A very good evening to one and all. Myself Pranjil Bhon and I along with my team will be presenting the project virtual chemistry lab. In the last two days we all have seen amazing ideas, brilliant concepts and various forms of learning aids which came up because of the summer internship program. Our project is yet another feather in the cap. The virtual chemistry project, virtual chemistry lab is an Akshaksha initiative under the MHRD project. It was initiated two years ago under the able guidance of Professor D.B. Fatak, Mr. Vinash Avte and Mr. Mayank Palival. It is because of these people that the project has been successfully finished. Let us get a quick introduction to the team VCL. We have Ajay Anand, Amit Bhatti, Bhavya Devedi, Ishti Gupta, Sanket Mehta, Shiladitya Mandal, Sri Vidya Venugopalayan and Myself Pranjil Bhon. The entire project may be broadly classified into two aspects. The first is the interactive learning objects in which we created simulations of chemistry chapters in action script. The second part of the project is the virtual chemistry lab in which we created a virtual chemistry lab and we brought it to the virtual environment. Focusing on the first part of the project, the main aim was to create interactive learning objects of certain difficult to crack chapters of chemistry and to present it to the students so that they can learn in efficient and better way. In total we have completed 69 of such interactive modules. Here we have demonstration of two of them. See here on the display we have the drawback of Rutherford model of Atom. When a student reads this chapter, this topic, in the test books he finds it very difficult to correlate. It is pretty much difficult for him to understand. This is because it is practically not possible for him to visualize the movement of such microscopic, ultra microscopic particles and here they can clearly see the electron falling in the helical path and then falling into the nucleus. This was our aim. We have yet another demonstration to show the electronic configuration of atoms. The sliders of the atomic number can be easily varied and thus the electrons in separate rings can be definitely seen. This way of approach is so much easier for the student to understand. The major aim of the entire project was to break the notion of mugging up chemistry and to make it fun for the student to learn. Now with this I would like to hand over to Ishti Gupta so that she could tell you more about the virtual chemistry lab. A very good evening to one and all. I am here to present to you the broader aspect of our project, the virtual chemistry lab. Before we begin I would like to mention that our project is in continuation with the work of two previous teams. These teams primarily were Dhaval, Naveen, Piyush, Shreya, Shruti, Anirvan, Aviral, Harsh, Kaushik, Maleshwari, Mayur, Pankaj and Vikram Varma. These teams basically provided us with a virtual chemistry lab in Java that would run on desktop. Akash however runs on Android. Now our major aim was to port this virtual chemistry lab to Android. So the previous version of the virtual chemistry lab had a number of operational issues and also the graphics needed a lot of improvement. So our second main thing was that we had to enhance the whole virtual chemistry lab. For this purpose to fulfill these objectives we chose LibGDX. LibGDX is a library for game development. Why we chose LibGDX was because LibGDX firstly is in Java and the previous virtual chemistry lab was also in Java. Secondly, LibGDX provides us the facility that we write the code once and we can use it on a number of platforms like Android, HTML, iOS and also desktop by changing just one patch or five. So that's why LibGDX, moving to the scope of our project. No government school as we all know has a chemistry lab. Also it is not possible that we have a chemistry lab in every school because financially chemistry labs need a lot of investment. That's what we thought was that we will provide them with a virtual chemistry lab that they can work on as close to the real lab as possible. I'd like to show you the basic look and feel of our lab. This is our lab, this is the home screen. We have three modes, the perform mode, the setup mode and the play save demos mode. For the easy understanding of the student, we have a help mode. In the help mode, the student can clearly understand what has to be done in each of the modes. To explain to you further, I would like to call upon Bhavya. Good evening yet again. I'm here to help you dig deeper into the three modules that we have in our project. I'll start with the setup experiment module. The setup experiment module basically helps you to set up an experiment like it is in a chemistry lab. First you need to set up an experiment and then you move on to performing it. Similarly is here. You can see there's a table, left hand side of the table is the store wherein you get all the reagents and the equipment and the right hand side is actually the workbench which has to be set up. The chemical reagents that you see on the cupboard are actually read through a dynamic XML file and you can add a new reagent onto the cupboard. You'll have to input properties of the reagent like its name, the formula, its pH, etc. Now when you add a new chemical to the cupboard, it is actually written into an XML file of the chemicals using an XML writer. There you have the new chemical successfully added. Now when you need to add equipment to the workbench, what do you do is that you create a copy of the equipment in the store. You cannot use them as such. When you make a copy, you actually input the volume of the equipment that you're using. Like he's put on a beaker, now he's adding a flask with a capacity of 500 ml and he puts it onto the cupboard. There is a dustbin, you can see there the right bottom most corner. The dustbin is basically to aid disposal of any equipment which has been added by mistake and this is necessary because you cannot add a new equipment unless you have placed the previous one on the workbench. We'll now set up an experiment. He's bought the chemical bottle and a beaker and he overlapped the two to pour chemical into the beaker. Now he's adding the volume which is required and there we place it on the workbench. Now we add the next chemical, copper sulphate, he just added it. Again he overlapped, pour it, enter the volume and he'll add it to the workbench. So this is how you can set up an experiment. There can be multiple equipments you can add. Now we'll proceed on to the, yes, this setup is saved again in the XML file because there is a need of using the setup next time you perform an experiment. So now we move on to the next module that is a perform experiment module.  A standard user can use is moving an equipment onto the workbench and pouring and washing, heating. So this is just a demonstration. We have again the workbench. The equipments and the chemicals have been added by reading an XML file. This is the beaker and the burette for the purpose of titrations. This is one new feature we've added into the project. Heating is done by overlapping an equipment with the burner. You can specify the time of heating. Now there's one more functionality that we have. It is of the pH meter. The pH meter was basically again added for the purpose of titration experiments because you need to detect the pH of solutions while titrations. If you hover the pH meter over chemical, it displays the pH of that solution. This is washing and equipment. You overlap it with the washed basin and the equipment is washed. We move on to the next module now. You can save the experiment you've performed again for the purpose of learning and evaluating yourself from the experiment. This is pouring action. You overlap the two beakers and you're saving it into an XML file so that you can use it for the demonstration purpose. Now we move on to the final module of the virtual chemistry lab, which is the play-saved demos. Now this module was integrated to help the user look into some demonstration files or the previously saved XMLs. The demonstration files are basically for the purpose of making the user learn the use of standard equipment because the aim of virtual chemistry lab it is restricted to high school level. So we added demonstration files for the equipment and we added demonstration files for the two basic types of experiments that one can perform which are on solutions and titrations. Moving on, I'd like to tell you that before we began with the project, we actually looked for some other simulators of the chemistry lab and we found out two major simulators. One was VertLab and other was Chem Collective. I'll just quickly tell you what's the difference between these and the virtual chemistry lab. The virtual chemistry lab wins hands down on its user interface. It's very simple to use and it's very attractive. Both these do have a very nice user interface, but it is very complex. The other one limitation I should cite of the virtual chemistry lab is that we are still limited with the knowledge of chemicals. Though we have a chemical class and the knowledge can be extended, but as of now it is very limited. Moving on, I'd just like to state a few points why one should go for the virtual chemistry lab and not for any other simulator. The first point being, like I said, the user interface is very attractive and for a better experience of the real chemistry lab, everything that we've made is generic. Nothing is specific to an experiment. The chemicals, the equipments can be used for any experiment, so that is how it allows the user to play with the standard equipments and reagents that are there in the chemistry lab. Next is virtual chemistry lab being a part of the AikShikshap project was aimed, the aim of building the virtual chemistry lab was that imparting free knowledge to everybody. And so each resource of the virtual chemistry lab is absolutely free, unlike the other simulators. And lastly, fulfilling the major objective that we had is the cross-platform nature of virtual chemistry lab, why you should go for it. It works on desktop, Linux, and Windows, as well as on Android. To continue with the presentation, I'd like to call upon Shiladitya. So I'll be continuing with the enhanced features of this VCL. As you know, this project has been done for the last two years as well. The first aim of enhancing was the graphics. So initially, we basically enhanced the equipment graphics, as you've seen in the demo. The next was, so the first improvement that we concentrated on was basically improving the graphics of all the equipments and improving the actions on these equipments, especially fill, port, rotate, or titrate, as you've seen in the demo experiment. And the next part was the user interfaces. All the dialogues have been improved. They have been made transparent, as you've seen the color chooser initially. The color chooser used to be just three text boxes for the red, green, blue values. But right now, we have sliders for implementing that, which makes it more user interactive. And we'll go to the next slide. As for challenges faced, when we got the project first, we didn't know what development platform to choose. The existing project was made on Java Swing. But what we needed was a cross-platform version, especially which can work on Android platforms. So when we came across LibGDX, it's a recent library with very basic documentation. So the first challenge was to understand the source code and how to use them to build new modules. Every feature that you see over here, the dialog boxes, the file choosers, everything has been coded by us. There's no inbuilt functions for them. So that was the first challenge, how to build basic modules using LibGDX. And next was the existing structure of all the objects was a more of a hard-coded sort of structure with hard-coded x and y values. But we had to change them to accommodate the relative positions of objects since we had to concentrate for different screen sizes, be it mobile devices or desktop devices. So we had to make sure that all the data object description had to be relative to the screen. And all the x, y values of the x, y positions of each of the equipments were generated dynamically based on these relative positions. And the next challenge that we faced was to implement the various actions on these equipments. As you've seen, it's a very high graphic experience. And the next challenge that we faced was to link the various assets. Now, as I've told you, it's a cross-platform development. So we have around four or five project folders for each platform. One was the basic LibGDX code folder, which contains all the source code of the algorithms. One was for Android, one was for HTML, one was for iOS. So linking the assets between all these folders since the file management in all these platforms are different, that was a huge task. Next, please. For limitations, right now, the major limitation in our project is the lack of chemical knowledge. We have a chemical class which encapsulates all chemical properties, but it's a very basic model with only color properties or pH or molarity and molecular weight. We do not have any accommodation to provide complex experiments, complex equations and all. Next, as I told you, we have a very basic level of experiments like solutions and titrations. As for future scope, we have an evaluation module can be implemented since we already have the play module. Next is chemical knowledge can be increased since we have a base class for the chemical and more knowledge can be put into the structure. And since we already have improved the graphics, we can improve it more by showing features like effervescence or heating. So, looking back at the past six weeks of our project, looking back at the past six weeks of our project, we were really fortunate to have worked on LibGDX. As I told you, it was a very basic framework. It had a lot of, it's really powerful, but it did not have any in-built modules. We had to build every nook and corner of all the screens that you see is our own work. Every dialogue, everything is our own work. And next, we were like eight members in a team, so previously we haven't worked in such a big team and synchronizing and integrating the work of all the people was a major task. Now that Fatih sir has joined us again, I would like to show him a demonstration of how we have set up the actual lab. So we have this virtual chemistry lab in which we have three modes, setup, perform and play. So in setup we can actually set up the environment like we do in the real lab. In performer we perform the experiment which are saved in the XML format. In play demos we have predefined sets or the student can create his own demonstration. So the teacher might provide XML files in which the experiment has to be exactly performed and the student can play it. In the setup mode, we have a store rack and we have a shelf for the student. They can add new chemicals or they can use the previously defined ones. But adding the new chemicals, the student has to click on the new chemical button and we have to enter details of the new chemical. The new option that we entered from the previous version was that we have entered as user interactive choose color option with sliders. Last time we had to use the RGB values which was very cumbersome for the teacher or the student to remember. Also we have included features like pH, molarity and molecular weight. The new chemical added is in XML format. The file is saved in XML format which was not previously used. Also we can have various kinds of beakers and flask. The volume is asked every time we click it and a new chemical is added. For pouring, this is the disposal. We have a dustbin option for disposal of any kind of equipment. We can dispose beakers and flask. For pouring a new chemical or previously defined chemical into a beaker, we just have to overlap the chemical bottle over the empty beaker. They ask us for the option, how much do we want to fill? We enter the volume and we fill it. Once the setup is completely created, we can save the XML file and they can be reviewed later either by the teacher for centralized evaluation for the future difference or by the student themselves. The perform mode is basically to perform an experiment of the setup that is previously created. Suppose we have a previously created XML file, we open it and then we perform the experiment over it. We can use the burets for filling. We have the options to empty the beakers and chemicals in the wash basin. We also have burners. So activities like titration can be easily performed because such laboratories are not available in the government school very readily and government does not have finances to aid such labs. So we are providing students with the virtual chemistry lab on their fingertips. The intensity of the heating can again be changed by the user himself. We have to click it to change the intensity of heating. Likewise, we can heat it down also. The pH meter is a new feature that we added from the previous chemistry lab. We have to hover the pH meter over the chemical and it could read the pH value of the chemical. Also, the student would not know how many, how does he have to operate the lab. So we have provided him with a help button on the main screen itself so they can know how to use every kind of model. See in the titration, how do you define the normality or the molarity of the solution? I haven't seen that part. So just, we are just announcing the titration feature. Because I have seen only the solution in the buret and the solution but I haven't seen the normality or the molarity. Yes, we are just announcing the feature. Because when you titration, there's a basic thing what you need to. Yeah, we are announcing the titration and solution in the future. Okay, and how to change the pH because I have seen that part also. The pH. pH, we have to just show over there. Okay, so you just, okay, so you bring the pH there just meter and you get the pH on that. The pH over there was just, because we added the solution like that it was just displaying the pH. There is nothing else, it was just displaying the pH. But when acid is added to base, you will change the pH. Yes, the pH will change that time during the titration. So that is, yeah. So you will have the calculations ready. Only we have to just bring the pH meter and check the new pH. Yes. So coming back to pH meter, if I carry out the titration, the pH value will change. Would the pH meter be able to tell me the changed value or changing value as titration happens? Yes, sir, it will. But there is this small thing that in the chemicals file we have to actually change, we do not have one feature that is mixtures that has to be still implemented. Once we have the mixtures feature, when two chemicals are added, the value of the pH of the mixture will be stored in the XML. So when we take the pH meter over there, it will read that value. No, the problem is that the XML will result only at the end of the experiment. While I am doing the experiment, the pH value is changing continuously as the titration happens. So after each activity, we are appending the activity to the XML. No, but the activity of titration will happen over a duration. Over a duration. In fact, it will be worthwhile to demonstrate that duration also, by for example, drops falling in. So when the color changes, the human eye detects it. But even before the color changes or after color changes, it will be interesting to provide the pH value experiment. So what we thought of is while titration, the pH changes very dynamically. So we can have a set of values for which we can show the pH. After certain set of steps, the pH can be shown because it cannot be, like we cannot vary it very dynamically, but we can have a set of pH values. No, you can verify it through calculations independently. Depending upon the volume of each component and the volume of each drop that is getting added, you should be able to calculate pH and represent it. It will require some more coding. What I am suggesting is in your future scope of work, please add a few explicit lines about this, because this is important. Secondly, the font that you have used and the color that you have used under the pH meter, or the pH meter and that blob is very visible, but the value is not very visible. So values should not have fancy colors, but should have readability for the people. I think that is very important. You will correct that, sir. I had one more question, which I have forgotten. If I remember, I will ask you later. When you pour liquid, you have to specify the volume. What happens if instead of 150, I specify 1500? Oh, it does that.  So that's what will happen in reality, right? Second thing is, in the same window, you can have the PK value. I don't know how many... I think still 12th standard students do calculate PK. So when the pH goes, PK comes down. So that's parallel, you can have the two graphs in the same window, okay? So that way, you can see that at any given point of time, what is the pH of your mixture and what is the PK of your mixture. Thank you.


Well good afternoon Welcome to the Dan and Kale Barak president's distinguished lecture series. I'm Tony DeMotto on the director of the UVM forestry program I'm really pleased to have an opportunity here to host Chris Caldwell I also want to acknowledge Dr. Lumen Dimmoff who's done a lot of the work in coordinating Chris's visit to come here As well as Dr. Sherry Morris from the Geography Department that's also played an important supporting role in getting our speaker here today I feel really privileged to be able to have Chris here speaking He's the director of the Sustainable Development Institute with the College of Menominee Nation and Kashina, Wisconsin Those familiar with Chris's work is a real leader as it relates to Understanding questions around tribal resilience as it relates to both changing climate conditions changing disturbance regimes as well as just changing cultural values Chris is a real leader in both understanding tribal Perspectives as it relates to the natural world as well as managed landscapes But also in connecting scientists with tribes to better understand how we grapple with some of these questions going forward around climate change And what does that mean from both a cultural and ecological perspective? I've been fortunate to get to know Chris over the past seven years He's the PI for the College of Menominee as part of the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center We're again He's led many efforts connecting scientists both around climate science as well as for resource management With tribal perspectives to really get a better deeper understanding of what sustainability means. I'm going forward So I feel really happy today to have Chris here on campus and want to welcome him as part of our lecture series So Chris come on up Test can you hear me? Okay good Well first of all, I just wanted to start by acknowledging the lands of the Abenaki people the Ancestral Territory I was I was happy that one of the things I could do today before the lecture was a tend to workshop where we had a Official welcome by one of the the tribal leaders for the Abenaki I forget his name Charlie Charlie but he gave a proper introduction and so I just wanted to to recognize the lands that were on the ancestral territory and I Say that because as I came here, I also recognize ancestral lands when I whenever I Go somewhere because it's as simple as just seeing What would be a good place to live? What has the elements necessary to Sustain life and definitely it's a beautiful area a beautiful campus So just wanted to say that and also to acknowledge Tony Tony's efforts and Lubin's efforts and Arranging to get me here So I'm busy a lot with the the work that I do at the Institute The other part that make made it tough was that I just started a doctoral program Back at Madison. So I'm both a researcher or PI on a project and my own graduate student and it gets a little tough to keep them sorted out, but I Wanted to to just Oh and to thank the the Barak lecture series for this opportunity So I wanted to just talk about some of the work that I do and the title itself is actually a representation of both the work that I do as director and also my current efforts to Start to think about a dissertation project that is really a reflection on this work I've done for the past seven years at the college, but also spans back into my other work as tribal Resource and compliance officer My work as a forestry technician and on different conservation crews Back when I was in the field and all of that pulling it all together into this This presentation and discussion There we go So when I said I I can recognize Ancestral lands and it's as simple as just seeing the elements that sustain life I'd I draw that reference from Looking at the homelands that I come from And we call ourselves the monomony our name for ourselves is my machita So my machita waka key. He is a monomony land This is kind of a odd Maybe if I can hang out here So it's this is on the poster But one of the things that I talk about when when I use this slide this photo is Just noting the both the the human and the natural impacts on the landscape so thinking in terms of The remnants of the impacts from the glaciers The glacial till they're retreating of the glaciers and what it left on the landscape But also the the continued natural impacts. Here's a Line a tornado line from 2009 where it It started on the western end of our reservation It touched down hopped up touched down again and just start cutting through the forest like a buzz saw basically And you can see it went all the way extended all the way up into the national forest and so within that con That context there the natural context. We also have on the landscape this this difference between Value systems are the way that land the land is Approached in terms of relationships So you can see the monomony reservation just because of the Contrast between the forested land of art our reservation and the Cut-over areas in the farmlands that surround it that are a remnant from the 1800s when when the forest was cut over and converted to farmland and so I I usually start with that just talking about those two to Impacts on the landscape, but more importantly I talk a little more on the human values that impact the landscape and That's really just a one representation of the work We do at the sustainable development Institute and one component of the the model that has been developed at the Institute that we use to both Conduct our work and tell us how we approach the work that we're doing and so this is this is a one slide summary of both the history of the Institute its Development, but also a reflection on the history of our people of the monomony people and Specifically our story of sustainable forestry The monomony theoretical model of sustainability was developed by tribal leaders back in the 90s around the time that The College of Monomony Nation was also created and it was a way to to better understand our relationships But also in that at that time period the United Nations was talking about sustainable development and Was there actually such a thing or was the term or was the term in oxymoron that it even makes sense And at the time tribal leaders felt that our story of Sustainable forestry could be an example of sustainable development And so as they talked about this concept this idea and how it might apply in the monomony context one of the things that that came to came to the front was that the the usual Sustainability models the ecological economic social or the three-legged stool it didn't apply to the monomony story And so as our tribal leaders talked about it They started to identify specific areas or dimensions that were important to the story and that they highlighted the land and sovereignty component was definitely an important one for monomony and More generally for tribes natural environment Economics institutions Technology human perception activity and behavior So these areas of community life or these dimensions Were a part of that that description and at the center was the concept of a talk to me When I when I started back to school when I attended college of monomony nation After working in forestry. I was introduced to the model and the the word a talk to me so if Fred were to mention monomony or talking monomony language in my mind a talk to me at the time It sounded like a monomony word And so I think I went for a few weeks before I understood it wasn't a monomony word and I looked it up in the dictionary and really what it is meant to signify is Nativeness of the land itself and just signifies that place-based connection that the monomony have with landscape We still reside on our ancestral land base although it's Largely reduced But that's kind of the anchoring point for the model making it a place-based model the other part is That as we look at the model and we think about sustainable development and working towards sustainable goals It's not necessarily that we're working to achieve a balance a perfect balance or that We say that there's any sort of point where we will achieve Sustainable development, but it's actually the process of Maintaining the balance working towards the balance and reconciling tensions within and between all of those dimensions, so We kind of say as a premise for the model as we're looking at human environmental Relationships and impacts on those relationships. If there's a decision made in one of the dimensions It ripples throughout and across all of the dimensions and changes the context that we're Investigating that that issue and so in that way we've already started to change the context and advance the model in a story in whatever issue we're investigating and so it becomes this iterative process of Not only identifying issues, but also using the model to Think through and organize our thinking around the complexity of the issue to develop a solution and in this regard it Creates this iterative or intergenerational process where it's a Continual effort to address the tensions that are identified we do have a Some of my colleagues and I Mike Dockery was the primary author He was the Forest Service liaison at the time and worked a lot with the Institute in a relationship there But we got together and we wrote an article that described this process a little more Specifically the history and the application and in both in research education and outreach. So if you're interested You could Google the Institute or I can get the link out to get it sent out But some of the the description of the model some of the the The basic understandings or the the history that's associated with the model It it really comes in the form of our connection with the land so people and land and as I mentioned for monomony the land and sovereignty dimension is very important just in the context of Connection to that land base On this left side here this map shows the ancestral territory of the monomony prior to European colonization prior to American settler expansion and And what it what it demonstrates is is the connection across the landscape? but also it shows the range that that we we lived on this landscape and so The name when I said ma machita wick that means ancient ones or the ancient movers and That signifies that as a people it was more of a seasonal round of living So unlike out here in the east where it seems like it's all suburban or city area Based on my experience. I feels like I drive through endless suburbs when I'm out here It wasn't like the monomony I Occupied all of this territory at once it was different bands Who moved in in seasonal rotations based on when food was available based on when material Medicines were available and so The impact on the landscape was not was not permanent once area was Harvested from or are used for Susten and subsistence the band moved to the next area but that that did change when once the the federal the US government came into being and Once they came into Wisconsin the through settlement and government interactions treaties were the the common way of Relationships the federal government made treaties with tribes in the monomony were no exception and so we can see here the the different colors the different hatchings on the on these sections here signify the different treaties that were entered into between the federal government and the monomony until the last one was entered into an 1856 which created our present-day reservation so you can see the change from 10 mil about 10 million acres of ancestral territory to 235,000 acres in Little a little less than 40 years And so it it created this land base which monomony is the 72nd County in Wisconsin and what this signified really was Was a change or a transition in the way that? Monomony lived the way that monomony connected with the landscape and I think about those changes in a few different ways But one of the the ways I think about it these days is just thinking in terms of language both our language And also the language of folks that were coming into the area As I said my Machitauc was the name we are is the name we have for ourselves The Ojibwe people coming in they they noted our connection to wild rice. So manumon Or manumony the wild rice people even the French during the trade era for trade era Noted that connection and the term for full of one. I think that's How you say it in French my French is really bad It's non-existent other than reading that title, but but they also noted that relationship the wild Oatman and eventually Thinking of the way we talk our the name wild rice people came out as monomony So that's the English version of it and signifies that transition and Then a little further along omatinum and a which is the way we say People of the wild rice in the monomony language But one of the things that I find interesting as I as I do the work that I do and the mission of the Institute of reflecting on this history and these relationships is That more people know us for for met to cool a key cue canal to cool The forest keepers so our forest management practices then they know us as the people of the wild rice locally, I think people still realize that but There's a change in that and there's a diminished Connection there our relationship and that's interesting in itself as we think about Resilience but also the introduction of climate change and what that means in terms of impacting our Communities and in the way that we connect So So as I talked about access to the ancestral lands to the the final Treaty that was entered into in the 1850s One of the ways that that we transitioned as a people Still maintain that effort to continue our relationship with the forest The federal government their solution to working with our working with Their solution to addressing the the Indian issue was to make everybody a farmer to break up the land landscape assign plots and then have everybody farm Individually and that wasn't the way that the tribes operated or at least how many didn't we didn't operate that way So The question was how were we going to maintain our relationship with the landscape on a reduced land base with less access to that seasonal way of living and so I would stories in the community people talk about well the government wanted to Make us farmers. We did become farmers. We became tree farmers. So I Don't know. I don't know if that's actually what our tribal leaders said at the time That's probably just a more contemporary description of it But one thing that our tribal leader chief Oshkosh did say after consulting with tribal members on how we might go about maintaining our relationship, but also Harvesting timber from the forest which was introduced at that time and not just the dead dead trees that we were relegated to at that time, but how might we Pull green timber from the forest and so his this concept this philosophy of starting From the rising Sun and cutting to the setting Sun and taking only the the mature trees the sick trees and the trees that have fallen was more based off of thinking of the values of Taking only what the forest was willing to give or to provide And that's a value that connected Long before and something that Menominee understood Where chief Oshkosh was the speaker? He was not necessarily the only one thinking this way it was after talking to the community gathering information that this is the Statement that was attributed to him and so by doing the cutting in this manner He said the trees would last forever and that's that's a value that That talks about both understanding the generational needs of present and future But also understanding our connection to the the non human beings That are part of the landscape not just the human beings that are part but the non human in our relationship with those those non human beings our responsibility to them and this reciprocal What does the forest provide to us? What do we do for the forest type of relationship? So just to kind of give you a quick idea of relationships So this is where our reservation lands are now and if you look at this map of ecological classifications that the Wisconsin DNR puts out Right through the middle of the reservation. There's a Tension zone to call it. It's a it changes from a Sandier type of area. So a barrens pine Barrens oak savanna type area to Richer habitat richer soils So more of a northern hardwoods hemlock forest cover type and so this this is important just in terms of Thinking about relationships Because what it shows is that these forest communities? So even though we've been Limited to a smaller land base There's actually a lot of diversity within this limited land base in terms of forest community covered forest Habitat types. So these are plant associations Habitat types that show the different Plants that grow together and you can see that the the change in the makeup of the plant systems changes from the sandier site to these richer areas here is actually a Transition our tension zone right through the the middle and it's important to understand those plant relationships not just in terms of if Community members were still gathering medicines still gathering plants for food, but in contemporary terms thinking in terms of Managing according to what that site would best provide in terms of tree species for quality saw timber And this reflects the forest cover types different tree relationships Which if you look if you ever look at a stand and you see trees there a composition or a single species It's not always the best indicator for what tree species would best grow on that site The plant communities are actually more reflective of the type of soils that are there which would then reflect What type of tree species might grow best on that site? So there's important connections important relationships in terms of thinking through that So as I kind of flick through those last three slides One of the things when I come to this one is talk about I don't know how many people are familiar with hearing the integrating indigenous knowledge and Western based science or contemporary science I View this as an example of that integration because the the statement or the the philosophy that chief Oshkosh had shared in terms of starting at the setting Sun and cutting to the our rising Sun and Cutting to the setting Sun is not literally how we manage our forests. It's actually Evolved in terms of Breaking it into more manageable pieces. So Right here and these are just designations just to make it more manageable in terms of inventory classification setting up harvest schedules, but It turns it into block one which is the reservation boundary in the Wolf River and Block two which is the Wolf River in the old railroad grade and block three Which is the railroad grade to the Western border and Within each of those blocks are compartments which are further broken down according to road systems rivers other geophysical features natural and man-made and within each of these compartments are stand stand level Stand level breakdowns where it then becomes a representation of what forest cover types what plant compositions are in those areas and so By identifying the forest cover type The foresters can then manage according to the different needs of each of these smaller sites so northern hardwoods have a different cycle than pure oak stands then white pine stands then Jack pine dry on dryer sites They have different needs different life cycles and this helps break it down into a management Management approach that is based off of what is best for the health of the forest And so it's this is all based off of that philosophy statement That was the the guidance or the the implementing framework for that and I think one of the things that This was I think satellite photos became a thing back in the 80s Late 80s. I remember seeing the first black-and-white photo Because it it was a big thing because NASA said The reservation was so distinct that they used the corners of the reservation to orient their satellites because it was a distinct feature on the landscape and it became important because it it really brought to light the The values you could see the values on the landscape you could see this This difference between values in terms of the the monomony as we our leaders sought to preserve our relationship with the lands that that were available and the change of the The cutovers of the 1800s and then turning it into farmlands So it it really introduced this new way of thinking and looking at the impact that our Management techniques might have on that landscape both for us internally and thinking in the community, but also externally So one of one of the things and this is kind of The work that I'm doing both at the Institute, but also as I start my program is Thinking about those differences in values where where I grew up and there was always a contention Contention within the communities about these practices these management practices and yet Anytime I went out and talked to people on the outside or not from the community It seemed like there was Universal praise for this those same practices. So there was this contrast in In perspective on these practices and that's really what has pushed me to go from working in the field marking the timber to be cut for harvest and to working in the administrative and planning level to the research level now and thinking about these questions so The impact of values on the landscape is a big part of the work that I do The research that I'm hoping to do in my my doctoral program But just to kind of talk a little about Transitioning from that history which forms the basis of our Institute and give you a little context of how we're set up College of Menominee Nation was chartered by the Menominee people in the 90s 93 And that was out of our we have our own tribal constitution and so The the college is a chartered entity of of the tribe And so we focus on tribal needs like the other 38 tribal colleges and universities in the nation business public admin education natural resources We are a land-grant institution So I think you said Vermont our university is the land-grant in that context there were 1994's which are the tribal colleges and we are land-grants For CMM our our enrollment has kind of leveled out. It had been up around 600 But it followed the same trend as nationwide enrollment in college was declining but we're starting to level out and We offer associate degrees primarily, but we've been building up bachelor level degrees certificates and a couple new things that are important here just in terms of Connecting the Institute to the colleges that we've been working with our faculty on developing an integrative studies and sustainability bachelor degree Based on the model that I talked about and so this will be interdisciplinary of course and and work through not just thinking about Sustainability in terms of natural resources, which is what a lot of people connect it with but really expanding it Across all of those community areas business public admin engineering Education and so that that's a progress in work. We're hoping to put that out by next fall The other thing is we just recently hired a faculty member to develop a sustainable egg degree program and looking at How do we base it off of art our indigenous values? How do we look at the different food systems? Not just what people that associate with farming, which is Row crops and cows and that's probably the biggest thing in terms of our community trying to Dispel that stereotype. I guess when we talk about sustainable agriculture But as I said the college was created in the 90s the Institute is a Project of the college the tribal leaders at the time reflecting on that sustainable forestry story, but also After reflecting the mission of the the Institute was to then Find ways to extend that into other areas of community life And there's a second part to our mission, which is then sharing what we're learning through the through the work that we do the different projects and so We're working with one of our our CMN students now, and I think she's Started framing it in a way that really brings to light these two models that we work with is How we do it? This is how we do what we do. This is an investigative tool The model here, but then we also look at another model that was developed the spheres of influence and Research education outreach practical application all based on Indigenous wisdom and so we talk about that as what we do. So once we identify the issues and We frame it out with the theoretical model. We we start thinking of well, how do we investigate our Educate or bring to light the issue that we've identified and So both of these models together they talk about How do we operate as an indigenous institution within our community and this is sort of a photo collection of Showing both our work within the community Visitors that come to our community our students going out visiting and some of the partnerships that we work with Through our through our Institute and the relationships that we've established as Tony said the The CASC Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center has been a big one for the last seven years and It's it's helped us develop a lot of capacity in terms of how we connect With tribes on climate change, but also work with the climate scientists looking to develop tools to assist with that those efforts So this is our campus. This is the southern Southern border of the reservation. It's in the town of Kashina. That's the main campus This is the SDI office And so if I were to walk from here to the culture building on the other side, it would take me about Five six minutes. So it's not a very big campus But one thing we do have are a couple things we do have are these close connections to both agricultural area and forested areas and So what we've been trying to do what the Institute's been trying to do is work with the college to develop outdoor learning areas long-term research sites in both the demo forest and the The agricultural area as a way to connect classroom education With the research that we're doing to make it more relevant to our students And so the different areas we focus in are the climate impacts on the forest indigenous planning so revitalizing the way that tribes had planned and Using that as a way for them to think about planning again from that indigenous perspective the sustainable agriculture work and then This is just kind of a general one campus and community Sustainability so it it's just thinking through how do we as a campus serve as a pilot site for testing ideas that might be ramped up in the community like renewable energy projects like our This satellite photo doesn't have our biomass unit, but looking at biomass solar Wind power So it's it's a lot of opportunity there and this is a unique role that tribal colleges play because The campuses are often situated in the tribal community like like Cmn And so some of the work we do is connecting our our faculty students and community partners and learning together what we call a Professional learning community and these are some of the like I said the place-based projects. This is behind the SDI office Right here just working on our turtle garden as a way to talk about Sustainable agriculture and so if I were to give an example, this is early on Few years ago when we were talking about sustainable agriculture and since then it's led to What I talked about being able to hire a faculty member to now have them start developing a degree program to help Have them help redesign our research framework to connect with that degree program The other big part of the Institute the things that we do and this is I think one of the most important is we connect our students Through internships in the way I approach things I'm a firm believer in Making sure everybody understands they're a part of a team so that they're not just bringing their content knowledge But they're also developing as a professional so that they don't go out into the whatever job or Advancing their academic career without understanding the responsibility they have in terms of Sharing the information, but also conducting themselves in an appropriate manner Facilitating these relationships that that are important So every grant project any project we can think of we're always writing in internship positions During the summer we have anywhere between 13 to 21 internship positions That we start out on campus They all start one week together and then they disperse to their separate projects and Check-in mid-summer and then at the end of the summer They are required to do a presentation to the community and I was talking earlier with the organizers That public speaking is not my favorite thing in the world, but I seem to have a job where that's all I do And so in that regard I really I tell the students I give them my story and tell them I'm just sharing the pain and you'll thank me in the future, so So that's a big part is in through that effort creating professionals But also they have a network of peers now that they've gone through this summer experience They're CMM students. They are a monomony students that are at other institutions that come home for the summer They are different tribal members. They are Graduate students that we just throw into the group. We had We had German students Forestry students visiting with the Forest Service and we told them come over and so it's a lot of network and perspective Expansion is what I think it really does for our students And this is our recruiting what I view as our recruiting class So the sustainability leadership coal heart is a high school program This past summer we had 2021 our grant said 20, but we had a waiting list up to Five extra students and we just kind of pooled money together and said, oh, we're you know We have big hearts. We can't tell anybody. No, so we just brought them on board and No This this is an opportunity to engage our area youth in thinking about sustainability concepts, but I also think it lends to Building up their interest in the CMM campus even though it's in the community a lot of times People aren't sure what to make of the college They're not sure how to approach it and so I think with the SLC we do a lot of Community outreach just through them coming to the the campus to participate in the summer and then going out in the community and doing their their work so This is a representation of thinking through our mission working within our community But also thinking more broadly and how do we scale that up and work? Our primary focus is helping our community working there to address issues that were we're finding But also the other part of it is sharing beyond that so scaling up to regional national international work and so applying the model across to develop a global perspective and a lot of different projects we've taken on a lot of different projects, but Because the the poster said tribal resilience and climate change. I figured I'd focus on One of the specific projects so we've we've for the past I would say five years through the the work with the Northeast Cask Have worked on developing this website the Northeast indigenous climate resilience network and so really it's a way to to build on the Projects that we've worked on as examples for other tribal colleges in the region for other tribes across the region But it's also a chance to to think beyond just certain designations like federally recognized tribes So for folks that aren't familiar There are federally recognized tribes. There are state recognized tribes, and they're unrecognized tribes and the majority out here are state and unrecognized with just a few that have land holding so you can see the kind of the difference in the scale of the lands the tribal lands that Indigenous peoples currently reside on to the kind of the larger Reservation lands in the Midwest and they become larger towards the West, but One of the things that we work on is understanding these different contexts And how do we work with tribes that are trying to address? climate issues within their community when they don't have a land base or when they're You know all their resource and effort is focused on language revitalization Restoring lands access to lands are gaining their lands back revitalizing their cultures, you know, how do we work with tribes that are strapped for resources or have no resources and are dealing with those issues along with now with climate change So that's kind of the broad regional perspective of creating this collaboration of tribes climate scientists And other partners and allies to not only work with federally, but also state and unrecognized making opportunities available as we can But one of the things that has come out of that partnership is this new Document or this new effort by a team led by the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission so this this adaptation menu Deba, Ginjigadega, Nishinabe, Ezitwad, so I'm still working on my Ojibwe But as a team We came together and one of the things that that I thought was cool about What Glyphwick and the other tribal partners were talking about at the time was they attended a training that the Forest Service put on Northern Institute for Applied Climate Science and it had these menus for choosing Strategies or approaches on how to work develop climate adaptation efforts in their communities and so they went and they said Well, that's great, but we wouldn't have done it that way or what about this? What about non-human beings? What about Bringing tobacco and offering it to your elders to ask for guidance things like that And so eventually it developed into this group of collaborators from different entities Niax, Glyphwick, 1854 Minnesota Treaty Authority Intertribal Council of Michigan our Institute and Working through how we would approach climate planning from an indigenous perspective, and this was just a I think our way of addressing an issue we had identified across the group But we also wrote it in a way using some using Ojibwe language and monomony language as Examples so that other tribes as they think about approaching climate change could Look at it and just bring their own language into the the concepts or the strategies and Make it more relevant. So it's still a work in progress if this was a two-year development Actually yesterday the team was in Minnesota accepting a climate adaptation leadership award for for this document so I Was really happy to see that to see them there And especially we have a crew that ranged across these These institutions, but also there's been a little one that's been a part of the group the mom and dad or Part of the team and so she's made a few of the workshops that we've done She's she was there for the award. So really I think that right there is an example of indigenous planning is not separating out certain people from the community and So And that that's all I Want to thank again Tony and Lubin and the Baroque Lecture series for inviting me and thank you for your attention We have some questions and actually we're gonna have to circulate a mic for those questions because they want those to be recorded so hopefully it doesn't stifle you from asking a question, but Just bear with our logistics here It'll also be a public reception right after this outside for folks to get a chance to talk with Chris out there, too So thanks so much Chris. I wanted if you I wonder if you could go back a slide and You know, there's this sort of sense of Having real actions to take but I also think I wondered if you might comment a little on the symbolism associated with the the Imagery up there. Yeah, so this this was Created by one of the team members Katie In what she was signifying were Is actually related to the the project title so indigenous are my presentation title indigenous sustainability paying deference to our future relatives and When I was thinking of that title I was kind of playing around with these experiences and I thought about this as well that the way she drew the turtle as a representation of Turtle Island or that relationship with the land But then also the connection between the different the non-human beings so the ones that don't have a voice in some of the decisions we make today as humans and and There was a lot of debate. I wasn't at all of the meetings, but the ones I did go to and the ones I heard about It didn't matter what part of the the document we were focused on but there, you know It was a lot of discussion and back and forth on single words phrases concepts Use of the term species was actually what started the discussion on beings so not only the the non-human, but the spirits the That connection with the forest and the the people in the community And so this was just as I understood it Katie's way of Trying to represent those two years of discussion and development on this project and and even this we we kind of haggled back and forth in emails and on the phone and I think this really was came out as a good project a good a Good feeling I guess, you know a good Result you could just feel the and it wasn't like we wrote grants or anything. It was The way I viewed it like mines coming together and as we started agreeing on what we were trying to do We just start bringing time and resources and people together to accomplish what we had agreed to do so I Think that's a perfect representation of that effort other questions Thank you for your talk in one of your six pillars includes human perception Which strikes me is really important, but can coincide or cannot coincide with what we might call data or fact sometimes So can you just talk about that piece of it human perception? Yeah And I think this so one of the things The model was developed and it's been in place for over 20 years In my mind, I think some of the emergence of the work by different indigenous scholars and looking at Ontology epistemology methodology I Think that the richness of that work is something that is Definitely helpful here It can start describing, you know different ways of knowing indigenous knowledge Date science Western science different approaches and perspectives to understanding Reality and how that's applied how that's Integrated or how we how we bring it together to address these common issues like global climate change It's a definitely a natural phenomenon that's impacting all of us in different ways So that's currently how I'm starting to view it Originally as it was developed. I think it sort of had that context but it was more based on Thinking in terms of the way Menominee in the past thought how we think today as we've gone through colonization and Howard So we're starting to think as we prepare for the future. So there's a lot of Different ways to view it, but I think the other important part is a lot of times our espoused values differ greatly from our actions and so That theory action gap I think is a very important part of the the model that we've only just start touching on and thinking about Does anybody else have a question that they'd like to Ask to the group. Yeah, I have a question that maybe follows exactly on what you were just saying and the previous question And you mentioned the theory action gap or value action gap and something you mentioned also in your talk was this idea of At one point you said you can see the values on the landscape in the satellite image And then you also talked about wanting to address that the impact of values on the landscape in your PhD program And I'd just love to hear more about what you mean by that and and also how it relates to that last comment that you made just now You mean I can't just make statements Oh What I really do think that And it's too different. I see two different Approach are two different contexts So within my own community And this is something I've been thinking about and I talked with my wife about to about thinking of our generation and Colonization and where we were at like I grew up a lot with Bugs Bunny and watching TV and that was sometimes my babysitter for the mere fact that my mom and dad were both working and So but I also grew up attending Catholic Church Attending sweat lodge every now and then and understanding there was a difference Not necessarily knowing they were separate because I remember in grade school In the back of the church we had a one of our old the older boys teaching us traditional dance for a procession we were going to do into church and so That that kind of experience and then as I grew up and start thinking about Our grew up. Yeah, I'm growing up but as I start thinking more about these things that it's just the The mix of perspectives within the community But then thinking about mainstream Society in the perspectives that are there and so I'm trying to think about that context the external context and how do those differ? How do people perceive these forest management? Forest management strategies, why do they perceive them differently and Eventually, you know, who's who's right who's wrong or is there a right and wrong? And I think that's why I point to the satellite photo in terms of If we want a forest that lasts that is maintained and that continues to sustain the people I Look at that satellite photo as a representation of that and And and the other part that kind of struck me more recently was I Kept saying because we want to plan for our future generations, but in a way cutting the timber creating farms was The settlers way of thinking for their future. I assume thinking they were building a life for future generations and so I'm starting to evolve more from just saying oh, this is good. This is bad to look at how these human values impact and shape the landscape So I yeah Pushing pushing me a little further than I was thinking but that's the whole purpose of this Chris and and I want to go back to the to the satellite picture and I wonder a little bit of a Forestry question. What was done in that tornado damaged area? Was there any salvage logging done? What was based on the values that we just talked about how was that treated? That's a whole other story, too, that's that's a difference in values in terms of the tribe managed this area and this is national forest and so I Remember at the beginning right away. There were meetings in my role it was a compliance enforcement officer, so I Translated information to the tribal governing body But also sat with MTE the forestry folks to make sure I was translating correct information But their interest was assessing the damage and then figuring out how to salvage it before infestation like diseases or Insect outbreaks could develop it in these areas and potentially spread into the unaffected forest areas and So when how many tribal enterprises started on that endeavor And I think within two years of the blowdown the initial blowdown They had salvage the entire area or as much as was possible some areas They just left because of accessibility or there were water Areas they wanted to protect The national forest from what I understood Was still going through their environmental assessment at the time I don't think they had other than maybe emergency cutting out roads on there were homes that were impacted so other than emergency cell Salvage logging are cutting They hadn't salvaged any of the timber off the forest, so I think that just shows It shows the the response The response time that tribes can deploy in terms of Ensuring the health and protection of the forest but it's also more I think an indicator of the kind of the The change in values on national forests and that sometimes people often associate conservation To the exclusion of the communities benefiting from the forest To where it becomes detrimental and and I think that's an interesting one to include in this landscape where the The forests were a clear-cut farmland was created heavy impact human use to national forests that are bogged down by Laws and any time you propose a timber harvest that I believe they get sued or they get held up in court from my understanding, I don't know if that's still the case, but I Mean that's a difference in sustainable management approaches right there. I think So we have like I said before a public reception outside for folks who want to stick around But I hope everybody's really enjoyed us. It's always amazing to hear Chris talk about the monomony people Those of us that are in forestry have always been external admirers of the work that happens there and part of that Admirations stems from the amazing people like Chris that represent their story And so thank you Chris for taking the time to share that today with us and those that want to talk with Chris a bit They'll be outside for about a half hour or so I'm as part of the reception So thanks again Chris for being here


What's up guys we're back with another epic video today's video was actually a stream we did on what not which is an app Or you can auction off packs and a lot of you guys were there, but tons of you guys didn't see this We opened up 18 legend of blue eyes packs original 2003 packs as well as 14 first edition lab in the nightmare packs It was pretty crazy So you guys are gonna see that coming up if you guys want to follow me on what not check out the link in the Description you can follow me there. We have a huge opening this I think it's gonna be Wednesday or Thursday I will schedule it whenever I get the box and we decide when it's gonna be I'll let you guys know in a future video Pharaoh servant first edition opening this coming week. It's gonna be crazy. So go follow me there So you can get in on that action. We're gonna have some epic prizes We're gonna have for a certain first edition box break It's gonna be really awesome, and we do have a giveaway for this video I'll be giving away these three cards.  Maybe check me out on what not give me a follow there And you guys can see if you guys are interested in anything like that. Let's get into the video I think you guys will enjoy this. All right, here we go First pack Are we gonna pull the blue eyes? Let's see what we can do. Will we pull something good out of the first pack? legend of blue eyes Unlimited all right. Let me get this let me get in a better spot for this I got so many cameras going right now guys. This is crazy. All right. Let's pull something good We got an r-mail The 13th grave You Robbie to mouth dark ruler Okay, are we gonna get some on the first pack and the dark hole. We got a super rare on the first pack Very nice dark hole LOB 2003 print it still says magic card on these so it's very original So that's very cool 2003 and 2002 actually does not have a difference in terms of the like what you can see on the card It's very similar. They look almost the exact same. The coloring is very slightly different very nice one for one good start Congrats, man super rare right off the bat legend of blue eyes and For those final packs you can keep them sealed or have them opened the incentive packs Whatever you guys want you we don't have to open them. We can also keep them sealed So here we go.  Goblin secret remedy so this one is just a rare we get the kingfong the beaver warrior the legend himself Beaver warrior petite dragon and drooling lizard. Yeah, you just hate to see that guy pack number two So we pulled one out of two foils so far. We should have five to six in here. Here we go What can we pull? Legend of blue eyes. Can we pull the blue eyes white dragon? Okay, okay Let's see what we can do here. Can we pull something good? We got the lesser dragon now. We need the greater blue eyes dragon Here we go. Masaki the legendary swordsman in warrior number one Mountain Monster reborn. We've got an ultra rare. Not bad. Not bad That's a pretty good one. That's sintering looks Pretty good on it. Check that out guys That looks like a potential 10 That looks like it could be a 10 I like it because it says magic. Yeah, me too. I'm top-loader this thing up. That is a nice one All right. We got monster egg and monster reborn and mystical sheep. All right Yeah, there's two to three ultras usually two But I've seen several boxes like three boxes with three recently. So maybe it's not as rare as I thought All right Here we go Next pack pack number four Be there's third pack. I think he's one for two so far Here we go. We get the karama Uh-oh tear the terrible don't like out.   Oh man That is unbelievable. Imagine imagine we get some craziness in this We've already pulled monster reborn and red eyes unbelievable unbelievable Centered I think this has a let's check this actually let's double check the centering centering is a tiny bit off Everything else looks good that white thing is on the sleeve. I think They're very nice very nice. That's good That's good. Hopefully we can get another ultra as well. That'd be crazy Let's see what he can do He's here. He's serious. He wants a secret rare. He wants a third ultra out of this box Okay, okay Here we go, Brett. Let's get him something good We've got a green phantom king He tots are me giant power of kaishin Petite angel and here we go Trap holds super rare. What is going on with this box? We've hit four foils already This is crazy Four foils. That is insane guy the dragon champion has gold letters in the misprint only It's supposed to have secret silver letters Very well done trap hole. That's another super rare Top lord of that thing up. All right Battle scar trial of nightmare. There's a cool one Wow, this is crazy. This start is insane. Let's go What can we get? Here we go Can we pull an epic one? Let's see what we can do Our mail We've got the 13th grave Urabi Tomb out dark ruler and Dragon is the wicked knight it has been a long time since we've seen a rare guys It has been a very long time that is a dragon is the wicked knight on pack number six So we still have 12 packs left guys All right Here we go No, you can see when they pay the payment goes through. Here we go Hard armor We got a kumu toko Forest Skull servant. There's the legend skull servant and here we go Carbonala warrior another fusion beaver warrior t dragon root water and the drooling lizard Oh man There we go the carbonala warrior not the guy we're looking for a pretty cool card though, but legend blue eyes white dragon red banner 2003 pack Let's see what we can do. We got the lesser dragon Masaki the legendary swordsman M warrior number one We've got a mountain and the final pull here. Here we go Two pronged attack. We've got a rare yami witty phantom kagamusha and machine conversion Factory another rare run a rare streak Will we find that secret rare in here somewhere finishing out this right side? Will it have the secret rare Here we go Here we go All right Here we go Oh, let's get these out. It's not damage the corners. All right. We're just gonna we're gonna hot dog this thing or banana Or what are you calling? All right, we got it Ninth pack. This is halfway through the opening the furious seeking One-eyed shield dragon We've got a new me He know thomas soul And a reaper of the cards that is one of the coolest rare is one of the only effect monsters in the set So it is really cool, but not a foil. This would be a really cool foil to be honest And if it wasn't five stars, maybe it'd be a lot better, but the five star is not good blue eyes white dragon Here we go LOB Can we pull a blue eyes? Can we pull a secret rare? Here we go legendary sword We've got the dark king of the abyss fiend reflection interesting spike seedra and Arm ninja another one of the uh effect monsters. You don't see many of these silver fang. That's a classic very nice Here we go Legend of blue eyes. Can we pull a secret rare? Can we pull another ultra rare? Even a super rare. We would be glad to pull that All right, legend of blue eyes Let's see what we can do psm He's getting those LO impacts as well. We got kumu toko at this point.  Okay. This is actually I think used at some point So that's kind of interesting basic insect But uh, yeah, it's only like a five dollar card, but still not bad next pack up Here we go. Can we get the secret rare? Can we get another ultra? Can we get another super? Here we go Trihorn dragon We've got a mystical moon dark king of the abyss fiend reflection number two We got a spike seedra. Here we go Dragon capture jar it captured our trihorn dragon and put it in a different pack with labyrinth of nightmare. Okay All right, where is that secret rare 13th pack of the 18 we're getting close to the end Oh, no, he typed 301. Did he miss the secret rare? Did he miss another ultra rare?  Okay. We're still looking for that secret that secret is Not coming out easily guys now. Will he get the secret rare all that he's going to get three level the nightmare packs And can you get something out of here? Here we go Here we go. Let's get something good. All right, we've got a kurama Can we get that secret tear the terrible dark gray turtle tiger and Metal dragon. Okay. All right. That's unfortunate left side. We went to the left for the first time like in a long time Can we get the secret rare? Okay Let's go We've got a petite angel Let's get that secret. We've got the furious sea king One-eyed shield dragon Umi and here we go. Come on Final flame. Okay, the final rare. Is that what that's telling us final flame. Please be the final rare We are on a rare street guys. Let's get that secret rare guys Trihorn dragon. I would love I would love To pull a third ultra as well. Imagine if there's a blue eyes in here. Oh, here we go All right, here we go. You know, tamo. We got an armored starfish metabat sandstone Giant soldier of stone that came up quicker than I thought Oh my goodness. Where is that secret rare? Where is that secret rare? I want elf to get this secret rare so bad now. He's been putting him work He's been putting him work. We got to get him this. Come on. Have something in here Here we go guys Let's get that secret rare Let's get it Blue eyes or secret rare. I'll take that a third ultra blue eyes would be insane. He knew tamas soul We got an arm mail We got the 13th grave You Robbie here we go and Cherubin it's gonna come to the last pack. There has to be another one. There has to be another one All right, let's start off with a labyrinth of nightmare first edition. Here we go Let's hopefully we can pull something good. We need some ultras supers something good I am hiring actually. Oh my goodness. All right. We want to get him something good out of here We've got st. Joan Empress mantis by the way bret if you ever want to stop opening After we pull something or something just let me know in the chat. All right spirit of flames lightning blade Spirit of the breeze we got a secret a secret a rare to start it off. All right Rare and the rock spirit All right, a lot of people are trying to apply to work with bread after that Not not shocking. It's not shocking Here we go Here we go Let's pull an ultra rare dark necro fear. How about that? That'd be insane All right, we got a summoner of illusions boneheimer The unfriendly amazon Jam breeding machine another rare. Okay, solar pyridian light flying fish and crimson sentry. All right Let's get some good. I think revival jam would be really cool as well. Super rare We got to get at least an ultra out of here. Let's go. Come on. Let's get an ultra rare Here we go Empress mantis here we go spirit of the flames Lighting blade Geruda the wind spirit Oh Ah the rest of the special we got a mask of dispel super rare First edition there we go our first hollow pull. That's a cool one. The sintering is not so hot on that guy That is pretty that's like legacy of darkness worthy That is very nostalgic. That's a classic card right there. He ended up getting 14 labyrinth of nightmare and this That's how that ended up at that price. That's how that happened next It's not ruckus unless he's talking about sintering that is true Here we go Next pack. So we've pulled a super rare. Let's get an ultra all right alpha still gonna get the second two lots and um Beaver got everything super cheap. So I don't feel bad for him and he pulled a lot of great pulls He did really good actually gadget soldier We got a fairy guardian We got offerings to the doom And a destruction punch. We got that desk kangaroo punching you in the face And the earl of demise classic All right, how many packs we got left? We still got like 10 more packs LOD pack auction. That would be pretty cool That would be pretty cool All right Here we go Can we get dark necro fear? It would be so cool dark for necro fear is a great card. Also, um Mass beast is a great one as well. I really like that one. It's kind of underrated guru to the wind spirit Jam defender. Can we get the revival jam in here guys?  You didn't get anything. All right dream sprite. Let's get that Necro fear not necro face. That would be cool though grave ravers retribution. We got a gadget soldier fairy guardian Infinite cards we this one is like in elo in so much It is always in elo in infinite cards We are gonna pull some spicy soon. I have a good feeling because we've gone six now. We're one for six That's a little bit pretty much normal ratio, but now it means it's time to get some All right, that was a that was an interesting option. That's for sure Here we go. Let's get it. Let's get an ultra. Come on Unfriendly amazon Swordsman of land style. We got a bait doll The forgiving maiden forgiving us for pulling dart and necro fear New via the wicked. Okay. New via the wicked Secret has not been pulled from these or the lob So still waiting on a secret in this live stream Next pack Come on Come on Let's get it Let's get it ultra rare. Come on guys Come on st. Joan Empress mantis spirit of flames Lightning blade here we go. Come on Oh I'm wait, what? Mask of dispel Look at this double mask of dispel. What is going on? Double mask that is so weird Not just any mask. It's the exact same mask That is so weird double mask of dispel the centering is It's better on this one. It's still not great, but it's definitely better on the second one Here we go. We got supply blind instruction and skull bewitchment I was like literally the same pack of the first mask Yeah, it is weird how you can know if you notice a lot of times the packs will be very similar like From different openings. It's just like the way they printed it. I guess All right, so we still have Six more packs. Hopefully we can get an ultra rare guys We've gotten two supers so far out of these packs Here we go. Let's get an ultra. We've got swordsmen of land style We got baked all The forgiving maiden The vengeful bog spirit and here we go Diffusion another super rare. So a lot of spell supers a lot of spells who all spell supers actually that's what we've gotten Diffusion Centering is it's been different on all the foils. Look, they've all been a little bit different First edition diffusion. That's a cool card. Not that great, but pretty cool all right Third foil pull so the ratios are not actually too bad. We just haven't got an ultra yet Actually, so you usually get one out of five It's one out of six for a super and one out of 12 for an ultra. So theoretically we should get Almost three supers and one ultra. So let's see if that that works out All right Come on. Let's get an ultra rare I want an ultra rare for Brett, here we go Swordsmen of land style. We've got the bait doll The forgiving maiden St. Joan. Okay, here we go Spirit no, why does it do it to us? Spirit message. Elders loves to rub it in our face the ultra rare we're looking for I would say is dark necrofair I think that's the best one in the set Mask beast is also really cool. Here we go Here we go. All right Next pack We've got a lady assailant of flames. Let's get an ultra. Come on guys This is a mad. This would be a magic cylinder box. So probably not jim and I draconic attack There are weird errors while they come up, but it probably shouldn't happen spirits lady. We got the shining abyss Mask of brutality another mask. This one is actually really cool I thought this would be a cool like a a rare printing curse of the masked beast. Oh, come on. We're lagging. There we go Bio mage and spirit elimination. All right. Come on ultra rare. Come on ultra rare Three packs left and then we got that lov pack. Hopefully it's a secret rare.  We opened 15 packs for the last one. So what's been a land star? That's like the third time bait doll. We got the forgiving maiden St. Joan. All right, come on. Come on Spirit message. I okay two spirit messages now lighting kong and dancing fairy. Can we get that ultra rare? two packs left dark necro fear come on necro fear This has been this has been a fun time guys. You guys have been uh pretty lit All right This is not the whole box of eloin. This is whoa. There we go. This is 14 of the packs But at that it's like over a third because it's a 36 pack box Here we go It is weird seeing the same cards. It's weird because this is not that small of a set earthbound spirit We haven't seen that one yet We've got a grave robbers retribution Gadget soldier Fairy guardian. Can we get the necro fear? Come on Jar of greed another super. Where's that necro fear? Hey the sin ring It's good That one's like a ps8 10 potential Very nice jar of greed. He's pulling all sort of traps and magic cards That's not bad. That's not bad. Okay fourth pull. That's actually That's about ratio. Okay, so we hit ratio. I hope that doesn't mean we don't get an ultra, but we did hit ratio. Okay Last pack. Come on. Come on an ultra rare. Let's do it LOB first dead box is like if they're like 40 they're like 40 000 at this point. This is an unlimited box though, which are more like four to five thousand Okay, drionic attack. Can we get an ultra in the last pack and then get a secret in LOB spirits lady Shining abyss We've got a mario kutai Oh United we stand ultra rare in the last pack. Yes. That is so good to see and look at that sin ring That's pretty good. The top the bottom is a little bit off, but this is pretty good another Another magic card. Very nice. Check that out That is actually pretty good. That's pretty good Final pack. We are hoping for a secret rare try on dragon It could be insane and have a third ultra rare, which would be awesome I've seen a few boxes like that recently But the secret rare I think is the most realistic possibility I'm pretty sure it could be a super too. I'm pretty sure it could Okay Here we go guys. I'm not trying to spoil anything, but do you guys see that? I'm not trying to spoil anything, but did you guys see that? There might be something in here mammoth graveyard guys Last pack last pack Brett has done pretty good. Here we go. Let's get something good. Please.  Should we do some some craziness? Make sure we get it the last card. Here we go We got basic insect. Let's get it to the last card Larvis We already have pulled trap holes. Hopefully it won't be a double wasteland dissolve rock. Okay, here we go Luck in the chat for Brett Swords are revealing light. It is a super rare, but that's a great super rare the sin ring on. It's pretty good Potential possible 10 is a little bit off, but it does have a little bit of a chance Oh, it is a super, but at least it was a foil in the last pack. Okay Okay, swords are revealing light. That was cool, but that was that was epic guys So, uh, we'll be doing more of this in the future. I appreciate everybody who came out. It's been fun I hope you guys enjoyed this video. It was a lot of fun live on whatnot So make sure to check me out there if you guys want to be there for the moment But of course I'm going to record these kind of things so I can post them on youtube So if you don't follow me there, you'll be able to see it here as well. That's it for this video I hope you guys enjoyed it. Peace Oh Shining of this Oh the revival jam


If I was a busy night at Bemidji's Target Store and not with your usual Christmas shoppers, Josh Peterson introduces us to Holiday Heroes and Helpers. These kids tonight got an opportunity to place Santa Claus for their family. The Bemidji's Target Store played host to Holiday Heroes and Helpers, a program that partners members of Law Enforcement, the Fire Department and EMS personnel with kids to help with their Christmas shopping. Together, they shopped until they dropped. So we decided we would call our program Heroes and Helpers. It's essentially the same concept. Kids are given a monetary fund and able to shop with a hero then. Twenty-one kids partnered with thirty-one different heroes spent their evening at Target tonight to do their Christmas shopping, buying gifts for everyone in their family, including possibly one for themselves. Each kid had a budget of $100 to spend on Christmas gifts. Kids along with their hero shopped for gifts of all kinds. This is the first year for Holiday Heroes and Helpers and it would not have happened without the help of key partnerships. So partnership, partnering with other organizations that support youth is really, really critical and working with Tavatha and Law Enforcement and those other great heroes in our community to bring everybody together. For Bemidji's Target Store, having the opportunity to play host to an event like this is a great experience for all its team members. Seeing the smiles on each kid's face leaves a lasting impression. The highlight of the night is just the first girl when her name was called out and just seeing her raise her hand and that smile on the face, you just can't duplicate that excitement. The joy of Christmas isn't the only holiday magic that happened in this Target Store. It's the start of new trusting relationships between heroes and kids. It's all about the positive relationship. So it's a positive relationship in a non-emergency situation where they can develop those friendships or relationships where something isn't stressful and it's not an emergency. So that is the goal. In Bemidji, I'm Josh Peterson, Lakeland News. And if you'd like to make a contribution to Holiday Heroes and Helpers, we have a link located on our website lptv.org slash news. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


The best part about training like this, get to work with a partner nation that I might not otherwise work with and also just getting to see a live aircraft employee live for fire munitions never gets old. So as a TACPJ TACP we're a force multiplier that deploys with the Army that is able to mass surface to surface fires as well as air to ground assets to mass firepower on the battlefield. It's important because in working with the Army it is a joint effort to have Army artillery fire in while Air Force fixed wing assets are also employing ordinance. When working with coalition partners it allows us to get training experience that we might not get stateside to work with partner nations that English might not be their first language so we get to work together through the language barrier and we're able to share TTPs with each other. It was a good day of training today. We had perfect weather. We had approximately five different agencies in the planning process of today and the execution was flawless.


Fellow citizens, St. Lucia joins the rest of the Caribbean and Latin America in celebrating the 18th Vaccination Week of the Americas from Saturday 25 April to 2 May 2020 under the theme, Love, Trust, Protect, Get Vaccinated. This celebration coincides with the World Health Organization's 9th Anniversary of World Immunization Week with the theme, Vaccines Work for All, aiming to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against diseases. In light of this, countries are urged to continue their efforts to close the gap that exists in vaccination coverage. Access to vaccines is a critical component of universal health coverage. It fosters a strong and resilient primary health care system. It is critical to prevention of many life-threatening diseases and has proven to be one of the most cost-effective preventative health interventions. Critical to any immunization program is accessibility. Essential vaccines should be easily accessible in all health care facilities and for all, providing universal access, especially to individuals in hard-to-reach areas and the vulnerable groups in the population. According to the World Health Organization, every year globally, millions of lives are saved for vaccines. However, nearly 20 million children are still on vaccinated or on the vaccinated. Bearing this in mind, Vaccination Week of the Americas is a time when the countries of the hemisphere work collaboratively to raise awareness on the importance of immunization in health care service delivery. It is a time when a special effort is made to reach out to citizens, ensuring that those who may not readily access health care services such as vaccination are given the opportunity to do so. St. Lucia's expanded immunization program has yielded numerous successes since its commencement in 1977. The program is executed at the various wellness centers across the length and breadth of the island, as well as private sector pediatricians. The service is accessed by target groups via a range of delivery options, namely facility-based vaccination, house-to-house, school-based vaccination, and community outreach. The service can also be accessed through private sector health facilities. I would like at this point to acknowledge the stakeholders who have and continue to contribute to the successful implementation of the National Immunization Program, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, for their commitment and investment in the immunization program. In that regard, the government invests almost half a million dollars annually to ensure the continued implementation of the program. This investment underscores the appreciation for the program. The general public, particularly parents, for their confidence and trust in the program and ensuring that every child is covered with the required doses of vaccines and completing timely vaccine schedules. The primary health canvases, as well as the five private sector pediatricians, who continue to be champions for vaccination and drive the program's agenda, thus contributing significantly in reducing the burden of vaccine-preventable diseases. Our internal partners are the Ministry of Health, especially the Bureau of Health Education, for their continuous support over the years. The Ministry of Education, for being a lifelong partner with the Ministry of Health, ensuring that every child in the education system meets the vaccine requirements prior to school entry and also facilitating the school immunization program. The population must be protected from the ever-present reality of a potential outbreak of vaccine-preventable diseases. We must continue to engage and remain committed to maintaining high vaccination rates to protect our population. The Pan-American Health Organization continues to recommend increasing and maintaining vaccination coverage of more than 95% of children age five years and under in all countries prioritizing districts and communities with which report low coverage. Let me direct your attention to our current situation, the COVID-19 pandemic. We are aware that at present, there is no vaccine for COVID-19 and that according to the experts, several clinical trials are underway and a vaccine could become available in the not-too-distant future. We are aware that the pandemic has the potential to significantly impact the routine immunization program. With the current burden of COVID-19 on the healthcare system and the social distancing requirements, the reluctance of people to seek vaccines can potentially increase and can result in lower coverage, thereby increasing our risk for re-emergence of diseases which have been eliminated in our population. The presence of COVID-19 in St. Lucia resulted in several adjustments to our child health clinic schedules and as such has affected the immunization program. Effective Tuesday 14th April 2020, all child health clinics were resumed, therefore, parents are encouraged to continue accessing vaccines at the nearest wellness centers and should call to make an appointment. Even week of the Americas cannot be celebrated in the manner which was originally planned due to the current public health situation. However, vaccines are still accessible at all wellness centers. Taking into account that we are still in the flu season, adults are encouraged to take advantage of the availability of these vaccines to prevent the life-threatening effects of the influenza virus. Citizens and residents of St. Lucia, you are encouraged to freely access the health services available to you. In keeping with the COVID-19 protocols, please contact your healthcare provider for an appointment. Follow all COVID-19 protocols and the advisories from the Ministry of Health and let's keep healthy and safe. May God continue to bless us all. Remember, love, trust, protect, get vaccinated.