Hello, my name is Kevin Ralston and I'm a lecturer in Sociology and Quantitative Methods here at the University of Edinburgh. And we've prepared a resource that provides examples of the analysis of fixed and random effects models using the software Stata. And the resource fixed and random effects models are compared to a standard regression model. And also where regression counts for clustering in the data using the Huber-White standard errors. Beyond this, we also present some models that incorporate both fixed and random effects. So the resource provides examples of the monolack model and allicent hybrid model. The resource comprises of an article on methods that you are welcome to take a read-off. And also a program code file that enables you to run the analysis presented and some additional analysis. This first presentation provides a general introduction to fixed and random effects models. So there are a number of data structures to which analysts would consider fitting random effects and or fixed effect models. And table one here summarizes some of these. Now the focus of this resource is on the classic panel data structure. So this is a longitudinal panel data where the structure is that of individuals measured at different occasions or time points. Now this is the data structure of the type provided by data sets like the British household panel survey or the understanding society data sets. For the examples we provide the outcome variables are linear metrics. Much of what follows generalizes these two non-linear outcomes. But researchers should be aware that there is additional complexity that needs to be considered in modelling non-linear outcome variables and fixed effect or random effects frameworks. In the resource, when we are referring to random effects, this will mean the random intercepts model and not alternative such as random slopes or random intercepts random slopes models. So random and fixed effect models are also known as panel data models because they take account of the multiple measurement points of individuals measured in panel data. Table two here describes a very simple panel data set. In this panel there are two individuals measured at three different time points or occasions. So because you have person one, person two, years 2016, 2017, 2018 and we can see that one has six quotas is one and another has six quotas is two. So we might presume that we have a man and a woman in these data. So there are two individuals measured at three different occasions. Now we would not wish to fit an OLS regression model to these data. If we did this, we would be violating the assumption of independence. These cases are not independent of one another, they are nested within two individuals. So if we were to fit an OLS regression model, well it is likely that our standard errors would be too small because we would be assuming that there are six separate cases here when there are really only two different cases. So fixed and random effects models enable us to take account of this panel data structure where there are occasions nested within individuals and we can give this some handy notation. So we can give the level two in the data structure the subscript i for individuals and we can give the level one in the data the subscript t for occasions or time points when individuals are observed. So what are fixed and random effects models? So let's think about the fixed effects model first. So Alice in here argues that a fixed effect model treats unobserved differences between individuals as a set of fixed parameters that can either be directly estimated or partialed out of estimating equations. Now this has some remarkable and useful properties. The fixed effect controls for all stable unobserved variables. This includes variables that have not or cannot be measured and this is remarkable and very useful. Now this is because each individual becomes their own control in the data and because of this all individual variation is accounted for in the fixed effect. All time invariant differences between individuals are contained in fixed effect and any time variant differences can be estimated in the model. So we obtain a parameter for the time invariant differences fixed effect and we can estimate time variant differences. Because all time invariant differences between individuals are incorporated in the fixed effect we cannot estimate time invariant parameters within a fixed effect framework. Now this can be a little bit of a problem and it's likely to pose problems for many substantive research issues. For example if we're interested in sex or ethnicity this is unlikely to vary within an individual over time so we cannot estimate parameters for these in a fixed effect framework and a fixed effect model. So what is the random effects model? Well classically in a random effects model individual differences are considered as random variables drawn from a specified distribution and it is now common to always regard the unobserved differences as random variables. Alison argues that what distinguishes the fixed effect from the random effect is defined by the structure of the associations between observed and unobserved variables. And that a random effect model can account for change over time and time invariant variables. But this leads to a problem. The random effect approach assumes that unobserved variables are uncorrelated or independent of variables. We can maybe get some of a sense of this by taking a look at the algebra for each of the models. So in the fixed effect framework top model here on the slide all unobserved variables controlled in the fixed effect denoted by the term lambda i. A useful way of thinking about this for those familiar with OLS regression is that it would be easy with a small data set to include a dummy variable for each individual in the data set with one individual acting as a reference category. Now this would have the effect of raising or lowering the regression line depending on the average individual level effect. So that's the fixed effect. In the random effects framework there are two components to the error distribution. The EIT component or epsilon IT component is the familiar term for the individual at a given time point or occasion. The second component is an individual parameter that summarizes the overall distribution of the individual respondents difference e.g. the variance for this distribution. These two error components enable the inclusion of time invariant effects in the random effects model. But as we've heard an assumption of the random effects model is that unobserved characteristics are uncorrelated with the observed variables. Correlation between the observed and unobserved variables may lead to bias in random effects estimates. So just to summarize that introduction some of the key issues are the fixed effect summarizes patterns of change within individuals. This is a powerful method that can estimate explanatory vectors with change over time so you can obtain parameters in your model for explanatory vectors that change over time. It's considered to produce optimally low standard errors because between subject variance is not part of the error and this is sometimes described as consistent in the literature. Random effect analyses change within and between individuals. This framework can estimate explanatory vectors which change over time and as well as the time constant ones. But an assumption here is that unobserved variables are uncorrelated with the observed variables. And this approach is sometimes described in the literature as more efficient because it uses more information to estimate parameters. In the next presentation we'll go on to look at some worked examples of these approaches within Stata.


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Hey guys, it's Tate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. It's a big Thursday on FIFA Ultimate Team. It almost feels like a promo Friday because we have a new, not a new team, but the full team of the year impacts today. So we're gonna talk about what the market movements are going to be because right at 6 p.m. UK, we are going to be seeing the full team of the year impacts and that means a lot of packs are going to be opened, saved up packs that people have been holding for literally months. Now, some people weren't able to hold onto those and they opened last Friday when the attackers came, the first set of team of the years impacts, but a lot of people have withstood these team of the year cards being partially in packs and they've waited until today to open their packs or tomorrow and Friday. But I think a lot of people are opening today with the full 11 impacts or they're at least starting to open their packs. So, obviously we're expecting a lot of a market rise to happen after the day, today into the night, Thursday into the evening, but I wanna talk about what could happen before that because today is also probably gonna be a pretty hype content day, right? It's a Thursday, they've kind of been doing an SBC every other day. If you remember, last year we had the Bernardo Silva Moments SBC, this year we have had Boateng, Debala, and we had a Flashback Ribbery. I would not be surprised if we had a big-time Flashback SBC today. Of course, EA knowing the full team's gonna be in packs, there's going to be lightning rounds so they can drop a big-time SBC overpriced it a little bit and get people to do a SBC player that would be very hype, right? People like D'Young or Kante or possibly Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Last year as we had the Eden Hazard Moments SBC which a lot of people are thinking we're gonna get a player of that value today as an SBC. So, that's one thing I do expect. It's a big-time SBC. Probably they could drop a guaranteed rating pack like another 84-plus player pick or something along the lines of another SBC kind of like this, which I need to make sure that I do this before 6 p.m. tomorrow so that I can get my 84-plus player pick out of the way and ready to go. But then, of course, when the full team is in packs, everybody's gonna be spamming these upgrades, right? The Premier League, the League upgrades that are out right now in the game and it's all gonna be a pack spam kind of everywhere that you look today on FIFA. A lot of people are gonna be opening packs, myself included. But what's gonna happen up until then? We have rewards here in the next few hours. So I do think you're gonna see maybe a little bit of a market rise. I don't think it'll be crazy high, but I do think you'll see some cards start to go upwards in price. And if you look across the market right now, there are some cards that are, you know, maybe just kind of fluctuating down on a low or they've dipped down a slight bit. There's some cards that I think could still be buys for a quote-unquote Thursday flip. If you're buying something that you wanna be either trying to sell in a slight rise before 6 p.m. UK tomorrow or it's something you would wanna sell after 6 p.m. UK when the market goes really high in the evening after people open up all their saved up packs and you see that market rise really, really nicely. Now there's a couple things I wanna talk about in terms of the out of packs cards, right? As we looked at on last Friday, today, Thursday has similarities to last Friday on FIFA because of the amount of packs that were being opened, the saved packs, the lightning rounds, everything, all that supply. It's gonna be a big, big day on the market and when people open those packs, all they wanna do is just go out and spend those coins or go out and put those players they packed in their team and buy other players to link around them. So if you remember what went up a lot last week, that's gonna help you with what's gonna go up a lot this week, right? The same types of players go up, the most meta ones, the most popular ones. Now we had some headliners get their streaks updated today and I wanna talk about this for a second because EA actually is messing this up on the market because for the new guys that got their headliner streaks activated, like Ben Yetter and Joao Felix to name two that are in packs, if you search under the headliners quality for these cards, you will not see anything because again, EA has not added the headliners streak item as a quality filter inside the menu. So what you have to do is actually go into the transfer market, into search Ben Yetter and instead of going to the, you know, headliners one right there, you're gonna click the right stick left and go to special and then you're gonna have to search the old way. You're gonna have to search the old way and do like a range to find that Ben Yetter, right? Ben Yetter right now is 1.35 mil. As again, you can see he's got that streak activated, that little bit of that arrow and like the dial is turned all the way to the right on the top of his card. Same thing with Joao Felix and these guys dropped really, really low today because people were not able to find them on this game. So just keeping out for this stuff, I doubt this is gonna be fixed. So a lot of people are gonna be thinking that these cards are extinct.  If I'm being on it, I don't know how that's gonna work. I hope that EA would update that soon. But I'm just curious to see how these cards, I still think these cards, since they've dropped down so much, probably have some room to rebound after they got updated and people wanna try them out with their new stats of course. But headliners were cards where that specifically rose a lot last week. Now Bruno Fernandez was up at 2 million coins. This guy is down to 1.89 today. This guy's gotten really expensive or he was 1.8, 1.7 until his midfielder card came into packs the team of the year. Since this team of your card is up at 4.9 mil, that's why you're seeing this headliner go up in price a bit and then now it's coming back down some. But watch these headliners because I think these are some of the most popular cards in the game right now that a lot of people want to use. The Sun card 1.16, that is up. This Gretzgra is absolutely flying. We've talked about the Bundesliga links that are just doing so well in FIFA right now because of the Boateng SBC and the Serie A links that are doing well because of the Ribéry and because of the Di Bala SBCs. So really take a hard look around the market and even stuff that was kind of, wow, look at this man, St. Maxman 1.07, Dembele 1.3. Yes, these guys are really high but in all reality, what's the ceiling, right? We're getting more coins on the market. More people are gonna have the funds to afford these items in FIFA right now. The stuff that is meta, the stuff that is popular is just going to continue to go up. This De Bruyne was just 420K. This Diego Carlos is low at 1.60 but also you have to factor in that we had the Boateng SBC that came out. So this guy was, I guess he was still 170K during the day yesterday. So that's kind of low at the moment. But other cards like this are really inflated, right? This Rashford, this guy is going over 1.1 mil. This one's going to probably 1.2 mil later tonight. I think this 86 Rashford, honestly this one, right? The 86 Rashford striker card, still 635K with the position change. I feel like this guy, if you can get him in like the 610s or 620s and maybe like in the 460s or so on the Xbox, I feel like this guy could fly. I absolutely fly because this is like the position change striker card, Rashford. I mean, look at this guy move all the time, right? 560 to 630K. And then last week went from 560 again to 638, back down to 612. This guy probably goes near. Honestly, I could see it, 700,000 coins because more and more coins are going to be put onto the market today with the lighting rounds. And these are the types of players that people are going to go buy. Now of course we're talking about out of pack specials, really rare items. We talked a lot about Bundesliga players, Serie A and even Lynx, wow, this Van Dyke is down low again, man. This is crazy. People are selling this card again because I guess they think they're gonna buy the VVD team of the year. Even though VVD team of the year is literally triple the price of this card. I mean, this guy at 1.05 is honestly getting too cheap again. This guy is almost like an icon to be fair. But icons are the other area of the market today that if you're looking for an investment to rise into later in the night, that would be the highest profit after tax. I would be looking at icons 100% because icons are kind of like the barometer for the market as a whole. These guys are like, if you look at the index icon on foot bin, that's like a great way to figure out what the market is truly feeling. And if there's panic on icons, there's panic probably on most areas of the market and that's just kind of where the market is headed. And when the icon market's flying, the rest of the market is going with it, right? Icons today are gonna be fantastic, especially I think some of the German ones that will link Boateng and all the new Bundesliga, German team of the year players together with those new Davies, with Lewandowski even getting, Bundesliga links to other players in there, but of course with the Kimmich, with the Davies, with the Neuer, and kind of getting your team linked up right there. I think Laum, Ballek, all of those German icons will do very well and icons in general, especially the baby ones, right? I always talk about baby Kanovaro being a very meta OP icon. And this guy still isn't even that high, right? He was well over 800,000 coins last weekend at his highest. That's a card you wanna keep an eye on. Other baby icons that I like a lot, Carlos Alberto. I know he's on the higher end. This guy was like 975K on the weekly sell-off and I'm pretty sure he was selling over 1.1 mil just last weekend on the weekend. So baby icons that are very meta, that are good, especially because they're out of packs, I like them. And other icons as a whole, right? Yes, they might get supplied a little bit, but again, with all the coins that are gonna be in the game, I'm a big fan of some of these icons, right? Schweinsteiger is another one that I like. Garincha, I like George Best. This Seedorf is the best Seedorf in the game that people like to use. They don't really use. The baby, of course, is good, but this guy was 1.05. He's up like 70K from where he was. So just if there's any panic selling on icons today or snipes that you can find during lightning rounds, that's gonna be a big time GG to pick up on some of those cards as well.   I know some people are waiting to open packs until Friday, not Thursday, but I still think there's gonna be so much of a buyback and so many coins in the market because people are just gonna wanna get those players in their team after they open their packs. And the next thing to talk about is the SBC fodder. I'm gonna talk about team of the year icons, team of the year cards last. SBC fodder, right? 83s if you have them in your club. Get them out, honestly, get them out. They're 3,000 coins a card because of the defender packs that came out today that were pretty juice. We actually packed a team of the year on a share play. That video was up on the channel just a bit ago. These guys are expensive, right? I think the SBC fodder is gonna drop today kind of like it did last Friday with all the supply. And if you guys remember, SBC fodder was so low. There were crazy, crazy bids last week on Friday when the attackers came into packs because of all the saved up packs and the supply that that brings to the game. So I would say if you have fodder, you might wanna dish it out even though there could be a big SBC today, it probably drops that stuff lower. Especially if they do the SBC release at 7.30 p.m. UK or an hour and a half after the normal drop. If they do a normal lightning rounds, they do the saved up packs. Fodder's gonna tank and then if they release an SBC later like they did last Friday, then you will see it kind of maybe rise back up in the evening if it's a hyped up SBC. So I would take the chance to sell your fodder and try to get more during lightning rounds if that's what you wanna do. And then gold cards as well. The gold cards that are in packs, right? We take a look at like gold Veran who was already down from where he was. But you guys remember what happened last week during lightning rounds. He went from like 145 to 128 to 130, 135. And then it bounced right back because there was so much demand. And then he kind of fell off into the week. Again, all that supply is starting to catch up to a card like this. I think there's gonna be another opportunity today to see Veran go down to like 120K or go down to like 90,000 coins or below on the Xbox for a quick second in like the first 20, 30 minutes, honestly.  Same thing with Kante, same thing with Rashford.  A Salah would probably bounce well. Monet bounces well, pretty usually. So I would watch a lot of those cards. And again, some of your really, really meta out of packs, informs Kyle Walker, 850. This guy was 900,000 coins multiple times during the week this week. I mean, if this guy is any lower than 850 on the PlayStation, that's honestly a buy for me because of how high he's probably gonna continue to go. Even though some players will now use new team of the year cards, I still think a lot of the really, really meta icons and special cards like this will do well, you know, mid-hold at 5.6. Maybe you catch a few undercuts. He probably keeps going higher though. Road to the final cards. We talked about them without a pack specials. Those guys are gonna keep going. The informs from this past team of the week, right? With Ben Yetter and Pogba, those will probably start to take off again tonight as well. And then again, more stuff that is in packs. The current team of the week, current team of the week, right? Neymar, Bernardo Silva, De Young. Top three guys from this week's team of the week. Probably gonna get supplied and then rebound, right? Neymar today, first day in packs. This Neymar card went down to 2.2 mil. 2.2 million coins. It happened before midnight. 2.2, it says 2.3. He was down to 2.25 and even below that, he bounced back to 2.6. Always happens with first day informs. Now he's back down to 2.4. He's gonna get packed from the not very many but he's gonna get in some team of the week packs this week and he's gonna get dipped in supply then but also he's gonna get dipped in supply during the lightning rounds but he's gonna rebound after that first Neymar special card of the year. People that have coins are going to be going and buying that card. So definitely watch for the supply during the lightning rounds for maybe De Young, Neymar and Bernardo Silva and watch for a bounce back after that. Same thing with Pope. This guy's way too expensive anyway. He's gonna keep dropping in my opinion. This is kind of like in Dombly last week. I'm not sure why an 84 rated keeper even though it's Nick Pope and how overpowered he is in this game, I still feel like he drops during lightning rounds and you'll see a time where he will bounce back but we're gonna have to watch that carefully and just watch and see how his price has to drop a lot for me to get interested in buying a goalkeeper as an investment to be honest with you. But team of the year cards, let's talk about these two. We talked about them yesterday on a when to buy team of the year's video. You're starting to see these cards drop down a little bit in price, right? Davies was just under two mil. I saw De Bruyne was at two, five flat. So they're still fluctuating because they're very rare but they are gonna get supplied today and over the weekend. And if we see significant drops today, I think that's a time you can get in and probably snag some of them for your team if that is something you're interested in because a lot of people will open their saved up packs and they'll be looking to go out, raise the funds and buy new team of the year cards that they will want to try out in rivals and in weekend league. Yes, people still play division rivals I hear but Ronald's 2.25 at the moment but you can see how rare he is, right? 2.3 mil, there's only three cards there and that's 50,000 coins of undercuts. You're probably gonna start to see more undercuts this morning and Thursday around the rewards time. Before we head to 6 p.m., you'll probably start to see more open bid listings, cards with chemistry styles on them, not just ones that people have packed first owner and are now listing up on the market because they've packed them and want to get their coins. People are expecting these cards to drop down in price I think and you will see that today in the first few hours with the supply. So that's kind of what I'm expecting. I know it's a Thursday but I would 100, 1,000% expect lightning rounds, probably lightning rounds today, tomorrow and Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I bet EA would go four days in a row of lightning round packs because this is again, basically it's today and last Friday were the two biggest days of team of the year in my opinion and then tomorrow, Friday would be the last or like the third highest like importance day. But it's these three days, right? This is a top tier day because the full team is in packs. We're gonna be spamming upgrade packs and watching the market on the Twitch live stream. I've already started crafting packs and we'll do a small teaser. I'll open one. I have Premier League premium packs, right? I'm gonna open, I think about a million coin worth over the next couple of days on my account. We'll be doing a lot of share plays on stream as well. Mostly Premier League, probably some Bundesliga. We're starting with a board. Hopefully the luck is in. Oh, a little witherfrid indeedy. I'll take that. That is good to SBC fodder that we will be using to craft SBCs. So that's what you're gonna see for the next couple of days is a lot of packs and a lot of crafting.  Make sure you check that link down in the descriptions. We'll be streaming there every day this weekend. Spamming packs, doing share plays and having a lot of fun. So I'm curious for the content today but there's one thing that we can expect. Saved up packs being opened and a really big market rise afterwards. Probably a little bit of a rise in the morning. That's why if you see low prices before rewards, go ahead or even if you see a little bit of panic selling before 6 p.m. UK, go ahead and look to pick up on some of that because it will probably be profitable in the nighttime after a rewards rise. So that's kind of video for today, boys. Team of the Year, the full team is in packs. This is like one of the most fun times of the year. If you'd like to grind the menus because it's all about packs, it's all about trying to hit one of those elite team of the year players and have a lot of fun. So if you enjoyed this video, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nate the Foot Accountant. Catch you later. Peace out.


We are here today at Speaker Aquatic Center with men swimming and diving to interview freshman Ken Takahashi. Hey Ken, thank you for being here with us today. Great meet out there. How did that feel? It felt great. I usually never swim to 100 I.M. ever, so that was a great mix up. But 2 I.M. was also great, and then the 4 I.M. I thought it was exceptional. Best time ever, so I thought the meet overall was great. So you've made a noticeable impact on the team already. How has the transition been from high school to college athletics? It's different. For one, the mornings. I usually never do mornings back at home, so that's a change. And then mixing that up with academics at school and balancing that out is kind of tough, but everyone's been through it, so I think it would be definitely a great change from high school to college. Yeah, great job. So Ken, you guys are currently ranked second behind a powerful Texas team who just won their 11th national championship. What is Cal going to do this season in order to win a national championship? Earlier this year, we had a team meeting, and we all discussed our goals and what we wanted to do in order to win the championship title. So now that we're all aware of each other's goals, each and every day we push each other, and I think that if we remind ourselves our goals and everything, I believe we can get that title. Right, and you guys have a history of winning the national championship. In the past six years, Cal has actually won three of the national championships. So you guys are right there. You got this. Are you excited? I'm very excited. I want to be a part of that national championship team. And I want to try my best to contribute and score points. Awesome. So as a team, you guys did very well against Jamita Pacific a couple weeks ago, bringing home two victories. Was there anything in specific that you guys were looking to improve upon in order to prepare for Stanford today? Yeah, well, for myself, I had to work on technical things like in the water. And I guess preparation is key. So I took that from Pacific and Utah. And I tried to improve at this meet right here today. So I thought I did a better job preparation-wise and technical-wise today than I did two weeks ago. And yeah. Well, definitely showed in your performance. Great job. So you just finished a hard practice. You're super hungry. What is your go-to place for a quick bite in Berkeley? Well, usually I would go to Angeline's, the Louisiana kitchen. Funny story. The freshman class and I, we went to dinner one day and it was at Angeline's and we really loved it. So shout out to Carson Sand for recommending that place. Awesome. Shout out to you, Carson. And this has been another episode of Cal TV Sports. Thanks for watching. And remember, go Bears! One of my favorite Sains within Cal Fuddix is don't let the highs get too high.


Hello everybody, and welcome to another hobby-cheating video. Today we're going to talk about varnishing through your airbrush, and just varnishing in general, when, how, and how you make it fast, efficient, and easy. Let's get into it. The airbrush is a powerful tool, and right away when you get it, even without a lot of practice, it can be used for things like base coating and priming without much issue. One of my favorite uses for it, though, is varnishing. Now varnish, of course, can come in rattle cans. Many of us have probably used things like tester's dull coat, and various other rattle can varnishes to protect our models. Nothing wrong with all that. The challenge is, when you have that aerosol, it can sometimes limit when you can spray. Different temperatures, different humidities, different effects out of rattle can varnishes means you sometimes don't always get the finish you want. If you've ever tried to varnish a miniature, and had it come out a little fuzzy or frosty, well, that's an unfortunate day to be sure. The reason that's happening out of the rattle can is generally because of one of two purposes, or two reasons. Either the rattle can, the varnishing, has some kind of chunks or something like that, and maybe it got frozen, or you're holding the varnish too far away with the rattle can, and it dries either in midair, or it broke up inside the rattle can, and now you're getting that physical texture on the miniature. The most common reason you get fuzz, or that kind of whiteness on it, is because it trapped humidity. Effectively, some kind of humidity in the air got caught in between the layer of varnish in the miniature, and as it dries, it creates that fuzzy effect. Certainly not optimal if we want our miniature to look good. Enter airbrush varnishing. Now, varnishing with your airbrush generally not only can you do it a lot closer up and control the flow of air a lot better, but also you're just at much less risk to have anything fuzz or act in an unusual way. So in this video, we're going to talk a little bit about the various and different kinds of varnishes that are out there you can put through your airbrush, how to put it through your airbrush, and when you should use it. All right, first, let's talk about types of varnish, and this is really important. Acrylic varnishes that go through your airbrush, which is the most common available on the market, are a mix of your standard acrylic medium and usually some kind of polyurethane or something like that for durability. Now, you'll notice that they generally come in about four different categories. Gloss, satin, matte, and then ultra matte. There are some variations, but for most vendors that are out there, this is the kind of spread you will see. What makes a varnish matte versus gloss versus whatever is a it has to do at the molecular level. Effectively, the more smooth at the molecular level, the varnish dries, the more flat, the more light it's reflecting back up. So gloss varnishes dry, extremely smooth, create a very flat molecular surface, allowing the paint to run over top of it. This means you gloss varnish if you want to do something like an oil wash. That can be great because then it'll help the paint, like oil washes, which have a very low capillary action flow into the recesses. However, it will be very hard to put normal paint on top of because there's no teeth, there's no broken up space for it to adhere to. Now, as we go down from gloss into satin into matte and into ultra matte, the surface of the the miniature, again, at that micro level is becoming more and more and more rough. And as a point of fact, on the complete opposite side of the spectrum, ultra matte varnishes available from people like AK Interactive and Ammo by MIG, those are quite rough and broken up, meaning that when the light hits the miniature, it doesn't have a single place to reflect back to. It scatters in all directions, making it look very matte. But it also means it's very easy to paint over the top of those varnishes because there's a very uneven surface. There's a lot of tooth for the paint to grab onto. Ironically, you don't want a completely smooth surface when you're painting, at least not at the molecular level, because in your paint, we'll be able to adhere. Now, the other part of this discussion has to do with durability. Things like gloss varnish is the most durable. It provides the thickest, smoothest, toughest surface and will protect your miniatures the most. However, gloss varnish alone also really makes your miniatures look like crap because if you've done any kind of highlighting and then you gloss varnish everything, your highlights will be in two different places. The miniature won't make sense. It just looks bad. Please do not gloss varnish your miniatures as a final step. It really, really makes them look horrible. Now, as we go down from there into satin, matte and then ultra matte, each of those finishes can have different purposes and you may or may not want your miniature to be in that particular finish. In general, you don't want the whole miniature to be satin because we don't walk around glistening. And again, you don't have any control over the light as you turn the miniature, if it's completely satin, then the light will reflect in the shadows and it will look weird and bad. And that's an easy way to make your miniature just look amateurish and unprofessional, frankly, it won't look credible. So most of the time, what we want is a matte finish. However, how do we get the durability of the sort of glossier satin varnishes but the finish of the matte or the ultra matte? Don't worry, we'll talk about that in just a moment. All right, let's talk about actual airbrush application. When we're applying the varnish through our airbrush, the key here is we always start with thinner and this is going to be a bit unusual for a lot of people who might be used to applying varnish straight. Now, the reason we always use just a few drops of thinner in our airbrush first is because we don't want that varnish to get down into the nozzle area and start drying in advance and gum up the works. This is something that a lot of people are very concerned about. A lot of people are like, I hear this question so many times. Can I use varnish in my airbrush? Won't it just gum everything up? And the answer is really no, it won't. Yes, it is more durable. Yes, it can cause that if you just put it in your airbrush and leave it sit for 20 minutes, but don't do that. You shouldn't do that with paint. You shouldn't do that with primer. You certainly shouldn't do it with varnish. Regular varnish can go through your airbrush without causing any long-term damage or issues whatsoever. I do it all the time, almost every day. I've done it for years and years. The key is those few drops of thinner going down first into the cup.  By the way, I use a standard mix of 80 percent thinner and 20 percent flow improver. That's my standard ratio for everything. I just tend to use two or three drops just to get everything in there lubricated and to prevent that varnish from drying in that nozzle area where it would cause problems. Now, my varnish of choice is a three to one mix of satin and ultramat. I should have said those in the reverse order. So it's one drop of satin varnish for every three drops of ultramat. What I find is two consistent applications of that will provide you protection while also keeping the surface incredibly matte. Now, I'm generally going for a more display finish. I want my miniatures to be quite matte because I've already painted on the highlights. I've already told you the viewer where the highlight is. So there's really no need for me to rely on varnish to do it. I want the varnish to just be there as a protective layer, and that's it. When you're applying the varnish, you want to try to apply it over the whole miniature in a consistent, thin application. If you start to see any buildup or puddling or pooling, stop spraying, use the air, push that varnish around to make sure it's nice and thinned out. You do not want those puddles or pools to build up because that's what can cause us problems being texture or trapping humidity or lots of other things later down the line. Apply that varnish, let it dry. How long it takes to dry will depend. It will vary based on your particular humidity in your area. My basement is bone dry, so as a result of that, mine is generally dry in about 10 to 20 minutes. If you have a more humid situation, you may want to let it go just a little longer, maybe 30 minutes to an hour. Then apply a second coat. Now, what that does is it seals in all of your work, makes it completely safe and gives you some protection while also providing you a consistent finish across the miniature where you want it. If you have particular areas that you want to have a slightly different finish, maybe the cloak should be just slightly satin or something like that, you could always go back in afterward and apply that satin varnish alone on top of that particular area. Because there's enough Ultraman in the mix, there will be enough teeth for future layers of paint to grab onto. That actually leads me to my next point, which is I varnish often during the process of painting my miniatures. Because airbrush varnishing is so quick and simple, I'll usually just, if I want to create a quote unquote save point, in other words, if I've been working with a lot of very thin paints and I want to make sure that future paint doesn't disturb it, or if I make a mist brush stroke, I can flood the area with water without reactivating any of those lower, extremely thin glaze layers. I'll varnish it a couple of times, just as I described, and then let that cure. And that will mean that as I then put on future layers, I can go in and if I miss an airbrush stroke, I can flood the area with water and just erase that out real quick. Now, I also varnish before I apply any metallics. Airbrush varnishes mean not only can you apply it multiple times throughout the process to increase the overall durability of the paint job and your ease of life. That way, when you make a mistake, it's very easy to correct or erase.  So I apply all the matte paints, varnish the miniature, then apply all my metal paints. Do I varnish metal paints? No. No, I do not. I never varnish metal paints. There is no need to. They are perfectly durable on plastic figures, especially stuff like the Lejo metal color or AK interactive third gen metallics or scale 75 metallics are quite tough. Those are generally the three brands I would ever recommend you touch as metal paints. Most others are garbage. That's a whole other video. But the with with varnishes, I always only apply them to matte paints. If I apply metallic paints to the miniature, it's the last thing I do. And then I do not varnish it afterward once that's been applied. Even with my gaming figures, even things that get played quite regularly, it's no problem. I've never had an issue. I do not scratch off paint. I've used these figures quite regularly and for years. So I don't know what people are doing with theirs that would cause any issue. Sometimes people say, I can scratch the paint off with my fingernail.  Stop that. Don't don't do that. That's like, gee, when I rub this exactly over my miniature, it all the paint came off. Yeah. Yeah, don't don't do that. OK, so application is very simple. Remember your summary, couple drops of thinner first and then you can find your mix. As I said, my preferred mix is three drops of Ultramat to one drop of satin to provide a mix of both durability and the matte nature of the varnish. But you might find your own mix, experiment around with it and see what works for you. Lastly, let's talk a little bit about cleaning your airbrush after you varnish, because I know this is a big concern, as I mentioned earlier. After I varnish through the airbrush, I rinse it out as normal. You can see my video on cleaning my airbrush that's linked up in the top. But I also make sure to always use a drop or two in there of 99% isopropyl alcohol. Now, you don't need to get the 99% if that's not available around you or hard to get. You can just use something like 91%, but you generally want a 90% plus isopropyl alcohol. I put a few drops of that in there, work it around the cup, backflow it a little or whatever, and then add water, dump it and clean. Those few drops of alcohol will break up any of that varnish that you've got that's still hiding inside there, really, really break it apart so it can't ever dry and form that varnish bond. And then it's just rinsing out your airbrush as per normal and you're good to go. No long term damage, no muss, no fuss. So there you go. That's varnishing through your airbrush. I hope this was very helpful. I hope this gave you some ideas about how you can utilize varnish through your airbrush quickly and efficiently to both make your life easier when you're painting, using it as safe points, how to mix the ratios and how to keep your airbrush humming while you're putting varnish through it. 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Alright, that's what you call a mixed bag Hey guys, this is my review for Alita Battle Angel now. This is a movie that James Cameron has been trying to make for almost as long as apparently he had been trying to make Avatar but for some reason just between complications with the Funding for the film the film itself in terms of its production its pre-production as well as him working on the avatars equals He eventually stepped down from directing the film and he gave it to probably the person that made me raise my eyebrows the most Which was Robert Rodriguez? I like Robert Rodriguez as a director He is basically a indie filmmaker who has been making movies that he wants for this long as he's been basically making films You can definitely tell that he enjoys what he makes. Yeah Some of his movies are very interesting choices Some of his movies have not been very good and immensely he has lost his touch a little bit over the last few years But in terms of how now with big-budget movies like the Jurassic Park films or other stuff They give these big huge hundred million dollar projects to directors who have barely worked with a budget over five million and Then producers can basically take hold and do what they want with it Robert Rodriguez is that Filmmaker who works with that budget, but he has over two decades of experience I felt comfortable with him in the role the only thing I felt a little bit worried about is his pacing ideas and Admittedly that does come into play in this film, but first off I want to talk about just how freaking good the visuals are in this film Yeah, and really everyone was kind of weirded out by the idea that her eyes are so fucking big But apparently that has something to do with the manga which by the way I've never read it, but for how much is in this movie. I imagine that it's somewhat reminiscent of the material but the Effects on elitist face are fantastic. It's pretty cool that the girl who played her was oddly enough the girl from The maze running movies not even with one of the main characters There's just one of the side characters She is underneath all this facial stuff that you can tell that they are mixing her emotions with the Animation on her face and then the lighting everything works so well with her She looks so fucking good in this film that there's a lot of times where I'll say she looks more detailed than the person She's talking to now obviously you can tell that CG, but it's goddamn close in terms of facial reconstruction Facial kind of animation with a live-action character.  I've ever seen this is amazing And it's not just her it's the entire world the world building in this film is incredible from a visual standpoint whether it's from just starting the city to rollerball to kind of how this Cyberpunk sort of world has established itself. We're basically getting CD project reds a cyberpunk game early the immersion with these characters Like there's people who literally have just a face and the rest of it is all cybernetic stuff but it looks goddamn seamless and The action scenes work so well with this animation Robert Enriquez keeps a good eye on what matters He doesn't do shaky cam shit You see everything in all of these action scenes the rollerball Sports scene is one of the best scenes in the movie. There's a lot of fight scenes in this movie that got me going I was really into it and the action in this film is incredible. It is very well done. It's very well shot. It's fantastically rendered and it is definitely like a munch in popcorn mitt. However And when the characters start talking is when the movie starts to go downhill and I'm not talking about just certain parts I'm talking almost the entire Movie every scene. There's dialogue the film just almost becomes a cringe-fest the dialogue in this film is either a exposition landfill a Cringe-fest are some of the most bland boring shit in the entire film You basically go back and forth between the three throughout the entire movie and sometimes they even repeat themselves when they don't need to We're seeing that being established by the characters the girl who plays Lita She's good and obviously she is playing this character who hasn't lost her memory and is kind of melding her past as a warrior With this sort of new age child mentality But everyone else like Kristoff waltz kind of looks like he's sleepwalking through the movie The guy who plays the love interest Hugo.   There's definitely stuff that must have been cut Because there's a lot of moments where you just feel like you're behind Yeah, I felt behind this whole movie as the story was being established at one point she goes into this bar And she starts trying to rally these other hunter-killers to her cause. I was like wait What? What when did this happen when? Where did this motivation come from and that's like how Robert Rodriguez's last few movies have been machete kills Definitely the second Sin City movie. It just never gives itself time to breathe and this movie is Running at full tilt the whole time and it never takes a moment to stop and establish itself and give us some breathing room And never does that it's full tilt the whole time and it suffers for that So while I did enjoy this movie. I think it is definitely a very entertaining film I would actually watch it again specifically for the technology I saw this in IMAX you definitely got seen in IMAX the 3d tech was fantastic the effects were great The fight scenes are really cool. There are some cool surprises. I was very entertained through those parts But then when they start talking the movie immediately goes downhill And it's a very like give and take sort of relationship with this film because there's some good But there's a lot of bad to it too the film sets up a sequel as well Which admit I would be interested in but don't take seven fucking books or whatever and put it into one because That's just too much. There's just so much Elements in this film. There's too many themes trying to be crammed in the film didn't really know what it was trying to be One thing I'll definitely be surprised of this is PG-13. They get away with a lot They get away with a lot of murder in this film There's a lot of people who are decapitated Cut in half ripped apart And there's a part there's one part in particular that I did not think could happen in a PG-13 movie But it does pretty gnarly. I'll give him that it's a cool idea. I'm happy. I saw it I would willingly see this again, but it is a bad fun movie going in just letting you know that I know a lot of people would not enjoy this film They would think it's probably garbage and they're totally right to say so.  I enjoyed it I think it's a cool time the technology and the action scenes are something Extremely well done and they're definitely deserve a viewing but the story itself is a lot to take in and The character Interactions are not as good as they could be and there's a lot of wasted talent in this film a lot of wasted talent But I would still suggest you see it, but see it in IMAX. It is a fun time. Anyways guys. Hope you enjoyed this review Oh Finally it's out if you guys check out Amazon Prime at Camp Death 3 in 2D has come out on Amazon Prime Very happy to announce that for these guys They let me watch the film ahead of time and I've been giving a little bit of shoutouts for this because it was filmed Up here in Canada and I got to give my Canadian filmmakers some shoutouts So definitely check it out. Anyways guys. I hope you enjoyed this review If you did leave a like and if you're interested in more maybe subscribe. Otherwise, I'll see you guys next time


I was going to ask, how sustainable is it if you have to forage for it? In terms of standably harvesting the chaga, they leave 20 to 25% of it on the tree, so it can be regrown, be re-harvested. They actually GPS the trees, our wild foragers, so they can find it, so they know where it is. Especially 1 in 10,000 birch trees. Exactly. That's smart. So that's pretty much considered sustainably harvesting the chaga.


Good afternoon everybody. My name is Lisa Crookshank and I am the First Nation Métis Inuit Social Studies Consultant for Edmonton Catholic Schools and to begin with, like every one of you have done, I'd like to respectfully acknowledge that we are on Treaty 7 territory and thank you for welcoming us as we're from Treaty 6 traditional territory. And I just wanted to acknowledge my team of lead teachers that all came with me today. Last night, and I just want to thank them. They've done an amazing job this year, and we have a whole representation from elementary, junior high, high school, and even some administrators. So thank you all for being here. Is it like three seconds of fame or something to get? All right. So as I was saying, we're from Edmonton Catholic, and I guess we serve as 89 schools. We have about 40,000 students. We have 3,700 staff, and out of those 40,894 students, we have 3,270 self-identified First Nation Métis Inuit students. Our department was established in 2001. And I joined our departments in November 2014. So being new, I taught in our district for about 15 years and had just recently discovered the last two years that I actually had a Métis birthday. So I was adopted and then I kind of went finding my roots. And so I think, you know, things are meant to be sometimes where you're on your journey. So I'm just very happy to be where I am today and, you know, meeting all these wonderful people. And as a lot of people said before, that, you know, it all starts with building relationships. So of course, I met Shirley, or Shirley. I met Solange last May, and it was at the Jasper Palisades, where I also met Barb Schmidt. And that's kind of where I first heard about the professional learning project. I know it had been two years in the, like, going on so far. But when I started again in the fall, I remembered, and thanks to, I think it's Sandy from Grand Yellow Head that put that First Nation Métis Inuit Teacher Camp on. And I remember certain things from that session. And one of those things was the project. So I contacted Solange in the fall and he joined. And the other lady there is Charlene Bearhead, who also has been one of my mentors this year, and coaching me through, you know, focusing on reconciliation. And she's the national lead for the truth in reconciliation, the education. It just has been a year of lots of new learning. And it is very difficult to put, you know, everything in 30 minutes. So throughout my year and a half, I've been there, taking a lot of pictures. So I thought, Oh, great, this will be a good opportunity to show my pictures. And so one of the biggest shifts, I think, in a line with one of our district's initiatives called Transform, which Transform focuses on a pedagogical shift. And so in our department, I would say in the last year and a half, we're really focusing from crafts to curriculum. Educating the educator has been a huge focus this year. And again, building capacity. And it was just recently that we noticed that this photo was actually used in our principal meetings header in their agenda. And we weren't even really aware of that. So it was kind of a win for us as the lady who did that, you know, really thought that that was important to acknowledge. So about clicking and talking at the same time. So basically, those are some of the initiatives. We also had a big shift in with the literacy focus this year. And we kind of coined the phrase from our traditional support instructors, where they would kind of focus on beating. Now we're focusing on reading. So that's kind of our new shift, our coined phrase. So in alignment with the project, that's also how I organize our project. So learning to be, how does what you do relate to who you are? And so when I first met Solange, we talked about that this is kind of like the policy section. And so we were really happy to find this piece from the, where's this from? This is from Alberta Ed. And it's really just saying again that, you know, all students need to be taught about our history in Canada, and not just the First Nation meeting in U.S. students. That also aligns with goal four, desired outcome four from Alberta Ed. And that's the call to include more education when it comes to residential schools and treaties, which again aligns with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the calls to action, which aligns with our district growth plan. So they all connect together. And part of our district growth plan involves two pieces. One focuses mostly on one of our models, which is our grad coach program, which we have at three of our high schools and three junior highs for transitioning and for successful high school completion. And then again, also to provide the professional learning to our teachers. So that brings us to learning to know. So how does knowing relate to understanding? And it wasn't really until I met with Solange, probably by the third time, that I really understood this concept of, you know, we all know things, we all know the dates and traditionally, you know, our teachers, they know that because they have to teach it. But the shift that we're trying to make is also, you know, taking that knowing to understanding and creating that empathetic view for all our students. So in the fall, we had invited ourselves to our learning coach meeting. So every school in our district has a learning coach. There was 89 people at that meeting. And we just kind of said, can we come and, you know, put a call out there and request that we have a lead teacher at every site. So that hadn't been done before. And so after we did that, we were happy at our first lead teacher meeting in October that we had about 38 come out compared to eight from the year before. So we thought that was a thing to celebrate. Now we are collaborating. I'll take lots of pictures. So also learning to go from knowing to understanding is, and I'm sure you've heard about the blanket exercise. And so that was one of the things Kyros had come out to train some of our high school students last year for the youth conference that Melissa was talking about. And so some of our leadership students at the high school level have been trained in that our staff has also been trained. And so we also focus on going out to schools and training the staff at the school sites. And so one thing we wanted to do was to honor our traditional treaty six territory by using the Cree medicine wheel colors in the blankets. And that's just a picture of an elementary school grade five. So we found that the blanket exercise really speaks to the grade five program of studies, grade six for justice and injustice, and pretty much every outcome for the grade seven social studies. So those are the three grades, you know, without we focus on high school, any grade it would fit into. So here's when we went to Mother Margaret Mary, we also had some of our other consultants join us that day, the religion consultants, and the social studies consultants. And has anyone here not ever experienced the blanket exercise? So a few. Okay. So we find that that's probably the most powerful experience to shift your, your focus from just knowing to understanding it's very powerful. So our district traditionally has in the past would always do aboriginal day. And I think a lot of schools are used to calling upon our department for that. And so this year we kind of revisited that we thought, you know what, it shouldn't just be a day. And it shouldn't just be a day of, you know, dancing and crafts. It needs to go beyond that. And so we're shifting now some of the schools in our district, they will have their faith days or body, mind and spirit days. And so when we get called upon to do that, now our focus is definitely on reconciliation. So it's a way to kind of bring that piece into the schools. And that's where we've had a lot of help from Charlene. So that brings us to learning to do. And the big question is how does empowering different differ from delegating? So I think sometimes when, you know, especially now that all these things are coming down with the TQS and, you know, the, the documents from Alberta Ed, you know, teachers are, are like, okay, well, we have to do this, we have to now we have to teach about residential schools, teach about treaties. And I would say 90% of our educators in our districts don't really don't know how to do that. So we decided that, well, we need to be able to reach all of you and do that. So some kind of another thing that had never really been done in our department, we have about 15 staff in total, but eight of those staff are out at school sites and they make up the Rated Journeys grad coach model. And so we decided this year as consultants that we would hold a session for our whole department staff and just really get them to look at the program and study. So when their students come to them for help and support and for tutoring, they know what the connections are. And we actually spent the day and they had to kind of highlight through whatever grade level they worked with, which outcomes potentially can they speak to their students when it comes to residential schools and treaties. And there's about 33% of the social studies outcomes that can speak to that. We also decided when we're planning that we would have our monthly PDs that have the social studies and the literacy focus. So here's some of our teachers engaging with Gouda. She's our Inuit resource person. And she also from that PD got some bookings to go to some of our schools. So there she is at St. Augustine and she brings the traditional food as well that students can try it. And then some, I was also inspired by my colleagues and friends at Edmonton Public and I thought, you know, what can we do so we can make this easier for teachers. So what we did is we also started creating more edu kits. There were some that we had, but I thought we could make more. So now we have two Inuit kits that teachers can borrow. And when I first asked about their kits, I forget, I don't know who the lady is that does their kits at Edmonton Public, but she told me that the Inuit kit is booked for two years ahead of time. And I was like, yeah, right. You know, well, it is because when I put this out to our teachers, of course the I'm like, whoever wants a kit, let me know. Well, I got about 42 emails back in about 10 minutes that they all wanted it. So so now I believe her. All right. And so we have a storytelling PD. We also involve our elders to come out and provide some knowledge and their perspective on the topics we're presenting. So our elders are always welcome. So we also try to make the setup for our PDs culturally, culturally appropriate. So we see a semicircle there. We also had our Meti PD, which also there was a fur trade kit available as well. So yeah, so I'm not going to name all the PDs, but we basically held one a month and then either our lead teachers would come or they would recommend it to whatever grade level it was appropriate for for the teachers to come at their schools. And so in March, we all the one Jeremy was talking about, we went out to the Jasper Palisades and it was I brought about I think it was 13 grade seven teachers from Edmonton Catholic to also look at the project for the mountain people. And very they were very grateful that they were also to be able to be part of that experience. So part of our learning to do in the pedagogical shift for our cultural support instructors kind of went through a big shift this year. So they have, I think Karen Aranda, how long have you been? Since the beginning. So they've been there since the beginning. And so I think they're ready for a change too. So we were given some money through a grant. And that allowed us to pay for training for Karen Aranda. So they experienced training like daily five level literacy intervention through Fountas and Penel. I forget which other school district mentioned that Jolli phonics, front loading, reading strategies. What's lots of different PD. And so we are also able to purchase a lot of our leveled reading resources. So that actually align with the Fountas and Penel benchmarks. Our district also uses the benchmarks for Fountas and Penel. But we thought we really need to hook our first nation maintenance students because there was a bit of a gap when it came to literacy. So we purchased lots of different resources like Eagle Crest and can't remember the wall about the literacy consultant, but we got quite a few old Turtle Island voices. There was lots of different leveled readers. So then that was a hook for our kids in that they would be able to recognize language and the things that they hear in their communities and in their homes and relate it to their reading. So that was a highlight for us as well. So here's some data from one of the schools that Aranda, our other instructor, so from November, she started, I think everyone started in about October with their reading groups. So from November to March, every student, I left their names out, went up three levels in their reading level. So in that school, she goes twice a week and has six different groups, I think 15 students all together. And then Karen, she'll speak to some of the things she's done as well. So we have about seven or eight schools, especially schools with high numbers that we provide literacy support to in like the northeast, south and west of our district. So that brings us to learning to relate how does where we learn influence how we learn. So I wanted to put this picture because I thought it was pretty cool that that's going up. Has anyone not seen that one before or heard about this? It's been in the news. I'm just not there. So for our own staff, learn to relate really speaks to community. And in the fall, Gary, our cultural advisor, Gary Gagnon, organized a staff PD for us out at our Elder Bob Cardinals place in Enoch. And so I just put pictures up of Enoch because I didn't have any from that day. But we spent the whole day with Bob and he really focused on on how we can learn from the land and how it's so important to stay connected to the land and, you know, how, how we can reach our First Nation Métis Nuit students and some really important connections. So that was a day I'll never forget. We also have a Council of Elders and their role is to meet with our Board of Trustees. So there's some decision making on that level. They have their monthly meetings. And the lady on the right is my supervisor in the yellow, Shirley Micotuck, and the lady on the left, Rhonda Metallic. She's the one similar to, I forget the elder that was talking about the Cochrane, how they organize their elders. She organizes so schools request, you know, an elder to come speak. She'll organize that and provide them with the proper protocols as well. This is just a picture of Francis Alexis. He's one of our elders. And this is him at one of our schools speaking on science and mathematics. So he did teaching with his students. And it was, it was a beautiful time. We also focus on our family nights as well. So connecting family with community, I think a couple of our, a couple of our schools have had two or three family nights throughout the year. So we, we help them with that. We also, Gary has done an amazing job reaching out to our district staff. So basically anybody is welcome to he put on a P, P professional learning session where it bridged our Aboriginal spirituality with our Catholic faith. And it was four sessions. And so he started with, you know, just what's the importance of ceremony, what it is, the traditional medicines, the protocols. And then the last session was on a Saturday where we all went out to his friend, Rocky Moran on Enoch for a traditional sweat ceremony. So Rocky was gracious enough to let us use his own families, traditional sweat lodge. And I did ask him for permission to take pictures of that day. And then it was just a beautiful day. So everybody who signed up for the first session of that PD stayed with us until the end. So that was, that was really cool. And again, you know, people, you know, educational assistance, there was our elementary religion consultant that joined us that day. So it was pretty cool. So now I'm at the point where I'm going to invite Karen up. She's going to speak to something really beautiful that she organized this year. Thank you, Lisa. I have a few notes here. When Lisa invited me to come down, I had said no. I kind of think of myself as being more of the background person. And I like to just go and work with the kids. And I enjoy that thoroughly. So I was thinking as I was sitting there that sometimes when you're really nervous like that, it's good to tell a joke. And I didn't tell Lisa this, but I'm going to try it out anyway. My mother worked for the superintendent of St. Albert's Catholic School District for many, many years. And he had shared this joke with her. So I think it's okay for me to share this joke with you. It was about a guy and he was, didn't want to get up and go to school in the morning. And his mom was knocking on the door and she was saying, you have to get up. It's time you have to go to school. And he said, I don't want to go to school today. And she knocked on the bedroom door again. And she said, you have to get up. It's time you have to go to school. And he says, mom, I don't want to go to school. The kids don't like me.  You don't have to go. You're the principal. So anyhow, I thought that was kind of a funny joke. My name is Karen Gagnon. And I had the privilege this year of working with our FMI students who are struggling below grade level with their reading. We received a literacy grant, as Lisa had mentioned. And so myself and my colleague, Rhonda Paul, we received some training and we went into these schools to work with our kids. And I was assigned a West End School close to Enoch Nation, St. Benedict. And I was meeting with my kids and one day, one of the students said to me, he said, you know, Ms. Gagnon, would it be okay if we went out to Enoch and read with our elders? And I thought, you know, that's awesome. That's a wonderful idea. So I got in touch with someone who could get me in touch with the elders' lodge. And when I called them, I initially thought that it was a six month program. Perhaps we could come out at the end of the six months and we could show them what we had learned in our reading program. When I did speak to someone there, they said, you know, why wait until the end of the program? Can you bring them out for Christmas? We would like to meet them. We want to know who they are and we want to know how they're doing. We want to support them as best as we can. So we were able to arrange it and we ended up inviting, I always teased the principal. I said, we ended up inviting everybody and their cat and dog because we ended up having a fairly big group. We invited parents and aunties and uncles and grandparents and the elders' lodge. Their job was to invite the elders from the community. So we loaded up the bus, kind of like the Beverly Hills and we even packed up the principal and we brought him with us too. And we went out and we had the most amazing time. And the kids, we demonstrated the reading that we normally would do when I would meet with them and they actually used the microphone and they got up and they, we met all the elders. We made them a gift and unbeknownst to me, they had invited the chief. However, the chief was in Ottawa at the time, so he sent someone in his place and it was really inspiring for the staff and the students, for everyone. It was a counselor, John Thomas, I believe was his name from Enoch Nation. And he spoke to the children in Cree and then went on to say to them that what they were doing was so important that this reading is a life skill and that it will take you anywhere you want to go and that we look to you, youth, to be the future. You're our leaders down the road. And you know, 100 years ago we used to hunt buffalo and that's how we survived but education is our buffalo and we've heard that term so often. But you know, it just touched the kids and it touched all of us and the elders went on to say that we're here to support you and we want you to do well and we're going, we're going to pray for you. And you know, it was just such a success and we came back and the kids said, when are we going back? When are we going back? So we have arranged it. We're going to go back on June 3rd for our wrap up. I contacted the elders center again and they're very excited, looking forward to us returning. And you know, the kids feel a real sense of belonging.  I feel I have the best job in the world. What I have to do is just be there for them and hold that space for them and give them my best every day. And we just came up with a name for our program and we're going to call ourselves Read, Lead and Succeed. Thank you. Great. So just a couple more things under learning to relate. A couple of weeks ago, Wanda, she's our new community relations person, met with Mahdi Matheson. She is our Edmonton photographer that's taken on the initiative of the Red Dress Project. Okay, five seconds or five minutes. Five minutes, okay. Okay. So one of our high schools, Archbishop Oscar Romero, hosted these beautiful photographs and the leadership students there did a project. I'm bringing awareness to the students and staff at that school about the missing and murdered Aboriginal women. And so it was a, we went for the session that Mahdi held and spoke to and it's on Facebook, you can follow it and they're really encouraging like anybody to join that and to add to their photos. One of our, a lot of the things that we've done is we have a program called Our Lady of Grace and it's kind of, it's held at Cardinal Collins, which is one of our alternative Ed schools or fresh start sites. And so we support our students that have had children in their teen years and helped the moms to finish. And so every May there's a baptism for all their children, which is right across the street from our site. So I work at the Sacred Heart Learning Center and Sacred Heart Church honors all the children and they go through their baptism. This picture, these are pictures I've wanted to show because it shows Elise Wood, who's holding her son, Fisher. And he was actually named after one of our district chaplains who passed away last year and they were best friends with him. So they gave him their baby father catfish, his name. And then she is the grad coach at Oscar Romero High School. And then she asked one of our curriculum sport instructors, Ronna Paul, to be the godmother. So I thought that was a beautiful thing. The one thing that's coming up this Saturday is our annual Ben Capro Powell that was 35 years this year that we've had it and I've heard it's grown. It used to be held at the school and now it's at the Commonwealth Stadium. So it's really grown and so everybody you're all welcome to come and I'm pretty sure there might be some people. I met these. This man on the left, he was from Masquichis last year. And I asked, I was just, it was my first time I went to a powwow. So I was pretty, I thought it was really amazing. And so I asked to take pictures of people's regalia. The two guys on the left, they're from Kisakawa Wasis, which is our mountain creek camp that Edmonton Catholic Schools has adopted out in Rob, Alberta. So we help and take care of that school with them. And then that's almost it. That's the powwow again. And I always feel like I'm missing something. There was something I was going to talk about. And I think actually Jeremy and Melissa touched on it just when I kind of go throughout the year our reconciliation week that's coming up in partnership with Edmonton Catholic Schools and the City of Edmonton. So that's something we'll be working closely with our schools on. So I would just like to say thank you. I hope you enjoyed our journey in sharing and First Nation Métis in your education. Thank you.


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I gotta set an alarm To 25 Terry McLauren commanders triple relic auto out of 99 Cameron Hayward for the Steelers Super mixer looks like it'll be um in the patch here to 99 is rookie jamir Gibbs for the Lions Looks like it'll be sam jake myself. Sean rich or courtesal be here Kyle's on pto the next week Homes and Cooper minch you out of 75 for the Colts. Yeah, pretty much everybody that yeah We'll be around that day rookie triple relic auto to 99 mingo for Carolina. Yeah, he's gonna make sure the sorting and Should probably start sorting it as we're doing it Jersey Bolton to 199 for the Chiefs All right, Jonathan Taylor base Oh and jingles jingles will be here Joe Ingalls Minshew or not mentioned but Watson out of 100 for the Packers You gotta I think it's an explosive, but it's an explosive or a kaboom come up and it's a goal triple relic auto out of 99 commanders Is an Antonio Gibson Get Donnie. I don't think Donnie will be here. Yeah, we got an explosive here. Okay. 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Jalen Suggs Technically it was custom. They didn't have any just laying around It took a nice Nike like Nice Nike jerseys, and they just slapped these things on there pretty much The rest of it is like stitched and like the weight is there and like it's the real material It's got the it's the Nike everything and then it's like, yeah, we'll just press the press everything else on there. Yeah Rookie to 275 is Avila for the Rams Chad Ryland rookie out of Pat's out of 50 Jersey to 199 Chiefs Patrick Mahomes And draft diamonds Jason Kelsey to 50 for the Eagles Does it say way Charles in the back? Ah, got him Dude set next Saturday. I will microwave ice cream in front of Jake I will do it. We should legitimately make Like like content like that like we just take two pints of ice cream I take it out of the freezer at the same time I microwave one for 10 seconds and I take a bite of each right away and then we see we see what it's like Yeah, let the people know Let the people know it's wrong Cup I'm going in unbiased. I'm not I'm not I'm not you know, lean one way or the other 275 cam smith dolphins Brock Purdy autograph for the 49ers Pretty good time to get a party It's going for a ring San Francisco jersey card out of 199 miles sanders for the Panthers And by storm out of 25 Marvin memes for the Broncos Gosh to Charles Yeah, I seen your name when you joined I always wondered Tillman rookie of 100 for the Browns auto Daryl green nfl 100 for Washington So scooter rookie patch out of 99. We've got Josh Downs for the Colts Rookie out of 50 dj Turner for the Bengals. You can't praise him on the stream Jaylin Carter rookie premier materials autos eagles redemption Eagles and Josh Allen truck brought to 249 for the bills You should make a Superbowl mixer trash list Like just just that day. Oh just for everybody in that day Okay, we can do that a Superbowl mixer trash list. Let's do it. Someone in chai. Yeah, probably have Jake and Jake and Sam Yeah, I would guarantee they make it.   That's like saying the Celtics are gonna make the playoffs Like it's just it's guaranteed Go Dodgers. I just jinxed this. I just jinxed the Celtics on Vaughn's fist big time. I just jinxed them Aaron Rodgers Tyree Wilson rickety 275 Raiders Oh nice iconic ink LT for the Chargers of 25 Dany and Tomlinson we got dual jersey bears fields and more to 199 And a bears Tyler scott's Tyler scott rookie to 75 LT was a freaking beast. Yeah, it was It's a 100 rookie Darnell Washington Steelers Kincaid rookie auto bills number to 100 And Kincaid rookie patch bills at a 99. They have a favorite number 34 13 Poppy Ricky and and marino Yeah, yeah marino It's my all time number 13 Plus it's unlucky. Jair brown rookie at a 275 for the Niners Kenny Pickett spectrum signatures at a 35 for the Steelers Jersey card Mahomes chiefs out of 199 and a bystorm rookie Charbonnet to 100 for the Seahawks He was a tutor for sure. You're not supposed to do drives in your NFL If you're gonna do one in the NFL that'd be the one to do that's that so your wife knows what's up Oh See a kaboom now we saw an explosive and that was sick. Let's see a kaboom now Rookie to 100 Kaleisha Canty Tampa Bay Redemption Saints Kendra Miller rookie premier material autos quad Those Saints dual jersey Chargers Justin Herbert Mike Williams to 199 And that was by storm Laporta at a 25 for the Lions Thanks for filling up all the breaks tonight y'all more breaks tomorrow morning with Kyle I think he starts at 10 a.m. Eastern with Matt Out of 100 algae are for the Falcons Triple relic rookie out on a 399 Marvin Mims Broncos To take the league by storm it's 199 Jersey. Ty J Spears Titans Surprise No, it sounds like an old saying right Out of 75 Debo Samuel Niners. We got redemption will Anderson nice ricky premier material auto quad That goes to the Texans and a jumbo patch Jonathan mingo Number 249 for Carolina. All right second half. Come on. Come on kaboom Rookie out of 25 Peter Skaranski for the Titans Dual relic auto Romeo Dobbs at 99 for the Packers Uh, I wouldn't say I played base. Well, I played until I was like eight Packers and the Dobbs and patch Hinton Hooker Lions at a 99 Out of 75 Ricky Parrish Johnson Jr. Cardinals We've got DTR to 399 triple relic autograph Browns And a Gino out of 199 for the Seahawks on the jersey card out of 175 or 275 is on the DKO Zamba Chiefs three C rookie auto for the Saints Jersey is Brandon Jacobs of 199 Giants And that is a draft diamonds at a 50 Uh single Terry bears Dude you gotta see the At a 75 McLauren for the commanders. Oh Vrabel Super Bowl auto for the Patriots Nice one there from 38 That's him catching a touchdown right there. It's your rookie patch out of 49 is O'Connell for the Raiders 10 feet in front of them. Yeah. Yeah, who was it Brady? All right, Maisie Smith rookie for Dallas out of 275 rookie auto Brian Breesie 405 for the Saints Patch card AJ Brown to 199 Eagles and draft diamonds out of 25 Drew Brees for the Chargers I don't know frog. What do you think? I feel like you'd be more of like a DC, right? You'd be like a defensive coordinator somewhere Yeah, Cowboys needed DC now To 50 Echler for the Chargers triple relic rookie auto to 399 healing high at Giants It'd be weird for him to go to Dallas though Because he'd be a better coach than Mike McCarthy and be the coordinator Oh boy Williams and Judy dual patch out of 99 for the Broncos How are you gonna do that?    He doesn't care about how good they are. Just give big names A year off would make sense too. Why not? Rookie to 275. I'm in page junior for the Vikings It's your brown auto for the Eagles There'll be eight jobs next year. Yeah, there will Dual relic is car and Camero to 199 Saints And say flowers by storm for the Ravens out of 100. 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