost it's sent someplace in the computer that hopefully that won't take long but that we're gonna send to the appropriations committee on the testimony we took yesterday I think it'll be pretty straightforward but I don't want to send that without people having to work that so that's the rest of our day today thank you


Why teaching English in Chile is awesome, and will change your life. When I think back to my time teaching English in Chile, I can say that it has been an awesome experience for me, because of how wonderful it can be to share one's native language with someone else. Probably the best thing about it, was to see the others in gaining their experience overall and adapting to the new way of thinking. I know I had my troubles as I had to teach sometimes in Spanish, what the rule was in English. For that I relied on the help of other teachers to help with some of the grammar. I am very thankful for the TEFL course from ITTT. When I think back to how it all started, I remember being asked to help at a local fitness center to help with swim lessons. But since I had such a knowledge of English from my years of reading and writing over the years, I was also asked to help with the center's family center, where they had a homeschool co-op. But I did need a little training. The training I received was an online course that seemed to have plenty of language theory, but no real in-depth classroom structure. I was taught about the importance of the language, but not really how to go in-depth about what a class looks like daily. That's why I am very thankful for the TEFL course from ITTT, as it has helped me to gain a much needed different perspective on how to teach classes. The students were learning about different cultures, and I let them know about the states. For my first year, I mainly worked as part of a team in a homeschool co-op. This was at least 50% at home and 50% in a classroom. I was mainly helping out the third-fourth grade class as an assistant who was a native speaker. Occasionally I led some activities as part of the engage or activate stage of the lessons. But for a majority of the time, I found myself just helping out with the study phase. One thing I enjoyed the most though was my introduction about myself. The students were learning about different cultures, and I let them know about the states. This led to a competition of the English-speaking cultures where I was a guest judge. It was so much fun. I will admit that I never did any lesson planning. If I was not in a classroom, I would take some textbooks that someone gave me, and use them to be a one-on-one teacher. I would not often have a classroom but just used any available space. The reason was the center was being used for multiple functions, and it was hard to schedule space for a classroom. My students would follow along in the book while I translated as best I could. In total I just had about three to five one-on-one students. The only other materials I had were a CD player, grammar workbooks, and a teacher's guide. I will admit that I never did any lesson planning. I just followed along with the teacher's guide. I will admit that I never did any lesson planning. During the summer, English workshops were being offered. Here the setting was a bit less classroom-structured, and more survey where the student would try and have fun, with some of the English they may have learned during the school year. This was led by a group who were visiting the center. I helped with some of the translating. When the team left, I took over the lessons. After the summer was over, I was unable to continue because of a lack of space, as well as an opportunity to further my education. The only other opportunities I had to teach English, were in a kind of coffee talk where non-English speakers had a chance to practice their English outside of class. This was nice for both myself and them, because of how great it can be to talk of what it's like to live in the United States. Currently I am helping out with my local church in tutoring English. I am also on a team who will teach English to Chinese students on the internet. Hopefully during the summer, I will be able to guide them to visit the local theme parks in the area. In conclusion, I had a very challenging time but rewarding as well, because teaching your native tongue to an un-English speaker can be the best thing you can do. Are you ready to teach English in Latin America? Although there are few opportunities for EFL teachers to get rich working in Latin America, the region is still hugely popular as it offers amazing life experiences, exotic flora and fauna, friendly local people, and much of it is only a short flight from the USA. If you are looking for adventure or to gain some teaching experience before applying for jobs elsewhere in the world, Latin America could well be the right choice for you. Thanks so much for watching. We are ITTT the leading provider for TEFL and TESOL training courses. If you like this video, please subscribe by clicking that button down here and click on any of the videos here on the left for more interesting teaching tips for getting certified to teach English abroad and online.


Hey y'all, hope things are going well today. So I got a main topic, but I've got a secondary topic, and I'm actually going to do the secondary topic first just to get it out of the way because it's going to be really short. So I bought these, they're Doritos Tortilla Chips Taco Flavor. It just showed up in the store, and I was curious because I wondered, geez, just what do tacos actually taste like? I mean, usually if you get a taco, it's a certain type of flavored meat, and either a taco shell or a soft taco shell. So I wondered what they would do with it. So I went ahead and I bought it and I tried it, can't taste it, I just can't taste them. They're certainly not as dynamic as nacho cheese, they're not as zesty as the cool ranch, and I've never even tried those real hot ones that are happening. I can't taste them. So you know what, that's the review for those, just to get that out of the way. So here's a double question for you that might seem like it's the same thing, but it's not. The first question, what would you actually do for money? The second question, what wouldn't you do for money?  I can't even remember the names of most of them because I've never watched any of those shows, but you know I've seen the commercials. And there was the one where the guy had to have, or the people had to have rats walking on their faces. Like are you kidding, that's just the nastiest thing in the world. And then there's Survivor, I remember the name of that one, where these people basically let someone take them to an island and do all kind of stuff to them. And they vote on it and do all this other kind of mess, whatever, for some kind of money. And there was a big brother, is that the one where they put all the people in the house and then they vote people out of the house until the end and then someone wins? I don't know. But you have Bachelor and Bachelorette and a whole host of these reality shows with the intention of seeing what people will actually do for money. It's not like a competition like on the food channel where they've got the chefs that compete or the people who compete to see who can make the better dessert. I mean, you know, I understand stuff like that. I understand stuff like tough enough where people work through all the wrestling things to see who will be the person who's going to get that big contract. You know what? Those are career things. But there's other stuff. The only person I know who actually made a career off of Survivor is Elizabeth Hassellback. And you know what? Y'all can keep her. Take her back. Please take her back. That's so wrong, but that's my story. So anyway, the other question is actually more important, which is what won't you do for money? You know, you sometimes have these ethical boundaries that can be really, really big. And then sometimes they're a little small and you're not really sure until you really start thinking about a little bit more just how ethical it was or is. For instance, y'all know that I do a lot of writing. I've been paid to do a lot of writing. One thing I've yet to do is ghost write a book for someone. That happens all the time, by the way. There's a lot of people who hire someone to write a book for them on a topic that they have no intention of reading just so they can put out a book in their name saying, hey, look what I did. And they take all the credit for it and they make all the money for it because they paid for it, but they're not really an authority. They're not really an expert. They just had someone write a book for them. This has been suggested by a lot of people who try to teach people how to make money online. Personally, I find that a little abhorrent because, you know, how do you call yourself an expert at it? Someone may ask you to come talk about it. Someone may ask you to demonstrate it, but you can't do it because you didn't do the work. Remember the second Harry Potter movie where the guy was supposedly this great wizard who'd taken on all these challenges and done all this stuff and it turns out he didn't do any of it. And, you know, he ended up not necessarily getting called on it, but he got called on it and ended up losing his mind. OK, he made himself lose his mind, but y'all know if you saw the second movie. So you have that kind of instance. Then you have something that I did that I never really thought much about a bunch of years ago when someone asked me if I would write a series of papers of a masterclass they were taking in college. They were in college and they were taking this course, but they... I can't even remember what the degree was supposed to be in, but they had to take this kind of elective course. They didn't have anything to do with what they were majoring in. And she knew I wrote and she gave me a dollar figure. I said, OK, sure, for that I'll write you some papers. And I wrote papers on this particular subject. And then I remember having a discussion with someone at the time that I knew who's an academic saying, well, don't you think that's unethical? And I'd never thought about it at the time. I was just thinking, well, you know, just writing on this subject. It's research like I do for everything else. It's not like this was a person who was going to be a doctor who wanted me to write a paper for them on stem cell research, whatever. I didn't really think about it. Now I would probably say, yeah, you know what, that really was more of an ethical thing. I helped someone get a master's degree that, you know, maybe they didn't totally deserve because I wrote the papers. They were original. They weren't plagiarized. She did read the material. So I mean, she had to take all the tests. But I wrote the papers and a couple of those got A's, which I was amazed at because when I was in college, every paper I wrote got a B. So there you go. But still I had to think about that saying, that was interesting. So I've never done that again. But it was like, you know, in my mind, it was a borderline thing until after I'd done it and talked to someone who was in academia. So that you have that kind of thing. Then you have something like a friend of mine named George, who's also a health care finance consultant. I've mentioned that to y'all in the past and I'm a health care finance consultant who went to one of the local businesses that had to do something with health care and they asked him to do this project. So he did this project. He put in the time and, you know, he gave them this fee that, you know, they were going to owe him and he said, you know, they agreed to it. They paid him half of it up front. So he did all this work and he goes to them to present his findings and his recommendations and they said, oh, we're sorry. We didn't really want you to do any work. We don't want to see what you produced. He said, you don't. He said, no, we have already put together something that we want you to present in your name. We just want you to sign your name to it. Well, luckily he had some kind of ethics because he read the thing first. He says, no, no, no, I'm not putting my name on this. Nope. I'm sorry. And you know what? Now we have to break our association. I will take the money that you already paid me and I'm not going to ask for the rest of it. And I'm just going to move on because I'm not putting my name to that. And this was pretty substantive. I mean, you know, you're talking about twenty thousand dollars that he left on the table. I don't know that a lot of folks would leave twenty thousand dollars on the table. But you know what? I have I've done the exact same kind of thing. I remember being at a hospital many years ago where the vice president of finance wanted me to sign off on something that I told him it was illegal for the reason he wanted to do it. He still wanted to do it anyhow. So what I did is I went back to the office and I wrote up this disclaimer and I took it to him and I said, OK, this is a disclaimer that says that I told you you couldn't do this because it was illegal and you asked me to do it anyway. And I'm having you to sign this because I don't want anything to happen later on where someone's going to say, Oh, well, the consultant told us we could do this. So I need you to sign that and he wouldn't sign it. And we didn't do it because it was illegal and he knew it and he was caught. So I gave up a whole lot of money on that one. And I took money from them because with what I do, sometimes if the reason is the wrong reason for doing it, that's what makes it illegal or fraudulent. So it's that question where, you know, sometimes we don't question our ethics on things like I did with writing the paper. I mean, I thought it was fine until later on when I thought about it, said, you know what, maybe that was borderline. Or sometimes people will say, well, you know what, I'll just forget the ethics because this is a one time thing. You know, there's the old test that's been given to people that says if someone came to you and said, I will pay you $50,000. If you let me put something in your garage for one night, you don't get to ask me what it is. I'm not going to tell you what it is, but just for one night. And then tomorrow I'll get it and I'll take it and that'll be that. And there's a lot of people who say, OK, yeah, we'll do that. And here's the thing. One, it's unethical because as my wife likes to call it where there's a gimme, there's a gotcha, which basically says there's more to this than meets the eye.  Now you're on the hook. How do you say, no, we did that once we're not doing it again? You can't. You just have to understand that someone is willing to pay you $50,000 once they're willing to do a heck of a lot more. And I don't just mean pay you more money or whatever to do it again. So that's ethics that just fell in a different way, because that's ethics that get you killed. So, you know, sometimes people aren't taking far enough in advance before they start doing certain things. People who end up being drug addicts. I'm sure that those folks who start taking meth or or Coke or crack or anything like that aren't necessarily thinking about the ethical part of it and what it might make them do later on. You know, you hear about these folks who go robbing people all the time or breaking the homes just to get stuff so they can trade it in for some little bit of money so they can buy more of it. I'm sure they weren't thinking of that ahead of time. You've got the people who will put things online. I talked about this in a previous video, who will put things online without thinking about it. I mean, goodness, back in back in March, we had one player on the Los Angeles Lakers secretly film another player on the Los Angeles Lakers, asking them these probing questions that then somehow ended up on the internet and that's a fracture.  He wasn't thinking about it. He's just thinking about a prank without realizing that he basically lost the trust of his entire team. It may blow over with time. He might have to get traded or some other people might have to get traded. But, you know, that was unethical to do in the first place. There was no good that could come out of something like that. So, like I said, it's just this question that I don't know if y'all ever ask yourselves that. So I'm asking you, what wouldn't you do for money? Not what would you do because we've seen what people will do.  What wouldn't you do? That's my question. That's the question I'd like you to ask yourself. Don't bother just to reiterate that part. Anyway, I hope you're having a wonderful day. We will talk again.


What a crazy turn of events that it's been in week two of the 2022 NFL season Ups and downs highs and lows teams giving up leads teams coming back from 20.22 25 point deficits to lead their team to victory we're gonna be recapping everything that happened in Sunday slate of games on week two as well as looking head to Monday night football as there are two contests let yet to be Played here tonight. Hello everyone. Welcome to a brand new episode of time to football My name is a son con the US of the show that we like to call Time to football glad you guys are a part of it. And as always every Monday on our recap show We have our wonderful co-host The man the myth the legend Aubrey Graham Yo We're guys, what's up? We're acknowledging a comment that someone left on a video where they said they really brought in Drake on the show I do you get that a lot? Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I milked that bro. I milk that I was drinking for Halloween and Like no like the grassy days though Like I had a wheelchair and a basketball Because I didn't have a costume for this party so I was trying to show up So I was just like what can I do that's gonna take no effort took my grandma my grandmother's wheelchair And a basketball and I showed up. So Was your girlfriend did she hold the gun? Was she that you take that's too far, man anyway Let's talk about the NFL and everything that happened There's a lot to cover before we get into the content portion of it We do this thing every week where we have a little bit of a questionnaire for you So this time around ready ready for this you ready because because okay So for you guys that missed last week's show we had pretty much five questions for Anthony to answer And if he won let me go ahead and pull this out not that But this yeah, uh-huh ooh The manscaped lawnmower 4.0 package your balls will thank you look at that Look how beautiful that is look at that thing come on come on. Hey, I know that it's getting colder I know that winter is coming pretty soon, but you still need to be groomed For your significant others, you know, you never know So this could be yours if you answer five questions correctly in a row in a row And again, if you miss one you're out you only get one lifeline and that is your phone You can call someone you can use the internet whatever you want bad is your option. So that ball shaver is coming home with me I don't know some of these questions. I mean some of them might be easy upfront, but then later on we'll see We'll see what let's just get right into it. Okay so and by the way for you guys that are Watching this video go ahead and purchase the manscape lawnmower 4.0 Just click that link in the description 20% off if you use the promo code t2f big shout out to manscape for making this possible All right, Anthony. You ready for this? All right question one Who had the most passing touchdowns in week two? Was it a Justin Herbert B to a took a by Loa? See Matthew Stafford D Carson once I'm gonna say I'm gonna say to a To a took a by Loa. Is that your final answer? Yeah Well, Anthony, yeah, if I got this right out the gate right out the gate you got it correct To a had six touchdowns off bro. Oh my god all four hundred and sixty nine yards my goodness What that's madden stats? I? Don't want to be on the ground when the time flies. That's a song of Madden Anyways, you bought the 23. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, I I have 22 but that was a song of madden 20 And now it's like a meme or like 23 brother 23. I don't have next gen. It's the exact same thing Yeah, I know I really really really want the new roster. I really want to play with Kenny Piggit question number two Which team scored zero points in week two a Seahawks be Cardinals see Colts D Falcons Blown out by the Jaguar like 26 zero twenty four zero such a final answer. I Hate it when you say that yes You're correct Yeah, I gotta add suspense, you know Deal or no deal up in here. I know. Yeah, gotta show myself bald Question three which team was down 28 to three at one point was it a the Falcons Be the Rams see the Cardinals or D the Bengals The Falcons Is that your final answer? Are you getting confused with another moment where they're necessitated? It's always too soon. It's always too soon Give me the choices again Falcons Falcons Rams Cardinals Bengals Falcons Fine answer. Yes Well Anthony you continue to move on because it is the Atlanta Falcons Let's go Let's go. How many more questions I got from sweating two more until you get the manscape lawnmower 4.0 It is yours.  I use that joint early last week Who currently leads the AFC South is it a the Colts B? Titans C Texans or D Jaguars South Using his lifeline use my line anything checking in on his lifeline Internet is saying the Jaguars is or the Jaguars your final answer Yes Four for four as of right now Anthony you advanced to the championship round. Let's go now Here's the thing final question. Yeah, no more lifelines. Nope. You think you can do it. I'm ready. He's ready For the manscape lawnmower 4.0 package Question number five final question Who had the most rushing yards yesterday? Was it a Aaron Jones B? David Montgomery C Christian McCaffrey or D?  Let's go with Aaron Jones Let's go with Aaron Jones is Aaron Jones. It is my final answer.  What do you what do you have to say? Oh? I am stoked bro. You know what I'm doing when I go home.   I got shampoo. What is this? I don't know a survivor Cropper. Yeah, that's it's a balltoner. I've never used that.  Yes, it is But I use that a lot In times I haven't showered and you know, there's some alone time that needs to be have you know I'm so excited, but that's that that is yours. I want to thank our first one. Uh, thank God I want to thank my mom Hmm Shout out to You know they During if you're betting on sports games, they're like You can bet on who they're gonna be thinking first after they win the game like God their family Seriously, yeah, you can bet on stuff like that You can also bet on like what's the color of the Gatorade that gets dumped on the coach when they win this So hey, I mean miscellaneous bets. Yeah, congratulations to you that put a bet on God Anthony thinking God first Congratulations to Anthony DuVernay for being the winner of the Manscape Plano or 4.0 again. Use that promo code t2f Sign up and and click that link in the description. 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Just keep up to dates It's gonna be a game time decision whether he's gonna be playing or not James Connor suffered an ankle injury as well We don't in the status just yet Patrick Sir tan very talented corner for the Denver Broncos He also suffered an injury was rolled out for the remainder of the game as well as his teammate on the offense Jerry Judy Shoulder injury don't in the status just yet. It's very early We'll see what happens. We also learned for you guys that watched our recap show Or our preview show we didn't get to talk about Justin Herbert yet But for you guys that haven't heard yet Justin Herbert broken cartilage in his ribs It's just a pain factor at this point whether he can play or not But he's gonna be day-to-day. So maybe he misses one maybe two games But it doesn't seem to be too serious, but the biggest news is Trey Lance Ankle injury. He's gonna be out for the remainder of the season. That's crazy That is really really unfortunate news for the 49ers or is it and that's what we're gonna be talking about here for the next few minutes Anthony yo with Trey Lance suffering this ankle injury Are the 49ers better off with Jimmy Garoppolo as as excited as I am for like Lance Or was excited for him like to be leading that team I think the 49ers are better off with Jimmy because of his record like he's He's he's proved that he can win constantly when he's healthy, you know and and When he's healthy, he's bringing the 49ers to a championship game the or these last two years and I Think what was Kyle Shanahan's record? Last season with Jimmy is like 31 and 15 and without it's like eight and 28. I think it might be better than that I think they've only lost like seven or eight games now fact-check me on that I could be incorrect, but I think it's less than 10 games. I'm just throwing numbers out there. I think yeah, but He's he's proven that he can lead that team and you know, he he's seasoned Right and so he has a leadership that you know Lance may not have So I Think I think the 49ers are better off with Jimmy Jimbo I Have to agree with you. I think They tried to force this idea since last year now kudos to them for being long-term thinkers like you got to have you know, you're line up a year in advance already made up but kudos to them for planning ahead being like listen, we're gonna take them in 2021 you're gonna sit for a year and then trailing as you're gonna play and that's great and all if Lance was Gonna be the next superstar of the league, but he hasn't proven it just yet. He might be he might be I don't know, but he just really hasn't proven it yet. And I mean for a team that got to the NFC championship. I Think at that moment when they got to the NFC championship Kyle Shane hands should have been like, okay I know what our plan is with tree Lance, but Jimmy G guys this far Yeah, are we willing to really take that risk and just put in Lance and not really just keep on going with Jimmy G and Just go with like pieces around us like we need to help in like the secondary we need like you know all this other stuff and For them to take that risk early on. I mean they lost against the Bears. It was a bad weather game. You're already oh and one Jimmy came in still played great ball though. They did No, they did they did I mean it could have been a product of the weather why they lost But I mean that 20 to 7 game victory with Jimmy Grauplo against the Seahawks I think that pretty much proved it that this team can make it back to the playoffs Do you think that they are however? Gonna be making it to the postseason. Maybe as far as the NFC championship. I was I want to say championship But definitely to the playoffs I could see it So the NFC West you still got the Rams winning that Cuz I Just want to redo our first video all over again like I'm like eating all of my words man Hey, I mean listen man, you know we want there's a lot of surprises in the NFL That's why we love the NFL just because you'd never know what's gonna happen But I would yeah probably if to answer your question. Yeah, I'll do the I'll go with the Rams Okay, yeah, but I think I think the 49s will go to the playoffs Yeah, I believe in Jimmy and it's like we have a we always get excited for like these new players and How many of them end up being a bus? Trevor Lawrence we were he was number one amazing He's not he's not all that at all. I mean yesterday. He just Okay, all right against the Colts Come on. Yeah, the Colts did not look good at all Jimmy G Q It's gonna be leaving the 49ers and in the NFC West It's a four-way tie right now between all the teams all of them are one-on-one So, I mean it's up in the air Rams are the favorites But I mean also don't sleep on the Cardinals after that Frickin It's like a game of Madden. That's man. Yeah, that was so exciting. Yeah, but That QB boy. Whoo. I'm glad I'm glad he took it into his own hands and I ran it in like that Yeah, I mean yeah, and that was an amazing catch by Brown Yeah for real. I'm green. Sorry Well both, I mean Brown had a touchdown Yeah, where he was like double teamed and then green in the back. I think the two-point conversion. Yeah He squeezed that joint in yeah God is a that was a dot. Yeah, that was a dot pointed right at him. It's like, hey, I'm gonna throw to you and One of the defenders like was like this close to hitting the ball Yeah, no, so yeah, the NFC West is definitely up in the air I want to hear your thoughts you guys leave a comment down below. What do you think is gonna happen with Jimmy Garoppolo with the 49ers and if you guys want to leave a record prediction go ahead and do that I think last year they went either nine and six or ten and seven Wait, no nine and eight or ten and seven one of those and then went to the NFC championship Do you guys feel like they're gonna be it just as good? If so, you know, I'd love to hear your thoughts. If not Definitely interact with us. We want to we want to hear your thoughts. So leave your comments down below Do you think they can hear me chewing my gum? I don't think so. Okay. I comment Leave your comments on the bottom. Can you hear me chewing my gum? Yeah, is it stride is it five? It's five. Are you sure it sounds like it's right. It's okay. All right. All right.  That's right after all That's right. We can't doubt you. That's right. Now. Let's move on to our next segment. Mm-hmm Let's talk about the Cincinnati Bengals, dude, what's up with them? I know I'm okay. So the Colts are one of those other teams.  But the Bengals man, they made the playoffs last year. They made the Super Bowl one of those teams though I mean if we want to roll back the tape to week one, okay video, you know Matt Ryan But the Cincinnati Bengals man, they are oh and two at this point after losing to the Dallas Cowboys last second field goal by Brett Maher and To get Cooper Rush to a 2-0 record as a starter Are the Bengals in? Trouble listen up Y'all listen up too, okay As of today, I am done with the Bengals As of today as it's as of yesterday. I'm announcing today That as yesterday, I am done with the Bengals Really out completely like not even make the playoffs. No, they'll they'll make some play They'll make the playoffs, but are they going to the Super Bowl? Absolutely not now with that old line trash It's crazy because they signed a guy named LL Collins who came from the Dallas Cowboys Who was a beast and a force on the Dallas Cowboys and This is the the O line is the reason I mean I would say why They've been struggling so much like the past rush of the Cowboys was just getting after them He had no time to throw To Jamar Chase or anyone like you couldn't find anyone bro. He looks he looks like a scrub Yeah, it's really bad. I mean like what they are fluke. How do you fluke getting to the Super Bowl though? That's true. Like they like okay what we talked about a week one I kind of go back on where they deserve to go to the Super Bowl like if you win the game you deserve to like You know you made it a lot of those victories. However were within one possession like against the Chiefs and overtime and so It you know This was a team that a lot of people expected to at one point just kind of go on the decline. Yeah But I didn't think it would be to this point. I think they would have had a chance to beat the Cowboys They had a chance, but they just didn't look good And I mean, I think we're on the same page towards the offensive line I mean, yeah, you think there's any hope for it to turn around. I mean, yeah You said make the playoffs, but I mean it's early They can make that make adjustments and they'll make it to the playoffs for sure But I don't I don't I don't foresee them Being even the champions like leading the division man Super Bowl Yesterday's game with the Bengals. Was it more of the Cowboys looking great or more of the Bengals looking bad Dang, is there a middle round at all? You can do middle. I'm okay with that. Dude. This is your show. You can do whatever you want Yeah, the Cowboys look great. I think Russia's doing a great job. He's throwing dots. Mm-hmm. He's he's nice. I Like them. Yeah, I like him a lot and but the Bengals also look terrible. So, I mean Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna give Cowboys their props because they look good No, something needs to change with the Cincinnati Bengals needs to change fast because You know, they got to have a hold on this AFC North sooner rather than later I think the Ravens are I mean, I know that they lost against the Miami Dolphins But yeah, they might be the favorite if the Bengals can't really do anything at this point the Ravens Ravens Yeah, I would say wouldn't you agree? Yeah, I mean, I really I'm really happy that the Dolphins won But I want I want Lamar against the Bulls so badly Because that's what he said he was gonna do in a contract here. Y'all gonna get a Super Bowl out of me Believe that believe that Big trust Yeah, leave your comments down below about the Cincinnati Bengals. We want to know your thoughts like When is this team really gonna turn around What's really at fault? We both agree that's probably the offensive line But if you guys are really like Cincinnati Bengals haters and you're like, oh Joe Burroughs trash, whatever like this is a safe space We can share your opinions leave a comment down below. We'd love to interact with the guys All right, so to wrap it up. Let's go ahead and talk about Monday night football here real quick We've got two games for some reason for some freaking reason I don't know if it was with you that I brought it up or someone else but I have to go to Reddit and find links for like streams and stuff because they're only gonna broadcast one of these games So I have to get a virus I have to get I have to get a virus to watch the Vikings versus Eagles here tonight because you're not gonna show both games Thanks ESPN. That's crazy. Yeah, I know maybe maybe it is maybe I'm wrong, but first row sports Crack streams calm predictions for Monday night football Titans versus Bills That's the first game. What do you think's gonna happen bills hands down? Really? Okay, well Go ahead bills. I love the bills So I think the bills are 10-point favorites in this game Which I think is kind of stupid. I would have say But it's a little bit of like a like where the Where's the props for the Titans? You know, I want to give some love to the Tennessee Titans Not against the bills. I mean not against the bills. Maybe not ten points might be a little bit of a stretch This is gonna be a blowout brother. You think so. Yeah, I mean the way that they handle the Rams I mean this gonna be a blowout and the way that the Titans lost to the Giants But the Giants are like Giants are legit Giants are like Giants are legit We are two and oh, bro 2016 dude and that that's when they made the playoffs. Yes. Yes, Eli Manning. I remember that Was that the that that was a year where they had the boat trip. Do you remember that? With it like all went on a cruise or not a cruise But like they had a trip where there was a photo out there with like Odell Sterling Shepard and all these guys on a boat Chilling before the playoff game. Yeah, that's how we win. I don't know. I don't know if they won I don't know But okay, so you got the bills, I mean I got the bills too, but I'm gonna say it's by like four points five points Something like that. I don't think that's gonna be that's insane. That's on I Like I like for real. Are you just trying to like make some noise or anything like King Henry you king Henry is a man. This is your king. Is this your king? I'm a Titans believer Still I think the bills are gonna win, but I'm gonna give Titans props, but five points. Yeah by five Points It's happening. That's crazy. And if it's not by five, it's by four. That's crazy 14 No, maybe I don't know But we both got the bills I want to hear your thoughts the second game Vikings versus Eagles The Vikings looked good under a new offense The Eagles look great as well could be NFC East favorites with Dak Prescott missing some time But then Cooper Rush. Cooper Rush is just looking amazing. So we don't doubt him But the Eagles versus Vikings Vikings Yes, sir Okay, I know I was kind of like dogging on them a little bit last week Yeah, and what I said was true. Okay. I still stand by that but the Vikings Offenses probably down below the Eagles out So you don't think that Gianner Hertz even has a chance to make it close No I don't think so. Okay Fair enough. I mean about you. I Got the Vikings as well Kirk Cousins is two and nine on Monday night football. That's the only thing that's making me go like Is it Monday?  I don't know like for some reason. He's two nine. All right I'm going with the Eagles Yeah, there you go. Hey, I mean, it's a good pick like AJ Brown was killing it last week I mean, it's it's a good pig. I still got the Vikings though. I think it's gonna be close But let's just keep it in you go the Vikings. I got the Eagles. All right. Got it.  Let me know the guy wearing the Falcon shirt, right? Exactly. Yeah, no, so Dude, I had to in honor of 20 to 3 gosh. That was crazy that yeah, y'all are losing differently but What I've noticed about you falcon fans is that like you it doesn't matter You already know how it's gonna end. Oh, yeah, you guys watched the whole thing. Oh, yeah I was with some homies watching the game and I was like, yo, can we can we change this like Can we watch? Can we go to the other game? Like you guys already see what's happening? Like, why are we still? No, no, we got to watch Ruin your weekend You know what's crazy is we're so callous to to the point where we already know what's gonna happen Like you said, yeah that nothing really shocks us at this point So it's just like really just watching your favorite team play and that's it and you just can enjoy man of that and I Remember watching it with my wife Sarah and she was like, oh my gosh, this is crazy like they're coming back And I'm like, oh man, this is awesome. They're coming and then when they didn't win I was like Well, you know the past 30 minutes to an out was a nice nice time. I enjoyed that. Yeah I enjoy it. I'm not disappointed because I knew they were gonna lose. I was I was like for it I was going for you. Oh, yeah. Oh, oh my god.  I think that was a set line That was that was Marietta's dude. It's crazy because uh, Marietta's Mariotta. Oh gosh Do you guys do you know the island boys? Yes, I mean island but they made a song about the Falcons because Marcus Mario it is like Hawaiian. It's just it's trash Yeah, I'll show you after Yeah, Drake London went off people were criticizing that pick because they were like, oh, he's not even the best receiver in the draft It's Garrett Wilson and Garrett Wilson had a good day too. So I mean, I don't know they both are really really good But Ramsey just got up there. I don't know. I've never seen him jump that high until then Hey, man He's him He's him. I'm losing respect for Rams, you know But that's that's for another day. Okay. Yeah, I mean, you know last week you got you got cooked, but yeah, whatever Rated anyway, let's go anyways But that's gonna wrap up this episode of time to football. 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Hi everyone, this is Jason here from Nathaniel. In this lesson, we're basically going to look at a 16th note independence exercise which I have presented for you in a lot of versions. So we will do this in different parts, if you will. The first part is going to essentially include a melody in the right hand following a 16th note time field and once you get a grip on the melody, you will then bring the left hand into the play to play four really nice sounding chords. Okay, so let's first break down the melody in the right hand. It's basically on the G minor scale, right? So that's G, A, B, flat, C, D, E flat, F, G, G, F, E flat, D, C, B flat, A, G. I'll play you the tune. Okay, so how do we count this or how do we make it easy for us to count? The first thing is imagine this in a time field or a grid of basically a 16th note division set where every beat is divided into four equal units, right? In some cases you divide it and you swing it but in this exercise we'll just try and do it in a very even kind of split. So how you're going to count it is 1, E, Anner, 2, E, Anner, 3, E, Anner, 4, E, Anner. So 1, 2, 3, 4 represents the beat numbers E and Anner represent the off beat numbers so 1, E, Anner, 2, E, Anner, 3, E, Anner, 4, E. Those are your ease. 1, E, Anner, 2, E, Anner, 3, E, Anner, 4, E, Anner, 1, E, Anner. Those are your an's where you divide it exactly at the 50% mark and then you have So I have created this melody using 16th note beats or 16th note divisions and I have not played all the divisions. I have not played something like I am not doing 1e and a 2e and a 3e and a 4e and a 1e and a 2 because that starts sounding very cluttered I guess and you have too much going on. So generally the logic behind playing groovy music or dividing the beat in general and then composing would be divide of course, divide more but play less. You don't want to over crowd it once you divide it because you have so many possibilities right. So divide more but play less that's basically the order of business for you all. So coming back to the melody and how we can count it. So I have a very handy shaker which I use very often. So the shaker will basically play 1e and a 2e and a 3 basically I am playing all the divisions with this. I'd suggest that you pick up one something similar you even get it in an egg form which is quite cool that's called an egg shaker they say okay. So you go 1e and a 2e and a 3 and a 4e right keep that going and let me build the melody for you right slow that down 1e and a 2e and a 3e and a 4e and a 1e and a 2e and a 3e and a 4e and a 1e and a 2e and a 3e and right there are your hit points goes on up to speed which for this composition I have set to about 96 BPM you can go anywhere between 90 and 100 beats per minute that will be an awesome speed for the drill. There we go now we cannot leave an exercise unfinished with just the melody on the piano right who does that we need the left hand to come into the play and generate the pulse so that's where this becomes a really nice independence exercise where I have four really awesome chords which I think you'll enjoy and those chords are not played in such a fancy manner with all these off beats they're basically going to be at the down beats so that'll be 1e and a 2e and a 3e and a 4e and a 2e and a 3 just at the on beats and the melody in the right hand so before you actually get the melody in the in the right hand I would suggest that you actually practice singing the melody with the left hand playing the simple chords so what are the chords you have G minor first chord I like this I like the suspended chord which I've added in here Fsus4 so G minor Fsus4 what is Fsus4 Fbb C so those are the first two chords G minor Fsus4 and then it goes to what is that it's a four-note chord which I quite like it's an Eb major with an added C okay that's your third chord that's your D minor seventh which is DFA plus that minor seventh C so let's go through the chords again that's G minor Fsus4 Eb major sixth D minor seventh okay and now our final mission play the melody in the right hand and the chords in the left hand so that'll go now you could play the chords in the left hand twice that'll make it pulse like that'll be one two three four one two three or you can attack the left hand only at the ones in the threes of the bar which will be one three poses its own sound and its own challenge of course so you go with the pulse one two three four one two three four one and keep that shaker which we learned earlier sort of at the back of your head so you don't lose timing in the right hand yes you can always read this stuff and play or yes you can also do the math and see where the right hand and the left hand align with each other but that's not the most organic way to get this done you have to get it done with the pulse felt by the body and then the music comes along with that pulse having divided the beat into four units in this case in this lesson we are dividing the beat into four units so keep that shaker going in your mind right to keep that in your head with the chords you're gonna keep time for sure what I like to do with my voice you know is just try to sing one note start with one note you don't have to do it in this weird howling falsetto of mine but you can do it just try one long note maybe the G or the saw of the scale you know just go with that hold something with your voice see the problem there is now I'm singing something and then my melody gets disturbed a bit which is cool which is fine it's nice to be a bit adventurous and explore a bit but you want to try and have some kind of consistency and also have a lot of fun and be really creative in this ecosystem okay so it goes so I'm doing and so on and so forth now you could also use the hit points which I mentioned there one E and a 2 E and a 3 E and a 4 E and a 1 E and a 2 N 1 E and a 2 E and a 3 right you can use those hit points and build your own melody on your own scale on any chord really I've just looked at this exercise as hopefully a template or a jump start into this process of counting and feeling 16th notes and thereby also improving your piano hand independence so you can explore same hit points end on that G major chord which sounds a little bit cool I think at the end of the passage of music right guys so this was exercise one on how you can develop independence of your hands in all sorts of different ways in this case using a 16th note time feel the melody played in the right hand and very simple but beautiful and colorful chords played in the left hand so I'm going to conclude this lesson by playing whatever I played really slow so you can follow it rather than having to keep rewinding and fast forwarding in YouTube let's watch and follow along and play along if you can let's let's get rolling hope you're going to practice this hard on the piano do let me know your thoughts your comments and as always share the video give it a like if possible subscribe if you haven't already etc etc and I will see you in the next part where we are going to explore hand independence and melodic versus harmonic and rhythmic independence and a lot of other kinds of independence over the 16th note time feel in the future videos stay tuned