Now, our first speaker will be Professor Antoine Flau, who is the Director of the Global Health Institute in Geneva. He's also the Director of the Swiss School of Public Health in Zurich. And let me say that sadly, and somehow ironically, two of our six panelists today are stuck with COVID in Geneva. That is Professor Flau and El Storelli. Two out of six of us have COVID as we speak. And that can be a strong reminder again to all of us that the epidemic is not over. So, Antoine, the floor is yours. Thank you, Michel, for your kind words. And thank you also to Théry de Montréal for his faithful invitation to World Policy Conference after World Policy Conference, and particularly talking about COVID. I wish I'd be in Abu Dhabi today, here in Geneva, where the weather is ugly, windy, rainy and very cold. So, I wish you the best for the conference. Yes, you asked me to talk about COVID-19. Where are we today and where are we moving to? The next slide, please. What happened in one year? Last year, we talked about the situation and what did happen in one year? I would like to mention just two elements, two major events. One, if you remember, that was in December, very shortly after our World Policy Conference in Abu Dhabi last year, when China decided to shift from its zero COVID policy to a more global policy with regard to COVID, more mitigation policy. I mentioned this event because it was a major and tragic event for China. When China officially reported 90,000 deaths in the weeks after the lift of zero COVID strategy, it has been estimated that it is probably more than 1.4 million deaths which occurred and many models also mentioned death toll of 2 million deaths in China only in a few weeks after the lift of the end of the zero COVID strategy. The second very major event was when the general director of WHO in Geneva declared the end of the public health emergency of international concern. He associated this declaration with a call for vigilance because new variants could emerge in the coming months and years. And you can see at the bottom right panel of this slide, in the UK there is a soup of sub variants of omicrons which have emerged and which are co-circulating today in the UK but of course in all over the world. Next slide, please. So where are we now? Michel, you mentioned the tragedy of this COVID pandemic with the cumulative death toll as reported of 7 million deaths but which has been estimated between 18 and 33 million deaths, as you said. We have to add to that, to these figures, more than 20 million lives which were saved due to the vaccine only in the first year of its deployment. And I think we have to add but it has not been clearly estimated up to date is the number of lives saved thanks to the lockdown, thanks to the non-pharmaceutical interventions. Next slide, please. Where are we now? In fact, as you said, Michel, the pandemic is not over. When you see the circulation of the waves, you can see easily that in the last year we have known a couple of waves of hospitalization and also of deaths due to COVID. Just in Canada, if you see the figures on the right, you can notice that the total number of hospitalizations in 2023 so far is bigger than the total number of hospitalizations due to COVID in the first year of the pandemic in 2020. One of the reasons is that it is not a seasonal disease. It's not like flu. It's all along the year disease which trigger some severe forms of COVID and some hospitalizations and deaths. Next slide, please. And even if we know that it is not over, because probably we want to listen only the positive and optimistic side of the end of the public health emergency of international concern, of the alert, of the status of emergency, we have mostly give up with most of the surveillance tools, a form of disarmament in the middle or maybe at the end of the war, but not when the war is finished. And we can see on the right that's not the case fatality ratio, but the case hospitalization ratio. What does that mean? That means that the number of hospitalizations in the UK divided by the number of infections has dramatically decreased over time, thanks to the vaccines, of course, and also to the repeated waves of COVID, which enhance and sustain the immunity against the disease and the severe forms of the disease. So fortunately, now we are much less prone to being hospitalized when we caught COVID. These figures have only been done because of the excellent epidemiological system in the UK. They have some random sampling of the British population in each nation of the British population, which provide very precise figures no one in the world today have succeeded to reach. This is a major lesson we should learn from the pandemic, this UK example. On the left of the panel, you have a French example, which was completely visionary regarding analysis of wastewater. Wastewater surveillance is very well correlated with the circulation of the virus, but also it allows for detecting early new variants and the circulation of new variants in a country. In Switzerland, for instance, we have detected, thanks to wastewater, the Pirola surveillance, the new wearing surveillance, which is emerging today in the world before in the wastewater, before it was seen in clinical settings. So the wastewater is really a very interesting tool and surprisingly, France, which was visionary and ahead of time, had given up. They have stopped their waste water surveillance in spring 2022. Fortunately, now they are coming back again. Next slide, please. One of the most important lessons we have learned regarding the mode and the route of transmission is the fact that it is a newborn disease. It is due to the micro droplets which float in the air indoor when it is poorly ventilated and which contaminate us because we breathe 20 times a minute and we are infected and reinfected and reinfected again in a train, in a coach of a train, in a classroom, in a school, in a hospital, in a home care facility, in office, in bars and restaurants. So we have learned that we should wear a mask, that we should keep distance, that we are better outdoors than indoors not to catch the disease, that we should invest in ventilation, that we should monitor the proxy of the indoor air quality which is CO2 concentration and that we can filter the air when we cannot ventilate enough. Next slide, please. Improving air quality is key. It has been well-setted by a lot of evidence today. Italian, for instance, have demonstrated that just by appropriate ventilation of class rooms in schools, you can reduce by 80% the number of contamination in children. And as Michel said, the kids wear those segments of the populations which pay a lot of tribute to this pandemic. We probably could be able to eliminate most of the viral respiratory disease, not only viral. Tuberculosis is also totally airborne and airborne disease. We could eliminate these diseases to the same extent as we have succeeded to eliminate waterborne disease like cholera or dysentery in the 20th century. Thanks to the development and thanks to water sanitation. So with air sanitation, with an indoor air quality which is appropriate, we could probably eliminate most of the burden of this respiratory disease, COVID, but also influenza, ARASVI, and many others. Next slide, please. As you said, Michel, it remains a lot of unknowns in this pandemic and you mentioned the persistent COVID symptoms. And there are more than 50 long-term effects of COVID, which is so-called the long COVID today and which is mostly unknown, poorly diagnosed, poorly recognized. Many people are suffering after their COVID, even mild COVID. And it has been estimated that 10% of the infected people will suffer from persistent effects of COVID. And we have no treatment or very few treatments. So we need to invest much more in this segment of the post-COVID problems. Next slide. I wanted to mention something which is highly political, which is the fact that this information comes from populism and anti-science movement. I apologize, I don't want to be partisan, but it is a fact today to see that those who voted for Trump in America were much less vaccinated than those who voted for Biden. And it has a dramatic impact on their mortality and they had a lot of mortality in excess. It has been estimated that more than 200,000 people died, were killed due to disinformation, due to anti-science movement, and that is a very worrying issue. On the right side of the panel, you have the optimistic figures which show that public information campaign is a major key determinant for the success of the response to the pandemic. So going to the stage and talking with evidence, with science on the COVID pandemic is something which save lives. Next slide. And this is my concluding remarks just to say we are probably much better and perform much better in crisis management than in crisis prevention. We are not very good to prevent this disease. We have faced a tragedy with, I don't know, 25 million deaths plus 25 saved lives due to the intervention during the crisis, but we are not able today to take the lessons, to learn the lessons we have as a legacy of this pandemic. We are not able to implement an appropriate surveillance tool. We are not able to invest in prevention, like proper indoor air quality. We are still not able to invest in research against these long COVID issues. And we are facing strong anti-science, which refrained some politicians to invest and to continue to invest in, for instance, mask mandates or in hospitals or in home care facilities or in things people do not want anymore to hear today. Thank you for your attention. Thank you very much, Antoine. Thank you.


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Good afternoon everybody, I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TF9 headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, three hours left to go on the trading day, and we got a positive market, quite a change from yesterday. Right now, Dow up 296 points, trading $25,622, you get the Nasdaq up 108 points, trading at $77.56, and the S&Ps up 39 points, trading at $28.46, dollar index up 200 ticks at $97.320, notes and bonds, a little bit of lower price, higher yield, 10-year note, negative 3 ticks, $124.10, 30-year bond, negative 9 ticks, $1409.06, gold pulling back a bit off $5.50 at $12.9630, and you got oil up 93 cents at $61.97, we'll start things off, let's jump over to the future market, we'll start it off with the Dow, it's been quite an acceleration, since about 9.15 this morning, trading $25,373, we make it all the way up to a high of $25,651, about an hour ago in the Dow, currently just under that level, $25,606, Nasdaq 100, $74.39, we made it to $74.52, right at about noon Eastern time, S&Ps near the highs as well, $28.46, and backing it up for a little bit of context in the S&Ps, there's yesterday's action, and that is backing up to Friday, Friday 2887, made it down to about $2800, so we've clawed back almost half of those gains, half of those losses, excuse me, that we had in the first two days of the week, as we had yesterday, first day of the week, today being the second day of the week, gold contract $12.96, we're up there at $1,300 briefly this morning, crude oil catching a bit, $61.90, and your US dollar $1,1207, terms of what else you have fundamentally in the market, Comcast selling its stake in Hulu to Disney, as Disney will have a controlling interest in that incompletely, and as we jump over to the chart to see how that is reacting, there's your Disney chart, up 2.3% or $3, quite a number, jumping around to some of the other stocks, Apple, quite a tough day yesterday, but up about 1.6%, you got Microsoft, up 1.6% as well, Amazon, up 1.2%, quite a number, and Walmart, for same free next day delivery, it's remarkable, it's not up more than that, up 4.10% at $100.29. Stay tuned folks, Steve Rhodes coming up right now at the Trader's Edge, Dave White live at 2 o'clock with a power trading hour, and Tom O'Brien live from Three Tail 5, stay tuned folks, have a great Tuesday.


Wait for some people to join in here. What's good? What's good, man? What's going down? I'm doing good, man I am doing good today. I actually just woke up. Not gonna lie to you Just woke up not not too long ago So I want to get some call of duty in for you guys It's 12 19 in Miami. Oh, okay, man. We'll appreciate you hopping on here You know I'm saying real quick with your boy 70 kills first round Ross. You got it That'd be nice. I got a lot to you. I got to pick out a nice class for it though See don't know what gun you know, I'm gonna use the RAM and I Think you guys have seen these Ram on here. I fucks with this gun. It's gonna is actually pretty cool I Think I'm gonna run it with The Slight of hand I'm first with this gun So see what I can get going with the RAM Hell, yeah, waiting for this all day. Oh, well, thank you bear. Appreciate you, man I'm sorry. I wasn't streaming earlier. I was kind of on the bow, but yeah, I appreciate you Checking it out man. Like forever. It means a lot. Hopefully I can hear me good I'm about to fix my college stuff Ross. Hey, that's what's up, bro You should troll people with the seven. Oh, let me see someone said that Troll people with the seven to five.  No, no, I wouldn't sleep in this but it's kind of cold and in the game room right now So cause I'm doing good today, bro. I like Roman Reigns new theme song His new things on is nice. He had a nice new theme song. I'm rocking with it. I can definitely vibe Into the EOC's Y'all should make a discord. We actually do have a discord We just don't really be on it like that. We actually do have a discord Thank y'all for joining in everyone has joined in I thank y'all so much, bro Y'all are the best. This is my first game on here. I Haven't played the game Since like the last time I streamed so over here. Oh, that was a good name. I did not mean to call this out I really called out the wrong. I don't want to write wrote out I don't like to load out There we go for the light field upgrade, but now I'm good There's one in the very back over here Well, I don't need to go to that God damn it. I'll play Halo. I used to actually I played Like I used to play Halo a lot actually This Ram is nice Definitely This gun is so nice This is due all the way back here. He's still back here This morning right there. I got it. Oh, I need some guns. I need some ammunition, man.  Oh geez Where are my teammates? Come on? There we go damn Boss woman we get a millions of dollars for his new Uh, his new theme music song or not. No, well WWE don't that's I don't think he's he gets any money from that to be honest with you That's all Is he gonna come up here? Peek it. Yeah, I do play with subscribers Oh They want me dead. Jesus.  Yeah, they're spawning out. Yeah, this is funny back there. Oh my god. Oh my goodness. Oh No, oh Shit, I dropped the 60 bomb on the first game Drop the 60 bomb on the first game.  They're gonna spawn about here. I Know they are. Oh my aim was off My aim was Definitely, oh, well, he shot it and blew me up All right, 66 on the first game, man 66 on the first game, man. I Will take that They're gonna lie to you 66 kills on the very first day This was not bad This was not bad at all.  What's gun is nice brother Ram 7.  I'll take it man 66 and 9 Look at Ross man. So inspirational. I appreciate that man. I'm cool. I'm all right I'm all right Yeah, I was actually close to the 70 bro. I was a few off the 70 man a very first game That was pretty cool. I Don't lie to you. That was actually a really good game. Yeah, this is my Ram 7 class set up You know, I should definitely give it a try It's a really good gun man.  Why thank you. I actually got two new pair of shoes coming in I think this week, so Y'all may see it on Instagram at some point Shoot questions. It's cool. It's not bad It's not the best in the world, but I like the shoes that I have them. I'm thankful and very blessed to have I Think I like 55 pairs shoes back there. That's that's a lot considering how many shoes I used to wear all the time I used to wear like maybe I'll have like 12 pairs shoes in rotation Ross the best car player Why thanks man, I'm all right, bro. There's some cold Call of Duty players, bro And I don't even play it as much as they do man And there's when I say there's some cold Call of Duty players out there. I'm not making that up Some real I'm just decent Teen may I thought she had him. He let me die. I Coulda cookies. Let's go to Congrats on being a referee Thanks, I can't wait for you all to see that video though. It's gonna be pretty cool Let me know if the gameplay is actually too loud. Let me know Well, we know where they're gonna be swanin coming for me. What?  I don't know what nuggies doing over here.  That's not even a shotgun. Geez.  I mean, why did I spawn right here again?  He I was really only pulling that out just because I was pulling that out just to troll That last time because it's fun to pull it out. I thought he would have pushed out God damn, they're all in there. Holy moly I Mean they're all in there. They got that one sold up. I think Geez that one sold up. We're putting a pretty competent team or they're not scrubs like any mean God damn it.  That was intense, man Oh, he got him With the thermite nice. I needed some more ammo Damn, they caught it again.  What's going on, man? I actually Load out. I need to edit my load out. It's a slider hand. I need to run Fully loaded.  Well, they must be behind us and They gotta be like I'm gonna watch behind us and God damn, I probably got a little bit too good. Yeah, it was in Yeah, this dude with the oozy is doing one pretty good All right, yeah, it gave me 250 rounds.  Oh, he got me.  I was aiming. I had the shots and everything Team mate didn't see it either. Why we kept it?   Can we make the comeback? Oh Man, I'm gonna use the amax in a minute. I got melted. We trying to make this comeback Thank you, teammate. All right team Oh, the whole team was right there The whole team was right there We're trying to make this comeback, man We are actually trying to make this comeback 53 kills I damn it He should be coming this way.  Can we get on there? Yeah, I think they got it. Oh, that was a close one Oh, that was a whole party too Are you gonna watch the Floyd versus Logan fighting next month, uh, I probably will I probably will. Hey Ross. Hey, are you doing this evening doing pretty good? You should do a lot of calls that you want to cut channel. We probably at some point They need to replace Michael Cole with Ross. I don't know Michael is actually not bad Like people give him flak for he's he's actually okay on commentary. He has these cringy moments, but he's okay Oh, we gotta run this back against these guys It's it's probably gonna be Roman Because he's the hottest thing right now. So it would make sense for him to be on the cover of WWE 2k 22 Thanks, everybody For joining in on the stream. I really appreciate that They need every place. Uh, you playing with fans tonight So, I hope Stanley. I hope Ross sees There's true ability play card. No, I don't think he does Yeah, I don't think he plays caller duty Why would he put the claim?  What is he doing over there? He's literally over here randomly. Oh, he didn't see me.  Why is he throwing smokes man? Geez, bro. Yeah, they were pushing me crazy. Whoever's throwing that smoke. He's not really helping us He's just throwing smoke around Like I killed someone in the objective There's no one else there or they spawn off the map side of the map.  He didn't even kill him and he was aiming at him Yeah, I have the best teammates Not really doing much of nothing on this one right here, man Like I'm I'm trying Don't get me twisted. I am trying Might as well back out of this because this is not working It'd be different if I was going off.  I was trying though. God damn, man please I'll just be wanting to Want to you know saying play a little bit of objective just a little bit Hey, happy birthday, uh, glinduke's man. How would you turn it today? Thanks for joining the stream on your birthday Peaceful else. I gotta go to school. All right, man. Have a good one, man. Appreciate you stopping by What's your mp5 class? They trying to overkill What do you mean? I don't even have an mp5 class set up right now Be like that car Yeah, I'll have an mp5 class up. I could set one You know, let me go ahead and set one up.  I haven't set up an mp5 class in a minute I'll set one up for you guys mp5 I'm gonna run with this one the barrel of course this Dude Gotta run this take that out Hey, man, I'm kind of playing solo right now. I'm about to kick him out. Sorry. I don't want to but I really don't even need to tackle is her. I can run it though Just like a hand Yeah, I'm not the only play card But I can I mean, I don't know I'm not really the funny thing is I I prefer to like watch people that I subscribe to youtube to play like the the scary, you know The type first person games like I don't know if you guys know who uh markiplier is Markiplier Who else I'll be watching. Um, Cory Kenshin um The rad brad um bowling otter. These are some of the youtubers. I've watched them play like different scary games and stuff like that Markiplier was the first person. I really got into it Uh, he was actually the first and I started watching The first person I started watching playing five nights at freddy's if you guys remember that the original five nights at freddy's he was Coined the uh king of five nights at freddy's man. So Dashy games. Yeah, I haven't really watched any of your videos, but I know exactly who he is But nah, I'm mostly just a call-of-duty player. Yeah, that's that's mostly my game. I like to watch other people play I'm playing Mortal Kombat in a minute. I ain't a lot to y'all.   Oh loadout edit fully loaded whoo Hey, man, appreciate the love from germany Oh, okay. Well, all righty I gotta be careful wearing blue. I That would be cool If he was to retire John Cena He killed us both sway God damn it I figured he was behind that door.  Oh, that's the penis.   I love it.  Only ask it because there's There's so many highs already just curious I mean, it's it's good to have them back, man. It is Like we've said in many many videos It was like we never really wanted him to leave. It wasn't our decision For him to leave he he decided to make the decision on his own So it was never all branding has to get out of here We don't want branding here. No, that wasn't even a thing.  So we we got to keep this going but you know Over time we just you know, it's like, you know If he was to decide to come back things would have to be different Behind the scenes and you know, we would go from there. So It was never just uh We wanted him to leave he chose to leave on his own That's exactly what happened. So hold on. I gotta give me some water Hold on again. Do you see we had to the highest twins? Um, no, we don't We we don't Alrighty, let's do this Man, he was already pre pre aiming me Why is no one in the goddamn objective? Yeah, I'm pushed up in there I'm gonna take over this all 90 God damn it Do you watch UFC sometimes when I'm able to actually catch it I'll use it enough catching the highlights and stuff like that I've actually recently just started getting into UFC like maybe a few years back But it's actually pretty enjoyable I ain't gonna lie to you.       Oh The guy with the sniper keeps popping me Kips popping me Well, they already have shots set up, man Yeah, no my teammates Yeah, only one getting kills to see he tell me What them no You got 140 kills yesterday. That's pretty cool. Okay. All right. All right.   It's so Crazy how strong the stuns are in this game. I felt like there was somebody over here, but I could be wrong That's not a bad place for a turret. Oh, he's hitting Behind us I got beamed again by the same guy Oh He moved it, bro. Oh, he knew where it was gonna be at. Oh, we got destroyed so Okay. Yep.    Oh, that's it.  Uh Yeah You on ps4 PS4 I don't even have the new consoles the next few consoles Gotta talk to the lobby Should I pull it out y'all should I go rogue?  Hey, man. Have a good day at school tomorrow, bro. Appreciate you bad man I'm gonna go rogue ladies and gentlemen. I'm going rogue. I'm going rogue.  You got me I think they got that one. They holding it down.  No This is much harder dude. He got me Get it before I get shot by the thing Run Run He didn't see me That's gonna be hard to get that one. I spawned so far, man Oh, that's a good little spot.  It's not even helping. I'm trying to win this bad boy Look at this He died somehow. How did he die? Oh, that's a good one.      It's great It's great We're making this a major comeback house far back. Okay.    That's fine. But what he doesn't know is I spawn behind him.  He had something approved. It wasn't bad player by any means but He got to work on now one man, but uh, I think I'm gonna end it off here I gotta go edit some videos for the inter clutch page. So I think y'all so much for joining me on the stream I appreciate everyone that joined in commented. Uh, I'll try to stream. Hopefully I may not be able to do it tomorrow Maybe a little bit busy, but I will get some streams in Uh, throughout the week. So thank y'all so much by Ross. I really enjoyed stream now Not to leave peace, bro Um, who checks katie now? It's 2021 people still care about it. You know what I'm saying But I appreciate y'all so much. Love y'all so much and uh


This is March 3rd and it's the meeting of the elementary school building committee and I am calling the meeting to order. Per the governor's orders, we're allowed to have this meeting virtually. So the first thing I want to do before we show the agenda is go around the room to make sure everyone can hear and be heard. So when I call out your name, just indicate that you can hear us or whatever. And I'm going to use the order that I see people on the screen. Anthony? Here. Dwayne? Here. Steve? Here. Allison? Okay. Here. Diane? Here. Good morning, but only until eight, unfortunately. Good morning. Phoebe? I am also only till eight. Shane? John? Not Shane. I'm Shane. John? Here. Jonathan? Good morning, here. And Ben? Morning. Good morning, everyone. Did you acknowledge Miss Merriam? Pardon? Phoebe, did you acknowledge Phoebe? Yes, Phoebe. Oh, okay, sorry. Phoebe, did I forget? Phoebe? Phoebe? No, I'm here. Thank you. Okay. So both Mike and Paul have said they will not be joining us this morning. Mike sent me in one comment on the draft request for services. And that is the only item on the agenda today, actually. So I know Diane needs to leave early. So what I would like to do... And Allison needs to leave early also. Okay. You both need to leave early. So what I'd like to do is start the meeting right away on the draft unless anyone else has any comments first. Steve, did you have a comment? Okay. So we sent everyone the draft, which our subcommittee on drafting revised, and I sent a list of the revisions, the main revisions we made last week. And Anthony can put it up on the screen. And maybe Jonathan, as chair, you could just walk through some of these changes in the goals and the changes in the waiting. And then we can see if there are any comments. And just so everyone understands, this is our final, we're hoping final review. And yet, if we get to final, we're planning on submitting it for review by MSBA staff by the end of this week. And they ask for at least two weeks to review. And then if once, if they don't have any changes, or if they have changes and we make them, then we'll be able to be put it in the register and post and start getting people to apply to be OPMs and start that process. So this triggers the process of selecting an OPM. So Jonathan, maybe you just walk us through I think the main changes were in goals, correct? Yes. Let Anthony scroll down. You want to start with objectives or you want to go down to the grading? No project objectives. I think that we should start there. So we had a couple of edits or suggestions last time. We discussed them as committee and we did adopt a couple of those. And I'm reading it as I'm going, just trying to remember where they were. Yes, that's right. The second one, dedicated space for special programs and special population position, just in change. I think we had called out specific spaces in the prior draft. And then moving down. I think we may have made a small edit to natural light throughout the building. We did. Yep. I think we added the COVID line or did we have the COVID line? I apologize. I can't remember. We had COVID before, but we did the including daylight and view in the classroom to natural light to emphasize that we met in the classrooms as well. Thank you. And then I believe the next one that was added in was the compliance with the town's wage theft bylaws or have I missed something? It's mainly when you added the word capable after net zero energy because that's right. Yeah. Thank you. It's good to have someone is my conscience. And then the very last one was added to or maybe Anthony, the achieving project is while controlling costs to cost effective. So I have one addition, one change Mike wrote in, I asked about auditorium space and he said that MSBA elementary school program would not want an auditorium space that wasn't multi-use. So he provided suggested wording that would be a space designed for use for school wide assemblies, comma performances and production as a substitute. So I can read that again as use for school wide assemblies, comma performances, comma and productions.  And I thought it was a good one coming from the schools. So I don't know, does anyone else have any comments on this because this this is the generic goals. And we do say these among others. So this is what people would see as we're hoping the newly built the renovated building would have in them. Beyond the usual classrooms, gyms. Gyms are assumed to be in everyone. So that's why this that's not called out there for those from schools. Okay, I'm not seeing any others. So mainly, we can go down to the evaluation criteria. So here, we varied the weights a little bit, things don't total up to 100 anymore. But we didn't feel as a subcommittee that that was, you know, particularly important that that really mattered more about the the waiting and making sure that our waiting reflected our goals, I guess is the way I could put it. And so, Anthony, I don't think we changed one or two changes further down under they go. We increased this one, right? Yep. At this point, we have we know red marks next to so much of the document. Right. Yeah, and all the changes get folded in. Exactly. So I'm not sure what we increase the weight on number C under capacity and skills as we're hoping to all along the way with this project, the community facing when we are about to make decisions or when we have choices. So wanting to know that they've been engaged that way. And we increased minority and women-known business. The 15 from 10. Or was it 15 from five? 15 from five, I think. Yes. Yeah. I think that accounts for our 15 points. I think we did five points up here and 10 points down there. Yep. So Paul, just before he left, when he announced he wouldn't be here earlier this morning, said his primary hope on all of this is we get the best possible OPM. So the background checks we're doing in the interviews to get someone who can really guide the process and be tough, be a good guide when we're facing decisions on saying you could do it this way or that way, but you might want to consider the following. So I think that is Anthony Jonathan can tell me, in the interviews with people and in the background references, that's where we're going to get that kind of qualitative flavor on aside from they are competent to do this. What is it like to work? I would agree. That's where that best of information is going to come out. We're going to get hopefully lots of very qualified candidates that respond when we're trying to find, as Paul has said, the very best. That's going to be the best for us. Let's give 100 points for that. If it was that easy. Best possible OPM, 100 points. So I'm not saying I'm looking on the screen and maybe I have to put up the participant list. If anyone has a comment, they can actually just be informal and call it out at this point. Okay. I'm not seeing anything. So Anthony will then make this final. And my understanding from a quick conversation is that Mike has been designated as the key contact with MSBA. So once we get it final, Mike will be the person who submits it. And we've been assigned a coordinator who up until now has been very, keep the schedule up here, Anthony, a little bit so everyone can see what that is. So they ask for it to come in. This is their schedule. They ask for it to be to them two weeks before we put it in the register. So if we can get it to them on Friday, we're well before that. So we think at the latest we'll be in the register by the 24th. And then the rest of the schedule is designed to meet each of their target points and get them back or final selected OPM, the group we've selected, by May 5th. We have to make May 5th in order to be on their June 7th panel. So these are their dates. So these, you'll see these are the key issue, the key points along that that we're going to get interview people, shortlist, pick the final per final group, negotiate, and then submit our selection. And one of the things they're asking is that we document that each step of the way when we do our final selection. So what did we hear? What did we ask during the interviews? What did we hear back? So at this point, we don't have a next meeting for the full committee set. So for in April, so we could make it that week of that third week in April. Maybe I'll get back to everyone on the best date because trying to figure out what part is subcommittee and what part is full committee is something we haven't done yet. So our meetings will always be this Wednesday time unless we can find out time. I know this is difficult for Diane and for Alison because they have to leave early, but any questions on this? I don't see any. Kathy, this is Sean. This is more of an observation. I really question it. It seems like the, and you guys know your workload, but the time for shortlisting respondents seems pretty like a tight turnaround from when you get the responses. I guess that'll sort of depend on how many you get, but a lot of times these are really big books of information that you might get from these OPMs. And then the interviews, I remember again, depending on how many you shortlist, I know those took, I think we might have done those over a couple days last time around because I think we interviewed, I want to say three or four of them, and they were pretty lengthy interviews. So again, it sort of depends on what you get, but just a couple comments from last time. It's definitely tight. It's tight and I think the place we might get an additional week is if we get this draft in by Friday and they review it with fairly minor changes. It's just that they want two weeks to review and we've given them more than that for that 24th date. So we could potentially, if we get it into Friday, we could possibly be in the register earlier than that. And just again on what that initial review process is. So that would give us some additional time. That wouldn't change the 19th, right? It could. Okay. If we get the RFS in the central register earlier, then we could just move this date up and leave the deadline where it is. Or we could move everything up and give ourselves more time for evaluation. There's arguments in favor of both, but this is a very tight timeline. I would be inclined to give ourselves a little more wiggle room here. So Anthony, is this schedule is the once we get it to them, we can change this as long as we get, right? Other than I'll include that in the email I sent to Mike to send to MSBA that if they can approve us earlier, we'd like to expand this schedule a bit. I don't know how this, I don't know how this process works, if it's like a little bit of back and forth or if they, if it just kind of goes into a black box and comes out again. At least my one experience with the project coordinator when I sent her question, she got back with me to me like two hours later. So I think we're assigned someone who jumps right on this and pulls in the resources. So any other questions or comments on this? You know, I also thought, you know, it's whoever is reading the documents, there's a lot of reading and then getting background interviews in a condensed amount of time. But if the readers simply block out the 20th and the 21st, just right, it can be done, right? Yeah, that's pretty much what would have to happen. Yeah. Yeah. So you just have to any of the, all the readers will, yeah. But the goal is to not extend the bottom there to beyond six, 10, right? Yeah, I mean, well really five, five is when it has to go to MSBA and we lose control of the timeline. So yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. And then there is this negotiate the price tag of all of this in there too. But all of that has to be, as Anthony just said, Steve, that May 5th date, if we miss the May 5th date, we're on July rather than July. Yeah, we don't want to do that. Yeah. Well, I've got the weekend that we, I've got that blocked out. So yeah, I'm ready to help. Okay. I have no idea how many responses we'll get for something like this. Okay. Yeah. So even for Fort River, we got three and that wasn't an MSBA project. So Yeah. So maybe 10 then. Yeah, I'm not sure. Well, and if we, and if we block the time and are prepared with, you know, rating sheets that are big enough to write comments on, you know, then that kind of read can go faster. So any other comments by anyone. And then I'll get back to people with the next meeting date once we just figure out what this schedule is looking like. So when the next full committee meeting would be, I don't see any hands up. I'm assuming we'll have public comment. Yeah, we are. I'm just making sure on the committee and I've got the full committee list. Okay, nobody's hands are up. So then I think we are, we will turn to public comments. And the call in person has his hand. I see one person, Anthony, with hand up. And so we'll call on that person first. Okay, color, if you unmute, you're muted right now, we brought you in and we can hear you. And if you would please state your name and where you live. Okay, my name is Vincent O'Connor. I live at 175 Summer Street in Amherst. And I was actually encouraged by the editorial comment and the bulletin by Bruce Coldham to think about your goals and so forth. And given that this, that the two buildings that are one of which will be the subject of this process are 50 plus years old. I hope the committee will think about what the climate is going to be in 50 years. And the, we've had a fairly stable climate. We have done without air conditioning, excuse me, we've done without air conditioning in our buildings. And I think that may be not a wise decision for the future. And we've also, and I, you know, given the potential instability of the climate over the next 50 years, I would certainly suggest that a system that allows for the heating and cooling process in the building to be, so you don't have a stop point and you stop heating and go to cooling, essentially a two pipe process might be a wise thing to look at for, you know, when you're looking 50 years out. Also, with regard to Bruce's thing, having hail resistant glass, I think might be important. It's unfortunate that we may have to deal with this, but I think we have to. And, you know, this is a Midwest Southeast process. Sorry. And, and also a tornado assembly location in the building, just trying to think about because you can't really, if you have a tornado warning, you really don't want to start putting kids on buses and sending them home to homes that may not have parents. So you may want to think about your, one of your locations, the cafeteria or so forth as a tornado assembly location. So those are just the common climate related things. And just related to all the, all the construction that's going on that is assumed to be only for university students, things change. And once you have all that housing in place, there is a potential possibility that you may end up with families with kids. So, and, and have a completely different demographic scenario than the one that appears to be on the immediate horizon. And I would just encourage the committee to think about maintaining control of both sites, because there really is not any really good site left in town for a school. And, and to think about the out, you know, years, what would happen, how would you go about the process of making sure we have sufficient elementary school space? And what is going to be the effect? I think you'd have to work with the region on this, on the region of reduced or increased school population. I don't think we should assume that the direction we're going in now is the direction that 10 years from now will be going in. And, and because the university is so dependent on out of state and out of country student that it's, this is a potentially, a situation that could potentially change very rapidly and very substantially and have a really unfortunate impact on the need for elementary school space. So anyway, thank you for listening. Thank you for your comments, Vince. And just so listeners and a public knows we are recording. So we'll take minutes, but we will be posting the recordings. So the comments will be recorded both us listening to it now and for the future. Anybody else? I'm not seeing any other hands. Wait a minute. No, I don't think so. Okay. So turning back to the committee, does anyone else have comments, questions? Did you say that Mike had one comment or was that Paul? Mike's comment was the auditorium Steve. When he was said, he wasn't sure he could make it. I said, what about the word auditorium? And he said, we actually can't, a dedicated space that was just an auditorium would be unusual or not. So he gave us that wording. That was it. And Paul was make sure the points get us the best possible person, you know, team, which is I think the interview and background checks and more, I don't think we can, we do have, in my opinion, we have a lot of points for experience and past performance through sprinkled throughout. So And I know people have to go now, but the points are to get us to the shortlist. And then after the shortlist, do we redo the points or what happens then? You rank them, but not based on, not based on any kind of rubric. Got it. So the points only get us to the shortlist. Got it. But I'm confident we have a process for that. And there's a disclaimer just before that you will be evaluated on these as well as others, you know, so it's, you know, we're telling them what our weights are for those specific attributes. Kathy, can you remind me who's doing the interviewing of the committee? I think that's a really good question, Phoebe. You know, right now we have, you know, the assumption going in, we have the subcommittee on OPM selection that started out with drafting. So we might, one issue would be, do we do a broader set of interviews when we get down to the finalist, and we certainly could do that would, you know, to, we've done that with the council, we've done, you know, if we're a full council, even if we're a subcommittee, we would have to be doing it in public, you know, so people, and then have some lead questioners with it. Anthony or Steve or Jonathan, I mean, what is your, would it be, and the subcommittee has five people on it right now, including Anthony, because we particularly, we were drafting this request, and he will be the officer doing the contracting with it, but we don't necessarily have, we didn't, people weren't volunteering for a subcommittee thinking about who would be doing the interviewing. So any other, any thoughts on that, Steve? But Anthony, I was just pointing to Anthony, because his hand up, yeah. So I'm not strongly, I have no strong feelings about whether the subcommittee should be the ones doing the evaluation and interviewing. I have very strong feelings that anyone who's doing the interviewing should participate in reading all the responses and and doing the short listing process. I don't think coming in just for the interviews is a very good idea. Also, Kathy hit on something that the interviews have to be in the sunshine, right? They have to be at a public meeting, so. Right, that doesn't mean that, you know, they'll have to take public questions, but yeah, I would have to, it would have to take place in a, in a posted meeting. Yeah. So Phoebe, well, I see Diane also, is Diane waving goodbye or yes? Sorry, thanks so much, Allison as well. Thank you. But we would make sure, because we're an Allison, but we're posting it, so you would be able to be, if you're not part of reading every document, you would be part of listening to everything the way I asked of people and those interviews will be important for the final selection. You know, so I think Steve's point is right and Anthony's point is right that you need to both be reading what they've submitted and writing and including to guide the interviews. Any other questions or comments? So what I will leave this at right now is we will get this ASAP to MSBA through Mike and once we hear back from them, we'll have a concrete schedule because we'll know are we ready to go to the register and the clock will start ticking on that. So we'll be able to send out a notice just to make sure everyone's available for, keep your Wednesdays open for a next meeting and then look at when, when, what times a day we might be scheduling some of these others like the interviews. But the, the, the subcommittee right now, whether everyone understood that, including Dwayne when you signed up for it, at least that group will be reading every submission. So we can broaden, we could increase the group if someone wants to be on in that and we can, we can, you can send me comments on it separately if you want to think about it now, but it will be an intense reading project when these first come in. I'm not seeing any other hands up either in the little raise your hand technique or this way. So I think we can adjourn the meeting and I thank everyone for getting up early in the morning and see you soon. Have a good rest of the week. Meeting is adjourned. Take care. No free. Thank you all. Thank you.


I have been, first of all, I want to tell you, I have a slap stick routine, which is I tend to get a slide ahead of myself or behind. You will hear me swearing cleanly from time to time while that happens. And maybe now that I've said that, it won't. This is based on a talk I gave last summer in Columbus, where I asked a bunch of designers if they wanted to do something with WordPress that I will not repeat here. It is on WordPress TV, however. But the question is with designers, it's always about how do you get WordPress to do what you want it to do? How do you get the power and the freedom, which are two different questions, actually, to make a WordPress site look like anything? Because a lot of people think a WordPress site, particularly the homepage, looks the same. And of course it doesn't. It looks like all kinds of things. But I've been beating that horse for a while. I mean, here's what I said in 2012. One theme, many variations. In 13, it was set your design mind-free, standardized framework. That was just after I bought the Genesis ProPack. Best investment I ever made, by the way. Three files in 14, unlimited design options. Hell, last summer in Kansas City in 15, I was lamenting how phone views all look alike, even though now we have to be mobile first. I've done a few things about that. But you know what? We are not the only people at the table. You know, there are some people who are like representing the client and the users. And you know, when we start getting off on these, but it needs to look different, and I want the freedom to do anything and they show us this.  Oh, come on. We're designers. Where else are they going to look? I mean, they're not going to keep looking at the upper left-hand corner. There's nothing there. There's a pink dot. I think that's where they're going to look now. Now this is power. We are pushing the eyeballs anywhere we want. We can make them go anywhere we please. But, and you know, that situation is great.   Am I right, you know, or is this really how we're going to design that car loan form? You think? I mean, I think that would drive us crazy. In fact, a lot of developers have a lot of common sense about this. This is my friend Jiminy, he's about a year older than my daughter. He lives in West Virginia, splits his time between there and the Bay Area, because he's a great developer. And being in West Virginia, he spends a lot of time around regular people, you know, who use the Internet for stuff. I mean, we do too. You know, we're certainly not going to take out a piece of paper and fax our car loan application. Yes, you are cordially invited to have a car loan. No, that's a spam email. So just as I was talking the other day or thinking to myself, I was sort of rehearsing talking to y'all. I now say y'all because it's fewer characters on Twitter than you guys. And there's what Jiminy said, and you know, he's right. You know, consider aesthetics, consider design freedom, but it's about the task. And it's about the user. And really, that's what we say in branding too. Every now and then, though, we get a good client. And we can break the mold based, of course, on the brief. And we can build something new.  For five years now, this site, you know, it's pretty out there for a home page. By the way, this is a Genesis site. Does it look like any Genesis site you normally see in a day? No, no, no, no header, no footer.  Mark was just talking about ideation. You know, who says we need a header? Who says we need a footer? Yeah, we probably need some navigation. You know, going around the ball? Here's where we talk about ideation. It's not like this concept came from nowhere. It started mostly because I did too, with a print piece, this folder. But that didn't come from a vacuum. And the reason I'm talking about this is because when I submitted the talk, it said, if you want your designs to go everywhere and really be creative, my first recommendation is thumbnails, ideation. And my second is widget areas. And the widget area part only takes about six minutes when we get to that. So I was back in St. Louis a week ago. And I dug out my old concept notebook and found the thumbnails for that folder. Here they are. And when I'm really being old lady about it, it sounds like I'm saying, do pages and pages of these? Well, I do one page of these. And it led to first this with the old club logo. And the widget evolved into this. And then this. And then I'm supposed to go back to the folder again here. But we'll just go right into the site. Eventually, this. Oh, which came from this when we did the website like a year later after the folder. Now, how do we execute this in WordPress? Now we get to the short part of the speech of the session. Widget areas. If you can master widget areas in WordPress, you can do anything design-wise. You have to know a little bit about functions and JavaScript to do anything functionality-wise. I still do a lot with plugins. So what is the difference between this, which looks more normal, and this in terms of the markup? What's the difference? Anybody? And really, that's it. There basically isn't one. They both started with this. One box, three widget areas. There are 8 million stories in the Naked City. Some old show that I'm at 56, even two young two have ever watched. 50 ways to leave your lover. Four ways in CSS to line up those three boxes. You know the four ways? What are they? Floats, Flexbox, Display, Floats, Flexbox, Display, layout grid, which isn't really a thing. Oh, and display table. I don't even know what that's for. Let's just not even talk about that. I thought we got rid of tables back when I was learning CSS in about 2007. I was just a sniff of a girl then. I was 47. So let's take a look and see how we actually do this. Here is your classic markup. This could be any page, a blog page, a special page you've created for a reason. There are a couple of these that I should have had up for something before now. And life got crazy, so it didn't happen. This, my notes, it's hiding my notes. This happens to be, say, my notes and underscores page. So there's the visual reference. I think I'm supposed to, say, take the clothes off of it at some point. Yeah, let's take the clothes off these divs. And there's some code here. So basically, you take the clothes off these divs, and now you see where we're going to move them to line them up here. And that's supposed to have some sort of heading. So let's code it up. One of these is Genesis. I'm a Genesis person. So first thing we want to do is we will have a template page, whether it's frontpage.php, or page, whatever, event, whatever. Or maybe it's just an archive page that we're going to throw a bunch of widgets on. So our markup's going to look something like this. Each of our widgets is going to get a name, like home center, home right, home left. And then, just very simply, you'll know what an array is who doesn't. It's a list of things. On one side, you have the things, and on the other side, you have what you're going to call them. What you're going to call them. We're going to call it home center. We're going to give it its class name. We're going to describe it. This is how it's going to be in the markup. We can even add the markup before it. And then, we go to functions.php, and we are going to register the widget areas. You know how at the bottom of functions.php, there's that section where it says, register sidebar array, or register sidebar. And then, you put in the name of it. Or in this case, you might do Genesis widget area. It has all sorts of names. But it always talks about, again, the name, the description, the ID, which I think is in case you want to do something in JavaScript, and a little bit of markup that describes the classes and the title if you want. Those are optional. Yeah, I'm noticing that. Pardon? OK. Yeah, there sure is. OK. My kind young friend is on it. Yeah, I noticed that was cut off, and a couple other things were cut off, and it's making it hard to understand. Probably should have done these as four on three. Hi. I'm vamping for the still camera. I can hide behind here. Oh, lovely. Just so we only see one thigh at a time. Yes. On my brand pages, I always make sure you just see part of the head, and one shoulder maybe. Takes about 100 pounds off. Should we go back? Let's go back. So in functions.php, we're going to register these sidebars. Still not great, is it? And you can all read everything on it, at least in the first few rows. Good, good. Here we are with the markup that goes on your actual page. Now, depending what else you're doing on that page, you may or may not want to disable the loop. Who here knows what the loop is? Do we need to explain it? Your basic page or your basic post gets content because of this thing called the loop. If you're messing with a template or with an archive page in Genesis, you will see a block of code that says, while have posts, the post, and some other things around it. If you just want your widgets and not any chronological display of posts, you start with slash asterisk. Do you ever wonder why that site is called slash dot? It's because slash dot, except it's really an asterisk. And then at the end of that block of code, you go asterisk slash. That's called commenting out if code is new to you. That's not so hard. And you can sound really, really sophisticated tonight at the after party and say, well, you just comment that out. People will think you've been developing for 10 years. And have I done the slapstick thing yet? No, good.  Show navigator, that's what I wanted to do. The reason we register the sidebars is so they'll show up on this widget area with the names that you gave them. You know, home featured, home featured, home featured. Word to the wise, if you give them complicated specific names as classes like home grid top left, home grid middle left, home grid bottom left, or whatever, then every time you add a new one, you have to add it with that name. Or home grid one, home grid two, home grid three. But since they're classes, if you just add home grid one time, you can repeat it in a grid fashion in your CSS without having a whole page of a whole template full of a bunch of different class names that are all essentially the same thing. And it won't clog up either of your template or your CSS. You know, there is no way to put jokes in an explanation of code. Y'all are looking at me real seriously, and I'm talking like I know what I'm talking about, and it's like, are we having fun yet? But that basically is how you do it. And I don't think I'm anywhere close to the 10-minute warning. It's 10, 12 AM. So, and we're done. I'm Mary Baum. My new practice is Racket Press. On Twitter, I am at Mary Baum. And somewhere, I had a slide that said all that. So ask me anything. No, you have to code that. When you're registering the one of your own, it doesn't come that way. Yeah, mm-hmm, yeah? They'll move to inactive due to the switching of the theme. Also, if you change hosts, there are some plugins that will sort of save that information. ServerPress supposedly does that. Duplicator helps with that. There are some clone things that help that. There's also take a screenshot of the widgets area before you change the theme. And take a screenshot of the customizer. I didn't do that once. That was a bad mistake, because I did not remember what I had in all those. The video plugin? Hell, I didn't know how it was configured. Learn from my mistakes. I'm not up here because I know stuff. I'm up here because I've made a lot of mistakes. Yep, probably just, yeah, I think the way you write them in the template file will, there is this thing called source order. I know there is. Chris Coyer talks about it on the radio all the time. But yeah, I think if you were to say, you know, widget three and then, you know, call widget two and widget one, you could very well. I don't know why it, I mean, I guess you have very good reasons why it matters that are beyond my can. What else? Yes, it does. Yeah, yeah, this works just as well in underscores as it does in Genesis. That's why we sort of do it two ways. What's cool about Genesis, though, is you can apply this to an archive and style an archive and an archive in Genesis, you know, like category.php, already comes with some introductory text in a box on the admin page that in other themes, in other frameworks, would be the reason that you create a template page. As many as you like. I'm kind of scared of asking you. But now with the page builder type of things, you can do that without going through this trouble. Yeah, of doing it this way? You can change it without, my lovely friend here asked, what are the advantages of coding templates instead of using page builders? When you use page builders, they pretty much, once you change the theme or when you're adding content, they have their own ways of doing that, that unless you spend some time getting to know that particular page builder will cause you in later iterations, or if you're not familiar with that particular one, to break your site because they all have things that are a little bit different. If you take the time to learn to build your template with hooks and filters, this little bit of presentational PHP with CSS, then anybody you ask to help you with the site, anybody you hand it off to, or if you just get to the point where you're so successful that you have people you need to hire, they'll be able to go in instantly and know exactly what's going on with the site without endangering anything. The site won't have any idiosyncrasies that somebody has to look out for. A dear friend of my sister-in-laws a year or so ago, last summer, suddenly last summer, asked for help with a site that had been built with a page builder and had three sliders. I was like three sliders. I disabled the wrong two and knocked out their home page. Lesson learned again. I mean, if you can type, if you can write English, if you can learn a language, like French or English or whatever, this isn't really that much harder. It isn't any harder because it's still English. Ten minutes? What else? Do you want this one? I think I got these backwards when I was explaining them to you. I apologize. Here is where we registered the widget areas. Say that five times fast. Infunctions.php.  Genesis register sidebar array. Then below it, we have the id, site, or let's go down one. Home featured one. That's what's going to show up on the widget page. The name, home featured one. Actually, the name is what's going to show up. The id, I don't know what the only id is, but the description there is, this is the home featured one section. That's that little line of text that appears as the description under the title in the widget area. That's the theme name of that demo. Clinics men, you always, the name, all of these arguments, which is what those lists are called in an array, need to have two. They take two, the thing in the parentheses, each one of those is an argument. And it happens that you make something up there that is connected to the name of the theme. And it has to do with what goes on up higher in functions.php to declare that that's your theme name. And then you can also add a third argument to that, which is a number. Mathematicians would say integer. And when you specify a number in that third position, it gives you, it tells it what order you want it to load in. So if there's a one, it's going to load first. If there's a 30, it's going to load after all the things that have loaded with lower numbers. So this is the home featured three section down at the bottom corresponds to home featured two up at the top there. This is the home featured three section. See that? Home featured three in bold. The home featured three section. See how those go together? Make sense? Yep. Yeah. A side is a native HTML5 element equivalent to a sidebar. And so it's like the p tag. A side is a tag for a sidebar. Sure. You want to see me up here trying to find where it says aside in the little tiny thumbnail. Is it this one? Yeah. Yeah, they want to, any of these sites, oh, see where it says div ID secondary. That's HTML, XHTML four minutes for a sidebar. In HTML5, you could get rid of all of that and just say aside. And it would be the same as a sidebar. What else? Well, thank you very much. Oh, wait, back there. Oh, that sounds like it could be a template problem or it could be a CSS problem. It could be that whatever is next to your sidebar is too wide. And actually, you're going to find that sidebar way down below. You've got your sidebar down below. Here's a tip for keeping your layouts fluid. Use percentages for width. And make sure things don't add up to quite 100%, just so that you always, you know, if your main content is like 70%, make sure whatever is next to it is like 25% or 26%. So then they'll always line up. Yes, anything else? I guess, again, thank you very much. I hope this has helped. 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So, a topic came out which I thought was really interesting. It's something that particularly Ankhana had been talking about for a long time, but other people we've been talking about. And that is the significance of 9-11 to what's happening today. And 9-11 is, I think, in American history, in modern American history, is a key event, is a pivotal event, and I think to a logic's extent, is shaping the world in which we live today. I don't want to go over some of the ways in which that manifests itself, and some of the consequences that I think have come about because of 9-11, and kind of the response to 9-11. Because it's really, I think the pivot is not so much 9-11. I think the real impact on the culture is how a political class responded to 9-11, how the culture responded to 9-11. And that has really paved its way to what we're experiencing now. So, let's talk about that. I'll remind everybody, you can ask questions on pretty much anything. I'm known to answer questions on pretty much anything. And to do that, you can use the super chat, the super chat feature on YouTube. It's just a button at the bottom there. It's easy to do. You can also use that to support the show and to support what I do. This is these funds make the show possible. All right, really what they do is they make it possible for me to devote the time I need for the show. Because the actual, this setup doesn't cost that much money. What cost money is my time. So, let's talk about 9-11. So, we'll divvy it up into a number of different buckets. So, let's start with the idea that to this day, it is a complete and not a mystery to a political and to some extent a cultural elites. Who actually attacked us in 9-11? I don't think there's any conception of who that is. There's this vague notion that it was terrorists. But that's about it. Terrorists attacked us on 9-11. And as a consequence, we need to fight terrorism. We're the terrorists. It's really interesting because it's the first, maybe not the first big lie, but certainly it's the big lie that has defined kind of our culture, I think, in the 21st century. If you after 9-11 suggested, as many of us did, that maybe Islam had something to do with it. Oh no, God forbid. No. You know, George Bush invites Muslim Imams to the White House to celebrate the Ramadan a month after 9-11, right, in October of 2001, in his famous speech to join a session of Congress. Islam is a religion of peace.  Now, think about that in the context of conspiracy theories when everybody knew they were Muslim, right? All of them. Every single one of the terrorists. And that Islam was not an accidental feature of the attack that they did. The attack was done in the name of Islam. But it wasn't even a politician's can even say it's radical Islam, militant Islam. I mean, we gave them a million different terms that they could use. We use the term totalitarian Islam, Islamists, jihadists, something that would link this to the religion. God forbid. And it was God forbid because remember George Bush was religious and of course the left didn't want to insult anybody. You know, that and the right is religious. They don't want to blame religion. Religions. All religions are peace. All those millions of people who've died in religious wars. No.  Was it warriors? It's wars. God forbid. Again, you can't name religion as the source, as the cause, as the motivation for any atrocity that's ever happened. So what you get is this silence. And you're not allowed to say certain things. And you're canceled. If you do say certain things. And if you think about the first protests on campuses of speakers, I remember being with, I don't think they were protesting me as much, but I was with Daniel pipes. I did a lot of events in those days. I don't know if you guys know who Daniel pipes us. But Daniel pipes of Amity's form was excellent after 9 11 is an analysis and is an analysis of what happened. Not quite as good as that in minutes, but really, really good. And we would do events with him. But he was known as, you know, the so called Islamophobic notice Islamophobic, you're afraid of Muslims. So you blame on everything.  But the demonstrations, the attempts to silence. I was attacked more by people after 9 11 in talks that I gave all over the country, I interrupted attacked than I ever was by Tifa or in more modern times by by the modern left. In over and I gave a talk, I can't remember what year it was, maybe six or seven. You know, I literally they stormed the stage. A bunch of them spent the night in jail. Luckily, I had really good security. The Irvine police were there and they clamped down on these guys and they put them in handcuffs and they immediately whiz them off to it. So these guys were prepared. But it was scary in those days. I you know, I don't know how often I often I've said this but you know, I don't know if you guys know, but I still we will protest in the post 9 11 when I used to talk about foreign policy stuff. That's how because we get death threats. Again, people demonstrate and threaten and and you know, in all kinds of ways and so my my wife and my Chief Administrative Officer, the Iranian student, insisted that I wear a boat of vests like I accommodated the wishes I would travel all over the world with a bulletproof vest when I when I spoke on on terrorism, foreign policy, morality of war, Israel, all of those things that it was one of these you and assured. So most people couldn't tell. So if you look at the video, you won't be able to tell. But security guys would always tell they would look at me and say, you're wearing a vest, right? And and the answer was yes. So given, you know, given the death threats, given their tax much worse than anything we've experienced since then, Ilan. I mean, the threats he got over over what of identifying Islam as a source of the 9 11 attacks.  I mean, it was scary. It was scary at the Institute in the in the first 10 years in the first 10 years after 9 11. So and of course, we got no support from the intellectuals with the exception of people like Daniel Pipes. Think about what happened during the Danish cartoons. Again, many of you were too young to remember the Danish cartoons. Well, when the Danish cartoons came out, there were demonstrations and riots all over the world. George Bush in his immense courage said that yeah, you know, it's inappropriate to publish the cartoons because it affects it's offensive. So we shouldn't really do it. Then no newspaper in the United States would run the cartoons. They all chickened out. They all were afraid. We went on campuses. We blew the cartooners out to massive posters. And we went on campuses and put them up on stage behind us and did panels and free speech during the cartoon, the Danish cartoon crisis. Now you know, I will profess and people would freak out and the universities would freak out and the universities in NYU, New York University, they allowed us to do the event only if we didn't show the cartoons. And if we only allowed students and did not allow general public in. So we ended up doing the event with the cartoons in the back all covered with sheets, which was actually more effective because here was the silencing that we were talking about. In some places wouldn't provide security. They wouldn't protect our right to speak, even though we were legitimate and invited and people were threatening violence.  Muslims in this case. That got really embedded in American culture around the issue of Islam after 9 11. I don't think there was this attitude. I mean, there was some political correctness in the 90s.   You can't name certain groups in certain contexts. And if you think about today, you can list all the groups that you can't offend, you can't name, you can't do anything. So you know, that's one dimension. I think the dimension of speech, self censorship, think about how many people in the 2000s started to self censor, started to talk about terrorists without naming the terrorists started talking about what motivated them would drove them. I mean, think about we engaged in multiple wars without ever naming the enemy, refusing to name the enemy, like who's that we're going to Iraq, why because terrorists attacks us in 9 11? What does you rock have anything to do? Oh, they have weapons of mass destruction. What does that have to do with 9 11 blank? Nothing. Right? We're going to build democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq. Why? Because we were attacked in 9 11. What does that have make the world is safer place for whom from whom blank nothing. And of course, in Iraq, we brought in all the tribal leaders, let them write an Islamist constitution with Islam everywhere in it. And we said nothing yet, whatever, whatever you guys do want to do, that's fine. You can keep your Islam because you know, Islam had nothing to do with 9 11. So that's okay.  But we want to preserve Islam. We don't want to do anything about Islam. We just, you know, just don't worry, be happy. Everything's fine. So everybody think about a culture where everybody knew Islam had something to do with it. But nobody was willing to say it. All the intellectuals, all the political leaders, all the quote elites were silent, refuse to talk about it self censored. And the rest of the people are looking at this and saying, What the hell? We know what happened. We get what happened. And you won't tell us. And I think that's the, it's not the beginning because everything has been building up over decades. But it really is a major a major step towards the distrust of elites, the distrust of the media, the distrust of our political class, you know, the fact that they're so brazenly lying to us, and so brazenly self censoring and forcing us to self sense censor as well. And again, that whole attitude towards the elites towards our politicians, that has, you know, increased as we've, as we moved into today's culture. It's all over the culture. So so it's, it's two aspects of this came out of 911. The self censorship, speech issue, and the distrust issue, the distrust issue, we stopped trusting the so called authorities, the so called people who supposedly knew what they were doing. This includes our generals, and includes the entire establishment would not tell us who actually committed the 911. And it and of course it continued, right? Because there were terrorist attacks after 911.  There was the call there was others. And never blame anybody. And of course, Europe is even worse, because there they have more they had more terrorist attacks, at least in terms of numbers. I'm not sure in terms of casualties, if they've got to the level of 911, in terms of percentage of the population, I don't think so, even cumulative. But it was major, right? There was a train in there was a train in Spain, you know, pretty quickly after 911.  And you can never say that this was caused by Muslims. And of course, Europe cave completely to Danish cartoons. And we saw what happened. What was the other big event with regards cartoons, right? In France, Charlie Hebdo, right? Charlie Hebdo.  And everybody went out in the streets. We are Charlie Hebdo. Yes, we, you know, Charlie, remember that? Yes, we Charlie on Twitter. Everybody changed their hand to the just we are Charlie. How many of those people showed cartoons? Because if you're Charlie Hebdo, isn't it incumbent on you to show the cartoons? Isn't that what means to be Charlie Hebdo? Almost nobody. Nobody posted them on Twitter. Nobody posted them on Facebook. Nobody, nobody because you can't offend.  So that is such a massive betrayal of the American people, the European people, such a massive betrayal by the people in charge of all of us, they're supposed to be in charge of protecting us. I'll trust in the ability to protect us goes out the door when they won't even name the enemy. They won't even name who attacked us. They refuse to do it. So that's one aspect. I think everything comes from that in a sense, because if you don't name the enemy, how do you fight it? You can't. It's a haphazard, you know, uncoordinated, unintegrated attempt to fight a bunch of different groups that you can't tie together because you can't name what ties them together. You leave a lot of groups that are affiliated with the actual event with radical Islam or Islamic totalitarianism, you leave them free because you can't attack them because they gave you no cause, supposedly because Islam is not responsible. See, go to Afghanistan. What are you doing there? What's the purpose? Who are you trying to kill? You know, are you going after Taliban or are you just going after al-Qaeda? And if you're going after both for the purpose of what? What's going to replace the Taliban? Are we going to stay there? Are we going to leave? No answers. Nobody knows. We go to Iraq. What's the connection? Why do we care? Why American kids dying in Iraq? For whom? For what? What's the connection with the attack? Are we then going to go to Iran, which might you could argue is the origin of the problem? No, they tell us and no, they indeed they didn't indeed they handed Iraq to the Iranians. A complete disastrous policy that led to defeat. We lost Afghanistan. We lost Iraq. I don't know, 6,000 American kids died for no reason. Soldiers in both in both missions. We failed. You know, somebody says Saudi Arabia. No, Saudi Arabia is our friend. Saudi Arabia is our ally. Oh, but it's Saudi Arabia's ideology that fuels the terrorists. Well, but you can't say that. There is no ideology. They're just terrorists. That's it. It's no ideology. So we can't blame Saudis and we can go after the Saudis and 16 of the terrorists with Saudis. Oh, that doesn't matter. Just accident just happened to be from Saudi Arabia. They could have been from, you know, New Guinea. They could have been from anywhere. So Saudi is our friend. It's an ally in the war on terrorism because it's just terrorism. So the failure, the American failure, they make a defeat and we should call it a defeat in Iraq and in Saudi Arabia in Iraq and Afghanistan by basically the worst elements within Islam has infected our culture with, you know, multiple things. One, no self-esteem. America is no longer exceptional. There's nothing special about America. The wars are not just because they never explained. So we're just like Russia invading Ukraine. I see that all the time from conservatives and liberals. Putin's not particularly bad. He's not worse than America. America went into Iraq. He's going into Ukraine. What's the difference? There's no difference, right? And since it was never explained, since it was never justified, and since we left it a bigger mess than when we came, arguably, what is the difference? Afghanistan? What do we do there? Nothing. Taliban was there before. Taliban is there now. Spent 20 years there and did zilch, nothing, except get a lot of Americans killed. I reviewed on my show a few months ago, years ago, I can't tell the movie Outpost. I don't know if you've ever seen the movie Outpost. I highly recommend it. It's just, it's a fantastic movie that illustrates, it's true story based on true story of an outpost in Afghanistan. The other, the other, what's the words? Disregard, our politicians and our generals have towards American soldiers. They don't care. They're just fodder. Just fodder for political games, for diplomatic games, for the, for the, for the, for the, you know, for, for whatever the generals and the politicians come up with. This is an outpost that there was no reason for American troops to be there and they were there clearly at a disadvantage versus the Taliban, and they were going to die and they were going to be killed and everybody knew it. Nobody cared. Nobody cared. And the movie kind of shows that and shows the battle. And it's heart wrenching.  They have a lot of disregard for Afghan lives, lots of regard for Afghan lives, complete disregard for American lives. Same happened in Iraq, massive regard for Iraqi lives, complete disregard for American lives. And Americans became cynical, became cynical about their government, cynical about foreign policy became, you know, became cynical about their own country. We lose the country. We can't win a war. We haven't won a war since World War Two. You know, these are primitive barbaric cultures. We can't even beat them. Why were we even there? What were we trying to achieve? Well, we didn't achieve anything. And everybody knows we didn't achieve anything. And now with Biden retreat, I mean, it was perfect. What Biden did was actually perfect, the perfect ending for Afghanistan. Since it was a fiasco from day one, it's appropriate. It's a fiasco at the end. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me, you get value from listening, you get value from watching, show your appreciation. 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On United States President Joe Biden is in full praise for Congress Speaker Nancy Pelosi over what he calls her masterful leadership. It follows the approval of the White House's $3.5 trillion budget plan to expand childcare and other social programs. The Pelosi-led House has also agreed to approve a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill next month that has already been passed by the Senate. Today, the House of Representatives has taken a significant step toward making historic investments that are going to transform America, cut taxes for working families, and position the American economy for long-term, long-term growth. Right now, our economic growth is leading the world's advanced economies. But to win the future, we need to take the next step. Today, the House of Representatives did just that. That today's vote in the House allowed them to consider my Build Back Better agenda, a broad framework to make housing more affordable, bring down the cost to prescription drugs by giving Medicare the power to negotiate lower prices for drugs. I want to thank Speaker Pelosi, who was masterful in her leadership on this, and Leader Hoyer and Wip Kleibern and Chairman DeFazio, the entire House leadership team for the hard work, dedication, and determination to bring people together so we can make a difference in people's lives.


Hey guys, Dylan Schumacher with Citadel of the Fence and today I want to talk about being the hero. Coronavirus mayhem is going on right now when I'm filming this and a lot of people are out panicking buying guns which is great, good for you. It's a lot of people who of course who have never used or owned guns before and now want a gun to protect themselves, which is which is great. That's what guns are for and I've read a couple articles seen a bunch of tweets about people saying, well you know, why would you buy a gun? It won't make you safer. It'll make you, it'll put your life in more danger It's not helpful. It's not gonna do anything and on and on and on, which is all of course untrue and obviously the common person knows that that's why they're out buying guns but the thing that I thought was the most interesting or at least deserved the most discussion was this idea that you can't be the hero. It was this, it's a lot of these tweets and stories that I've read have this general mocking tone of who are you to think that you could be a hero and you're gonna save your family and you're gonna protect everybody with your gun? And it's this kind of high-minded. I sneer at this idea of heroism and I derive you for thinking that you could somehow be the hero or somehow save people. I guess I think that's interesting for a couple things. One, I wonder when it became unfashionable to desire to be heroic. When did, when did that happen? I don't know. I guess somewhere pretty recently in the past like 10 or 20 years where at least on the extreme left it became, it became derided and it became something that is to be mocked and sneered at and and just treated like some kind of boyish childhood fantasy that doesn't have any place in the real world. However, throughout history all societies that I know of have embraced and supported and held up heroism as a trait that's valuable, that that's a noble trait, that it's something to be pursued, that of course we want you to be heroic and do heroic things and seek to be the hero. Because those societies obviously need people to do heroic things in order to continue to exist. Namely protect them from other societies, correct? So I find this whole sneering at heroism thing really interesting. One, just from a kind of anthropological viewpoint, but two from a much more personal point if it was you or your wife or your kid that was trapped inside some area with a mass shooter and I was on the outside of that building and I had the requisite skill set and equipment to go in there and solve that problem and bring them out alive. Wouldn't you want me to do that? Vice versa, right? I mean if it was my kid in there and you had the requisite equipment and skill set wouldn't I want you to go in there and save them? I mean the answer is of course yes, of course we want that. That's why we still do hold up heroism in a lot of different contexts, right? We treat firemen as heroes because they risk their own lives to go into burning buildings to pull you out of them or good police officers who again enter those situations in order to bring people out alive. These are heroic things. I think I tend to define a hero as someone who would risk their lives for someone else or someone who is willing to pay the cost so that others won't have to. Those are kind of what I think of as heroic things. So what I want to tell you is be the hero, desire to be the hero. I don't see anything wrong with that. I don't understand why it's a bad thing that should be derided to want to be heroic. I want you to get in there. I want you to problem solve it. Part of the reason I teach people how to shoot guns is because I hope that someday they're in a good position where they can be the hero where they can stop someone from killing other people and thereby save many. That's what we want. We want people to be heroes. I want to live in a nation of heroes, home of the brave. So be the hero, get in there, problem solve that situation and don't ever let anybody deride you or sneer at you for your desire to be heroic. The desire to protect and to be heroic is a good desire. Yeah, sure, we can get off the rails with it a little bit, but you can do that with anything. But the base core desire of desiring to protect people and be heroic and save people, that's a good thing. And I'm going to support that all day long. To brave deeds and endure.


What we're experiencing now is a health crisis, but there are economic and labor market implications to this globally in the short term. Unfortunately, migrants tend to be overrepresented in those sectors that are likely to see the brunt of this. That's tourism, hospitality, restaurants. Those small businesses employed a lot of migrant workers here in Vienna, and the same is true in cities around the world. So unfortunately, migrant workers are going to be facing the brunt of a lot of the job losses that we're going to be seeing in the wake of this pandemic.