So Barr's professor of psychiatry and behavioral science, he's developing and evaluating innovative electronic and computer-assisted programs to make treatments that have been proven effective for treating various lifestyle and psychosocial problems more cost-effective and more available. So these include prevention programs for obesity in college-aged women and in older adolescents. You just saw he recently collaborated with Mikhail Kirnan and hopefully this meeting and these presentations will spark even more of those collaborations. Take it away, Barr. Thanks. Thank you very much, Chris. It's I'm delighted to be here and it's a privilege to reconnect with a lot of folks that I haven't seen for a while. So thank you very much. I'm going to speak quickly and cover a fair amount of territory because I really want to leave you with a general idea of what I think a new opportunity to begin to approach obesity from a public health standpoint. I really live in two worlds, well, many worlds. But one, I do a lot of work with eating disorder prevention and also with obesity. And over the past five years, I've noticed a shift in the world of school work that I do that has actually allowed us to begin to synthesize what really are joined messages about healthy weight regulation has made my work a lot easier. So essentially, a little bit of background. I've worked for the past 15 years in dozens of schools, involved thousands of students, a main focus on healthy weight regulation and including eating disorder prevention, as Chris had mentioned. I think the goals are pretty obvious to what we would, I think you would all understand these. I don't need to go through them. But here's a message that I think is important because I get a lot of concern from the eating disorder world. I think a message is quite unequivocal that healthy weight regulation practices and recommendations for weight maintenance and loss as needed do not increase eating disorders. I'm not going to go through the database for this, but it's really important because, as you all know, we get a lot of criticism when we go into schools even trying to get weights and people say, well, this is going to create problems. It's a myth. It's not true. So in fact, I think the opposite is really what is important that you can combine eating disorder and obesity prevention. There's a co-occurrence of these diagnoses, overweight increase the risk for eating disorders. Integrating eating disorder and obesity programs is practical. We can do it at reduced costs. There's a unified message to students that minimizes risk of unintentional harm. There's a lot of areas of overlap including media literacy use, body acceptance, healthy eating, and exercise. So we have an ambitious agenda in trying to then deal with not only the issues of obesity, weight loss, maintenance, prevention of eating disorders, but also more generally body acceptance and not stigmatizing students as we provide an array of programs to schools. And I think there's an urgent need for inexpensive, easily disseminated, effective school based online weight and shape improvement obesity and eating disorder prevention programs. That's the end of my talk, but I want to give you a little bit more. I'd actually like to see us expand in schools from the need for math and English education to including two other streams. One is to look at healthy weight regulation and the other one is to look at emotional regulation as part of what is I think the schools that see as a burden but I think is a great opportunity to really turn around what's happening in this country. But in order to do that, we have to be able to provide effective, inexpensive, easily disseminated techniques that are appealing to schools. And it's a challenge. But this is how we think of it. Here's the population I'm interested in, ninth grade students. And if you're interested in the discussion, we can talk about why ninth grade. But we really have focused on this particular age group. So these are all the students in the school. Now, people say, well, yeah, but the internet already does this. But the little tiny blob in the middle of this shows you what happens if you go and ask kids in schools whether they're having access to what are many wonderful programs available for healthy weight regulation on the internet. It's a little tiny number. We want to get all the kids because this is the population that we want to focus on. And it's a very different type of approach if you define the population as pretty much all the kids in a school. So our basic approach is that we've started with women at risk for any disorders. We use 18, 16 online programs use cognitive behavioral things. We generally include online discussions. And we've done various themes in moderation. The programs are pretty boring actually and given by current standards of graphics and so forth and not all that compelling. But just give you an idea of what they look like. But we do make them personal and interactive. And I won't go through the summary of these, but we've now done studies with thousands of students, many controlled trials all over the world. Essentially, we have good effect sizes for preventing eating disorders. So the next challenge was really what do you do about obesity prevention and how do you integrate these together? So we developed a new program called Stain Fit. So we took student bodies, we expanded it to provide universal healthy weight regulation practices. And then we've done studies and beginning studies in this area. It's very exciting to be here because this is actually a bit of a preliminary work for us. So without going through this, a part of the issue has been how to make interactive monitoring tools that kids in schools can use. This is a previous draft. We've actually gotten a little bit better at with our current one, which we kind of focus on. Stain between starving and stuffed. And we have simple ways for kids to monitor what they're doing. So we have and continue to develop these monitoring tools. In a previous study that was done by a Megan Jones here at Stanford, we showed that in a study collected from the community with overweight kids, we were able to get a pretty good sustained weight loss at a year's follow-up. And we replicated this study with someone else. So we were optimistic that the approach for a highly selected group, using some of the new monitoring tools and some of our, we think, our fresh ideas for approaching this problem would be useful. And the next challenge was then to go into schools. So we did a study last year at Woodside High School. This is kids on their duff. You can see that they had been exercising.  But the point I wanted to make is that these are a low Hispanic population. Maybe the kids of Dr. Stafford were talking about. They've actually been engaged in these particular programs. And we can run a very large number of kids with our volunteer staff. Here it is in action. 400 students in which we are simultaneously providing the intervention to a large number of kids. And we'll do it again on Monday, because amazingly enough, the schools actually wanted us back again. So we have looked at a number of measures, and this is a measure of engagement. The way we design our programs is we wrap around them a lot of information. Because our general direction of where we want to go is to make these whole things a very interactive, dynamic, and organic. So that programs within schools unfold over time. Because we think it's been a bit of a mistake to develop one particular program and offer it to all schools, given the enormous differences among schools, individuals, and populations. So we have to find ways to have programs that will be exciting for those populations. And I'll tell you a little bit about how we're thinking about doing this. This just shows you, at Woodside, we have in the blue line a decrease in kids completing the log. There's a problem. But for those who did, an increase in fruit, and vegetables, and beans, we looked at there were decrease in red foods. And there is some indication, in a very small sample, if you look at the bar graph to the right, that, and this is for all of the kids in the school, that there was a mean decrease in BMI over the course of the intervention last year. And we also replicated this with an African-American population in St. Louis with some of our other colleagues. So these very small effect sizes, 0.2 in the public health world, when we can make a difference of 0.2 spread across large populations, we're very happy. So we're astounded by these results. I wouldn't take them as definitive until we do proper studies. But we're excited in part because the general population increased a little bit. So it wasn't simply report. It was a convergent with what we'd expect in that population. And very consistent with what we had seen in our control populations. Fortunately, we're also doing a number of studies in Australia and elsewhere to begin to look at these in more large control populations. But let me tell you really what I think is exciting for us and next steps. We want to get 50,000 students in 12, 12 to 13. And I think it's possible, actually, because in the old days when Joel Killen, a lot of other folks and Larry and others would go to schools and try to do any sort of prevention program in schools, we'd basically get a big yawn. About a year ago when we went to schools and said we would like to introduce an internet-based program for schools, we've actually found a lot of excitement for actually unfortunate reasons. There's a huge decrease in physical activity in a lot of the schools. There's the curriculum of stuff. They don't have time to do this yet. Still state guidelines that needs to be done. But the good news is we found a receptivity that has been very positive. So we think it will be possible to recruit students. And what we want to do then is to create a database for a dynamic population modeling, in which we begin to think of we're moving a population towards goals. So if you think of the way we've tended to do these population modeling in the past, we use moderators and mediators. But as many of you know, with unfolding new statistical models in what's called adaptive populations, it becomes possible with a large number of individuals monitored reasonably frequently over a long period of time to begin to look within population. And I think really we need to use different kinds of designs to move us ahead. So we've done the moderator, mediator analysis. We don't need to worry about that. Just to show you how we can make kind of cool graphs. And from that, we've identified groups, which again, I don't think we need to go into. But this is the point that I want to make. If you look on the left, we now have models where we can look within a population. And we've also developed an authoring tool so we can begin to change programs very rapidly within schools. We can actually change a program while it's occurring in the school. And we can reauthor it and offer it again within that school within a month's period of time to try to begin to mold a program that fits the particular needs and interests. And once you have done that with that particular skeleton, we can begin to, we also, by the way, stratify populations in schools. So we use risk factors and develop a set of programs. And I saw that Debbie Belfance is in the group with Wes Ellis and Megan Jones and others actually doing this at Stanford, where we're offering a set of programs based on needs. So the kids don't actually know which program they may be involved with. But simultaneously, they're giving something of general messages, but maybe specific to their needs. So we have various models to do it. But this is what we see happening over time, essentially, that within populations and schools emerge a series of programs that could be effective. And then once we have the skeleton, we can do things like adding games. There are many, many games out there that are very interesting for kids. I know that Tom has some resources to begin to look at these games. We need to begin to add combinations of virtual reality and social networks. Given the structure we have with our core program, we can plop these into them to make them more exciting. We didn't need a lot more stealth activities. I need to add that as another graph. We're beginning to look at apps and ways to add apps to these particular programs. And then I want to emphasize the need to combine with environmental activities as a community. We see all we have is a very small effect skeleton of which we begin to add muscles, maybe not fat, to an order to create a model that would be very appealing to schools. So we do sub-studies where we begin to look at combined things for activities. So that's where we're going. 50,000 kids, we want to get a whole bunch of schools. Hopefully many of you will help us with these activities over the coming years and participate in our work. So thank you very much. The preceding program is copyrighted by the Board of Trustees of the Leland-Stanford Junior University. Please visit us at med.stanford.edu.


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Welcome to All Hands Update, I'm Petty Officer Brandy Wills with your headlines from around the fleet. Congress passed a funding bill March 21st that would restore tuition assistance, or TA, which was cut by all branches of service except the Navy, for the remainder of fiscal year 2013. The bill is now awaiting President Obama's signature before it will be enacted into law. At this time, it is unclear how the services will choose to reinstate TA benefits. The Navy said goodbye to Undersecretary of the Navy Robert Work March 21st in a ceremony at the Pentagon. Work is leaving March 22nd to become the Center for a New American Security Chief Executive Officer. You can read more about these stories at navy.mil. From All Hands Update, thanks for watching.


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Statistics and Excel. Histograms with car-related data. Got data? Let's get stuck into it with statistics and Excel. You're not required to, but if you have access to the OneNote workbook, we're in the icon left-hand side. OneNote presentation 1065. Histogram with car-related data tab. We're also uploading transcripts to OneNote so that you can use the immersive reader tool, change the language if you so choose, and either read or listen to the transcript multiple different languages using the time stamps to tie in to the video presentations. Desktop version of OneNote here continuing on with our theme of taking data, making pictorial representations from it. The primary tool this time being the histogram. So we have car-related data. If you want to look up data sets you can practice with, we suggest looking up kaggle.com. Our first data set has the name of the vehicles on the left-hand side and the miles per gallon. If we were to put this information in Excel, for example, we might then first want to sort the information by the miles per gallon because oftentimes we will first have the information by the name. But if we have a whole lot of data, then still that's not going to give us enough to really extract meaning from the data. So oftentimes we might want to look at other tools such as calculating the average and the median. If you were to do this in Excel, the average has an average function. The average or the mean would be equals average and then just simply selecting the data is going to give us the 24 in this case. What is that average doing? Well it's taking this whole column of numbers, summing them up and then dividing by the count of those numbers. And then the median you'll recall is taking the one in the middle just like Rocky the boxers coach told him to do. Hit the one in the middle if you see three of them out there. So we took the median and in Excel the function would simply be equals the median or the second quartile. But this is the more common function and you've got the 23. So that would be just simply picking the one in the middle. So those are some mathematical data, pictorial representation. You might then have the histogram. So in Excel, creating the histogram typically as easy as selecting the entire data set and then inserting the histogram, Excel then populating the buckets. So now we're looking at the miles per gallon falling between 9 and 13 and then 13 to 16, 16 to 20, 20 to 24 and so on and so forth. Now if we look at this histogram, we don't, it's not exactly like a bell shaped kind of histogram, right? It's skewing to the right meaning we have the tail kind of happening over here towards the right so that when we get up to 46 to 50 miles per gallon, this one could be kind of outside the normal range. So what is our goal? Typically, when we're looking at this data, we want to kind of have an idea of the center point. If you think of this as like a teeter totter, where does it kind of center over and then what is the spread that goes around that center point and is it possible for us to then kind of approximate this with a curve or a line of some kind that we can predict, that we can make mathematically? Not always will that be the case, right? This doesn't seem to approximate exactly some kind of curve that we can easily make with a function. The reason we would like to make a function out of it with a mathematical equation, if it were possible with a data set is that that gives us more predictive power because now we've got an equation that we can plug numbers into which would be great but not all data sets will comply with what we would like. Let's take a look at another one. This is other car related data. So we've got the name of the car and then the cylinders. So the number of cylinders. So if I was to then take the average, this is the median and I've added the max and the mean. These are our average calculations or our normal calculations that would do pretty much every time, right? We got our data. We can sort the data. So now I've got the highest ones on the right and then they go down to the number of cylinders down to three. So clearly when we're looking at the number of cylinders, notice the data set. You expect whole numbers clearly, right? We're talking about how many cylinders are in a car. So you would expect somewhere between two and eight here, right? The high. So we don't have as much kind of variance of data and this could give us some different ways that it might be like easier to create the grass. We'll take a look at it. But first we can calculate the average. So we can sum this up and take the average, which is five. Now note that when we think about five, you might not have a whole lot of vehicles that have five, right? You don't have any vehicle. Well, there's three that have five cylinders, but normally you would think going, you know, to four to six, generally. So remember that that average can sometimes, depending on the data set, be a little bit misleading. So we have to know what we're talking about. The median, the one in the middle, is four. This is the calculation for the median. If I also select that data set, the max is taking this data set and picking the highest value. The formula for that in excel is simply equals the max and then the data set, and that's eight. And then the minimum is three equals the minimum in excel will give you the minimum. These are, you know, common formulas in excel. The most common formula, of course, the sum function, but then the other function is quite common, average, medium, and then less common, but often quite useful to know about is the max and the min. So then notice that we can have a graph representation fairly easily in excel here because we know when we think about the cylinders, we don't have like 1.2 or, you know, we don't have a lot as much variant. We know it's going to be somewhere in this case between one and eight. So it might be useful to just look at this in a table format to just see how many populate between one and eight. And it's an easy formula to make that in excel because we can use the count if formula to do that. So the count if would be count if the range. So we're taking this range. And then we're saying the second is the criteria count if this is a one. Now, none of them have a one, two count if it's a two, none of them have a two, three, there's four of them, four, there's 204. So clearly that's the biggest number five, although that was the average


Thank you for coming this morning. My name is Eric Gulenkamp. I'm a visiting medical student from the University of Chicago. And I'd like to present a case to you today on the management of recurrent orbital hemangioparecytoma. I don't have any financial disclosures, unfortunately, for my bank account. So the history of present illness jumping right in, we have a 25-year-old female with a history of recurrent hemangioparecytoma of the right frontal lobe and orbit, presenting with fullness of the right upper eyelid and proptosis of the right eye for one week. Of note, she wasn't experiencing any pain, double vision, headaches, blurry vision, or tearing. And she was doing pretty well after a subtotal resection of a hemangioparecytoma back in August of 2016 with a combined surgery, with the neurosurgery, and oculoplastic services.  In July of 2014, when she had headaches and bilateral vision loss, at the time of presentation, visual acuity was NLP in the right eye and count fingers in the left. And on imaging, she had a large frontal lobe mass. And so she underwent a resection, procedure, and histology confirmed it as a high grade or grade three hemangioparecytoma. And at that time, temozolamide and external beam radiation therapy were recommended, but the patient refused for reasons unknown to us at the time. So her first presentation to our institution at the University of Chicago was with proptosis and right eye pain in August of 2016, roughly two years later. Visual acuity was unchanged from her post-operative course at Northwestern. So from that August episode, I have some imaging here. You can see what is a not very subtle right frontal lobe mass. And taking another cut, it shows extension into the superior orbit. So at that time, she underwent a combined neurosurgery and orbit service resection of the frontal lobe mass with superior orbital extension. And again, radiation and chemotherapy were recommended, but the patient refused, opting for a more holistic approach to her tumor. And so she went home and was doing fine in the interim until the presentation to us. So now returning to her presentation of the case that I'd like to talk about, the recurrent presentation. On physical exam, her acuity was, again, NLP in the right eye, count fingers at two feet in the left. Normal pressure, her right pupil was fixed and dilated, had restriction in all fields. Her external exam showed exotropia and proptosis, which was confirmed on exophthalmometry. And I have some photos of the patient's motility examination. Notable, you can see the superior firm upper eyelid swelling. And the proptosis is quite apparent. And the exotropia is as well. On slit lamp exam, there was inferior scleral show. The iris was fixed and dilated. And the fundoscopic exam showed four plus disc pallor on the right side, three plus on the left, and was otherwise normal appearing. This time imaging showed a roughly 2.6 centimeter mass on CT in the superior lateral aspect of the orbit. MRI showed it to be just slightly larger, around 3.1 centimeters in total. Again, it's a well circumscribed mass in the superior aspect of the orbit with possible cavernous sinus extension. So with that, I'd like to talk about the presumed diagnosis given this patient's history of hemangiopericitoma. Hemangiopericitoma is a vascular tumor involving soft tissues, which arises from parasites. It's most often intracranial, but up to 10% can involve the extracranial head and neck, which includes the orbit. And signs and symptoms when it does have the orbital presentation are proptosis, such as in our patient, the perception of an interorbital mass, pain, diplopia, reduction in vision, and swelling of the eyelids. So with regard to the tumor itself, it's relatively rare, although 1% to 3% of all orbital biopsies do show hemangiopericitoma. It doesn't have any gender predominance, and the mean age of presentation is around 42 years old. But it can present at many different ages, spanning from late teens all the way to the geriatric population, in case reports. Recurrence rates are roughly 33%, but depend heavily on whether or not a total resection or a partial subtotal resection is achieved. Rates for total resection are lower than 33% and much higher for subtotal resection. Distant metastasis is uncommon, but does occur up to 15% of patients out to five years. The most common sites of metastasis are like lungs, pleura, and bone. And here I have a histology slide, not from our patient, but the classic image of hemangiopericitoma, which shows pardon me, which shows these staghorn branching vessels that are very thin-walled and they're surrounded by these spindle-looking cells. They classically stain CD34 and vimentin positive. The treatment options include surgical resection. This is typically the main option, the first line therapy recommended for an initial presentation of hemangiopericitoma with no metastasis or extension. And often this is enough, but in cases of recurrence, usually surgical resection with radiation is recommended. Sometimes adjuvant chemotherapy can be recommended as well for cases of multiple recurrence or if there's distant metastasis involved. Another option is orbital exenteration. But there is, in general, due to the rarity of this tumor, a paucity of data. So I wanted to present on the management of hemangiopericitoma and one particular study showed surgical resection plus external beam radiation therapy to be quite beneficial. So here we have a graph to show you on the x-axis. You have the time in months to recurrence and then the y-axis is the rate of recurrence. And so you can see in patients that received radiation, independent of resection, recurred more often and earlier. Although the total rates extended out indefinitely are very similar, the disease-free period is much better with external beam radiation therapy. And this was a case series of 39 patients ranging from the late 90s to 2008. The p-value on the disease-free recurrence interval, which was extended roughly 126 months with external beam radiation therapy, was 0.03. So this was significant even in a small case series. Touching on chemotherapy and immunotherapy, this is, again, typically reserved for recurrence or distant metastasis. Chemotherapy originally involved traditional chemotherapy agents like Doxorubicin, Phosphamide, Cisplatin, but it's been shown not to be very effective in controlling metastatic disease. It induced no remission in a review of 21 patients and stable disease only in about half of the patients. Newer therapies have shown to be perhaps a little effective when traditional chemotherapy fails or is refractory to initial chemotherapy. One such study examined 14 patients that used Temizolamide plus Bevacizumab, and these patients achieved partial response or stable disease in 79% of the cases. Two of the 14 even had, so the partial response was 30% reduction in tumor volume with just this chemotherapy and in patients that had already failed with traditional chemotherapy agents. Another study examined the use of Pazopinib, which is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor on the VEGF pathway. In three patients with metastatic disease, which, again, was refractory to Phosphamide, etoposide, and Cisplatin. One developed a partial response and two developed stable disease. So in both of these cases, alternative therapies to the traditional chemotherapeutic agents seem to be more effective. Pazopinib works best when there's a C-kit mutation. We examined that in our patient and unfortunately our patient was C-kit negative, so we opted not to recommend that. Returning back to our patient, so this is a patient with, who's young with a history of multiple local recurrences. So it presented sort of a therapeutic dilemma. She had already refused treatment, so we were wondering what should we recommend, should we recommend surgical resection with adjuvant external beam radiation therapy, plus or minus chemotherapy, and also should we consider the option of neo-adjuvant external beam radiation therapy given that the patient was already NLP in that eye and external beam radiation therapy has been shown to prevent or prolong disease free recurrence intervals. So with that in mind, we thought this was particularly beneficial for a patient with poor compliance. Maybe she'd be open to the idea of this neo-adjuvant option with a follow-up surgery four to eight weeks later, but there was one such case report which showed complete remission and disease-free recurrence after neo-adjuvant external beam radiation therapy. And then the question of whether or not our patient would benefit from chemotherapy or immunotherapy. In the end, the clinical course went as follows. We recommended external beam radiation therapy with chemotherapy, possibly Temizolamide, given the case series with the 14 patients I had discussed with you earlier. The patient agreed to resection, but again was reluctant to have either radiation or chemotherapy due to her resistance to the idea of it. She preferred a holistic approach and wanted to seek treatment elsewhere. So in the end, we compromised on a resection procedure without the use of adjuvant chemotherapy or radiation. The patient's been doing well so far. She had underwent a successful resection performed by the Oculoplastic's institution or at our institution and hasn't had her next follow-up appointment yet, but comes back in August. So we'll be looking forward to seeing how she's doing and hopefully she'll be disease-free. Thank you very much for your time. And I'd like to turn it over to any questions at this point. So I find that the patient autonomy really fascinating here and clearly, I mean, you know, the patient does have autonomy, should have autonomy to make clinical decisions, but it kind of begs the question for me, what can we do as clinicians to better educate what resources are available? And I'm wondering if you all, as you had this discussion, what solution or ideas you came up with if there were other resources for head-to-head resection at your university? So I, the way we had approached it was trying to explain, you know, this has recurred multiple times when we've resected, even when we thought we got a complete resection and had taken care of the disease, but it still came back and it's come back in multiple locations, both the frontal lobe and the superior aspect of the orbit. And so it's very likely if we take the same approach to do the same thing again. And even so, she still preferred this holistic approach. I think the family had a very negative opinion of chemotherapy and radiation to begin with. I wasn't able to get specifically at why that was the case, whether there was something in their history or someone close to them who had gone through it and had a bad outcome. But our approach was mainly to try to give her various options, either chemotherapy or radiation alone, maybe both of them, or maybe radiation beforehand with the justification that we know it prevents recurrence or seems likely to prevent recurrence and may help us shrink the tumor to a smaller size to perform the operation. But in the end, she was resistant to all our approaches. Yes? What's difficult about these cases is that the major pairs at Thomas are often not encapsulated. So even when you think you've got them all out, there's gonna be some kind of a remnant tumor left behind it. What I find interesting looking at the pathology on these is that they run a gauntlet from looking very benign to looking borderline, even looking malignant. And yet we can't make a correlation between how they behave and how malignant they look on the pathology. So this is a very odd lesion in that we've seen many of them that look relatively benign and recur rapidly. We've seen others that look relatively malignant and don't recur at all. And so this is one of those cases where the pathology is actually unhealthful and that we can't help to decide how aggressive the tumor's gonna be and how you're gonna treat it. In terms of the patient refusing treatment, it's a patient prerogative. And sometimes no matter what you say, you're not gonna sway them. You would think that the argument that, well, you had holistic treatment twice and it came back both times. Maybe you should give something else a try, but if you can't dissuade them, you can't dissuade them and that's their choice. Right. Yes. Just to continue on this holistic treatment issue, I think what succeeded at times is not to look at this as an either or, but to look at holistic medicine as a complementary approach and to treat the practitioners of it with respect and to look at how everything can be accomplished and it could be considered a win-win situation. And I don't know anything about this specific patient, but perhaps she might have been more willing to accept the treatment that you and your group prescribed if there had been room to have holistic medicine in addition in a complementary fashion. Yeah, we certainly would have been open to that option and we sort of recommended this in addition. I think the patient, where the place she was coming from especially her mother who was with her at all the visits was that she was very resistant to chemotherapy and radiation specifically. It seemed like she had had a bad experience, but we weren't able to parse out what that was. And so we certainly would have been open to that and we do have some providers at our institution who take a more holistic approach and so we would have been happy to connect her with that and I think it's a great suggestion for patients that really want a more holistic approach. All right, thank you very much.


Hey guys, how you doing? It's your boy Rich here with a Litecoin price prediction for 2018. As you can see, Litecoin is fifth in market cap. The price at $50, I believe, is still very undervalued. The circulation in supply. This is what I'm really looking at here. The circulation of supply is only $53,000,000 with a max supply of $84,000,000, meaning it's very tightly held. And with a founder like Charlie Lee behind it, who's always out there telling their story, getting out there to the public, it's becoming more and more adopted mainstream. Now let's look at the price. We've seen in the last three months, Litecoin go all the way down as low as $33, and right now they're at $50.78, but you say, Rich, why would you think that Litecoin could go up? Well, on right here, September 1st, it hit $93, right here. On September 1st, it hit $93, and if you look at its high, high, and it's low, low in the last three months, you can see that you're kind of right a little bit under where the middle should be. The middle of $33.93 is probably around $66.67, and we're currently right now at $50. I believe Litecoin is going to break out. Now you might be able to pick it up a little lower. It might go down to 43, 42, 44 range. I don't really see it going too much lower than this. I feel like 50 is its new floor. And I believe that because we've seen Litecoin as high as 93, this was kind of like a little prediction into the future of the price. And I believe we will see Litecoin at $100 in 2018. You heard it here first from Rich Tridomas. It's true. I believe we will see Litecoin at around 20, in 2018, I believe we will see Litecoin hit $100 where it will then have a new floor. Now if you look at the last year, Litecoin is up 1,200% in the last year. I mean in April alone it was at $3, so it's up a lot. As we speak, Litecoin has just hit $51. Now why do I like Litecoin so much? Let's talk about it. Let's get into the facts. What does it do? Yes, it's tightly held. Yes, they've got a founder and creator that is all over social media and telling their story. Let's look at their website. Litecoin is a global decentralized currency based on blockchain technology. It is the coin for the merchants. Let's watch an introductory video. What is Litecoin? Litecoin is a decentralized online currency created in October 2011. Litecoin can be used to purchase services such as website development or to buy goods like jewelry or tea. Litecoin provides a safe and easy way for merchants to accept money as there are no fees to receive payments and no charge backs. All transactions are recorded on a public ledger known as the blockchain so payments can be immediately verified.  The transaction fees are considerably less than those charged by major credit card companies, traditional bank transfers, and even other digital payment processors. For example, a business in Singapore can receive a payment from a customer in San Francisco in a matter of seconds. Additionally, both parties have clear proof that the payment was sent and received. Litecoin works using secure software that allows you to make payments as easily ascending an email. You can send and store them securely on your computer or your local device. There will only ever be 84 million Litecoins so you will never have to worry about inflation decreasing the value of your Litecoins. Litecoin has a stable established marketplace consisting of many exchanges that handle tens of millions of dollars in Litecoin trades every day. You can use these trusted exchanges to trade your dollars, euros, and other fiat currencies for Litecoin. The possibilities are endless. Welcome to the future of commerce. Welcome to Litecoin. To become a part of the future and learn more about Litecoin, visit Litecoin.com. Litecoin the coin for merchants. Litecoin or Litecoin? You can buy it from an exchange. You can join the community that's growing every single day. You can integrate it with your applications. You can download a wallet right on Litecoin.com. You can also purchase goods and services using Litecoin. It is the coin for merchants. It's tightly held and it has a CEO, a founder, who loves to tell their story. I love Litecoin. How high can it go? I believe in 2018, we will see Litecoin well over $100 and beyond. You heard it here first from Rich Tridomas, Litecoin on October 10th, 2017 at $51. Remember this day, the day that Rich Tridomas told you to buy Litecoin. Now I wouldn't be saying this if I wasn't buying it myself, I am loading up on Litecoin. I love Litecoin. Thank you for watching. Make sure you like and subscribe and remember, all I do is bring you winners. Thanks for watching, it's your boy Rich.


So, I think the potential for the Latino theater commons in this fall convening can be really one of those benchmarks or guideposts into what theater can be in the 21st century. I mean, considering the diversity of our people regionally, culturally, nationally, the stories that we have to tell, the fact that folks have been here for generations or have always been here and aren't even necessarily immigrants or who just got here this past year, there's a breadth in depth to what that sort of narrative or narratives really mean in a changing America. I want to believe that given what's transpiring in our country, the debates, the policies, the riffs that as leaders, everyone who attends this potential convening can really help to shift and move things in a direction that will make our entire country a better place block by block, community by community, stage by stage, blassa by blassa. My name is Claude Valentin and I'm with the Latino Theater Commons.


two hits, two walks. So what do you attribute your success at the plate tonight? I had a good game plan at the beginning. You know, we had our mind made up on what we're going to do on the start tonight and we're able to do it. What was that game plan? Oh, just make them throw strikes. Get the ball out over the plate and do damage. Have you felt more comfortable overall the past couple of days at the plate? Yeah, I've been feeling really well. I feel like all of my approach at the play has been good and, you know, things are starting to work out. Seven different guys drove in runs tonight, including Luke Voight. What type of a boost has he been since he's come over here? It's been a huge boost.  Nice to see Cece Sabathe bounce back on the mound. Yeah, definitely. I mean, he's the guy that we need on our team to team up in his force and he was doing it. Aaron, thanks for the time. No, thank you.


No, my wife and me man, it was something we wanted to do man because we ain't never gave this award out to nobody. Nobody has one like this. God, God man, so it came in. Bows. The unboxing is real man. Bows. It's it baby. Yeah, it's going down man. I never thought I'd be doing this. This guy mean a lot to me man. I couldn't go see him empty handed. Yeah, we on Bows Talk one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gonna talk. So before I get into your history and so forth, you know, we can't start our podcast without doing this to you right now. Okay? Okay. We kinda look at you like this. Yeah, yeah. We have this right here. But you said doing this to me, I touched out for you. No, my wife and me man. Oh man. It was something we wanted to do man because we ain't never gave this award out to nobody. Nobody has one like this. God, God man, so it came in. Bows. The unboxing is real man. Bows. It's it baby. Yeah, it's going down man. I never thought I'd be doing this. This guy mean a lot to me man. I couldn't go see him empty handed. So I went on and ordered him a new plaque that we gonna be giving out. He's right here different man. Ain't never picked it up out of here. This thing kinda heavy man. Man, look at that thing. Man, bum be man. You guys mean so much to me man. I rock with him man. Bows talk one on one man. It's serious, this is what everything is. That's why we do this man. This guy right here. Man, I know her freedom man. Check it man. Congratulations, best wishes man. I'm gonna make it, don't boss out man. I'll let you borrow it man. Bows talk one of the bosses, bum be. So we're gonna present you with this award because you know how much we're fans of UNUGK. And it says thank you Bernard Freeman, bum be. It says in recognition of your many accolades including starting UGK with Pimsy, the group that became a staple in the South as the hardest duo ever. But not only that, bum be created, five solo albums becoming a pioneer in the Houston, Texas culture. He also gave back by being a professor in education, teaching hip hop and religion at Rice University. Now owning a very successful restaurant, Trill Burgers, where the patties are flavorful and crisp. Man, thank y'all so much. I'm bad for myself man. Man. I am honored to accept this award. Man, I mean we, like I said, we never gave that out man. And to be honest with you, I just, I told my wife, I said I might not get this chance again but I know, cause you never know man. But me and you, when you, my mentor would always tell me after 35 man, people start passing. He passed away now, but he was like man, I went to so many funerals after 35 man. And I think sometimes people take life for granted. So any opportunity I get, it's like man, I gotta do the best I can just cause I gotta seize that moment. You know what I mean? Well, I deeply appreciate it. Man, thank you so much. And we do give awards and the reason why we do that is because there's so many people who've been grinding and hustling doing what they've been doing for years and have not gotten any recognition, especially from home team. You understand what I mean? So we like to try to show that we appreciate them because so many people came on our podcast and got awards and be like, you know what, I've been doing this for 30, 40 years and I've never gotten any recognition before. DJs, stuff like that. Oh, absolutely, absolutely. So many people put in a lot of work, man. And they're the ones that are really the foundation of the culture. You know what I'm saying? A lot of people sold in the hip hop culture, particularly Southern hip hop and Texas music. And you never hear people give them their accolades, Darrell Skies, to Kate Reno's. You know what I'm saying? People like that, the R.P. Kola's. You know, there are a lot of people that were there in the beginning, the Steve Farnier's, you know, that literally set the tone for hip hop even being accepted in popular culture in the city. Because a lot of people didn't want to hear when rap came on back then. In the club or the radio, you know, but we've come a long way to being basically the world's most popular culture. And so it's a blessing to have lived long enough to see it get where it's at. Man, man, you're definitely so true. So I like to go back in how you were raised, where you're from and so forth. Yes. Were you born Port Arthur or Houston? I was born in Houston. Born in Houston. I was born in Houston, but then my parents divorced and I ended up moving to Port Arthur. How old were you when they divorced? I would have been about, I guess 10. 10, do you remember? Yeah, no, I remember, because it was just me and my mom and everything really changed. It was like my fifth grade year. And like the whole dynamic of life changed. You know what I'm saying? Because I went from living in like a three bedroom house to an apartment. You know, I grew up and I was born into a house into a home with a mother and a father. And then switching from that to just being me and my mom, it really changed the perspective of how I looked at my mom. Were you close with your dad? Not really, my dad traveled a lot. And like my brother, I have three brothers, but they're all older than me. So they all had a much closer relationship. How much older? With my dad, five, six, or seven years. Okay, okay. So they all had a closer relationship with him because by the time I came in, he was traveling more with his job. So it affected you, but it didn't affect you that much?  I'd never seen my mother have to struggle like that before. You know, I would hear her cry sometimes. And it was rough because my brothers weren't there where I was. My brothers were older at that point. So- Did they live with your dad? Yeah. Okay. And then one of them was already out of the house. So it was just a different family dynamic. But I just wanted to, you know, I just didn't want to see my mom have to do everything she had to do. Did you ever get to go live with him? Yeah, I did that for about three months and then I had to get out of there. How old were you when you did that? I was 18 when I graduated. Okay. I graduated, the night I graduated, I left and went moving with my dad because I told my mom I wanted to rap.  Because by that point, all three of my brothers had made mistakes. Two of them have been habitual criminals. And so my mom did a lot of things different with me that she didn't do with my brothers because she thought she had spoiled them. So she was a lot more strict with me. And so when I told her I was going, I wanted to make rap music. She was like, no, I can't support that. You can't, you got a week to get out of my house. And so I just left graduation night. My brother came to my graduation. I said, I'm just gonna leave with you. And then so I left, I went to my dad's house and then six in the morning, my daddy woke up, woke me up and was like, nobody live here for free. Time to go to work. My dad had a landscaping company. So basically I cut grass the day after I graduated all summer and torn roofs and painting and all that. And I was like, I ain't trying to do this over here with him like that.   That's what, that's kind of my story too. My mom left dad at nine and we moved between houses from grandma to Annie to whoever, you know, and then they all had kids. It was like, you know, a lot of times a lot of men didn't know how to be fathers, you know, cause some of them did. My granddad stayed with my mom, but my dad, he just was drinking and just doing what he doing. And, but I ended up staying with him cause I was like, man, I'm gonna stay over here. Cause we from nine to on up, I would learn from him. And you know, we was just talking about that downstairs. Like he wouldn't tell me nothing, but it was what he's done in front of me that gave me, you know, some stuff to go with for us on the hustle. You know what I'm saying? But I flipped it and changed it to something else cause I wasn't for the hall of public wood and being in the woods, man. I'm not fit to do that. You know, I made a decision. I didn't want to work. A lot of my family was late, like they laborers. Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? They worked outside, they had very hard lives and I was like, I didn't want to have that life. But I ended up making a decision that gave me a different kind of a hard life, you know? Yeah, me too, me too. But one thing I always would say as I got older and I realized I learned, I always say that if a man and woman together and they split, especially if you have a boy, I always feel like when the boy become like a teenager, age, he needs to go with a dad because a mom can't teach a boy how to become a man. Luckily, one of my older brothers, who was not like in and out of jail, he was more like a surrogate father to me in that way when I was away from my home. At this point, my mother remarried. She remarried a really good man too. So I did have a father figure in the house. That's good. But then I still had to go and be supposedly, I would have to be with my dad for different vacations in different times of the year, but I would just go to my brother's house because they live in the same apartment complex. I would just go stay at my brother's house. And I learned a lot from my brother. There was really, I didn't feel like there was anything more I would gain. I would still see my dad every day, but I was learning the type of things I needed to learn from my brother at the time.


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ect to the current assumption that well, as long as we put out a web address for it, it's everybody's going to know it. It's like, you know, people enjoyed reading the bridge, but now the bridge because it's a, you know, difficult to find the money is now printing on the web without. It's hard for a lot of people. So what we realized is okay to provide a link of the connections that's going to be required for people to understand, you know, what's available for them, et cetera, and to move forward. We're going to have to create some kind of more human scale human communications network. And that was where the capital area neighborhoods project had started. And so we were trying to figure out what we were doing on the basis of the. New years ago, 12 years ago on the last financial crisis. To try and connect with people who needed work on either help needed services, but didn't know how to find it. So we tried to figure out how to build what we're doing on the basis of the. Bones of what was left from the last project. And there were a few neighborhoods that were still functioning and discovering is that there are a lot of people in town who would like to help would like to be part of such a thing, but they, they need to be contacted. And, you know, I got to have to thank Dan Richardson for a lot of help for reaching out for with people to help connect to we did form postings, et cetera. And at this point we've had 10 of the 12 original can connect with the community. And we've had a lot of people who have been working with the community. So we found at least one or more coordinators who's been willing to step up and talk about what's going to be required. And what these folks are going to be doing is literally putting together the email lists were possible in the community, but also a process of reaching out with flyers under the doors or whatever so that people can. And I think it's an interesting experience about a week ago with a sort of first run of the flyer where she put some in the downstream and pioneer housing projects and had one lady who, you know, called her up on the telephone, my God, thank you, thank you, thank you. I didn't know this capacity was available. And I want to help get this information. You know, if you have flyers you have, I'll make sure that I'm going to help put them around in the building. And it was sort of like a huge, oh my God, it actually works. Something here is actually happening. And I have to interject here, Dan, for just a moment. This woman is 86 years old and she's such a sweetie pie. So she asked for grocery and pharmacy help and then said, I want to volunteer. How sweet is that? Also, we've discovered that people are actually yearning for the kind of the community connections that are possible that they've been feeling have been not available of late. So we're getting some very interesting feedback already. And besides Elizabeth, we've all had also had Laura Byron, who's sort of taken on the role of the community organizer in this project and has been doing. And was a tent. Nators a week and a half ago. And we discovered that everybody had a different take on things. It was not exactly a, you know, a unanimity of how they wanted to approach things. And so we realized we had to go out and actually work with each neighborhood separately. And so we've been doing that identifying people. And it's, it's turned out to be quite good. Some neighborhoods already have some tools that are available. Others say, Oh, what do we do? How do we help?  And it's been exciting to see this project begin to emerge. The, I guess the way of putting it, the camp project is a key component of both an emergency response effort, which everybody sees right now. But if we assume, okay, and this is just my assumption, I'm not, you will each have your own take on it. Things may not go back to normal. And I've heard a lot of discussion about that presumption tonight that somehow in a few months, we're going to be back to normal. If we're not back to normal, then we have to figure out other ways of allowing people to get together to be able to connect with each other. And feel like they're participating in the, the life. It was something more than just an emergency response, but as a mechanism for providing the communications that will be needed in the long run of the, you know, and, but we, we aren't taking care initially of the community response. So we are making sure that the volunteers of MMA, that unpronounceable acronym from Washington and Orange counties to, you know, be part of, what? Thank you, Anne. I'll go with that one for the time being. Make sure that they're, you know, part of the information that's being offered. What we're doing is training each of the coordinator groups in each of the neighborhoods in how to find the resources that are needed so that they can connect directly with MMA. They can correct, connect directly with the other things so that if people feel like they need things, it's not like we're the, uh, switchboard. We're the training, we're the resource developer. We're trying to figure out how to make the work that they, it's going to support them as this goes forward. Um, and so that's why we see this as not just a, uh, emergency response for this moment, but as a long-term benefit to the city. And, um, we're trying to develop that way. Um, what we've heard a lot of in the, uh, you know, as part of this, when we've had the, uh, individual meetings with the neighborhood coordinators is they don't want to just stop with the, uh, emergency, that each one of them is basically saying, well, how do we pull our neighborhoods together to do things more in the future? And one of the big ones that's turning out to be an issue is people are deciding that food is an area, you know, that how, how do we begin to imagine ways of creating community food gardens? How do we create, uh, turn lawns into gardens, et cetera? Because everybody's hearing about food issues. I think they go into the store and see empty shelves, not over toilet paper, but from other things. And they begin to say, well, is this going to be a future issue? So, uh, this, uh, project. That way of helping coordinate future, uh, issues around food. Um, and, uh, that's where we hope to, uh, take it now. We're a small nonprofit. We're, we're, we're not particularly well funded. In fact, we're facing some of the same things the city is as far as, uh, you know, originally I had come tonight to say, well, could you help support us in this effort? Uh, but after listening to the whole presentation from, uh, Bill and the, uh, the city and said, okay, well, that, that's a non-starter. So I'll, uh, try and figure out, uh, how to say, well, are there ways that the city. Yeah. That's fine. Resources Connor had mentioned at one point that maybe there are, um, other national or state programs that might be, uh, usable for this. And I'm just throwing that out there, but I would like to request the city's help and finding that, uh, if we're going to continue this project, we're going to be running out of money in a couple of months. If we're not lucky and, uh, you know, that would bring our coordination organizing, et cetera, to a dead halt. So that, uh, that's the challenge that we see right now. We see is also a lot of people in the neighborhoods are going to be facing that fear of unemployment, the fear of being marginalized economically. And so this project, you know, what we're just like this, the 85 year old lady that Elizabeth mentioned is a way of getting people a sense of participation of some agency in their neighborhoods so that they're not feeling quite so isolated as they, uh, you know, suffered, but there's a way to find. Help each other, which is really what Vermont should have been about for a long time and could be still. So that's, uh, where we see this camp project being able to grow into and to be part of our collective future. So that's my quick and dirty on what's possible here. And I'll, I will open up to any questions that people have about what's going on. You know, it's interesting to consider this possibility of, um, I mean, I know we had capillary neighborhoods many years ago and the focus isn't, you know, maybe in the longterm just about COVID-19, but I wonder if there's a case to be made that, um, there, you know, that this could be a cost of the city that could be applied, uh, just some, some of these like state or federal, um, grants. Anyway, I just want to, I feel like I heard that a little bit. So I just wanted to call that out. Um, interesting possibility. Um, any other questions or comments for Dan? Uh, Jay. Yeah. Hey, thanks, Dan. Yep. Thanks, Dan. Um, I'm curious what, besides just online social media email, that type of thing. I'm curious what thoughts you and maybe Elizabeth have around what mechanisms you would use to connect people. I mean, what, how do we facilitate these individual connections? Um, and obviously events aren't really in our short-term future here, but, um, how do you, how do you see that playing out long term? Thanks. Sure. Well, that's why you saw, we gave you a copy of the, uh, hopefully bill of, uh, uh, discerning it, but gave you a copy of the, this brochure, the developing, which is the coordinate, delivering to all the apartment buildings, et cetera, in places we don't, we see the telephone as one as a, uh, connecting device. Uh, you know, and that's probably one that we've all discounted because we live in the smartphone, uh, email age, but, uh, like the story that Elizabeth had about this 85 year old lady, the telephone was the secret weapon.  The, um, the other thing that, uh, for instance, um, one of the, uh, original canned coordiners, uh, Heather from up on, uh, well, actually a neighbor of Jack's, uh, up on, uh, town street. Uh, and when, um, Groberg, uh, did his, uh, you know, community sing instead of doing it late in the evening as, as was suggested, they did it much earlier so that all the children in the neighborhood could come and in a socially distanced way, uh, be able to sing together, uh, with that grouping of three streets. And so I think that there are creative, you know, one of the things that, uh, can is doing is hopefully going to work with, uh, until you're alive, uh, you know, until your mutual aid, but there are a lot of creative ideas. And the wonderful thing about, uh, having everybody, uh, working together is that they get shared. And, uh, so, uh, I think that there are socially distanced events that can be fun and build neighborhood, uh, until such time as it's summer and hopefully we can come together and have barbecues. Uh, and also the other thing, Jay, just as a point of this is, like I said, we've been at this slightly less than three weeks. So your question and we're, we're open to all suggestions about how you would like to see us do things because we're inventing this as we go. It's not like there was a, somebody handed us a manual and said, here, go do this and this. We're, uh, we're trying things, uh, you know, that's why I described this meeting. We had a couple of weeks ago, uh, it was chaos, you know, so, uh, and, and kind of test to that. And, uh, you know, what we learned a lot and that's what we intend to do. So your question, you know, I'll turn it back on you and say, whatever suggestions you have, please forward to us because we're open to all of this. Great. Um, uh, so actually I just want to, uh, note with that story. I mean that I feel like there's going to be so many really like sweet stories that come out of this. And, um, part of me hopes that you, well, I'm sure that you all are keeping track of these stories. Um, but I think it, it could all be really lovely, um, to have a way to like report out, you know, not necessarily like with council time, but like how, how can you all be like telling us the stories of what is happening within our community? Cause it's like, it's lovely. It's lovely stuff. Um, I think I saw Lauren, uh, had a hand in Jack. Elizabeth, go ahead. Then Lauren than Jack. Yeah. Okay. So I wanted to say that I'm in the process of creating, uh, a Montilier can, uh, Facebook page. Uh, you know, we've resurrected Facebook pages like, uh, I heart Berry street, which is, uh, from 12 years ago. And they used to have pancake breakfasts and those have fallen by the wayside. Um, Park West has a Facebook page. I'm talking about obviously electronic, uh, things, but that is going to be potentially a lot of how we share these stories. But we are looking toward, uh, being able to capture a lot of this anecdotal stories. Like I was up in my community garden. Uh, you know, one of the women who lives in, uh, at, at, uh, that over the transit center saw Mike, good 93 year old friend, Don lions in the laundry room without a face mask.  And, um, it gave me the idea of talking with, uh, Janna at MSAC where I'm getting some of her, um, mask makers to start to make masks. And I'm evaluating all the high density buildings, apartment buildings to see how many masks there are. And I'm evaluating all the high density buildings, uh, apartment buildings to see how many masks we need for, uh, elders who don't have them like Annie and, uh, Don. So they're, they're just, I think they're going to be a lot of opportunities for us.  Cause a storytelling is, is so archetypal inside of us. And especially now it's really important. And just finished up before Jack on that one is that, uh, you know, this is the occasion where, were we to have some capacity for printing and stuff may, helping the neighborhoods make little printed newsletters, uh, with those stories that could be shared among each other. Or also one of those things that gives people a sense of participation of, I know it's sort of like backward thinking because everything is supposed to be done on the web or not. But I think we're fine being right now that we're going to have these interesting challenges that technology is not going to save everything. And so it's time to put it more to human scale. Oh, Lord. I, yeah, I just wanted to briefly, I mean, I'm really appreciative of your leadership and as mayor and for, um, Dan and Elizabeth and you all, um, I mean, it seems like the ability to take the, the momentum and all the effort that so many people are kind of stepping up, which is so inspiring in our community for this emergency and how do we like capture the, that enthusiasm and carry it forward when we're not in emergency response mode. So working with the mutual aid groups, the knock rock, however you did the, you know, so that, that's an emergency response group. But what kind of, you know, resources or ideas and things can be tapped into that, that can could help be an ongoing long lived like resilience to the future. Um, so, you know, just look forward to continuing to brainstorm with you all of how we, you know, can, can tap into all this energy we have right now to, to help each other and don't lose that as when it feels like that crisis is abating the crisis of the moment. I just wanted to say that one of the partnerships with MMA is that instead of them just assigning a random volunteer to a person who has a need, we're giving them the neighborhood lists so that they can understand and start to match up people, hopefully within the same street or a couple of streets, so that those can become long-term relationships and repeat relationships. So they're little subtle things like that, that are building community. Cool. Jack and then Dan. Just a quick matter in terms of. The activities that are going on. I know that the same community saying that my friend Heather organized someone in somebody did record that on video and that's been also been circulated around the neighborhood. Nice suspect that. We'll see a lot of that people. Documenting the things they're doing. Kind of in an organic way. Yeah. Cool. Dan. I had a couple of, of thoughts and I've talked with, with Dan on a number of occasions. About this because I think there's a lot of potential here, but one. Bill, is there someone in the city that's sort of. Acting as a point person for the grants or money that's coming out of the, either the state or federal government. We are just. Focusing on that now. Normally that would be Kevin, but he's going to be. So we're actually going to be talking about it tomorrow. Right. But there will be. I mean, it just seems like, you know, that, that's going to be important to keep this, this can group. You know, in mind as a potential, because I suspect if any. Money for sort of community organizing or, you know, neighborhood support. I think that's a direct expense that we could, we could seek to get that kind of funding from the state. So that's the first thing. And I'm, that seems like a pretty easy lift. Because we're going to be looking at that money anyway. The other thing is I really want to emphasize Dan and Elizabeth, that I think. You know, the real benefit of what you guys can do. With this group is to read, is to have each neighborhood really define how it wants to organize and how it wants to. Support itself and the meadow may do it differently than Barry street and may do it different than Berlin street and may have different priorities. And I think that's a really. You know, and Dan, we've had this conversation and I guess I'm just sort of putting it on, on the record as it were. But I mean, you know, it's, it's really important for the neighborhood because there's an opportunity to cross pollinate for, you know, groups to see each other, what they're doing. And learn, but I think it's also important that, you know, what is important for the meadow may not work for Berlin street. And I think this sort of decentralized group. Where the neighbors are really driving it. Are important. And I think it will be great to, you know, I, I, I think it will be great to, you know, I think that as far as a long-term idea that this is something we should really, you know, be looking to do because I think it really strengthens the community by having these neighborhoods get together. And, and we should be looking for opportunities as a council going forward to find, find opportunities to, to utilize this. And just to answer that Dan for a little bit more. I think it's important for the neighborhood. We're sort of clumped together on the map or actually. I live there are like three different neighborhoods that are actually, you know, so that the freedom drive condos are different than the colonial drive area. If you go along. River street below Berlin is different than the upper Berlin street. I think that's, I think there's a big difference between the neighborhood and the neighborhood. I think that's just a, is there a big difference between the neighborhoods and the neighborhood and the neighborhood and the neighborhoods and the neighborhood, you have 12 essentially beginning neighborhoods. End up with. Because that's how people actually relate to each other. That's the individual out of that you're talking about. And I've sat in on all that neighborhood meetings. And I think, Dan, you're absolutely right. our differences and yet there are the similarities of wanting to build community. So it's been fascinating and I think one of the exciting things has been that we have a number of veteran veterans from 12 years ago who are able in one of our first meeting that Ann went to there were some people who were kind of pulling their hair out feeling overwhelmed and with doll just said you know well you know it takes time so it is going to take time and we've got a bit to go but we've made a good initial effort and and I look forward and embrace the diversity of the different sub neighborhoods as they evolve. Connor and then Donna. Yeah just one thought I mean obviously we're not able to write a check today for this thing but I think we can put some skin in the game by as a council each one of us sort of committing to maybe sit in on like one or two of these zoom meetings as each individual neighborhood takes off and just building that tie with the city and these groups I think like for example Jack and I can you know split the baby in district two there and take two each. I think it's a good thing to do just if it's going to be a long-term goal to get this up and running just to build that connection. So it might be worth it when I was talking to Dan about this in the next week or so just hop on a zoom call. We will make sure you're invited. Donna I really like that idea Connor of us being participants as council members. Dan Jones thank you so much for backing up asking for money because tonight would not be a good night. However I do think there's a lot of things to take one is that maybe not have such high expectations but any siege you plant anyway you can get people to start meeting for that group is a wonderful beginning. My old neighborhood group meant until four years ago but the thing about it wasn't intergenerational and I think we really need to look at bringing young people in not just us older adults. So there's a way we can help do that maybe connection with the schools I don't know but I think that would be really helpful and that I think the smaller the group sometimes the better so I like your idea of subgroups of neighborhoods so you have a northfield street but then you may have northfield dash something else they all create their own little name you know that could be much more ownership. I really love the ideas you and Liz have shared and really appreciate how much time and energy you put into it and however much more you can do the better it will be and I'd like to see it folded into our community services and in case anybody's forgotten that's the integrated senior center rec center group and I really like us to have that eventually brought into the city thank you. I just want to comment that every Tuesday at 1.30 well now people are being furloughed but you know we've had different city departments Cameron's been on the call Tony was on the call when you were talking about policing I wanted to jump in but I'm glad he sent a message in because he did give us an update I guess was that just yesterday I guess it was yesterday seems like a year ago but anyway we have RSVP CVC OA the churches so there's a lot of cross pollination that's happening there and we've made a commitment to meeting on Tuesdays just to share information you know how the church lunches are happening for instance you know so we're just sharing that kind of information and Don I wanted to say that your neighborhood on North Street has had a Gmail account for 12 years and there are 140 people on it yeah and so what I'm working on is getting you know Gmail accounts for each of the neighborhoods just you know kind of a big blanket account and then all the southern neighborhoods are you know making choices about how they interact so there's a lot of good things happening. Donna I want to address that we have I she Elizabeth really did highlight that but our community services departments are being very closely aligned with what can is doing our VISTA member Chet has been doing a lot of work with them and so we really are trying to make sure we can support them as much as possible internally through our staff as far as limits allow so while furloughs probably will impact that a bit Chet is not going to that he's a VISTA employee and will be with us through the fall so he will continue to assist them our general staff will continue to be in contact with them weekly. And Chet is doing that some work kind of cross-pollination work that I was talking about of sorting MMA by Akan Streets and so it's been a great help he's been wonderful. Okay so I'm just conscious of the time here any further thoughts okay so I actually one thing I'll just be super short one possibility is that just in terms of non-financial supports that we can offer if neighborhood groups need equipment like tables and chairs to host a you know pancake breakfast or whatever I'd love to see if we have the capacity to let people let groups borrow stuff from the city to do that sort of thing but we can do that I'd like to say that one of our immediate needs are sandwich boards we're borrowing some from Groberg and Montpelier alive but if there are any other sandwich boards that any of you know about we're putting two on Berry Street two up on North Street one out in Toy Town and printing on your printing account with a capital copy so that we can actually make stuff that's get informant informative people but on the sandwich boards. All right any further comments? Okay well thank you Elizabeth and Dan for giving us this update it was great. Thank you for having us. Yep and so we're on to the last item for regular business seating which is council reports I'm gonna go in the same order that I would go in if we were sitting in the horseshoe so I'm gonna start with Donna if you're if you're ready. I'm quiet tonight I keep bleeping out thank you all for being patient. Great thank you Connor. I'd go just thanks to the city staff thanks everybody who's rising to the occasion and Montpelier here it's uh and I think we're up to the task it's stuff but it's been great to see the city come together. It really has the last few weeks so thanks. Jay I'll echo that and then just quickly add that it really was like Lorna Lutitou. I heard from a lot of constituents this last week or two a lot of folks are really invested in in in our city and in our community and worried about each other and our future um so it really is great to hear from folks and get out passionate they are and uh so I'm really grateful for that thank you. Yeah uh yeah yeah um yeah I'll echo the same I want to say congratulations to Bill on being named as a candidate for the uh town manager so the is it the IC I want to make sure to get the acronym correct um but that's a fantastic honor and it really shows that um you know our city manager is a leader within his profession and field and I think that's worthy of note and uh I'll leave it at that. Thanks Jack. Well Dan stole what I was going to say I I agree um it's uh it's a great recognition of the great work that Bill has done for many years congratulations to Bill and I'm sad. Okay uh Lauren. Well it's haven't been counted yet. Yeah I mean I just wanted to echo the appreciation of you know with city staff working so hard to try to keep our city employees as whole and well through this really challenging time and I just think the communication with staff and everything has been excellent and really thoughtful and so really appreciate that that hard work um and the hard work of all of our city staff um and just our our community really stepping up um and just wanted to also say happy Passover you know just Passover tonight um so for all of our Jewish friends. So I want to uh echo what Lauren said about um um I'm gonna thank you particularly Bill for the excellent communication um with city staffs very um I appreciate being kept up um you know kept in the loop about those those emails and they're just clearly very um compassionate and so thanks for for taking so much time and care with that and also congratulations on um the ICMA VP candidacy it's very exciting and I also just want to thank both the city staff who volunteered for furloughs um thank you um it helps and I also want to thank the city staff that are staying on um and particularly those you know who um who need to keep working and and all of our city staff that are essential um and and extend that thanks out to the rest of the community at large thank you to um all of the doctors and nurses um who are continuing to work through this crisis and just an FYI I did put out another video as an update for the city with some recent news and we'll try to keep doing that as any news changes so um that's that's it from me um and so John do you have anything for us? um you know not really all good well actually I do I have a question do you need us so you sent out an email with a liquor license information what do you need for us in terms of signatures we they will still have to be signed I mean it's not immediate because the the liquor control office has extended the deadline indefinitely but um yeah so I guess we'll have them because I mean there's also going to be the warrants so I guess it will just be over at the police station okay so we'll get notified when uh when they're there it should all be there tomorrow yeah okay okay so we'll be there tomorrow yeah great um Bill let you know it's easy what's that we can still let you know that's easy oh yeah um and anything further John yeah that's it okay Bill um well thanks to all of you for your support of my running for ICMA VP thanks to the mayor for her great letter and um appreciate the recognition tonight I wouldn't have mentioned it on my own but since you do um there is an election to be held I will probably be the only candidate Connor still wouldn't take up take me on as a campaign manager though despite those odds um but that's okay uh I I really want to see what what the marriage has said um we're thanking the staff um our folks really took this seriously this last week and we got you know very thoughtful dialogue with people we didn't get you know the kind of reaction you might expect we got people really interested in asking questions and wanting to know and obviously know what it meant for them personally um we went round and round internally how to go I'm really glad we did it voluntarily um it kind of worked out where it ended um and so I thank the people that took that seriously and and I do thank the folks that are remaining they fall into two categories and we've got our first responders and our dispatch people and that are out there directly interacting with um folks in need and folks that are sick and just like the medical professionals everybody else they're really putting their lives and their families lives at some sort of risk here um and so obviously you can't say enough about them and but there's also the folks that are left in the other departments who are now all going to be trying you know as as hard as we say we're going to go down to basics we all know expectations of people and so we're going to have a lot of people trying to do the work of two or three people on their own to try to keep up and so I appreciate those that are hanging in there as well um I actually don't have the full list in front of you we'll get out but we've had some really good response from local businesses offering some support uh that I'd like to mention um Caldonia Spirits as people know is making hand sanitizer and they've donated a couple of big gallon buckets to both fire department and the police department because they were running low and interestingly enough if you buy some yourself on their site they give you a donate option so you can click a donation and they'll donate some two different uh basically you buy them for other public safety or public health people um we've had donations from people who are just bringing sandwiches um we had a was it um so I have the list if you want me to go through it come on please give the list I don't want to forget you might yeah of course um Vermont Mutual ordered sandwiches for our fire and police from pinkies who supplied that for them so we thank them harvest equipment gave um 12 pairs of safety glasses for use for for protective equipment tractor supply gave two full plexiglass face shield Caledonia Spirits like Bill said gave us two gallons of hand sanitizer and an individual named John fate gave us a box of in many five masks and the police also want to thank Birch Grove Baking and Alavita for their support so great so great response from people supporting our our folks and like I said so far so good we haven't had in 1640 yet um at least not with COVID-19 um and but you know we you're still planning as though that won't last um but thanks to and thanks to all of your support and your interest and touching base and your kind words that's it we're done okay couldn't say better myself uh so without objection we'll consider this meeting adjourned thanks everybody night thank you night everybody thanks for everything thank you