I that's our final presentation. Thanks for this to Robin at standing in for someone who couldn't make it, so we've got Robin Wilkinson, one of these skilled people who can buy, locate, wear more than one that has because he's actually a Royal Air Force reservist and also senior Category Manager for the Royal Navy and a few other job titles as well but I'll let him explain that Aquag existuyn ni'n amlwg yn Pwladau. Gweldio gyda ni i gwneud hynny. Dei croeso i ddweithio. Roeddwn i amlwg, Wilkinson. Roeddwn i amlwg Gwladfau Cyfifoligol yn sylwedd yn y rhai arbyn gennym 220 yn y rhaid, ac roeddwn i enw i yn y rhaid i ond maeig yn llenoedd αethis i unrhyw o gyfaf 90 yn y rhaid. Rwyf i'n gweithio, ond mae'n gweithio ar ben gyrtaf, neu nhw wedi cyflawn. Mae hynny'n peilio'r pethau cyfrannu, dw i dda i'n bryd o'r gwaith o'r rhaid i weithio ar gyfer yr Naforol. I li wneud i ni'n clywed o'r context. Wrth gwrs, ond y pargfa panfa arnau cyfnodau ffrindeador nhw, rwy'n Type 600,000 o gweithio. Dyma'r rhaglen ymlaen gyda a'r cadets, arline yn gweithio'r methu hwnnw, ac arnyn nhw sy'n tymnu gweithiau a'r ddechrau a'r context yma, yn rhoi ānau cynyddiadauhaethau yma a'r rhaid i ni'n gweithio. ...fawr, ac mae'n cymdeithasio grwybwys, a'r cyfnod bwysig yng nghylch yn 1 MB... ...eg yna ddim yn cael ddweud y cyfnod. Mae'n gweithio gael ei bod y byddai arnyn... ...ynghylch yn ei hwyl ar hyn. Ychydig yma yw'r gweithiau o'r Maritime War Fesgŵl... ...ynghylch yn ei ddatblygu yn eraill... ...y'r element yn y Rally, mae'n gael Echcelent, mae'n ym Collingwood... ...y'r gweithio eich Llywodraeth Sgotlwn. Byddwn yn gwybod wedi bod yn dwywr egolion o gael arnyfodol o'i prifysgol ar ythafod Abertaeth ni, ond yn dweud â'r ymwyf yn dweud ar y cyhoeddfod, a mae'n olygu'n eu rhannu'r ysgolion i'ch ar crunchyn a'rtyfu. Yr eich cyhoeddfod yr ator y copychendid Collingwood. Rwy'n credu bod yn waltynt, ond mae'n gwybod yma, ond mae hi ychydig o'r dyw o'r lliwn ar y c posturech hynny. Aso, mae'n dweud â'r ddau meddwl yma, fe bod hynny'n gofynio, mae'nios anodwch anodwch anodwch anodwch anodwchlar yn y pedfyn nhw'n dod ar hyn ar gyfer 2016 a 2017. A'r anodwch anodwch anodwch anodwch anodwch anodwch ar gwell rozwyddedig ymweld i'r 20調o. Mae'n gwybod y dddw i ddim yn gweinio bod ymgymell ddwy i 400 mil o bryd hyn. Mae gyd-fellawr gweinio'n gweinio'n gweinio'n gweinio'n gweinio. ac mae gennychwyr mawr 1.9 i 3.1 yw'r last 18au. O'r dyfu arall, a'r dyfu arall, a'r ddweudio, mae'n gydag eich llwythau. Ond yw'r paras eich bod yn ffordd o'r Seidiau. Dydw i chi'n dweudio'r sifftau? Dydw i chi'n ddechrau'r ddechrau'n dweudio? a grefnodd arlas y bwy parchment yn y hallu felly fydd yn gallu gallu ffordd. Ac yna wefwyr arall, mae gennym rhan o unig ysgwrs. Bydd y byddoedd Babcock yn y brym Rhywbeth Prymysgollayni a rhan o'r fforddau o'r defnyddio cyflwynt nesaf yn yr ysdyn nhw, ac mae cyntaf yn ei bod yn yn ei bod yn ffodd. Ond bwyd yn ei bod yn grei'r ffordd yn faddychol, yn ddylamenau cyfroedd ffordd ac yn ddylchannu eu bod yn dechrau. Felly, nid ydych chi'n 600,000 ydych chi'n Bryddoedd, nid ydych chi'n Nigerian, Japanese, Chinese, nid ydych chi'n unrhyw fawr, sy'n gallu'n gwneud ychydig o'r ffordd ymlaen i'r ffordd. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'r simulatio, ac rydyn ni'n gweithio'r simulatio. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'r model yw Llywodraeth. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'r model yw Llywodraeth. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'r help deskol, ac rydyn ni'n gweithio'r awr o'r peth yn siwtio ar neud y cwylur o'r sydd yn bwysig. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'r platform rydyn ni weithio ymlaen o'r effaith ymlaen i'r rylegaidd. Rydyn ni wedi ei wneud efo ei gwyrd, wedi bod wedi bod yn bobl yn eu rhyddon? Rydyn ni'n gwroed gennych hyn yw'r tempoh. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'r simulatio i'r bwynt sy'n hawl iawn, rydyn ni'n gweithio'r llef, Mae'n gilydd oedd y flynyddol a'r tynnu o'r sloid hynny o'r mwydyl. Rydyn ni'n gilydd cyflwyno gweddol a dydyn ni'n fawr o'r gwyllgor. Rydyn ni'n rydyn ni'n byw ar gyfer gweithio Caerdydd. Mae hynny'n byw i fythenio rhai o'r agor fy mwydyl yn yckeu arnyn nhw. Mae'n gwybod bod nhw'n gwych chi'n beth yn rydyn ni'n gwybwc, магiwch gwych ar nawr. Felly, rydyn ni'n gwyf yn erbyn i ymrhyw, Felly, mae'n meddwl yn ymddangos y system yw'r ddechrau'r hynny o'r portwil. Felly, mae'n meddwl yn gwybod yn llyfrigol, maen nhw'n meddwl yn adonwch, ond mae'n meddwl yn dod yn ymddangos, a dwi'n meddwl yng Nghymru. Felly, mae'n meddwl yn ymddangos ymddangos ymddangos ymddangos, ac fel ymddangos yw'n meddwl yn ei wneud i'r cyfnod, rhai'n meddwl i'r meddwl yn meddwl, ac yw'n meddwl i'r meddwl i'r meddwl, Ac mae'n ddweud sydd oes y gynllunio wrth yr oedd canwais teimlo ar y моedd o'r un i gyd yma, ac mae'n digwydd yma o erbyg a'i wir yn mwy o'r rhagpet deis. Ond mae'n ffordd yma i mwyn i'r gweithio i'r gweithio i gael'r cymerau i gael y gael ffordd i ymgyrchau'r gweithio i gael'r gweithio i gael'r gweithio i gael. Oeddwn i gael'r cwrs yn y gael amser i gael a'r gweithio i gael'r cwrs oherwydd gyda'r sefydliadau. gan wrth ac ynwg ymdd番wyr o'rowyn i'r moedd yn gyflogain arall, mae'n amddiffyn nhw'n gwybod hwnnw. Mae yna cael ei bod phonwyr, rwy'n gwirio'r ffysg, ond mae wedi wneud i'r simulad hwrth, ac mae'n rhanol i'r gwneud i ddeithasio achog cyr Talks-Uni i'r mwyntio i gael Fanol. clockwise rwy'n rhoi yn ymddug cael ei flyny a'r modl ond. Gwyddyn ni'n wneud i'r modl ond yma yng Ngolod. Felly we often joke that we're modernising training. I do think a lot of the times we're bringing training to where people currently are, but if you think about the architecture and the infrastructure and the security ramifications we have, I think we're doing a reasonable job. So what we've got for the defence learning environment which is Moodle, as you see there, what it does now, we're bringing together a lining professional training and we're bringing together a suite of learning. And some of the key user cases I'm going to show you shortly, we'll see how we're moving from education into the training arena and actually into the exploitation of how we're delivering effect into operations. So, the key elements for us, we need to get people through the system, reduce our costs, increase the quality and get people on ships, saving lives, getting to the Mediterranean, fishing people out of those refugees out of the sea, getting people to disaster relief zones. That's the bottom line, it's all about operational effect. So our concept of exploitation, this single Moodle we have has got a naval service site to it, where we have gone for an intrinsic look and feel. Unlike some areas where you go into faculties, we actually have gone for an intrinsic design where people come and go, I'm a Submariner, this is where I go, I'm warfare, I'm general service. It's trying to bring together people as a intrinsic driver. Unlike universities where people pay to go to university, their incentive is, I've spent the money, we have to convince people that it's in their interest to keep going, it's a very different dynamic. So, we've gone for a simple, robust logical intuitive, we know that Moodle is commercially IT freeware, even though we pay somebody to bespoke it for us. We're focused on handheld devices, how do we put this in somebody's pocket? 99.9% of people all have smartphones with them. It's all about providing a time, a place and access to the course, but we're moving beyond just courseware now, we're moving into knowledge modelling. We've literally just started putting together a division officer's toolkit so somebody can have on their phone, at a time, at sea, offline, something's happened, I remember doing this in training, I need to refresh and they can actually pull up just in time support material. It's going to allow us to prioritise training and break the dependency on fixed locations. The Moodle is financially constrained by the taxpayer, as we should be, and we're closing down Sultan, so we're having to put more into less. But when we look at the flipped classrooms and some of the excellent presentation we've seen, there's nothing wrong with that, you know, as long as it's done fit and appropriately. We are rethinking our framework of how we deliver training. Can we get people to arrive on site, turn up the mustron on Monday morning and say, right, this week is self-study, and if they go and play tennis every morning, is that a problem? No, as long as they're delivering the output, that means they're qualified to go and do the operations that they need to do. We're reducing the separated service totals, what that means is nights out of bed, bottom line is we need to keep people, we need to retain people, and if we're saying you're going up for a course that's a year, goodbye, or if we go, actually, you're going for a course that's three months, but you're going to get nine months' worth of study leaving there, very different attitude, and as long as we get the deliverable output and it's the highest quality, then we need to embrace these elements of change. So, our current training methodology, you've all heard of the 10, 70, 20 model, we've all heard of that. Well, where our virtual learning environment supports us at the moment is around that 70% mark within the training proficiency. It's where we've got people coming through the door and where we've got people leaving the door. We're still working to exploit that pre-course learning. What we're looking to do is to shake that up a little bit. I have to give credit to Lieutenant Commander Rob Driscoll for this because it's his slide. Pre-course, 40% pre-course, and these obviously we can argue about the size and the location, but knowledge learning, skills training on the job, consolidation, and then the application, almost a 40, 30, 20, 10 model. How that stands for us, independent study, study leave. Breaking the dependency on turn up, sit in a classroom, watch PowerPoint. Nobody wants to do that. Nobody wants to do that at all. Residential courses just in time, right place, right kit, right equipment, efficient for the taxpayer. And then work based application and operational application. People often think actually all we need to do is train. No, sometimes we do need to fight wars and we do need to put people in harm's way. This is where our defence learning environment, our current moodle sit, covers that area. But we're going to push it out to cover the whole gambit, right from left of art to right of art. And one of the big things is we will fail on stuff, but fail often, fail frequently, and fail forwards, as I think Will Smith said. As long as we're doing it right and we show value for money for the taxpayers, then it's the right thing to do. So our fixed defence learning environment application covers that arena. A float or offline covers the pre-course learning. Just going down a rabbit hole, two weeks before a ship goes out and see, it's chaotic. People have to do this course, that course, this course, they get on board a ship and then they transit for maybe two weeks and they're bored. With Moodle Mobile, which switched on yesterday, we can go right. Have that holiday, have that time with your family. Now you're on board a ship, now during this long haul, as you're travelling to wherever, you can do your coursework. We haven't changed the requirement for the learning. We've changed the location and we've given people back time with their families. And that for me is one of the big, big ones. The other one we're looking for is official sensitive. How do we take this and move this into the operational space? How do we use the data and go beyond it being a virtual learning environment? You'll see through some of the discussions we'll have shortly, how we're actually bringing this into managed collective training and operational deployments. So look at the maritime warfare school. This is the through life of a warfare officer left to right. You can see how they go. You can see the planned interventions and you can see all the different trigger points there. I do apologise, I did smash this together quite quickly. So, the Royal Navy, we're driving defence exploitation of the defence learning environment. The Royal Navy is the leading service at the moment and we're moving from the collective and joint training space. It's got some real opportunities of how we can actually bring together, not only in the UK space but potentially NATO and beyond. Changing the context, the afloat area, up until Moodle Mobile, up until the offline bandwidth of one megabyte to a ship, if you are not going to put a scorn package through there, how do we actually move this forward? Well, Moodle Mobile's been a real game changer for us. And holistic training and the culture shift, the technology's not the issue. The issue that is, is how we bring people culturally to go, you know what, let's take that chance because we're one of the more risk averse organisations as we should be given the nature of the job. But it's bringing that culture along and things like Moodle Moods are exceptionally what we need. And I keep campaigning that we need more armed forces personnel here. Key projects to make you aware of. Through life proficiency management of warfare, we're exploiting, we haven't got anything other than core Moodle and a couple of additional platforms. We've got a wraparound which called Defence Gateway which ties us to where we are, but we are limited to a maximum of 10 additional plugins and that's it. So therefore we have to make sure and be innovative in the way we bring things forward. So we're using competency frameworks and examining how we bring that to manage through proficiency from somebody's first walking through initial training all the way to when they leave and how we use that operational data to inform. The brackets is how much time will be saved. We don't know at the moment. We've got to trial it, we've got to see, you know, fail often and keep trying. Rules of the road at the moment or up till last week, we used to send out an email with a paper-based exam. The ships would print it off, sit down, fill it out, mark it, and they go, yeah, okay, we're all monthly qualified for that. We've now put that online. We're using examining confidence-based marking and that's proving very interesting because some of our navigators are very sure of themselves, shall we say, and they're getting a few nasty surprises. We don't know how much time that's going to save, but we are looking into that. Exercise marking using the rubrics. We've got one exercise where all officers go up onto Dartmoor for three days in the wind and rain. We're looking at live marking to the Moodle on the hill with tablets and we estimate we'll save 100 man days through just doing live marking. That's on one exercise and one establishment. We're using rubrics as well to do instructor assessment. We're examining that and projecting the savings, savings is the wrong phrase. The reduction in time potentially is 16.4 man years for one year by just changing to marking instructor assessments online. Those are just a small plethora of some of the things we're trying to do and push. I often say, Moodle's great. It can do anything. Moodle's also dangerous because it can do anything. It's about knowing what you need to do and where you need to go. Often when I work with people in Moodle, they go, I want to do this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this. We always have to say, just dial it back and do one thing at a time because people always, always, always overstretch themselves. For us, it's about how we move from the generate community into the operate community. From my two-star last week, his brief simply said to me, proceed until apprehended and I'll stand next to you in the court. That is a very quickly culpable together, one from the Royal Navy, even though I'm in light blue. Any questions? Thank you. Answer time. Do we have any questions? No, it's lunch. We will forgive you if it's lunch. We do have one up there. Hold on. It's only me. I'm going to have to run up there. Nobody's asleep. That's a good thing. Hi, I'm Dirk from the RCGP. A little query about content. Sorry, the number of courses you've got online at the moment is 2,600? Who writes your content? Okay, so how do you get authors for 6,000 courses? How do you get authors for 6,000 courses? Who's offering them? Okay. I'm coming from a content providing. If I see an online learning environment that offers 6,000 different model courses, I'm just asking myself, do you have 6,000 authors writing them? How do you keep them up to date? I believe there's five different options. A lot of courses don't ever want drag and drop, which is easy. It's how we bring them forward and keep them engaged. So we do have a lot of projects with commercial elements moving forward, but it's a robust governance system, and we're also going to put it as well as we have to keep it up to date. Thank you. Thank you. Any others? Yep, down here. Are you providing devices for people to use it offline, or are they using bringing their own smartphone on the ship for six months at a time? Okay, any more? Or do we all want our lunch? Yep, no. All right, thank you very much again. Thank you. So lunch is at one, and then if you want to come here, we start again at quarter past two.


So guys, we're getting towards the end of the year, and I've been starting a lot of series, but I haven't been finishing many. If you know, my goal this year was to just have a net negative with how many series I'm currently reading. So I have finished at least one more than I've started. I don't think that's gonna happen, but listen, listen, I'm still gonna try my best to make the situation not entirely without hope. So in today's video, we're gonna be finishing, well, we're not really finishing, we're gonna be reading seven series in seven days. I know the title says finishing, but that's just because it sounds better. But I did tell a bit of a lie there. We're gonna be finishing four series in this video and making progress in three because I don't have seven series where I only have to read one book to finish off the series. So we're finishing the ones I can finish with one book, and then we're making progress in some others. In seven days, we're gonna make progress or finish seven series. Honestly, I'm kind of proud of myself. You guys love these videos where I read seven books in seven days. And so, yeah, listen, I'm excited. Let's get into the series we're gonna be finishing. I'll just run through these quick leaks. We'll talk about them all when I read them. But we have got the Tea Dragon Tapestry by K.O. Neal. We've got An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crust by Helene Tarston. This is a sequel to An Elderly Lady's Optional Good. We have got A Miramended by Axie Harrow. This is a novella that is the sequel to A Spindle Splintered, which is like a Sleeping Beauty retelling. And then we have got Lights by Brenna Thumbna. Another graphic novel. This is one of my favorite graphic novel series. The first one is Sheets. So this is our four series that we're finishing. I'm pretty, I'm excited, particularly for the two graphic novels. They're two of my favorite graphic novel series. So I am excited to finish them. And then the ones that we're gonna be making progress in, we have got Lost in a Moment and Found by Sean McGuire. The Wayward Children's Series. This will bring me up to date in the series, which is kind of the same. It's like, you know, statistics-wise maybe, depending on how you view it. I've never viewed it like that, but maybe I'm gonna start viewing it like that. I don't know. That would be crazy. So yeah, this will bring me up to date in the Wayward Children series, where we follow magical children. I know this one is a bit heavy-hitting, but I am kind of ashamed that it's taken me this far into the year to read that. We're gonna be making progress in the Lady Hardcastle Mystery Series. I think this is the eighth, I want to say. That is not correct. In the series. So I've read quite a lot of this series. And I meant to get around to this in the summer because it's set in the summer. But this is the next in the Lady Hardcastle and her Made for Low series. And then I'm gonna make progress in the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series as well. I did that. I made progress in the series in the Seven Genres in Seven Days video, which I feel not too long ago. And so I would like to make progress in the series whilst it's still fresh in my brain.  But I am excited to make progress in this one. So those are the series we are gonna be reading in this video. I think I am going to read A Mirror Mended by Alex E. Harrow, because this is really short. It's only, I want to say only like 100 pages. 128 pages. And there's some illustrations in there as well. It always helps. So I'm gonna start this. I'll chat to you when I finished it. I'm gonna go listen to the audio bit while I do stuff and then sit down and try and read this. It's as quick as I can because I got 10,000 things to do today. But it's short. So it's easy. But yeah, I'm excited. I really enjoyed the first one. I can't remember a lot about it. But I'm hoping it'll catch me up. But it's a Sleeping Beauty Retelling. And I think this one maybe is like Snow White-y because it's got the mirror. I've connected the two dots. You didn't connect shit, but I've connected them. So I think this one brings in Snow White. But I have it on good authority that this series is not continuing. This is the last in the series. So we will be finishing a series by reading this. So it's much later in the afternoon. We went out for a walk. I was gonna film like aesthetic video of the walk. It torrentially rained and I was within 10 minutes. So I come back home.  Anyways, I have finished a first book, Mirror Mended by Alexi Harris.  Can you believe it? I know, I'm so amazing. So this is the sequel to A Spindle Splintered, which is like a Sleeping Beauty Retelling. And in this one, we're following the same characters, but it's kind of a Snow White retelling. And I'm finding it very hard to remember what's not a spoiler for the first one. Basically, we're following Xenia, who is chronically ill, and she's kind of like Sleeping Beauty in the first book. So we need to know. And in this one, she's interacting with the stories of Snow White. It's all you need to know. I just, you guys want to see, but I just said like five different things there. And then like mid-sentence realized it was a spoiler to like try and piece it together. I enjoyed this. I'm going to give this a 3.5 because in terms of the reading experience, I really did enjoy it. But I don't think that this is the best format for Alexi Harris writing. You guys know I absolutely love the ones in Future Witches. It is so special to my core. It is so incredible. I love the ones in Future Witches. And this, I just don't think her writing shines in a novella for me. I don't think the way in a longer format, and I haven't read 10,000 Dollars of January or Starling House, but I really want to. But I get the feeling that they're quite similar in that in a longer format, she really gets to craft this narrative and these characters, these layered characters and this layered plot and all these things. Like the ones in Future Witches is so many layers to it. It's such a unique book that I just, I don't feel like we get in this. And so it just feels a little bit missing to me. It just feels a little bit like it's okay. You know what I mean? I don't know. I didn't love it, but I enjoyed it. The audiobook is great. This series has got this humor to it that I really enjoy. But I also think it's a bit forgettable. Am I going to think about this novella series in a year? Even in six months? Probably not, you know? No, that sounds bad guys. And forgive me for saying it, but that's how I felt. I finished it because I love Alexie Harrow, but I do think it is forgettable. I think I'll forget how I felt about a lot of it. And it just, the plot felt kind of rushed. There is a lot happening and I just wish we could have slowed down and taken some more time. However, I do think if you like Alexie Harrow, then these books are nice to read. The audiobooks are great. Do you know what I mean? But I just don't feel like particularly strongly about it. But it's fine, you know? I enjoyed my time reading it, but I'm probably not going to think about it going forward. You know, I like the message it was saying, but at some points, you know, the message, at some points, the message felt a bit overwrought. And at some points, the message felt a bit lost. You know, it's trying to give like this message about the kind of person you should be and like what life means and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was fine. It was fine. It was fine.  But I really think that Alexie Harrow should stick to like how longer form stuff because that is just a magic to that that felt like it was missing in this. I think tomorrow I am going to get into an elderly lady must not be cross because it's tiny. Well, it's like it's you know, the audiobook is like maybe six hours. But I'm going to read this next and finish this one off. I've heard mixed things about this sequel. So we'll see what I think of it. Long time no see. Listen, the thing you've got to take and accept with me doing these seven books and seven days vlogs is I'm going to read seven books in seven days. I may not read one a day and I may not speak to you every day, but I will read seven in seven. If you just stood up, it's fine. Calm down, relax. The cats are here. He's like basically sitting on her anyways. Yese was pretty crazy. I had three live shows slash a zoom calls back to back in the evening. So I just didn't get a chance to chat with you. But yes, I did finish an elderly lady must not be crossed by Helene Tarsten. It's tiny. I'm going to give this a 3.5. I think I gave an elderly lady is up to a good a four. I really like the writing in this. It's kind of got a humorous writing. I like that it's Swedish. I like a good like translated moment. And I feel like you can see the culture and the humor of Sweden. Well, I know what the humor is, but I feel like you can see it peeping through. I like the character more a lot. She's like basically the first book is about she like kills people occasionally. Okay. She has no qualms with hurting someone or killing someone if they deserve it. I don't believe in the glorification of murder. I do believe in the empowerment of women. But the first book is more about that. It's all short stories. And the second one, she doesn't really do that. It's more about her backstory and the trip she takes to South Africa, I think. So you don't have that kind of like appeal of the first one. Like the appeal of the first one is like, oh my god, it's a grandma killing people basically. So some of that appeal is lost and some of what makes the book so fun is lost. And also in this book, there is quite a lot of unchecked fat phobia, like a lot of it. Because at first she was calling a kid fat. And I wondered, is this a translation thing where like there's a word for fat in Swedish that doesn't, that has like a different connotation towards it, particularly when it's like a child. Like, I don't know, like, you know, if a kid's fat, it means they've, they're rich or like, because they're welfare, I don't know, or like they're joyful. Do you know what I mean? In some cultures there's different connotations. But then no, it became clear that like this book over and over again has characters be fat if they're horrible people, basically.  And I just don't appreciate that. There's just like no need for it, you know? So I didn't love this as much as the first one, but I am giving it 3.5 because I do enjoy it.  Don't know what the right word is. But she's an interesting character, and I have enjoyed reading both of these. However, I would say you could just read the first one. You don't really need to read this one. It totally is not as, as strong as the first one, an ugly lady is up to no good. So I enjoyed it, but I had a few issues with it. Now this evening, hello cats, we are gonna cozy up and get into the first of our graphic novels, which I'm so excited for. I'm gonna read Lights. By Brenna Thumbna, this is the finale to the Sheets graphic novel trilogy. In this series, we've got Marjorie, whose mom has recently passed away, and then in the second book, I believe this is Eliza.  And the thing is with Wendell, this isn't a spoiler, he's a ghost. We've never known really how he died. So I think this one is gonna go into his backstory, because book one is Marjorie's book, book two is Eliza's book. I think this is gonna be Wendell's book, and kind of go into his backstory a bit more. But yeah, I love the illustrations in this series. I love the tones, these kind of blue and pinks and purples. I think the first one was a four star for me. And then the second one, which is Delicates, was a five star for me. I loved Delicates. And so I feel like because I'm gonna be attached to these characters now, maybe this one, maybe a five star as well, I'm very excited. So I'm just gonna cozy up and get to reading this book. Maybe I might have dinner first, and then I'll see you after dinner and read this. So I have finished lights, but before I chat you about it, I want to say a big thank you to today's sponsor, which is Serious Readers with their Serious Light, Serious Light, Light. It goes together. So you just saw me using my Serious Light to read lights. That's an off of the light connection. But now that the clocks have changed in the UK, they don't want to talk about it. I'm so sad. It is so dark, so early. And my reliance on this light has just increased so much, because it is dark so early. And I use this every time I'm reading, and it's dark outside. 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The great thing about Serious Lights as well, wherever you are in the world, if you're in Europe and you're in America, wherever you need a different plug than the UK plug, they can make that for you. You just got to tell them. I have the High Definition Light, and I love it so much. It has a dimmer. I can just, whoa! Let me do it like that. Can you see the light going up and down? So you can adjust the light. And yeah, I cannot read without it. I love it so much. Please let me know if you've ever got a Serious Light on my recommendation because someone let me know in the comments last week and it brightened my day so much because I know you're having a good reading experience if you've got this. So if you've ever got this or are thinking about getting this, please let me know in the comments. But like I said, I use it every day. I use it every night. If all the time, anytime I'm reading, I'm pretty much using this light. So I cannot recommend enough. Make sure you check out the link down below and use my code SR438 to get £100 off your light and free international delivery. And in terms of what I thought of lights, I'm giving it five stars. Yeah! Oh, you're so back, baby! We are so back. So all you need to know, this is obviously the third in the trilogy, but this one is really looking into Wendell and how he died and like the group and the gang trying to figure out how he really died and trying to give him some answers about the rest of his life. And I just absolutely loved it. I loved it. I almost cried at the end. I thought it was a wonderful fitting end to a trilogy. It wrapped everything up nicely. And I, yeah, I almost cried. It got me emotional. I just think this series is just so heartwarming and lovely. And to me what this is about friendship and like, yeah, to be a good friend? I don't know. I don't feel like there's a lot of stuff about that, but like it really values friendship and true friendship and like how to be a good friend. And I just think it's lovely. You know, this series is middle grade, technically, but I think that it is really the kind of book that everyone and anyone and absolutely everyone should read. What it just says about like the type of person to be I think is so lovely. And I think the stories that are told in this was so lovely. And you know, also what it's saying around grief still, there was some really poignant moments because obviously Marjorie lost her mum. And by the way, if you're wondering how like Wendell, she met Wendell, there's like she runs a laundromat and in this world ghosts are like bed sheets. Okay, yeah, she lost her mum. And there's these points about like how she's talking in the kind of in the metaphor of light and darkness and talking about how much easier it is to extinguish light than create it and how easier the darkness comes, but how light is starting to seep in. And I just thought it was lovely. I just thought it was so lovely. And I just love these characters so much. And you know, sometimes perhaps it is like it is trying to make an emotional point like the one I just mentioned. And it is a bit little bit heavy handed, but not really. I loved it. I love it. I mean, I'm so passionate about it. I cannot recommend picking up this graphic novel series enough, honestly. And the art style, I just love the kind of style of it. It's kind of like almost 80s themed. I don't know if it is set in the 80s, but like also the color schemes, like these pinks or the pinks in this one, particularly a Wendell story. So these pinks and reds are flashbacks to Wendell's life. And then the more blues and purples and greens are Marjorie and Eliza's story lines. Also it was those like ghosts hunting in this one. And I was like, Oh my God, REM pod, EMF, like all that for watching a lot of ghost files with Watcher. Me and Tom, that's like our duo. Like that's one thing that we absolutely always watch together on time. Soon as it comes out counting down the hours to ghost files and it's the series is on at the moment. So I was like, Oh my God, I know all these. But yeah, I can't wait. I don't know if Brenna Thunna has a lot of other books. I don't know a lot of other graphic novels or if this was her JB series. But I'm either gonna read her backlist or I'm gonna be very, very excited for what she comes out with next. I just love these. And, you know, Sheets was a four star for me, but then the rest of the series has been a five star. And like I said, they are middle grade, but it's kind of middle grade that feel, it doesn't feel like middle grade, right? So you've got like characters who are in middle school. So it's middle grade.  In terms of what I'm gonna read next, we have these four books left. I think I am gonna start the Fatal Flying Affair and try and read all of that tomorrow because I think this is our longest book of what we got left. I mean granted it is Lady Hardcastle, so like it's not, it's not difficult for me to get through it. But it is the longest one and the quicker I get this done because I've got such a busy week because if you don't know, today is Monday, I'm flying to Costa Rica on Saturday. So like I'll be reading books up until the day, the day before I fly. So I've got a lot to get sorted, A, to get you guys all the content that I want to upload whilst I'm away, but B, I also just sort everything out for the holiday and like pack and like buy all the, you know, I need to buy goggles. I need to buy goggles, very important earplugs because I have tiny ear holes, I have to wear earplugs while I swim, I need to get some more earplugs. So I've got to sort all that stuff out. So the quicker I get this, I get this red, I think the better I feel because then the rest of these, I mean this will take like two minutes. This is only 120 pages and this is fairly short as well. So I'm gonna get into this next and be back with my babes, Lady Hardcastle and below. Let's get into it. Okie dokie, good evening. I read most of this yesterday, but I had to finish it off today. Schedule guys, don't worry. I'm gonna try and finish almost a whole other book today if not completely finish it. But tomorrow might be the day that we finish two. I'm gonna be honest with you. Anyways, I read most of it, Flying Affair by T.E. Kenzie yesterday. I was wrong. This is number seven in the Lady Hardcastle mystery series. So this is number seven, right? I was gonna check in with you halfway through because this is like the longest book that we're gonna be reading throughout this whole video.   Because I feel basically the same way. The plot of this one is that Lady Hardcastle and her maid flow are recruited by her brother, Lady Hardcastle's brother because he works for like the foreign office, into this murder and they think there's like, it's to do with an aviation factory, right? It's all to do with planes and like planes and parachute secrets and plane secrets and all this stuff, okay? And let's start with the positives because the positives are the same as every other Lady Hardcastle book, right? I love these characters so much that I think they are such wonderful characters for a cozy mystery series. I love the narration of the audiobooks. It completely brings these books to life. I love the main characters relationship, the dynamic that Lady Hardcastle and her maid flow have is so wonderful and lovely and gorgeous. I love the historical setting. I love the writing. I love everything about these books, basically. However, this is the first book in the series. For a long time, they're like, oh maybe ever? No, I feel like I've given a few before. But this is the first one ages I have not given a 4.5 or a 5. I'm giving this one a 4. I think the last one I gave a 4 was the one that's about cars. Cars on planes. I don't seem to like the ones that are like focusing on transport. And the reason is I just wasn't into this plot as much as I have been with a lot of other ones. This one, it's much more with the link to Harry, Lady Hardcastle's brother, it's much more to do with spying and espionage and state secrets and spies. We're spying out rather than murder. There is a murder, but it's a very small part of the book. And I just prefer when we're in Littleton Cotterall, the small village, and it's all set in the village, and it's due to the character in the village. Yes, there is. There doesn't have to be books there outside of the village because you can't just have people in the village keep on killing one another. But I think the next one is set in the village. But yeah, I just prefer the ones set in that village. I think it's got such a vivid picture to it, and it's such like the quintessential view of, you know, a small town that murder mysteries happen in. I just love it. It's camp. It's high camp. Whereas just the plot of this one wasn't my favourite. I still loved it, but it's not a 4.5 or a 5, like most of them in this series are. But can you believe I'm seven books into a series? Wow. Honestly, I'm amazing. I am so powerful. My mind, oh, it amazes me sometimes. But yeah, I still love this series, and like I said, all the positives that I say about every single one in this series remain. I would recommend this series to all of you. Just listen to the audiobooks. Listen to the audiobooks because they're by far the best way to consume it. I basically just listen to the audiobook for all of this. I just like owning the physical copies so that I have the whole collection. It wasn't my favourite in the series, but I'm glad that I have made more progress in the series. Now I'm going to go cook dinner for my family and I'm going to start before your memory fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. This is the third in the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series. Now I've got the audiobook for this as well. So I'm going to start the audiobook and probably then have a bath and then read some after the bath. And I'll see you tonight if I finish it tonight. And if not, I will see you first thing in the morning because it's about six hours, I think, for this audiobook. So hopefully I'll be able to get through it. And then we only have two books left. Guys, we're finishing series. Isn't this incredible? Or we're making progress in series at least. I've got this one and the next one. I don't know if there's more in the series if I will continue to read them or if I'll just kind of read these initial four and then be like, that's enough for me. Do you know what I mean? There's some series that go on forever, but I don't need to read forever. So anyways, I'm going to start the audiobook for this and I will check in with you once I have finished it. Good morning. I don't have the best news. Don't come bearing great news. I have finished Before Your Memory Fades, which is the third book in the Before The Coffee Gets Cold series and this is my least favorite in the series so far. I'm going to give this three stars. I didn't hate it, but I was just bored throughout.  That's all you need to know. That's like a very quick synopsis. But this one is about another cafe that exists in Japan with the same feature and I don't like that. I'm anti that because for me what felt so special about this series was how small the magic was, how small the magic system was. There's this one seat in this one cafe. If you drink the coffee you can go back in time and the idea of like the exact same thing being true, like pound for pound in another cafe, it just makes no sense of my fantasy. I'm sorry. In that second book I felt like I'd really gotten to know the characters of the cafe and become really attached to them and in this one we've got a whole new set of characters. Apart from one character who's in the first one, who's the owner of the original cafe has come to this cafe to help look after it? So he's in it but otherwise it's all new characters and I just didn't feel attached to any of them. I was like who are you people? You're not my before the coffee gets cold cast. Excuse me, like who are you? I'm not, I just never became attached to them. I spent the whole book trying to figure them out and not being able to whilst missing the old characters. Like there's, but there's very, they're very similar. They're like almost too similar. Like there's a little girl in this one just like this little cute little girl and the other one. You know what I mean? And some of the characters were too similar and I just felt like I'd really become attached to those characters and it felt a shame to lose them. And the first before the coffee gets cold book, I bawled at two of the stories in that. I found it so emotional. And the second one, I didn't cry but I felt like the stories had a different theme to them. They weren't necessarily to make me feel sad and emotional but there was this like bittersweetness but also appreciation of life to them. I just didn't connect. Oh, hey, Rora, you shouldn't be on there. She like is obsessed with sleeping on Tom's pillow at the moment. Hence why it's got a different pillowcase on from the rest of the bed because she just made it. You can't do that. But I also just kicked her off with this chair so she's just not going to be happy with me. Can I come sit on my lap while I talk? Come on then. She was also love sleeping on my chair and I had to kick her off so she wasn't happy with me. You can, you can sleep on me. Um, what was I saying? Yeah, all of the stories in this like always has four short stories that it's split into following people who want to go back in time to me to meet someone. Um, and I just didn't feel, feel anything for any of these stories. I didn't find them particularly emotional. I didn't find them poignant. I was like, okay, fine, you know, and so I'm sad about it. I'm very disappointed. I'm very sad. I'm almost heartbroken. It's a three because I really like the writing. You know, I like the premise as a whole. I don't think it's bad. It's not bad enough for me to give it a two. But I was bored, you know? Hey gorgeous. I'm gonna have to stand up in a second as well. I'm gonna be really mad at me. She's settled in my lap. There you are. But anyways, today I am now going to go ahead and read Lost in a Moment and Found by Sean McGuire, the next in the Wayward Children series and guys, I'm so excited. I, I think this is going to be a five star. Listen, this whole series is really five stars for me now usually and I have heard good things about this one. So I'm just gonna cozy up and read this. I'm really excited to make more progress in the Wayward Children series and catching up before the next one comes out, which is dinosaurs. It comes out in January or February next year. I'm very excited for the dinosaurs. Anyways, I'm going to go ahead and read this and I'll chat with you once I've finished it. And then we only have one more book to read and I've read seven books in seven days while I'm really proud of myself. Okay, apologies for whatever's going on here. It's very late. It's like 11 o'clock, which for me is very late, but I wanted to speak to you about Lost in a Moment and Found because I just finished it and it's five stars. Live your wild none at the end of the day, right? I live your wild none. It's five stars. It's five stars. It's five stars. It's five stars. I loved it. I love this whole series, but I think this is a really strong addition in the whole Wayward Children series. Now, you do need to go into this with trigger warnings and with an awareness of what's happening. There's an author's note at the beginning. Oh, don't lose my seal bookmark. I'm always leaving that in places where it shouldn't be. There's an author's note at the beginning, which I think I want to read out because I think it puts what this book is about and how to prepare yourself for this book better than I possibly could. So it says, while all the Wayward Children books have dealt with heavy themes and childhood traumas, this one addresses an all too familiar monster, the one that lives in your own home. Themes of grooming and adult gaslighting are present in the early text. As a survivor of something very similar, I would not want to be surprised by these elements where I didn't expect them. I just want to offer you this reassurance, antsy rants, before anything can actually happen, antsy rants. So I think, I mean, Sean and McGregor has this incredible way with words, and I think that prepares you for what this book is. So this is one of those books where we're following more so the individual in their world. If you don't know, I'm sure you know what this series is about. But the Wayward Children series is about kids who go to these portal worlds, which are perfect for them or are right for them. Basically every other book we follow a child in their world. And the other book is at Eleanor West School for Wayward Children, which is a school they go to to kind of help them kind of accept the fact that they're out of their world and back in the normal world, but also keep that hope alive that they could one some of them will get back, get back to their world one day. And this one is set in the place where lost things go, the shop where lost things go that antsy finds herself in having run away. And you know, Sean and McGregor just has this way with words that I am constantly astounded by, but particularly in the way that this series is written. You know, I love Middle Game by Sean McGregor, but there's something about the way that this, the tone of this series that is so unique.  Sean and McGregor for me is probably my favorite author in terms of writing craft. I just think she is, you know, incomparable. There's no one who does it like her. And I just think this book was a wonderful example of that. Pretty legendary if you ask me. I love it. I am giving it five stars. My one critique, I do think this one could have been longer, is one of our shorter editions, I believe, in the Where Were Children series. And I do feel like I could have done with just a little bit more time in the portal while that we're in. I didn't feel like we were there for super long. But you know, this is the second book that antsy's in. She was in the last book briefly. And then I think from just reading the synopsis, the next book is kind of going to be quite a continuation of this. So I can forgive that, because it seems like the next book picks up right where this leaves off and is following antsy in particular. So I can forgive this one feeling a little bit incomplete to me. I feel like some of the resolution for what happens in this book is going to happen in the next one a little bit. But you know, this has beautiful things about the loss of innocence of children. And I think particularly also the pressure to grow up on young girls, this expectation, I mean, I'm reading into it there. But there's expectation we have on young girls to grow up quicker. I don't know. I just thought it was, I mean, there's a lot of interesting and heavy themes tackled in this, but she does it with such care and attention and love and light and dark and a perfect balance of everything all in one guy. So I just absolutely loved it. I cannot recommend this. I mean, this is number eight in the series, I would not recommend picking up there. You could do, you could absolutely, there's nothing I believe that's a spoiler for a previous book. And we also, if you have read some of the Wayward Children series, we learn a lot more about how worlds work. And this, this world that she's in is particularly, I think it's called a Vex, maybe? Oh, I don't know. That's a word that they use, where it's basically like a meeting point of a lot of worlds, which I think has been mentioned in a previous book, but we really learn a bit more about how that works in this one. So I just appreciated so much. I thought it was wonderful. Tomorrow is our final day. Also my final day to get ready for Costa Rica. Have I packed anything? No, absolutely not. But I have bought goggles. Do you want to see my goggles? My goggles arrived. I needed to new goggles. Tell me that this doesn't follow you with such excitement. Anyways, our final book that we're going to be reading tomorrow is the Tea, Dragon, Tapestry by Kate O'Neill. I'm going to try and find the perfect moment in the day tomorrow where I'm not feeling rushed, and I can just sit down and appreciate this book for what it is. I am just so, so, so, so very excited to read this. I want to have the time to appreciate it and savour it. So yeah, very, very excited to read the final Tea, Dragon series. I will see you tomorrow at some point to do so. Okay friends, I have finished the final book in the Tea, Dragon Fest, nope, society. No, what's the first one? The Tea, Dragon series. I can't remember the names of one of them. My brain is like trying to merge. Anyways, I finished the Tea, Dragon, Tapestry which is the final one, and I'm giving it five stars. We did it! Anything less than five stars, okay? I do think some of the lessons in this are a bit more abstract than the first and second one. The first and second one are a bit more simple. This one is saying some really interesting stuff. Now, I don't really want to give you a synopsis for it because I cannot remember for the life of me what's a spoiler in the first in the series, but you know, this world, this magical world full of magical beings, but really it's cosy, it's comforting, it's a very small world on small magic. Part of the book's centre, but not all, part of the book's centre around these Tea, Dragons that brew tea with the leaves. There's one there. I love the Tea, Dragons because I think they're like cats. I don't think they're like dogs. They're very like sleepy and cosy.  And I just, again, I loved this. It's one of the most beautiful graphic novels that you'll ever read. And you know, it always just says wonderful things. This one's talking a lot about grief. It's talking a lot about personal renewal. It's talking a lot about finding yourself and finding your purpose in difficult times. I loved it. But I love all the Tea, Dragons. I would say I think this is my least favourite if you can give a five star least favourite out of the series, but I don't know if that's cos I'm stressed about packing. It also could not have been the perfect time to read it. And you know, I've been saving these for the perfect time, but I had to read it today.  But I'm gonna reread these like 10,000 times. So I think the beauty of these graphic novels is that you will arguably find something different and deeper every time you read them. But I just love K. O'Neill's illustration style, the way that they communicate emotion through the character's facial expressions and body language. Like I think only for me, Alice O's man kind of matches up to that on being on part of like, I love the facial expressions in Heartstrap as well. Even the body expressions and body language of the Tea, Dragons, they have body language. They communicate so much. So I loved it. You know, I'm gonna reread the series again and again and again because it doesn't take long and it's incredible. So that brings us to the end of this video where we have not finished seven series in seven days, but made progress in seven series, well, finished four series, finished four series and made progress in three. And listen, we had three, no, did we? Yes, we did. We had three five stars. Both of the graphic novels, Lights and a Tea, Dragon, Tapestry were five stars and Lost in the Moment and Found, Brushin' the McGuire was five stars. I think that's the best. Granted, I read more books in this vlog than I do in other vlogs, but I think that's the best like ratio we've had in a vlog for reading five stars in a long time. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video. I had so much fun filming it and listen, it feels a little bit better now. The series situation is not as dire as it was. I'm still probably not going to reach my goal. Just want to prepare you all for that. But yeah, I'm glad I have made progress in seven series and these two graphic novel series for me, I am just, I know I'm gonna reread and reread and reread. I cannot recommend these enough. So thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you all in a video soon. Bye.


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I'd like to welcome everybody to the Public Health Subcommittee meeting today on October 18th. I'm going to hand this over to Mark, Denika Scott, who can now be with us. So I'm Gina, I'm Carmen, though you've seen me on social equity all the time, and I've been a part of this meeting, just not participating. Mark. Thanks, Gina. Yes, we will, we have several sets of minutes that need to be approved, but we'll wait on that until we have another subcommittee member. And we have no public comments from this week to review. And Julie, I think we should probably save your discussion of next steps still. Sure. There are more people in the room there today. I think that would be good, yeah. Yeah. Vermont people that though we haven't received public comments, public comments can be submitted at any time to the Vermont Government Cannabis Control Board's website. And then I just want to take attendance right now. We have Ingrid, Donus, and Tenians on here. We have Mark Gorman from NAACP. Gina Cramingo from NAACP. We have Julie from the Vermont Cannabis Control Board and Nelly, and one person from the public. We have two now. Two members. Two. Great. Thank you for joining us. We're going to start with the Department of Health, the warning language that they would like to see on our last subcommittee meeting. We have agreed that the Department of Health would have oversight for public health cannabis sector. Mark. Yes. We should. I think when you take a look at what the, our work, you know, the subcommittee's warning language proposal was, when you take a look at what the Department of Health has proposed. But, you know, we can go, we can breathe through this. Probably not a bad idea to refresh everybody. So anyway, there's two things, warning language, which has to accompany advertisements and certain package labels. And then there are warning symbols, which also do the same thing, but in a more visual way. And I think studies have shown that picture language is actually much more impactful than written language like this. But here's what we say. This is a cannabis product and has not been analyzed or approved by the Food and Drug Administration. For use by individuals 21 years of age and older or registered qualifying patients only. Keep this product away from children and pets. Do not use it pregnant or breastfeeding. And it was thought that putting that in bold was important. Possession or use of this product may carry significant legal penalties in some jurisdictions and under federal law. It may not be transported outside the state of Vermont. The effects of cannabis may be delayed by two hours or more. Cannabis may be habit-forming and can impair concentration, coordination, and judgment. A person is 25 years and younger or maybe more likely to experience harm to the developing brain. Thank you, Mark. Ingrid, how do you feel about this warning language? I think that those are a lot of key elements that your subcommittee has been discussing over the last few months. Yeah, it does feel comprehensive in terms of what we've discussed. I think that this is a cannabis product. It's not been analyzed or approved by the FDA. It is new, but right, that's sort of rather new. We haven't spoken of that, but I think that's good. It is new, but I think Omar might have mentioned some of that. Yeah, and when he was speaking, I took that note. So it was interesting that this isn't now the first line of our warning language proposal. So I do like that. And I like the additional last sentence, persons 25 years and younger maybe more likely relating it to the developing brain. So I think that's good. Thank you. And I know that we can't, we're not a quorum, but if we're voting on this, would you say yes to this warning language? Yeah, I would. And just for my clarification, would this be part of the handout? Is this what goes on the packaging? You know, we've spoken up to different places where warning information would be provided. We're talking about the packaging itself. Is that correct? No, this is part of the handout. Very good. Yeah. So you call product packaging in our next slide. Got it. Thank you. Great. Thanks, Ingrid. Stan brings us to our product package. I think that paragraph is kind of dense, but it will show up on package labels and show up on probably the lower right-hand side of print advertisements. Okay, so Ingrid, this will show up on the package as well. Yeah. Are you okay with including all of that on the packaging? I am. I mean, I felt clear through this whole process that I'm not, I don't have background in advertising or how best to catch people's attention and what, you know, I agree that all this information is very important for consumers to see. And this is something that I would read if I were picking up the package of some edible product with cannabis in it. I don't, but I don't know the best way to post factual information so that people see it. But I would be very supportive of people seeing this information as effectively as possible. I think there's an effort here starting with the first sentence about the Food and Drug Administration to keep this very parallel to other products in the market so that people, you know, it's something that people expect to receive and it just abuses anybody about whether this is an approved drug or not. Very, very comprehensive. Yeah. I mean, I guess from a practical standpoint, if we're open to discussion, something like the effects of cannabis may be delayed by two hours or more is something that I would want to know right away, whereas it's not been analyzed or approved by the FDA. Some people might not even know or care about that. But to actually know the practical effects of this, you know, so if we're from the mall, from the framework of biggest bang for your buck, you know, possibly should those sort of practical things be higher up in the narrative. I'm just putting that out there. I think this is great. I just, you know, we've bolded that this product should be kept away from children and pets and not to be used if pregnant or breastfeeding. I do think that the fact that it could be delayed in terms of how it affects you is a very another important factor about it. I think that's a great comment, Egrid. I would suggest you be highlighting that, making that and bold as well. The effects of cannabis may be delayed by two hours or more. And that is definitely for edibles. Right. Yeah, Gina, that's exactly what I've been thinking here, which is should that only be applied to edible packaging and advertising. I don't remember any discussion related about that. Yeah. This would be very, very difficult to put on a pre-bro. So I don't know. I don't know if we're going to be simplifying this information or I wish the Department of Health was here to really, you know, just that one question, you know, because you would need to make a box and then put the pre-bro into it. Or I think also we can just have them include in it a flyer, you know, so attached to the package just to minimize packaging and sustainability issues that come with that. Egrid, would you be happy if this just being included as a flyer and take away with the pre-bro? Sorry, if this was included as a flyer, like a handout. Yeah. Instead of just the pre-bro itself. I see. Right. Yeah, I mean, obviously if something's teeny, it's not going to be big enough to put all that writing. But I can go with it in some other way. I just don't noting that we don't, we say that it's can impair concentration of coordination and judgment, but haven't we previously spoken about impairing operation? Am I not of a vehicle? Am I not seeing that on here? Or did we? I know you have spoken about that in the past. I mean, I know it's sort of obvious, but I just... I think that's what they mean by coordination. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, I just, I mean, in fairness, you can be arrested for being under the influence of drugs when you're pulled over if you're driving in an impaired way. So I just, I don't know. I think that some people can have confusion around that. But maybe it's clear, goodness. You know, the material that came back from Department of Health has like six bullet points after following this paragraph. And one of them is about operating, driving or operating machinery. Mm-hmm. So I'm not sure if their intention was just to put that in the flyer or some additional bullet points on the, you know, on the package or on the advertisement. We'll ask David for some clarification on that. Yeah, I feel like operating machinery, a reference to that would be helpful. Okay, great. We will wait for the Department of Health to come on today and if not make those suggestions to them and come back to the subcommittee on Thursday. So we're just continuing with the product packaging that there needs to be the required warnings and then there's also inclusion of what the font sign should be. And then we have spoken about that, you know, so that people are able to read it with times the Roman, Helix or Ariel and voted, you know, keep out of reach of children. And then if a package contains multiple serving, it must be stated on the package as well in the same 10 point font. Ingrid, what do you think about that? Just give me a minute. So includes multiple serving. Yeah, I think that that's very helpful. Gina, you're on mute. Morning. Mark, would you do you want to take that? Yeah. Okay. So the morning, the morning symbols. I know a lot of people have kind of wondered about the language that we've just read and whether it's two down. And that's all debatable, although it's all good information. One thing that the studies have shown is that visual warning symbols are more impactful when combined with the language. So that's why we've spent so much time discussing this. We've debated back and forth about the color of the signs. And I think everybody agreed that they kind of liked yellow, but they were, you know, if it was not deemed to be as impactful, then we'll go with the white. So that issue was sort of left hanging like that. But everybody indicated that they were okay with the white in the subcommittee. And we'll be interested to see what the Department of Health has to say about that too. But it gives specifications for the size on a package label for the language on an edible marijuana product. And I think, you know, I'm curious to see what the Department has to say about that. Ingrid, you were involved in these discussions. Is this tracking with what you felt like we were the conclusions we were coming to? Yes, definitely. Also, I know, and so we see here that the Department of Health would like to include both the white label warning symbol and the yellow. I know that you were a very big fan of having the yellow, just that it stands out more. The reason why you're allowed to choose is just to prevent washing out from the color of the packaging. So if this was around a yellow background, you wouldn't be able to see it. So in cases like that, they would like the company to use the white label just so that people will be able to see it. So I think that that is a really good distinction because the last thing we don't want something being camera flashed. Also with the package label, they wanted a half an inch by a half an inch and then at least 25% of the serving's height and width but not less than 0.25 by 0.25. So that people are able to see it and that would definitely help us with some smaller packaging. So I think these are really sufficient. What are your feelings? If you're asking me, I think that all looks very good. I think this was a clever way to improve the views of all the subcommittee members. Giving some choices and there were any harm in doing that. Although I say you can't monkey with the size of the label or the design. So Ingrid, I was just seeing on the warning language that it does say it is against the law to drive or operate machinery while under the influence of this product. And then they have the national poison control centers number as well. So that language will be included. Okay. Good. That's right. We did have the poison control piece as well. So just to let you know that will be included on the warning language. And so obviously they have restrictions. You cannot modify, change this in any way, recreate it. It can't be smaller than the measurements that were indicated. And the colors can't be changed, et cetera. Or having a dark background so you can't see anything at all. So I think that that's really important. Yeah. And for now, Julie, have you heard from the Department of Health at all? I have not. I have not either. So those are the last things that we really need to discuss for the subcommittee. I do apologize so much that we do not have a quorum for this section or that our expert from the Department of Health is not with us at this time. Do we have any public comments that we can take that now? Do we have public comment? Yeah, I guess so. Yes, I think we do. Okay. Great. Also, Gina, if I can just tap at the end, if I can just add a couple of things. So we do like that now before public comment? Yeah, it's nothing big. It's really important for Dr. Levine to be here. So I'm willing to meet more. I just think his input is really valuable. I'd like to have both he and Tim be able to weigh in. Whatever is needed for that. Thank you, Ingrid. I appreciate that. And yes, we will definitely be having a Thursday subcommittee meeting if the two do not appear before the end of this one. And I will be holding on the line if necessary just to make sure that there aren't any other people of the public comment. Great. I'm Jill Tatoff-Garron, and I'm representing the 2,400 members of the Vermont Medical Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Vermont Psychiatric Association. And I just wanted to say that we're concerned about the timeline. We don't really understand where you're at with the timeline because it's really hard to gauge. We can't always be at the public meetings here. We're not finding all the documents online. So I see this October 20th milestone. And I don't know where you're at necessarily. So as far as we know, you're just working on the warning labels. But one of the things that we're really worried about is the advertising component. And I don't know if you've made those decisions or not. But for us, just advertising actually encompasses much more than just print ads or even social media. It's also the distribution of the dispensaries themselves and the locations in terms of when the evidence shows that when you have a dispensary in an area near schools or near where they are, they'll actually see the signs. And those signs will then show up in social media and they'll actually, it's a branding thing that works in terms of having a perception of reduced harm. And so that's one of our major concerns is that you're looking at advertising in a very broad way. It's also the names of things, gummies, cookies, things like that. They also are attractive to youth. So again, it's really hard for me to tell where you're at in adopting the proposed recommendations. But so I just wanted to say that we would urge you to really take your time. And we don't need to rush this. We really need to get it right because it's Vermaunders Health and it's our youth that we're thinking about. Thank you. Thank you. And I can give you a timeline update after this. Great. Often it would be great. Thank you. Thank you. Jim O'Wheel, there's another subcommittee that is considering the proximity to schools and churches and so forth that will pass your views along. Great. I still have nothing from either Department of Health or from Tim, so as an update. Ingrid, do you have any more comments or questions? So just to let you know again that the driving component will be added to the warning level and warning language. We have Dr. Jean. Yeah, but unfortunately in a car, the driver is in the other end of the garage, so I'm going to get it out of here. With kind of a knowing that there was a quorum, we've reviewed the proposal of the Department of Health and I'm sure there will be questions for you or take it if there were more subcommittee members here. Do you have any permission to share the presentation? You should have that ability still. I didn't change any settings. It could just be me. Natalie, are you able to share my presentation? Yes. For some reason. One second. I had just discontinued sharing and now I won't let me re-share. No worries. Give me one second and I'll bring that up. Dr. Larine, have you been able to read the minutes from the last few meetings? Yes, specifically. Not from the very last one. Right. Right, we realized that from the 14th. But we had meetings on September 27, September 30, October 4, where there were minutes taken and distributed. And if you and Ingrid are in a position to move for approval, that would be great. If you're not, we'll deal with that another way. And Natalie, am I able to gain control of the presentation? Maybe. You can give that a shot. I can certainly advance the slides if you just queue me up where to go. If you can go to the minutes slide, I believe it's page four. There you are. Can we approve Monday, September 27 minutes? I can make that motion. Thank you. Dr. Larine, can you start the motion? You may have gone into the garage. I think the one that says September 30, September 20, really is intended to say September 30. Yes, September 30, sorry. I can make a motion to approve that as well. Thank you. Is Dr. Larine there at all? I can second those. Okay. Dr. Larine, we couldn't hear you. Did you? That isn't the Monday, September 27 meeting. Anything at September? I heard him second that. I heard him second both of them. Okay. And Monday, October 4. I think we should wait on those if we can. I would wait on those. Okay. So for next meeting or are we able to approve those by e-mail? No. Okay. No. Okay. And Nellie, can we move on to the next slide? So for the Department of Health, we received the following information, Mark, about what should be on the running legal. Dr. Levine, are you familiar with this already? Oh, yeah. I'm going to guess, Mark, that Dr. Levine probably reviewed this before it left the Department of Health. Dr. Levine, is that right? That's correct. Yeah. So Dr. Levine, should we, are you happy with the recommendation of the warning on language from the Department of Health? And can we have, and Dr. Levine, both on acceptance of the warning language from the Department of Health? Dr. Levine? Yeah, but I would, I would certainly want my other two subcommittee members to be able to weigh in because they do come from my department. So they're more independent of the department. Yes. Great. Can you share your thoughts again about the warning language? Yes. So on the bottom, we'll also include that you should not be operating the driving. Okay. So as this was written, I thought it looked really solid. I did think that it should have the added language about operation while impaired that we have spoken about or seen in previous meetings. And then I had forgotten about the poison control phone number reference. Where would that stand, Gina? Underneath it, it will say it is against the law to drive or operate machinery when under the influence of this product. And national poison control sensor is 1-800-222-1222. It looks from, at least the paper has imprinted out on my computer, that that is a separate sense below the rest of the paragraph. It is a separate sense. And then the only comment that Ingrid did make is to both that it may take, the effects of cannabis may be delayed by two hours or more. Yeah. And perhaps, and Dr. Delavine, I know Ingrid, you said maybe not having, this is a cannabis product and has not been analyzed or approved by the food and drug administration, it might be able to go lower in the paragraph than at the beginning. Again, it's just sort of a gut reaction that while that's important, I think what's more practical is that the effects of cannabis may be delayed. And so in my simple mind of how I look at this, if that might be more effective, it's higher up or bold, as Gina mentioned. Ingrid, are you okay when having the first sentence, this is a cannabis product and has not been analyzed or approved by the FDA? Am I, are you like that further down? I think that's a good sentence. I think we definitely need to include it. I guess I would be comfortable if we just emboldened or made the effects of cannabis being delayed, have that be bolder or somewhere where it's more catchy. Because that is, I think, really important information from a practical standpoint, even more so than whether or not the FDA has weighed in on this. Yeah, Dr. Levine, are you okay with just bolding that information? Yeah, I mean, you got to start out by saying this is a cannabis product, so that's kind of stuck with that. So anyway, it's the goal of the FDA. That's, you know, that's really meant for the edibles. More than any other form. Agreed. Dr. Levine, we didn't mention that earlier today that that specifically is for edibles. Yeah, that's okay when it would be immediate effects. So, since we had you and Ingrid on the line, can we both on the morning, one way from the Department of Health should accept those? That? Dr. Levine? Ingrid? Yes or no? Yes. Thank you. And Dr. Levine? Yeah, I don't, you know, I'm only seeing it through my phone, so I'll take your word that it accurately represents all the track changes and everything else or in the original document. I can read that for you. No, no, no, if it's true, if it's the same as what I'm seeing in my phone, that's fine. Again, I just want my other committee member to be able to weigh in because I don't want it to look like the Department of Health sort of set this up as the rule without having non-department of health members be able to agree. Yeah, and this is a lot of the language that has been discussed by the subcommittee during the past few weeks. So I think this really coincides with what everybody would like with some additions from what we heard with Omar last week. And Ingrid did comment that, you know, she was in agreement with the FDA comment that Omar raised which you have included in the morning language. The morning language right now. I think it still remains to be seeing what their intention was with the two hour delay statement and whether that should be clarified. Well, that is quite a bold remark because it can take up to two hours to build effects if you have an edible. Yeah, I know. And that's really the only circumstance under which there would be that kind of delay that I'm aware of, but it's just kind of hanging out there. Well, it's included in it as an overall warning and may not be appropriate for a lot of cannabis products. I think because they're not going, they just want one set of morning language and not have it differ from each package that that's why it's included and probably just be the vast included all then start subdividing between, okay, if this is a smokable product versus an edible product. And Dr. Levine, is that your thoughts on that? It is, but I understand remarks coming from Levine. One could say the effects of ingested, I guess you can suppose, does the word ingested generally mean always something you would eat as opposed to breathe in or take it in another form? You could just say the effects of edible cannabis. Yeah, true. Are you happy with making that revision, Dr. Levine? I just think so. Okay, Ingrid, what are your thoughts? I think I'm following, yeah, I'm fine with that. Okay, so let's re-vote on this with the morning language. We will make in bold that the effects of cannabis may be delayed by two hours or more, but also changing that sentence to say the effects of edible cannabis may be delayed by two hours or more. And have that in bold. So both yes or no, Ingrid? Yes. Thank you. And Dr. Levine? Yes. Wonderful. Can we just go on to the next slide, Nellie, please? Thank you. And the product of packaging should have the required warnings and it should be capitalized in at least 10 points times the Roman elix or aerial. Keep out of reach of children and if a cannabis product includes multiple servants, that should also be in the same 10-point bond and voted. Ingrid, can you please follow on that? Yes. And Dr. Levine? Yes. Thank you. Thank you so much, Nellie. And that these are the acceptable warning signs that need to be included on a package. So it will either have the white wash or the yellow, depending on the package background because we want to be sure that there is no climate harsh. The packaging and labeling needs to be 0.5 inches by 0.5 and then the edible products have at least 25% of the servings height and width but not less than 0.25 by 0.25. And the required colors are the yellow and the black with the red rim around it or white in the center with red around it and black lettering and that it cannot be recreated, modified at all. It shouldn't be stretched or distorted. You cannot use less than the measurements indicated and you cannot change the colors or include it on a dark packaging. Ingrid, please vote. Yes. Thank you. And Dr. Levine? Yes. Thank you. So we have finished that portion out and I know that Julie had some messaging and Julie just one of the questions is that we still have two minutes that would need to be approved but as of right now we have concluded all the material work for the subcommittee. So how, what are our next steps forward? Is there one other discussion item about the oversight for edibles production? Yes. Whether we would accept the recommendation that edibles would be overseen by the Department of Health, Vermont Department of Health. Is that what you're talking about, Julie? Yes. Yeah. That is a decision that needs to be addressed as well. Ingrid, what are your thoughts about that? Are you okay with that oversight? Yeah. Okay. Dr. Levine? Dr. Levine, are you there? Julie, maybe you can give us the set forward while we wait for Dr. Levine to get out. Sure. And we need to perhaps we'll have to do one that may be a shorter meeting on Thursday to address this and then approve the other two sets of meeting minutes. But so my statement was just that as a reminder that this is not sort of the last step in the process, it's the first. So the recommendations that are coming from the subcommittee will now go to the CCB and we'll be going back to our rules. So we'll come back to some advisory, full advisory committee meetings when we have substantive information to share. I don't think we've scheduled those dates yet, but I know that is part of our plan. And then once we do draft our rules, there's additional public comment time within the rulemaking process. So in terms of making sure that we're getting some input from those who are not in this department's public health and getting input from the greater members of the public, there's still lots of opportunity for that. Thank you, Jerry. Dr. Levine, are you on the line? Dr. Levine? Well, we will have a call on Thursday to discuss the oversight, a manufacture of edibles to the Department of Health and to approve the minutes to previous minutes and today's minutes. Are you okay with that, Ingrid? It'll be shortened if we should schedule about a half an hour. That's good for that. Okay, great. And then you don't have to move to adjourn right now. You can just call adjournment. Okay. Are there any public comments with some of the public comments before we leave? Other public comments? All right, good. And that's it. Okay. We need to adjourn. Thank you. See you on Thursday. Thanks, everybody.


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modern health care as we look at how the way we've been delivering health care has not worked because it's treating the body just as the body. We see now with all this recognition that we are more than the physical body and that our mind and our emotions and our spirit have an impact on our health and well-being and that scientific data is beginning to change the way we look at health care provision I mean right now in the States seventy-five percent of our health care costs are because of preventable chronic disease the diseases many of which have to do with stress you know stress and burnout and have been described as the disease of civilization. I must tell you this the first time I landed in the United States wherever I went people were talking about stress management I couldn't understand this because in my understanding we manage things which are precious to us our family our property our business why would anybody want to manage stress it took me some time to understand that a whole lot of people have concluded that stress is a part of their life stress is not a part of your life or work or anything stress use you're just your inability to manage your own body your mind your emotions and your life energies you do not know how to keep your body mind and emotions you will be stressed stress means the inner dimensions of who you are isn't a friction there is sufficient friction in the world every day if you have to walk through this world there's a whole lot of challenges and friction that is there but once the friction happens within this machine within this mechanism if there is friction then you become completely debilitating it becomes completely debilitating which is something most human beings are experiencing today it's like you're trying to run your car without the oil in it in ten minutes everything is stressful everything makes ugly noises within right now people are going through this and it's causing them a whole lot of psychosomatic diseases that people are suffering I would say 70% of the ailments that human beings are suffering or self-created about 30% happened to you from outside because of other organisms and infections and various other things maybe some of them are you know like by birth people have certain tendencies but at least 70% is self-created which can be easily reversed if only we attend to the individual human being and I can prove this with hundreds and thousands of cases who have walked out of ailments not treated walked out of it simply because a certain level of stress-free existence came right now you know I've had my lunch and I'm speaking if I check my pulse it's somewhere between 55 to 60 if I was an empty stomach and if I sit here quietly for five minutes this will settle below 40 so there is no question of stress in this one so when there is no stress how much maintenance it needs will considerably go around right now we can we have studies to show you this a simple 15-minute meditative process your metabolism drops up to 24% in a conscious state there is sufficient studies to show that human mechanism can brought to a more easy way of functioning it is not in a hyper state of functioning right now anything they have to do they have to pump themselves like this and do it no you can propel yourself very gently you can propel yourself when I say gently not necessarily behind somebody not necessarily at a lower level of performance human mechanism can be made to function different levels if you're in a certain state of tranquility within yourself right now I'm made like this if I close my eyes world just vanishes for me it doesn't even exist for me so how you keep the system is important now we're talking about this being a world peace day if if peace has to happen human being should know it within himself whatever we are seeing as human societies is just a manifestation of what's happening in individual minds when injured individual minds are in such a turmoil how do you bring peace to the world it's going to be just empty talk


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