Coming up on DTNS Uber and Lyft, share lists of blocked drivers. Allison brings us some highlights from the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference and is Netflix cracking down on the password sharing? This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, March 12th, 2021 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, where it's my mother's birthday. I'm Sarah Lane. From Columbus, Ohio. I'm Rob Dunwood. And I'm Allison Sheridan from The Podfeat Podcast. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. We were just having a good old time talking on Good Day Internet about all kinds of things, including the reason that Sarah's gate conspired against her. It was a gate's conspiracy. Well, just one gate in this case. If you want that story and a whole lot more, including some smart home discussion, get a membership at patreon.com.dtns and get Good Day Internet. Disney World announced you will have the option of replacing its Magic Band wristband with a Magic Mobile service that works with your phone or your watch. You'll create a pass in the My Disney Experience app and add it to your wallet. The Magic Mobile service will launch first on iPhone and Apple Watch later this year. According to new data from IDC, China's Transins suite of brands, Transin is T-R-I-A-N-S-S-I-O-N and the brands include Techno, Infinix, and Itel, have a 48.2% share of the African smartphone market, well ahead of Samsung, which is in second place at 16%. Although African mobile phone sales increased by 4.6% in Q4 from the previous quarter, 2020 sales overall were down 10%. Transin invests in or has operational shares in several apps and services, including music streaming service Boom Play, social video app V-Skit, and money manager Palm Pay. As Google faces out support for third-party cookies, it outlined how it's expanding the functionality of the Publisher, Provide Identifier, or PPID, and Google Ad Manager to run personalized ads using first-party data. Publishers would create a unique ID for users using logins or first-party cookies, which would then be input into Google Ad Manager for privacy hashing, then passed on to buyers. Google is in the early process of automating parts for the PPID process for small publishers. The United States amended the licenses that it's given to companies to let them get around restrictions on supplying parts to Huawei. These licenses are now more strict. They increased restrictions on selling items used to make 5G devices. The amendment brings earlier, more permissive licenses that were issued in 2019 in line with later, more restrictive ones that were issued toward the end of last year. China's Ant Group confirmed that CEO Simon Hu resigned for personal reasons with Chairman Eric Jing taking over as CEO effective immediately. Hu had served as CEO since December of 2019, previously serving as CEO of Alibaba Cloud Computing, and is revamping its business after having to suspend its IPO last November, which was followed by fines in December for failure to properly report business deals. Alibaba received similar fines in December. On Friday, China's State Administration for Market Regulation fined 12 companies, including Tencent and Baidu, 500,000 won each for the same reason. Alright, let's talk about Netflix. Are they really cracking down on the sharing? Well, before we get to Netflix, Tom, there are other companies that are rethinking how we all pay for streaming services. What do you want? How much are you going to pay for it? One way to get more subscribers to a streaming service is to make a cheaper version available, right? Sure, why not? HBO Max will launch an ad-supported version of its service in June. We don't know how much it will cost as of yet, but another way to get more subscribers might be to crack down on password sharing, and that's where we get to Netflix, because the company is now testing out ways to detect password sharing. Some users of Netflix on TVs have reported seeing a message when they access their account that says, quote, if you don't live with the owner of this account, you need your own account to keep watching, end quote. They can then choose to verify that they are indeed the owner by receiving a code by email or text message at an address or number associated with the account. Netflix told the streamable of this new move, quote, this test is designed to help ensure that people use Netflix accounts are authorized to do so. Netflix's Terms of Service doesn't allow accounts to be shared beyond your household, so this isn't Netflix saying, oh, we've changed our policies here. This is Netflix just enforcing those policies a little bit differently. The company hasn't seemed that worried about password sharing in the past. You might recall that back in 2016, Netflix CEO Hastings said password sharing is something that you have to learn to live with because there's so much legitimate password sharing. However, Netflix does limit the number of simultaneous streams to one, two, or four devices depending on your plan. So the company does care and it has cared, but it seems like it cares more than ever. Yeah, I still not convinced that they care. My theory here, because of the way it's being done and it's a test and it's very lightweight and they're not even denying it, they're like, oh, yeah, no, we're just taking a look at this. I think there's pressure on them from production partners because they partner with movie studios who might be like, you need to stop sharing because they're just so anti-piracy or maybe they want to syndicate stuff and they don't want people to too easily be able to get stuff. Also, investors, some investors in Netflix may have decided that password sharing is depressing the value of Netflix. But I think Netflix's internal attitude is still the same that's always been, which is password sharing happens among people who wouldn't pay for it anyway and is probably as much of a gateway to people paying later when they don't want to go through the hassle of having to keep their password straight with their parents. I'm with you on this one, Tom. I think that specifically and particularly because of the reason that you can get past it without having to do anything. I mean, it's going to send you a text message or an email, but even if you don't get the text message or email, you can still bypass it and then go watch whatever you want. I don't know that Netflix per se cares all that much and they really don't want to, harm is probably a strong word, but they probably don't want to upset many of their current customers because it's kind of like, this was the deal. I got this, my kids are grown, they've moved out, but they've been using this for the last 10 years. Now they've got to go get their own account, kind of know if you've never changed your password. So I understand what they're doing because some of their competition is really, I mean, Hulu, for example, it's like, even if it is you, it's difficult to watch Hulu outside of your own house. So I see why they're doing it, but like you said, I just don't know that they care all that much. I think they've got a little interesting messaging here when I started sharing with my two kids, I increased my plan so that I could share with four people at the same time, it's actually three. So I would be cutting my plan almost in half if I wasn't able to share with them. So I think I misinterpreted that as that was the legitimate way for me to be able to share it with my family. I mean, yes and no, the terms have always said you're not supposed to share outside your household, but Netflix really has relied on the simultaneous streams limit to be the way they monetize needing more streams. So I don't know why maybe I'm naive. I just don't think Netflix itself is really into this or they would be testing a more robust way to do it. Like you said, Rob, there's a button you can say like, eh, bug me about this later and then it doesn't even matter. Even if you do it, you can have mom or dad text you the code as soon as they get it, right? Like this feels like Netflix going through the motions to please someone else. Yeah. I mean, when I first signed up for YouTube TV, which was a few years ago, I lived in LA at the time and a friend of mine had an accountant. He was like, oh, I, you can be part of my family plan. I don't mind sharing with you.  And I was like, that's so cool. Okay. Great. And eventually it worked out, worked out for a couple months and eventually the service was like, wait a second, you don't live in Phoenix, Arizona. No, no, no, no. This is not going to work out anymore. And I kind of at that point was like, well, sure.  But I think that yes, either Netflix itself is like, we could get a lot more subscriptions if we clamp down on this, but more likely somebody that has a high profile content on the service has said, you got to do something about this. Uber and Lyft are partnering with background check company hire right to share data on drivers who are deactivated for serious offenses like assaults and murder. The two companies will share data as part of the industry safe sharing project, which is administered by a third party. If a driver commits an offense, it will be shared with the project and the other company can use it to decide to deactivate the driver on its own platform as well. New drivers on these platforms will also have their name checked against this database. So if I'm understanding this correctly, this is using the records of the courts, right? So this is you got, you were convicted. You went to court and you were convicted. And that's how you get your name in this database. So I think, you know, if there was concerns about who gets to decide whether it's an assault or not, I think that is the standard if I understand this, right? And then this is really a matter of the companies saying, look, we want to cooperate with each other so that someone who is convicted of a crime and gets kicked off our platform doesn't run to you and try to be on your platform because you don't realize that about them. Yeah, I mean, this is, listen, I mean, if somebody has been convicted of all sorts of crimes, it doesn't mean that they're going to commit the same kind of crime again in the future. That's certainly not what we're saying, but I would like to know if I, and I've gone between Uber and Lyft in the past. I mean, I haven't been in either one of those cars in quite some time for obvious reasons. But I would like to know if there was a history of something, I would like to know it. And I don't care, you know, who I'm, you know, right-hailing from at that time. So yeah, the more you know.  I had an employee a couple levels below me who punched his boss in the face. And I obviously fired him right away. And we found out like a week later, he was working at our sister company literally across the quad. They had hired him and nobody had had a conversation. So there you go. Yeah. And the background checks part isn't new. Theoretically Lyft would do a background check and find this out themselves, even if it happened on Uber. But this, this makes it easier. It makes it harder for, for somebody to try to get around that. I see some comments in our chat room. We're like, Oh, finally, they're doing background checks. That part isn't new. They've been doing background checks for a while now with these companies. And so I understand it. Uber and Lyft will let others, other companies join this if they wish, because it's a third party independent system that they set up. And I think also it's this, you know, murder and assault. I mean, these are pretty, you know, serious charges.  You got an argument with someone. This is for, you know, for pretty serious stuff that you were convicted of. I think also the timing of this is once where I mean, hey, we're not back to regular life yet. Nobody thinks that. But I think some people for the first time, myself included in a while might be like, okay, well, I have to get from point A to point B, would I maybe take one of these services again? It's been a while. I want to make sure that the person that I'm in the back of the car from who's driving me is top notch. Well, folks, patents get filed all the time for odd things and they usually don't predict any kind of actual product from a company. So we don't cover them a lot. They're usually meant to just make a larger stack of patents for when you get threatened by somebody else. But a patent from Apple is intriguing and we're going to talk about it today because it could be used to make a MacBook battery life longer without using any new technology. Or it could be used to make MacBooks thinner. We'll think about that. Back in 2015, Apple started using lithium polymer batteries or more properly lithium ion polymer batteries in their 12-inch MacBooks. The advantage of these so-called pouch batteries is that they're a pouch. They use a gel, not a liquid. So therefore they can have a flexible case and can be made in almost any shape. That lets the batteries be used in the available space, meaning you can have more battery, meaning more battery life. They're just a little easy to squeeze into what you're doing there. However, the sealed edges of the battery pouches do need to be kept away from any other conductive services. And that means you can't just squish them right up against everything because you might be squishing up against something conductive. So they can't use all of the available space. They can use more than the hard-sided lithium ion batteries that have a liquid, but not as much as they could if they could squish right up against stuff. Well, the solution is this patent. Put the pouches inside rigid enclosures. This prevents the edges of the pouches from touching other components, but you can still have the batteries made in irregular shapes, unlike the previous types of batteries where it was more difficult to make a lot of different shapes because you don't have to encase the liquid. You just have to encase the polymer, which can squish up into the case that you're building for it. Best of both worlds, possibly meaning more battery life because you can squish more battery into the available space, or Apple might decide to just use that to make thinner MacBooks. Allison, which do you think they will do? My first thought is how did they get a patent on something that is basically the way Canadians get milk, right? They get made milk in a bag and then they shove it into a rectangular container that holds it in the right shape. But trying to stick to the technical side here, I would really expect that they would go for thinner and lighter, mostly because they've had such massive advances in their power efficiency with the M1 chips. They've got battery life that is just insane. I helped give my daughter-in-law a MacBook Air for Christmas and in February she complained to me that she had to charge it. So they pretty much cracked the battery problem now from a power standpoint. They could afford to go thinner now. So you're saying I'm going to get a paper cut on the next M1 MacBook? Won't be the first time, right? I know. How thin is too thin? That's 16 inch, man. I want that to be thinner and lighter, Tom. That thing weighs about 150 pounds. I would like it to be thinner and lighter. I don't think it weighs quite that much. But yes, I get that the thinner and lighter idea is still alive and well. Rob, what were you going to say? I was going to say that I was hoping for these batteries to look like middle jigsaw puzzle pieces. So that once the laptop is run its life, you can reclaim them and actually make art out of your battery by making a puzzle. There you go. This is a cool patent, though. Anything that advances this is certainly awesome, right? I caught my eye because it seems simple and probably likely to be implemented versus some other patents where you're like, okay, they just came up with something cool. They may or may not ever use it. Is this technology only available to Apple or are other companies making these types of batteries as well? Or is this just their thing? The lithium polymer technology is available to other companies. The patent on how to squeeze it into the rigid cases is patented by Apple. So they could conceivably stop others from doing it or license it, etc. So the lithium polymer batteries are the gel ones? The pouches, yeah, yeah. Okay, so it's just being able to stick them in a milk box. The method for getting more out of them. Hey, folks, if you've got thoughts on this patent, you got thoughts on Netflix password sharing, do not share your passwords in there, but you can go to our Discord, which you can join by linking to a Patreon account at patreon.com. The CSUN Assistive Technology Conference is held every year to show off an assistive technology this year for the first time. It was held virtually, obviously. Allison has attended the conference in person for several years and attended virtually this time. Allison, I know there's so much to talk about. What are a couple of the highlights you saw there? Let me cover all accessible technology in, I don't know, what do you think, seven minutes? Sound good? So this conference I've been going to like you said for a real long time. Steve and I have gone to it and we have gone to it before because it's virtual. As press, I was able to go to a lot of the sessions and it's still ongoing even as we speak and it's been fantastic being able to attend the sessions that you want to go to being done in a virtual environment. Before I get into that, though, let me back up a little bit. This thing is four days long and it's only $425. That's for a conference for four days. That's really, really inexpensive. There's extra money if you want to go but the exhibit hall is always free. So if you're in the Southern California area, it's worth going to this and just playing around in the exhibit hall and seeing all the amazing toys that they have and they cover everything, visual, hearing, mobility, cognitive impairments. I've learned a lot more about cognitive impairments than I knew before just from going to this. Couple of the cool things. I'm just picked two. I went to a couple of sessions on section 508. This is the government regulation that says that all government services have to be accessible. Well, one of the things the government then has to do is they have to be able to test their own websites, for example, to make sure that everything is accessible and they've built a tool called ANDI and I can provide a link to that if you want it. It's a book market that you put into your browser and it runs on all the browsers, even Internet Explorer and when you go to a website, you just click that button and it shows you for all these different categories what isn't accessible on the site. Like there's an image that doesn't have an alt tag or there's a button that doesn't have a description or low contrast and the low contrast stuff is super hard to do. I've worked really hard on my site to get it. I've got everything that I can change. There's something in my theme I can't change but it's really hard because it says low contrast or you don't meet the contrast standards. It's like, okay, just tell me what numbers to type in. What do I do to make that red be the right red on pink or does it have to be red on white? What do I got to do? This tool actually tells you, consider using this and you'll be able to meet the AA standards for. That's cool. Yeah, it's really cool and the tool highlights what's missing. I ran it just on a lark. I ran it on iMore and I discovered that they had wrapped their this main navigation bar that has search and links to the top level topics. The whole thing was in an element called aria-hidden equals true, which means the entire nav bar was hidden from screen readers. I'm 100% certain that's just a mistake and I've contacted them. There's no way you would do that on purpose. You do that for frivolous images that would just annoy a screen reader, decorative images. The other thing they did though was just a tool doesn't work. Those are really fast, but you need a human to look at it. They've created something called the Trusted Tester Program where you can get certified to be a Trusted Tester and then you're allowed to evaluate websites and I think getting certified in that would be a great way to get a job personally. I think that would be really cool. There was another session on section 508 that was really interesting. I found out that the National Intelligence has an exemption from 508. They're allowed to go, yeah, it's national security so we don't have to be accessible and they've gone back and said, yeah no, we don't think that's the right answer to just blanketly use that as an excuse whenever we don't feel like it. The guy from the DNI, from the Director of National Intelligence Office said, if you don't have diversity of opinions, you get group think and that leads to mistakes and we can't afford to make mistakes when we're in the business of national intelligence. That's dangerous. We have to have all the diverse opinions we can get. So we just decided that we aren't going to do those exemptions unless, like you can apply for one but you have to go to the top to get exempted for that. Did they explain what the reason for wanting to be exempt in the past was? Was it speed? Was it cost? Well, it's not wanting to be exempt but having to be exempt like there were, but I haven't been looking for the documentation on that and I've got the presentations the keynote presentations aren't up yet. So I want to go back and re-listen to the beginning where the guy explained it because I didn't get to write it down. But it's in the, it's in section 508 that they have this exemption. So they don't have to do it but they said no. I'm just wondering how section 508 came about is it I guess what I'm wondering. Yeah, there's a lot of why did they even give them the exemption in the first place but it sounds like that that wasn't addressed. It wasn't clear to me yet but another thing went into place. Two executive orders 13163 and 13548 put in by Clinton and Obama called for 100,000 more people with disabilities to work in government and so all of a sudden this floodgate of people with disabilities are brought in. You darn well better have everything accessible and this presentation was probably the best recruiting video I've ever seen for an organization because they had a woman at a PhD who's been blind since birth and she just talked about how like I have never felt like anything about my disability held me back. The reasonable accommodations always taking care of. She gave advice on improvements that she saw that would be possible. There was another guy who was was able most of his life and he was working there. He started as a co-op but then he had a stroke and he lost like he described it as half of his brain and so he ended up as you know later on in life getting the advantages of the changes that had happened and he said you know I get to he's running part of this disability effort and accessibility effort and he said I go to work every day just so excited and I feel like we're actually at the stage where we're putting that last piece of the puzzle into place. That's how good we're doing it this. It was really, really exciting. Well I'm so glad you took the time to go to that session and come on the show and talk about that because we've had several people write us in the past about the fact that there were certain parts of the government sometimes they didn't know is the intelligence service who were exempt from the standards so it's good to know that the agency itself looks at it and says like yeah that's not even in our own best interest to be exempt from the standards. That's when you get really good at this stuff is when you realize it's a competitive advantage not oh it's nice to these poor people it's like no I'm going to tell an anecdote I may have told on this show before but I did a talk years ago called how to improve or increase your audience size through accessibility and I went through and I explained things like putting all tags and not using audio only or visual only captures on your website. When I finished this is like 15 years ago when I finished this guy came up to me and he said Allison I run the section 508 website for the United States government and I didn't know about visual only captures I had three of them on our main page and I took them off because of your talk there's two sides of that it's awesome Allison told him where was his training yeah right yeah right what it sounds like they're turning that around now which is great thanks for doing that. Yeah it was really really interesting plus a million other things. Of course which I will be talking about on the NoCillicast this week well if you I don't know you're a person who likes to think about years past you might miss your handspring or perhaps your palm handspring visor maybe you wish it was part of your modern life but how could it be well Gizmodo passed along a tweet from our new hero Jorge Cohen who has Twitter running on his palm OS device using its hot sync cradle he tweeted I I think I build a Twitter client from palm OS and he has video showing proof oh he did he also said it's kind of buggy but hey this was a device released back in 1999 so give Jorge a round of applause everybody. Oh man that's great handspring visor if everybody doesn't remember was the one that had cartridges that you could plug into the back to expand its functionality and they were eventually bought by palm hence the hence the palm handspring visor reference there as well but yeah I used to use oven go to bring over certain headlines onto my handspring visor then jump on the 16x to take the bus downtown to go to work and I would read the news I thought it was amazing because I was reading the news while I was away from home on my handspring visor this is the opposite this is I can get Twitter on my handspring visor you don't have to sit in the cradle you can't take it anywhere if you want to do that that video is awesome it's so great yeah it's like it works buggy sure but works I wish I still had my handspring visor I'd give it a shot it's one of the one of the things I never kept and that's saying hello for you I know yeah everything else is still here except for that I'm a palm edge still sitting around here somewhere anyway that's cool check that out with the link in the show notes let's get to the mail bag a few folks have asked in various places about the energy consumption of cryptocurrencies in relation to this week's episode of know a little more which is about the blockchain first blockchain and crypto mining are not the same thing so the energy usage question doesn't particularly apply to blockchain so much as applications of the blockchain like mining a blockchain itself doesn't use any energy it's usually the mining that is associated with proof of work or proof of stake that's where you get the energy consumption second I have seen lots of conflicting information from people who are very sure they're right that it either does or does not use an not okay amount of energy and this this issue is right for exploiting by multiple angles on the issue so I am waiting to see a really rigorous analysis from a couple of sources not even just one but a couple of sources that I know and trust before I form a solid opinion so those who've been asking like hey could you address this why haven't you addressed this in the blockchain I don't address it with blockchain because it doesn't really apply there and I haven't addressed it elsewhere because I'm still waiting for the good analysis out there to be done that says oh yeah no this seems like what's really going on with it well if you have feedback for anything that we talk about on the show or anything we might talk about in our future show please send it to us feedback at dailytechnewshow.com thank you in advance we'd like to shout out patrons at our master and our grand master levels including Irwin Stur, Pat Sheeran and John Adwood also big thanks to our brand new boss Mitchell we see you Mitchell he just started backing us on Patreon thank you so much boss also thanks to Rob Dunn with lots of thanks today Rob you always can check me out with my partners over at the smrpodcast and you can reach that just smrpodcast.com and we are doing much less produced talking about tech over there with two couple other guys that Alison discovered I don't know 10-12 years ago speaking of Alison Alison Sheeran thank you so much for being with us and let us know what you've been up to where can people keep up with more of your work they can always find me at podfeed.com but I want to give a special shout out to Steve Sheridan we have been married for 38 years as of today who could not do what I do without him that's adorable congratulations congratulations to you both that is something special hasn't killed me yet hey folks we have a Spanish language version of dailytechnewshow hosted by Dan Campos so if you speak Spanish and you'd like to hear a weekly roundup of the tech headlines in Spanish maybe you know somebody who only speaks Spanish and they're like yeah I don't know where to go for tech news go to Noticias de Tecnología Express and you can look it up under N-T-X or that in your podcast episode Dano 5 minutos y te daremos las noticias mas importantes en el mundo de la tecnología o te devolvemos tu dinero escucha noticias de tecnología express disponible en español we are live Monday through Friday at 4 30 p.m. eastern and as of Monday 2030 UTC change those calendars if you haven't already and find out more at dailytechnewshow.com slash live Tom is out Monday but we have rich feeling in for him and we'll talk to you then this week's episodes of daily tech news show was created by the following people host producer and writer Tom Merritt host producer and writer Sarah Lane executive producer and Booker Roger Chang producer and writer Rich Stratholino video producer and twitch producer Joe Coontz associate producer Anthony Lemos Spanish language host writer and producer Dan Campos news host writer and producer Jen Cutter social media producer Shannon Morse our mods Beatmaster W. 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Welcome to the Introduction to Mapping. So the questions you want to answer are what is mapping and what is alignment, what is the BAM format, and how can we view aligned sequences. We expect that you will have some background in using Galaxy, so if you do not, please go back and do the Introductory Material. And by the end of this session, you should understand the concept of mapping. You should learn about the factors that influence alignment and you should know how to use a genome browser to better understand your particular aligned data. So where does mapping fit into the next generation sequencing pipeline? After you have received your reads from the sequencer and you've done some quality control, you want to align to a genome and we'll have a look at what that means in just a minute. So when we get DNA from a sequencer, we get it in small pieces called sequencing reads that are part of much larger segments of genomic DNA. And when we get these, we don't know where in the genome they fit in and how they relate to each other in terms of position. So we have two options at this point. If we have a reference genome, that is a complete genome or part of a genome from an organism, we can use mapping to associate the sequence data by its sequence similarity with a position on the reference genome. If we do not have that, or if we want to build a new genome, then we can use a process called assembly to assemble the short reads into a longer genome. So the starting point for mapping is a process called sequence alignment. We are using only the combination of letters in the short read sequence to determine where it fits on the reference genome. So in this example, look at that reference at the top there, A, A, C, G, C, C, T, T, and then we have a read that has some similarities and some differences. So let's have a look at that. A is the same, but then there's a mismatch on the G and the read is longer than the reference genome. So maybe we should insert a gap in the reference genome here, relative to the read, and a mismatch on the G again, and the G and C mismatch, and then it goes, matches all the way down. So when we get reads, they could align to multiple places. So that's called multi-mapping and how do we handle it, depending on the tool. Either you could map to the best region, but what is best and what happens if there's a tie, or you could try and map the same read to multiple regions, or you could map to one of the regions randomly, or you could discard the read. But now, if we want to map to the best region, because they could be partial matches in multiple places, how do we determine the best region? We do that using an alignment score, which we assign for every mapping. The alignment score is calculated by giving a reward for every matching letter in the sequence, a penalty for every mismatch, and then putting in penalties for gaps. So if you're forced to insert a gap, either in the read or in the reference during the process of alignment, insert a penalty, and we can either use linear gaps where every gap gets the same penalty, but more often we use affine gaps where opening the gaps costs a lot, but extending the gap is much cheaper than initially opening it while still being negative. Different tools use different scoring values and give different results. So if we look at this example here of the matches and the mismatches, we see here a match, and this is the running score at the bottom and then we get a mismatch, so that's a penalty and we have to insert a gap and that's a penalty, then we have to extend the gap and that's another penalty, but a smaller one, and then two matches at the end give us some positive values so that ultimately you have a final score of 19 for this read at this position. We don't need to only use the simple letter information when we are doing an alignment score firstly with sequencing that we get of modern sequencing machines, we have not just what the letter is, but what its quality is, so we can look at the base quality and maybe count mismatches of low-confidence bases with a lower penalty than mismatches of high-confidence bases, and then we know that in DNA mutations are not random, it's easy for purines like AMG to change into each other, then it is for a paramedine to change to a purine, and the same thing, it's easy for a paramedine to stay the same, and then we might know something about the sequencing platform and its biases, so we'd optimize for its read length, its error rate, its homopolymer accuracy, and so on and so forth. Talking about the alignment score made it look as if there was one optimal way to align sequences, but it's not as simple as that. We take these two example sequences, then depending on how we want to organize gaps and mismatches, we can end up with different alignments. And for this particular example these different alignments have all been given by different alignment programs that are out there. When we look at these alignments then they imply different variants which are found between the two sequences. If you want to experiment with calculating alignments, here's a link, and you can click on it in the online version of the materials for a kind of game where you can experiment with doing sequence alignment yourself in a browser. In addition to the sequence read information however, we do have something else that can help us sort out complicated alignments, and that is the fact that we typically get sequences in pairs of reads coming from larger fragments. If you know what the fragment length is, which is designed at the time of library preparation, then you know the approximate distance between two reads that are from the same fragment, two matching reads. And then you can use this to deal with ambiguities in mapping. So let's take this example of some repeats. If we had two copies of the same DNA in the reference genome, and we got a match to one of them, we wouldn't know which copy to map to. But with paired-end information we can use the fact that the other pair of the read is some distance away to sometimes resolve a repetitive region. However, it's not quite as simple as that always, because sometimes if we see a increase in the so-called insert size between the two reads it might be an indication that there has been a deletion or an insertion. When you get data from the sequencer, it typically comes in pairs of Farscue files, one file for the forward reads and another for the reverse with a number like a one or a two, determining whether these are forward or reverse reads. Sometimes however, you do get Farscue files that contain both forward and reverse reads mixed together in an insulated format, but because most tools require the forward and reverse files, Galaxy has tools for de-interlacing Farscue. In the files, the order of the read matters so that the nth read in the forward file matches the nth read in the reverse file. It's much faster working this way than trying to match things up based on read name. So that means that when you are doing trimming and filtering, you should always process the forward and reverse files together. Otherwise you might end up with a situation where if you remove a read from one of the files, you now end up with misaligned files. There are so many mapping tools out there. You can see a link at the bottom there to a comparison of some of these and which one should you use. Each alignment tool is going to make different choices during the alignment and this can affect your downstream results. The best tool for your data depends on manufacturers like the type of sequencing experiment that you've been doing, sequencing platform, your compute resources, sensitivity required and read characteristics like pad or single ends or the read length. As has been said, there's no tool that outperforms all of the others and all the tests. The end users should clearly specify their needs in order to choose the tool that provides the best results. Once reads are aligned you get outputs in a format called BAM. It looks like this or SAM, it's the text version of BAM and it has read IDs, read sequences, read positions and so on, but we will discuss that more during the tutorial. These are not really easy to read by eye, so we have genome browsers like this is IGV being demonstrated here used for looking at what a read alignment looks like or within Galaxy you can run something like JBrowns. Then there are external genome browsers that you can run on your desktop and link to data in Galaxy. So what are the key points of our discussion thus far? Mapping is not a trivial problem in many mapping tools the best choice depends on your data. The choice of your mapper can affect your downstream results so that's why you need to know your data and you need to know which mappers are typically used for that data type and finally genome browsers can be used to view aligned reads. Thank you very much.


Hey guys, and welcome to my morning skincare routine. This is my skincare routine before work and a lot of you have asked What I do, so I just wanted to show you guys briefly what I do So first I use the Rodin and Fields line for all of my skincare products And the first step I do is I wet my fingers and use this acne wash I scrub for like a minute and then I just rinse my face with water and then pat it dry and Excuse my appearance in this video. Obviously. I just woke up and it's like 5 30 in the morning The next step is I use this toner and I use a little like exfoliating cotton pad from Target And it really helps get all the dead skin off and just all the junk on your face I'll show you the pad here and yes gross. I know I have even warm wake up in like two days And this is just all the oil and nasty stuff that pulls out of my skin The next product I use is this hydration serum from Rodin and Fields And this is probably one of my favorite products that I use from them It just is so hydrating and gives your face like this glowy Hydrated look and it looks really nice when you're just wearing your bare skin Or if you put your makeup on after you do your skin repair routine, it gives you this nice glowy look The next step is step three in my treatment and it's the acne treatment And these products really have helped clear up my acne I know I have a few blemishes here and that's just because it's that time of the month. Yay But I will put a before picture of my skin and you'll really see that it just is a huge difference The last step is this oil control spf lotion and it has a nice matte finish to it Which is nice because it doesn't leave your face shiny and it doesn't cause my face to break out And I just have realized how important it is to wear an spf on your face every single day The last product I put on is this under eye cream I use this morning and night and it's just helped get rid of some of those dark circles under my eyes Which let's face it all of us nurses have so all of us need this in this little container less like four months So it's really worth it. And that's my skincare routine I will have all the products that I've been using from Modan and fields down below And I also have a little quiz that you can take that tells you what products you should use Thank you guys so much for watching this video, and I'll see you my next one. Bye


I am James Evelyn and you're watching time to football. Hey guys in this video We're gonna talk about Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown and mentioned several teams that he has the possibility of playing for in 2019 but before we get into that makes you guys hit that subscribe button down below and hit that little bell icon That's right next to it so you can stay notified every time we come out with a video But bitfork Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown if you've been living under a rock Hasn't been very happy with the Steelers organization as of late going as far as requesting a trade out of Pittsburgh and We can now say that this is going to be a reality and Antonio Brown will play for another team in 2019 because we got confirmation from the man himself A B posted something on Instagram and let's go ahead and put that up This is what Brown posted with the following caption had a great meeting with mr. Rooney today We discussed a lot of things and we clear the air on several issues We both agreed that it is time to move on but I always have appreciation and gratitude Towards the Rooney family and Steelers Organization so that pretty much just sums it up right there and Antonio Brown will no longer be a Pittsburgh Steeler Going into the 2019 NFL season But the question is which franchise will he play for in? 2019 we sat down and we analyzed all 32 NFL teams and we found out that 21 out of 32 teams have a realistic possibility in pursuing Antonio Brown these are 21 teams that have or should have some sort of interest in him Whether it's a lot of interest or a mild amount of interest 21 of 32 teams have a chance of landing Antonio Brown That's a lot of teams so we're not gonna mention all of those teams instead We narrowed it down to five of the best opportunities For Antonio Brown starting off with the first team the Indianapolis Colts We all know that a B's teammate Levy on Bell has been posting cryptic comments underneath Instagram posts that are related to the Indianapolis Colts So if Bell goes to the Colts then how cool would it be if Antonio Brown joins him as well? But look at that the bigger picture TY Hilton is the number one target for the Colts and TY Hilton did miss a few games due to injury And Andrew Luck didn't miss a beat because of it with TY Hilton gone He was able to do wonders with Mo Alley Cox Zach Pascal Chester Rogers and so on so if you get someone like Antonio Brown who can fill in very nicely For someone like TY Hilton in the event that he does get hurt Or even if TY Hilton were to remain healthy and Antonio Brown would be on one side of the field and TY on the other Just imagine how good Andrew Luck and that Colts offense can be Plus if they sign Levy on Bell another team that I wanted to mention the San Francisco 49ers So it seems like 49ers legend Jerry Rice has been in contact with Antonio Brown And who knows what they've been talking about But it seems like Brown is interested in the possibility of playing in Northern California in that beautiful weather Plus if you pair them up with a Jimmy G Q a young quarterback that can throw the ball in Brown's direction It'll still keep Brown very relevant as far as the debate as who is the best wide receiver in the NFL The third team that has a chance at acquiring Brown the Carolina Panthers Now this is kind of iffy because it's kind of dependent on whether Cam Newton plays or not in 2019 but if he does imagine Cam Newton being paired with Antonio Brown Especially with Devin Funches leaving more than likely for free agency now We know it's not his choice and it's up to the Steelers organization at the end of the day But having Cam Newton Antonio Brown and Christian McCaffrey will make them Super Bowl contenders without a doubt Our next team on the list the Miami Dolphins his hometown of Miami, Florida So you have another veteran and Frank Gore who did the same thing going back to his roots going back to Miami Where he came from to play with the Dolphins and now Antonio Brown can do the same thing Think of it in the situation like Marshawn Lynch who quote-unquote retired from the Seattle Seahawks But the Seahawks still owned his rights And the only thing that would have gotten Lynch out of retirement would have been playing for his hometown Oakland Raiders Lynch pleaded with the Seahawks organization to trade him to Oakland and now Brown can do the same thing By the looks of it He has a relatively good relationship with the Steelers front office so he can do whatever he wants He can beg he can plead he could talk to Art Rooney to trade him to his hometown of Miami and the last team we're gonna talk about You guys aren't gonna like it But it's the New England Patriots and the reason why this is a realistic chance of happening is because the Patriots need To fill a void after Josh Gordon has taken time indefinitely Out of the NFL to focus on his health the Patriots have gotten some good seasons out of receivers like Wes Welker Or Julian Edelman or even tight ends like Robin Kowski But they haven't had that legitimate number one wide receiver talent Since probably Randy Moss and Antonio Brown could fill in that void for someone like Tom Brady And it would be a relevant target for him to throw to But that's our list of the landing spots for Antonio Brown like we talked about at the beginning of the video There were 21 teams total that could benefit from the presence of Brown But the teams that we mentioned are the best opportunities for Brown and for those NFL teams to succeed But if there's a team that we left off the list Please comment down below and let us know Engage your thoughts talk with us. We would love to hear your opinions. Thank you guys so much for watching this video


Hello and welcome once again to the rugged rockhound today is actually the same day I was out at Topaz Which was the previous video and today? We are also visiting the drum mountain agate area now normally people park up there Well, we were finding better stuff over here, so we're gonna go for this spot over here So we decided to go ahead and park down here You're welcome Trevor So, yeah, we're gonna go see what we can find today Up here looking for some agates and jaspers Whatever, whatever we feel like keeping Tim's just showing you a nice little piece here that he found He's got a little bit of variation in it some nice stuff and Let's get at it. All right now. We're up on the hill. This is the first one. I've found that's decent It's got some nice bending right there So you got the Jasper a little bit agate and then the quartz in the middle Nice I'll keep that one We're almost to the zone where we were finding the better stuff last time, so we'll see what we see Up on this piece. It has a little bit of orange agate to it. That's nice Wish it was bigger though How are you guys doing? Oh, it's got some crystal pockets through that one There's a lot of Jasper here though a lot of Jasper Tim's got a nice little area of Chloration on through that one This one had a little bit right on the edge. I don't know. Should I keep it? That's up to you. I probably wouldn't do Shiny right there Might have to dig that one out. Oh this one looks good. Oh, yeah, that looks really good.  Oh, there's that see now is getting much better. Oh, I like this one We need to spray that one off. All right, spray some things off I Think I see one hiding under the bush right here. Oh and right next. Oh Look at that. It's got black webbing in it Yeah, look at that. It's got some red webbing too Yeah, that's a nice piece that's a keeper Thanks to them This is nice too, but I think I've got to be very careful about what No, Tim, why did I have to see that and that? Oh See the quality it's just look at that Fantastic So the last time my dad and I were here, this is the stuff we had found Picked through what we thought was the best. You can still see pieces all through here. There's just so much here Little bits everywhere Well little bits and big boulders See beautiful, it's just everywhere Everyone feast your eyes I got this stuff in here. What do you think of this stuff? It's better bro. This one's a lot better. All ready But yeah, right there and there and then over here. It's just so nice Such a nice Beautiful to get it out And we're back from the drum mountains and topaz mountain Because that was two locations in the same day We spent most of our time at topaz and just in like an hour hour and a half at the drum mountains So that's why this video is gonna be a bit shorter But we still got some great stuff So I went ahead and washed off everything that I got and I went through it There's some really nice agates and jaspers. I need to show you So let's take a look at them Here's the first piece So we've got it kind of this nice jasper down here a little bit of black some black dots going through it almost They probably small dendrites And you've got this nice quartz druzy on the top So nice quartz crystals. So yeah, you can find a lot of the quartz crystals out there and kind of a druzy These small crystals all over These are rather large most of the time they're quite a bit smaller Lot of the pieces I kept are like this where you've got this nice jasper running into the agate So the agate is mostly colorless, but you do get some banding and They're quite translucent so they let a lot of light through So that's one thing I really like about them So one of the better things to find out there if you can get it is you can get these little bands of red That will sometimes occur in the agate and those are really nice if you can get those Yeah, look at that side some nice red there This was a neat little piece.  This was a thicker agate on top of the jasper At least on that side. I wonder if you could cut these just like that So where there's just a thin layer of this on top of the jasper.   It's beautiful This is a larger piece not the best colors, but the patterns were really nice So I like the patterns nice Another one with really nice patterns And this one the colors are a little better Best part of it though is right here So I've got this nice agatized area in the jasper Very nice stuff This one had some nice color and quite a few different patterns going throughout it So you got this which is kind of like some of the other stuff, but then down here You got other things going on all together Yeah, it looks like this side is kind of nice, but this is the best side here. I like this one a lot Some nice patterns and colors all through there.  Oh Yeah, look at some nice agate Right there Yeah, this is a nice piece Here's the final piece It had a beautiful zone of agate right up at the top. Look at all those bins Look at all those layers in there That is nice and they got this cool jasper down here and I'm gonna need to Put this in some acid look at that That's all calcite so that should all come off with the acid So I'm gonna have to give this one an acid bath so we can see what it looks like on this side Although I'm pretty sure it's gonna look very similar to this side Very nice So there you have the things that we found on that trip or at least the ones I kept and Those were pretty nice, weren't they after just being there like an hour maybe an hour and a half and just walking around That's what picked up in this beautiful stuff. That stuff is all over that hill. It's a wonderful location I highly recommend you go out there because There's plenty of material for everyone and it doesn't disappoint. So it's a wonderful location I hope you get out there and remember there is treasure everywhere


Thanks so much for everyone who's came out here tonight. We're so excited with the crowd that's out here. But my name's John Krieg and I'm our Santa Rosa Chief of Police. And I'm gonna keep my part really short tonight because really the police department's not the part of this program.  But for me, this journey started for us for the city of Santa Rosa in July of 2020 where the city came together saying, like, it's time for a change in Santa Rosa. And we started coming together, one of the very early partners here in the room or two of them are here tonight, Jenny Lynn Holmes and Scott Westrope. Those were the first two who started like talking to us and Jenny Lynn Holmes from Catholic Charities, Scott Westrope from the Santa Rosa Fire Department as our fire chief started talking about, hey, how can we get involved? And then we got some incredible support from our former mayor, Tom Schwedhelm, who came together saying, how can I be a part of this? And we started talking about all these different ideas and looking at programs that cost the country. The city of Santa Rosa was one of the first to sign a consulting agreement with the Kahootz program and Eugene, Oregon, which was really one of the trendsetters in this and starting their program in 1989. And I can't tell you after, it must have been 800 meetings that we've had between the county and the city and community groups developing and working, but at the end of the day, we've built a team here in the city of Santa Rosa that is absolutely a model for the state of California. And ours is so uniquely different than other teams that we see across the state. And one of the key things that we're gonna talk about today, and we have Wendy Tappen here today from the county's team as well. She was a key partner in helping us develop this from the county, but it's having license or associate licensed mental health clinicians in our team. And they'll talk a little bit about that, but for the associate license and for the licensed mental health clinician of having a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, 3,000 clinical hours of field work and then certified by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. And this is compared to our old model of the police officer who has four to eight hours of training in the police academy. It's unbelievable to talk about how long it's taken us for cities across the city of California to make this change, but we didn't stop there. And this is where Scott Westrobe came in. We started looking at different models about having like the first aid clinician versus the EMT versus a paramedic and saw the absolute value of having the increased medical expertise of having a paramedic on our rigs. And it's gonna be able to divert from our local ERs and we have some of our representatives here tonight from that. So we took the investment and it is a significant investment with the paramedic but it greatly provides so much for a better level of service in the field. Then we met with some of the teams across the country and saw that the high rate of the teams being utilized by some of our unsheltered members in the community. And to be very clear, this is not a homeless team. It's a mental health team, but we all know there's many in our homeless community not all, but many who are struggling sometimes with substance abuse, sometimes with mental illness. So we worked with Catholic Charities and embedded that homeless outreach specialist. So now you have the License Mental Health Commission, the paramedic and a homeless outreach specialist riding together as one highly skilled multidisciplinary team responding to thousands of calls across the city of Santa Rosa and lieu of a police officer and lieu of an entire fire truck and an ambulance and all the other resources that we were sending to these calls, but we didn't stop there. And that's where we're gonna talk about tonight when Katie goes into the system navigators and we saw time and time again in my career that where people were going to the crisis stabilization unit within hours getting put back out in the street or sometimes days putting out in the street but then still not knowing where to go from there. I think surprise, surprise, they're back into crisis within hours or days later. We're having unnecessary police involvement with them. So these system navigators are now providing some of that support and helping how do you get to your doctor's appointment? How do you get that next level of care? They're helping family members who are trying to provide support to them have had to navigate the crazy complex mental health system that we have here in Sonoma County and throughout the state. So you're gonna learn today about what the team is doing who are responding out there. We're gonna learn about what these system navigators are doing. But one of the most important parts of tonight is not just we're super proud of the team are gonna brag a lot about the stats but we're also gonna talk about some of the challenges what we've had with hiring but the most important part of this night is hearing from you. And we're gonna go back across the library and we're gonna do the breakout group. So we're gonna hear what can we even do being better and we're learning things that we can do better working with our local ERs with better response to some of our different nonprofits throughout the city working with some of the homeless advocates throughout the city and things that we could do but we wanna hear that and we're gonna be taking detailed notes on that we're gonna be sitting down with our team and saying all right year one was a success how much greater are we gonna do with year two? So I'm gonna turn it over now to Mary Frances Wall she was the executive director of Nami Sonoma County she's been an incredible partner so has the whole Nami board and our vice president Marcus here as well from Nami Sonoma County but Mary Frances and Nami has played such a key part and they helped us even with things like what are we gonna name this team and what's gonna be the color of our uniforms what's gonna be on the side of the vans and we even got some feedback on there we originally had mental health support team on the side of the van and we got feedback saying hey that can be stigmatizing so we heard the feedback we made adjustments and we're working on taking that off of these vans so we don't have that having just the in response thing and that's gonna be the model that we continue to follow we lead where we think we can go but we're always receptive to hearing some of the constructive criticism and making changes so wherever Mary Frances is if you can come on, oh come on down Mary Frances. Unfortunately I have remarks to share but bear with me please. Okay so as John said thank you I'm here from Nami which stands for the National Alliance on Mental Illness so we're a community-based nonprofit organization that help families and individuals who are affected by mental illness and we do that through education, through support providing information and being advocates in our community for the people who are affected by mental health conditions. It's really my honor to be here to mark this very first year of in responses operations because it's something that in response is brought to this community something that Nami has advocated and worked hard for to see happen in our community for many years. So every one of us experiences stress and every one of us has the potential to have the feelings of being so much in distress that it's overwhelming, that we feel out of control. So we or somebody we love can be in that position and it might be somebody that's a family member could be somebody we work with it could be another student, teacher could be somebody on the street but when somebody lives with a mental health condition or has a substance use challenge or is homeless they may be much more likely to experience a mental health crisis than those of us who don't have to manage those challenges day to day and when someone has a mental health crisis they deserve help, not handcuffs. They deserve the right level of care when and where they need it whether that's at home, at school, in a workplace or again on the street. They deserve help that treats them with dignity, responders who are knowledgeable about mental health conditions and substance use conditions and they deserve help from people who know how to de-escalate a situation and how to de-escalate behaviors that come with fear or anger or despair. They deserve responders who understand that if someone has had a traumatic experience in the past as a child in an encounter with law enforcement in an emergency department or even a hospital that that person might react in a very challenging way in their behaviors. In 2007, here in Sonoma County there was a 16 year old boy who lived with mental health challenges. He lived at home with his family in Sebastopol and he experienced a mental health crisis. His parents tried to get him to go in for help and he refused. He was very aggressive. He was agitated and probably very frightened. He had a very large knife and he threatened his younger brother with that knife. His parents were desperate so they called 911. Officers came and the situation did not go well. They were not able to calm him down and they had to make a split second decision and he was shot and he died. So this 16 year old lost his life. The parents lost their 16 year old son. This, that is just one story among many and some of them have happened here in Sonoma County but there have been thousands of similar tragedies across the United States. Persons in experience in mental health crisis have been injured, they've been arrested, they've even lost their life in a split second. This has made many people afraid to call 911 for help. Many families have been worried that if they make that call their loved one is going to be killed. There's still people out there, still people in our community that feel that way. So for years we relied on law enforcement to respond to persons experiencing a mental health crisis or substance use crisis, sometimes both at the same time. And while law enforcement officers play an incredibly important part in keeping this community safe, we just heard from Chief Craig and they are not mental health or substance use professionals. So three years after that Sebastopol team lost his life in 2010, Sonoma County created mobile support teams. These are trained mental health clinicians who assist law enforcement officers to handle mental health crisis calls in the county when they're invited in to do so. But they have limited hours and very limited geographic reach in Sonoma County because the funding is limited. But last year in January, 16 years after the 16 year old lost his life, the city of Santa Rosa and the city, the Santa Rosa Police Department gave a gift to this city of the in response team. It is a fantastically better way to handle mental health crisis calls. It's phenomenally better. So the in response team, as you're going to hear about tonight, is multidisciplinary, trained to de-escalate rather than escalate, offers the knowledge of a licensed mental health clinician and a licensed paramedic with thousands of hours of training behind them. The in response team is trained to build trust with a person in distress. They are trauma informed and they're guided by the principles of peer support. A lot of that's buzzwords in the mental health world, but they all have deep meaning and they are so important to effectively and safely responding to somebody in crisis. So what we have in Santa Rosa is truly a cutting edge mobile crisis response team. It's a unique partnership of agencies working together, the police department, the fire department, Bucaloo programs, Catholic Charities, Humane Dodd Therapy and Education Services and Sonoma County Behavioral Health, each bringing in their own area of expertise. Still, we know that there are individuals and families, whole communities in Sonoma County that don't have access to this kind of crisis response. There are families still fearful about calling for help because they've had a bad experience or their loved one had a bad experience, even a traumatic experience in the past. So there is more work to be done. We need to build a system of crisis care that means not only is there someone to call, but someone to provide the right kind of response and access to services that prevent mental health crises in the first place and access to places that will be there when people are beyond their crisis and they have some place to go for the kind of care and support they need. So while in response is a fantastic step in the right direction, we still have work to do. And thank you for listening. Thank you so much, Mary Frances. And now we really want to turn it over to the star of the show. And Katie Swan is our program director. She's from Buckaloo and Buckaloo has helped been so much and Chris is here and Erica are here from Buckaloo. But Katie is from day one, been here helping create the data, steer this team, meeting with us. She was one of the key partners meeting with Kahootz and worked so closely with the training with the team. So Katie's been really the lifeblood of this team. And like, and we've been talking a while back and I was like, anything we do to make sure you're always happy and you're here forever Katie because we can't operate without Katie. So let me turn it over to Katie. Thank you chief vegan and Mary Frances. I appreciate it. And thank you for all coming out tonight. Bear with me, mics are not my favorite part. So just hang in. Okay. So tonight I wanted to talk to you a little bit about in response overall and what the program is and then talk to you about the data that we collected for the first year. Can we go to the next slide? Thanks. So in response is a partnership between six organizations. We have the Santa Rosa police department that is one of our partners. We work with their dispatch team on a daily basis. We have a Santa Rosa fire department. We have paramedics on our team. We have behavioral health clinicians through Sonoma County behavioral health that work with the mobile support team on our unit. We have engagement specialists that are experts working with homeless services and supports through Catholic charities. We have human and dad therapy and education services that provides a system navigator for our team that provides a wraparound care. And then for Bucklew programs we have several system navigators, a team leader and then myself. Next. So how our team works is we have two units or two vans that work in the city of Santa Rosa. We have one van that runs seven days a week from noon to 10 p.m. And then we have a second unit that runs Monday through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. So we have some overlap on those days. Our goal moving forward in the next year or so is to be able to go towards a 24 hour response so that we'll have four units in the city of Santa Rosa working 24 seven. The makeup of how our team works is we have three staff that sit on our van at all times. So we have our behavioral health clinician from Sonoma County Behavioral Health. We have a paramedic from the fire department and we have an engagement specialist from Catholic Charities. And they all sit on that van together. And so anytime our team gets called out to dispatch to offer support in the community those are the three people that show up to the community to provide that support. And then we have our wraparound team so our system navigation team. We have five navigators that play a really important role as part of our team as well. And so they are the ones that do wraparound care and get people connected to support and resources prior to a crisis or maybe after a crisis. And I'll go into that a little bit more later on. Thank you. So the types of calls that we respond to in the communities is we respond to mental health crisis calls. We also provide support and respond to families or individuals that are needing a mental health support and resources for folks experiencing some type of substance use challenge. They may be under the influence in the moment and need support for folks that are struggling with mental health challenges and might be at risk of being unhoused, unsheltered or at risk of homelessness. We can respond to welfare checks that folks call in in the community that are directly related to mental health or substance use. And again, we can provide wraparound care. So helping folks get connected to doctors appointments a psychiatrist, figuring out how to fill a prescription at the pharmacy, how to pick that up, how do you find transportation to those places? Things along those lines on top of it, Wendy. So a lot of the community keeps asking, so how do we ask for your help? How do you show up? And so there's a couple of ways that that happens. So you can, if you are needing support or if it's a loved one that you are needing support for or you see a community member that you're concerned about, you can call 911 or we have a specialized number which is the 707-575-HELP number for folks that are in Santa Rosa. And so when you call that, our dispatch team answers and we'll ask you questions to get clarity about what's happening. And once they have understanding it's related to mental health and substance use, they can dispatch our team out. So our team, a lot of the time is dispatched out and can go out by themselves and those three folks on the van and can provide that support in the community. There are times that there might be some safety concerns if somebody's acting erratic or aggressive in some way or there might be some past violence or there might be a concern of a weapon, we might go out and co-respond. So we will go out with law enforcement and partner with them and they will help us make sure that the situation is safe and then they'll hand the call over to us and we'll be able to provide those mental health services. Another option too is if we can't confirm that it's safe for us to go out by ourselves, we might have law enforcement go out first and then have a stage. So we might be a couple of blocks away and then they can make sure that the scene is safe and from there we can go in and provide those supports and let law enforcement leave if that's possible. Can you go to the next slide? So I picked this picture, it means a lot to me. So this was the ribbon cutting a year ago on January 11th and it was the first day. So our whole team came together for the first time and we did the ribbon cutting and then we went back to our office and actually ran calls that day. And so it just was a cool moment to remember that we're a year out from that. The next few slides, I'm gonna go through some of our data points. So the first slide that you're seeing is a total number of calls that we ran for the year. So and it's broken down by months. So the total number of calls that we ran from January 11th, 2022 to 2023 was 2,893 calls. We started off slow and steady in the beginning. In January, it was a part of a month. So we ran 70 calls and then we went up a little bit more and a little bit more and kind of held stable for a while. And then it was mid-September that we were able to start our second unit that ran 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. And in that you can see that our calls increased as well. And we really picked that time one because we wanted to expand services for more hours but we also really wanted to meet and support the schools in Sonoma County and our youth in the community. Can you go to the next slide? So the next slide might be hard to see but it talks about the types of service we provide. So every time that we go out on a call we track the primary service that we offer in the secondary service. So we responded to 456 calls for service and related to homeless services. So that's the green column. The blue column is the secondary service. So we might have gone to a call provided mental health services first and then we provided homeless resources as the second service. So looking at this you can see that we do a lot of different supports but the main focus is our mental health services that we provide. So we provided 1,284 services that were directly related to mental health as a primary need. A few others that were tracking as homeless resources if somebody needed medical support substance use services and system navigation. The next slide is our diversion call types. So what this means is if our program was able to divert calls from service so meaning that we were able to respond to a call and not have law enforcement go or that law enforcement could leave the scene once we arrived or we didn't have to have an ambulance or a fire truck present during our call. So we ran a total of 2,893 calls for the year and 1,762 of those calls were law enforcement diversion calls where they didn't have to respond at all or that they responded and they were able to leave after we arrived, which feels like a big success overall for our community. We supported 121 individuals to access different services than having to engage with the criminal justice system.  And then we diverted 152 individuals from going to the ER. So we were able to safety plan, give skills, connect them to other resources so that we didn't, those folks didn't have to go into the ER system. Next slide. We also wanted to look at kind of who we were serving by age. And so what we learned through the year is that 7% of the folks we served were between zero and 17, 6% were 18, but between 18 and 25 years old, 37% of the folks were 26 through 59 years old, 16% were 60 years and older. And then we had a category of 34% that were unknown. Either we weren't able to gather that information in the moment or do the crisis circumstance or folks weren't comfortable sharing that with us at that time. And then on our next slide, we broke it down by gender. So we wanted to see who we were serving. So 47% of folks we worked with this year identified as female, 49% identified as male, 2% identified as transgender and another 2% were unknown. So all of the data that I just talked about is specifically related to our in response unit. So the folks that sit on our van and that van that gets dispatched out to calls. The next section I'm gonna talk to you about is about our system navigation team Chief Pregan talked about a little bit. Our system navigators is a partnership between Humanity and Therapy and Education Services and Buffalo programs. So we have five navigators in total and that provide education support and system navigation. And so the really big piece to me of why this is so important is all of our navigators have some type of lived mental health experience or substance use experience or may have supported somebody in the community that they care about to access services in a challenging time. Big piece of why this is important for me is I too have my own lived mental health experience and I have kiddos with pretty big needs. And so one of the big passions for me to work in this role is because I need a service like this in my community for my family. And I live in the city of Santa Rosa, right? So it all kind of goes back to home. And so for our navigation team, the feedback that I keep getting from our community is it's really helpful to have somebody navigate these services with me to access the support that I need and provide choices about what my options are because they've walked through it in a different way, right? It's not a clinician telling me how to do it but it's somebody who's lived it trying to navigate the system. And so we have one part-time navigator through He Wanted Dad and we have another four navigators from Bucalut programs that are full-time. So this data is specifically related to our navigation team. So our navigators, we just added a couple of navigators a few months ago. And so you'll see our numbers increase over in the last few months but overall we served 494 individuals from our navigation team alone and they had 2,367 contacts amongst those individuals. So that's a pretty big support in our community that wasn't there prior. On our next slide. So I wanted to kind of break out for you what services our navigators provide. A lot of our navigators provide personal support and people might wonder what that means but it's somebody to talk to when you're having a hard time, you might feel overwhelmed, you might have anxiety, how do I get to the next step? What resources can I find? Or it's a family with a youth that has just struggled with a mental health challenge and that's new for them and they don't know what that means or where to go or how do you even talk about that? So our navigation team had phone calls or visits. So they had 1,027 visits to provide that personal support over this last year. They did 185 appointments related to crisis interventions. So our navigators are intervening in a moment of crisis and getting them connected back to our in response units so that they can go out and provide that emergency assessment in the moment. They were able to offer 248 visits of system navigation. So teaching people how to advocate and navigate our system of care. They provided visits, 409 visits related to referrals to get connected to resources in our community. They provided 911 follow-up appointments for after meeting with the van or they had an appointment and they wanted to check in and see how that went or they had a housing appointment to secure the first apartment and finding out how that happened. And then they had 299 contacts that were other which is actually a really important number to pull out because that's all care coordination. So that means that our navigators are working with individuals and families and hearing what their needs are and then working with all of the providers. So it could be a primary care doctor, a psychiatrist, it could be a therapist, it could be a school system to pull them all together to be able to create a plan that can support that individual family in a more supportive way. Let me go to the next slide. So kind of looking back over the year, I picked this picture too because this was on the ribbon cutting day. This was like the first time our whole team came together. I remember like, even for myself not knowing half of our team, I was like, oh, here we go. Let's see how it goes, right? And so we can go to our next slide. One of their biggest successes was our team. It was actually our concern because we brought six organizations together that hadn't all worked together before and it all was kind of a nuanced program, right? But what happened pretty quickly is our team got really united quickly and we all kind of learned and we are all ongoing learning together. We've strengthened and build partnerships amongst community partners, hospitals, non-profits, churches, you name it, we were really working hard to build those relationships and strengthen those. And we've seen great success on that. And we've continued to increase community engagement like tonight and more so going to different, you know, I just went to Montgomery High School last week and chatted with them about who we are and how can we engage and how can we hang out with your students so that they know who we are and that what we look like when we show up to provide support. And then like I mentioned earlier, we were able to provide add two more navigators because there was so much need for that wraparound care. And some of our challenges that we faced over the last year was one of them was collaborative or yeah, collaborative data collection essentially because we had six different organizations, right? That had their own database systems and their own policies and procedures and we didn't have a way to track data together. And so we've worked together to find an interim approach to be able to attract that data and that's where I got the data that you saw tonight and we're working collectively to move forward to build out a database system for the county so that we can track crisis response data across the whole entire county. Another piece was because of COVID the supply chain issues were challenging. So it took us a really long time to get our vans and our vehicles and there's still little pieces here that are hard to get but we navigated through that. Staffing, you probably all know across the US staffing is a challenge no matter which field you're in and so that's been an ongoing challenge for us but we're continuing to be able to bring staff on which feels great. And that then leads to expanding our hours. We wanted to expand to 15 hours earlier but we're halfway through the week and we're working on filling the other half so that we can be 15 hours, seven days a week. And then with that, I'll just put on the plug. So if you all know anybody, we're hiring. So we're hiring for all roles. So for mental health clinicians to the county, paramedics to the fire department, engagement specialists or Catholic charities in a community navigator through Buckloo programs. So I kind of gave you a brief overview of our program and some of our data tonight. After this, we're gonna go over to the back to the library and have breakout sessions. I'm actually really excited for you to all be part of that and actually meet our team.  If you have feedback, we'd like to hear that as well. I learned something new every single day for our team and so I actually think that they're the experts for our team, it's not me. So I'm excited. So please go over there and check that out after this. We have one breakout session that can be in Spanish and we have two breakout sessions in English. And after the breakout sessions, we're gonna have a raffle. So hang out so that we can do that as well. Before we head over there briefly, is there any questions that you have for me specifically around the data or the pieces that I presented tonight? I had quiet house, I did it then. Yeah, go for it. They will be, yes, yeah, absolutely, yeah. Yeah, we will either post them on the website or find a way to get those out, yeah, absolutely, yeah, so. Yeah, go for it. Or the things that I chatted about and then otherwise you can ask questions directly to our teams, yeah. So it depends on what that individual is needing, right? And what type of support that they're looking for, right? Cause we have different supports and services that we can provide to them in that moment and folks can go to the Renda Center for Detox if that's appropriate and if they're looking for that care, if they're looking to get into shelter, we can help navigate them to shelter. It kind of depends on what the need is. And that might be a really good question to also talk about in a breakout sessions cause our team is gonna be able to talk to you about that directly. It's in English first, that's what I was gonna say, right, yeah, yeah. Yes, yes, and then also when you call the five zone, five help number, they're gonna answer within response too. So that it's a different feel as well as then answering with folks that are saying Santa Rosa Police Department. Go for it, yeah. We do have a safety gate in the van, correct, yes. And the van is here too that if you guys wanna see it before you leave, we can show you that. I can get you that number, I don't have that off the top of my head currently. We can do one more, I think there's a few more folks, yeah, I might've thought about that, but I haven't figured out how to do that in a way that feels safe for individuals in that current circumstance. Yeah, yeah, yeah, go for it. So if we're on a call and it's gotten to the point that we're worried about safety for the individual or for our team, we do call law enforcement to help us come in and help provide support to maintain the safety for everyone in the community, yeah. So the, yeah, so there, it's not unduplicated. So it's number of contacts, so it's number of times you are dispatched out to a call or a number of contacts we had for the system navigators between those 494 individuals, those were those, the total number of contacts amongst those people. We do have some of that data. It has, with our data tracking system, we're in the process of getting that so that that data is very clear and distilled, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'll take two more questions, yeah. So the van provides an ability to provide different levels of transportation, right? So that folks might also be without shelter and so they have items with them and that we can take those items along with them to a different location. It allows us to have space in our vehicle to have sleeping bags and food and clothing and all of those different pieces, yeah. So some of our funds are through the city of Santa Rosa and through other grant funding sources. Yes, absolutely. We have funds to sustain us for a few years and then we also have city support to continue to back our program. Yeah, great question. No, no. All right, well, thank you all. I appreciate your time. If we can head over to the... Yeah, if you can all hang out and go over to the library to meet our team, that would be great. I would love to hear from you all and have you all meet our team.


Hi, I'm Sean and welcome to This is Longmont. Colorado Parks and Wildlife put on the St. Vrain experience at St. Vrain State Park. This free public event was all about fishing. We learned about the fish hatchery program. There were angling lessons, fly fishing demonstrations and various kids activities. They were even given away free fishing poles. Senior Ranger Sean of Colorado Parks and Wildlife tells us more. My name is Sean Dunleavy. I'm the Senior Ranger here at St. Vrain State Park and we're doing our fishing experience today. We did it three years ago and four years ago. Unfortunately we had two years where we weren't doing the event. But now it's back for the third annual and we hope there will be many more. As far as what's going on, we have a couple different partners here. Colorado Parks and Wildlife is pretty well involved. We've got a trailer down this way that's handing out free fishing rods. They've got about 200 free fishing rods and reels they're giving out and doing an angler education there. Right across from me we also have the hatcheries trailer. So that's really cool. The first two years they weren't here. It's a trailer that's got two big tanks in it. It's got a bunch of trout in there and they are telling people about how the hatchery system works and how we stock fish. The next thing I can see over to my side here is Eagle Claw Fishing Tackle. So they're here representing their business and they have a whole bunch of giveaways I think. In the parking lot across from me we've got outdoor buddies. Outdoor buddies is a place that helps people get into the outdoors, has the track wheelchair and other stuff that allows more accessibility for hunting and fishing. The next thing over is St. Brain Anglers Trout Unlimited. They're here today doing casting demonstrations and telling people a lot about fly fishing. Just a demonstration day. You know this is St. Brain State Park fishing days and you'll see the walleye and the bass guys and we're the trout folks here. Also in that same parking lot is the A&S Aquatic Nuisance Species Program and the Aquatic Nuisance Species Program is talking to people about doing clean drain dry on their boats keeping those clean. I'm Travis Beam. I'm the invasive species specialist for the Colorado. So we deal exclusively with aquatic invasive species. So you know as like a kayak fisherman or just a kayaker in general there are things that we do worry about typically like plants especially here at St. Brain. There's an invasive called Eurasian Watermilfoil and so this actually spreads via fragmentation. So it only takes up you know a small section of this to actually start a whole new plant. So if a boat propeller was to go through a mat of this they just created a whole another section of this plant. Kids events going on also. So we've got at 10, 11 and 1 o'clock some kids activities and a kids activity tent and then a big raffle going on today. About 11 45 we'll be doing a raffle for everyone and then another kids raffle just towards the end of the day. So from 9 o'clock this morning until 2 o'clock this afternoon that's what we're doing. We always look forward to April around here as it heralds the opening of the Boulder County Farmers Market here in Longmont. We were there for opening day. Let's check it out. Welcome to this is Longmont. My name is Sean and we are here at St. Brain Cidery. Let's go inside and check it out. How's it going? My name's Dean Landy with St. Brain Cidery. We have been here in Longmont since October 2016. We're one of the only all Colorado Cider tap rooms in Colorado. The unique thing about us I think that makes us kind of stand out is the fact that not only do we serve our own cider but we also serve as many people as we can that produce cider and mead in Colorado. Fast forward 2012 somebody came to me and asked if I'd be interested in opening a cidery and I started doing some research and realized that there was nothing in Boulder County at the time so I thought this is a great opportunity. I love cider and so fast forward 2016 a partner and I decided that hey I've got a building I've got a space let's make some cider and open up the cidery and then started making our own because we didn't have anything at first so started making our own recipes and from there we now have seven core recipes our number one seller is our blackberry botanical which was kind of a isn't off dry I really like dry ciders but I wanted to appeal to all customers and that's how that came about so it's been a great experience. Longmont in general is a great community it's been very open and very I guess just passionate about small businesses and so this is a great spot we have people come in and they love it they haven't tried cider and they're trying to figure out what their palate like and so I carry dry and sweet and kind of let them choose similar to JBF cider has a competition that is held in Michigan and it's called the Glen Cap which is the Great Lakes International Cider and Perry competition since we've opened 2016 well 2017 when we started producing our stuff we've been able to place all of our stuff and the gold is our pink guava which has placed gold I think in the last four years everything has done everything has meddled which means we're obviously doing something right it just gives a little recognition people ask about the metals and I'm sure all these other ciders that I have up here from all over Colorado they have also I'm sure meddled in some of these categories it's just nice that Colorado is starting to get on the scene of show people exactly what kind of ciders are out there here in Colorado finally we heard about this local event put on by the left-hand artist group and we had to check it out left hand artist group is a local nonprofit founded in 2013 if you are an artist looking to promote your art check them out on Facebook or on lefthandartistgroups.org that's a wrap for April's edition of this is long month thank you so much for watching for updates and if you have any story ideas or have a favorite hangout a restaurant you think we should check out comment on our Facebook page or email us at this is long month at gmail.com we'll see you next time on this is long month