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Ms Mimi Wong, Director, Association of World Citizens Hong Kong China

Chairman and all who attend the forum today. I am Mimi Wong.

Director of Association of World Citizens Hong Kong China

I am also a transgender person

Today is the International Day of Transgender Remembrance

It is for remembrance of all transgender people who directly or indirectly died of transphobism

Hatred towards transgender people is all over the world, not limited to Hong Kong

It is not a surprise that so many people are against us today

People who are against us almost fill the hall

This is commonplace throughout the world

The main question here is whether the Government acknowledges our existence

and act like other Governments to improve our extremely marginalized identity

I dress in black today to mourn their death

Due to people's ignorance, many of them were sacrificed to death

In Hong Kong, even if we have surgery, our legal gender is still our birth sex

Amendment to the sex entry of the HKID is only a disguise

Everyday when I enter the female bathroom

I am in breach of the Public Convenience (Conduct and Behavior) Regulation section 7

Ironically, if I act according to my legal gender and use the Men's Room

Everytime I am kicked out by the men inside with no exception

I also know that there is a transwoman lecturer in HKU who has had no surgery

The faculty and students all know about this

She has been using the Ladies' in the past years with no one woman complaining

On the other hand, if one is a transman,

whether he has had surgery or not, and if he acts according to the regulation and uses the Ladies'

The women inside will be scared and run away

A transman entering the Ladies' is truly a case of a man intruding into the woman's space

Transphobic people is definitely inverting the reality. Is their objective trying to scare all women in the world?

Before the W's judgment, many post-operative transsexual friends used their ID cards to marry

W told the truth but had to wait 5 years to get married

Now there is a court case. Transgender people could legally marry. But what about other areas?

There are no court cases. There is no gender recognition. So every entry to the washroom is an offence.

The Hong Kong Sex Culture Society published a book recently.

They said the W's judgment was a mistake. Do they mean that we need to marry a woman to avoid same sex marriage?

If we got raped and the culprit got acquitted because a man could not rape a man, would you just chuckle and say we deserve, we deserve, we deserve?

The Hong Kong Government should no longer procrastinate and get into endless consultations

Opposing views are the same everywhere in the world like tsunami

This way, gender recognition will see no light out of the tunnel

For more infomation >> 立法會公聽會 21/10 黃欣琴 ; Legco Public Hearing 21 10 Mimi Wong - Duration: 3:15.

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Joesh Khunkhun - Public Salon: Racism & Youth - Duration: 6:00.

You are going to witness something we have never attempted before

tonight the youngest

Presenter ever will speak. He just turned 12 two days ago

Not yet officially a teenager

But he is wise beyond his years recently. He won a multi school speaking contest

And he has a message that all of us need to hear and a fresh perspective that could just come from one who only recently

Defined his years in double digits

Please welcome Joesh Khunkhun

The manager told her to move

She refused he told her to leave

She refused on that cold winter night in November

1946 at Roseland theatre Nova Scotia the manager told her to leave

The reason she was black her name was Viola Desmond

She was charged a large fine for challenging racial segregation, which she refused to pay

Viola Desmond's case was the most impactful case of racial discrimination in Canadian history

Here is Viola Desmond an ordinary citizen who stood up against racism and inequality

Viola Desmond's courage and perseverance against the government helped start a modern civil rights movement in Canada

Many people do not know that

prior to the Canadian civil rights movement people of color could be legally discriminated against my

grandfather's came to Canada in the

1950s they were both Sikh men with long beards and they both were turbans

because of how they looked they refused good jobs basic freedoms and even

Education for example my father's father my bubbeh ji

Who was a truck driver was not allowed to cross the lion's gate bridge because of racial discrimination?

Then my mother's father my Nana ji who was an educated?

Was forced to cut off his beard and take off his turban if he wanted to teach in schools in Alberta then

something amazing happened

In

1960 Canada passed the Bill of Rights a statement of all legal equality for all people

In Canada how did this all change my life as a young brown skinned boy?

Who was honestly never directly experienced racism?

I myself didn't understand in people

the importance of people like Viola Desmond or the struggles of my grandparents until now if it wasn't for them I

Would not have the freedom and rights as I do today. However. We still need champions of equality because racism

Still exists today

some modern-day examples with the recent rise of white supremacy in Charlottesville black lives matter movement in Ontario and Aboriginal

inequality all across Canada I

Just don't understand

Why we humans have to put other people down to feel good about ourselves?

To me as a young twelve-year-old boy. This is truly

Unnatural I remember a time back in grade one where I didn't even know what race was I?

Remember a time seeing children from all different cultures

Religions and backgrounds and the only thing I thought about was what games we can play together

And the only thing I wanted to ask them was do you want to play?

This is true for all children including my younger brother Jaever, Jaever once asked me if his friend Scotty was Chinese

Here's a picture of Scotty

We children do not see inequality we do not have racist thoughts

these are all taught to us by

Adults it is vital that we as humans come together and learn to love each other for who we are in

Fact racism doesn't even exist in the animal kingdom at all

Kids and nonhumans have friends from all different cultures religions and backgrounds

We all respect each other for our differences and our similarities

Viola Desmond my grandfather's and countless others never gave up the fight for equality not just for themselves

but for all Canadians neither should we

Next year Viola Desmond will be the first African Canadian to be on Bank of Canada currency

so every time you see a $10 bill you will see the face of Viola Desmond a

Woman who not only said no to the manager at the movie theater, but also said no to racial discrimination in Canada

Let's all remember her powerful message. We need it now more than ever given

What's happening around the world we must continue to speak up and take a stand against racism?

To help Canada become a better country for all there are positive examples

Everywhere such as the amazing Sam Sullivan mr.

Sullivan created a program where people can go to and learn how to say hello in other languages

Now I ask you to join me in an equally powerful word. Thank you

Thank you for giving me a young 12 year old boy a chance to try to make a positive difference

Let's do it together. I will say thank you in a different language and the slide will appear on the screen

Please repeat it after me

Merci

Shukriya

Xie xie, thank you

For more infomation >> Joesh Khunkhun - Public Salon: Racism & Youth - Duration: 6:00.

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Public Pre-K Offered to More Alabama Students - Duration: 1:46.

For more infomation >> Public Pre-K Offered to More Alabama Students - Duration: 1:46.

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Should the public know when the government is taking public property? - Duration: 2:43.

- Most people would never imagine being forced

to sell their private property against their own will,

but the government makes this exact scenario happen

in the name of the greater public good.

The 5th amendment of the US Constitution

allows private property to be taken for public use

so long as just compensation is given.

The 14th amendment reaffirms this

and adds that due process of law

must be used in order for government to take property.

While public use was initially limited

to government functions that would benefit the public,

such as a new water or railway system,

the interpretation of what public use means

has expanded greatly over time.

For example, take the case

of Kelo versus City of New London, Connecticut.

Susette Kelo and her neighbors were told

that they had to move out of their homes

and find a new place to live

because the government would be using eminent domain

to forcefully buy their property from them.

The property was not going to be used

to build a school or public building,

but instead was intended to benefit

the expansion of Pfizer, a private drug company.

Susette challenged this taking in court

and ultimately lost in a five to four decision

before the US Supreme Court.

In their majority opinion, the five justices stated

that economic development was a good enough reason

to use eminent domain.

Government would be allowed to take people's property

in order to sell it off to other companies

that could increase the tax base.

This decision rightly outraged people across the country

which led to the Kelo Effect;

44 states passed laws or constitutional amendments

to increase private property protections

against the use of eminent domain.

Utah was one of those states.

The legislature has passed numerous laws since 2006,

enacting some strict rules for eminent domain.

But abuse can still happen.

Just last year in Salt Lake City,

the state lost a court case when they tried

to use eminent domain to take a person's land

to swap property with Rocky Mountain Power.

Where else and how often is this happening in Utah?

Do people know they have a right

to challenge eminent domain in court?

And is government only using eminent domain when it should?

All of these questions are difficult to answer

without easy to access information

regarding where, when, and how eminent domain

is being used in Utah.

In order to ensure the law is being fairly used

across the state, this information needs

to be made public.

Our property rights depend on it.

For Libertas Institute, I'm Nichelle Aiden.

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For more infomation >> Should the public know when the government is taking public property? - Duration: 2:43.

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I TAUGHT MY DOG TO SING BTS!!! (KPOP IN PUBLIC) - Duration: 11:20.

Hiya Q squad and welcome back to a new toight adventure today we got access to

a car yeah. Should be fun. uh-huh and you know what happens when we get access to a car

sucks! I have to pee so bad

that's the worst thing about New York City can't

find parking anywhere this is why we don't drive it is nice and warm in here

It's freezing out there!

we are here at Mendez boxing gym

I'm here with Frankie, the owner right here. He's kind of enough to let me use

the facility. I'm kind of nervous because I used to box. but I haven't done it a

long time. So we'll see how it goes

We'll go easy on you

Alright yeah go easy on me

Agh Im so tired!

Get some music up in here!

I got you baby!

Okey

all right I'll take anybody out here who wants it

who wants to go right now

yo I didn't even touch you

so after a good boxing work out

there is only one thing that is truly acceptable to do to recover

What did you say?

I wouldn't consider that a work up. You got your butt beat

Whoa

consider getting knocked the F out mean getting your ass beat then yeah I guess that's a

yeah! that's one way to get beat

I consider that a win because it's new

life experiences

oh excuse me

this is not easy carrying these.

He spilled my milk

I know

I'm so sorry

I can't believe you did that.

I made it 99% of the way there.

YUM

MINE!

We are here at Dominique Ansel bakery I'm probably saying that wrong but it's one

of the most popular dessert places in New York City

What did we get?

milk and cookie shot and frozen s'mores

Cheers!

Is it that good that you're choking to death

Ohmygawd! oooooo

SO GOOD

There's ice cream in here!

DOPE!

That's really good.

You want to try it with the milk inside?

what do you do you drink it and eat at the same time I will not do that there

When i did that i choked so im not the best source

I will not do that then!

guys are in New York you know get this frozen s'mores. nice and mushy like a

marshmallow outside but then when you bite into it there's like some

chocolatey crunch going on in there and then there's a cold

its just like *beautiful note*

right so now we're gonna go uptown to a little store that we all love.

kpop heaven! Who doesn't love kpop heaven what are we gonna do there

We'll see!

we are here in kpop heaven and what are we doing here yeah what is this dope

We are going to shop for some stuff...

She brought her notebook and everything look at that!

So what is this notebook for?

I just need you to [sign]

just so i could show my friends that i saw you.

OH YEAH YEAH SURE!

okay you see yesterday I was talking to my friend yesterday about you

I show them the video it was really funny because they're like

how come he is doing that?!

Oh haha they are like Whats wrong with that guy?!

I'm Nicole.

Can you sing something for me?

I'm kind of shy actually.

OH nooo don't be shy please please!

Alright, I dont know. Im kind of shy.

BOOMBAYAH YA YA BOOMBAYAH

Whats that good for you?

It was so embarrassing!

She's suffering secondhand embarrassment

secondhand embarrassment as you all do too

What's your favorite group?

I'll have to say BTS and then Shinee.

OH YOU SHINEE?

OHHHHH YEAH WOOO

WOW Shinee love right here!

Damn okey.

Who do you like from Shinee?

Minho!

She loves when Minho takes off his shirt.

Oh doesnt everyone?!

We are friends!!! *Intense fangirling*

YES! I found my people.

What about BTS?

umm RM. RM

YES!. Wow a lot of, some RM love to nobody knows my bias y'all will never know I

You are your own bias. I'm my own bias ?!

Whats your bias?

Umm Taehyung.

He's so adorable. V is such a fairy!

But he's got that deep voice too!

Yeah deep voice love yeah I know all about it

She died!

So what should we do?

oh okey some Likey likey

Me likey likey likey

this is not secondhand cringes is actually first

hand cringe because they're like literally right next time alright I'm

sorry I had to put you guys through that do they have it oh no we're looking for

records like vinyl we were here because Edith just got a new record player she's

so hype she wanted her first album to be BTS but they don't have it in kpop

heaven so Edith is calling Amazon right now. Book store.

call number two Kinokuniya books it's just like a photo book because I would

definitely get it. yeah. it's a nude photo book. all naked pictures in there

hI do you have the BTS vinyl records

it's a k-pop group. okay. alright thank you. boo.

aw Edith is still trying to find out if

other places have these is BTS record but for me you know what I'm gonna pick

up some BTS nails yes I ran out

I ran out.

She's checking.

Our last hope!

Zamn Daddy! J-Hope looking dope!

OKey J-HOPE!

oh yeah I think that would look cool I saw a body wave there got a body wave

going on let's see it oh oh

inappropriate body waves are inappropriate especially in public.

Alright so we got no luck getting a BTS record so we're just gonna have to get

lots of BTS nails to make us feel better oh yeah. And a mask! that should be enough

you broke the store!

woops! AGH

Q Park breaking the store!

Look at this. all for my BTS nails though

it's worth it got to break some eggs and we're gonna have some hot BTS nails all

right let's go

You said there's something weird that I need to take a look at? yeah

it's just really uncomfortable all right show us!

But why?!

Look at the goats butt!

what? ooooo that ass though!

YO that goat is HELLA THICC! hella thicc

We are home!

unfortunately Edith is still sad because we still don't have a BTS record. she's actually

been sad the entire way home

Babes, it's okey. Sorry we didnt get the BTS record.

awww

Knubby!

We have to cheer mommy up. ok? ok so this is what we gotta do we gotta sing some BTS so I'm gonna

I'm gonna teach you some BTS songs ok you ready

Very Good!

Oh That's very good!

aww Knubby!

Knubby you see the power of singing!!

Thats a good boy!

Knubby you sounded so beautiful!

He sounded great!

thank you guys for coming with us on our third toight adventure we had a lot of

fun. Not everything worked out, but that's life you know sometimes not everything's

gonna work out but what you got to do is just sing it off brush it off and smile

tomorrow will be a better day. Edith didn't get BTS record but

Why you gotta remind me! </3

We also wanted to announce

some winners like we promised. 1st is Do not talk to me. or donut talk to me you sound delicious but not in

You sound delicious! but not in a weird way

I dont think there's anyway of saying that without being weird!

okey! sorry but I like your name

Second one is Dedicated Army TaeKookie.

yeah you guys win cuz you guys were super fast for being the

first commenter on some of our videos yeah thank you for the support for those

of you that have not won there gonna be plenty of opportunities to win all you

got to do is subscribe turn on post notifications like this video and

comment down below your bias and your second favorite group! thank you guys Q squad

for being so dope y'all showing so much love really really appreciate you guys

we love you guys cue squad is here no I'm saying we here

now we here but thank you so much. Knubby appreciate you guys too

Adios churritos! ADIOS churritos!

That was toight!

For more infomation >> I TAUGHT MY DOG TO SING BTS!!! (KPOP IN PUBLIC) - Duration: 11:20.

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Jennifer Lawrence: 'I Become Incredibly Rude' to Avoid Fan Encounters in Public - Duration: 3:23.

For more infomation >> Jennifer Lawrence: 'I Become Incredibly Rude' to Avoid Fan Encounters in Public - Duration: 3:23.

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Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim challenges public campaign funding law - Duration: 0:18.

For more infomation >> Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim challenges public campaign funding law - Duration: 0:18.

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"Public nuisance" proposal for medical marijuana rejected in Fergus County - Duration: 2:03.

For more infomation >> "Public nuisance" proposal for medical marijuana rejected in Fergus County - Duration: 2:03.

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Sciences Po - PRENDRE LA PAROLE EN PUBLIC - Cyril Delhay - Duration: 4:39.

-The second challenge is to prepare your body for public speaking.

In order to drive a car,

you are taught to control several things before starting it,

how far the seat is from the steering wheel, the mirrors,

the gears, the seatbelt.

Similarly, in order to speak correctly in public,

and before doing so, you should pay attention to four things.

Firstly, feel how anchored you are in your body

and on the ground.

Your body weight should be equally distributed between both feet.

Your knees should be slightly bent

so they cannot get locked in in hyperextension.

Secondly, focus on your verticality.

In other words, feel the connection of your body from head to toe,

whether you are standing or sitting.

Thirdly, make sure your eyes

move rhythmically from one fixed point to another.

It helps work on your internal stability

while remaining receptive to what is happening in the audience.

Fourthly, your breathing should be costo-diaphragmatic.

In other words, your diaphragm,

the muscle connected to your pulmonary alveoli,

comes down toward your abdomen when you inhale,

so the lungs can spread out downwards.

Very often, under the influence of stress,

we do the exact opposite. We tighten our floating ribs,

which prevents the diaphragm from going down.

Our lungs remain upwards,

where their volume is 70% inferior to what it could be.

You should also think of a personal warm-up a few minutes long

for your posture and your voice.

An athlete would never get started without warming up first.

A boxer does not walk up unprepared on the ring.

A sprinter does not start running without warming up their leg muscles.

The same goes for public speaking.

The warm-up will be shorter, but remains unavoidable.

To be a good public speaker, you must keep in mind

that everything is connected.

If you are sufficiently aware of your body,

you can be present for the audience and improve on your charisma.

A costo-diaphragmatic breathing helps you regulate your stress.

With this type of breathing, and since air is fuel for your voice,

you will be comfortable using your vocal organ,

and play on the tone or intensity of your voice whenever you want.

With this type of breathing, and since air is fuel for your voice,

you will be comfortable using your vocal organ

and play on the tone or intensity of your voice whenever you want.

Make sure that these essential elements are in place.

You will find, for each point mentioned in this unit,

an exercise to help you improve.

The body learns or relearns slowly but surely.

Five minutes a day for two weeks are usually enough.

Once you have mastered this step,

the challenge is to cultivate a personal art or style.

To cultivate your style, you must know yourself,

be aware of your body, and work on your message,

what you want to tell other people and how you want to tell them.

It can be polished, questioned and nurtured

through what you do, what you read, what you live, who you meet

throughout your life.

The oratory is a living art.

Keep up the good work!

For more infomation >> Sciences Po - PRENDRE LA PAROLE EN PUBLIC - Cyril Delhay - Duration: 4:39.

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Alexandria Public Schools Kindergarten Program - Duration: 4:52.

(piano music)

- Our kindergarten program here in Alexandria

is special because we work so hard

to meet the needs of our students.

- You know, we have our district mission statement

and that's to achieve educational excellence

and inspire a life-long passion for learning.

- You don't know, do I have to sign them up

for school, do I have to fill out paperwork,

what do I have to do?

But the district does a good job of letting you know,

and they definitely make it very simple parents.

I like that.

- I have seen my son develop just leaps and bounds.

He thinks that coming to school and learning

is like the coolest thing.

- We were very impressed with how the,

to us, big town handled our child not as just a number

but as somebody who made a difference

and who mattered to them.

- I think the teachers make this district great

because they care about the kids and what I've seen

is that they really make things personalized

for each kid.

- We personalize learning for our students

by using a lot of assessment data and finding out

exactly where individual students are.

- Not just a one size fits all, we have

a very individualized program for each student

and that's in math and in reading.

- If I know there's something that they really have

a huge passion for, we turn that into the types of writing

they do, the types of books they read,

stories they write, everything just goes hand in hand

with what they have a love for.

- For example I know that my class this year

really loves dinosaurs, so I can take that theme

of dinosaurs and I can incorporate our learning

so that it fits with that dinosaur theme.

- There could be seven our eight different reading levels

in one classroom that would be getting

individualized reading instruction as well as math

and writing.

- Learning sometimes takes place in a large group setting,

but the real power in our learning and teaching

in kindergarten is when students work individually

with teachers or when they work in small groups.

- We know that kindergartners just are not built

to sit for long hours.

- We are moving constantly in kindergarten.

In kindergarten, learning is constantly active.

We are learning with hands-on manipulatives,

we are learning through play, and whether we're learning

social skills or we are learning academics

we are constantly keeping the kids moving.

- They work with each other in games from math

to writing to reading.

As long as we can keep them moving and interacting

with items and having them transfer that concrete learning

to the abstract, we're doing our job.

- So we try to instill in our kids that growth mindset,

that yep, I'm not there yet, but I with hard work

and perseverance, I will get there.

- Technology we use through our smart board

which is an interactive board that's like a computer

and the kids get to come up and touch and move things

and so we use that every day in our classroom.

- We use iPads in our classroom to practice skills

in an engaging, hands-on way.

Students are able to read books on the iPads,

they're able to practice reading and math skills.

- They have the opportunity to also go to the big lab

where they learn how to use a mouse,

they learn how to type on the keyboard.

- We also use technology to communicate with parents.

- One of my children, the teacher has an app

that he had all of us parents download

and then we can easily every day communicate with him.

So it's nice to know on a daily basis what's happening.

- And that really helps build communication

between parents and children,

if the parents see what a child has been doing

during the day, that stimulates conversation at home

about their school and the activities that they are doing.

- The passion that I have for teaching kindergarten

comes from them, their excitement and the sparkle

that they have when they start realizing

all that they're capable of.

- [Woman] There is no other grade like kindergarten.

- The transformation of kindergartners is amazing.

They come in with all different levels and abilities

and they walk away mathematicians and readers.

- When they leave kindergarten,

they're reading, they're writing sentences,

and they're interacting with peers.

The growth that you see from the beginning

of the school year to the end is the biggest

than in any other grade.

- They come in as young, young children

and they leave as so independent and so grown up.

There's just nothing like them.

- One of the things that makes Alexandria a great place

is our progressive, forward thinking schools

and in addition to that, a community that really

believes in young people and their future.

For more infomation >> Alexandria Public Schools Kindergarten Program - Duration: 4:52.

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Managing public land to protect Florida's water - Duration: 6:01.

The St. Johns River Water Management District

is one of five water management districts in Florida.

Formal water management began in 1947 in response to several deadly hurricanes

with the establishment of flood control projects.

In 1977 the missions and footprints of the water management districts

were expanded to cover the entire state.

The boundaries of the districts are established along drainage basins.

The districts have four core missions: water supply, water quality,

flood control and natural systems.

The St. Johns District, which covers the northeast fifth of Florida, serves as an environmental

regulatory agency of the state of Florida whose work is focused on ensuring a long-term

supply of drinking water, and to protect and restore the health of water bodies across

its 18 counties in northeast and east-central Florida.

As part of its work, the district has fee ownership in about 600,000 acres of public land

and is the lead manager of about 420,000 of those acres.

Purchased to protect water resources, more than 314,000 acres,

or 74 percent, are wetlands.

The other 26 percent of those acres is uplands and include flatwoods, prairie and hardwood.

Staff within the district's Bureau of Land Resources are stationed across eight offices

and field stations to keep them as close as possible to the land they are managing.

About a third of the staff are responsible for managing invasive plants, while the remainder

have traditional land management duties.

Both wetlands and uplands in Florida are fire dependent.

According to the Florida Natural Areas Inventory, half of all the plant communities identified

in Florida require fire for their perpetuation.

Fire management includes maintaining fire lines, preparing for prescribed burns,

conducting the burns themselves and suppressing wildfires.

The district partners with other agencies to fight wildfires

and conduct safe prescribed burns.

To meet these fire demands, the district has assembled the following array

of personnel and equipment.

Maintaining and restoring ecosystems relies on another important tool,

controlling overstory density and species.

Our forest management efforts include overseeing contractors, loggers,

spot checking the inventory to ensure the contractors are performing quality service,

developing harvest plans and preparing sites for replanting.

Proper forest management allows us to provide for healthy ground cover, which ecologically

benefits a host of both plant and animal species.

One of our more difficult challenges is controlling invasive species.

Invasive plants share several characteristics: they grow quickly, propagate easily,

resist native pests and were introduced to the state without the diseases, parasites

and other natural enemies that would help control their growth in their natural settings.

District staff use a variety of methods to control invasive species, including bio-controls,

prescribed burns and herbicide applications.

We continue to look for bio-controls to help reduce costs

but the primary way to control invasive plants is herbicide use.

Land maintenance activities consists of tasks such as maintaining the interior road system

or repairing bridges.

The road systems on district land are not merely for public use or recreation.

Roads are also essential to district work, such as being able to move timber when it's sold,

provide fire management access or other management or restoration activities.

Ninety-eight percent of district land is open to the public.

Portions are closed to public access while undergoing a restoration activity

or when the district doesn't yet have legal access to accommodate the public.

While all public properties allow hiking and wildlife viewing, some properties also allow

fishing, horseback riding and boating.

A few properties feature observation towers, boardwalks and bridges,

group campsites, horse steps, boat ramps and canoe launching.

Sixty-six percent of district property is open for hunting.

A very popular way to use district land is wildlife viewing,

especially at the Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive.

This 11-mile-long drive is a unique way to experience district property,

attracting 40,000 vehicles with 100,000 people every year.

In addition to the lands' water resource protection values and recreation,

these lands are home to many restoration projects.

Restoration projects have included harvesting seeds and planting a variety of native species

to restore areas to a more natural state.

Some of these restoration projects are focused on providing habitat for listed species.

Most of the listed species in Florida are fire dependent.

A lack of fire at the right interval contributes to the decline of some of those species.

The benefits to ecological health, water supply, water quality and flood control

that district lands provide reflect on the overall land management program

and the staff who care for these public lands everyday.

Training, research and following best practices ensure that the St. Johns River Water Management

District properties are under good stewardship.

For more infomation >> Managing public land to protect Florida's water - Duration: 6:01.

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Local man needs public's help in buying wreaths for vet gravesites - Duration: 0:47.

For more infomation >> Local man needs public's help in buying wreaths for vet gravesites - Duration: 0:47.

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Public hearing held in Hartford on insurance dispute - Duration: 2:24.

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Personalized Learning in Marlboro Township Public Schools with ST Math - Duration: 1:47.

In 2017, taking teaching to the next level is really all about

individualizing learning for students. One way that we do that here in

Marlboro Township is the purposeful use of our digital tools.

And ST Math is one of our digital tools that fills an important gap, which other digital tools do not.

We have four pillars in our district: one is the use of digital tools,

the next is using data to drive instruction, the next is providing small group instruction,

and then allowing students to set their own learning goals.

What ST Math does for us is it provides the ability to have students progress

through the station rotation model both independently and in a small group.

And then the data that you can glean from it helps you to drive your instruction,

and you can also pass that information along to kids and have them look at their own data

and then to set their own goals and have them take ownership of their learning.

The reports are valuable because not only does it show us usage

for the children, it shows us how far they've progressed in the standards of

the curriculum. It also helps us to immediately indicate for students:

Did they struggle? Are they stuck at a particular level? The reports pretty much

pick up any deficit or problem that a child might have and helps us to figure

out how we're going to overcome that roadblock.

A program like ST Math allows

us to put children on an individual track and collect data and meet them

where they are, whether it's in an enrichment or remediation type situation.

Marlboro Township Public Schools utilize ST Math to personalize learning for each and every child in the classroom.

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Eric Termuende - Public Salon: - Cost of Connection - Duration: 8:05.

Our next guest has weighed the promise of a digitally connected world and found it wanting

He observes that for many the hopes of a connection to a global community has actually left us annoying

isolation

His work as a consultant with leading-edge companies has led him to insights that are changing the way they do business

But tonight he shares these with us. Please welcome Eric Termuende and I

I want to show you guys something. This is my new phone. I just got a text my brother. Thank You Joel

And this new phone of course doesn't matter the model doesn't matter the company that built it

We do know that it was very expensive right because all new smart phones are very

Expensive and well, it is a phone we do recognize that I'm a millennial and I probably never use the phone itself

I'll probably just text and screen the calls that come in and so when we do see that these phones are new and

They're expensive we often talk about the cost of these devices

But we don't talk about though is the cost of using these devices and in early economics

We learn that the opportunity cost of something is

The is the loss of potential gain from an alternative when the other alternative is chosen so for example if I'm on my phone texting

what am I missing right in front of me and

So when we talk about these phones again?

We talk about the cool things that we do if we ask any of my friends with both the an emojis that I'll send them

with talking pandas and monkeys and cats we talk about the

Conversation killing debates when we can Google something we talk about the ability to find the answer to anything at anytime

Right in our fingertips the answers are right there, and this is all happened in the past 10 years

10 years ago the first iPhone came out 10 years ago life as we knew it fundamentally changed, right?

We could have the ability to Google anything we have calculators cameras we had

Internet we had all of these things right at our fingertips

We didn't have to be tied to a desk we didn't have to do the QWERTY or there the 1 to 9

Keyboard where we type you know 1 button 3 times 2 to the letter K things changed right and so when I started to realize

This honeymoon phase of technology that I think we've got in

I think we don't really realize the implications of it

but if you're as keen and

Observant as I am and you walk down the street from time to time you see hands heads are down. Hands are up

if you're on the bus or

C bus or the Canada Line you'll see headphones in eyes down

Actually in a study of three million drivers last year 88% of them were reported to be using their phone at some point in time

This is incredible stuff this has fundamentally changed our lives

And so this has happened in in such a recent time and so I took it upon myself to really understand how much are people

Using these phones how much are we actually on our devices and while the results vary quite significantly on?

Average we're using our phones three and a half hours a day

53 days a year

over 12 years of our life

on our phone staring at our screen

Wondering what's on here that's not out here. What are we missing?

That's a significant chunk of time, and I wondered - if that's the amount of time that wore on our phone

What are the health implications of this what is that? What does that mean aside from what we're missing aside from?

Parenting where I or kids are on iPads at the dinner table where we're crushing crushing debate and crushing conversation because we can Google something

Where teens and people even my age, maybe even myself we're texting people that aren't even at the dinner table with us

I think this is a problem. I think actually we're more alone than we've ever been before

Statistically the number of people who were reported to be lonely have quadrupled in the last four decades

When Americans were asked how many true confidants?

they had people they could go to when they were struggling people that could trust with anything the most common response was zero and

the number of people who reported zero

had tripled in recent decades

Last year a Harvard Business Review article came out. That said we are more lonely than we've ever been before

Upwards of 40% of corporate America are reporting to be lonely

We don't belong anymore this this is has significant health implications

The cost of being lonely is the equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day

this is real stuff, and it's at our fingertips, and we bought the opportunity to fix it just

Last week my roommate came up to me and he sat me down

He said I want to acknowledge you for the work that you're doing

I've never been sat down in a acknowledge before that was incredible and so I said can we try this too

How does this feel sat him down and acknowledged him for the work that he was doing and the impact it had on us?

Was profound even hugged it out after it was nice

and

so

Well, how this might be a call to put our phones away and shut them off and throw them in the garbage because this is

Terrifying stuff. It's not I get it these things are incredible

We can work remotely we can call and connect with family that we haven't maybe seen in years

We can answer any question in the world we can work earlier and later and wait these aren't sounding like benefits anymore

There's a rally sounding like problems

But what I'm getting at is that the use of our cell phone has fundamentally changed our lives

And the and the kicker is is that the World Economic Forum states that we're now entering the fourth?

Industrial Revolution

One where we're not taking steps forward anymore

We're taking exponential leaps, and if we've seen any of the presentations before mine we can agree that that's true

we know that just last year a zettabyte of information was transferred across the World Wide Web a

zettabyte is the equivalent of two hundred and fifty billion DVDs of information I

Was speaking at a conference last year in Los Angeles with a head of IBM's Watson supercomputer project?

and he said that 90% of the information on the internet today was put there in the past two years and

So while we think that we've plateaued?

while we think that these numbers have flattened out I

Promise you we're just getting started I

Promise you that the technology that we're going to have access to is going to be incredible

And we don't even know that it's coming yet because in the past ten years

We've gone from no iPhone to talking and emojis, and I'm not complaining about that, but I'm complaining about losing some of my friends

I'm complaining about losing some of the connection

I am worried about losing that sense of belonging and friendship that I've got with people that I really care about

I'm worried about them losing me for the same reasons and

While this might seem like a negative talk it might seem like a bit of a warning

They say that it's darkest before dawn and in this case we get to choose when the Sun rises

Because we get to choose to acknowledge people we get to choose to look them in the eye

We get to choose to care about them

We get to choose to ask them. Not just how was your day, but what did you accomplish today?

What are you excited about?

What problems are you looking to solve and how can I help?

How can I acknowledge you for what you've done today the incredible effort that you've put in to keep your busy life complete

to allow you to feel fulfilled and full and

to get the most out of this crazy busy world that we're all trying to navigate and

So while we're so often talking about the cost of the device

I'm stuck wondering. What's the cost of using this device?

What's the cost of connection?

I'll leave it to you to answer that question for yourself

Thank you