Thanks for checking out this movie review. This is for the 2018 Halloween movie and yes it is a sequel to the original from 1978 by John Carpenter wrote it directed it and did music for it and He and his son along with one other guy who I can't remember at the moment Did also did the score for this updated one while the sequel a lot of their music is very very similar to the original But kind of dressed up a little bit and in a very good way It's very nice. They have the original music that everyone's very very familiar with but they kind of add a little extra to it And it really works well. I like it quite a bit So much like the original a score is a very very strong portion of the film So this will be spoiler-free. I don't want to say much about about anything. I don't believe in doing like spoiler reviews I believe that we can kind of talk about the movie enough that you know It can it can be enjoyed by people who have seen it and people who have not seen it without giving out any spoilers And that's what we're gonna do quick thing to point out behind me right here PJ souls who was in the original Halloween? So interesting. That's an autograph anyway How was this 2018 Halloween? So if I'm going to give it like a letter rating if I give it like between a through f I'm gonna give it a solid B. I believe I think a solid B is a good one It wasn't anything crazy new or awesome, but it was familiar. It was good There were some new elements. I know I just said like it wasn't crazy new or awesome But they they had some new elements in sense of the Halloween story Specifically with Laurie Strode. So people going into this. This isn't really a spoiler Know that it's not so much a movie about Michael Myers and you're not gonna really learn stuff about Michael Myers It's mainly a story about Laurie Strode. It's about What Michael Myers has done to Laurie Strode and how she how her life has been so it basically picks up 40 years After the original movies events So you're seeing the impact of what happened in that first movie on Laurie Strode's life and what that ended up meaning Sorry shaking because my cat's walking on the table So that's a really interesting aspect of it. So it's about her So if you haven't seen it just know that going into it So you're not gonna get these backstories about Michael Myers that you know We're in a bunch of the other original sequels. So and for that reason I don't know Some people may not like it for that reason because they might want more about Michael Myers But the thing is that's been done and it's been done a lot so you can kind of see those other movies If that's what you really want So for this one, I think overall the directing was really nice. The cinematography was great. It looked Realistic it looked like kind of gritty and there's my cat Chloe. She's making an appearance It looked gritty It was pretty violent actually and it was very like intense violence The the combination of the score while it was going on and how they shot it and how intimate it felt when there was violence happening and the murdering Very effective because it made you feel like There kind of like caught up in the moment. So that was really nice acting was really well executed Jamie Lee Curtis did a really good job And I will just say it's just very nice to see her reprise that role Especially if you really like the original Halloween I don't like love love love the original Halloween, but I like it and I really recognize its importance as far as horror film goes at least And I really have a lot of respect for John Carpenter I had met John Carpenter earlier this year was like March at a Monster Mania convention in New Jersey and I got him to sign up like a poster for the movie the thing but He had said at the time someone was asking him about Oh, how's the new Halloween gonna be and he was like Oh, trust me if you like the original Halloween, you're gonna you're really gonna like it. It's gonna be good So I heard that and I was like oh, that's cool And then you know a few minutes later. I'm thinking well wait a minute Would he really tell people if it wasn't gonna be good? So I went in kind of being like I don't know We'll see but no, I mean he was right if you like to the original Halloween you were going to like the 2018 film Most likely there are a lot of it feels the same in a lot of ways kind of not that it it follows like the exact same formula or anything But there's a lot of kind of formulaic Commonalities from the first one to this And that's nice for familiarity, but it also just goes well with the story You know it helps in telling the story that needs to be told because it's continuous You know like we're just catching back up with Laurie Strode So it would make sense that a lot of the way the original story was told would be carried over into the way This story is told because they're all together so There are some some good surprises in it some pretty good Dialogue surprises in it. I don't want to say anything past that because it's a tab at spoilery There are references to some of the sequels There's actually a bit of dialogue. I won't say exactly what it is but the kind of Jabs at the sequels in a sense and then there's a reference to one of the sequels in particular in the film that I really enjoyed because I enjoy that sequel and I Mean it's it's the one that didn't really have anything to do with Michael Myers. So The fact that that was called out I thought was really super cool because most people probably thought it would not have been called out for that reason Didn't have anything to do with Michael Myers, but it's cool. I really like it. Also. I just as I'm talking realized that People make comments like these slatted doors For closets people make comments all the time about how like how many slatted doors can you have in Halloween? And I think it's funny that I happen to have those right here. That was not intentional. It just happened But anyway, yeah really good film Like I said, very solid beat I felt like there was more that they could do with the story to like push a little bit further to get a little deeper into back Story, but I just I don't think they really wanted to do that I think they just wanted to focus mainly on Laurie and show you the impact that Michael Myers has had on Laurie long-term Not just short-term because that is something that really is missing from a lot of horror films is They'll make sequels, but they don't build off the first one or build off of other ones in the sense that They have those characters who you know will change over a long period of time. That doesn't really happen so much so For that reason it is kind of fresh To see that that take and it's nice. I mean cuz cuz in a sense it is kind of new Even though everything still feels very very familiar and and there there's a lot of stuff that you're just like well That's not you know, this is pretty typical So but I know a lot of people have said they played it really safe I think so in the sense of a lot of stuff they do in the film But the overall theme and their focus on Laurie Strode and everything like that I don't think they played it safe with that because that easily could have thrown people off and they'd just be like But what I'm hearing from pretty much everyone is that they like it. I'm sorry my cats yelling in the background So I don't know she wants to say she loved Halloween too No, I happen to see it at a drive-in theater which added another aspect to it shout out to Benji's drive-in River, I'm sorry in Middle River, Maryland Yeah, and that's a good way to see a movie like this at the drive And it was awesome and they had one of their staff walking around dressed as Michael Myers Well, the movie was going on so you just kind of see like the shadow of Michael Myers walking by the car Which was really cool So I did like that, but yeah overall solid B I liked it. Do I think they'll do anything else? No, I don't think so I will say if you're watching this and you haven't seen the original in 1978 one You definitely should do that because I have heard from some people who went and saw the movie who didn't see the original That they were just kind of like I don't really and I'm like, yeah But there's like a history and it means so much more if you know The beginning of it like especially with the way this movie is laid out So if you're watching this and you have not seen the original and you do want to see the new one Do yourself a favor track down the original 1978 Do it you will thank me because the movie is not going to mean as much You're not going to care as much unless you see that original Very important in my opinion. So Thank you everyone for checking this out. 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How's it going everyone Caleb here with Leighton sports cards. We are gonna be working on tier one random division style This is break number 65 Thanks again for joining here the results Good luck everyone Some more tier one tonight Guys thanks again for joining. Good luck all the sick Let's get right into it a patch card Brandon belt for the Giants at 399 Autograph Phillies Luke Williams at 299 Regular sleeps when you have a chance, please nice one Phillies So fast with those regular Wasn't even ready for you yet And an Eddie Murray bronze in Cotto 125 nice start Orioles you go AL East very nice Good start on the AL East spots Eddie Murray bronze in Cotto very cool Start AL East right hatch card is gonna be hobby bias to 399 AL central and 17 to 25 it is a dual relic. You don't see that very often in this stuff Salvador Perez Not too bad. AL central Miguel Tajada autograph to 299 tier one talents There he is AL West so I'm messed up and also gonna be AL West Yoni Hernandez autograph for he auto to 299 Yoni and punting some big hits guys. Good luck all to 399 AL East Garrett coal patch to 399 and L central Max Krainik rookie autograph and L central and AL East autograph is Johnny Damon There he is To 199 AL East Here we go Number to 25.  Let's keep it going Some solid stuff so far What else they can provide us here in this break 22 Is that not the number you want to hear NL central on the Josh Hader patch to 399 I know I Know correct This is correct Game use patch and bat relic nice one AL East JD Martinez Nice one there take that AL East Tony leave on the autograph to 299 there nice one AL central Tony Aliva Joe Ryan rookie autograph Also, gonna be AL central there Joe Ryan should have told you a different number.  All right to 399 Chris Bryant. I Could have thought that out better as I'll West And I'll West another one right away Mike Yastremsky auto not bad You go in a West Solid for the NL central. It's gonna be a Barry Larkin auto not numbered. Oh, excuse me. It is numbered You just signed right over it to 99 It is numbered He just disregarded that though signed right over it 299 there Nice it NL central and how about another one right away NL central to 99 Nolan erinado auto Congrats cardinals very nice There you go Very sir very solid box for the NL central Certainly take that nice cardinal six Four boxes to go here All right jumbo patch NL central keeping it going to 399 Christian Yelich To 299 rookie autograph Jake Myers There he is AL West and we have for the AL East autograph Dave Winfield 26 of 99 tier one talents Once again just likes to sign right through the Right through the spot for the numbering These guys are menaces These guys are menaces. I tell you Three left excuse me AL East patch all patch there Enrique Hernandez to 399 AL East NL West rookie autograph Jake McCarthy NL West there he is Mike Schmidt autograph to 100 nice way to close it and at least Not too bad at least Two left guys two left. Let me grab a little bit of water will continue on Excuse me checking one thing Let's keep it going guys Here all right, it's gonna be a Joe Morgan bat relic auto and NL central Joe Morgan Still got three to go on Sterling guys. I linked that in the chat already. It's right there for you check it out random division style top Sterling really sick products To 299 on the Joe Barlow rookie auto to 299 there. Oh, that's a cool one Nice dual patch autograph of Steven Strasburg number to 25 nice sit there for you beautiful patches on that one Congrats on that NL East nice Nationals card thicky Last one up Empty right to it Kyle Tucker patch to 399 A L West AL East autograph rookie autograph to 299 Videl Bruhan Not too bad there You go AL East And silver ink autograph 5 of 10 Matt Olson Silver ink auto Matt Olson and that is the last card out there goes to the AL West Let me go ahead and do a hits recap. Then we got thicker sleep and a standard Thank you guys Appreciate it. Let's do that recap of the hits Alrighty guys. We had a Matt Olson silver ink auto athletics vital Bruhan Rays Steven Strasburg for the Nationals Joe Barlow Rangers Mike Schmidt Phillies Jake McCarthy Diamondbacks Dave Winfield Yankees Jake Myers Astros no one there not of Cardinals Barry Larkin Reds Yastransky Giants Joe Ryan twins Tony Oliva twins Tim Reigns White Sox Nick Fortes Marlins Reese Nair Padres Jim Palmer Orioles Aaron Nola Phillies Marcus Truman Mets Max Crannick Pirates Johnny Damon Red Sox Miguel Tejada athletics The only Hernandez Rangers Eddie Murray Orioles and Luke Williams for the Phillies. Thanks again, everyone Hope you guys did enjoy it there tier one random division style. I'm all well protected and right out to you


Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Unfiltered. Pastor David, welcome. How are you doing John? We just came off a great weekend. We had our men's conference, we had Sunday services and looking forward to our Wednesday night services and then it's just amazing to see the work of the Spirit here at work at our church and there's just amazing things going on from all the different ministries and so we're coming off a great weekend and we have many more weekends to come but you know thinking of that pastor I started thinking about the Jesus movement and I wanted to ask you you know because something was posted recently on social media and people were beginning to identify themselves with the Jesus movement because they were around during that time and you know there's been little bits of pockets of revival and different things coming on. Is there a new Jesus movement going on? Well that's an interesting way to put it. It's interesting that somebody would identify with the movement because they were alive when that movement occurred. There were things related to that that I think that would actually be markers of something that God was doing that had become unique. So if somebody got saved we'll say at a Baptist church or whatever you know whatever fellowship it may be you know and it was during the era of what was called the Jesus movement then that's simply revealing the fact that God's Holy Spirit was moving everywhere which is what the Jesus movement actually is you know my own pastor Chuck had said that Jesus never stopped moving and so that's a fact and so you know on one hand there was a special thing that occurred. Some are now calling it the Jesus revolution but the way I have always looked at it is it was a Jesus movement. It was a revolution. There was Jesus people. There were Jesus freaks. Jesus music. It was all about Jesus and so from that perspective the Jesus movement has never stopped whether somebody got saved in a Baptist church or a Methodist church or whatever fellowship in AG. Jesus was moving but on the other hand as an example I was part of the hippie kind of culture that was that was what I identified with and would have considered myself and still to this day would consider myself that. So I was a hippie kind of kid but if I as a hippie kid said that you know I identify with Woodstock because they played music that I liked I probably would be kind of exaggerating. I could say I liked the different groups almost every one of the groups that I'm familiar with who played at Woodstock were were groups that I listened to you know the Santana and and you name it Jen you just name it you know Jimi Hendrix and all those are those are people of my era that I liked but I could never say I was part of the Woodstock experience outside of saying I liked the music that was played at Woodstock which was in general from the east coast to west coast and everything in between so if somebody is identifying themselves as a person in the Jesus movement because they got saved during that time I'd say well there's some truth to that obviously the spirit of God was moving and that person was was saved in that time and so there was a move of the spirit and obviously as a believer in Christ you're part of that movement but if you're specifying a certain experience of some sort then if you if you weren't there you know if you weren't at one of the churches that were springing up at that time that were products of you know the spirit's movement like Calvary Chapel Coast of Mesa you may be stretching it a bit. Now does that why would and it's not answering why why is it in which on your in your feedback why would people find that important to identify themselves as I was a part of it because therefore I was born again in it or I find that interesting John I think maybe it's because we're we're living in a time when if somebody's on the stage doing some music there's going to be several people on the floor who are singing along with the musician I think they just like to be part of something and so they're identifying with something bigger than themselves I think that there's an I understand that you know I want to be known as something who is part of that why because that's something popular right now when I want to be popular along with that I just think it's an over-identification and and it's just something we have to be aware of you know I just think we have to be careful not to over identify with with a you know like I had a Calvary Chapel or this or that and so I have my preferences I'm trying to find a way to say what I'm thinking you know I got saved I was a hippie I went to Calvary Chapel that's where I got my my foundations and everything that became my ministry came out of that so I can say that but others you know we're not part of that and and yet the Holy Spirit was moving in their life too and so I just think that's that's beautiful you know and I think that's great but if somebody's saying yeah I saw the Jesus revolution and though I lived in in Iowa at the time I was a Jesus freak well maybe you were maybe you won't weren't I don't know I don't know why that would be important to you what really matters is you got saved you know and that's at the end of the day that's really that's important is can that be considered a bandwagon yeah I would I would I have a normal way of looking at it saying yeah let's let's ride the wave of what was popular and let's be popular too I feel sorry for for for someone who has that kind of need I really do I don't see the need you know if you're a believer in Jesus Christ and isn't that all that matters anyone's in Christ he's a new creation absolutely and so the Jesus movement has been going since Jesus walked the face of the earth the birth of the church by the spirit he never stopped moving and so but let's not pretend you know I I didn't go to Woodstock and I'm not going to pretend that I didn't I could watch the movie 15 times and speak about all the lines in it and know I remember when the rain in the mud and this and that that's because you see that kind of thing in in a film but then when you speak to somebody who says yeah do you remember sliding down the hill on those you know on that cardboard or whatever you know and and well I wasn't really there I just saw those things in film it kind of makes you into what well was called a poser you know and we we don't need to be that we're in Christ and that's that's all that matters amen well pastor thank you for sharing because I my hope is that people don't over identify themselves with something that they weren't truly a part of it and think think and that's their identity in Christ when it's no movement it's Jesus Christ Himself it's always Jesus John and and we just happen to have a tradition that came out of of something that has been referred to as the movement but they were great works of God before and I pray that God does new fresh things in the future amen you know and so let's be part of the movement of Jesus period amen well pastor David thank you so much for sharing thank you guys for tuning in we do have services tomorrow uh Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. and pastor you're taking us through Romans chapter 7 chapter 7 we look forward to having that it's been a a good study and a great opportunity to invite your friends and family to come out and join us then we have our services on uh Saturday excuse me Sunday at 8 30 and 10 45 look forward to having you guys come and join us registration for Israel the link is up now at our website you can go there and register for 2024 trip it's going to be great I'm looking forward to it already it's going to be fun thank you guys again for tuning in pastor thank you again so much God bless you guys we love you


In the movie, Wicker Park, Alex says, Love makes you do crazy things. Things in a million years you never thought you'd see yourself do, but here you are doing it. Sometimes our actions make it obvious that we're in love. On the other hand, our behavior might be so subtle that we're not even conscious of it. In this video, you'll learn about six unconscious things you do when you're in love. Keep watching to find out if you do any of these things yourself. Noticing their needs. Have you noticed that you do little acts of service like this for your partner without thinking about it? You could be doing these things because you're in love. Falling for someone causes you to shift from focusing on your own needs to considering your partner's needs too. This can show in thoughtful actions that feel automatic to you. For example, every morning, Sai wakes up and makes himself breakfast, but lately he automatically makes double the amount so that his girlfriend can have some too. He subconsciously considers his girlfriend's needs rather than just his own. Making sacrifices. When people are in love, their mirror neurons, which help us empathize with others, are significantly more active. This might explain why we make compromises and sacrifices more for people we love. When you're in love, you might notice that you make sacrifices for your loved one without thinking twice. These could be small. Like going to a restaurant you're not too fond of for date night because you know they really want to go. Or it could be something life-changing like moving across the country to be with them. You feel like you would do whatever it takes to ensure they're happy and you're subconsciously more empathetic towards them than you are with most people. We, not me. Here's a quick thought experiment to see if you're in love with someone. When you talk about the future with them, do you find yourself saying we more than me? When you're in love, you might unconsciously use language that presents you and your partner as a team and use words like I or me less often. If you picture a future with your love interest in it, this will start to show in the way you talk. Idealization. People who are in love subconsciously focus most of their attention on their partner's positive qualities. In fact, participants' perceptions of their partners were even more positive than their perceptions of themselves. When you're in love, you might idealize your partner, meaning you only see the good in them and put them on a pedestal without even realizing it. Subtle Touches. Pop Quiz. What's the most reliable way you can tell by someone's body language that they're in love? The answer is touch. Think PDA, like hand-holding or sitting close enough together that your legs are touching. When you're in love, you might subconsciously touch the person to show that you care about them. An Open Heart. Besides touch, another unconscious thing you do when you're in love is use more open body language. You might automatically have a more relaxed posture and face your chest or heart space towards the person you love. You may also notice that your palms face upward when you talk to them. This is another unconscious indication that you are open and comfortable with them. We hope this video helped you learn about the unconscious things you do when you're in love. Can you relate to any of these points? What are some other things that you tend to do when you're in love? Share in the comments below. Thanks for watching Psych2Goers! See you in the next video!


Gio here from A Week in Geekdom, and finally I get to talk in length about Apari Ranman. Apari Ranman is an original Japanese anime series done by PA Works and directed by Masakazu Hashimoto. It is a series set in the late 19th century, early 20th century in the Meiji era of Japan, and we follow the character of Apari Ranman who is this eccentric, adventurous young man who is the second son of a merchant family. Now, he doesn't really follow social norms, he doesn't really want to follow in his family's footsteps. Instead, Apari is interested in constructing, building, engineering, science, and he's just a very inquisitive young man, and he one day decides to set off on a grand adventure to see what's out there, and we soon learn of the second character in the series, Kosume Ishiki, who is his family's head instructor at their dojo, and he's also a samurai under Lord Kudada. Kosume is tasked by his lord to keep track of Apari, keep him under control, but instead they get dragged into a really wacky adventure as Apari sets out to see, and Kosume accidentally causes the two of them to be stranded. They get rescued by an American steamboat that is on the way towards its destination of Los Angeles, so the series takes place in America, and we have what is called the Trans-America Wild Race. Race all across the continental U.S., starting in Los Angeles, and ending up in New York. Now that they're stranded in Los Angeles with no way of getting back home, Kosume decides to enter the Trans-America Wild Race along with Apari with the promise of earning a huge cash reward so they can use to travel back. However, Apari doesn't really want to go back, instead he is intrigued by the concept of this race, with several characters racing to see who's the best of the best. So that's sort of the basic setup when it comes to this series. I remember in my first impressions video that I did way back, I was a little annoyed or upset that the series started in a predictable manner, that it showed you a little bit of the race, and then it went back, and you uncovered Apari's origin, if you will. And I understood why they made that, but yeah, you know, you kind of wanted to go into the actual race itself right from the get-go, right? But no, you gotta step back a little bit and understand the characters and what you're getting yourself into when it comes to a show like this. This is an adventure, steampunk-ish, racing-type show that has a lot of really cool elements. Probably the single most attractive thing that I can sell you on is the amazing work that this series does with its character roster. It is all over the place, in the best way possible. You've got Apari, who is Japanese. You've got the character of Hototo, who is this young Native American kid who suffered a tragedy after an outlaw gang killed his father, so now he's seeking revenge because of it. You have the character of Jin Xilian, and I probably butchered that, so I apologize. She is an assistant to a racing team, and she has always dreamt of being a racer herself, but you know, this being early 19th century, you can imagine the abundant sexism involved in this era of history, so she is going to prove everybody wrong and become the winner and one of the best female racers out there. She actually ended up being my favorite character out of the whole bunch. I really, I don't know, her plight and her goals and everything, struck a chord with me, and I wanted her to succeed because I was rooting for her and I understood the prejudice that she was going up against. So yeah, instantly she became my favorite. You also have the character of Al Leon, this European racecar driver, Playboy, who is part of the family that owns one of the big auto corporations, BNW, I see what you did there, and he's trying to win the race to prove to his family that he should be the heir to the company, you know, to advance further and further. You also have the character of Dylan Olden, this top racer for GM who was part of the legendary outlaw gang, the 1003, and now is participating in the race. You also have the character of TJ, or as he's known, crazy TJ, another member of the legendary 1003 outlaw gang, but now he is contracted by Iron Motor Company to participate in the Transamerica wild race. We also have characters like Tristan the Bad, Chase the Bad, and Richard Reisman along other side characters. So as you can see, the cast is pretty diverse. You've got Japanese characters, Chinese, European, North American, North American Indian, all that stuff, and it really does help in the long run for this series to have such a diverse crowd to see the different walks of life, if you will. I was rooting for a ton of these characters, and you grow to like them as the episodes continue on and on. The animation in Apari Ranman is straight up solid. I loved it almost all the way through. There were a couple highs and lows here and there, but for the most part, I would say 95% of the series is really well animated. They were able to incorporate 3D elements, especially when it comes to the races and all that stuff, that I didn't mind that much. I'm not a fan of 3D in anime. I've never been a fan of it. And here it wasn't so in your face, and when the cars are racing, you don't mind it that much. Obviously, you've got to suspend your disbelief with some of the stuff that they're doing, specifically Apari and the monstrosity that he's building. He basically took his little boat engine thing and kitbashed the heck out of it with European car parts and just did monster car that is steam powered and he's using to race against the other drivers. There's always going to be plot points and character beats that you've seen before. It's nothing new. With a show like this and it being a racing series, you're going to have the same dynamics of them starting the race. Somebody's going to cheat, somebody's going to sabotage something so that others can't cross a checkpoint or stuff like that. But it's the fun setting. It's the great characters that really do set it apart. One of the cool things about Apari Hanban, in my honest opinion, is how nice and pretty and distinct the character designs are. No matter who it is in this series, you easily recognize them from afar and you remember about their character traits. It all lends itself to a very visually striking and pleasing series. You might not care about the actual race, but as you start watching the series, you care deeply about the characters. That is the heart and soul in my opinion for Apari Hanban. You've got characters with different convictions, different motives to win the cash prize, but are they able to succeed in the phase of adversity once antagonistic forces come to play? Another great point in this series is Apari's journey. He is kind of aloof and socially awkward. You see his character progression throughout the series, and I do think that by the end of it, the story, even though some would say it does have a somewhat predictable ending, you still care about Apari's journey. It goes all the way towards a satisfying conclusion, and you see his progression and you see him coming out of his shell and accepting friendship and being aware of the world around him, but still not backing down on his ambitions and wanting to go further and do cooler, bigger, better stuff. So I really did appreciate that fact, that you didn't compromise on any character quirk. You just made it bigger and better, but he still learned a few things along the way. And when stuff happens to the cast, I felt it, and I was emotional because I knew it wasn't based on a manga, so I didn't have that to fall back to you. I couldn't go back and say, oh well, obviously this is going to happen because it's based on a manga and it follows this route. No, it's an original story, so you don't really know what's going to happen. And I like that, I like that suspense, and I thought they did a really good job of that. So yeah, overall, Apari Hanuman, I absolutely loved it. Wonderful, fantastic character designs, really cool motivations, a story that, well, does have some tired old tropes, it's able to refresh itself by having such kooky characters, wonderful color palette, and just a fun action racing gunslinger western series is a mishmash of things that I like and easily one of my favorite things of 2020. What about you guys? Have you seen Apari Hanuman? Let me know in the comment section down below. And if you haven't, let me know in the comment section down below what is your favorite racing or western type anime or manga. Very interested in finding out. So that is that. Thank you everybody for tuning in. Thank you for liking, commenting, subscribing, and being a part of a We Can Geek them. I truly do appreciate it. If you're new here to the channel, I do content similar to this where I go over anime, manga, and comics. If you do subscribe, be sure to hit the bell icon so you know when new videos pop up. 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S.A.R.U.'s crane, the S.A.R.'s crane Antigone Antigone is a large non-migratory crane found in parts of the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Australia. The tallest of the flying birds, standing at a height of up to 1.8 m 5 ft 11 in they are a conspicuous species of open wetlands in South Asia, seasonally flooded Dipterocart forests in Southeast Asia, and Eucalyptus-dominated Woodlands and Gratslands in Australia. The S.A.R.'s crane is easily distinguished from other cranes in the region by the overall great color and the contrasting redhead and upper neck. They forage on marshes and shallow wetlands for roots, tubers, insects, crustaceans and small vertebrate prey. Like other cranes, they form long-lasting pair bonds and maintain territories within which they perform territorial and courtship displays that include loud trumpeting, leaps and dance-like movements. In India they are considered symbols of marital fidelity, believed to make for life and pine the loss of their mates even to the point of starving to death. The main breeding season is during the rainy season, when the pair build an enormous nest island a circular platform of reeds and grasses nearly 2 m in diameter and high enough to stay above the shallow water surrounding it. S.A.R.'s crane numbers have declined greatly in the last century and it has been suggested that the current population is a tenth or less perhaps 2.5% of the numbers that existed in the 1850s. The stronghold of the species is in India, where it is traditionally revered and lives in agricultural lands in close proximity to humans. Elsewhere, the species has been extirpated in many parts of its former range.


What's up Falcons Nation this is Brandon Copeland aka Professor Cope and you are now tuning into the hot seat because this is hot Lana, so we're gonna bring some of your favorite players to the hot chair We're gonna ask them some questions put them under some pressure See if they crack, but most importantly we're gonna have some fun Brandon Copeland. Let's tune in baby. Let's do that. We got Maddie ice in the hot seat So this is the hot seat okay red, but we'll we'll photoshop. It's pretty hot out here You know I'm saying yeah exactly exactly so first and foremost man. How you doing? I'm good What training camp is this for you right now? This is training camp number 14 number 14 14 of them right here a flowery branch Can you tell me? What is the difference in mindset between training camp 14 and rookie year training camp? Yeah, I think The level of anxiousness was so much higher year one right you just you don't know what to expect And so I think you know there's there's a level of comfort that comes with playing for a long time of pacing yourself to get to week one knowing when to push knowing when to recover knowing when to do those things, but I Think you're always still a little bit excited. You're one over 14. You still feel that like beginning of the season energy and Yeah, that's what keeps me coming back. Love it. Love it. Love it man. Last year We couldn't have Falcons nation in the stands. What are you excited about this year with them being back in full effect? Man just the environment, you know the energy in the stadium I think I strive off that you know playing last year Well, we were so lucky to be able to play and get it in, you know, and I'm thankful for that It just wasn't the same, you know, and so I'm looking forward to You know getting back in the stand or getting back in the stadium this year having fans in the stands and feeling that energy You know from from them as we make plays and you know get into crucial situations in the game You know, it just makes it so much better. Love it. Love it. Love it and final question for you I know you got to go busy schedule and you you're starting to freeze my hot seat So I got to you know speed this thing up, but um So Boston College Some good times good memories. I'm assuming. Yeah, yeah, great. Y'all rival was We played Notre Dame. It was battle of the Catholic schools. It was a little bit I think they were more our rival. We weren't as much of their rival Syracuse is probably the most Gotcha. So let's say You see your did you say senior? I did say you're okay. So senior year Matt Ryan facing off against Syracuse now Brandon Copeland is the starting safety for Syracuse, right? Are you staying up the whole night before the game? Are you waking up in cold sweats because you just thinking about how this guy's over the fall over the field like Ed Reed what are you doing? It's probably not a good night's sleep, huh? You remind me of Ed Reed a lot of every That's that is I had a dollar every time I got that, you know I've played against both and yeah, you remind me a lot of it Yeah, I'm sleeping good. I feel like I'm sleeping good that night to be honest, but but I always sleep good So it's nothing against you. It's like I'm I'm getting I'm perfect for the day on that answer Everybody's sleeping good around me. I gotta I gotta hit somebody on the way into the locker room today But nah, man, Maddie ice appreciate you sitting in the hot seat. You got it, man I'm looking forward to balling with you this year. It'll be a lot of fun


Any review of Snakes in the Ganga by Rajiv Malhotra and Vijaya Viswanathan might as well start with the final sentence, quote, India has indeed been sold out by its very own elites. It is a conclusion that the authors would have done well to remember throughout the book. Whether criticizing Harvard, MIT, Ashoka, critical race theory, equality labs, or a dozen other institutions and social movements, the same names keep coming up. Indian names. The names of top Indian industrialists and the top Indian intellectuals they fund. On the one hand, it's easy to blame Harvard for its neocolonial interventions in Indian governance. On the other hand, when Harvard is mostly taking Indian money and using its fund Indian intellectuals to train Indian postgraduate researchers, who can blame them? Yes, there's some Saudi and Chinese money thrown into the mix, but most of the money and almost all the legitimacy comes from the Indians. Malhotra tends to excuse the Indian billionaires for being well-meaning rubes who don't really understand the woke intellectual world they're funding, but surely the cat's out of the bag by now. The cat was out of the bag 20 years ago when Malhotra himself first started warning them. If India's billionaire industrialists don't know by now, it's either because they don't want to know or because they silently embrace, if not the agendas, then at least the people their money is going to fund. Stakes in the Ganga is an important book or more accurately a trilogy of books. One book on critical race theory, one on the Harvard Nexus and a final one on the Indian institutional partners. It's a book that every politically conscious Indian should read. Think of it not as a forbidding doorstopper, but as a three-in-one compendium, each book can be read separately and in fact I encourage you to start with the last one and make your way to the beginning. But whatever order you take them in, I guarantee you'll end up reading all three. Highly recommended.


And back to the mind and still-development story, the Minister, Olaam-e-Lekwa-Degbite, has launched two aircraft for geographical survey across the country at the Nnamdi-Azikiway International Airport in Abuja. He says the project is a part of World Bank mineral sector support for economic diversification project which was open for beating and the South African company Excalibur Motor Physics wanted. The minister says the main aim of acquiring the special aircraft are to acquire data on the mineral deposits in Nigeria through geophysical measurements. A program to acquire data on the minerals in Nigeria. This is a very basic method of acquiring data that is through this geophysical measurement. These aircraft, the special aircraft, they've got equipment on them that monitors certain parameters on the ground. They have to do when it's dry and of course the recordings in this equipment of course are now translated onto computers that will interpret them. This gives us data that can be utilized. That's what this is for. It's part of the World Bank program that is headquartered in the main diver in the ministry. The minister says his ministry went through a lot of security processes, including passing through the Nigerian air force and the office of the national security advisor who eventually gave the go ahead. Everybody will see them when they look up like this. For that reason, for the last three months we've done a lot of extensive sensitization. We've gone to all the states where they will be working. We've spoken with the governors. The governors are also helping us with their people, the local government chairmen, to disseminate the information. So when people see them they don't panic, oh this is what they are talking about. We've gone a step further. We have jingles in local languages that is saying this is going to happen and people should not panic. This project now they've attached an air force officer to it. We got permission from the chief of air staff and he has attached an officer to this. So they will not take off without the knowledge of the security operators of this country. So and of course they will guide where they go. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Today we're going to talk about the Smirnoff Seltzer, it's called the Red, White, and Berry Edition. Hey there, NJRoot22.com here with another low carb, low carb, keto, carnival, and my little booze review. And it's going to be a quick one today. This came out this summer, it's the Smirnoff Zero Sugar Cherry Citrus and Blue Raspberry Seltzer. This is just like our favorite, our favorite Seltzer is the Smirnoff because it hits all the right points on all the different features that we find important. It's low sugar, it's zero sugar and one gram of carbs and it's affordable. I think I ended up paying about $28 a case for this and I don't feel like crap. And it's the best for us but this is nothing different. It's exactly the same as the Smirnoff, I guess they call it the Spike Sparkling Seltzer or the Hard Seltzer, whatever they're calling it these days. It's pretty much preference and taste, we think it tastes fine. This is probably our second favorite flavor out of all of them. I think number one is Pina Colada, this might be either two or three. I like the Rose Apple, it's a nice, nice flavor and then they get progressively worse but we water our stuff down anyway. So we recommend this, they have a gimmicky can that changes color too, just like I guess Coors Light was invented that way back in the day where it turns from white to blue. That's when it's ready to drink, like you can't figure it out or put it on ice. But there is something we're trying out soon as soon as we can find it. It's the Smirnoff 8%. I can't wait to try that. It's also zero sugar but it's 8% so it's almost twice the alcohol as this and the cans are twice as big as well. So you can almost get four times as much alcohol per, I guess can. So that's it. Like this video, hit the bell and the subscribe and all that stuff and I'll see you next time.


Hello, everyone. And thank you for joining us today. My name is Shauna Sadler. I'm the Engagement Manager of the Americas and Caribbean with Orchid. And joining me today is my colleague, Brian Minahan, who is the Engagement Lead for Oceana and Hong Kong with Orchid. So for the agenda today, first I'm going to talk about Orchid and give a high level overview of Orchid and the new Member Portal that we're building. Then Brian will speak specifically to the Member Portal and demonstrate the new Affiliation Manager tool. We're happy to receive your questions. Please feel free to email us. Next question. Next slide, please. Orchid's vision is a world where all who participate in research, scholarship and innovation are uniquely identified and connected to their contributions and affiliations across time, disciplines and borders. So in short, Orchid is part of an infrastructure to organize scholarly activities. We provide a unique ID number to people. The first ID then connects to the researchers' scholarly activities to their Orchid record. The person can be anywhere in the world and working in any discipline. Next slide, please. Orchid provides three services. First, we issue the unique ID number to people, usually researchers. Second, we provide a record so people can document their research activities. And third, Orchid provides a technical infrastructure to share this data with other systems in the scholarly communication ecosystem. Orchid is free for individuals to use as a global nonprofit organization. Orchid is sustained by a membership structure for organizations interested in using the Orchid registry. Next slide, please. So here's an overview of Orchid and our metrics as of March 2021. We have issued just under 11 million Orchid IDs and almost, and we have almost 1200 members and 23 consortia around the world. Next slide, please. To make Orchid easy and free for researchers, Orchid can be a challenge for organizations, for member organizations, connecting their local systems to Orchid's member API. Next slide, please. Orchid has 23 consortia, and we encourage new members to join consortia because we've found members have an enhanced Orchid experience being part of a community of practice. We've created a new portal for consortia members. This portal will have two new tools which will help bring added value to consortial membership. The tools are affiliation manager and this is what Brian's going to demonstrate today. So the affiliation manager is a tool that will enable administrative staff to add an update of employment and education affiliation data on researchers Orchid records. And the second tool in the new portal is a data dashboard, and this data dashboard will provide the metrics on their performance of your Orchid integration of your organization. Next slide, please. So today we're going to focus on affiliation manager. So here's an example from Brian's Orchid record where Orchid use the affiliation manager tool to write to the employment section of Brian's record. So some of the key features here. We decided on the terminology to be used in this record to enable consistency across the records of all of our staff. So at university, some of your staff may choose different naming conventions and various levels of the institution for their Orchid record. Some may choose to affiliate themselves to the faculty of departmental level or even their lab. When your researchers apply for grants or submit manuscripts, if they log in with the Orchid ID, this employment affiliation will be submitted with their information. So your organization may want to pre-populate the employment field with your preferred naming convention. Your researchers will appreciate your help reducing their administrative burden. Pass it over to Brian now. Thanks, Shawna. Hello everyone. Very happy to show off the Orchid member portal and specifically the affiliation manager. This is what the interface looks like. It's meant to enable institutions to add employment and education easily to their communities Orchid records. As you can see here, this is quite a bit different from the familiar Orchid view. When you log in, this is what you see. There's some explanation and some documentation on this homepage. So let's have a look at how it works. For now, we're just adding affiliations using this tool. We provide an easy CSV file, which you can populate with your local research community's information. And you can merely upload that to the member portal. You don't need to know API calls. You don't have to have XML templates or anything like that. So the workflow is more or less like an API interaction, but the member portal simplifies it through its user interface. Again, you have this CSV file, which you populate with your local research information. You can upload that to the member portal. Once you do that, very importantly, you can download another CSV file with the emails and authorization links that you can then send out to your community. Your community can your community can then authenticate to Orchid. You will collect those permissions and then send them back to the member portal so that you have a nice administrative interface of what your research community is doing and how they've interacted with Orchid. Before we start, through trial and error, we found that it's very important to talk about organization identifiers. You may hear in the, when Orchid is mentioned that it's a persistent identifier. It's a persistent identifier for individuals, but how persistent identifiers interact and how they're useful is part of the way Orchid is successful. So here is a persistent identifier for organizations. You can see this grid ID. And this is absolutely necessary for you to use the member portal through this interface. So here's a look at the CSV template that you'd use using the member portal. There are a few required fields. Notice that this organization identifier is one of those. That's, if you look at column K, that is the wringled ID that this institution is using. And you can use either a grid a wringled or ROR ID that from the previous slide. The optional fields allow you to edit your affiliations at a later date. So back to the portal. This is the CSV populated. And you can see that you have a familiar upload from a local file pop up. And then if we click import affiliations from CSV. This is how you upload them into the member portal. You can only have one person that you want to add an affiliation to. There's also that add affiliation button to do one individual affiliation at a time. So now we've uploaded our affiliation CSV. So go to the right and click download permission links. And you can see this is what that would look like a CSV with a column of emails of individual emails and individual links for each and every email. What you would then do is curate this to mail out to your community. Here's an example of what a email from the member portal might look like. We offer a email template, which is also customizable. But most importantly, as you can see, it has that individual link within the email. The researcher then clicks on the authorization link. And the familiar orchid pop up appears either if they have an existing orchid ID or need to register for a new one. When the researcher clicks authorized. This is what you see at the top in the member portal. So you have a success message in the member portal. The researcher actually sees this once they authenticate. And then let's say if they do deny authentication. This is the denial message at the bottom. Okay. So, as we can see this is the familiar orchid adding my employment to my work at record via the member portal. So you can see what that looks like. And the pardon me. Down below you can see what that looks like in the member portal so you have the emails, you have the orchid ID, all of the employment details and if you look at the right it's very important that you can, you are able to edit or delete those affiliations.  And again, you can see this is my orchid record. So my two roles at orchid have been asserted via the working member portal, as compared to a previous employment that I added by myself. And that affiliation takes about five minutes to communicate with the orchid registry. As Shauna said, I just want to reiterate that when your researchers apply for funding or submit manuscripts via the orchid ID, their employment is captured in those authentications so this is part of the benefit of having your researchers have their affiliations current and updated. I just like to thank all of my colleagues at orchid that made this happen. It's been a fun project but it's been a lot of work. And I also want to acknowledge our kind pilot and beta test institutions who provided invaluable feedback to us so that we could make this exciting tool come about. And again, thank you very much. This is Shauna and eyes contact. We'd love to hear from you if you have any questions about that. And thank you very much. Thanks everybody.


Now, I am going to talk about lab migration. So, do you want to migrate your lab to Scilab? We will help you. State your experiments, you code them in Scilab.  We will also host them on our website, so that you can give a link for that in your resume or we can get your problem solved by experts, Scilab experts who may be your colleagues in some other college. We have already migrated more than 60 labs. Let me click this. Once again, it takes us to Scilab.in. On the left hand side, you see this lab migration project and completed labs that has been clicked. So, here are all the labs. Let me zoom it a little bit. It has come here below. Here are the examples. So, as a matter of fact, at this point we have 73 labs that have been migrated. Now, if you click this, let us say control of electric drive. So, once again it looks the same. It looks same as before. They are like the textbook companion. If I click this, I will get the pdf file. If I open it, here it is. So, this is done by Priyan Patel from this college. As we go down, you can actually see the experiments. Speed torque, if I click this, it takes you to whatever. So, here are all the problem statement, solution and so on. So, let me close this. Let me come here. Let me come here. Let me go back. So, these 73 labs that have already been migrated may solve all your problems. You can immediately migrate your lab. In case, a small fraction of your lab is not covered, go and add them and propose and you get a certificate. You get Hondrarium and more importantly, you can include this in your resume.  Of course, if I zoom it slightly less, you will see both of them in the same page. So, here are labs in progress. So, there are 26 labs in progress. I encourage you to participate in this, migrate your labs and also help others migrate their labs to SILAP. We are also improving SILAP toolboxes. We can call all Octave right now from SILAP. We have a great optimization toolbox already available. I am going to show some links. We have developed a signal processing toolbox, image processing toolbox. We are working on a control systems toolbox. We have made a lot of progress in identification toolbox and also from SILAP to see how does one go. We have a toolbox on that. Where are they available? Available as SILAP atoms. Optimization toolbox is already released. So, if I click this, it will take you here. This is available on atoms.SILAP.org page and here it is Fosse optimization toolbox. You can see that this has been downloaded 6500 times out of which 5500 are for this version, probably about 1000 for previous versions. So, I would encourage you to download, try it. Other toolboxes to be released shortly. The code is available here. By the way, how did I get this here? By clicking Fosse SILAP toolbox. Remember that we are in SILAP.in, Fosse SILAP toolbox which is what I clicked. If I click it, I get this. You can actually access them and where is the code available? The code is available here. Let me click this. It is in that page. So, if I click this, you will get the code for Fosse optimization toolbox. It says that installation instructions, installation instructions, documentation, example and so on. Here is the source code of this toolbox. So, let us proceed. Here is a paper that we wrote. It appeared in an IEEE control conference. Let us move ahead. We want your participation to add more functions to SILAP toolboxes. We are also creating an XCOS cloud. Let me give you the link for that. So, this is in XCOS.Fosse.in. Commonly used blogs. For example, as I told you, it is still under progress. You can click this. You can move things. You can connect them. You can simulate them and so on. I would want you to explore this. Help us improve it. You may be very good in coding. Please join us. You may have lots of XCOS code. You want to try them out? Try them out. Find the bugs in Formas. We will be very happy to have you as our partners. We have SILAP forums to answer your doubts. If you have a general doubt, so let us click this Fosse forum. It takes you to the page where SILAP questions are there. You can actually go to any of them. For example, moving average. So, there is a question and there is an answer and so on. Remember, I have still not logged in. I have not logged in. In other words, to view the previously posed questions, login is not required. But if you want to post a question, then you have to register and login. If I click this, if I say ask a question, it will come and say login. And if you have not registered, you have to register. That is only if you want to ask a question or to answer a question posed by somebody else, you have to register login. So, this is Fosse forum. This is for general doubts. And there are lots of examples. There are lots of questions already asked and answered. Some of them may be useful to you. Our experts are here to answer your questions. And of course, if lot of people start answering questions posed by their colleagues in other colleges, then we can have instantaneous response. That is the beauty of, once again, open source forums. What if you have a question on Spokane Tutorial? You are going through, let us say, for example, matrix operations. At 3 minute 35 seconds, you had a question. What was shown in the Spokane Tutorial? It did not work. Or you wanted something related to what is shown at 3 minute 35 seconds. So, how do you do that? So, for that, we have a Spokane Tutorial forum. Let me click this. So, you can come here. So, here you can actually search. Let me go to Sylab, for example. Now, these questions. So, the Fosse is Sylab. What is the tutorial general? This is installing. X course getting started and so on. For every question, at what minute? So, for example, I told you 3 minute 35 seconds means, you will say between 3 and 4. You will choose that. Second, you will say between 30 and 40 second. You will ask a question and maybe somebody will answer. Here are the previously posed questions and answers. Here is something Sylab question asked between 16 and 17. So, here is somebody who has asked this question. It is not working. And here is the answer. So, I would like you to post your doubts and also answer the doubts posed by other people. Sylab runs on many systems. This is our Sylab implementation on the world's lowest cost tablet Akash. You can see the same 3D plot coming here. That means, you can make Sylab run on almost any machine. Here is Sylab on our 10000 rupee laptop, which has lots of amazing software already installed. You can see that when I click this here, I get software organized as college level software, school level software and so on. In college level software, programming environment, MATLAB like software, chemical process simulation and so on. Under this, you have so many things. Octave, R, Sylab and so on. So, Sylab comes with this machine also. And this laptop is in the market now. How do you find out more about this? From my LinkedIn post. Here is a write up of this. There is a video that explains the research that went behind this work. And this brochure gives the specs of this laptop. And then the website of our laptop is here. You can get more about it over here. Finally, we will come to Fawcie, free and open source software for education. Here is a logo for Fawcie. Here is a logo for spoken tutorial. What do we do in Fawcie? We promote Fawcie in a big way. What does Fawcie stand for? Free and open source software. Here is a link. If you go through this, you will see that we have lots of things. You can go to Sylab dot in through this. Python here, eSim here. eSim is for electronic circuit design. Osdag is for steel structure design. D. W. Sim is an amazing chemical process simulation software. Openform is computational fluid dynamic software. OpenModelica is for solving a collection of differential algebraic equations, differential equations, algebraic equations or combinations of these, war tools and so on. There are lots of nice things here. All of them are open source. We are also beginning to add spoken tutorials on R. In many of them we have textbook companions, lab migration and actually many more nice things. I would like you to go through this, explore this page and find something very useful and I would also encourage you to join us. To conclude, I would encourage you to learn Sylab. Also contribute to it. Visit the websites I have shown. Use other fonts that we promote. Partner with us. Use commercial software only when absolutely required. Our project, as I mentioned, has been funded by MHRD through two missions, National Mission on Education through ICT and funded Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teacher's and Teaching. We are very grateful to MHRD for funding our activities and for helping us pay students and students honorarium. We have paid honorarium to thousands of students who participated in this activity without the contribution of students and faculty members from across the country. We could not have achieved so much. In fact, I would like to take this opportunity to thank our contributors. I would like to thank you for staying with me. It has turned out to be a longish lecture. I hope you do not mind it. Thanks for joining. Goodbye and jai hind.


Good evening. This is Libby Bonesteel and thank you for joining us for the Montpelier Rocksbury Public Schools informational hearing on February 28, 2022. It looks as if we have one pen in the audience so you have our prime time to ask any questions as we go through our slides tonight because we have a limited audience and we have also done this presentation in previous board meetings through December and January. It's a very similar presentation some numbers have changed just because the state has changed some numbers on us. So, if you'd like a more detailed explanation about certain things then we certainly we certainly can go back and watch those presentations or ask any questions. As we are now I'm going to start us off again I'm Libby I'm the superintendent of schools, talking about our theory of growth and some parts of this budget that match and support our theory of growth. And then I'm going to hand it over to Grant Geisler who will be going through the actual budget expenditure page, talking about revenues and in our education tax and that kind of more detailed piece with the financials. So I will get us started we will move fast through some of these slides. I can get us moving there we go. Because most of these are on our website already. And we've gone through it in previous presentations. So, just thinking about the enrollment projections where we are right now. Our enrollment looks pretty good. For the most part our decrease will be happening over the next few years at Union Elementary School. You this tracks to our birth date, birth data so it could be off, it could be right on we're not sure. There may be a piece of a little bit of a covert effect in our US data, because kindergarten is not a mandatory grade level for students. Some people may have kept their, their kindergarten kiddo home this year we're not real positive about what that is or could look like, as far as kindergarten numbers this year, and last year. So, we're just tracking to birth data that of course could change over time because you have five years to change that from when a child is born to when they enter kindergarten, but it does look like there's a, there's a pretty big decrease happening at Union Elementary just looking at it briefly from the time I started the superintendent here it's 100 students left less at Union Elementary than when I started four years ago. The mainstream middle school looks to be keeping about where it is with a slight decrease over the next few years. We have an increase happening at the high school very large increase it's a, it's done the direct opposite from Union Elementary School since I started as superintendent we've added about 100 students. So that's that we knew that was going to happen based on our enrollments going through the kindergarten through eighth grade range, and that will bubble out in the next couple years that will hit a capacity capacity max in the next couple years and then start to decrease very slowly at the school. But that is where we're seeing the biggest change. And at Roxbury Elementary School, our enrollment seems to be very similar to what it is, our class sizes are getting very small at Union Elementary School because of that decrease in enrollment and that does have some sort of impact on our budget. Again, those are Roxbury numbers which looked to be very similar across years. Grant, did you want to talk about the enrollment projection from this slide or I kind of just spoke to it really. Yeah, I just think the top line is overall enrollment, and you can see that probably last year is where we had our high water mark, and so we are going to probably slide it down a little bit. As you mentioned, in the near term UES is going down, the high school is still going up, but overall we're pretty much leveling out or dropping slightly. So we'd like to spend a minute talking about the MRPS theory of growth, otherwise known as the four pillars. It's our theory that once we have these four pieces put in place and really functioning at a high level, then our learners will have limitless futures. We'll be able to create that for them. We're not there yet, and that's really important to state at the outset that these four pieces are incredibly hard to master and become proficient at, but we're working incredibly hard and diligently on designing systems that truly work for students to ensure all learners reach their highest level of capacity. So those four, those four theories are built on these pillars collective responsibility and collaborative practices, essentially is saying that teaching isn't a really complicated endeavor and learning is even more complex and that we can't do that single-handedly. No one teacher knows everything we need to know about students and learning in order to engage students to their highest capacity, so we need to do it together. We'll see this in action in professional learning communities across our district where, for instance, our first grade team will do their planning together. They will have the same curriculum they're working off of. They'll be using common formative assessments so they can see how students are doing comparatively across the grade level and they can also learn from each other. So if one teacher's students really knocked it out of the park on an assessment, another teacher can say, hey, how did you teach that in order to get your kids learning at that level? And they can have that conversation really build capacity internally. So we're working very much on collective responsibility. It's not one person's responsibility to increase student learning, it's all of our responsibility. And then the next pillar is formalized essential learning. We've actually made quite huge strides in the area of math and literacy and science around our formalized essential learning. And our essential learning is the piece that kids have to know, not the nice to know. This is what when we get this rolling, we will guarantee all students will be proficient in. And so there's a lot there. There's a lot that we have to get rid of because we're not saying that students will be proficient in everything. We're saying that we are going to promise and guarantee that students are proficient in these essential learnings. Then the timely system to enrich, intervene and remediate. This is actually where we're putting a lot of financial dollars in for the coming year. Because we have a lot of building to do in this area in terms of human resources to ensure that we have enough human resources in this area to truly work with students, particularly those who are more challenged at learning our essential, our skills. And so that idea of intervening, remediate, we want to make sure that our system is matching what our students need and that we have the human capacity in order to do it. Then high quality instruction in every classroom. It's our goal that every one of our staff knows what high quality instruction looks like we have a common vision for that and we have strategies to, to build off of to ensure that every student receives high quality instruction we don't want to leave anything up to chance. So we think about these theories of growth and where you'll see this in our budget. The under the pillar timely system to enrich intervene and remediate we are putting a lot of budgetary dollars in this area. Our community liaison was actually hired this past year using federal dollars that's being moved into the local budget. And our community liaison primarily responsibility is for the students were really struggling to get to school, because we can't do anything with a student who's not here. So their caseload is relatively small, but incredibly intense and they work very closely with families and supporting families and trying to eliminate the barriers of getting those students to school. In addition, you'll see an additional board certified behavior analyst otherwise known as a BCBA, we have one currently on staff and we're looking to hire another. One of the things that we have recognized this year coming back from last year's pandemic years that's many of our students are struggling with how to how to behave how to act in a community. And so looking at increasing our capacity to really understand those behaviors and how we can make plans to adjust and teach skills so that kids can be more successful in the classroom. And with their peers. We have a need to increase our English language teacher FTE we are lucky enough to be welcoming several families from Afghanistan and our English language needs have increased significantly over this past year. So we're increasing our English language services. Several academic interventionists added to this budget and increasing guidance and a guidance counselor at us. In order to help with students with mental health needs at Union Elementary School. And then we're looking at alternative programming for students who have significant mental health needs. And those two new teacher positions one would be an SMS and one would be at us. We have high quality instruction in every classroom. We're looking to increase our world language at the high school. We have students who have a significant increase interest in world languages at the high school and we want to make sure that we can serve that interest. So we're looking to increase our fine arts opportunities at the high school. We're also looking to increase or actually strategizing focus more of district wide professional development and several and several areas mainly around literacy restorative practices and math. And for a more detailed look about that staffing and where the funding sources are come from you can flip through the next few slides. But we really went through most of that. We're looking at Essar for instance and just see some of these buzzwords in here. Essar is government or federal funding dollars that are coming from the government. As a result of COVID-19 when you're looking at the local budget that is really what our voters are voting on is the local budget.  Which yeah you can come right on over here. Okay, good evening everybody. We're probably going to continue with this kind of an expedited version of the presentation so as far as expenses are concerned this first slide is just a quick overview. I'm going to talk about the just the general budget adding in some money for a capital plan, then that gives you your total budget minus non tax revenues, which are things like state grants federal grants. For example, the COVID money that that Libby just mentioned, whenever you subtract out those non tax revenues you get your education spending. You get by the number of pupils and you get your spending for pupil which is a key tax factor. The next several slides are going to track to that total budget of $27.2 million.  There's some money in there for paying for career center tuition. And most of these other categories are pretty much self explanatory. When you see buildings and grounds at the top left corner that includes things like utilities. It includes the capital fund as well. Those two slides just give you the breakout by program and then the comments show in detail what kind of is driving the increases or decreases, and I'm not going to read everything to you but a lot of this would be described because it relates to staffing. And for example in general education that increased about 4.4%. A lot of that is because of ESSA funded positions, the board certified behavior analysts, the two interventionists, and one of the thrive teachers, the English language learner increase the fine arts increase the world language increase, we've talked about all those things. In general ed we also had some savings though we had a reduction of a couple of positions. We had a reduction in the amount that we need to pay for grandparented tuition at Roxbury. And we had a decrease in pre K tuition which is good news and bad news. The good news is it's less money in the budget, but the bad news is it's less kids which we're hoping doesn't mean it's going to be less kids moving forward we're hoping this is a temporary that some folks have decided because of COVID, not to send their kids out for pre K and that we will recover from that. But like general education you can look at the other programs, and you can see the comments there that describe the increases and decreases. I'm not going to go through all these career center tuition looks like a huge increase percentage wise but not dollar wise. We have some more kids that are attending career centers and that is based on a six semester or three year averaged for admission. Another one where there's a big percentage but the dollar amount isn't huge. Student support is a very large percentage and is a pretty big number but that's because of some staffing that we've done. Staff support pretty big increase percentage wise a lot of that is hardware. If you if you're thinking about one to one computing those devices are only good for about four years. And so you have to continue every year to buy new devices for every kindergarten or every fifth grader every ninth grader. So we're, we believe that this budget will get us to the point where we can sustain without major increases each year. The next slide is the second page of program expenses. Looking at this there's no huge numbers on this one. Not even percentages I guess safety is a pretty big percentage but it's just $7,000 it's just realigning some, some funds from maybe what we might have captured is building in the grounds which now is showing under safety because it's a lot of these are safety annual safety inspections and repairs so we wanted to put it in the right place. Probably good enough for now if there's questions at the end we can circle back the revenues. Whenever I talked about local or non tax revenues, non tax revenues are every single thing on this list except for those first two lines, education spending grant and the tech on behalf grant. Those are tax revenues. Everything else is a non tax revenue.  One thing to point out is our special ed block grant and intensive revenues. Those are now going to just be block grant there's not two separate revenues. It's a change in the model for special ed reimbursement. We lost a little bit of funding there due to what's referred to as act 173. But we think we're going to be okay, especially at extraordinary revenues is based on extraordinary costs and that's based on our requirements so that might go up and if so our expenses would go up as well. Just some other acronyms on here that that might throw you off idea be is individuals with disabilities education assistance I believe is what it refers to but basically it's federal special ed reimbursement CFP has consolidated federal program that's title one and title to money. ESSER that Libby mentioned before is elementary and secondary school emergency relief is part of the COVID response. So we are proposing the use of about 336,000 are overall ESSER three allotment was, I believe over $2 million so we didn't presume that we knew every answer as far as how we were going to use ESSER three money. So this is really still a bit open for discussion and for community feedback. IEP Medicaid and EPSDT those are both Medicaid sourced revenues tuition is for students who are paying or families or districts that are sending their kids to our schools that those numbers are not going up much we hope they will rebound after COVID kind of plays out. So once carry forward that is related to the fact that we have a healthy surplus, and we want to use some of those funds to manage and keep our tax rate relatively level. I'll move on once again we can come back to these. I mentioned the ESSER public engagement and and the plan. This is a website that you can look at for our public plan. And I briefly talked about the capital plan. So back in 19 we started with a capital plan. It is a separate article that you're going to see on the ballot. It is already included in our tax rate calculations though so it's not an additional whenever I show you the tax rates. This is built in. We are shifting now that basically our capital plan in the future is going to for several years is is going to be just for window replacements at Union Elementary and Main Street Middle School. That is a huge project. And so we will collect money for several years and we will replace windows when it makes sense when when there's an economy of scale. We may do for for example a fourth of the windows one year and then wait for a while do another fourth. It depends on on what we can plan out. We still have two projects though separate from those windows that are in the capital plan. The Union Auditorium renovation which we've had some money set aside for a few years. And at Main Street a sustainability lab renovation which we're trying to right now sell in on what we want that sustainability lab learning space to look like. In FY 23 we have $260,000 in a capital fund which once again that money if it's not used in one year rolls over whereas our general fund money does not. So this is an opportunity to fund larger projects and save money over a period of time and hopefully avoid the requirement to perhaps bond for for one of these projects. These next two slides just show some pictures of the projects that are in the capital plan. And now we're going to get into the tax rates. I'm not going to go through the terminology but I do refer to different terms on this next slide and it might be worthwhile for you to be able to go back to this slide to be able to understand what those terms mean. So this is that there for your reference. So here's the tax rate calculation and the mathematical symbols are on here and everything just to go through it. So we start with our general budget of almost 27 million. We add in our capital plan which I just talked about. So two things then equal our total budget or our total expense budget. We then subtract out those non tax revenues and part of the reason for an increase in that area is those ESSER funds that we refer to. That gives you your education spending, which is a factor used in tax rate calculations. So what I mean by that is your general budget really doesn't impact your your tax rates. What impacts your tax rates is your education spending. So if you have a large budget but you have a big increase in non tax revenues, your education spending could actually go down. When you have your education spending you divide that by your number of pupils. In this case, our pupil count went down slightly. The impact from a tax rate perspective perspective is is about a penny and a half negative impact to the tax rate. What that gives you is your spending per pupil. So you divide by the property dollar yield which is a statewide factor and it's highlighted because it's not an official number because it has to be set by law. But you can see it's a huge increase from last year. This is the highest increase in property dollar yield that I've seen since they went to this model for calculating taxes. You can see that it's a 21 to 25 cent favorable impact to the tax rate. So this is what allowed us to be able to make room in our budget for some of the really cool things that we're planning to do without impacting the tax rate. So when you divide the property dollar yield you get your equalized residential tax rate and you can see there the equalized residential tax rate then is decreased by a merger incentive when we had the merger incentive but we no longer have it. We had an eight cent incentive that dropped by two cents every year and in FY 23 there is no incentive. That loss of a two cent incentive is about 2.3 cents on the tax rate. Then what we have is what we call the adjusted equalized tax rate and you can see in 21 there were two separate equalized tax rates one from Montpelier one for Roxbury. But now they are the same. The reason for that was there was a limit on how quickly Roxbury's tax rate could decrease. But now there is one equalized residential rate and you can see we're going from 1.498 down to just 1.394 so a drop of like 10 cents in the tax rate before you factor in the common level of appraisal. In that common level of appraisal this year is 80.76 from Montpelier 94.09 for Roxbury. That has a very large impact as far as the tax rate is concerned you can see that box shows it's a negative impact of seven and a half cents from Montpelier 11.8 cents for Roxbury. So if it weren't for that large increase in the dollar yield this drop in CLA would be painful. And then you have just your bottom line residential tax rate with CLA factored in. You can see in Montpelier it's 1.727 that's a drop of about 4.8 cents from FY 22. And in Roxbury it's 1.482 which is an increase of 1.6 cents. And then just looking at the impact for every $100,000 in Montpelier the tax your tax rate would drop or you're not your tax rate but your extra tax bill would drop by $48 in Roxbury forever 100,000. Your tax bill would go up $16 perhaps less of an impact if you receive income sensitivity which about two thirds of the folks do. This just shows the trend of tax rates from before the merger till now or until FY 23. You can see without the impact of CLA which we have no control over Montpelier's tax rate is down about 13 and a half cents from before the merger. And in Roxbury even when you factor in the impact of CLA it's still 23 cents lower than before the merger. So slides just to show the outlook in the summary outlook reappraisals are occurring in both Montpelier and Roxbury. When that occurs those CLA those CLA percentages will go up which has a favorable tax impact tax rate impact. Equalize pupil count. There is a new waiting study that's being done there's going to be a change in waiting. Change will probably decrease our count. For example, right now the factor for poverty is 1.13 it could be 2% or it could be 200% or more next year which it would increase our account but it would increase others even more. So the net result might be that our pupil count might drop a bit. So that would be a negative impact to the tax rate. We already talked about enrollment. We can throw in staffing as well. Our enrollment is pretty stable starting to drop. MHS is still climbing for the next few years. UES is decreasing for the next few years. We have and will continue to look at opportunities to shift resources or to sustain some of these federally funded positions that we've added that we think are more permanent in nature. Lastly, the merger incentive I mentioned FY23 is the last year that we have to absorb a drop in that incentive. We're at zero for FY23 so we no longer have to worry about that decreasing each year. And then just to summarize the availability of these federal funds and that high dollar yield allowed us to add resources without significantly raising tax rates. Which means that some of these percentages that you see like a 4.5 increase in the total budget of 4% increase in ed spending and 5% increase in spending for pupil. Those percentages are a little higher than we're used to but because of those other factors, you can see the tax rates in Montpelier are actually dropping and in Roxbury it's an increase but it's a very small increase of 1.1% increase. And I believe that's all I have so I will turn it back over to Libby and if there are questions we will try to answer. Okay, we have Chris Chris you have any questions for us. I was not going to do a video. It's like red nose. Right Williams is here also. I know I just was I just went in and I don't have any questions and I hope you didn't have to do that whole presentation.  However, we had to do this presentation regardless of whether you just kept us honest. That's all. So if there aren't any questions great red has heard this presentation what six times now so if you have questions read I'm happy to answer but other than that I think we'll be all set and right I'll see you in a little bit. Yeah, I do have one question. I was just looking at like the answer funds and some of the, you know, the added supports for behavioral and social emotional stuff all that is really important. I just want I see it. I know that Roxbury is very small but I wonder if any of that that it functions essentially as a resource to the small Roxbury community, particularly the BCBA position. There it does kind of crossover. That's that's I kind of assume but I wasn't sure. Yeah, the BCBA positions are our district positions. So anytime you see district that means that services all four schools. Okay, and our BCBA certainly services a couple students out in Roxbury right now needs just the kids that need it most. Yeah, however that affects this whole school system. Yep. Okay. Yeah so in all the social emotional health and you know Nick Connor also our community liaison also is a district wide position and certainly works with families out in Roxbury as well. Yeah, I've talked to him. Yeah, that's what I thought but good to just be sure and you know the way that things. I often wonder how the professional learning groups function and how this things going remotely works for the staff that's in Roxbury and yeah it's actually a benefit. If I were queen, I, and I can't do this because of bus schedules, the days of the day the school day is different in Roxbury than it is at Montpelier, and it's, and it's based on bus needs, busing needs, which sometimes I wish we could have the similar school in Union Elementary School and Roxbury Village School so then, and plus because the FTEs are different and things like that. Yeah, but ideally we'd have the same schedule so that professional learning communities could be one virtually right so the one to teacher at Roxbury would be one with first grade and second grade team, virtually, when they, it's just not possible to do that with the school schedule, but for all the professional learning opportunities, then Roxbury and us like as if it's an elementary school opportunity, they're together, either virtually or in person depending on how the learning is happening. We also ensure. We haven't done it this year but in past years that let's say Christian Cordemont is the person who does our math professional learning and Christian will do days out in Roxbury and days at Union. So the Union teachers travel to Roxbury and the Roxbury teachers travel to Union. Yeah, nice. Yeah, I think that the all the remote capabilities that we've come up with in the last couple years. I think I've provided a lot of access in a lot of ways. It certainly makes things a little easier and that we're just, we always had the access to it we just never did it. Exchange behavior so it's helped. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Well, thank you. No problem. I'll see you in a bit. Bye bye. Recording stopped.


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