Hey Marcus, what time is it? I don't have a watch. You don't have a watch? It's about eight o'clock, right? Roughly. I don't know. You don't know. Tom here from Orange Systems and we are on site at a job and we as in me and my sons This is kind of a me coming by one to do video two an inspection on The progress is made and share a video about the progress that made with this project now This is the location I did the whole walkthrough and show how we do a build out and how we do the bidding So I'll link to the video is just I don't really want to call this part too because it's not it's going to be a little bit Progress on this project for those you kind of wonder what goes on here at Lawrence Systems What we actually do and I'm not just making tutorial videos But I'm starting in what was the kitchen area and it's funny because when you look at the before and after videos or pictures It's dramatically different this place. It was just raw and very unfinished before So we've got a lot of our work done and a lot of things hung up And I mean I'm actually a little lost walking around because I'm looking around at everything and Yes places big so my son said and now we're sorting out kind of the stages of it So this is a update video not only on the project, but about what happens during these projects So first we came in we bid we wired there was a lack of a ceiling There's a ceiling now and as we went through and did all that we have to coordinate with the different vendors and contractors Especially for the part that's going on right now, which is all the cubicles and you can't just Drop the cubicles in because the problem is the cubicles all need to be wired and the wiring is going to go Inside of them and so we've had to coordinate and it's not done yet This is all there's some of it just kind of on the floor We have to get the ends and they just now put these wall plates in the light or floor floor cans I'm sorry not wall plates floor cans in and Now that those are in we're gonna have to come up and put through and put little Jacks on there, and I don't think these are the cubicles that have it. Maybe I'm not looking at the right ones But there's gonna be oh here they are Look I grabbed some of these These are what it looks like on the ends You just put the keystones on here and there's another part of the deset These are gonna snap into and you can kind of see how like an umbilical cord how each one of these is on there And has a metal conduit on it and a metal conduit is obviously to people because when it's on the floor You know people kick stuff and that's not acceptable And you know we know his it like how many times have you looked under a desk and seen it tore up So they did a really nice job on doing it that way so it's not going to be all messed up. That's interesting. Oh That's cool They have a little phone booth, you know We got away from phone booths And now they have a phone booth or I don't know what it is. It's a silence booth Well, I'm gonna go in here. Oh wow. I don't know if you can hear the difference But there is no ambient outside noise now. I think my camera filters out somewhat, but that's really cool All right, let's carry on. I want one of these now. I'm gonna have to find out what this is called Snap cab it says on the top there. So this is a snap cab All right on to the interesting part where we ran all the wires. So in the other video we talked about how we set up all the Wiring and did all the looming and get everything done to bring it all to the one central place So now all that's obscured everything's hung up. Nothing's laying on ceiling tiles I talked about how we had to put the J hooks in and everything else and now We're button up the details now This requires also us to come back and forth at different times and my crew is actually still here working one because of punching To it's about scheduling all these times one of the things we have to do when we schedule times like this is Coming at night is easier for us because there's no one in our way doing this So they're here during the day getting partial assembled on they let us know where we're at and then we come in and put the Finishing touches if you will on here. So let's go into wiring room and server-com room and go from there Which I'm turned around us to where it is. I think it's over there.  He's got some of this punched down So I'm gonna kind of look up in that ceiling and show you how we did those cable falls So that it's still bundled up there because some of it's got to come back down But you can see how we have the hooks in there. I can't really get up there to show you where we went over the HVAC and everything else, but you kind of get the idea and you can see how it came around We went over it at a beam level So it wasn't even a factor and then what we did is we come around with these 400 foot 400 pound rated j-hooks And we mounted them to 500 500 pound rated Beam clamps and that's only because that's all you can buy really to hold that much wire up And that basically will support all of that wire and then we doubled them up at the ends where the water fall comes down So that way if one comes loose or anything of the sort It's just not going to be an issue in the future or knock your ceiling down You know, it's just future precautions and you know, basically keeping it up to code Yeah, so that way it's you know, we want to make sure it's extra solid in case they ever add more There's also the split unit behind us. I'd mentioned that in the beginning We put that in this morning. Yeah, well, I just got that in this morning. So Today's a good day to come on here A lot done. Yeah, and once the servers go in here, that's why you need something like a split unit to get Um, well all the cooling that goes on in here Yeah, I've been in com rooms or it's been almost 110 degrees before All right now last time we talked about that underground part and was that pain in the ass? Oh, you know You have to schedule with the suite below you because they're operational They're not in any kind of you know construction phase or anything like that So basically what you're looking at is you got to schedule with these guys to get into their suite and the day they Scheduled a lot of people were going home early. So they didn't want to let us in So they actually had to keep a security guard on staff for an extra couple hours and and he didn't really enjoy being there Yeah, so we had to go down there and get the ceiling tiles out because it was drilled through there And that's just part of it. Uh, that was one of those things I know there was a lot of comments on the last video about well, how exactly do you do that? And it's not There's no You just contact the suite. You're like guess what bad news physical contact, you know, you got to go in there and talk to them Talk to them schedule it make it happen So other than that we're going to walk back into the com room. Cory's actually got a lot of this punched And I've been working at it for about Two days solid now and this is a this is day three starting out from a distance I see it all looks like a mess and you might be able to see slightly There's actually labels on all this. That's how we know where everything gets punched to Actually with one like this because there were so many different kinds of wire and so many different directions We were running we meticulously labeled down to the station Which is cubicle stations down to the room numbers down to underground or above ceiling Wi-Fi tv camera. I mean everything was separately labeled It was very meticulous and it paid off like like 100 You know, I mean it it's just making it no guesswork at all We're actually starting from port number one in the it desk And we work all the way around the world through the whole suite and we'll end up at 189 for data And then TVs and cameras then whaps so I mean it's it's really once it's all on here Everything's going to be exactly organized that way in the rack Where each section is the different section for tv's the wi-fi access points. That's what's absolutely it's all that pre-planning That's the biggest trick to so it looks Messy like a bunch of wires hanging down Every one of these as they were pulled in groups were labeled to figure out where they're coming from And numerous labels too. I can show you right here How we did it is we label each individual wire What it was and then we come back and like this is southwest hall That's a whole additional stuff that we got added and then each one comes down And then where the end of the whip is we have them labeled off into room numbers And then if they went into room numbers if they didn't go into room numbers It's station numbers or door contacts with the electric feed for the door contact Like I said, it was really broken down. You could see here's another wide band with a lot of little bands around it There's some that have up to three bands, but most of them have been punched already and cut away Yeah, so he's he's knocking it out here and getting it done. So yeah, it's looking good That's the kind of the status update on his project. Um I brought my sons. He want to know what I do for a living It's Niagara Falls It's Niagara Falls, man. It's a waterfall to waterfall the stuff That's what they refer to it is. Yeah All right, so I wanted to put a little end cap on the video now that I'm back here at the office And wanted to highlight one thing one This is a little bit of the challenge of doing these wiring projects, you know filming them and Because we're not there continuously until it's done We're there on an as needed basis based on the schedule set by the general contractor When each step needs to be done and what time slot we fit into for which step of the project or is You know the initial part before the ceiling was there putting up All the different support structures and running the wire then coming back after certain drywall people and coming back again After the people who put in all the cubicles like all the furniture assemblers are there But we have to do that in between because the furniture is partially assembled At least it's there and we're going to have to put like I shown Those keystones on that eventually will end up in boxes underneath there for hooking everything up And then the final step will be uh us going back and putting you know Even labels on the furniture to make sure everything matches and lined up again So there's a lot of steps involved in terms of you know making this whole project work It becomes kind of a challenge unless you have time to put a film crew on it And I just don't um for having all my contractors out there to get this done But let me know in the comments below or over on the forums What else you would like to see added to some of these wiring videos But I will admit this is something that I think Cory alluded to but I can concrete up a little bit here the Scope did change now. I mentioned in the how we bid these jobs projects that yes You have to come up with a per drop price This makes it easy because no matter how many clients tell you I think this is all the drops I'll ever need they need more and as the projects, you know got closer to completion They added quite a few more drops that part is really easy The other thing you have to make sure is figuring out what is or is not in scope So a couple things out of scope Originally we were supposed to put these just on the floor And it was changed to now we have to put them into the cubicles no problem something we can do We just have to let them know immediately and this is just having clear communication all the time of the client Yes, we can do that. Yes, there's more labor involved if you'd like us to be the ones putting the little You know biscuit boxes and tapping keystones in instead of On a floor plate but into and feeding them into the Cubicles and the way the structures are set up That's more labor than just running a drop because you have to run the drop Then you're bringing the drop into the cubicle and get around under the desk So some people just leave them at the wall. Sometimes they do have furniture that has built in jacks That means more labor on our part You just have to be upfront with the client and then adjust accordingly The biggest thing is don't surprise them with some bill at the end. Don't just add it on the bill Let them know let them make a decision because maybe they want to plug it in those cells Or maybe they want you to plug it in you always have to make sure who's Going to be doing what especially because it's not like there's one or two once you get up to like these You know 300 drop jobs. That's whatever they need done Especially let's say a hundred of them need to have an extra patch cable or a hundred of them need some extra labor Because they want a label to match what's on the wall to match the cubicle. No problem That's just an extra label But you start multiplying that times 100 now you have a hundred extra labels to make and everything has a time Time is money in this and well any business and those are things you have to bill for But uh, like I said leave comments below about other things you'd like to see on here I don't know if I'm be able to film any of the actual racking of the servers and migrating for their From their old location to this location That's a little bit trickier because by then there'll be people in the office and filming with a bunch of people in office A little bit difficult versus when we're they're filming when we're just doing it for you know new construction Well, that's just wandering around new construction building and well, there's no one else there So it makes a lot easier, which is also why we like working after hours. We're not tripping over anyone else But like I said, thanks and leave comments concerns over in the forums I always like to have a discussion and what more you like to see on this. Thanks Yeah, it's a it's a it's a this is where we put kids that are You gotta put the computer in here this thing hear me. I know this is where he's this is gonna be his new gaming room What exactly? 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Now, your next task, and I want you to do this, so push pause if you have to. You have a neuron, you have the general parts of a neuron. You have dendrites, you have the cell body, you have the axon, and you have a synapse. I want you to challenge yourself and lay down some neurons to match this overview of the nervous system. How is a neuron going to be related to this little diagram that we just drew right here? While you are pushing pause, I'm going to keep going because I can't force you. Well, who knows what you're doing right now? Hopefully you've pushed pause and now you're back because you already pushed pause. Ready? This is how you're going to lay down neurons. First of all, you're going to have neurons out here that receive sensory information. You're going to have an axon in my cell body. Do you agree that we're going to probably have dendrites of some flavor that are receiving information from the environment? And then we're going to have an axon that carries that information in, through the axon, into the synaptic knobs and out across the synapse to someone else, another neuron. Look at the path. Look at this. We could have another neuron that actually receives the first information and then I have one neuron here. But if this is actually the brain and the spinal cord, dude, there's like, jillions of them in communicating with each other in a whole net and we'll try and comprehend this, but let's just keep it simple for now. There's some neuron that is processing the information in the central nervous system. And then delivering the message, right, to someone else, what? And then who's the message delivered to? Dog pounds to the effector, whoever that is. Could be a skeletal muscle, could be your heart, could be your eyeballs, your blinking eyeball, whatever. Somebody's going to do something and that's your effector and the information travels in that direction. Does the information ever, on this path that I just drew, does the information ever travel this direction, on this pathway? No, no, never, never. Information can only go one direction down the axon and that's a way from the cell body. So the information here is always, always, always traveling. Oh, you know I've got to find the perfect yellow, that direction, always. Now, we can throw in some crazy loop-de-loops and turnity turns and we can have multiple neurons in a pathway, like many, many neurons in a pathway, but the information is only going to go in one direction. I want you to think about this. We already labeled this little purple guy as the central nervous system. Central nervous system includes any neuron that stays in the brain and the spinal cord. So if a neuron is found in the brain or the spinal cord, then it is considered part of the central nervous system and there are some terms that we should probably be comfortable with that. But what's our alternative? If a cell is not part of the brain or the spinal cord, what is it in? That's the peripheral nervous system. So let's do peripheral nervous system. That's not brain or spinal cord. Now, here's the deal. These are my structural categories for how we can organize the nervous system anatomy. Look at my diagram here and do you agree that if the purple guy is going to stay fully in the central nervous system, it's going to stay in the spinal cord and the brain, then the peripheral nervous system neurons, my blue friend and my red friend, they have to actually have parts touching or entering the central nervous system and it's true. These neurons are still peripheral nervous system neurons even though they do have parts that come into the brain or the spinal cord. They're still considered peripheral unless they're entirely inside the brain or the spinal cord. So this little purple guy is considered a central nervous system neuron because it's completely inside. And again, it can travel up the spinal cord. It can go all over in the brain. There are multiple neurons in the pathway. Those are all in the central nervous system until the information comes out and is telling someone somewhere to do something. Then we're back into the peripheral nervous system again. So both of these areas are P and S. Don't say that too fast. We have some terms that hopefully will trigger some prior knowledge that you already have. First of all, a bundle of axons in the peripheral nervous system. So not just one axon. This is one neuron with one axon. If we take a whole bunch of neurons and bundle them together, a bundle of axons in the peripheral nervous system is a nerve. What? That's the definition of a nerve. It's a bundle of axons traveling through the peripheral nervous system. It's outside, it's a bundle of axons outside of the brain or the spinal cord. Guess what? I'm sorry about this. Sometimes anatomy is awesome. Sometimes not so much. The same thing in the central nervous system. A bundle of axons in the central nervous system is called a tract. It's exactly the same thing, but it's called a tract. We can have a bundle of axons traveling up the spinal cord, and that's a tract. We can have a bundle of axons traveling to different places in the brain, and that's considered a tract. The bundle of axons, I say it's traveling, it isn't traveling. It's holding still, but information travels through that bundle of axons. The bundle of axons can... Well, we'll go there in a second. If I had a bundle of axons out here, it's called... it's going to be a nerve. They're only tracts if the whole thing, the whole axon group is inside the central nervous system. Now, if we had a whole bunch of axons anywhere in the peripheral nervous system or the central nervous system, what are we also going to have a bundle of somewhere? You're also going to have a bundle of cell bodies. A bundle of cell bodies in the peripheral nervous system is called... I'm going to go up here so you can read it. A ganglion. Indeed, it is so. A bundle of cell bodies is a ganglion. A bundle of axons is a nerve. But of course, a bundle of cell bodies in the central nervous system is not a ganglion and this is going to hurt your brain even more so take a deep breath and clear everything out and feel happy and at peace with the world. Maybe pop some chocolate really fast. This is called... I'm really sorry about this. A bundle of cell bodies is called a nucleus. A nucleus in the central nervous system contains many cell bodies and each cell body has its own nucleus. So this is different from the organelle nucleus. This is actually a structure. It's exactly the same thing as a ganglion. It's just found in the central nervous system. All right. I think that that is good for you. I think we'll call it good. We'll talk about the afferent nervous system next.


Jag har lagt över att säga hello till avfräns Nora och Lovie, hur vi blir pengar favorit games var vi tåg. En norra är 6 år sålde. En lös tokarbocka games. När man går inte att askar vart sin njö i steg nås. Plängd oss games. Vad gillar du bäst norra när spelar tokarbocka? To play the doctor game. En Lovie is Fertin and plays minecraft.  Hur lång tid lägger det eller mycket likt mycket tid? Lägger du spelar spelar över huvud taget? Free hours a day. And this, of course, is no surprise.  So we decided to have a couple of games on the stage as well to keep you company. But even if this situation is slightly new with us being able to carry games with us like you guys do, can you play games? Can you remember a time in your life when you did not play games? Well, you can't. Can you? Playing games is something that defines us as human beings. Not only are we playing games that other animals play like hiding and chasing and wrestling, who are also playing games that we invented to be just games. Actually, we have a history of inventing games that is as old as our species. And that's something that's quite funny to think about. Now the past two years, we've talked a lot about gamification, but really games has been tightly intertwined with our culture since the beginning of time. Many of the first games evolved from religious rights, see as priests and others who tried to predict the future, mainly used strategies that are similar to games.  Before they tell you that you will meet a dark handsome stranger when you're eating dinner at McDonald's later tonight. And are you thinking I'm not eating dinner at McDonald's later tonight? One of the first games that we know of is called Senate. This was played as early as 3200 BC. And here we have Queen Nefertiti playing a game. Now, Senate had a symbolic, a mystical significance. The movement on the board symbolised the transition of the human spirit towards a new life beyond death, which meant that if you could master this game in your lifetime, you were well prepared for your new life after you died. So the stakes were much higher playing Senate than playing talk about yeah, no offense to you, Björn. And by the way, Senate became immortal in itself because it involved into back gamon that still use today. Now, in what culture do we find a game like this celebrated by the queen? It is hard to imagine our own queen being picture like this on her grave. And the answer, of course, is a culture where many things not meant to be games were actually built like games. And here's a question for you. Is the pyramid a game? Well, it certainly looks like one. We have this unique out of this world architecture, not similar to anything else. And when you enter the pyramid, you enter it the same way you would enter a game. First you have to find the secret entrance. Then you're instantly, of course, led in the wrong direction towards the fake tomb. And to find the right tomb, you will have to find another secret entrance and, of course, fight mythology on your way. The tomb is guarded by traps and curses that just might kill you. But if you succeed, you will find a treasure.  And today we would say that this is the place where you move on to a next level. Now we might ask ourselves if it is the pyramid that looks like our games, or if it is our games that reminds us of the pyramid. And you might add what on earth is all this telling us. Well, maybe that life and culture and games always have been intertwined. In Egypt, people played senate to prepare themselves for life after death. And what nearly all games have in common throughout history is that they can be used as metaphors for society and for everyday life. And from that time, the most obvious example of this is chess. Chess has again and again been used as a symbol for war and for politics. And for instance, the Nazis were fascinated by this game. De regarded it as a game of discipline and purity, and they even invented their own version of chess called tactic from tactics, replacing the pawns and the towers with soldiers and bombs and air force pieces and marketing to the kids. Möste sig en parti taktik spelen? Ja, min unge här. Das is an super game, something like that. Now the Nazis transformation of the game into propaganda, which it was, was picked up immediately after the war by the Soviets, who used chess as a brick in the new war, the Cold War. And when Bobby Fischer in 1971 became the first American to have a go at the title as world champion in chess, the game quickly turned into an image of the conflict between East and West. The reason I think for using games as a metaphor for life around us is that we need different ways of dealing with the things we go through. This might even be the reason why we play games in the first place. Most of the games that we know of from history presents an augmented reality in that way that you either win or you lose. That makes the world of games rather black and white. And for kids growing up means a lot of complexity. Every day they meet new challenges from the world around them. And playing games is a way of meeting all these questions with simple answers that can be a way to win it all. There can be a way to replace doubt with positive emotions and a feeling of fulfillment, and that's what games often. So if the history of games teaches us one thing it is while playing games we deal with life, playing games we deal with life. And I suspect that the future of games, at least from an industry point of view, lies in finding different aspects of life that we haven't dealt with yet. Thank you.


There we back at it again for another outfit of the week and this week's winner goes to Malik Monk. What really does it for me is the North Face jacket. It's got some kind of world map design on it that I think is pretty cool.  And then you got the patterned jeans that I think complement the jacket really well. Stepping in some solid white kicks, overall cool calm fit and I'm rocking with it. Let us know what y'all think of this week's outfit of the week and we'll be back next week with another one.


The REAL reason why you're so obsessed with your water bottle. Just like kids, adults need security blankets too. It's called object attachment, and people are catching on. Research shows more and more adults are turning to certain objects for emotional support and help ease a number of things. One study found that 40% of adults still sleep with a stuffed animal, although Bill DeBear commissioned the survey, so make of that what you will. So whether it's a teddy bear or a 32 ounce dishwasher safe water bottle, our possessions can provide us real comfort. Which might be the reason why you're still holding onto that raggedy old baby blanket.


to Quinlan. I'm Keith Gosland. Tuesday, August 13th. We're here with all things LGBTQ to give you some news, entertainment, interviews, etc. But now let's start with headlines. And that would be me. I think I'm here. Okay. Palm Springs PD, Police Department shoots men with a knife who is yelling anti-gay and racist slurs. And kills them. You have to wait for the rest of the story. Okay.  Yes! Oh my God. There is truth in advertising. 500 plus Alabama Methodists apologize for churches anti-LGBTQ stance. Illinois mandates LGBTQ inclusion in public school curriculum. I've got that down. Judge says the school district violated trans student Gavin Grimm's rights. We talked about him previously. Virginia student Grimm says that this ruling indicates that it is illegal to discriminate in America. Dracula is first U.S. reality TV competition to have a drag king. Alfonso Davis to lead HRC and boycott Equinox and Soul Cycle. You bet. Says because he is the owner of these clubs and he's a Trump supporter and contributor. And fundraiser. So stay away from anything that has to do with those. And Mike Pence advises anti-gay group to spend more times on their knees. I'm assuming he needs it. I'm not going there. We're a family show. I'm assuming he needs it. In prayer. But anyway. And Chicago lesbian mayor unloads on Ivanka Trump. So and we'll have a few more things and so that's where we are here in the country. So in our backyard. Some events. Price under Vermont their annual Pride Festival Sunday September 8th. Parade starts at 12 30. They've announced their grand marshals and for this year it is. Surprise. The founders of outright Vermont and the outright youth.   So I'm there. Right. Larks and Ravens again. Contrafy dancing. Capital Grange Saturdays 8 p.m. 1st 3rd and if there's the 5th. And then a shout out to out in the open their rural summit. Which is at Green Mountain Camp in Dumberston September 27th to the 29th. There is nothing involving dismembering pigs this year. Oh you just I just so you know. Thank you. So our trivia question before I get on to it. Some of the things I'm going to talk to in greater depth. This is the quote. In our democratic society it is the responsibility of government to safeguard civil liberties and civil rights. Especially the freedom of speech and expression. In a free society we must all be committed to the mutual respect of each other's lifestyles. Who said it and what was the occasion. And then when we talk about stories and want to talk a little bit about Patriot Front and why we should be paying more attention. Let's talk a little bit about the Boy Scout and the Catholic Diocese. If we must. And then I want to talk about education. Okay. And I had about Illinois but it's another state and there's a suit that's happening here in Vermont that we're going to want to watch. Okay. I have many headlines. You're going to take us to far distant places. Well first of all we're going to go to Berlin and visit some penguins. Penguins! Then we're going to go to the Caribbean in which lawsuits in four countries challenged the colonial erosotomy law. Then we're going to go to Indonesia where there's a church welcoming queer members.  In the Polish IM LGBT campaign attracts thousands of Twitter supporters. The Gay Star News closes. And this is a little late. I saved this story from last time. Ramstein Band, a German heavy metal band, presents a gay male kiss on the Moscow stage to protest Russia's anti-LGBT cute It's been a lot of demonstrating there too lately. Mm-hmm. Marshal Layla concert in Lebanon canceled after church pressure. Ecuadorian same-sex marriage activists finally get married after six years of trying to do it. These are the headlines of stories I'm probably not going to get to.  But what it means is you can adopt your spouse and become your spouse's guardian. So that's the big deal there. There there's an effort to roll back transgender rights in Uruguay but it failed. Uruguay is also distinctive because it issued one of several countries issuing a travel warning about the United States. Uruguay says don't go to the United States. Same-sex union vote failure. Dismay's Montenegro's LGBT community. LGBT activists at St. Petersburg Pride event were detained. There were 11 of them. And another development in St. Petersburg is that the second in the killing of the rights activist Elena Grigoryeva. A second person has been detained. The first person has been dismissed. You know who knows what's going on there. But I'll keep you posted in future episodes. So that's the end of my headlines. Really? Yes. There are quite a few of them. Well let's go back to the United States and we'll go to Palm Springs. Okay. Which we all know is like a LGBTQ haven. That's being golf is what I do it for. I know. Dinosaur classic. Yep. Well the police officer and the suspect were both injured during the altercation in a downtown parking lot. The suspect ended up barbershopping and started racial and anti-LGBTQ slurs. They called the police. The police came and they chased him out of the barbershop and so and they both survived the incident. They were shot. Huh? What happened? The cop got hurt and the suspect got hurt. And the suspect stabbed the cop? No. The suspect had a knife but the cop had a gun. I think the cop got hurt and then the you know but anyway he was arrested. But the same day as the this Palm Springs incident the FBI arrested him in Las Vegas who they believed to play in Toboma gay bar and a synagogue. So and straight pride organizers. They're totally peaceful racist group apparently. Yes. It's not clear if Grunsman's admission was a slip of the tongue or what but this long time LGBTQ rights foe turned to the crowd at a town meeting. Where? Boston. Uh-huh. Turned to the crowd and said that he belongs he was a member of a group called Whites Against Racism Alliance. What? The straight. The organized the straight pride march? Yes. Yes. It's Whites Against Racism Alliance that he was a member of that. Hmm. But it's a peaceful racist group. Yeah. That's how we defined it. I see. Yeah there we are. The parade is scheduled in Boston for August 31st. I have a picture of a few of the deplorables to show you so you can see them. And identify them. Yes. We can glitter bottom them. And now Dracula is the first U.S. reality TV competition to have a drag king. The Boulay brothers have made LGBTQ history on Amazon Prime. This is the first U.S. reality drag show to air on television and to feature a drag king who is Langdon Cider. And we have a picture of Langdon up on the screen. And company, huh? And company. Alfonso Davis to lead human rights. Previously he was counsel to Governor Andrew Cuomo. Yeah.  So we'll have to see what happens there. There was an attempt to censor a Virginia GOP congressman, Denver Regleman, for because he officiated at a gay wedding. And he maintains that love is love. He's a Republican. But many of his constituents didn't like this and didn't disagree with what he was doing. There was an attempt to censor him. But it didn't go through. And so he's still there.   But this time it's on Fox News. They do have an outjournalist. Yes, his name is Shepard Smith. He's been there for a while. Yep. And he's an anchor and one of the few Fox personalities willing to be critical of Trump. Trump tweeted that Smith is worse than fake news CNN. And for this last story, for this segment, I'm going, we all know that the lesbian mayor of Chicago is Lightfoot. And after Trump tweeted, after Ivanka Trump tweeted about the violence in Chicago, Mayor Lightfoot responded with a vengeance. When Ivanka used Twitter to comment on the mass shootings, Ivanka again mentioned all the violence in Chicago. Ms. Lightfoot responded by saying, that's the danger with having a platform and audience from someone who doesn't know what she's talking about. Well, so Ivanka Trump commented on the Dayton shooting and the El Paso shooting? Yes. And then she trashed Chicago as a violent city like she did with, well, like Trump did with Baltimore. Oh, I see. So she threw Chicago in. She threw Chicago in just on the side. And Trump often attacks Chicago, too, for whatever reason. And Osama's from there. So yes. Because of their former mayor, yeah, annual. So she didn't like it. And there we go. There we go. So now let's go to local. And speaking of things we don't like, there's been another incident involving the Patriot Front in Burlington, where they went up to a bulletin board traditionally used by Black Lives Matter and put up their Reclaim America posters that the Burlington police- Are they in the Burlington area? Well, this is where we're going. Okay. And why I said, we need to be paying greater attention. Burlington police, when they've been questioned about Patriot Front, said that they really believed it was a person who was engaging in these little things just so they could get the publicity.  Last year, there were five incidents involving Patriot Front. A couple in a synagogue. Followed this through. Okay. This halfway through this year, there have already been 35. Wow. So either this person has become even more active, or he has found people to help him in this process, which is why I'm saying we really need to be attentive to this. And then, again, looking at who they're targeting. Yes, they were looking at the synagogues in Burlington and the LGBTQ organizations, but now they're shifting over to Black Lives Matter, people of color. Did they ever find the person who burned the gay flag? No. So let's talk a little bit about the Boy Scouts and the Vermont Catholic Diocese. Both of these organizations have been going through a process of internal reviews over the past year. Pennsylvania, there's a suit that's been filed by former Scouts saying that the Scout Council did not protect them, that they had uncovered this secret watch list of leaders who you might want to keep an eye on. And when they looked at what the Scouting Organization released to law enforcement in much the same manner that the Catholic Diocese is supposed to be doing, this group said there were over 350 named abusers on the watch list that weren't included on the list that had been voluntarily given to law enforcement, which leads us into the Catholic Diocese here in Vermont, where the bishop a year ago brought together this seven-person panel, one of whom is an identified survivor and one member was someone not affiliated with the Catholic faith to go through and look at what they had for information, personnel files, whatever, to turn over to the Office of Attorney General priests who were suspected of abuse. Well, SNAP, Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, There's an organization.  They were the ones who in Boston lifted the veil over. Do you know what's going on here? They're going, what was his name?  Well, SNAP has said, okay, you've had a year. We understand being thoughtful in this decision, but you haven't shared anything with anybody. When do you think something might be forthcoming? And there's also an investigation, a sort of parallel investigation that was supposed to be conducted by the Office of Attorney General, which is also not released any findings. And it may be because they haven't gotten the information they really need from the diocese to do the work they do. Is there any word about whether it will be forthcoming or? No. No, okay. There, the Catholic Church. Yeah. They don't have to be spot. In Catholic Madigan's standup routine, she said that the Pope had, at that point in time, just gone to Russia to apologize for an action they took in the year 1174. So I think it's going to be a while before they catch up to us. Well, as Andy Hub says. So what do you, yeah.  So what you got, hun? Oh, we got penguins. I love penguins. Observe before you a picture of Skipper and Ping, who are penguins from Berlin. They arrived in Berlin in April from the Hamburg Zoo. They're 10 years old. They show signs immediately of wanting to have an egg. They were trying to hatch fish and stones, the zookeeper said. After having seen this, the zoo staff entrusted them with an egg from the only female of the group that had failed in recent years to hatch her own. This is a little murky. As soon as they received the egg, they went to work. We are not certain that the egg has been fertilized, however. I hope they're not headed for disappointment. Skipper and Ping. Trying to hatch rocks. I know it. When it was reading me this, I said, they're not very pretty. I know. They're penguins. Dismissive of them. I think they're very caring. But if it has been fertilized, it should hatch in about 55 days. And so if that occurs, I'll report back. As we know, this is not the only recorded case of homosexual couples among penguins, both in captivity and in the wild. Homosexual couples exist in their natural habitat, the zookeeper said, adding that it was not so rare. We've seen many of them on the show. Other zoos have already been successful after having given an egg for adoption to a homosexual couple, which we've recorded in many instances. But this would be a first in Berlin. So I hope they're not headed for disappointment. They're very cute. We'll be here for them. Yeah, well, we'll send condolences if necessary. I hope it doesn't come to that, though. Now I have a picture before you of Sean McLeese, who filed a lawsuit against the colonial era sodomy law in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. LGBTQ people in Fork, Caribbean countries over the last year, have filed lawsuits against these colonial era sodomy laws. Javan Johnson and Sean McLeese, and you've just seen his picture. On July 26th, they filed a lawsuit against two laws in St. Vincent and the Grenadines that criminalized consensual same-sexual relations. Darrell Phillip, founder of Minority Rights Domenica and Maurice Thompson, a senior policy analyst, announced that a gay man who remains anonymous filed a suit against Domenica's sodomy law. Alexa Hoffman, a transgender activist in Barbados, along with a gay man and lesbian woman, filed a lawsuit against their country's sodomy law with the same commission. Tomlinson, who was born in Jamaica in 2015, challenged his country's sodomy law in the Jamaican Supreme Court. McLeese told the Washington Blade during a telephone interview from Chicago, where he has lived for more than 30 years with his partner, that his case is very personal to me because of my experiences being gay in St. Vincent, with all of the homophobia and discrimination that I experienced there. Domenica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados and Jamaica are among the handful of English-speaking Caribbean countries in which consensual same-sex relations remain criminalized, so lawsuits have been filed. Now I have a happy, well, a church story. I don't usually report on them because I find a lot of organized religion to be homophobic. As do many of these parishioners in Indonesia. However now, the first church to welcome queer members has arisen. It's become an inspiration for many of its congregation, but it's also been threatened by hardliners, not surprisingly. Every Friday night in a house in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, a church group meets to discuss issues surrounding gender and sexuality. There are usually 12 to 15 people who come regularly. The GKA, the Grace Community Church, is what it called in English, was established as a Baptist church in 2013, but it's the first to openly welcome LGBT members. The pastor who is pictured before you now, Suarbaya Rahadin, views this as an opportunity to reach out to Christians who'd never been to church or had stopped attending. His goal was to reignite their faith. He created this discussion group to talk about various issues that prompt people to abandon their religion. During an early group discussion, it became apparent that one of the main reasons many people stopped going to church was that they regarded the institution as homophobic. I can't imagine why. It was then that he decided to encourage his congregation to embrace the LGBT community, to encourage inclusiveness and love. He released a public statement expressing the church's support for Jakarta's LGBT community. It was a bold step to take, but one the pastor felt was essential. Unfortunately, not everyone in the church agreed. Some members left the church, the reformed Baptist church, then severed all its ties with the congregation over this stance and expelled it from the Association of Protestant Churches. Now it has no money. Everybody's volunteering. It's also been threatened, victim of fake news, but it spurred an online activist group, the Indonesian Rainbow Christian Fellowship. One of his parishioners started that. It's got 480 followers on Instagram Indonesia as a reputation as a moderate Muslim country. I don't think so, but this is what this story says. Because in recent years, Sharia law has ruled in the Aceh province. Lesbians have been killed. No, I'm sorry, tamed. Anyway, they faced growing hostility, including physical attacks, but this church is trying to provide a refuge. Good job. Well, yeah. Good job for them. Good for them, yeah. Yeah, moderate by who's standards. Yeah, moderate by who's standards. Yeah, really? So what you got, hon? Well, I don't have a lot more, but I do have gays against guns have taken to the street after El Paso and Dayton shootings. Now this is exciting. There's a Billie Jean King action figure coming out. Really? Yes, and it's coming with a racket. Moving on. To smash stereotypes. I see. You know, I got it. I got it. I know. I know. All right. Henry Belello, co-founder of the Village People, dies at 82. No. Yeah. Yeah. Lesbian judge was actually nominated by Trump and confirmed by the Senate. Mary Rowland of Illinois is the president's first out judge that he's appointed since he's taken office. How this happened, I have no idea. Do we know any of her previous rulings and where she might stand? No, we do not. You know, maybe she's a conservative lesbian, I don't know. I'm thinking of the Log Cabin Republicans. Yes. Yeah. All right. We'll have to do more research into that. And this was an interesting story because this Ohio Republican blames mass shootings on Drain Queen advocates, Colin, Kirkpatrick and Obama. The state leader of her own party, Jane Timkin, said that Ms. Keller's Facebook post was utterly and totally shocking and unjustifiable. Where are they from? These two? Ohio. Is it Ohio? Ohio sounds right. I think it is Ohio. And she refused to take down the post. Yeah. And she won't take down the post. And this was only a few days after the shootings in Dayton. And she refuses to resign. So what they're going to actually do to get her out, I don't know, but it was pretty ugly, pretty ugly. And so we'll see. So that's my stories for today. So uplifting. So let's talk about education for a bit. On the last show, I had said I had started reading an article as we were taping and I would get back on it. And it was the federal Department of Education. And there is an organization called Center for American Progress. And they went in and reviewed all of the Department of Education's own statistics. And the backdrop to this is the secretary over a year ago pulled back all the Obama guidelines for transgender students. They are currently nine times less likely to investigate a complaint this filed. Seventy-six percent of the cases that the complaints that are filed allege sexual or gender harassment with transgender being overly represented. This is Vermont. No, no, no. This is the federal. This is the federal Department of Education. And the Department of Ed came back with their own, oh, but we're processing them more quickly than the Obama. Ninety-two percent of the complaints are dismissed without findings or finding of no wrongdoing. They're not even really investigating. During the Obama era, 23 percent of the cases that were investigated resulted in a change in policy or practice. True change came about. Guess the current rate? 60. Zero. Two percent. Two percent. Two percent of the complaints result in some degree of change within the educational system. Thank you so much. It says it all, doesn't it? In here in Vermont, there is a suit that we are going to continue to follow. And it's two students from Rice High School in Burlington, which is a parochial school. It's a suit filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom. Oh, dear. Wait, don't we love them? They found us. They're everywhere. But the state has filed a motion, and it's in the federal court, to dismiss it. Because the suit alleges that these two students are not allowed to participate in the dual enrollment program. Your senior year in high school can be your freshman year in college because they attend a religious school. Well, the state says close but no cigar.  It never mentions a faith-based or religious school as being exempted. It all hinges on where your funding comes from. But don't some schools get vouchers like Catholic schools and stuff like that? Not in Vermont. Not in Vermont. Good. But in Vermont, private schools such as St. John'sbury Academy, the local towns do not have their own schools. They tuition all of their students to St. John'sbury Academy, so they would qualify for this. Here's the sort of, oops, 1999, the Vermont Supreme Court made a ruling that said that public funds cannot be used to support religious education. I know they've been fighting in New York to try to get that, and it hasn't gone through yet. We're going to be watching this closely to see what happens. You had mentioned about Illinois and their new curriculum. Both Illinois and New Jersey have passed legislation that says that public schools have to include the contributions of those groups that are defined in the Human Rights Act, so that's all of the underrepresented communities, women, LGBTQ, communities of color, indigenous people, First Nation. So New Jersey and Illinois are already, and California already has it, is saying you need to teach this in our schools, you need to teach it now. Here in Vermont, we have a group that is coming together to work with the department, our agency of education, to come up with standards by which to review curriculum. It's not mandating curriculum specific yet. I have to say, I looked at the California curriculum. You didn't like it? LGBT people aren't mentioned. I don't know what category we're supposed to fall under, ethnic studies or something. We're not under ethnic, we're usually under the social component. I didn't see a social component in California. That may be the problem. But Illinois and New Jersey both specifically mentioned LGBTQ in their enacting legislation. So you're going to bring it home before we go to the circulating interview. I know I have to rush through a lot of exciting news now. I'd like to show you a Coca-Cola ad that they've been, they have three ads that they have released on billboards in Hungary. And I'd like to show you one of the pictures. There's been a lot of hoo-ha, particularly objections from Prime Minister Viktor Orban's far-right Fidesz party. They're very upset about this. The Archbishop of Krakow compared the LGBTQ movement to communism and said the red plague is no longer on our land, but it does not mean that there is not a new one that threatens to rule our souls, hearts and minds. It is not Marxist or Bolshevik, but it has been born of the same neo-Marxist spirit. It's not red, but rainbow. We didn't think they'd notice. Coca-Cola hasn't taken on the ads, so we'll see what happens there. A lot of turmoil in Poland that I've reported on at great length. Now an IMLGBT campaign has occurred on Twitter, and it has thousands of followers. Are Poland and Hungary part of the EU? No, no. They aren't? No. Oh, okay. I thought Poland was, no? No. Okay. No, and they can't be with all this stuff going on. Yeah, I know. That's what I mean. I was thinking if they were part, they could, you know, people could do something, but okay. Now I have another picture before you of the two founders of Gay Star News that has recently closed. Their names are Tris, Reed Smith and Scott Nunn, and they had to close because of financial difficulties. And what they characterized is a rainbow wash, which is all these, you know, basically right-wing corporations buying ads and co-opting all the business from the LGBTQ news. It was going for eight years from the UK. They had to close. Great loss. Now I'd like to show you a clip of the Ramstein band members kissing in the Moscow, on the Moscow stage to protest Russia's policies. That's good. Well this group, it's a heavy metal band. It's shared a kiss on stage. Guitarists Paul Landers and Richard Koopsey kissed each other. The image was put up on the band Instagram and they said, Russia, we love you. You know what? It really takes a lot of courage for those people to do that in a place like Russia. Although they're German, they can leave. Yeah, but yeah. They've got to get out of the country. Yes.  By the Maronite Catholic Aparchy of Bilboz, they said that the song violates religious values. Didn't you report on LGBTQ woman who was captured and murdered in Russia? Oh, the St. Petersburg murder. I mentioned that last time. Yeah. And the original suspect has, in case he's been released, but they arrested somebody else. And there's all this garbled conversation about she was drinking with one of them, and so it's still on itself. They disappear like that in Russia. Yeah, although she was pretty famous, and there have been a lot of protests. I'd like to show you a picture now of Pamela Troy and Gabriela Correa. They're from Ecuador. They finally got married after six years of fighting for it and bringing suit and so forth. So now, I would like to introduce a wonderful interview that Josie Levitt shared with me. Please enjoy it. Hi, I'm here with Josie Levitt, comic and storyteller of great renown. She has won the comedy award by Daisy's, presented by Seven Days, and 2014, 2016, and 2017. And 2011. And 2011, oh, I overlooked that. That's okay. So we're very honored to have you here. I'm thrilled to be here. Well, I'd like to talk a little bit about you, if I may. You moved to Vermont in 1996. Yes. You grew up in New York? I did. And you started doing comedy on the West Side? Yes. I went to Columbia University. Did you? Oh, you did? I went to Barnard. Oh, yeah. I was the first Cohen class at Columbia College. Uh-huh. And then I went to graduate school. I went to Teachers College. And then I lived right down the street from Teachers College. It's great. I love it up there. Excuse me. And then my ex-wife, we had just started dating. And she had said to me, I don't care where you do it. It was our first New Year's together. And she said, promise me you'd do stand up once this year. I don't care. It can be someone's living room. You can take a class. It can be anything. Just do it. And I had never thought about doing stand up before. And I lived on 78th Street. And I was literally- I lived on 78th Street, too. Oh, my God. I know. My goodness. Wow. We probably run into each other shopping. And I wound up doing stand up once. I had taken a class and I loved it. And it felt like this life-changing adventure. And I finished my set and I got off stage. And it was so powerful. I literally, I remember, I slumped against the wall. And I'm not a religious person, but it felt almost like the hand of God pushed me back, sat me down. And it was as if the universe was saying, pay attention to this because your life has just changed. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. And then I lived a block and a half from stand up New York. So I became the irritating, like, can I get five minutes? I'll host. I'll do this. So I sort of worked my way up at that club in New York. And they had a couple contests that I won. Not a big deal. I mean, funniest Upper West Side, or who cares? My mother. And it was just, and I really liked doing it. So and that's how I got started. I see. And but then you moved to Vermont. Yes. Well, you gave it up for a while and did something else. No, we moved to Vermont. And then I gave it up. And then you owned the bookstore. We started the bookstore. Elizabeth Blumlee and I started the bookstore. We moved up from New York and we started the bookstore. And there was no comedy here, really. There was that one show on the weekends at what used to be, I remember, like the Hilton or the Hyatt right on Battery Street. And they would have two nights of comedy. And they'd bring people in. And higher ground occasionally would have people, but nothing to speak of at that time. And this was probably 98. And I had sent in a tape to the people who booked for that hotel. And they had just said to me, yes. We would actually like to book you to open. And then literally a month before that was supposed to happen, I had a grand mal seizure. Oh, no. And I wrote them. I called the guy up and I said, listen, I can't. I don't my health is a little precarious. And then they stopped. They that that they closed that it folded. And I was like, oh. And then I didn't get started doing stand up again here until I started teaching in 2005. I taught something at the Women's Economic Conference. Which was great. And that led to then teaching stand up at the Flynn. So 2005 stand up and sit down and laugh. That was your show? That was my show. Arnie Molina and I, he was the former artistic director. We cooked that up because 200 people came to the class performance. And he said, if we can get 200 people to come to a class performance, we can fill a gap for comedy. So he said, have at it. I'll give you three or four shows a year. Your teaching students bring those students up. So it was an immediate, it was like a feeder right into the performance. And it was wonderful. And then through that, all these comics and different kinds of people just took off with it and ran with it. And Nathan Hartzwick was one of my students. And now he and his wife run and own the comedy club. And you couldn't ask for better people in the Vermont comedy scene than those two. And they were just as nurturing. And so between the two of us, the three of us now really, we've all sort of built the comedy scene up. And now there's so many, you can't, every single night of the week in Vermont in Burlington, you can see a comedy show. I've seen that.  I just wanted to perform and I wanted to give women originally. And then I started the Vermont comedy divas shortly after that because I got tired of higher ground and other clubs saying, you can open for out of town men. There were very few women comics coming in. And I just wanted to give female comics stage time. So that was 2006. Yes. And it's a five female troupe. It's a rotating troupe.  And we've sort of gone on hiatus a little bit. Mostly because I got cancer last year. Someone had a baby. So we're trying to figure out what we want to be diva-wise. But everyone's having a very successful career at the moment without the divas. So we'll see what happens with that. I want to ask you, how would you define or what differentiates queer comedy from straight comedy? Do you think there's a clear line of demarcation? I think just how they, that's a really interesting question.  I think probably that was probably LGBTQ LOL, one of the shows that Kendall Farrell started. I don't think it's a difference between, I think it's a difference in the audience. Because I think the queer audience is so grateful to be represented and to see themselves on stage. And there isn't a ton of that. And not every queer comic feels comfortable being out depending on what shows they're doing or where they're performing. And I think a lot of people now are just like, I'm queer, get over it. But every once in a while, though, I've heard from friends that learn the Midwest and it doesn't always go as well as it could. And I think just to see yourself represented on stage in a comedic way, it's just lovely as a queer person. And I wished I had had that growing up. And there was no way that was going to happen. No, not happening. So it was great to be part of that. And to just be an outcomic. Because I've always been an outcomic. And when I first started, I would do the beginning of my material very benign, I hate to say, but at the time generic jokes. And then I'd come out. So I got them to like me and then I would come out. And at that time, this was 92, you know, there was some backlash. The age crisis was running rampant in New York and not everyone liked queer people. And I had people come up to me after the show.  Thank you. Like that was really great.  So that was something. It was just nice to be able to do that.  I mean, nobody cares in Vermont. I mean, pretty much I feel like all the comics are queer. Well, I mean, whatever. Probably not, but I feel like a lot of them are. So. Well, I was watching one of your tapes and you were talking about cancer in Atlanta or for the Atlantic? For the Atlantic. For the Atlantic. And it was just so smooth. You came out midway, talked about your wife. And you know. Girlfriend. Girlfriend. Let's not get carried away. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Girlfriend. Yes, partner, but not wife. Yeah, we're not, I'm not going to tie the knot again probably. No, we haven't. You know, yeah. It's an individual decision. You can commit to someone without the piece of paper. Isn't that the truth? I agree entirely. I know. I've decided, you know, and this is something I did at the bookstore. I never switched pronouns. I, every once in a while I'd be judicious about who I would share things with. But if I'm performing and I'm talking about, you know, a cancer, my cancer journey, I'm not going to pretend I didn't go through it with a female partner because she was instrumental in making it fun and bearable in a lot of ways. So I'm not going to pretend I had a husband through that. Right. Well, it was very smooth, I thought. Well, thank you. I have another question. Yes. Can you explain the difference between comedy and storytelling? Because I see you describe yourself as both. I've seen you. I think we need to differentiate, I think you need to say stand-up comedy. And storytelling because you can have comedic storytelling, which are just, you know, funny stories with an arc. Storytelling, you have an arc. There's drama. It's tighter. It's usually you're talking about the same theme. At least for my storytelling, it's better written. And it definitely has a much tighter arc. Or that's what I try for. And with stand-up, you can riff a little more. I'm more relaxed. And it's more sort of spontaneous almost for me. It's almost like improv or storytelling.  Because I've done it for so long that I can talk to the audience during stand-up. And you can't talk to the audience doing storytelling. And one thing for me, the biggest difference is when I do stand-up my energy goes outward to the audience. And I'm moving around more and, you know, I'm a Jew.  And I'm moving more. And with storytelling, the energy is all inward. And it's just a focus on the words and the story. And why am I telling this story? Why does this story matter? And with stand-up, I don't have that quite as much. But for me, it is very much, as I'm not going to say rigid, but it's how I stand. I don't give it away with the story as much as I do with stand-up. I'm much more composed and I'm more careful and I'm more thoughtful with my words. Whereas with stand-up, it's almost, stand-up's just fun for me. And storytelling is still really hard for me. So I like doing it because it pushes me. It pushes me as a writer. It pushes me as a performer. Because if I can't use my body the way I'm used to, how does the writing then have to make those points for me? Whereas in stand-up, my body would be making those points. Is it the same sense of exhilaration or? No. You know, I mean, my heart is always going to be in stand-up.  And then I do it 15 minutes and I'm like, oh my God, that was amazing. Whereas with storytelling, it's just always a little more fraught for me. I mean, I'm growing to enjoy it more and I like it more like when I had my show last year at the Flynn. That was definitely, it was an hour and 17 minutes show and there were moments of hilarity and there were moments where people were just flat out sobbing. And I like the challenge of that. And I like the, I like a longer time for storytelling than just seven minutes. Sometimes because I like to weave a bigger story, but also being able to do a seven-minute story, if you do it well, it's gorgeous. It's a lovely thing. Well, I have to say, I heard you at an extempo thing and I filled up with tears at the end of your story. Thank you. Very moving. Thank you. But that was the second story I had ever done. And I find my storytelling is really dark and my stand-up is not. And my storytelling is much more reflective and emotive and my stand-up is sort of how have I hurt myself today trying to fix things at my house or, you know, I have lots of stories now about trying to kayak and, you know, living on the water and slipping on rocks and hurting myself. And my storytelling is a little more, certainly, has a little more oomph to it. And it's a little more focus. Yeah. And it's got a little more solidity to it. And so now that I have this as an outlet, I'm looking at things differently. And it's helpful. It helps you get through life. Tell me, what are you up to now? We have only a minute and a half. So what are your current projects? Current projects? Well, one of the things that happened since having cancer is I've now become sort of a cancer speaker and advocate.  I'm on the hospital patient advisory board and I'm doing grand rounds. Which hospital? University Hospital. Okay. I've been to Burlington. So I'm doing grand rounds, which is my cancer show for anyone who wants to listen. And it's free and it's at noon and it's at the main auditorium in the hospital. And what date? September 9th. And then September 23rd, I'm telling a story at Ex Tempo at Positive Pi. And then for folks who are in Rutland, on October 2nd, I'm doing one of the first Wednesdays. And it's going to be an abbreviated version of my show. So this happened, A Comic Confronted Cancer. And I also, on the first November, the first Wednesday of November, I'm doing that same show in Newport. So you're getting all around the state? The Humanities Council is just like, can you do two instead? I'd love to do two. And then every month, starting in October, I have the Stand Up, Sit Down and Laugh series starts up again at the Flint Space. And that's flat out comedy and I've been booking it. And there are lots of people. Lots of great comics already booked, so I'm very excited for that. That's wonderful. Well, this is gone by too fast. I know it has, hasn't it? Thank you so much for having me. Well, thank you for coming in. This is lovely. You'll have to come back. I would love to. Good show. She was great. Yeah, she was really good. We need to find out when the Laugh Out Loud is going to resume again. It's LGBTQ comedy, Laugh Out Loud? Yeah. And then there's. She mentioned in the interview. And then the Stand Up. The storytelling too. Yeah. We're going to have a busy winter. Good. So, in our democratic society, it is the responsibility of government to safeguard civil liberties and civil rights, especially the freedom of speech and expression. In a free society, we must all be committed to the mutual respect of each other's lifestyles and was so close to getting it. Wendy, I said this may have been spoken in 1983, which just happened to be the year of the first Pride Parade in Burlington. Water won't run straight and neither will we. And this language may have been included in the mayor's proclamation for Pride Day and the mayor being Bernie Sanders. So with that. Yeah, Bernie. Go, Bernie! We're going to say, as we usually do, please resist.


Ocean acidification is of course a phenomenon that is much harder to portray, yet it is now a reality whose economic consequences are directly perceptible and whose effects could be devastating in the long term for many sectors, starting with farming and harvesting of many shellfish and crustaceans. When the carbon dioxide is dissolved in the water, there's a chemical reaction that causes the ocean to become more acidic slowly. At IAEA, the Ocean Acidification International Coordination Center really focuses on the science of ocean acidification as well as communicating the dangers of this issue and building capacity and really vulnerable developing regions of the world. And this is really crucial so that they can understand the chemistry conditions in their waters and then make projections about how this chemistry is changing and how it will impact the industries and seafood species that they really care about.


The review describes studies on the development, validation, and implementation of tools for predicting patient deterioration in general wards in hospitals using electronic medical records to automate early warning tools and provide real-time, dynamic risk estimates. However, the literature has not shown that the deployment or implementation of such algorithms is reproducibly associated with improvements in patient outcomes, highlighting the need for further work to realize the potential of automated predictions and update dynamic risk estimates as part of an operational early warning system for inpatient deterioration. This article was authored by K. D. Mann, Norm M. Goode, for Hodfate High, and others.