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The next item of business is a member's business debate on motion 2346 in the name of Morris Corry on the 100th anniversary of Erskine. This debate will be concluded without any questions being put. I would ask those members who wish to speak in the debate to press the request-to-speak buttons as soon as possible. I call on Morris Corry to open the debate around about seven minutes, please, Mr Corry. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. It is indeed a privilege to begin this member's business debate today, celebrating 100th anniversary of Erskine. I would like to thank all members who supported the motion in my name, which has allowed this debate to take place today. I'm also delighted today to welcome all the members from Erskine, both the residents and service users who are here present in the public gallery. I'm sure I can speak for the whole Parliament when I welcome them to Parliament and thank them for their service to our country. Erskine is often spoken about throughout the armed forces with great passion, gratefulness and held on the highest esteem. During the First World War, so great were the numbers coming home wounded from the trenches of the Western Front that the existing contemporary medical facilities were struggling to cope with the demand. Stretched a breaking point not only by the sheer quantity of men arriving from the battlefields of Belgium and France but also by the complexity of the wounds and the injuries these men had sustained in the world's first industrial war. It was decided that a hospital dedicated to the wounded would be required. So Erskine came to be. Founded by Sir William McEwen, the Regist Professor of Surgery at the University of Glasgow, under the name the Princess Louise Scottish hospital for limbless sailors and soldiers. The hospital opened its doors in October of 1916 with the official opening of the hospital taking place on 6 June 1917 at which the hospital's first patron, Princess Louise, made an appearance. What was then called Erskine House was chosen for the site after Thomas Aikman, the owner, offered free use of his mansion and gardens for the period of the war and for 12 years after it was declared over. Although Erskine hospital remained at this site after that period due to the generosity of Sir John Reid who bought the house and gardens and gifted it to charity, the Scottish public also showed the generosity towards our service personnel and veterans, a trait that survives to this day by donating the generous sum of £100,000 towards the founding of the hospital, a total of which today's money would be valued somewhere near £6 million. As her name suggests at first, the Erskine hospital mainly dealt with those who lost limbs in the service of their country, but Great Britain was solely reliant on artificial limbs from overseas, a situation which Sir William McEwen found intolerable. So working alongside a local shipbuilding company called Yarrow Shipbuilders based in Scotland, who not only lent their yard but also chose to have some of their finest craftsmen working in the design and construction of artificial limbs, Sir William and Yarrow's began to design and construct a new concept artificial limb known as the Erskine artificial limb. I am very fortunate enough to have actually been employed by Yarrow Group in the 1980s and I can tell you that their conceptual skills to this day are continued in many ways and areas of work. By December 1917, the hospital had treated 1,613 patients and of those they treated 1,126 required a new limb, and by 1920 there had been 9,500 artificial limbs fitted at the hospital, most of which were manufactured at the hospital's own workshops. Of course the needs of service and veterans community in Scotland have changed since the First World War and Erskine has changed to meet their needs. Erskine has gone on to care for over 85,000 veterans at their facilities across Scotland and, as I note in my motion, it is recognised that Erskine is considered as one of Scotland if not the world's foremost providers of care for veterans and their spouses. Erskine now provides services across a number of facilities in Scotland although not at the original Erskine house site, which was sold to fund the modernisation of the charity and is now a very well regarded hotel. Those new sites include the Erskine home, which the charity moved into two purpose-built sites in the town of Erskine. Opened in 2000 by the charity's current patron, Prince Charles Duke of Rossie, the new flagship building directly replaced the original hospital building, costing £16 million. The building provides nursing and dementia care on a long-term and respite basis to veterans. It has 180 beds available and is the biggest unit that the charity has. Also situated in Erskine itself is the Erskine mains home, which was opened in 2001 by the Princess Royal with 34 beds in this unit and is able to provide nursing and dementia care on a 24-hour basis. I commend to members of this chamber a visit to Erskine. I have to go there from time to time. I am very welcome to go there to visit various veterans. It is an experience that I relish and it is marvellous to see how they continue to allow veterans who have many or several disabilities, maybe just simply anodomani, but they continue on a normal life as possible. The staff give them the most wonderful care that you could ever imagine. Also, you get met with music in the reception area, you then transfer down a passageway past all sorts of pictures and memorabilia, which the residents themselves have put together, some they have brought from their own homes, but also recreating a shopping mall. That is to give them the feeling that they are at home, they are actually getting normal life, and it includes even a cafe and a fish and chips. I do recommend the fish and chips members to you. The Erskine park home itself was opened in 2006 by the Princess Royal and offers care for 40 residents, I beg your pardon, and specialises in dementia care. I do visit this regularly because I have a brother-in-law who has been in there for three years suffering from PICS disease, who was a serviceman in the Middle East, and I must say that the care he does receive is absolutely excellent. I have also been involved where I have had to help constituents in my area in Argyll and Bute in about half a dozen cases where we have moved them to Erskine because they do need that care and they get that feeling of comradeship and this feeling of veterans, and I know that the minister will agree with me. It is something very special that we enjoy and veterans on this side of the house also know that too. They also built 50 veterans cottages in the last few years within the old hospital grounds at Erskine to house ex-service members and their families, and this gives the independence so much needed. As you know, as we get older, we still like and value our independence, and this is what the Erskine team have allowed to happen. There is support there if they need it, but equally they stand back and allow them to live their own lives, which is very important. As I mentioned before, the charity no longer just has a presence in Erskine itself, but has centres right across Scotland, including the Erskine Edinburgh home, which opened in 2001 in Gilmourton and has a capacity for 88 residents. There is also the Erskine Glasgow home base in Anisland, which has a space for 46 residents and was opened in 2007. Erskine also enjoys a partnership arrangements that have in place with care homes in Aberdeen, Dundee and Inverness, meaning that veterans across the country can receive their support while remaining in their local communities, and that is terribly, terribly important. Erskine, I believe, has a connection now in every region of Scotland, so I would encourage members, no matter where in Scotland they represent, to get in touch and find out how they can help Erskine's work. To sum up, I will use Erskine's own words from her own website. It says that our service personnel display the highest levels of bravery and courage throughout the world, and it is only right that Erskine is there for them should they need support in the future. I believe that this sums up brilliantly why I am so thankful that Erskine exists, and so I thank them for the past 100 years of service to our veterans and to their families, and I wish them very well for the next 100 years. I call on Claire Hockey to be followed by Maurice Golden. Around about four minutes, please, Ms Hockey. I would like to thank Maurice Corry for bringing forward this debate and giving members the opportunity to congratulate Erskine on the anniversary of its foundation and to commend the fantastic work that has been done over the past century. The First World War saw battlefield carnage on an unprecedented scale. At recent remembrance ceremonies, we rightly commemorate those who served in that war and never returned. The figures of local war dead that we are reminded of are horrific to contemplate, 13,740 from Glasgow, 5,281 from Edinburgh, 2,200 from Perth and 1,448 from Dumfries. However, in addition to those who fell, thousands returned from the front lines, maimed and broken men. The First World War brought injuries and medical conditions, which had been largely unknown in civilian life, bringing significant challenges to doctors and nurses at the time. There were no antibiotics to treat injuries, contaminated with polluted mud of the trenches and disinfectants were crude and sparsely available. Nursing at this time was exhausting, sometimes dangerous work and often at the very edge of medical science. The patients serving near the front were also susceptible to infections and disease, as well as mental health issues relating to the trauma that they witnessed. Radical solutions to extreme injuries emerged through sheer necessity, and as a dramatic example, medics experimented with direct blood transfusions, affected by simply linking patient and donor. As hospitals struggled to keep up with the demands of soldiers and sailors returning from war with terrible injuries, many with missing limbs, it became apparent that there was the need for a large modern war hospital in Scotland. While the building was secured in 1916, as it was being transformed into hospital, patients were admitted to Colleen Castle in Asia. The first matron at Erskine, Agnes Cernochyn—and I do forgive me if I mispronounced that—worked tirelessly during the transition period, spending six months travelling between the two sites, and during this time she combined looking after patients, recruiting staff, advising the hospital committee on equipment and furniture and liaising with the war office. When the hospital opened in October 1916, Agnes had a full staff ready to accommodate 200 patients and oversaw the care of over 3,000 by the end of the war. At that time, when the full contribution of nurses to the war effort often went unrecognised, she was awarded with the Royal Red Cross second class in recognition of her work and diligence. Erskine hospital was set up specifically to treat those who suffered the loss of a limb, and quickly staff found that they had to innovate and seek creative solutions to the difficulties that were faced by servicemen. A limb manufacturing and fitting service was established at Erskine hospital, who formed a unique partnership with Clyde ship builders, harnessing some of their best craftsmen, and eventually some of the patients were trained in the manufacture of limbs themselves. Erskine has always been about more than the physical treatment of injuries, though, and at a time when many professionals still believed that shell shock was the result of physical injury to nerves, hospitals such as Erskine promoted rehabilitation and therapeutic treatments. Teaching servicemen how to adapt to having an artificial limb and the trades and work that they could undertake with one was as important as their provision of physical healthcare. The developments that were made by facilities such as Erskine in those early days have changed the way that both the casualties of war and civilians have been treated around the world ever since. Although I am sure that we would all prefer that man's inhumanity to his fellow man had not brought about the need for such a facility, we can only be thankful that it was there for the traumatised servicemen and women who needed it then and since, and it continues to deliver a very high standard of nursing and social care to its residents. Erskine hospital has now cared for over 85,000 veterans in Scotland and is still an innovative and pioneering charity. I congratulate it on its 100th anniversary and wish the residents and staff well for the future. I apologise to members in advance for having to leave the debate shortly due to a prior commitment. I would like to commend Maurice Corry for securing this member's debate and I congratulate Erskine on reaching this monumental milestone. 100 years ago this year, my great-grandfather, William Duncan, chose to enlist at the Albert Institute, which is now the Macmanus Galleries in Dundee. When he was asked his age, he replied 16. The sergeant then told him to take a walk round the block and come back when he was 19. He duly did so, and this time, when he was asked his age, he replied 19. A little over two years later, on 30 August 1918, while fighting near Labassee canal in Belgium with the 42nd Gordon Highlanders, he was injured and shot in the back. Following an operation in Paris, the bullet was removed from his back, which incidentally we still keep to this day. He was sent for convalescence to a boin in Aberdeenshire, where he received the very best food, care and attention to aid his recovery. My great-grandfather received the sort of care and support that Erskine has provided to over 85,000 veterans like him over the past 100 years. This outstanding dedication to our nation's veterans serves as a reminder to us all that honouring and supporting our veterans is an integral aspect of public life. This motion comes at a particularly relevant time of year when we remember those who sacrificed so much for our country. Honoring our war veterans serves as a reminder that freedom is not free and that veterans should hold a distinguished place in our society for their sacrifices. Wearing a poppy is part of this recognition. That is why I recently backed the Scottish and English football team's decision to wear remembrance poppies on their uniforms, despite the ridiculous ban imposed by FIFA. While FIFA has already begun to take disciplinary action against both teams, I remain unwavering in my support for their decision. During this time of year, I am reminded that there is always more that we can do to honour our veterans. Remembering schools beyond simply wearing a poppy is about doing what we can to support the veterans living in our society today. This is where the work of Erskine has made a significant impact, providing housing and a range of medical services to thousands of veterans every year. Erskine offers unrivaled care and support. It is important to note that Erskine was founded on the tenants of selfless service. As highlighted in the motion, the initial services provided by Erskine were enabled by the generosity of Sir John Reid, who gifted his first residential house to the charity. It is the foundation of kindness and generosity that has evidently shaped the character and motivation of the charity. This past July, I was fortunate to attend the Erskine centenary summer gallery. The event was a great success. I enjoyed meeting the staff to hear more about their work and their needs as a charity. I look forward to working with the charity and exploring further opportunities going forward. In closing, I offer my full support to this motion and thank Erskine for her continued service to our nation's heroes. Jamie Greene I take this opportunity to congratulate Morse Corrie on bringing this debate to the chamber. It is a great pleasure to take part in it and also to welcome those visitors to the chamber today as well. Earlier this month, I had the great pleasure of attending a Armistice Day service at the Erskine home in Bishopton, along with Derek Mackay MSP. We joined them as they took part in a service outside in the garden at the memorial stone in the public area of the home. It was one of those fortunate days where the sun was shining, it was very cold and bitterly windy, but the sun was out and it was such a beautiful day to share that experience with them. We were joined there by local residents of that home and also their friends and family. It was my first experience of taking part in an Armistice Day or Remembrance Day event since my election. It was one of those unique opportunities where I had a chance to participate in the re-flame process and just joined them in that. What struck me most was chatting to the residents of the home after the formal proceedings. I was sitting next to a chap called Jack Mackay, and I hope that Jack is not too worried that I would talk about him in the chamber. He is 98 years of age, and he is from Paisley. He was in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regiment. He was really excited not just about the ceremony that we took part in, but he was very excited about getting his dram afterwards. He absolutely insisted that I join him for a dram. I tried to explain my car—I hope that you are not here today, Jack, because my car was outside. I will admit that I did not drink the whiskey that I had in my glass, but I pretended to be as best I could. On the way out, however, the real experience that struck me about that day the most was as I was walking back to my car, just pondering over what I had taken part in, and actually feeling the immense pride of being able to participate in that event. I met another resident, Mr Peter Knowles. Peter is 89, and he is another veteran. He had laid a wreath just a few moments before he was dressed in his finest tweed jacket in a pair of tartan trws that I would only aspire to. I bumped into him on my way back to the car, and he stopped me and said, young man—which was a great pleasure in itself—but he said, young man, I want to tell you something, I want to share my story with you, and he did. We stood there for 20-25 minutes while he shared his life story. I have to say that there were tears in my eyes when I walked back to my car. He said to me, let me tell you the greatest lesson that I can give you as an old man near the end of his life. He said, life is all about people, and what I have here in this home are the people around me. I struggled to keep it together, but I have to say that that memory has stuck with me. Over that weekend I went to further events, a couple in Greenock, where there was less kind to it. It seemed like the heavens were weeping that day. That whole weekend struck me as to the importance that those events have to it. We are not just commemorating, we are not just wearing poppies for the sake of it, but we remember our veterans. I should add, just as I am short on time, that veterans are not just people in their elder years. Veterans are young men and women who have served. It is important that in this debate we acknowledge that veterans come in all shapes and sizes and ages. It is our duty as political parties and as parliamentarians to ensure that they are adequately looked after through health, housing and employment opportunities. I would like to see if we can work with the Government on any opportunities to ensure that veterans are helped in Scotland. I will close by thanking my colleague for bringing the debate to the chamber. It is a great privilege to be part of it. I really hope that I will spend more time in the Erskine home meeting more residents and hearing more of their fantastic, inspiring stories over the course of my next few years as an MSP in the West region. I wish them very well. I now move to the wind-up speech. I call Keith Brown. Around about seven minutes or so, please Cabinet Secretary. I also commend Maurice Corry on securing this debate and say that I wholeheartedly support the motion that he has submitted. It is fitting, of course, that the Scottish Parliament pays formal tribute to all those staff and volunteers, many of whom are here today, for the excellent care that they provide to veterans and their families. As has just been said, it really is about people looking after people. That is the crucial role that Erskine plays. I would also like to take the opportunity to congratulate Erskine on her 100th anniversary and commend them for their many, many achievements. I have visited Erskine on a number of occasions, both at Erskine and also in Edinburgh. In June, though, I was privileged to be able to attend Erskine's commemoration service at Glasgow Cathedral. It was an extremely moving service. The deep personal attachment of residents to Erskine came across clearly. I remember one particular test that was given by somebody—I will not mention the name, but I am sure that all the people who work at Erskine will know exactly who I am talking about, who had been with the Scots Guards. It was in the Falklands and had a terrible experience afterwards in terms of his period after he left the forces and that of his family, young children, real problems with homelessness and getting gainful employment. It really was, according to his story, when he went to Erskine that he made a huge difference in his life. In fact, he is now a senior employee at Erskine. However, just to hear that story, he was barely a dry eye in the cathedral listening to the way that Erskine had played a part in transforming that individual's life and not only his life but that of his family as well. I have also been very impressed by the links that Erskine has built up with local schools. School children speak with affection and respect about the value of Erskine and the contribution of veterans. Just as Jamie Greene was kind of pinioned, given the story of one particular veteran, veterans like nothing better than to tell their stories. It is really rewarding to see young children listening to those stories and taking on board some of the experience. It is vital that we do not forget that experience. A number of members have mentioned that Erskine has cared for 85,000 veterans since it opened its doors on 10 October 1916. As has been mentioned, not least by Maurice Corry, the work that was carried out in developing prosthetic limbs led most famously to the Erskine limb. We have heard about the industrial kind of background that there was to that. By the end of World War 1, 2,697 men had been fitted with artificial limbs, designed and made using the skills, as we have heard, of the artisans from the Clyde shipyards. However, Erskine, of course, adapted with the times moving from the Princess Louise Scottish hospital to develop a superb network of modern care facilities at Bishopton, Edinburgh and Glasgow. I have been to those facilities many times, and I have seen the first-hand care that is being provided. It is true to say as well that residents have very diverse needs. Today's Erskine's oldest resident, Janet Enterkin, is a remarkable 103-year-old. She is the wife of the late Thomas Enterkin, who served with the Highlanders, Seaforth, Gordon's and Cameron's. Also, Lance Corporal Ernest Brine is Erskine's oldest veteran. I hope I pronounce his surname correctly. Ernest is 100 years old and served with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in France, so even older than Jack Mackay, would you believe, is 100 years old and served in France during the Second World War. The average age is 83. There are seven of those under the age of 65. The youngest resident being 42, although, again, Jamie Greene rightly says, veterans come substantially younger than that in many cases as well, and many of those have received support from Erskine. It is a real pleasure to see some of the residents and employees this evening here in the public gallery. For our part, the Scottish Government is very proud to work in partnership with Erskine. It received more than £30,000 from the Scottish veterans fund since it was established in 2008. That has helped to fund extended lunch club provision for residents, research into veterans' needs and other worthwhile projects. Erskine, of course, works closely with the NHS and other local service providers so that residents receive the best possible care. One thing that always strikes me is the width of the corridors. It is very important in a facility like that to have that kind of width. I have had the experience of the companionship even until the very game of bingo being played in Erskine in the past. It is the atmosphere of the place, as has been mentioned by one or two of those who have contributed so far. It is the atmosphere of the place and that feeling of comradeship, which is so important. Going forward, the future is very bright for Erskine. It has a strong committee team led by Steve Conway. I will quickly mention that he is an extra marine. Erskine is held in great affection by surrounding communities. Plans are underway for more independent and supported living accommodation. They are also planning to develop the camaraderie that I spoke of with the local community and with a new facility for veterans from the area to join in activities. A huge amount is done by Erskine. I commend the speeches that are made by Clare Haughey and all the other members who have spoken more in school and Jamie Greene for the comments that they have made and also being able to demonstrate the level of support that there is in the Parliament. As it is with veterans organisations generally, it is important to veterans organisations like Erskine to know that they have the consensual unanimous support of everybody in this chamber for the work that they carry out. It is only right that they do it because the people that have potentially sacrificed everything have given a huge deal to all of us in the efforts that they have made in putting their life on the limit risk. It is only right that we give the best possible care to them. I wish Erskine, as other members have done every success in the next 100 years, to have an unmatched legacy that has transformed the lives of so many people offering that sanctuary for veterans and their families. I am very confident that they will continue to provide exceptional care for veterans well into the future.


Good morning. This is the UC project for Ameritai professors. People have retired. I want to get their memories, their stories. Would you please introduce yourself? Okay, I'm Deb Meme. I was a professor of English writing and women's gender and sexuality studies for 35 years at UC. That's great. When did you come to UC and what brought you here? I came in 1984 specifically because UC was the only university that made an offer to me and my then husband. So we came. It was not what we considered the best offer for either of us, but it was the only one where we could try to keep the family together. Which lasted two years after we got here. Those things never work. Why did they let, why was it the only opportunity for you and your husband to work together? Well, it's very hard. Two career families are very very difficult in academia. He was in, he's retired also. He was in physics. I was in English. We were on a big old job search and people were interested in us, but not the same people. So he had a nice offer at, I can't remember, Iowa or something and I had a nice offer at Oregon State. But we didn't both have an offer at either of those places and only Cincinnati made an offer to both of us. Okay. So what was the hiring process like that you see? Well, it was, I ended up doing a big compromise as women in relationships often do. I took a job at the old University College. So I was hired through their people. I mean they they invited me in for an interview and I met the faculty and people of that. I mean, I met everybody. It was a normal hiring process, I would say. My husband at the time had already had already gotten an offer at physics. So I was highly motivated to agree to whatever they offered. It wasn't a great offer, but it was an offer which was better than zero. So that was a long time ago. That was 1984. Right.  Or no? I would say no. I do remember I do remember somebody asking me in the interview, somebody from the search committee. I had answered some question and they said, well, how will your family feel about that? And I said, I don't think you're allowed to ask me that question. And they looked so upset. I mean, this was a long time ago and people, they were afraid I was going to sue them if I didn't get an offer or something. I don't know what it was. It's probably why they hired me. No, I don't know what. I wouldn't say it was a problem. I would say it was something that somebody asked because they were interested and it didn't occur to them that they couldn't ask that type of question. Right. So why did you want to teach, not just that you see, but just in general? That's a good question. I would say I never did want to teach much. I mean, when I was young, I hated school. You can't even imagine.  And she was really a nice lady, but I was disruptive. And bang on the desk and doodle and things like this. And the teachers would get exasperated and send me out. And she was very nice. She let me keep a book there. But if I had told anybody at age eight that I would end up teaching, they would have just laughed me out of the room. It would have seemed so unlikely. I got the job here as a professor of English. I was a music major in college and music was my goal. And once I learned to my everlasting disappointment that I am simply not cut out for opera singing. I mean, I can sing very nicely, although not so nicely now at age 70, as I could when I was younger. But once it became clear to me that that was not going to be my career.  So I thought, well, I'll go to graduate school in musicology. And so after my husband finished his PhD at Berkeley, we moved across the country to New York. And the only university within shouting distance was Stony Brook. So I went there. I went to the music department and discovered to my disappointment that they didn't have a PhD at all. And so, and this is really literally true, when I think about this, makes me laugh. I walked across campus to the humanities building and signed up to take some English classes. And I ended up getting the PhD in English. It was almost accidental, funny but true. Right. So why English? Because I had a minor in English, I really like Victorian literature. What that means, of course, is that I buy my books by the pound, you know, big Victorian novels. My children have always given me a hard time about being a novel nerd. But it's true. I mean, that's, so it wasn't that I didn't have any background. It's that that wasn't my first choice. Right. And I just showed up there on the same day. They told me they didn't have a PhD in musicology. So that's where I did my PhD in New York. All right. Boy, teach them with your degree. Well, if you have a PhD, that's what you do. Okay. Fair enough. I mean, not everybody does. I mean, there are opportunities for people to get jobs outside of academe. But if you want to stay in academe, then what you do is you you look for a job at a university, you teach and you do research. And that's what I did. So I mean, I just followed the career path. It's just that my career path was a little odd in that I started in University College, which was it's not here anymore. It was the embedded two year college on UC's main campus. And it was open admission, meaning if you had a high school degree or equivalent, you could go. And so you could start your college career at U College and then transfer to A&S or wherever else that you could get into.  And it wasn't until University College closed in some year, 2003, maybe, that I moved to the English department in Arts and Sciences. And I taught there for a few years. And then I was recruited out of there to be the department head in WIGS, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies. And so I moved over there and I finished my career there. What made you switch over? Well, I mean, this is sort of funny to say, but I really liked my colleagues in University College. They're still some of my closest friends. A&S English can be pretty toxic. Okay. Just say it. Yeah. If you've ever taken, no, no, no. No. So I mean, some of the people are really delightful. And I have friends, lifelong friends from that department. But the work atmosphere is, well, it's not really pleasant. And there is a huge percentage of that department that I would say is dead wood. They are, they got tenure and they're just not doing anything anymore. And I just didn't, I had always worked with what was first, when I arrived here, it was called the Center for Women's Studies. And I started teaching there right away, teaching women's literature at first. And then I started teaching lesbian and gay studies, sexuality studies. And finally, it became clear that I was going to, that was where my interest had morphed too. So I just asked to move over. And I moved halfway when we, when the college closed, when you college closed. And then I moved the rest of the way. When I became department head at Wigs, I said, I will do this on the condition that when I step down as department head, whenever that is, I will stay here. This will be my tenure, my home. And so I retired from there. That's a long, that's how to make a long story longer. How did you become department head? Well, how does anybody become department head? It's a no, how would you know, right? I had always said I didn't want to go into departmental administration. I certainly didn't want to in university college. And I had turned down the opportunity to do it at one point. Why is that? I think it felt like hurting cats to me. And spending a lot of time doing stuff, administrative stuff, rather than the things I felt I was hired for, which is to say teaching and research. So I wasn't interested in that job, even though it pays you something and so forth. But a series of events took place that precipitated my accepting the request to become a interim department head in Wigs in 2000 and some year, eight, I guess. The previous department head was having some difficulties, had gotten not very good reviews as department head. It was clear that she might not be reappointed.  There's no crying in department meetings. It was that kind of thing. So it was clear she needed to go. And if you looked around, there was me. I was the only one who was the logical person. I was senior. I was a full professor. I had been involved with women's studies, then women's gender and sexuality. The name changed while I was department head. And we were not a center anymore. We were a department. So I was the one left standing. I was the one there that seemed like if I was ever going to step up now was the time. So I agreed to do it. And we had plans to hire. I would take an interim for two years was our agreement. We had to hire in the second year and we would hire a department head. But this was right at the economic downturn. And while we found people who were interested in the job, nobody was actually willing to take it because people were hanging on to what they had at that time. If they had a good job, if they had a reasonable job, they were willing to take it rather than move. It seemed too risky to people. So our search failed. There I was. And somebody said, well, would you continue as department head? I said not as interim. I said, if you want me as department head, then I need a full five-year term where I'm the head. And there isn't much power that goes with being department head. But there is some influence. And I said, if I'm going to be department head, let me actually be department head. And the department agreed to that. And the dean did. And so I then did a five-year term which ended 2015 or 16. I can't remember. I retired in 18. So I had stepped down a couple years before. So that was the story. It wasn't anything very dramatic. I just then did an actual five-year slavery. Department head is a very hard job. Once you get to be the dean of a college or the president or the vice president, then you actually have some real power. I didn't want those jobs, but there is power there. But department head is sort of a thankless position because you're the one everybody grumps to and gets grouchy with. And they want impossible things that you can't provide. And you don't get very much budget to work with. So it's a very difficult task. But it was all right. I mean, somebody had to do it. And it was sort of my turn. So I did. Was there anything you enjoyed about it? Oh, sure. The department head gets, like, if you're going to invite somebody to speak in your department, the department head gets to meet them, have dinner with them, talk to them, chat with them. So I met all the people and got to know them. Not just the few that I made a point of doing, which you can always put yourself in the way to be there. But if your department head, everybody automatically goes through you for whatever is happening in the department, that's fun. I also got to be very good friends with the then dean, Valerie Hardcastle. I liked her a lot. And I wouldn't have had that opportunity, I guess, had I not been department head and yelling at her all the time. But, you know, there are benefits to being department head. You get to influence the direction of your department. And I think I did that.  And then, of course, you have to persuade the rest of the department to go along. You're not Donald Trump. You don't get to write an executive order. You don't just win. But your ideas carry a lot of weight. And you can move the department in a direction you hope to do it. So that's the good part. That is good. What things you didn't like about it being like a thankless? Oh, it is. It's thankless. And it's an enormous amount of meetings. And not just department meetings, you have that many. You have one department meeting per, well, maybe two per semester. We were on quarters then when I took over. So one per quarter, maybe. So it's not as if there were tons and tons of meetings, but in the department. But there were loads outside. There was a monthly heads council. And then there were subcommittees of heads council.  Oh, I'm not good with meetings. I don't like them. I had a colleague in university college who always said he liked to sit behind me at faculty meetings because my ears would turn red like 10 seconds before I blew my top. And he said that was the advantage of having white friends. He was a dark-skinned black man. And he said, if my ears turned red, nobody would notice. But when your ears turned red, I can see it. And I know. And I'm watching. I'm going, now let's see. The fireworks are about to start. So I'm not a meeting kind of gal most of the time. I mean, it's so rare to have a really productive, interesting meeting. And when I have been at one, I've skipped out happily at the end because it's so rare. You mentioned previously that, as department head, you get to influence the department which way you want it to go. How do you think you influenced your department? Take what priorities did you set? Well, one of the things that we desperately need, I mean, we were, when I took over, we were in trouble. We had lost some faculty to departure and one thing or another. And we had this department head who was melting down. And we didn't have enough faculty. And we were trying to run both an undergraduate and a graduate program with too few faculty. So it devolved upon me to try to persuade the dean and the college to grant us some hires so that we could strengthen our department numbers-wise. And so we had two hires in, I guess, 2012. And then we also had a couple of people transfer to wigs from other departments in A&S, a person from psychology for instance, a person from Africana. We had people coming towards, so our department grew. And what this meant was that we were able to offer our students what they needed. I think the best thing, though, if there was something I did that was that strengthened the department. I led the charge to have our department plus Africana plus Judaic studies admitted as Taft departments. And I don't know how much you know about the Taft Center, but it's, well there's no reason why you would know, but the widow of Charles Phelps Taft established this fund. The Tafts are rich, you know they're rich and they've been around in Cincinnati since God was a girl. So they were, you know, you know I said that in class once and I had a student, he was a young man from Iran, I think, and he almost fell on the floor laughing. This was like 20 years ago and I still get emails from him from wherever he is, Pakistan or wherever he is, and he says, I just was thinking about your saying that and it made me laugh all over again. I mean it changed his life, you know, 20 years old, dies 40 years old and he's, you know, funny. But I wrote all the, I don't know whether you'd call it an application, but all the paperwork for all three departments, the thing that made those three departments different from the others that were already in Taft like English and the various foreign language departments or history is that we were interdisciplinary departments. We didn't just have literature or we didn't just have history or, you know, WIGS studies women and gender and sexuality from all angles. So we have people in our department who come out of literature as I do, who come out of psychology as Jiao Tran does, who come out of social sciences like Ashley Courier. I mean we have, that's what interdisciplinary is. You study the same topic from all kinds of angles and you don't restrict yourself to a single disciplinary lens, but those interdisciplinary departments had never been recognized by Taft and the advantage to being in Taft is money. You get travel money for conferences and things. The department gets money for a speaker each year. There are scholarships of various types for undergraduate and graduate students. It's a really cool deal. You want to be, you want your department to be in Taft and it was quite a production, but we were admitted, I mean we danced in the hall when we found out that the vote had been said. I mean I hollered out of my, out of my, I was just there and I got this email and that the board had met and we were admitted and people came out of their offices and we were literally dancing in the hall. It was a big deal because I was already a Taft scholar because my degree was in English so I was already a humanities scholar who was eligible for Taft money, but the department wasn't and political science at the time was not part of Taft. There were certain departments that weren't part of Taft and so now all of a sudden they were. That was a big thing and what it did, not only did it help us individually and as a department, but it brought wigs in particular but interdisciplinary studies in general into the center of people's consciousness. The other Taft departments had no idea of what interdisciplinary meant. They thought it meant quite literally, I remember having to, having to have my ears turned red in a heads council meeting because they thought that what interdisciplinary was was let's have a faculty member from English and a faculty member from French co-teach a class on, well that's not, interdisciplinary means no disciplinary boundaries. You teach a subject like let's just say our basic course in wigs, intro to wigs, that's the first course you would take. Although many people take something else like human sexuality, maybe you took that class, that that's a class you could take that's kind of a gateway into wigs but the first sort of required class for the major is intro to wigs and it's not any of the disciplines, it deals with all of them and so it approaches subject matter differently from day to day or from hour to hour. You know you could be talking about a literary work but you could also be talking about the history of how people were treated in this sort of thing or the way, you know, is it true that women and men think differently and why, how do we know that and so therefore that comes from a different area and that's, you know, all those things become part of the same course so that trying to teach my department heads from chemistry and things like that, how to think that way was, I'm not sure I ever succeeded but I had, you know, a good person follow me in, that was good. It's amazing. Yeah, it's interesting. Why don't they let other departments like interdisciplinary and then also political science onto the Taft Center? Why weren't they not part of it, you think? Well, way back in the 1920s or 30s when the widow started up this scholarship, she specifically directed that it should be for the humanities because she said in this writing, the humanities don't have access to the kinds of grants and support that fields like chemistry and physics have. You know, it's really rare for a humanities person to get a big grant of any kind and so she wanted to support humanities research so that somebody in sociology or English or even math, math is in in there even though it's not exactly a humanities subject, there aren't a lot of grants for math. She wanted to support us in doing our research and she couldn't do it totally like they do. She couldn't be the National Institutes of Health or something like that that gives huge grants but she could give us a little more of an even playing field. She could give us support to go to the conferences we needed to meet colleagues and establish networks and present our work, share our work, that kind of thing. So it's a big deal and she was foresighted enough to see that we were going to need that help and we still do in the humanities. Here's the problem though, that because Taft is so generous, the college of arts and sciences, because Taft is an A&S benefit, not engineering or CCM or anything like that. Because they are so generous, A&S has simply decided they don't need to worry about us. The college has just stepped back, they don't support departments, Taft supports departments, which is part of the reason it was so important for us to be in Taft, but on a realistic level. But it's really not right for an outside donor to fund all college travel. That's really interesting. The college should fund it. The college should be part of what the college does, but it isn't. And that's not a good thing. And deans of the college, and I can think of two right off top of my head, maybe more, have tried to sneak their way into stealing Taft, making Taft a function of the college and bringing it, getting the college's greasy hands on Taft money. And it's always been refused. Good. The college should not get Taft money. If anything, Taft should get some college money. College money. College should be doing, should be funding travel and speakers and things like that. Right. So if the college doesn't spend its money on what it should be, what does it spend its money on? Well, the college has its own problems. You've probably heard something about this. We labor under this budget model, which I can almost not talk about it. It's so awful. It forces, well, it's based on the fact that growth is the only thing that gets you browning points. So if you're, well, let's take a macro.  If you don't, if you have fewer students, I mean they count by butts and seats, which is not necessarily the best way to do this. But if you don't grow, then your budget is cut. And if your budget is cut, that means class size, fewer faculty, class sizes grow. There are fewer classes offered. The student experience is not as good as budgets go. And A&S is the largest college. Most students take, even from all the other colleges, they take courses in A&S because they need to and they want to. And when those courses get to be giant and there aren't enough faculty, well, it's not a good model. But it also works on the micro level. It works at the department level. The colleges then become, they surveil the departments and they make sure, they want to make sure that your class sizes are big enough. And if they aren't, they get on your case. They want to make sure that you are teaching more students, that the average number of students in your classes is sufficiently large. Or else you lose budget. And I'm just not sure that's the best way to measure whether we're having success. The result of it has been, and I think you probably know this already, that UC is larger than it's ever been. We have, what, 45,000 students now? A large population. Should we have that many students? That's a good question. Do we have the resources and the, you know, do we have enough faculty? Do we have enough rooms? Do we have enough anything to teach 45,000 students? The answer is maybe. But that's the only way departments and colleges can get money from central administration is by growing. Well, that's just an issue. And if you ask any faculty member, they will tell you that this is not working very well. I'm really glad to be retired. I mean, I loved teaching and I loved my scholarship and I loved all my departments in different ways. But I do not miss worrying that whole departments are going to be shut down or that they're going to combine these three departments into one, which wouldn't make any sense. And I mean, they've already done some very odd things with a view toward always toward saving money. You know, you get people to do unpaid work rather than paying them. Really? Like what? Okay. I'll give you an example. Yeah. Are we running out of time? No. That we have these three departments that entered TAF together, Wigs and Judaic and Africana. Yeah. And we work pretty closely together and we are all on the third floor of French Hall right now. We've been, we moved there from different places, but for the last 10 years or so, we've been right there together working together. There was a big push to make us all one department. And the way that would have worked is that one person would have been chosen to be the department head and that person would have been paid. And then each department would have like a director and that person would not be paid. And so they would save money. They would, right now there are three department heads and there would be one. And so they'd save a few thousand dollars a year by, by doing it. That's what I mean by all these things have money implications. Even when they're quite small in actual dollars, it's one of the other bad things that this budget system has done. If you tell people that you have to teach more students, then you're going to attempt to teach everybody in your department. Like, I want you to take your entire major here. I don't need you to take women's history in the history department because that gives them the money, not us. I don't need you to take women's literature in English. I need you to take everything here. Okay, so that cuts down the experience for the students. And some colleges did really weird things to try to keep it in here. Engineering, for instance, hired a couple of part-time English professors to teach freshman comp to their students. Just for engineering? Just the engineers. Whereas the engineers always used to take it in English, right? But they don't anymore. They take it from, I'm not saying the teaching is bad or there's anything else, but they did that specifically to steal those students away from English. For the money. CCM, they didn't like it that their students had a history requirement. So they had to take a course over here in A&S in the history department. I'm doing this because here's CCM and here's, you know, I'm doing, I'm on a map, here's McMickin, here's CCM. So they have a course, for instance, that they call, you're going to love this, history of the Beatles. And that's just the music? And that's in CCM. And that counts for their history credit. So the CCM students don't have to hike over here to McMickin to take American history or world history. They can take history of the Beatles. And this is not the way a university is supposed to run. It's not. These are silos, right? And so that everybody's in their silo and they never get out of their silo. You know, here's psychology over here. And here's, you know, well, I guess psychology is way over there now. They're over in the neuroscience center. But, you know, all of this, the budget has made that silo tendency worse than ever. So that's my opinion about that. And it's why I'm glad to be retired. Yeah, it sounds complicated. I don't need to worry about it. It's not my problem, except that I get phone calls about once a month from the incoming department head in Wigs and says, okay, I need to talk to you about what's happening here. And so I don't necessarily know, but they're still having these problems. You mentioned you're glad to be retired. Has the university taken care of your salary correctly? Have they taken care of your needs as a retired member of the university? Sure. Sure, yeah. It was hard to retire, I have to say. And I don't mean hard, oh, I'm so emotional about this. It wasn't that. It was hard that I had to go to this office and that office and this office and that office and fill out this and fill out that and fill out this. And then they give you an insurance, but this insurance only lasts for one month until this insurance kicks in. And I mean, well, but that was I retired at the end of spring quarter 18. So I've been retired over a year now. And they finally all caught up with me. I have all my insurance. You know, I have what I need. It's fine. I get paid on time. It's okay. I mean, we're a lot in a lot better shape than a lot of people. And so I'm fine with it. I don't have. I'm not active with the emeriti thing. The one thing I hate is that, oh, look, I'll show you because this is it's easier to do it in a if you can actually see something. I want what I'm looking for is my UC ID. Okay, so here's my UC ID here. I'll hold it for the camera so the camera can see it. Okay, you'll notice that it says emeritus. Yeah. Emeritus is the male form of that word. Really? I don't like that. Yeah, you might have noticed that on my email, it says professor emerita. And by God, that's what I am. I'm not a professor emeritus. I did not change my sex when I retired. But and I even asked over at the retirement over the, you know, lock and key and ID office, whatever they call that place over in in what of that building is. But they couldn't change it on it's they have a standard template and it says emeritus and I was not pleased. Do you think they just don't know that there's different? I think they don't know. I think it's ignorance. So emeriti with an I is the plural of emeritus us, meaning boys, boy and boys. Okay. Emerita is feminine, female. And emeriti a e is plural women. Now the way languages work, English doesn't have gender, right? But many languages do. And all languages that have gender make the plural emeriti male. They include women under men. I had no idea. Yeah. Well, now you can fight that at every every chance you get. I went to a women's college. All right. So I am a member of the alumni a e association. Wow.  So, you know, I'm a tune to it and have been since college. So so much for Latin. Sorry, that was an aside, but that's a good thing. I know I had no idea. Yeah. Well, you know, there are so many things in our language that we don't pay any attention to. Our language is built in sexist.   People, people's past. People. Yeah. Okay. Anthropos is Greek. It means man. So anthropology is quite literally the study of man. And they mean it in the masculine way. But as you said, it's a study of people. But people means man in in the in the way language is put together. But what's the study of women? If you have anthropology, the study of women is gynecology. Oh yeah. Gine means woman. Gynecology means the study of women in the same way anthropology means the study of man. But think about that. Gynecology is the study of women's reproductive organs. Anthropology is a study of people.   Pardon my Swahili, but that's that's the way our language works. And it does it all the time. I've brainwashed generations of students. Sorry. That's fascinating. I never thought about that before. That's right. Why would you? Right. Why would we? Because those words are common words, except there's meaning behind that. Why were they chosen? By men. By men, obviously. Sure. Mankind. One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. Okay. All right. I'm done. All right. Let's change the topic. Why do you think the name was changed from women's studies to women's gender and sexuality? Were you there for that change? I was that change. Were that changed? I proposed it and we discussed it with all our stakeholders, our friends and women's studies, our faculty, our students. And in fact, we only had one person oppose the change. Really? Yes. An older faculty in history who said, you're making it not about women. No, it's still about women. But I'll tell you why we made the change. In actual fact, we were teaching not just women's studies, we were teaching sexuality studies, we were teaching about gender constantly. And those gender and sexuality were as much part of what we do as women were. So it seemed like it made sense to make our department name describe the work we actually did. And we had quite a bit of discussion about what we were going to call ourselves. Other departments nationwide have made different choices. We wanted to put the W first because that was where we came from. That was our history. And then gender and sexuality made sense. So we had, like I say, a nearly unanimous support for making the change. It's a cumbersome name, right? It's not like just saying chemistry, I mean the chemistry department. But still, it is descriptive and that's why we made that change. Because we don't just teach about women at all. In fact, after we made that change, and this is anecdotal, I'd have to get our graduate and undergraduate directors to go through the last ten years of students. But I believe we have had more men in our classes. We have made a point of teaching masculinities. This is gender, gender studies. We have had quite a few trans men in our, and at least two trans women in our graduate programs. And they changed the way we think and the way we teach. And if we just talked about, like there are departments that call themselves feminist studies, that's not bad. I mean anybody can be a feminist, right? And should be. But it advertises that it's all about women. And that's what we didn't want to do. And we have had many more men and trans people come into our department and take our classes and be part of our programs and write theses and so forth since we changed the name. That's great. So, you know, I think it was the right move. And I would have thought it was the right move even if we lost a few students and we lost a little bit on this PBB performance-based budgeting that we labor under. Even if we lost, I would have thought it was the right decision. But in fact, I think we gained students and we gained the right kind of students. That's great. How has faculty changed over time? You've been here quite a while. What have you seen? Well, okay. I'll sort of tell you a story to start because this will give you an idea of what was going on when I first came. I arrived in September 1984.  They called him Martin Luther Kuhn. Oh, my God. Oh, God. Stupid. Somebody should have just said, we're not going to have fraternities and sororities, period at that. But nobody seems willing to do that. But they're pretty awful, I think. But anyway, that had happened in the spring. So I come in the fall. I don't have this background, but I'm here. And so we had, I remember this, I don't remember too much about it. It was 30, what, five years ago? I mean, it was a long time ago. But what I remember was they would, we were sitting, they would put us at little tables, a table of about six and then another table of six and six and six. And so these were your people that you talked with. And they had one facilitator at each table. And as I recall, the facilitators were white, which would have been good if they were really woke. But I would say they weren't. They were just a faculty member who agreed to do it. So we're here and in my group, I remember somebody saying, when you look out at your classroom, do you see race? And I just remember this guy, and I can't remember what his name was, but I remember him going on and on about, I don't see race at all. I just see young minds yearning to gather knowledge and blah, blah, blah. And I heard that again and again. And I don't see, I said, and it came to me and I said, I see race, I see race all the time. You know, why is it that our open access college has, is about a third African American where A and S is three percent? Why? Because our students are not considered to be capable of doing what A and S students are doing. And I said, I do see race. I see it as a, I see our college as a political construct that involves bringing, bringing students of color here because they're not able to do the work over there. And you know, everybody's looking at me like I just stepped off the bus from Mars. I mean, I was a brand new faculty person, right? The ink was still drying on my PhD. You know, it was, it was pretty new. But, but I remember, but I had also been, I'd been an activist in the civil rights movement before. In fact, I, I'm from Washington, D.C., and I went to Martin Luther King's, I have a dream. It's amazing. Speech. After being totally forbidden by my parents, although it turned out then my father went. He was somewhere else. I didn't see him. He was with my cousin because he didn't want her to go alone. And so he took her and I was somewhere over here with my friend who snuck away and went. So, you know, that was, that was then. But I, I had, I had a little different background as a white person.   That's not, you can't, you don't have that option. And it's good. I think it strengthens us. But anyway, I came at it from a whole different angle. And, but they were working on this issue, this, this race issue. I mean, your question was, how has the faculty changed? And this is one way.  And I'm not sure how many people got that, but my point of starting there is that that same conversation has played itself out time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time again. And about 10 years ago or when Nancy Zimford was the president, they started this, what did they call it? Diversity Council. Names like that just give me a headache.  And also of, I had, with a small group of people, we had worked very hard to have domestic partners covered on our insurance. We had one contract that would be refused. You know, we would propose it and then they would trade it for something else in the negotiations. And so it kept getting, so even our allies were trading us away. But finally, we got it. And I think they knew who I was because I'd been involved in that. But I ended up on that diversity council and they were reinventing the damn wheel. They were doing the same racist, anti-racist work that we had been doing in 1984. And anyway, I stayed on the committee for, I guess I was on it for two terms.  I offered to be, they said we want some new blood. Are people willing to rotate off? And I said, me! Rotate me off. So I did, I rotated off. But I don't know if they're still having that, but they hired a woman. And she was at that time working with, I can't remember his name, that's really a good thing. He was a light-skinned black man who was dying to become president of the university. And there was no way they were going to make him president of the university. There was just no way. But he didn't see that, right? And he had this graduate assistant or whatever, her name was Bluzette Marshall. Do you know Bluzette? She's still here. She's, I think, maybe even a vice president now. But here's the deal. This guy, whose name I've forgotten, was trying to persuade her to get a doctorate, any kind of doctorate. He didn't care what it was a doctorate in, an easy doctorate, a quick doctorate, so that she had a terminal degree and could then move up in administration. And so she did, she got a EDD, which is a worthless doctorate. But it does, I mean she never had any intention of doing research or anything like that. But it's worked for her. She's moving up. Are you running out four minutes? You're good. And so she's still here trying to promote diversity, whatever that means. But nothing much has changed. That's the issue. The issue is what hasn't changed, rather than what has changed. It's a pretty much straight, white campus. And it has always been a straight, white campus. That doesn't mean there aren't plenty of queer people here. Doesn't mean there aren't loads of people of color here. It's just that the power structures are straight and white, still after low these many years. And they take a person like Bluzette, and they carefully put her in a human relations or student-centered thing where she doesn't really make policy. You see, if you're really going to make policy, then you're going to be in the provost's office or something like that. But she's not.  Okay, great. So she's having a successful career. But nothing is changing because she's not in policy. Right, no power. So I would say the story is that the university hasn't changed, rather than it has. We started doing that blasted thing in 1984. It still are. Yeah. So I read that you've published at least a couple of books, and you did so with your partner. Did you meet her here? I did. I was actually on her hiring committee, which is hilarious. People ask me, they say, well, how did you meet her? I said, I hired her. But yeah, I was on the committee that hired her. We have written short pieces, and then we've done several books together. The most interesting of them is this book called Finding Out, which is now the standard text for teaching LGBTQ studies. And it's had three editions so far. And we just turned down Sage wanting a fourth edition. We're just not prepared to do it yet. The third one just came out. It's not fair to students, I think, to have a new edition. So you have to buy a new book rather than having a chance to buy used. Yeah. I just don't think that's fair. I don't think we have so much new to add yet. Give us a—so I told the Gally Reuters email when I said, we're not doing it. You know, we might think about it next year, maybe. Talk to us in a year, and then give us a couple of years after that, and we might have enough to make it different. But right now, no. But that was very interesting. Michelle and I wrote that with our colleague Jonathan Alexander. And I have to tell you, if you ever get a chance to write with other people, it's—you can't describe it. It's both wonderful and insane at the same time. Not—you know, we would split off into three places and then—or I'd go to the library and come back with 30 books and teeter into the house and boom! And then, you know, we'd—it was all very—it was messy. It's a very messy process. But I think that particular book has changed the profession. For the first time, there was never a book. So if you were teaching intro to LGBT studies or LTB or whatever you want to call it, there was no textbook. You had to do it all by yourself. You had to figure everything out. Here's an article. Here's some literature. Okay? Okay, I was just saying that I am very interested and have been for since graduate school days in this Victorian writer named Eliza Lynn Linton, who—as I tried to say to you a minute ago—wrote her autobiography under a male pseudonym, which interested me. And so I've spent some time finding some of her books and editing them and writing introductions and bringing them back. So I now have a little shelf. I have four books of hers that are now back in print. She clearly—part of it is that she was interested in women and she married this man, but it seems probable that the marriage was never consummated. She supported him. If you were a Victorian woman, this didn't happen. Anyway, she was a very interesting person. That's really cool. So for me, I enjoyed—that was just fun. That was fun work. That's the kind of work you do after you get tenure. When nobody's looking over your shoulder and saying, what we really need is somebody to do this, then they say, well, you just do what you want. Okay, I will. All right, so there's nothing else you would like to talk about? I think not. Do you have any other questions? I mean, if there's anything else, I'll answer them. I'm sorry. I'm windy. Oh, no, you're good. This has been great. I don't have any other pertinent questions. Cool. Let's be done. Thank you so much. You are welcome. My pleasure. I'm glad to have met you both.


Let's talk about tooth sensitivity. A very common thing, a very common question. And if you talk to anybody, you will probably hear 99.9% of people say they have some form of tooth sensitivity. This could be their teeth are sensitive if they have anything hot, cold, sweets, if they're biting on something, where there's many different causes for different things, of course, such as if your teeth are sensitive when you're biting on something, that could be one issue. But if they're only sensitive when you're eating cold things, that's a completely different issue. What if your teeth are sensitive when you're biting down, cold things, hot things, sweet things, that's another thing too. But the rule of thumb is there are certain things that make the majority of us sensitive. And there are certain things at home that we can do to find the solution and can easily solve all of that. So first things first is make sure to be using a soft toothbrush. A hard toothbrush can actually be brushing away some of that enamel over time, as well as that protective gum that's around the teeth, protecting the teeth. If that gum is brushed away over time as well, either the tooth enamel or the gum that's supporting the tooth, then the root surface of the tooth starts to show. And that is where the nerve endings start to happen. And this is where you get the sensitivity. It's actually called gum recession, when the gum starts to shrink down. What about if you're sensitive because you are brushing too hard. So if your toothbrush isn't soft, and it's a hard toothbrush, you're brushing too hard. And that's where all of that kind of comes into play. You're brushing too hard. And that in turn causes gum recession, which causes the, which means that the roots of the teeth are starting to be exposed, which is causing the sensitivity. How do you solve that using the right toothpaste and using a soft toothbrush makes all the difference. So we talked about the soft toothbrush part, but also use a sensitine or a sensitive type of toothpaste. It doesn't have to be by the company's sensitine, but use a sensitive type of toothpaste with potassium nitrate in it. Make sure it has that key ingredient, because that can actually block the dental tubules from telling, you know, from our nerves saying that things are in pain. So you need that toothpaste and you need to use it. I hate to say the word need, but it's true, or it doesn't really work every day, twice a day in the morning and at night. If you're only using it once a day or every other day, it's not going to work because every time we're eating or drinking something, we're taking away that protective layer of the toothpaste, which is why they want us to do it twice a day, because toothpaste can only work for so long. And do not rinse with water afterwards and do not put water on your toothbrush because you don't want to dilute those protective ingredients of the toothpaste. But what if you're clenching or grinding? That's a different thing entirely. If you're clenching or grinding during the day or at night, that's 300 pounds of pressure that your teeth are grinding against each other. That's going to cause sensitive teeth and it's also probably going to cause a sore and sensitive mouth as well, which can cause sensitive teeth. So definitely have your dental hygienist have a look at that. If you suspect you might be clenching or grinding, it could show up on your teeth where they're starting to wear down or your jaw joints here are very stiff. You might be able to feel that or if you can't yet, you're still in the early stages, but your dental hygienist can definitely feel that for you to really see if there's any stiffness there, the possibility that you're clenching or grinding. If you're doing it at night, you might not know it, but getting a night guard is the solution to that problem. And then over time, you will no longer be sensitive. What if you're eating things that are highly acidic or drinking things that are highly acidic, such as lemon water, like Coke, Pepsi, any type of pop or soda or what about apples? What about certain foods that are just more acidic? Even coffee has acidity to it. That can be causing sensitive teeth. So if you're not using a soft toothbrush, you're not using the right toothpaste, you're eating and drinking all of these acidic things, and maybe you're even clenching or grinding, all of these things are just adding to those sensitive teeth. Last but not least, it could be something as simple as a cavity. Not that cavities are simple, but if you get that cavity fixed, if they remove the cavity and give you a filling, then you have no more sensitive teeth. So there's many different things that play a role in this, but definitely have it looked at by a dental hygienist if you're not sure which one you do have. Once we know the cause, we can find the solution. Because believe it or not, most things have a solution to them. They just have to be fixed. Whether it be a filling, a night guard, a mouth guard, using a different toothpaste, using the right toothbrush, not brushing is hard, or it could be something more serious, of course, where you might need a dental crown, you might need a root canal, you might even need the tooth taken out. But these are extreme cases and also gum surgery. Have you ever heard about that? Where we take tissue from the roof of your mouth, your palate, and we put it over that area that is exposed. Remember how I talked about the root surface being exposed? If toothpaste just doesn't work because it's too far gone. If using a soft toothbrush doesn't work, all of those things that I've talked about, if they don't work, you can have gum surgery to put that tissue to cover up the area that's causing you sensitivity, and that can work too. But those are more extreme cases. Mainly in this video, I was talking about the easier cases. If we can find a cause, we can find a solution. So I hope this helped you guys. Let me know if any questions. I'll leave the link for the blog article down below. Have a look at it. There's lots there for you.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here? We'll be talking about several different topics in the video here today We'll be talking about the exercises the David Gordon Green moving that's coming out later this year We'll be talking about the screen franchise going over a little bit a tidbit that came out from Paramount during their panel day at CinemaCon and Going over a quiet place day one and also rounded out by reflecting on the saw X logo That was revealed at cinema con yesterday as well I believe so starting off with the exorcist the official title of David Gordon Green's upcoming exorcist film is the Exorcist believer that is the official title of David Gordon Green's upcoming sequel the first in what I guess is going to be a Trilogy if it succeeds the trailer or first footage was shown at cinema con and according to a Hollywood reporter This kicked off after the devil takes over the bodies of two children in the trailer a father drops off his daughter at school However, she and a friend go missing after school when they were found in the woods They seem changed and unaware that they were gone three days believing it just been a few hours at another point in The trailer one of the girls covered in communion wine walks into a church mass screaming at the priest the body and the blood Finally the parents call upon Chris McNeil who was reprising her role of course from the original film this being Ellen Burstin That being she attempts to help the girls one of whom has been carving her daughter's name on her stomach So I'm assuming this is in reference to Reagan who we know is played by Linda Blair now the footage that was shown Apparently looked good. It looks spectacular. It apparently showed a lot of promise I know there are some people who are not looking forward to this because of what David Gordon Green did with halloween kills and halloween ends I will still give this a chance. There is a strong chance that this would just go over a lot better Since this franchise doesn't have I would say the biggest As big a fan base as halloween where I guess what's happening on your screen means a lot more To the diehard halloween fans as opposed to the exorcist So time will tell if this is a successful new exorcist film from David Gordon Green But the official title you guys can let me know what you think about that down in the comment section below What do you think about the footage description that came out from cinemacon? That's been reported on the internet and making the rounds diving into a quiet place day one a quiet place day one footage It was also shown at cinemacon today and some minor plot descriptions have also surfaced online from those in attendance Now according to discussing film the film will follow Lupita Nyong'o who we know stars in the film as a mother trying to survive following the alien invasion We also know that joseph quinnon alex wolf are involved in the project as well as we learned earlier this year Or a few months ago So this is giving me shades of emily blunt who stars as the mother of the abbot family in our main set of films Which still has another entry on the way by the way um, and then according to Eric goldman from fandom the day one footage that was shown Show lupita sitting on a bus in new york when suddenly the back of the vehicle is demolished leaving a crater And we see the arrival of the creatures from the sky Also, there's a cat in it and i saw some other users reference seeing the aliens or like seeing the aliens or Asteroids wherever they came from falling from the sky Now for whatever reason it was revealed that this movie takes place in new york city Maybe i had it mistaken, but i thought new york was always the setting for those first two movies So i mean it's not that big of a deal unless the intent was to highlight that it's actually going to be taking place In the literal new york city this time so scooper jeff snider also pointed out that the tagline for the upcoming film a quiet place day one Is witness today the world went quiet now again a quiet place day one It is not continuing the abbot family story It is a spinoff set in the same universe, but the abbot story will still continue I'm sure this spinoff will go over well. I'm sure it'll be another decent entry Some people might end up not liking it because it does not have the abbots in it I'm still looking forward to it looking forward to see what lupita and yango can do in another Action-packed horror movie you guys let me know down in the comment section if you're looking forward to a quiet place day one Why or why not now jumping into Scream just a quick thing about scream Scream seven was not announced But mentions of listening to the consumer during paramounts panel today will indicate that of course it's not off the table And just wasn't brought up simply because they're working on a few things related to the project still Whether that be securing writers directors working on cast deals or just wanting to have more things in place before they announce it We'll see why we haven't actually had an announce I guess when it's officially announced because I think that by the time it's announced We're gonna get a lot more now than just oh, hey scream seven is happening They're gonna give us a lot more than just hey, it's happening. You probably get a cast You'll probably get directors You'll probably get the plot you'll probably get a lot more than last time because with scream six We just found out that it was basically happening and that the core four will be back Now they did mention that scream six was the highest grossing entry in the series But my question there is are they referring to domestically or all together because I think it's domestically wise The highest grossing in highest grossing entry. I think that is factually true But there are still some numbers that may have been given to paramount Of course that we don't know about related to the international success That could be them actually referencing the overall financial success is the best in the series but time will tell Scream seven again, it will come together when it comes We know paramount allegedly is hoping to have it start shooting no later than october And the success of the last entry is all but a confirmation of a sequel happening So don't count the seven film out just yet. It just sadly was not announced today Jumping into the last thing I wanted to talk about saw x saw x had its official logo revealed during cinema con today As well as I look as well as just going over This logo really quick here. I love how bold And confident this x comes off to me This basically is confirming that the title will be saw x which is cool I guess viranon did recently tweet out that they've heard saw x is excellent from folks at lines gate But I mean why wouldn't they say that I mean It goes without saying it's just no different than I guess paramount or kevin williamson saying that scream six is great But apparently This movie will surprise us and knock us on our ass I mean, isn't that the saw thing you have a surprise ending in some twist you probably didn't see coming But whatever saw x according to viranon revolves around jigsaw going after a corrupt doctor Who sells so-called miracle treatments and it's set in between the earlier set of movies Which is why we know john kramer is back told me bell of course reprising the iconic character But the logo reveal was nice to see actually the last thing I want to make mention of here is smile 2 Smile 2 is officially in the works. It was confirmed and addressed during the cinema con panel today from paramount And a lot of people myself included I saw were like, well, didn't they already announced this? I guess they legitimately didn't it was just reported that smile 2 would be a priority So officially here at cinema con somebody from paramount Made it known that smile 2 is in the works and it is happening now I'm expecting kyle galliner's character to still play a factor in this narrative somehow, but it doesn't have to revolve around him I mean, it's just perfectly set up at the end of the first movie for that to be what the secret revolves around But we'll see what ends up happening with smile 2 You guys can let me know if you're excited about any of these things down in the comment section below Why or why not if you haven't already, of course, make sure you go ahead and subscribe turn on post notifications So that you never miss a video in the description. 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I'm interested in Bitcoin and cryptos as a store of currency and I'm wondering what ideas you have about storing as a store of currency and putting it to work such as trading, mining pools, things like that. Do you put your Bitcoin to work? No, I don't. That's one of the challenges with using this as an investment. There's a big difference between store value and investment. Something is characterized as an investment if it has yield, if it generates some kind of return. Maybe that's dividends in stocks or an interest payment in bonds, or something else like that. If you have real estate, you get rent payments from renters, and you have some kind of yield of reinvestment, so you're essentially parking your money. For a low amount of risk, you have a continuous return without eroding the capital. It's actually difficult to do that with cryptocurrency. Part of the reason it's difficult is because if you want to store this for long-term and because it is a digital asset, it's very easy for someone to steal it from you if it's on an online system. I have a small amount of Bitcoin, and my Bitcoin is in cold, cold, cold, cold, freezing, cold storage. In order for it to be in freezing, freezing, cold storage, it doesn't move. It doesn't get to be used for things. One of the interesting things about Lightning Network is that if you're already running a full Bitcoin node, which costs money, if you run a Lightning Network node on top of that, you can actually collect some money and fees by parking a small amount of Bitcoin in there to create payment channels for others. So just by routing payments through your Lightning Network node, you can earn a small amount of fees. So this is an interesting way to put Bitcoin to work, but it adds the risk that the money that's on the hot online wallet can be stolen. For most people today, the real investment, the real yield for these cryptocurrencies as a store value is really simple. They're not printing a lot more of them.  And if they do that, then your cryptocurrency appreciates in value versus the national currency because they're debasing it.  So all you have to do is hodl, and that is the ultimate return. Now, that doesn't mean that Bitcoin is an investment scheme. It's certainly not a get-rich-quick scheme. And I want to caution people, when you talk to others about this, make sure you emphasize the fact that this is a technology, and its primary advantage is creating systems of money that don't concentrate power in the hands of the few. That is the purpose. And in the process, it is not a get-rich-quick scheme. In fact, you can lose a lot of money by making some foolish decisions.  There's all kinds of traps on the way. It's a get-free scheme. So get free. Don't get rich.


Today, part of our work this afternoon, we have our Valentine Day specials out, but I also have a work job that I need everyone to finish to their personal best. In the middle, I have uppercase X, lowercase X. Now this is going to be tricky because X says X and not all the time does he say his sound. So listen carefully. Do I hear X in yo-yo? Oh, I know the game we can play. If you hear the X, everybody put your thumbs up and say ding ding ding ding ding. Practice. If you don't hear the sound, say, ah, ah, ah. Okay. Oh, wait a moment. What did I forget to do? Oh, thank you for helping me. What's most important on your work? Write your name. Now let me see. Do I have an X in Mrs. Leger? No. Does anybody have an X in their name? If you do, please stand up. No X's this year. That's okay. Oh, I just saw an X learning moment. Look at Emory's sweater. What does the front make on it? An X. Wow, Emory. You have an X on your sweater. Okay. Are you ready? Let's start this again. Ding ding ding. If you're here, ah, if you don't. Yo-yo. You're right. So I'm going to exit out. Xylophone. Boomin, is that a X, a phone? But you got it right because you know that Xylophone borrowed Z's sound to spell Xylophone. So you make colors Xylophone. What about gloves? Ah. Oh, we just got a new learning moment. This is an animal. It's not a buffalo. It's not a bison. Zunachs. Ah. X. Do you hear it? Yeah! You make color it! Oh, next one? Yogurt. Oh, exit out. Hat. Yarn. X-ray. Ding-dong-dong. Haha. All right. And then at the bottom, diagonal line. All letters start at the top. Then diagonal line across. All letters start at the top. So your top line, everybody put your pointer fingers up. Ready top line? Say diagonal line down, stop, go back to the top, diagonal line cross, stop, that makes our X, uppercase and lowercase look the same. Three things for your work job today.  If you can do it say yes I can, please stand up and well I believe my verb is going to be to hop. Let's hop to our table. Hop, hop, hop, hop.