wn down in 2021 Um, and that's primarily to meet the capital needs Some of the significant projects that you're going to see in the capital improvement plan, um advance metering A 7.5 million I think as we look at the the resolution that the council passed in terms of 100 renewable by 2030 This is a critical component to being able to operationalize that Um, the price part tank replacement. Um, for those of you who aren't familiar it is The big tank by sunset part 19.2 million We all have talked to you all extensively about nelson-flanders and the work that we have to do there We also have wastewater treatment improvements that we need to make in order to comply with a lot of the mandates that are coming down And then one of the items that you all have talked about Railroad quiet zone. So that's the 2.17 that we're going to come in You will get more detail on that as we go over the capital improvement plans Um The highlight and this is where I said we're going to really show what we were we were dealing with The proposed general fund budget for 21 is 88.09 million. It's actually a decrease of 3.9 You can see the amount there The decreases in one time expenses From 4 million in 2020 to 1.2 million in 21 In terms of the ongoing expenses in the proposed general fund budget It's only increasing by 7 670 dollars over 2020. It's essentially a flat budget the one issue As we were looking at the general fund that we were getting into Is when you look at the financial policy that we have in place in terms of cost recovery for the recreation division and then you look at How we're forced to operate based on the current covid restrictions Um and and and how limited we are in in certain facilities Um as we began evaluating The rec center component of that we um projected a 25 percent decrease Um in revenue within our our recreation Um budget um as as we looked at that um You know, this is really the classic example of what we're dealing with in terms of covid today in the sense That there's a tremendous unknown in terms of what it's going to look like in 21 We are obligated to bring you a balanced budget. So we reduced the rec Revenue by 1.13 million And the way we're going to have to deal with that is we're going to have to reduce contract and temp hours Within the rec budget to manage it Um, so council knows um as we were going through the budget process I um, we did say that as we had to talk about these issues. Um, they would hear it from me So earlier today, I I did have a team's call with the recreation division and talked about this What it's going to look at at this point in the budget process Um is essentially a 25 percent reduction um across rec with With the exception of full and part-time benefited position. So we're not going to adjust those There will be a 30 percent decrease in our temporary hours and and as you can see in this slide, we're really Hampered by just how many people we can bring into a facility. Um, how often people are coming into facilities Um, and we honestly just don't know what that future is going to look like To give you an example of what we're seeing in a in um a rec center Um, normally we average slightly over 1200 visitors a day We have been around I think the number that jeff gave me was um 269 a day Coming into the rec center. So we there are multiple things coming into play What we can actually do in those facilities in terms of the covet restrictions How people are going into those facilities and ultimately that is affecting their revenue What I will tell you today and what we told staff is that's what we know today Um, as we said throughout this process, we're going to be evaluating this on a monthly basis Um, things could change on us. Um, and and if things change we will We are hoping to position ourselves in this budget to uh respond very quickly And so in terms of specific programs what we're really asking staff to do is to look at what we're doing how we're doing it Look at those where we can maximize revenue. Um, and make it then into this You know, one of the things that we're talking about that we just don't know Is as we get into colder months And people can no longer um exercise outside Um, we may actually see it swing as people come in Um in the colder months So this is going to be one of those areas that we're going to continue watching the entire budget as we're moving through this We're still going to continue watching on a monthly basis um So there's knowing in terms of highlights at this point We don't have any increase in pay ranges in the proposed budget Um open range employee compensation is budgeted at 101 of market Um, we are asking human resources to gather Um, 2021 market pay data and pending our revenue performance We could assess consideration of one-time payments or market adjustments in 21 But that's really going to be dependent on the financial performance that we see over the next few months Um, no guarantee on that Um, the proposed budget does include step increases For step employees. So when you you look at that it is Fire police and electric because they're on a step system It also includes People who are open range employees who are below Their current market and allows them to move to market And we also were able to keep in exceptional pay for employees To meet criteria and delivering the extraordinary performance Joanne will have a presentation on on on these aspects Later in the budget process But as you know, um on the exceptional pay side That's one of the things that that I review all of those nominations that are coming through Um, I'm not going to go over this. This is council vision For people But what we wanted to do is break that out and then talk about what we put in place So we did include $50,000 And for the early childhood Related to the outcomes of the summit that you all had We included 22,000 of one time funding for the library digital and print resources What we were really seeing and this is really one of those interesting components that's related to covet is based on How people are having to move through education And what parents are doing. We were definitely seeing more of the demand This is something over time that we'll have to look at moving into ongoing Um, and many of these things I know council talked about it and we're going to talk about it later in the budget process In terms of social equity, you're seeing many of these things starting to Those were the lenses that we were looking at in making some of these decisions Uh, we also know that we needed to continue 10,000 of ongoing Funding for our language line services So for you all if we're unable to have an interpreter the language line actually gives us the ability To call that number and so we can have an interpreter that we can use via the phone We did include $9,500 of ongoing funding for meal programs for the youth of our community Again another example of great work our Youth group Community and youth services. They're working on a pretty big grant that we can hopefully get To deal with meals programs 107,000 and We've increased the human service needs, you know, we all we're planning on increasing that annually We've increased that by 107,000 this year Many of these things were also looking at augmenting potentially through cares funding We finally got guidance. I was going to talk about that in covet We we were getting clear guidance and so over the next week We're going to be evaluating cares funding and then we also needed to push 100,000 of ongoing funding For the administrative cost associated with affordable housing and cdbg in terms of what we need to do Um your vision for places Um in terms of what we're really talking about there, um, you know, we are moving um Ongoing funding for engage long lot. We found that we really found value in that communicating With our community, you can see the money that we're putting in for the air quality monitoring That actually comes from oil and gas revenue same with the 60,000 Of one-time funding for plugged and abandoned well investigations The money that we have for the emerald ash pour Um, we do have 200,000 of one-time resources for energy efficiency improvements at city Facilities that really is tied in with the work that we've been doing from the climate action task force and our sustainability program And then 7.5 million of one-time resources for advance metering Um, so when we look at this and we talked about some other highlights, uh You know, this was something where um I think I've been in a city manager's office and trying to remember 97 The you know over 20 years This has probably been the the most interesting budget that we've had to go through and you'll see this in the budget message In terms of really just trying to figure out what that revenue number is going to look like um months from now based on the condition that we're in um and in the uncertainty that still exists and so there were many times in this where Jim and I were flip-flopping on each side of the equation in terms of are we being too conservative in our revenue estimates? Are we not being conservative enough? And we you know jim Being the genius that he is You know, we just really started looking at the data and said well What do we think we can do because what we didn't want to do Was go in and make cuts that were unnecessary, but we also didn't want to add things And create a situation for ourselves. It was tough to recover from So we we used a projection of 1.85 percent above 2019 and I want to be very clear on this above 2019 It's still almost 1 percent below what we budgeted in 2020 um, you all will remember us talking about the property tax When we were talking about the budget last year where we said we were somewhat concerned about the potential for a recession and we didn't want to allocate that into We made the recommendation not to allocate that into ongoing funding. So The 21 budget does benefit from what that 1 million of property tax from the 2020 budget that was earmarked for one time expenses You know, what we can tell you is we're going to have to continue closely monitoring all of our revenue streams So we can react quickly when we need to in a way very similar to how we move forward in this budget process As we look ahead, um, you know This has been a really interesting conversation for us. We know there's a number of short term economic risk We know businesses haven't opened others won't reopen You know, if you watch the national news, we're seeing bankruptcies by retailers. It's not uncommon these days You know in all of this is really the concerns with the possible resurgence of the virus and what that really means If you if you listen to health officials, they're very concerned about what happens over labor day and what happens in september because They really think that that will talk about what the fall will look like Um, and then as you look at, um, all of if if you look at any number of Financial article Whether it's CEOs, whether it's financial advisors, you know, they're really starting to talk more of The potential of a recession or in some cases worse and actually using As i'm saying now the d word In terms of these uncertainties and then the other thing that we know in a more long term perspective is we know next year Gallagher amendment will impact, um The impact projected for 2020 due to the valuations of the businesses being affected by covet 19 You know have the potential to reduce revenue Are over 2.1 million to the city or 10 of our annual property tax So we also know that's something that's potentially coming to the future So what we try to do in this budget is is take the priorities that we know that council has presented to us um, take what we think is a The a a comfortable level of risk um, and and and really also set ourselves up so we can handle um another situation in the way that we were able to move through it this year um At the end of the day, you know the thing that i've talked about with staff um almost every thursday when i have a citywide webx meeting is The only thing certain that we know today is that things are uncertain And and so what we really try to do is Provide council with the budget that allows us to continue to provide the services that we have historically provided to our community In a way that hopefully we've mitigated the risk Or as much risk as we possibly can is really what I should say um That is the end of my presentation jim. Do you want to join did I miss anything did I overstate anything? Uh jim golden chief financial officer, uh, no, I will you overstated something about The way you describe them like me. I think but beyond that I think everything else was about what we were planning to present what I wanted to to do at this point is tell the council that that We when you get your budget and tressa will explain How you'll get that in a few minutes here But when you do have that you'll notice at the end of the budget message and it's a It's a rather long budget message, but um at the very end we do include A schedule as we do every year the schedule is a little bit different if you've been through the budget process In the past you are maybe remembering that we typically will do our Resolutions and ordinances that need to be adopted related to the budget in october Now we do that especially during Council election years to make sure that we're dealing with that Before the election, but this year that we do have some twists the the county assessors have A different deadline now for getting us the preliminary assess Valuation instead of august 25th when they normally would provide that to us They have until october 13th So we do want to make sure that we are aware of that Before we are presenting an ordinance to the council So are the first reading of the ordinance instead of being on the 13th like it normally would we'll be doing it on october 27th And then the second reading will be on november 10th And that's all within our our charter schedule requirements anyhow, so we'll be okay as far as meeting those deadlines go We still even though the county did have some change in their requirements due to covet Are we still had a september 1st deadline to to Provide this budget and cip to you all so you'll be getting the budget the cip In the pay plan tonight The schedule we will move that cip We do have a lot of playing the schedule because of the fact that we have that extra tuesday now And could go a little bit farther out with our presentations into october so we will assess the other business that's on the council's Meetings coming up in the next few weeks and see where we can fit that cip presentation back in It's a long presentation But it you know when you're looking at the budget that we have this year and our limitations in from an operation perspective A lot of the efforts that we do want to bring to your attention are in the cip area where we still did have a lot of of fund balance and things to Vote towards capital projects, so we want to make sure that gets its due time So we'll we'll make those adjustments as we go along and update you on when we'll get them to you But i'm thinking the cip will be in later september Towards the end of september So with that i'm going to ask therese to explain to you Where you'll be able to get your budget Hey, uh, therese and why budget manager? So logistics um in the past we have provided uh the budget the cip and the pay plan as well as uh the Council communications and all the attachments that go along with it in your dropbox with the new prime gov gender management system You no longer do use dropbox. So this year We are going to be putting that information out there on the city's website for you And we will be directing you to the website to access the the documents and then Each council communication I will provide you with that same link so that you'll know and and be able to access The the budget the cip the pay plan as well as our plan is to to um in one consolidated place Put prior council communications And all the attachments as well as uh copies of the presentations for you We will continue to um as we have done in the past Continue to consecutively number uh our council communication and um our our attachments um because there will be uh opportunity um from time to time for us to refer Back to information that we have may have provided to you In a prior council meeting. So um when this meeting is over We will send you the link of where you can find the proposed documents And then uh, we will continue to add to that each week Um from that point on So mayor council, I wanted to give you all the opportunity. We gave you the highlights. Are there any questions for us? I think I saw some hands. So so my question before we go to that Do you have a cip presentation then or will that be in september? We're we're moving that to september. That's a fairly lengthy presentation and we would go longer Okay, does anyone have questions over the the budget summary at this point? All right, it was all pretty clear. I thought so herald anything else uh dr waters I don't know that it's so much about the budget summary, but as we schedule out as we look at the schedule um and as we uh have a chance to uh, Uh, I guess well, will will we see will the advanced metering be in the cip budget? correct Carol, I mentioned to you that I may be the only council member Who as we listen um to the input we had tonight About metering a wireless versus wired metering And um all the statements that are made About the risks Costs benefits risks associated with wired versus wireless metering um personally If we're going to budget seven and a half million dollars in two thousand and and 21 Um, I would I would benefit greatly if we could have a session not unlike what we did When we're talking about 5g When we looked at the legal aspects Whatever science there is Um, and I and there are members of this council who have expertise that I don't have Maybe I just need a tutorial, but I would sure appreciate the opportunity to hear from tim schlack Schlack is it schlackie And our own in in david and our other our own experts On what we're doing so we could If i'm going to make it an informed vote I'd like to make that feeling like I have the benefit of hearing all the perspectives on this issue So david was actually prepared to touch on that tonight. He will touch on it on the cip and I'm sure he heard your comments All right, so uh, thank you dr. Watters Harold seen all their comments or questions. Um, we thank you and we look forward to the annual process of dealing with the budget Fun times And jim. Thank you as always. We appreciate your work and teresa you too All right, let's go on to mayor and council comments Who would like to make comment councilman peck? Thank you, mayor badly, uh, I would like to tell council and anybody who's listening that on September 21st the north metro inline is opening up and it's going to be free rides for For the residents The reason that this is important and why I want to bring it up is that the inline is part of the north RTD fast tracks north metro line, which is One of the stages going into our northwest corridor kudos to mayor badly Because he and I and all of the other transportation Committees that we are on have been working very very hard to get this inline finished And now that it's finished and completed All of these different agencies are turning their attention to the north our northwest corridor So um, it is like we have not been doing anything But there's been a lot of hard work behind the scenes I'm very excited about this because it's taken a long time And now we can all uh in the city In the district On the corridor focus our attention on getting this northwest corridor Completed so if you would like a free ride see what's coming up September 21st Thank you Thanks, joan anybody else All right cool herald. Do you have any comments? I think I've talked enough tonight mayor That's what I was I wasn't gonna say it It's not me All right, Eugene you've been quiet tonight fairly you can say something if you'd like No comments mayor. That's why I love you. All right. Do we have a motion to adjourn? So moved I'll second All right. There's a motion to adjourn on a table all in favor say aye. All right. Hi I oppose say nay All right, the eyes have it unanimously until next week people and herald. I'll stop by to sign everything tomorrow. Alrighty Great. Thank you guys. Good night


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In factor analysis we estimate a model where one or more unobserved factors explain the correlations or covariances between the observed indicators. These factors are latent variables which means that we don't observe the values for the factors. However, those values can be estimated, the estimates are called factor scores. Klein explains that the factor scores are commonly used post estimation thing and they are calculated as a weighted sum of the indicators. He also points out that there is a robust way of calculating scores called unit weighting in which you simply take a sum of the items belonging to a single scale and use that as your factor score. In fact, my take is that this is pretty much the only way you should ever calculate factor scores. To understand why I think that way we need to understand what factor scores do. Let's take a look at an example. My example is a very large sample size 100,000 observations from a population with two factors and we have three indicators, one, two and three, load on the first factor and first factor only. There are four, five and six loads on the second factor and the second factor only and the factors are correlated at point five in the population. Then we run an exporter factor analysis after which we calculate three sets of factor scores. The first stone scores or regression factor scores is the first set, then we have Bartlett scores and we have Tenberg scores. There are maybe half a dozen other well-known scores as well, but these are the three most common or the Tenberg is a variant of a common idea. The factor analysis results are here. So as expected, we have only no cross loadings in the population, the sample size is large. In the factor analysis, there are no cross loadings. So the first three indicators load only on the first factor, the second three load only on the second factor and the factors are hardly correlated at point five. Then the factor scores. So here are the scores or the correlations between the scores. The true scores here are the scores that are used to generate the data. So these are the actual values of deleted variables that we have no hope of ever observing, but in a simulated data set we can of course simulate their values. The factors are correlated at point 498 in this large sample and then these factor scores are correlated with the factors and with one another to various degree. Let's take a look at the regression scores first. The regression scores maximize reliability. And what this means that the factor score for F1 using the regression technique correlates with the true scores of the factor more highly than with the Bartlett scores or the Tenberg scores. So they are the most reliable. But this reliability comes with a cost. The regression factor scores are biased, which means that they are correlated not only with the factor that they are scored for, but with the other factors. So these, the factor score F1 using the regression technique also correlates pretty highly with the second factor. And this becomes a problem if you want to use the regression factor scores to test a hypothesis or estimate a correlation between the factors. So we can see that the correlation between the regression factor scores is actually greater than the correlation between the factors. And this is not supposed to happen because this correlation is supposed to be affected by attenuation and be lower than the actual factor correlation. Bartlett scores address this problem. So they are reliable like regression scores, but they are also unbiased. So they are not too highly correlated with the other factors. So this is the correlation with the scores and the factor assuming that there is attenuation going on. The final set of, and as a conclusion or as a consequence, we have this correlation with the factors, which is not overestimated. Then the final set of scores in the table is the Tenberg scores. And this is a variant of correlation preserving factor scores. The idea of correlation preserving factor scores is that the scores will correlate exactly the same amount as the factor. So if we have a correlation matrix with three factors and they have three correlations, then with the correlation preserving factor scores, the three correlations between the three factor scores would correlate exactly the same as the actual estimative factors. So which one should you use? The regression score is typically the default and this makes sense if the purpose of the scores is to rank order cases. But if the purpose of the scores is to test if the factors are correlated, then regression scores is probably the worst. Let's take a look at how these are actually calculated. When we think about scale scores, we assume x1, x2 and x3 form one scale, x4, x5 and x6 form another scale. A researcher would normally calculate the scale score for the first scale as a mean of x1, x2 and x3 and a scale score for the second scale as a mean of x4, x5 and x6. But factor scores don't work that way. So every factor score is a weighted sum of every indicator in the model. Those that belong to the factor and those that also belong to other factors. And this is the reason why the regression scores are biased. If we look at the scores for f1 and the weights, so the scores for f1 are calculated using these weights multiplying the indicators and taking a sum. We can see that the indicators for the second factor, x4, x5 and x6 are used to calculate scores for the first factor. Why is this the case? The reason is that the purpose of these scores is to maximize reliability. And if our indicators are measured with error, like they pretty much always are, and factors are correlated, then indicators of f2 carry unique information of the variance of f1 as well. So we can get more reliable predictions of f1 by using also the indicators of f2. And that makes sense if you want to rank order cases, but if you want to test if the factors f1 and f2 are correlated or you use those factor scores to present some constructs, then that would be a really bad idea to use regression scores because of the bias. The bar test scores are unbiased because these influence of the other indicators are constrained to be zero if there are no crossloadings. If there are crossloadings, then other indicators might be used. So what's the deal? Should we use factor scores? The thing is that the reliability differences are pretty trivial. But if you compare regression scores, the reliability is 0.883. For the regression scores for tenberg scores is 0.882, 0.881, 0.882. So the difference is in the third digit. In the bar test scores, this is not the substantial difference. And our sample size was very large. The factor scores are also potentially biased, particularly the regression scores. And as a conclusion, it's probably always best to simply take a sum of those indicators that measure one thing, take a sum of those indicators that measure another thing instead of using factor scores that use all the indicators. Another thing with factor scores is that they are commonly misunderstood. Some researchers seem to think that factor scores are the same as the factors. So I reviewed a few studies that apply an exploratory factor analysis, and then they say that they take factor scores which correct for measurement error and then use those in regression analysis. Factor scores don't work that way, so they are not 100% reliable. Another important limitation in factor scores is factor indeterminacy. So factor scores, particularly the correlation preserving nature, variant, they correlate exactly similarly to what the factors in the model correlate. But there are no guarantees that they correlate well or they correlate to the right amount with something that is not included in their model. So calculating factor scores and then using those factor scores to explain some indicators or variables that are not included in the factor analysis is generally not a good idea because of factor indeterminacy. Then if you simply want to maximize reliability, calculate scale scores, as we point out in my article, there are decades of research that point out that any advantage of differentially weighting indicators is pretty much trivial compared to simply taking a sum of the indicators. But it's useful to understand what these do just to caution researchers against not using them if you are, for example, a reviewer.


okay what on the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me a bad gonorrhea and a bong go back to our stupid directions you did some core I may not feel good but I'll feel better in a minute with that bong any pulse but Instagram and also not to be confused with bong yeah there's the bong made of glass with water and you smoke your pot out of it and then there's bong water you drink drink holy yeah they have the same effects though don't drink don't drink bong water anyway so baby you know the intro yeah you've done it it's juicy in here before yeah it's dripping today we are doing a movie review yes the Hindi film oh my god oh my freaking goodness uh OMG oh my god um this is a 2002 film directed by umesh 2002 I didn't realize sorry just like that uh 2012 okay I was gonna say wow I didn't realize it was 18 years old 2012 umesh shukla shukla yeah he also I think wrote part of it and then um say his name and bravesh mandala looks like also did it starring Akshay Kumar yeah Pradesh Rawal and and then obviously there's and then a couple other uh little characters uh this is gonna be a hundred spent spoiler review it came out 2012 I'm assuming you haven't seen it it's just how we do it just need to let you know if you haven't seen it go watch it come back unless you like to be spoiled you naughty because we're going to naughty we're going to do that uh but uh what was I gonna say I was gonna say something very important hmm spoiled I don't remember 2002 to 2012 okay space obviously I have no idea I don't know but yes uh a hundred spent spoiler review uh tomorrow no idea okay no idea I had something it's gone uh but Rick your initial thoughts hey this gave me I've been looking for a way to do like a grading scale for movie reviews for the longest time okay like to give things like I was inspired by world of dance actually because they have the the categories and then they give you the score and then you get a a score because in Johnny and I've been watching world of dance so uh this didn't score high for me um yeah I I uh I don't have a paragraph but I can't tell you the score that I gave it based on my 10 categories and I rate those categories on a scale of 1 to 10 and then that gives me an average grade uh yeah I I just um it for me most of the time felt like something if you had and I don't mean this this is the best analogy I can give it's not meant to be an insult it's meant to be the best way I can describe what I saw and how I felt it was as if a high school film group was given a million dollars to make a film and what they put together based on the writing the acting the story and the the presentation I appreciate the truths and things it was trying to convey I appreciate that intention but the delivery system with which it came and some of the problems I had with it in the writing and the the everything else was was not enough for me to like it gotcha I ended up enjoying it's not here's a here's what I'll say about it is it a great piece of cinema no nobody's and a scale on my grade scale I give it a d minus that's mine I'll explain how I came up with the d minus but uh yeah is it a great piece of cinema no but also right when it started I was like okay this is not this is right this is not cinema right uh at all agree right at the beginning I didn't tell I was like go because this is a masala film right um and so we've seen films like that that I've ended up enjoying and the main reason I ended up enjoying this is the so you want the conversation so you ultimately enjoyed it because of the conversation okay it was a ton of issues I had with it okay in terms of like if I was if I was being very critical yes obviously there's a ton of stuff wrong I kind of gave it a lot of leeway off the bat because I was like okay I can tell what kind of film this is right this is obviously if you come off of watching like um very realistic films like a gang of wasp her and we've been watching a lot of those and so that that does skew our uh but same a lot of issues even though I enjoyed pk more oh wait some stuff that's my comparison yeah but some stuff I had issues with in that as well same thing like supporting cast uh stuff like that some of the writing but I think the biggest strength so this was the conversation that it wanted to have which once again I think pk did it better but apparently this has an American adaptation which I believe you were in the second one of not really that's I believe somebody I believe well it is oh my god I've never seen but I believe that's what I read like there's like that's kind of the american-ish version um which apparently he was in oh god book two I was yeah I had a small part in it I have a little monologue I do I would actually equate it more to like Evan Almighty Bruce Almighty-ish style you know than uh pk uh what yeah no no I mean saying the style I know that's what I'm talking about I know you're just being very critical right now yeah uh which is fine uh but yeah no ultimately I enjoyed the conversation of it because I enjoy it when people pick apart what they're supposed to pick apart I appreciate that I appreciate it as long as it's done with some semblance of uh here's the problem I don't know if you stupid babies know this or not about me but I spent about a decade as a licensed minister I've I've been to bible college I've done a lot of theological studies and I find example differentiating this versus pk similar also we haven't seen pk in over a year and a half true it's very possible we might not like this but I guarantee I love pk I'm sure I would still like it and here's one of the reasons I like pk and why I comparatively dislike this in terms of the subject matter and questioning things right so in pk there is a gracious presenting of hypocrisy no for sure this one's definitely more heavy-handed this one's more heavy-handed but it's also in addition to the gracious representation of hypocrisy in pk that's just do you not see the contradictions with a with a basis of isn't it just common sense that there's this doesn't make sense versus these hard and fast definitive uh this is the way it's going to be when it definitively is not for example you you cannot if you have any capacity not even at a scholarly level but if you understand textual criticism from the writings of antiquity and scriptures themselves whether you're comparing the Quran to the text of of Hinduism which there's countless ones of them to the 66 books of the Protestant Bible to the additional apocryphal writings of the the catholic church and the pseudepigrapha you do not have all roads lead to Rome they don't all lead you don't have pluralism in world religions and there's four thousand planetary religions let alone the five major religions so this just painting of the brush that every belief system is is going to give you the truth that you need those belief systems themselves disallow that and i have a hard time with that kind of can't we all get along trying to oversimplify things that the text themselves and the belief systems themselves definitively disallow pk didn't try to get into that territory that's what i said this one was definitely more heavy-handed for not as scholarly aware yeah like i said i enjoyed the writing of pk a lot more yeah i had similar problems in terms of film uh in terms of like supporting cast and some of some of the cheesy writing and stuff like that sure in that way but um yeah i obviously i had questions with what it said but i kind of once again i wasn't holding this at a very high regard in terms of yeah listen to this i don't think anybody's supposed to take this film very seriously my interpretation of it was that they were just trying to especially with hinduism obviously that was the main religion they were focusing on because india is probably the biggest religion it was one of those they i think they said the christian guy like once they they called on it basically once and yeah he quoted he quoted yes but what's the bible he quoted the karan he he quoted the hindu texts they were focusing a little more on the hindu text correct than the than the other ones and yes i had questions about it but i think the the overall thing of it they wanted to say was um especially with uh hinduism uh at least from what i can tell was you know focus more on you know helping others and and your relationship with whatever god you're talking about as opposed to their overall uh i guess idea that they all lead to one i understand that they said that and you can take offense to that if you want but i i kind of just brush that off really yeah that yeah i we could have a philosophical debate on whether that's true or not obviously yeah that's kind of just how i took it because i was like yeah obviously that's not really the case but i kind of took something different from it which which is one of the things i appreciated i always appreciate a film especially talking which we don't have a lot here because i i don't really know why evan almighty and personal mighty oh the only two i can really think of at least in recent history that directly go after and it's always christianity it's always christianity yeah because that's obviously the biggest really well yeah the ones that are most recent and those are comedy is one of the best if you haven't seen this film a really really good film with robert duvall is the apostle did you see that it was a small film that duval did and he was nominated for it and it is i saw that one it is really good and you know what's another one that touches on it it's not the primary subject matter but there will be blood is pretty strong yeah that one with that but it is for the majority of it because so much of what's gone on in america yeah but yeah that is christianity those you couldn't obviously compare to this because those are no cinema cinema no genre wise you're right to compare it to evan almighty evan almighty and personal mighty obviously those are i think in terms of overall film a better film just because i have a lot of issues with like small supporting characters some of those some of the cheesy overall writing although i did appreciate the main guy for the most especially when you got in the courtroom it's except for some once again cheesy writing i thought he did a good job i would like to see more from him he thinks actually seems like an actor um that i probably did theater of at one point um and then definitely on board yeah oh we definitely need it right when he came on i was like he seems like he's in a different class and he is it was it was very clear who was the thespian in this in this film so like he showed up and he was the thespian it's like when you see nissarid and sha in in deborah yeah he's like oh he sticks out like a sore thumb correct correct doesn't he yeah um so please let me know i already know we've seen a few things i think he was in uh mcbull i believe with nissarid and right it was mcbull or him and nissarid and were the yeah yeah yeah there were yes which obviously was great yes but i would like to i know he's a legend and we need to just like nissarid and we need to focus on but we have a lot we know we know we have a lot more uh but yeah that's a little side note i thought akshay was akshay akshay was akshay it was akshay that's what i expected uh and i mean sincerely he didn't have a lot to work with no he really the majority of the time he was just standing and i'm sure a bunch of stuff went over our head because he was playing uh krishna right so i guarantee a lot of the little thing we actually looked up uh because my wife watched it with me this little thing apparently krishna has something he's always i knew i knew that wasn't just a random full away thing i was like there had to be a reason behind it so there's probably a bunch of those little things correct that were that were totally over our head correct we're not even though i'm actually glad we saw this now as opposed to way before because we were familiar with the sport at the beginning and what they were doing probably just i know okay yeah let's talk that i i will mention that was pretty great all right at the beginning i'm like oh cool he's in this and then no the rest of it they got that one one moment that was really worth the price of admission for me that was probably my favorite moment of the film yeah it was probably his dance number that was fun um and yeah if i had seen this if i remember right when we saw pk this was coming in c omg a very very similar genre i'm glad we didn't yeah because if i had seen this definitely aired it and it would i would i would have compared it but also like as much as i i didn't like this movie i don't i'm not upset with this movie i'm not like angry with this movie and anybody who says they like it it's like okay you can have your taste on that for me i just that i just don't want to yeah i have a lot of other things i'd rather do go flip your boat go right ahead i'd rather be watching a lot of other stuff uh and it does my grading for it i'm really i'm really happy about my little rating scale um uh no it's great you want to know it here do you want to know it it's all right it's 10 categories okay based on the categories that are customarily the primary categories that we award the academy awards so it's 10 categories and you rate them on a scale of 1 to 10 okay story slash screenplay i know they can be different but i put them into the same category right so story and screenplay direction cinematography acting just across the board costumes and makeup visual effects sound design score production design editing and you give them a scale of 1 to 10 and my scale you're gonna like my scale if it's a 10 it's flawless gotcha nine nearly perfect eight solid seven average six below average five bad once you get below five then it's just fun ripping on the score because if it's more than bad number four is unacceptable slash lazy three is unwatchable slash they don't care two is insulting slash they're mocking the art number one is an abomination stop making film but i'm rarely ever gonna go below five so based on that scale yeah this for me got a d minus because the majority of my scores were basically sixes and sevens of average and below average i didn't give anything higher than a seven gotcha for this so for me i give it a rate as far as cinema but i can understand i get it like i said i why somebody might give it a higher score just for their own personal preference i don't get it i really don't understand but for me like the reason i just enjoyed it is i enjoyed the conversation i i'm yeah i'm not on time i'm always good with regardless of if i agree with the conversation not questioning of stuff especially religion because i have lots of problems with big religion and i'm with you yeah as long as the questions have some semblance of so for example if you were to hear me start talking as if i knew about soccer how would that make you feel knowing what you know i know about soccer and i started talking like i was an expert well how would how would you feel about that i don't know if that's a fair comparison i don't know that this was talking like it was an expert it was trying to no it wouldn't be a it wouldn't be a comedy if it was doing that just like evin almighty is not they're not doing this philosophical thing they're just making you laugh at certain things no but here's the difference for me for like pk and omg pk presented it as is god with a question mark this presented it as god is he straight up says at one point akshay says i wrote it down he straight up says to him a god his sentence god is incomplete without his devotee well like i said i might have been going more off of hinduism and so if you're looking at it from which obviously you would from a christian's perspective i understand well that doesn't even a christian perspective from a belief system uh text from antiquity proper exogenical uh looking at texts and making like i said at the outset when you make a broad stroke and say that all belief systems take you to truth that's categorically false so for you to have a conversation about it i'm looking at you hearing you talk about things as if you're being an authority because actually is god saying all religious beliefs lead you to truth i can't take that conversation seriously because it's just not they don't they they they are categorically some of them are antagonistically against the other belief systems and say it's our way or the highway i understand okay that's why i can't listen to this conversation i just didn't it just didn't bother me because right i i i will always allow a film to tell whatever it wants to tell and i'm not gonna say i agree with it obviously i don't agree with a lot of people uh on most things yeah uh i'm a very opinionated person uh but i will always allow the film to tell whatever story it wants and i'll be like okay that was that was your story do i think it's strange yeah i do oh yeah like i don't i don't have a bone to pick with it in any way in terms of like feeling it's propagating some false agenda then it needs to be stopped or something ridiculous like that you give it a d minus that was for the technical aspects of it that's he heard my subjective undercurrent it was and it wasn't just devilish it was negatively devilish well no anyways i just didn't like it that's fine sorry guys uh let us know what you thought of it let us know why we're a bunch of morons i'm sure you will yeah down below as you always do yeah uh especially me threaten to unsubscribe so i can block you or at least talk about how stupid an opinionated i am but also this was a the uh hindi suggestion from patreon this month they in court was the regional one did you know that if you were on patreon you can actually any any tier from dollar and up uh you can it's a collective thing yeah it's not it's not mean what you suggest yeah clarify yeah uh because a lot of people are very upset that this got picked so yes but you do get the option we we uh i do a poll at the beginning of every month you poll people get to put what they want and people upload it i take the foremost uploaded ones so uh obviously if there's about 600 patreons so uh the a lot of and i separated via hindi and regional as well because they got upset because they said hindi will always win right so i had to do no we would do too that's why we do too um and as the the only movie reviews yeah we obviously just do more than two films every month yeah but you get that option but so if you like that have a patreon links in the description below let us know what film we should watch next also let us know on puri yeah and necessary and recommendations down below


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Good day all. I'm here at the Australian Grand Prix right here at Albert Park and today the Grand Prix Association along with the Minister and the other emergency services are here because the Grand Prix have given 4,000 tickets over the four-day period to emergency service people including CFA, our volunteers in recognition and a form of appreciation for the work that we did over this season. So obviously two and a half thousand in New South Wales Queensland way back in October, November right through to we still have people working on the ground now and this is just a small way but what a fantastic way to have an opportunity for some of our people to actually come to the Grand Prix, witness the event and experience something that may not normally have that opportunity to do. So appreciation to the Australian Grand Prix and thank you to all the emergency services, CFA, Forest Fire Management, SES, MFB and the great contingent that it has been working as one over this summer. Well done all and if you're going I hope you have a great time.


Hello everybody, Andrea Mayesca here with Dental L. So today is finally the day that I can show everybody my compressor unit with the air, the water suction, the whole works. I will turn it on. I will show you guys the inside. I will, you know, you'll be able to hear how loud it is and kind of how I manage everything that way. Because yeah, I have been a dental professional for about 14 years and I have recently started my own dental hygiene mobile practice. It's the most amazing thing ever. I love being able to do my own thing, but more importantly, patients love it. So I actually travel to nursing homes, people's homes, offices, anywhere. So anywhere that somebody needs me to come to them to clean their teeth, teeth whitening, sealants, dental hygiene exams, I am there for you. And I do not charge anything extra to go to them either because that's my job. That's what I love to do. And I am so happy to be able to do it. But if you are thinking about owning your own mobile hygiene practice, or if you do now or you're getting started, this is a great video for you because I will be showing you guys the hub of it all. So I will move out of the way soon, but this is the compressor unit. I did, I'm sorry, that's my dog Teddy. I'm home obviously right now and my husband's away.   You know what I mean are outside. Anyways, so I will be showing you guys all the fun stuff because I know when I first started even just thinking about owning my own practice, my own mobile practice, there aren't any videos out there or you will ask other dental hygienists but they don't have a video of them opening up their compressor unit, showing you how loud it is, how quiet it is, whatever. So I wanted to start something like that to help others because this is honestly the most amazing thing ever that if you are thinking about opening up your own dental hygiene practice, do it because you can work for yourself. It's amazing. I love it. Anyway, so now for the fun part. So I'm gonna move out of the way here. I hope you guys will be able to hear me okay here. Let me just move the webcam down a little bit. Hey. So this is obviously not my office. There's carpet for you dental hygienists who are like, oh my God, she has carpet. It's carpet. This is not my hygiene office. This is my office where I do my tutoring, my videos on YouTube. I have been a dental hygiene and dental assisting tutor for about 13 years now. So this is my office that way but not my hygiene office. So don't worry. I know there's carpet. It's okay. Okay guys. So here we go. I'm just going to, how am I gonna do this? I'm just gonna show you guys what's inside and go from there. Okay. So you might not be able to see my face, okay? But that's okay because you wanna see that. Okay.  It kind of hurts after a while. But oh here, let me move my weapon.  You can't really see but I will show you. So I bought my unit from Aseptico. It's a U.S. company. I had looked up units for the longest time from you know, China from all over the place. Used units would have been a lot cheaper but I did opt to get something new because with used you don't know what you're getting into. It would have literally been $1,000 versus $6,000. I paid about 6,600 for mine and that includes taxes, customs, shipping, all of that. But I did also call the company and ask for a discount as well. So it would have been closer to 7,000 but I'm the type where if you don't ask, you don't get. So I did ask for a little bit of a discount. I can talk to you guys more about this in the other videos because I'm sure you're excited to see this but they have portable chairs, tables, lights, everything but the chairs are about $3,000.  Yeah, it doesn't look the nicest but you know what? I'm traveling to them. They don't care what the chair looks like honestly but more about that later. Let me show you guys this compressor unit and I will turn it on too. Okay, so I'm sorry. Let me move my webcam again for you guys. There we go. Hello, hello. Okay, so I am gonna go on my knees and I'm probably gonna go this way so you guys can actually see it. Hey guys, okay. So of course it comes with a real stat. So a foot pedal. I use this to actually turn on my unit. So you can turn it on using this switch down here which I will zoom in afterwards. But when I'm working away and I want to use the water all I have to do is touch this and it actually turns on the unit. It took me one patient to actually realize that that's how I could turn it on. Whereas before if I was about to use the water I would reach down and touch the on switch. So imagine you're working away on a patient and you're reaching down. It was horrible to be honest. I used the water once just because I was like, oh, this is awful. But now I know I can turn it on with this which is amazing. But I will show you guys that later. Okay, so let me just take out the cords for you guys. All of the cords came with it like this, okay? So I just kind of put it in my little bag. It just kind of helped me keep it organized. So what you do first is you push this up and you pull it like that.  I'm gonna bring it closer so you guys can see. It's really heavy. I think it's about 40 pounds, it says. Okay, can you guys see that okay? As I just turned it on and scared my dog. Sorry guys, let me move this down for you. There we go. Okay, okay everybody. So you put this thing on first right here. There's a cord for the high speed suction. Your air, water, syringe. You see how it looks exactly the same as if you were in the dental office, which is amazing. Love that. My high speed, I guess, hose. Because I do have a high speed, you guys, and a low speed. Actually, this is the low speed hose. This is the high speed hose, because if I wanted the water, just kind of has a little sticker on it. There we go. And let's see, as silly as it sounds, my favorite, because I use this the most, the slow speed. All right, okay guys, where is my, you know what I forgot? I forgot the actual compressor tub and the water bottle for the water. So I'm just gonna grab that, I apologize. I was gonna say I apologies. I'll be right back. Pause. There you guys, I'm back, sorry. I did have everything set up earlier in my living room, but then when I kind of started the video, it was really, really dark and my ring light is upstairs, it's kind of big. So I didn't wanna bring it down, so, sorry about that. So it comes with the water bottle. I believe it's two liters, believe, and this little pouch, in case you wanted to see that, and the compressor tub. So let me show you guys how to hook that up, okay? So you put the tub in here. There's a little hose for the high speed suction. It's gray, so that tells you, you put it, and the gray, I guess, hold. You put it in, wait until it clicks, kind of like turn it a little bit. There you go, close up. And the white hose is actually inside.  So I put this like this, and this always takes me a second, just because you kind of have to hold it at the same time. So see how the white hose is in, and it's locked in. To take them out, you guys, you just have to push that thing there. Back in, and it comes with this handy-dandy cord, which I always forget to use. It just kind of helps to keep it locked in place. So I'm just gonna do everything by the book here. There we go. I think it's more for when you're transporting the unit, you should keep this locked in place, but I don't keep this in there anyway, because I put the cords in there sometimes. So I think that's what that's for. Now, the saliva ejector, the saliva ejector, the slow speed hose, goes in this little thing here. Can you guys see that? It's on the compressor unit. So you do have to lock it in, but also turn it, okay? For my first patient, actually I was testing it, I believe, on myself. So it was not on a patient, thankfully. I was testing everything, and I didn't actually turn the slow speed suction hose, and it wasn't working properly, and I didn't know why. Well, that was why. So you have to make sure to turn it. I'm gonna take this out to show you guys. So see that, oh, sorry. I can't take it all out because of the white hose there. But, do you guys see that? So you have the white hose, which is in the unit, the gray sort of one for the high speed, and the slow speed is this one here, this one you have to make sure to turn clockwise. Okay, let's put that back in there. Show you guys how it looks. The water bottle. Obviously fill it up with water. And then I did buy another one so that when I run my lines and the whole unit, I put a solution in here, or sorry, in another bottle because I don't like to use the same one for the water, but I have another one for my solution too. More about that in another video because you guys are excited to see this. So this is always the fun part. I forget if it's clockwise or counterclockwise. Let me see. Makes sense, it's clockwise. I swear, sometimes it's not. Okay, there we go. So everybody, that's it. For me to set up everything, it takes about 20 minutes and that's me moving fast though. So if I was to move slow, it might take me longer. But here you go. So I'm gonna move this back so you guys can see the whole thing. So see that you guys? See that? Nice, eh? Okay. So, would you guys like me to turn it on? Yeah, no? Yes, okay. Let me turn it on for you. So you can hear, it's kind of loud. So again, you guys, to turn it on, I use this. I don't have to actually push the on and off button on the unit. So here we go. So it is loud, but you know what? You need it. Initially I thought that I would have it on the whole time for some weird reason, but you don't need it on the whole time. Only put it on if you need the water and the air. So another thing, let me sit down cause I'm 33 and I need to sit down. Okay. Another thing is what they don't tell you. It's in the manual, but I didn't read the manual right away here. Let me move this over here so you guys can see. As I'm talking to you. No filter. It's heavy. What they don't tell you is, and I made this mistake, to use your low speed suction, the on is when it's down. To turn it off, it's up. When you use your low speed suction, make sure your high speed is turned off. So off is up and down is on. It may seem obvious to you, but when you turn on the unit, it's loud. So you can't hear necessarily if there's any suction coming off, right? So off is up. To use the slow speed, the high speed has to be off. It doesn't have to be, but it's very low suction with the slow speed if the high speed's on. I had learned that for my first patient. I couldn't understand why it was such low suction. Like there was no point to even use it. It was horrible, honestly. I didn't let on that I was like, this is no suction, but I didn't use my suction. Like I didn't want to use water, suction, anything. Thankfully I didn't need a cavatron for my first patient because that just would have been horrible. But keep the high speed off. So this needs to be up. Turning it down is on. So keep this up. And then you have suction. So I wonder if you guys can hear it probably not, but let me turn it down for on and I'm touching my foot pedal to turn it on. You can't hear, but it's there. I have to keep it. Sorry. If you turn it on and put it towards your ear, you can hear it. It's great suction. I didn't think to bring a saliva ejector to show you guys the suction, but it's really, really good, trust me. You will be so happy with it. What else can I tell you? So you guys might not be able to see. There's little knobs on the bottom. So I did set up or I did purchase my unit for a high speed and a slow speed because I am a restorative hygienist where I am able to use the high speed. So that's why I have it set up for both. But if you want something cheaper, you don't have to get the high speed too. You can only get your slow speed hookup, okay? I'm not sure how much it is because I didn't even look at those, but it's probably less. I think it might be less $300, $400. So in my opinion, you should get the high speed hookup if you ever decide to work with a dentist so then that way they can use it too, right? I have horrible posture. I just noticed, but it's because I'm trying to get in the camera too.  What else can I tell you guys? I will show you guys the knobs on the bottom. Even though it might be kind of hard to see, but I'll take a picture of it. And I will post a link for you on the bottom where I will actually show you the close-up of the picture, okay? So the knobs are your handpiece hookup. It says handpiece, high or low. So to switch it would be the air pressure. I don't know why you would want low pressure. Actually, you know what you guys? That's probably for, you know what? I'm not sure, because I haven't actually used the handpieces yet, but I'll just kind of read the knobs to you. So the first knob is the handpiece. Can you guys see that? The handpiece, high, low. The second knob is the coolant, so the water. Then you have your coolant or your, oh no, sorry, your low speed knob. You have your handpiece on or off, and I just have it off now because I don't use it. And for the cavatron.  But I decided to purchase a separate piezo unit because I don't want it to use up that water. Because you know, you don't want to be in the middle of something and then be like, I don't have any water left and then you have to change it. Trust me, it's awkward. You don't want to do that, but that's just me. If you don't plan to use it a lot, if you don't use a lot of water, then that would be fine. But it's nice that they do have that hooked up. If you need it, the on and off switch is this knob at the bottom. And that's the one where I thought you would have to turn it off and on each time. But what did I do? I'm just trying to think now. To turn it, I have it set up. So when I turn my foot pedal on, it turns on. So that would be the actual off switch as silly as that sounds. But if I turn it on, then this turns off and I have to use the machine to turn it on. Otherwise, it's just kind of playing around with the different controls to kind of get the right air pressure. So I obviously just took some time to... Here, okay. So I just obviously took some time to figure out the air pressure. I don't use the handpieces yet because I actually bought, which I can show you guys in another video, which is actually charging now, but I had bought the new Pro Freedom slow speed. So it's cordless, wireless, whatever, so I don't need to hook it up to anything. It's the best thing ever if you're a mobile dental hygienist. And no, they're not paying me to say that. It's honestly the best, most amazing thing ever. Canadian, it was about, oh shoot, how much was it? Almost 2,000, I think, but totally worth it. Let's see. So another thing that you would have to practice is your mobile setup.  So I'll take a picture again of where I put it. I actually put it behind the patient. What I did before was I put it on my side, but the cords don't always reach long enough to the patient or the cords have to go over the patient's chest, which I just don't think looks professional. So I prefer to have it this behind the patient. So kind of like, I can't really show you guys, but behind the patient and then over to the left because I sit on the right hand side. So then I can play around with the cords and make sure that they reach over because I use probably my slow speed and the high speed enough. Make sure they're not tangled before you start and you can close that. Don't close it all the way because the compressor, oh, sorry, you guys can't see that because the compressor fan, this large black thing needs to obviously move, right? And the air needs to circulate. So don't close it all the way. Close it a little bit, it kind of makes a difference. So I'll turn it on again for you. Obviously not a huge difference, but you know, if I had a saliva ejector, I would show you guys, oh, I do, I do, but I don't have water. Do I have water? I do have water. Okay guys, I'm gonna pause this one more time. I will show you guys the suction because it's awesome and I'll be right back. Okay guys, sorry about that. So I'm just gonna hook up my saliva ejector. Yes, it's purple. I decided to get a fun color. And let me show you guys how awesome this is. So remember, turn the high speed, or sorry, the high speed suction off, which is up.  The low speed to turn it on, you have to move it down. Okay, so I'm just gonna show you guys. So I will turn it on with my foot pedal. I don't know if you guys can really see that very well. Okay, so it took me about two minutes to figure that out to how to kind of angle it to show you guys, but it is great suction. I can't say that enough. It's amazing. So thank you guys for watching this video. I apologize, it was not one of my most professional ones, but you know what? You wanted to see this amazing unit. You saw it, I'll take pictures for you and leave a link for you on the bottom. If you click the link and it's not there yet, just give it a couple of hours because sometimes it takes some time to process, but I love it. So this one's by Aseptico. They're not paying me to advertise this for you. It's a great unit. It comes from a great company. It shipped in about a week. That's it, which I was very impressed with. It's heavy, it's loud, but you know what? At least it's on wheels, right? So thank you guys for watching. Any questions, let me know. I am happy to upload this now. I am going to do videos on the slow speed soon and everything else that I use for my mobile setup. Thank you guys for watching and have a nice weekend.


Britney Spears' father has agreed to step down as the singer's conservator, pledging to participate in an orderly transition to a new legal arrangement. Jamie Spears has controlled the affairs of his daughter Britney since 2008 when concerns were raised about her mental health. He was granted conservatorship over the pop star by a US court, which gave him control over Britney's financial affairs and many aspects of her personal life. Britney Spears has recently spoke about how the relationship became abusive, telling a judge that she had been drugged, forced to perform against her will and prevented from having children. According to the BBC, Jamie Spears' response to his daughter's petition was welcomed by her lawyer Matthew Rosengart, who called it a vindication for his client. We are pleased that Mr Spears and his lawyer have today conceded in a filing that he must be removed, he said in a statement. Yet he accused Jamie Spears of his own shameful and reprehensible attacks and said he should stop making false accusations and taking cheap shots. He said the singer's father should instead remain silent and step aside immediately. Mr Rosengart added that an investigation into the actions of those involved in managing her estate throughout the conservatorship would continue. It's obviously welcome that Britney Spears' father is now willing to give up his conservatorship over his daughter, but I mean it's really bizarre and also quite, I mean, you know, I mean it's worrying is an understatement that for such a long time this man had control over his adult daughter in a relationship that she didn't want to be in. I only discovered about conservatorships through this case and I think you know most people are as shocked as I have been. One of the things to bear in mind is that Britney Spears is uniquely legally disempowered by being in a conservatorship. So one, the attorneys being paid for for the conservators are being paid for out of her money in her estate. She has no option to stop funding those lawyers. Two, initially the attorney she had was not even of her own choosing. So there is a question being raised about potential conflicts of interest where the attorney who she didn't pick is able to represent her interests adequately, considering he's got vested interest in the conservatorship continuing so he can keep representing her and being paid by money from her estate. And three, now she has her own lawyer, she's got her own attorney. Three, she didn't even know that she could petition to bring the conservatorship to an end. Now, so far that's not been successful, but these are certainly gains. Jamie Spears having stepped down as his role as a conservator at some point when he deems the time to be right, that is a step forward. But again, she's in a uniquely disempowering position. It's not even clear what the criteria would be for her conservatorship to be deemed no longer necessary. So conservatorship usually is brought in and imposed when somebody is very, very old or is otherwise incapacitated from taking care of themselves or managing their affairs. Now with Britney Spears, obviously she's not very, very old, but also throughout the duration of this conservatorship, she's been working, she's been doing a vagus residency, she's been asked to talk. She's put out music, she's been dancing, she's been performing. These aren't usually things that somebody under a conservatorship would do. So you can see how this quite easily starts to look like a young woman who experienced a mental breakdown, who had some really tough issues to go through, and that was an opportunity to put her in a legal straight jacket, which meant that she can still be a moneymaker and a piggy bank for those around her, and she is legally prohibited from changing that arrangement at all. So yes, this is a step forward, but this is still an incredibly troubling case, and I think it also shows that sometimes just because somebody on the outside looks like they're very rich doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to be very powerful. There are all sorts of legal means to inhibit somebody from exercising that power, particularly if they've experienced mental health issues in some kind of way, and they're vulnerable for that reason, particularly also if they're a woman. This is often reported as if it's a bit of a legal quirk. As I say, I didn't know that these things existed. I think many people didn't. But since it's become a very high-profile case, we keep hearing that the judge rules partly in favor of her dad. It's still very ambiguous. It seems like it's still difficult for her to get out of this relationship. And I would have assumed in any civilized society that the moment you realize that a 39-year-old woman can have her financial and personal affairs controlled by her father for a decade when she's uncomfortable in that position and she's doing nights at Vegas over and over again, making hundreds of thousands of pounds but which go to her father, the moment it's made public that that kind of thing is made possible by US law, there would be an unstoppable clamoring to stop it. And I do find it strange that it doesn't seem that there has been this overwhelming clamor to say, oh no, this is some weird quirk of our legal system that obviously needs to be changed. This isn't the only law that's on the American statute books, which is really troubling in terms of the amount of power it gives to a parent of somebody who has been deemed unfit for whatever reason. I was listening to a podcast called, it was part of the G series by Radiolab, I think it was named unfit, about the history of forced sterilizations of intellectually and physically disabled people. Now this law in many states is still on the statute books where if you are the parent of an intellectually or physically disabled child, you can go to the court and petition for that child to be forcibly sterilized. That is something that can still happen if they are deemed unfit. Now this is obviously a huge amount of power to exercise and not only that, the tendency has been to rule in favor of the parent and not in favor of the child who's got the disabilities. So I think this comes with an illegal context in which people who are deemed to be unfit for reasons of disability or mental health issue are denied full access to the rights that any other citizen would have.


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today I have Prabir, editor-in-chief of NewsClick with me. We'll be discussing about the Kurdistan referendum which has happened and the offensive by Iraqi forces in Kirkukh. Prabir, Kurdistan regional government today has expressed its interest in ceasefire and initiating dialogue with Iraqi government. Do you think that the Iraqi government will move towards initiating a dialogue on the issue of independence of Kurdistan? Well, I don't think they're going to move towards a discussion of the independence of Kurdistan. So I think that's something they are going to say no to. Let's first look at the aftermath of what you said the offensive on Kirkukh by Iraqi forces and what has happened subsequent to the referendum. It's very clear that Barzani has miscalculated badly. It's also clear that Taliban clan, which is the other big one, the Barzani clan, the Taliban clan being the two important constituents of the Kurdish regional government. Of course, Barzani was the much more stronger force over there. It was also backed by the United States and Turkey. So he was the preferred partner, if you will, of the Americans and the Turks on the issue of Kurdish forces. The fact is the Taliban group seems to have played a role by not fighting for Barzani or with Barzani forces. They seem to have withdrawn when the Iraqi forces came in. It doesn't look like Barzani's Peshmerga forces put up a much of a resistance either. It was quite a quick season of Kirkukh. It showed that the collapse was quite rapid. I also believe that the Peshmerga forces have been thoroughly overrated in the western media because when the ISIS came into Shinjar, if you remember, and took over that entire area, Peshmerga forces withdrew very rapidly. The fact that they advanced and took over Kirkukh at that point of time seems to have been more an understanding they had reached, that they will not fight in Shinjar and ISIS will let them take over the Kirkukh area. It's a possible construction. I don't know how far that is true, but it's something that's a possibility. So if we look at the Barzani's calculation that after referendum, he will be able to halt the Iraqi army and international players would then allow him to go and become an independent region. That's a miscalculation on many counts. Apart from Israel, nobody supported Barzani's referendum. Turkey was completely against it for a very simple reason that they think if they allow this to happen, then the similar demands in Turkey, which PKK has been raising for a long time, and that's the largest number of Kurds in the region, that that would strengthen it. So they did against it. And without the lifeline from Turkey, the oil doesn't go through. Kurdish oil cannot really go through. I think Barzani miscalculated on both his internal strength and his external ability to influence opinions. So I think it is a complete fiasco. Having lost Kirkukh, having lost at least about 35 to 40 percent of the territory he controlled only a few days back, given the fact that he does not have legitimacy even within the regional government, because his government, by 2015, should have really sought another mandate. Given all of this, Barzani is now negotiating for a very weak weekend. So to argue that the Iraqi government is going to discuss independence with him is not a likelihood. What is the possibility? Can he retain his current position within the regional government itself? Because there are really three districts and it is possible for Iraq to say, we'll consider these three districts independently. We'll provide the money that we are now providing to the regional government independently, which would be a violation of the least autonomy principle which they had accepted, by which the Kurdistan regional government came into existence. Whether Iraq would actually not even allow that, what was already granted to them, and would scale it back, try and take over these areas directly or indirectly, that's something that needs to be said. It will depend a lot on how Barzani now behaves with the Kurdish people, with other groups, whether he can maintain an internal unity within the Kurdish people of that region, which is really at the moment the Taliban and the Barzani sections who represent them. How much they have support within that region among the people we have to see. We have seen that Israel and Saudi Arabia are quite active in the region. Israel has been supporting militarily, providing military assistance and training to Kurds since 1960s. What will be the role of Israel and Saudi Arabia in this issue? Well, I think there is a tacit understanding that Saudi Arabia has with Israel that Iran is gaining influence and supporting the Kurdish revolt will destabilize also Iran partially because there is a strong Kurdish section also in Iran. So I think they are trying to fish in troubled waters. Israel openly, Saudi Arabia indirectly. I would think that Saudi Arabia would be hesitant to play a very open role on this and they are in fact would be willing to bankroll a lot of the activities but not really play an open military role in this. Israel and the United States are the two countries which could play a role over here. United States is limited by the fact of their relations with Turkey. Israel is of course limited by nothing in West Asia because United States more or less follows their lead rather than lead the issues or lead on these issues. I think we will have to see what leverage Israel can exert on the United States to also support its policies in Kurdistan. I don't think at the moment that's really going to work. I think what you need to see when you see Saudi Arabia is more towards Raqqa and Syria and what the Americans are trying there. The ISIS has been thrown out from Raqqa with the help of US-backed local Kurdish forces and SDF. What will be the future relationship of Raqqa with the Syrian government? Raqqa presents a rather complex military picture. Of course it's the Kurdish forces, SDF being at least its front organization if not directly controlled by it. Who were in the forefront of the struggle for Raqqa? They claimed a lot of tribal militias also which helped them or tribal groups which helped them but in the forefront was really the SDF and essentially the YPG which is the military arm of the Kurdish forces. It's also clear that the Americans were very unhappy because they also unveiled pictures of Wachalan and so on during this taking over of Raqqa and that has obviously a backlash in Turkey. The interesting part of it is that Maghrik who's the front person or shall we say the points person for the State Department on these issues in Syria, he has said that the Syrian government forces would not be allowed into Raqqa. Now he's an American official. America has no locusts and an international law to speak on any of the subjects particularly about what the sovereign republic of Syria should or shouldn't do or its government should or shouldn't do. Therefore for him to say almost like a pro-consult that what the Syrian government would not be allowed to do seems rather shall we say provocative if not downright reprehensible. So I think we are going to see a picture developed where the Americans would back that the northern part of Syria remains with the Kurdish forces and its allies and they are inviting in Saudi Arabians. In fact one of the major figures in Saudi Arabia visited Raqqa along with Americans and held negotiations with SDF. So I think Saudi Arabian and Americans are hoping that this part of the region would be controlled by the Kurds in alliance with the Americans and the Saudi Arabians. The real battle today developing in Syria is over the oil fields. These are in desert. They adjoin Iraqi territory. They are the ones on one side you have the Iraqi forces advancing who are in alliance with the Syrian government. Other side you have the Syrian forces advancing and right down the middle on the east bank of Euphrates you have the SDF which is backed by the Americans advancing and there is now a race for the oil fields over there in which at the moment the SDF is advantage because the Iraqi forces are still well beyond the borders at the moment and the Syrian forces have to cross Euphrates and that is not proving very easy. ISIS seems to be interested in fighting the Syrian government forces and allowing the SDF to take over large parts of the Syrian territory now. So you are seeing suddenly the huge expansion of the Kurdish controlled territory in Syria which does not represent the demography of Syria. In fact, Kurds are probably about 10% of the Syrian population at the moment the way their occupation or the territory they control is growing they probably control about 15 to 20% of the territory of Syria so this is going to be a long-term problem. There are some indications that the SDF may post the collapse of the ISIS and after this shall we say the battle lines are redrawn it is possible that they will use all this as a bargaining chip to reach an understanding with the Syrian government and therefore we might see something else developing afterwards.


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Russia's Belgorod region was again hit by missile fire from the territory of Ukraine on the second half of March 16, local telegram channels reported. Although the air defense system was activated, missiles fell and exploded in the territory of several provinces. No casualties have been reported. It should be noted that the freedom of Russian Legion, the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Siberian Battalion, which are fighting against the Russian army as part of the Ukrainian army, have warned that they would fire rockets at the territory of Belgorod region in the evening. Russian partisans fighting against Russia demanded the regional administration to evacuate civilians, stating that the strikes would hit the military facilities and the positions of the Russian troops. Blyat, we need to get rid of these buses and get out of here.


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