Hi everyone. Hi Lily. How are you? I'm doing well. How are you Lillian? I'm good. How was your 4th of July? It was it was pretty good You know the usual family time not a lot of things, you know are open but but you know, it's We're we're we're healthy and and that's what matters. How about you? the same a lot of home time, but definitely Try to enjoy our nation's independence. So welcome to everyone to coast-to-coast my name is Lillian Corral and I'm joined by my colleague Lily Weinberg and This is our weekly show on the future of cities So last week we took a little bit of a hiatus But we've been talking about some very like interesting and sort of interesting topics around exactly what's been happening in our city So Lily, I don't know if you want to give us a little bit of a rundown of what we've talked about what we've learned so far Yeah, yeah, I mean it's certainly been an interesting journey. I would say yeah, you know And we've been on this now for for two and a half months and And and so we started, you know during this very dynamic time Looking at the future of public spaces what that means in context of COVID We we then did a deep dive into some of the equity issues that we're seeing in our communities Especially in context of the the murder of George Ford And and so we looked at St. Paul and had a really good conversation with their chief equity officer We also looked at You know, what does it mean to do place-making and and at the intersection of equity and the arts? and And you know, I mean, I think that it's it's been a really fascinating conversation this last one that we had two weeks ago Was looking at cultural bridging? you know and and talking across Races and and what does that look like especially as we think about anti-blackness in our communities and so I you know equity Has has been a thread through all of the conversations and it's not just about the last three It's it's been a thread through it and I'm really interested in this next conversation that we're gonna have today around You know the digital world and and and especially the equity issues that that we're gonna see Elevated through that so yeah, no, that's a great recap and it's funny We have been on this journey for a while now. So thanks to everyone who keeps who keeps joining us So today, you're right. We're talking about the digital public square and we thought this was a good Topic of conversation. I'm really excited by our guests because We have seen obviously we can't all be out on the streets and the spaces that we usually Take up to be civically engaged are no longer accessible to us. So we're all online. And what does that look like? What is it? What are these trends? What does civic life look like? especially In this pandemic stays with us for a very long time, which it definitely feels like it's going to be here for a while And so how do we make sure we don't lose our civic life? In this moment, so I'm really excited to kick it off and and talk today with Mona Sloan and Warren flood so Mona is a New York based sociologist she works at NYU And she's really been working at the intersection of AI design and policy and a lot of her latest research really focuses on Developing an understanding of how we're making these digital shifts as a society especially right now during COVID and where so where we're populating these digital spaces and frankly where they're falling short And and how we can make sure that we are keeping everyone in our community engaged and an active part of Community building and then we also have Warren flood with us who is the corporate affairs officer for Microsoft in Detroit He works with civic leaders community stakeholders and citizens as they tackle urban challenges and prior to joining Microsoft Warren Has a history in data analytics both on the consulting side, but also having worked on several political campaigns And and with political efforts across the country. So thank you both for joining us. It's really interesting to have you here And so as I said today, you know, we're exploring the communities that we engage civically online and offline and And then obviously the outbreak of COVID really has shifted the way that we use these tools And we don't foresee any any changes to our shelter in place strategy Especially not in places like where I live in Los Angeles. We're hunkering back down again Miami is closing down So let's start first by framing all of this and I thought Mona, maybe we could start with you You've used this word public as a practice with us and so I thought maybe we could start by just talking about what it means to be public and And what you're seeing how you see that play out as people are moving digitally Making the shift into kind of just a more digital life if you will Thanks so much Lilian and Lily for having me and Warren also it's such a pleasure and I'm so excited about this conversation Apologies for the background noise. There's a car going off The joys of being you know, public and private At an event. So yes, so thanks for that first question. So what I sort of try to think about when I think about Publicness as a practice is sort of on the one hand critically examine what kinds of affordances of successful physical public space are being carried over into the digital practices that sustain our social life in the shelter in place situation and in the lockdown but also what that means in terms of the different inequalities and inequitabilities that we are seeing in public space both digitally and and sort of physically and And sort of to help anchor that sort of thinking and that framework What helps me thinking doing that is basically thinking about three main points. The first one being Publicness as a practice looking at how do people really do that What does it mean to be together while we are apart? What kinds of social glue do we develop to do that? How are we on the flip side our private and public or used to be private and public? And sort of what kinds of behaviors came out of that? The second one is questions around community and sort of a feeling of belonging The questions around membership. What are the conditions of membership for a certain community? And how do we develop a sense of publicness and belonging for different kinds of communities that cluster around different kinds of activities ideologies goals kinship, you know any kind of social ties and the third point is really about power and and and Policing and gatekeeping and thinking about publicness as a practice that is as much about being open and making connections as it is about Contesting assumptions about a contested space about friction and along those lines very much about whiteness ideas coming out of white supremacy Prolucing along racial lines who can be in who can be out and sort of really looking at how is this Done. That's what I mean when I when I say we need to look at publicness As a practice is something that is being done with materials technologies with certain skills and certain meanings That's great. And our audience tends to be mostly city practitioners planners Official, you know, but both in placemaking as Lily had a little alluded to and also just design So for those folks that are joining us, please feel free to ask us questions In a little bit, we'll turn it over to Lily to take to gather some of the public questions This is a really important conversation So then just real quickly one What are the kind of like big trends that you're seeing like just in the in the first couple months of the of the of the COVID Outbreak in terms of how we're acting as a public online Great great question. Thank you. So I'm drawing what I'm saying now I was drawing on a research project that I'm currently directing which is called here in Cognita whereby I have a wonderful team of researchers who are studying the emergence of digital public space in New York City's Lockdown and I would say one of the main thing main themes That we are seeing is really a close connection between and I know we're going to talk about the flavor between Locality and local communities and how they are an active digitally. So existing social ties social connections That are then sort of played out deep and expanded through technologies that become available and their affordances and as part of that Also, we're seeing a little bit of tinkering with the technology moving maybe from one platform to the other Which we call platform switching to sort of see what works better and sort of what is more in line with one community over the other We see like teachers, you know teaching over zoom. I teach over zoom and we have parents watch that groups as in as as the protests started to happen as part of the Black lives matter movement. We're seeing a Signal come up as a highly encrypted a new Platform used by more and more people. So there's a lot of movement movement going on Another thing that we're seeing is a lot of programming. So we're seeing a lot of public institutions Putting their program online like we do now or also what we do at NYU and sort of participation and an enactment of Publicness happening that way that is quite interesting And so the third thing I'm going to say is that we might want to be a little careful about thinking or Think that this is all new a lot of these digital spaces already existed prior to the lockdown that they are now expanding and they're you know changing the meaning and sort of Along those lines again, we must be mindful of who does what together with whom and under what condition right who can Yeah, and which sort of links to interesting conversations and important conversations about the digital divide and so on Yeah, so definitely an acceleration of the use of a lot of these digital tools And then you're right a lot of platform usage, which I think is a great segue to Warren and Detroit So we definitely wanted to ground this conversation of what's happening in the city And then it was interesting when I reached out to the folks the leadership of Detroit In terms of their their CIO Beth Nylock I was like Beth I want to talk a little bit about how you're engaging the public because I know they're making all these great efforts and she's like Well, if you want to talk to someone you got to talk to Warren so Warren Tell us about what's happening in Detroit and in this context and how you're seeing folks engage digitally and and then also like The value of it if you could talk a little bit about because not every city is really actively Trying to engage and build the muscles to engage their community digitally So can you can you tell us what's happening in Detroit and why you see it being so valuable? Love to thank you. Lily and Lily as well Mona and I we can go on talking about these issues and we have in will for hours Here in Detroit Detroit's known as being the least connected city So we're already starting from behind. We're even just catching up and doing The same is going to leave our folks while behind and we really saw with cove it coming around that The digital divide was really exacerbated in our city and also created this real sense of urgency but what has grown out of that is this beautiful coming together of all sectors in the community Around tackling this digital divide aiming for digital inclusion for all. It's first started with a real effort to equip every single Detroit public school student from K through 12 with an appropriate device and with connectivity at home So they can learn from a home for all 50,000 plus students. It has really evolved into What about every other detroiter that you know is at risk of being left behind so Because we've been sort of starting from behind We really are looking at well, what can we do in order to? Not only catch up but to leapfrog and be where everyone's included. So the second thing that sort of come out of Covid was that negative exacerbation of the digital divide, but this opportunity we really have seen two years of digital transformation Happen in a span of two months, which has opened up everyone's eyes and said, oh, what's possible? And so that's created a little bit of an opening where partners like Microsoft and you know other great partners Google Amazon are also heavily involved in the city of we really have taken this community driven approach where how can we come alongside community efforts and Enable them with with technology, but really it's not us talking about the technology It's really coming alongside the community to dream big start small Iterate and then once we know that we have something figured out how to scale that quickly And so you have seen that happening and this is happening across Detroit As Mona said the the lens to see the work is not through technology lens It's through that community lens and really how can we empower? Those in-person interactions in places in spaces We need to we need to as we're looking at the virtual Side of that coin we need to keep in mind that this really is about those in-person interactions Not about the technology itself So can you guys a couple of quick examples and then maybe also talk a little bit about I know this isn't I mean This has definitely been accelerated by COVID But this is something you've been working on with the city over a while So can you talk a little bit about those efforts and and and then for the audience again? What what exactly does this look like of having technology work alongside the community? I love to so we've really kind of come along in phases with the city again piggybacking off of all that Mona has said How we can come alongside the city as well as the community partner data-driven Detroit a very very strong organization that the reason why I lit up when I first met them is because They don't come at it from a data analytics firm They really are a community organizing group that happens to be ridiculously good at data analytics So when I was looking at the efforts as they were coming alongside the city I'm how we could bolster their efforts to connect with residents really four phases emerge number one was user feedback on City apps because as we know a comfort level with apps could be a barrier So how to make them as user friendly for all Detroiters as possible out of that came The the kind of group the civic user testing group that data-driven Detroit powered on behalf of the city of Detroit To really help start trying to address a digital divide The second part then really kind of evolved from oh, how do we look at the digital divide as a whole? And how do we resource and track? Collective impact that's happening but in this digital inclusion space and again data-driven Detroit stood up a metro data Metro Detroit data Alliance Which again really helped to? Not centralized but to pool and coordinate as a resource the data across The spectrum and then the third part that we're really excited about which is how do we kind of transcend? Just looking at specific applications and we're looking at how do we upgrade these physical community gathering places that already exist With technology and programming to help folks access the digital landscape So we're coming with a series of hundreds of neighborhood tech hubs designated throughout the city In order to help make it as easy as possible for residents who might not have Equipment devices connectivity at their home be able to connect and to feel more comfortable with it And then it's like how do we transcend even these physical places and spaces? And that's we're really coming alongside to empower people to digitally access their digital landscape through these community ambassadors Which are community organizers who sold job It is is to help residents become more comfortable using this technology for the betterment of their learning their employment But also their well-being in life That's great And so we're going to put a link out I thought it'd be great to share with folks a link to the data different Detroit Group like even just the intake form to see exactly how they're engaging the public in participating and this is a user testing group that the city has to actually Test any new technology that's being deployed just an easy way to engage so Obviously one of the key question I definitely want to move to this topic of localism and community But one of the key questions I know has been, you know top of mind for everybody is this issue of privacy It's come up in the protest. It's come up in in both in the contact tracing context as well for co-bed So Mona, what are the kind of high-level implications for our privacy? And I know this could be like a conversation unto itself But like what are the high-level implications for privacy in all of this? And then you've written a little bit about this too. So we'll also put some links to some articles that you've talked about Yeah, that's a big question Lillian. So I think maybe we want to backtrack a little bit and think about What happens before we even ask questions about privacy, which I think are important questions around infrastructures and public versus private ownership of infrastructures and what what happens What are the government structures that we have around these? infrastructures who owns what in what way and if it is their democratic oversight that's sort of the baseline I think that we need to look at first and then Obviously as we as we sort of use these largely or mostly privately owned infrastructures And centralized infrastructures as sort of the social glue that holds us together and that facilitates our social life in the lockdown Issues around data extraction and and privacy Come up. So at these can be very Technical and pragmatic and about security how how secure is zoom, right? Can there be a zoom booming? What happens to your cloud recording who owns that data? Can it be can it be hacked? What happens to it? but then sort of leading on to that are really issues around Again, sort of inequalities and equities and structures of power and oppressions that are imbued into design processes and data analytic processes. So highly surveyed communities Immigrant communities for example or Communities of color who have been under under surveillance. The question is will this shift to the digital under this particular ownership structure exacerbate exacerbate this surveillance and this policing and therefore the oppression and that is not just related to privacy when we privacy I know it's a very big, you know We love talking about privacy To do data right and sort of a key mechanism that we have when we talk about privacy is a consent And as we've seen with the GDPR That does not always work so well because we don't really can't can we really give consent to something We don't really understand and what we don't understand then necessarily is how is this data being used used to build models? Which are predictions of the future, right? That sort of live on beyond the data. So even when the data is being deleted Sort of harmful assumptions and patterns can live on that were sourced from this from this data I could talk about this forever, but these are sort of some of the concerns and thoughts that I have Related to that. However, what I will also say is that I do see With this sort of really rapid shift into the digital space Rapidly growing collective literacy and knowledge around that That that is emerging which kind of excites me because we're talking about it because we're experienced. Yeah Yeah, no, I think the dialogue. Oh, sorry. Go ahead one. I'm just gonna say for Mona That's exactly why I think The phases of work that we described is really important because it comes out of the trust, right? So these phases not only help build trust between residents in the city But by taking on as many different projects for us to all work together cross sector and building up these small wins It's really important to build trust between the organizations that are reaching out to residents as well Which in turn hopefully translates into more trust of how that data is being used to ensure that that privacy is being respected That ethics is thought first and foremost and that it's being accessible for all not just some so maybe Kind of piggybacking off of that Warren you've talked about how essentially what we're doing is we're trying to take So typically we try to take online activity Offline and now what we're trying to do essentially is take all this offline activity things that we would do in physical spaces in the public square Quote-unquote online Can you tell us more about what that sort of shift means for you? What and then again, what does that look like? And some specifics where you seen that looks like in community and back to Mona's point earlier about this localism Like what is that? What are some of the opportunities here and then again, you know for a lot of our city guests, you know, like What kind of things could we be thinking about doing in our community to kind of help that shift? I love that So number one it really is about trying to make folks see technology as a tool not as a solution So too oftentimes it's thought of as a solution that I don't know how to do and therefore is not for me which in turn even furthers the the distance between those who are able to use the tool to improve their quality of life versus those who aren't so Lot of times also is just talking about well, this is the same as what you're doing in person It just happens to be a slightly different way one example that we use is for example with seniors Who we are getting comfortable using you know face time and talking to their grandchildren who might be afraid to visit them Knowing that once they get comfortable with that it's social interaction. They'll be more comfortable speaking with their doctor and doing telemedicine Before they get sick. So we're really looking at how we can change that conversation And really is anchoring it and what folks are doing offline and as well We really want to make sure that we're meeting everyone where they're at no matter where they are so that no one Is left behind all too often before we think of digital literacy as a thing that once you achieve that check It's all done and not as a spectrum So we really want to make sure that we're addressing and have solutions for folks wherever they're on the spectrum to move along the spectrum Great. Now Lily. I know we've got The set of questions in the Q&A So I don't know if you want to pull up some of those. Yeah. Yeah, this is a great conversation. Thanks guys So so there's a few questions that I want to I want to tease out so so first And Warren I'll start with you. You talked about trust And and one of our audience members commented and and opposed the question to around how He's seen that it's really important to have in-person networks first before transitioning into the virtual space and So Warren if you could start like is that is that really important first and and if you can comment on that and Mona I would love to hear your thoughts do so it definitely is I think we sort of mentioned about two years of digital transformation happening in two months and it feeling wait a minute Things didn't break down number two. There's some benefits to it. So there's there's sort of two things that I see there number one is We don't we need to not confuse this as being Equivalent to in person what we're doing right now is we're drawing down We're borrowing from that social equity that we built up in person that we're able to use now that we're connecting with virtually And we're getting to know people a little bit differently, right? Like I get to see someone's kids come into the picture before they never talked about their kids at work So we're actually like able to get to know them a little bit more But that's because we're born from the social equity we built up in person at some point That's gonna get depleted and it's gonna be go and it's gonna go back to being ineffective So we need to figure out how to get back to enabling and empowering those in-person interactions to begin with even though This feels as if it's it's easy so a completely completely 10,000 percent agree with that No, no any thoughts on that. Yeah, so Thanks for that Lily and Warren. I would first of all, I would absolutely Agree that as a sociologist That's what I observe and what I'm interested in and this is really what is Emerging as sort of an early insight from the Terran Cognita research project that we are talking about existing social networks Interactions ties that by the way can't be super local, but that can also be global, right? Because like the history of humanity is a history of migration and people have ties all over the world that are Sort of now being strengthened actually And sort of what we see is that some you know folks who have family abroad say well I'm closer now because everything is you know is virtual and I can attend You know fourth of July dinner with my family, which we never did before and like I'm closer to them I'm even closer to Public life in my city because I go to my local yoga studio These kinds of things so that's one come the other comment is around trust I do think trust is an important concept, but I think we also need to complicate it a little bit and ask what constitutes trust Do we actually have a? Sufficient definition of that and sort of who who defines that for us and what are the kinds of Processes and structures that we need in addition to trust such as democratic oversight Transparency equitability and all these kinds of things and sort of I am Cautioning us to think those and do those along the lines of building trust Absolutely And so so on that on that thread of you pointed out, you know Defining trust being able to understand what that means. I think that that is that's really important As we're as we're continuing into this this virtual space So so I so one of the one of the the the key places that we found that that has tremendous Trusts is our libraries and our communities and and actually there is interesting enough I didn't even think of this there There's a bunch of questions around libraries and how how you you too are thinking about potentially partnering Or or how do libraries play in this in this world that we're talking about just quickly Warren if you have any comments I was working very closely with the American Libraries Association already over 200 I want to misquote 278 different library districts have been equipped with Wi-Fi so they connect to the community We've seen too often here in Detroit, but also in rural areas as well throughout the nation where People are playing up to the parking lots at the libraries in order to access Wi-Fi so so number two as well is not only the place for knowledge, but also just the place for Accessing social Benefits of any sort really the rules of libraries really are is that key community space and I love the fact they've taken this broader lens And and so we we're coming alongside their efforts as much as possible Recognizing that that is the place where we're community gap Absolutely, Mona. I'm gonna just pivot a little bit because we're running out of time But I'm gonna ask you the the final question That that I thought was really interesting from from the group and there's a bunch more so so we can we can we can respond on Twitter afterwards Well, we'll put up your handles but there's a really interesting question around journalism and and of course we know at night and we're we're That is a major pillar of our work too and and what does You know this this digital civic engagement Mean for journalism and if there's anything interesting that that you're seeing Around that so Mona. Do you have any thoughts on that? I do and I love that question. Thank you for that So I'm just gonna narrow it from my own experience. So and I'm gonna say Journalism is so important for forces for a healthy society for a healthy democracy and I'm real to see that it's going strong here and so I Find I have way more interactions with journalists in the lockdown We're reaching out we can sort of do these kinds of interactions. We can have conversations There seems to be a really sort of a more close collaboration between journalism and sort of people like me who are in the Academy but also community organizers activists, you know Community members generally and I do think that is that's something really important to hold on to and to really closely observe how Important journalism is for our society critical journalism really good investigative journalism And that we sort of hold on to that as we hopefully sort of re-emerge Later on so those are my two cents on journalism in the lockdown Fantastic great. Well, I'm gonna call in Lillian to to close this out Yeah No, these are great questions So there's a bunch of really great questions in the Q&A that we won't get to that talk about digital infrastructure and a little bit more on the digital divide I'll maybe just tease out that in the in the coming weeks We actually want to focus a whole a whole show on the digital divide because it's come up in all of our public spaces discussions It's come up in the racial equity conversation and obviously here. So for our guests, please stay tuned for that one But perhaps just to close it out Mona and Warren Do you have any kind of just last provocation about like moving forward? Especially if we're not technologists But we're in this process of rebuilding our cities like what's the one big thing that you know, everyone should be thinking about doing Yeah, gotta let Warren go first for this one Really quickly. I've been surprised at how many different stakeholders who in the past may have had what seemed like selfish interests are leaning into the digital divide So just really encouraging taking a growth mindset and an allyship for all approach Not necessarily an us versus them too often. It feels like us versus them but in Detroit here It's really nice to see everyone coming alongside and lending Their resources and expertise where they can in surprising ways Okay Yeah, and I would just add endorse that and second that and add on to that and saying one of the main trends that I'm seeing is that I'm Excited about both as the intellectual but also as a person is kind of This localism that I keep talking about the decentralized community building and sort of coming together but not in a in a sense of you know Sort of really closing up and so it's just us against them But I see an opening up happening as this happens, which I'm really excited about as a cultural shift And I do see and I'm hopeful for things like different kinds of literacy Happening as part of that and building sort of local networks both like literally networks But also networks of mutual aid of support And so on and that's what I think is a trend that puts cities back firmly back on the map and local communities firmly back on the map That I'm excited about and yeah, I'm really good at that Well, definitely. Well, thank you both I think definitely the thing I'm taking away is that we've got to build on the social equity that we've built in These physical spaces and let's let's not be afraid by let's not be afraid of the digital and let's let's figure out how we take that That connection and that community Digital so that we don't lose these ties as we're sheltering in place So thank you very much Both of you for those that are still on as Lily mentioned I Mona you're active on Twitter. So if folks have any more questions for you, you're at Mona's underscore Sloan, so folks can find you there and it's in the chat and then please join us next week We're gonna talk we're gonna sort of take this digital Forward and talk a little bit about mobility, which has been a huge topic of conversation for us And we'll be joined by Anthony Townsend who talks a lot about the shift moving towards autonomy in mobility And then we'll also talk to Warren Logan from the city of Oakland Who is their mobility policy lead and we'll think through how what does? Mobility look like as we try to rebuild From COVID and how do we make sure we do it equitably and how do we make sure we're also like really taking advantage of the technology That's out there, so please join us next week, but thank you all. Thank you Lily for joining again, and we'll see you all next week Next Tuesday next Tuesday. Bye


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When you meet them, you realize the successful people are just as ordinary as you are. They are ordinary people who choose to believe something extraordinary about themselves and then stand up to pursue it. Whether you want to believe it or not, just like you, they had doubts before and when they started out and up until this moment. They still deal with uncertainty sometimes, but successful people have learned to do something about their self-doubts. They act despite it. You don't have to wait to be sure if you can become your dream or not. The first ingredient for success is to believe you can do it and know that nothing will ever stop you from doing it. I didn't feel like writing the script for this video. It's a minute past 5 am and I haven't been feeling too well, but regardless, I knew I had vowed to always write very early in the morning like this. Even though my head ached and my eyes were bulging, I still sat before my writing device and started to tie boards out. We don't become what we want to be by wishing, we become what we want to be by doing. Don't just dream, plan and stand up to pursue your dream and be persistent. Because goals are achieved only by persistence, I know you have probably heard this before. But sometimes, we all need reminders that we should get our lives together and follow our dreams. I hope this video helped you. Don't give up on your life, find and discover your dream, plan how you will achieve it, then stand up to pursue your dream without giving up. If this video inspired you, like the video, we love you.


Hello there my beautiful, lovely internet friends. This was not planned, but we can't we can't get them away Welcome back to my channel. Thank you for joining me here today for my dogs growling at each other Many people have been asking what is going on with my running blade because I made a lot of content around it I was super excited and then I have just said absolutely nothing about it One of the biggest things that happened is I realized that this blade though fantastic It's really built for sprinting and I'm looking for something that I can do a 5k width Which is coming up in a couple weeks I'm working on behind the scenes for quite some time working with a dutch company called levitate to try a new blade But there is one serious drawback if you are me and challenged with handy things And it's that I I need to assemble this myself and the only thing I can assemble it on Though I don't think you can even see my leg because my dog's in the way The only thing I can assemble it on is the socket that I currently have meaning I have to detach the foot I currently have and I've never done that before because I'm terrified to mess it up But I figure there's no time like the present to just face that fear and if I can't get it put back together then I'll call my prosthetist and panic and cry we'll figure it out So this blade is by a company called levitate and something that is really unique about them And I really hope this works for me is that they are direct to consumers So you don't have to go through your prosthetist office. Also, they are $2,000 flat Which if you're an amputee, you know that that is nothing even close to how expensive blades usually are Let's open it up and see if I can Attach a new foot to my foot. So it kind of comes in like an Ikea kit We just got we got all the tools. We've got very little instruction and we got the blade I feel like it started to lay out all the parts and pieces. That's what my dad always told me What do we got here? Let's take inventory Let's pray to god that a shepherd doesn't come and lay all over this again Maybe organizing things will make me feel a little more confident It's like when you build something with Legos and you gotta lay out all the pieces first So go there easy to find one thing that is needed about this is it does come In theory with everything you need to like adjust it to your height and everything Hopefully that's supposed to happen. I need to keep this piece on I know that for sure because that's actually like what holds the suction because I know that this Looks like this. I I sound like a professional. I sound so confident One of the serious drawbacks of not having a foot is I like used to grab things with my feet all the time So now I've got to like figure out a way to hold my little nub in anyone washing versus going to be like She should not be doing this Definitely not be trusted with her own equipment. Everyone has different lengths with their amputation, right? Mine's about six inches below my knee and because I'm not a super tall person That means that I'm not going to need a lot of extra height This comes with like a ton of pieces where you can extend it up really high I actually think I am like the model person to try this out on my own Because a lot of other people are super handy with this kind of stuff and I am terrified of it and not So if I can figure this out, I will feel extraordinarily confident In recommending it to other people wash your things. Is that what it is? Do you know what these are lori? Because I don't It's a nut I think that just illustrates how much you know What's this called? That's a nut Like one of the most basic possible things I will say I like on a completely superficial note. I really like the way this looks I feel like it's very sleek. There's no way that it's gonna be that simple But in theory it should be that simple Oh, we're getting somewhere boy. Oh, yeah, let me just Guess at the actual lining up Oh, this is gonna be so different to learn how to run it so I can obviously feel that I haven't like tightened it down yet It does feel like this side like my hips are higher. I don't know. I'm gonna get just the right height Tighten it down and we're gonna try to run on it. There's no way it's actually that simple though All of my anxiety for today moving up this little would have been For nothing The easiest way to do it is to hold that wrench steady and then use the allen wrench and twist the nut any man lessons with lori Four years in the army corps of engineers will do that. Oh, yeah, for real It's a nut I think we have assembled it properly. Oh, I can already tell it's a lot like bouncier Which is exactly what we're looking for. All right. Wish me luck getting up the stairs without falling I always feel like a dinosaur or like a raptor with these on it's a huge shout-out to Are you just gonna ruin the shout-out? Yes, you are. You need to get sponsored by a dog trainer Hi, thank you so much to brooks and zappos adaptive for sending me your singles If you don't know about zappos adaptive they have incredible adaptive gear clothing shoes You can buy single pairs of shoes because I only need one running shoe because the other one's a blade. Let's try it Let's try running. It's like has more bounce to it. So I just adjusted it inward a little bit put another sock on first like Extra padding the impact does not quite feel fantastic on the bottom of my leg I do like that this one like this blade is significantly smaller because with the other one when I'd walk I'd accidentally turn in And got like so many bruises right there I know any running coach for watching this is going to be move your arms more It feels okay, though. This might have actually worked Which is fantastic. So the goal is is walking or running a 5k in a couple weeks This feels way better for that. Like I don't feel the same pressure in my knee and my hips This was a lot easier to assemble than I thought it might be There is still the giant question mark of can I get my foot back on? I think I've gained some confidence in my skills I didn't hit my head on the trainers All right now the real challenge getting the foot back on Also, it's almost puppy dinner time as you might notice. They are very aware of the clock Hi So I attempted to make markings in permanent marker Like where it's supposed to line up if this actually works. I will feel Amazing that I actually did this myself. I should have learned how to do this Literally two years ago, but I've just been terrified to adjust anything So I'm like, what if I mess it up? But this is a part of me like this is something I use every day something I travel with I really should know how all the parts and pieces work So I think this is a good exercise and kind of forcing me to learn Thank you. Oh my god It feels like dead weight after Being on something so bouncy Getting off the slidewalk at the airport. Yes, I'm going really fast. Then you get off and you're like, oh, I'm so slow Actually, that's a very good comparison to what it feels like Let me just make sure it's that and not that I did something terribly wrong with the alignment Are the black dots in the black in the back lined up like yeah, like there mostly This actually works That is really cool Hello there So it is a couple days later And I wanted to give you a quick update on how this has been working out because it's been absolutely fantastic That video that you just saw was me just kind of like trying it out for the first time But after spending a little bit more time on this, it really feels amazing I sincerely think I'll be able to actually run a 5k in a month or two We'll see I figured out how to get the angle right on this and a little bit more about my gait And how to relax more into it not be so tight on one side because I think I'm like trying to protect my body But actually relaxing into running starts feeling a lot better When I started thinking about getting back into running one of my biggest concerns was protecting the rest of my body Specifically protecting my remaining foot my left foot the only meat foot I have left I started researching what I could actually do to make sure my foot stays protected The first thing that always comes up is of course always good running shoes And as I looked into things Brooks came up front and center This is actually the first single shoe that I bought from zappos adaptive I have a whole video about it that I'll link up here And this was actually before I was partnered with zappos adaptive and Brooks Since then they are sponsoring this video. They sent me a bunch of amazing gear that I've been trying out Oh my gosh, there's so many shoes in here color is absolute perfection We've got an adorable Brooks running shirt that is oh so soft.  This is amazing. This is something I'll probably wear every time I go running It's like light enough to provide a little bit of a little bit of coverage a little bit of warmth But not be smothering growing up. I don't think I understood the importance of investing in good gear But as a 30 year old now, I know that I want to protect my body and having good shoes is where a lot of that starts for me So thank you so much to zappos adaptive and Brooks for sponsoring this video If you follow me on instagram, you've heard me talk about zappos adaptive a lot I am so excited about what they are doing They're providing adaptive clothing and gear and shoes and the ability to buy one shoe at a time If you only need one if your other foot happens to be a blade There are a lot of other uses for that They are a fantastic company that actually listens to and serves the disabled community and beyond so please go check them out Also, they are just genuinely delightful and lovely people who I love having a chance to work with I am actually getting ready right now to go for a light jog with my friend onica onica the amputee You can find her on instagram. She is an absolute delight as well. And uh, we're gonna try We're gonna try running together. I'll be honest. She's way more fit than I am So I am a little intimidated. I'm gonna have to stop at least 10 times as much as she does But I'll still get there. I'll still get there Which means that I'm gonna turn off the camera get this hooked on to my socket here and go for a jog Thank you so much for listening and watching. Thank you so much to my amazing patrons for making these videos possible And to you watching this video right now Thank you so much for spending a few minutes out of your day here with me today You could be anywhere else in the world doing anything else And you chose to hang out with me for a few minutes and I truly appreciate that I love you guys. I'm thinking about you and I'll see you in the next video. Bye guys


Hey, I'm Michael Crane, Councilmember for District 3, City of Fort Worth. We're here at Ryze Community Center today and I'm here with Court Director William Rumley. And we're gonna have a Court in the Communities event on January 20th from 9 to 12. Can you tell us more about it? We're excited, Councilmember Crane, to be here. And we're doing what's called Warrant Forgiveness, Court in the Community. We're a safe harbor court, so we won't be arresting anybody if they have warrants with us. It is from 9 to noon. It is a walk-up only, so we need folks to get here. We'll take the first 120 that show up and have cases with us. What type of person should be here? Anybody who has a citation with the City of Fort Worth Municipal Court, if you have something with another jurisdiction like Arlington or Tarrant County or something, or White Settlement, which is right there across the street. Yes, sir, it wouldn't be us, but anything with Fort Worth Municipal Court, come on down. We do ask that you bring your identification of some type, but you'll come down. We'll have three judges here and staff and they'll see folks related to their cases. What type of cases should people bring here? So it's any citation. It can be anywhere from traffic to, we do have some non-traffic as we refer to them, it's like assault and things like that. And also ordinance cases, it could be a dog off a leash or something like that, any type of court case with us. So basically what we want people to do is come here and not be scared to go to our Municipal Court to get their problem resolved. We want them to get back out there, et cetera, and not have this ticket problem anymore. Absolutely, and so we call it want forgiveness. And where the forgiveness comes in is that, A, there's no arrest. They're coming on their own volition voluntarily. We want to help them. Secondly, that they may be eligible for fees to be waived, warrant fees, collection fees, that type of thing. So it can take down the overall cost and we'll look at options. Maybe they need community service or something else rather than paying. So whatever we can do to facilitate getting our cases resolved, we wanna take those barriers away like their license being blocked or not being able to rent because of warrants. Okay, that's a great service that we're gonna offer to folks. I think it's important because we want people to be proactive and active members of the community. Sometimes these problems stop them from doing it and cause more financial burden or other burdens that we want them to be able to live. Yes, absolutely. And we'll have other services here as well. We will have Goodwill, North Texas will be here. We will have North Texas Legal Aid here. And then also the Envision Center will be here. So there's all types of other services just besides us. So they can call us,<PHONE_NUMBER> or go to our website. It might be underneath here too. Yeah, absolutely. People that might put it right here. Yes, sir, FortworthTexas.gov and they can go look on there and go to municipal court. There you go. And if they can't come on January 20th from 9 to 12, is there another way they could have this conversation about warrant forgiveness? Absolutely, so we actually do this type of thing every day at the courthouse. So at 1000th Rock Morton, Monday through Friday, eight to five, they can contact the court and set up a time to come see a judge. The other option is we do have a satellite location at Vivian J. Lincoln Library, which is close to us. Beautiful library. Absolutely, so we do have a service location there Tuesday through Saturday. From nine to six, they can go see someone. They can see a judge actually on Tuesday afternoons and Thursday mornings. That's great. Well, I'll say this, if you haven't been to this community center, Rise Community Center, come check it out. If you can't come to the warrant forgiveness, there are other opportunities. What we wanna make sure is that every citizen, every resident of Fortworth can be productive. And sometimes we understand there are issues or problems that stop them from doing that. And so I'm really appreciative of this service and what we're doing and really getting out in the community, that's the whole idea of being in the community of helping people that need it. Absolutely, we're very excited to be here and we thank LVT Rise for allowing us to be here. That's great. Thank you very much. Thanks for being here and y'all show up. If you have any other issues or problems, please let us know how we can help, happy to do it. Thank y'all.


What's your favorite television show? Star Trek. Which one? I'm really a new generation guy, although I think I like them all. And why a new generation? What do we learn from Star Trek? Well, a lot lots of great things. It's about you know, it's kind of like an anthropological quest, right? So Captain Kirk was originally based on Captain Cook and the idea was you're going out to encounter new different peoples and of course in Star Trek you go out into space and do it. Captain Cook was doing it in the Pacific and around the world. So we learn about ourselves by seeing ourselves projected in other peoples and other cultures and other societies. And if you think of the implicit vision of how cooperative different groups can become, including people from different planets in various varieties of Star Trek, as an anthropologist, that seems realistic to you or utopian? I just thought it was fun.


In March, President Biden released his administration's new national cybersecurity strategy. This followed a number of executive orders and other actions that he has taken and other governments have taken around the world. It is the latest in a series of movements in the regulatory and legal responsibilities for companies to take proactive steps to defend against cybersecurity incidents. While the Biden plan may be the most ambitious we've seen thus far, other governments are also advancing new regulatory requirements. For example, the EU has proposed new regulations that would require any device connected to the Internet to have security features built in. So after years of relying mostly on voluntary efforts to encourage companies to shore up their cyber defenses, these government and regulatory developments seem to be examples of how regulators are deploying new tools and incentives to mitigate cybersecurity risks. Should the Biden plan become policy, companies can expect to face new regulations and lawsuits, perhaps, if they fail to make secure products or do not enact basic cybersecurity measures. It seems that business leaders must prepare themselves now to operate in a global economic environment with increased cybersecurity requirements and liability.


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Talk of one of the best gospel ministers boots in word and melody in Nigeria, you would definitely mention the oil twins. In this video I shall be looking quickly but in detail the biography of Lawrence and Goswheel Oil, but let us begin with their father. Lawrence, Goswheel and their all the wonderful siblings were born to this reverent Goomba Fortune Oil. He was born on the 18th day of July 1959. He passed on on the 7th day of August 2020. Dr Fortune Goomba Hoyo was an evangelist as of the time of his passing and he was married to Reverend Mrs. Patient Fortune Hoyo. The woman would give him the wonderful twins and two other sons. He obtained his first degree from the River State University of Science and Technology but at God's, where he also got his masters. He did his PhD at the University of Ibadan, a city he resided with his family onto the day he passed on. Lawrence Hoyo and his brother, Goswheel Hoyo were born as twins to this family on the 16th day of June 1991. Obviously, from the father's profile, you would know that they were born into a Christian family who was based in Hoyo State Ibadan. Lawrence Hoyo is a gospel minister and a prophetic minister. He is well known by Nigerians for his revival chants and songs. Most Christians in Nigeria like learning about this young warrior, both in words and Psalms. He is great chants, make his style of music unique and that of his brother too. He and his brother co-owns the Davidic minister which is a global movement that awakens earth to worship and demonstrates the love and power of God. After his primary education in Ibadan, he went to Shalom Christian College Ibadan for his secondary school. After his secondary education, as well as that of his brother, they both gained admission to study law at the prestigious University of Ibadan that was in 2008. They graduated in 2013. After graduating from the University of Ibadan with the law degree, they proceeded to the Nigerian law school in Yola, that's the Yola campus. During his university days, Lawrence Hoyo was an escort in the NCCF, the chapter of the University of Ibadan. During the time, he usually goes to secondary schools to minister and get teenagers filled with the spirits of God according to his personal account. Due to the efficacy of a spirit-filled chance, Lawrence Hoyo has travelled around Nigeria to bless people with his beautiful chance. Now, most universities usually invite him to the orientations, matriculation and even convocation to activate their students with the spirit of prayer, love for the Lord and also to tap the grace of his prophetic chance. Lawrence Hoyo is a young passionate lover and seeker of God Almighty. Apart from the Davidic ministerial, Lawrence Hoyo and his brother are also pastoring their late father's church, God will treat ministries. The passionate Lawrence Hoyo is also the convener of the battle acts retreat bar. He does a yearly convergence of elderly international individuals who are very keen on making progress and actively participating in kingdom advancement. This program usually happens once every year at the close of the year into the new year. His close friends sometimes call him Law and show as a result of his name and also his profession. Evangelist is also a name of Lawrence Hoyo, so his full name is Lawrence Evangelist Hoyo. When it was time for Lawrence Hoyo to find his missing reed, they searched for it and finally found it in the house of Mike Bameloye and Gloria Bameloye. Lawrence Hoyo got married to Dara Simi Hoyo who is the only daughter of Evangelist Mike Bameloye and Evangelist Gloria Bameloye. Just like her husband, she is also a minister but as come in a different way, she is a spoken word artist, actress and TV show host. So how did the love story of these two love birds begin? Well, this is it. Lawrence Hoyo met Dara Simi when Ms. Gloria Bameloye went to visit a disciple who had just gotten married and lived at the house of the Hoyos at the time. Well, as destiny will have it, when you want to meet your own, everything will work together for your own good. Dara Simi appointed to have followed her mom for that particular visit and that was the first time Lawrence Hoyo ever saw his beautiful wife, Dara Simi Mike Bameloye. At the time, Dara Simi finished school not too long and was preparing for a national youth service called NYSC. She later served in Cabbage States in the northern parts of Nigeria. According to what Lawrence Hoyo said, when he first saw Dara Simi, he said, wow, you are tall and her response was, yes, I know, I so love the Gino. And that wasn't the end of their love story but the beginning of forever together. On the 10th day of October 2020, they tied the knot and became man and wife, or Lua Dara Simi Mike Bameloye is from Elisha in Ocean States. She studied English at the Babcock University. She was born on the 14th day of May as the third and the last child of Evangelist and Mrs. Mike Bameloye. When it comes to gospel movie production in Nigeria and African at large, Evangelist Mike Bameloye is definitely a name to reckon with. He is the founder of the Monsignor Film Productions in Nigeria. Now over to Gospel Hoyo, I don't need to talk about the states of birth and educational qualification because you know already and already mentioned it earlier on. Just like Lawrence Hoyo is twin brother, Gospel Hoyo is also married to Mrs. Toju and she is, just like her husband, a practicing lawyer. Apart from being a barrister, Gospel Hoyo also corrals the Davidic Ministry with his brother Lawrence Hoyo and also together they run the elite fathers church, God will treat ministries. He is also very talented and very passionate as he does most of his chants with his brother Lawrence Hoyo although they are twins but God will Hoyo apparent to get married before his twin brother Lawrence. Just to mention a few among their least popular chants, born the word, prophetic chants, fall in love, royal boats, groaning, glory and power, I am in love with Jesus, eagles flight, the very popular one that brought Lawrence to the limelight, bulb or fire. No doubt just like me there are a lot of things you like about the Hoyo twins, the boats of them now and their younger brothers are the one giving joy to their mother who is a riddle of their late father and I'm sure anytime she sees the faces of the twins and their older brothers, happiness and joy will fill her heart because she knows that there is a reason to live and work for. Lawrence Hoyo seems to have a very close relationship with Sunday Teo Philos and Apostle Michael Oropo. Both God's will and Lawrence Hoyo have been blessed by God in their marriages and they are beautiful kids to call their home. This has made it possible for their mother to now have grandchildren to flee with when they come around. It is the joy of every parent to see their children grow and do things in the good way for God. Now this is how much I can take in this video over to you. What do you like about the Hoyos? The Hoyo twins, Lawrence and God's will. You can share your thoughts with me via the comment section. If you've not subscribed to this channel please do so and help us grow. Click on the subscription button and turn on your notification. This is Ban of Wisdom Varieties.


It's my great pleasure to introduce Dr. Jackie Linnis today. She's the Marta E. Gross Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering here at Purdue University. And she is the director of the schools Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. It's part of the leadership team and her leadership in the school. Her work covers a number of areas related to diagnostics, emphasizes the application of fundamental microfluidic principles and biological assays to develop point-of-care diagnostics, global health, and wearable diagnostics. This research in the lab focuses on advanced paper microfluidics, molecular biosensors, human-centered instrumentation designed to enable sensitive, robust, rapid diagnostics. Spice at the Shea, her lab didn't shut down at all during COVID because she had a lot of work to do on developing technologies to help with applying some of her technologies in that light just in time. She has won numerous awards, including the Violet Haas Fellowship, the More Inventor Fellow Awards and is supported by a number of grants, including NIH, R01, NIH DP2, NSF, and other types of sources of funding of her lab, totaling more than $6 million thus far. In addition to this, she has extensive experience in translational research, including co-founding and managing early-stage user feedback for three small companies. And leading user response assessments with engineers without borders in Bolivia. She has co-developed mobile diagnostics where both devices, airborne pathogen and activation tools and water purification technologies with users in the US, Nicaragua, Kenya, Zambia and Haiti. She applies these experiences in her teaching of undergraduate design, graduate-level instrumentation, measurement and point-of-care diagnostics and workshops around the world. Fun fact, she's also one of the BME programs, first alum before she became a Purdue University, she got her BS in interdisciplinary engineering in Purdue University and then went on to do a PhD in bioengineering with a graduate certificate in global health in the University of Washington. After that, she was a Fogarty Engineering Fellow, collaboration between Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard School of Public Health and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before continuing her postdoc in training in point-of-care diagnostics at Boston University in Dr. Catherine Clapperich's lab. So we are thrilled to have her in the school and she has some time this year, some of her work with us today. Thank you. Thank you all so much. I'm really appreciative of this opportunity to talk a little bit about my journey into developing point-of-care molecular diagnostics and I think it all started when I was here as an undergraduate at Purdue and I got interested in engineering because not because I liked puzzles, which I did or because I got to solve problems, which was fun, but because there's a social good aspect to it and that's what really drew me to be excited about this and my journey through my PhD and my postdoc was around developing technologies for global health and developing understanding infectious disease detection and in my free time at the time, honestly, it was working with Roots Young Adult Center and homeless shelter nearby. I learned informally stakeholder analyses which is talking to people about what are their needs and then now being able to develop rapid diagnostics and platforms that can then address needs once you really know what those are. And so my lab has gone in many directions doing all kinds of exciting work based on this user-centered design framework that we've been developing, responding to what are the needs of the users and how do we address those and how do our technologies work for people or not? So we have lots of different technologies, lots of different diseases, but I'm most excited about talking about this first one because it really comes back around from the project that I proposed in my faculty application, the first project that was ever funded by the SHA lab for global iterations, which was here at Purdue and then soon followed by a Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations Grant and has now come back around for the More Inventor Fellowship and other solutions to get this out the door. So this project and all of my projects focus around healthcare access points and the fact that there is a trade-off between the accuracy, affordability and accessibility if you want to reach any of these levels. And so we focus exclusively when we can on the community level which has the most accessibility but has challenges with affordability and accuracy with most diagnostics. And so as an example, the rapid diagnostic tests that you might know for COVID or for a pregnancy test they're affordable and they're accessible but as far as accuracy goes there's a lot left to be desired. And in contrast, there's nucleic acid tests which are very accurate but this $10,000 machine with $50 cartridges is not terribly affordable. And given the fact that it needs to sit on a bench it's not terribly accessible. So there is this need that we have looked to solve which is to combine the simplicity of handheld rapid diagnostic tests with the sensitivity and the specificity of these nucleic acid diagnostics. And so my lab has developed a few different technologies for this from wax valves to control fluid flow to being able to do viral capture and Lysis and the nucleic acid amplification to make billions of copies when there are very few targets to look for inside of paper-like membranes and as well as integrating this all into a package that you can move downstream which I left on the bench over there but we've gotten a number of publications and some patents out of this. Yeah, please pass it around, that would be great. And it's a need to tell you that I have a conflict of interest because I have started a small company to translate this technology ever to diagnostics but I've also started two other companies and co-founding Omniviz, Inc. and Rescue Biomedical LLC because in my experience, developing a technology and it's sitting on my lab bench doesn't help anybody. So I've been really invested in getting technologies up and out the door. And our solution is this little smartphone powered prototype that is getting passed around that has integrated everything that we have been working on into one little package. And for the user, despite all the complicated technical things going on behind the scenes, the user takes a sample, adds it to the inlet and then adds some wash buffer which is much like you would for your COVID test, fold it up and then when you plug it in it automatically heats and then they wait for 30 to 90 minutes until it's done but it goes through all of the steps on its own and the user just has to look at two lines for a positive or one line for a negative. And so it's very easy on the user side and we've demonstrated this first with HIV which was the Gates Foundation funding to capture HIV from blood, perform RNA amplification and then detection in a visual readout and all of that is happening here with two lines for a positive sample and one line for a negative sample. And this has brought us to develop this type of rapid diagnostic platform and then as we go to translate it and as we have developed these different technologies we found lots of other fun directions to take. And so clinical and stakeholder evaluations to go back to the individuals that we're designing for making sure that this fits their needs. We've got collaborations in public health and across the world that we're working with in social sciences, distributed diagnostics and manufacturing at scale. It turns out these devices aren't designed for existing manufacturing. So we have to develop new aspects and new pick in place and robotics and other aspects that could be designed and produced if we design them right so that we can make these technologies anywhere in the world and they're not limited to the high resource, high volume technologies but we have to develop good controls and good quantification and other aspects that go around this packaging. And then we've also gotten really interested in some fundamental flow in paper and really going back to the basics of what is happening at these reaction sites, what is happening in the biology and the engineering. And so these are some of the directions we're going and we hope that there will be many more as we move forward. And of course, none of this happens without the people that do the real work. In my lab, I started with up in the corner four PhD students and two undergraduate students. My first year, it was a lot to take on your first year but they have been fantastic. It's grown to six PhDs, graduated 14 members of the lab, one postdoc, three master's students and 55 undergraduates that I have gotten the privilege to work with. And it's been amazing. And I am learning every day from these individuals. Part of what we do is we take our research outside the lab. So we have a research lab, it's beautiful, I love it. But in order to find out if things are gonna work and what the needs are, we go out and talk to collaborators. And so over here in developing a newborn warming and vital signs monitoring, we went to Riley Children's Hospital to understand from the neonatologists what is happening and what are their needs. And the graduate students, the undergraduate students really get out and see what's happening in the world. And then even when we can't travel, this is a device designed to work in Haiti and Kenya and I can't take everybody there but we can go to the pond in my backyard and find out what does and doesn't work for a water testing device. And so here we're finding out that the clear plastic chips are almost invisible in the sun that the iPhone screen up here doesn't actually show the fluorescent nanoparticles because they bleach in the sun. And so these are things that we would never have found out in a research lab because we have wonderful lighting conditions. So getting out of the lab has been really critical in finding challenges both big and small that are important to solve. And then I brought that into my teaching as well. What I'm passionate about which is that engineering for social good I find that students are equally passionate about this if not more. And so I've been able to do this work teaching our capstone design series at the junior and senior levels was able to be a Purdue Impact Fellow to redesign our senior lab and professional development courses to make them really integrated. And then also have had the privilege of working in Ecuador on a study abroad that has gone for spring breaks past in medical needs finding and design for the users. So those undergraduate courses have been fantastic. I love teaching my graduate course on point of care diagnostics because that is my passion and it's great to spread that to students as well. And my soapbox of biomedical measurement in making technologies robust and repeatable and how you do that in a squishy biological situation when you can't engineer everything to perfect specifications. And then internationally I've gotten to do workshops. This is AIBBC is the Africa International Biotechnology and Biomedical Conference where I get to teach point of care diagnostics to researchers who work in laboratories on problems that in some cases I have never heard of because of my sitting here in a high resource setting but helping them to translate their technology or their biological solutions into technologies that they can use. And then also on the other end working with microfluidics researchers and teaching them about human-centered design and getting them out of the lab and bringing these two communities closer together. I could not possibly do this without an immense number of mentors and supporters along the way. I was trying to figure out the best way to present this and what came to me was the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity has a mentor map that you make and it has all of these bubbles and it turns out none of the people fit next to their bubbles because there are so many of them but people who really helped before I was at Purdue or my first time at Purdue as undergrad and then people that have provided me sponsorship and opportunities while I've been here as well as those who have provided me professional development and role models and colleagues for this intellectual community which is an amazing place to be and emotional support as well to make it through this tenure process. So in particular thanks to collaborators who not only invested in me but also invested their time and funders who invested their funding sources in getting these projects up and running and out the door. And last but in no way these are the people that I get to come home with every night and these guys keep me sane and remind me what really matters and so thank you to them and thank you to the people that helped me take care of them because that is also a village. Thank you all for your time as well. How do you reinvent manufacturing at scale? Do you have any IE collaborations? So we have been working with the Burke Nanotechnology Facility and manufacturing there and we're also yeah, reaching out to people in IE we'd love to talk more but we're looking at what works in electronics manufacturing which is pick and place electronics rather than the role to role manufacturing that's done in paper. And so that's a possibility it's a much cheaper medium throughput we can get a robot for less than $50,000 we can't get a real to real manufacturing facility for less than a million dollars. And so on our way to scale up we're looking at how do we make all of these little tiny parts which have to come together and electronics has been really successful at that. So that's our first thought. Forgive me if you get asked this too much but there are no, this has been in the news again because of the trial. It just strikes me how much like this is the real version.  And how do you experience the fallout of that? Oh yes, absolutely. So Theranos has been in the news again for less than ideal practices. And the first company that we started out of Purdue Omniviz was started by a PhD student and then postdoc Dr. Catherine Clayton who has translated the technology and she spent much of that time over the last four years explaining how Omniviz culture is the exact opposite. It is transparent, we publish and we work really hard for people to understand what we're doing in the world because investment in microfluidic technologies has not been real popular. Oh, and our stuff works. Thank you. All right, thank you everyone for, thank you Jackie for this great presentation.


Our dress, we found our shoes, we found our jewelry, we're gonna head to the checkout table. They'll bag it up and we'll be on our way. My name's Michelle Simon. My husband and I run in non-profit called Blessed Dress. It's an event, we hold a once a year event that we hold right before prom season where you can come by and shop for any style, size, color dress at no cost. The dresses are free, the shoes are free. We have jewelry, we have a seamstress here if you need minor alterations to your gown. So it's a place, all girls are welcome here. There are no restrictions, no requirements. We just want to spread kindness here. It's a random act of kindness from us to you. Prom season is just around the corner. So let's take a little walk around and see some of the things you can get. So we have this really beautiful dress. It's got sequins on the top and this fun little bottom. Super fun, hold on to that. Well, we continue to shop. As you can see, we have so many. Every color, every color of the rainbow, every size. Here's a super fun dress. This is actually a two piece. Two pieces have become super popular. We have a lot of two piece dresses, black top, really fun, full flowery bottom. When we'll keep shopping. Not into flowers or fluffy things. There's this really beautiful blue, blue gown. I think it's even got pockets because we all need pockets. Oh, here's a favorite over here. If you want to be the main attraction, this is a beautiful silver dress. It's got the little train in the back, a short train in the back. So it's super pretty, lots of sparkle. You can never go wrong with classic black. So beautiful, all beautiful. So let's take a walk up and see if we can find some shoes. We've got rows of shoes here, all divided up by size. So you just find your size on the floor. So there's all kind of choices here for my black dress. You've got these, maybe these. Or if you want to add a little bit of color to your black dress, go with the red shoes. We've also got shoes here that would match our silver dress. We've got plenty of silver shoes here as well. We'll take these shoes for our silver dress and let's go see if we can find some jewelry. Okay, so at Blessed Dress, don't forget everything here is free. So we've got our dress, we've got our shoes, and we're gonna come over here to our table of jewelry to accent our dresses. We've got beautiful beads, we've got silver, we've got gold, we've got every color here. Again, the jewelry here at Blessed Dress is all free. So all your accessories, everything you need for your perfect prom is here. We just want you to know that the cost of the gown, the cost of the shoes, everything here is your gift of kindness paid forward to someone else.


Based on how we evolve, the optimum dietary potassium intake likely greatly exceeds current and even recommended intakes. The problem is we replace many of the potassium rich plant foods we used to stuff our faces with like fruits, leafy greens, and other vegetables, including roots and tubers, with calorie-dense junk stripped not only of fiber, but also potassium, such as added fats and sugars. So in a traditional, largely plant-based diet, potassium content is high, and sodium content is low. But now, high blood pressure is the second leading cause of death in the world, killing more than 10 million people a year, second only to unhealthy diets, the number one killer of humanity. We can't improve both by eating more whole healthy plant foods like beans and greens, which are packed with potassium, which lowers blood pressure. But since most of us are getting too much sodium along with too little potassium, what about using salt substitutes? After all, the most commonly used salt substitute is potassium chloride. Sometimes you'd be swapping out sodium for potassium. And it works, based on a meta-analysis of more than that dozen randomized controlled trials, replacing sodium chloride with potassium chloride lowers blood pressure. Most of the trials involve just swapping out regular salt for less than 30% potassium chloride, and they still got results. And at less than 30%, most people can't even tell the difference between regular salt and the potassium salt. So we can taste exactly the same and drop your blood pressures? What's the catch? Potassium chloride is generally considered as safe by the FDA, with the only major concern for healthy people being that if you go completely 100% sodium-free and use straight potassium chloride, like all these, it can taste kind of funny, adding a bitter or metallic taste. I've found that it depends on what I'm seasoning with it. It works perfectly well on some things, but makes other things completely inedible. When I learned about the sodium science and threw out my salt shaker for good, even in a few weeks my palate totally changed and everything tasted fine without salt, except pesto. For some reason pesto without salt just never tasted like it used to to me. So I tried the potassium chloride salt substitute and it worked perfectly. I couldn't tell the difference at all, so I had the best of both worlds. Then I remembered how as a kid I used to put a tiny sprinkle of salt on watermelon like they do in the south to make it even sweeter. So I tried it with potassium salt and almost gagged. So it's definitely not for everything. The recent healthy people don't have to worry about getting too much potassium. Instead, our kidneys just pee out the excess. OK, but that's with potassium in food. What about supplements? No adverse effects have been shown for long-term intakes of potassium supplements as high as 3,000 milligrams a day. In fact, blood levels of potassium are maintained in the normal range by healthy kidneys even when potassium intake is increased to approximately 15,000 milligrams a day, which is no surprise since we evolved eating so many healthy plant foods, so many fruits and vegetables, that the normal natural potassium intake for the human species may be on the order of 15,000 milligrams a day. Basically, the normal range for potassium levels in the blood is between 3.5 and 5, and you start to worry when it starts creeping up towards 6. But give people potassium supplements like all the salt substitution trials that have been giving study subjects an average of about 2,000 milligrams of potassium a day, and blood levels only go up 0.14, so they might go up from 4 to 4.14, not something that would push you into trouble. Now, there's a limit. If you have a quote-unquote massive banana eating habit, you could bump your potassium from normal to above 6, but that was evidently from years of not eating much of anything except up to 20 bananas a day. Eating 10 pounds of carrots every day is also probably not a good idea. That's like 75 carrots in one day, which you could only do with a juicer, which is what this person attempted to do as part of a quack cancer cure. What about overdoing salt substitutes? This report from the 1940s was on lithium poisoning from the use of salt substitutes. Why? Because lithium chloride was used as a salt substitute. Jesus! But what about potassium chloride, which is what's used today? There is one fatal case of someone who committed suicide by downing a little more than a tablespoon of potassium chloride salt substitute. That doesn't seem like a lot. Just a tablespoon?   In fact, salt water ingestion was evidently a traditional method of suicide in ancient China, though these days one may be more likely to die that way from abusive religious practices. Having said all that, there are a small number of the population who may run into problems, primarily those with severely impaired kidney function. That's why there's been such a reluctance to push potassium-based salt substitutes on a population level. If your kidneys can't regulate your potassium, then you can definitely run into a serious issue. We're talking about folks with known kidney disease, diabetes, since diabetes can lead to kidney damage, severe heart failure, those on medications that impair potassium excretion, older adults, and individuals with adrenal insufficiency. If you aren't sure, if you're at risk, ask your doctor about getting your kidney function tested. Ironically, potassium is so good at reducing deaths from high blood pressure, even among those with kidney disease using potassium chloride salt substitutes would probably still save more lives, despite the risk. Traditional dietary recommendations to kidney patients limited the intake of fruits and vegetables because of their high potassium content. However, this paradigm is rapidly changing due to the multiple benefits derived from a fundamentally plant-based diet. A whole-food plant-based diet may even ameliorate chronic kidney disease. There's increasing evidence that a whole-food plant-based diet may offer benefits like slowing the progression of chronic kidney disease and delaying kidney failure. So the practice of restricting dietary potassium in kidney patients should really be reserved for patients with documented hyperkalemia, a potassium level of 6 or higher, because the key to halting the progression of chronic kidney disease may in fact lie in the produce aisle.


All right, hey guys, it's Fiona with Spot and Deacon. We're doing a horde clean out. It was the mother's place, so the son came in, obviously trashed the place. He's getting himself taken care of right now, getting his medical help to help him get better.  So when he comes back, you know, he has a clean start. Should be a one day job, a lot of fast food, a lot of easy meals, so to say, but a lot of moldy bad food just everywhere. It'll be a fun one. It's getting hot today, so we'll start getting bright pretty soon.


Everyone, 11 o'clock Tiger Financial News Network Update Basil Chapman here, dowsed down 250, 34,393, tried to rally, it's kind of fading here, but it's holding up better than some of the other indices. Look at the S&P down 48 at 45, 28, giving back a huge chunk of yesterday's gain, not a good sign. And look at the QQQ. Finally, the NDX 100 is taking it on the chin. It needs a rest. It needs a digestive phase. It's getting that right now, down 7 and 382. We're watching it as under the 50-period moving areas. The weekly charts hasn't even given a signal, but the data has just gone to a cell mode. We should wait for the close, but so forth. That's what we're looking at. So there's a little bit of room to go to the downside, probably 375s at some point. We're also looking at the semiconductors finally turning down, but not that severely. There are down 4, 300 if they break 298 support, that's a problem. Look at gold. Gold tried to rally earlier on. It's now up 8 at 1770. It's just stuck in the range, making lower lows and lower highs. Dollar's holding quite well. Not superb, but it is doing nicely. It's up 31 ticks at 96.44. That's about to hit a trendline resistance, but so far that's where money is flowing. And if you look at the TLT, that is the bond area. It's up 18 cents right now at 152.71. It looks to me like it's going to try for the 153s by Monday. That's going to be important because that means yields are coming down. Crude oil. Crude oil has had a nice balance so far. It's holding quite nicely at 68.19. The VIX index. Let's make a big deal about the VIX index. The VIX index is at 30.30. If at any point in the next couple of days it breaks about 32.70, that's going to be something new because on the weekly candle, this is the second big green. It doesn't often do that. I talked about that in my show, the tide technicians hour, just a few moments ago. So watch that closely. The VIX index, if it slides later in the day below 30, that's going to be good for stocks to hold quite nicely. But if it continues climbing up, gets to the 30.78-year area, then the 31s, that could see itself towards the close. So hold tight. Be careful. You'll be raising cash. That's good. And great programming here at TFNN. Battery comes up straight after this. Then Kevin Hings with Thinkorswim. Then you've got Steve Rhodes, Dave White, and Tom O'Brien wraps it up three to four o'clock this afternoon. Have a wonderful weekend. See you on Monday. And strap your safety belt on.