about this rather than have a tiered assessment which is really complicated we just raise a whole bunch of money locally and I'm saying this is what we do this is our share the rest can be split equally and that was we all committed effort to the fundraising to raise even more than what they were initially going to raise to offset that's really that is a really good counter point and so thank you for that is the answer is that now even though so but we need to have that conversation out loud because there are people I'm like Rich who I hope in other places in town who want to know wait a minute how is this getting paid for but the Curtis Park community is raising half of the money privately to do it and the other part of that fundraising is the education with the Curtis Park Association is the education about Marcus Faker saying it's going to cost everyone in town far more money if we lose the dam than if we fix it because the property taxes dealt with a loss of approximately $100,000 per year and it would go up $44 dollars per and it would cost a lot more all of us to lose the dam than to fix the dam that is the property values of those residents around the pond in that area that's also very complicated that's really complicated to explain the really simple message is the Curtis Park community did a bunch of fundraising and yay and that's covering half of the bill so the rest of the community can feel like okay and at one other point I don't think it hurts to say that property values are on the pond all day out and they're from the tax base absolutely right a good argument which every time I try to explain that I have to do it three times but we can, I know we can and we should make the argument but I think that coming out of the box saying Curtis Park community raised all this money absolutely right that's the victory Dan has her hand up there Jamie I wonder too if you have information like other people not in Curtis pond have donated money so it's a community-wide project and people on the east-south-east side have donated to the same thing so it's a community-wide thing absolutely but we have over 250 direct donations from people from all around right and so I think that's important and I think that's a big indication of the support for the project and we've been I think it would be important to track some of that information and we've been working on we've been viewing all of our fundraising we did the concert series we did this on our auction we sent a fundraising letter to 2,500 households in Calis, Worcester and East Montpelier and we've been viewing all of our fundraising as also sort of public awareness raising drawing support for an upcoming bond vote and we have sort of a rough outline of plans moving towards that so once we have more set in stone details about a bond vote we want to have public hearings around town public meetings in different neighborhoods to answer questions we're planning on sending a postcard or two to all Calis voters and then lead up to town meeting day asking support and just sort of to treat her to like living room meetings so it's really like a public support campaign and we've seen enormous public support I was involved in something I can't even remember what it was years ago we did the make the rounds and it was really effective so in your communication efforts the more you were able to raise through private donations the more likely that bond is going to be that's what we're going to say not only because that shows community commitment but it reduces the actual number and if you get it down to five million bucks I don't know if we need to bond for five million dollars I wish we could do that I'm going to check in with you and ask if you've made the points that you wanted to make does the board have any other questions or comments? I do want to just point out that we have a list of here some of the items that we think we need to do for legal things I'm not going to roll those through but just so you know the types of things we have and also I wanted to just stress upon the way the dam looks right now I have a link to a picture I saw that and I don't know if we can pull it up at all the left top side of the dam it's leaning forward by a lot and people are really getting concerned that you don't have the luxury of work this is a lot that's from your from your web page well it was one from a couple days ago oh did that come from your web page I don't want to express major concern of that change and we were walking, Marc and I were walking by and he said come here look right there you know it's overhang and there's stones that have come out and the other side is relative to these there's a rumor going around town that's a function of all the rock and roll music that was playing over the summer up there in the front there's a dam dam in those years some classical music in the town and Don was real concerned he looks at it every day for and I do want to comment that we have been pursuing grants which are not what we're finding with federal grants it takes four years I don't think we have four years on the family it's really hard to get grants really hard it's not that we're not doing it it's just it's not this I just think that this is a resource for the whole town it's not just what you're talking to yourself about when they were kids there took so many lessons its a community reduce based on our new schools hey Marx well done which operators they you folks just 100 we're still on although that's a lot of them because we, if we're able to have a conversation properly, we can have a conversation properly. There you go, guys. Yeah, we can do it. So I'll ask you to do that. Everything happens so much better. Did you have a couple of items of personnel update? Yep. The Treasurer Ad and the DCW Ad and Reset. Thank you to Jamie and your mom, Sarah, for helping us. Thank you very much. With the Ad. Yeah, that's what we need. People are volunteer to give us a hand. That's right. We appreciate it. That's right. And where are we posting? There is the new one that they did. I'm going to re-post it in... I think it's at seven days. Seven days. The world, maybe? So what are you posting that? Because Wendy Wilton might have some pointers. I thought about you. Well, we think we should... Oh, it is. Yeah, I talked to Wendy about... I'm going to show her the transcription. Let me get a couple points of Barbara. I see your hand. You're free to tell us if you like. So... Denise is alluding to this, but I want to say it out loud. So, it was fear of what Marielle had offered earlier. People volunteering when they see a need. We loved that. And so Jamie and her mom, Sarah, offered, from right after we reached out to them, said, hey, you guys have... You know, you're up to here. We have bandwidth and skill to help you write... Right, jazzier, that's my word, jazzier postings. The posting is not the job description. It's the thing that goes in the paper that says, hey, do you want to come work in Calis? And so they wrote a new one for us for the treasure business manager position. I'm going to ask them to do DPW. You have a DPW. I think that's on your list to do. So another one for that would be awesome. And then, yeah, so we post the posting and then it always has a link to the job description or it tells them where to put it. So anyway, so Barbara, what's your question? Barbara Butler. So I'd like to just repeat a suggestion that I've made over these months, which is whether they're spending the money on places like the world and hard work is that, it seems like we should be posting in like Vermont Business Magazine and the more professional journals. And I know I've said this several times, but I'd just like to repeat it again for the record. And I have checked out and they don't do this anymore. They don't do it anymore. They don't do classified ads? I'm surprised that you're going to believe you, but again, it just seems like the hard work is that the world is not the population. We've got an applicant from 70s. That's better. It's gone, so that's it. But I'm just thinking of professional publications. If you know something else, Indeed.com is really good. Well, hang on though. I actually was going to say something in case somebody has Indeed on their minds. I thought about using Indeed for my law practice.  So you get flooded. You have to set up an account which is paid for. And then every resume is all the right words that gets your inbox. You have to screen them and you have to pay for them with an extra period of time if you haven't screened them. And then you put all these people wanting to interview because they can see it's a match. So for my personal business, I decided I'm one person. I cannot keep up with that. And so I'm going to say by extension, the select board, we wouldn't be able to keep up with the flood of Indeed and managing. It's not, yeah, they do. I didn't know it was that number. It is. So I was like, oh, you should use Indeed. Well, I, yeah. And I used something when we were doing looking for the store operator for East Cal's Community Trust. I used something like that. You said you used Craigslist. That's what it was, wasn't it? Maybe it was. But there was something I used and I had given them my personal debit card number and then they kept billing me every month and it took me like two months to get them to stop. Yeah, no.  Jamie, you had a caretaker. I was just going to say we're using Indeed right now for the store manager and I concur with your experience. Yeah. I didn't do it. I got to the point where my credit card number was what was going to happen next and I decided to stand up for it. We have got some applicants from it but it's been a lot of work. Yeah, it's a lot of work. And then like I said, this other place I couldn't get them to stop. Yeah. All right, so, but what Doug has heard me say this before and what Doug tells me all the things we ought to be doing I say, what did I say? You make a proposal. So, helping us do our jobs, take it beyond the great idea and say, okay, I have a great idea for the board. What can I do? Oh, I can do this and this like Jamie did. I can do that thing. And so, I'm going to offer to help that by doing this thing. That is enormously appreciated. I mean that offer that you and your mom made the first time we've ever gotten an offer like that. The first time. It's mostly just all the way. Okay, we've got back some references on some applicants that we need to process that. Okay. We're going to be doing another round of interviews. We have Jeremy was Treasurer, business manager and we've asked Jeremy the town clerk to join us for interviews. And he generously agreed. Yeah. And, I think that's good. We get more applicants so we send them to the board. So, there is activity despite the fact that you've heard that it is the worst time to try to hire people. And our slow internet as Wendy said, doesn't help us. It's been a real conversation in our interviews. Yes, I'd like to respond to that. So, Sandra was doing a lot of remote work. She was hard. She was constantly getting because she was doing that on hours to make it. It came down to the server and she'd be calling us. The guys out on the server, we were all kicked down. It was really hard. She used to do stuff on the weekends and nights like this. So, we got to keep that in mind. We hope to have fiber optic with the clerk's office being one of the first buildings in town. Except by the end of January, I don't think it's going to be lit by the end of January. That's the hope. That's the process that takes so long. It's like they're laying together. I specifically asked David Healy. I'm going to use my gavel again. Because I want to make sure we calendar before we all turn into contents. So, we have to calendar our deliberations. This is board deliberations on town highways. We close the public hearing. Bye, Irene. Bye, Irene. Thank you, guys. See you soon. We close the public hearing on town highway 7 and we have 60 days to schedule a hearing. So, what I would suggest is it would be great if you guys could give me a big degree on what's really possible. I'm going to send one to the committee. I think we could do it. I would prefer to do it. We don't have more meetings. I'm going on. So, I'm just wondering should I just draw up? Yes. Bye, guys. Bye, guys. Don't forget to read that. I don't think it's going to be all the time I'm going across the globe this time. I don't think that's going to fill. But taxpayers have not going to want to pay for maple cones. Well, they need to get out. It's Australian ballot. They need to show them if that's their opinion. Personally, I don't want to pay for that pond. I don't want to. I don't want to have you guys go skinny getting up here. Thank you. Okay, so my first question is is there a day of the week or should it be an alternative Monday? It's Saturday morning early. We're going to get tied up with doing a lot of Mondays because of the budget. Well, or we do those Saturday while we haven't figured that out yet. Right. Okay, so what about next? Okay. November 15th. I can't do Tuesdays. Okay. I got to say Wednesdays for me are pretty epic. Thursday to 17th anytime after 7. K.M. No. After 7. Well, he said after 7. Thursday. Okay. November. So, no. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. These are four tentative, four deliberations which are private. Yeah. So it's actually sort of board acting in a quasi-emotional capacity. So it's not a committee meeting where the public joins or participates in a meeting. It's like a court. That's important to see. Okay, what about 1122? Yes. So we're going to have two, you're going to schedule two? Oh, in case. No, I can never do Tuesdays. Okay. What, you can't do Wednesday. It's not Thursday, but that's Thanksgiving. Oh, I mean, Wednesday is the whole run before Thanksgiving. On Tuesday all the way. I can do a Wednesday and it's not the 3rd or 4th Wednesday. The 23rd is... No, I can't. That's the day before Thanksgiving. someone couldn't do the 22nd, right? I know, I can't do Tuesdays. Okay, now. What about Friday? Fridays are good. Okay. Friday afternoons. We've got Friday afternoons. Thanks, good. It's not the Friday afternoons. It's the weekend afternoons. What about the 18th? What about the 18th? Yeah. In the evening or at about five o'clock or something? No, no, no, no. How about Friday? Well, we've got Friday afternoons. I'm sorry, guys. No, no, but where we've done Friday hasn't been successful is like one or two. Yeah, how about? Or later morning. I have an 11 o'clock meeting, but I can do it in two o'clock. Two o'clock, I do love it. On Friday the 18th? Yeah. Friday the 18th, I can do that. I just don't know if I'm watching but I can still zoom. Right, you can still zoom, right? Yeah, I'm sorry, we'll start. Okay, I'm gonna give these two times to him. Okay? All right, I'm gonna hang on, I'm gonna get this right. 11.18, two p.m., or 11.17, at 7.30 p.m., yeah. Yep, okay. And now let's talk about budget. So, can I do one other thing? Yes, you may. Sort of, do you have any advice on how to approach the sole issue that Jan raised with this contract? Here's the problem, there's two problems. One is, there's no amount. I would say, if you figure we have 1,000 lots and you figure max 150 per lot, that would be 150,000 bucks. So we could just put it in not to exceed. Yeah. Okay. But then what if it does? Well, I won't. And then we'll deal with it then. I mean, this- What's the market the way it is? Well, it would be, it would be, we'd have to put in something. It would be like a time in materials, but on a per lot basis, to be negotiated not to exceed $150 per lot or something like that.  Right. I don't think we should in this climate. I don't think that's even available. It's not that I, on a different issue, I wanted you, you both have these sole source issues coming up. I looked at the comp that the purchasing policies, there is some wiggle room. There it is. And all I'm asking that you do is note where the wiggle room is so that we are absolutely clear that we are still abided by the policy. And here is a certain evidence under which the board in its own policy has reserved. We did that on purpose in the policy in case there are issues that come up. And we've also used this company before. And yeah, we're not saying that a new company is somebody we've already used. That's right. And it's because we don't want to say, oh yeah, the purchasing policy is nice, but we're not going to do it because we don't want other people to do that. No, and it does leave us room for these circumstances. Okay, I will work on this and I'll work through you and I'll give you, I'm the liaison on this and I will give you the contract wording, et cetera. And I will, and you'll give it to everybody. You can give it to everybody. You can just give it to everybody. And put it in all of them, put it in a little memo about why it's consistent. You can put it in the folder. There's a Google folder that's already out there for November 14th. I'm pretty sure I need one. Yeah, there's one. I'll show you. I'll show you. You just slide your document over as high as you can. Does that have a Google folder where it keeps selling? We have 99% of used our capacity to buy one. Oh yeah, we do. So when we take for the award for, I'm just thinking about if I'm able to source that engineering, how do we get to the next being where we would approve to the next? Chris Templeton? If we do that, I have to check on the V-Trans to make sure it meets that price as well. But I'm really worried if we have to put that out to bed, we've got to develop the Vindox, and then we've got to... Take a look at the purchasing policies. Yeah. I'll give you another one. Oh, put it together. It's five or six days. It's very... Right. I just wanted to know when... Is it when I put that at the next meeting? Can we get that if... Well, we're gonna, maybe we should have an agenda conversation before the 14th, because... Right. Because we're not gonna have a lot of time on the 14th. Do you know one thing you can do on the 14th? You geniuses, figure out a way to have an agenda that makes sure that when the two hours that we allocate for this conversation turns into 30 minutes, we can use the time. Well, we always have, we always have that. But I'm... Well, there's stuff that we might need to get done. Right. That's what he's saying. That's right, right. So we should put that at the... Yeah, I mean, one of what we did this time was putting it a little bit after some of the stuff that we have to do so that if it gets done sooner or last longer, but in fact, we did not withstanding. We let it go way long, and now we're here at 9.30. Well... Right, but we might not have as much of a crowd next time, the 14th, right? We'll see. I don't know. We'll see. Okay, so we're going around here tonight. Yeah, that's one way to do it, is to just put these urgent issues. The stuff that we absolutely have to do should go first.  All right, but we do have to do, but we have to talk about a budget. So back to the town. So, no, we've already got a budget, two different ways over the five years, and I think you guys have done it one or two ways for quite a long time before. So the first model when I first was on the board was, no, we've done three of them.  That was the first thing when I was on the board, the first couple of years, the third year, maybe. We did a Saturday morning, and we did a ton of work, and we had a lot of discussion. No, and the third, that was the third when you and I worked on a class. The third was when you guys worked on it offline and brought that budget to us. Tell me I wanted to mention that we can't pull it together this year, but I was noticing when I was doing my research on how other towns get their work done. One of the things I noticed that I want to say a lot in case I have to say it to all you guys, is that between either the trader being half-time or the town floor being half-time, every other town in Washington County that is our size, the select board assistant is from a half-time trader, it's the other half of a half-time trader or the other half of a half-time town clerk. Town clerk. Town clerk is very much one of the ways that the rim will come. Right, Bobby. Bobby, rim will come. Cabinet seems to do it that way. Have a conversation with them. Middlesex does it that way. Berlin, I think, does it somewhat that way. Yeah. They have more stats. The terminals are bigger. Right, they're bigger, but somehow, in the mix of function, every other town that is our size is getting select board assistant out of the budget, out of one of those positions. And so that is something that we're gonna have to say out loud at our next meeting, we're gonna, one of the things I think you just have to accept is that whatever the status quo is, the individual's in it, and they never say, it's very rare that someone said, I mean, it does happen, but it's very rare that someone says, you know, I'm just not that busy. Right. Right. Well, and they find work to do it, and I think that what the work you guys did when you called around and compared, guided us and we should stay the course. So anyway, so the other thing I noticed, thank you for letting me say those things out loud, because I do want to make sure everybody has that information. The other thing I noticed, we said it tonight, I didn't say it all the way, because it wasn't, it wasn't okay, wrote the state all the way. Yeah. But, I didn't, I didn't. I wrote it. Yeah, but the other thing is Middlesex has a budget committee. And then when I was looking at the statutes, when I was looking at the statutes today, I noticed that that's actually anticipated in the municipal statute, that we could have an advisory budget committee, not for this year, way too late. Right. But that is something that I've I've not thought about that before. put out there as, so we could have the volunteers who were out there, apparently, eager to help us get our work done. You like it? I didn't hear that. I didn't hear that. I didn't hear that. I, no, I heard they're eager to, I was outside. You were outside? Okay. No, no, no. We were told that all we need to do is ask. So, I, right, you definitely said that. Just, just go over. Just while we could have a budget, an advisory budget committee that could have been working a month ago. So, which model do we have? So, I'm not just, right. So, that's not for now. But that is, I think. I think if we're gonna have network involved. The Saturday morning. And do, like, two bursts. We did two. On Saturdays. And hope that Nemerik will help us. We got a lot of, we had fun. Was fun. Yeah, as long as I am in favor of the Saturdays, as long as we can have, fun. You know, limouses and. No, no, no, no, no. We didn't have make before. I'm sorry. Peter it. Yeah. No, we had fun and we had, we, we had fun. And it was time, we were, I remember feeling like, oh, we have time for this. To go, we have to be able to laugh about something. So, you know, we're doing it every meeting is hard. Yeah, yeah. Because it was your thing. You can't do it. You can't focus on it enough, which, yeah. I mean, so the question is, do we want to start on, do we want to start on the 19th of November? Do we want to start on the 12th of November? Well, we don't want to start on the 26th. No, no, no. Not that week. I don't know that we're gonna, the 19th. The 14th works. 26th. Yeah. Wait a minute here. The 94th, December 3rd. Wait. 12, 19 or December 3rd. And can we do 10 a.m.? Sure. This is 12, 19, 11, 11, 12, 11, 19 or December 3rd. I think we're gonna have to do the 19th and December 3rd. Yeah. Okay. So we start on the 19th. Okay. And then see him. Unless whole December 3rd with a question mark. 19, 11, 19, 10 a.m.? Yeah. 10 a.m. 10 a.m. Here. 10 to 1. 10 to 1. And that would be here. Kind of would be 12 a.m. No, we might want to do it at the town office. No office. Because it's smaller and if never we're gonna need their help and they're gonna be in person. I mean, though, at least don't need to get what's her name to agree to these dates. Well, I'm gonna talk to my name. Okay, so the 12th too, did you say? No. 12, 3, which is a Saturday and 11, 19, which is a Saturday. And I will see where never he's at with what they can do to help us. And so it's not the town that we're meeting at the town office. Right. Let's be clear about that, folks. Right, the town office. As opposed to the town hall. Right, right. So budget, so, and I also heard, okay. So we have to award it as a special meeting. Yes. So we have to do that. Super short, we have to call the 19th at 10. And the 3rd at 10. 3rd at 10. And if we, why don't you award them as workshops? No, that's not down there. That's not down there. We have to do a special or emergency or a regular. Well, it's a special meeting. You just call them as workshops. Budget working. The item can be called budget workshop. Yeah, right. The item can be a budget workshop. I'm just saying that because people don't think that it's a working meeting and it's not a hearing. Right, and then all the people who show up to be interested are, that's our budget committee for next year. Right. Yeah, no, I wouldn't even tell anyone who shows up, it's welcome, but then they'll be on the budget committee. You know my mom, and everybody in town knows it, if you complain, you shall serve. So this is a budget. So, okay, so is there any more items of regular business? Because I did hear from Denise that we need to zip into executive session to hear her report on the, what was it? The references for the applicants. The references for the contractor. No, I think we need to do a second session to do it, but we're not going to do a reference report to the camera. Oh, no, I'm going to talk to you about dividing and concurring. Oh, I see. Right, I did that. We need to do a reference report to the testers. Yeah, okay. So you just need to, yeah, got it. All right, so is there any other items of business people on a race? No. All right. I'll motion to adjourn. All in favor, please say aye. Aye.


The next item of business is consideration of business motion 3602 in the name of Joe Fitzpatrick on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, setting out a revised business programme. I would ask any member who wishes to speak against the motion to press their request-to-speak button now. I call on Joe Fitzpatrick to move motion 3602. Firmly moved. Thank you. No member has asked to speak against the motion. I will now put the question to the chamber. The question is that motion number 3602 in the name of Joe Fitzpatrick has to be agreed. Are we all agreed? Yes. We are all agreed. The next item of business today is tropical questions. We start with question number one from Mike Rumbles. To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to increase the eligibility age for the concessionary travel scheme. Minister Humza Yousaf. As previously mentioned in this chamber, we will undertake a consultation with key stakeholders about ways to ensure the sustainability of the concessionary travel scheme to ensure that it is maintained for our older and disabled people. People are living longer, staying healthy for longer, staying in work later in life. We want to ensure that our successful concessionary bus travel scheme continues to benefit those who have the greatest reliance on free bus travel. At the same time, we want to extend concessionary travel to young modern apprentices and later on to young recipients of job grants. Therefore, we need to look at the longer term sustainability of the scheme, so we must not prejudge the outcome of the consultation and we will, of course, listen to the range of views that are put forward across Scotland. However, let me be unequivocally clear on this matter. Anyone with a bus pass will continue to keep that bus pass and will be unaffected and remain eligible to the benefits of the scheme. Mike Rumbles. The national concessionary travel scheme, guided through Parliament by my colleague Tavish Scott, has been a great success. It promotes social inclusion and helps older people lead more active lives. It encourages people to leave their cars at home and it is good for the environment. It is a win-win situation. It gives freedom and, for some, a lifeline. People will not be impressed by the Government's attempts—the SNP's attempts—to sweep changes about this under the carpet until after the council elections in May, as noted in an article in the Sunday papers. It is preventing the Scottish Government from coming clean absolutely now so that people know exactly where they stand as to the Scottish Government's view on this. Let me first try on a consensual note to agree with him about the benefits of the scheme. May I remind Mike Rumbles that, of course, this Government has funded that scheme for almost a decade and we are very proud to fund that scheme despite the various pressures on our budget. I would agree with him on the benefits that he has highlighted. I would also say to him that he should not believe everything that he reads in every Sunday newspaper. I thought that it would be very illiberal and very undemocratic if we did not go out to consultation and listen to people and take their views. What we will do is go through that in a methodical process. Pre-engagement with stakeholders is important to form our views of any consultation and then let the public have their say on the scheme. I understand, too, that the aims that we have to extend to modern apprentices to those on young people on our jobs grant are noble aims. We have to look at the long-term sustainability but we will do that very much bearing in mind what the public has to say and bearing in mind the benefits of the scheme that I think he articulates very well. We know the starting point from the Scottish Government. Free bus travel for everyone over 60. We know what the Scottish Government's desired end point is, as has just been mentioned, entitlement for young apprentices. The question is, are there any other options on the table other than raising the age of eligibility? Is means testing on or off, or is this a universal benefit? Will there be a fee for the national entitlement card? It would be helpful if you could rule that out right now. Don't people deserve to know what the SNP has installed for them on this? Of course, people will know. When he talked about sweeping things under the carpet, we talked about the consultation and the long-term sustainability of the scheme when the First Minister made her speech in the programme for government. Derek Mackay mentioned it in his speech during the draft budget. Mike Baxter, the director of finance at Transport Scotland mentioned it in front of a parliamentary committee. This is not a surprise that somehow we have managed to spring up on the Parliament. This is something that we have discussed and mentioned, but we are going through a methodical process. The first part of that process is to have a conversation with stakeholders, which I and Transport Scotland will do, about exactly some of the things that he has talked about. What are the options? What is it that we can look at? What is it that we can examine and explore in terms of long-term sustainability? Then we will put that to a wide and very public consultation. We will hear views on that and then, of course, come to a view on that. I am sure that the Parliament and Opposition members will have it say on that. That will be a very public and transparent process, but we must look at the sustainability of it. As I said, I think that most people around the country understand that extending the scheme to modern apprentices and young people at jobs grant is a very noble thing to do indeed, but we have to look at the long-term sustainability. We will do that in consultation. In the draft budget, the Scottish Government says that it will look to constrain payments under the concessionary travel scheme for older and disabled people. Does the minister seriously plan to reduce concessions for disabled passengers, many of whom rely on buses as their only means of transport? Will he stand here and rule this out? Yes, I will rule that out. Let me give some absolute certainties. Those who have a bus pass will keep that bus pass. That is an absolute certainty, and they will still be eligible for the scheme. Those with a disability will have no change to them, so I can absolutely give them that. Of course, the other certainty is that we will fulfil that manifesto commitment to extend the scheme to those who are modern apprentices and those on a jobs grant, young people on a jobs grant in time as well. I can absolutely give them that assurance. I would say that the Conservatives have been pushing for a number of years to make changes to the concessionary travel scheme. We are not certainly going to make the changes that they have mentioned in the past, but they will welcome the fact that we are looking to extend the scheme and therefore consulting in a very open and transparent manner about how we increase the sustainability of that scheme. Last year's election, the SNP manifesto made no mention of cutting back the free bus pass, yet now the SNP is proposing to cut nearly £10 million from the concessionary fare budget. I am going to consult on restricting eligibility. The free bus pass introduced by the last Labour Lib Dem Government is a lifeline to many older people, and they deserve to know what changes the SNP plan before May's council elections. Can the minister confirm whether the Government is in principle committed to maintaining the current eligibility criteria? In terms of the consultation, will the minister ensure that all pensioners' forums and seniors' groups in Scotland are fully consulted in writing about the future of the bus pass? Finally, if he is saying that he does not have a firm view on that and that this is a genuine consultation, if a majority respond in favour of keeping the criteria the same, will he respect those views? I thank him for the question. I would say that this is a matter that has been discussed by a number of political parties. All they would have to do is quote from Elaine Murray, the former transport spokesperson. She said that we will be looking at the most effective way to provide support on the concessionary travel scheme, including whether to raise the age to 65. That is something that all political parties, whether it be Labour and those across the chamber, have discussed. The point that he raises very well is about consultation. We are already in that pre-engagement phase. We are doing some of that pre-engagement consultation and discussion. When it comes to the actual consultation, he makes a good point. We should not just rely on the online methods. It is important that perhaps we look at how we can engage in writing face to face with various senior groups and seniors' forums. I will take away that point and I will reflect with my officials on how we do that. On that, our principles are that those who have a free bus pass, at the moment have a bus pass, should keep that pass—absolutely, now will keep that pass—and the eligibility for them will remain eligible for the scheme. Those with a disability will have no change to them. We will extend that scheme to modern apprentices and young people on a jobs grant. Within that, we will look at the sustainability of that scheme. When he says to be open about it, yes, that is the entire point of a consultation. It will be public, it will be open and it will be transparent. Alison Johnstone, I would like to make it clear that the Scottish Green Party does not see any need to consult on the proposal. That is a very good scheme. The Government is happy to fund a massive cut to air passenger duty. I would suggest that, if you go ahead with that, you think about transferring some of that. The fact that we are looking at cuts of that scale, while cutting £9.5 million of a concessionary budget scheme to people who really depend on buses, tells me a lot about this Government's priority. They are about investing in unsustainable, polluting transport methods and hitting those on the lowest budgets hardest. Won't you just scrap that consultation now, minister? I find this attitude that somehow the cut in APD or ADT, as we are going to be calling it, is only going to be affecting a certain class of people. I think that that is completely unacceptable that, somehow, people across Scotland do not go on holiday. I find that to be a really crass argument indeed. I thought that the Green Party would have welcomed the fact that we want to extend the scheme to modern apprentices. I thought that they would have welcomed the fact that we want to extend it to those or a jobs grant and young people on a job grant. We will do that. That consultation will be public, it will be open and, of course, I will welcome political parties and those from across the chamber getting involved in that consultation, but that consultation will go ahead, as we have said in the programme for government, as we have said during the draft budget process. As I said, we will welcome the views of those across the chamber, but more perhaps importantly from those across Scotland. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to help victims of rape. The Government is determined to ensure that a tough approach is taken to those who commit sexual crimes, as well as helping to ensure that access to appropriate and sensitive help and support to victims of those crimes. In March 2015, the First Minister announced an additional £20 million of funding over three years to help to tackle all forms of violence against women and girls, including putting in place better support for victims. From that budget, we awarded an additional £1.85 million to Rape Crisis Scotland to enhance existing specialist support services offered to victims of sexual offences and to establish two new services in Orkney and Shetland.  We have also dedicated resources to NHS Scotland to exhilarate the pace of work in implementing minimum standards for forensic examination for victims of sexual crimes. We are aware of the challenges in implementing the standards uniformly across Scotland and understand the particular difficulties that rural and island locations have experienced in developing and maintaining the expertise that is required to deliver those services to victims. That is an area that we are committed to improving. We will continue to support actions to bring the perpetrators of sexual offences to justice and to improve the support available to victims. I do not doubt the commitment of the Scottish Government to support victims of rape. Research from Glasgow Caledonian University last year showed us the weaknesses that there are in some police responses. A women's story from the Edinburgh rape crisis also showed us that there is much more that needs to be done. As the cabinet secretary alluded to yesterday, it was reported that rape victims in Orkney and Shetland are being faced with arduous journeys to Aberdeen for a forensic amexation, as there are no facilities on those islands. Last year, I raised the issue of medical examinations, and the First Minister responded by saying that victims should be offered an examination by someone of their choice at an appropriate location. Yesterday's report highlights that this still is not taking place. Can I ask the cabinet secretary what support the Scottish Government will provide to Shetland and Orkney to urgently address the lack of provision and to outline when we can expect rape victims across Scotland to be offered the choice of a female doctor in forensic examinations? The member raises a number of important points on how we provide appropriate and sensitive support to those victims of crime such as rape, which is why we have taken a range of actions, including the right to be able to choose the gender of the person who is conducting the medical examination as part of our provisions in the victims and witnesses legislation that we took through this Parliament.  That has been driven by a number of factors. One of the principal factors that has been a real difficulty is the number of clinicians who have the necessary training and expertise to conduct those examinations. As a member will appreciate, there is a very strict legal criteria around how those types of examinations are undertaken. There have been challenges in being able to recruit additional clinicians to undertake the training programme that the national education Scotland within the NHS provides for medical examiners. We are now undertaking further work, part of which we will be taking forward by NHS within the NHS, which is part of a survey of female doctors who may be interested in undertaking this form of examination work. That work will be taken forward over the coming weeks, with a view to recruiting more clinicians into conducting those types of examinations. The other part, which has been challenging particularly for our island communities and some of our rural communities, is the limited number of instances in which sexual violence may take place. Therefore, the staff who receive training have the required skills in being able to conduct those examinations on a regular basis. That has proven to be one of the challenges again in some of our rural and island communities. In order to make sure that we get a greater consistency in applying those minimum standards, that is why I have provided additional resource to National Services Scotland, again within the NHS, with a dedicated co-ordinator's post going with this over the next two years that will be responsible for looking at the actions that all boards have taken to meet those standards, to identify whether there are gaps and to also set forward what action needs to be taken in order to address those gaps. I appreciate the challenges that the cabinet secretary has outlined, but sometimes scales or targets around those problems would be appreciated, I think, by victims who can see these issues starting to be resolved. Last week, we also saw the conclusion of the civil rape case that was brought forward by Denise Claire. Many people will ask, given the outcome and the evidence that was presented, why that case was not taken forward as a criminal matter. With only 12 per cent of reported and attempted rates making it to court, victims are often left without justice. It is recognised that rape is a complex crime to prosecute, but Parliament passed the sexual offences act in 2009, which explicitly states that agreement cannot be given freely if under the influence of alcohol. We have heard increasing calls for the Crown Office to revisit its original decision and for an inquiry into why that case never proceeded to trial. Will the Scottish Government support undertaking an appropriate inquiry into the Crown Office's decision not to prosecute? Will it review the application of the 2009 act so that victims of rape can be confident that they will receive the utmost care and, ultimately, justice from the point of reporting this heinous crime to the verdict? The member made two particular points. The issue was the timeframe around some of the work that has been taken forward to help to support those particular health boards where they are experienced in challenges such as Shetland and Orkney. Some of that work has been taken forward at the present moment. The co-ordinator is already in post and working with health boards. The survey is about to commence. It is going through a pilot process just now, at the present time, before it is sent out to all health board areas and the different clinical groups that could participate in supporting this area of work. There is also work being taken forward as part of the domestic abuse and sexual violence strategy with NHS Shetland and the local police in partnership with the rape crisis Shetland to look at what measures can be taken forward at a local level to provide a better response to women who are subject to sexual violence. Some of that work has been taken forward at the present moment, but I accept that the standard and level of service that is being provided at the present moment is not uniformly to the level that I expect. I think that everyone in this chamber would expect for women who have experienced such crimes. We are determined to do everything that we can in order to get a greater consistency right across the country, notwithstanding the challenges in our rural and island communities. On the civil case that was considered last week, a member will recognise that prosecution of those types of matters is an issue for our independent prosecution services here in Scotland. It will not be appropriate for ministers to engage in those issues. The member will also recognise that the criminal proceedings statistics were published last week, which demonstrated that there was an increase in the number of sexual offences convictions that have been secured. We have had a consistent increase in the reporting of those crimes. The member will also recognise that the burden of proof on a criminal matter is massively different from that of a civil matter. Anything to do with the decision on prosecuting a case is a matter for our independent Lord Advocate and the Crown Office. I am conscious that the minister may like to know that there are four members in on supplementaries in this. There is no time today, I am afraid. There are two statements and a debate to be still to go through and there is no time in hand. Members who have tried to request a supplementary may wish to press their buttons later on the week at other opportunities, and I will bear that in mind. That closes topical questions. We will now move on to a statement from Paul Wheelhouse.


My name's Andy. I'm part of the training department here at Riedel Communications. In this series of videos we're going to be looking at some of the terms that we use when we're talking about the elements of an intercom system. There may be a lot of words that you already know in normal English usage but in the intercom world they can have slightly different meanings which is why we're going to go through here and explain what they mean so that as you're watching the other videos in this series you'll actually know what we're talking about.


Great we have dr. Betz presenting on limbo stem cell deficiency and some new techniques It's everyone's favorite topic Hope you're all excited as me So this is mainly a case presentation with just kind of a review on limbo stem cell transplants and then this Newish procedure that we just started doing here. So we had a patient his chief complaint He was referred to dr. Mifflin for vision very fuzzy in his left out of his left eye His history he he was in prison and he had some kind of scalding water slash chemical burn There back in 2005 he was actually seen here a couple months later and had a amnioc membrane transplant tarsaur ify Tell because he had a persistent epithelial defect and then he was lost fall for a long time and Came back in kind of late spring 2016 saw oculoplastics and he had secretricial Entropion of his left upper lid with a significant tracheosis. So that was repaired And they were sent to cornea So he was interested in the limbo stem cell transplant Here's his past medical history diabetes depression bipolar disorder. It's had some other surgeries former smoker not now and then his Meds he was on valley psychovir because there was some concern that maybe he'd had HSV at one point But nothing really out sticking out there I examined 20 30 is right. I left eye terrible vision as you can see But no RAPD and his IOP was pretty good It was a difficult view into the back of his eye But we could tell his retina was healthy and then he had a totally Conjunctivalized if I could pronounce that cornea with some superficial deep vessels and then it looked like his Kind of had a normal appearing limb is slash nasal corneal epithelium In that eye, but mainly it was pretty bad and I have a photo. It's not great But yeah, and you can't even tell right here. My picture is better, but he does have a kind of hazy cornea You can tell on on my computer that it's you know kind of has this opaque whitish appearance So we you know we talked to him a lot about different procedures But just before we go into that I wanted to kind of just quick review on limbo stem cell deficiency it's difficult to Measure limbo epithelium stem cells fact you can't as far as I know doctor Dr. Manlis may have some thoughts on that but as far as you know, no one's ever seen them We think they're there. There's like these indirect markers of limbo stem cell deficiency Mainly what does the cornea appearance look like there's lots of palisades of vote and then you get this peripheral corneal neovascularization There are a lot of people looking at objective ways to measure this And in the theory behind the pathogenesis is that you have this limb it this limbo stem cell population or cell population that acts as a barrier to The conjuctiva from overtaking cornea epithelium and lots of these cell populations You when you lose them you lose this barrier function, but also there's some kind of cells there that help regenerate the the cornea epithelium And like I said about diagnosis, it's mainly clinical and there's a big there's a meta-analysis that came out in late last year and they looked at 40 different studies that had to do with limbo stem cell deficiency and 36 of the 40 mainly use clinical diagnosis as their main diagnostic criteria There's also impression cytology where you can take an impression of the cornea and see presence of goblet cells Which normally shouldn't be in cornea epithelium, and then there's some newer things like cytokeratin markers, which aren't have it really panned out And then confocal microscopy, which also, you know is not It's mainly a clinical diagnosis. That's my point with my little star right here non-surgical treatment is Basically if this is an acute injury you want to protect the cornea until it scars over essentially No one will do you shouldn't be doing surgical things when the cornea is acutely inflamed or there's in cute epithelial defect because there's an Increased risk for failure of the surgeries So aggressive lubrication you try to decrease ocular surface inflammation And then when you're getting ready to think about surgery you want to correct any lid abnormalities so that you set yourself up for the best success And that's kind of what happened in this case the gentleman came we knew as lit it was going to be an issue He had that taken care of by our oculoplastic service, and then he came to us So traditional surgical treatment can be broken up into two different categories You have a carotolimbol allograft so from a donor or you have an autograph or from a fellow I So the allograft is probably more common because it seems to be the most common reason to do this is aniridia Which they don't have good stem cells on either I also Steven's John's syndrome I'll go sick atricial Pemphagoid and then chemical or thermal injuries Ed Holland and Cincinnati is like the big guy who does is he does about 80 to 90 percent of all The limbo stem cell transplants in the country so most of the data I'm going to show in the next few slides is from him, but the most common procedure is called a carotolimbol allograft And you take a cadaver eye, and you take the the limbis and part of the cornea and you transplant it to the affected Eye or eyes this can be combined with a penetrating carotoplasty Which especially like the aniridic patients sometimes need when you do a combat procedure the failure rate is a lot higher and The main problem is rejection and this is not like a coronary transplant You need some hardcore immunosuppression, which you can see right here. This is the Cincinnati protocol, which is kind of standardized and As an ophthalmologist like I look at that list, and I I personally feel uncomfortable Managing all this because on average your patient is on immunosuppression for three to five years And I was talking to at Holland's fellow a few months ago And he said that they first recommended three years and now they're recommending at minimum five years of treatment And so there's this protocol like you know you you hit them really hard for a while And then at a first year you kind of start tapering stuff And so that's the reason why this is Everyone sends their patients to dr. Holland is because he has he employs a nephrologist who hosts managed their immunosuppression Which is kind of the big thing So we we dr. Mythland does these here and so we manage our own patients Which has been a good learning experience about tachyrolimus and celsa for me So there is a ten-year outcome on this care to limbo alligraf procedure that came out a couple years ago They had 220 22 eyes of 158 patients with an average follow-up is 62 months and 80% of these were this care to limbo alligraf The other 20% were a combination of other things you can actually take The limbo stem cells from a living relative of the patient if they have you know if it's like a chemical thermal burn and that has a higher success rate than the cadaver eye donor and they'll do some Combinations if there's like a unilateral stem cell deficiency from a burn you can take a combination of Cells from the patient's eye and a living relative and do all these kind of combination things so that you can increase your cancer success But essentially what we do here is if we need to do this we do a donor eye. So this K-Law procedure 31 at within this population of patients 31% of the eyes that had rejection had rejection and only 36% of those were had a stable ocular surface without epithelial defects At their final follow-up compared to a 71% of eyes that didn't have rejection had a stable ocular surface a follow-up So rejection is a big thing and and which is why we're going to be talking about the procedure We are going to go over today The limbo alligraf the traditional way of doing that You have to have a good eye as you take six clock hours of limbo tissue from a donor eye and you transplant it to the other eye In India and for reasons that are probably obvious because we have an FDA You cannot we can't do this cultivated limbo stem cell transplant Which seems as have a high success rate, but essentially they take a small population about a clock hour of limbo stem cells They X of Evo they grow this into a sheet of stem cells and they transplanted to the affected eye and it seems to work really well Out of this idea came the simple limbo epithelial transplant from saying one he's kind of the he was he also helped Start this cultivated limbo stem cell transplant, but he's really championed this Started doing it back in 2010 and basically it's the same thing you take about a clock hour of the limbis You cut it into eight to 12 small pieces And you glue those to the anionic membrane that's been glued to the recipient eye And then you just let it sit and the stem cells grow and it will repopulate the corneal epithelium And it seemed when I first saw this last year. I like that seems too easy and crazy, but it works They only four-year outcomes This was published in 2016, but it's from 2010 to 2014 125 eyes 76% of Eyes had a stable ocular surface at their final follow-up things that they found the increase the risk for failure for this procedure Is if you combined the trans the limbo stem cell transplant with any other procedure like a PK? They did find though if you waited a while the PK had a higher success Rate than if you did a combination procedure So we did this on our patient because there's other I was totally fine and I have a little video so Essentially we there there have been some groups in the US who've been doing this and published the results and we kind of use Baskin-Palmer's approach the biggest issue that People found is that the limbo stem the the cells tend to slough off of the cornea So we took our little sample here this I we did in our top of the donor I we use topical anesthesia and so we did that little sub-conjunctile anesthesia But essentially you make a little pritomy and It's only five minute video, but Jump ahead we used it. We used a a diamond knife to kind of cut out a two by two millimeter section Didn't end up quite two by two millimeter. It was Probably a little bit longer than two millimeters along the limb is a little shorter in the Radial axis but use the diamond knife to kind of cut partial thickness into the cornea and then we have this section of cells and After I cut it out, we just let it sit in a some bss and then we're prepared to his other eye But you can really see his eye here. It's pretty scarred. So, you know, we talked to him and this Patient has history being in prison not very reliable. He lives like in three or four hours away in Idaho So we're really concerned about doing the cadaver I Transmit because you have to be in a lot of immunosuppression takes a lot of follow-up a lot of lab work So we're like, let's do this and if we need to do another procedure after to help with your visual Rehabilitation we can do that but we use a grease Harborblade and to try to get as much of the neovascularization off of the cornea He had some deeper vessels, which you'll see in some follow-up pictures and we'll probably end up needing a cornea transplant, but We did a diamond burn and then and then you know little cotterie and then the Baskin-Palmer method is basically It's like a dealt you sandwich the limbo stem cells in an AMT in AMT bread So this is our bottom piece of our sandwich here and we we fixated it The edges of it with some tenon nylon sutures, and then we glued this piece to the surface of the cornea So there's my sutures pulling this back we're gonna put some To seal glue on the cornea Yeah, we sutured it. Yeah, they recommend doing a big career to me and then wrapping the The the layer of AMT that is going to be on top of the cornea Kind of underneath the pretty me edges So I tried to do these kind of deeper sutures and then we smoothed it out Make sure it was fixated and then the Baskin-Palmer method is also you do these four Tenon nylon fixation sutures at the limb is just so that the amniotic membrane stays in place It's just like extra precaution Because we really didn't want this to we didn't want our stem cells to Fall off so there's our section and basically we tried to I think we cut it into eight pieces This is my only non sped up part of the video here just this first cut, but essentially you can see See I'll skip ahead. You know we just held it and Cut it into small pieces as we can And then you can see here. There's our I think we had ten actually ten around the limbis the trickiest part of this procedure was Getting a small enough amount of the to seal Because they have it, you know, there's a thick portion and then a thin portion and It's really hard to get a teeny teeny drop of the thin portion, but we tried to individually glue every piece We probably waited ten minutes for those pieces to at least ten minutes for them to Stick down and we're not mobile and then we then we did our anti-salanchin We sewed this piece to I think we use six fixation sutures to the the conjuctiva And then So we did I the The basement membrane side was opposed to the stem cells on both sides on both sides. Yeah So after this is was fixated We put a contour 16 I think with this was actually 18 millimeter contact lens over the eye and then we were extra OCD and we did a tarsophie because we did not want this to fail And that's kind of what the the Baskin-Palmer method is all about is having success Benny Jane who's he's a chairman of Maryland. He was at UCSF for a long time. He had a case He he had a discussion I think it was in Inet a couple months ago and talked about how he's done three cases and two failed because when they took the contact lens out at two Weeks the stem cells came with them So that was the whole reason for us doing all this extra stuff including the tarsophie So two weeks after the procedure we removed the tarsophie a Visual Q. You're still really bad with some photos This is actually the staining is intact amniotic membrane You can see our little fixation sutures here, but there's actually intact epithelium superiorly and you can actually see that little section of limbis right here And here's another another photo, but you can appreciate some of these little stem cell Populations right there, and then there's some staining no IP defect that we could tell at that time So we we put them on antibiotic and prednisolone four times a day until we saw him again at a month So one month IP was good vision still count fingers, but andic membrane was gone You can see the stem cell populations Right here there. They are a little bit elevated, but he didn't have an epithelial defect So it seemed to work for the purpose that we wanted it You can't appreciate he has like I said these deep more deep stromal vessels he's developed a cataract over the last couple years and so Um Frightly further treatment, I think Dr. Mifflin's plan was way to while see if he needs cataract surgery. Maybe consider a Penetrating care to plastic if needed after he had cataract surgery There is some in the long-term outcomes people have reported that those stem cell islands tend to Smooth out and kind of disappear over time And so we're hoping that you know, this is a viable procedure It's minimally invasive when you compare it to the other things that are done You're really taking a small amount of stem cells from the donor eye So it spares more tissue You got to have the right candidate. Most of these people are going to be unilateral chemical or thermal burns And then once again higher failure rate when you combine this with a penetrating care to plastic So if this guy has one down the road, hopefully we can wait a year and help be set up for better success So we took the tarsography and took the contact out at two weeks Which is what people had recommended who had done these things before so when you're taking the actual Yeah, we did I set my diamond blade at 250 microns. So it's you know, pretty thin Yeah, and ideally you want to orient it so that the The the anatomic orientation is correct I can tell you after you cutting those pieces really smarts really hard to tell so we did the best we could But it seemed to work So it you know, this is a nice option could instead, you know, like I said the traditional methods you take six clock hours of Limbs from the donor eye and those people end up doing had end up having you know, you can tell that their limb is has been altered quite a bit But you know, I think this will probably be if this ends up panning out This will be our kind of go-to method for a unilateral burn for somebody who wants surgical a surgical intervention You said it's hard for us to tell exactly what are the stem cells and what aren't and so Do these transplanted stem cells we make more stem cells and then differentiated into the normal The field or once they differentiate is that it when you run out of Stem cells to keep that service under control. I don't think we have the answer to that question I mean, that's an area that another guy's investment armor looking into trying to find out if you can see if these stem cells are regenerating Most stem cells Mm-hmm. I think that's the key thing keeping these surface of the eyes of these transplants Dr. Bezel These I believe a lot of everything I've read it's regulation about taking those cells and then Culturing them outside the eye and in a lab and I think mainly it's regulation. That's that's everything. I've read So I don't know. I don't know of any group in the US. That's actually tried to do it Yeah, they recommend one of the large diameter the brand's contour And you can get 16 millimeter to 20 millimeter Contact lenses, which are really big. So I believe that was an 18 millimeter one and they just recommended just so that there's less Movement of the contact lens if you close close the eye with a tar swerve V Dr. Tell were you done dr. Patel Yeah Yeah, the success rates about you know, the best success rate is about 80% and that's with that culture cultivated limbo stem cells I mean to your point it would surprise me if we could do because of regulations I mean there was just a group in Florida that does Yes stem cells and basically the heart of stem cells from your fat and then they injected it in eyes and blinded three eyes and so Clearly, I'm not saying that yes, that's a good idea. So why not do this? But you know that they're using as long as you're using your own stem cells It really seems like their avenues to do this type of thing Well, thank you


Hi everybody, Shawn with jaspyscasebrakes.com and jaspys.com. Here doing some late night personal breaks that are available on jaspys.com. We're going to be doing a 2013 Panini Select baseball box for Gabe. Here's the box. Just came out of a fresh case. Good luck, Gabe. In here we're chasing Christian Yelich, Nolan Aronato, and Garrett Cole-Rookies. Obviously autographs would be great, silvers, colored parallels, pretty much anything with their name and a rookie logo on it would be a win. Boxes of this and everything else available on jaspys.com for personal breaks. And Gabe, you can see we're actually doing this from our YouTube studio instead of our normal Instagram studio. I'll stack them in two stacks and then we'll go through. Obviously stuff for all the important stuff for you. You guys have to leave after this. I don't think any other order runs. The floor is open if anybody wants to. We just came off of release day for a museum collection and elite football. I think we sold out of the museum collection, but we do still have elite football available too. Really nice stuff. Elite football is actually cool because of the fact that it's the first time that a lot of the Rookies are in their pro jerseys. So they have 10 Paloados that have the Rookies in their pro jersey, so it's a significant product for that case. Other than that, tons of parallels, tons of parallels in that number and everything. Not only Rookies, but vets too. Thanks for hanging out with us on early Thursday morning. How do you know, Teddy? So weird. Maltese, we do not have any Goodwin champions right now. But if you go to jaskies.com, you can take a look at everything we do have available and keep updated on that site for when we do end up getting more in available. I doubt that. But there is. It's been sitting there for forever. I've never bought one. Do you need high end autos? Which one? You talking about Goodwin champions? Yeah. Very nice stuff. Good luck, Gabe. So Kipnes, Donik Brown, Bryce Harper and Fuego, Silver. Nice. Adam Wainwright, Silver. Pablo Sandoval. Starlin Castro. Tula Witzke. Zimmerman. Pence. Adam Jones. Edwin Ocarnazion. Anthony Rizzo. Robinson Cano. Matt Scherzer. And first auto is Rookie Auto Darren Ruff. That's for the Phillies. Ryan Sandberg. Silver. Hugh Darvish. Matt Moore. Alex Gordon. Wei Yin Chen. Matt Moore. Youngbloods. Evan Longoria. Silver. Paul Tron. Jonas Cespedes. And Todd Helton. Second half of that left stack. Alex Rios. This is likely going to be expired, but we'll take a look and see who it is. And hopefully you'll still be able to submit it to Panini and have them give you some credit and points or something like that. Zach Lutz Rookie. Jacoby Ellsbury. Ian Kinzler. Jared Weaver. Dustin Padreia. Jason Hayward. Ozzie Smith. Skills. Adrian Beltrae. Josh Hamilton. Chris Sayle. Raul Avanias. Mike Trout. That was a good name to get. Ernie Banks. Matt Harvey. And Adam Jones. That's the first half. Let's take a look who the autograph is anyways. So the auto redemption from 2013 select baseball. Rookie Autographs Prism. Card 202. Which is... Jay. U-S-T-I-N. Justin Wilson. Which I'm going to guess offhand was San Francisco Giants at the time? I don't remember where he was from, but... Like I said, you should be able to submit that to Panini and still and either they should be able to fulfill it or send you some points for it. Wayne Wright. That's a nice one. Ichiro Gold. That's numbered to 25. Very cool. Bryce Harper. Power Alley Silver. No numbering on that. Buster Posey Silver. Three nice cards back to back to back. Let's see if the second half has got something special for you, man. Trumbo. Gerard Para. Curtis Granderson. Evan Longoria. Tom Kohler. Rookie Otto. From the Marlins. That sure was really nice. Derek Jeter and Fuego. Clay Buckles. Justin Verlander. Albert Pujols. David Ortiz. Buster Posey. Prince Fielder Thunder Alley. Norichika Eoki. Fredy Freeman. David Price. Brandon Phillips. Steven Strasberg. And Curtis Granderson Silver. Last quarter of the break for you. BJ Upton. Derek Jeter. Adrian Gonzalez. Matt Kane. Jose Reyes. Pedro Villarreal. Nick Swisher. R.A. Dickey. Matt Kemp. Shinsu Chu. And Otto is Jason Kipnes. From the Cleveland Indians at the time. Jose Reyes. Ryan Howard. Justin Upton. Chase Utley. Yadir Molina. Ken Garfi Jr. Statistical. Lifetime Home Runs. Ricky Henderson. Felix Hernandez. And Tori Hunter. So we didn't hit any of the rookies that we were looking for. But we did get some nice cards including Ichiro Suzuki. To 25. Gold. Your Mike Trout Base. Bryce Harper. And Fuego Silver. And then you had one other. Yeah Rex. Bryce Harper Silver also. Power Alley. Or Thunder Alley. So nice overall box for not hitting any of the rookies we were looking for. So thanks Gabe. And guys that was a personal box for Gabe. Of 2013 Panini Select Baseball. Available on jaspys.com for all personal breaks. Jaspyscasebreaks.com for all case breaks and group breaks. I'm Sean. We'll see you next time.


It's DDK and I'm back today with another video. Shoot us if you're tuning in and if you want to win and get dividend hits, go and let us know by subscribing. Give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. In today's video, guess what happened, baby? Two of my favorite apps both tried to finesse me. The first one didn't try to give me my full payout for unloading. And the second app, trying to say I was late to the pickup and the drop off. But it wasn't my fault.  Let's go. But getting this money, two items. One items weighs 800 pounds and the other one weighs 50 pounds, which equals a total of 850 pounds. We're driving 53 miles and we'll receive a payment of 125. It's a great time to be alive, but to pull up, pick up the prize and drive. But I'm putting it right there, baby. As you guys can see, it does not say we have to unload or load the items. So when it does not say that, you're supposed to go to the pickup location, pick up the items, and then when you get to the drop off location, they are supposed to unload the items. So that's what we're supposed to do, baby, but this happened. Just like that, we are here to pick up this order to get an order. You know what I'm about? I don't know where I'm supposed to go. How you doing, sir? I have an order to pick up for the Lexus of Schaumburg. Just like that, we good to go. Time for us to go get this dough. Let's go. Just like that, we are here to draw up this order to get an order. You know what I'm talking about? I'm supposed to talk to somebody from MTS Titan Electric. I think that's them. How you doing, sir? Are you a part of MTS Titan Electric? Yeah. Okay, I have some stuff from you guys from White Caps that I'm supposed to bring. Do you guys have a forklift to unload it or no? No? You just want me to sit it where? Here? It's, I think it's concrete, maybe. Yeah, bags of concrete. All right, we got to step back in with the four-row yard noddles. Got that? We gone. You guys just saw what happened, right? So, when I went to the drop-off location, it did not help me unload. Again, that's what you guys previously, I was not supposed to load or unload. They're supposed to do everything so I'm going to go and get that green. But, guess what happened? I reached out to support and let them know what's going on. I sent my testimony and said, Curry! Curry! Guess what happened, baby? A few days later, they sent me this email. Hey Jerome, we have approved your additional conversation request for loading and unloading on delivery than it has a delivery number. A payout has been sent for $30. So, my question to you is this. 100 pounds divided by 50 equals 30. No, it does not. It equals 40. So, I said I've been paid $40 instead of $30. So, guess what? Oh, I forgot about this. I forgot previously when I emailed them that I'm not supposed to get paid for that first 50 pounds. So, I let them know this. I was told that the unload payouts are $2.50 per 50 pounds. I unloaded 850 pounds, so it should be $42.50 instead of $30. Before we get to the third part, I'm going to say huge shout out to my guy, Curry, because my guy, Curry, over there, Curry, he is the person who told me that you should be getting paid an extra $2.50 per 50 pounds. Now, they emailed me and said, Hey Jerome, the $2.50 rate applies after the initial weight threshold. Sorry for any confusion on that. I did go ahead and add an additional $10 to this payout for you, though. I hope this helps. Absolutely helps, baby. I need all of my dollars. I'm trying to go ahead and pop my collar. I'm going to tell you guys this. While you guys are out there using those apps, you want to make sure you pay attention to everything, because y'all remember how y'all can stick up top last time from this batch when that money was going on my account? So pay close attention. We're trying to keep on getting this money. They'll keep shooting it and we ain't missing. Order number two. Guess what we about to do? Some more Curry, Curry, Curry, Curry. We back at it again with another Curry order. This time we're picking up one item that weighs 400 pounds, which are 31 miles for $90. You know I got my game from a scholar, but I'm going to go ahead and pop our collar. Guess what? As you guys can see, it says, requires loading and unloading by hand. But guess what? We about to go ahead and get these bands. Let's go. And just like that, we are here at the pickup location for those who hate me. We going to keep on skating, being great. I don't know where I'm supposed to go. It's my first time coming here. Hey, how are you doing? So I have an order to pick up order number M808237.  All right. Thank you very much, sir. You guys have a good one. And just like that, my guy about to pull in so we can get it in. He said these doors are super, super heavy. So hopefully they have somebody there to load these though. I ain't going to lie to say. All right. Don't even, blue paper or keep that one? I keep the blue. I keep the yellow. Okay. Thank you very much, y'all. Have a great day. Hello. How you doing, sir? I'm here to drop off the... Yeah, I'll meet you outside. Okay. My guy about to meet me outside so we can slide. It's surreal. I thought you could not get in. All right. Hey, we are picking up 35 paddles from Southern, Ron, which are between 9.2 miles for one 2031. We're about to pull up and get that job done. Let's go. Just like that. My guy, Steve, about to pull in so we can go ahead and get it in. Get these given in. And just like that, we're about to hit the road. We get our pockets on slow. Let's go.  Go on skating. It's getting great. Well, someone is here, but I'm not sure where they get. I got something called Steve Austin. I hit him with the photo. I clicked. Smart. Got that. And then if you could just sign real quick. Appreciate it. You guys have a good one. Stay safe. Now let's get into it. Let's get into how this batch try to take me up top to the fifth phone like brother man. So as we got done with that order, I happen to just look at my earnings and everything for today. Put it on the screen right there, baby. As you guys can see, it says on time percentage 50%. I have literally had a 100% on time percentage since I started this batch.  So we got to keep that in order, baby. So what happened was I emailed this batch. I said, why does my on time percentage show that I was late today? I only had one order and I was on time to pick up and delivery. They said, hello, you were 26 minutes late to the pickup location and 17 minutes late to the drop off location. Guess what? Absolutely not. I was absolutely not late to the pickup location or the drop off location. I sent them this. That is incorrect. I received the order at 717 AM and it said to be there by 805 AM. I had to be at the delivery by 909 AM. I also reached out to support about the delivery because I was going to be closed due to traffic. I checked the screenshots below. Look, as you guys can see when I first screen shot at the order to get in order, it says that I screen shot it at 719. That's right when I got the order. So, not only that, guess what? If you look at the drop off location, it says I was supposed to be there by 909 AM. I don't know how it's possible to be late to that because I got there at 905 AM. Not to mention, guess what? I also reached out to dispatch and let them know that I was running behind while I was out there on the ground. So, guess what? They fixed it for me, baby. Shout out to dispatch. Shout out to Curry. I'm glad you guys made everything right so I can get this cheese like mice. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Again, if you're not subscribed, go and hit that subscribe button. Give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. And like and subscribe because my investment is bad. My investment is bad. That's 223. It's big bad season. We'll keep on giving a reason. I'll see you guys on next one. We going, we going, we flowing. You already know this, did he, okay? And I'm on my way.


I first saw Mr. Nirmal Vashar, 25-year-old gentleman from Bangladesh about three weeks back in my clinic. He seemed to have increasing pain in both his hips for the past six years. Initially the pain was settled but for the last one year the pain increases to such an extent that even carrying out his day-to-day activities was very painful. It was not only pain but also limitation of his movements that became very troublesome. He could hardly get up and do his daily activities even in the house. On examination we found that his hips were very stiff and he hardly had any movements in his hip and it was very painful too. So investigations and relevant tests were done and he indeed had severe arthritis of both the hips and which were both fused. So we decided to go ahead with the total hip replacement surgery which was the only treatment in this case. My two hip joints were completely fine. I was not feeling well and I was not feeling well. I saw a lot of people from Bangladesh. They said that there was no possibility of getting up together. But I was very happy to see them. I was very happy to see them. I was very happy to see them. I saw a lot of people from Bangladesh but I was very happy to say that there was no possibility of getting up together. I was very happy to see them. But I was very happy to see the surgery. The operation was very good. Rughirputi is very different. After that, the surgery was done. The nurse, the staff was very good at everything. Monival Hospital is the best hospital in India. I was very good. After the surgery, I was very good at everything. After the surgery, I was very good at everything. On the day of the surgery, doctor suggested that I get pain. We're going to do this soon. If I feel normal, then I will have pain. I will tell everyone that there is no doctor as easy as Sonil. Sonil has a very low fever, then an expert doctor. He is very good at it. I liked him very much. Enclosing spondylitis is a rare condition due to the HLAB27 gene as a result of which the joints especially the spine and the hips are involved and they get fused. In initial stages they can be treated well. It is found that in the 20s and early 30s the rise in India of these cases are being seen. These cases are very challenging because right from the patient positioning as well as technically it is quite complex. The hips are in a different position and they have to be brought down to the true position. So Nirmal is doing very well 3 weeks post surgery and he is expected to have a very good clinical outcome for the next couple of decades or so.


Hey guys it's Laura Kennington here. I've teamed up with Ellis Brigham to give you some free workout ideas to improve your strength and conditioning for time on the trails. Rather appropriately therefore today's session is all about taking the gym outside. So we'll be working on our conditioning and our strength and we'll also be getting an extra dose of fresh air which is just double win. You won't need any equipment for today's session. We'll just be using a park bench and some steps. Hopefully both of those are really easy to find. I've done this as a separate workout but obviously you can just chuck some of these exercises in on your usual run to mix things up a bit. Let's get to it!