Welcome to Sheboygan County government working for you. My name's Adam Payne, County Administrative Coordinator and co-host of this program. Although my co-host and fearless leader and County Board Chairman, Bill Gehring could not be with us today. I am very pleased, however, to have our guest, Dean Ray Hernandez with us to talk a little bit about the roles and responsibilities, not only of his position, but some of the very exciting activities and developments that have occurred out here at UW Sheboygan. So, Dean, it sure is good to see you. Well, I'm glad to be here, Adam. Thank you very much for having me. Ray, please start sharing a little bit about your background and what attracts you to the position. Well, my background is, I've been in the higher education business for about 18 years now, started out as a faculty member and moved up to the faculty rank to professor and then I began slowly evolving and doing more administrative type of roles starting with the department head, then associate dean and then ultimately a campus dean, which I am at this point. What attracted me to Subwaygan to this campus was the fact that it's a small campus with close ties to the community. That is important to me. I like the feeling of being very involved and closely tied to the well-being of the community. And so that was attractive to me about this campus. And you were hired as the dean here in 1999? No, in 2000. In 2000. Yeah, so I've just finished five years. Well, you've clearly had a very successful track record in that short period of time. And as you said, UW-Subwaygan is part of the community and there's really an interesting partnership between UW-Subwaygan, the state, and Subwaygan County. Please touch on that a little bit. Well, that partnership dates back to the 1930s when UW-Madison saw the need to provide programs to other parts of the state. And the university system entered into agreements with local units of government. Whereby, in this case, the county would provide facilities and the state or the UW system would provide the programs and the staff for those programs. And so this was during the Depression era and the state at that time needed to provide some type of program into citizens across the state, not just from the Madison area. And so that's how this partnership began and so it has a long history. It's been here ever since the 1930s. Yes. And I think a lot of people yet recognize that the grounds here, the buildings, are actually under county ownership. As you pointed out, the county owns the buildings and the facilities here and the state is responsible for the operations and they hire good people like you and your staff here to provide the education and operate the facility. What's happened with the enrollments out here? I know there's been a lot more demand. How has the enrollment changed, say, in the last five years? We've seen significant growth in enrollment over the past five years. As the trend has been that more and more people are seeing the need to pursue higher education and that has translated into enrollment growth at all universities. But certainly here at UW-Shibuya, we've seen steady growth. We've seen an increase in the number of what we call non-traditional students. These would be working adults, folks who are place-bound if you will, who are working in raising families and in the community. So they don't have the luxury of traveling to one of the four-year campuses. And so we've seen a pretty good increase in enrollments by those types of students. And another thing that's happened in the past five years, along with the numbers going up, and I'm pleased to say that we've seen the diversity of the student population go as well. We've seen increases in numbers of students of color and other underrepresented groups who are finding access in higher ed. So these are all very positive things that have happened in the past five years. What's the total enrollment out here today? Approximately. In terms of headcount, a little over 800 students. A little over 800 students. Yeah. And when I arrived here, we were maybe about 550. I'll be darned. Very good. Now there's been also more discussion of late about the two-year campuses across the state. There's 13. 13. And whether or not some of those two-year campuses should become four-year campuses. And one of the more recent initiatives has been the two-years actually can funnel students into a four-year degree. Can they not? Yes. What's that relationship? How does that work? Well, historically, these campuses have been playing the role of a transfer institution. So that students come here and basically complete the first two years of a four-year degree. So after two years, they were transferred. The trend that we're seeing because of those non-traditional students and the place-bound students I was mentioning earlier, there was a need to provide them with opportunities beyond the first two years. And so we began collaborating with the four-year institutions to actually bring the last two years of a four-year degree right to our campus. Okay. And so we've collaborated with UW-Miracchi. We have four degrees there. Miracchi degrees that can be earned right here. We have a one-four-year degree with UW-Stout in industrial management. We have actually a one-graduate degree program that's a master's in education that is delivered by UW-Oscar. Okay. And our most recent program, we just, last week, finalized the agreement with UW-Oscar and that's a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Completion degree and we'll be enrolling students between next fall and that one. Outstanding. So this is how we're responding to the needs in the community. The fact that the state of Wisconsin ranks, I think, 35th in the nation as far as Bachelor's degree holders in the state and so the Board of Regents and the legislature want to address this. You know, they want to increase the number of people within the state that hold Bachelor's degrees and so that's how we're going to attract the kind of jobs in the industry if we have the educated workforce that's required for those jobs and so it's tied to the autonomy of the state. And so, you know, this is some important, these are important collaborations that we're involved in. And by UW-Shaboygan offering now a four-year degree, essentially here in a number of the areas that you just mentioned, that helps the local economy because then parents and grandparents and those who might be supporting a person going to school won't have as high of an expense if they went to a UW-Madison or another four-year campuses. Is that correct? Absolutely. Not only is the tuition less, but you don't have the expenses of housing and travel and all the rest of it is associated with that. Folks can live right at home and many times keep their job while at the same time finishing up their registration. Now, those who are watching this program and particularly if you have an interest in going back to school or if you have a son or daughter who is interested in looking at what UW-Shaboygan has to offer, if you haven't been here for a while, let me tell you that you're in for a pleasant surprise because we've had a number of improvements out here. I know that Dean Ray Hernandez took the lead in initiating a complete overhaul of the air conditioning and heating units here, about a $1.8 million upgrade and most recently, the UW-Shaboygan Science Edition, which was just a tremendous project that was completed last year. Can't recall the day we had the final ceremony. Yeah, it was right in the summer. And a summer. Please share with our viewers a flavor for what they can expect if they come up here for a visit. Well, in terms of the HGSE system and mechanical upgrades, all of our buildings now have been upgraded so they're very comfortable. They're well lit. We have no problems in terms of keeping the buildings in drama or tools, whatever we tried. And of course, the resulting energy savings have been tremendous. Just in terms of utility costs, we've seen a steep decline in those expenses, but we've seen a sharp increase in the comfort level. So that's always good. Yes, we just completed the Frank G. and Frida T. Bratz Science Building, so named because the Bratz family donated $500,000 towards the construction of that facility. But we finished the science building, but what that allowed us to do then was to take the old science labs and to work them into regular classrooms. But they're state-of-the-art classrooms, but we needed about eight new classrooms for the campus, so they're very nice, very ample, well-attributed, very comfortable classrooms. So we've got more classroom space and we have a new science building with state-of-the-art science teaching facilities, which are fabulous. They're beautiful. They're just beautiful. And again, that's the partnership between the county and the state and the private sector. And the private sector. The Bratz family was obviously very generous and it's named very appropriately. So why was that important to UW-Chabuagan? Why is that important to the community to have a science addition and some of the upgrades that you speak of here, but particularly the science addition? What value does that bring to the community in UW-Chabuagan? Well, it brings, it allows us to, it provides students attending here access to, you know, state-of-the-art first-rate teaching facilities. You know, the facilities that were, the science teaching facilities that were previously a new building were, you know, built in the 60s. They were 40 years old. And so they weren't keeping up really with the new tourism, you know, the new programs that are involved in science and technology. We weren't able to deliver the kind of instruction that today's science student requires in order to be successful when they transfer or go on to the four-year institution or to a four-year degree. So they just weren't getting the preparation that this new facility allows us to do. And beyond that, now we're able to expand our program offerings. You know, I just mentioned the nursing degree program. This is going to help support that. There's some potential new programs in the sciences and engineering, for example, and other scientific fields. The biotech, you know, the biotech field is now, it's fast becoming a priority for our state in terms of economic development and training of future employees and types of industry. And so I think this building will then allow us then to move in those directions with our tourism and our programming and so providing our citizens with many more opportunities in those areas. Right. Real investment in the community. Now, speaking of investments, you just briefly touched on the $1.8 million HVAC upgrade here and a four-and-a-half million-dollar science addition that now students are enjoying. And I think many people maybe have heard, but perhaps not, that you're very shortly going to be breaking ground on a six-plus million-dollar technology center. Yes. Again, in part, thanks to Acuity. Touch on that if you would, please. Our facility, again, with the idea in mind of having this campus cheap up and bring it up to date with the current needs of students and the community at large, our technology, along with biotech and those kinds of things, technology certainly is a major component of the future of our state and an area in which we need to provide education and programs. So we need to have a center that would focus on technology. And then also our library, our current library, is also outdated, and we weren't able to maintain a library that would support all of the new programming and all of the new curriculum that we're trying to bring online. So this new building then will provide that. It will provide the state-of-the-art technology teaching center as well as a new library that will first support everything else that we do on campus. And so the costs of that building, then, the building that we really have, you know, the estimates were in excess of the tap that the timing has on the facility. So we were fortunate to have a corporate partner and a jury who also understands the need and is willing to support those needs. So they stepped up and said that they would donate $1.8 million towards construction of such a facility. Acuity and Mr. Ben Salzman have certainly shown their commitment to the community not only in bringing, I think, $500, $600 new jobs just down the street here. I think we read in the paper just yesterday or the day before that they're going to be putting up one of the the tallest flagpole in the nation in the country which kind of speaks to the pride that not only they have but the community has in the area. And then to step up and contribute $1.8 million to a learning center as important as this. It really speaks well. Yes, it initiates a very forward thinking on their part because this center then will not only train and provide future employees for them but future employees for other businesses in the area and so forth. So it's very forward thinking on their part. Anything you see out on the horizon, speaking of forward thinking, you have, again, in your short tenure, proven yourself to be a forward thinker and have worked with both the public and private sector to bring many of these projects to fruition. Anything else that you see out on the horizon from a standpoint of the organization here or what we might expect 5, 10, 15 years from now? Well, I believe we'll see a continuation of the trend of bringing more bachelor degree programs to the campus and maybe someday even the U.S. Department will offer its own program where it won't be a degree of one of the other four years but a standalone program here. I see that as a potentiality as well. And I see increasingly more and more partnering with community groups and businesses and organizations to provide programming and support of the campus. We have some organizations right now that are looking to locate some facilities here that will benefit the community. One is a children's garden that is being planned that would be available for public use and children to utilize a very beautiful garden based on children's literature. There's a group that wants to bring a little... Excuse me. A baseball diamond. A baseball diamond wants to locate it on the campus. And so I see even more participation by the community on our campus. Not only in terms of educational programming but recreational programming and so forth. I see that interesting where this campus becomes more and more a focus, a center of gravity if you will for the community in terms of services that we provide. That's a pretty nice vision. Now all of this future programming and the projects that have happened to date and that are going to be happening in the near future of course that takes money. And one of the trends that have been occurring of late at any level of government is some belt tightening or concern about the increasing property taxes or taxes of any kind. And I know as a state operated facility you rely on state funds for a lot of the program that occurs out here. The state is in the midst of their next budget process. And how at this point does that appear to affect UW-Shabuagan specifically? Well if there are any cuts to the UW system budget any cuts to the system budget would impact us in terms of reduced revenues coming in. So right off the bat it would impact our ability to absorb any more drugs than enrollments because we might not be able to hire additional part-time faculty. We may lose some staff if it turns down that we have to lose positions because of the budget cuts. We will probably lose them in support services. So that means that students may not be won't be able to get the level of advising and other types of support that they're accustomed to. When it comes to our campus it might take a little bit longer it might be a little bit more problematic in that respect. For the students it might translate into tuition increases which we don't like to see but as you know when a revenue stream starts to diminish at the same time it tosses our interest somewhere you gotta find resources. What are you hearing thus far at the state level do you sense that the UW system is going to take a hit or do you think it might be more status quo? I'm afraid with the deficit being the way it is I think our agency everyone's going to be part of the solution. We're hoping then to minimize that impact but that's where it hurts us the most is our ability to provide to access the students that they're expecting. Now I've got a loaded question for you some of our viewers watching this program today might be thinking well since the trends have been what they have the last few years with state and local budgets and everyone's being asked to tighten their belts and do more with less how is it that we were able to make the investments that we were at UW-Shabuigan the improvements that have occurred the last few years how do you justify that? Well the main way I justify it is if we don't make the investment whatever our economic picture looks like today in this state if we don't make the investments in education that we need to it's going to be much worse in the future it's the bottom line because the future economy of this state and of this area is going to be more and more dependent on the level of education of the people and the times of job skills and training and education level if we don't invest now we're going to be hurting down the road in my estimation I agree we only have a couple of minutes remaining Dean Ray Hernandez is there anything else that you'd like to share with our viewers in the couple of minutes we have left? Basically to say thank you Adam and the members of the tiny board for the support you've shown for this institution and it's been a pleasure working with you and the tiny board chair and the other members of the tiny board and I'm just grateful for the support that we've received from the town for this institution it's kind of you to say and no doubt no doubt that Dean Ray Hernandez has played just a huge part in making some of the very important and needed improvements occur out here I think sometimes UW Sheboygan is one of the jewels of this community and one of the best kept secrets frankly I know the Dean's done a lot to get the community more involved and more aware and certainly the success he had with getting partnerships established with the Bratz family and acuity and all the other activities that he mentioned earlier certainly reflect well on the Dean and the entire UW Sheboygan campus but this is just a fabulous fabulous community organization UW campus and I hope that if you haven't had a chance to come out here of late please take the time to do so it's something else so Dean thank you so much for being our guest today my pleasure I'm sure Chairman Bill Gehring would have really liked to be here today in particular because he is a graduate of UW Sheboygan and I know shares the Dean's pride in the activities and the campus itself so on behalf of Chairman Bill Gehring myself Adam Payne and the Sheboygan County Board thank you very much for joining us today and we'll see you soon


at least we had all the visitations in this week and I'm fully aware of the fact that next week with people on vacation. It's gonna be hard to track down Everybody so tomorrow will be a heavy day of trying to do that So no and what we'll do is as we had planned to tonight is to put the interview with the candidate for Director of special education here first on the agenda on the 28th now. I realize we have a hearing So we'll have to think about It'll have to be after the hearing Hearing's time certain so you can have this hearing You can have the that first and then a hearing as long as people are notified That'll be up to the chair as to how she wants to do it. Yeah Okay, so anyway, that's it's been busy, but I think we're gonna have some good results on this Snow That's another thing that's rather been dominant the last last week And I know I've had a lot of emails from parents. I do want to explain a little bit about last Friday Because I have had a several emails, but well, why did we not have school on Friday when? We had only a couple of inches of snow. I seriously considered having a half day but as we went through Thursday it became Clear in terms of directors from the governor as well as Mima that they wanted cars off the road two hours before What they thought was going to be start to be that the heavy part of the storm and there was no So there was really and I thought about there was really no way To guarantee that we would have everybody home buses back and all of that off the road by 12 and have a half day So that was the reason in that respect and on Monday We the department we had a lot of a lot of conversations on Sunday About where things were and I want to at this point Compliment and thank the Department of Public Works and all of the people who work so tirelessly they did a fantastic job They really did in the amount of snow that we had and how much it was cleared was it perfect with snow snow piles? No Where we're gonna put the snow so if you look outside you'll see a lot of the town snow, but Now they did a great job as did as did our custodians. They were here shoveling and Doing what they could do, but we found on Sunday that the Those pickup trucks with plows they were just no match for the parking lots Just could not do it and so we had to have front-end loaders At all of the places and they as I said they did a terrific job so we were back in and and As far as I know there was absolutely no Incidents everything went very smoothly Tuesday morning But I also know that some people were concerned about that and I didn't know this is what I want to Reiterate I sent an email to all families Monday evening when I started to see these emails coming in When we have storms like this we try to make the best judgment that we can about the safety I'm in communication with Department of Public Works Through sometimes the director and through our director transportation our director transportation and his circuit right now goes around and looks at all of the roadways particularly can a bus make a turn and He looks very carefully that in fact he had a list of turns that he didn't think you'd make and DPW came out And why didn't it so that we could make them so that kind of work goes on But sometimes parents feel is still not safe and I said to them That is that is something that you have to make that judgment about and if you feel that you cannot get your Child to school safely on a day where we have school Then all you need to do is to report the absence and say that you didn't feel it was safe He couldn't get them there safely and while we record the absence it is a valid reason and That's important for people to know But they people just need to know that sometimes the decisions are made also at 4 35 o'clock in the morning We try we try in fact We always get the information out before 6 in the morning Because we have people that leave at 6 in the morning to drive here, and they need to know so if you don't get a call by 6 and on the alert now you we have school So we have so not the last part of this We have one snow day left We are now our last day of school is June 27th And our schools are not built for June weather in terms of really having People work very hard at this, but it's hard having these really hot buildings So we have one more snow day, and I do I I've talked to my superintendent advisory group from represents teachers from all over the district and we're going to look at a survey of staff just to see what some of the options might be and where their preference would be to be prepared and We may do that right away We will do that right away after vacation because one of the options might be to consider doing a half-day on Good Friday It's the very least doing something like that might pull it pull our end date back a little bit But this is you know, we have a set calendar So we're gonna we're gonna look at what people have to put it out There's an option if we wait To April to make the decision the day is gone Because it's in late March. So that's something we're gonna look at but the alternatives will be if we have another snow day Is that we we have no from what I know right now? There are no waivers and So we have to do the 180 days putting an extra hour on a day doesn't count.  It does count as a day So if we did make-ups we probably would only do half-day make-ups and Well, so we'll we'll probably need to To get a sense of the community as to what they would they prefer an April vacation day or a Saturday There's not gonna be too many other options Okay, mr. We were talking about it down at the conference in November and one of the schools ended up having it and they made it a lion celebration day on a Saturday And everyone came in dressed that way in May on a Saturday. So Well, we'd have to put some fun into this. Well, they have to get if we have to do it They had a 90 90 over 90 percent Turn out with the kids which was surprising for Saturday in May I'd go for before MCAS just to get a little extra. Whoa But anyway, we'll see but that's out there and I know some parents are aware of it I just want to acknowledge that that is the situation we're in In your discussion with any with the teachers. Are you looking at possibly starting earlier next year? We are starting earlier next year We're on the thinking of calendar. I Brought up preliminary one for you to take a look at and Teacher days are going to be before Labor Day school teacher students will come The Tuesday after Labor Day That's one students have except for kindergarten kindergarten is going to be the 9th in September and that's because we have to do testing and Actually, one of the things that is the budget we didn't talk about tonight partly because we need to do an adoption And I might as well mention that right now. It's another reason for a kindergarten. We'll start on the 9th We have identified You got a memo in your packet That we've taken a long time very deliberative. We've asked all kindergarten teachers to visit the tools of the mind classrooms We have had all principals do that. We've spent a lot many many Hours discussing this and it is the unanimous recommendation of the elementary principals to do a full adoption of the tools of the mind Our alternatives of this there's only a few things that we can do to maintain our accreditation One would be to go back to the old system and we'd have to start next year if we didn't make this decision Which is just paperwork Just just accumulating paper and paper and paper and there's no professional development with it but the Every every kindergarten teacher who has been part of this pilot said they would not go back To the way they taught before So we're going to go through a process and Jeff for you and I'll need to talk about how we'll schedule that piece of it, but we have identified money in grants and again Should you not approve this curriculum adoption then that money could be allocated in a different kind of way But we wanted to make sure that we would be able to fund it going forward and that's the time to do it right now All right Just a couple other things. I'll tell you more about scholastic awards I don't have the the list right now, but again scholastic awards and art is Something's run through the globe and it's very prestigious and something that all art teachers and art students really want to see how many Awards you get golden silver keys and we did very well. I can give you a full report later So well, you can look around, you know, we're we're preparing our students to doing really extraordinary work when they get to the high school program But I also want to give you a report and I Or printed it out for me Where did I do with it? Our we carry done took a group of I believe 22 students to Here it is. Here it is To model Congress. This is our third year of going and this is held in Philadelphia It attracts over 800 school 800 students from all over the country from very private and public schools as well and They spend four days being Going through a model Congress Program so we had 22 students there and In the end 30 students out of the 800 are recognized with individual awards and Arlington had three That was that's really excellent, but I think what She was she talked in the female with how proud she was of just seeing them debate With toe-to-toe with a lot of students from other Schools again nationwide and how well they did But what she was most proud about or maybe equally proud is at all the compliments I got about their Comportment during the portman during the time period people found them to be very well behaved. They had compliments for many for many places So it's I'm not surprised, but it continues how proud we are of our students and the work they do and the Success that they get with their hard work. So congratulations all of them and it is now the article We'll be in one of the local papers soon And and hopefully you also saw the articles on our China our visit from China Delegation from China and thank you to all of you who were hosts for that I Know you were made a good time. You had a good time. Excellent Yeah, okay, that's great. If I just mind that I was surprised forgetful that traditionally they give a gift Bonnie and I got some wonderful gifts on We were caught shot so she ran in the other room gave me a box of good girl's cup cookies And we got an email back saying that they were the height of the back at the hotel It's great. Thank you for doing that. That's it. Okay, great Moving on we have subcommittee reports Mr. Pierce. Thank you madam chair We had a meeting the policies and procedures subcommittee on February 12th, and we have four Policies we'd like you to review tonight for first reading only Let me just jump right in they're all health policies We were guided and given a lot of advice and counsel from nurse head nurse Lucille Nicholson So I'd like to give her a lot of credit for coming up with these changes to bringing these Old older policies really up to up to code and up to date with the current law physical examination of students Wasn't looked at by us since 2006 and essentially there's there is a lot of new material in this Short policy. You'll see that there's a general physical exam It could be done by any licensed medical provider not just the school doctor And there is a school doctor here in the Ireland to public schools Also new is you'll see the every students shall be screened vision hearing postural screenings and body mass index That's a that's a new item And that's that's all I have on that did I open up for questions, sir anything on that, okay? Moving on to JLCD immunization of students also knew if Your child wasn't immunized essentially The schools can exclude the student from beginning and we heard some of that today in an earlier presentation There are situations, however that there can be exemptions medical reasons or religious reasons But if there's any situations where there's any communicable diseases present in a school all Susceptibles including even those exempt are subject to exclusion yep I'm curious if McKinney vento also needs to be recognized in the policy because if I remember correctly If the child is homeless and for some reason does not have copies Dr. Bodie we know the answer we did talk about that didn't we bring that up? I think a little bit And I'll have to I'll have to get back to you there. There is the second-to-last paragraph Leba Is in the case of homeless children whereby they cannot be no night entry to school if they do not have their immunization records That is a new section I think I was looking on the old one. Thank you Okay, moving moving on then JLCC communicable diseases Here we have Doesn't say when it was last reviewed but but there is a lot of new additions on because of the 105 CMR language Which essentially the teachers shall report all children with knowing signs and and may give written notice to parents It's it's often that the parents are contacted by telephone And each each principle of every school has his or her own way of notifying parents when when the child is showing signs and The flu is not a communicable disease We learned in our discussions not considered to be a communicable disease All right moving on to the last one administering medicines to students Here it's basically just bringing it up up up to the state Current guidelines of the mass DPH Under the administration of prescription medications in public and private schools and citing the mass Department of Board of Registration of Nursing regulations Really just getting it up to date And that's all I suspect will have another meeting in in the not-so-distant future to discuss Two other health-related policies first aid and accident reports We did take those up in January and in our meeting this past week But there's some more work that needs to be done on both of those, but we'll be bringing those to your attention Very soon Mr. Hinner Quick question. I don't know if it's the policy committee or Something the chair has to say we need to come up with some guidelines for the superintendent's Evaluation both the trial one and the other one and look at timelines for this Would the Does the policy committee want a formal motion or does the policy committee hear that now it's time to work on it? It's time And I think that'll be first up push the policy Anything else policy related no moving on budget. We've heard lots from budget anymore. Nope Community relations We have a tentative meeting scheduled for Thursday the 21st pending the Availability of the town hall hearing room for 5 30 At which point we will be discussing the district dashboard the school calendar for 2014 teacher conferences and other school events and That is all to report. Okay curriculum we met on Monday February 4th and discussed the AHS Program of studies book and we're gonna have we're trying to schedule two meetings in March one between March 4th prior to the March 28th meeting which we're going to talk about formative assessments prior to the presentation the full school committee and then Dr. Bodie has asked the committee to meet between March 28th and the first In April to review retail the rethink equity and teaching for English language learner course Anything else that we wanted to talk about and then think what you just mentioned the thing I just mentioned with that You just mentioned Oh Yeah, yeah the the new Elementary program for me tools of mine. Thank you We all need to take it we all need to take it Wendy went so this would be between the 14th and the 28th the first meeting I think the first meeting that way we can start moving forward with it and come to maybe the last meeting in March Yeah, okay, so Two three things coming up on our agenda look for a doodle So you're addressing something that I had meant to bring up for retail Is that something that needs to be addressed by the negotiating subcommittee because of the issues this this is the improving teaching and learning English of English learner language learners And I don't even know what the retail stands for Yeah, it's certification and there may be some negotiation Issues, and I'm wondering if we need to start that Mr. Hainer I think Before we start the negotiations we need to find out exactly what we are going to have to what we're going to be requiring The teachers to do once that's defined to us I think then we could set up time to Some parts of it may be within our prerogative without negotiations some parts of it absolutely would be mandatory to negotiate I think that has to be made clear to us first. Okay, so I guess my question is doesn't need to be Sent to negotiations now or we're waiting for what curriculum says this time I'm wondering if it would make sense for Dr. Bode Carla Brusee and a representative from the AEA to actually meet and figure out the implications because My experience with it is that the district needs to provide certain PD But it's a recertification issue and and there may or may not be Implications, but it seems like Those three people together might be able to really figure that out. We have started in fact we've had more than one meeting on this and Yes, there there it is a it is a certification issue And therefore does it fall outside of negotiations? There's certainly legal opinions to that effect, but it is also a substantial Professional development and that's something we talked about it, but it also figures into our plans for how we're going to organize classrooms in terms of compliance bound SEI because that so the it there are district needs that that Our kind our coincide with certification needs and so the fact that there is Both I think that we've agreed that this is something we need to really talk about Negotiation but the reason for bringing it to Curriculum committees, I think that that you we need to educate you about what is going on in this area as we've gotten more clarity about it and They have and I think the community needs to understand this. So that's the reason we're going through this process Okay, so you you want to go through curriculum first? We're going to be right and but we'll handle the negotiations We're working on that piece as well So I think we were looking at maybe that the last meeting in March That's what we had talked about to have this sort of a full discussion at the table here We'll set up Hadn't had a chance to straighten out what was happening next okay facilities Planning on setting up a meeting with dr. Bode to Develop an agenda for the facility committee, and I'll be sending out a doodle to that effect. Okay legal services, I was not able to Arrange a meeting in the past few weeks, and I will be contacting you for the next for the upcoming weeks and For chair So in your packet you have a synopsis that was sent from the long-range planning committee Which met on February 1st, it's tucked into this Given that you have the synopsis. I'm not going to go through everything Because it really nicely sums up everything that was discussed And I want to take partial credit because it was in discussions with mr. Chapter lane that I suggested or requested or something that we have something like this coming out of these meetings And this is the second one that we've got And I find it very helpful and I think it's a nice way of Mr.. Heiner I'd like to congratulate you and them because I was very happy to see Some actual something in print dealing with the high school It's in the future so let me let me finish where we go with this so so I'm not discussing everything that's in this The main thing that was discussed that was of interest to us well There were many things of interest, but the main thing that I want to discuss tonight is the high school The administrative team presented the same information that they had presented to us at our last meeting Enrollment projections and a discussion of the needs of the audits and felt not to be need rebuild and of the high school There wasn't additional information presented beyond that the It was mentioned that a statement of interest could be submitted by April 10th 2013 Which would mean that an answer from the MSBA would come in six to eight months and possibly Pushing towards a debt exclusion in FY 15 if the process was begun at this point It was also mentioned that the NASC report timing would be coming in the fall It was felt by the long-range planning committee that it would be more prudent to build the case for the need for the rebuild in the community given the Going forward The that a debt exclusion will eventually need to be Considered if and when this comes up and to eye next year for potential statement of interest submission So that's pretty much what it says here, but that's that's what happened We also had a BRTF meeting which is budget revenue task force, which is when we meet with our State representatives this the board of select men Finance committee and other people and I know several members were there for the rest of you It basically went over the same revenue Projections that were mentioned here in the long-range planning committee It didn't even mention that it mentions that the high school isn't considered in the projections But it wasn't talked about specifically. There was discussion by a representative Kauffman Who came just out of the kindness of his heart? and that if We are interested in supporting the governor's new budget With its revenue The changes in the ways revenues will be achieved that it would be helpful to work together with the board of select men in writing a letter and they are writing the letter I Guess we'll wait and see when it shows up and and See if I can sign it on your behalf But that was felt to be the most helpful. Oh, and we're also going to in this letter We're going to ask for a meeting with them. So the letter is being written to this ways of means committee and I'm forgetting yeah to the ways of means committee and So I'm waiting they're they're working on that and they felt it was better just stick it on one letter We don't need to write our own letter so That was BRTF and Now we move on to consent agenda All items listed with an asterisk are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion There'll be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the committee so requests which event the item will be considered in its normal sequence Approval of warrant number 13110 dated January 24th, 2013 total warrant amount $585,094 and 36 cents minutes for approval none approval of facing racism student weekend retreat March 8th 2013 through March 10th 2013 approval of Italy trip April 17th through 24th, 2014 for all high school and community members and approval of ELL coach job description Do I hear a motion so move second? Okay all in favor aye any opposed? Okay motion passes And now we go into secretary's report communication we received letters from the following a Copy of the letter from Massachusetts senator Kenneth Donnelly fourth middle-sex district a copy of the letter regarding Retail update over you and next steps from Mitchell D. Chester edd commissioner of elementary and secondary education date August 27th 2012 to which dr. Allison ampey referred earlier copy of letter to mr. David or dito from dr. Kyrs see Allison ampey chair the art school committee dated January 25th 2013 copy of mendermen the men random regarding the annual measurable achievement objectives am aos of Four English language learners from Mitchell D. Chester edd commissioner of elementary and secondary education day January 30 2013 copy of a letter from Patricia a place and I apologize if I mispronounced your name dated February 5th 2013 a Copy of a letter regarding address changes assessors block plan number 38 and 39 lot from Vincent Commons engineering division the Department of Public Works town of Arlington date February 5th 2013 Emails Matt Coleman happy news from Laura as Chesson edd assistant superintendent Arlington public schools date February 4th 2013 condolences from Karen to Sony dated Tuesday February 5th 2013 condolences from and Albert Tazi dated Tuesday February 5th 2013 a Forward to one 13 long-range planning meeting synopsis associated ducks from Adam W. Chapelle in town manager of the town of Arlington date February 6th 2013 other documents the education alert from Murphy has to me and Lahane LLP dated January 2013 the legislative bulletin from Steven J. Finnegan Esquire Massachusetts Association of School Committees Inc. Day January 25th 2013 Arlington public schools announced a special education directors finalists from Kathleen Bodie superintendent of Arlington public schools dated January 30 2013 Arlington public schools announces high school Principal finalists from Kathleen Bodie superintendent of Arlington public schools date February 5th 2013 and copy of letter From Leslie Sontag Krasnoff dated January 17 2013. Thank you. Thank you and at this point we will go into executive session to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with union or non-union personnel or to contract negotiations with union or non-union in which if held in an open meeting may have a detrimental effect to conduct strategy with respect to collective bargaining or litigation in which if held in an open meeting may have a Dettromental effect collective bargaining may also be conducted and we will exit only for the purposes of adjournment Mr. Schlickman. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi We now go into executive session


Today's military is open to people from all walks of life, with different cultures, backgrounds, and beliefs. But this wasn't always the case for members of the LGBT community. It's a lot of different people from a lot of different places. So I don't know, I kind of just expected a lot of backlash. When Curtis joined the Navy, she didn't have very high hopes for a bunch of strangers, since she had problems coming out to her own family. I get into it a lot with my parents. My mom is very religious, and she's not with all that. So we kind of just butt heads a lot. My brothers were not accepting at all. Eventually, her family accepted her for who she was, but Curtis said her Navy family has supported her from day one. I think everyone that I have came across are cool with me, just being me. You're just yourself, and as long as you're cool, that's all that matters. Every day, sailors like Curtis use their unique perspective and experiences to make the United States military better than it was the day before. Petty Officer Aaron Spirly, Masawa Air Base, Japan.


First time chat. Donim... Donimparn. Donimparn? Donimparn. Hey Chichou, love listening to your take over the years. Happy to say this is my first time participating in the live stream. Welcome, welcome. Got a question for you. I want to bring up tough topics with my friends, such as Armenian Genocide or other things, other things we didn't learn in school that I've learned about through your awareness raising, but I'm unsure how to without it being a negative discussion. How do you talk about tough topics with your friends constructively? First of all, some people can't handle tough topics, so you have to gauge the situation, and you have to gauge the situation where you have to decide if you want to talk about tough topics and they don't. Do you really want to be around them? Or you have to categorize those people maybe as fair weather friends, right? Fair weather friends are people you go to drinking with, party with, you go to a concert with fair weather friends sometimes, good friends as well, but fair weather friends are people that can only, you can only interact with them on a very superficial level, right? Just about having fun, fair weather friends, right? Other people that have the mental capacity, emotional capacity, spiritual capacity, talk about heavy topics. If they don't understand a certain situation, you can always relate it to present, at present, what's going on, right? So for example, when I talk to people about decentralization, right?  I go, well, I'm anti-centralization. And they're like, oh, the government has been good to us and stuff like this. And I sort of lay it in there and say, well, do you think it's okay for the government to get, to prevent people getting medical advice from their own doctors? And no one's pro that, no one thinks that bureaucrats and a federal government, centralized government, should ever get in between a doctor and their patient, right? So you tell them that and then they say, well, no, that's wrong. And then you say, okay, that's how much power the centralized government has right now. So decentralization means that should be lessened, right? And then you introduce it slowly. And you sort of try to, so for me, I try to relate it to something they can digest, right? They can relate to in their own lives. Sometimes it's difficult. Sometimes people don't understand economics and politics. Economics is easier to deal with. Or dealing with politics through economics is easier to deal with. That's why I've initially focused a lot on economics. And I have focused a lot on economics, because economics rules politics. As I've said before, you can't really talk about economics and politics separately. It's like space, time and physics. You don't talk about space and then talk about time. They're one word. They're one thing, space, time. So economics and politics are one thing. So one way, one of the best ways to talk to people about sensitive topics is related to them from an economic perspective, right? Really. So if housing prices are too expensive, why are housing prices are too expensive? Do you think it's okay for construction companies or people that are trying to build houses to have all these inspectors, pay all these fees and all these taxes and all this stuff to government to raise the price of cost of a house, because a lot of the price baked into the house is regulation, right? And regulation, is it bad or is it good? Well, it could be good. It could be bad. So you sort of have to dance, sort of walk a fine line with people to get them to to see what's going on, right? Or to see your perspective, right? And always be open to hear their side of it, right? So that's the way I deal with it. In cases like Julian Assange and stuff like this, it's very difficult for people because they've been propagandized to up the yin-yang. So one of the first things I do with people when I'm trying to talk to them about something is try to not directly or sort of get it out of them, try to figure out where they're getting their information from. And I've known through our associates and friends, right? For multiple years, right? I, you know, I ask people, where do you get your information? Some people proudly say Facebook. And I go, I'm sorry, I can't talk to you regarding certain topics because you're propagandized to your censored up the yin-yang, right? And in those situations are pretty harsh with those people. I've had people tell me they get their news from TikTok. I go, you get your full news from TikTok.  Yes. God damn it, right? So it's a fine line, but I would recommend going through the economics angle with people when you want to talk to them about sensitive topics.


You know every speaker that this evening has talked about the value of catalyst change dramatically Now I think it's wise for us to think about This whole issue of weaning stewardship and it goes but much beyond that when we have $1,500 calves. I Think we need to heighten our sense of animal husbandry And think about saving as many calves we possibly can it's not just at weaning time But it's at birthing time, and it's about getting cows pregnant I Think this has become more important all the time, and you know we've gone for many years We're thinking well. I don't want to spend too much on this cow. I don't want to spend too much on this calf Because it's not gonna It's not gonna pay back If you got $1,500 calves and $2,500 pregnant cows or whatever they are today that changes that whole equation You might may find yourself looking to your veterinarian more than you ever thought before because they now each Individual animal is worth that much more, so I think we just need to shift our focus Perhaps a little bit when when these cattle prices are what they are. I put this in here to start with Because I want us to think about all the things that come into an animal's life that results in stress That increases the risk of cattle getting sick and For all of these things except one and in this whole collage of pictures. There's no vaccines for it There's no vaccine to protect The stress associated with shipping there's no vaccine to protect the stress associated with bad weather There's no vaccine to so shit that to protect against the stress associated with just simple weaning Of co-mingling of cattle or even how we handle them So when it comes to weaning time, we need to be aware of our animal husbandry skills How we handle cattle How we handle them through the shoot because in many cases those are much more important areas For us then what vaccines we buy and use okay So what I want to do this evening there is no handouts with mine because we're just gonna look at pictures The reason I'm doing this is that I want us to be better at identifying cattle that don't feel well okay, I Want us to be able to identify cattle that are just thinking about maybe not feeling well Just think about getting sick so What I put up here is what is a pull like and I Think I actually a couple weeks ago presented this slide to a class at NDSU and then I realized You know their students in this class that don't understand the term pull What's a pull? Well a pull for all of us in this room and those of you listening just means an animal that doesn't look like it's doing very Well, probably second. I'm gonna pull it from the pan and treat it So we've identified whether we're on horseback or whether on foot or whether we're 100 feet away an animal That doesn't feel well We're gonna try and pull it out of the pan and make a better determination as to whether that animals sick or not But in order to do that we have to understand what a healthy animal looks like as well We have to have it in our minds and we need to be able to art I would say articulate this especially to people that don't understand animal behavior. What's a healthy calf look like? Well, they ought to be able to eat they ought to have a good appetite. They should be bright-eyed You ever tried to teach somebody what a bright-eyed animal looks like? It's not easy. Okay, but those of us that spend a lot of time around animals You can tell an animal with an eye that's just a little dull. They may be just starting to feel bad feel sick but it's a very a Very slight difference between that eye and a bright-eyed animal They should have good hair coats. They should be able to groom themselves and and a lot of times lick others as well I know all of us in this room have seen that and they should be curious Now sometimes they're curious from a quarter of a mile away Depending on their temperament Or others like those black steers up there will come right up to the gate If they're Holsteins, they'll try and take whatever you got in your pocket and pull it out So What are the signs and symptoms that we need to be aware of cattle that aren't feeling well? Okay, I would hope that anybody looking at this slide would have no trouble identifying this cattle is not feeling well Carl Carl talked about mud. I Think cattle sometimes just feel bad when they're in mud. Okay, I think Carl They're a little bit depressed when they got mud around them. So it sometimes makes the signs and symptoms even worse Just a little bit of an academic issue here It's not a big deal, but signs Are different than symptoms symptoms are saying that calf looks depressed Okay, that's a subjective term, isn't it? I don't know how depressed or if it's depressed at all We're talking about signs. That means I've stuck a thermometer in that cap and he's 104 and a half One's objective one's kind of subjective not a big deal. It's just kind of academic But we use all of those terms to determine whether an animal is feeling well The other thing I think it's important for us to recognize and most of the time we're talking about wean calves What's the number one? Body system that we're talking about that much that it's going to impact that calf It's the lungs. It's the respiratory system. That's the big one Far and away, but we also have to recognize that other body systems have become impacted with other pathogens or other metabolic diseases Could be a digestive upset could be musculoskeletal issues lame cattle cattle riding one another could be central nervous system issues like polio for example or could be your genital issues like Steers had become plugged with urinary calculus. Okay, so a lot of different body systems can be involved Respiratory system for background and calves by far and away the number one system that will identify I've actually put some cartoon pictures I created these a long long time ago, and I thought they still kind of fit because they They over emphasize some of the signs that you might see But really one of the first ones to notice is a reluctance to come to the feedbunk and sometimes you don't need to Fact I would argue sometimes it's better not to be in the pen to notice this even the feed truck driver or the guy Pulling the feed wagon. Can I identify this pretty quickly? Normally calves that are hungry that are being fed for the first time in the morning They're going to come up and eat if you got calves that are hanging back unless it's early in the weaning period Because they don't know how to come up and eat yet a normal healthy calf will come up to that bunk and and eat Okay, so reluctance to come to the reluctance to come to the feedbunk is a Is that a sign or symptom? Maybe just a symptom. Okay You know and for for those that don't understand animal anatomy even Which flank is is a lot of times going to be want the one that's hollow Well, it's going to be to where the rumen is so on the left side of the animals You're looking from the back end of that animal. That's the flank. That's going to be hollow Okay, if we see a hollow animal either it's not drinking or he's not eating or he's not doing either ones So gaunt hollow animals are abnormal and animals not gaining weight or keeping up With his pen main and any animal that lacks appetite At least needs further scrutiny. You may not like to pull them right away But you better keep your eye on that animal because some of these respiratory Pathogens can move very quickly and cause some pretty severe lung damage There's one this one actually happens to be on the on the right side that you're looking at here That's an animal hasn't drunk and hasn't eaten for some time. Is that animal sick at this point? Don't really know do we? Okay, don't really know that's an animal that has arrived at a stalker operation been there maybe Five six hours been on a long truck ride some of those things you can expect What's the first thing you notice about cattle that have been along on a long truck ride have been Through an auction barn through the ring and then a long truck ride. They want to lay down, don't they? They're tired. Okay, so don't confuse just being tired with being ill either There's one that was with a gaunt empty flank on the left side I will tell you what I took this picture. It was a cold rainy day. That animal is actually not sick He was just cold and wishing he was back in the Southeast some place Sometimes we get calves with coughing and nasal discharge and rapid respiratory rate What can increase respiratory rate? Well warm temperatures can an animal that's excited an animal that's been sorted many times an animal with a fairly Wild temperament one that's a little while will will expend more energy and have a higher respiratory rate If it's an animal with pneumonia it might have a higher respiratory rate as well Some coughing can be normal as they try and clear those nasal passages and and and trachea Nasal discharges. I don't get too concerned about it If it's a nasal discharge and the animal will not clean its nose Sometimes you come out in the morning and see these long ropey Snot coming out of the nose and it doesn't clean its nose. That's concerned to me. Okay? It's an animal. It's just getting up in the morning. It's got a little snot coming out He's able to stick that tongue up there and kind of clean things out. I'm not too concerned about that. Okay Drooped head and ears arched back Why does an animal do that? Well, he's not feeling well, right? That that's the definition that we sometimes use to indicate depression You know as that animal actually clinically depressed. I have no idea, but he's not feeling well, right? An animal like that. I'm gonna make sure I take a second look at him and sometimes those animals Even at that stage when you first notice them can have lung damage at that point what we're looking at here on this slide is the The right side. This is right lung tissue You can see that lighter colored lung tissue at the top of that picture That's relatively normal There are normal patches of lung tissue in there at the bottom there that One half of that lung on the bottom side on the lower part of that lung Wish I had a pointer here. I can't what does this thing work Carl? This thing will this thing work with a little pointer. Yeah, there you are. Okay, there we go So all of this area down on the what we call the ventral part of this long the lower part of this long Can't get air through it's all congested. It's all diseased It can't that animal cannot exchange oxygen in this part of the lung Okay, what always amazing to me is how that as animals can look so normal and have that much lung damage Crusted muzzle sunken eyes rough dry-looking coat if we see animals with sunken eyes What's that tell us right away? Dehydrated right that's a dehydrated animal. So an animal that's got dehydration sunken eyes He's got snot coming out of his nose. He's got a dry-looking hair coat I'm really concerned about that animal. Okay, that animal may indeed have a condition. That's Untreatable in fact this calf right here in that picture on the right here right this one This one actually has BVD was a persistently infected BVD calf and that animal once they become sick They don't recover they'll go ahead and die Some of those cattle will have labored breathing. They might be groaning grunting snoring or coughing If we look at this animal on the right here again Obviously doesn't have a gas mask like the cartoon does but it needs one see all that neck is extended here This animal's trying everything it can to move air that tells you right off that that animal's got pretty severe lung damage You're probably you're more than likely too late You may be able to treat that animal and may be able to salvage him But more than likely that animals not going to survive all the way through the finishing period This is an animal. That's a little bigger a little older and and we're too late on this animal Okay, it's got his neck extended. He's slobbering at them at the mouth. He's trying his best to move air That's too late of a pole and we're going to end up losing an animal like that Some of those animals have pretty severe lung damage. You can look see this long tissue here is almost totally involved In fact, if you could if I could blow this up a little Larger we're unable to in this room. This this looks like a Combination of a bacterial aniviral infection in that lung could even be BRs be involved in here This one hit down here in the lower left side This is we're looking inside from the from the back of that animal. We're peering into the thorax And what you see here with these little tags? That's what we call pleuritis. That's in humans We use the term pleurisy That means that that animal not only had an infection in the lung But it has an infection in the lining of the thorax in the pleura and you're getting these tags And when you get those kind of tags that animal not only has Difficulty moving air, but it's very painful for those animals to move there And that's when you sometimes get that grunting involved because there's pain associated with that. That's too late, right? You know, I'll just make this point right now because I may forget later on We really don't want animals to get to this point. Do we okay? We really would not we would really not Like to treat any animals at all when we either buy calves or our own calves our goal As cow calf people that keep our own calves and background or calves is to have as little sickness as possible to prevent as much illness as possible And it makes a difference not just on what vaccines we use But how those cattle are raised from the time that calf is in utero till it was calf was born till we wean them So our animal husbandry skills are important all the way through the life of that calf in preventing some of these things that occur here It's not just a bug. It's how that animal was raised One of the things I see too and some of these cattle that are sick They may start having other symptoms as well. They may show lameness an abnormal gait The ones I've seen that are really tired And maybe just starting to get sick if the pens are dry You'll notice those back feet kind of dragging the dirt a little bit and I'll kick up a little dust That's a really early symptom that that calf's not feeling well He may be doing everything he can to hide his symptoms from you when you see that that foot starting to drag in The pen surface kept kicking up a little dirt You may want to take a little bit better look at that calf even though he's trying to fool you and getting you thinking that He's not ill. Okay Sometimes we indeed have real lameness going on that calf in the upper left hand corner there That's a calf that actually has mycoplasma infection in the joints This calf here is showing us signs of foot rot pretty severe foot rot at this case So all lameness I just want to make this point all lameness is not foot rot It can be injury. It could be infectious foot Infectious lameness like this mycoplasma calf or indeed sometimes it can be foot rot I show this here because this is one of the most frustrating lamenesses that occur This is a hoof here. That's actually been cut Lengthwise and so what you're looking at down here is the sole This is the front part And what happens on some of these cattle particularly if they've gone through not necessarily auction markets But if they've been sorted a number of times and they tend to be a little bit Wilder type of cattle. They can actually wear the bottom sole of their foot off and in it You get introduced into here some filth and some bacteria and they get what we call toe abscesses It's one of the more frustrating lamenesses to to treat It doesn't the foot never looks swollen and yet that infection is there and will stay there until you try it until you Open up those toes and allow drainage to occur So if you have cattle that are extremely lame on one foot Don't see any swelling will barely put that foot down Do everything they can to avoid touching that it's like having the worst blister in the world underneath one of your fingernails That's how painful that is You you have to go in there and and lift up those feet and actually examine the feet and put a hoof tester on there And see if you can't find that little abscess because they're very painful those cattle won't do very well ultimately Ultimately cattle with these toe abscesses It will crop it will travel up the hoof and bust out on that at the top of the hoof wall And you'll get some drainage coming out here why then it's too late because usually the joint here has been destroyed when I'm trying to show down here is just a Hoof that I nipped off at the end just to create a little bit of drainage This calf up on the upper right here This is when we Sometimes get a little bit carried away with our hard-grain diets or highly fermentable carbohydrates in the diet We actually can cause cattle to be foundered Or in or have what we would call laminitis And those cattle will walk pretty Characteristically trying to keep their feet out in front of them trying to spread the rate out as much as they can Those feet are very painful just like they would be in a horse that's been foundered so sometimes you get those things going on in a particular penicatal This is my coplasma arthritis and the reason I'm showing you this lung over here is that that infection you usually I should say almost always starts in lung tissue and Then to use a term for for from cancer it would metastasize if you will or get to the joint tissues This is a knee joint that have opened up and here's Wonderful dried up pus in that joint these cattle are extremely lame very hard to turn this calf around even with Even with the best antibiotics they that we have I will tell you that some veterinarians have actually tried to inject antibiotics into these joints With some having a little bit of success if it gets this bad, it's not going to work Okay, and I bring that up with the veterinarian involvement because with cattle the price they are Don't consider them to be a total loss But you need to catch these as early as you possibly can to in order to prevent it from getting to this stage loaner animals Deserve special attention and I will reiterate this again many cases sick animals will try and hide among their pen mates Just so that you can't see them I've even had cattle walk up to the bunk stick their head in the bunk and not eat anything just to hide from you But sometimes those loaner animals are exhibiting or having other issues going on That may warrant a little bit more attention and that's when we get into these central nervous system disorders Okay, I got two different ones here the one on the upper right here is a polio calf Typically those calves will have seizures that eyeball will be kind of sometimes pointed up, but they'll have seizures and You know sometimes we get polio calves in the background yard or in the finishing yard When we get thymine deficiencies or sometimes when you have Too high of sulfur levels in the diet and that's been associated with sometimes are Are feeding our byproducts that dried or the distillers grains that we currently use and so sometimes you'll get these polio cases Okay, we call them CNS. We call them brainers and layman's terms and you're not always sure what the cause is Treatment is not Very successful when they get to this stage this calf down here is a calf that we call nervous coxidiosis They're always interesting their ears will be kind of out and they're kind of tremble And try and move those cattle to a treatment facility and invariably they will stumble and fall with their front legs going down first And then they will go into seizures as well You can treat those calves and it seems like 50% case fatality rate on those calves The only reason we call nervous coxidiosis at this stage is that it seems to be associated With coxidiosis, but we're not sure what actually causes the symptoms or the yeah that we see associated with the brain The only other CNS disease I talked to you about in North Dakota, and that's rabies every once in a while We give rabies and cattle. Okay Sometimes we get cattle with diarrhea Even in big cattle backgrounding operations and finishing operations again with with Frank blood and in the or blood in the stool like this one has over here We might that might be coxidiosis It also could be salmonellosis And it's wise to remember that when you see this kind of condition Probably it's okay to think about coxidiosis, but don't forget about salmonella because that can be a Disease that people can get as well This is just a couple. This is a close-up picture. What I would characterize is a Pool of manure in the pan that I associate with beam and a calf that's acidotic This is looking at the digestive tract of a calf In this case this calf had BVD in its system High fevers and cattle normal fever normal temperatures and cattle would be 101 and a half plus or minus two Typically I will use a hundred and three point five and higher to tell to indicate a calf that has a fever that I need to be Concerned with others you will use a hundred and four and higher If the environmental temperature is hot outside, it's easy to get those Those fevers up a little bit even a hundred and three a hundred three and a half is not uncommon But if I'm seeing signs and symptoms associated with a calf not feeling well needs a hundred and three and a half I'm definitely going to Intervene with some type of treatment in a calf like that We occasionally see heart problems in cattle Sometimes histophilus is an organism that can cause cardiac lesions in this case got obsessed right in the wall of the heart Right here. That's pus coming out of the wall of that heart. Sometimes we get cattle that don't have enough Pumping ability in their in their circulatory system and fluid starts to build up Sometimes in the brisket sometimes under the jaw This calf over here was a somewhat of a parasitized animal that you hardly ever see anymore But these cattle here there's virtually no treatment when you get to this stage So, I mean we covered a lot of body systems in a short period of time But I think it behooves us all to get used to or I do a better job of observing Observing cattle behavior finding cattle that are sick almost just when they're thinking about Getting depressed Observe undisturbed cattle from a distance cattle that are strange to your situation will try and hide themselves If cattle laying down in the pen don't just let them lay there haven't get up They may be lame. There may be some something else that you may be aware aware of And then always work cattle in a low-stress manner and work them slowly Okay talked about a lot of things covered a lot of ground But I think our animal husbandry skills today are worth more probably in the last number of years and will be for at least a Number of years ahead and we need to do the best job at stewardship and take care of these cattle as we can Any questions at all out there anything you're wondering about as we went through those At times rather Disgusting pictures, but sometimes they really make the point when you can see some of the pathology That occurs in these cattle with various things that that happens to them any questions or comments


What's up everybody? Jason here for jaspyskatesrace.com. We just sold out Jaspys 13 box value loaded football mixer Random divisions number one guys and again, you know, Nick was giving you guys a deal guys instead of paying $6.99 a spot You guys are only paying $5.99 $100 off So about over $800 in savings here for everybody that bought in this is a eight-spot break everybody gets a random division NFL So I'm a no veteran common ship Um, and this mixer is a pretty good one guys a little select hobby addition 2021 two boxes of mosaic hobby three boxes of select hybrid two boxes of elements a box of gold standard box of contenders box of origins and then two boxes of obsidian team all now Jason K slowly worked on this yesterday and But all the spots actually after all so kind of a little personal mixer. So congrats not congratulations But thank you Jason and good luck is what I meant to say So no need to randomize divisions don't need to do anything. This is all going in And we'll start from like the the team all remember these are exclusive in China They come from a from overseas first then they make their way over here to this to the states We're obsidian team. Well again is is a age exclusive. So you're looking for the red flood parallels There is chances at autographs, but they're not guaranteed We'll start there. We'll go with more of the team all hybrid edition boxes first And then we'll end off with all the bigger hobby boxes So here you go, buddy You get the right red flood player in these Probably sell pretty well So here we go Alvin Kamara Julio Jones Terrence Marshall jr And nice you got a vitreous Which is also like a case hit color of derrick henry I forget what they call this one again. What do they call this one again? That's red flood. This is uh What's the parallel name? I'm blanking right now That's a very nice one though And then you did get a rookie It was jared dokes red flood That's number to 26 Here's the first box All right kiddle Jerry judy Patterson another one of these tunnel visions this time. It's baker mayfield a tyler locket 14 of 26 Great player there tyler locket. I don't know for a couple years of fantasy Never disappoints too much There's your two team all boxes Again, we're gonna go with the each two so find four red disco parallels for hybrid Now if if there is an autograph in here, it'll be a patch auto But like I said not always They're Kind of a little tough and like a 20 box these come in 20 boxes cases You probably get like four maybe But still get the rookies and all that stuff same for huckle Ryan Edwards for your mother Robinson and bow Jackson Number 49 so your first two packs have the exclusive uh discos Uh the normal discos The last two should have your reds better numbered. It's usually two and two and it's nice Justin Herbert a little blue disco So red is out of 49 blue is out of 25 There you go nice not bad not bad Take a little herby blue disco So that was your first hybrid box Hopefully you do have a patch auto on this Nice a monro same brown That's a rookie there club level of 49 And a Kyle Trask silver rookie premier Deondre Hopkins to 25 Tyson Williams and Elijah Moore Seycombe Barkley and there's that Alrighty next one. I don't got one. I don't know Sometimes these packs are misleading One of them might feel thicker Nice cow pits to 25 rookie. That's sweet That is a two of 25 solid Kyle Trask color banter red at 49 It's 37 and 49 Zeke and a tealaw. Look at that silver Select rookie He's gonna ball it out man. All right, maybe you didn't We shot bateman disco Well, there goes your hybrid team all experience now We'll go to some hobby boxes Start with origins here So look for two autos one relic AJ Turrell very kendry 499 and 299 Malik Willis Nice patch right there three color patch 17 and 25 You have a mac harrell on car And then we have a breeze hall rpa Not numbered but we'll take it I was going with some gold standard seven cards in here Kenny game with a 75 and a remandry stevenson. Nice little opulence rookie And these would be uh to 39 13 of 39 so that's not too bad right there pretty strong Terrence marshal jr Cooper cup Relic to 299. All right, so looks like they gave you 250 points To replace it Hopefully your last couple hits are pretty strong We have a gold strike Steve mcmichael 299 for the bears And last one is a chuba hubbard to 149 patch autograph Go to elements next Matthew Stafford Number 2199 Tyreek hill Number to 27 And look at that electric nick chub one of one We'll take that and if our players tag right there Little uno of uno solid hit jason. He is a beast foam Vius jones jr. Rookie neon signs And steel signatures of ant1 randall l Remember him in the superbook guys Go touchdown pass It's numbered uh to 50 All right solid box Nice nice Breffar we got a one uh wandale robinson to 27 We have a nice patch right here type one thorn supercharge. That's number to 10 We have easy Those are calma riggy neon signs And that's numbered to 25 Another vet here who should be making the hall of fame. I believe this year DeMarcus where? Heavy metal autographs Numbered four out of 25 All right down to the last four man. So I think uh we'll go contenders Then we'll go with mosaic and we'll leave off with select To be the last one man and contenders of course can be a monstrous product. I mean If we hit one of these guys in general and then just Adding a championship ticket color or maybe even a cracked ice. I mean those are massive massive cards All right, hopefully it's another on card maybe Oh, we'll take that micah parson's variation. He's not an on card, but he should be Nice rookie ticket there That is a variation as well All right, that kind of makes it for the legal columns Gary Brightwell champion to ticket at 49 We have press lee harvind the third that a punters auto Wow, it is dj charge. Wow Super Bowl ticket one of one Our second one on one for you, buddy We'll take that And kylan hill rookie ticket That micah parson's actually is probably a pretty nice one actually I'm gonna look it up now Yeah, the micah parson's is like a hundred bucks at least I think you have the variation Yeah, the variation is like 125. This is not bad So the micah parson definitely helps with the nico colons So there you go Alrighty, let's move these cards over here All right, let's go with mosaic and we'll end off with select Cox is your first auto Aaron dawgill purple to 49 The master of blue to 99 jerry rice flagger jesson jefferson a drake jackson for the 49ers hiding a home swagger And kyler gordon is your second auto That is for the bears Blue chips can he picket silver? Tom Brady silver All right, second to last box man another mosaic mosaic autographs We have a schedule right there in the chat travis not breaking till a little bit later tonight, man Click the link with a night bar and you can see when it's supposed to start. I forgot what time of that is blue chips desmond ridder Donald driver picking silver rookie Cooper cups their masters white carol That's a number to 25 and quay walker out of 49 chris jones Last box here for you, buddy. Good luck select You get two autos one member of the card some numbered parallels potentially some very nice stuff sammy fahoko to 199 and we got eddie jackson tie-dye Autograph to start us off redemption Ian book and a green amari rogers four of five Nice little number parallel everybody field silver chibabra field level josh palmer grant richie a richie grant palmer silver rookie a little zeke traceman smith to 99 there's your relic sermon All right, we go last head of the break for you, buddy. Good luck rookie signature prism memorabilia card number one Trevor Lawrence nice. He's been playing really good football right now, too So that should be a rookie patch autograph rookie signature memorabilia prism card number one trevor laurence. Congratulations, buddy There you go a little tealaw rpa very nice Way to end that select And boom, there you go, man.  L. We'll be the stones jr. One-on-one nick chubb players patch trubba harvard ruthie rpa We got a steve mc michael 250 points cup relic Uh, terris marshal relic and remondry spevenson in 99 mac chorale malik willis the 25 breeze hall A couple of nice colors there with pal pitts rookie herbert a 25 a couple of red floods And there you go, man. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. Uh, that was the jaspy's thirtee boss valley loaded football makes your round of division number one


Y254, imagine. Hey darling, are you ready for the first day of junior high? Of course, junior high is going to be fun. Mama? What is it Bella? It's the first day of school. Good life to goodness, goodness. I have some hot tea and a glass. So, our first story, everyone is talking about this, is the upcoming musical. Let it be held in our school. You like it in itach in the evening? I know. She's good, but she's always mean. My father is on the school board. I'm untouchable. No, I didn't. It's Bella. She's always like this. I'm going to have you suspended for two weeks. Suspended? Why? Why don't you go ask your mom? My sweet girl. I'm going to jail and my mom is going to beat me. She's not supposed to be in school. Don't stop me. Don't stop me. Just go home. I'm sorry. Maybe she can try next year. With only a few hours remaining to be awaited musical. Bella Nyaboket, the lead singer, has not appeared in school ever seen. I prefer you to Mel. At times, not everyone is sleeping because of you. I have not much time left. The musicals commences in three hours time. I have a slot in the musical. Would you be interested? Yes. Can I go? Remember born to shine. It's eight o'clock now. This is your time. Born to shine. You have just seen the trailer of Born to Shine. That's the movie that you want to watch in December 9th. And I have the cast here with me together with the director. And I'll be introducing them right now. So next to me, we have Angel. Angel Duncan. Yes. And then... Okay. Give me your name. Tell me your name. And then I repeat it. They don't have the mic, so I'll repeat the names. Angel Duncan. Uh-huh. My name is Emi Wenjiku. Emi Wenjiku. Uh-huh. My name is Delhi Awoku. Delhi has a mic. Delhi Awoku. Karibu and... My name is Massimo Dhoni. Massimo Dhoni. And right next to them is the director. Exo the director. Exo. Uh-huh. Yeah. Okay. So what do you do as the director? I don't shout out. No. Actually, Exo the director, I'm a director too. Oh, you're... It's not a title. Yeah, it's not like a director. Uh-huh. I'm the CEO of Maya Production. CEO of Maya Production. Yeah. All right. Awesome. So now where do we start? So we have... You guys are part of... All of you are cast. And then we have Delhi. Delhi, you are the main character. Yes. Tell us about your character. A little bit about your character. Well, in the movie, I'm Bella, the bully. Uh-huh. Um... Yeah. So you're like I bully Shayla. Ah, you're the bully, what's being told about. Okay. So you're the bully. And then Shayla is also one of the main characters. Shayla, tell us a little bit about your character. I'm Shayla, according to the movie, kind, innocent, and the person being bullied. Okay. You're the kind one and innocent one. And you look...  You look the piece of bull. And then with your voice, Delhi looked like the bully kind of character. How's your experience been like for you guys? And I'll just try and echo what you say because we have some little time left. Let me start with you again. What's your best experience being in the movie? Being in the movie, the best experience was... Uh-huh. Now I'm a journalist.  Like I am, okay. Now the best experience was when we were telling even the news how Bella and Shayla... Like how Bella was bullying Shayla and how it ended becoming friends. Okay, wow. So your best part was them coming together, reconciling. You announced reporting that. What about you? Well, my best part in the movie was that I am Shayla's best friend and I back her up from Bella who... So you're like the... Don't come to my friend type over first, okay? Um... Okay. If I love Yanni, I back up Shayla because she's not that confident and now I'm like... You are supporting. Okay. You come in when it's not going good, okay? Javi, what's your best part? It's when like being a bully, it's just easy in some way. So I love the part that we reconcile the rivalry ends, then we become friends at the end. Okay. So naturally you're not a bully.  Yes. So, you know, the reconciling part is the best part for you also. What about you Shayla? For me, my best part is getting to be who I am. Like, they chose the character that I am in the movie. It actually takes my character traits as in real life. So it wasn't hard to adapt to the character according to the movie. Okay. So for you, it's actually just acting out your character in a movie. So it's a walk in the park for you. All right. Quite interesting. What about you? As the CEO, seeing these young girls, you know, acting it out, how do you, how does it make you feel? First, from the conception's part, I took what was known as Inezakam to fulfilment, until we met with Greenview. Actually, Greenview schools normally make it e-happen because Koshia, this idea with many schools in Kwangumu. Like Wakujiwa by what we really, we really have. So the first school we went to was Greenview. So Greenview. You got it in the first class. We were sharing the idea. They bought it already. To cook us. So Pia, the best part was travelling with the kids. How did you enjoy it? By the way, I thought I was travelling. What did you think you were travelling? Delhi. Do you enjoy travelling? You know, being around, the adventure. Yeah, it was fun. Meeting new people. Yeah, it was fun actually. Okay, awesome. And also the school facilitated all their transport, their meals. Every time, the entire one month to look like that. The school was catering for... Facilitating. Facilitating, yeah. It was really amazing. A great collaboration. And also my crew, Maya. I want to be big up, Maya team. We have a crew of around 40 people. And I'll ask them to come in. They won't be able to speak. But we just want to see their crew. So if they are able, please come to the stage. Do you want to see the crew? Don't you want to see them? Do you want to see the crew? Do you want to see the crew? Don't you want to see them? So crew, Maya, Maya team. Any duo here? Yes, come and stand right behind them. So crew, come to Aone. Now this are the people behind the production that we are seeing. Yes. Now, let's go and introduce. Yeah. So what I want to introduce you to is Shila. Shila, you handle everything in set design. Okay. Yeah. So here is set design and prop. Okay. So here is our production manager. Then Maggie, Maggie is our slate and continuity. Okay. Then we have our casting director. Okay. Now I understand. Then we have Dan Lagato, our videographer. So here is our production director. The pictures that we will see, the video on here, Kaziake. Yes, yes, yes. There is a link. Okay. Yes, there is a link. That was him. That was Tim. Okay, we get it. Can we bring the bazoo? Yes, please come. As we close this up, we celebrate this kind of work. Just seeing children, their talents being developed. Okay. All right. Now you see me. Now you don't. Yes. There we have it. There we have it. So this is the crew. All right. Exo and Elena, introduction. Okay. So what I want to introduce is Maya. So who is part of Maya? And it's Chaira Zonyangu. And she is our lawyer. And she handles all the legal things. She is the principal we met. And Jimmy Goko. He is a music teacher. He directed music. After music in Zinginez, there is a movie. Mizake. Okay. Original production. All right. That was so amazing. Okay. Then we have... So she is the co-director of Greenview Schools. I want to welcome. Yeah. So Elisabeth. Yeah. And then we have... Bazoom. Bazoom. Into a John. Bazoom. Yeah. So that's a big both. All right. Awesome. Awesome team there.  Ladies, how you feel? You're feeling proud of yourself? Tell me now that you are speaking on behalf of the team. As we close, what do you want to tell people that are watching us right now regarding the movie? Why they should not fail to watch it? Go and be here. The movie. It's all about showcasing your talent. Born to shine. Everybody is born to shine. You should not hide your talent. You should express them. Now for everyone watching, express your talent. Yeah. Because you should not hide them. There's this verse that I like. This one for coins. Yeah. You should not hide them. Because God gave him the coin. But it was like talent. He went and invested it and brought back millions. There's one that he did. And he had nothing to show for himself. Yeah. So to everyone watching. Make sure you tap into your talent and make the most out of it. All right. Awesome. You guys are doing a good job. We hope to see the movie on 9th December. That has been Maya production in collaboration with Green Views called Kaumulu. And that's where we wrap it for today's show. We meet again tomorrow. Same time. Same place. This has been one of the morning. My name is Stephanie Ayrte. Have a great day ahead. Enjoy the rest of your viewing.