My name is Leverbitsky, and I just came to Singapore from the Czech Republic. Yeah, enjoying your hot weather, by the way. And actually, the reason why I want to talk about this topic, my website talk, is about here in Asia, you have so many languages, and yeah, sometimes you really have to use your Google translator a lot, and yeah, that's the way how you survive.  And basically, I wrote this small application like two years ago, and unfortunately the speech API didn't evolve in like two years, so they're still the same, but from the other hand, it still works. Okay, let's get started. So basically, the app I want to present to you is, it's something like a Google Translate, but it's open source. When I started to work on it, I was trying to find an API. So basically, you have like a Google Translation API, you have Microsoft API, and there's Yandex Translate. So basically, the first two, you have to pay to use them, and like, yeah, I didn't want to pay for like a home main project. So, and then I tried Yandex Translate API. Yandex is an IT company in Russia, and it's like a Google competitor, and they have free version of the API. So if you don't, if you use it for non-commercial thing, and if you know the exceed some like how many thousand requests they can do, just go ahead and use it. The API is really simple.  Then you get your API key. After that, there are two main APIs. The first one is to get a list of supported languages. It's not Google, so it doesn't support like all thousand, like, I don't know, hundreds of languages we have in the world, but yeah, most common ones like French, German, English, like Chinese probably, and yeah. So there's like one API call, get languages, and you will get the list of languages, like which dictionaries are there. After that, there's another call. So basically you can type in any language. I know something in German, and then the API can detect your language based on your content. So another really simple call, and yeah. And if it doesn't know, so you can give you like, okay, it's like probability 60% is English and probability is like 50% is like German, whatsoever. Okay, and after that, the final step is to translate the text. Again, that's another API call, just translate from what language to what language, and send your text, and you get the response. So that's the first part of the API. And then we are going to the Web Speech API. So I have a dream. After I watched the first Iron Man movie, I really want to have this clap. And like two years ago, we didn't have Alexa and like commonly available and other speakers. So I was playing with Web Speech API because it was probably the easiest framework that you can just go and use. You don't want to deal with like Apple or iOS. If you're not iOS developer or Android developer, so probably it was almost the only option.  So it's not a standard yet. It's not approved. That's why it's not supported by all major browsers. And it has a few components. The first one is a speech recognition component. So that's basically, when you say something, you can use a mic on your laptop. And this component will be able to recognize your speech and convert to text. And another big component is speech synthesis component. That's basically a text-to-speech API. So you can send any text and it will talk to you. And yeah, there are some other APIs. So this is a demo. And if you want to play around with this app, go ahead, download it and play with it. And so let's go to the code. So this is my demo. And the demo has basically two main methods. You can do recording and you can do speech. So when you do recording, first you have to choose a language. Actually, let me run it first. It will be easier. So we do... 8080. So basically this is a really simple thing. And you can start recording. Hi, how are you doing? And something doesn't work. Oh gosh, I'm out of internet. Do we have Wi-Fi here because I need API? Sorry. That's why you want to do a real app. Just go ahead and build it on iOS. They haven't built in. That's what happens when you don't have internet nowadays. That's a proxy login page. Okay, let's see. Here we have languages. Awesome! So let's try again. Hi, how are you doing? Yep, so it works. And then I can translate it to Russian. Slate and read. And then I can French. Like French. Slate. Something will sound. Okay. So anyway, how it works. And the API is like a really simple one. Basically, when you do your recording, you have to choose your language. So it will be probably EN, DE, FR. And then you just have your own result handler. So this event handler is called when Chrome is able to recognize text. And then you just click start and it will start recording your voice. And then when you, in your event handler, you have a result. And inside the result, Chrome will give you different options. So it counts the probability. So probably this text means that. And then you can just join them all together. And for translation, like when you... Okay, so it's a translation. When you want to... For the speech, see. Yeah, for speech. For speech, it's like even easier. But there is a hack. You have to... First, Chrome has to load voices. It has built-in voices for different languages. But if you call this function in like window speech voices, not inside like a timeout, but right after like the function call, it will return you now. So for some like... There is a bug or hack in Chrome. So you must call this get voices inside set interval method. And then you just choose your voice and create this object. This is like a speech generator that gets your text. And you also provide the voice for your language and do speak. Like really simple and straightforward. So we go back here. So unfortunately, this API is not like approved to the standard. So it's not supported by all browsers. But yeah, now it's supposed to work from home. But as you can see, we have 63% of coverage. Like two years ago, it was 40-something. So it means Chrome is growing a lot. Here we go. Thank you. I don't understand the coverage. Coverage? Oh, it's all right here. 63%. So basically, you can use it for Samsung Internet. It means it's like a Chrome probably. And then Chrome on Android and Chrome. And under the hood, the speech API uses... I think it's the same language and speech engine that you use on Android. And if you are on Google Cloud, so probably you have an API that you can use in your normal applications, like desktop or mobile, whatever. Yeah, I hope they will add a safari. Any other questions? Sure. I'm sorry? Yeah, you have to... You have preset voices. Voices are part of this speech engine from Google. And you have a set of voices. And each voice is associated with a particular language. So then you just load voices first. It's sort of like a voice API. And then you have this... Then you have this class that is responsible for speech synthesis. And yeah, it must have a voice to be able to produce something. The Yandex translation... I mean, how is recognition able to handle... I think they work in this. So basically, I'm originally from Russia. So I know Yandex. And I know guys from Yandex. So they have a developer portal, like developer.yandex.org.  They have mapping, they have voice recognition, they have some machine learning stuff. So it's quite... If you have time and interest, just go and take a look. For Yandex APIs, which one do you think are pretty strong? I guess translation APIs are really, really strong one, yeah. And the map, they have a really good map. And I know that they probably... I don't know for Yandex, but I think they're working a lot now with Asian markets. So we'll see what they'll come from. But if you're in Russia and you're driving, then the Yandex maps is just a go-to solution. Any other questions? So if there are no other questions, then I think you're pretty sure what you meant at the end of the interview. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.


And generally what the bill does the first few sections of the bill amend existing law in title 72, which is the sexual assault title chapter in title 13, which is crimes and criminal procedure and it focuses a lot on issues around consent. And so because this doesn't pertain necessarily to your jurisdiction I'm just going to kind of scooch down but just so you know what the first half of the bill is is straight up judiciary. So I think what you're interested in is starting on page for on in section for the first one being data collection and reporting. And you'll see there that starting online 20 on the page for set on or before September 1 of 2024 and then by annually after that, the Department of Public Safety is to provide a statistical report to the legislature based on data from the national incident based reporting system and the Vermont judiciary on a number of following issues. And just a little background and I think that Representative Colburn will talk to you about it when she testifies is this section was developed in cooperation with the Department of Public Safety as well as the crime research group. And the network against domestic and sexual violence on trying to figure out what information is available how can you best aggregate it and then condense it into usable information for the General Assembly so I did just want you to know that there was that input. So you'll see on top of page five. So starting with subdivision a is that there to report on the number of sexual violence cases reported to any law enforcement officer agency subdivision be is there to report on the number of civil sexual assault or stocking orders that are granted so this is separate and separate from what we have in the criminal realm is that there is a provision in title 12 that allows someone to receive a civil protection order in cases of sexual violence and and stalking. And C is the number of sexual violence cases referred by law enforcement to a prosecutor so in a you have the number of reports made to law enforcement and see you have been how many of those reported cases then are referred from law enforcement to a prosecutor for to for determining whether or not there should be charges in subdivision D is the number of cases that are charged the nature of the charge in the disposition of those charges. And then you'll see in subdivision to the data has to be organized and reported county by county. D is directing the Department of Public Safety to make a reasonable effort to protect a victim confidentiality and when they're sharing that statistical information and it might be identifying that's put in there because you know we are in small communities here in Vermont and so that they're to consider the confidentiality when you have might have small numbers and how that might interact in terms of unintentionally identifying a victim. Subsection C DPS is to post the data that's collected on their website in a manner that's clear understandable and accessible to the public. The section five is the intercollegiate sexual violence prevention Council. There was a predecessor to this Council that was established by the General Assembly and one of its recommendations was that the Council, or some version similar to that Council continue and with more stakeholders and that they focus in on certain areas. Let me through the language starting at the top of page six. So creating the Council for the purpose of a coordinated response to campus sexual harm, including across institutions of higher learning in Vermont. As you can see the membership is in subsection B. So what you have in subdivisions one, two and three is that for each of so for the state colleges for the University of Vermont, and for the Association of independent colleges, they are to each appoint a title nine coordinator and a campus based prevention education coordinator to this to this Council. Subdivision for there's to be two community based sexual violence advocates appointed by the network. Subdivision five is there's two law enforcement or public safety representatives who have experience and responding to an investigating campus sexual violence and those are to be appointed by the Commissioner of Public Safety. Top of page seven and subdivision six, the Center for Crime Victim Services is to appoint two college students, at least one of whom has lived experience as a sexual violence survivor and one who represents a campus based racial justice organization. Subdivision seven is a person with expertise and sexual violence responses within the LGBTQ community appointed by the Center for Crime Victim Services.  Sexual assault nurse examiners are healthcare practitioners who are specifically trained to collect evidence when there has been a report of a sexual assault. Subdivision nine is a prosecutor with experience in prosecuting sexual violence cases and it could be either someone who is within one of the state's attorney's offices or it could be from the AG's office and the AG is the appointing and then subdivision 10 is an attorney with experience in sexual violence cases appointed by the Defender General. So subsection C is the duties for the council. So they're supposed to do interdisciplinary planning and information to share prevention programs on every college campus in Vermont, they're to do annual review of trends. Subdivision eight is the scope of page eight development and distribution of best practices. Subsection D, they are to have the administrative and technical assistance of the network. I'll just say there wasn't any clear entity to staff staff this necessarily and so the network offered to do this and that's where the appropriation comes in a little later. Subsection E is a report on or before December in 2022 and then annually thereafter they're to report to the General Assembly with a summary of their activities and any recommendations for legislative action. So the first meeting is to occur on or before September 15 of this year. You'll see that on subdivision for the counselor council is to meet quarterly so four times a year are limited there. And subdivision five your standard language around per diems and expenses. I think if you look at the makeup of the committee it's primarily probably going to be, you know, maybe just the folks under subdivision six and eight so the two college students and perhaps maybe the so sexual assault nurse examiner who might be availing themselves of the per diems and the expenses I think generally. The other folks are probably going to be compensated for whatever organization they're representing but that's just a guess. So, moving on to page nine and section seven with the appropriations. So, there is $13,000 appropriated to the network for purposes of staffing the intercollegiate sexual violence Prevention Council and reimbursement of the per diems and expenses. And then subsection B is kind of a standalone there's no statutory language in or session law earlier in the bill related to this but there's a $40,000 appropriation to the Center for Crime Victim Services to expand the forensic nursing program beyond hospitals so now that program just operates in hospitals but as you know, you know there's not a hospital in every corner of the state and sometimes it's quite a bit of a drive to get to a hospital and so they're looking to be able to extend those services to primary care and reproductive healthcare settings in underserved areas. Thank you. And representative, representative Colburn, do you wish to add to that thank you for that one. Yeah, I'll add just a little bit Michelle covered a lot and I received by email some questions from representative squirrel this morning and we've tried to make sure that we're addressing these but please, please let me know if I haven't addressed those to your question representative squirrel or anyone else and I'm also happy to send you some responses in writing if that feels useful after after hearing. I see that representative squirrel. Thank you. Yeah, thank you for the presentation. I had one question that I didn't hear an answer to and question why you chose the, the date of July 2028. So I'm set to counsel. Yeah, I was going to share just a little additional information about some of the appropriations and some of the sections who went and I walked through that and I will address that question. And, but thanks for, thanks for flagging that one. Appreciate it. I heard about sections one through three and you know I think we're happy to do our best to answer questions about those but as Michelle noted they really relate to modernizing our sexual assault laws and the definition of consent. In section four on the data collection and reporting. This is really aimed at getting us a better understanding of how these cases are coming forward and sort of when they're able to be fully charged and, and, and all of that and the, the language that you see in front of you really was developed with stakeholders from the Department of Public Safety and from the crime research group who will be doing a lot of the back end support for this reporting so there's plenty of capacity here they all they all. We heard actually multiple witnesses from DPS testified in support of the bill and sort of in support of these provisions so we're really confident that the reporting requirements here are achievable. Section five the inner collegiate sexual violence Council I can. Yeah, excuse me, rep Colburn just why why don't we pause section by section of their questions here I certainly had a question in section four about the capacity of the different entities to gather and collect the data. I understand and thank you for being clear that DPS said that they supported the bill, or do they have the financial capacity and the staffing capacity to do the work that you have asked them to do in the bill. Yes, and the, and I think a lot of the work will actually be done at preliminary work will actually be done through the by the crime research group with their existing funding and then the data and reporting will be handed over to DPS to help finalize and present. Okay, they have some support that's not articulated in the bill but that really is a critical piece of like infrastructure and capacity for them. Yeah, I absolutely appreciate that and know that we need access to data, it's just that we frequently hear, hey, legislature you asked us to do this work but you did not provide us with the resources to do the work. And so your testimony is that the entities that are being asked to do this work have sufficient resources and you inquired and they are not going to come to us and say we need more money to do this. I'm understanding, and I'm happy to get you some sort of like written confirmation of that if that would be helpful. Of course not. But if that's the testimony that you all have received a, you know, we're appropriation so it's our job to ask these questions and we get a little bit grumpy. When years later we hear about the costs that we added and what were we thinking of so yeah. Thank you, made a representative Townsend. Thank you thank you on this very point I just wanted to make sure everyone was aware, you know there's mentioned in the bill of the national incident based reporting system as a source for data. Within the criminal justice service division of DPS. There is a subdivision within criminal justice services called the Vermont crime information center, and they already do work in support of the national incident based reporting system so there's already a linkage in place. Great. Thank you. Rick Colburn you were moving us to section five I don't see other questions on for. Great. So section five again is the intercollegiate sexual violence Council. I can talk about the need for this. I will note that if you have really deep and I can certainly talk about individual membership. If you have really detailed questions about individual members you may also want to hear from the government operations committee as they actually really worked on and finalize the language for this section. As child noted last biennium we formed and funded a campus sexual harm task force with a very finite charge to evaluate and bring forward legislative proposals and I served on this task force so I'm happy to answer questions about its work. The key finding of this group that that really kind of wove through all of our other proposals was a need for more infrastructure in the form of a statewide group or entity that could facilitate the pooling of resources deeper collaboration between institutions and connected individuals, community and criminal justice system partners and development of shared best practices and more consistency across the state. One of the things that came up again and again it was just the huge variations and how institutions are able to resist source this work in campus setting so the difference between a UVM or a Middlebury and a state college or a really small different kinds of funding just came up again and again and I think here with with relatively minimal state investment we can hopefully create a structure where we can really better leverage resources across all the institutions and support of collective work. Another thing that came up was the clear need for some staffing and infrastructure support. So there did actually exist a few years back a really loose intercollegiate council, but it was really a volunteer effort and had to be coordinated by overworked design coordinators and just was not positioned to embrace the scope of work identified as needed. And I believe that group is actually no longer meeting because it was just sort of not sustainable in its current form. The representatives of state agencies and institutions of higher education were on the task force and as Ms. Childs noted no entity offered their capacity to staff or coordinate this proposed council. So that's where the work stepped in. The estimated appropriation that you'll see in a subsequent section is really the minimum minimum minimal costs required to provide some staffing pay for space rental and supplies such as paper copying etc. So I just and this is really my observation not the networks that supporting sexual assault survivors and preventing sexual violence is really really specialized work. And I think and that the Vermont network is the entity statewide that is best positioned to coordinate this that already has the most experience working across campuses the criminal justice system community supports. I think they're a pretty natural fit for serving in this role. The previous task force that was established was very short term I think we funded, maybe six meetings. This is really anticipated as a longer term entity that's positioned to make collective system changes over time, as needed. And sadly, the issue of campus sexual harm is probably not going away in the course of a handful of meetings. You'll know that it does have a sense that are repeal in section six and to representative squirrels question. This is, of course, so we can assess whether or not it could should continue. My understanding is that the length of time applied here is the standard term applied to longer term bodies by government operation so that General Assembly can routinely evaluate them. And as noted the proteams likely will only be used by the student representatives, perhaps by, perhaps by the, the nurses, but largely by the student reps, we think section seven brings us. Oh, I should pause and see if there are questions about sections five and six. I apologize. Thank you there are representative Jess up. Yeah, thank you. Good to see you both again. So what I'm just trying to understand in terms of the timeline is the Council would you say that the Council's charge. I mean it's obviously multiple different, but would you characterize the overall sort of capacity building because I've actually attended some of those previous meetings by the volunteer groups and I hear what you're saying it is totally as you describe overwork title nine coordinators, really hard to pull together people can't get away from their jobs all the stuff that we all know right, especially for institutions where people are wearing multiple hats already. So, so the Council, I mean you have the data function and you're tying that into the crime victim to the existing. So, is it capacity building that you're after largely is that it to narrow of a description. I think it's a few things so I do think it's capacity building. And it's, it's being able to leverage across institutions like what are we learning at a UVM or a middle barrier and able to put into practice and how can we support other institutions and kind of operationalizing that like how can we find some shared strategies and share resources. I think there's also a really strong interest in some developing some best practices and some consistency across campuses so for example like we have statutory definition of consent but each education of each higher institution institution and state has its own definition of consent operating so you go from one institution to another you might find you might find really different numbers definitions, sort of guiding, guiding the campus experience or an understanding around consent. One of the things, an example that came up that are the task force was really really interested in is thinking about piloting some models of restorative justice so really looking at alternatives to the kind of campus adjudication process which frankly, which frankly doesn't work for a lot of folks, and there have been some really promising developments around the country and colleges that are using restorative justice models, but you got to do it right, that can, that can be not a great alternative for someone to just kind of put together on a shoestring and try themselves so that was a great example of something where they really wanted to work together to develop best practices that could be shared between institutions that could be, that could be shared statewide that could create kind of consistent best practices in the state. And then there are also rows and I think you'll see this in the charge there were a lot of questions about as there just tends to be and a lot of our work in the justice system questions about getting better data getting a better statewide picture of what's happening. That's that's less like institution institution and and more allowing us to kind of look at some aggregate data and really understand trends and what's happening so I think those those were hopefully you see those reflected in the language in the bill but those are some of the reasons. The reason I'm partly framing it like that is I'm thinking of representative squirrels question about what sunset when and typically if you're doing capacity building the idea is you go in, you do a lot of work you set things up you get the consistency to know that resource allocation is really behind inconsistency right so that's that whole issue. Right, and then there's a stepping back and that kind of gets to his question about the repeal. So that's what I'm trying to understand like, is, are you seeking to set up something sort of longer term, or you seeking to do that capacity building and then step back and I think frankly, I don't you know I don't want to speak for the bills sponsor but I think it is about setting up something longer term and having the kind of just standard check in that we would have for any entity so that that repeal is my understanding is that's really standard for government operations to not just say and it's going going to go on and on and on forever. I don't think it's necessarily planned as like, and absolutely by 2028 the work of this entity will be done I think it's meant to provide an opportunity for the General Assembly to really evaluate the function and usefulness of this entity at that point. And may I madam chair was just one more follow up. So, would, given that you have the out near as the repeal and sunset with this being ongoing appropriation of some fashion until that sunset because how does one determine whether capacity is sufficient or not or how does that. How does that slope. How does that work in terms of dollars. Yep, I think it would be, you know, something that would we would need to keep assessing the staffing needs and if there continues to be a need for an ongoing appropriation or not. I think it's, I think it will be something that will need to come back to. Okay, thank you. Before we move on, could I just say one more thing I the network has tested did testify I believe that it could potentially be a one time appropriation.  So this is, this is our shot. And so if they're alternative to be thinking about this, we'll need to take it out of the room and come back with a proposal for how to do this, because we do not have time for testimony. Yeah, sorry, the level in the room is at least in my room is. Yeah, I just want to make sure you're getting all the information you need so I can do any follow up to. Yeah, thank you. So, um, question I have on section five is you've got 13 people on this committee or this commission. I'm sorry, I'm not using the right words on the council. That's a large number. Did you have a conversation about making it smaller. Um, we didn't have a conversation about making a smaller I think we were really working to get the right people in the room. We did defer to the government operations committee for the detailed conversation on that and they had coordinated with the House Education committee about which of them would really dig in and take that on but I will say my experience. And then I see that Michelle has her hand up to my experience on the smaller test force which was similarly sized and sort of similar mix of community criminal justice system and campus folks and impacted folks. I feel like the important and right mix of people to have at the table these are really complex intersecting systems at the way they intersect often has really serious impacts and often detrimental impacts on survivors and so the work of supporting survivors and making the experience on our college campuses more survivor friendly, I think really requires all of these players to be in conversation together in ways that they have not historically always been. Thank you. Miss trials. I just wanted to mention that. So I went to house government operations and worked with them on their recommendations to judiciary, there were actually more people on the council as the bill as introduced and originally kind of contemplated by House judiciary and government operations paired it down, specifically to the representatives from the institutions of higher learning so the bill is introduced had a title nine coordinator from every college in Vermont. And so they kind of whittled that number down but they, they actually added the defender generals representative on there. And the, the, I'm sorry, if I represent pulmonary mentioned this one of the recommendations from the earlier group that was working on this was a wider array of stakeholders. And so that's why you see a number of folks representing different constituencies. Okay, thank you that's very helpful to know. And if there's no more questions on five or six, we are now at the appropriation section 13, which is section seven, which appropriates $13,000. Can you tell us why, why that number. The number came from, you know, the network that. So it's their estimate of what they would need to cover just really the minimum needs for staffing for potential space rental and for supplies. And the per diem that is part of this and the per diems are folded into there as well and as we noted yes as we noted we're anticipating really minimal use of the per diems. Okay. Thank you. I'm just, I'm thinking a wee bit about that and I think we may want to pull out what the per diem is, and have that as a separate amount and be clear about that, and then appropriate if. And then I think we need to have a conversation about the other part of the appropriation. And then I have a question that I had had there. I just this morning was reminding the committee that we do not do direct appropriations normally to private entities, I was batted down by one of my colleagues who reminded me that we're not always consistent. And I'm going to get even with him. I am uncomfortable making an explicit appropriation to an entity that is not state government or not that we don't offer this out as a that we don't bid it out. We do not normally sole source this sort of work. So I can, can you tell me why I am wrong. Well, I think so I having worked on this issue. There is not a single state entity that comes to mind to me state agency. That state government entity that comes to mind to me that has the breadth of experience and skills at pulling all of these intersecting systems and players together that the network does. I think you could go through an RFP process and put it out to bid and I think the likely result of that process if the network chose to bid on it is that they would very possibly emerge very, very likely emerge as the clear, terrorist choice. And so I think we're, I, I'm really kind of speaking for myself here but I think like there's efficiency in just naming that and, and moving forward. Okay, thank you. I would imagine that the Department of Public Health would be the logical place to have an interest in this I, I clearly understand what is trying to be created here I understand. And it is a highly specialized area that in on a personal level I would say deserves the attention you're trying to bring to it. I just think that this is but it is broadly a public health issue. And that was where I was imagining this resides that is also a way of saying hey Department of Public Health, this is a public health issue that deserves attention. So we may want to have a conversation about that. The second is the second part of this appropriation is related but not tied into the Council itself and so will you talk to us about that. So this is the additional appropriation of 40,000 to pilot new forms of access to the Vermont forensic nursing program. So these are really specialized exams that folks will have after being sexually assaulted and they, they really are part of the investigation to collect evidence as well as just assessing the health impacts on a survivor of assault. The program as it exists today is based in hospitals. It's funded through the Center for Crime Victim Services through federal funding. What the appropriation would do is expand the program to offer these exams in other settings. So currently you can only go to an emergency department as a hospital at a hospital and these funds would pilot the provision of care and primary care reproductive health settings. So that folks can be, these are like, can be very traumatic, very lengthy exams and the idea of being able to have it in a primary care setting or reproductive health care setting as opposed to having to go to a hospital emergency department to do it, you can imagine would be very supportive to some survivors, it also, you know, might reduce the barrier of transportation of having to get to a hospital so this is this is really an attempt to kind of pilot like what would it look like in some other settings to be able to provide these services and I'll say that that it really expanding and ensuring access to this program has been a really ongoing priority for the Judiciary Committee in my time there and and beyond. As noted, these are really specialized trauma informed exams, you know, could be very beneficial to folks in more rural parts of the state to have access to them in different settings and so it really fits with a long held overall goal of the committee that Rep. Jessup will be quite familiar with to ensure just access to justice to eliminate geographic injustice around the state in access to aspects of our justice system. So that's really the thinking behind behind this appropriation. Thank you. Rep Jessup. Yes, I of course want to fully appreciate you for putting that in that is a really important piece. And the just two questions I have was consideration given to support to do the staffing for that because that as we know was a key backup and the other component of the call was a really huge issue was the backlog of rape kits it was just this ongoing thing and I may be straying too far field but I feel like it's related to the money because those were the two pieces that often, even if you had everything else in it but this takes off the third which was the where but there was also the what happens next with the kids. And then did you have somebody available to do as you as you covered the exam in the right way with the right kids so that the evidence would stand up should that move further through the process. Yeah, so I think it's it's really the appropriation would be used primarily I think for staffing train for training folks for getting to really setting up the integration and of this service in some of those other kinds of settings that I described so it's, it's not about, although we continue to look at the existing underlying program if this is not about saying there's something wrong with the underlying program that's not working and it needs to be better funded. And we need to do it's not like filling a gap in the underlying program it's really trying to explore this is trying to explore and set up. What would it look like to provide this same service in different kinds of settings and perhaps allow us to go even further in the trauma informed nature of these exams. I'm not sure if I'm asking your totally answering your question representative just up but my understanding is it's the funding would be used really for training folks in the primary care settings and reproductive health care settings and sort of standing up some some models. And I'm sorry to be talking so much committee members just I do remember spending a lot of time on this it's really important work and I really appreciate all the thought that's gone into it. And, and one of the things we do it's just trying to think where the resources needed where they ongoing and where the holes. So when you say the $40,000 building capacity is it building capacity of health professionals plus. And that would sort of be the pilot like you would you would have a, I don't know rape crisis center on a campus and there's always volunteers who are there there's maybe a health professional I don't know what the configuration is but I just wouldn't. Yes, or it would train folks I thought I should have mentioned that that is another potential setting where folks are thinking about piloting provision of these exams is actually campus health centers. Rather than because currently what happens if you go to your campus health center and report a sexual assault you refer to the emergency room for this like the exam and can imagine that the stress and intensity of that. And the emotional step is a lot for, for some survivors for most drivers I would hypothesize. So, right it's looking at like can we get some models of this in places like campus health centers and reproductive health centers and in in your own doctor's office, potentially. So, is the expectation that this 40. What is the expectation around this $40 $1000 appropriation on an ongoing basis. Um, my so my understanding is that this is really to fund a pilot. And then to, and then further need would be assessed to be able to trial it in some locations. And how many locations would become just give us some can you give us some details about what that would look like. What is the 40,000 bias. I don't know the number of locations. I, I, I can tell you the kinds of said I've shared the kinds of settings I think the, the funding would largely be used as I said for training for training. Because yeah, so I'm not, I'm, I could certainly get a more one and I try to get a more concrete answer to that question to you by email but okay thank you. Did you ask the Center for Crime Victim Services, which, as you noted and thank you for that, the note about the work that they have already done in this area did you ask them if they would fund this program. I would ask them that so the way the funding for this program works it's funneled through the Crime Victim Service Center it's federal funding dollars so it's very finite and it's very directed how it can be used. The network does work with them to help administer the program and do the actual training the trauma informed training of folks. So that would be a collaboration between those two use to actually implement the Center for Crime Victim Services, yes it is. There are parameters to how they can spend their money, I suspect this is fits in with those parameters. Yet, yes it is fine and I know it's declining but they would have the ability to fund the sort of thing if they chose, and I, they do a broad array of important work, but I believe this fits in with the sort of work they do. Robin. Thank you and thanks for bringing this bill to us, representative Colburn and I think it's great that I have more questions on this 40,000. Also, I think I heard you say it you're kind of viewing it as a pilot. I'm still a little unclear on what we're getting for the $40,000 and if it's a pilot. How will we know if we're successful. We're going to measure this by and that would give ammunition for being able to, you know, ask for additional funds or get a bigger program set up because it seems to me that 40,000 is a nice start but doesn't get us that far. Yeah, so we didn't hear testimony about like a formal assessment rubric. There's, you know, a very good case to be made and we did hear that for why, why this expansion into these other settings is. Yes, the common sense right behind behind it. And I, I, you know, we are committee is in continual conversation with the crime victim services center and and the network on the services and related programs and so I think we would anticipate very much that we would be hearing back from them about how it could be lessons learned continuing need. All of that. Is that where were they the ones who recommended the 40,000 still a little unclear on where that number got picked from. I think the, the recommendation came. From the bill sponsor representative Copeland Hansis who were the number of stakeholders in crafting in crafting the bill and certainly was advocated for by the network as well with and with support of crime victim services center. Thanks. Representative Colburn, do you can, could you help us understand the scope of the problem that is being addressed here and by that I mean do you have it, can you tell us how many big, what do we believe the number of victims of sexual assault is in the state of Vermont and just trying to. And I know that we do not in fact know what the actual number is but in terms of reported numbers and what what the thought is around the total possibilities. So I didn't come with statistics about the number of reported sexual assaults for you but we know from statistics that I think it's between one and five and one and four college students will be sexually assaulted. We know that those risks increase for women for LGBTQ plus folks for for people of color. And we know that there's a huge amount of that just goes under reported and I can tell you zero representative in the legislature and also at the municipal level of what I think is probably the most college student dense district in the state that this is a huge huge issue for my constituents they continually feel let down by the process and the experience they have in college settings. When they have experienced assault or other forms of sexual harm and it's just and the stories I've heard I mean I've heard so many stories in my role representing these settings and I have I have never heard someone say like I really worked for me I really felt like I received justice I felt like I received healing. I felt like my education wasn't interrupted by this or compromised by this experience I I hear the opposite of that like every single time I talked to someone who has been through this experience and there is a huge need. To address this issue in the in these settings and beyond. And that's really what we're trying to do here with this bill. Thank you. I'm, I'm just trying to do. I'm not speculating in my mind but I'm guessing there is upwards of 20,000 students in the state of Vermont in different colleges around the state at a minimum. Peter how many how many students are there in the state college system. Somewhere in the vicinity of 10,000 but remember a lot of some are are are someone returning for one course things like that so I can't tell you the full time to part time. Yeah, yeah so clearly upwards of 20,000 individuals associated who are students in one way or another and higher education around the state and one out of four one out of five. Is the thought in terms of the violence that may be perpetuated upon them. Okay. I committee I so thank you representative Colburn and miss child for your presentation very interesting important work. I think we have a few questions about the appropriation section of this committee. Do you do do are there issues with the appropriation section do we need to modify this in any way. I raised the question about separating out the per diems from the appropriation that would be provided to support this and I'm also questioning making the direct appropriation to the network I totally understand the efficiency, I just worried about the slippery slope in terms of of this and so committee what are your druthers or do you want to go away and think about it committee and come back to me with a recommendation for what we should do here. I'm also aware that it is five of 12 we are over our time and you guys have been going for a long time. What do you want to do committee. I know I'll keep you sitting here until we're done. Let's let's talk about it when we come back. Peter and then Trevor. Yeah. Thank you madam chair so I know I agree with your your thoughts about separating out the, the, the $13,000 appropriation I think that we always reflect the appropriation for boards councils etc. Separately, and I think it's a good thing to do that. And then the balance it would just be a matter of, of, you know, how do we, how do we send that to an appropriate entity to actually conduct the to hold as a place to hold it and provide the support for it. So that's, that's to be determined that yeah I do agree we need to break that out. Okay, and just thank you. And, incidentally, I am not asking the same question about the Center for Crime Victims services, because in fact we do have a statutory relationship with them. And that's the reason I it, you know, we appropriate their money so why not this is just an additional appropriation there, actually maybe part of the solution. Trevor. Yeah, that was it. That was exactly my thought that maybe we could do some language changes here and direct these resources money resources to the center with the idea that we're probably directing to the Vermont network anyway but it kind of meets some of your concerns and some of my concerns also around this I think we have a couple more questions that I think representative Colburn was going to bring back to us and answers to also. So I like to do, you know, have another conversation about this of course. Okay, so do a little bit of work, but I think we just found a solution, which is that. So we need to separate. We have a plan. So let's, let's call it noon. We're not going to make a decision we'll have a conversation about how to proceed we're going to. Yeah. So we're in good shape. Thank you very much rep Colburn and this child's for your time with us this afternoon and committee for your work on this. Let us go off live.


The U.S. empire is evil and you should want it to fail. Notes from the edge of the narrative matrix. To rule the world, make it rely on a single dominant financial system you control so anyone who disobeys you can be cut off from the economy you've made them dependent on for survival, whether they're a nation, a protest movement, or an individual, without having to fire a shot. I don't support dictators, as one will always be accused of doing whenever scrutinizing imperial propaganda narratives. I do however always hope the U.S. fails to accomplish its objectives against every government of targets, because the U.S. is far and away the single most tyrannical regime on this planet. I don't support tyranny, I oppose it. It just happens that the major force of tyranny in this world isn't where the TV tells you it is. No other regime has spent the 21st century slaughtering people by the millions in wars of aggression. No other regime is circling the planet with hundreds of military bases. No other regime works to destroy any nation which disobeys it using starvation sanctions, war, and terror. Only the U.S. centralized empire does this. While supporting most of the world's dictators. Someone who talks about the Ukraine situation like it's just Putin being evil, while ignoring the actions of the U.S. and NATO, which got us here, is a disinformation agent. You just don't find this information anywhere in mainstream news and punditry, so you don't find it anywhere in mainstream discourse either.  It should really be common sense by now that when the entire western political media class starts screaming that a government is acting like an evil supervillain, you're probably being propagandized. But most people are still swallowing it, hook, line, and sinker. The onus is not on anyone else to prove that U.S. claims about Russian operations are false. The onus is on the U.S. to prove that they are true. The burden of proof doesn't magically disappear just because some pundits and politicians said something in an assertive tone. People can't get over how the liberal media spent years yelling about Trump Nazis and then immediately turned around and started doing PR segments for actual Nazis. Boy, I haven't been called a Kremlin propagandist this much since 2018. Thing is, everything I was saying about western Russia narratives in 2018 has since been completely vindicated. It's not that the U.S. selects incompetent leaders who make bad decisions that kill millions of people with warfare. It's that the global U.S. empire is held together with military violence and the threat thereof. It's an intrinsically evil institution, and you should always oppose it. It's not that the U.S. government has done evil. It's that the U.S. government is itself evil. The very way it has set itself up to operate in the world necessarily means it must exert endless violence and oppression to keep populations functioning in its interests. That's evil. The mafia hasn't happened to make bad decisions throughout its history that resulted in the unfortunate demise of certain individuals. It's an institution explicitly set up to reap profits by exerting and threatening violent force. The U.S. empire is exactly the same. Same evil. It's not that the American people keep accidentally electing war-mongering thugs anymore than it's an accident that the mafia is always led by men who are willing to bully and kill. The U.S. empire is an intrinsically thuggish and violent institution and needs that kind of leader. The U.S. empire is just a rich man's mafia, and you should want it gone for the exact same reason you don't want your neighborhood to be tyrannized by violent mobsters. The best critics of empire propaganda are mostly just people who went to journalism school and simply remember what they were taught about how journalism is supposed to look. Their commentary is usually nothing more than pointing out all the mass media lapses in basic journalistic ethics. It's just kind of where you naturally wind up if you keep your attention on journalism without letting the pressures of the machine squeeze you into forgetting what you know about what it's supposed to be. One of the main things I do here is try to help articulate the scope of the horrors of the empire. Because we're in it, and it's so aggressively normalized by the mass media, it becomes easy to overlook, like water for a fish. It's hard to really notice something you're marinating in all the time. Hard to see the horror with fresh eyes. We have all the information we need to understand the horrific nature of the empire. It just gets obscured and distorted and spun by imperial narrative management, so people don't really see it clearly. The challenge isn't so much obtaining evidence of the depravity of the empire as helping people to really, truly see the evidence we already have.


Yo, what is up you guys realistic gaming here today? We are back in the creepy elevator because they updated like last week, which is specimen 2 Which is pretty awesome And he looks pretty dark scary and I know I haven't been uploading much because of this whole pandemic or not I just feel like this is the best time to just spend time with your family and your loved ones Instead of being out roblox every single day But I mean I am back today that is what matters the most and I missed y'all so let's begin with this Oh god, let's go the elevator. Oh well. Yeah There's like a whole new lobby in the game, which I should reset real quick so we could check it out. Oh My god, it looks so awesome I got my Mcflin cool shades on right. Oh, and there is a lot of new Morse I believe I only was in a morph before. Oh, let's go check out that floor. Oh My god, yo, this thing is so creepy looking What it doesn't work for some reason. Oh, there you go Okay, that thing is broken. Let's go to the floor. Oh my god. All right, let's go to the floor. Hurry. I Said cartoon My god, what is going on in the here? It is way too dark. Oh Yo, what is that thing? Oh my god? Yo, that one needs some milk. Oh God That is one strange killer. Oh, let's try to look for the badge. I've never gotten the bad for this floor I definitely haven't oh, it's over here. Go go go Yes, we got it. Oh, there you go. It's about to say I've never gotten this far before is the first time Okay Where is he at? Yo, he disappeared Dude that was like one of the weirdest killers I've ever seen it was called cartoon You kind of look like Bandy for like a tall version of Bendy in a weird way Oh My god, but Bob you didn't chill out, bro. What is wrong with them? Oh, we got alpha shark here. What's up? My boy floor mansion. Oh It's a oh need All right, let's go look for a oh only the purple Kool-Aid man. Oh there he is Why is he so slow? Yo, you're bro.  Let's get out of here. Oh, there's an escape door.  Hey looks hilarious. Oh, I got a bad here All right, sweet. All right So we got a lot of new moors why actually the newest one was Lala and I think ayo only oh we can be SCP 96 Yo, that's he looks epic. All right, let's go back to the elevator as Sv96. Oh, we got the squad out here. What's up? We got the Krusty man right there. We got Slender man. Well, we got around here. Oh, yeah, we got SpongeBob Who's gonna chill out, bro? Oh, that's a pretty cool avatar. All right, let's prepare ourselves For what's to come. Oh Freddy Fazbear, Peter Ria My god, yo, he's lurking right there.  You can put the lever though. Can we put the lever? All right, someone pulled it. Oh No, it seems like he disappeared Oh, and there he is He is the Miss Freddy Fazbear. No. Oh my god.  Oh my god. No All right, you know what? I'm just gonna get out of the elevator before he gets us. Oh my god No, okay. He's coming this way. Oh Oh I thought I jumped back, but I moved forward. Oh, I'm still alive. Yes, it wasn't meant to be All right, nice, huh? Jokes on you, Mr. Freddy Fazbear. Oh, great. Now we're stuck out here Haunted bathroom. Oh my god.  Oh We got dark out of nowhere. Oh look.  Dude, she's nowhere to be seen. Oh god. Okay. What was that?  There's like so many people here. I cannot allocate her. Oh, there she is Hey, bloody Mary I would ask how your day is but as we can tell it looked like you're not having a good day.   How do you how do you combine those names sponic? I have no clue.  Oh, it's Krasu. Dude. She's like sticking through the wall Yo, somebody come get their girl over here. She's sticking through the wall man. Oh My gosh, all right. Let's go over here. Wait. Can we go up? Okay? I was about to say there has to be a door So sorry. Oh Okay, she is on the move ladies and gentlemen Run. Oh my god, it's pitch black out here Okay, this is not helping out now. It's just making everything look red and creepier Good, let's go to flashlight. There you go. I feel much safer Look over the piano Yo, this thing is jamming out by itself. You hear that, right? Hey ladder you wanted piano lesson.  Oh There's an escape door. Let's get out of here. Yes. They use the escape door to escape the killer, but I am a killer What oh my god, all right, I guess the game doesn't know that oh like they got a sonic exe poster right here Yo, that has got to be one of the creepiest Jeff Jeff the killer posters have ever seen in my life All right. No, I'm gonna have nightmares Man, and we got the shy guy on the loose right here There's that to be like my favorite floor from out of the creepy elevator Because this is the p96 just goes all over the place and he is like one of the coolest looking models I've seen Oh, no, he's back to that guy up. You know what? Let's go pull the lever over here. Oh That's a pretty cool trail. It's like the SCP 87 face. I want that trail man. It looks pretty epic Where is the shy guy? I show yourself. Oh, man He's running in circles. Why are they called shy guy, man? I mean he doesn't seem so shy When he runs around like a maniac killing people, thank you so much geez I Really took pan number one. Oh My god, what's up with this dude? Yo, what's up with your little head?  That's pretty cool All right, let's go back.  We have been left in the middle of nowhere My god, what is this place? Oh, it's been around. Oh, I just got a crystal. Oh It's just pretty cool. All right, so they we've worked up and drowned floor the benny XC floor as you can see here It's like a cemetery Okay, so where's Ben? Oh God there he is. Oh, and he has like a new running animation on them. Oh That's pretty cool. No, no, please don't get me bad. I'm sorry All right, that's pretty cool So we as we can see they reworked some floors and they change some animations on the killers Which is pretty neat unless you did that like last last update and I did not realize Because I have not been on this game for a pretty cool minute already Right, let's go over here. Where is that the Twitter room? What is the Twitter now? All right, the group room has always been there. All right, that's where you spawn in We've got mr. Lew at right there dancing Right. Oh look they have all the items over here that you can buy Okay, no, you know what I do not want to read that let's get out.  Oh The Krusty Krab.  Oh my god Yo, he looks pretty demonic. He's pretty evil. No, and I got pinned against Squidward's boats The cash register should I say? Come on man, Spongebob you exceed. Yeah, pretty cool, right? All right, so it seems like the specimen floor is never gonna come out Like I have no control over this why the floor will come out at all I wish it had like the purchase of floor around like in the elevator Rest in peace to that elevator used to be one of the greatest ones out there All right, you guys. Oh, what is this? All right, it just makes some noise I don't know. Oh, there's a lock here It says to uh vision to buy the night vision out of that why to buy night vision man Come on All right. Well, this was a creepy elevator update specimen two. We did not get to see this guy except here in the lobby Looks pretty cool All right, you guys. Let's thank you guys for watching. Thank you guys. Oh nightmare Is that the specimen two floor? Let's check it out before it ends. Oh, it's freddy cougar. They just play to me All right, well, thank you guys for watching Thank you guys for making support if you guys enjoyed the video make sure to slap the like button for your boy In the little channel make sure to subscribe and turn that notification bell out And I will see you guys in the next one


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today, so this is my first tutorial of 2021 and I thought I'd start with something very easy and quick to do, so I actually saw something similar on Pinterest and it was by the Craft Spa, but I have seen other versions of this as well so there's lots of other inspirations out there if you do have a look, but this I'm going to call it an envelope card or all in one card something like that because you open the fastening and you have this but then you can close this and it becomes a gatefold card and that's how you display it, you could also have the back area if you want to write your message there but the idea is is that you'd write your message under these two triangular parts so you can't see it when it's displayed, but you could stamp and have other decorative things here as well, but I just thought it's really really nice and very very easy to do, this is a six by six size but you could also change this to suit other card sizes that you like, so let me show you how I've made it so the paper pad I'm using is this one here, it's lipstick basics, I picked this up from the range and I think it was part of that, I shared in one of my what did I get videos, I think I paid $2.99 for it but I got it not too long before I started my Christmas projects so it's kind of just been sitting there and I think I used it for one project so it's been really nice to get all those newer papers out and start to use them, so this is the one I'm using I will try and link it in the description box but I'm sure there's some Amazon sellers that might have this as well, I've got everything ready to go here so you want a piece of 12 by 12 but like I said you can easily adapt this and shrink it down so if you don't have 12 by 12 you will be able to make this with smaller cardstock but this is a piece of 12 by 12 black cardstock and I'm going to be scoring at three and nine and then rotate and you want to score it three and nine again, I want to put a little marker at six and then just flip it and do another little marker at six that's just a guide for you that's all the scoring done, next you want to fold and burnish those score lines okay and then where you've got the notches you might want to draw a pencil line first I'm just going to cut straight away and I'll show you what I'm going to do but basically from that notch which is just there I'm going to cut down nice and neatly because this becomes that envelope part you're going to cut to the corner there you can see it really well in there on this black cardstock and then again I'm just going to cut right across up to there okay I'm then going to bring in my other scissors and I'm now just going to snip away this section and remove all of the score line make sure it's nice and straight because this becomes the top of the gatefold or the bottom because you can obviously flip this around if you want to so you just want to make sure you get a nice finish there again on this one okay and then you just want to repeat that now on this side so again starting from that little notch if you want you could take the squares out first you know do whatever works best for you I'm just going to finish this one off okay so you now have something like this and now you just want to add all your maths and layers that's it the card is you know that in terms of the the main base is done so I've got this piece of white cardstock which is going to go in the center and this is five and three-quarters squared before I stick this down I'm going to stamp my sentiment so I'm going to have happy birthday on the front I'm going to do the same as what I've done before on the other card and I'm going to have enjoy your day and this is from my new stamp set this is the celebration stamp set so just taking the enjoy your day and then the happy birthday there so I'm just going to pop this one in the middle it all lined up there and just pick that one up and get that one stamped and then I'm just going to do the same with this circle that I've already punched using my scallop two inch circle punch this one is so I'm just going to again pop that one there and then I've just got a slightly bigger circle to pop that on top so it's about a two and a half diameter circle there so that's that ready so now I'm going to bring this one back in I'm going to stick that one down in the middle and then I've gone and cut all these different pieces pattern pieces from that paper pad so I'm going to have the polka dot on the inside now you'll want four of these pieces which are two and three-quarters by five and three-quarters they're going to go there and then this flower print is going to go on the front and then I've got these two pieces which are three and three quarters squared and you just want to cut on the diagonal right through the middle like so now you want to think about if the person is going to display it with this piece folded down with the gatefold you know the sides open what print is going to complement that and I'm going to go for the red on the inside so it's actually on the outer side of these so when it opens up like this it's on the outside but when it's closed this is what you're going to see so that's going to be over the top so that looks really nice together and then when you close it you want to make sure that it's going to work nicely with this print that you have here as well which I think it will do yeah so that's going to work fine there's all the red colors together just bring that down fat I need to trim a bit off of that I'll do that in a second but now you can see how my pattern is going to look on the front there as well so just think about that and then on the inside because you're only going to see these ones really briefly is going to be these hearts I might even have the black actually because I think that's going to work I think their hearts kind of clash a little bit there so I might just do those ones that are quite like that so what I would do is when you go to close it all you see it kind of like just catches a little bit just take a little bit off you might find it's some of the school lines still because I can actually still see a little bit of it there so I'm just going to take off of all of these four sides so the top and the bottom just a little sliver just to remove some of that bulk so that when you close it it doesn't buckle and that just closes loads better really nice so I'm going to get everything stuck down okay so that's all the mats and layers so you can see now how it's going to look so when it's closed it will be like that and then when it's open and that's closed that's the pattern you're going to have I think it looks really nice I love using the black card stock so I've just gone and popped some foam and attached the white piece there onto the black circle and then I'm just going to grab another foam square there and just pop it on the top part and you want to then attach that to this top triangle making sure it comes over to the other one equally I'm putting it on foam because I'm going to be adding a velcro dot to the other half so if you're using a magnet you basically just want to level it off so that you know it's not on a slope or anything it's just going to work better I think if you have it on some foam so I've just got one of my little velcro dots here these are I think they're 10 mil I'll link them again if I remember they are on my amazon store as well so you can find everything there but now just pop it on the other half and then when you go to close it it should meet on that side you can see now you've got your little pocket and you could pop something in there as well you could pop like a little gift card or another little small flat gift I don't know but now I'm going to just finish it off I've just stamped three of the little presents there using the stamp so I'm going to have a bit rid of that bit there so I'm just going to pop a little bit of glue on the back of each of these and just kind of have two like so and then this one a bit glue on each side that's going to kind of sit just slightly raised over those two and then I've just made this little bow and I'm going to pop that one just on the corner there just to add a little bit of sparkle and some more dimension okay so here is the finished card I love the sparkle from the ribbon there and then you just lift that up and it will reveal everything inside and then the idea is is that person who receives it will keep it displayed like so and if you did want to do more in here and have this as more of a feature you could pop a gift card in this section if you wanted to then I would say pop another piece of white card stock on the back and have that as the area to stamp and write your message but I think these have turned out really well I like that you can also put them in another envelope if you want but I will actually give these like this this is how you know I won't have to worry about adding another envelope to them so there you have it so like I said nice quick and easy tutorial just to kind of ease me back in I feel a bit rusty doing my tutorials but hopefully you've enjoyed today's as always I'll link everything in the description box below and I'll be back very soon with more fun tutorials thanks for watching bye