Okay, very good morning. It is Monday 19th of August. Hope everyone is well and had a great weekend. Going to do the usual on a Monday look ahead for the for the trading week So as you can see to the calendar of the side of me a couple of points that we can touch upon But underlined and bolded you can see some of the main events that are happening this week Most importantly is going to be actually on Friday Where we get the main speech from the Fed chair Jerome Powell at Jackson Hole Symposium in the US I'll go in explain a bit more of that in detail in a moment That is actually part of a three-day meeting But again Friday is when Powell is speaking which will be the key one also got the FMC minutes on Wednesday night We've got the flash manufacturing service PMIs for the Eurozone on Thursday morning And we've got also not just minutes from the Fed, but we've got minutes from the RBA in the ECB as well And people obviously very much looking to get the latest kind of hints Into wards the timing and size of any further potential Policy easing to come from both those central banks as well and then to wrap things up for the end of the week you've got the G7 summit happening in Barrett's in France and Of course, it's the first outing for our new Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the kind of international Platform and then Trump of course will be always interesting to see what he has to say just given what we're going to look at he Unsurprisingly has refocused now and pivoted away from China And he's been talking about Europe at the end of last week Of course in the run up to the G7 where he's going to be meeting them face to face those officials So that's kind of the week in a summary, but quick look at the charts Again, Sam will give his full Kind of overview both from an intraday and a weekly point of view He'll also then issue a weekly strategy report to keep your eye out for that He'll tweet out the details from his own account But looking at the charts this morning relatively quiet. There's not really any major news I would say that's occurred over the weekend. We had another mass protesting in Hong Kong Talking to some of my family over there at the weekend and apparently the reported numbers rupper around 1.7 million So, you know getting close to that that kind of size that we had initially a few months ago when the protests really started Generally peaceful so no violence this time But certainly that that situation continues for the moment But overall other than that news flow pretty quiet a lot of people were still Digesting this inversion of the two's tens part of the yield curve And what does that mean for then people's perception about a looming reception? Recession, excuse me, you know Sam we went to a reception at the weekend And then that's really dominated much of the the news kind of cycle So this morning FX markets pretty quiet to be honest Dollar index is basically flat euro dollars has done nothing so far Certainly some trigger points as we go through later into the week to look out for for the euro Sterling a little bit of a pullback few political updates I can run you through gold pretty quiet down about six bucks the 10-year down about 10 ticks With actually US and European index futures Trading higher so actually if anything a little bit of a positive feel to the to set up this morning You've got a kind of unwind of some of the what I feel is an overhyped situation about the inversion of the yield curve And I think a little bit of a pullback from some of the severity of the moves from last week And so equities a little higher Kind of unwinding then of some of that risk premiums to gold and US treasuries and subsequently As a little bit of calm is restored WTI crude just trending higher as well with mimicking the equity movement and we're up Just taking out the highs it looks like from Friday So about 86 cents at the moment but a pretty decent start to Proceedings to get things underway. So let's run through though the news in more detail Before we look at their market from a more technical perspective and again This is I did a couple of tweets at the weekend because as I said much of the the bank research as well as the Kind of public financial media was all focusing on on the yield curve And this was the first one of interest that I saw and it was looking at the delayed tariffs have not Prevented the US yield curve from briefly Inverting so, you know, we had this kind of positive response. You saw that in equity markets when Trump delayed the Chinese tariffs until Later on this year from initially the first of September But then the day after was when the market really got crushed And hence then further bids into fixed income in the flight to safety We're just pressuring yields even further in the long end and subsequently causing the inversion The curve though as a statistic Goes from trading with a positive slope to inverting Experience from the the five inversions over the last circa 40 years Suggests the curve will flatten further over the next couple of months. There's kind of a couple of Pieces of context I wanted to provide you so the point being here is that what history would tell us is that now that this has Happened, it's likely to continue to happen for the next couple of months now One thing that this is leading to as we have This is one of the biggest or interesting parts of the new Period of the long-term kind of business cycle that we're going to go through because if we are in a late phase And we're heading into the recession environment the difference is is that you know the world's never been this much in debt and certainly the unconventional methods of stimulating the economy over the past 10 years by using things like quantitative easing have really kind of almost Officially misshapen the curve if you're gonna buy copious amounts of bonds Then ultimately that renewed demand for bonds is going to pressure yields further That was the point really of quantitative easing But the point being though if we're gonna go into the next phase of an economic downturn requiring more stimulus Well that then is why we're getting this further push in the long end and subsequently now as People get more pessimistic the long end is Outperforming the short end and and the yields are decreasing and you get the curve Ball flattening to the point of then inversion and so negative yielding debt every time I tend to look at this this chart at the moment. It's just a quite a frightening prospects So negative yielding debt When Tomasso was talking about it to me Only a couple of weeks ago. It's basically added Another half a trillion or so as it does so we're now up to around north of 16 and a half trillion and their most Interesting thing here is how rapidly that's shot up through 2019. It's been incredible It's gone from it's basically doubled the amount globally And so this is kind of the testing point of which central banks are gonna face going forward into the future now talking of the curve though Couple of banks have said some interesting things and this is one out of JP Morgan and I thought I would share They said the yield curve message is distorted, but risks remain and again They're looking at distortions for the same kind of reasons that I was just suggesting a moment ago about the fact that we've had an unprecedented era of Unconventional policies, which means that really this this time really is different As cliche as it sounds from these previous post-war episodes of when we've had these kind of indicators That signal a recession now one interesting point I think that JP made was this as I bolded Treasury inversions are lesser reflection of US recession risks and more of a recession of the desperation for yield by foreign investors flocking into the US dollar denominated bonds as yields turned more negative in Europe and Japan so you think about it those yields Way lower at this point and so you have to go to these dollar denominated assets Which in in turn then as a function of of trying to find yield or return for investment Forces then the yields in the US to then follow suit In not what is an underlying reflection of economic stress But more a function of the movement of portfolio flow in that sense to still hold bond exposure So then that that's one of the key things I thought the other thing as well is that I don't think it's so much about the curve It is really showing distress right now of an immediate looming of a recession in America I don't really think the data supports that but the point being is it's about the managing now of the Investor perception of a recession I think is a more of a threat than the actual underlying economics at this point. So again in short I do think that this Inversion as I was kind of saying back in March when a different part of the curve did the same I do think this is a little bit overhyped I do think yes last week was a bit of a capitulation of people really buying into that that story And so this morning I think the market right to have a bit of a pullback from what otherwise was a bit of a tough week for markets globally Okay, looking at a few different things This is the final kind of point. I wanted to make about The inversion this was quite a different point of view actually from all the negativity that I was reading This was quite a large bank out in the far East base in Singapore DBS and they were talking about US equities of historically traded higher Six months after the yield curve inverts. In fact the S&P 500 has registered gains of 9.3% on average after this type of thing tends to happen Another stat there credit Suisse a recession occurs on average 22 months following such an inversion and lots of actually quite a variety of different banks Talking about different time frames, but the point being from a you know If you're not used to this if you're not if you're new to markets that it doesn't miss you know The inversion doesn't happen and the recession happens next week. There is a quite a protracted drawn-out period now The interesting thing about this of course is that there's this small thing about a US election happening at the end of next year And if you actually you know think about the timing if that's about 18 months away That's right in the kind of sweet spot where the inversion happens now and the two's 10s Should be hitting right at the moment of when Trump's going to be looking to secure a second term So that's what's going to be ultimately really interesting over the months ahead how he tries to manage that situation Talking of the man of the moment Donald Trump As I said, you've got a g7 meeting in Barrett's in France happening at the weekend So as much as he will be commenting about China I would imagine as we get further into the week is going to be more and more tweeting about Europe This is normally his tactic going into these big Kind of meetings with all the heads of state He goes in quite aggressive because he really wants to send a message to them before the face-to-face talks He said last week just to refresh your memory. The European Union is worse than China. It's just smaller. It treats us horribly Barriers tariffs and taxes. So, you know holding nothing back there The other thing of course, it's going to be particularly interesting is Boris Johnson gets his first kind of outing on the international stage And he's committed to delivering Britain's exit from the EU as we know by October 31st deadline So it's going to be interesting to see how Trump has been very much politically aligned Because it's within his matching of an agenda about taking back control and making your country no sovereignty great again So he's been very much a backer of Boris Johnson to be interested to see how that goes down The g7 and then Trump is also in the middle of a six-month delay in deciding whether to impose tariffs on auto imports obviously a huge deal for the likes of countries like Germany, of course Which would mean that a decision could come on that particular area in mid-November So again more potential stresses to come for Germany and Europe as kind of Trump pivots away from China momentarily The one thing that you're probably likely to hear Trump talk about quite a lot is France's fairly contentious digital tax Which targets 3% of large tech companies revenues from digital activities now this obviously is targeted people like Facebook like Amazon Alphabets Google and so on and although Trump himself has been not exactly the biggest supporter of these big tech companies Over recent past in these administration certainly France though penalizing American firms is something of course that The US president is not going to like so again if you're trying to ascertain the type of areas that he's going to pick on These would certainly be one of them so Trump definitely more to come of course this week other things still on the radar Italy So Tomasso's just come back. I'll get the latest update from the man himself on the ground I'm not sure though if the the rolling hills of Tuscany are the place to get the the latest political insight but You can see here. I thought that I would share this This is a reflection of Italian 10-year bond yield and this is looking at the spread over the benchmark German boom So again in a most simple sense what tends to happen is that all European Yields a benchmarked against the German 10-year and what we look at then is when we get these political flashes or economic stress The the relative country in questions yield starts to rise to price in That you know reflection of that that negativity and what tends to happen then is you get a further removal away from a static Benchmark 10-year yield to a rising Italian or Spanish whatever the case might be so the wider the spread in that instance the more Uncertainty there is created and so what you've got here is an explosion in the spread that happened after the political crisis Sparked a bomb route that was back in kind of Q2 of 2018 It's remained elevated really ever since the latest episode that we had was Sylvini pulling the plug on the government now the reason why I mentioned Italy is because the PM Conti addresses the Senate on Tuesday and of course We're just keeping an eye out for what the latest is because Sylvini is already called for the breakup of the existing coalition five-star politicians themselves have Talked about potentially looking to now form a new coalition then dropping their partner league and instead replacing them with the Democratic Party so Whether or not there's enough political appetite to get that over the line yet to be seen But the thing people are looking out for here of course is the potential and timing around a snap election The risk of course that would see this spread Balloon ie move back up higher to retest and there's kind of sweet spot here a line of stress If you like is 300 That then would be along the period of Whether the league in that instance of a national election in Italy were to prove as strong as they are in the polls Which is just a whisk or off getting the majority themselves as a singular party Other than that whether or not they would team up with the brothers of Italy and so on and so forth. Those would be the most Negative in terms of the impact on Italian assets as a result Okay, quickly looking at other things. I said pal pal is the main event Undoubtably for this week, and it's not coming till the end of the week. There are certainly some other things to of course look out for but Jerome Powell He has this Jackson Hole symposium every year This was You know the reason why people really look at this quite closely is because back in the Bernanke days He came out and he made quite a really important statement Which did give very much the latest Change in monetary policy from the Federal Reserve at the time And so people look at this as a as a platform for the Fed chair to really give an insight into current economic conditions But also give the latest clarity about what is it that the Fed intend to do then going forward in the future So it's like an update if you like from the previous Fed Meeting the latest projections and so on. What do I think that power is going to say? Well, actually I think he's gonna as per usual. I think he's gonna play a fairly even hand. I don't think he's he's gonna Draw too many conclusions from this yield curve and version Situation which I'm sure the press pack will be pushing him on the Fed before recently have said Similar to what we've been discussing that actually the curve has been influenced by other Factors this time around so there's no need to really Panic just yet Although they'll probably say something on the lines that they continue to monitor all market developments both internal and external And respond to incoming economic data the usual kind of line I would say will probably apply so with that being said just given a lot of the movements If all things were to remain equal and in generally market perception and positioning I think that then by default could leave the doves a little bit disappointed if they were looking for power to really Step up to the plate and start committing to 50 basis points in September I think you're gonna be strongly disappointed because I really don't see that happening Market tends to agree as well at this point We were looking at the federal funds rates futures Last week and if you remember this number was getting kind of close to 30% that being This bar on the left-hand side to take the Fed funds rate down to one and a half to one and three quarters That 30% reading is now dropped to about 12% and so Overwhelmingly the market expectation is for a cut but a cut of just 25 basis points to the tune of about an 88% probability at this point obviously subject to change final thing Just switching over to the UK a little bit of a dip actually in the pound here more recently I'll let Sam go into that If with more color, but Corbin is the main kind of headline story gearing up for an election The Labour leader vows everything needed to stop a no deal Brexit the kind of headline here from from Jeremy is That will promise to do everything necessary to prevent a no deal He's going to give a speech today that will renew the pledge to hold a second Brexit referendum if a general election is called this year Nothing really knew there I would say The problem isn't so much This idea that you know because Jeremy is now saying this that means that's it, you know Brexits off. It's more of a challenge to Boris the parliamentary arithmetic as much as it's problematic for Boris now Given it's only up one technically and hence the reason why he might want to call this election in all it is, you know Gain a more stronger footing in the lower house of Parliament. The same principle can be applied to The remain kind of contingency and that is that you know There's enough people in the Labour Party that would still vote to leave Even without a deal and that would go against the party line So that means that Labour would need to support of other Pro-remain parties that being the Welsh party the Greens but most importantly the Lib Dems And the problem is the new Lib Dem leader Joe Swinson has said that she would not back Jeremy Corbyn Now if the Lib Dems don't back a Corbyn led Caretaker government in the case of a vote of no confidence against Boris Johnson. Well, then it's dead in the water anyway The thing that really needs to happen here for this real remain alliance to potentially change the direction of Brexit is You've got to get rid of this guy But the problem is this guy is sticking around and he is showing absolutely no signs of leaving so Here it's still very much up in the air how this is gonna gonna play out at this point, but You get my point what I'm saying with the Performance of a remain alliance just because he's now Stepping up and talking about a second referendum and so on the point being is is there's a real lack of Cross-party unity that really have faith in Jeremy Corbyn which could be a massive stumbling block and if then bottom line the Pro-remain parties cannot get together to to basically elect then a Interim Prime Minister well then Boris Johnson technically speaking could say well If they can't do that, then it's my right that I don't need to resign Which would normally happen in a vote of no confidence against the government because the opposition can't form anything Concrete and therefore even though I've lost in no confidence. I will remain Prime Minister So it could end up going that way as well lots to be to be seen So that's it. Let me just quickly wrap up then so for today's calendar very quiet Nothing major going coming out. I'd say much of the action really comes later into the week Overnight tonight if you're trading the Aussie just keep an eye out for the RBA minutes And then as I said Italy may be back in focus as Conti appears in the Senate On Tuesday Wednesday, do not forget on Wednesday I'll need to just correct that the amplify live session is happening here on Wednesday. It's gonna be a Wednesday night Not Thursday So Sam and I will be doing a live session on our amplify trading YouTube channel We're gonna start at 6 p.m. London time. It's very much an open Q&A format What we wanted to do is We're gonna open the floor to you guys Our subscribers we want you to lead the discussion I've put a couple of feelers out to see to get the ball rolling a lot of you want more information about this whole yield curve Story and negative yields definitely we can cover that but we can cover anything else Do you want to as well on the night? It's gonna be me and Sam responding to your questions as we take them We then will finish that session with the full real-time Coverage of the FMC minutes which will come out at 7 p.m So that will bookmark the end of the session I can give you a bit of a build-up how I would go about approaching that type of event Then we can analyze it as it happens Sam can kind of review it from a trading perspective If there is the opportunity to trade, I'm sure he'll share those And then we'll wrap it up. So that'll be a Wednesday night Thursday. Eastby minutes Will be key and then of course Powell on Friday is the big one. All right That is it from me. Let me hand you over to Sam and I wish you a good week ahead. Thanks very much Hi guys, hope everyone had a good weekend and we'll just start off with the The pounders Anthony'd mentioned we just had a bit of a drop down really from eight o'clock So that volume coming in from the London opener We've had a push below the pivot finding support on that first test back to what was the morning high Around 830 on Friday. So that remains there to be a key level and is one I've had Britain down before around 124 44 On the futures so keeping in a close eye on what happens around there and not just This level and I'll come back to the pound in a moment You've also got euro pound and having a look at last week where we you know, couldn't quite get below So coming back to that first test back of what was the the low of the 31st of July? so this market very much a Key level support one to have marks up and the reaction from that we're starting to see a bit of a reversal Here and if we can get maybe above the the low that we had back on the the 15th You could expect some a further push to the upside so both the pound and the euro at relatively interesting points Overall, but the euro pound more so here with that low of the 31st finding really strong support Last week back to the pound more intraday and having a look at another test of this point now a Breakthrough that I don't think it's out the question to to get us down 20 ticks or so to an area support that we had on Friday before the s1s and Potential trend lines come into play and for this market overall technically Look at it. It's it's been relatively choppy as of recent obviously that 120 still marked up here And we're having on even though we're now a lot further away than where we were last Monday when we did the briefing and Would this be I think there's better markets to trade of course, but opportunity-wise may well The best opportunity I should say may well happen later on in a week There is some dollar strength to come with some pound weakness break of this trend and then really look into attack that low That we had of the year But other other than that for the pound you've got quite a lot of resistance Obviously the double top that we had this morning remains key around the R1 You've got quite a lot of resistance going back to the beginning of August as well I'm gonna look over to the euro. So we had this morning I'll just bring in This whole chart had a nice We've got a trend on had a nice break of this trend that you see going back starting here on the 13th 14 15 Got a breakthrough and retest was make this bigger now You can see of that this morning. We had the push through around 7 a.m Retest pivot was good and since then we have pushed higher So worth keeping an eye should we get any further retest of that? Obviously above where we're training you're looking here at yesterday or Friday's I should say afternoon and morning high 111 30 is key the R1 again has some nice levels like the pound does as well from previous sessions We'd also be interested should we get you know real confirmation of this trend line break What happens around today's R1 111 60 But also a nice double bottom before a push through that we had on Thursday following those ECB comments about Their next sort of stimulus package or how the market perhaps isn't pricing in accordingly So that area those draw an X around there would be pretty key for me to see what happens Alternatively to the downside. I'm so move this above. Well, just the right hand side of the The camera it's like with the pound just having a look I know it's not necessarily a trend line yet, but potentially on that dollar strength and Opportunity-wise looking for those yearly lows break of that trend later on in the week, of course if Couldn't have this could also be an opportunity But for now, I think with the trend line break looking to see what happens at these higher levels for the euro S&P had a decent Open we're finding resistance on what is a really key level from Last week's trade. You can see we just found really nice support 13th and 14th before that push through first retest That at 2920 is how pretty well put in this longer term To show more days that all gets low that we had seems quite far away now To the upside, you know if we were to get through this this level Which is obviously key, then you are looking towards 2940 Which is again a very important resistance from the 13th from the 8th and also the second as well to the downside if we were to and This is likely to happen were to have tweets from from the trade or both sides And you could obviously see a negative impact And I'll be looking at this trend to break But also you'd have to really get through the the high that we had on Friday, which really acted as Well didn't really act as resistance this morning overnight as we push through to 2894 retest of that trend line That's when you could start to think about maybe things going to the downside Understandably for all equities though just coming off a touch in the US. Let's bring in the NASDAQ here as well similar Price action didn't quite necessarily make the exact level that the S&P did but you can see they're all just coming down a Touch same for the Dow looking at these these trend lines to see how well they can be respected Should we come back to get a test of that? We'll go into a bit more detail longer term for breakthroughs, but just for the S&P As mark itself just have a look at how far away we are from that all-time high Just under 4% from where we're training so not too far having to look over to gold Worth having on the trend line from Friday's highs where we're where we're trading now You can see that just getting squeezed in a touch really solid base of support going back from the 14th And then each day after that including this morning bit of a zone you can argue now as well with the The S1 1513 highs that we had back on the morning of the 14th as well So nice early morning opportunity either way you get a feeling here Worth having on surprise getting squeezed and obviously had that spike through on the 13th which was The last Tuesday really strong push but then rejection down see as equities were recovering So I'll just be for for the gold here waiting for I have a break higher Probably more favorably or lower underneath S1 1513 to target down towards the lows of the 14th But for now price just getting squeezed in and certainly looking over the last few days not too much Is really happening there oil however, I do quite like the the trend line and if I just drag this again to make it smaller going from the The July highs you can see just nicely respected on The 13th quite well to get that third test That's something I would have on for the remainder of the week or until if we can get up to test that point pretty pretty key Trendline to have on just above where we're trading you can see We've just come off the touch and made this or just about to make this potential trend line here You've got those highs from the breakdown that we had back on the 14th And then of course What will be quite a key level up than R2 with the previous support on the 14th before we did have that big day To the downside like with gold just relatively choppy last couple of days Certainly if we can get above this whole mini range of the last couple will be pretty key You can feel going forward to the downside quite a lot of support. We just could not get through Around 54 dollars we tried on the 13th the 14th the 15th and didn't quite get down to 16 But really solid base also you could argue worth again We'd like with the euro and the pound if we were to have a push to the downside Worth having a trend line on from that low the 7th just to see what happens Should we come back to to test that at any point at the moment? That looks like it would come in around 55 dollars quick. Look over the Dax, which you can see is well Hitting some resistance from the similar day that the US equities Have haven't quite made it up to maybe the initial low that morning for the breakthrough That's just coming off a touch after a strong Initial push worth keeping in an eye again like with the US funds just on these trend lines Which can see is slightly better respected as well You've already got those free tests on that looking to come in around the R1 as well So well keeping an eye what happens with the decks and euro stocks is coming off the touch and how that could Impact US equities as well any questions as usual, please do let us us know the The data can and today relatively quiet before picking up a bit into Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday I hope you'll have a good training day and a great week ahead


How is it going everybody? Welcome back to another C++ SDL video tutorial. In the last video we did some pretty awesome thing, all we did honestly was just make the main event loop for our program. All that it did is it would test, it would check out this SDL event, and it would determine at every frame or at every second because we have this infinite loop while running, which is all the time in this case. It will repeatedly pull the event, and it will test if the event.type is equal to sdl.quit, or sdl.underscore.quit. And if it is, that means we close the X button, that means we press the X button, and we want to close the window. So running will equal false in this case, so we can end the loop and we will break out of this loop. So that's just fine for us. Then we destroy the window and quit the program. So in this tutorial I'm going to go ahead and save this file as something different here, 03 underscore window underscore functions.cpp. Cool. So this is pretty simple, and honestly this is just a bit more of an experimentation as to what we can do with our documentation. And looking at the cool functions that we can do with our program. So right now I've got the introduction page open. We want to be at the best place in the world, the API by category. We can get there over by the quick links over there. Now if you scroll down, you know we've been to initialization, shut down, that was really really easy. And then we kind of moved on to display and window management. And that's how we went ahead and created the window that we're using. Now notice we've got a boatload of other functions that we can use other than create window. In fact, we've got freaking, oh I don't know, 78 of them. That's awesome. So let's go ahead and browse through here. We've got some cool stuff. We're not really using anything other than create window and destroy window up top here. You notice we can do some things with the screensaver though. That might be fun to play around with. We've got some GL functions, and we haven't gotten to GL just yet. We've also got video drivers and stuff. We haven't moved into video drivers yet either. Ooh, we can get the window brightness and stuff. I haven't played with that. That might be interesting to look at. Get the brightness of the gamma correction for window. Man, we don't need to play with it. I mean, maybe another time. That's something you can do on your own. A lot of these are things that you should do on your own just to see what you can do. Ooh, get window position. That would be fascinating to look at. Get window size. That's pretty simple because we set that. Get window surface. Ooh, that's going to be crucial when we actually start to do more things with this. Let's keep that one in the back of our minds. Get window surface. That's a nice function. Get window title. We set that, but it might be good to kind of test for it later on. Obviously, of course, we can change it. Ooh, maximize window and minimize window. We can do those things. Hide window instead of invisible. Get the window management information. We can determine whether or not the screensaver is actually on, dude. And raise window and restore window in case we actually haven't minimized. We have a lot of control on this thing. This is super cool. And of course, we can set everything that we can get. Cool. Even message boxes, show message boxes. Dude. So let's go ahead and play with some of these things. I'm going to stop pretending like I'm impressed and let's actually program. Let's up over to our text editor. I'm going to code-fold some of these things here, code-fold. And I'm going to go ahead and create some new variables for us. I'm just going to declare them right now. I'm just going to say x, y, width, and height. Pretty simple. I don't know if we're actually going to end up using width and height, but I'll declare them just in case. And let's decide on the function that we want to use. Let's use get window position because that'd be kind of cool. Use this function to get the position of a window. All right. And well, the syntax or how we use it, this function doesn't return anything, which is weird because normally in Python or another language, you kind of expect it to return the coordinates, right? You just expect it to return x and y values. Well, STL and C++ typically works a little bit differently. Instead, we'll pass in variables that we want to be used. And those will actually be filled or flowed with the variables and the information that we will see this function actually gets for us. When it gets the window position, x, the variable that we pass in, will become the value of the Windows x position. And y will do the same thing. It will become the value of the Windows y position because we're passing in a reference to it. This function can accurately manipulate the data. So super duper cool. Yeah, see, a pointer filled in with the x coordinate of the window and the same thing with y. Let's go ahead and play with that. What if we were to test or what if we were to use this function all the time in our wow loop and repeatedly get the coordinates of this function? Let's check it out. If we use STL underscore get window position. See, it did ask for the window. Cool. That's already a pointer. So we don't have to do anything with that window. And we want the reference to x and y. Remember to end that line with the semicolon and then we'll go ahead and display what we're actually doing here. I'm just going to use a comma to separate these. And we'll use endel. Cool. Now let's go ahead to our terminal and compile this. I actually already have the line set up and pre-made for us. Run this program. Ooh, you see all those fancy numbers? I'm moving this window around. I keep moving around and the values keep changing. God, that's awesome. We're repeatedly getting the position on our monitor on my screen. You can see the position of the window. And that's how we can actually do things. I'm assuming it's seeing these at the top left of the window. It might be this pixel here. I don't honestly know. We can kind of determine whether or not we want to have the border on or not. I'm getting the negative values here. I'm so cool. Yeah, it looks like it is using it from the top left pixel on the screen, not from this border. Let's check it out with the borders off. I know it saw a function where we can manipulate that over in the documentation. Let's head back and let's see. Set window bordered. Yeah, dude. All right, cool. This just takes a Boolean value. Sdl false to remove border and Sdl true to add border. I wonder if it can use this regular C++ true and false. Let's find out. Let's go over to the very beginning of our code up here. Let's say Sdl.set window bordered. Pass in window. The variable that we've been using. And let's just use false for now. See if it will actually compile and use it with that. No, it won't. It has to be Sdl Boolean, not a C Boolean. So we can use Sdl false. Remember, we saw those flags in the online documentation. Remember, they are all capital letters because they're flags and constants. Let's check it out. Compile this, see if it works for us, and boom, it does. Oh, I don't think you're actually going to be able to see this. And I can't move it.  Can I close this window?  I don't think I can. Because I can't actually use the border. Damn it, I can't move it. I can't do anything with it. Well, you know that it exists because you're repeatedly getting the position of it. I might have to kill it though. Peek, kill, eat it out. Okay, cool. And now it ended. Oh, wow. Well, that was a fun experiment. You guys will have to trust me that it just turned off the border for me. I'll comment out that line. We'll see what more we can do with this. Check it out. We can set the window's position. We can set its title again. Yeah, let's reset its size. Actually, let's reset its title. SDL set window title window. And I'm sure this will just take a character array or a string. Subscribe, please. It's like I'm begging you. Compile this and it says subscribe, please. Cool. That's very simple. All it does is change the window title for us. I can comment that out as well. Let's set its... I wonder if we can resize it. Yeah, we can set the title. Set the size. Size. Let's use width and height. And I'll bring this line down, actually. And let's set width equal 100. And let's set height equal that as well. And the line there. I want to double check in the documentation and make sure that is the way it works for us. Yep, it just takes those two in regularly. Okay, cool. Now we'll head over to it. Check it out. Run the program. Oh, and we got a tiny little box here. That's awesome. Cool. What more can we do? I love just playing around. Set window position. Set window position would be kind of cool. What if we actually set it... All right. Let's set it repeatedly in this position so I can't actually move it. 1550 and 264. That's a good spot for it. Head on over to our text editor. You know what I'm going to do now? X, Y. Yeah, I'm just going to do this pretty explicitly. X is going to equal that 1550. And Y is going to equal that 264. That is what the values were, right? Yeah, cool. I'm glad I remembered that. I got some good short-term memory. And we're not going to resize it or anything. We will, however, set the window's position. And since we're not returning or retrieving the value in our variable, let's just use X and Y here. And I won't actually display out. Now, if we run this code, I wonder if my code, my program...  Program crashed. All right. I'm going to end the video now. Thanks for watching, everybody.


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Hello everybody, hoodedToberCommander788 here and I'm back with another Vintage GI Joe Toy review. But that's not all I'm back with. This is a special video. I have hit 50 subscribers and that's fantastic. I've only been doing this for a few months. I'm still a newcomer and I've already hit 50 subscribers. Thank you to everyone who subscribed. I'm very grateful. I really appreciate it. In this video we are going to be reviewing the GI Joe Ram Motorcycle but I've got a special announcement after the review so make sure you stick around for that. This is the 1982 GI Joe Ram Motorcycle. Ram R.A.M. is an acronym that stands for Rapid Fire Motorcycle which doesn't actually spell out ram. It spells out erfm. The Ram Motorcycle was first released in 1982 in the first line of vehicles when GI Joe was rebooted in 1982. It was also sold in 1983. It was discontinued in 1984 and it was not replaced with any other motorcycle in 1984 but there was a replacement for the Ram Motorcycle in 1985, the Silver Mirage Motorcycle. The Ram was worth two flag points and it did not come with an action figure. Let's look at the parts and the features of the Ram Motorcycle starting of course with this very large prominent gun that attaches to the side. The blueprints call this a 20mm electric gaffling gun and it really does look very impressive. Lots of nice detail on here. It has a wheel on here at the bottom so it can roll along when it's attached to the motorcycle. The gun has these two pegs here. One of them is round and another one is rectangular and they fit into the corresponding holes on the side of the motorcycle. They fit right in there and they don't snap in, they just friction in. It doesn't always stay in very well so sometimes I use a little bit of sticky tack just to hold it in a little bit better. On either side we have these saddle packs. There are two of them and they fit into these holes, these rectangular slots here in the back and these are frequently lost items so you will often see Ram Motorcycles missing one or both of these saddle packs and as you can see they're not the same. Although they are the same mold they have different stickers. There's saddle pack one and saddle pack two. So if you're wanting a complete Ram you need to check and check the stickers and make sure that you're getting the right ones. You need both of them in order to have a complete motorcycle. The front wheel turns a little bit and not too much and that's a nice feature. I'm actually glad that it doesn't turn too much otherwise it might not roll straight when you roll it along the ground so just a little bit of turn in the front wheel is okay. One thing I like about the tires is that on the side it doesn't say good year or anything like that. It has Hasbro's copyright information. This kind of hood looking thing up at the front here the blueprints call aerodynamic fairing and this may be taken from a real world vehicle the Honda CB900F2 which has a similar sort of housing on the front end here. On the other side we have a sticker control panel that's a nice detail and it's just hollow inside. There are no handlebars but this was designed for the straight arm action figures like Breaker here. The straight arm action figures could not bend their arms at the bicep to hold on to handlebars so just having them stick their hands inside there was just much more practical. It worked better with these 1982 figures with the less articulation. All the way around the motorcycle there is a lot of really impressive detail. This is a nicely detailed motorcycle a very nicely detailed vehicle especially considering this was the first line of vehicles and sometimes those early GI Joe vehicles were a little bit lacking in detail compared to later vehicles but this looks really nice. This engine the blueprints call a 1000cc twin cam engine fuel injected and turbocharged. At the bottom there is a kickstand that will go up and down and this is another frequently missing item so if you are getting a ram motorcycle just make sure that it still has the kickstand that is often missing. On both sides we have some posts here two on this side and two on that side and those are for holding the action figure on the motorcycle I'll show you how that works. The action figures legs kind of go between those posts on this side the top of the foot goes under this post and this post goes on the back of his ankle. On the other side we have one post for the back of his leg and another lower post for the top of his foot and that kind of holds him on there with his hands inside the hood and I find it easier to put the action figure on before putting the gun on if the gun is on sometimes it obstructs the action figures foot so once you have the figure in like breaker here there you go and you have breaker ready to ride into battle on the ram motorcycle he looks like he's ready to do some business. There is a minor controversy about who should ride the ram motorcycle in the comic book it always showed rock and roll as the driver of the ram always paired rock and roll with it and I don't know he looks pretty good rock and roll was the machine gunner of that first GI Joe group and so I guess they kind of figured that machine gunner big machine gun those should go together. So the box art did not show rock and roll on the ram it had breaker and breaker was featured in the first TV commercial of that included the ram motorcycle and I've always been partial to breaker on the ram I always preferred breaker to rock and roll on the ram motorcycle for a couple reasons first of all breaker doesn't have any weapons he didn't come with any firearms he only came with his communication equipment and his helmet and so he doesn't have any guns to fire so if you pair him with the ram he can still have all of his accessories on and he has this really bad ass gun on his motorcycle so he can ride into battle and actually fight Cobra whereas rock and roll he already had a really big gun and it wasn't really very easy for him to carry his big gun when he was riding on the motorcycle so I think that rock and roll is pretty well equipped but breaker really I think fits the ram motorcycle better I even like the combination of the lighter green on the motorcycle and the darker or medium green on breakers uniform I just think that looks really good so I put the question to you do you prefer rock and roll on the ram or breaker or one of the other action figures what's your preference that's my review of the ram motorcycle it is a pretty simple toy and so there's not a lot to go over here but it's still a really cool toy I loved this when I was a kid I think that it's just a really awesome vehicle it looks great with the action figures it looks really menacing with that huge gun on the side it looks fast so it really looks like something that the Joe team would really want to have and that they would like to take into battle this this is like a fast attack vehicle with some great armament I hope you liked this video if you did make sure you give it a thumbs up on YouTube and make sure you subscribe I've got a lot of great new GI Joe toy reviews coming up you do not want to miss them and make sure you like the hooded Cobra commander seven eight eight Facebook page there are a lot of updates on that page that you don't get anywhere else but this is not the end of the video I've got a special announcement coming up right now I hope you enjoyed the review now it's time for a special announcement I'm going to be giving away a vintage GI Joe toy to one of my viewers I decided when I started that when I hit 100 subscribers I was going to give away one of my vintage GI Joe toys so now that we're at the halfway point I'm letting you know that when I hit 100 subscribers I'm going to give away a toy and specifically I'm going to give away the Ram motorcycle the very one that I reviewed in this video this is from my personal collection and this could be yours I'll tell you how it's going to work first I've got to hit 100 subscribers when I hit 100 subscribers watch for the 100 subscriber announcement video and then you will put a comment on that video to let me know that you would like to be in the running for the vintage GI Joe toy then I will select one of the commenters at random and it will be yours you won't even have to pay for shipping now you might be thinking this is kind of a small toy and it's a fairly common item that's not much of a prize but hey this is just for my first 100 subscribers as I hit more subscriber milestones I'll be giving away bigger and better GI Joe toys I want to share some of the vintage GI Joe love with you the viewer so stick with me there are a lot of great GI Joe toys yet to review and it's gonna be a great time as we climb up toward 100 subscribers and then when we get there one of you is going to get this little guy thanks for watching and I'll see you next time you'll stay till the fights one


So there's been a ton of speculation surrounding the Chamber of Secrets in Hogwarts Legacy and while today guys I can give you confirmation whether or not the Chamber of Secrets will be a place within Hogwarts Legacy the game. Now I do want to mention this is major spoiler territory so if you don't want to be spoiled by this information leave the video now but hey if you'd like to drop a like on the video before you go I'd be in your debt. So the Chamber of Secrets this most will remember from the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and while it's this what's being speculated for many months now whether or not would see in the game will we see the Chamber of Secrets in Hogwarts Legacy. Now for those that do not know what I am talking about the Chamber of Secrets was created under the dungeon of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry during medieval times by Salazar Slytherin. He disagreed with the other Hogwarts founders under merits of blood purity before leaving the school Slytherin built this chamber with the hope of purging the school of those he considered unworthy to study magic according to legend the Chamber of Secrets was home to an ancient basilisk the chamber was flanked with towering pillars that were entwined with carved wood and the statue of Slytherin was at the far end the basilisk resided within the mouth of Slytherin's statue. Now if you've watched the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets you know what goes on down here. So what about the game now what we know about this game and all the hints at secret passageways and dungeons there are to find fans have speculated that the Chamber of Secrets will be a place you can visit and explore within the game well guys I do have confirmation from a recent leak that the Chamber of Secrets will not be here for us to explore within Hogwarts legacy now this news comes from the art and making of Hogwarts legacy the game this is a book you can buy this is where the info is confirmed and they say and I quote at the start of their process the Hogwarts design team considered whether the Chamber of Secrets could work in the game unfortunately there were some challenges with this and it was decided not to include it they go on to say we certainly wouldn't want players thinking they could kill a basilisk that needs to still be there in 1992 and yeah guys really when you think about it this does make sense so yes unfortunately people the Chamber of Secrets won't be there for us to explore now I ain't really disappointed I never really expected it to be there although it was my first thought when they did say there were hidden passages and dungeons to find it's what has to be done when they are trying to stick to the original story and process I mean for sure they could have included it maybe had a the basilisk as a farmable enemy that would never actually kill I mean they're always around it but I guess it was a choice they really thought about before not including this iconic space now all leaked images if you want to read through them for yourselves you can be found linked down below but there we have it guys the Chamber of Secrets will not be an explorable space within Hogwarts legacy so to bring the bad news to you if you was hoping to find it guys if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out if you like what you see want to see more be sure to subscribe and hopefully guys I will see you on the next one


Good evening, everyone. It is December 11th, 2023 at 615 and welcome to the select board meeting town of Rochester. We're going to start the meeting with making sure we conform to the open meeting block. And our agenda has been posted in three places around town on the website. I saw that. And it was emailed to a list of interested parties. So we're all conforming. We're going to proceed with the meeting. The first thing they're going to look at is the prior meeting minutes from November 27th 2023. I have read them over. Do you have any questions? No, I read them. I can't see the. I move to accept the meeting minutes. I second it. All in favor. Aye. Right. We are going to move on to new business now. And first thing on our list for new, new businesses, inclusion, declaration, discussion. Do we have a norming call hand and a wake field on zoom? Yes, I'm here. So we have considered this once before. Do you want to elaborate on what maybe has happened in the last couple of years? Sure. Well, thank you for having us and giving us some time. And I want to tell you that your website is the easiest one to work with and find the agenda and find the zoom that I have found in all the work we've done for the last several years. And it's much appreciated. I'm wondering if it would be helpful for me to read the declaration or if everyone has already had a chance to do so. We haven't had a lot of feedback from anyone in our town. Since the first time it was proposed and this time when it's on the agenda, but you can go ahead and read that if you'd like because I think that was a point last time. And I'd like it to be public knowledge again. Thank you very much. It's three very short paragraphs. The town of Rochester condemns racism and welcomes all persons regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age or disability or socio economic status. And once everyone to feel safe and welcome in our community. We formally condemn discrimination in all of its forms commit to fair and equal treatment of everyone in our community. And we'll strive to ensure all our actions policies and operating procedures reflect this commitment. The town of Rochester is and will continue to be a place where individuals can live freely and express their opinions. Thank you. Go ahead. At this point. We have 131 municipalities in the state of Vermont that have adopted the declaration that amounts to 72 point those towns contain 72.5% of the population of the state of Vermont. And every town, large or small counts heavily towards this effort. By way of background, this started in Franklin, Vermont, past the declaration of inclusion. Close to three years ago. And the chair of that select board was a cousin of Bob harness of Pittsburgh, Vermont, who was actually the founder of this declaration of inclusion initiative. Bob took it to his town of Pittsburgh. It was adopted by Pittsburgh. Brandon adopted it shortly thereafter. And then Bob began to think this has some town or statewide potential contacted Al Wakefield. Alan subsequently contacted me. And we began. And in the last year, we've added two people Barbara noise pulling out of Rutland town. Who is a was employed by the Rutland Regional Planning Commission, but is helping us in her individual capacity and not her professional capacity. And Patty Lancaster of Mendon, who just joined us in the last month or so. We'll be heading up our effort to implement and help towns implement the declaration of inclusion. There are myriad reasons to adopt the declaration of inclusion. Basically, the moral and economic reasons are inseparable. Economically. CBS a couple years ago to a survey and determine if Vermont was the most desirable state in the country to live in. And it import, but it pointed out it's shortcoming shortcoming was diversity. Vermont. We've learned in our work is the second widest and the second oldest state in the country. Within the next decade. Approximately 100,000 for monitors will reach retirement age, and we have to replace those employees. Many of our children, including mine, I'm sure many others aren't staying here. And we've got to do something to do that. And I think it's proven clear that if you're lowering or trying to lower a company to relocate here. We're trying to lower individuals. A company of any size that's going to move here from out of state has a diverse. Employment. And then diverse leadership, diverse leadership. And they're going to look to see how we do. How welcome we are. I am a long path here. I ran into a woman. A woman who told me that the first thing she did when she wanted to relocate here. And began looking at jobs was to look at the companies and see what their diversity and inclusion policies are. And that really rang a bell and told me we're on the right track. And we hope you will be too. I'm going to turn it over to him and may have a comment or two after he finishes. Sure, I have something in the background. I don't know if it's in the meeting itself or in somebody else's. It's not muted, but. Does anybody else hear that? I did. Yeah. Yeah. It's here in the office. We've been trying to work on it. Okay. All right. Okay, just just briefly. Thanks, Norm. I've been involved with, with Bob right from the very beginning. And as Norm indicated, you know, we started out with zero and now we're at 131 towns that have adopted. Our hope is that they will continue to think about this and to implement what adoption implies and all that's laid out in our. We're supported in this initiative by the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, which has seen it as a business position necessary business. The conclusion is important to the growth of Vermont. In fact, it sees as a vital part of any growth that Vermont sustains over the next 10 years or so. But in addition to that, the Vermont Interfaith Action Group, which is a coalition of religious institutions across Vermont. The Vermont League of Cities and Towns, which you, I think are part of, greatly supports this and has provided administrative services to us as well as legal services to Vermont Council, rather. Yeah, Council on rural development also. And in addition to that, and perhaps lastly, the governor has said that this is important to to Vermont has a function of growth over over time and in doing so. He supported this initiative by declaring the second week in May as an inclusion week in Vermont, and has himself signed a declaration of inclusion for the state of Vermont. I noted that a number of other towns in Windsor County, which you are part have adopted the decoration, including Randolph, Cavendish, Ludlow, Springfield, Woodstock, Western Windsor. And I see a gentleman here from from Bethel, and we work with Bethel to to get that done in in Bethel going back a year and a half ago. So, and so it's important. And as, as Norm said, Marley, spiritually, it's it's it's important structurally in terms of economic growth. We've got to get people from someplace in this state to continue to grow and prosper. And if we don't draw those people from a diverse group, we're not going to be able to compete either town against town or state against state or country against against country. And in case somebody feels, as some people have said, well, we've got, we don't have that problem here, which I think, and some of you will think is not the way to to view this. But in case you think that issue doesn't exist here, certainly everybody can go back to the three Palestinians attempted murder in Burlington a few weeks ago and just I'm on the police subcommittee here in Rutland. I had a subcommittee meeting today and one of the ladies who looks like she could be from the Middle East. She's not. In fact, just just a few days ago was shouted at and told to go home in downtown Rutland. Rutland is is certainly what Rutland is and I think it's growing and it's changing, but every town of Vermont has that potential for happening so less we think that we're immune from racism, as well as all the other it's not just about race it's about those other categories of marginalized people that you see.  All those groups that are encompassed in the decoration so I urge you to think about that as you consider reconsider adoption of the decoration and join the other 131 states as towns rather that have adopted the decoration. Now I want to thank you for coming forward with your presentation this time around I don't think we had much more than paperwork the last time. Now we have something more to present around to our towns people and see if we have the sufficient support to make a declaration. I know that as a select board, we do feel as though the state of Vermont accepting the declaration is probably got all of us in Vermont covered. And at the time that we first encountered. We decided not to join in with the declaration. So as of right now, we still feel that way. But we will have a further discussion with your supporting documentation. We have a full select board and we will also have a few weeks, perhaps through the holidays to discuss it with people around town and see if if it's something that would be supported. Well, we would, if it comes before the board again, we'd appreciate notice of it so we could be available to answer any questions that may come up. Absolutely. And we thank you for the time and for your careful look at it. And as long as we're Vermonters we we are have a declaration under the state of Vermont in the meantime so just thank you very well presented. Thank you. Okay, as we move on to our number three on our agenda agenda. We are reviewing the November Treasurer's report. It's getting some meat to it now we're almost halfway through our year. And if if any and anyone in the town is also reviewing the report the Treasurer's report is a little out of whack and that's because of our West Hill Bridge project. There is a $300,000 overage on that that is responsible for the town. We are going to go for a bond on that. And when that happens, the numbers will fall back in line again. But rest assured we're taking a look at it. How do you feel about it Frank. Yeah, same here. Okay, so I move that we accept the Treasurer's report for November. Second it all in favor. Aye. Number four on our list is sign errors and emissions certificate. This is form PVR4261-E. This is showing changes to the 2023 grand list. And these are ones after it has been lodged. So, we have a list there's four different properties. And two of the four is a lot line adjustment therefore one property and the value went down the other property the value went up so it's almost a wash and the other two properties are located up in Great Hawk. And the both properties had acquired a neighboring vacant lot to join on to their property there for the property was adjusted down in value. And so there was nothing unusual there. I move that we accept the errors and emissions certificate and sign it and get those adjustments done. Second that all in favor. Quick and easy. We have a very good list. Love. Okay, we'll sign that we'll be moving on to the regional discussion team proposal to create the position of inter municipal White River Valley Energy resilience coordinator. This is, this is a long title. Jeff get part is here and he will be making a presentation along with folks on zoom. So, if you wanted to take that away, Jeff. Yes. The presentation itself is going to be present, provided by Jean Krause medical select board member and energy, many member. Unfortunately, they've wound up with a conflict and was not able to come tonight. And Nicole said Sierra who's really done a phenomenal job of leading this analysis and exploration has resigned this past week. And it's a case, really a case of burnout. That goes with the extensive volunteerism that she's been doing for so long. I also tried to attend most of the meetings, but I did not. And so my depth of knowledge in this is nowhere near as good as James. He's also been to other presentations here where we received questions that probably aren't the answers for which are probably not on the screen here. But he will know them because of being involved in those, those actual meetings. So, one last thing, Jean, we do not have it set up so we can see the screen up on the screen here, I will go follow you and advance the slides as you go. All right, except I have a different presentation. That's all right. We're going to go with the flow. People that have access to a computer there should be able to see if they're logged into zoom. But very quickly, I want to, I don't, I want to thank you for giving this task force some time on your agenda. I understand and know personally what a select board meeting is like, because I'm on the select board here in Bethel. So I won't take a whole lot of your time. Let me go through this very quickly, and then open it for questions. First of all, we all know that we know from firsthand experience now of the impact of climate change in our communities. Like, I bet you know somebody who is a farmer who had a hard time with the weather this past year. Either too much rain or not enough rain coming at the wrong times, made it really hard for our agricultural sector. And I know that the storms, as you know, and I know in that bridge or that project that you mentioned a moment ago may in fact have been part of that. I have a daughter who has asthma. She's not able to go on her daily runs at times during this summer, because of her asthma, because of the wildfires out west. The many people here right here in Vermont experienced the negative health impacts of that climate issue. And we've all known that we've had flooding. My guess is that you as select board members have dealt with more than you share of road issues and expenses and trying to find dollars when you didn't have them. In order to deal with what those storms did in response. You did. I'm sure you did. The, for the past six months, a number of White River Valley towns have been coming together with representatives to try and figure out how we can address climate change in our small towns. We have, we can do what we can do, but we can't do any more. And the possibility of doing anything requires, in our opinion, some additional help. None of us have the expertise of training or the knowledge to be able to address climate in all fullness and all of its ramifications. The towns who participated range from Brookfield to West Fairleigh and from Chelsea up to Hancock. And Rochester is one of those. You said a representative Jeff and the group was facilitated by a grant from the Vermont Council on Rural Development. Rural communities, they assisted and facilitated in in the process facilitated us. And we received a good deal of technical advice and counsel from two rivers out of Quiche. The, the proof, the energy coordinator that we are proposing will do half a dozen things. He or she will assist in prioritizing energy, resilience and climate planning for your town and for the whole region of those towns serve. That person will be established collaborative late relationships between the select boards, nonprofit organizations, residents in our towns. And that person will facilitate the tracking of energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions in our specific towns, so that that information can be used for the next thing that the person will do which is that person will be a grant writer. Write and prepare grants for us. Bring that kind of expertise and skill as well. And that person will work with a steering committee of those towns that you choose to participate. That steering committee and two rivers will coordinate and manage the project. It involves not just the town, but your schools and the impact that climate change is having on those facilities, as well as the town facilities, and there will be regular reporting to the citizens. So those are the things we have asked that person to do. Let me share a couple more details about the proposal. This that is, it is a shared proposal among the participating towns that cost will be distributed according to the adjusted Vermont town grand list for the towns, so that we're trying to find a way to recognize that some of our communities are larger than others. For example Randolph versus Pittsfield. The two towns you know that are of different sizes. We will also be the person will not simply be working for individual towns but will be working for the region. And we'll get into that in a little more depth in a minute. There will be a steering committee that will work with two rivers out of Quiche to rivers will be the employer, and will provide day to day supervision and accountability for our employee, although that employee will not be housed at the two rivers The reason for that is that the, if the person were to be housed at two rivers, two rivers would charge us 80% of the salary and benefits for the individual. If we house the individual in one of our towns that individual two rivers will charge us 10%. So we thought that it was a cost effective way to receive the, the, the oversight from two rivers, while at the same time having more money go into actually delivering service to our communities. And the town share. You may have in your. We did an estimate, because some of the towns were more involved with the planning committee than others. And we're here today to try to figure out who it is who really wants to participate going forward. The town's include Bethel brain tree, Brookfield Pittsfield Randolph Rochester and Royalton, and using the grand list as a as a as a tool. We estimate that the cost for the town of Rochester would be for the first year 10174 dollars. So you might want to write that down for the second 10174 dollars. The second year that cost would increase to 13,675 dollars. Now the reason for the change is that during the first year we are able to call this a pilot project. And we are able to do this. With support from Merp funds, a number of the communities have said that then participating they would contribute their $4,000 initial grant from Merp toward this project, thus reducing the cost for the pilot project. The pilot will then help us determine the future of the project and the viability of the, the piece. Once we have the interested towns clearly identified in other words, they've said, we're good, we want to be part of this. We will be able to finalize those numbers because it is based on who's actually taking part. There are a few things that we believe are really good deliverables. One, it enables us to have staff at a cost that is not born by any single town. The investor would not have to pay the $150,000 necessary for salary benefits and and all the rest that would be required instead that cost is shared, and there will be savings, although we have no idea what there's will be. I will simply share that one resident here in Bethel and lives in town is been able to with solar panels and tightening weatherization in his house and so on is right right now is looking at heating bill of about $300 a year in Bethel. And that's not a tiny house.  How can we be more resilient. How can we use this energy wisely, and how can we reduce our greenhouse gases. They will be distracted the next time a storm comes and everybody's running around to figure out how to fix the roads. They will be devoted and for the town of Rochester I understand that's a, that's an addition to your staff that that is right now, mall, and my guess is out straight, stretched and perhaps overworked. I know that's the case here in Bethel, and we have more staff, probably than you do. We will have a person who has expertise in climate and energy. I'm a person who tries to understand that in those details. And I really appreciate the effort that goes into understanding all the science and all the technical kinds of stuff that goes into it what works what doesn't work, and so on and so forth. So, having somebody available. In addition to Jeff to to guide you through that maze of information will be a great asset. This person will also have knowledge about the grants and the and resources that are available, both the state of Vermont and the federal dollars are increasingly coming available. And we don't want, frankly, we don't want to leave money sitting on the shelf. When we could put it to use in our communities. And then the, the other benefit is that by reaching out over a wider area. We have as many a population as high as maybe 20,000 from which to draw volunteers. This person will help us draw volunteers to serve each individual town but to do that regionally and provide volunteer support in terms of knowledge and and expertise and all of the things that are necessary in order to make this happen. We're asking for something very simple. We're asking Rochester select board to consider becoming one of the participating towns this is not a final decision. We're asking you for a tentative approval so that we can firm up who what towns are going to be participating, and then come back to you with a final numbers distributed, according to who takes part. There are towns that have voted enthusiastically to move forward. Others that continue to ask questions and we're trying to answer them. You can, we're asking that you could consider putting this in your 2020 2425 budget. Or putting it into your town meeting as a special item that the village, the town might consider my guess is because we have gone through the summer we just did. There's a great, great deal more interest in our towns than there might have been before in taking some sort of action, such as this. Once we know what towns are participating, we'll get back to you. And once we know what towns are participating, we will be prepared to come to you either an informational meetings prior to your town meeting or to the town meeting itself to share and present more detailed proposal and answer questions. That's what I have to say. And let me open it up and say, are there questions that you have I know I've covered a lot of ground and covered it quickly. I've got a couple of things that I'd like to say, first and foremost, I'm retired and I don't want to stop. I have a plan to continue at the board's pleasure as a volunteer assisting in this whole effort. But I do not want to be paid nor have the responsibility of the whole crime job, particularly a regional job. You know, right now you do have me for free. I don't think that I'm being as effective as we could through this whole process. But the other thing we're talking about is a significant reordering of our civilization, frankly, and we have goals that run us up to 2050. I've got a few years to help volunteer on all of this but I doubt I'm going to make that 2050 goal to see 90% of our energy be renewable. So you may have the cow now, but at some point, you know, there won't be a volunteer that has the background that I understand. So I would be pleased to continue as a volunteer energy coordinator in Rochester or by some other name, whatever work if that is, you know, what the board would like. Of the things that the are the responsibility of a regional energy coordinator. Or actually of the town. There is the steering committee. I could serve on that steering committee on your behalf if you want. I could support the tracking of Rochester's energy use I'm already doing it. They're very easy to get the bird into the coordinators hand. I think that the coordinator and I have a lot of would have a lot of similar background or skills, but one of the things that I'm probably ahead of most folks on because of 20 years of work in that area is understanding the best practices for rehabbing buildings, and we have buildings to rehab. I think this could also do is help us with grant applications. That's not something I'm real good at other than providing some of the fill in the fight stuff. And it's something that I actually dislike a lot. This would enable us locally and me to out increase project outreach and education within the local community. Getting in more tabling events, developing a website, getting more weatherization on track he pumps, all house electrification transfer transportation electrification, all of those kinds of things in support of this regional So that's out there. Oh, that's good. Um, go ahead. I'd like to share some of what I thought about these slides and the presentation that I previously saw on the slide set. And I just started down a couple of notes. So bear with me. Yeah, we're fine. Oh, oh, Diane Tiesel. Sorry. Rochester is on the Vermont agency of administration pre approved list, as are a number of these other towns for municipal technical assistance, meaning that this program, the municipal technical assistance program will assist small towns assessing resources based on a town's need for investment and capacity for pursuing assistance. My vote is yes to the regional energy coordinator. Why he or she could work with this new program to assess and access these state and federal funds for multiple towns, working with these specialists to develop and coordinate projects on a larger scale and become more time efficient. No duplication of effort. Time saving communication goes through one person, bringing up time and all the participating towns select boards. And I mentioned this because I know in 2024, there'll be a vote for Rochester. About the building, the high school building and should the town decide to. If the vote is yes for the town to buy it. That's another thing that will be on your plate. So again, this would free up more time for the select board. Finally, energy costs are rising. Climate change is happening with more and frequent more intense storms coming our way. And more regulations are being made in response to climate change. All these reasons are why I think Rochester and the Rochester select board should participate. Thank you. So noted. I think the presentation was very good. I usually. Come at somebody with who, what, why, when and where the basics, and you did cover that. So I thank you for being very conclusive in covering everything. The 1 question I have. I believe embedded in, in what you were saying was that this position is costing 150,000 a year. Is that correct? Did I, did I hear that correctly? That's, yeah, that's in the ballpark. It's. Well, wait a minute, we budgeted 100 and a quarter 125. And that includes the 10% for T work. So that's salary benefits, and some administrative costs as well. We're advised by two rivers that that's, that's a doable piece. And that is a P there are people out there that are willing ready willing and able to take on that responsibility. Okay. I just wanted that to be clear. And then the following year, it would still be the same amount of money relatively speaking. It's just the funding will change. The funding would change because we would no longer be a pilot project eligible for funds. I have to be pretty accurate when I go before the budget and finance committee with this. Absolutely. And our next step would be unless we have more feedback from anyone. I think this says something that should be put before the town. Quite frankly, through an article through the town meeting, it should be addressed that way and the presentation should be made to the, to the community, not so much to them, and not leaving it on the board's hands to decide a financial place for that. And because it is a growing issue that we need to address and I agree with that. But I do think it requires a town vote on something like that. Go ahead. This is too late. No, I don't think it's too late because it is a money option and you know how our budget is this year it's going to be tested. So, I think it should be something that should be put before the town. I have a question. Yes. Many grant writers write their salary into the grants that they're writing to. We're hoping to get. And is that a consideration with this position or his person? That would be. Did you hear that? I did. And the answer is yes, that is a possibility. There are also grants to a higher grant writers that we would may be able to leverage, not just for the writing of the grant, but also for the managing and implementing of grants that may be granted may be allotted. So again, this is, this is something that has the potential of not only providing additional revenue to meet some of these needs, but also to pay for the position itself down the road. No promises. I want to be clear about that. So we would be asking the town to commit to that, that base level. Now, if we don't need it. Wonderful. If it comes in in another way, that would be great. That's a bonus. The other thing I would, I didn't say there is also room in this for reaching out to individuals in the community to assist them with weatherization heat pumps and taking action. In their position, their own lives. Relative to climate that will save your citizens money as well. Okay. Thank you. I would like to speak to both the budget committee and do something at town meeting. I think at town meeting would be a better way to go myself. I mean, I, I. The, the budgets this year are going to be tough. If you haven't heard already, but everybody is just clamoring for money this year and and costs are increasing everywhere so the budget's going to be tight. I think it's a decision that the town should make not just three people on the select board to initially go out on the limb and say, this is what we should do as, as to start spending money on, not that I'm against the project. I'm just thinking that it should be a town will not necessarily a three person board vote. That's my own personal feeling, but I don't know how Pat feels, but. I agree. I agree. I think that's the best play here I mean we're starting to build something and I totally agree that I think it's necessary and I think it's a direction we need to move in. But I think we need to have support from the community to do that, and we can support it as a board. But if the community is not supporting it. I think that's an issue that we have to address. And I think it was 2018 at the end of our town meeting. We voted to take climate change into account and every decision that we make. And I keep that close by. So, I think there's a good possibility of support from the town. I'm wondering, I mean, if, if we did the presentation to the budget committee, then they could give you their thoughts on it as well as to the town one, you know, that's where you want the final decision made. Well, I think, I think the way we presented as an article in, in the town meeting and have a voting amount to be put into a budget with that article. And we can do that. I believe we have the right to put that in as an article as a, as a board. So, yes, we can. Yes. And I think that's probably the best way to address it. And then you can present the things that you need to present then and support that and we'll go from there. I feel that that's probably the best way to address it. And the board would be willing to put that article on the agenda without a petition. Yes. Yeah, it's an article coming from the board whether or not it's a, it's a financial decision for the community moving forward so it's, it's in our best interest as a board to present it to the community and let the community make that decision. That makes a lot of sense. We can help with that in whatever way possible with, I'm hearing support from the two board members that I see. So you may want to even recommend it to the town. But that's, I'll leave that to you. That's another possibility. But we'll help with that with in whatever way we can. You're making that's the kind of sense that that I understand completely as a select board member here in in Bethel. A question about going that way with then would a meeting be called for a slide presentation then to the public so they can learn about this article. As a yes, no, and a motor or not promoted. So they can learn about the process before town meeting day. Well, we have pre town meeting. That would normally be for that. Yeah, and also some literature going forward would be a way to do that too. And we can put that out pretty much. Yeah, the articles you normally have a little paragraph or two or sometimes the whole darn page. Right. And we can add, you can add something through the, through the town report that way too. Right, because we've got a pretty depth. You write an article anyway, don't you have a presentation page in the, in the town report anyway. So we can address that and you can address it as an article in the town meeting itself. And perhaps Martha can mention it in the paper and the paper and if someone interested they could stop by and grab the presentation and paper. Are they have they been asked to submit a report to the town report with this. The energy. Yes. Not with, not with it. Prior years I would anticipate it. Julie send out something to everybody that she's looking to for reports from. Right. Did you get the department. Did you send one to Jeff. I sent one to Jeff. Yeah. So Jeff for the part of the department report. Okay, I'll check. If you can address it that way if you want. And then we'd also be come up for discussion at the meeting anyway. Yeah, we can go from there. I think that's the best way to deal with it going forward. Personally, but yeah. Well, that's why there's pre town meeting. They can come to pre town meeting. And it can be openly discussed every article gets discussed. But if it's all written in the town report to. In your report. They will have that in advance as well. Learning about it. Okay. Let's see what we can pull together. One other thing to point out. I think I have modified people, but last. Last week, we, the. Resiliency Island and the micro grid. That it's certificate of public good. Right. So we've got the energy coordinator report covered now. So that will be proceeding in the spring. Yeah. Perfect. Well, they, as soon as green mount power gets the polls all cut over. And all that. Okay. A while. Yeah, that's great. That's great. So I'm going to, I'm going to lead, but I want to say. Thank you for taking the time to give us a chance to make our pitch. We appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. All right. All right. Yeah. Bye-bye. Good night. Presentation. Okay. So the next order of business is. What we're going to do. Well, the office is the town office is going to be closed to the public from January, December 26th. To January 2nd reopening on January. And then we're going to have a meeting. And then we're going to have a meeting. Not open to the public for the holidays. I'll be doing inside work. Preparing for the new year. And so the next thing that we need to discuss about that. Time era is our next select board meeting is scheduled for December 25th. And we all anticipate to be a little. Hungry, fat, tired. And then we're going to have a meeting. It doesn't sound like we want to meet January 1st either. We're the second one. If you drink, it might be a little. I don't want to move it to another Monday. Open for suggestions. Do we skip that particular meeting? Do we reschedule it? I know the 26th, I believe is a fire department work. Meeting night. Is that true? We're not, we're not going to do that for this month. I don't see why we can't. I think it depends on what our schedule is. How do, how we wind up for. Our biggest thing is getting bills paid and. You know, doing that type of thing. So we just would need to get together at some point. That week before. Would it be better before. Say we did it on the 18th sometime to just. Even if we do like a special meeting just to pay bills. So what if we did like the 21st on the Thursday? Would that work for you? I mean, that gives us a little bit closer. And would you like that a special meeting at a certain time? Yeah, we can just do a special meeting and have it at a, you know, five o'clock or something like that. Just to get it going. Yeah. So. Agenda is possible. Possibly. You know, we need to make sure we've finalized that. Everything for the, the printing of the. We have, when do we have to have that done? Not going to there yet. No, no. Is there, is there some timeline here? We need to follow. So we're proposing to move the regular select board meeting from December 25th. At 615 to December 21st at 5pm. That sounds good to me. Second. Second favor. Martha is waving her little hand. I just wondered if. I'm assuming Julie that you'll send out a notice about this with a little zoom thingy for me to click on, et cetera, and for other people. Yes. Okay. So Thursday the 21st at 5 o'clock. There's a warrant meeting. It'll be a warrant meeting just like a regular. Okay, great. The week meeting. So I'll mention it in my article. Yes, that would be helpful. Thank you. Okay. Let's move on to department reports, which I think we're going to run through that pretty quick. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Is there anything on board for the library? Not on our stuff. No, no. Okay. Highway department. About the only thing I think we cleaned up with the state as far as the and probably Kristen's going to mention that through her grant updates, but with the West Hill bridge, we finalized the paperwork on that for the state. I think probably Kristen might be addressing that. Are you going to address that? Yeah, you just did. Yeah. But, you know, I didn't give any number. I don't have any. And the truck that was broken on our last meeting is back on the road. So hopefully I didn't hear anything today. So they were a little nervous about plowing roads with their. Not frozen. I don't blame them stuff. I don't blame them stuff. I don't blame them stuff. I don't blame them stuff. I heard on equipment. Sorry, I just, just a road related question because I've had several people in the, when I was in the post-hospital. It's the other day asked me this question. If I knew. When Bethel mountain road would open. Do you have any ideas? Anybody said anything to you about how. You know, that project is going. And if there's an estimated open date. I heard it was the middle of the month, but I think that's going to be moved on to January is it January, the more we know, we'll keep it posted. So, I should, I could mention that that it's estimated to be January in the article or not. It's definitely going to be January. We just don't have any idea right now of what when in January, the 1st or the 30. Okay, thank you. That's a tough one. You know, they're pouring walls. Yeah, I have a hard time. There's a tough time to be working. I was worried about that when they decided they were going to do it. We do not have Terry here for utilities. We heard from Jeff. And all we have left is grant updates. Okay. All I have is on Monday, the 4th, I sent in our reimbursement for the part tree grant. And we received that on the 8th. So we're all closed out and good with that. That was awesome and easy to work with. Also, on the 4th, as Frank mentioned, I submitted reimbursement of 175,000 for the West Hill Bridge on the structures grant that we've had. And I'm working very closely right now on the flat grant. There's a little bit of confusion. We were granted $600,000. And the $340,000 of it was dedicated for construction. And 260 was dedicated for design. So they're going to give us that money, but they're having to refinagle everything and that'll take that's a process, I guess, like a two week process and they started it today. So I've requested I've put in the invoice for the 340,000. They're hoping to release that next week. Yeah. Thank you for moving things along. Thank you. Thank you for moving things along. Yeah. Do we have anyone here that has any public comment? I don't think we have any old business. Anything to say on zoom. I don't see any hands raised in zoom. Going once twice. Hi, everyone.