It's been a while since I've been up here. It's been about two years. And I just want to thank you all for being here. What a great vibe we have going this particular residency. And that's due to everyone's openness and acquisitiveness and just humanity. So I'm just really grateful to be a part of this project we have together. And language is a project, too, that we're all a part of. Did it make a sound? It did, right? Not out of my mind. All right. Did it make another sound? So in honor of that work, I'm also going to read some new work. It's not super new, but it's all written. Almost everything I'm going to read tonight has been written since I was last at the podium. And in what's been a trend, it's work that is hybrid. It's both prose and poetry, nonfiction and poetry, and nonfiction poetry. And this book is called With and of the Arrow, and it's forthcoming from Tupelo Press, my press. And the title refers to what you think it does, except the arrow. Rather than gun violence, I think I'm thinking about violence long term that we are with and we are of it. And it's really not coming down. It's complicating matters, I'm hoping. Well, these are problems that we're having that I've been thinking about a lot because I live in Sandy Hook. One of the essays in this book was my experience of the day of the shooting. I'm not reading from that tonight. But it catalyzed and continued a conversation I'd been having with myself over a long period of time about the role of violence and the role of art and the role of parenting in my life and also then looking at models of other. You know, people have always parented in violent times.  And Plath, Sylvia Plath is one of the confessional poets. And she got a little heat for using personal material. It seems a little quaint now to us, but at one point it wasn't all right. But she talked about how that personal material needs to find its relevance in a larger world stage or it doesn't work. So that's what I'm testing, like the relevance of my personal experience against historical trends and the history of violence in particular and the history of art. And so with that, I start with an of the arrow. What I'm planning to do is read you the front material of the book, the introduction, the epigraph, the opening poem or two. Palms from the middle and the end of the book, not too many, maybe five altogether. Not too many poems. Everyone has to apologize when they start talking about poetry, so not too many poems. And then at the end, the closing couple of sections of the last essay that closes the collection. So it'll be interesting too. I'm testing it out to see, does the book actually work where better than where we all test whether our work works than here? So the book begins with, I was just discussing the various ways people pronounce Ellen Cissou's name. She's a French, she's actually an Algerian French writer and theorist. And she, this epigraph is her description of a Rembrandt painting. The ox is beautiful. The ox shines in the darkness, where, back of shop, cellar, tomb, this ox is a gigantic ingot, gigantic ingot of flesh. The ox is bound, the ox is nude. Who are we contemplating, Samson's truth or Rembrandt's? The blind, the freed, the powerful slaughtered, the gazed upon, who by their magnificent helplessness fills us with wonder. The vanquished sparkles, vanquished but strong. Nothing less realistic to paint this with what admiration, what love. The ox is hurled to the bottom and there are no angels. The huge body is sideways. Everything adds to the impression that someone has left it all alone. All of a sudden I see it's about our captivity. So that's sort of foregrounds everything I'm thinking about in the book. I'm sorry, it's so heavy, but at least the weather's changing so somebody agrees with me. So this is the introduction to the collection. Before getting to my desk. Before getting to my desk this morning, I've woken to the back of Luke, that's my youngest son, back of Luke's spine in blue light and understood for the first time that that is the image I have been dreaming of after working the eye entirely out of a poem that didn't need it. The poem has nothing to do with me and everything to do with the cataract over a saint's eye as Fra Angelico finished painting it in fresco 500 years ago.  There's some blue light involved, a bent and sleeping spine, some lucky rainfall on the day of his birth. Before getting to my desk this morning I have crafted a paper grocery bag, thank goodness paper grocery bags still exist into a costume for Luke for school, fastening it with butterfly clips. What are those he asked when I said the two unexpected words together? Restore me to the wonder of anything named, what loves Jesus might say. Then I showed him its shape was like a butterfly rather than explaining it is just a metal clasp that opens between thumb and forefinger. I suggested we use them rather than taping so that it could be easily removed for sitting, for reading, for recess, he agreed. Then I cut from the bottom plastic sheeting of a reusable grocery bag, the kind that stands straight up using this sturdy plastic on the bottom. One round nose and two droopy triangular ears. I taped all three to the face and sideburn area and stood at the bus explaining that he was stick dog, a semi obscure cartoon character some children know and some don't. It's about our captivity. Before getting to my desk this morning I have read a beautiful poem by the Hungarian poet Miklos Radnadi who died in a ditch while performing forced labor during World War II but whose notebook of poems was found upon exhumation in the raincoat that covered his body. A poem that contains lines about the end of summer bathing in the sun and a pain that wanders around but you start again as if you had wings. The notebook nestled in consolation next to his dead body for over a year before it was found. Before getting to my desk this morning my window has reminded me by its frame of the contrasts of a Mark Rothko painting available in natures, browns and blues and my dreams have been filled with the strange creatures that inhabit the canvases of Arshile Gorky especially those with names like tracking down guiltless doves. Who? What hunter tracks down guiltless doves? I think it before I can stop myself. Start again as if you had wings says Miklos.  Lovely weeds that must have something tasteless at their heart for the deer have left them. And the flowering pear tree that snowed petals all last week down on us as we went from the car to the house to the car to the house to soccer to baseball to band and back again readies itself to rain pollen next. Before I get to my desk a bird of the same type that is dead near our tiny fish pond has visited the dead one's body. Don't talk about it my oldest son says. Worried my youngest will notice. As oldest notes he must bring his trombone home today or miss the performance. Don't show him it's too sad. Later stick dogs will not see it. With my oldest I hold myself back from telling the story someone told me recently about the poet Robert Desnos saving a whole truck load of Jews from the Holocaust inspiring each of them to recite a poem allowed to him until the guard could no longer see them as he'd been trained to as inhuman but as human fulfilling this fundamental function of reciting words even unto what was surely oblivion. Could they be shot after such a thing though the ditch had called to them. These ones were saved but me closest widow had book not man afterwards. Hear me close again. All this could happen. The moon is round today. Don't walk past me friend. I save these stories for a day my oldest can hear them but when is that day? Soon I fear or worse already past. In a way I would not have picked for him. Another story has already been told and he's heard it.  Perhaps the best moment of my life past this morning when I held the two tines of the butterfly clip in my hand above his small back one hand on his neck him saying a little tighter a little looser. Start again as if you had wings. Yes. How do essays and poems talk to each other? Do they sing one to the other as I did in my pew those years ago younger than my son? A call in response that became marrow and bone. The essay tells me from the Latin to try. The poem says sing, make. What would a trying song be? A making try? We are with and we are of the arrow. Would Sisu have me make something? Would Sisu enact in me the slaughter? All is slaughter and prayer. And yet before I get to my desk the world is opening. Why go to my desk at all? All this could happen me close whispers to me looking up from his shovel, touching the pocket where the poem is stored is safe. The moon is round today. So that's the opening of the collection. And essays and poems follow it. So you can see there's a mixing right of historical ideas, art historical ideas and then personal kind of confessional work. This poem that goes along with it is that opens the collection is called On Slaughter and Praying so it goes along with that essay. And it's about this thing we're having where we have bears near the bus stop. Maybe other people have experienced this with their children but it's a little nerve-racking the bears are at the bus stop. So that's also complicated. I'll tell you, I might read this poem twice but now I'm gonna tell you they're bears at the bus stop. And this one particular bear, one of my friend's daughters got off the bus as she got off the bus and was walking up the hill her phone, my friend's phone was ringing and neighbor was saying there's a bear and when they looked out as Quinny came up the stairs they didn't see the bear but they saw the upended trash can. So, On Slaughter and Praying. Let me slight up the hill of it. See enough to know. Say, I know you well enough. Say into the ear of its marrow distance. Yes, yellow for eyes. Yes, nose kin to mine. Let me slight my faded ashy. Read like in winter. The end is ugly, I know. The end is not what it wanted. Up the hill of it into something resembling knowledge. The small girl tells us she just missed him getting off the bus and when we looked out the trash barrels were upended. As if to see were to give over the wild in us. As antidote we tell her, bring a kazoo with you to the bus stop. Thing we know well enough to scale up the hill of it. Us on our feet standing, yes nose, yes eyes. Down from wooded promontories or slight up the hill to this small place. A skinned ear for distance. Skin of, I can't outrun him. No. But what of another life? The one into which each might be born. One in which no one runs or is outrun and no one slaughtered. World in which no one needs say. Show him you have eyes. So, since it's a writing program we get to say I really thought I was writing about the bus stop. But does anybody think I might have been writing about something else? So it turns out after I finished this, this poem, three years after Sandy Hook was the poem that made me realize that all the wild animals in the woods represented for me threats that had to do with the fact that the children at Sandy Hook said wild animal, wild animal, wild animal to explain to themselves what had happened as they left the school. Which I felt was an incredibly generous thought and true. So it's that punch in the gut that some of your teachers might be warning you about or you get to the last line before you realize that something really hard has been happening. So I'm just gonna read this one more time because it helped me understand the thematic unity. Sort of it's the aquarium. The bear is the aquarium in this book. So, and being made of the same thing as the bear was like very liberating for me to own the violence that is all of us. And to maybe think about it as something. Something that we all are with just like the bear. On slaughter and praying. Let me slight up the hill of it. See enough to know. Say I know you well enough. Say into the ear of its marrow distance, yes. Yellow for eyes, yes, nose, kin to mine. Let me slight my faded ashy, read like in winter. The end is ugly, I know. The end is not, but it wanted. Up the hill of it into something resembling knowledge. The small girl tells us she just missed him getting off the bus. And when we looked, the trash barrels were upended. As if to see were to give over the wild in us. As antidote we tell her, bring a kazoo with you to the bus stop. Thing we know well enough to scale up the hill of it. Us on our feet standing, yes, nose, yes, eyes. Down from wooded promontories or slight up the hill to this small place. A skinned ear for distance, skin of I can't outrun him, no. But what of another life, the one into which each might be born, one in which no one runs or is outrun and no one slaughtered. World in which no one needs say. Show him you have eyes. That's the introductory material of this book. I'm working as well as I can with, I think, material I, I'm just not a thematic poet. So it's been pretty hard. Lyric poets just go from one subject to the next. So it's been hard to work with one subject. This is called on devotion. What if one day you asked to enter its mystery and vulnerable in wind, you needed to find something you couldn't and what helped you also helped the sun go quickly behind trees. What if you held thin in the lungs a half life of this window or that and much of what you knew you held close though dissolution was certain, predetermined, be careful, the poem says, threatening now. But with what, ash already inside of you? Think of it, some level devotions required, some sense of the ongoingness of things until it's not worth talking about. I found you under the melting tree, but maybe that's wrong and it's your melting tree from inside the wall garden I called. Yours to melt in meander, spring words piling up around the winter ones. What forest could you follow towards or lead out of, child lost in woods? No one owns such children but chance. The melody no longer if ever discernable but what does it tell us anyway? Be careful the poem again, brotherly now. It's ashes new scattered. It's birds eyeball shrouded in invisibility. The flinching disaster of elegy, its rising star. You kept it near you, the vein under the eye and one day you asked to enter its mystery, the blue-black truth of it, its lung full of air, its underbelly purple as living blood. Man of war you recognized it as a child with a stick, you grazed it. You were the one with the stick, a reed really in your hand. You with the desire to know, be careful the poem says but gives no certain way beyond guessing. What goes under and what likewise surfaces? Leaves its trace on the shore, ashes moving into the next moment. Blank of memory devoid of all but observation. Be careful the poem says don't feel so much. Brick by brick on the dismantling of Sandy Hook School. Brick by brick will you be taken as first you were one to the next by hand, the level of bubble between you and the world. Where you've been raised brick by brick, now you'll no longer do what you had done. Listener to song or story backdrop to watercolor masterpieces. Where once you were sunwashed, backrest at playtime. Now brick by brick you fall away. Are carried to where you become ash, dust, the particle that catches in the throat. Phrase fouled in the singing. Brick by brick to be undone, unmixed, unmoored. Near where the stream announces your pure removal and the trees undo all that was perfect in summer. Their leaves yellow and red move to fall at the feet of your disappearing. Your shadow through trees, red blue play sets whose outline slept at nap time.  You're the last to be counted, touched, retired from use as you were the first hand mixed in ratio of water to matter. And given the color you kept. Now workers in their boots having kissed their children on top of heads, having put on their bright yellow hats. Even these big men approached slowly your house of shadows. Your last scene with the eye rooms where some were taken, others given back.  Perhaps like the good thief who in asking to be killed elsewhere made himself worthy of Christ, you will spirit yourself into some other shape of praise. A song even mothers grow to love. Not these bricks gone by the anniversary as if matter could disappear upon request. Instead of as it has this year without reason or warning. Once a true child's hand traced the enormities that swirled inside of you. Understood by touch the enormous inside of him. And was perhaps comforted by the certainty of you. Even then, even that day. So in the heartless way of books, this book is about me and my boys and not really any of those things I mentioned. Anybody who's written the elegy has had the experience of having it not be about the person that they're praising, but your own one day in world. And so throughout this book is really a lot of love poems to my boys, which I hope is comforting to you. It's comforting to me, so this is one of those. It's called What You Already Know. Most days you're the child of unknowing and I'm an open hand. That seems to say you come from a long line of but doesn't finish. Or you're not mine, but Memling's boy. 500 years old if a day. Holding hand over heart and tipping his wings toward gold leaf as if made to find. As if made of such an earnest immortality. I never could myself make. Or you're not lost, found, or floating in a painting but born into the glancing light of your September. And I'm made of nothing you could trace with your hand or get back to if called. As in the mirror you double-eye me from the bevel. So momentarily I know more than distortion. And maybe that's more true than not. Don't think I didn't, don't notice. The days dwindle when you ask me to work the sink. Talk to me in serious tones about a damp that soaks the knees. Bring to me an ambient worry over living things that has you wondering what Brownhouse thinks now that we're gone. It feels like basic sorrow but you name it tidal. This language that flows away with your years. The busy fish in the pond or the thousand eyes of clouds you've named, you've named them all. Each one different though you don't play favorites. And I almost explained the flat privacy of it. How language is always an empty room except you tell me first. Then head off to the stop-start of the school bus where something else takes you with it near but far. And I stay thinking maybe you'll hinge back or by some apparatus unknown as prayer I'll move into your orbit.  As a word we both find to mean one thing then another. I don't have to explain how once I was a blade of unwanted grass in the Mesozoic era. You a patchwork of rumors, the spirit hit its hinge inside. I a body's edge and you a wingspan born. I don't explain you're growing the large and small of it. You're calling to me imperceptibly less. Why explain what you already know? So then after what seems like a long time of going back and forth between poems and essays, I end up on an essay about Picasso and the MoMA sculpture exhibits. And it's perplexing to me still why I end up with Picasso. The closest I can get to is he's like the super complicated art maker inside war. I don't know because like he made things in Paris during occupied during World War II. But I'm still working that out, but Sisu comes back in this. And when I wrote this, one of my readers read this essay. She's read a lot of my work and she said, I think you just finished writing about this. And I was like please let tell me that I'm done writing about Sandy Hooker. So perhaps fitting this section, I'm gonna read you the eighth and ninth sections of this essay that closes the book. And it's called the section eight is and speaking of bondage. So I'm trapped inside this form, trapped inside these poems and speaking of bondage. I have left this part of the essay to sleep and awoken with another strange Sisu transliteration, my words from her world. In my dreams also Picasso's bird and another sculpture called Death's Head, which I can't find the door to approach yet. Instead my own words on a scrap of paper. You are tired of holes bubbling up through wounds of ponds eyed with white. The work of knowing the foreign in me leads incrementally to loving more of the world. I know, but where do I end in the world begin? Sisu's answer, one of many. I am the finite that wants the infinite. Love infinites me. Without you I am a pebble and my skin closes narrowly over me. One gallery note provides the information that five of Picasso's wooden figures, four called standing woman and one seated woman, each narrow, each 18 inches tall, all in a case together, are made of fur. Some taken from the backs of stretchers, some foraged from the forest floor. This is perhaps my favorite moment of gloss on the exhibition walls. I much prefer the year, the place, and the list of materials. Here the list of materials itself opens a door. Some are the backs of stretchers, some have been foraged from the forest floor, the tenderness of it, the lineage of woods. Sisu again pertaining to what can be achieved in a life dedicated to circumferential confession and to searching. Then under the shock of incredulity, one tries out circumfession, the attempt to make oneself spit out the most secret blood so as to try to see with one's own eyes its interior color of what? Of one's own spirit, the personal juice of life, the inner proof of the existence of self. Picasso's interior color, fur, foraged from the forest floor. Sand partially painted, inner proof of the existence of self. Part nine, antlers. We've had antlers so I was like wanting to end on antlers. Eventually we are no longer trapped. We are momentarily free. This is both comforting and terrifying. At the bus stop where no one has been mauled by a bear, I wait for my youngest son. At the bus stop where no one has been mauled by a bear, I wait for my youngest son. And a high school boy comes walking up from the far end of the cul-de-sac. The high school kids get out early and he is in charge of his dogs. Behind the cul-de-sac are a pump station and a path into wild woods past a vineyard to the river. He has been walking his blue-tick hound in his Irish setter. For a moment that all three are wild, something of their most secret blood is still visible. I am the first human he has seen. I am part of his reluctant return and also part of his foreignness. In his hand he has one half of a rack of antlers of what was once a 10-point buck. We both marvel at it. It is extraordinary. We try to imagine the breadth of it. It's span when mounted on the living head. He points out the chip on a lower point where something small has tried to move the body of the buck and failed. Time collapses. Living and dead change places. I'm wild now. We are. We're the mystery. Love impenets us. I don't tell him about Picasso's famous bike seat bull with handlebar horns, bull's head. Mounted in triumph at Mama, but hidden in a bathroom in Paris all through the war years. I don't tell him about death's head rising up in bronze from a nearby white table and resembling a burn victim. Its face frozen and its nose collapsed. Secreted by Picasso to the Foundry in the dead of night. To be fired lest the occupying Nazis find him practicing his art. The ultimate interior act made exterior one that could cost him his life. I don't approach the war years with the boy because I am not totally free and I can see he may yet be. He tells me that tomorrow he will go back and look for the antlers other half, restore to the beast his crown. Because if he doesn't the day after that, a covering snow is coming to bury it. The idea, it's one of those things. Like it's swallowed me for a really long time. He also, like something I've been saying a lot lately with the health and needs. Another thing he said is, he was a writer before him. So there are books from before the war and then the poems that were on the body. So he's like, you know, this is a great figure. And in his earlier work he said, why do I write what else am I doing? Poetry, cat's nail, dog's hat. It's like we're done here.  So it makes me a cat to fulfill my function. That's a try. Yeah, it does. You mentioned a non-proficient poetry. Yeah, I just, the first time I heard about that. I said that, the first time I said that. So, but I guess I'm saying I'm making a choice to try to, like, I'm not trying, I'm not trying, I'm trying to imagine toward what it is to be truthful and honest. I mean, I don't think it's completely captured. I don't think it's ever been to truth, but I do think poetry is on the non-proficient side. I think it's one way to non-fiction and poetry tends to be closer. Like, the reason people try one or the other, you know, it's the same enterprise, I think. It's just kind of working forward for something. And I think fiction isn't also different. I mean, you're probably saying it's in the magnetic world where you're trying to get at a truth. So I don't know that fiction isn't included, but I think poetry, I'm thinking of it in my self-past, an act of time to get to it. I apologize. It's weird being back behind you. Lone? Well, I mean, one of them recently was like, you're not allowed to write about me. And the other one's like, it's how she makes her money. So just... Which is not true, really, at all, because it actually doesn't matter a stitch what I write about as far as being paid to be a professor, I'd like, you know. But like, in fact, some people might pay me not to write, you know, like, it's farm subsidies for not growing corn or whatever, but like, but I don't, my older boy is gonna proof this book this summer.  So, but I mean, and he reads them and he'll be like, wow, you're really, you're getting a lot clearer. It's mostly like, like criticism that's like, gee, you know, that one is, you know. And he'll be like, you're gonna explain that before you read it or whatever. Yeah, so. The younger one will sit on my lap while I'm working and I will read something to him and then he'll like go and get a sheet of paper and start drawing in the quiet like space that, you know, is made by my working. But yeah, but beyond just, it's like he doesn't want me to take any of his pictures either. So it's like that. But I don't know how they're gonna feel and I honestly did not work out those ethical considerations. And I was writing about them way before Sandy Hook, like, you know, they're my whole subject from the beginning and I don't know how they're gonna feel in their teen years. I'll let you know to be determined. Anyone else? Anything else? Yes? Yeah. You're right. So the bus stop poem is later. And it, I think, is clearer. Because it's always toward clarity, one hopes.  That leads to not. So like, did you think it was a clearer poem than the other poems? No, it's not. The language. Yeah. Yeah, I think that like, well, Ashbury said, John Ashbury said something like, you know, poets, there's a river of language and poets are just like getting a cup of it and pouring it out on the desk. And it's always flowing, but it's flowing. And so it's different all the time. So it's nice to know there's a change in my ear or whatever, like all of our cells regenerate. You know, why wouldn't our ear be different two years from, so yeah. Yes. Yeah, I mean, the poems are chronological really inside the book. And the chronology is like an essay accompanying a set of poems and then another essay accompanying another set of poems like that. And the book is the event, the aftermath and the anniversary. That poem is part of the front matter because it frames the thematic idea of the bear and the bus stop. Which I hope you saw, like I'm hoping because I've never read all this together, that you saw that those last two sections also deal with the bear and the bus stop and wild things at the bus stop. But now the wild thing is a beautiful thing that isn't hurting anyone. Well, it's just a thematically unified book. One hopes. The hope would be that that antler section feels good. You'll have to tell me, but like, there's some peace there. And that, so it moves from like difficulty into some kind of acceptance. So in that way, it has that arc that fiction has which is like conflict and resolution. But I mean, hopefully not because of the subject is so difficult, it would not be a simple resolution. But the nice pretty thing happens at the end. Somebody buries something. I don't know, I'm talking really simply about it, but that's the idea. You know, and these are the concerns. It's actually kind of interesting we're gonna have that panel on managing the mess because this is really what I'm talking about, managing the mess. And surrendering to the fact that this book has to have this content that I'm not comfortable with. That's a big thing. And then embracing that and using my organizational ability to make it as palatable as possible. Well, thank you all for being my first witness.


Amphibious Landing Exercise 2012 kicked off with an opening ceremony at Fort Bonifacio. During the exercise, more than 2,000 members of the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade and their Filipino counterparts will participate in a variety of training, including live fire maneuvers and amphibious operations. We understand that relationships start here and they start at the small unit level and those same individuals that start those relationships now, 20 years now, they will have matured those relationships and they will be friends. So this exercise will be good for us, it will be good for the armed forces of the Philippines. The Marines of the Brigade will also conduct several engineering, medical and dental civil action projects. Lance Corporal Daniel Valley, Fort Bonifacio, Republic of the Philippines.


Why complete a TEFL course? Is it really helpful? For me, the decision to take a TEFL course was one that I had not planned on at any time in my life until recently. English to me was never my strongest subject in school. As an American growing up I found my personal education experience to be fairly mundane and unrewarding. The courses that I enjoyed more were math and science, especially physics These topics seem to hold my interest better. Traditional school was never a priority to me, but an understanding of how things work and why is what captivated my interest. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate John B. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. After years of working in different industries, primarily manual labor, I started working at the university in my hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska. Here I have had the opportunity to meet and interact with many students and coworkers from different nationalities who have had a completely different perspective on life in America than myself. I always appreciate the chance to learn from someone else. Being in a multicultural atmosphere has been a wonderful experience for me. I feel that, as soon as you make friends with someone from another country you have gained an invaluable understanding that elevates what could otherwise be a narrow-minded view of the world. I have personally helped a close friend study for and get a citizenship in the United States. When he started working with me at the university his English was fairly limited and he was very timid to interact with most other people. It has been so rewarding to be a part of his informal education. By working next to native English speakers his English has improved every day. I know firsthand how important it is for people to practice and develop their language skills. Before taking this course it never occurred to me that someday I may very well go to another country for a job. Before working where I do now I seldom had the chance to meet people who are from so many different countries. I can take inspiration from those who have traveled far from home to better themselves. I have made many friends from all over the world. I think that being an English teacher in another country could be one of the most rewarding things you could do. So many other countries value English education and being able to help those people and make strong friendships is an amazing thing. For me, the times when school was enjoyable was when there was an engaging teacher that could really keep you motivated. Even if you didn't love the curriculum you felt involved in the class and wanted to do well. It is so important to have good teachers that can connect with a class. The whole experience can really take on a life of its own. You leave the class thinking about it and wanting to come back the next day and the next. This is the kind of atmosphere the student can thrive in. I hope that if I get the opportunity to teach English abroad that I can create that kind of a classroom environment. One where each student feels important and cared for. I decided to take the TEFL course to see if I have the ability to complete it. I know that completing the course does not make me an English teacher, but it may give me the opportunity to begin a new path towards working as an English teacher in another country. I think that with the right attitude you can achieve whatever your goal is. Are you ready to teach English abroad? Apply now for your TEFL TESOL certification course and start teaching in a matter of months. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


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keep coming on and the Here comes Nancy It is being recorded by us and it's also being recorded by orca media So I think that we can start and people that are joining late will still have the ability to back and see What what transpired so from the folks that are here do we have any additions to the agenda tonight? Okay, I'd like to know about the if we have a dog catcher dog catcher right Sorry, who asked that I quit because I can't see Susan Susan Morsh Thank you That's vacant right now those yeah, but it is yeah, so Community distancing Yes, that's yes We did our best to post this physically in three places and Warned it on our website and emailed instructions to interesting parties and it was posted on front porch Forum and Facebook and this is this is an experiment as you all know, this is our first virtual select board meeting which is Come because of the virus situation and our need for social distancing so this is We enacted this with the understanding that the legislature is I thought that they had Made an adjustment to the open meeting law that would allow a meeting to happen without Physical spot for people to come it turns out that is a proposal and they haven't they haven't finalized that so Legally by Vermont rules. We can't have an official meeting like this, but in the nature of Doing what we believe needs to happen to protect the community in this situation we're going ahead and and Having this meeting virtually and I believe that within days that will be Legally permissible and if we have to have another special meeting to ratify any decisions We make it this meeting to make them binding they way we will do so, but I Think you'll agree at least all of you that are here that this is the the proper decision There's no reason to to sit someone in the town office to share germs anyone So that said we're gonna move on as if this was a normal meeting and we've already asked for Additions to the agenda. We're going to bring up the prior meeting minutes And the first was the pre-town meeting and Pat was not at the last meeting so and At the other one so we needed to so it's between Pat and I to approve the minutes for the Pre-town meeting that February 24 that you approve those. I have read them and I I approve them. I second it All right, and I I also so I'll move we pass those except those is type Long favor All right, and then we go to the February Which was the regular select board meeting following the pre-town meeting and Same thing I would move that we accept those minutes as presented a second and vote aye voting aye and Dune if you weren't there that yet on that one. Oh, that's right next one you get to do sorry about that I move we overzealous minutes now the next meeting minutes, which was on the March 9th meeting And that's me and Frank Pat. You weren't there. So Frank now I would enter a Motion to accept those minutes as Presented I second that all right, and there we go on favor aye. All right. All right, so we've got the minutes Minutes from town meeting the actual town meeting. Do we need to approve those? I think that I Don't see them No on the I don't see them on the agenda and I would Julie do you know about that? Did we have some meetings for the town the town maintenance meeting? We don't yet. No, no, all right. What's what's holding those up? Well, if it helps it was in the Herald Those aren't your official minutes though, of course It was asked at the last meeting on March 9th When they would be put up on our website. Oh, okay I need to get Dan signature and I'll have those all sent Okay, we're waiting on that's right because Dan is a one that okay, so we'll have to check with Dan on that Okay. All right. All right good We've got no Joan here tonight So I guess we won't get any updates from her or the library. I don't see Cougar here and to Terry. We're getting rapidly down to what we're all here to talk about is the Adopting the 2020 local hazard mitigation plan and Vic. Do you want to speak to that a little bit sure? So We have a document called the local hazard mitigation plan. This is a Plan that the town has had in the past and it has a life of I think five years of this ban And then it has to be renewed if you want to maintain eligibility for FEMA Reimbursement, so there are specifications for the doc for the plan document that have to satisfy FEMA requirements we received a grant last year to Have professional planning assistance help our emergency management committee put a new plan together and So we use that grant to retain two rivers. They provided staff to the committee The committee composed of myself as chair Cougar Terry Severi Jan McCann Rob Gardner and Pat Harvey we met several times over the between summer and Winter and Reviewed that what we had in the past Considered various criteria for how we might through the plan The overall idea is to help us identify all the hazards facing the town rank them identify identify strategies to reduce risk from known priority hazards like Flash floods severe weather cold snow extreme heat Things of that nature. So we went through that process generated several drafts Senate to the state Emergency management office where it was reviewed and they came back with Some suggestions for improvement to be more aligned with FEMA requirements. We did all that and Then we've got a clean bill The last time around in December. I think it was and so the next step is to present it to the select board who received their approval and Then it can be sent off to the state and the state will send it on a FEMA And then we will be eligible for female reimbursement if there's another disaster. It does not speak specifically to Coronavirus any other pandemic? This was an issue that was just not on the radar when we were putting this plan together And perhaps been an amendment at some point or in a future addition will He'd add that in but this would this would be satisfactory in terms of meeting FEMA requirements at this time So so the documents about 55 pages long Martha sat in on at least things and reported down at the paper all the meetings were warned appropriately and So there's been an opportunity to review it So let me just stop there and see if anybody has any questions You know, thank you for for that synopsis and Like I said earlier since it's questionable to what extent we can take binding action Eating I would I would still propose that we we had this this plan and then we can come back and reaffirm that adoption In the future once they've Legitimize this meeting format. So I'd entertain a vote now to adopt this plan Second that yeah, no in favor No, right that's I think that in this situation that has to be a roll call. So that's some Pat you're saying aye Yep, and Frank you're saying aye Saying aye just so it's identified who's voting in that situation Do I want to excuse me do. Yeah, can I ask you a question? Yeah, I want to make sure I get this worded correctly I was saying doon proposed that the board adopt the plan provisionally until after and after until they get a Formal approval from the state to do the virtual meetings and then go back and do a Prove it again. Is that correct? Well, we won't need to approve it again I believe we can just ratify the decisions that we're making in public now and Just to make sure that all bases are covered. Maybe totally fine But just you know, we'll we'll come back and because this is um, that's an important thing to And we don't want to mess it up. Okay. So if I said do you propose the board adopt the plan and then act to ratify that after the the After the virtual meeting format is Legitimized. Thank you. I just want to make sure I get that correct and don't make trouble for you guys. No, no, that's that's all right That's why I want to get it. So That was really the the the meat of the agenda tonight other than the elephant in the in the town about in this and Burma you brought up what are we going to be doing about? You know social distancing in town this We have ready in the mail the second in the series of town mailers, which is going to provide About the town's response to COVID-19 and it's because it's a definitely a rapidly changing situation And that's I mean increasingly urgent that People adhere to safety guidelines for social distancing by staying home and ceasing non essential outings and Dr. Erwin Lang of Gifford Medical Center is met with us when I say Of course that is dealing with this and that it's comprised of myself and Rob Gardner and Vic Robato and Catherine Shankman and Vic do you want to speak to the structures and the different roles that we're all playing in that sure sure so Part of the scope responsibility of the emergency management committee is to address unforeseen incidents like this and So we created a small task force that Dune just identified and we created a structure go with it our overall mission is to organize the efforts to lessen the suffering of folks in Rochester as a result of this coronavirus pandemic and Collaborate with local state federal organizations to do the same and So we've created a very simple table of organization where we have an incident commander I play that role as the convener of the group and Helping us sure that we stay on task Rob Gardner is working as our communications chief where he's creating and executing Communications plans. He's putting good information up on the web to drive the the mailer that dude just a reference and taking in in from questions from public and Triaging them and sorry them out and getting answers to folks as questions come up Dune as he's he's coordinating make sure that our town services remain Functioning, you know, we don't know how long this thing is going to last and we have critical services that sound provides to the residents and so He's focused on on that And then Catherine shankman is has put together a team including Paula d'Ordi Peggy McKinley Jan McKinnon, I think maybe someone else him I might be forgetting Anyway looking at elder and family services issues that might arise and then Sue Robato is focused on food security and she's been able to create a volunteer service where people who are isolated Either they're Been been told to take self-isolation to determine whether or not they have the virus or if they're a vulnerable person like a Senior person and shouldn't be out shopping for groceries that they've created sooner group have created a system To shop for and deliver groceries to people who can't or shouldn't go out and do this themselves And that's scheduled to launch next Monday And you'll be hearing and seeing more about that soon So we're trying to anticipate What the urgent needs are and and what's coming down the pike, but as everybody knows there's a lot of unknowns here We just keep reiterating the message that Berm identified as we got started that the social distancing is really really important And this one of the doctors at Gifford said to me if it's not a pain in the rear end You're not doing it right you got a you really got to be diligent about it It's difficult, but the alternative is a lot worse Make a comment That In terms of what you just laid out. I I know that More tests will be done in the future and possibly more people in our community are going to be tested but there is no uniform information regarding post-testing and actions of people while they're waiting to get their results from their tests and I am afraid that That because there's no uniform way every doctor and their patient have their own personal relationship People will be going out before they get their test results Not knowing whether they're positive And I I foresee that this could be a problem in our community And I wonder how best to address this Probably through public communication as Rob stunned the line. Do you want to speak to that if you're there Rob? Yeah, go ahead. Well, it's important to keep in mind that we're not the police and we're not You know, we don't have the power to chase people back into their houses or anything like that I think all all the I think that we can do is to continue to communicate with tools We have which right now our Facebook front page forum physical mailers and the town website And then a lot of people are sharing this stuff and moving the stuff around This the single most important message that I'm repeating over and over again on the on the on the stuff That we put out is this business of staying and staying inside isolating yourself Because it's not only your safety that we're talking about or the safety of the person that you might infect rival the hospital upon which we all And they're in trouble at like hospitals all across so that's just a message that we can repeat mixed in together with What you know things are going on or canceled in town or whatever I'm just wondering if maybe in the letter that goes out people could be remind It's important to wait The letter it has has been posted the text has been posted on these different internet sites now and I guess right now the letter is focusing on on Symptoms and testing and reducing the hospital surge and tips for caregivers caring for a person with the virus and cleaning and preventing the spread and Simple just simple prevention tips and then also Pointing out that we are putting together the volunteer team to help shop and deliver groceries to people that are quarantined or Isolated so that's that's the gist of what this letter this immediate letter is going out and it's And you're that's a good point Burma to that could be folded in to You know following letters is that then the importance of I Mean really everyone just should just assume that they have it and act accordingly Can I chime in just real quick? If people are interested in rabble bring this up with you later But Dan and I have gotten tested already. We are negative But I could write up a short brief thing on how we went about it how what we were instructed to do and How we were instructed to act just as something kind of personalized maybe for the Facebook page or something else Informationally it might help people kind of understand this happened to folks in our town and here's what they went through and here's how they acted That's great. Let's see The other question sure you and Dan got got tested Did you have did you get tested because you felt you had symptoms or was it because you travel internationally or what? We had just come back to a trip where we both went Italy And then Dan had a high fever. So we checked all the boxes. That makes sense. Okay, I just wondered Can you post it somewhere else besides Facebook for those who don't do Facebook? I can I can put it on front porch forum, too. I've been copying a lot of the things If anybody has other ideas of you know useful just to share the information stuff, so we're happy to add more options now Lucy has been been volunteering to repost with the stuff from The one platform to the other with the big pain in the butt and she's been very helpful in that. I think that's a great idea Lizzie to do that. Also, Burma, you can send me a note saying what you think and I'll put I'll write it into a post and put It up tomorrow. Whatever you say, I mean I'll do the best I can to format it and put it up there right away anybody else too Rob, I want to say that how much I've enjoyed the Rochester, I guess it's a community. I guess it's called the community website that you've been using you've been posting so much about coronavirus on Bolton board pardon me. Anyway, it's it's very well done and and very much appreciated Can I uh We're gonna continue to mail out something every once in a while about the updates on this thing That's our thought now. Yeah, but I don't know if it would be weekly or but Yeah, what kind of precautions are you gonna have for the people delivering this the food and everything and doing the shopping Precautions on that. Yeah, they'll we'll provide them First of all instructions about how to stay safe and and not have real direct not have direct contact with the people who are receiving the Goods are basically leaving on the doorstep and Still give them gloves and and masks. We have a supply of them We can use for that purpose and make sure that the people who are doing this are not in the higher risk categories even those So people some of the people would like to do this Okay, I also Notice that there was a group of people playing basketball Sunday afternoon down For and there were cars there as well. So there were adults who were driving them there to play I didn't uh take any police action Rob Several hours I saw them and I I felt like I couldn't go down and say anything because it but it bothered me and I mentioned it to somebody so Well, yeah, I mean it's gonna happen um, it's just You know, I don't want to expose myself by going to a group of strangers and I think maybe they all I could think of was that maybe they thought it was okay because they were all outside and in fresh air But even so they were playing with a basketball passing the ball back and forth between each other And they and they were all being close to each other while doing so which I don't know I had seen something about that on um one of the websites about how that would definitely wasn't a good idea Yeah So I posted a thing in response to that because a couple of people contacted me about it And I used the event as a kind of a platform to talk further about why I needed to do that But I got some negative feedback and private messages from people down who were just kind of disgruntled that I guess I was presuming authority or something like that You you can see that that not everybody is on board of the whole idea that you need to be responsible You know, it irritates some people not, you know here in the entire country. So I don't know what to do about that except for every single person to try to be as personally responsible as they can Some people aren't going to do it I I witnessed that I was walking the dog out in the back and I didn't approach them but my um My intuition or sense about it was that it looked like a group. They're probably already if they're Infecting each other by playing ball. I think they're probably already had infected each other by driving together I I don't think they were locals. I think it might be someone that has Retreated to a house in town perhaps and just getting out and playing side, you know to I don't think we can just you know ban everyone from From No, I didn't recognize any of them. Yeah, I didn't either and I I didn't it seems to me It was a new york plate on a car. So I my sense was this was a a group and they were there as a group I don't think it was just a gathering of of stray people playing I think that was a group that arrived together and was playing together and then they probably all left together too so It's we're gonna we're gonna have that we have there's definitely been an influx of people Coming to to homes in our area to to ride out the storm as it may be They have closed playgrounds in our area. They've posted signs Including Someone was trying to talk but I couldn't quite hear them but anyway that um Yeah, you know, what are you gonna do? We do the best we can and try and educate people that's um Probably not a bad idea to put up a sign out the you know Down there, but it's you know I Could does anyone else have any anything else and other concerns things I'd like to contribute I was just wondering if uh vick, uh, was there a Telephone meeting today with the emergency committee? No, uh, we had one large group meeting Week ago or so and we tried doing that by uh conference call and it just Didn't work very well And I also felt that a smaller group could be a little more nimble in terms of making decisions getting things done pulling in the right people and so that's uh, so we went to just the smaller group of uh, dune rob Catherine sue and and myself and then we pull another expertise as we needed like dr. Lang or uh, Jan mccann or terry sevry is the case may be so That's why we would seem to be working. Okay Okay, so you had that smaller meeting so um in your update that included whatever discussion came from the smaller Yeah, I often uh after a meeting I make a little paragraph about what happened in the meeting pretty brief and post it on Facebook and the front let me post it on front page It's not like the minutes but it it gives a sense of what the key things were that happened in the meeting And I do that For people and to give people the idea that the lights are on in the town and you know, we're still paying attention Well, um, I guess we're um, we're in it and we're gonna keep Moving forward. I I think there are a lot of times when living in a in a small town like Rochester really has A lot of challenges economically and And socially and in this situation it I believe that our small size is going to really be To our benefit in terms of the it will it helps It helps the social distancing I mean because someone said, uh, oh social distancing. Isn't that what it means to live in Vermont? Not really You know, I heard someone comment the other day that oh this this uh pandemic is just like going through Irene and I thought No, it's not because Irene nobody was dying and also if someone was sad and upset during Irene We all hugged each other and you can't do that now. Yeah Yeah, but um, I do I do think um, it's wonderful to see How our committees are working so hard to make things happen like for example, Sue Roboto's thing with the grocery deliveries for people and I mean That's that's one of the wonderful things about living in a small town in Vermont I think uh people I've gotten a lot of kind, uh Comments on the facebook page You know appreciating me, but I'm only the most uh, visible Volunteer of a whole lot of people, you know, all the sues people, uh, Catherine's got a whole Social service team put together. Uh, everybody has been working As much as they can within the confines we have and I think it's really something to be proud of. I think it's quite touching I agree You could say stay home stop the spread save lives Yeah, that's short and sweet Well, you will all be getting a um, uh fairly scary detailed letter in the mail um, you know with uh specific recommendations and and advice and that will not be the last one and um We'll um move forward. It's um, it's challenging times and let's say we're gonna deal with it In terms of Other business Susan we don't have uh designated dog catcher right now Did you have a situation in mind? Did you have a problem with the dog? No, I was just wondering if we don't have a designated dog catcher um and considering just people having difficult times with Being laid off etc that Would it be possible to consider not having the dog licensing fees since there's no one to do anything about them anyhow? and just put that on that side, I don't think that I think that the dog licensing is is um Regardless of not having a dog catcher. They're two separate separate issues. It's really a matter of verifying that the dogs are properly vaccinated and and just knowing where they are and and You know, even though we don't have someone as the animal control officer at this point now When we do or if even just a citizen Finds a stray dog. It'd be nice if it has a tag on it and it's licensed Then it's easy to track down and I mean take it home so Yeah, so I think we'll keep that We need to keep that What is that money going for if there's not a dog catcher then?  I don't think that specifically offsets the cost of the human officer that is basically just Just a fee for the processing and the paperwork that needs to be filed and probably to buy the little metal medallions It's not a not a large fee, but it's a state requirement. Do I think it probably is. Yeah Yeah, the state gets part the state gets part of them The state gets part of all fees license All right Does anyone have anything else that they'd like to talk about tonight or I think we know what the the main topic is and and we'll We'll continue on This for the foreseeable future this may be the The venue that we That we use to do this. I'm finding that this experience worked very well compared to the The conference call we tried last week. I've been able to understand Everything everyone has tried to say and I believe that in zoom it is possible to just join With a phone you don't need to be on a computer, but I think the invite the information The information goes out via an email There is um, but if you get the Yeah, there is um, it's definitely helpful to have a computer and it's the first one of these meetings I've ever run on. So Rob has done it a handful of times I'm sure that we'll have some people that are a little um frustrated that they felt left out of this, but we'll um It's not like you can say go to the library and get on their computer Okay, and um Well at the end, you know the date of the next version being etc And for more information if they'd like somebody'd like to be included they could call Office would that be all right or is that an imposition? No, I think that that's that's appropriate. Yeah, okay I would like to suggest that julie send out the Code the zoom code a half an hour before the starts She can easily do that I don't see that as being an issue because I never got one and I get and she had my email address. So For some reason I didn't receive any any email Oh, sorry about that berba Sort of a group email and maybe uh, you know, this it's a work in progress this whole thing Actually, this went really well I tried to do it. I would it was really hard and uh, this I think the julie and Dune and and the folks who put this together Really did a good job. I'm glad if they the code in an hour early. They'll just get a screen that says you're me And so then people can get settled with their computers and make sure they have everything running from there And in case they have to create password or whatever to get into zoom Um Hey, dude, yes, uh, just a question you you mentioned the town plan the other uh last meeting Yes, that is a time crunch on that There's not a um On that it's it's um And that goes to the two rivers region regional committee to for the regional um agreement Then this it seemed that there is Enough interest in that we were Um, this is not the time to have people feel that they Input on that because of the the challenges of of meeting right now. So I think that I know I was just Wondering if there was a time frame to it. I wasn't not. No, we don't have a super um Um Super deadline on that. It's just something that we're in the process of We felt as um credit adopt the local hazard Mitigation plan because we don't know to what extent FEMA will become coming into um into play Yeah, but it's it's um It's out there. We didn't want to just have anyone feel like we're Rushing the town plan through without a chance for the public to really Conversation about it.  Yeah Um, we took a picture of my screenshot here of what this zoom meeting is like I wanted to check with people who have their script. They're um on I mean, it's very small But I thought it might be helpful to upload that to the community The facebook page to show This is what our virtual solo board looks like if people want to join the meeting It just kind of makes it a little easier to see how it goes, but a few of you have Images Right now, I wish I could have gotten the images to work on my screen. I can see people's names, but no pictures Yeah, we see you Martha Oh gosh Well, I'm glad I brushed my hair at um Media once again for working with us to document There the meeting so I I'm So it'll be good to have this posted on the on the website and It'll help to Normalize it I suppose Perhaps So I guess with that we're going to sign off at um 6 58 that was um Our first virtual meeting the broad chester is move the future one way or another Thanks everybody


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Okay, so Two things are two important things one is skit the people who are going to do the skit today Oh, hey, very good. Okay. Good. You ready today. Okay. Good. Can you just come to that corner and do a little huddle start planning on it? In the meantime, I will start having other conversations. So how many in your group? Please come all five of you. Please come Actually the theme of our skittest that agriculture should be Appreciated farmer should be like encouraged to do agriculture and agriculture should be maintained. There's a theme of our skitt I am money one and I am introducing my team members Mr. Balasupramani, he will be acting as former one and Mr. Mahesh Kumar. He will be son of former one Mr. Mani Mohan former two and Mr. Uchimutu. He will be a corporate company owner There are two farmers, former one and former two. They are doing cultivation in their land Former one and former two. They are doing cultivation in their land and the meanwhile what happens? We'll see Hey friend, why are you looking so worried? My son had completed his engineering. He wants to go for a job in the nearby city If everyone moves to the cities, who will look after agriculture and cultivator crops for the next generation? Are you mad? You uneducated people can do this work.  I am planning to construct a corporate company over here. Whose lands are these? These lands belongs to me and my friend. We are doing cultivation over here.  What will you get out of it? A few thousands? I am ready to pay in lakhs for these lands. Is it true? Will you buy it for lakhs? Who are you? I am an engineering graduate. Some of these lands belongs to my father Then speak to these farmers. Do sell these lands to me. I will offer you a job in my company Father, our life is going to be lighted up. I am going to earn in lakhs Let us get rid of this agriculture and we will live a luxurious life No, my friend. Never give you a land. We don't know anything other than this agriculture and cultivation Sorry friend. My son's life is more important for me. Sir, will I also get a job in your company? Yeah, yeah, okay. You do housekeeping over there Sorry sir. My friend, I had agreed to sell this land, but I am not convinced. So farmer One had given his land to the software company and farmer two was still continuing with this cultivation in his land In few months the company was constructed. Farmer one and his son were working in it one fine day Hey, who had cleaned the floor? It's me, sir.  Do you know the value of this floor? It's made out of Italian marbles, sir. Sorry, sir. I'm not get used to this job. Then why the hell are you working here? Get lost The farmer one who sold his land was sent out of the company. He went to meet his old friend farmer two Hello friend Haven't you went to your company? No, my friend. They have thrown me out like a waste. I'm sorry Now what are you going to do? I don't know. Please help me Don't worry. You can share some of my land and let us do cultivation over there Thank you, my friend. At least I am convinced that my son is happy. Hey, look there. Your son is coming What happened son? Why are you came here that that company had fired me out without a reason? I lost my job. What are you saying? What will you do now? Don't worry my son. I feel sorry for you that day you spoke very bad about agriculture and cultivation This land and nature is God's gift. We should live happily with what we have the theme of the skittish a Computer engineer may be more educated than a farmer, but even a bowl of rice can't be downloaded in a computer Nature provides for each and every one of our needs, but we destroy it by our grits This kid is dedicated to all the farmers Jake is on I just wrote a poem on these environment and The theme is the same as this kid done before if you like this give the One oh my raksha ka wash reine do Jheel oh my jarno my saas reine do one oh my raksha ka wash reine do Jheel oh my jarno my saas reine do Vraksha hai washtar jalke vraksha hai washtar jalke Cheen mat ye libas reine do Vraksha me ghosla hai chadiyo ka. Toad mat ye nivaas reine do. Toad mat ye nivaas reine do Peda pawadhe chirag hai washke Peda pawadhe chirag hai washke Vanohme baakee uj чahs reinehomen drake Its keep on lightning Van hain so rangin hain ye kudrat Van hain to rangin hain ye kudratasy es amanat ko khas reinedo Adar إند incomplete Vano me khoja maha pursho ne khutko, jari ye unki talaash rahne do. Arre bachalo van ko yeh sab kuch hai apna, van ke taskaron ko udas rahne do. Hatalo parda jute adhooni ki karand se, jivan me apne harsho ullas rahne do. Khushiya vano se to khushiya ogao, khushiya vano se to khushiya ogao. Khushiyo ko apne pas rahne do, khushiyo ko apne pas rahne do. Van ka darja mata pitasa hai, jinda ye ahsas rahne do. Nitna ye ped laga ke, vano ki vraddi ki as rahne do. I just wrote it last night. I just want to share something. When I was in bachelor in SITI Vidisha, there is a river called Betwa. I just started a movement with Patrika paper that is Jal Bachao Abhiyan. So I started a movement for Betwa Nadi. I started with my hostel, roommates and hostel guys. So they are just laughing me, ke yaar kya, sobe, sobe, kachara uthaane jao. Me li chalo cricket khelenge apan. Then I motivated my civil engineering branch. I said, paper me foto aayega aayega. So we just go with the department. And finally we just started with the whole college.  And that time me ne slogan diya tha. That is, virasat vo nahi hai jo hame mili hai. Virasat vo nahi hai jo hame mili hai. Virasat vo hoti hai jo hum chhol kar jaate hai. Virasat vo hoti hai jo hum chhol kar jaate hai. Ma'am jo bol rehte that is the solution. Solution ki ke liye jo ma'am barwar emphasize kar rehte. The better solution is that we are 160 teachers or faculties are here. If we just motivate only 10 students. That is, we become 1600. So it will become a 1600 group. And Anahajare, they are only 6 or 8 people. And they just shook the India. So if we just come with 1600 strength. So it's not a small thing. To pariwantan ke liye pehel jaruri hai. So that is the main thing. Ki kar sakte hain, apan bhi kar sakte hain. My dream is to come IIT Bombay in bachelors. And it is fulfilled after masters. But I think to dream is much better than to leave it. So we can do it. Or jaseh me ne belt ban na chhol diya, leather ka. I never use belt. Never use leather shoes. So yeh chhoti chhoti chee jah apan bhi kar sakte hain. Apan lipstick use nahi kar hain. Kuch chhotta kuch apan kar sakte hain. So there are only 3Ds. 3Ds that is discipline, dedication and determination of success. If we follow these 3Ds, then we can do anything. Thanks, thanks a lot. My name is Prahanshu Chaube. I am from Truba Engineering College from Indore. Thanks, thanks, thanks man.


As you suggest that I represented the religious congregations Catholic orders of Canada, but Palestine was not new to me I studied scripture in Palestine and I accompanied pilgrimages to the Holy Land over the years and I'm also very much in touch with the Palestinian community here in Toronto because when I'm in my office every morning I have coffee with Palestinians. So as a result of that I'm aware of the issues confronting Palestine Because the people with whom I have coffee they're in touch via Skype normally with their family members actually living in Palestine Bethlehem and in Jordan and Lebanon and So I'm aware therefore of the issues that we've spoken about the occupation the settlements the torture the jailings and the annexations and of course while we lived in Palestine we found ourselves in a walled ghetto called Bethlehem After a couple of days of our visit. I found myself in a very interesting place I found myself sliding into a bit of a spiritual retreat For the time that I was in Palestine this time. I Was incredibly interested in the folks that I met the folks who traveled with us around and who associated with us in the varied communities that we met. I was interested in them and how they were personally living this human tragedy. The bigger political and demographic issues slid a bit to the back And so I began to call what I was personally experiencing and that which I wanted to bring back to Canada I was calling it a terrible beauty Why did this retreat interest come upon me a? Few years ago when I returned from a similar exposure visit to Brazil a friend of mine commented Paul, why is it when you return from the global South Africa Latin America Middle East?  You're very positive and yet when you leave our middle-class Canadian Conversations you're kind of flat. I Thought about his comment for weeks and then I came to realize and man Did it ever hit me in Palestine? That the folks in the global South and the Middle East Seen to me to be living out of their essence While most of us in the north of the Americas We're living out of our extra and Of course There's never enough extra when you live there So for most of us are experienced in Palestine I listened to observe deeply and what out of my way to seek personal intimate conversations With folks that we encountered for example, I spent a bit of an afternoon with a medical doctor from be at saur The manager of the hotel where we stayed a couple of hours of conversation with him the employees of that hotel Where we stayed people I met when the mayor of Bethlehem gave us a Supper and there were varied folks from varied religious commitments there And then of course when I was with Tyros Palestine, I met with the patriarch a Few years ago on a similar visit to Latin America a young person said to me who was following me around for three days Paul having seen what you've seen and Experienced what you have experienced When you go back home to Toronto and do nothing You're not only not a Christian You're not even a human being that comment haunted me The time I was in Palestine with the delegation and that was the reflection I took away as I journeyed in flight back to Toronto So for me personally because I've seen so many similar kinds of delegations Going to very places throughout our world And it's nice to talk about it. It's very beautiful to say hey, we're in the conversation But it has to happen back here. And so for me the question is I'm a Canadian What am I doing if I say I am truly committed to the struggles in Palestine


Welcome, geometricians and logicians to some conjecture practice. You should have your note sheet out and we will be working on some of the conjectures listed on your sheet. The instructions state that we are to determine whether each conjecture is true or false. And if it is false, find a counter example. Our first conjecture is that the sum of two odd integers is even. Try and find two odd numbers that when you add them together, do you always get an even? Or do you sometimes get an odd? Pause the video right now and practice. This conjecture is true, no matter what odd integers you try when you add two odd integers. The answer is indeed even. Our next conjecture is that the product of an odd integer and an even integer is odd. Use an odd integer and an even integer and multiply them together and see what kind of answer you get. This conjecture is false and a counter example is that six times seven is 42. Six being an even integer, seven being an odd integer, when I multiply them I get 42. The conjecture is false and I have provided a counter example of that. The instructions on the next part of the note sheet state that you are to make a conjecture based on the given information. You have some information, you are supposed to make a conjecture and draw a figure to illustrate the conjecture. Pause the video right now and make a conjecture. Maybe make two conjectures about the information if you know that angle ABC is a right angle. What else do you know? So here is my illustration, I drew a picture, a figure to illustrate my conjecture. I might conjecture that angle ABC is a 90 degree angle or I might have a conjecture that segment AB and BC are perpendicular. So those are two examples of conjectures that I can make from the information that angle ABC is a right angle. Now I have the conjecture that point S is between R and T. Draw the figure of S between R and T and make a conjecture based on that figure. So here is my figure, S is between R and T. A conjecture might be that distance RS plus distance ST equals distance RT. If you remember segment addition from chapter one from back about a week ago. Looking at the note sheet our next set of instructions say determine whether each conjecture is true or false. If it's true you're done. If it's false you need to give a counter example for the false conjecture. We have that angles one and two are adjacent and the conjecture is that angle one and two form a linear pair. Is it true that if two angles are adjacent they absolutely have to form a linear pair. No that is not true this is a false conjecture. Now I will draw a counter example. So here's a picture of angle one and angle two they are adjacent they do have share a common side but they certainly do not form a line. So that is a counter example to the conjecture that they must be a linear pair. They can be adjacent without being a linear pair. Our next conjecture is that given ST and U collinear and the distance ST equals the distance TU. Is it true that T has to be the midpoint of SU? Think about that for a minute maybe draw a picture if you need to see what you think. This conjecture is true so we state it is true we don't have to find a counter example because there is none. This is a true conjecture. Now complete the third example of given and a conjecture on your own determine whether it's true or false and if it's false draw a counter example. I can't wait to see what you come up with in class tomorrow.