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Okay welcome to ANI in the air under the tent and around Baltimore. This is your
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daily podcast of the goings-ons at Arts and Ideas. I have recorded Wondrous
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Wednesday as a separate piece so you can check the listing for that. It's sort of
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a bit of a resolution of the double slit experiment so hope you enjoy that. Today
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we had another JC which was kind of nice. There was some disruption of JC in
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school meeting case that went well. Unfortunately those online couldn't hear
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it because I forgot to actually enter the discord, you know, voice channel so
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that was bad on me. But the other two cases could be heard and that was a mass
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case and a keyboard of mice case. Pretty straightforward, it's nice to see JC
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starting to operate in a more customary fashion. I think the JC team list is
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actually kind of working out well. We had somebody who was taking an online day at
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home so we just kind of fell down the list and somebody else who wanted a sub
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and so some of the team has now completed their service, other members of
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the team have not and it's just all gonna fluctuate just very nicely. So
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everyone gets to serve four times regardless. So I'm pretty happy about
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that. After JC which we had a little bit early in order to accommodate this, there
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was the 16 plus check-in meeting. So basically anyone who is 16 over or will
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be 16 by the start of next school year was asked to come to this meeting and
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where we talked about graduation and flex time and just how everybody was
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feeling and you know so we kind of went around in a circle all the students kind
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of saying what they felt like saying about it. Some expressed you know well a
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number of them kind of had had this notion of both confidence and
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uncertainty about their future and being comfortable with that and I thought that
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was really healthy to hear. Some had plans and others were you know didn't
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and that was fine. Hopefully they can all start they have something they want to
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pursue that they do that and if not they find something to to explore to do to
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give them a notion that yeah they can do whatever they want. We tried to emphasize
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to them that being uncertain with life is basically you know how life goes. Very
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few people have just a complete certainty their whole life. Those who
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have it for a long period of time sometimes crash even harder than those
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who have had to live with uncertainty most of their life. So hopefully we
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conveyed that. We also talked about our graduation process and some detail and
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hopefully those who want to graduate are thinking about that and will let us know
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and I hope they think give some good thought about their advising group. I
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think that's where a lot of the value of the whole process lies is you know the
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student kind of writing their thesis and then really having dialogue and feedback
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with staff and a student maybe more if they ask but at least two people and
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sort of collaborating in this way which I think is really really a nice thing to
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experience and then and so yeah that was there and then at right after that Josh
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had his history class it was about history of rubber which is a which is
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you know kind of a native history to experience. I mean you know a lot of bad
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things happened and so yeah I assume that's that went well and then Phil is
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experimenting with what I consider to be a bad idea but others I think are liking
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it which is basically having a TV out here in the under the tent with a
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Chromecast stuck into it so people can broadcast whatever Chromecast thing can
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broadcast including YouTube so I guess we'll see how that plays out. I love the
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natural sounds but whatever we'll see. I also spent a little bit of time walking
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around our property picking up trash and very little on our property but
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immediately adjacent particularly in the grassy strip in between on Walther you
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know a whole decent bag of trash so that's always fun you know people drive
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by and say thank you um which is uh that's nice maybe we can do more of that
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sometime. Alrighty so I think that's oh yeah I also wanted to mention something
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I forgot about yesterday which is I think there's some pictures coming out
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but in the newsletter perhaps but there was a game of card game being played and
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people were wearing these disposable food serving gloves it was kind of cool
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and and neat so there's that. Alrighty and I will sign off as I watch
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another game of Gaga being played and you all have a good day and talk to you
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all later.