So I'm here hanging out with Cory today, and we grabbed a couple boxes of cable out of his truck And we're gonna do a video on all the equipment you need to have a wiring truck as soon as we organize it just a little I hope been busy. Yeah, he's been busy. What can you say? We're wiring a lot of stuff here and People ask that questions about this one. This is a quick video talk about some of the differences in the cable now This is we're doing a job right now that requires cat 6a cable This is cat 6 cable what we got here cat. This is the cat 6 shielded cat 6 shielded This is cat 6 and that is regular cat 5 or cat 5 So when we start holding the cables up together, you're gonna start seeing a difference here. So let me just pull them all together All right Get that out of the loop here. Oh, oh, oh, I wasn't ready. So what we have here is The cables your cat 6 and cat 5 look pretty much the same They're not a big difference between them once you get into a shielded cable though you have this little extra piece of shielding here to cut down our frequencies and It's a little bit thicker once you go all the way the cat takes a this stuff is heavy and You know it pulls pretty much the same to the ceiling. It's a heck of a lot more difficult. It's a lot more weight This is a these cables once you get to cat 6a only come in these larger spools now Cat 5e it's been around forever We still install a lot of it some people are kind of surprised by that But it comes down to budgets and cat 5e will do 300 meters full gigabit connection and that's fast enough for most people I know someone's screaming right now saying oh, no, you should just always go to the best And I'm like reality is not everybody can afford it. I reckon afford it when in its scales upward Yeah, it's only a little bit more until you're doing a thousand drops at a time. The other thing is Cat 6 as well if you're just going straight cat 6 has the same limitation of 300 meter gigabit So there's not a big difference between the two of them But cat 6 will do 37 meters at 10 gigabit So you can get faster speeds out of it So it does have some potential but only up to 37 meters the particular project we're working on is Requires cat 6a because they need longer than 37 meters to have 10 gigabit It's for a bunch of switching equipment. We're putting in so the cat 6a is nice, but boy just It's a lot everything about it It's this this the weight of this is probably equal to the weight of Both of these put together the cat 5 and the cat 6 just the cat 6a when you're running it you instead of being in a box You also have to think about distribution So we have spools that we hold these on you pull them off with spools as a whole amount of boxes So there's also the more setup time to more work There's a lot more that goes into somebody can't say why I'm more prep work. Yeah, and then it goes a step further So I it takes seconds Corey can probably do these in his sleep and probably has them in a sleep when it comes to Just punch it down these cat 5s. They snap in real easy. They're very much Standard, you know the easy to do punch them down. Here's the keystone. Here's the patch panel No big deal very thin very very thin wire very thin two thing in here on the back You can just push them in with the little tool no problem It gets a little bit more rigid when we go to cat 6, but the spacing is just about identical between these So they you can't really tell the difference doesn't look really close the wires Okay, a little bit tighter on there. So this is your cat 6 once But once you get to cat 6a, it's much much different much much different The cat 6a cable is so heavy and this particularly this particular one is a keystone shielded We have one of the keystones out and I'll show you close up here of what the keystone looks like now These are different because these push in and locked out not all of them are going to be shielded So we have an unshielded keystone on one end and a shielded one at the other This particular piece of cable is a shielded one. It's different than the cable right here This is cat 6a unshielded But if you're in a high RF environment like the if your comm room has got a lot of other electrical Interferences are going in automotive. So we needed this shielded ones on here And also your keystones some of the cat 6a you can buy shielded to and they have a huge huge price difference These are almost six dollars a piece Yeah, the price jumps up quite a bit once you go to these cat 6a connectors So it adds a lot to the job as well So you have to consider that when you're putting this all together and making sure that you have the right ends for the job And the shielding makes another process So you end up taking a lot longer to push these in pull the cable apart The guys are laughing before we started the video watching me trying to cut through the shielding on this Because I I take a I get scissors on a pocket knife just a real quick You can run around with your finger like this and you can pop the cable right off This stuff not so much. It's it's a lot more to work with by the time you do about 12 or 13 of these Your fingers are pretty sore your fingers are really sore on these It's a lot of especially when you have to pull these out like this And put them in you can see just how and that's even heavier shielding is than this It's even heavier than this and you can see the cable it wants to It's just a lot of memory curl back up which causes a lot even with this metal end on it It causes a lot more You know a lot more problems pulling it trying to keep it straight going up into a ceiling tile to pull it to your Destination and that that's part of the struggle with the cat 6a really Yeah, so once you get a bundle of these or as we would do we have a group of them on spools And we're trying to pull a lot at once Everything is amplified so you have to have Larger rings and chases when you're pulling is true It doesn't just pull is easy over things because the cable itself is so rigid It doesn't pull easy So this does increase the price a little bit and this is why the labor prices go up as well as This cable costs about three times with that cat 5e cost down there So it's not a little bit of a change when you start scaling to these larger jobs It's a whole lot more the nice thing is with these we've settled on for the cat 6a's Even if they're not shielded the modular ones become a whole lot easier to work with Because once you go to these whether non-modular where you just punch down and braid the wires in between here You don't want to do that with the cat 6a because it's so thick the modular once you go to these they're great The downside of the modular is they are a little bit bigger so they don't they're not as space conserving So you get a little bit wider and they're about twice as heavy too. They're oh, yeah It weighs a lot more. It's a lot heavier But the nice thing is when you take these out you just pop the individual units out wire them and pop them back in making it really easy to Do the process now they do also make the non-shielded cat 6a patch panels As well and you know, yeah, you can get them a non-shielded They're a pain in the butt to get to get your wire management to come off of that properly because they just kind of want to float Wherever they land and and that's a that's a big deal when you're talking about a cable That doesn't quite ply as good as maybe the cat 5. Yeah And once you get to these jobs where you're doing two or 300 runs and you're doing a series of counter rooms Your fingers are bleeding by the end of each day trying to push them down That's one of the reasons we go once we get to this larger cable going modular makes it way easier I like the non-modular when you're doing with the small ones But once you get to these larger jobs, the other nice thing too because the cables instead of coming in from each side And being braided through they're going to punch straight in there So each cable and I'll show you by putting this one back in the hole Here. Yeah, you gotta hold it for you. Yeah, I got it. Okay It's these things are like notably heavy. Yeah, so we uh, we put it in If I get it in there, right? I got it upside down, don't I? I do. Yeah, I do This is why I hire him because I will put things in wrong and get them stuck. I'm consistent at this here I have a professional pull out for me now You never actually you hire my company and you hire your smart people I hire you don't actually hire me to do the wiring I know where all the wires need to go and that's but it and then when you're doing a cable management now Now that's properly put in you'll see how the wires are going to come straight out So the back of the cat six every one of them is coming straight in like this Another thing too, tom This is modular panel comes with trays that actually slot in here to where you actually have a retainer once you finish One row you put that retainer on and then you zip tie the wire to it And it keeps the wire perfectly straight out away from the back of the cat six a panel Because it they want to twist on you. There's just nothing you can do about it Right. That's another problem you do is that cables want to twist up on you These are some considerations if you want to get into cat six a or you want us to wire cat six a for you These are all the other consideration that goes into here So the extended labor on the back end has to be calculated into the job versus cat 5e Like we can do those in our sleep and standard, you know doing around if you have to put rg45 ends on these two That's another pain in a bud. They're shielded as well But they take probably about five times as long to do one as it does to do like two or three of the cat five ends Preferably we love to put jacks on the end of these as well Because once in these years these are all those considerations you want to you want to start thinking about how bad do you need cat six a I mean if you have unlimited budget, awesome Spool this stuff out. Matter of fact cat sevens available We don't have any of that today in stock. So we're not going to cover that. Uh, but that's available. I know cat Cat a is I believe on the horizon. I seem to spec for it. I don't know when it's coming out Just started talking about it. Yeah, so I don't know when we're getting there But in terms of cat six a it is available. You can get the full You know 10 gigabit connections over this So that's if you have that type of use case like the particular job we're doing To install all these which is in the car dealership networks It's great. They have the budget for it If you don't have the budget for it just stepping down So even all the way to cat five gigabit connections still really relevant and probably will be for a long time A lot of people are fine with that level of speed Because the 10 gigabit connectors on your computer are still a little bit pricey The price doesn't come down that much. It's working there and I know someone's screaming There's but tom you can buy the asus one for less than 100 I know but there's still not standard equipment on most pcs bought here in 2018 But don't worry. We'll do a new video as soon as that does become standard I'm like remember back what we thought gigabit was fast enough All right, thanks that said this wanted to cover these real quick because a lot of people seem to have questions About all the wiring and we're still working on doing some more onsite wiring jobs That comes down to a lot of permission But we will when we aren't busy we'll do the video on everything you have to have the equipment We have just to get all the wiring done like all the tools that we use and everything else So keep watching like subscribe and all that fun stuff and hire us for wiring jobs if you want We're in Detroit and the greater Detroit and tri-county area We'll go down as far as Toledo and we'll even go all the way to Toledo Thanks for watching if you like this video go ahead and click the thumbs up Leave us some feedback below to let us know any details what you like and didn't like as well Because we love hearing a feedback or if you just want to say thanks Leave a comment if you wanted to be notified of new videos as they come out Go ahead and subscribe and the bell icon that lets YouTube know that you're interested in notifications Hopefully they send them as we've learned with YouTube Anyways, if you want to contract us for consulting services You go ahead and hit laurancesystems.com and you can reach out to us for all the projects that we can do And help you we work with a lot of small businesses IT companies Even some large companies and you can farm different work out to us Or just hire us as a consultant to help design your network Also, if you want to help the channel in other ways we have a patreon We have affiliate links you'll find them in the description You'll also find recommendations to other affiliate links and things you can sign up for on laurancesystems.com Once again, thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video


Actually, all these things regarding the structure and management of conversation that goes on in a particular context and adjacency pairs, the performance of rather co-performance of social actions, all these things were discussed to understand whether there is some relationship between conversation analysis and gender. That is the focus of this course throughout. Now, we see in this module what happens. CA tells us which part of our speech is doing gender and which is neutral. It considers gender if relevant to the ongoing talk. Now, the conversation in other words, they never enter the talk with gender assumptions. Gender ideology assumptions, they don't have any role here. But when they talk about gender, if it is relevant, then their talk can have some influence of gender. In other words, when gender is noticed, referred to explicitly in the talk, then you can see that here CA has relationship with gender. Otherwise, there is no relevance of gender, color, age, and other social categories like this in CA because these things come in background, background of the speakers. But in CA, this background has no meaning, has no role in deciding meaning of social actions and conversational actions being co-performed by the communicants. However, when we notice, when we see explicit reference to something that relates with gender, then here gender is involved. Let's see in the following slide how this happens. But before that, we know CA challenges the view that every conversation is color by gender, our stereotypes, our gender order. From this, that gender is involved when only it is noticed. It is explicitly involved. Otherwise, it has no role. So, it shows one thing that is very important that we should never approach every conversation from the point of view of gender or from gender stereotypes. How do we know gender noticing? We take gender as conversational action, our function. First of all, we assume that gender is also a function like invitation, like question as we discussed in a JSNC pair. So, again, we think that gender is also a conversational action like that and it is also co-performed. If so, it will be performed through sequence of utterances which are here called noticing series. The term is different. Otherwise, the meaning and role is the same. Instead of calling is a JSNC pair, we this time are calling it noticing series because this is our focus. If we notice it, if we find it out, that it is noticed, then we can relate our talk with gender. The series consists of now what is in this. Number one, first of all, the participants indirectly, very slightly refer to some gender activity. Preferral mention of that, marginal mention of that and then as conversation moves on, the second thing is gender noticing. Here, the gender talk is prominent and after that, whatever follows, gender talk dominates. This is called gender relevance extended. So, this is how during talk, during conversation, we find out where gender is. For example, as I said earlier, we would see its example how it happens. Now, let's see this dialogue. Again, this is transcription. It is in a copy of the real speech. So, that's why some transcription symbols are involved here. In round brackets, you see the time and when you see a column like math, it is lengthening of sound. It is a kind of stress and if you double column symbols, it is doubling the stress and you prolong the sound. In other words, you see Mary, first convertent and second is Liz. Mary says, look in a short pause, less than one second. It is at the very top of one of those bear bushes there. This repetition of haha shows breathiness. Breathiness means when you gas, that shows your emotional condition. Sometimes in emotions, we gas. We release more air from our mouth. It is shown in this transcription by using H or repeating it. Now, Liz answers to Mary, oh, then there is long pause. Mary again is, I've lost him. Someone was over there. Lisa, Liz, her answer is very tactful, very meaningful that as she knows that Mary has definitely noticed some partner, some person, some male friend, etc. Up to this point, the mention of gender was very, very indirect, preferable. After that, Liz again asks a question, pardon, Mary, I've lost the one that was singing. He was, he was so plain. Now, here overlap, Mary was talking and during her talk, after that, you see square bracket starts. It shows that her statement was not complete. It was interrupted by Liz from, he was singing onward and it goes on up to the second and then third line. Now, see, he was he, he was so plain. Wasn't he? Again pause, more than one second. I'm saying he, it might be a she. This is a kind of laugh. After that, you see equal sign. Equal sign shows when there is no pause between one utterance and the other utterance and they are exactly with adjacent with each other. There is no pause. Lack of pause is shown by this equal sign. Now, this is in the beginning of this utterance that was at the end of the previous utterance. It shows they latch on each other as we latch on doors. Similarly, these utterances latch on each other. Mary says, if it sings, it's he, definitely then it was a male. Only she thinks that males sing in such kind of environment. Now, here the gender involves prominently. Here gender is noticed and beyond that, the whole talk is about that he, this is gender extension, gender relevance. We conclude with the help of this task and talk. CA provides a better approach to analyze conversation being gender relevant or not. How CA does it? It assumes that gender is also a social action. It may be or may not be present in conversation.


with others in the community to tell stories about what's going on in Longmont, and for guests to share their part in those stories. We are coming to you live from beautiful downtown Longmont in the Longmont Public Media Studios with a live studio audience. So anybody who would like to be here as part of the studio audience, no, we typically do this the last Monday of the month. I'm going to be out of town next Monday, so that's why we're doing it this Monday. I didn't want to miss this opportunity to share the story that we're going to share tonight. I'm joined at the table tonight in the conversation by five folks who play seriously significant important roles in the community. Rick Ebers, pastor of the Journey Church, and he's going to talk more about himself in just a few minutes. He's also a chaplain for the Longmont Public Safety Department, and he's going to share part of that story about what a significant date this is, but I'll leave that to you. Mike Butler, former chief of public safety in Longmont for 35 years, been in law enforcement for many years. But a few years ago turned the page, but is no less active in the community, and he's an important part of this story tonight for a variety of reasons. Debbie Setlock is the area 11 assistant governor for Rotary District 5450, and this story tonight is going to start with Debbie sharing what the Rotary Clubs in the Longmont area, which includes NYWAT, are planning, and why people might be interested and want to care about what's coming up on February 15. Wanda Snable and Linda Davies are co-presidents of the American Association of University Women. No one might ask, what would AAUW being, what would they be doing at this table with this group? We're going to get the answer to that because there's so involved in so many worthwhile things in the community, and so you're going to get a chance to talk about why you've embraced this, what we're going to talk about, but other work that you're doing in the community. So I want to say to each of you, thanks for sharing your Monday evening, you know, carbon an hour out of your Monday evening is a big commitment, but more importantly what you do in the community day in and day out, this community is, we enjoy the quality of life in this community because of people like you. So thanks for tonight, more importantly thanks for what you do every day. So about 40 minutes into the hour, we'll see how the questions go, how it flows. We may, at 40 minutes into the hour, give the studio audience members a chance to ask their own questions. So we'll see how it goes, and if they do, audience members will come right over here and I'll get the sign and I'll probably have to repeat those questions because of how we're set up with sound tonight, but to see what's on their minds as well. Debbie, I want to start this with you. As the Area 11 Assistant Governor for Rotary Clubs in this part of Colorado, you're kind of the point person on planning for an event that's coming to the museum on February 15. Talk to us about the event and then we'll just kind of drill down a bit on how Rotary gets involved in this and how does it fit into the bigger picture for Rotary International. What's coming? So the clubs then, not in Longmont, Twin Peaks, Rotary and Longmont Rotary, along with Nywat Rotary, got together wanting to do a collaborative event. And it was pretty, when we got together it wasn't really clear exactly what we wanted as our topic, as our focus, but it wasn't hard to really realize quickly its piece. That's a foundational element that's built into the seven areas of focus for Rotary. And so it just kind of grew from that organic point and it came pretty clear quickly also we need to invite the public to this. This has so much meat and so much richness to it that we wanted to share it to a broader audience. So on February 15th, this is going to be in the museum, the Longmont Museum. What time? It starts at 5.30. So there's no charge for the event. It's open to the public. You can register, but you don't have to. Nobody's going to turn you away at the door unless we exceed capacity. Which is a possibility. Which is a possibility. There's a growing interest in this. So that would be super awesome. There is food provided also. So free food? Yes. Members of the public, if they come at 5.30 to the museum, have a chance to do a little networking, enjoy a heavy order of a bite to eat. And then what should they expect when they're asked to leave the atrium of the museum and go into the auditorium, the Stewart family? You're going to experience a panel discussion. It's going to start with a rotary individual named Jim Halderman. And he is our peace committee chair for our district. Just a wise and rich man with lots of information because rotary has a long history. And he's relating back to World War I. So this is not a new idea, this idea of believing that peace can be possible. One community at a time. It's kind of our little tagline that we built because it does start in, it starts small. It grows into bigger. And so that's kind of how we're, and then there are two other presenters. So there's also partnering for peace. So that's focused on more peace core because that's another partnership that rotary has had been involved in. And then we wanted it to have a little bit more local focus. So we have somebody from restorative justice coming talking. So I guess our hope is that we lay out this entree of information and that we can engage our audience to want more of that. Is this like a one off event? People get a chance to come for a couple of hours, think about peace, and then leave the auditorium back into all of the struggles and conflicts that we experience in society these days. It better not be. It better. I wanted to say something different. Like techno? Yes, exactly. Exactly. No. We really would like it to, in fact the tagline at the very top of our marketing material says a rotary call to action. This is not a one off event. No. We don't want it to be. We want to be able to offer some information from the get go, provide some resource material, and we even have an actual project that we wanted to offer up that night. But I do hope that it's even more expansive than just that one off, that just one event. The one action to which people will be called? Yes. Do you know about that? Sure. So it's, I really can't take credit. It's your creation. Your creation? Yes. Son of a gun. Yes. I have a panel here. We get to talk about something that I'm involved with. How about that? So it's focus groups in trying to enlist within the community an opportunity. We all have our circle of influence, no matter where that is. And so we've created, Tim has, but I'll take, I'll say we created a document that provides some clarity around how you would go about setting up a focus group. What would you ask? And obviously it's focused as peace, peace building in our community. So with that, and then we gather up this information and then I think we hope that it's going to give us the fruits that we can carry forth in more directions. So that's one call to action event. And we're also going to provide some resources for people, because Rotary, coming back to Rotary has lots of experience with peace building efforts. So we're going to provide a lot of information for individuals to see how could I get involved? Just to draw, just to spend a moment more on the action people will be called to that evening, there's an underlying assumption to that call. And that is if we're going to live into a future of greater peace and safety, it will be because of what we do together as a community. It won't be turning to somebody else to do that for us, number one. And number two, it really has to start with what our best hopes are for a future characterized by greater peace and safety. My own experience is that I hear a lot. I'm in conversations frequently, oftentimes on Tuesday nights where what I hear a lot of are worst fears, people driven by what they're afraid of and wanting to avoid whatever that is, and they start to develop strategies to avoid the worst fear, which oftentimes leads to the worst fear being realized. So this call to action is to ask people just to give themselves one opportunity in the next few months to spend a little bit of time envisioning a future that's a little more aspirational and would be moving us towards a future of greater peace and safety. So we'll see who bites on that. We have at least one organization that already has. I think there are some others in town. That's one of the reasons Rick is here. But now I want to kind of expand on that idea. Mike, in all your years in public safety, I've heard you talk so many times about the role and responsibility of the community along with whether it's public safety or other parts of government. You're here because I've heard you reflect on your experience in public safety and what we should all be called to do in moving us in a more aspirational future. Talk about your experience in public safety. What brings you to kind of this conversation, then I'm going to ask you, I'm going to follow in question, kind of drill down a little bit on the idea of social cap and what that means. Well, number one, thanks for the invitation and I am very happy to be part of a community that's going to be doing this at a grassroots level. And so let me just say that I do a lot of presentations all over the place and one of the initial questions I ask a group of people is what makes up a great community? Typically the answers are things like great leadership or great government or great school systems or improved services or specialized expertise. And ultimately I never hear the answer that I believe what makes up a great community and our answer is great citizens. And so that's kind of where I think this project is headed in terms of finding citizens in the community that can take the accountability, make the commitment and take action to make something happen, whether it's in our neighborhoods or their communities. And my own experience with this is sometimes many cities have approached this by passing legislation or by passing laws and trying to figure out how we can create civility through legislation or create peace and some sense of respect through new laws. And in my own experience, my own 40-plus years, I've never ever seen that work in terms of what that is. We can't legislate our future. We really can't legislate transformation. And so those things have to be chosen. They have to be talked about and talked through by citizens, great citizens in a community. But what I have seen work in this community as well as other communities that I've been a part of is that when citizens choose to want to be connected and choose to want to care, that that does produce civility. That does produce that kind of respect, that sense of safety that a lot of people want. That's kind of at the base of who we are and that sense of peace. And so that's been my experience over and over in this community with neighborhoods that were considered relatively rough, crime-ridden, lots of drugs, some gangs. And our approach with that wasn't necessarily to go in and try to clean up the neighborhood as much as try to help build the social fabric and mend the social fabric that's in that neighborhood. And doing that, we brought citizens together in that neighborhood who got to know each other, who began to connect, who began to care for each other. And ultimately, almost every single time what we saw was that they needed fewer public safety resources, they needed the police less, as they no longer called the cops for the issue, they called their neighbors. And that kind of response created that sense of civility, respect, and safety. So that's my own experience. And that's why I'm excited about this project because ultimately it's going to be the citizens of this community that determine if it's going to be peaceful, if it's going to be civil, if it's going to be respectful and safe. And that's been our experience in public safety. So you've talked a lot about social capital. Just unpack that construct, social capital, where it comes from, and why that should matter, just any time to a community, but in this context with this particular project. Yeah, so the phrase social capital was coined by a social scientist named Robert Putnam, who wrote a book called Bowling Alone. And it was based on a lot of research that he did around neighborhoods and communities where parts of a neighborhood or parts of a community in a neighborhood were able to kind of come together, build the trust, build connections, build that sense of caring and compassion for each other. And what happened were all the things that I just spoke about in terms of that community, that neighborhood becoming safer, that neighborhood getting to know each other and taking care of each other's kids and understanding their schedules and when they were home and not home, and just basically taking care and caring for each other. And so that in essence is a lot of what social capital is. It's around connection and care, but it also includes things like the gifts, the talents, the resources, the expertise, and that people have in this community. We have 100,000 people in this community. And as you know, what you were involved in a couple of times, Tim, we were involved in some of our neighborhood walks with myself and Dan Benevitas. And what we learned in those 200 plus walks and talking to 4,000 people is that people have gifts. They want to offer those gifts. The stumbling block is they just don't know how or they just don't even know if they have permission or they don't know whether or not those gifts are really going to make a difference. And so we have literally tens of thousands of people in this community who have gifts to offer, who want to offer those gifts and just don't know how. And one of the roles of, I believe, of municipal government can play at a much greater level is the surfacing, activating, and coordinating of that social capital in a way that just brings out those gifts and brings those gifts to life and brings them to the surface in this community where we can be able to deal with lots of social and health issues that typically have been reserved only for the professionals, only for the service providers. There's lots of people, tens of thousands in this people who want to be involved in it. And I would say the same thing around civility, respect, and safety. There's tens of thousands of people in this community. As we do this one community at a time that wants those things. And so if we can figure out a way to engage literally thousands of people in this effort, we're going to be much closer to that sense of peace, that sense of civility, that sense of respect. And as that social capital increases and is enhanced in our community. So I'm going to interpret what you just said as moving from, we're dependent upon someone else, whether it's elected officials or municipalities or we're moving from, depending on someone else, to create a more aspirational future. And it's up to us. It is, and one of the things we have to make clear to the citizens who are attending this is that you can no longer blame institutions and leaders and in the same breath declare your own innocence anymore. You're responsible. You need to make a commitment. You need to be accountable. And you need to take action. And what maybe this group can do is figure out what those actions can look like over the entire community. Yeah, great. Thanks. Rick, you've been in this community for a long time. You're doing real important work at the journey church. So talk about your work there. If you want to talk. I'm just going to go, can I just go ditto? And then we'll find somebody else. That's one of the things that I've appreciated about having ditto Mike for the last 23 years. These guys, these two guys have worked together for a long time. So I'm not only am I the pastor at the journey, but I've been a volunteer police chaplain, public safety chaplain for the last 23 years as well. And one of the things that actually I really liked about when I first came on board and talking with Mike in that role, he talked about policing in partnership with people. And that idea like this is a partnership. This is a citizenry. This is a partnership. And that's just really stuck with me over these years as not only in my role as a chaplain, but then also my role as a pastor and to be able to go, well, what does it look like? What does it look like to pastor a church in this city? What are we about? What are we after? And what are the things that we can do and where we can partner in this city so that we can have a better community? There's a passage in Jeremiah 29. If you know scripture, you'll hear this line. It's one that's like, I know the plans I have for you, the plans to prosper you. That's usually where people go in that passage.  There is rose in captivity.  Settle down. Have kids. Have grandkids. Get married, right?  But then it says this, pray for the prosperity of your city because if it prospers, you prosper. And that really struck me in that sense of, I have a very particular theological bent, but this idea that says part of what we do as a church and as people in the community and as people who are people of God is our calling is to benefit the city that we're a part of, to be able to not just pray for its prosperity, but work towards prosperity. We're not just talking about economic prosperity here, right? We're talking about a kind of prosperity that takes place when people have this incredible respect for each other and we can work together to be able to draw us into the kind of community where we watch out for each other. So we've been able to do that through a variety of different things. One of the things that we got involved in about 15 or 16 years ago was housing homeless, doing emergency homeless sheltering. Again, I wish I could say that was my brilliant idea and it wasn't, it was somebody came to us, would you do this? And I was like, sure. But what was amazing about it was while we said yes to the use of our facility, the number of people from the journey then that participated in that volunteer effort along with other churches in town. And how that became then a part of who we are. This became a part of our identity that this is one of the things that we do to the point that when we moved from our old building and bought the present building that we have, we literally had 100% of our people that when we said what ministries we want to keep doing, 100% of our people that are like, we want to continue to do homeless sheltering. That's an important aspect to be able to care for the marginalized in our community, to be able to care for those that are, that are the least of these and that's significant. And that was just really, okay, the joke is like it's 96% of the people that said yes. We had four people that were like, you know, we're doing the whole putting stickers on the wall sort of thing. And people were like, I didn't put my sticker there because everybody else had their stickers there. I would have, but I wanted this too. So, unofficially. But the beauty of that was this idea that really kind of bore from how do we be other oriented as people. In fact, this is, as I was thinking about this, one of the things that struck me from a cultural value perspective that on the one hand we're fighting against and what we're actually talking about in this kind of a context and this kind of a conversation. We have a value in America of independence. We grew up with it. It's almost 250 years of this idea of independence. And yet independence is an adolescent value, right? So we go from dependence to interdependence. That's as we become maturing adults, we talk about interdependence. And so there's this one on the one hand we kind of rub up against this cultural value that we have of independence except part of independence is selfishness. Because I'm going to take care of me first. And one of the things that we want to talk about is we're going to talk about a community that is a peaceful community, a community of safety. In fact, one of the things I love is this, the Hebrew word for peace is shalom. And the better definition of shalom than peace is the way it's supposed to be. What we desire is we desire a community where what's supposed to be is that we honor each other. We respect each other. We respect each other as men and women. We respect each other as equals. We respect each other in that context of them. And out of that respect to be able to go no longer, well, how do I protect myself against Mike and get what I want? I say, well, how can I serve you? Knowing that if we're creating that kind of an environment, what I'm getting back is, well, and how can I serve you? How can I serve you? Well, how can I serve you? And so to have these kind of conversations within the context of the broader community, but certainly within the context of the church, this makes so much sense to me because within the context of the church, the definition of love is other-orientedness. And so to have this flow from not just a biblical theological perspective, but to actually have this come out as real tangible application in the way that we live with each other and the way that we love each other, the way that we respect each other so that we create a community in an environment that says, what can I do to make your day better today? And mean that and move that. We create that kind of an environment in this community, taking the social capital that we have. That is a powerful movement that happens one life at a time but becomes incredibly difficult to stop. And you see this project, this project, Peace and Safety as a means. This is one of the multiplicity of means to be able to do that. To be able to have to sit down and have the kind of conversations where we talk about what's our worst fears and it's always easy then to take our worst fears and go run that one. But to be able to stop that and go, hang on, worst fears because we have to recognize and understand what are engaged in. But to be able to stop and move to the side and go, and how can we actually undermine that worst fear by being able to lift up this idea of peace and safety because it's growing from a respect for the other. So for me to be able to hear like, one of those pieces that I looked at, is to be able to go, what's your heart for this? For me, okay ladies, what's your heart? And then for to be able to hear that and say, how can we make that happen? Like for me to be able to say, how can I make that happen? How can we make that happen? There's a beautiful engagement and energy that flows from that. And as I looked at this, Tim, I thought, this is one of those ways to get people around the table or people in a room to be able to speak those things, to be able to get to that point and release that kind of movement in our communities, one person, one group at a time. And what listeners may want to understand, Rick is putting his hand on a description of this project. He's pointing to the possibility that we could just spend a couple of hours of our lives envisioning our best in Heinz-Tobes for a future of greater peace and safety and then spend a little bit of time talking about what are the strategies we could work on together to make that happen? And what's one thing we could do when we leave this room that would help actualize that? I mean, that's really the project, right? And for in a church to be able to bring faith into that conversation is absolutely spot on. And if you're not in a part of a community of faith, but it's a rotary club, which wouldn't, you know, they would keep religion out, but a rotary club could take this on or a group of elected officials or... But there's a, but in that, right, there's a, we talk about a basic foundation of which we say there is value in the person sitting across the room from me. Like there's intrinsic, every person has intrinsic value. I may get there from a theological stance, but other people get there from the very fact that just we're human beings, we're people, and there's value in that person. There's intrinsic value to sit across the room, to sit across the table, have that conversation and have that be kind of a baseline of conversation and build from there as opposed to, now I'm going to sit here and I'm going to see how I can get my way out of this. It's a different framework that I think take the social capital that we have and be able to move that. It just becomes, the intentional movement forward becomes powerful. Anybody who would walk in and listen to Rick and didn't know what he did for living, I say, that meant you'd be a preacher. Sorry. No, no, I'm a... Occupational hazard. I was just being critical. I was just acknowledging how articulate and how clear you are with what you bring to this project and to your work and to your relationship. So, now, AEW is neither a church, it's not a service organization, it's a professional association, but you are involved in so many aspects of this community. So, I want to start by saying again, thank you for being here, but give you a chance just to talk about AEW. What is AEW, if people don't know, in the range of projects of which you're involved and then why you've embraced this particular opportunity. So, who wants to start? We'll start. AEW has been a presence in this community for 75 years, but the organization itself has been around since 1881. And I think we found with this project, there's the realization that with peace and safety, is the method, one of the things that has to be in place for, which allows us to proceed on with the different partnerships and programs we have here in the community. We also want to recognize that our mission is about gender equity for women and girls through education, research and advocacy. And that also means women having security for their families, which is an extension of the work that we want to continue to do. I'm going to come back and drill down a little bit the last part of what you said, Linda, in terms of security for women and their families, because of some other work that I know you're involved with and involved with some things that cross my path. So, I want to talk about why AEW would be involved or interested in this project. Well, I think it has a lot to do with the sense, I like what you said, Rick, about we're kind of all in this world together, and we, you know, the line, you're not, you've got to live here for a relatively long time, maybe, and hopefully, and therefore make sure that you can become a valuable and integral part of whatever is going on in the community. And that, whenever people get to know other people who may be different or who maybe have been thought of as the other, suddenly they're somebody you know, and they're no longer the other. And that value that you were talking about of each individual, I think, is so important. And it's such an important part of what AEW is working for and trying to advocate throughout the community and also, you know, on a national basis and even, you know, to some extent worldwide. And our focus certainly is on women, but some of the, one of the things you were saying, Mike, about the community and getting involved, in so many cases, I bet those neighborhoods were led by women.  And in my own life, most of my own involvement in either social or other kinds of organizations, let me put it this way, I kind of did it, you know, got us involved, and then, you know, my husband came along because very, very, you know, traditional in many ways. But that's how you become a part of a community that is then focused on objectives, such as this peace initiative to be successful. And so, AEW has made some commitments to this project. Talk about what's on the docket, right? What's kind of in the future for AEW. Well, we have decided as a board that we will be setting up focus groups, and it'll be three or four. We've already selected or asked our moderators, who have some experience in this, to lead small groups. And I think March 18th, March 18th is our day. And we're all going to do it in a private residence. And, you know, we're just, we're going to follow some of the suggestions that is part of that peace initiative or what your piece of paper there that has so much value, I think, to start with what do we hope for? What do we want? And how can we get a little start on making it successful? So, Rotary's going to kick this off. Maybe the Rotarians will pick up the opportunity. Sounds like the journey church is going to embrace this as an opportunity. Mike, I happen to know in your neighborhood, I don't know that you're responsible for it, but I know who is in your neighborhood, reaching out to organize some of your neighbors in this conversation. I think the person doing that is in the audience too. She is. So, I know we have neighborhood groups, and here we have a professional association that's already put on the calendar, March 18th, is an opportunity. And I think that's going to be coed, is it not? Oh, absolutely. It's going to be couples, right? So, it'll be fun. It'll be a social kind of experience as well as. An opportunity to share what your aspirations are for a community of greater peace and safety. Well, and also, just let me mention on this coed thing, men are now invited to join AAUW. Just because it still says that does not mean we are exclusive. Well, before we leave AAUW, are there other more specific projects you want to share that you're... I just think the community, if people know about AAUW, that's great. If they do, maybe they know about some of the things you're involved with, the specific projects. But if they don't, they certainly would be surprised. But I don't know, both how AAUW, how you leave your fingerprints or influence the life of the community. And I know I'm a beneficiary of, because I'm involved in another project that benefits dramatically, seriously from your work. Well, in your case, is the Early Childhood Coalition or the Early Childhood Alliance, I think is the new name for it. Yes, but we've also... There's always been a public policy aspect to all of the things that AAUW has been involved in nationally and on a local level.  That was, I believe, at front range. Yes, it was a panel, and you were not there. You were on another panel. I was on a panel for AAUW. Yes. That was the precursor to getting involved in our Early Childhood work. Exactly. We've also been very supportive financially of community action grants. We give a certain amount of money every year to nonprofits within the community who are working on things like Elko Mitag got one last year. So a number of organizations, usually centered around children's schools, again, maybe to some extent the other. And then we have scholarships, have worked diligently to empower women, particularly in their further education. There was a speaker at the Longmont Community Foundation who was one of our wonderful scholarship winners years ago. She's now teaching. Actually, she's a counselor. And so we have had great success with that over the years. Can we add about the safe shelter? Oh, yes. Go ahead. 501c3 here in town. We have an immigrant. We also partner with Front Range Community College. We have ladies that do tutoring, ESL, and we have a food pantry that we contribute to on a regular basis to try to meet their needs, whether it be food or toiletries or other things that students make. As a teacher, listen to Debbie, what you're offering the community, what Rotary Clubs are offering, Rick, the work that you do both as a shelter and then the ministry, the outreach you do in AUW. No wonder Longmont's a good place to live. And potentially can take to another level who we, who we, the future we want to live into. Now we promised audience members that we get to this point in the program if they have questions. So if anybody in the audience has a question they'd like to ask right over there so I can see who it is. If you have one, this, here's your, we'll see if anybody has a question. Here's your advanced organizer. Once we see if there are questions from the audience, I'm going to ask you all, I'm going to, we're going to wrap this up by asking you all to share some of your best hopes for a future, for a future, another future for greater peace and safety. So that's your advanced organizer. We have, we have a question. We have an audience member with a question. So as you have been formulating this wonderful project, I wonder what some of the things that came to your mind were as you envisioned a great future for Longmont, what would you, what would you add? Ah, well that was the advanced organizer. Let's hold that one. I want to come back to that because that's how I want to wrap it up. But I see a Shaquille over here, Shaquille. Welcome, question. Tim, you used the phrase peace and safety. Yeah. And then Mike discussed the need for civility and the reduction of crime. It sounds like you're talking about policing, which is often only peaceful if it's not happening to you. Could the panel discuss what they mean when they say they're calling for peace? Yeah, right. Who wants to start? Well, I definitely wasn't talking about police. Let me just repeat the question. Okay. In the event that not everybody heard it. The question was, is this about policing, right? If you think about peace and safety, it does, does that equate to more policing? And the comment was, you experience more peace and safety typically when you're not involved with the police, right? Is that fair Shaquille? Yeah. Yeah. So pick it up for me. The case I think we're trying to make here is that if the citizens of this community take on this initiative and become and embrace it, that you'll need less of what we've tried before. The things that haven't worked in terms of trying to bring about peace and safety, including the police, including government, including all the professional service providers, because there will be this immense gathering of great ideas and great care and connection amongst thousands of people in this community. And then as I said before, what we want are we want people to rely on each other. And that's the sense of health that I think we want in our community. But that also means more safety. And so it probably does mean less crime. That was my own observation from being a police person in this community for a quarter of a century. Anybody else want to try to respond as you keels? Yeah, I'd like to. So I've got the rotary hat on totally for this. So rotary does have a lot of material, a lot of information, a lot of history, like I say, dealing with the interest in peace since World War I. Well, we had World War II, so we obviously haven't quite mastered that whole thing. But anyway, in my studies, I came across kind of a concept. You articulated it, you know, grassroots, but it was called negative peace, which is it's fear of violence or action of violence. There's that kind of when we talk about peace and we're trying to figure out, what are we talking about when we say peace? Well, the Institute for Economics and Peace, which is one of the partnering agencies that Rotary works with, has kind of drilled down a little bit into trying to understand that. So there's this negative peace concept, which is fear of violence and actual violence. And then there's positive peace, which is really looking at the attributes of peace. And you guys articulated it when you talk about community. So they identified like eight pillars of peace as it looks at that positive peace concept, which is neighboring, whether that's a neighbor next door or that's a neighboring country. They looked at civility within the structure of the community. And I can't think of the six other ones. It'll come. But it was powerful information. So I don't know if that helps to answer your question a little bit about where Rotary is coming at in terms of its idea of understanding of peace. It's not policing. It's really persons and focused on that. The predicate for the project that we're talking about as the action to which people will be called on February 15th, is almost the opposite of policing, right? And that's not, I say almost the opposite. That's not to suggest that policing doesn't have a role in society, it does. But the predicate is we will not live into a future of greater peace and safety if we are dependent on policing to get there or legislation to get there or ordinances to get there or government. There's a role for government. But if we are, but if we're going to live into a more aspirational future, it has to be really driven by kind of the interdependence brick that you were talking about earlier. In fact, as Mike was making his comments, I was thinking it is from dependence on them, the government, or some set of elected officials to solve my problems for me to, how do we solve these together? Because it isn't going to, we are not going to live into that kind of a future if we aren't clear or at least a little more aspirational and willing to work together to make it happen. So it's a great question. Shaquille, thanks for the question because it's just, this initiative is just the opposite of dependence on the police department or really anybody else. Let me, let's go back to the question that our guest asked or our audience member, you're our guest. But they're also good. About your aspirations, your best hopes for a future of greater peace and safety. Well, you want, we'll start, I don't want to put anybody in the spot. Well, we'll start on this side. Yeah. I think if we can let people know with working together with other organizations and that by working together we're stronger and the benefits of working together will make a difference. So your, your best hope is that this, this will give way to, to greater interdependence or connections within the community. And organizations work together to achieve that. Well, and mine is that we have a strong participating community because it's very lonely if you're out there all by yourself. But if you have a lot of participation by organizations, by individuals, by leaders, that can make a tremendous difference in the willingness of more people to come forth. And so that's my hope that this will encourage a lot of participation and then with a lot of participation we become a much more welcoming community and that all leads to a much more peaceful, a much safer, a much calmer environment for everyone. In some ways, as I listened, one of that, that's almost like back to the future. You're talking about moving, well, but I think that's important to recognize moving us forward to the, to the kind of connections that we all knew existed once upon a time and seem to be so fractured and fragmented in today's society. Well, people do call me a Pollyanna. But I do think that there is, we have to have hope. Otherwise, you know, why bother? If I thought, if I thought that was Pollyanna, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Oh, I know. So it's not Pollyanna. It's the only option we have, right? I agree. Is if you think about Shalom, the only way to get there, it won't be through who regulates us. No, it will be through the commitments and the sacrifices. The relationship that we have. The relationship that we have. The relationship that we have. The relationship that we have. Debbie? Well, it's, you know, kind of spinning right off of what you just said. To believe that piece is possible. Well, I do. And, you know, I have some personal experiences around my belief in that and I won't go into that today. But I'm really so happy that, you know, going back to Rotary again, that Rotary is an organization that there's AUW and other organizations, the people at the table, the group in this audience, we believe that piece is possible. So it's unpacking it a little bit, keeping it not just Pollyanna, so we don't have to apologize for our, you know, people calling this that, but that we really rally more to that belief and not intellectualize it, but study it a little bit, break it down, look at the pieces of it and say, there it is, right there for us. Yes, we have these things we're scared of, but we have things that are strong, foundational elements that we can see and build on. That's my hope. So some of the inertia that we deal with every day is somewhat betrayed by what the media delivers to us. They can really dramatize the human condition, they can market fault, they can market blame, they often exploit the wounds of a community or the wounds of people and look for that kind of of a retributive responsibility. And so a lot of people are kind of driven by, not just the mass media, but by our social networks. And so there's all that inertia out there, but my mantra It does generate fear, but it also generates this idea that we ought to see things through the lens of the deficiencies and seize things as problems. And you've heard me say this before, Tim, that the moment we begin to see our community less as a problem to be solved and more as a possibility, that's the shift that I think needs to take place in the conversations. And so my add-on to this is that the new change model in this effort ought to be is how do we leverage the goodness that exists? How do we leverage all the things that are working well? And I used to say that for every bad thing that happens there's a thousand good things that happen in this community. And when I was in my job, I knew more than anybody else in this community all the bad things that happened, the child molestations, the sexual assaults, the domestic violences. But I also knew from living in this community for 40-plus years that this community, what was pervasive in this community was all of its goodness. And so how do we expand? How do we leverage and take advantage of that goodness in a way that it can begin to basically crowd out all the things we don't want to see? Whether that's in a human being, whether that's in an organization or whether that's in a community or a country. The change model has to be not seeing things through the lens of deficiencies and there's a problem to be solved, but seeing things through the lens of what's good and what's possible. From deficit to abundance. There you go. From scarcity to abundance. Or from scarcity to abundance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rick. You know, one of the things that I've been a part of over the years has been the community development world, right? There's this A, B, C, D in the community development. Asset-based community development. So often we go and like, you think somebody goes into an incredibly poor situation like Haiti or something like that and they go in and you're like, and all you're doing is looking for what they don't have compared to what we do. And when you do that, you always end up with short-sighted solutions in order to be able to understand how this community can actually move forward if it's sort of looking for its assets. What assets are there? And it's asset-based community development. It's one of the things that just, you know, being in your sphere over these years kind of moved me one step forward. I put these pieces together. So he's like, one of the beautiful things that we get to do is we've, to lament the loss of the ability to have conversation and to understand where somebody else is coming from and be able to understand their point of view and why they've gotten there. You know, why am I here, right? I'm the child of immigrants, right? That's critical to my story and to understand my perspective in this world. Others have that as well. Or others don't have that. I've got other friends who've been in this country for their family goes back 300 years. They view this country very differently than I do. You know, my history in this country goes back to 1963. That's a, but we don't understand that if we come with a bunch of assumptions. So to be able to have an opportunity to have conversation and as part of the conversation to be able to hear where others are coming from and just listen and learn and respect that piece and be able to go, oh, that's why they have some of the fears that they have. Oh, but that's also why they have some of the aspirations they have. So one of my aspirations is, again, over the long haul, right? To be able to kind of have to be able to have the kind of community that we hope for. Doesn't happen three weeks from now. Right? It doesn't happen even by summer. This is, this is setting a direction and saying this is what we're going to choose to do with the assets that we have to move forward over the next generation so that the generation behind us that's coming in, this is their normative. And out of that normative, then they move the next piece forward. So the next generation has a normative about how we engage each other in this kind of dialogue of respect and mutuality toward the way that it could be. That's my hope. I look at this thing. Shalom. So I look at this thing and I go, my aspiration is that 20 years from now when I'm watching something like this for the next generation's leaders, I get to hear that we did something today that affected our kids and the next generation of leaders that are coming behind us in this community. Well, I can't tell you how much I appreciate who you are, what you do and the fact that you're here tonight. Number one. Number two, the prospect that anybody in the community and obviously we have a number of people in the community who would embrace an opportunity to spend even just a few hours rather than perseverating and trying to avoid worse fears, to acknowledge our worst fears are possible but so are our best hopes. We just need to be clear on what they are and develop our own strategies then for moving forward not to avoid what we're afraid of but to achieve what we aspire to together. That's what this project is about and I so I'm so grateful for you helping to articulate that. The Rotary Club is inviting the community to the beginning of something on February 15th, not the end of it, the beginning of something and we'll see where it takes us as a community. So I hope this studio audience would join me in welcoming or in thanking this group and I will say Longmoners, that is your backstory on Peace is Possible One Community at a Time.


Bemidji State University is hoping to get their students prepared for the career world by hosting free practice interviews. Every year, BSU will bring in professionals, alumni and volunteers from the community to spend some time mock interviewing students. The interviews are one-on-one and last for about 30 minutes long. Then at the end of the interview, the students get critiqued. The professional will even take a look at the student's resume and offer some feedback as well. You know, for them to get that experience and hear those questions that they might hear from a future employer and kind of practice, you know, answering those questions and seeing how their experience applies to future jobs is really important. It feels real since you have to get dressed up for the mock interview and the person is usually like a business person in town, so they're dressed up too. So it feels very real. It just helped boost my confidence too. I got a lot of good feedback with a lot of things that I can work on. I'm interested in being an interviewer or participating in the university's upcoming career fair can contact BSU's career services. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Yo, what's going on LeafreNation? It's LeafreBack again and welcome back to the channel. Today we have another pack opening But this time I opened up some more packs about 6k up points worth of packs over on my twitch channel So this is a little highlight slash recap of what I pulled in boys. This pack opening was wild Absolutely wild. So if you guys are jealous or you're like, oh, I missed a stream where you pull all this good Make sure to go follow my twitch. The link is in the description I do stream a good amount now that NHL 21 is out So if you're not following me over there, go ahead and follow me over there Just stay notified when I do go live And it was guys here is the recap of all the great stuff I pulled in man. What a pack opening Yeah, let me record this just in case we pull anything here, okay first pack here Hopefully we get something and like I said after this we can get a Mario or a Gretzky I wanted for the Tang a team builder Olson, that's the first player James Neal Tyler Bozak former Leaf. I love Tyler Bozak No, Hanna Finn. I mean, that's not bad. Ooh, and I need this synergy. No, but I need a right-handed. No, this works Good pull. He's going on my team 480s in a row. Yeah, you don't like to see it, but it is what it is Jordan Stahl doubt. He gets used Colin Miller Niko Koybu David Perron Dude, I've yet to pull a purple tint tinted player like an 86 plus I would love I would love to pull one. So if we can make that happen today EA that'd be great. Oh This is good, this is real good Maurice Richard, okay Okay All right, we'll take that that is huge and he had speedster to if we get that activated. He's fast. We like that Maurice W. Wow. Yeah, I like that Timo Meyer. Okay. Good pack. This is a W. I'm not sure how much he goes for it We probably use them to be honest. We'll take that. I'm really happy I hit that record button because like that that Maurice pulls pretty cool Jack Johnson legend this guy's so good a hockey Brandon's hard Sean Burke, let's go. Love those cars, man. Oh mark wreck. Okay. That's the mark wreck. He's pretty cool But like these cars are so Cody CC leaf legend. Well, maybe not a leaf legend anymore Martinez Jack Johnson elite defenseman exactly. That's what I'm saying. I'm getting a Bokov. That's pretty cool I'm not gonna use him. That's pretty cool. We're pulling elite defenseman in this pack here boys Stevens Jake Allen, dude, I just want to see a purple tape dude. Oh my god Lastic we're gonna what we have what five more cards left here.   Are we? Hey the king I'm gonna yeah, I'm getting so many elite defenseman. Okay We'll we'll continue with these I think we get three of these too. So Clayton Keller Decent car. I don't know if you make the team, but like that's a decent card Dude, hopefully I have enough to make like three more Icon collectibles so I can try and get a Sunday That'd be pretty dope Let me say I lost one of these spets is an actual lease legend. He is Like I wasn't trolling I actually love Jason Spetza. Whoo Special card only matter. I don't think he makes a team, but that's cool. Oh, no, we have one more of these nice Nice we might actually have enough to try and do a Sunday and set to Brian Elliott. Nice Whoo Patrice Hello That's nice. You like that. We like that. This is a good card 89 face offs We're never losing a face off again Patrice Bergeron good pack opening. This would be a good video. I'm happy I recorded. We like that All right, we're gonna um, I'm gonna need a breather. I'll be right back chat 2000 years later. Are you kidding me? What a pack What a pack I was gonna buy him before you guys saw me looking on the market and now I don't gotta buy him That's a huge dub Mariner Bergeron and Brian Elliott like let's go Anyways guys if you did enjoy this pack opening make sure to drop a like on it If you guys are new around here, make sure to hit that subscribe button We are very close to three point two case subscribers and again If you're not following my twitch the link will be in the description Make sure to go over there and follow me and make sure to join the community discord as well Anyways guys like I said that as if this video thing is very much for watching


Hello everyone, Raif DeRozzi here, and this is your weekly roundup for the week of March 4th through March 10th. Today I'll be going through 15 articles covering topics ranging from the role that gut health might play in COVID severity in people living with HIV, accelerated aging in women living with HIV, a new approach to fighting HIV using RNA, and much more. I won't be reading the articles per se, but I will give you a brief summary and sometimes throw in my own opinion or commentary. If you'd like access to the complete articles, all links will be available in the description box below. Okay, let me fix this chair because I'm feeling a little low right now. Okay, that's better. And we're back. Since I haven't been able to do a dookie update yet, I haven't done so many videos recently because there's just been so much going on. Just know that dookie is doing great. He's doing really well. He recovered really well after the surgery. The vet treated him so well and gave him great medications to prevent side effects from the anesthesia and keep him comfortable. I was actually really shocked by how quickly he bounced back and was behaving like his normal puppy self. They removed the mast cell tumor, and it was biopsied. I believe it was noted as a grade two, which is good because it's not aggressive. And he also had very clean margins, which just means that they were able to remove enough of the tissue surrounding the tumor that they're confident they removed all the cancer cells. A big shout out and thank you to Peter Krab for a $58 super thanks on my dookie video. Tan Anderson for $30 super thanks on the Eric Verden interview and $20 super thanks for the last HIV news video I did a long time ago. David Stewart for $30 super thanks on the last HIV news video as well. And Robert Zahn, sorry if I'm mispronouncing that for $2 super thanks on the Jeff Taylor interview. I really appreciate you all very much for helping me to support my continued work on this channel. Okay, let's dive in. Number one forms Joe Rogan provides a platform to HIV AIDS denialists. Recently on Joe Rogan's podcast, a guest, Brett Weinstein claimed that HIV doesn't cause AIDS. Rogan also questioned the link between HIV and AIDS, suggesting party drugs as a possible cause. Weinstein known for his controversial views has now ventured into HIV AIDS denialism, arguing that other factors like drug use, poverty and malnutrition cause AIDS, not HIV. However, the scientific consensus is very clear. HIV is the virus responsible for AIDS. While other factors may worsen the condition, HIV is the primary cause that denialism has dangerous consequences leading to unnecessary deaths and misguided policies as seen in South Africa's past. Today, thanks to antiretroviral therapies, HIV is a manageable condition. And questioning its role in AIDS can be perilous. It's crucial to rely on scientific evidence rather than discredited theories to combat HIV AIDS effectively. And I believe Weinstein also quoted from RFK Jr., Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent book where he talks about HIV AIDS denialism as well. I'm also thinking about creating a separate video that is specifically focused on HIV AIDS denialism so we can really dig into that. And I know that there's documentaries made and books to really be able to kind of like pull apart that misinformation and get it down to some facts so that you all are armed with those facts. If you ever get, you know, cross paths with this kind of conspiracy theories and whatnot. Alright, number two, the advocate. DOJ sues Tennessee over HIV related discrimination in anti-sex work law. The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Tennessee and its Bureau of Investigation alleging discriminatory enforcement of the state's aggravated prostitution law against people living with HIV. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clark emphasized the targeting individuals based solely on HIV status violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. The law imposes severe penalties on those with HIV, including lengthy imprisonment and lifetime registration as sex offenders, even for misdemeanor offenses. The lawsuit challenges these practices arguing they discriminate against HIV positive individuals and failed to consider modern advancements in HIV treatment. Hello, the DOJ seeks to end the enforcement of the law, remove affected individuals from the sex offender registry and provide compensation for those harmed. Legislative efforts in Tennessee aim to address these issues with one bill proposing to remove the sex offender registration requirement for those convicted under the law. The lawsuit represents a significant step in combating discrimination against people living with HIV in the criminal justice system. Number three, medical express. Researchers are using RNA in a new approach to fight HIV. During the COVID-19 pandemic, mRNA technology proved its worth by swiftly delivering vaccines. Now, Immanuel Ho, a pharmacy associate professor at the University of Waterloo, has developed a groundbreaking nanomedicine loaded with small interfering RNAs, also known as SI RNA, to combat HIV through gene therapy. Those SI RNAs capable of regulating gene expression demonstrated a significant 73% reduction in HIV replication, published in the Journal of Controlled Release, the study unveils a pH sensitive nanomicrobicide that reactivates autophagy, the body's cellular defense mechanism and inhibits HIV infection in vaginal CD4 plus cells, targeting both the virus's ability to block autophagy and its entry into cells via the CCR5 gene. This nanomedicine offers a promising approach to prevent sexual transmission of HIV. Ho emphasizes the importance of further optimizing the process and understanding autophagy's role in combating viral infections, which could also inform strategies to address antimicrobial resistance. Number four, village report. No backup plan. Funding for HIV self-testing kits ending in March. The Funding for Canada's self-test HIV program, which has proven crucial in addressing rising HIV infections, is set to expire by the end of March, raising concerns among frontline workers and community members. The program known for providing INSTI self-test kits has played a significant role in connecting with individuals who may not seek traditional testing methods due to privacy concerns or stigma. Despite its success in reaching marginalized communities and reducing barriers to testing, there are no plans for further funding beyond March 2024, leaving many wondering about the future of HIV testing accessibility. The self-testing kits have been praised for their effectiveness and have reached diverse populations, including indigenous and racialized communities, sex workers, and people who inject drugs. Frontline workers emphasize the importance of extending funding to ensure continued access to testing, treatment, and prevention efforts, especially in regions with high HIV diagnoses rates like Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Number five, iNews. Patients forced to share anti-HIV drug PrEP amid massive jumps in STIs. As the demand for sexual health services surges and waiting times for appointments lengthen, patients at risk of HIV are resorting to sharing preventative medication like pre-exposure prophylaxis and self-prescribing antibiotics, raising concerns among sexual health organizations. The inability to access appointments at sexual health clinics due to increased demand has led to individuals to seek alternative solutions, such as purchasing PrEP online or sharing medication with others. However, this practice poses risks, including the potential for missed wraparound care and inadequate testing for HIV and other STIs. With sexual health services stretched to their limits and cases of STIs on the rise, there's a pressing need for improved access to PrEP and comprehensive sexual health care. Number six, Forbes. Progress stalling for children living with HIV report shows. Over the past two decades, remarkable progress has been made in the global fight against HIV AIDS, with millions of lives saved in hospital wards once filled with patients now empty due to lifesaving antiretroviral drugs. However, a new UNICEF report raises concerns that this progress is slowing down, particularly in preventing mother-to-child transmission. While countries like Botswana, Thailand and Rwanda have made significant strides in eliminating this transmission, many challenges persist, including gaps in testing, treatment and care, especially for children. Additionally, gender inequalities and discrimination contribute to the vulnerability of women and girls to HIV infections. Despite these challenges, there is hope through strong leadership, innovative approaches to testing like those seen in Rwanda and continued efforts to address gender disparities in health care access. Number seven, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research. New drug to treat HIV might also be used to block infection altogether. Exciting research led by the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research and Gilead Sciences unveils a potential breakthrough in HIV prevention with Lenocapavir, a drug that may only need to be taken twice a year. Initially approved for treating multi-drug resistant HIV, Lenocapavir's new role as a preventive could revolutionize HIV prevention efforts, particularly for people who inject drugs. The research conducted in monkeys demonstrates Lenocapavir's effectiveness in blocking HIV transmission, offering hope for a more accessible and reliable prevention option. Gilead Sciences is now planning a clinical trial to further explore Lenocapavir's potential as a long-acting HIV preventative treatment. This development marks a significant step forward in the ongoing fight against HIV AIDS. Number eight, U.S. Embassy in Zambia. U.S. government delivers first shipment of injectable PrEP to Zambia. Zambia received its first shipment of injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis medicine for HIV prevention, becoming the second country globally after the U.S. to offer injectable PrEP outside of research settings. The donation of 14,850 vials of injectable PrEP known as cabotegravir long-acting will protect 2,000 Zambians against HIV for a year. This initiative supported by the U.S. government and Zambia's Ministry of Health aims to provide equitable access to urban and rural populations. Injectable PrEP offers two months of HIV protection between injections, offering an alternative to daily pills for those at risk. This donation underscores the commitment of both governments to expand HIV prevention options and improve access. Number nine, Pink News, a shocking number of straight Brits believe they can't contract HIV. HIV testing week in the U.K., organized by the Terence Higgins Trust, marks a decade of promoting HIV awareness and testing. Despite medical advances like PrEP and government goals for zero HIV transmissions by 2030, heterosexual individuals constitute nearly 40% of new HIV cases, challenging the misconception that only certain groups are at risk. A study by Newfoundland Diagnostics reveals concerning attitudes among straight Brits, with 3% believing they can't contract HIV and many neglecting testing due to misconceptions or lack of access. To address this, Newfoundland Diagnostics offers private HIV screening tests online and in Tesco stores, aiming to dispel myths and emphasize the importance of knowing one's status in combating HIV. Number 10, AIDS map, unequal and inadequate. U equals U communication from South African healthcare providers. A recent study in South Africa highlights a concerning lack of awareness and skepticism among people living with HIV regarding the undetectable equals untransmittable or U equals U message, which states that those with undetectable viral loads cannot transmit HIV through sex. Despite being home to the largest number of people with HIV globally, South Africa faces challenges in effectively communicating and implementing U equals U in primary healthcare settings. Healthcare providers express fears that promoting U equals U could lead to increased condomless sex, emphasizing condoms as the primary prevention method despite evidence supporting U equals U. This disconnect between healthcare providers and patients underscores the need for clearer messaging and education to empower individuals living with HIV to make informed decisions about their sexual health. This is like a big example of healthcare really, really dropping the ball, not taking the science and running with it, but kind of rejecting it in a way and trying to impose condoms on people and not meeting the community where they are, what their needs are. And as a result of that, things going awry. I mean, we see it time and time again, and it's unfortunate that we have to repeat these same types of mistakes. Number 11 Helio, invasive meningococcal disease risk sixfold higher for people with HIV. Despite recommendations for people with HIV to receive the meningococcal vaccine since 2016, they still face a significantly higher risk of invasive meningococcal disease or IMD compared to those without HIV. A recent study spanning from 2009 to 2019 revealed that the incidence of IMD remains six times higher among individuals with HIV. Shockingly, most of these individuals had not received the recommended vaccine or had an unknown vaccination status. Even after the 2016 recommendation, a significant portion of IMD cases in people with HIV occurred, indicating a need for better implementation of vaccination strategies and continued monitoring of IMD in this population. I remember shortly after my diagnosis of HIV and then consequently AIDS, that was one of the first things that my primary care doctor was talking to me about was, you know, can you touch your chin to your chest without, you know, having a lot of pain or stiffness in your neck? That's kind of like a sign or symptom. And then also making sure that I was vaccinated for that right away. Number 12, Sine Mag, study reveals accelerated aging in women living with HIV. Stephanie Schau, I'm not sure if I'm saying that right, an assistant professor at Rutgers School of Public Health led a study revealing that women with HIV experience accelerated DNA aging, potentially leading to poor physical function. This study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases highlights the unique challenges faced by women with HIV as they age and suggests tailored interventions may be necessary for improved health outcomes. The research conducted on a sample of 195 HIV positive women aged 40 to 60 compared them to a group without HIV, finding that women with HIV aged faster than their chronological age. The study underscores the importance of understanding the molecular mechanisms behind accelerated aging in HIV patients to develop targeted interventions and improve their quality of life. Yeah, my follow up kind of question to this would be, are they or they have they studied the impacts of things like diet and exercise and overall well being and sleep and hydration on being able to mitigate the impacts of HIV on DNA aging and or reversing those effects because you know if you saw my interview with Eric Verdin, I'll put a card up here if you haven't seen it about aging. There's so much that we control over in our lives that can help mitigate aging and even reverse aging in a lot of ways. Number 13, South China Morning Post, India's HIV infected children live at Haven thanks to a man's happy mission. Ravi Kant Bapadal, I'm not sure if I'm saying that correctly affectionately known as Baba, I can say that, runs a sanctuary in India's Maharashtra state for children and adults living with HIV, aiming to provide them with care and support. Despite facing initial opposition from locals, Bapadal preserved and built a happy Indian village, a thriving community where residents engaging in farming activities can lead fulfilling lives. Many of the children who contracted HIV from their parents found hope and opportunities at the sanctuary. With access to free antiretroviral therapy, residents' life expectancy has significantly increased and some have even started families with HIV-free children. Bapadal's ultimate goal is to see the end of HIV in India, hoping to one day close down the sanctuary for good. And it just goes to show that not just providing ARVs and healthcare, but a holistic approach and really making people value their lives and have self-respect and self-esteem can do so much good than rather than just like throwing billions of dollars at something. Number 14, Medical Express. Case study features successful treatment of the oldest patient to achieve remission for leukemia and HIV. City of Hope, a renowned cancer research and treatment center made history by treating the oldest person to be cured of blood cancer and achieve HIV remission after a stem cell transplant from a donor with a rare genetic mutation. Paul Edmonds, 68, received the transplant and is now considered cured of leukemia and HIV. This breakthrough published in the New England Journal of Medicine highlights the potential for curing HIV in older adults with blood cancers using reduced-intensity chemotherapy before a stem cell transplant. Edmonds' case showcases the success of personalized treatments tailored to address age and HIV duration. City of Hope's expertise in treating older adults with cancer and HIV played a crucial role in his remission. The treatment involved a reduced-intensity chemotherapy regimen and finding a donor with the rare genetic mutation that confers resistance to HIV. While Edmonds experienced mild side effects, his achievement of full chimerism signifies the success of the transplant. City of Hope continues to advance research in cellular immunotherapy aiming to develop stem cells resistant to HIV and CAR T cell therapy to control the virus. I actually interviewed Paul Edmonds on this channel, so I'll put a card up to that if you haven't seen it yet as well. Number 15, last article, AIDS map. Answer to COVID-19 severity in people with HIV may lie in the gut. Researchers in Japan have found that individuals with HIV who contract severe COVID-19 experience significant alterations in their gut bacteria, which can persist for months after infection. These changes may contribute to both the severity of COVID-19 symptoms and the development of post-COVID symptoms or long COVID. The study, while preliminary and in need of confirmation through larger studies, suggests that examining the gut microbiome could offer insights into managing severe COVID-19 and long COVID. Previous research has shown correlations between specific gut bacteria populations and COVID-19 severity and post-COVID symptoms. In this study, individuals with HIV and severe COVID-19 exhibited reductions in anti-inflammatory bacteria types, potentially exacerbating the inflammatory effects of viral infection. Moreover, those experiencing long COVID demonstrated sustained decreases in gut bacteria diversity. Larger studies are required to validate these findings and explore their broader implications, including whether certain microbiome characteristics predispose individuals to more severe COVID-19, especially among gay and bisexual men or people with HIV. It's funny that I'm reading this article now because last fall, as some of you know, I had a lot of issues in summer to fall. I had a lot of issues with gas and that was one of the reasons why I decided to experiment by switching from Victoria to the new drug, Dovado, since it's only two drugs instead of three and hopefully maybe seeing if it had an impact. I did notice after a month or so a market difference in the amount of gas I have, I still have a lot of gas. I've always had a lot of gas, but now it's like more manageable and it's more like to what I'm used to, whereas before it was kind of getting out of control and it was really bothering me. So it could have been the Dovado that helped it or perhaps there was some, or it could be a combination of the two, maybe the impacts of having COVID and long COVID and how that may have impacted my gut microbiome. Anyway, so I told my doctor about it at the time and I have totally been putting it off, but she said that I could go in and get the materials to take home with me and to do a stool sample so that they can check my microbiome and see what's going on there and if there's anything that's treatable. So I actually just got that today. I have it here and I'm gonna do that, do my duty and then bring it back next week and then I don't know how long it takes to get the results, but of course once I find out I'll share it with you. Links to all these articles can be found in the description box below this video if you would like to join my new mailing list. I'm just starting this now. There's a link in the description box below. Once I get a good number of folks on the email list, I will start putting together, I'm thinking a quarterly email blast with updates on me, with teasers of what's to come, some news, highlights, events, maybe some upcoming clinical trials, perhaps share some thoughts on the state of things and some fun surprises. As usual, it's totally free and you get to stay better connected with me and my goings-on. So send me your email so I have it. This week I am in preparations for the Elton John AIDS Foundation Gala and Academy Award viewing party tomorrow on the night of the Academy Awards March 10th. It's an incredible annual event. Well, when you're watching this it'll be today when it comes out. It's an incredible annual event, red carpet, dinner, fundraiser, and Academy Award viewing after party and healthcare advocates international was the sponsoring organization that was kind enough to invite me as well as Carl Schmidt from Plus Life as some of you are familiar with. Bo is going to be coming with me. He's going to be my Plus One and I'm really excited to share with you my red carpet look that once again Victor Luna was kind enough to design a red carpet look for me. He did my last one on the red carpet at the GLAAD Awards in 2022 when I won an award there and in fact kind of cool this time Victor Luna will also be going with his Plus One and so hopefully we'll be on the red card at the same time. So if I'm talking to press I can show them my look and then also have the designer right there to kind of make that connection as well. If you're not familiar with Victor Luna he was on Project Runway. He's also living with HIV and so this is such a cool like creative you know universe coming together collaboration that we've been doing and I hope to continue with him because he's a really amazing person. I'm going to bring my little DJI Pocket 3 that I just got and I'm excited about. Where did I put it? Oh I think I have it stored away. So this guy's so small it's it's on it's got a little it's got a gimbal which is just a fancy word for a camera stabilizer. It turns on really easily very cool so hopefully I'll get some BTS footage on the red carpet for you and I'll share that with you obviously. I know there's been very little content from me lately as some of you are aware at the beginning of February I flew to Istanbul Turkey. I probably should have started with this so I could explain why my head looks the way it does and my hairline looks the way it does hence the shaved head and it's also like pink here where it's still healing. I basically lowered my hairline by about an inch or so and from what I'm told in everywhere that I read online this hair that has been transplanted here is expected to shed it's been a month now so it might continue to shed for another couple months and then at that point at around like the six month mark four to six month mark I should start to see like the hair growing back and then the fullness and its totality by like 10 to 12 months out so for a while I'm going to be in a little bit of an ugly duckling phase but whatever I'll get over it. All right last thing that I'll cram into this video the telegram group thriving with HIV is still alive and well we've got over 1200 people there now please join if you're someone living with HIV and you'd love to be surrounded in a community of others who are also living with HIV so you can chat ask questions give advice you know just commune together there's a bunch of different rooms with different subjects like romance and dating and science and exercise and fitness and all things and also you can do it completely anonymously you can make up a name if you want so please join I'll have the link to that below as well be sure to like this video subscribe hit that bell so you get a notification every time a new video comes out and please share this with anyone who might find value in this content those are the best ways that you can help support me and my channel until next time cheers


Hey guys today we're going to show you how to use gravity water filtration system by Sawyer.  There's a couple different ways you can tell the difference between them but the dirty bag has two ways for water to get in with this big lid and the clean bag does not it's just a bag. So when you buy the whole kit this is the dirty pouch you fill this with dirty water and then that's the clean one and then there is this tube that connects both of them and then it comes also with the Sawyer filter so all of this is one system. When you hook them up you got to make sure the Sawyer filter is flowing into the clean bag right dirty water not because it's awfully dirtier or garbagey but just because this is the water that's got the stuff in it that you can't drink right fill it up all the way through the big area sometimes it can be a little bit of a ritual to go okay and then what we end up doing is we set it in one spot we'll hook it up here which i'll do in a moment and then you get the clean bag much lower down and gravity itself will just take the water through the filter in a couple of minutes 10 minutes or so you'll have yourself a big old gallon of water that you can use and you just want to make sure that the direction of flow is going down all right so let's do that. So we got locked off here which is good. I'm gonna un-spin it first so that i don't have to spin it again in a moment and that's one gallon about 3.78 liters yeah a little bit less than four liters okay so that's that's done we've got the tube and then we have a little clip here that can pinch so you can detach the clean bag from time to time without letting the rest of the water come through so we're gonna un-clip that sometimes you kind of just have to move this around a bit just to un-kink it otherwise the kink might keep the water from flowing through but once you do that sit it down walk away and you'll notice right here looking through the tube very slowly stuff is starting to just gonna start making its way through you'll see air bubbles moving in the beginning and such but it's like watching paint dry don't do it you know I mean just walk away check back in on it in a minute if you're not sure yeah but uh you won't notice anything really happening over the course of a moment here so if you're hiking in an area with trees it's definitely better to make sure that you're hanging it up here if you can hold it Alex on a tree and they're just tilt it a little bit so that you can see the water you can see here that it's slowly migrating so we have to adjust it and just sit it in a way that water is flowing yeah just walk away it'll uh it'll go there we go that's how you use the gravity system filter to filter some water uh this is what we use when we are going on backpacking trips and obviously here since we're camping at the Arizona hot springs beach we need clean water so and we've got plenty of it so we don't have to backpack 15 gallons of it either exactly just clean the water you got well awesome guys so that's about it if you found this to be useful give this video a like thumbs up consider subscribing to the channel and we will see you soon on a new adventure