៮។ៈំែំៀៅោោ៊ោោោោោៀៅៅោៅោៅៅៈៅ Reading so much for having patience waiting for Wanda Maia to upload a video I mean so many of you I thinking that something is wrong with me, there's nothing wrong with me. I just wanted to rest, yeah, but I just want to wish you all a happy new year, welcome to 2022. 2022 is just going to be amazing, yeah, so if you're willing to join the amazing family in 2022 do be a favour like the video, subscribe and be part of the million family, we'll hit in I'm gonna force you to give because giving is a blessing. Today, you know who is giving, I'm just gonna show you something, yeah.  But this is the lady right here who is starting 2022, the year of charity for us. Welcome to the family. Thank you.  Let me introduce you to my audience, yeah. She is the biggest YouTube channel in Ghana. Her name is Sweet Ajele. I mean, the name alone, Sweet, which makes her sweeter than, is it, they said? The darker the berries, the sweeter the juice, yeah? But no, that's not true. Because she's sweeter than this berry, let me, let me, let me just taste. It's not ripening. You see? So the darker the berry, the sweeter the juice, it's not true. Welcome to the YouTube channel. How are you doing? Good. Man, the whole Ghana, everybody loves you. Oh. It's good to see you in person. Thank you, thank you. I hope you are impressed. More than impressed. So, you know what? I declared 2022 as a year of charity. And you are the one who is actually like starting 2022 for us. That's amazing. Tell me what you're doing for us today. Today we're going to knock me over. Weee, because I'm pulling him along. He started it, so he must start it with me today. All I just said is I declare this year as a year of charity. So, we do it together. We do it together. So what are you doing there? So today we want to feed the homeless. Thank you. So we're going to be making some Jalof rice and chicken because somebody was asking why don't you use meat? And I thought everybody can buy meat. Watch it so let's have meat. But chicken, everybody can't afford. So today we want to give them some chicken, some Jalof rice and some drinks. You know, we've been here since morning and what time did you sleep last night? After one. After one o'clock. So which means that you went to the market. Yeah. And what happened? We went to get all the ingredients, some tomatoes, onions, everything that we need to make this possible. And then once we got home, we figured if we choose to do everything today, it won't happen. Yes, so we prepped, we cooked down the tomatoes, we cleaned the chicken, we seasoned it and everything. So everything is set and ready to go. Everything is set and ready to go. But like I said, 2022 is the year of giving. So you know what we're going to do? She has over 700,000 subscribers. This channel is over a million. Yes. If you watch this video, you're not subscribed to this YouTube channel.  So you are giving.  Let's go flat there and say that what Amaya brought me here. Thank you. He knows how to cook already. Ma, stop deceiving me. The quality of the rice is another level. It's good, yeah. Which means you really spent a lot there. Yes, yes, we did. You and I together. Me? No, I didn't know anything though. See, don't let her like you guys. You and I together. The plan? We did this. I have to do half and she does half. When I came here, she bought everything. I'm like, what's going on? So we're still doing a look. Come out with me. And I'm even teaching him God. God. He did exactly what I told him to do. I would just say, God bless you. Amen. Yeah, and if you don't know her, make sure you go subscribe to her YouTube channel. Because I can't believe what's going on right now. Wow. How many kids are you feeding today? 200. Well, I'm feeding 100 and you're feeding 100. She keeps on saying, I'm feeding 100. She came all the way from America. She feed 100. And you feed 100. I'm feeding only one person, but that's myself, yeah. The fact that we're giving it to kids out there, doesn't mean we shouldn't use good quality stuff. Exactly, and that's what a lot of people don't do. I'm amazed by the things that I'm saying in here. I think everything in here is like you cooking food for your own self. That's one thing I love about what's going on right now. And listen, the whole family is here by now. Everybody is here. Master chef is here. I'm the only guy here man. I've made it a lot. Don't worry, my brothers will get here soon. You've made it in life. It will not be your last. So, usually when you're making Jalof rice, you want to, once you add the rice to the stew, you want to stir until the rice begins to stick on the bottom of the pot, which is a sort of toasting, so that the rice absorbs all the flavours in the stew before you add any water. So by the time you cover this, it won't take any time to cook, because you've already cooked it halfway. I really want to clarify this. What kind of Jalof are you cooking? It's a kind of Jalof. Hey, are you trying to start something? Are you cooking Ganyan Jalof for Benin Jalof? Oh, as you know I'm Ganyan. How can I cook Benin Jalof? I don't even know how they cook their Jalof. I wonder if they say Nigerian Jalof is just rice with snapchat filters. They'll come for you. They know the truth. They know that I'm telling the truth. Yeah. I'm a badge-jibu. It's time to pack the food and take it to the street. But yeah, we got like a confit. The confit pineapple juice, yeah. This is made right here in Ghana, man. Thank you so much for sponsoring the kids with this man, we appreciate it. so we packing it in the car and then we just gonna drive around anyone who is sleeping in the street we give them one man so matcha waiting for sweet ajele to get ready then we hit the street you know this is my first video in 2022 yeah energy is so high i don't even believe that i have this energy yeah that's good that's good that's good should i open the door for you guys you know shaman yes this is the place that she thinks we need to come and share the food you think or i think we should share the food here well it's my first time here too but because we took all day in cooking this is the fastest place we can get while we still have some daylight because traffic in our car is crazy right now it's crazy i mean we even had to park our car because there's an extreme like traffic in here so i don't know i think i guess we have to walk and go give people the food yes ajele why people love your sweet voice the sweet team loves sweet things man in your comment section they don't even talk about the food oh my god i love because everybody knows how to cook so oh right and they fall in love with the voice not the food not the food it's not everybody that's following that doesn't know how to cook they just love you wow but i will say that you have an amazing audience and i want to also tell you that thank you so much for what you did yesterday um i see i didn't do anything i was supposed to do it and she hijacked it you know i didn't even know what to say but thank you but how does it feel i mean what you're doing yesterday how did it feel i mean it felt good but it also felt very sad i actually cried when i got give to inspire you all to go out there and start giving so that's why i don't know you have something to tell them people think going to church and giving is the only way you can give which they actually gave not to a church but came up again god can only talk through people he won't come to you and talk to you so i was like okay this is a reminder i need to do this so i did it so yeah you know one thing that really gonna be amazed is the fact that everything that you used to cook was expensive the rice was expensive i mean we call it perfume rice if you see any canyon eating perfume rice which is that person's right i mean from the chicken i mean the ingredients are extremely amazing because anytime less privileged people we think okay for less privileged we have to do it in a way that i mean i was impressed and um i won't stop saying thank you and um we cannot thank you by going to a youtube channel to go subscribe sweet a jelly i mean she's the biggest youtuber in Ghana i'm just a messenger i'm not a youtuber i'm sorry i'm not a youtuber i'm a messenger i'm following somebody's no no i'm not a youtuber okay i'm just a messenger so we're talking about richa jelly is the number one go subscribe be part of your family what she has done i don't think this is going to be the last one definitely when she comes back to Ghana i will make sure that we do it bigger yes and better and better just so all of you can see what we've done not as a form of show off but as a form of inspiration that it doesn't matter how much money you have you can also give thank you so much for watching i hope you all have been inspired to go out there and start giving like i said this year is the year of what charity i'm gonna set up to go find me and the name is going to be durin one khalid who lives in america she's going to be our financial advisor she's going to make sure that every money that is being donated is being used for the right purpose it's not always going to be full like i said we're building schools this year we're building houses for less privileged this year we're building hospitals this year and i'm not going to beg you it's by force yeah it's by force this year thank you so much for watching don't forget to like the video subscribe and be part of the family should i say we're getting two million this year yes thank you all right i'll see you all in the next one bye


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The bin packing problem is a classic problem in artificial intelligence, which has been extensively studied due to its wide applicability in industry and logistics. Recently, researchers have developed a hybrid quantum classical algorithm called Q4Real BPP, which can solve real-world-oriented instances of the three-dimensional bin packing problem, 3D BPP. This algorithm considers various practical constraints such as package and bin dimensions, overweight restrictions and preferences for item ordering. The algorithm also takes into account the real-world characteristics of 3D BPP, such as the presence of overweight packages and the need to optimize for certain item categories. By taking these factors into consideration, Q4Real BPP provides a more efficient solution than traditional algorithms. This article was authored by Sebastian V Romero, Eneko Osaba, Esther Vilor Rodriguez, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


I'm Mel and I've been a full stack developer for too long. I've been working with many different CMSs and a bunch of different tech stacks. I'd like to say that I'm a proficient stack overflow copy-pasterer. And I'm currently one of the lead developers. Yeah, so I am one of the lead developers for hide and seek digital. We do many awesome projects that are complex. And this talk is going to cover one of those projects just in depth at a high level. It was a Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 migration. Of many unique websites for a large government agency. And I apologize for the screen coming in and out. There we go. It works so hard on the slide deck too. So hopefully now there'll be some time for some questions at the end of this. However, feeling kind of like not like we're going to get there. I will be around all day if you do come up with a question you want to ask me something later. But without further ado, let's move on. Most of us in the room will be familiar with this kind of diagram. Most projects are run in an agile or waterfall way. It's completely fine to run a single project this way. But it's hardly reality for most of us here. We're more than likely to have not one, not two, but many projects running at the same time at different stages. Even for example, I was watching people on their laptops doing work. And I have a deployment at six o'clock tonight. So really, you never really do rest. The down times are short. And even before we've recovered, from one release, there's already a handful of projects, minor or large, Lumi in the background. And as Web and Drupal are constantly evolving, the door to the ability to work backwards just slams shut. Now, I've got to give you an example here. And I had screenshots for it, but I doubt it's going to show. So it could be a matter of just using your imagination today. So let's say you've been asked to build a navigation with a drop-down sub-navigation in a new website. Pretty much standard for most of our websites. You remember you've actually built this already in website A. It just has essentially different colors and a different font.  At this time, you've actually had a moment to add more accessibility features to the menu, such as keyboard focus navigation, which will let the user open the sub-navigation by choice instead of just tapping through endlessly. And that works great. But now, you can just copy-paste that back to the original project. However, how do you do that when you've suddenly got 12 projects that could all use the same update? Do you just copy-paste it again and again and again? So, this issue showed itself at full force at the government agency during their mass migration project. Each Drupal 7 site was getting better than the previous, developers were so under the pump with all their ongoing projects, consistency and improvements could never make it back to those first few starting websites. So, I kind of knew this had to change, not just for my sanity, but for that team and their future as well. So, working together with the team, we decided to break it down and we would eventually come to a project that we would call the collection of assistive mechanisms engaging recent online networks. Cameron, because life is way more fun when your projects have code names. So, for each new Drupal project, a developer would run the classic composer create project and install with a standard profile. Then, they would manually go through each and every setting in the UI to enable and disable modules, set up the basic workflows, set up all of the content types and, yeah, I've fallen victim to this too because it's a really quick and easy way to just get a website up. However, the issue with this method meant that basically every site was being a little bit more different than the last for the developers and a very important user group, your content authors. Each site had a new learning curve and each site had a better editing experience in some areas, but not all. For the most part, we're not going to get it right the first time. But, tech is always changing and we need to be able to keep up to date with those changes and move back. So, we solved this for that team by creating a custom Drupal profile which is incredibly easy to create and you can also host it privately as your own composer package on your GitHub, GitHub, Bitbucket, whatever your poison is at the time. You only really need one file to get a custom Drupal profile working, the profile.info.yaml and a profile can be quite powerful. If a screenshot comes back, we can kind of see that you can declare what contred modules you want to install, what core modules you want to install and if you look closely, you can see that it corresponds to a custom module and a custom theme. We'll come back to that. We can tell it's composer, what modules and themes contred or custom we want it to grab and also you can lock down the versions as well. So, if you have a module that you don't want to just update to every site all the time, you can lock it down to a version you know is stable and you can tell it what configuration you want it to then add in and anyone who's kind of worked with Drupal config but when you've got all those sorts of one sources of truth in that location it's easier to go back, find the bug, fix it and then send back out. We can even tell it to create out some dummy content pages. We can define the content types, the taxonomies, you kind of get the gist. With this piece of the puzzle we've taken what could have been days of work to do the initial setup, finding and defining all the areas of the site to essentially a coffee break for the developer. This Drupal profile does a lot of the heavy lifting for you. And since we've got to make this a private composer package we can now have all our sites pointed to one source of truth meaning any additions to this are then sent out to all the sites. Very importantly our content authors are happy because they can now be sure that each site will have a similar setup to each other making for faster edits and happy clients. And of course not all sites are the same. You can add additional modules or config to the site added individual level. But when the unique pieces make up a smaller portion of the total project developers will now have more time to sink their teeth into those pieces instead of just spending time setting up content types. So with the profile we now have the bones of a project but that really doesn't help our front-end users who would just see a white screen or in our case a black screen with unformatted text. So I went on a journey and reviewed all of their Drupal 7 sites and it became very clear that there was a lot of code that could have been shared between each other. So even when a component looked different on each site the actual backing of the code was the same. So why would I want to as a developer have to write that again and again and again improving or not copy pasting when I could just do that once and send it to everything. So we solved this with a custom parent theme which ensured that developers had a reusable set of code for their starting point. This meant we could give them access to basic styling or templates but also provide a set of helper functions at the theme level such as formatting all of our links with media embeds to give us the file size and correct icon reference or adding a transparent mode to our iframe so they stopped attempting to go over things with a 999Z index. These little things are things that you can miss when you start a new project because sometimes you're in such a rush to get everything done that you forget some of these basic things. This at least solves that by default. We can also add in the consistent javascript libraries that the sites were using and keep the versions the same. Again, this team would write really nice custom javascript things and then copy pasted to the next project, improve it and then not go back. So one site would have very nice we can have accessible buttons and then one site would have an older version of it. We can also use the javascript libraries to make quick component creations such as an accessible toggle expander. You might use it in an accordion, you might use it in the drop down navigation but it's the same function used in multiple places. Once again, because this theme is unique to this agency we use their github to host the theme as a private composer package. You're going to hear this a lot in this talk but this basically means that they were allowed to use it once and have it as a single source of truth adding something new means adding that update across everything. So putting it all together we finally needed a way to not only force the use of this Drupal custom profile and theme but also have any new developers code to a consistent standard because no one wants to have to continue to reject a pull request because you've gone and made it a standard to set all the sizings to M or M and new developers just come on long and set everything to pixels. Most of the time people will let that slide and tell themselves I'll go back and fix it later but it works so we'll get it out today and then later never comes. So we solve this by building a scaffold repository that will contain all the basic setup of a Drupal site automatically including the custom profile and theme but it's a bit more complex with that so let's take a closer look. The team's choice of local development was Lando. So we've included a base Lando config file that spins up the dev servers and instead of just using the default Lando file we take it a step further we include excuse me we include all of our custom scripts to do things like pull down the relevant weird database on the Lando build automatically spin up the browser sync on launch so a developer never really has to worry about running yarn build to compress their sass and JavaScript scripts and because once again we're using this as a single point of truth if at some point they wanted to move to Ddev or any other local development system they really really need to only write that once and send it out decommission the other one. So we've also added some custom ES and silent configuration files that would extend upon the Drupal core versions and because we're all special unique snowflakes we like to have it a little bit different than what's standard so we've provided a additional set of rules that are unique to the team's preferences such as forcing alphabetical property sorting in our sass files and also declaring what declarations are allowed in each property and then we've also of course got our code sniffer in a specific rule set this ensures that code to be developed it sticks to the standards of Drupal but also gives us the heads up when something is about to be deprecated and again since VS code happens to be the IDE of choice for this team we've included a custom workspace file for the code base which is a hybrid of the one that you can find on Drupal.org but again with the teams unique spin on it and again if they decide to change or add other IDE configuration files you add it once send to everyone we also included the basic GitHub action files that would allow for the linters to check during a PR and alert developers to any failures on their end this in turn kind of trains them to be doing these checks before they raise the PR and gives you then time to actually look at what's important in the code the logistics the logic and any bugs you don't want to be spending time pushing it back because they've intended for instead of two spaces finally because the scaffold contains files with dummy content and naming we've created a custom bash script so we'll run through the scaffold files once it is in a U repository to basically do a find and replace on the files and update all the dummy content naming it to the correct relevant ones rather than a developer sitting through and manually editing each file so was it all worth it well with these three pieces we were able to take the development time for the team cut it in half the content authors would guarantee consistency for their editing experience across all the sites meaning less time asking where something was or asking for a feature to be added backwards developers can now train the new team members faster because the rule set is now in code it's not in your head and importantly now when they need to they can make an update because we've essentially built them their own version of Drupal core they only need to update it once and it'll send to everything so where can we go now with this foundation why would you stop here I consider what we've built to basically be Lego blocks for the team which means they can continue to build out great structures before they have but it allows them time to invest back into the creation of new things so some of the suggestions that we're moving forward with at this point testing you know that thing that you should probably should be doing but you never seem to find the time to do or you go yeah that variable exists but good enough because this project has created a consistent set of code we now have the time to apply our unit testing once for these core functions that we've built but what is something you create breaks one of the websites and for this team they had nearly 13 or so websites can you imagine spending an entire day manually reviewing each website and making sure it didn't break this is where a testing framework like Cypress would come in handy so with Cypress you can write out a collection of universal tests and since we've now gone and standardize all of the content type to the team you can go through take a snapshot of each type individually and do a comparison before you push it to the production server so if you broke one of the content types and had a white screen of death it would say oh don't do that additionally as I've mentioned one of the more important clients is your content authors we also want to make sure that an update doesn't go and cause any issues on that process and Cypress again can allow us to create a dummy user that can then be sent through the Drupal backend making sure that you're still able to perform the creation or editing of content as well as send it through the workflow processes okay oh well for those who enjoy a bit of server reading and listening there's a really good talk basically called making the robots do the job for you when the screen comes back up I actually have the title up for you which you can then search on Google this covers the concepts in far more detail than I actually have for you today I'll put down my talks over that way well from the top hold up where am I where's my mouse are you back here please and you can show alright well finally component libraries can get a bit of a bad rap as there's been quite the limitation for some things and sometimes you just need to break out of the force patterns but again when you are a small team paid to take care of with over 13 websites or so those limitations actually kind of become your best friend Drupal as we know is a super powerful CMS and it lends itself quite well to the headless or decoupled world so for this team we started building out a VJS component library called the friendly replicable intelligent design archive yay Friday because as I've mentioned I love a good codame for projects and any Marvel fans out there will get the reference the choice was to use storybook to build out and test each component as individuals and then beat to the build of the package with storybook we've used CSS variables and a customized theme suture to be able to have say a button to be hard coded once with required aria labels that can then change color to match the website themes as it needs to or add a border radius or make it bounce when it's hovered I've lost my mess and additionally this team happens to use more than Drupal and a javascript component library can be sent to many CMSs or applications you might need so again we've opened the door to a more multidisciplinary team on the build we use learner which we can then turn our storybook component library into a collection of mono repos meaning that we only have to pull in the components that we want to use per site and this again gives developers a source of truth at the component level and they can once again build once and share with many so thank you for joining me and for dealing with all the technical issues that basically covers the journey that we took and the plan for the team going forward I hope that gave you guys some ideas of how you can approach your projects moving forward and maybe even save you some time but we should have some time for some questions and answers if anyone has any you're sorry but it's more starting related because it still works ideally you probably want to use something more like Gitflow so you have a development branch, you have your UIT branch, you have a production branch and you should be doing tests on each of those things before it hits production for reasons and goes horribly wrong and you've accidentally pushed out a style that's broken everything because it's now versioned you can go backwards you can say 2.4.1 has broken everything revert it to 2.4.0 and you fix it all again giving you time to sort of revert and go save the day did you not get to see the screen let's go back so that's the video if you guys want to read more about testing and they also go quite in depth with how you can use lines or GitLab as well to set up these tests so a lot of what I ended up doing for this team was kind of based off this video and how I set things up for sharing is caring you go about sharing, you want to share features deploying updates that have lots of on-premise you know company people on the one side are you doing that yeah so when we update config on the profile end of things and we want all the sites to share it we install it as an update hook and it basically will say oh this is like a database update or go through and go oh I've got all this new stuff to do and it'll go through the config that way yeah only when there's a massive config thing but handling like 10 or so files it hasn't seemed to be a problem yet oh yeah how did they still look like this was about three months of work and it was about one month as well to convince the government agency that we should be doing this so you have to sell the idea to actually get the time to work on it and because it was during the whole Drupal 7 to 9 migration we're kind of able to use that as our starting point to say hey we've reviewed all the stuff, we've reviewed all the code and we've noticed a lot of consistencies how much easy and how much time can we save by making this once so do you have time to work before or you wait to go ahead so we originally started with a general idea, we knew we wanted to make a profile we knew we wanted to make a theme for the component library that actually came later when we started going oh actually we can move this out again and have that outside again and also expand the team because sometimes it's really hard to find Drupal developers sometimes it's really easy to find JavaScript developers I understand when you said that I would say the component library would probably still be worth it and then I think it depends on what your microsites are going to end up doing if they're smaller sites, do you need all that config shared do you want consistency that your editors are going to have the same set of baseline content types yeah


Back in 2012 I was in a very serious car accident, immediately induced into a coma. Two days later they performed partial craniectomy. And I was placed on the brain trauma unit and kind of rehabilitated from there. I had to learn how to read, write, walk, talk, swallow, all over again. About five and a half, six years later, I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. When I first met Dr. Schifferin, he was right to the case and told me I had thyroid cancer. And it was concerned that it had spread into my lymph nodes. I was completely terrified, but he was professional to the point, direct with me and quick, quick responsive with, you know, what needed to be done and I appreciated that. So I felt completely safe with him and I knew that I was in the right hands. The word cancer is always dramatic. It's not easy for the patient to hear word cancer and immediately make up the mind on treatment plan or care that we were given to the patient. Yes, when I appeared on Katie, it was obviously a previous trauma influence on the procedure.  And the procedure is usually much more complex when there was a previous surgery in this area. I did cut the old scar out, kind of try to eliminate previous injuries and significant scarring. It looked much better than it was. Our endocrinology oncology program is very unique in our practice because we have a multidisciplinary approach. Dr. Schifrin likes the endocrinologist to get involved very early on, to help counsel the patient and be able to talk Katie through the process, let her know what kind of surgery she was going to need up front. I think it provides reassurance. Because it was so organized, it put everything at ease a little bit more for me and made me understand the entire process a lot more. And now her scars tell a different story. Yeah, for sure. I like that. It's a good point. I think that the entire experience that I've had with cancer has actually opened up many doors for me because it has allowed me to be more confident in everything that's come my way. It's allowed me to speak more freely about certain health issues as a professional, but as a person too. And I'm ready for any other battle that's going to be going to bark in my face. So you've got to love your life to live it. I'm Katie. I'm a fitness professional. I'm a professor. I'm a daughter. I'm a best friend. And I'm a cancer survivor.


One, two, three, four, five, six. One, two, three, four, five, six. You're going to work inside this area, all right? 2v2 to start with, so there's plenty of space and always a spare man. Everybody else, spread yourselves around the outside. Do not stand next to your own teammate, please. As we go into an opposed practice, if you like, we're going to give them the luxury, the comfort of a spare player. We're going to use an area that's the same size as the warm-up area, which is 22x22. There are spare players on the outside of that area, bounce players that cannot be tackled, cannot be interfered with, and the players in the middle, again, it will become important that the timing of their movement then will be not just off the ball and where the space is, but where their teammates are going and where the opposition are going to be. Play. Good decision. Good. Well played. Excellent. Just hold it there. Why is that good play? Ball moved out. Quickly. Quickly. Ready? Two out, two in, please. Play. Well played. Well played. Where's it coming? Where's it coming? Good. Well played, Lou. Play on. Play on. Brilliant, Louis. Excellent. Where's it coming in? Good. We're going to create a little bit more of a problem because we're just going to make it 3v3 in there. So there's less space, quicker decisions if you like, and you've got less what on the outside? Less people. You've got less places to go. Good. Keep moving the ball. Good. Stay tight. Stay tight. Well played. Good. Well played. Colors, how often did you have the ball in there in one minute? Didn't have it. So you've controlled possession for 60 seconds. Through what? Begins with Q. Good quality. In your decision making and your execution. Just touching on the defending side of it. If you've got an overload against you, or you're trying to win possession back, how are you likely to win it in there? Interception's more than tackling, aren't you? It's about reading the place, about thinking, where's the game going next? Where's it going next? Am I set? Can I get in there and intercept? Once you've intercepted, then you make the right pass.


Good evening. This is crime classics. I am Thomas Highland with another true story of crime listen That was Jack-O Jack-O the three-quarter Irish setter a good dog Usually a well-behaved dog friend to the children of Manchester Village Vermont and inquisitive dog Whatever disturbs him isn't buried very deep Listen to him digging smart dog He's found what he was after He's tugging at it gets it good dog What have you got there Jack-O? A bone Looks like a leg bone doesn't it? A human leg bone Tonight I'm going to report to you on the Bourne brothers and the hangman A study in Nip and Tuck Crime classics A series of true crime stories taken from the records and newspapers of every land from every time Your host each week Mr. Thomas Highland connoisseur of crime student of violence and teller of murders Now once again Mr. Thomas Highland They were fighting battles on Lake Champlain in eighteen hundred and twelve but across the state forests away and mountains apart The village of Manchester sent peaceful fans of chimney smoke into the February air It was ebb of winter and edge of spring It was snow flurry and thaw and chill sunlight Here the Baton Hill River flowed swift and dark down from the green mountains and crusted icily near its banks and past the village then flowed swift and dark away and where the snow had melted the soil glistened and was rich and black farmhouses gleamed white and where the furrow began the shallow furrow that deepened and roughened and slowly rose up the mountainside and became the gorge that cut across the face of Mount Equinox where it gently began was the backyard of the house of Russell and Sally Colvin and inside it he's sleeping asleep Why? Why asleep? What did you put him to sleep for? There's moonlight on the snow and there's moonlight on the mountain and I've promised my son he'd see Why do you do that? Why do you fill his mind with lies and fancies? There's little men on the mountain tonight and I told my son he'd see them Lewis! Don't wake him Russell, don't wake him! Stop hanging in on my arm woman Russell! Stop hanging in on my arm! Wake son! I'll bundle you and it's up the mountain we'll go tonight with you riding my shoulders and little men will find them that they are bowls and singing and dancing and we'll join them come with me son up the path the moonlight makes on the mountain snow as any mother knows this is an upsetting experience and as Sally Colvin knew this was not the first experience of its kind sometimes her husband would hoist her son on his back and walk away from the house and not come back for days at a time and when they did they would smile at each other secret smiles and say nothing of where they had been and there were secret words between them that Sally could not understand signs and small patterns of dance and then great bursts of laughter and this time the time when Russell took his son up the path the moonlight made and they returned two days later we'll sleep the day away and the night the son and dream of the fancies we've seen the little men sleep tell me tell me oh sister or come in what can I do for you in the morning hold me hold me well sister sister to me what troubles you him again your husband yes oh yes and what what he's doing to my son soon soon what my son will become as mad as my husband they speak of creatures in the mist and the gorge and starbursts and moon do you want me to do i don't a stronger man than i there's not much i can do but you and our brother jessie born together you could do it don't speak to me of jessie him that i hate that me no more of it save me of you sister very well you know how you and jessie you know it and you have said it come with me to our brother's forge and make peace and save me your sister i've got the sinews of you but listen to your sister and what her trouble is or i'll try you will you head to your heart in a stroke try me will you of our husband let her say it i've heard strangenesses in the village of your husband sister and when i've heard them i've smiled at myself in remembering this is the man you needed to marry sister would die without sister and now he's a daft and a loon now he's hero hero out say on sister he takes lewis with him on walkings for days and they return and there are secrets and madnesses and loneliness for you i care nothing of it i care only for my son jessie jessie take his hand jessie born and be brothers again for there is a bond now the need to help me yes and now listen to me there where the ravine starts by the field where it is rocky i will send my husband there i'll plot her our sister i will send my husband there tomorrow in the morning will you be there will the both of you be there will be there here to me son the way i do it come a goblin come a teeny come an elf and come a greeny come about come about come about all and you shall rustle i'll finish it for you later son rustle and there you are with your son mute and agape at you again what do you want it's a new morning and the new season of springs coming in with it and so and so there's work and you need not tell me of it there's no work i do not do on this farm i need no telling of it in the upper field and where the rocks are easy to pull from the ground now that the thaw softened it i know of it you need not remind me tonight the night frost may harden the ground again i know it i know it then go i'll be back son think hard of the verse he i taught to you and the way he went did rustle colvin on this new morning toward the upper field he'd not gone 20 yards when he stopped gold sparkle of sun on vermont granite small pool of sparkle gold and he picked it up and put it in his pocket then on again the long way around through the grove of naked spruce to give throat to the new season and on and on to the brook now and stop beside it and kneel beside it and listen yes yes then through a thicket and into the upper field and the surprise in store for him oh rustle hello jesse born steven oh brother in law what do you hear to help you rustle you do what to help you clear the rocks now that the ground is soft with thaw and how do you know i'm here to do that how indeed i need not your help i'm hearing you do brother in law i'm hearing that way too we're in here and you don't do well by our sister rustle that's what we hear most of and who's saying that our sister your wife's saying it rustle more wife than sister so it's not of your business so it's off the land with you the two of you oh now indeed but you have to net branch for us even i'm aiming to brain you with it you are aiming the same jesse gonna help and let's get to it and we'll see let's get to it indeed steven born used the branch as a club and with excellent teamwork he and his brother jesse won the fight you are listening to crime classics and your host thomas highland tomorrow evening cbs radio invites you again to mystery and intrigue enhanced by the presence of miss marlena detrick this thursday miss detrick's adventure leads her to a little town in southern france where stories of buried treasure have been brooded loudly enough to gather rap scallions of reprehensible inclination from all corners of europe time for love is heard tomorrow evening on most of these same stations now once again thomas highland in the second act of crime classics and his report to you on the born brothers and the hangman a study in nip and tuck it was a good spring april of 1812 was the gentlest in the memory of those who lived on the soft shoulder of mount equinox and vermont there were rumors of marchings and torch and war outside but no one paid much attention they were more important things church crops and children living to be done in the green mountains the crackling air to be breathed roam away through the soft fall of twilight and press a cheek against the warmth of an animal wondrous sunsets and tomorrow a wondrous dawn good place and good time this valley and one morning as a matter of fact on the morning after the born brothers had done an errand for their sister new mrs colvin a sweet morning tears and what may i do for you it's Wednesday and so it is so i've come again so your mister can drive me to the village again he to shop for you and me for mine he's not here oh no in the field then not in the field oh of course he is not for i saw your son lewis had played just outside the door and he would be in the fields with his daddy dear where his daddy dear in the fields you'll be late to market mrs wyerman where's the dear man your husband mrs colvin gone where gone to the mountain i think and when will he return i don't know such a dear man and the dear fancies he sees and tells you of oh what a fortunate woman you are mrs colvin i'm cleaning to do mrs wyerman mrs colvin preparing supper for you and your beautiful child but it's a month since the village has seen your husband last and for the last week it's been raining and if the dear mr colvin is in the mountains as you say what then maybe what maybe he has gone to learn from the dear man happy new year mrs wyerman happy new year and a pity mr colvin's not here i suppose he'll never return now will now stop your crying sally boy's a boy went off to join the militia what's that what's what all boys doing now maybe i've failed what are you saying sister maybe the whole fence he's had no father should have been close to him and all in this again sister oh my this is a chair of skinner see the glazes barn jesse is a fire to dr glazes barn you surely know the barn jesse in 1800 19 fires were not very easy to control it was a matter of having enough men and enough buckets to reach from the fire to the stream and dr glazes barn was not notably close to the stream nor were there enough men nor buckets so the fire had its own way it burned the barn to the ground and later when the ashes had cooled and wild sheriff skinner was consoling dr glazier on his loss the sheriff's dog what you're digging they are trying something jackal bring it here jackal and see what you got they are funny looking bone big bone what kind of bone would you say this was dr glazier leg bone human don't say not positive could be though let's take a look jacka where you found this bone can we that stick of wood will you doctor so i can make this hole a little bigger where i used to store my potatoes to keep them from freezing uh-huh button now and look here a knife funny looking knife let me see it i know the knife truth now who's russell colvin's knife russell colvin now he's not been around six year seven it's his knife all right and that's a button off his coat too and this is a human leg bone you're saying doctor i'm not saying it's not a human leg bone let's get along jackal come on come on boy a few words about sheriff silas skinner a good man had been sheriff of the county for nearly 20 years and there wasn't a man who could say he hadn't got a fair shake from old silas or woman either an honest man with no bias nor prejudice a direct man where's your husband sally why i don't know a man a few words you kill him no who killed him sally my brother jesse killed him sheriff a cautious man maybe he did and maybe he didn't but i'm arresting you till i find out which a man of his word jesse yes sheriff you kill your brother-in-law russell colvin no sheriff i did not who did my brother steven did maybe he did and maybe he didn't but i'm arresting you till i find out which sheriff silas skinner sees it through steven yes sheriff i locked up your sister and i locked up your brother and i'm putting you behind bars too on what charge sure for murdering murdering who russell colvin i didn't murder him sheriff jesse said you did jesse's lion and on jesse for long he don't lie he's starting to now when he says i murdered you didn't murder him by yourself that's what you're saying isn't it steven i'm saying that right enough your sister have anything to do with the murdering well not that i know i'm i'm going to tell you something boy what i'm gonna tell you something son what you say to me what happened it'll be easier for you what do you mean a little scale that's all no hanging there is a handshake that goes with it there is indeed here's my hand sheriff and mine now how was it done son how was it done boy russell colvin was on his rocky upper field and that's where you're done it son and my brother got on one side of him i got to the other and that's how you're done it boy i hit him with a tree branch jesse with his fist that's right that's right and that's the way you killed him yes sir then you took him to another farm dark blazers and to that barn dark blazers and buried him yes sir we'll write this out son and you'll sign it won't you boy just a little jail boy son just a little jail i shook your hand then i'll sign it good boy up taken on so steven born your brother jesse is not acting up the way you are they found us guilty well you confess they're gonna hang us you said just a little jail you said no hanging i did what i could you said no hang now you listen to me you killed your brother-in-law and you confessed to it and you had a trial by jury and they found you guilty the judge said hanging now that's the laws apply to you and your brother so don't carry on let's do a thing sure what thing put an advertisement in the newspapers an advertisement for what for russell coven put a description and and say life depends on him turning up you crazy you killed him you confessed you killed him who knows of russell coven whether killed he stayed killed he and his moonlight little people do it now don't order me some please please do it well i have a copy here of the ruttland herald a newspaper of the time which was circulated throughout this area of vermont i would like to read to you a classified ad which appeared in the issue of november 26th 1819 printers of newspapers throughout the united states are desired to publish that steven born of manchester in vermont is sentenced to be executed for the murder of russell coven who has been absent about seven years any person who can give information of said coven may save the life of the innocent by making immediate communication coven is about five feet five inches light complexion light colored hair blue eyes in about 40 years of age why that sounds like our hand russell except he doesn't say about a boy being with him i'll see if it is russell russell now what was you doing russell talking to my boy lewis your son ain't he my son they're looking for a man named russell in manchester oh it's going to be a hanging unless they find a man named russell russell coven you once said you was from manchester i am they looking for you i'm russell coven it's my duty to see you get back to manchester russell yes it is and so two days before the scheduled hanging russell coven again appeared in manchester and the born boys were not hanged they were set free what about the bone well it was never proven to be a human bone and the knife and button russell's how had they gotten there russell always smiled when he was asked that and what did his wife say to all this you can come home if you want i don't want you no more i hear our sons with you yes ma'am he is how did he find you a hundred miles away oh the little people told him where i was him that lives on the path the moonlight makes they told him according to the report i have right here in just a moment thomas highland will tell you about next week's crime classic the born brothers tonight's crime classic was adapted from the original court reports and newspaper accounts by morten fine and david freedkin the music was composed and conducted by bernard herman and the program is produced and directed by elliot louis thomas highland is portrayed on radio by lou merrill in tonight's story virginia greg was heard as sally lamont johnson is russell william conradis steven and jack crucian is jesse featured in the cast were iran tedrow joseph cernes and her butterfield bob laman speaking here again is thomas highland next week london england in 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Hello everyone. Thank you for tuning in to the Straight Talk Vermont show. I'm Bruce Wilson, Executive Director. And I have an incredible guest today. We'll talk to today in a few minutes. But right now, I want to update you on some of the things that we're doing through our programs. Most of you know that we have a gallery in the University of Arts so wonderful. It's a art so wonderful gallery and performing center. And we we we chased places in I think it was May, May 22nd. And so we've been doing some incredible things in here. So it's 8,000 square feet. We had Vermont Youth Symphony Orchestra performed there. We have black artists performed there. It's coming up three times and and we have like over 400 pieces of art in there. Rather artists most all of the artists are from around artists from around Vermont. Some of the artists have art in galleries around the country. Very famous artists.  Just to check it out. Just walk around and see the art that Vermont have to offer. It's incredible. You know I sit there and let's watch. Look at the artist. Like I'm so always amazed and so many people want to put art in our gallery. And I'm I'm wanting to know what they happen. We also have 60% of the murals and burles in our arts. Art so wonderful murals. We created that in 2003. In 2010 we created art so wonderful electric boxes. All those cool lecture boxes you see around. It's through art so wonderful lecture boxes as well as our partners around department all around Cheney County. We do have in Rutland and St. Albin's and we'll put one in your neighborhood too. We have over 50 awards and we have done over 700 events. And so I'm very excited to right now. Can I have excited to talk to big Hartman who is the executive director and legal counsel for Human Rights Commission and that's in Vermont. And big it's got a credible staff and represent a lot for people who looks like everybody in the state. So big tell us about first of all how do you get involved in human rights? Well thanks so much for having me Bruce. I'm really happy to be here and be talking with you anytime I get to talk with you. I'm happy. Bruce is one of our commissioners at the Human Rights Commission and I really thank you for your service. But I got involved in doing human rights work mostly because I was an attorney. I went to law school because I wanted to see change in the world. I wanted to see a more just America and I feel very blessed and fortunate that I've been able to continue to work in Vermont since going to Vermont Law School. And I've been with the Human Rights Commission for just about two and a half years now. I started as a staff attorney investigator and I just recently became the executive director in July. Wow man. And I know I was part of the hiring process of among the four of the commissioners. And wow we are always so excited you know.   And boy don't have the answer boy find the answer. And that's a lot of like you you know if you don't have that you always come with the angle they don't have. You always come with the answer. Big always come with the answer and who to know if you never had the answer because you know you always come with the answer.  It's all good, you know what I mean? You want to work, you want to do the, you work for the people who you serve. I love that so much about Big. Big is also a part of like the art community. You know, we do a lot of things in the community. Talk to people, being like not just on the straight talk for my show, but you're all other shows. You do letters and you talk to people. You answer questions for individuals who are just very curious and interested about what is Human Rights Commission, which is HRC, Ekremans. And I'm happy and proud to be one of your commissioners. And I depend, as you know, I depend on you. I'm like, Big, where should we go? Can we go this way? Should we go? And then you always, you know, take me to the right place. So, thank you for bringing ID. And thank you for allowing me to be your commissioner. Also, too, telling you as our ED, when I found out your name, was a part of the pool to be one of the employees in who were applying for the ED position, man. I was so happy. I was so happy.  I mean, the net state of your position is to go higher than, you know, being in our legal counsel and being in our, you know, I was working with, what was your position? Yeah, I was doing investigative work, investigating the discrimination complaints that come to the Human Rights Commission. So glad you mentioned Bor Yang, my predecessor. Bor was really an inspiration to me and the reason that I wanted to come work at the HRC in the first place because she really, you know, has been pushing the needle forward for all people who might be facing discrimination in Vermont. I was obviously just as sad as you to hear that she was leaving and it felt really important to me to be able to provide some continuity for our work rather than have someone come in, you know, needing to learn kind of everything about our process. It felt really important that we be able to maintain our, not have any gap in service, not have any gap in our case work and all of the important policy work that we're doing across the state. Yeah, and another good thing too is like, when we did the, we were saying, I thought we did a good interview process, what do you think? You think our interview process was pretty decent with our staff and commissioners and do you think we did? Yeah, I thought it was very in-depth. The only thing I would have changed about is that my first interview was the day of the flood and I was by phone, trapped at my house. Yeah, I would have preferred different timing on that. It was kind of a stressful day. I bet it was. As a Montpelier resident or, you know, living outside of Montpelier area, there was just a lot going on. But I was very happy that once the decision was made, I was able to just hit the ground running and work to backfill my investigator position right away. Kind of feel like we should back up and let folks know about what we do with the Human Rights Commission. So we are a state agency in the state of Vermont. We're based out of Montpelier and we receive complaints of discrimination in three main areas. Housing, all housing discrimination complaints can come to us. We also investigate complaints that are brought to HUD involving housing discrimination. Also, any discrimination in places of public accommodation, which is a really broad area of the law, basically any public place, any government service, it can be schools, it can be police stops, it can be any services from state government, as well as businesses, hotels, restaurants, like anything that serves the public is considered a place of public accommodation. So if folks feel they've been discriminated against in housing or places of public accommodation, we are the place to come to have that complaint heard and investigated. Also, we do investigations of employment discrimination for only for state employees. If you are a non-state employee and you think you've experienced employment discrimination, you can go to the attorney general's office where they would do an investigation or the EEOC, which is the federal agency, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Those cases, if they involve state employees, will get referred to our office and we generally will conduct those investigations ourselves. And once, if we just, so people can contact us by phone, by email, through our website, we have a questionnaire and just calling our main line. We only have one staff person who receives all of the inquiries we receive every day, who can take those calls and respond to those emails. So it can be a little bit of a wait time, sometimes people really are experiencing an urgent situation and we aren't always able to respond to those in the time that people need. So we can often provide a referral for maybe another agency that might be able to support folks in the immediate needs. Once we, if we receive enough information to believe that someone has stated a claim of discrimination under the law, then we will help the individual with drafting a complaint if they need that assistance. And then we would initiate an investigation. We have three staff attorney investigators who are charged with investigating complaints all over the state. They are disinterested individuals in that they do not represent either party. They are non-bias objective investigators looking at facts, conducting interviews, gathering documents, reviewing emails, whatever may be relevant to a particular case. And then they will issue an investigative report if they're not able to assist the parties with some type of conciliation, some type of settlement or resolution. They'll write an investigative report. You're very familiar, Bruce, with those. They're very detailed, very comprehensive summary of the facts, the investigation that was conducted, and they also include a legal analysis. Those reports are reviewed by the commissioners at our monthly meetings. And the commissioners are the ones who actually vote and make a determination as to whether or not discrimination has occurred. That is not the equivalent to like a judge ordering it or a jury trial. It's a determination under the law. It can be helpful to get the parties to find a resolution. And it opens up a six month time period where the HRC will help the parties with a settlement if we can. Or we may decide to take the matter ourselves to court to enforce Vermont's anti-discrimination statutes. Well, we do a lot, and you said we only have three attorneys, three staff attorneys that does the investigation. That's right. And that's through HRC, right? Our three attorneys. We have three attorneys on staff who are the investigators. Yep. And one person who is our executive staff assistant, Maya Hanron. Your administration, administrator. Administrator, assistant. Yeah, who receives all those initial inquiries and questions. So it's really tough. The investigators are handling a large case load. Anytime there's staff turnover, cases slow down. And some cases take two or three years to come to completion, which we know is not ideal. In my dream world, we would have double the staff. But that's my dream world for you two. I know. And we're gonna do it. So, let me ask you a question. So an individual will call in or email you or go to the website, whatever ways they contact you. They think they might have a case, a discrimination case based on being into housing or through, you know, HUD, I guess, and employees for the state. How long does it, and you find, because you're the ultimate, you're the principal, you find that, okay, this is a good case after your team bring it to you or Maya, probably your administrator bring it to you and say, this is, I don't know how that works. Does she say, this is Maya's, there's not your lead person or administrator say, this might be a good case or, should we all look at this, how that works? Then you do a case, how does it work? Yeah, so our staff person who handles the intakes is not an attorney. Primarily she's just gathering information and giving folks an opportunity to tell their story, to see, and then she brings that information to me and we decide whether, I decide whether to, proceed with that. Yeah, make it a complaint. A complaint, okay. Once it's a complaint, then we assign an investigator to handle it. We send out a notice of the complaint to the respondents, to the people who are accused of discrimination. We give them a letter that says that they have to provide a response to that complaint, to a point by point, to each paragraph of the complaint to either admit or deny, provide additional information. There's always more to the story that we need to hear, so we ask them to also produce any documents that they may have that are relevant to the case. And then the investigator will proceed once they have that information. So we take on the case, right? So how long does it usually take? I know you said it, but I didn't write it down. It really varies, but I would say it's a fast, yeah, our rules say that we shall make every reasonable effort to complete an investigation in six months. That is not, we're not able to do that right now. Based on the points that I've seen through some of the complaints that are reporting through our investigators, it's a lot of points. They talk to a lot of people. It's a big, big deal. This is not a small thing, it's the investigative. Work is incredibly detailed. Right. And so what I'm saying is that, wow, they talk to everybody that's concerned. We really do. We try to talk to anyone who has relevant information and sometimes that can take a few months to get someone in person. We try to meet with them live. And then once all of the interviews and documents have been reviewed and completed, then there's an investigative report that's written that is very extensive. As you know, sometimes there are 10 or 15 pages, but that's gotta be like a really simple set of facts. More often we're looking at 20 or 30 page reports, especially if it's a series of events. If someone's claiming harassment, for example, it's usually over time. It's something that there are multiple incidents that we have to investigate and then summarize and then analyze, including doing a lot of legal research. So yeah, in the dream scenario, we would get cases done within six to 12 months. In reality, it's more like 12 to 24 months. I have just when I came on as an investigator, there was a lot of older cases that had been waiting for a new investigator to get assigned to them. Some of those cases, I completed as quickly as I could and it was a total of maybe three or more years that those cases had been pending with us. And sometimes that means it's another year before that the actual events where we're investigating occurred.  So people don't wanna wait too long to come to us. But also, if too much time has passed, it's very hard to get a clear picture of what really happened. People may not be available, people may have moved, we've lost contact information or people just don't remember things anymore or even people pass away. So we can get the best investigation in the most timely manner if we hear about it quickly. But even then, just the initial intake process getting from contacting our office to there being an actual complaint signed, that can take a few months easily. So let me ask you a question, Vic. Is there a timeline for a complaint? Like say, let's do the state, let's say state, let's say to one of our state employees, DLC or whatever, just hypothetically. Do they have a timeline that they can come and file a complaint with HRC about whatever happened? Is it a timeline that's too long and we can't do it? It just has to be within one year. And then they're fine to come. We have to get the complaint filed within one year of the day to the incident or at least they need to have told us, express their intention to file a complaint with us. Awesome. But there's no timeline for how long our cases have to take by our rules or statute. So I know HRC are for trainings, like human rights. Yeah. Know your rights and can you explain some of those trainings that we do or could do or can put together for maybe an organization or for the public? Absolutely. As you know, the trainings is a topic that you and I share a deep passion for getting the word out to everyone, what the law says, what our process is, what the expectations are for all people. So we are revamping our training plan for this year for the 2024 calendar year. But right now what we've historically offered and what we will continue to offer for sure is monthly fair housing trainings. Those since COVID times have been offered virtually and we seem to be finding that platform works well. So those trainings are once a month, one Monday morning a month, that folks can attend those virtually and those are live in-person trainings taught by our staff attorney investigators who are really the experts in the state about fair housing. It's mainly, it's not exactly a know your rights training, it's more of like what folks, what especially landlords and housing providers should know so that they comply with the law. But we do from time to time offer know your rights trainings. Last year we published a know your rights booklet that's available in the 14 languages that are most commonly spoken in Vermont. And we also do trainings, historically we've done trainings kind of on request whenever anyone in the community is looking for a training on a certain topic. If we're able to provide it, we do do those and we now offer them free of charge. But that has included topics like harassment and bullying in schools. It's included things like workplace harassment prevention and we're gonna be looking this year towards a real comprehensive discrimination prevention series so our wonderful director of policy education and outreach, Amanda Garces and I are developing a multi course sort of six month long series that folks can attend, some will be in person, some will be virtual. These are gonna include general information about the Human Rights Commission and our anti-discrimination statutes. And then inclusive practices, implicit bias is a really big topic that we've offered a lot of trainings on over the years. We consider that sort of foundational information for discrimination prevention is to become aware of what our biases that we hold that are unconscious that might be playing out in our interactions with others. And then we've recently, over the last couple of years with a coalition of amazing folks have developed let's talk race cards which are a training and discussion tool. So we now are gonna be offering an eight hour training using those let's talk race cards to get conversations about racism and systemic racism. All of us more comfortable having those kinds of conversations. And then we'll be also offering additional trainings as part of this training program about LGBT and disability inclusion and a lot of those topics that you and I care about so deeply. Yeah, no doubt about it. And I'm glad you mentioned all of those because we both care about those so deeply. And so diversity and equity and inclusion. So we haven't really dug deep into that as a training, have we? I think the HRC has offered different trainings that certainly touch on those topics. And when we have public agencies or especially or groups or commissions that reach out to us for trainings on diversity, equity and inclusion we usually start them with the implicit bias training. And another topic that's really important to that and that I forgot to mention is bystander intervention. So we also are building that into our training series which is around what do you do when you witness or observe discrimination or a bias incident. What are the strategies that are gonna work for you to step in and intervene in that moment to put a stop to the conduct and or support the person who may have been facing something wrong or call out bias when you see it, call out racism and prejudice when you see it having an impact in your community. And I know, this is very important to me as well because as a world change we all as individuals as people as whoever hell we are changing and we need to know about those changes and be able to use the right correct words or pronouns.  But anyways, so one year you might know a person as this individual and the next year you know as that individual and sometimes they see themselves their pronouns different from what it was. And so you get, I mean get clustered saying the same for 10 years I've known you. Right. And then trying to regroup and get it to the right way to say it. And so I know you probably got the training wrote up for us already, for our staff. But I know you're gonna put on a training for our staff around how to use the correct pronouns for individuals. And I'm so happy that you're doing that. Thank you so much that you're gonna do that because it's gonna make me better.   That's right, actually one of the most inclusive things we can do on this show is when we introduce ourselves we say what our pronouns are. That's something that is, or when we have name tags at an event that we say what our pronouns are on those name tags. As someone who is non-binary, gender non-conforming and I use they, them pronouns, it feels very welcoming and inclusive to me when I come into a space and we remember to talk about pronouns in our introductions. Then I'm like, ooh, I'm in a room of people who are thinking about this, who are trying their best. No one needs to be perfect about it. Everyone's gonna mess up. You know, and it's about how we kinda handle those moments and then do better, right? And say you're sorry, correct yourself, correct someone else, and then move on. Don't make it about like, oh, this is so hard for me to remember that kind of stuff which is de-centering the person who is marginalized in that situation.   And so that's how you gotta make me get better. The thing is, one thing, not the thing is, but one thing that I'm, you know, my little tiny brain, I always wanna, like, I need the need to know, like, what does some of these acronyms mean?   How does that go to, you know, how does that flow to you? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, it's something that I really hope to be able to offer some more trainings for the public and other folks who wanna hear about it, because it's, the language here, especially in the world of LGBT plus inclusion, also in the world of, you know, racial conversations and in the context of talking about people with disabilities are, all of our language is shifting over the last several years, and I don't even know that I'm always, like, fully up to date on the current, you know, best language to use. We can always, we always all have more to learn on this stuff, so it's really important to just have that openness. I was gonna learn that part though, you know, like what those acronyms mean.  So I'm always like, you know, okay, that's this, because of that, that, you know, then I kinda understand it more because of this, and like, if I, you know, I can call you anybody who's with it, anybody, use anybody's acronyms, but if I don't know what it means, I don't, I just, I don't get advice, you know what I mean? Absolutely, and that's where in a lot of the trainings I've done in my life, especially around harassment, prevention, and workplaces and stuff, you start at the very beginning. Who are you, what's your acronyms? And what, what, what does L, what does G, what do these letters mean? What do they stand for? Why are we talking about this? Who does this matter to? And I think most folks in Vermont especially really want to be respectful. They wanna be inclusive. They just don't always know the right vocabulary. So then we tend to maybe avoid having those conversations or avoid bringing it up, cause they're afraid they might mess up. But in my experience, having an openness, having a curiosity is half the battle. And I have, I have no problem sharing with folks, answering questions they may have or whatever, so that, so that they can grow their understanding. To me though, learning from the younger generations is really important. For me, you know, I'm in my 40s. I didn't, I wouldn't grow up knowing what, there was no language around non-binary. What does that even mean? There was not, it just didn't exist as a concept. And that's where I give my credit to the younger, the younger folks, the folks who came after me to start to create these concepts and create the language so that more of us can understand actually who we, who we actually are. So that, you know, I find a lot about you so much. We touched on, we got the same feeling about a lot of things. Yeah. And so. Half that was not gonna be enough time for you to talk about. I already put the next show to the pronoun show right here. The pronoun show, sounds great.  But, big. One thing I know for a fact, and cause I continue, on the way that I know I'm better if I keep learning from people like you and people learning from the little kids or youth or whatever, that's how I get better. I always teach my youth or whoever that I'm not a doctor, lawyer, Indian chief, but I know a doctor, lawyer, and two Indian chiefs. And if I need an answer, I just go right to them, get it. And so the thing is nothing part, knowing about, for me, if learning about what pronouns mean is that, you know, I consider myself a he and me as him or whatever, you know. But you know what? If I learn something from somebody else who might be or she and them, they, you know, she and them or they, whatever it is. And, you know, I might see something in there, that's me. Yeah. You know what I'm trying to say? And so, wow. Now, what that means to my he and me as him, you know. What does that mean? How does that change me? Cause I said, wow.  I do the same thing, you know. You know, make it out, we're the same on this, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. So, and so that means a lot to me for my heart, my own mission goals and objective and my own self. You know what I mean? My own spirituality, you know what I'm saying? That means a lot to me. That what that person described in them, me, that's me too. And so now how do I change he? How do I add that? Or meant to the following, you know, he or him. So that's why I need to know personally, is just how can I learn more about myself, you know what I mean? Yeah. I think my work around, you know, wanting to learn about others really did open my eyes to more about learning about myself. And I think it is, it's a journey that we take for others really, but it ends up being a journey that we take for ourselves as well. Yeah. So I guess, what you wanna add, Beck? I'm definitely gonna try and go out to the pronoun show. All right, well, I mean, we can get some guests on here. Stay tuned for a pronoun show. That's right. We'll get other people to help us, you know, some people who we know in the community can help us, maybe have a word or two that can, ways we can look at it, how we can think of, how we can think of using those words or how we can think of, not necessarily using the words because they're using the words, I mean, it's the using the words from the word, the other, that individual, how they want us to, but. Yeah.  I learned it from Big Heartman. Ain't no shake on this, all real, you know what I'm saying?  So the B-I-G said this, that's what it is. So, what about, so I know we got to, I got to come to, well, I'm coming. So our next, we have a meeting coming up. Yep. And I got it all, I got it, it's in a, where is it, it's a water barrier. Yeah, we're going to have most of our commission meetings this year in the Waterbury State Office Complex. It's a great space, fairly easy to access with, you know, public transit, great parking, accessible, all of that. Our commission meetings, as you know, are once a month. They tend to be the last Thursday or the fourth Thursday of the month, except for November and December, when we kind of combine one in the beginning of December. There are public parts of that meeting. Of course, it's a public commission subject to the open meetings law, but we, because so much of our investigation work is confidential by law, there are large portions of our meetings where we're talking about cases that are not public. It's not public information. So we're in executive session for a lot of those meetings, but we always welcome the public to come and sit in. You can, we have a link on our website under the HRC website, under About, and then Meetings. We have a public meeting link, so that, there it is, so that folks can sit in remotely. If you can't come to Waterbury, that's totally fine. And that way, for the executive session parts of the meeting, we don't have to kick you out, but you won't be included in the executive session unless you're a party to a case that's being discussed. But we do hope to have more public comment, public engagement in our work, whether that be in commission meetings, or whether it be in other outreach events that we host, that we participate in. We're looking forward to some fun events for Fair Housing Month, which is in April, and other cultural events that we like to be a part of and look forward to come up, and maybe we'll have an event at your art studio, gallery, I mean, and just, yeah, thinking of always inviting the public to let us know if there's something we can come and give a talk at, or share resources, pass out our publications and our materials. We're always happy to try to get boots on the ground, talk to folks in the community who may have questions about our work. So, I know we gotta go, but I gotta have all these questions burning in my head. And so thank you, thank you for, I mean, it's everything we all, you and I talked about, and about trainings and coming into the community and boots on the ground, and when we started training, and I wish it was like Denver, like 95 right now. Denver, right, but. It was hot when we were in Denver for that HUD conference, it was like 90. I know, but one thing when we were sitting at the table, we both banged at the table, like talking about all the speakers and we was right up front, and then right there in the front was everybody who was hood people. All of them said, boots on the ground. They was like, they ready to shake somebody.  Yeah, we wanna make, you know, with our small staff, we have seven people on staff, but we still wanna try to make our way around the communities in Vermont, even especially the most underserved communities, and also we've got boots on the ground at the state house. We're gonna be working hard there to advance, you know, the right legislation and speak out about anything that might be come in our way that would be a detriment to civil rights in Vermont. And actually two more questions. So when a person come, like a community person might get joined in for the community time they have on our meetings, can they just talk about anything? We have been very welcoming of folks when the agenda allows to maybe, you know, if we have an open chunk of time in our day, then we would welcome someone who might wanna speak to us about current events or current policy issues we should be considering that pertain to discrimination or civil rights. That's something that we're open to. It's probably best if you wanna get on the agenda to reach out to our office and say, I wanna come, can you make time for me in the agenda? As you know, like our next meeting is jam-packed from nine to 4.30, we are booked up. So sometimes we don't always have time for that kind of public comment, but I think it'd be really great to think about doing like listening sessions or going around and doing more public events so people can get a chance to talk to us. Like I told you, I think, and I'll talk to our coach who's our chair of commissioners. And the rest of our commission is that I wanna be a part of everything that we do that's gotta be working with the community and community of people, but that's just the best I am, that's who I am, that's what I do, you know. So if you wanna present to someone, I don't have to say a damn thing, I can just carry your bags or whatever, but if we're going to a community somewhere, I think it's also as good as a person to see a person who looks like me in order to go to the Human Rights Commission, and then you say, wow, incredible, you know what I mean? A lot of people already said that to me, what? That's incredible, you know what I mean? The governor appointed you to be on a commission for the Human Rights Commission, yes. So one last thing, and if you wanna ask something, ask for this, but I have to do it because I'm a person of color. Now, if a person, a black person who looks like me or a person of POC, BIPOC, whatever, has been pulled over by police for no apparent reason, like no, no, as I would know, it's no apparent reason, like I don't know if my break line is out or nothing, but because they're behind me, but let's say it's not out, or say it is, whatever the hell, but what should I do while I'm in the car waiting for them to come up to me? What should I, as a, you know, kind of know my rights? What should I do?   Well, I can't give people advice about the law, or police stops, but I can say that as you may know, in the past, our office has conducted investigations of police departments who were believed to have been treating black men, especially differently than others in the community, or failing to respond to people of color reporting crimes or reporting threats, and we will investigate those as potentially, that's considered public accommodations. Police are considered a place of public accommodations and the services that they provide need to be equal, comparable for all people and if members of our BIPOC community are feeling marginalized or treated differently by those service providers that police are a public service, that's something we really wanna hear about and we will be investigating. Thank you. Well, we'll go over your title again cause you know it better than me. Sure. Who are you? Who are you and what do you do? I'm the Human Rights Commission for the State of Vermont. I am the Executive Director in General Counsel. No doubt about it. And we're so proud, I'm so proud to have you. You know. Thank you, Commissioner Wilson. Thank you. All right, thanks for joining us. Thank you. Our next show's coming up, people. Next show's coming up. Thank you. Thanks for tuning in to Straight Talk from our show. See you next time.


Members of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit's battalion landing team and amphibious reconnaissance platoon received jungle survival training from Royal Thai reconnaissance marines as part of Cobra Gold 2012. The training provides information on edible vegetation, fruits, vegetables and wildlife. The knowledge is valuable for operating in the Asia Pacific. For survival, jungle survival, if I needed to live off the land, say some kind of supply, resupply was lost, I would be able to live off the land to make do until I was able to get resupplied. During the classes, the marines were able to sample some of the jungle's more interesting meal choices and have a chance to get familiar with a few of its fellow predators. Marine Sergeant Paul Robbins Jr. Recon Camp, Thailand.


Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm in the attractive Somerset village of Dunster today I've just come here to have a quick look around because I've got a bit of time in between doing the West Somerset Railway So this is the village centre. You can see the famous yarn market. We'll go to that soon And there's also the Tower of Folly above the village, which we will also hopefully get to But let's have a look up here because first I want to show you there's some gardens and there's the old prairie Which is now the parish church. So that's probably one of the most interesting things. The other thing Dunster is famous for I've already mentioned it's got the West Somerset Railway The station is about a mile away from the village. So as I said, it's not actually featuring in today's video Although I have been on the West Somerset Railway. I then came here on the bus The other famous thing Dunster is famous for is behind me somewhere there. Although we can't actually see it It's Dunster Castle. It's National Trust. It's well worth a visit. I have been there in the past You have to pre-book that at the moment and I didn't have as long as I'd have liked So I didn't really see the point. In going there today I thought I'd go back at a time, you know, when I can perhaps spend a day there and no doubt I'd love to make a video there. So, you know, watch this space. So as we come up here There's some rather nice gardens here. Dunster Village Gardens. So let's go and have a look at them and then Then we'll go and have a look at the church Here we are in the gardens So this is the Dunster Village Gardens. They're open Let's have a look. I believe this will take us through to where the priory Or what there is of the priory. So pan around you can see the tower I'm not going to try and pronounce its name. It's on screen now Because I've asked three different people how you pronounce it and they've all said a different Pronunciation so I think the best thing is I just don't say the name but you can read it and you can pronounce it how you think Well, look, this is a mulberry here Pretty bit early for the mulberries. Yeah, here we go round the mulberry rush. There you are. You can just see some there still green So I'm not ready to eat. They have to be They become very dark red before you can eat them. There's one. It's a bit more ripe There, can you see that one? But it would still be very sour if you ate it now The problem is with eating mulberries is the juice goes onto your fingers and I always look like I've got blood on my hands every time I eat one So yeah, perhaps best to leave them for today There's the priory church. That's where we're going to head to now There's hollyhocks taller than me And no doubt this worst area probably looks very nice a couple of months ago So once we go over the other side of that wall, well actually probably already we are in the grounds Of the old Dunster priory. I believe it's an old Benedictine priory. I don't know too much about it Um, because admittedly but it was a bit of an unplanned visit It's going on the west Somerset rail ended up at Dunster so four months will do a video here And come into here now. He said tithe barn there. That's part of the priory or would have been part of the priory again There's the holly which I'm going to try and walk up to There's the church So this is quite a big space in the middle of the village So it is worth coming here if you do want to come by train in the west Somerset Railway If you're spending all down the west Somerset Railway So if you're going from Bishop's Idiots to Dunster It's easy to be able to get It's a bit of a walk but it's worth it There's the tithe barn And the other interesting feature Is the dove coat here I'm going to head that way down to the village More nice gardens This little door It looks like I can't go in so that's going I see so we It's a small door. We're going Can't go any further than this but have a look at that You can see where all the doves would nest Um, but it doesn't look like there's actually any doves in there today. Just go outside and um Smells very nice smell of lavender Where does he sit? Down these gardens When I come to a garden like this And I see a tarp going off I'll have to go and see There it goes. I can never resist things Tarps like this so I've been Always find it fascinating To see the shoot gardens It takes us up. I think it's a dead end But we get Quite a good view Of the tithe barn Yeah, it just ends here So now let's go and have a look We need to get round there To the church We might catch glimpse of the castle soon As well. So like I said, I will one day Come here and do the castle There's also the mill It's all very fascinating So that is also well worth Visit the castle So let's go back out onto the road There's the church See where this takes us Some box hedging there I'm kind of assuming It's going to take us round to the church Admittedly, I'm kind of guessing my way now And then from the church When we walk back into the village centre We'll have a look at the old yarn market Because that's kind of The pretty nice famous image of Dunster And then I'm going to attempt To go up to the tower Right, what happens here Okay, so that's probably The village stall in front of me And this looks like The glitch gate Into the priory church So let's go from here And see what we can see Okay, so believe me The castle is up there It's hidden behind the trees If we can make it up to the tower Before we get a view Looking back across the church No doubt when we even get to the yarn market We'll see the castle towering So that's another interesting plant This is called a medlar bush Has these rather weird looking Fruits now, you actually eat them When they go rotten, so you don't eat them like that They're a bit sort of like pears But they have this funny sort of end to them I've never tried, I've bitten into them When they're a bit more matured And they're not really very nice But you can eat them, supposedly Here's the priory church I can just see part of the castle The estate, that building over there Is probably the gate house I do remember there being a couple of Ruin bits in the castle as well So no one's saying our last visit there Probably at least 15 years ago It was on a school visit And I did go with my family When I was a child So this is until this We're going to go out one of them Those ways out back to the village Have a look at the church, it's quite an impressive building Let's go inside I hope it's open I expect it probably is Yeah, it's open Let's go Into the church So yeah, this was once Part of the old priory It's quite warm, sometimes cold When you go in churches This one's quite warm Got a lovely Loot screen across the front Let's go around Let's go around this way first It looks like they do Perhaps do tees on a Summer Sunday, second half a bookshop Looks like there's all tables Layed out as if they were doing tees And there's lots of Postcards to buy And all sorts of things Let's have a look in here Into The chancel And the altar Very interesting church So what I'm going to do now Is I'm going to go outside And then walk back to the village And have a look at the yarn market And then we might go up to the tower So from the church What I've done, I've circumnavigated The top of the village Because we come to this view here Which is a rather attractive view There's the yarn market Down there, which I'm going to have a look at And there above is the castle So let's go down And see the yarn market It's always like these Parts you get In these villages in the west country They always fascinate me You never know where they're going to quite take you to So we come down here Classic Volvo That's the yarn market That's what we've come down here to have a look at Oh and by the way, this building here This is the yarn market hotel So as we come to here, this is the yarn market So we can go inside And have a look You can see quite a fascinating 16th century market And there's a picture That's in 1821 it says So here's the yarn market 17th century yarn market From the cup at the ceiling Quite fascinating It's quite interesting how you can actually see All of the loft And how roof is done From the inside So what we're going to do now We're going to go back outside The village And I'm going to try and I haven't got that long, I've only got back now So I'm going to try and find my way up to the tower So I'm now making my way up through the woods To the tower, but before I get to the tower I found some more ruins Must be part of it I don't know too much about this place I know it's all a folly Let's have a look up here There's another little turret here Quite exciting There's another little ruin There's more of a grand entrance So we'll have a look at this So if I wanted to walk to Minehead I could go that way, I have done that in the past I once got the train from Minehead Tube Done so I walked up to here Went about that way So let's go through here And then it looks like I've got quite a lot of steps to go up now To get to this tower So here's another little turret there Just see that one in the trees There's a great house, turret And a large way, so quite fascinating Mysterious place But I've now got off all these steps To go and find the tower itself That's been a bit of a walk up through the woods Up quite a steep hill But the gradient has now eased off There it is That's how I loom the head Looks like we probably can go inside I did come up here a few years ago Supposedly there was a secret passageway From here to the castle From here to the castle, a secret tunnel Sounds very sort of famous 5-ish Doesn't it? But I think it's all been filled in So I don't think it's going to be quite that exciting It was worth the time up this steep hill For To have a look at So here it really is just a folly Well that probably made quite a nice view From Done to the castle So here we go Here's a picture So if we could get on top We'll see what that painting shows The village and the castle Down there, let's go inside there and have a look So really it's just a big ground tower Just a big ground tower No floors I can't see there was ever a staircase There certainly Holes for there to have been a floor But there was a floor Must have been wooden and it's rotted away I'm assuming you must have been able to go on top Because it's going by the picture Let's go outside and have a look at the view Oh the last look up And let's see what we can Find out here It's like the overgrown path around here The village is down now, I was hoping we'd get a good view But maybe not Maybe to see the view We should come up here in the winter At some point And it's very overcast day to day Good job of not wearing shorts But the sea here Sorry can't even see the sea But the sea, it's just out there And so is, I'm not going to try and get through there So is the West Sunset Railway For that matter So well, here, Dunster Castle You might just be able to see The top of it Not sure if the camera is picking it out I can just see the Union flag flying On top of the tower So, I think Bit of an anti-climax, I really hope we see The village from up here But I think that pretty much concludes This little adventure around Dunster From the village up to the woods Up to this strange tower You'll have to find my way down now Get back on that bus So, I hope you enjoyed this video Thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment If you are having a trip on the West Sunset Railway Do allow quite a long time Allow longer than I did But it is worth coming to see And so is on the other hill over there Dunster Castle, so thank you very much From the tower above Dunster


Welcome to All Hands Update. I'm Petty Officer Andrew Johnson. Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Admiral Bill Moran visited with Naval Special Warfare Sailors on Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek Fort Story, October 21st. One of the topics Moran addressed was Sailor's Concerns about the possibility of another enlisted retention board, or ERB. The ERB was a manpower reduction tool that resulted in a force reduction of nearly 3,000 sailors in 2011. Moran said that another ERB is not planned due to a current stabilized force. Moran also responded to rumors that service members were facing a possible pay cut. CNP said pay will continue to increase, but it will not go up as fast as it has over the last 13 years. For more information, visit the Chief of Naval Personnel's website.