All right, brothers. So I was doing a men's conference in Columbus one time, and it's just, what I was wrestling with or what we were wrestling with with the group is things that were kind of uncomfortable claiming or naming, and the question I asked was a group, I don't know, maybe 120 guys. I asked them to, and I've asked this question many times, please stand if you're holy. And the object of that is nobody ever stands up because nobody really wants to claim that. I was like, well, that's, but this particular conference, this gentleman stood up, kind of an elderly gentleman, and it really, I didn't know what to do after that, right? Because my whole point is that nobody ever stands up, and it's like, thanks a lot, so we're just kind of onto the next point, right? So then after the talk, he comes up to me, and he says, hey, Father Dave, what did you ask? And I said, well, I asked if you're holy to stand up, and he goes, oh, I thought that you asked if I was elderly to stand up. So if I want a standing ovation today, if you're up there, never mind, but here's the thing, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, right? Is this something even kind of that same sense of who's gonna just now, right? Yeah, Spirit of the Lord is upon me, but it is, it is. And we need to become comfortable with that. And we need to, brothers, step into that anointing and step into that grace and step into that blessing, that the Spirit of the Lord is upon you, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Now my suspicion is that we're not necessarily comfortable just standing up in front of a congregation and saying the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, but it is. We're either graced or we're not, right? We're either good or we're not. The Spirit of Jesus is either faithful or is not. The Spirit of Jesus is either a sanctifying spirit or he's not. We've either been anointed or we've not been. And brothers, I think we will hear in the scriptures and where our own experience tells us that in fact, the Spirit of the Lord is upon us, amen? And that's obviously the text we're gonna get to in Luke 4, but just to do a little bit of a background. We've got the angel, the angel goes to Zachariah and he says that the angel gave you all the Son, the angel appears to the Zachariah and he says, you will be filled with the Holy Spirit. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother's womb. That we see in the very beginning of the scriptures that the Holy Spirit is moving and operating in this. We begin to understand more how the Spirit is, as I mentioned last night, just this sense after, yesterday after listening to John's talk of how the Spirit is always working in the background and God is always present in the background, putting the pieces together. So we hear in the very beginning of the scriptures, Zachariah, the Spirit of the Lord speaking to Zachariah, says he was moved in the Spirit to go to the temple and he hears of his son, John, the Holy Spirit will be with him. Then we have Elizabeth's greeting to Mary.  And she cries out, most blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb. That the Spirit comes upon her and she begins to prophesy. How blessed are you?  The Holy Spirit comes upon Elizabeth and she has moved to rejoice.  And then also in Luke, we have this Holy Spirit comes upon you and the power of the most high will overshadow. And therefore the child will be born on you, will be called the Son of God. The Spirit overshadows Mary. And we see the beginning of the operations with Zachariah and with Elizabeth and with Mary and with Anna that the Spirit is doing something. We hear in the third chapter of Luke, verse 15 to 17, that I will baptize you in water, but there is one who is coming after that he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit. We begin as Father said yesterday, the Luke four is in many ways, the mission statement of Jesus, but we see the pieces coming together.  And as many of you know, because we've talked about this, is that this idea of baptism in the Holy Spirit we find in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, acts of the apostles. It's one of the few things that we find in all of the gospels as well as the acts of the apostles. That there's something more than just this baptism in water that Jesus is coming to baptize us in the Holy Spirit. A term that before I was about 20 years old, I don't think I'd ever heard the term before. And now for the last 37 years, I've been praying and thinking about it constantly. You know, if you went to the Born in the Spirit, Life in the Spirit with John, you're gonna talk more about the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the release of the Holy Spirit. And there's different discussions about whether or not that happens once or whether or not it can happen multiple times. It's language as far as I'm concerned because what I really truly believe is that God wants to continually pour out his Holy Spirit, that I think in most of our lives, there was an occasion, an event that we had an encounter with the Holy Spirit that was quite transformative, but that's not the last one. I was just walking with a younger Dominican sister recently and she was saying to me how she wants more of God. She wants more of God. I love the theologian that speaks of God as the more. The more, that there is always more. And my concern, brothers, is that oftentimes we live in a grace that's years old or decades old. We had this encounter with the Lord that was 20 years old and we're just kind of living on that. And I suggest that the Lord has something more for us, that this baptism of the Holy Spirit, this release of the Holy Spirit, this anointing of the Holy Spirit, this continual indwelling of the Holy Spirit is something, it's not a static thing. It's something that's new and it's fresh and God wants to continue to do something in us. Amen. Are we experiencing that? Do we long for that? Do we desire that? Do we ask for that? When will baptize you in water? But I've come to baptize you in the Holy Spirit, right? To be overwhelmed, to be overshadowed. We had in a situation last week where we were talking about demonic possession and I just found myself reflecting on that word possession. I mean, in some circles, it's a really scary word, the idea of being possessed, totally giving oneself to the other. I want to be possessed by the Holy Spirit, right?  I think that's what this baptism of the Holy Spirit is being empowered to being overshadowed, right? That's my desire is to be consumed. I love that the definition that Pope Francis gives to baptism of the Holy Spirit. He says it's an encounter with the love of God that changes us. I think that changes part is important. I mean, obviously, we just simply pay attention to the scriptures. The apostles and many others had the advantages of having all of these encounters with Jesus and saw Jesus do remarkable things, but it wasn't until Pentecost that they were actually changed and given the grace and the power to live the things that they had heard until it became a reality tour and until it became more than just a great story or something really cool to see. It wasn't until Pentecost that they were actually transformed and changed. So it's not enough that we come and we just have a nice here, nice talk or have a nice encounter or even just come to understand more that God loves us, but the fullness of that is it begins to bring change in our life. Just for self-reflection. When's the last time you encountered the Lord that you can say it changed me? Not it was just a need, but there was something about this encounter that I've been changed, that there's something different about me that I'm more loving, I'm more kind, I'm more generous, I'm more whatever it is, right? You see, I think that's what the spirit of Jesus wants to do with us, amen? We hear obviously, and I just read it in the enunciation, this says he will be the Son of God. I think one of the things that the spirit wants to do to us is and we see this in Jesus, right? That the spirit comes upon Mary and she hears that he will be the Son of God, that there's a relationship between sonship and the spirit.  We hear it in the baptism of the Lord, right? The Lord comes out of the Jordan, heaven's open up, a goose comes down and it says, behold my beloved son, right? There's something about sonship and baptism in the Holy Spirit. So when Jesus in the third chapter of Luke comes and he receives the baptism of John, people hear that he is the Son. And there was probably something in Jesus just to be able to hear that as well, that you are my son. What the spirit helps us understand brothers and what the spirit worked in Jesus and wants to be able to work in us is this relationship we have with the Father. And I know for many people that that's a great struggle and it's a great difficulty. The conference in Minnesota and I was talking about how God wants to be our Father. And this young kid comes up to me and goes, Father Dave, can I talk to you for a minute? I'm sure. He goes, let me tell you about my dad. He and I have never done anything together.  He said, we put our guns in the car and I was excited just to be able to spend some time with my dad shooting some ducks. He said it began to rain. My dad said, I don't wanna do this when it's raining. We'll do it another time. He said, Father, I'm still waiting just to have some time with my dad. The spirit comes upon Jesus and reveals the Father and the Son. When I did the wild goose, I interviewed Bob and one of the things that Bob talked about and I think so beautifully was that it's fundamentally, it's a Christian revelation that God is Father. I had the opportunity to be in the Holy Land one time and I was talking to a gentleman who was a Muslim and we had a really wonderful, beautiful conversation and I ended up meeting him a couple of days later and just carried on this very faith oriented, just very enlightening conversation. Yet near the end of it, I spoke just kind of out of, I wasn't even thinking about it as God is Father. He said, wait. He said, not that. He said, God has many things, but he's not Father. Even though Jesus, Jordan opens up in everything, the heavens open up, you are my son. God is his Father. I love in Romans, it says that we have not received a spirit of slavery, right? But a spirit of adoption and I love that image, a spirit of adoption that God looks at us and he chooses us, he chooses me out of the many, he chooses you out of the many. And then this says the spirit comes to us and we cry out, Abba, Father. It's not what we just think about. The spirit comes about us and we think, hmm, what now? Curious, I like that. Messiah, I like that. The spirit comes upon us and we cry out. We don't think about it. We don't plan it. We cry out, not just Father, Abba. We cry out Abba. It's significant that Jesus and the Jordan is revealed as the son in a relationship with the Father. And it's the spirit that does this. The spirit wants to be able to show us the Father. Even in John's Gospel, Jesus says, and this is, I'm not gonna theologize because I can't theologize on this, but Jesus says, I can only do what I see the Father doing. Like I've taken great consolation in that. Father Mike Scanlon used to speak a great deal about that. He says that we could sit down and we can pray for somebody to be healed, which is good and right and just, right, we should do that. But he said when he sees the Father doing something, the likelihood of that individual being healed is overwhelming. But it's the spirit that allows us to see what the Father, I mean, the Son, the Son, the Son of God, the Anointed One, the Holy One, had to be able to see what the Father was doing. He said, I can only do what I see the Father doing. The spirit, brothers, wants to come upon us and allow us, and in the same way that it was Jesus, allow us to see the Father. The next project I'm working on is actually going to be on this very thing. What is it that we have a Father? How is it that the spirit wants to reveal a Father to us? There's a line that it says the relationship with God begins with the relationship with our earthly Father. And for so many people, what we need and what we desire is that the spirit of Jesus move into that relationship. I don't know what your relationship is with your dad, but oftentimes we take the garbage and the brokenness of our relationship with our fathers and we place that on the heavenly Father, and it's just not fair to him. The spirit of Jesus comes upon us and reveals to us his Father. Not the Father we had, not the Father even we wish we had, the Father that we have, but only the spirit of Jesus can do that. The other thing maybe that's worthy of our reflection is that over the years I've heard a million times stories about how bad their Father, the individual's Father was. He wasn't present to me, he wasn't tender, he wasn't kind of, okay, we've all heard the stories. I could probably count on one hand the number of people who have come to me and said, you know, I've been a crappy son. I just wasn't a very good son. I was selfish, I was arrogant, I wasn't obedient. The spirit comes upon Jesus, his beloved son. What is it for us to be a faithful son? To be a faithful son, to be an obedient son, to be a generous son, to give of ourself, to be a son who's willing to sacrifice, right? The spirit comes upon Jesus in that Jordan reveals the Father and said, this is my beloved son. Same things happen to us. What happens at baptism? Yes, of course, we talk about the removal of original sin, of course, but we are baptized into the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. We are baptized into a relationship with the Father. And our sonship is anointed, right? The oil, I don't get to do lots of baptisms, but when I do, I just pour the oil. What we want is much oil. I mean, just to rub that, when we heard yesterday, John Bergstrom was talking about the rubbing, right? That the anointing is the rubbing of this oil. It's happening to you. It's happened to some of us a couple of times, right? Baptism and confirmation, ordination. And we claim in this anointing, sonship. And all that goes along with that, right?  So that I'm a prince, I'm a prophet, I'm a king. I'm baptized, I've been anointed. The spirit comes upon Jesus, right? And anoints him in the Jordan. We pay attention though in the next text. It's interesting that Jesus comes out of this anointing, out of this baptism in the scripture. And Luke particularly, it says he drives him into the Holy Spirit, drives Jesus to the desert. The desert, obviously, is the place of destruction. Prepare attention to the scripture. So oftentimes where everything went wrong was in the desert. So the desert was spiritually not a safe place, but physically and practically it's not a safe place. And it's, we all know the story, right? The spirit drives. It wasn't Jesus just like, well, I've got a couple of days, what should I do? Actually, I've got 40 days, let's just go to the desert.  He goes to the desert because the scripture says he drives, the Holy Spirit drives him to the desert. I like to pray over that and think about that. Jesus at one time said, you know, I'd rather not do this. But the spirit drives him to do that. That's one of the, yeah, one of the things I love about Jesus, right? Sounds so ridiculous. But that we get glimpses of Jesus wrestling with it. It's one of the things that I take great comfort in the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus wrestles with this. If it could be any other way, Father, the spirit drives him to the desert. I don't particularly want it. The spirit drives him to the desert and Jesus is always obedient to the spirit. For a number of years, Francis Martin was my spiritual director and he said, Dave, never deny the nudging of the Holy Spirit. Spirit drives him to the desert because it's there that he's gonna do battle. It's there that he's going to fix the wrongs. It's there where all the mistakes of his forefathers were made are gonna be rectified. And the spirit doesn't drive him there and say, good luck, but anoints him and stays with him. It's a part of our story. I mean, time and time again, we would like to bypass the desert. We'd just rather not go to that place. But the reality is, is I think that there are things that can be done in our life and our heart that can only be done in the desert. It can only, it's in the desert, right? It's in the desert where the people come to understand that God has freed them. They didn't want to go to the desert, but they go to the desert and Moses says that you are free, that God frees them, right? Takes them to the desert. What's that in your own life? What's that desert that we resist, that thing that we don't want to deal with, that thing that we don't want to look at, a place that we don't want to go, that if we're honest, we hear Jesus and we hear his spirit driving us there. We all have him. In the fall of 2020, when COVID was raging and just crazy, if you recall, we at the university, we chose not only did we open up classes and we invited people back, when so many, most of the schools across the country were taking that semester and going online, we at Franciscan were saying, come back. Not only that, we also said if you're new, come back and you don't have to worry about paying it, we'll pay for it for you. And the number of people that are saying, you guys are ridiculous, what are you doing? I mean, the number of emails and editorials and things that were written that the Franciscan university was being irresponsible. We're putting kids at risk. What are we doing? This is on you, Father Dave, right?  It was just crazy. And it was just this crushing and just this weight that was coming on. And at the same time, my brother was diagnosed with cancer and I'm just trying to wrestle with this and wanting to be home and actually going to be home but not able to see him because of COVID and they wouldn't even let me in to see my own brother in the hospital as he's dying, right? And getting letters is saying, what are you doing?  Do you even care? And it just seemed like everything was just crash, crushing it. It was a desert the Lord invited me to walk through and it was a spirit that drove me because if there was any other way I would have gotten out of it. So in Christ's, in our chapel in Holy Spirit Friary in one morning it was just really, it was just really weighty and tough. And I was just, I like to say I was pouring out my heart to the Lord. What I was doing was whining, right? It's like, seriously Lord, what is your problem? And the Lord broke into that. And he speaks to me and he speaks to my heart and he says, Dave, you won't be crushed. Now, when I look about it now that wasn't exactly the most comforting word, right? But it was totally what I needed to hear because I wasn't sure. I wasn't positive. You won't be crushed. And the Lord is faithful because he doesn't take us to that place and leave us there alone. But he takes us there to reveal things to us, to show things to us, to transform things in us. You see, had I not been through that and walked through that then I'm not sure that I could do the next thing that the Lord is going to ask me to do but I did and we did. There was something on a human level and I haven't prayed a ton about this but Jesus just making it out of the desert. A sense of confidence. You know, if I went toe to toe with the evil one on multiple occasions and I walked out of that, I came out of that standing. There's a confidence about that. I can do this. I won't be crushed. So the Spirit leads Jesus to the desert and then we find in the scriptures that we've talked about. Luke chapter four. He came to Nazareth where he had grown up and he went according to his custom into the synagogue in the Sabbath day. I'm not sure if you've been to Nazareth but if you go to Nazareth, they rarely stop at the synagogue here but when I go there, we always stop there. You'll walk by it and they won't point it out but there's something about just sitting here and reflecting on this scripture. He stood up and he read, he was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah and he unrolled the scroll and he found the passage where it was written. I really like this that scripture says that they handed in the scroll and he found. So this image I have is Jesus kind of looking. It's like, where is it? Where's the scroll? He's unrolled. It's not like Bible roulette, right? So there's a new game going on. I'm not sure if you're familiar with it. It's a Bible roulette game and here's how it works. I encourage you to do it, all right? You open up the Bible, you get a group of 10 people. Open up the Bible and then you have to do exactly what it says on that page, all right? So everybody has to do exactly what it said on this page. I did this this morning. It was the story of the families who were selling their children in a slavery. So you have to do exactly what it says. And then the winner is the last one to go to jail, okay? So that's how this game goes. So Jesus has opened it up. It's like, not that, not that, not that. This is it, Isaiah 61. I thought, I mean, you could almost, this drum roll that was happening when John Bergsman was talking about this yesterday, that all of this, and that's why to focus on how the Holy Spirit is working, working, working in the first three chapters. And it comes to this place in the synagogue. And it's the first thing Jesus says. There had to have been all this amazing talk. It's like, because Jesus was known, it's his hometown, he's back. They've heard things about him. He'd been gone for 40 days. I wonder if people were actually wondering, did he make it, right? He's gone to the desert for 40 days and he finally comes out. This is the first time he's coming to the people. He takes the scripture, not that, not that. Ah, this, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind and let the oppressed go free and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord. Rolling up the scrolls. He hands back to the attendant, sits down, as we heard yesterday. Oh, he's got something to say. This should be good. Today the scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing. Dang, I would have loved to be there. The spirit of the Lord is upon me. I want to suggest that that is both an explanation and a proclamation. I mean, that's a bold statement. In how he connects that, right? As we heard yesterday, John was saying that that all of these elements, the healing of the blind and the cripple and the lame, these are messianic statements. These are messianic signs and the spirit of the Lord is upon me and it just piqued their ears and their attention. It's like, could it be? I mean, isn't this what we've been praying for? The spirit of the Lord is upon me for a purpose. But when he says that, what I found myself reflecting on is the spirit that it's an explanation of what's taken place, right? That Jesus has just come out of the desert. So when he says the spirit of the Lord, it's not just about what he's going to do. It's not just about his person. It's not just about his mission, but it's about what he has done. How is it that I made it in the desert for 40 days without food, without being crushed because the spirit of the Lord is upon me? I mean, that's why I was able to do it. And how is it moving forward that I'm going to be able to do what the Lord desires me to do? That the spirit of the Lord is upon me. So it's not just what has happened, the explanatory on what it was and why he was able to do, but it's this presence of the spirit of Jesus, but it's also the presence of Jesus, the spirit about what he's going to do. In the Old Testament, as John Bergsmann mentioned yesterday, that the sense of anointing was a sense of rubbing, but there's a kind of a transformation that changes from the old to the New Testament that the anointing isn't just an external rubbing, but it's an internal transformation. The anointing in the Old Testament is the oil flows over the person. The anointing in the New Testament is an indwelling, is an indwelling of God. First Corinthians 3.16 says, do you not know that you are the temple of God and the spirit of God dwells in you? Are we aware of this? Are we aware that the spirit of Jesus is dwelling and is present in me? I mean, brothers, that this ought to provide us confidence that I can be confident that what the Lord is asking me to do and what he's inviting me to do and what he's called to me, if the spirit of Jesus dwells in me, that there's something different about that. That it's not just this, and this is a part of it, and there's this tension that exists, but it's not just this spirit that goes to, I realize that there is a particular anointing and a particular grace for particular things, right? So I've been involved in ministry that at that moment, the Lord gives me something, a special anointing, a special grace that I need for that moment, and I understand that. Bishop Sam Jacobs would say that those are particular charisms to carry out a particular need at that time. But the spirit of Jesus is always dwelling in me. That's one of the things, again, I love Pope Francis that he's talking about the Holy Spirit that he says the greatest gift, and you're gonna talk, we're gonna talk this afternoon about charisms, and they're important, they're really important, but Pope Francis would say the first and the greatest gift is the spirit himself, right? It's not just this list of things that we can have, well, I can have this gift or I could have that gift, or I, the spirit of God gives his very self to us, that the very living God dwells in me, and I suggest the more we come to understand that it changes us, it changes our ministry, it changes the way we relate to people, it changes the power, it changes the way we hear confessions, it changes the way we preach, it changes the way we pray. So the prayer isn't just going out there to encounter this God that may or may not be there, it's encountering God who dwells in me. Literally dwells, it changes the way I pray that it's not just me going to try to find him, but it's me encountering him and experiencing God who dwells in me. My suspicion is if we understood more fully, more completely, that God dwells in us, we would treat people differently. If I understood how God dwells in you, how you are the living temple of God, I would probably treat you differently, maybe be more patient or more kind, more thoughtful or more generous. Why don't we believe that God dwells in us?  The spirit of Jesus dwells in us. That's why I asked Bob to sing that song, come rest on us. Change me. Are you aware of that? How comfortable are you standing in front of a group of people and say the spirit of the Lord is upon me? To do the same things, right? That this anointing that Jesus speaks about wasn't merely for him, but it's also for me that the spirit of the Lord is upon me and he's called me to give sight to the blind, to heal the captive and to free those who are in captivity and to heal the crippled, that that's my mission, that's our mission, brothers, that's the message, that's the good news, right? But he wants to first do it in me, that I'm the one who's blind. If I hear that text and say, Jesus, that's great, you did that for those people, then I'm walking into this blind myself, that we are those who are in captivity. Second Corinthians 3, 17, where the spirit of God is there is freedom. This is what I need, Lord, that I am so oftentimes captured, that I'm the one who needs to be healed, that this mission, this anointing, this work that Jesus had, that he wants us to be able to participate in that, but he also wants to be us to be the one who receives that, that that same spirit heals me, frees me, restores me. Amen? When the spirit of God comes upon Jesus, Jesus proclaims what his mission is. And this is for us as well, that the spirit of Jesus comes upon us and we understand more clearly what it is that God has for me to do. And we step into that mission, we step into that anointing, we step into what it is that God has for us. I'm driving through Steubenville, Ohio in February of 2019. If you've ever been here in Steubenville, Ohio in February, I'm sorry, it's not as beautiful as it is in June, right? I was driving through the town and I was just looking around and I said to myself, you know, there's something really charming about Steubenville. As soon as I said that, I said, oh my goodness, what's going on, Lord? You duped me. About six weeks later, I get a call from my provincial and ask if I would be open to being nominated to be president of the university to step into the mission that the Lord has for me. The spirit of the Lord is upon you. It's not just a general mission. He's got something for you and only you that only you can accomplish. Your desert, your Jordan River experience, your anointing, the indwelling. It's all so that you can carry out the mission that Jesus has given you. And he reminds us that he won't leave us orphan. John 14.26 says, if you love me and keep my commandments and I will ask the Father and he will give you another advocate to be with you. It was a gospel that was given to us in the last couple of weeks and I just spent more time with the word advocate. I looked it up. There's like seven or eight different terms or different words that you could use for that. Helper, empirically, companion, counselor, friend, comfort or buddy, right? One of the images that we've often heard is in a courtroom, the advocate is the one who's like the expert witness. It's not just any witness. The advocate is the expert witness. Technically, the word means the one who comes, right? The one who comes. So it's the expert. If you've seen my cousin Vinny, the advocate is the woman who comes in and says, oh, it can't be that car. And she goes through this whole thing about the drivetrain and all that. And she saves the day, right? Vinny gets off the murder charges, right? The advocate is the one who saves the day. They use the word advocate that if a military, if a battalion was in trouble and they were being surrounded and they were being defeated, the advocate is the one who comes in and rescues them, saves the day. The Lord says that he will give you, and it's good. He says that will give you another advocate. In 1526, it says, when the advocate comes, that I will send to you from the Father, the spirit of the truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me. Let's find myself praying and reflecting on this, that Jesus, that we can't even see Jesus. We can't even encounter Jesus without the Spirit. The advocate will testify to me. I loved what I think it was Bishop said the other day that we speak in so often many places we start with works of mercy, which are important. But I remember one of our friars, Father Dan would always say, that the first greatest work of mercy is evangelization. But that if we don't even see Jesus, if we don't even know Jesus, then why are we doing what we do? And why do we expect people to act differently or behave differently or live differently if they don't even know Jesus? It's not just a matter of us telling them. It's a matter of them being able to encounter and seeing Him. And the scripture says that the Spirit testifies to Jesus. The Spirit reminds us, the scripture reminds us that I can do nothing apart from the power of Jesus in His Holy Spirit. And I found myself for the last many months reflecting and praying on itself evident and obvious, but the Holy Spirit wants to make me holy, be a holy spirit, the sanctifying spirit. I mean, it's kind of sobering that I reflect that I can't do anything apart from the Spirit of Jesus.  And that same spirit that anointed Him, that same spirit that was upon Him is upon me. Is upon you, it dwells in me. And I think that matters. I think that that matters, that should matter in the way we preside at liturgy, in the way we pray the liturgy, in the way we hear confessions, in the way we do spiritual direction, in the way we do whatever ministry you're involved in. I think it matters in the way I pray. I think the fact that the Spirit of Jesus is upon me when I come before Him in my morning prayer or I do my night prayer before I go to bed, that matters. It matters in the fact that I struggle. And the reality is, and it's one of the beautiful things that the Spirit of Jesus, the scripture says, the Spirit of Jesus is going to convict us of our sin, right? In order to ultimately convert us, not to condemn us. The fact that God dwells in us doesn't mean that I'm never gonna fail or that I'm never gonna sin. But what it does mean is that I'll go to confession and I won't dwell in it. The Spirit of Jesus is that which continues to move you and move me. We see this movement in the beginning of Luke that ultimately brings Him to the temple, to the synagogue in Nazareth.  Take a breath. I just invite you very simply to open your hands in front of you and repeat after me. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Jesus come through Holy Spirit. Say that again, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me.  I don't want you to identify yourself. But for those of you who aren't sure, in the name of Jesus and His priest, I come against that lie. For those of you who don't believe it really matters, in the name of Jesus and His priest, I come against that lie. For those of you who aren't positive, it's gonna make a difference. As a priest of Jesus, I come against that lie. Just in your own heart and as the Spirit is leading you, just ask the Spirit of Jesus to come rest on you, to be present to you. To step into that anointing brothers that you are given at baptism. The power of hell, the power of death was broken. Step into that grace every time you've gone to confession. God the Father of mercies through the death and resurrection of His Son has reconciled us. I love the new translation. It says, poured the Holy Spirit poured forth in us. Do you not know that the Spirit of God dwells in you? Where the Spirit of God is, there is freedom. The Spirit will remind you of all that I've done. The Spirit will convict you. The Spirit will lead you to all truth. The Spirit is not rationed. The Spirit doesn't show preference. The Spirit of the Lord is upon you. The Spirit of the Lord is upon you. Come rest on us. Many of you have been through the desert. Take courage in that. Jesus come. What does the Lord want to say to you? Just being present and still to Him. What is it that you've heard? In Timothy we hear that the Spirit is stirred, just stir in a flame. The Spirit that was given to us when hands were laid upon us. Jesus I pray that you would stir that. That initial zeal, the excitement, the wonderment. Jesus come with the more, restore, renew, transform, make whole. Jesus breathe life into the brother here who's struggling most, who's resting with the greatest doubt. With the brother here who feels as if he's going to be crushed. Come rest on us. And just for a minute just wait on that. Come rest on us. Overshadow us. Mother Mary you who are the spouse of the Holy Spirit that you had interceded for us as we pray together.  Blessed art thou among women. And blessed is the fruit of your womb Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God pray for us sinners. Now and at the hour of our death, amen. Jesus as your priest I claim what you are doing in the hearts of my brothers for the grace that you've given to them. For the seeds that have been planted that bear the fruit you desire. The Lord be with you.  Amen.


Facebook manager is getting paid the highest among all the fan companies. And the interviews are one of the hardest crack in order for you to land the partner manager job offer. And what if you have an interview in front of you, but you're not prepared well and you fail the interview? So how to best prepare for a Facebook partner manager interview? What type of interview question should you expect when the interview there? So that you can land the job offer. In this video, I'm going to share with you the top 20 partner manager interview questions at Facebook and what's the best framework you should use to answer those questions in order to land a job offer. Hey guys, this is Dr. Nancy Lee from partner manager accelerator from Drnancy.com. I help people transition from worker B to partner manager and business leader. If you want to learn the most effective way to become partner manager, please make sure to subscribe to the channel and hit the bell button. So be notified every time I post a new video in November. Our student got five partner manager offers from the fan companies, including Google, Microsoft and Amazon. And last month, another student of mine, she had a counting background also got offered from Facebook as a TPM working on AI product. All of them use the Facebook interview questions database and framework that I'm going to share with you today. Please make sure you also stay until the end of this video where I'm going to share with you the top 50 interview questions in fan companies for you to get ready to nail your job offer as well. A quick disclaimer, every interview question that shared with you today up in the public internet. They were also contributed by anonymous resources. I'm here today to summarize all the information in a short and concise and quick fashion for you to quickly digest the information so that you can nail your Facebook job interview as well. All right. So let's get started. In my last video, I interviewed Facebook TPML. He shared with you what the top three strategies to become a partner manager in Facebook and land five offers. And that video is a mass ask videos where you need to study all the strategies before you dive deeper into this video to get ready for your interview. Facebook asks five types of interview questions. They are product sense, execution, problem solving, behavioral interviews, and technical interviews. Let me walk through each of them one by one. Type number one, product sense interview questions. This is the same as product design interview questions and product case interview questions. In those interview questions, they can ask you the following questions. For example, question number one, design a product for gardening for Facebook. Question number two, how would you build a grocery shopping experience? Question number three, design a product to learn Japanese. Question number four, how do we encourage volunteering on Facebook? Question number five, design a travel app. The best way to answer these kind of interview questions is to use the modified circles framework. Remember, it's modified. And where we modify it is based on the specific unique capabilities and things of interviewers looking for at Facebook. Specifically at Facebook, they're looking for something that's different. For example, they want to see two silent marketplace. For example, Facebook, if you design an Uber app for people with disabilities, you cannot only design it for people with disabilities. You also need to design it for the driver. That's where the two silent marketplace coming from. Facebook is one of the biggest marketplace. So when you work for Facebook, the interview for Facebook, you need to think about both sides of the equation in order to lend your job offer. On top of that, Facebook also want to hear the mission, which is build the communities and bring people closer together. If you deviate from the mission, whatever design you come out with is not going to pass this interview. I give you a step-by-step framework and teach you how to answer this kind of interview questions. You should check out this video right here, where I give you examples of how to design an Uber app for people with disabilities. The biggest mistake people had when they interviewed Facebook is they directly jumped into the conclusion, which is how to design the product inside exploring different kind of customer segmentations. And I had a specific video where I did more interview for Facebook. You should have this video right here and follow the exact examples and framework. If you interview for Facebook at a senior product manager level, they will definitely ask you some harder questions. So please be prepared. For example, question number six, design organ donation app on Facebook. Question number seven, monetize Facebook marketplace. So therefore, whenever you walk into those interviews, you have to really keep calm and think on top of your feet. And how would you apply the framework I just taught you into this different kind of interview questions? Of course, when you start answering those interview questions, you need to ask lots of clarifying questions. You can download the top 10 clarifying questions when you go interview for the participants interview questions. I'm going to link it in the description of this video. So what is the hardest interview questions you had? Please make sure to comment down below and see how I can help you to answer those kind of interview questions. Getting a product manager offer at fan company is one of the hardest things. I want to make sure you guys are fully prepared. I'm going to teach a free master class where I'm going to share with you how I got four product manager job within 60 days and also share with you how my student got five fan offers within one month. You can check out the link of this webinar in the description of this video. Second type of interview questions of Facebook is product execution or product metrics interview questions. Let me give you some sample interview questions here. Question number eight, set goals for Facebook search. Question number nine, you are the product manager for Facebook page. How would you design the success matrix for your product and team? Question number 10, what's your favorite video calling product? How would you define the success matrix of it? Question number 11, we are launching a money transfer feature. What are the goals and success metrics? Question number 12, set goals and metrics for Instagram story. The best framework to answer these kind of metrics and goals type into the questions is my computer science PhD framework. If you're in my product manager accelerate program, I give you in-depth analysis and examples of how to use this my computer science PhD framework. And here, if you're not in my program, let me give you a high level overview. Let's use Instagram stories metrics as an example. When you apply my computer science PhD framework, you need to start to think about what are the missions of the company? Why are they building this product? Then you continue to segment the customers based on the tool setting marketplace. Then you come up with mission related metrics and prior types of metrics gives the North Star metrics and then you give them the product health metrics. And as the end, you tell them what a de-risk factors you can think about when you design this kind of product. The biggest mistake people make in answering those kind of interview questions is that they gave four laundry lists of metrics without giving the interviewer the most important metrics. For example, there's only one North Star metrics for the instrument story. In this case, are the number of views per users per week. If you go and tell them all different kind of metrics and the interviewer will get confused. So only focus on the North Star first. Then tell them other metrics in your mind. I'm going to make a YouTube video showing you the detailed examples of how to design the success metrics of instrument stories. Please make sure to subscribe to channel hit the bell button so you'll be notified when the next video will be uploaded in the near future. I will also link it in the description of this video once it is available. The third group of questions are problem solving questions. They also group into the execution type into the questions. However, in my personal opinion, they're very different from metrics questions. They give you a specific problem for you to solve. For example, question number 13 set goals for Facebook light and North Star metrics dropped by 10%. What would you do? Question number 14, Facebook by cell group creation dropped by 10% month over month. What should you do? Question number 15, the time spent on YouTube has gone down by 20% day by day. What should you do? All these questions are very tricky and also very challenging. So usually people don't know where to get started. So let me tell you what's the best way and what's the best framework to answer these kind of questions. You should use a CPT framework to answer the question. CPT stands for customer, product and technology. You should start with asking some clarifying questions using the cheat sheet I prepared for you guys. And then you directly design the specific customer journey map. Now you start to think about within the customer journey map, which part of the process could go wrong using the customers, product and technology framework. The fourth type of interview questions of Facebook are behavioral interview questions. In my personal opinion, these interview questions are not different from other companies' behavior interview questions. There's a little bit deeper and more challenging. Let me give you some examples. Question number 16, what is a good product manager? Question number 17, tell me a time when you fail. Question number 18, tell me a time when you receive difficult feedback from your managers and peers. Question number 19, tell me a time when you had a disagreement with someone. Even if these interview questions sound the same as any other companies, but the bar of anything, those interview questions that Facebook is much higher. So you really need to get into your answers very quick and concise and show them the big impact. I gave you several sample answers to these kind of behavioral interview questions. You can look at my sample answers in this product manager interview questions and answers playlist right here. I'm also going to link those playlists in the description of this video. Type number five, technical interview questions. Please understand this. Technical interview questions only require for technical product manager position. If you're interviewing for the generalist position, you do not need to prepare for the technical questions at all. But if you interview for TPN position, such as technical program manager or technical product manager position at Facebook, you will be asked very difficult technical questions at Facebook. Let me give you some examples. Question number 20, what's your favorite developer on-boarding process? Why is this your favorite? Don't you think this kind of interview question is really hard? Sounds like you have to be a developer in order to answer this kind of interview questions. So therefore, I suggest all of you guys to study the technical knowledge before you walk into interview. We're really wearing the shoes as an end user. In this case are software developers or someone who designed the software architecture diagram before you get ready for your Facebook technical interview questions. I know lots of you guys watching this video is actually preparing for Facebook program manager interviews and probably also preparing for all the different kind of fan interviews. So I'm going to share with you the top 50 interview questions at fan companies. You can directly go to this website and download the top 50 interview questions the fan companies. I'm going to link the website in the description of this video as well. I have full list of technical courses and software 101 courses in the description of this video. Feel free to check out the whole list and down below and use those to jumpstart your interview process at Facebook. Afterwards, you should go into every direction or different kind of technical disciplines for you to dive deeper. If you like any of the content today, please make sure to hit the like button until it's turned blue. And this is the only way that YouTube algorithm will recognize me. Thank you very much. I'm going to see you next time. This is Dr. Nancy Lee. Bye.


Next up we have Carl Kosher talking about enabling HTTPS for home network devices using let's encrypt. Alright, thanks. Uh, so I'm Carl Kosher. Uh, I'm a research scientist at the University of Washington doing wireless and embedded system security. Uh, I'm going to talk about, uh, some of the challenges of, uh, using TLS on home network, uh, devices or other internal network devices and, uh, a way to, uh, easily issue certificates for these devices. So why is TLS important? Uh, isn't, you know, WPA on your network enough? I mean it's already encrypting and authenticating your communication. Well as it turns out, browsers are really pushing for TLS these days. Um, Chrome and some other browsers are now requiring TLS, uh, to use certain powerful APIs, um, uh, such as, um, accessing the user's, uh, web camera or running service workers or pushing notifications. And so if you want to, um, write an app that uses these, uh, what they call powerful features, you need to serve that over TLS. And the problem with that is if you want to make a web application that uses those features and also communicates with local network devices, you can't really do that because it also blocks, uh, cross origin requests, uh, from a secure origin to a non-secure origin. Um, and so to make this, uh, a bit more concrete, I was trying to write a app for the Chromecast which requires applications to be served over HTTPS to connect to this HD home run TV tuner, um, so that I could watch, um, uh, TV channels, uh, on my TV through my Chromecast, um, while it, it connects to the TV tuner and pulls down the, the impact stream. The problem is that, um, so the Chromecast can easily discover the HD home run device, it gets its IP address. However, because the HD home run device only speaks HTTP, it can't actually do that cross origin request to get that, uh, impact data stream. And so this is sort of the problem that really, um, uh, caused me to, to look at this issue. So why is, uh, doing local TLS hard? Well, uh, as I alluded to, um, local devices are often discovered by their IP address and not by a particular host name. Uh, TLS certs on the other hand are issued for specific host names. So, um, in the common name or the, uh, subject alternate name you have a list of, uh, fully qualified domain names that a certificate is valid for. And, um, so if you're just connecting to an IP address, uh, that doesn't match what is in the, the certs. Some, uh, device manufacturers will, uh, ship a cert, uh, on the device, uh, and that certificate is the same across all devices. Uh, however, that can be easily abused. Um, if you might remember the SuperFish scandal that happened several years ago, basically, uh, this software, uh, pre-installed a, uh, certificate, um, that was, uh, used as a CA certificate that could, uh, sign, uh, any host name, uh, whatsoever. And the problem there was that the private key was shared across all laptops, and so anyone with the SuperFish software could then create, uh, certificates for any domain name. Um, so you can also do that, uh, when you have shared certificates across these network devices. Uh, even if you do unique certificates, again, because you're, uh, discovering these devices by IP address, um, they will often be for a common host name, like, uh, router dot homeland dot com or something like that. And so if you have any of these certificates, uh, you can get them re, you can, um, basically use those to, uh, do manual middle attacks on, uh, on that domain name. Um, if you want to do something with, like, let's encrypt, uh, the problem there is that a lot of end users typically don't own a domain. Uh, I imagine most people in this room probably do, but, uh, real users don't. Uh, and so there's not really, uh, a domain that people can use to, uh, get their own certificate. And finally, even if they do have their own domain name and they want to get a domain with let's encrypt, uh, these local devices aren't externally facing, so the typical way of using cert bot to automatically generate these certificates, uh, doesn't really work because, uh, let's encrypt can't talk back to the device to verify, uh, domain ownership or control. So it turns out that one company has actually solved this issue and that company is Plex. So Plex is, uh, well it's a little sketchy, but it's basically, uh, Netflix for your own, uh, home media, um, server. And, uh, the way that they solved it is they issue each server a 16 byte GUID and then Plex issues a wild card cert for this GUID dot Plex dot direct. And so whenever you want to talk to your Plex server on a particular IP address, you go to IP address dot GUID dot Plex dot direct and they have name servers set up that automatically resolve that, uh, directly to a dot b dot c dot d. Now this seems a little weird, but, um, the key here is that by going to that fully qualified domain name instead of an IP address, um, the, uh, fully qualified domain name matches with the wild card cert that the server has, uh, and then the connection is trusted automatically. And so this allows for, um, uh, friends to connect to your server over the internet, even if you have a dynamic, uh, IP address from your ISP, it also, uh, lets you connect directly, uh, on internal, um, like 192 dot 168, uh, IP addresses as well and everything is, uh, nice and secure. So Plex partnered with a certificate authority to issue these certs. And that's kind of costly and, uh, most IoT vendors won't bother doing this. So I was wondering if we could actually use Let's Encrypt, which provides free certificates to do this. And as it turns out, you actually can. So let's talk a little bit about how Let's Encrypt, uh, automatically issue certificates. So they use what's known as the ACMI protocol, the automation, uh, automated certificate management environment protocol. And this is implemented by, uh, a client called CERTBOT and by, uh, CA software called Boulder. And this is a way to, uh, basically automate, uh, domain validation to prove that you have control over a domain that you want, um, a certificate for. Uh, so the way that this, that the ACMI protocol works is that the certificate authority issues you a challenge, uh, to prove, uh, control over a domain that you want a certificate for. And there's a couple of different types of challenges. Uh, the two main ones right now are HTTP01, where the, uh, certificate authority asks you to create a file at a specific URL with, uh, specific contents and it verifies that you put that file there. And if you did, uh, then you have control over that domain and they give you a certificate for that. There's also DNS01 where you add a text record, um, for the domain name, uh, with a specific contents, uh, um, uh, secure token. Uh, and, uh, this is the only way to get, uh, wildcard certificates. Um, but it's nice that they do, uh, give you wildcard certificates now. Um, so for accounts, um, basically they are associated with a public-private key pair. Um, you're the, so you automatically generate this private key, um, and derive the public key from that. And that public key is essentially your account ID. Now they do have sort of an internal account ID that you actually use, um, for efficiency and other reasons, but basically your account is this public-private key pair. And you use this private key that you generate yourself to sign all requests, including the initial registration with Let's Encrypt where you tell them that you agree to the terms of service and, and so on and so forth. Uh, so my proposed solution for, um, using Let's Encrypt, uh, for local devices is, um, this service that I'm calling TLS MyNet, which lets you issue wildcard certificates for sub-domain that is tied to your Let's Encrypt, uh, account public key. So tying the, um, the sub-domain to your Let's Encrypt account, uh, basically lets you verify legitimacy at an application level. Um, so, uh, you know that you are always going to talk to your server at a particular sub-domain. And as long as that sub-domain matches, you know that, um, the private, uh, that at least someone with the corresponding private key, um, proved, uh, that they had that private key and they, um, got a certificate for that domain. So the basic way that this works is you use, uh, Let's Encrypt, um, as normal, but, uh, instead of proving, um, control over your own domain, you ask a third party, uh, to, uh, prove control of a sub-domain, um, and, uh, that third party then, um, solves that challenge for you by creating that text record. So the way that this works is the device initiates a sub-domain wildcard certificate request with Let's Encrypt. Let's Encrypt says, okay, here's a DNS challenge. Uh, the device then sends that challenge request to TLSMyNet. This request is signed with the public key using, uh, JSON web signatures. Uh, the thumb print of the corresponding public key, um, is used as the sub-domain. Uh, and because of limitations of DNS, we actually have to encode this as a base 36, which is kind of icky, but, um, it, it works. Uh, and basically the, the public private key pair here is the same, uh, public private key that is tied to your Let's Encrypt account. Uh, so this is currently implemented in, uh, two Python scripts, um, uh, that are on GitHub right now, and I'll, uh, give you that URL later. The first is, uh, dnsserver.py, and this does two things primarily. One, it resolves, uh, that, uh, IP address dot thumb print dot TLSMy dot net two, that IP address. Um, so it, it handles that for you. The second is that it also resolves these, uh, text records, um, that are used for, uh, sub-domain, uh, verification with Let's Encrypt. Uh, it uses this library called dnslib, which, uh, lets you easily create, uh, dns clients and server, servers, uh, using Python. Right now the server is sort of, uh, single threaded and synchronous, and so there could theoretically be some performance issues, but, uh, I'm planning on migrating that to, uh, Python's async IO, uh, fairly shortly. Uh, the second half of this, uh, system is the, the web server, which receives these requests, uh, for creating these text records to respond to these challenges. Uh, this does use async IO, so even though it's single threaded, um, it can handle multiple requests, and while it's waiting on one it can service another. Uh, and it uses, uh, also this, uh, JW Crypto library for doing, uh, JSON web signatures and, and JSON web keys and things like that. And then in between, there's just a standard Reddit server that's a temporary, uh, key value store for storing, um, specific text records, uh, for specific subdomains. Um, and those, uh, those last for five minutes. Um, and so the nice thing here is that really there doesn't need to be any state that you actually store on this server. Uh, you just need the, the key value store long enough to, uh, do the domain verification. Um, you don't need accounts because, uh, those are automatically proven by using the public, uh, private key pairs.  So currently this is still, uh, a work in progress. Um, there is a test client right now, uh, on GitHub that, uh, sends a, uh, request to create a challenge, um, to the web server. Uh, it, it could be better, um, but you know, hopefully that's coming soon. Um, I am planning on integrating this with Serpbot as a plugin. However, there's a, a little, um, issue there where the, uh, Serpbot plugins don't automatically expose the account, uh, public and private keys to, uh, the extensions there. So that's a little issue I'll, I'll have to work through. The server currently has a little brokenness with case sensitivity, but, but I'm gonna fix that today. Um, it, uh, I have tested it and it does work. And as I said before, uh, the DNS server will be modified to use, uh, async IO for a bit more performance. Um, so the code is up right now on GitHub, on, uh, github.com slash supersat slash tlsmy.net. Uh, so before I, uh, finish this talk, uh, might want to talk a bit about the risk model here. Um, this seems a bit, um, non-standard and you might have some concerns about this and, uh, I'll just talk, uh, a little bit about those. So the third party domain that you use, uh, in this instance, tlsmy.net is, um, assumed to be trusted because they can always prove, uh, control over, uh, that domain in any of its subdomains. Uh, but the way I envision this being used is that, uh, each device manufacturer runs their own service for this and you're already trusting that manufacturer anyway. Um, so there, there's some sort of implicit trust there.  Um, basically to, to prove, um, or to, basically to, uh, show that certificate authorities are not issuing certificates that are unauthorized. So if you're concerned about your, uh, third party domain provider, um, issuing a certificate, uh, for your subdomain or issuing a wildcard cert for the entire domain, you can go through and search these, uh, certificate transparency logs to make sure that they are, uh, doing the right thing. Uh, so my plan is to release, uh, TLS Minet as a public service, uh, and, um, you know, get this idea out there perhaps, maybe get, uh, let's encrypt to, to support this natively and do the same DNS resolution, uh, and challenges that, um, uh, that we support right now. Um, I'm mostly see this as sort of a proof of concept service, uh, to encourage, uh, TLS adoption for these local network devices, um, that, uh, are currently hard to get, uh, TLS certificates for. And, uh, please, please, please bug your manufacturers to, to support TLS. So even if you have, um, these certificates, you know, these devices still need a way to, uh, load these certificates into them, uh, and actually speak HTTPS and, and TLS and these things. And even if you do get a certificate, uh, the device still needs to talk TLS. Um, so in summary, I would say, you know, going forward, TLS, uh, is absolutely essential for, uh, these innovative web applications. Uh, browsers are demanding it. Devices like the Chromecast are demanding it. Uh, basically you need TLS if you want to, um, use a lot of these new powerful features. Um, currently they, uh, these TLS certificates are difficult to acquire for, uh, these internal network devices for a bunch of reasons that I talked about. Um, but I, uh, have proposed here a way of, uh, easily getting these, uh, wild card certificates, uh, using a third party service. Uh, so with that, I'd like to, uh, thank you for your attention. Uh, this is my email address, my Twitter handle, and the GitHub account for the TLS My Nut service. So, thanks. All right. Thank you Carl. If you have questions, please come up and line up by me. Did you have any problems with running into, uh, DNS needing a CAA record? So we, uh, no, so we do not return CAA records for that. We could return CAA records for that, but, um, the, so for people who don't know, the CAA records, uh, basically, uh, say, or they tell a certificate authority which CAs are allowed to issue certificates for a particular domain. Um, we currently don't, uh, return any CAA records. So theoretically any CAA could issue, um, uh, certs for, uh, TLS My Nut. Um, I, I could add it. Other questions. All right. Well, then let's give Carl one last big round of applause. All right. Thanks. Thank you Carl.


Hello everyone, my name is Marcin Katzplatczyk and I'm professor of finance at Imperial College London I'm giving a keynote speech at European Central Bank Money Market Conference and I would like to encourage you to listen What's the topic of the conversation? Society faces a mounting problem. The planet is warming and we need to do something about it One of the solutions to the problem is to stop producing fossil fuels Question is how do we do that? solution number one reduce economic activity Potentially difficult because it's going to endanger economic growth solution number two innovate produce energy in a cleaner greener way Question is who is the leader in that space? Do we observe certain companies to take more leadership than others? More importantly, do we observe that this technological progress actually leads to reduction in emissions? If you are interested in answering these questions, please stay tuned and listen to my talk. Thank you very much


The original, randomized, double-blind, controlled trial of diet and eczema found that cutting out eggs, chicken, milk, and beef significantly improved eczema in 70% of the kids that completed the study. Subsequent studies found similar results, though in this case, for example, it only seemed to work for a quarter of the kids. The bottom line, out of 13 studies on avoiding milk, eggs, or both, 10 out of 13 studies documented overall clinical improvement. The economic burden of eczema caused by just regular cow's milk formula alone may be hundreds of millions of dollars a year, though eggs appear to be worse, in terms of predicting persistence and severity of the disease. Sensitization to egg white and cow's milk can occur even in breast-fed infants, though, and so presumably the source of the exposure is the passage of egg and cow proteins through the mother's milk, but you don't know until you put it to the test. New mothers were randomized to cut out eggs, cow's milk, and fish from their diet during the first three months of breastfeeding after giving birth, or to continue their regular diet. And indeed, the infants of mothers who cut out the eggs, milk, and fish were significantly less likely to have eczema by age six months, though after that age the decreased rates of eczema in the no eggs, milk, or fish group, was no longer statistically significant. Follow those same kids out to four years, though, and those whose moms cut out the eggs, milk, and dairy for just three months while breastfeeding had significantly lower eczema rates even years later, consuming that hypoallergenic diet during breastfeeding cut childhood eczema rates in half. Eating more plant foods may also help. The majority of fruit and vegetable studies suggest higher consumption by mothers during pregnancy and children in early life results in reductions in asthma, another allergic type disease. Maybe it's the phenolic phytonutrients in plants that are helping, supported by evidence that certain vegetarian diets appear to alleviate the severity of skin diseases in adults with eczema, though if you look at that citation it was a very strange diet. They found striking benefits in terms of reducing the severity of eczema, and even two months after they went off the diet, they were still doing better than when they started, but the diet was just vegetable juice, brown rice, kelp tofu, tahini, and persimmon leaf tea, and severely calorie restricted, and just straight fasting alone can improve eczema, as can a strictly plant-based diet, which is not so surprising given the data on children showing how much better they can do cutting out eggs and dairy. In spite of these data, dermatologists and pediatricians have for many years denied the role of food in eczema, even though as many as 80% of kids may benefit cutting out milk and or eggs. Regardless of what the various allergy tests show, you can't necessarily tell if diet is going to help until you yourself put it to the test in your own body, and that's what parents are doing. They're not waiting for their pediatricians to catch up. 75% of parents with eczema-stricken kids have tried some form of dietary exclusion, most commonly cutting out dairy and eggs, though only about 40% of parents who tried it feel that it worked. But hey, why not give it a try?  But that seems to me backwards. If foods are contributing, why not treat the cause and eliminate the offending foods and then do the drugs if diet isn't enough? Now there are some pretty nutty eczema diets out there, like the so-called few foods diet, excluding everything except like lamb potatoes, rice Krispies, broccoli, and pears. To my surprise, it was actually put to the test. I told you, docs were desperate, but it failed to show a benefit. Basically, if you don't know where to begin, the simplest approach may be to just cut out dairy and eggs and see what happens. That's a controversial recommendation, though avoiding fish, beef, eggs, and dairy without medical supervision, that might trigger malnutrition-related pathology. What? I checked out that citation, and it's just another article making an unsupported claim. Now if you exclude everything, like 99% of your diet is rice milk, well then obviously that's completely insufficient. But for most parents, the number one thing they add to their child's diet for eczema is vegetables, and the number one thing they cut down on is junk food. And I don't think we have to worry about a junk food deficiency.


Alright folks, I feel like we better get started. We don't have a lot of time. I'm John. I live up on Cliff Street. I'm just volunteering tonight to help out. And our task this evening, just to try to clarify that a little bit with these breakout sessions, is we are going to develop sort of two lists. One is a list of actions that we think should be taken in this area of work, and then resources that are needed to move to move those actions forward. And just to remind folks, so everybody is hopefully in the right room. My understanding is that we are talking about investing in an adaptive downtown. Do we all agree that that's what we're here for? Okay, that's good. First step, check. So I actually think before we start, it would be great if somebody would go ahead and read again that description, just so that we all have it fresh in our minds. Is there a volunteer who wants to read that for us? Yeah, go for it. Invest in an adaptive downtown. With more floods likely in the downtown floodplain, one few years should do everything possible to protect public and private property, homes, stores, and downtown buildings. Currently steps for building parking, elevating buildings, appliances and inventories mitigating impact and adapting in the downtown options for moving some businesses and in control of the space are need led by individual homeowners, merchants and building owners who often lack access to public funding resources and or the capacity to navigate the existing financing options. The task force to gather and share best practices, raise money to help businesses afford transitions and work to leverage resources like those efficiency amount to replace appliances and home and business utilities. All right. So we're gonna spend we've got 30 minutes total. We're gonna spend about 15 to 20 minutes thinking through some potential actions. And I think this may be too hard, but maybe trying to decide on a couple that really rise to the top as key things to focus on. And then for the last 10 minutes, we'll think about resources. You know, what this is not as a group, just to be clear is that as was talked about before, there is now this commission that's going to convene to really work and support a lot of this. I think what we heard is the goal is to hire somebody to sort of lead those efforts. And so this group, I think you all may well be involved in that effort, you may well want to be involved in the effort to sort of do this task of investing in an adaptive downtown. But like this probably isn't the task force, right tonight, that's going to set another meeting date, right? But the but what this will be is input that that the commission then uses. And there may well be further convenings of of of people to do to do this work. So are there any sort of questions before we just sort of launch into what are some potential action steps in this area? And it's Matt, right? Yes, Matt, your role, you work for the city in what role? Awesome. Matt is our scribe tonight. So that's great. These notes will get transmitted. I may do some scribbling on the board. I may not. We'll see how it goes. So I guess with that, what are some potential areas of action when we think about this overall theme? Go for it. So those experts just to see if I understand what you mean, those experts would help to define sort of what the adaptions are addressing. Is that is that what you're getting at? Okay, great. Other areas of action? Yeah, the obvious is that one of the major threats is water. I'm sure there's other threats that we can come up with. But at the moment, that's what I'm focused on. And I have some vague image of of an elevated downtown. And so I'm not sure exactly what that means or how that would be facilitated or whether it's even vaguely possible. But it seems like that part of that vision is that it would be almost like a park like adaptation of the downtown in a way that would allow the river to be the river, but that the downtown could still stay where it is. And it could be a demonstration for other similar locations. I don't know how that is now elevating out of harm's way work businesses and and housing. Just a clarification because I think it's helpful like do like one scenario is fill basements like essentially eliminate basements in downtown buildings and maybe sort of like move inventory to the second floor, let's say, does that meet your definition of elevating downtown? Are you thinking more ambitiously in the actually physically sort of I just think it's talking about a film about stilts or whatever you envision whatever engineering wise works to actually but you know have there's elevated highways, there's elevated walkways everywhere. So move businesses to the second floor. I don't know about selling basements. I'm not even sure. I don't either, but I'm trying to get a sense of hydrological. Yeah. Yeah. So my point is where we've got parking lots, some of them are necessary. We need a place to put vehicles, but there's a lot of opportunity, I think, to reconsider those spaces as we water infrastructure and provide areas for the river to flow into when it overrides its banks and capture and you can consider some of our you know the significant path as part of that. So more green stormwater infrastructure and park spaces downtown after that where it makes sense.  You gotta walk three blocks to get downtown because that's one. So repurposed parking essentially to perform that underutilized impervious areas, which is often parking lots. Okay. I'm just trying to write some cuz maybe we'll prioritize you had your hand. So I was thinking about if we talk about elevation, I would personally have been on this for business years ago, and it's not what you can get on. It just doesn't work for me. It does with a lot. So with elevation, I would say, like getting help for the businesses that we have now downtown to have shelves around the perimeter of business so that in that moment that we get that calling, we can like lift things up quickly. And also I think that when you stand in the basement, we actually absorb some of the water to stop it coming out. But I would say that we have now and through teamwork possibilities. So I'm just gonna say sort of actions in existing space, which seems to be a little different from elevate. Okay. Another here, then here, then there. Yeah. But now, there are businesses that are starting just to get up and climbing. They really don't have time to think of the long term necessary. So we have to come up with a short term and have long term solutions to go flood-proofing and everything. Okay. Go ahead. Yeah, and one way to think about that is something called flood-proofing where basically we're providing hardening for the existing buildings rather than elevating what we're saying. And there are all kinds of methodologies to be able to do that. But one of those includes filling basins. Further? Can you further define hardening? Yeah, basically providing a barrier on the outside of the buildings that would exist water up to at least the base flood elevation but not higher. And create and using flood dates. So like the M&T Bank example, right? There was a flood gate bank. Yeah, flood gate. Yeah, okay. Yeah. And we did that at the boiler plant also. Oh, at the boiler plant. Okay. Great. Okay, well, so it doesn't always. Go ahead.  Okay. I'm going to get some new voices in before we go back. So, yeah. I would love to see us do everything we can to address this indication within this. And so for example, if businesses and downtown structures lost their immediate systems, can we do everything possible to make sure they transition off of fossil fuel when they rebuilds, you know? So just thinking about that, embedding that in the resilience and recovery process. So when you say mitigation, what you mean is sort of addressing the root cause. Climate mitigation. Climate mitigation is what you really mean. Okay. I'm just going to sort of write that as the, okay, thank you. You and then you. I'm not a business owner. So I'm talking about what I see. But it seems to me that the, among the needs of office was inventory. Because inventory was being stored in basements. Can a city and real estate agents and real estate owners can come to some kind of alternative to a storage system for inventory and it's accessible. It's accessible. You have to have an elevator. So not using the lower grade. And some kind of, you have to be separate building. And that's a problem for merchants. I know. Well, I have that in my inventory. Are you willing to come back tomorrow? How much could be stored? How much has to be put up for? Accessible. Right. And how would you manage that kind of storage? Basically a warehouse. As a shared, are you thinking of it as a shared or shared resource? Okay. Great. Yeah. And I, too. It's one is building off of what you said about the kind of the shelf concept. Something that was mentioned in the weeks after the flood was creating something like shelves that, you know, you have, you have think about the the hurricanes, the buildings in the south where you cover windows with boards and you lock them down. Something like that for shelving, but that moves. So you can literally just close up shelves and drag them, put them on, you know, so they're on wheels and you can drag them out again into higher ground. That was one, a 13-year-old idea. And I just want to bring back something that I mentioned on the floor was reimagining our schools. We really need to think differently about, we have very very, very small schools in Montpelier and we have a lot more population that we can join together with to think differently about our buildings. Nathan, yeah. And then, yeah. Nathan, yeah. Thinking for me about, you know, the larger the stack, the more density the better. And I think if we can find a way to come to street housing outside of the flood level and then recognize that the retail spaces in the walkable downtown is a premium, if we can accomplish sort of flood-heartening offsite storage, we can keep people safe, right? If this happened in March and people were without heat and then it makes a thousand, we would be really in trouble. So keep people safe. Businesses, I think we can sort of react and help move stuff, put it back. So I would like to see us really, really focus on density. Allow, you know, allow taller buildings. Allow housing without parking in more zones, et cetera. I just want to see us, you know, we can draw a line. We know, we know what the projected flood is. That number might not be real anymore. We can add three feet to it. We can say, let's, any new housing where we can try to buy out, in Northfield, bought out, low-level housing, that just wasn't a threat anymore. And that could become retail space or it could become business space. That's where people would lose housing for floods. So just to meet, be sure I understood, like, do not develop new housing within the flood plain, but have that housing that's outside of the flood plain be higher density. Is that, am I getting that right? It's still close to the core, but I think close to the core. I mean, a lot of what defines the street is how flood is and how compressed the retail and, you know, eating and let me experience part of it. And so let's let that core be that. And Adox on what Greg and Barbara are saying about, acknowledge that we're going to flood again over and over again. Let's build for it. And let's, you know, make it a quick cover. You, and then you're, sorry. Yeah. So I quickly agree it's going to flood again and we should build for that. But I just want to urge us that we're talking about building an adaptive downtown and we may not just flood. We may have an abundance of snow. We're not that far from the pre-forest fires that were surrounding my forest. We could have a forest fire. So I'd encourage us to broaden our thought as to what we need by adaptive. Yeah. Yeah. So I appreciate it. I don't know exactly how we can get the building. And during that sort of. I will say a slash the white right through the basement. Before even I started to go through. Right. I'll talk about it was already coming through. So I need to hand like those things really just need to be off limits and bills after the stand. And if you get some funding to do that. So that all of the business is built. It's the end of it. So a lot of the water on the beach. Right. And I will say we really fortunate because we just heard from people from daddy was getting into a splash four hours before it really did. We just got friends and the riders and girls and put shelves around the top of the slash. And we just got it. We have like burning people and the boxes and the boxes. And how they had those shelves and plates. And they would look beautiful because we would do like aren't there something that would be a really great way to businesses to actively to get things up. In those moments. That's what you're saying too. And just to like reiterate like to come back to it what you're talking about is actions that you can take in the existing space to sort of really to do what Barbara described as sort of like wet flood proof and hardening. I mean some of that's exterior stuff. Some of its interior stuff. Go ahead. So a couple piggyback thoughts. One is that the ideas that Kelly's mentioning and that other people are mentioning require some kind of collaboration to make it possible for all businesses. So it's not just the actions to see the best right. How do you create the kind of collaborative funding structure or external investment that enables businesses to adapt. And can I ask a question back which is is that collaboration both about funding so that there's some common sense of where how we're going to finance it. But is it also about strategies themselves both. So it's a both sort of information and funding so that there's a common set of practices that are deployed. Am I. Yeah. And I just I know we have that. But you know I think you can lay everything up with the commissioner. You can say OK there needs to be you know a tank and a money bank for individual businesses to make decisions about. The actions. Yeah. Not just. Not just have it be you know each one to their own devices because that's not. But the other idea of investment that I just want to because I think we're called investing in an adaptive investment adaptive. I want to think about not just the concrete needs of the downtown businesses but also our youth investing in our youth as the future of our talent and our future of our economy. So that means both creating resources aimed at that are flood resilient and disaster resilient. Currently we have no youth center at all and also thinking about our schools in an efficient and emergent and generous way. So I also support a collaboration approach to our youth and education. Got it. Behind you Dayton first because it's a new voice. Yeah. And then you go for it. I'm not sure how to frame this. I haven't thought this through. But I would like to hear from business owners potential business owners what they would need to make them feel confident in doing business. And I don't like I say it. I'm not quite sure how to frame it. My theory is that people won't really have businesses. Okay. Go ahead and Dayton. Yeah. I think two things that I'm going to sprinkle off that. I think when we talk about adaptive downtown the economic side of it and providing businesses and creating this water dense place that we all want to be is huge. And one thing I think we really look around for is we're not the only city that's flooded. There are cities across America that are power size and they're smaller. We can afford low line areas. But numerous times in the last 20 to 30 years. And we've learned a lot from those reasons. And we should look at best practices. Whether that's how to adapt the store. Or. Yeah. We'll look at that. We'll look at that. We'll look at it. All right. I feel like we should start to actually bring this to a close because we got to think about resources. I guess what I wonder about here is I like I'm given a task which is in 30 seconds I need to report out to the big group what we've talked about. And what I feel like I hear as a recurring theme kind of fits under this sort of defining a set of actions to do this wet flood proofing and hardening of those existing spaces in in that downtown core as an emphasis of this. And I would say to dovetail on what you said really trying to define not just individual business by business or building by building but collectively what do those strategies look like and how do they get financed. Is that I'm seeing a few nodding heads as like that. Yeah. A couple of hands to respond. Yeah. So the time span piece is an important element to that. Yeah. All right. We're getting some reactions and I see Emily and then Jack go. Yeah. I'm going to say John and I heard a lot of the difference between land for a cover and taking more in that short term you know the floodgate second thing and maybe some of these more longer term ideas and you know really responding to the climate crisis in power. I just wanted to throw you know all those impermeable parking services that we're talking about along the water. I think that's really important. A lot of those are owned by the state and so we're really going to have to figure out a way to work collaboratively with BGS on that. I mean one thing I think about is we all know this is a big flood so lots of places are affected but I think someone's the very first thing because he said you know ask the experts and I would love in the short term to like identify those areas that are most at risk and the things that we can do in the immediate future to help those most at risk. Okay. Jack. I think this kind of goes without saying it's a theme that's going through a lot of comments but I think I want to say it anyway which is that I think we need to be clear that we are committed to preserving and defending and rebuilding our walkable downtown where it is. It's our downtown and that's the center of our community and that's where it should be. Is that a point of common rallying? Yes. Okay. That's I think actually a worthwhile thing to know. Yeah. I just wanted to make a point that I communicated to Evelyn and Prim after the last meeting which was I heard two different speakers use the same phrase short term. One says short term. The other says short term. Years. Yeah. And I asked her I said for meeting number three could Paul at the beginning please clarify what's been my short term and that didn't happen. Yeah. I'm making that request again. Okay. Yeah maybe we could ask you like when you think you define that for us a little bit when you think short term are you thinking a few years or are you thinking sort of in the space of a year? In the space of a year. In the space of a year. So it's sort of the immediate. Two weeks. So you could just sort of write your name and ask for it and go and play away. Yeah. We know a lot of short term solutions aren't contrary to a long term solution. Yeah. So you have to understand where there's some big conflict. Yeah. Yeah. That's what we need to think about being bigger than just hardening our buildings. We also have to think about how we can build a long term framework that will make it easier to harden our buildings. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I do it. We quickly Gretchen and then quickly Barbara. Yeah. That's the long term point. Right. Build back. Yeah. Yeah. Noted. Barbara. Yeah. I mean we're dedicated being in that zero community. Right. We're putting all the existing between that and what we put in right now. So we've had short time with that one. Great. And finally, and then we're going to resources. I'll be quick. I just wanted to say that because we've proposed to the downtown this is because we're very close to our own grid together. We are committed to being we love our country so much that we're not going to put our confidence in you there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Resources. Quickly with four minutes to go. Yeah. I've been thinking a lot about it's not like we can just make decisions about everybody in that town. You have individual business owners who don't own their spaces. You have proper property owners who have to make infrastructure decisions about how to build back and you have a city. I would love to see a public fund this is for housing as well but a public fund that says OK, Tim Heaney you're about to redo a bunch of heating plants we'll give you we'll underwrite a lot of a really green giving choice with some you know some fair deal about getting some of that money back in the future and we can a few to cooperate with your business tenant. I just feel like if I'm a property owner and I'm not it's lush making those decisions in a way that's long term helping it can be more expensive and I would love to have these resources something that we provide so some sort of community bank with some defined goals and resources hoping on those goals and it's cooperative and these people have to do with property owners and these people have to do with the business owners and knowing that not all property owners will remain the same not all business owners. OK, that's helpful. Yeah, go. I'm going to echo what you just said between resources between money often it takes more resources to retrofit the historic buildings that we are up into than to build new and we need to recognize that. OK, great. Can I just say another one that I've heard you all also talk about a sort of expertise and best practices that feels like a resource that is also on the list. I just got the frantic look from out in the hall. Are there any last resources to add to this mix? The state. The state. OK, yeah. That's thank you. State of the T. I think watershed management. Yeah. Yeah. And I think the good news is that's one of the other ones tonight for sure. So, yeah. OK, let's wrap with that. Thanks everybody.


get something in your life. Hi, I'm Dazza Grimoire, a scientist at MIT Media Lab. And in New York, we're jumping in with Beth McCarthy at Starfish Mission, who's leading a mechanism design, a regular Tuesday workshop. And Beth was just going to kind of help us understand how mechanism design could be applied to this open media initiative and part of that distributed event series. And I don't know, maybe Beth, you could also continue. You were just starting to do a little kind of recap on what we've done in San Francisco before, so we're live. So yeah, what we did on Thursday, which was this legal.io event for us. If watching week about governance and public policy and legal components and how it impacts what can in general, we started talking about the specific problem that's posed by the open media legal hackathon, which is looking at identity mechanisms for right-tolders and creatives to control works and also, I guess, get equitable payments and just basically having a creator-centric ecosystem that also is viable and incentive-compatible, et cetera. So this has been a super useful example, I think, in general for looking at this really complex ecosystem that isn't working currently, but also is impacted by certain legal frameworks that are playing out right now. Like, there's the Music Modernization Act. So that's like this law that was just passed. And yeah, maybe you could say a few words about that since the person who's joining us today, it wasn't here on Thursday. And grounding that a little bit, because you have a better explanation. And so looking at the legal business and computational technical issues that impact creating mechanisms that actually are effective from powering creators. So there's these two separate things that we're mapping out. So before we mapped out the incentives for these different parts of the ecosystem I mentioned, so creators, consumers, and distributors. And then today we'll take what we started understanding about the different incentives and pain points for each of those groups and actually testing some different models that might work that you have. Like something that you're sitting like mapping out, does, well, these mechanisms actually work? Do they need a token, et cetera? So yeah, but yeah, if you could say a few words about the Music Modernization Act, I think that would be, and just kind of the hackathon in general, I think that would be super helpful. Sure, yeah, I'd be happy to. Well, first of all, you can kind of get all the details at legalhackathon.org and at a high level, this is part of a collaboration between Berkeley College of Music and MIT to have a distributed series of creative events with legal hackers, a global meetup of attorneys and creatives to try to rapid prototype and generate some new innovative ideas that can help put musicians and other artists and composers as well as performing artists and others more in a position of ownership and control of their works, digital markets and ecologies. And the Music Modernization Act that Beth mentioned is important just a few days ago, Congress enacted a new law that was years in the making and it creates some interesting opportunities for some creative solutions just now. The main thing it does is simplify and streamline how royalties can be paid to individual musicians and performing artists, creates an industry collective called the Mechanical Licensing Collective which has some representation from distributors and producers and composers and others. They're empowered to collect money from people that wanna use music and then they're responsible for finding a way to get that money to the people that are owed royalties. Right now that's very difficult to do. So our thinking was that this might be a perfect time to come up with some interesting ways to have new business models and legal frameworks and technical architectures to simplify and streamline all that, maybe get ahead of the law a little bit. The mechanism design method seems like a really good way to surface some of the opportunities. So that's some kind of what we're doing. Can I start applying the Mechanical Licensing Act so I'm gonna add on to yours? So like currently it's like this act and like do we just like that? Like this, we just call it right? We've never had this particular model of like tying into what we're doing elsewhere. So I don't know, yeah, I think we could ever please. No, like it's like, the way you define is like, you're like the sound, the goal sounds like we're just trying to upgrade your current system but what mechanism design does is that like tries to understand what kind of assumptions we're making for a particular system and then trying to like meet up all those assumptions and come up with the core of it and then start building on top of that core. So like when we say, okay, like this app is happening and stuff, it's like totally out of the corner. Cause like think about it, like with this, like if it only works in US, it's not gonna make sense. Like the way we think about this stuff should be like, how can we make a network or like how can we make a like pure, pure, whatever open source that is not for like US but for everyone and like without keeping our assumptions about like what is a digital right and like the creator and stuff, we can also apply like agency, agency and business and like come up with other stuff. So like let me define the mission like that. I'm like, why are we doing this? Yeah, you can find the mission defined through around the world at legal hackathon.org and we're collaborating now to apply this mechanism design method to it. So take it away, Beth, lead us. Yeah, so we don't usually talk about like little compliance in this workshop it just so happens right now I think it's a hackathon like gone by schools. So this particular workshop is a hackathon like where the problem space is defined by it's America within the program New York Music Modernization Act. Got it, but then- So those are design constraints for this particular hackathon. Okay, okay. Yeah, it's like it becomes like loopy because like if you're like, if we are trying to apply this mechanism design, design thinking and stuff, it's kind of like- Obscusing stuff. Okay, so maybe we should terminate the broadcast at this point. If you can maybe just do a quick recap of kind of what happened on last time and then you can go into more of this broader scope after we've shut off the broadcast, okay? Okay, yeah, so wait. So I guess, yeah, last time we set out, yeah, this figuring out who the actors were I guess and on Saturday I'll be in New York to the New York section of the hackathon. So we can go more into who the actors are in the ecosystem and talk about that and also talk through this specific legal compliance issues how it plays into the computational issues that face us and just mapping out the entire system like within this legal framework that the hackathon is based but I would say, you know, today since the focus is less on like tying into the legal hackathon specifically then we'll probably in there. But yeah, look forward to meeting a lot of you guys to play on Saturday, so. Definitely, this Saturday in New York City at the Bushwick Collective and the following Sunday at MIT Media Lab and like at, you know, 10 locations in between you can find all of those at legal hackathon.org Come hack with us. Thanks Beth. Bye bye.