Everybody knows Orca Media is here because they're here for the board meeting anyway and they asked if they could come to take this too, which works out wonderful for us. So it will be connected to the board meeting pieces, although not technically a board meeting. It looks like we have lots of our board meetings here. I'm going to apologize if there's a squeak in the background.  So we're here to talk about this ESSER funding. Let me present here. So I can give the community a sense of what's happening, what we know, what are our guidelines around here to see significant guidelines, and then just to brainstorm a little bit. It looks like we have about 25 people right now, so that's a really good group. I have a Google doc that I will see here. Actually, let me put that in the chat first before we do anything. Sorry, just want to put that in the chat first. Got the link, let's go back to Zoom. It's also in the slideshow, but I wasn't thinking it's at the end of the slideshow. So that's a Google doc with just some opening questions. And as we're going, feel free to use that as like the community brainstorming document. So feel free to, it's meant for you all. So write in it and I'll use that. We use the same process with our staff a week ago. So please, there's guiding questions in there, but those are just that. They're guiding questions. They're not necessarily ones you have to abide by. So please put other ideas and links or whatever you need into that document, because we're going to use those to do some triangulation of data. So let me go back to presentation. And Anna, maybe if you, if people keep coming in, maybe if you could keep putting that link in the chat so people can see it, because I know that when, if people weren't in in the beginning, when I put that in the chat, they may not see it, that'd be great. Okay. So let's get back here. So I have a very quick presentation and then we can talk a little bit more about this money. So this is all about the ESSER funding community forum and what that money is all about. So the state has put out, as you've probably heard, if you've read anything about this or followed any of the press conferences, what they call a recovery plan. I put recovery and quotes because I don't think we need to recover a lot. I see this as how do we move forward and how do we innovate for a different school district perhaps. I don't want to recover what we had. I want to think forward from that. And I think recovery is a very detrimental and defeatist kind of term. So I'd rather have a much more optimistic route. So, so many of you have talked to me about this and I always put recovery and quotes and that's why I think we could have come up with a better name than that. But that's what the agency of education is calling this. And there is a link. Anna will share this presentation. We can share it on our website so that you can see that link. But you can also just, that took those words right from the AOE website. So if you Google Vermont's education recovery, you'll get the documents and all the guidance that we've gotten. It's all up for public use on the AOE's website. But their recovery plan is split into three different buckets. The first being social, emotional health, mental health and well-being. And the quote there you see is straight from the guidance. So it's basically an idea of how is the AOE defining these things because in certain places they define these terms very differently than we would define them in the district. This one is pretty right on those students internalizing externalizing challenges both inside and outside the classroom as well as nutrition, physical health and family functioning. And then the second bucket is student engagement and truancy where it's all students are fully engaged in learning and academic progress regardless of the extent to which they experience remote or in-person learning. This is the piece that has a bit of difference between school districts and the AOE. When the agency of education primarily talks about this budget of student engagement and truancy, they're talking about attendance. And that's pretty much their line in the sand. I think of many other things when I think of student engagement, but the agency of education seems to be defining this primarily as attendance. And then academic achievement and of success, of course, identifying the extent to which any students have fallen behind as well as identifying students who have excelled. I will just to Main Street Middle School's horn a little bit. We had our day-to-day today at Main Street Middle School, which was phenomenal and their data does not show that there's a whole lot of falling behind of students. So that's phenomenal work that they're doing over there that is fresh in my head. So there are buckets. So when we, we now have what's called ESR money, oops, I'm missing some E's there. Grant will point that out to me. Sorry, it's the elementary and secondary school emergency relief funds. So we've gotten thus far a lot of different federal fundings. So when we first came in the form of the CARES Act and that was right away emergency funding. So when we had to buy tons of PPE, tons of cleaning materials, thermometers, everything that we have purchased for the health and safety of our startup this year, we were able to get much of it reimbursed by CARES funds. We also put up a lot of money for childcare and worked with our after school program part two to provide more childcare. And we paid for that out of CARES money. So that was kind of the first round. The second round was ESR one money, which was not significant and had a very short turnaround time, which we used to buy computers. We used to buy Chromebooks and we used to restock and really look at Main Street Middle School libraries, which our data is telling us that Main Street Middle School classroom libraries needed some reboots. So we spent a lot of money on classroom text for Main Street, Main Street Middle School. ESR two and ESR three, though, are quite significant in terms of the amounts that we're receiving. And ESR two, the application is open now. So we know more about ESR two than we know about ESR three. I was in meetings for about four hours today around these two sources. So I was talking about it for a lot today. ESR two is approximately $935,000 coming to our district. The application is due in November of 15, November 15, 2021. But we can only use this money through 2023. It's an end date, a very clear end date for how long this money is available to us to use. So it's non-recurring. It's considering emergency aid, which is important and we'll talk about it in a little bit. Some examples that's from the Agency of Education Guidance. We could use this money from ESR two for construction and renovation, but that construction and renovation has to be directly linked to the recovery plan. And remember, the recovery plan is those three buckets. It's social-emotional behavior learning, it's student engagement and truancy, and it's academic growth. So if we have construction with ESR two, it has to be directly linked to one of those three buckets. So we could purchase instructional materials with it. We could pay for professional development. We could acquire property, which I thought was funny, is one of the examples the Agency of Education uses for this. But for some school district, that might be a reality. For ESR three, we know less about ESR three. We know how much we're going to get. We're going to get 2.2 million. We have to use this money by 2024, September 30, 2024. This is also non-recurring emergency aid. So it will not be there forever, just through September 30, 2024. There's a caveat that 20% is mandated to address learning loss, so that equals about $440,000. We haven't received much more guidance than that. The Agency of Education is expecting the guidance to look very similar to ESR two with a few little caveats, like the 20% piece. And the Agency of Education, because of the amount of ESR three money across the state, they're expecting a lot of construction and renovation projects that they are tying to health and safety. But other than that, it's very similar to ESR two money. So the decision-making process on how this is quite a lot of money, as everybody knows, and it's an opportunity for all of the districts across Vermont, including Montpelier-Roxbury, and that's how we're viewing this. How can we take this money and use it to our advantage the most? And so when we're thinking about our decision-making process, just at a very general stage right now, we're in the brainstorming phase and we're looking for input from a variety of people. We've talked with staff, we continue to talk with staff. We started the conversation with the community tonight. Obviously, we've talked a lot about this in the leadership ranks and we've started talking to our external partners, particularly part two, the after-school programming, because I have a hunch the AOE has eluded but hasn't put it in writing yet that they will be looking for us to use some of this money for after-school programming and daycare for students or childcare for students, because the state has put a huge push on that and is promising a lot. This is their vehicle to do that. So I believe that there will be a big push for after-school. So I was on a phone call with Jeff O'Harris who runs part two just the other day to talk about some different ideas and open up that conversation with him. Once we have lots of different input from the variety of people, we'll triangulate that input. What are the themes that keep coming up? And we'll synthesize that all together and we'll start to combine that data, that information into the themes that we start seeing based also in the recovery plan. So how do those themes connect to our recovery plan that we have to connect these dollars to? And then we'll prioritize. We'll reach out to experts in respective fields and within our staff for feedback on any planning we have. We'll begin and Grant actually has started to do this already, attach real dollar amounts to ideas so that we just know what ballpark we're in with our ideas and then make some decision. Our goal is to have the application for S or two, because S or three isn't open yet, but for S or two, the $935,000 to the agency of education prior to June 30th, 2021, so that that opens up the funds. We know that that money doesn't have to be in until November 15th. However, if we're thinking about summer programming, if we're thinking about anything that we want to have happen starting at the start of school year next year, we have to get those funds approved prior to that time so that we can have it in place and so that we can do our due diligence this spring and summer to get things in place. So we're really looking to move our deadline up into applying for S or two. S or three, we have some more time. There are some parameters that when we think about using one time money that we have to think twice about. So when we're thinking about one time money, we really want to think twice about putting any type of new position or using this money to pay for any kind of new position because the money for the position will only be available for two years. So unless there's an end date for the work of that position, we really need to be cognizant that at the end of two years, we either have to move it to our local budgets or we have to riff that position. We have to get rid of that position which is always hard to do once you have somebody really good in that role. So we have to be really cognizant about any type of position that we think about here. Construction projects, any kind of construction or renovation, they have to fit within federal parameters. So the feds have put these parameters onto us around the recovery planning the agency of education has as well. So any type of construction project has to fit into one of those buckets and we have to go through a significant approval process in order to get our construction projects approved. We have to go through about three or four rounds of approval with the agency of education in order to get construction projects approved. So that's gonna be significant and it's something we're definitely working on because we will be doing some construction with this money. However, it's just, it's something that we have to think about they have to fit in the buckets. Consumer or computer software, we wanna think about that with any kind of recurring expenses that's significant because we'll have to pay for it once, if we still want it, we have to pay for it once the money is gone through our local budgeting process. And then ideas only the agency of education ideas that have a very strong evidence base for success in those three buckets for the recovery plan will be accepted. So we really wanna be thinking strategically about how we can address the buckets that the agency of education has asked us to address through this funding. So those are really the parameters that we have that we've considered as we're thinking about using these monumental funds that are coming towards us. So on this Google doc, you'll see these types of questions. What types of summer programming is needed for our students? What innovative programming might we wanna think about for our students that we need startup funds for? Where are the gaping holes in programming that became more apparent throughout this pandemic or before the pandemic? What significant renovations or construction could be considered for health and safety? What ventilation projects do we need? What heating and cooling projects do we need? That kind of thing. And where are upgrades to our properties needed that can fit into one of the recovery plan buckets? So those are the questions I put on that Google doc and there's the brainstorming doc. I'm gonna stop sharing my screen so I can see you all. And the chat is open too. So if anybody wanted to, we can open this up to conversation. It looks like there's not, we've got 29 people on the call here. So, and I think two of them are Orca. So we can open this up to conversation if you wanna use the raise hand feature, which is if you go into participants, let's say Jim Murphy, you're the king of this for board meetings, it's in.  And down at the bottom, there's a little raise hand button next to invite and you. Yeah, there you go. And Jim, did you wanna add on any comments about, I kind of just went off for that, for just the parameters and some definitions of what we are looking at. Did you wanna add anything to that? Not much. I mean, if even if that has a job of kind of laying out what I think is really unique and wonderful opportunity. And I also just wanna say that, one of the reasons I think we can be creative and toward looking with these funds is because of what a fantastic job the administration did of managing our assets during this pandemic. I mean, I think we are really in good shape and in a position where this can be additive rather than where I think some districts are, which is in a true recovery mode. So I just wanna thank the administration for all the hard work they've done to put us here. And then also say that in kind of addition to the parameters that Libby put on, I think really thinking about the community and the district's values and what we can do to promote those and to do some things that will kind of take us to the next level on advancing some of those values and priorities as a community. So I think other than that, nothing to add and thanks for the well put together presentation. All right, so you can put questions in the chat or you can use your raise hand feature. I see Cassie, was that you? I'm gonna miss this, is there a recovery team for MRPS? Vermont afterschool, sold you out there. We do have a recovery team. Again, put that in quotes. So the, we were told to form a recovery team within a week to have it in. Now we have teams, we have guiding, we have guiding coalitions in every one of our buildings, which are leadership teams composed of teachers, IAs and principal and assistant principal. And we also have our district wide leadership team. So we were told to put together a team without knowing any information. We didn't have the guidance as to what we were supposed to use the team for and we had a week. So we just put in our leadership team as our technical recovery team. And as it turns out, as we got more guidance-ish from the state around recovery plans, what the state did, and I appreciate them for doing this, is that they followed the same planning as the continuous improvement planning that we're mandated to do with our federal fundings that we do all year long. And so that's what they've asked us to basically submit is our continuous improvement plan over again. So while I recognize that it sounds like from the press conferences and things, that this is a grand new team and a very large scale, what they've asked us to resubmit is our continuous improvement plan. And the only change that we've had to meet because your continuous improvement plan have to address SEBL and academic growth. The only piece that was additive to that was the truancy piece and how we would address the truancy piece and absenteeism, which quite honestly we haven't had, we've had a bit of, but it is not anywhere near some of my colleagues, it's not a tremendous, our absenteeism and truancy is not much greater than what it is on a typical year. What are your plans to hear more widely from communities? So we're trying to put out for the community to get in touch with us about different ideas that they might have through this type of work. Once we have a lot of different ideas, we're gonna work on reaching out to people in the community to say, hey, what do you think about these? To get some more feedback on it. Yeah, and I'll also add, the board has public comment at the beginning of each session. In addition to other organized forums, that's another opportunity to plug into the first few minutes of the board meeting and weigh in. Yeah, and I know that our principals also have, UES and MSMS have parent groups that they meet with often. Yeah, and email as well, dropping ideas to the administration copying the board all good ways to weigh in and we'll definitely do more reach out as well. Julia, you have your hand up, go for it. Yeah, so in regards to that, I just wanna put a plug in for doing specific outreach to marginalized communities, to BIPOC families, to families with students with disabilities, families with LGBTQ students. Cause I think it's good to sort of cast the wide net and open up for the feedback, but what we're learning, I think over and over again, is that we really need to specifically make an extra effort to hear from folks and we know just from all the things we know about how our country works and how our culture works and how our local situation works but when there are gaps in anything they are more likely to affect the more marginalized folks in our communities. The other thing I just wanna put a plug in for tonight is I am really concerned as a mental health provider, really concerned about the system, the existing resources that we have in place for students and for children, for everybody actually. And I'll just say, it's not necessarily solely a school problem, it has to do with the whole ecosystem of mental health resources, but that will definitely impact our students and our families. And I would really love to see, I just sort of by way of pointing that of saying what's going on, I have been in private practice in this town for six years and it's always been a little bit hard to make referrals, it's always a little bit hard to find spots for people but all of a sudden right now I am getting multiple calls a week for intake requests and not only am I full but everyone I typically refer to is full, even the practices where it's like I know they're gonna have a spot are full and I just spoke the other day with somebody who runs a practice like that, it's a group practice, there's multiple clinicians there and she said she's trying to hire more clinicians to try and meet the need and can't find people. So I know Libby that I've heard you say publicly that you're on Vermont Edition that mental health resources are not an issue in our district, but I do think that very much, and I think that the mental health folks that we have on board, the social workers, the guidance counselors are amazing and I think their plates are already too full and they're gonna get more full as the community is less able to support kids outside of school. I would really love to see a short term, like a contracted two year position to have somebody really work on strengthening the network of mental health supports and are both informal and formal. And I think one example of that is the referral network that has cost nothing, it's been free that we've created to help to support the school staff in referring matching kids with open spots. I think there need to be creative solutions like that and unless somebody's funded, unless there's somebody whose job it is to do that, it's really hard to go beyond little projects here and there, but I mean, I think there are peers, family peer support type things that could get put in place. I think there's kid peer support things that could get put in place or even just creative ideas like that referral network that would really take advantage of the amount of caring and sort of community spirit that we have if we could really harness that and organize it. Yeah, great. So I would encourage you to put down real specifics on there at Google Doc or on a separate Google Doc and make sure you email it to me and if you have a proposal and a plan. Absolutely. Bridget, go ahead. Hey. Hi, my friend. Hi. Thank you. Before I start with some thoughts about this, I do just want to say a big thanks to you personally, Libby, and to every single person that works in this program for how successful this year has been under incredible circumstances. So thanks. Hey, on the funding issue, my recollection was that before pandemic hit that you and the leadership team were working very hard on rolling out district-wide efforts aimed at equity and at curriculum development across the district. So I just wanted to put in a pitch for using some of this funding to get that work back off the ground that was interrupted by the pandemic. And I know hiring additional staff long-term is not the greatest use of one-time funds, but surely adding some support for you and Mike Barry and the principals to do some of that work, the K-12 science curriculum, the health curriculum is something that could be done on a two-year basis instead of forever. So that was the pitch that I wanted to make, particularly on the science side and whether that could be combined with makerspaces and lab development on the construction side. That would be awesome. That's it. We got those ideas. We actually stay tuned for the board meeting on May 5th. I think that's the right date, the first March-May board meeting, because we're going to talk continuous improvement. That and the plan that Mike has put in place for curriculum development in particular is well, it's going to be well-established. Yeah, so pay attention to that board meeting. Great, thanks. But you brought up one thing that made me think today, Andrew Grant and I, Andrew LaRosa, our director of buildings and grounds, Grant Geisler, our business manager, myself after a meeting with the agency of education today and other superintendents across the state around this. We're bringing up Main Street Middle School. We had that board committee and we have lots of data around Main Street Middle School and the needs there. And can some of this help solve some of those challenges that we have there with that building? We're spending a little bit of time, particularly in terms of the kitchen and the cafeteria and eating space and do we have enough room there for kids? Is there a way to redesign that space that we have more room for cooking and kids? And also the playground and also the science labs. Those were the biggies that came up during that committee meeting. So that data that we have already collected from community and from teachers over in that particular building, we have that in front of us is one of the data sources that we're using to as we brainstorm right now. Cassie, Tuver and Upper, is that from before? Yeah. Hi, how's everybody doing? Happy beautiful Wednesday afternoon. I will enter some ideas into the Google Doc. Lots of thoughts around after school and summer and lots of supports that my organization can provide. So there's a lot of opportunities in there. And something else I've been thinking about is around outdoor education and outdoor learning and how can the money be used to support that moving forward? And I'm thinking of this through the UES lens because my daughter is in first grade and she loves eco so much. But I'm just trying to, I don't have an answer here but I'm just like, how can we put money towards that to make it even more awesome than it already is? And it already is really awesome but I know we don't have space for outdoor classrooms but what is it that we, that teachers or students need for more outdoor learning? Is it curriculum that can be written and is ready to go for them? Is it other supplies? I was just talking with a friend who does the kind of consults and does about 10 hours a week at Wadesfield Elementary School on their outdoor education program. And I was like, this is just such a great opportunity because there is evidence there.  It supports learning. It helps our students recover. So I think it fits in perfectly to me with some of these goals. And I'll just have to think a little more creatively about like what specifically, or maybe this is a really good ask for teachers. Like what would they need? Yeah, to like take ego to the next level. But I will, I've got lots of other things that I'm not best at right now. And if you don't want to have a like for the Google Doc you can send me any kind of email whatsoever. Great. And then there's some things in the chat. Jeff Fitzgerald. So I know Ken Jones is going to be presenting later this evening. Yes, about the schools and net zero goals of the city. There are HVAC issues that can be coupled with energy efficiency. This is a great pot of money to use, absolutely. And I can talk about the HVAC specifically another pot of funds that came our way but I didn't mention earlier was grant money to Efficiency Vermont which you may have heard about also from the news. And Andrew LaRosa did a phenomenal job of jumping on that right away. And so our HVAC actually works to the top of its capacity right now. So he, because of that grant money that work was done prior to this school year in getting ready for this school year. So HVAC is in a really good spot right now. We were talking today, I'm gonna get the wrong acronym. I don't know if Andrew's on this yet or not but he can talk about it later. Ford members, make sure you ask Andrew later about maybe DDT knobs and switches. Grant, what was it? DDC, digital data controls. It was a new term for me. Digital data controls at MHS in particular which has to do with the heating and the air the amount of outside air that the system allows into the classrooms. And at our older buildings actually we have a pretty good system in place but we don't have one surprisingly at MHS that is working as efficiently as we want. So that's another piece that we're looking at that has to do with this type of HVAC kind of issue. Grant, do you wanna say anything more about that? No, I think you got it. It's a newer school but that system is an older one because we've replaced it at other schools and it is about fresh air and CO detection and all kinds of good stuff. And we were actually thinking we might use some fund balance but we could save that and use this money instead. Other thoughts, Bridget, is your hand up from before or is it up for another idea? It was up from before I'll take it down. Okay, just making sure. Other thoughts people wanna add into the conversation. Oh, Cassie, Cassie is like a money. I know you're an after school person, I know. Can the funds be used for all for teacher staff bonuses? Are we allowed to announce that?  I don't know if we are. Although you kind of maybe just did that. I know. Don't worry, Cassie, we got you covered. It can't be, this money could not, to answer your question, this particular money could not be used for that purpose. However, we got you covered. Tony, you gotta unmute yourself, Tony. Someday I'll figure it out. My kids are picking on me now. You were talking about facilities at MSMS and I'm just wondering if the track at the high school is sort of in the mix of ideas. That has been brought up as, yep, that is on our brainstorming documents. Yep, that has been brought up. But again, we're triangulating this data, right? So we want, if it's a priority for members of a community, then we should put that down and put it down. It's no harm to put it down to it. Nathan. Thank you, Tony, for that nod to the track. That's a high on my personal wish list. We have 50 kids signed up for middle school track right now and we had a bunch of kids staying late beyond the track practice because they're having so much fun. My question is to Libby or Grant, I know that Congress has not come close to passing the infrastructure initiative, but it seems like there's another potential wave that could affect a number of these areas and I would imagine given the strength of our team that you are thinking strategically about, okay, given how we're reading the tea leaves in Washington, maybe this project fits into that, et cetera. Are you hanging out by my window of my office around four o'clock today? Because Greg and Andrew and I were talking about that exact thing earlier today as we were talking about all these projects and we're like, there's an infrastructure bill that has education funding coming in. So what would be under infrastructure for education? Because Biden's widening the definition or at least trying to. So we were literally talking about that for an hour today. And then my other follow-on to the track facility conversation and I would broaden that to like outdoor basketball courts and other things is that I remember when we did the work on the UES playground, I think we realized in the initial stages before we had all the other complications, I think we realized, oh, wait a minute, this is a green space that will be used by many members of the community. Could we collaborate with the city on funding this? And I think that from my perspective, watching the number of people who use the track or the tennis courts or things like that at the high school, really thinking carefully that these are really community resources that happen to be located at the high school. And then for far enough ahead of this, I think we have a really collaborative city council right now, I don't know if there's a history of working together with that body and thinking collectively about capital improvements. Thanks. Yeah, it's definitely something, Andrew LaRosa has a very strong connection to the city leaders in terms of this kind of thing. So he's gonna be working, be there at the board meeting tonight with Ken and all of that kind of stuff. So I know that Andrew being a community member himself, he's very well-versed of the people and he knows the people and so I think that will be on his, he's our liaison between the two, but you make a very good point because I can imagine the city of Montpelier will be getting some federal funding as well for projects for the community and is there a way to combine like the tennis courts I'm told were a few years back before my time. Yeah, and I would argue that just given our location as the state capital, the fact that we have so many state employees here who sometimes use things after work or during lunch, that it's beyond a community resource. Some of these are region wide statewide resources. Yeah, and the feeling about like the athletics fields, I see Catherine's putting in the baseball field and we got an email about that tonight, I think from Heidi around the baseball field. Those are also things that we've talked about absolutely. And if we could get our outdoor spaces up to par, I'll just put it that way, at the high school, then you also invite, I mean, I hate to put it in this way because it's so great for kids, but it's also a revenue source in terms of, we're right off the highway. We have a big parking lot on the weekend, so there are other things to consider in that vein as well. Jill Remick. Hi everyone, just real quick, because this is not my time to take up, but a board meeting or two ago, Andrew LaRosa walked the board through and the public through a really helpful document that summarizes all the various facility needs at all four of the school buildings. Some of that stuff might not seem particularly exciting like windows or roof or drainage, but field maintenance, things like that, but that list would be really helpful to continue to sort of look at in this context, because I love that we're like dreaming big, but I think he did a really fantastic job of listing objectively the ups and downs of each of the buildings, the recent work that might have already been done that we didn't necessarily know about, and then sort of a wish list of things if we could or if we had the ability, even just things like windows can have such a significant impact on air quality and heating costs and energy efficiency and wasps at the middle school. So I encourage folks who haven't already to check out that list. Thank you. Yeah, and Jill, you make a good point because one of the things that we're talking about is because there's guidelines and parameters of this federal money, are there things that we've been thinking of doing through our capital fund or through fund balance or just through regular maintenance that we could move into as such that fit under the health and safety ventilation kind of piece like the windows, which is a huge ticket item, which would free up those other monetary sources to do other things that don't have, we don't have to go by the guidance to you. So those conversations are well in hand and may come out as like, the community says, wait, what they're doing windows but that would be the reason because if we can use this federal funding to do things like the windows which fit under ventilation and safety, then we can have our money that's already budgeted or in our coffers to do other things that don't have to follow the guidance. I see it's 612, but Kara, you have your hand up. Go ahead, Kara. Yeah, I'm going to join the choir on energy issues. I know that our communities feels really strongly about climate change and that any way that we can reduce our energy costs over the longterm will leave more money for education or the longterm. So if there are pieces of this money that can be put towards health and safety and reducing the energies of those schools, energy burden, then we can have more money for the longterm. There's also the ability to take some efficiency improving projects that we had in our capital fund and perhaps move those to this and then free up further projects for capital fund as well. So I think there's definitely an opportunity to make a headway there. Heidi, I see your hand up. You might be at baseball practice right now. I'm here right now with these boys and they actually wanted to talk to you guys for a minute if we can do that. Yeah. I just pulled them out of practice for a sec. Go ahead. Okay. All right. Can you say your name? Yeah, sure. All right, so my name is Willem Talbert and I'm a sophomore at Montpelier High School and I'm new to the school this year and I came in through the lottery program. I came from Cabot. It's not really that close to Montpelier. I commute in every day. I came to Montpelier for its academic offerings and social opportunities and for its sports programs, specifically baseball. Like others on my team, it's one of my favorite things to do and my goal is to be awarded a scholarship to play for a college or university when I graduate. It's important for me and other members of my team to have the equipment and basic facilities required to play. I hope you'll consider funding your improvements. My family and I value the school so much. I drive each day, sometimes twice a day to Cabot's Montpelier to get to school and practice. Please help support baseball, not only for me but for younger kids who might want to play for MHS in the future. Thank you, Will. Yeah, no problem. And I have one more. Here's Taylor. Hi, my name's Taylor, not only. I'm a junior at Montpelier, also on the baseball team, as you guys can tell. Yeah, I don't have anything scripted like Will did, but knowing that there's money in our possession now of the school district, just the possibility that we could upgrade the field any bit would be amazing. I know it would make all of us feel like we matter to the school and just because as of right now, we don't really have a whole lot of things that other schools have as far as the field goes and fencing and all that. And yeah, it would just be a huge help for not only our program now, but it would continue to be processed for the program throughout the coming years. And I feel like it would really encourage younger kids that might be kind of on the fence about whether or not they want to play in high school. I feel like it would encourage them to really and give them that drive to be like, yeah, I want to play because obviously the school actually cares about us and it's just, it would make it a better program all around. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thanks, guys. Thank you so much for listening. No problem. I love it. I love that you're actually at practice. Well, I love that these high schoolers felt strongly enough about it that they would do public speaking. Right. You know that's a big deal. Yeah, our baseball players do do that for our new scoreboard that's coming at them too. Absolutely. They're so happy about that. They're so excited. Yeah. I hear it's coming soon. It is. It is, yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Heidi. It's great to hear from the student. Thanks. All right. So it's 616 and our board members have a meeting right at 630.  So, so board members could go and maybe get a bite to eat before the meeting or inhale a bite to eat. But if you, if you're on this call or you have friends who want to, or friends or other community members who want to weigh in, feel free to email me. I can email any of the board members. You can, we'll put this Google doc up live on our website so people can keep adding to the Google doc. But I, as I get emails around this, I print every one of them out so we have a stack so they don't get lost in Google oblivion. But we're taking all the community feedback we can get right now. So encourage others to just get in touch. And if they want to have a phone conversation, I'm happy to do that as well. And we'll get this presentation up too because there are definitely parameters we have to be looking at. It looks like too Jill just posted the, the Angel Rosa facility report up there. Thanks Jill. There's anything in the future. Please get in touch board members. I think Anna, this is the same link for the board meeting, right? Yeah.  Go and hail some dinner. And I'll see you at 630. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Lily really quick. What, what. Would be like a deadline for the, this, this phase of community input. Is it like this Friday or Wednesday? No, we hope to have, you know, we'll be talking about this through, through the rest of this month. And we don't have to, it's $935,000. My understanding, I could be wrong. But my understanding is, is that we don't have to put an application for all $935,000 of it. We don't have to put an application for all $935,000 of it. You know, like, so. Yeah, we can add amendments as it goes. And ideally that's what we'd want to do is we find out more needs as we get the kids back in next year. Right. So. So yeah, this is, this isn't an end date process, but we definitely want to have some steps going before the end of this year. So we can move on on those kind of things. That makes sense. Okay. Thanks. Okay. All right. Thanks everyone.


agent K7 returns. America's number one adventurer K7 form a United States secret agent who operated in 22 countries on land on sea and in the air brings you a story of today. We take you to K7's headquarters. This is secret agent K7 speaking. Send in special agent Z for assignment. Special agent Z reporting for duty. Agent Z according to recent information danger secret agents have been entering this country as refugees. Their method is simple. They find a poor immigrant whose money and goods have been confiscated and pay him well for his entry permit and passport. We are particularly interested in a master spy named Renee Braun. Our information is that he is now aboard an incoming liner posing as a refugee. I have arranged for you and your assistant Miss Norwood to be placed aboard the ship at sea tomorrow morning. Early the next morning special agency and his assistant Patricia Norwood were put aboard the incoming liner posing as immigration officials. They interviewed each of the refugees briefly. All seemed eager to talk. They were brave people facing their new life ahead with hope and courage. They were grateful to looking ahead to new opportunities in a land of freedom. Agent Z received the first hint that Renee Braun might be aboard. Mr. Official I'm glad to see you. So you know who I am. Yes. Yes. You've talked to one of my friends a few minutes ago. Now here are my papers. My name is Mendel Aaron Mendel. Here is my passport. Thank you. This seems to be an order soon we will land. I'm so anxious to see the cities. I've heard so much that the buildings are high that there are churches that anyone can go. The police do not even notice. Yes you'll find that all men can worship God as they like. That seems wonderful. Is it not strange that it is not true in all countries. I cannot believe what I have seen these last few years. You cannot guess. Yes I think I know what you've been through Mr. Mandel. Are you traveling alone. Yes. Yes all alone Mr. Official.  Yes. They are there. Why. If you were able to get an entry permit why couldn't you get one for your wife or the rest of your family. It was impossible. You see my sons are gone. Two of them perhaps they are in a concentration camp. Perhaps perhaps they are with Rebecca. I don't know Mr. Official. My family is gone. Rebecca is your wife. She was my wife. She's dead. Not strong. She wasn't. And when the troops came it was hard. We had not much to eat. Then she was beaten. Something she said I don't know what. My Rebecca was good. A good woman and a good mother. She wouldn't say a bad thing but they beat her. And she died. I'm sorry Mr. Mandel. I won't need to question you for them. Your papers are in order. I'm convinced they are yours mine. Then you know I know what always it is not so some some sale that papers I've heard of it. Tell me Mr. Official. How could a man even a poor man sell his right to come to a land of freedom. Mr. Mandel if you know if anyone aboard this ship who is traveling on papers that are not his it's your duty to tell me who he is. I do not know of such a one Mr. Official. But one night just after he sailed I hear someone say I don't even know who that the man that sold his papers and remained behind. I've studied the faces but I cannot guess which one is traveling like that. I find you. But enough. No more will I hate any man. I have left behind. Agency and Pat went ahead with their questioning with renewed vigor. Were they on the right trail. Land had already been cited when Pat began questioning the last woman on her list. Your passport seems to be an order Mrs. Brough. You are traveling alone. Yes but soon I will not be alone. See there is land on the little window.  I've not seen them in many years. We're waiting for you. Yes this letter from my son it came just before I went to the boat rated C says they will meet me. My little son is grown up and has a wife and home. I go with them. It's so hard to wait. Why doesn't the ship go faster. I want to have my son put his arms around my neck. I want to hear him say. Will we be there soon. Yes. Mrs. Brough this letter it's addressed to you and your husband. You have a husband. Give me my letter. Where is your husband Mrs. Brough. Why isn't he with you. He is to stay behind back there why he. I don't know.


what's going on guys welcome back to another video so before you guys say anything at all before you guys even comment this is not clickbait okay this is 100% true facts what you see in the title is 100% true somewhat so um we lost our dog you guys are probably like oh why aren't you crying all that this this not whatever we'll get to that so you want to tell them how it all started well honestly I can't even tell you how it started well we just we had just gotten back from our long road trip a 19-hour road trip from Jersey as you guys know we are recently there for my brother's little birthday we just literally got back home at night it was maybe almost midnight and I'm unloading the car Janice is in the car while I'm unloading it she's like trying to gather herself because she woke up from a long nap she was also well she still is pretty sick so she was trying to like I guess get her mental right and after she got out the car I was almost done unloading the car and that's where everything just went downhill so what do you remember okay so let me explain my side cuz I felt like this was a very traumatic experience for me I was pissed at her at a short moment because I completely misunderstood or read something wrong but go ahead so unfortunately because I am very sick I was more sick then and I was trying everything that I could to stop coughing so I mixed two different cough syrups don't do that by accident she did that yes by accident don't do it because I was taking dayquil and I thought that I waited like the amount of hours it said and I did it and I took another what is called deslam deslam is another cough syrup yeah I took deslam but since it's so dark in the car I couldn't see I was so stressed out like there's too much going on I just poured it inside of the cat and just took it like I never had issues taking medicine before until that moment like that was probably the worst thing that I could have done I was very loopy very delirious I couldn't see at all like my vision was like completely blurry my vision was gone like I would just see like he'll move and I'll see a little bit of him moving she's like delirious it was really bad and then on top of that I think I got motion sickness from being in the car so all I kept feeling was my body just like moving forward and stopping like all the breaking and stuff in the car that never happened to me before so all I did was I felt terrible I ran inside I sat on the couch and I just closed my eyes cuz all I kept feeling was a car moving I thought I was gonna vomit but I see Blooper outside with Isaiah and so I look and I'm he's fine and I see Isaiah keep bringing stuff inside the house and I'm looking at him and I'm just like where did he put blooper in my head I'm like alright I'm sure he didn't leave Blooper like out walking around I'm sure he just put him in the car you're missing a whole step before that though what so as I'm unloading the car I finish unloading the car I take Blooper out of the car and I let him pee in front of the bush you know in front of the house or whatever so he uses the bathroom I come back inside I put him inside the litter room I put him right here where we're at I go back outside to get like the last things that I needed in the car which was like I think my wallet and like some other BS so when I come back in from that I ask her where's blooper I don't see him in the living room but the thing is I do not remember you coming inside and bringing him in here well that he was never in here well that's because you were on two different cough syrups at the same time so like I don't remember him actually physically bringing blooper cuz I find comfort and feeling him like by me so if he's not near me I'm still like wondering where he is so she literally wandered inside sat on the couch I'm still doing things with the car I come back inside I ask her where's blooper she said what do you mean where's blooper and I'm like bro where's blooper what do you mean what I mean so she starts panicking automatically I'm like bro now she's panicking I'm panicking because now she really doesn't know where he is and the door was open the whole time when I went out there to go get the last things from the car I immediately first run upstairs to go see if he's laying in our bed maybe he was tired cuz he usually falls asleep at that time it was around midnight and I'm getting mad at him cuz I'm like bro I know for a fact my dog is not here if blooper were here he wasn't here he would be right next to me he wasn't here 100% he wasn't here I remember I brought him after he used the bathroom I brought him inside and then I went back out to get my last things see I really don't know I thought he was gonna be with you inside no I thought he was gonna be with you so I ran upstairs check the bed check the rooms he's not up there now I'm getting crazy now I run back downstairs I run outside Janice follows me outside I go out to the sidewalk I'm looking left and right I don't see him I turn back to look inside the garage to see where Janice is she's on the floor crying so I'm like that that's what had got me mad remember when I said like yes I got mad at her for like some short amount of time and I misunderstood why that's what I'm talking about I look back she's on the floor in the garage crying I'm like bro can you get up instead of crying can you help me look for him and she's like I can't see like my eyes are blurry or whatever so come to find out later after everything is said and done she had fell when she ran out into the garage following me she fell to the floor because she was seeing blurry I thought she was on the floor looking under the cars or something just have an emotional breakdown and I'm like bro that's not gonna do anything we need to find him so I was mad at that point yeah and I was just upset because I'm just like damn like you really don't care about like what's going on with me right now I was really scared of like what I was feeling I wanted to go to the hospital but I was so scared of like Nene like where he was at I didn't even care like I didn't care about how I felt I literally just got up ran and I could not see anything I'm running I I was gonna curse sorry I ran completely into his car I ran into his car and he has big-ass tires on the floor and next to the car so I run into his car I bounce off of his car I hit the tires from the tire that's just set me that's still good it set me onto the floor and I just booked face planted right on the floor that's why I was crying because first of all that was such a hard fall and second of all I couldn't see anything and I needed help like I was like I can't see and all I kept thinking about was I need to get up because I need to find him and I get up bro I think she's over here just having an emotional breakdown I'm like y'all can you actually get up so we can find our dog that's like missing right now instead you're just crying on the floor that because he's missed like that's not gonna help but I completely misunderstood everything so I still don't know that at this point so I'm still at the sidewalk I'm looking left and right I ran all the way down the street left came all the way back didn't see anything I have my flashlight on I'm yelling bloop I'm like calling him nothing I've run all the way back down the street now to the right I ran around the corner down two blocks with my flashlight still calling him calling him nothing I'm freaking panicking I'm like yo I don't understand how he could have gotten so far it was only literally like five minutes it's dark it's cold it's wet outside I'm like he's not gonna be able to like survive the night like that's crazy that's what I kept thinking about the whole time so as I'm like two blocks away that way she calls me and I'm like please please please tell me that she found him I answer the phone I said what happened she said I found him I got him tell them where the hell he was okay so while Isaiah was doing all that running I was kind of like walking up and down the street by the house because I know my dog and I know he would not have gone that far in a spam like five minutes I don't put anything past I don't either but it's like there's no way there's no way and I remember the last thing I saw when I saw him he was on the left side of the house and sometimes he likes to like pee over there so my head I'm just like praying and praying I'm like there's no way he could have gone far there's no way so I stand by the house wait we also thought because we have a huge pond in our backyard yes that was also another thought that he had went back there and got in the water somehow and there's there's animals back there yeah like and we live in Florida so like alligators yeah so we wouldn't be surprised if there's like a gator back there like it would not throw us off we haven't seen one but there are animals that back there that we have seen and we don't have a fence yeah it's just open yes but yeah go ahead continue so I was freaking out walking up and down the street I have no shoes on I don't know if you noticed no I know you were in socks I had no shoes on I was just running up and on the street calling him and I just was looking in the backyard and something kept telling me to go in the backyard but I didn't have my phone on me I had no idea where my phone was and I know I couldn't see in general with the flashlight you would have been the one to fall on the water back yeah literally so I'm just like calling him calling him now stop now stop and then after like I kid you're not it felt like an eternity but it was probably like four or five minutes I just see some I hear like bushes like and I'm just like I turn around he's just sitting in a bush in the bush in the bush sitting in the bush in the neighbor's bush right next door right and I'm calling him he goes he prances out yeah and just like jumps in he literally jumped into my arms and he was shivering and I was just like oh that was just five minutes and you saw how he was shivering I imagine if God forbid we didn't find him and the whole night went on and it rained that night too and it's cold over here in Florida now it's literally like at night like in the 40s it's freaking cold so that would have been really really bad but she ended up calling me telling me she got him I end up taking my time now walking my own on the phone I actually told her I'm like I was like just going house lock all the doors I'll be home in a second I was like so relieved but so over it at the same time so I just walk back home taking my time just catching my breath literally sweating I'm sweating in a freaking coat with 40 degree weather like dripping sweat because that's how much I was running and just panicking get back home she explains to me where she found him I wasn't even mad at him because I like a lot of people say like oh you should like you should be mad at him but it's like I can't blame him because he's a house dog yeah he's never like outside like that so he doesn't he doesn't know his surroundings like that like I don't know maybe I'm making an excuse cuz he's my son but at the top of that we don't really like put a leash on him because like I said like he'll stay by us yeah like he'll pee and then he'll come back like he likes to be a little adventurous though and that's why me personally I always like to put a leash on his little self because he likes to do that you know what I thought about immediately too well he didn't have his collar on with the tag that has our phone numbers and his name so I'm like bro I'm like even if somebody finds him they wouldn't know what to do with him yeah so I'm like that just makes it even worse because now he's in someone else's possession and I don't know what they might do to him not even that he's such a cute dog that they might not give him back yeah like no I don't think anybody would want to give him back like bro and if I see somebody walking on the street with my dog that's it's gonna be a fight like that's my dog yeah but at the same time he is not friendly I don't know what he's scared he is when he's scared he's friendly he's not friendly he's just scared but yeah guys I mean calm over here cuz he only listens to you when you call mommy's boy hey come on he came to me that's crazy hater so yeah guys he's here he's perfectly fine um that is just a story of how we lost him for maybe like a good five minutes before like a freaking it felt like 24 hours it was literally the worst feeling I've ever had in my life yeah that was the that was probably the worst thing that's ever happened to him since we've had like we've never encountered anything of the sorts like that and he goes back to bed to sleep but yeah like it was just a horrible way to end our road trip it was a long drive it was an uncomfortable drive and then we get back home we think we're about to relax go to sleep shower whatever and that happens so I'm like bro now we're gonna be out all night driving around trying to find our dog emotional is how crying and all that and on top of that I literally felt like and you were sick so I was not even being sick I was delirious yeah it was all bad guys it really was all bad but that's the story time on how we lost our dog like I said it wasn't clickbait by any means cuz we did lose him we just ended up finding him thank God but that is it so anything else you want to say I think the moral to this honestly it taught us a lesson like we can never be too trusting when it comes to like our dog or even when we have kids I don't know it was just it was just all bad like I said I came I was unloading everything from the car I dropped him in here I went back out to get one last thing and then I come back in and you're like you know you don't know where he is and I'm like bro I just put him in here where could he have gone you know it's literally ran out the door within like that short time span I had a bad feeling about the trip well that's how you know and that's how that was the bad thing that happened cuz the trip was good well until that point for me it was I mean you got sick so I got sick and I have my menstrual and I had a lot of issues with that too on the trip and girl problems very bad girl problems well what all that being said guys that is the story time how we lost our dog thank God we found him comment down below any like crazy experiences you had if you have a pet like if you ever lost the pet or something like this not feel like bad parents because I know I put him in here I know I put him in here I feel like a bad mom I know I put him in here I but whatever brother what I mean said we'll see you guys in the next video


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So I got a fridge off a truck from a guy that does that type of stuff and as you can see you know this fridge is not in the best condition but we got an excellent price for it over you know over $1,500 off. So with our new storage we were able to buy a little billy boy and today I went down to a live poultry market in New York City and picked out my own little goat and then we cut them up and put them in a bag so that you know it's not a happy ending but this fridge is a happy ending so you know I cut everything up I'm just gonna show you guys how I organize it in my fridge and this was maybe like two hours worth of work for this whole lamb. It costed $270 for a 60 pound lamb which is roughly it ends up being like eight dollars a pound per pound of meat not including the organs. So the reason I've been doing this lately is because I have histamine intolerance and it ended up being that I need to buy super deep fresh meat in order to follow this diet and nor does it not have an insomnia pretty much so. So I didn't have enough racks to put all the meat on its own racks so I kind of had to stack it and what I did was I placed down some linen towels and I put the racks over and then I put the meat on top like up here is one up here is one half of a shoulder joint up here is two parts of another shoulder joint here's part of the here's one of the back legs I'm gonna flip these over to dry out on the outside one of the rib sides this is the this is the belly and the lamb chops on that side and you can't really see on the bottom here but on the bottom here is is that we have we've seen all this before it's another it's the other rib chop side the other lamb chop side and the other leg so we have every part of the lamp in here besides one of the shoulders which I ate already and the vertebral column which I have in the stew upstairs which I can go show you after here's the head we're probably gonna boil this down a pot don't know what's the tail guys I used to just eat the the brains out of the head I smell of blood in the morning here is a big shout out to Derek Nance for commenting on my channel and giving me some tips the jar is a great idea here's the liver roughly about we had about a pound and half a liver this is the brain in this jar I actually put I think I put the heart wait what is this this is the heart the kidneys and the spleen these are the lungs testicles and then in the back here we got a jar of strained blood that doesn't have the fibrin in it and then this is the the jar of the fibrin in the blood that separated and then we have the stomach the stomach the intestines I got rid of because I have no use for them this stomach I might think of cooking it but it's I think it's gonna smell too bad to cook it to be honest that's everything I have you know roughly I'm assuming 20 30 25 30 pounds of meat maybe a couple pounds of organs in total everything stays fresh for a couple weeks here maybe two weeks we can probably get through this these are some burgers that I can't eat because it has to mean tolerance just a grass-fed four ounce patties from Wonder Meats this is the vertebral column all the vertebrae the spinal cord and everything boil it down for five hours yesterday I could get the meat off of it now I'll probably eat this later I had a very hard time getting that guy to get collect the blood I literally brought him a bucket and everything and it's just because it's illegal to sell blood in New York from lamb but you what you can do is I mean they can technically like I'm not technically buying it because I'm purchasing the lamb I'm not purchasing the blood they're just collecting but they just didn't want to do it but eventually they did you know this this was a very lean animal and one interesting thing is various indigenous groups did only consume lean animals and then they got their energy in other ways so and then they cook the meat so I don't think that having super fatty meat and super fatty beef isn't necessary especially in the context of eating the organs of the animal where we can get you know we can get some fat from the brain we can get I mean I guess there isn't too much fatty tissue on this animal in general but there's certainly enough vitamins and calories just to sustain someone for a very long period of time possibly also part of the reason that we see a lot of indigenous groups have leaner physiques whereas a lot of zero-carb people tend not to be too lean you know the body's meant to subsist on a much lower caloric amount than people think it is for the most part just have to adjust to it there's a video of me tasting most of those organs at once and a bunch of meat where we're like celebrating the kill I did a video on the blood the eyeballs we're gonna do a video on maybe probably a couple other things related to this lamb it's all gonna be eating for the next two or three weeks and then we're gonna go to Pennsylvania and pick up a hopefully fattier lamb thank you guys for watching if you'd like to support me hey above all share the video if you guys would like to support my social media check out my social media hey Joe Rogan followed me the other day on Twitter so maybe you guys should follow me too I'm gonna be on the carnivore cast soon and debating vegan gains tomorrow so I don't know if he's live if he's not live streaming it that might not be gonna do it actually I think he does live stream though but that's it thank you guys for watching overall you know this wasn't a lot of work for sure I mean maybe two hours max total for the whole I mean the animal took 35 minutes and then the rest of the stuff took about an hour and 15 pro I mean I would never do this unless you had a histamine tolerance because I was when I was eating last night I was wishing I had a triad trip by in front of me but anyway that's it guys let me know what other videos you would like to see in the near future I got a list I'm working on right now forgot to mention might do like a Maasai diet for a couple weeks if I can get my hands on some more blood and some goat milk but don't hold your breath guys might be difficult for me to get the sky to stomach the blood once a week


And some more Saturday hockey action, 2A is number 20, Bemidji hosting A's number one Herman Towns, scoreless after a period but then six minutes into the second, Tyler Watkins gets the Hawks on the board beating everyone down ice then beating Matt Fitzgerald 1-0 Herman Towns. But the Jacks would answer late in the period, Noah Nye cleans up the Nick Manasa, missed his second goal of the season, we're tied at one after two. A minute and a half into the third, Herman Town regains the lead, Logan Judnick lights the lamp to make it 2-1. And then two and a half to go now, Jacks on the play, power play, Jarrett Lolley was having so much fun, he says let's play some more, even in the score with the redirect, we're headed to OT but then just 30 seconds into the extra period, Jesse Jocks redirects the Tyler Watkins one-timer for the game winner, Herman Town takes this one in overtime, three to two.


Welcome back to the breakfast and plus TV Africa. Nigeria has been ranked 161 out of 181 countries on a global youth index. The index of course measures youth around the world and the level of growth and development that youth in each country basically get to experience. It of course puts education, employment, health and some other details into perspective. We're speaking this morning with a policy strategist, Dayo Israel. Good morning and thanks for joining us this morning. Good morning. Thank you so much for having me. Good morning. Thanks for being with us. I'm going to start with asking if this came as a surprise or in any way a shock to you. It's youth day, but would you read a story like this and say, oh that's shocking, Nigeria and youth seem to be doing a lot better than 160 first position? Yes, I wanted to say I think it's a national youth day to young people all over the world and to give them an opportunity to not mind them. We are trying every day to make the best out of themselves and their environment and their career and despite the challenges that come with the continent of Africa. Because for many years, living on the continent of Africa has been very challenging for young Africans. There's enlightened issues of employment, there's issues of lack of access to proper health care, lack of access to digital education, lack of access to, you know, a lot of refugee conflicts. I call it access from Mwanda to Congo, Brazil, to BRC and to any other part of the continent. Even the young people in Nigeria, for example, for many years in the Middle East, face some more challenging thoughts. With the return of democracy for a country and also the widespread of democracy on the continent, we have been able to see today in youth development across the continent. And so it's very likely to celebrate some of the participants of the population on those continents. We are going to be the ones to sustain the development and the change that the leaders of today are making. And that is why on this youth day, we are calling for stronger engagement from young people and participation of young people in policy making and issues that concern us. Because we are building a future for all, without all. But we are not really building a future for all. But we are going to sustain that faith for our country. And that's why I'm asking, and what I think in some parts of Africa, for example in Lagos, where you have a lot of young people represented in policy issues in the cabinet, for example, in Lagos, a commissioner for finance, and you have a 60-year-old young man, a commissioner for employment, and Bruce is also at the age range, and also the commissioner for innovation and creativity is our special advisor in the national security. And we see that in different agencies of government across Nigeria. That is one index that we can measure, for example, that we're making progress in development. So of course, we also have a lot of special assistants of government, and we see that there's a government. But the reality of that is in many of these states, the reality of that is for you developers to learn. What I'm actually going to say is that also Lagos and McElhauer, the commissioner for finance at McElhauer, economic planning as well, and I think so of course we're going to see all that stuff as well. And of course, Lagos are people who are of our generation, the younger generation, and we have definitely a chance to be able to prove themselves. To be able to make a decision. To be able to make a choice. To be able to show capacity. To be able to accept changes that concern us. So that message is just on youth participation. If we all look at youth employment, what we've seen on the continent like that, is that over the years, there have been problems with development, that population is growing up every day. Now you realize that we can't or the society does not have enough jobs to engage the energy of our generation. And what young people are excited about is that the young people are not waiting for government to give them a job. We're creating the job in a way that the young people understand. And so it's a lot of young people, yes and no. It doesn't mean that they're not too bad end who are doing the wrong thing to make money. But the reality is that they're 20 good end who are doing the legitimate to raise money and they are making an imaginable kind of funding from college equity, from university capitalists, working for example, this company, PANDA for example, you have all these tech companies, IT companies, in New York, Voyages, and there are companies like that. We are raising $500 million. We are raising $100,000. We are raising $100 million. We are raising $10 million, $20 million to drive growth, to create jobs, to revive the economy. People are used to hear about working in all companies. Now some of these young people are making money that even five companies today cannot end because of their capabilities, the tech abilities that they have, the unit have. So in terms of economy, it's not from its previous but we are also making little, little progress at the size of the hand of the man. We're not showing that young people are also driving and not waiting for government to bring the community forward. We are coming out to make a difference. So in terms of new participation, we're still going in terms of employment, we're still going in terms of education. We have more young people working. Now Mr. Israel, Mr. Israel, can you hold on? I want us to take these indices one step at a time, right? You've talked about politics and you've also talked about the economy regarding employment. Let's talk and go back to the issue of politics because the indices they use in politics, the economy, they use employment, they use health, inequality and all of that. So going back to politics, I know you mentioned a few people especially in Lagos that seem to be doing well. They are young people and they are representing Nigerians in their different constituencies but generally you find that in Nigeria the political voice we hear almost seems to be limited to the social media space. It seems Nigerians are fired up for advocacy but really when it comes to now putting their money where their mouth is, regarding, you know, vying for these political offices and as well as even coming out to vote, there seem to be something missing, you know, voter apathy in the last local government elections we've seen and you also consider things like, you know, a high cost of nomination fees, you know, to buy nomination forms and things like that. There seem to limit us but how do you think you can get past these limitations to make sure that more youth get to sit at the table? So the reality is that the challenges exist and to build and I've got the honor to tell you, the challenges are so systemic that you need a long time approach to solve them. They've been built by people who have been in existence for many years, 20, 30 years of systemic creation that, you know, we can't literally finish it because of a lot of the apathy that our people have. But in the midst of that systemic challenge that we see across the country, we're also seeing some progress. So for example, in the League of States local government is letting us conduct it, we have a fantastic young barista, who is the chairman of Cushopay Local Government, a young man on the 40s. You know, as we have faced challenges before, he had run for, so certainly he didn't get, you know, as a candidate, he didn't win the election. He ran for chairman, he didn't win the election. But this time around, he didn't get his aspirations and almost became the chairman of Cushopay Local Government. We have many of the young people, the vice chairman of Cushopay Local Government. We have the chairman of Cushopay Local Government. Of course, like I said, this is still a unique proportion, but we're seeing the signs of progress. What we have to do is, you know, as far as people are concerned with this, power is not something like that. We're not going to... it's not a marathon, it's not a spring, it's not a shopping. We've got to put this in our effort and our best into it, and know that this is a young man's journey. It's not going to be a victory in one day. You know, and being able to make myself as a contestant for our family, as a contestant for local government challenges, and I didn't get the success of both elections. But I didn't give up. I said some Putin and Putin. Today, I sit on the bottom, the labor station in the back of the election board, helping to support quality assurance and, you know, a lot of other activities led by the chairman of Cushopay. I'm provided with you. I'm the young man sitting on the board. And it's for all my colleagues on the board that are going to get this chairman. I provide a first perspective of young people. So I may not have been elected, but I'm standing on that board supporting them with... supporting them with my liberal energy and that's another channel to leadership. So we might not get into the elective office because we don't have... and see, it's not going to finish in a day. The system is allowing people to push and to resist the emerging generation. But thank God that in case things like the layoffs and the states and other parts of Nigeria, like I said, the drugstaff will begin to see an opening where we'll begin to get a seat at the table. And I tell you young people, if they don't really get a seat at the table, go and make your own chair and bring you to the table. Fantastic way to wrap it up, Mr. Israel. Fantastic way to wrap it up. If they don't give you a seat at the table, we'll be yours. Thank you very much, policy strategist, and happy International Youth Day. Thank you. Okay, so we'll continue the conversation we began yesterday. Actually, all week long, regarding the all-progressives Congress and the legitimacy of the chairmanship of my Malabuni governor of your base state regarding that Ketika Committee. This was debated in court. The Supreme Court gave its judgment and lots of controversies there over if Boni should resign or not. Let's talk about that after the break.


Live from the Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, New York. It's theCUBE at IBM Z Next, redefining digital business. Brought to you by headline sponsor, IBM. Cube after dark at Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center at the IBM Z event. IBM knows how to throw a party. I'm here with John Tuigo. Consultant extraordinaire, John. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. What'd you think of the day today? Actually, one of IBM's better events, well planned, well executed, obviously very entertaining and good after hours entertainment as well. I thought the content of the show was top notch, a lot of high value content, but the obvious little gaps here and there in the detail that maybe I was looking for, but for the most part, they got their message through, they got the points out. The Z13 looks like a winner. Yeah, so one of the big messages was obviously bringing analytic workloads and transaction workloads together. How real is that in the clients that you work with? I get the impression that it is certainly something all my clients are very interested in, and I think that they may have actually solved that particular night. The only thing that concerns me is that they're, well, I have basically three issues, but the one related to that that concerns me is that there is this stated intention to be able to combine Hadoop infrastructure and other distributed infrastructure with the mainframe, which now has these capabilities built right into the analytics within the transaction. I have yet to hear how that's going to be accomplished to my satisfaction. I know that they have every bus extension known to man, they could certainly connect to a clustered nodal configuration of Hadoop. The question is whether that really delivers the throughput that you would expect, the delivery of the data over to the mainframe so that you would be able to perform analytics in a timely way, or are they doing some pre-processing out on the Hadoop infrastructure and then sending the result over? I don't know that, and I don't think it's been clearly defined or clearly explained. Somebody probably knows within IBM, but they didn't share it with us today. As the devil's always in the details as they say, so what was missing from your standpoint? Well, the first thing globally is I'm a storage geek, so I wanted to see more about what the relationship is between all the high-performance computing that they've now built in, the faster processors, the new Zips and Zapp processors, the some of the other configuration details that they were noting and touting, how they actually make that work with respect to the underlying data, the stored data. Also, they've got a whole diagram that they showed in one of the sessions today on data lifecycle management, which is a big bugaboo of mine. I mean, I think that most of our infrastructure suffers from a lack of management of the underlying hardware infrastructure and a lack of management of the data that we're putting on that infrastructure. So, when I looked at that chart, I was looking for the best, okay? I was looking for something that would blow the old EMC nonsense out of the water when they were trying to sell information lifecycle management about 10 years ago. I didn't see it. What I saw were basic steps involved in getting data analyzed and getting the results back to an application so they could push them out to a mobile device. But I didn't see anything about archive. I didn't see anything about data protection. I didn't see any of those steps that one would normally associate with data lifecycle management. End of life, disposal, marking the data in some way so it can be gotten rid of after a time. I know that sounds like a dirty word, but every hospital I go into, they're hoping that their infrastructure will even stand the test of time required by HIPAA to hold onto the damn data so they can get rid of it just as soon as they can after it expires. Anyway, there was no mention of that. That's another kind of a gap in the story that I'd like to see. I recently wrote about a strategy that some of my clients are starting to explore called Archive in Place. When you're doing some of these behind-the-server nodal clustering of storage, the way that VMware wants to do a virtual SAN. Microsoft is doing it with its clustered storage spaces. What you're doing is replicating data on multiple nodes, and if one node fails, you simply replace the hardware. That's the story. So you have high availability infrastructure. You also have a 300 to 650% increase in storage capacity demand that you're going to have to deal with somewhere because you've got a duplicate set of data behind every node. How is this going to work? If you're doing L-PARS and you're replicating, you're going to do dual redundant Z-13s. That's what one guy set up on stage that his bank, or I think it was the Netherlands guy, said his bank requires always-on service, so they replicate everything to a second installation of their Z-mainframe. That's fine. Does that mean we're replicating all the data? Are we using a shared complex like a SAN behind it? These are questions that really need to be worked out because, as you know, there are a lot of ways that latency can interfere with these performance numbers that they're playing with. You have storage latency. You kind of IO blending, that blender effect that everybody talks about in the x86 world. You can have that just as readily if you're streaming together. Multiple streams are coming out of L-PARS. The mainframe historically has dealt with that, but this is new territory workload-wise. The question is, maybe the L-PARS and the mainframe can be tied together in a coherent way. Maybe they could do log structuring with GPFS, I don't know, but how are they going to integrate the data that's coming in off-distributed infrastructure that they're tying together with the mainframe? That's where the big stumbling block here is. You remember a couple of years ago, they articulated a strategy called Z Enterprise, where they were taking a blade server and they were storing all the recalcitrant workload, the VMware workload, and the Microsoft workload on blades, and they were integrating that back with a Z10 mainframe, okay? The Z10 mainframe was doing whatever it was doing with its Unix and Linux workload, and then it was basically, it had an interconnect over to that blade server, which was managed terribly by SNMP instead of REST, and I called them on that. To my understanding, they didn't go very far with that. There weren't a lot of customers who adopted it. Now, what they're saying makes a hell of a lot more sense to me. They've gone to bed with KVM, and you can do KVM workload, 8,000 KVM workloads inside the basic kit, or you can do the standard L-PAR, MVS, and Z-Linux, or ZOS type virtualization. That brings a lot of the workload that used to be on X86 into your environment. Now, what are you going to do with the recalcitrant workload, the stuff that, like the Microsoft is notorious for making non-standard resource calls? Usually that's the reason why they try to segregate it and put it off somewhere else. There are emulators that you can run in an L-PAR environment, but I never liked an emulator as much as I liked the real thing, right? So anyway, at the end of the day, what you've got is a story that is visionary, but it's not fully baked, or at least they didn't articulate all the nuances of it. I wholly expect that those nuances will come out.   And there was some discussion about that. What are the characteristics of those workloads? If they're file servers, you know, who cares? But if it's a more, I don't know, complex program, it's a little more difficult to implement in a virtual machine in an L-PAR. So the question at the end of the day was, how much of this was real and how much of it was bogus? And they got called into so many debates on that online in the blogosphere and everything else. I think they just kind of dropped the subject and quit talking about it, because they were originally touting on Z10 that a virtual machine cost $100 to stand up in an L-PAR. You know, if you think about that, versus $25,000 for a vSphere license. Get somebody's attention. What do you think of the new pricing? You know, I don't track pricing as closely as I probably should. It all sounded very much like we're going to make some of the pricing work a little better. You know, you've always had in any virtual environment the problem of how many instances you have and do you count the number of times it's loaded into memory? Do you count the number of users? How do you actually measure it? They've tried to measure it on a transactional basis. Now they're going to simplify that a little bit. And I got the impression that they're also going to try to simplify the licensing of some of the accelerators that they've got out there as well. I'll wait and see that in the wash. I'm not as concerned about that. I'm more concerned about whether the architecture itself and the strategy itself would work. All right, John, we got to leave it there. Thanks very much for coming on. My pleasure, thanks for inviting me. All right, pleasure. All right, keep right there, everybody. Back with our next guest right after this.


So in this video, I wanted to talk to you about business cards. Should you get one? Should you not get one? Those are the only two questions, and I'm going to answer them right now. Should you get business cards? It depends. Let me play it out for you. What I think you should do when you're first starting out is you should start with going and meeting people. Meet people face to face first. Go to meetups. Go to co-working spaces. Go to whatever is going on where you can meet either other translators or people who might need a translator. I mean also do your stuff online. Obviously I've been through this before. You should do a lot of stuff online to try to find people who need you. But obviously business cards, you're not going to use them online.  So now I'm only going to address the face to face stuff you should be doing. And which once again is going to meetups, going to co-working spaces, stuff like that. Trying to get in front of people who might need your translation services.  I do Spanish to English translations. If they show any interest and they say, oh, you know, I might need a Spanish to English translator. Then at that point, don't get a business card. They've already showed interest. So why do you need to get a business card now? They already know you. They showed interest. So see how it goes.   So why should you have a business card? Basically, I'm saying, I don't think you should get business cards until your profits can pay for them.  You shouldn't go into the red at any point for business cards. Let's put it that way. You can use your profits to buy them if you still want them. But quite frankly, I don't think, I don't think there's much use for them at all. I didn't have business cards for a long time. In fact, it's only recently that I ever got business cards and pretty much all my translation career went by without my getting business cards. Having said that, I do recognize that there are some uses for business cards and there can be some very good points for having business cards. Let me go through that quickly. So getting a business card is okay. The main point I want to drive here is that it's not an excuse to delay starting out. I do not want anyone out there to think, Well, I could start off as a freelance translator. I could start off, but I need to wait until I design my business card. I get it good. I order it. I make sure it looks nice. Oh, I want to change something. I order it again, blah, blah, blah. No, you do not delay anything because you don't have business cards. You go out and meet people. You talk to people. You get started right away. You're not delaying anything to have business cards. That is probably the main important thing from what I've seen and I feel like a lot of people use that as an excuse to use many things and business card is one of the things they use as an excuse not to start out. So don't delay starting out because you need to get business cards.  So just get started. And the second thing I would say is don't spend money on a business card.  Once again, you don't want to go into red for a business card. So only spend what you've already made in a profit. If you still want to get a business card, then you can get it. Third thing that I would say is don't just get business cards because you think it's cool to have a business card. If you get one, you should have a goal in mind. And you need to figure out what that goal is. What is it? Do you want to be remembered? If you want to be remembered, then you need to think, okay, do I want to make this unique then? Do I want to do something that they'll remember? Should I get a business card from one of those places like mood.com or something that does kind of crazy and different business cards? Well, yeah, you might be remembered, but maybe for the wrong reasons because you want to be professional. So maybe you should get something a bit more serious and try to envision why you want to get a business card. And not just like, oh, it seems important to have business cards. So I'll have business cards. That's what you're supposed to do. No, you don't have to have a business card, especially if you're working on your own. I think you'll find that if you talk to other freelancers, other freelance translators, freelancers in general, entrepreneurs in general, many times they don't have business cards. Like if they have set up a company or something like that, then they'll have a business card, but many times they won't. If you feel inadequate about it at any meetup or whatever that you go to, you can always say, well, I didn't bring mine with me. There's always people who say I didn't bring mine. Many times people don't like bringing theirs because they don't want random people sending them random emails. And so they'll say I didn't bring mine, but I'll take yours if you want or something like that. You can pull that off and keep doing that. And in fact, I wish I'd done that many times. So that's just my two cents. I really think they're kind of overvalued, overestimated and people just assume you always need to get a business card. And especially I really cringe when people say I can't start out until I have a business card because that's not true at all. And even worse, many times people are like, I can't start out until I have a business card. I can't have a business card until I have a good logo to put on it until I designed it until all that.  So those are my two cents about it. It can be an added extra, but it's definitely not an important aspect of your business. And I think you should keep that in mind. If you disagree, feel free to let me know. Feel free to let me know in the comments. If you disagree or maybe you think business cards are some of the most important things you can have in business. I mean, let me know. Let me know why and be curious to see. Because I feel, look, I have business cards now. I definitely use them. I hand them out to anyone I can. I think in terms of sales, they're not bad. They're cheap. You can get a bunch of them really cheap. And you know, you're working the numbers there. And if you hand out a hundred, one or two of them will remember you. And that's good. But when you're first starting out, honestly, I don't think they give you much bang for the buck. And so I think it's better to start off without. Anyway, I hope you found that interesting. If you did, please don't forget to click like because that always helps. And don't forget to subscribe and you'll get more videos about freelancing and freelance translation. Otherwise, I'll talk to you next time. Thanks. Bye. Hello. Articulate. I'm recording a video. You're on video. 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