Hello everybody to contribute to these links with geometry and like quantum gravity and whatever like I will I will talk about like some links to category theory and Comology theories With probability on a particular with the information theory, so I will introduce this like So this is the plan so I will like present the characters like what's comology what is information? Then well the trivial path for you because I will talk about observables and probabilities and whatever and then I will try to explain how All this is related to to entropy at the end so In the geometry we like this thing called co homology because the allows us to distinguish the shape the shape of things So you can distinguish a sphere from a torus because there is a hole inside But there is a mathematical way an logic break way of saying that there is a hole there And basically is the fact that these cycles a and b that are drawn there They are not the boundary of anybody so they are like cycles that are no bump no boundaries. So they are like non-trivial cycles and So the notion of shape at the end geometry is related to these co homology theories and that are stable under Deformation so we can change the structure we can I don't know transform this sphere into an ellipsoid But basically in terms of co homology we have the same so now we'll try to define a co homology for information theories So that's that's a purpose So I have to introduce also what's information theory and The idea is like Shannon introducing the 48 this way of measuring measuring how much information? It's in a it's an a random source So you think that like there is a source x that can like transmit and Different messages so those n messages there and then you want to measure how much information is there So you can like arrived to this expression, you know I'm like you some between all the probabilities and then you put the lock of the probabilities and that's a measure of information Why because here if you know in advance the output There is no information and the idea here is communication if you know the output So you don't have to transmit anything you can just hard code the message, you know, like I mean there is nothing to transmit But on the other side if if you are like equally undecided between all the possible outputs So you have to design your communication device to respond equally well to every Output so the idea at the end is related like information is how undecided you are between the outputs and the end that that's related also with the optimal ways of coding, etc So the idea now it's like to try to put the Our problem in the in a setting that accepts like some algebraic approach The idea here is like we will consider like a family of possible observables Like you can think that these are the possible sources of information or maybe in a physical system These are like the possible things that you can measure, etc And then we will put an arrow between two observables if like the observable X Is a refinement of the observable like why in the sense that the Algebra defined by X is like finer than the algebra defined by Y So if you do that you can start making like this kind of graphs You know supposedly there you have like a constant random variable And then you have these random variables that like you scan distinguish one point, you know, so so here by X one I'm just denoting a variable like That takes like certain value on the point one Certain of the value Value on the on the complement But then I think that this value defines a sigma algebra and then I just like don't distinguish between two variables that define the same thing So in the finite case are just partitions So here I have three partitions the partition that distinguish one the partition that distinguish two the partition that distinguish three, but then if you Immediately what you have below is the atomic partition by where this is a very poor example, but easy to understand and Also, I could remove like one observable for example, maybe I'm not able to do the observation X2 And you can take like a physical example for example, this is quantum mechanics So so you take like this momentum these observables that are related to the momentum And then you cannot measure like two of those at the same time because they don't commute but you have this fourth observable and that is compatible with the LXLYL set so At the end you can organize in a graph like that The different refinement relations between your observables Once you have done that Well, we will put a name to that so the name of this will be an information Structure so an information structure will be we say a category that organize all this data So you have in the as objects of these categories are as the vertices of the graph Observables and then as arrows you have this refinement relations And then we will assume that each time that you have a variable X That is a refinement of other two variables You can make this construction that is called the joint variable So the joint variables with what everybody knows but the idea is at the level of Of partition, this is the coarser partition that is finer than the partition of y the partition of set So on x you have this structure and we will see this as a product and in fact is the categorical product And So those are the assumptions that we make on these structures So we have this nice this is a category, you know, so it's just that you have to add here compositions of arrows and also identities, but well essentially that and And now like remember like what is like entropy so entropy of x is a certain like function of The probabilities on the partition x so the natural space where this leave Is in the functions? That goes from probabilities on x to the real numbers So in certain sense is implicit in information theory that we we want fix like one Probability like that we want to play with families of probabilities that possible probabilities that we could define on this partition So I will call this families of probabilities qx So on each x you have a sigma algebra sigma x and you can like consider a certain family Qx that we assume that is parametrized in some way and Then each time you have refinement You I assume that there is a subjective map that goes from Qx to Q y So for example a trivial example is like you can take the the thing we were considering before So omega 1 to 3 these are the partitions that discriminate just one point This is the atomic partition. So all the possible loss on the atomic partition You can say that is the set delta 2 like just like triples of numbers that sum 1 and then if you have If you have a probability on the atomic partition You can always transform that to a probability on this partition just like just some of the two components and Now we define like the last ingredient that is this functional models. So you have your category with variables Then to each variable you can associate a Certain set of probabilities and now I said that I want to consider like all the possible functions That take probabilities and give me real numbers. So in particular like the entropy the entropy of x lives here and So I just defined that here And there is a natural action of conditioning that you can define here So you you have a certain function f That is defined on the probabilities on x and you can condition this way like this was introduced by Shannon, too And you obtain a new of this function So here you have an example so similar and The one of the features is all these can be extended like quite naturally to the quantum case So you could consider a set of omega you take like a finite dimensional complex vector space And then observables are self-tajian operators And then there's also like a kind of notion of refinement because each observable defines the composition of the space in direct sum of Spaces, so if you have a better decomposition that we finds the other you put an arrow, it's so the idea is like the construction is very universal and Well, that's the information part the probability part and now we want to like Go to this algebra and geometry thing So the idea is to define like a homology theory related to these probabilities And well, I won't introduce directly like the construction we did But I will did I will do an analogy because it's easier. So the idea is For example, this is the rank homology the one of the simple example You can you take two functions defined on a open set of the plane and you demand If there is another function like big F such that the gradient of that function gives you these two functions So it's easy to see that there is a necessary condition, you know, because if the function big F is a smooth you know that the cross the cross derivatives like have to be the same and This gives this necessary condition, but then you can ask is this condition sufficient So not always it's not always sufficient But you can prove and well, this is this topology first that if you start shape It's radially convex. Well, yeah, it's like you have this and it's a sufficient condition You will find the big F, but You has a hole comes the plane with So the answer is no and then you can consider a simple example you take these two functions and then well If you assume that there is such F you arrive to a contradiction because well, yeah, the elementary computations So in fact the answer depends of the shape of so if it is like has a hole for example, we know that the answer is no We exploit this fact all the time in complex analysis so Well in algebraic terms we will write this like differently, so we'll just say that we have the continuous functions That to the continuous functions we can apply this operator that is called the gradient So this give give this vector like take is that take it as a vector And then to a vector we can apply this this curl operator that Maps it to to this function And we know that the if we if we take the curl of the gradient that's zero So we know that the image of the gradient is in the kernel of the curl But it's not always Inequality, you know, we just saw that so you consider this This that we call like an exact sequence and then you look at this group So this is the first co homology group of the RAM So the kernel of the curl divided by the image of the gradient So we just saw that if the thing is a star shape This is zero everything that is like the curl of someone Can be written as the gradient of so everything that has cruel equal to zero can be written as the gradient of someone but If you remove the origin so it's not longer zero we have a counter example in fact You can prove that is equal to It's isomorphic to the real numbers power and where n is the number of holes So in here you you capture like the the the shape of the answer depends on the shape of So Well, you can do a general construction. So here I just like will say like there is a black box if you want but So the black box It's called topos co homology But but but the thing is you you you can put here your category of information your probabilities, etc This functional model that we define and well you obtain a general construction for Co homology so at the end like a sequence like this No, it's a sequence like the sequence we had before it's just that the sequence in fact continues So you can define co homology groups as before you just the kernel of this map divided by the image of this one You continue. So what happened if you do this in the own observation in this observation? setting So I will like take again like the kind of simple example So you fix omega one two three these partitions like the atomic partition here and if you follow this like General construction You have a characterization at one recycle now will be defined by three functions. So fx1 fx2 fm That satisfy these equations and others like but the others are not important and and and these equations are equivalent to say for example here we cruel equal to zero so Wouldn't want to be cruel equal to zero when we something more complicated equal to zero But it's just related to these equations and these equations are functional equations. I mean, I just said that these things are functions and But you can like well some people solve functional equations especially in Hungary So they have been doing that for 30 years. So they know like some set of solutions So They already know that if you find an equation like this like this equation We found the solutions to these things are multiples of the entropy. So here I selected a very simple example It's just like the entropy concentrated in two elements, but but well you can do it in general with If you are like patient enough So at the end what's the moral of the story in fact is a fairly general moral that is The information co homology this general thing that we can define from geometry where In a lot of situations fairly general is one dimension. It's a one-dimensional vector space. And in fact, it's like Composed by all these real multiples of the Shannon entropy so used to conclude because well, I don't have a time but the idea Well, the idea is that you we can use this maybe general approach categorical approach to I don't know see probability a little different for example We and this is an idea of Gromov we can we could take like the observables as the primary thing and just like the Omega as a kind of model like a selecting of a base for a vector space But but it Omega is evidently nothing like really inherent to probability because in fact in a lot of situations like Limits of limits of random matrices, whatever you change Omega on the way So so in fact you could think that you have just observables and observables are kind of finite sets with the possible Outputs and then well for this output. You have like all the two outputs that are like living in another observable, etc So you you you make a category of observables and then you try to plug Omega and match all those observables, but the construction is not unique and you could study like different constructions like that, etc Well, maybe the perspective of this is like try to understand Well, what's the geometry behind this allow? How can we like obtain? Like some things useful for probability theory and like the main guess is to obtain like higher information functions like ways of Seeing like how many information is shared between three four like one hundred variables and try to to Like find that in the higher cohomology groups That we can define with the same approach So well, those are the papers like the paper of the Benekam voodoo There is like the introduction of the concept and the paper of Gromov That is this categorical approach to probability to well, thank you So thank you Yes questions, no, if not, let's thank young Pablo again


Hi, I'm Leandro Liborio from the theoretical and computational physics group at the scientific computing department in the science and technology facilities council of the United Kingdom. I am currently in charge of the MUNA spectroscopy computational project where we develop software tools to the interpretation of new experiments and In this talk I would like to present the method that we use for finding the MUNA stop-insight in crystalline materials and also I'd like to briefly discuss the theoretical basis for this method and also to show how this methodology has been implemented in the web-based workflow management system and graphical user interface called the Galaxy. The tools developed by the MUNA spectroscopy computational project are shown here, and in this talk I will focus on PyMUNE suit, which is the tool we use to find the stopping sites of MUNE in crystalline materials. And in particular, I will focus on how to use the implementation of PyMUNE suit in the Galaxy platform. Now, let me start with some of the key or perhaps the key theoretical concept behind the method, which is the use of the unperturbed electrostatic potential of the host material. In this paper here at the bottom there is a detailed description of how the method works and how it is implemented. But here I will focus on the main ideas that differentiate our, let's say, variant of the unperturbed electrostatic potential method from the classical unperturbed electrostatic potential method or UEP method. The classical UEP method scans the electrostatic potential looking for minimals in it, which are associated to the stopping sites of other variables. Our method does, let's say, a further classification of those minima by estimating its attractor side. So if you look at this picture here on the top left, the two minima have a similar values, but the capacity to attract the MUNE is greater for the minima on the left, which makes it more likely to be a potential MUNE stopping site. And we estimate the probability of a given stopping site by calculating the size of the clusters that form around its associated minima. This method is quite efficient for scanning the electrostatic potential in a sample and relies on only one density functional theory simulation for the host material. And we have tested this method in many systems, but we also recommend that the users exercise scientific criteria when analyzing the results from this method. And this method is implemented via a workflow that comprises essentially six steps. Step number one, we run a density functional theory relaxation on the pure host material. Once we have that in a step number two, we populate the interstitial space of the host material with randomly distributed MUNE. And the advantage here is just for visualization purposes, because what we do in reality, what the code does in reality is to generate a set of unit cells, each one of them with a MUNE in a different place. And then we place all of those MUNE structures in folders. And then on each one of these structures, we calculate the electrostatic forces on the MUNE and move the MUNE in a direction that minimizes those those forces. And finally, we create clusters using the relax structures. The size of the clusters and the minimum energy structure in each cluster, we identify potential MUNE stopping sites. And then all of them once all of this was done and assuming that the MUNE does not perturb the hope so sorry, we do all this assuming that the MUNE doesn't perturb the host. But once the MUNE stopping sites were identified, then we perform a further relaxation that is the function of theory relaxation to estimate the host distortion. If that's what we are interested in, I mean if you want to know the way in which the MUNE distorts the sample. And this is essentially the workflow that you use to apply our method to find the stopping sites in crystalline materials. Now, if you want to run the method using its command line version. You first run the corresponding density function of theory simulation using the casted code. This is done outside in a normally in a computer cluster and we can provide access to the SCARF cluster of the scientific computing department to users of the MUNE source. And once you do that, then you sequentially apply these commands to obtain the potential stopping sites and then relax the final structure to estimate the lattice distortion again in a supercomputer. And each of these commands are applied, each of these commands are applied using certain parameters that I will describe in the next slides in the context of MUNE Galaxy. So that was the previous slides show what you have to do if you run your method using the command line tools. But if the method is run in Galaxy, well, then the steps of creating and relaxing the random structures are condensed in one Galaxy tool, which is called PyMUNE suit errors UEP optimize. And then we run another tool for doing the clustering, which is this one in step number four. And then we do the density functional theory simulations just as we did before with casted outside of Galaxy. So, in the next slide, I will describe in more detail each one of the steps in the workflow. And then I will run this workflow in Galaxy. The first step is the relaxation of the pure host material using the casted code. I should say that you can try not relaxing the something just running what we call a single point calculation and see which MUNE stopping site you find and see if that helps you with interpretation of the MUNE experiment but in any case, a geometry relaxation is one of the easiest calculations that you can run using the density functional theory code. I should mention also that we in the scientific computing department can give users of the MUNE source access to the scientific computing department cluster called SCARF and also to the casted code. So we can provide some basic support for casted. It's not difficult. I mean, as I said, the geometry relaxation is one of the standard types of density functional theory simulations. However, if you run copper, like the example that I'm going to show you in the next slide, that's that's easy. But if you run something like this, well, relaxing this may be a little bit more difficult. So, as I said, the example that I'm going to show here is based on copper, but you will probably have to deal with more complex materials, especially if you do superconductors or complex magnetic materials. So when you run a casted relaxation in your system and once the relaxation is finished, then we need just three of the files that casted generates to apply our methodology for finding the MUNE stock inside. Those files are the main casted outpost, which is a dot casted file. The file containing the charge density, which we will use for estimating the electrostatic potential dot then FMT. And then the relaxed structural file for the host, which is the out dot cell file. So that the next step is the creation of the randomly populated neonated structures. And the main parameters for this step are connected to how the meals are distributed in the interstitial spaces of the host material. Essentially, we have three parameters, the Poisson radius, which controls the interatomic distance between the muons that you put on the interstitial spaces. The Vander Waals scale, scaling factor, which controls the atomic distance between the atoms of the host and the muons. There's something called the Gaussian width factor, which controls, in a way, the size of the atomic nuclei. We have a 0.5 default value for this Gaussian width factor and it's normally okay, so it's better to try to change this order to values. If you do this population of muons in random places of the host material, so better not to touch the Gaussian width factors. And the values of these parameters essentially control how many muonated structures are created and how expensive running this system will be and you can see for example if you change the Poisson radius from 0.5 to 0.6 you can see they have more muonated structures here. Once you have all your muonated structures, the next step is to calculate the analytical electrostatic forces on each of the muons in your structures and move the muons in a direction that minimizes the forces on the muons. There are two parameters to choose here when you do the geometry relaxation. One is the maximum number of geometry optimization steps, and the other one is the optimization tolerance to the forces on the muons. Once everything in random relaxation, and which is the most expensive computational from the computational point of view, most expensive calculation in this process. And once everything is relaxed, we have to proceed with the clustering. And for this, for the clustering, the key parameter is the parameter T, which is a sort of cutoff parameters for performing hierarchical clustering in your system. So the larger the T, the larger the cluster form. And then it is possible to save the structural files with the minimum energy of the muonated structures for each cluster, and these are the files that represent the potential stopping site. And then finally, once we relaxed and clustered everything, we can create and save a structural supercell file in the casted format, for example, in the casted structural format for so that we can then later use it to perform a density functional simulation to calculate the distortions associated to the muon and or other properties associated with the muonated material like, I don't know, the magnetic moment at the muon side, the hyperfine coupling constant for muonium if muonium is what we have inside and things like that. And with this, we have all the information necessary to perform this procedure in muon galaxy. And in this link here, you can find a galaxy, muon galaxy, and the tools that you need for finding the muon stopping site using the galaxy platform. And when you click on the link, you will see the main webpage for the materials galaxy. So, as I said, you see the main webpage of materials galaxy. And on the left, the recent list of all the tools available. And when you choose one tool, like the UP optimized tool. In the second partner you will have all the parameters that the tool requires. And the first thing you need to do is you need to load the casted files resulting from the initial custom simulations. And what I'm doing here in this example is you're loading the relaxed structural file, the file with the charge density and the main casted output file. And you can see that on the right side of the panel, you have a history of the process. Every step that you do is collected in this history and you can see when things are running and if they run okay, meaning you load your file properly, then each step of the history becomes green. And then once you loaded all the files, then you need to choose the parameters for performing the creation and relaxation of the muon structure. So, you choose a Poisson radius, the van der Waal scaling factors, and then the optimization parameters and finally you run your tool. And again in the history, you see what happens when things are running. It's impossible to choose a poor format of the file containing all the generated structures, which can be used to assess, let's say, how well we are covering these traditional spaces for the for the host material. Well, like I was on lunch, we need to wait until this relaxation finishes. This is the most expensive part of the process here I'm using a simple example, which will finish soon, but it may take a while, depending on the size of your system. And then, in the history you see a that two new items. Okay. So, we have green, so we have all the relaxed structures and the file containing the position of all the new ones. And the next step is to load all the relaxed, the relaxed structures in the in the classroom to choose the t parameter for hierarchical crusted in. And then a format to the minimum energy structures and the size of the supercell that we will require for running the subsequent density functional theory simulations, and then we run the tool. And here, you can see that the main output file of the process, the main output file of the process. And we chose the characteristics of all the clusters found, you see, this is the clustering report here you found two cluster each cluster has 20 structures you have the minimum and the average energies for those clusters and something that I'd like to point out is that this is a simple here, a simple system here sorry, that runs very fast, but as I mentioned before calculations might take a while, a while, a little bit longer. Because they are running but I mean it doesn't this is not really a problem for you because these calculations are running on a server so you launch them and you can. Just check them periodically to make sure that they are they to check if they convert or not but they don't occupy space on your computer or anything like that. In my experience, the longest that I spent running a relaxation and placid and proceeding galaxy was overnight. And finally, once the process is over. Well, you can save the entire workflow in in galaxy. You can create the workflow save it and then you can visualize it in a in a graphical form and see how the different tools are connected, and which are the parameters that you that you choose for running each one of the tools. And also what easy that you did with each tools and this workflow is easy to share among galaxy users and also to run again. So, for instance, you can include this workflow in a paper to show exactly the process that you use for finding the neon stop insights. So you can create and we will show this in the tutorial you can create what we call a research object with this workflow. So you can create a DOI for that visual object save it in a place like the nodo for example, and then attach it to a paper. And you have a very transparent way of informing your readers of what you, what you did for finding them in stopping sites with our methodology. So that's it. I hope this talk, sorry, gives you a good overview of what our method is and how it works. As I said, we've tested the method in several systems with satisfactory results. And it is a method that can be run from the command line or in the galaxy platform. It requires one external density functional theory simulation. And in the full tutorial online, of which this video is part of, we will include more detailed explanations and also many examples that you can play with. Okay, and I would like to finish by thanking all the people involved in the Mewan spectroscopy computational project and thank you for your attention I hope you find this video and the whole tutorial useful.


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Here at the Dickinson Research Center, we're working with USDA ARS entomologist, Jared Prasifka. We're working with, looking at different methods of dealing with red sunflower seed weevil. Red sunflower seed weevil has been a pretty consistent issue in North and South Dakota, and in South Dakota they're starting to see some insecticide resistance. So this year we started out by trying early in a late season maturing sunflower along with a wide range of planting dates to see if planting date actually has an impact on when that red sunflower seed weevil infiltrates the seed and causes issues with that seed quality. So we're doing some work here and we're trying to see are there other ways, other than insecticides, to deal with this issue.


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five now I'd like to actually see what this actually would have been out of timeless talents would have been at least out of 99 so there you go so we're gonna take all the customer names in the break I can't believe we're doing this guys we're gonna give away some break credit we can man I don't know how quickly it'll sell out again but we definitely can roll it it's a three and a two for five times customer number one gets that break credit one two three four and five five times five times good luck J goings after five times congratulations man boom you just want 824 dollars in break credit which I'll send that out to you right now guys and we could run this back if you guys like appreciate it Jaspis casebricks.com


I want to officially invite us into this moment.  In this community, in this state, in this country, we love to protect and make excuses and give multiple chances on chances to white men, to white patriarchy, to white supremacist energy leadership and we love to weaponize, violate and terrorize black femmes, black transgender folks, black non-binary folks. And I'm here with Kaia because for those who know my truth and my integrity, can you show love that you believe in what I say today? For those who know Kaia Morris and her integrity, can you show love that you believe in what she will say today? And out of protection for our Queen Taisha Green, because every time she speaks, the media is weaponizing her words to lead a story that is supporting whatever it is, Miro is trying to hide. I will let you know right now I have been black for 41 years.  We have the director of the airport that was found guilty for toxic environments, embezzling shit, stealing stuff, yet no audit on the airport, we have no audit on the police station, but yet we want to have an audit for the first time we decided as a city to acknowledge Juneteenth that has been around for decades upon decades upon decades, a woman comes to the city and says we need to do better. The city is saying that racism is a pandemic, it is a national problem, let's do something about it.  You invite us to do positions that you do not have the courage to do. You invite us to do positions that you literally don't have the emotional intelligence or the courage or the ability to center things not for your own growth and movement, but for the collective community. So people want to talk about tax dollars being wasted. I want to talk about how my tax dollars keep going to an individual, a man who is protected by Joan and Samantha and city lawyers. Where is my protection? Where is my protection and people are going to try to tell me. People are going to try to tell us that we need to be disciplined in the way that we speak. There has to be a particular way that you want to manage how I'm supposed to share my rage, my hurt.  Exactly. One, two, three, black people, okay? This is, it's interesting what people want to manage how we can feel when you literally have not walked that narrative. Back in 2017, my partner and I, Josh Meyer, at the time he was the men's basketball coach at St. Mike's, and we did a movement and literally our family paid the price. For what?  For reminding you that I too have a voice that I should speak?  And I'll tell you right now, if we continue to let the mayor and the agents of this city get away for this kind of witch hunt, our lives is on the city.  Do you need my tears? Do you need that in order to wake up something? Listen, wake up something consciously in your soul. Because I'm sick and tired. Kaya's sick and tired. And Baker's sick and tired. Jessica LaPorte's sick and tired. Kathleen's sick and tired. Jada sparks like it is just wild. And news. News. You write articles. You pick titles to make energy. And it has a ripple impact on the quality of our everyday life.  You put them in, but I'm the one who's up sleepless with insomnia. Because people want to call me a criminal. People want to tell me to not bring my out business, my outside business into Vermont, like ignoring the fact that I don't have the capability to own a house in the new North End for almost 10 years and do what I need to do. I really ask you, however you cover this, tell the story that no one has had the courage to tell. This racial war, this racial whiplash on Taisha started three years ago when Mayor Weinberger and the CNA report, let's stop forgetting what has happened in the past to lead us to this moment right now. This is not just last week. This is not just last month. This has been a toxic cycle.  And I'm asking when is the city going to stop catering to the majority, the people who have the money, the elite. I swear if you shift her color, if you shift her tone, if you shift her gender, she would not be unblast here right now.  This dude is a class act. The writing is on the wall. And I'm going to pause because it is so not also fair for me to unearth all my energy as if I don't have my own stuff that I'm worrying about and trying to do outside of this thing called racism that we fail to address as a city of Burlington. And at this point, I'm going to turn it over to my queen. She said a word, did she not? Now for those of you who don't know, I live in Chittenden County because I had to leave Bennington County because there were so many latent experiences of racism and of harassment and of the terrorization of black families here in Vermont that it was not safe for myself or my child or my husband to be in the town that my husband grew up in. And I came here to Burlington, as many do, seeing it as a Mecca where, well, at least there's more diversity so we can find community and that community is beautiful. But it is bleeding out. I've said so many goodbyes. So many goodbyes to some of the most incredible, beautiful, powerful, talented, passionate people who came to this state, invested in this state because they love this state and had to leave this state because it was literally killing them. I'm not telling Ty's story, but she don't live here no more and her beautiful wife is not here anymore and she's not able to do the work that she was doing that filled us with so much joy and pride for me to be able to share with my mother. Oh my gosh, Mom, do you know what we just had in Juneteenth? I can't wait for you to see it next year. Look at this beauty of what's happening here. Look at all of the things that Ty has brought to place for her to say, okay, I can rest a little easier now that my daughter is there because she's in a good place with the mayor in this city. And he's just one. He's just one. Let's not let him off the hook. Let's not let every other municipality where these beautiful black faces have fled from, from also not being questioned on their practices. There is a reason why some folks are literally not here today because they fear retribution in the workplace or in their communities because they don't want fair names in the press to then have targets on their backs. But I came here thinking this would be different and Miro showed his face so hard and so fast. And he was enabled. He was enabled by members of administration. He was enabled by some elected officials who choose to remain silent or are complicit and instead of creating a balance of power where you actually get checked, they acquiesce to his will and his strategy to both virtue signal how great we are, monetize and get profit off of showing our beautiful diversity and then treating us like we are less than human. And I can't stand for it anymore. I too am tired of crying over this. I too am tired of worrying about what this means for our children. I too am tired of what this story does for black people all over the state because if there's anything we learn from my experience is that everyone realized very quickly that if the most powerful black woman in state government at the time was not protected, none of us are. None of us are. None of us are. This fascism is winning and it's under a false political label. And so today we're bringing these voices. Don't let this be the only one.  Or white ally. They can sign up inside, right? They can sign up inside. We have sign ups here available. They are legit so that you can sign up if you would like to speak. There will be other opportunities. There are folks from state government here that will be here listening in. Know that this dialogue is not over. Know that we are not letting down. I said it before to Miro's face. I will say it again to all of you. He must step down. I tell you to do so is an affront. It is an affront to all of the good people of this city. Do not let him continue with this terrorism on our city. Do not do that. Do not do that. Do not let him be a symbol for the rest of the state that we are unprotected because we are standing strong. We have been reflecting on how this feels like a modern-day lynching. This feels like modern-day enslavery. Why? Let's look at the report that was released. The audit report that was done investigating Taisha Green came after the city had done an audit externally already of every department reporting to Mayor Weinberger. That report in early March on March 10th was voted in, accepted by the council, and there was no foul found across the board for all departments. Fast forward a week later after Taisha Green submitted a memo to the city of Minneapolis as their racial equity and belonging director citing things around racism and problematic behavior resulting from an expo that was curated, they asked her to step down.  The city already did an audit on all departments reporting to the mayor. It came back Gucci. It was all good, accepted by the council.  So what do you do when you're trying to move on up? You take out your threats.  You take out the people who know what you have said behind closed doors.  Y'all are late to the party.  I'm not trying to do 2020. I'm not trying to use George Ford, Brianna Martin, all of these people to wake up a moral compass in this city. It needs to be collective. Black liberation is our collective responsibility. We show up for the things that are easier. We have no problem co-signing on all these things. But if you ask yourself the questions, how are you in your day-to-day truly doing work that centers and uplifts what it means to exist in these bodies? Mayor Weinberger, it is about time that you take your knee off of Taisha Green and Casey Elderberry's necks.  Give it up. She did not need you to be great in this city and you can't stand it. She did not compromise when you wanted her to agree to suspicious bidding. Why don't you ask people on city council how often the CNA report of 2021 was altered by our mayor? He has something in this right now. I want you to ask why is it an auditor wasn't used to do this on Taisha? They used a lawyer. Why do you use a lawyer? Because you have an agenda. And what they don't know is when she got interviewed by that auditor, I listened. Because as black women, we can't trust that people are going to have our back. So I'm telling you that in that report, there are things that she did not say. In that report, there are things that she... In that report, there are things that she did say that they omitted. Why aren't we talking about all the other individuals and organizations that need to sign off on checks, reallocate things at the end of a fiscal year? It does not fall on just the director of a department. Their building is filled with offices with people who needed to do their job.  And I have reached out to Heather Ross. I have left her voicemails. And I am not just going to be here and ask us to hold Miro responsible. I'm asking us to hold Heather Ross responsible. I'm asking us to hold our papers. The Vermont Digger. That was really problematic, Patrick Crowley. And I told you that. I called you. I trusted you with my words. I trusted you. And your title in it says that there's something up that's starting an outcry. So black women leader revolution. And you want to use the word outcry at me? No, don't play that game with me. Don't play that game. Ty did not just simply say, oh, Miro is a white supremacist.  That was not what happened. Okay, we need to understand and be able to use the word white supremacy culture.  It is about urgency. It is about making decisions that are selfish to protect your own. When the mayor released a private audit report to the newspapers before even Taisha and Jersey had it. Why would you accept a report and write on it knowing that the person implicated didn't even have it. She wasn't even told this was happening.  Why aren't we asking the necessary questions? I know it's ugly. I know it makes us feel ashamed at literally what's being done by our city officials. But this is it. Forget Trump. Forget the White House. This is happening right here in our state. We need to do something about it. Burlington and Vermont actually has the capability to be so much better than this. I never wanted to live here.  But then I found people. I found that you can talk to people and if they believe in it, they will let you figure out how to have your dreams. I found souls that were just so dynamic. I am trying to be here. I am trying to be here. But I swear if we don't get the justice on this if y'all don't do what we need to do to lift the truth my life is on you. Because what you don't realize is the freaking day to day day to day impact. All the women in me is tired. All the women is me and tired. You do not know unless you are literally in this warfare. It's existing.  I have no desire to lie about black trauma and pain. I want to thrive in this life like it looks like everybody else is doing. But people want us to survive. People want us to settle for crumbs. People want us to dim our life. And when we speak out this is the stuff that happens. And that is why we are here. They started with the mayor and he needs to go. He needs to go. We don't want your number. So I want to bring us back to a place of centering. We've got a lot of energy and it's important. And please don't let it dissipate into the wind. Please don't let smiles and platitudes fool you into thinking that the work is done. Please do not settle right now. We're not going to make it if you do. I'd like to invite those who know the words to join me in singing the Black National Anthem. And then we will make our way over to City Hall to go bear witness to what needs to happen next. Lift every voice and sing till earth and hang with the heart.