This is stock number 11347. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2016 Ford F350 crew cab short box single rear wheel. This truck has the king ranch package. It also has the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel. It has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. White platinum tricote metallic is the color. Over caribou brown we shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the truck before seeing it in person. And if you like to check out all the photos on this truck in the upper right hand part of your screen is a link to our website click that and check us out there. This one comes with the 18 inch factory alloy rims with the chrome covers and it has mud claw extreme MT tires on here. These are LT 275 70 R18s and they have probably I'd say 70 80 percent of the tread left on them does come with the rancho shocks part of that FX4 off-road package and the frame and underbody is in pretty nice shape. Driver side front fender no dents or dings on there. Headlight lenses are nice and clear it does come with the factory fog lights. Front bumper is in pretty nice shape I didn't see any major dents on it and a lower valance is in nice condition as well. Chrome trimmed grille comes with a chrome bug shield and the hood is in really nice shape didn't see any major imperfections on there. Passenger side front fender nice shape as well and the passenger side rim no scuffs or scrapes on there. As you go down this side of the truck take note of how clean the body is how reflective and mirror like that paint is we take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle you can see the truck hear the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here so that when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises does come with a steel headache rack and that's why we offer the Summit Auto Fastpass option in the upper right hand part of your screen a link right to our website where you can apply for financing get pre-approved see a payment quote even appraise the trade all from the comfort of your own home so when you get here all you have to do is drive the truck love it maybe I'll set to go back tires have right around 50% of the tread left so a little bit less than the fronts but still decent tread there and the frame and under bodies in pretty nice shape box rails look good and it does have the camper package with the anti sway bar right there has all the remaining factory exhaust so hasn't been altered in any way and the frame and under body back here looks pretty good too lower rockers I didn't see any corrosion on them or bubbling on the cab corners comes with the factory chrome step bars you get the chrome tipped exhaust as well and as we come around to the back the rear bumper is in really nice shape didn't see any major dents or dings on there it does come with the full towing package which includes a receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring tailgate is in nice condition too that is a locking tailgate has a gooseneck hitch in it bed mat and you get these seven pin wiring back here as well beds in really nice shape it looks like it has a fifth wheel prep package as well tailgates really light easy to get up shuts nicely and as you go down the driver's side just as clean as that passenger side no major dents or dings on the box and for full disclosure this back rim no scuffs or scrapes down the rest of the side the truck looks really good does have the door code entry which we have the code for you get the power scope mirrors they power fold in power telescope out I'll show you how that works inside the king ranch package gives you the dark brown leather interior there are no rips there are no excuse me tears on those seats you get the king ranch logo embossed into the back and seats are in really nice shape comes with max liner all weather floor mats auto headlamps power pedals power windows power locks power mirrors these mirrors power fold in and you do have to have the ignition on to have the power scope work so we'll turn those on so I can show you how that that they're working they power telescope out and in and both sides are working well as we hop inside the truck here you can see that this one has 40,485 miles instrument cluster is very nice and clean you get the leather wrapped steering wheel bluetooth and audio controls on the right cruise controls and information center controls on the left this one does come with the six speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift this one comes with the myford touch radio has the factory navigation system this is also where your backup camera shows up and you do get heated and cooled seats on there as well and your climate controls does come with the cd player downhill assist control stability control turned out four-wheel drive you do get the factory exhaust brake factory brake controller and four upfitter switches you also can do your climate controls down here including your dual climate control sync system to connect to your cell phone 110 volt 150 watt plug-in passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition I didn't see any rips or tears in there smells very clean inside this truck I don't think it's ever been smoked in and you do get the power sunroof up here this one also has side curtain airbags home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems and map lights and power sliding rear window buttons there we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up and take a look under the hood back seats are just as clean as the front seats no rips or tears back here you do get that same embossing on the backrests of the seats here it does have storage compartment underneath here and that is does lock so you can lock that seat down with the ignition key and you get the all-weather floor mat back here keeping your carpeting looking nice and clean 110 volt 150 watt plug-in back here and you can see we actually do have the king ranch floor mats for this truck back here as well and how nice and clean that carpeting is and behind the seats you do get a subwoofer and latch tether anchors these back seats are heated as well and you do get the child safety locks in the back doors the bottoms of the doors all look really good and we'll start it up and check out under the hood starts right up no check engine lights or anything like that no warning lights i would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this hd video you will have been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside and out under the hood we have the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel engine base very clean runs very smooth once again this truck has been fully saved and inspected by our service shop for the state of wisconsin inspection process as a fresh oil and filter change all the foods have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100 percent ready to go i would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint and to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars trucks scvs minivans wranglers half tons sweet quarter tons one tons you name it we got it go to our website right there www.summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com and if you like to check out more hd videos you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there in fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our youtube channel on your left a link to more f 350 videos like this one on your right if you have not been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website click those check us out and we're super excited to be offering this ultra clean 2016 forward f 350 crew cab short box king ranch with the fx4 package and white platinum tricote metallic over care booth thanks again for checking out the video


The big tech layer could thousands of qualified candidates to the job market. However, the good news is that there's still tens of thousands of companies that still hiring. But the biggest problem is most of the companies who hiring right now they're not famous, fan companies, Google, Meta, Netflix, and most of companies we haven't heard of and we don't know if they're reputable, if the financial situation is good, and if we accept the offer, are we going to get layoff again within three months? And then you will start the stressful job hunting journey again. This sounds so brutal and stressful, but if you follow the right strategy to select the next top company to work for in 2023, you are able to have no stress and focus on building the right product and serve the right customers. In this video, I'm going to share with you the top five rules to select the top company to work for in 2023. Make sure to stay until the end of this video, where I'm going to share with you the resources to get connected with recruiters for free. Hey guys, this is Dr. Nancy Lee, a direct product and featured in Forbes. I've helped 100 people land their dream PM job offer in fan companies and unicorns startup and continue to get promoted as a product leader. If you're interested in product management course, please go to PM Accenture.io to learn more. If you want to learn the most effective way to become a product manager, make sure to like this video so that I have the motivation to get more free tips like this. Now here are the five rules to select the top company to work for in 2023. Rule number one, join the recession proof industry. Some industries are going downturn during recession, but some industries, they provide very stable services regardless economics going up or down. For example, the healthcare industry actually is hiring a lot of people right now and we have seen like Google product manager join health tech companies as we're speaking. And educational companies also a good one for you to check out right now because when people are laying off, they think about how to upscale themselves so they're not going to get laid off again in the future. I would also check out some type of fintech companies. For example, Intuit is crazy. Everybody pay taxes. So Intuit is owner of TurboTax. Everybody pay taxes and you have to file taxes. So it's a resource everybody have to use regardless economical up or down. So check out those kind of recession proof industry. You're going to see lots of great opportunities and see a stable income and stable job in the coming years. Rule number two, join the revenue generating core product within the company. In a huge company and there are different departments, some departments are responsible for generating the core revenue and core product. For example, our student David Lin who joined Meta and he's working on ads and Meta definitely makes so much money from ads. Even if you have seen the co-workers in other department in Meta was laid off, but his position is extremely safe. Another core product I recommend you guys check it out is a cloud product. For example, for Amazon and Microsoft layoffs, majority of the teams around the cloud product are not impacted because cloud is very profiting business and whoever runs the application on cloud, they are not going to remove the application from cloud. So suddenly and for example, obviously Sherry Wynn who joined Microsoft as a product manager working on Azure cloud product and her position is extremely safe.  So Sherry made a great decision to join Azure within Microsoft so that her position is much safer compared with other parts of Microsoft, 10,000 employees layoff. Make sure to check out the free training from Sherry. We should talk about how she transitioned from software engineer into product management and joined Microsoft. I'm also going to link the video in the description of this video. If you like the tips I provide so far, please make sure to hit the like button because it's the only way that you to offer them recognize me. Rule number three, join the long-term strategic initiative within the company, which is the core revenue generation team is going to impact the 10-year roadmap within the company. Now let me give you specific examples. When I launched the 5GH computing product in collaboration with AWS and Azure, my team was the only team which was hiring during the April 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic when most companies were free hiring because the product we're launching is going to impact the revenue in the coming 10 years. So the CEO said they have to make sure our team continue to grow or the company will suffer in the long run. And during the layoff season in February 2023, Alson L recently joined MATA and because he's also going to work on the long-term strategy initiative within MATA. So do some research regarding long-term strategy initiative within companies. Rule number four is analyze the financial situation of the company. For example, some startups they are VC backed but they never generate positive cash flow. And when the VC funding dries out, they're going to immediately go bankrupt. So therefore I want you guys to ask their financial situation when you interview with those companies. Guess what the VC funding in the last quarter is 50% less compared with a year ago. So lots of startups will never generate revenue, it's going to go bankrupt very quickly. Rule number five study the company culture. One of the goals to join the new company have stable income is that you don't want to get layoff again even if the company's cash flow is stable.  So before you join any company, I will look up the employees on LinkedIn to understand who currently is working there. Do they have the same kind of diverse culture and from where you came from? Do they also have people currently working on HMB or more women in the companies?  Once you join the company, you can form a relationship with these people. But what if you're the only female, only minority within the company? It's likely you're not going to stay in the company for long. In the first episode of product insider podcast, our speaker who is the director of product growth as dash talks about the importance of building relationship with other minorities are the women so that they can be the advocate for you as well. So check out more information of our podcast. I'm also going to link in the description as well. A loss of candidates challenge is that even if they have great experience, but they cannot learn the interview or they have no experience and people don't even want to offer them an interview opportunities. What if I tell you that I can connect you with the recruiters directly? I have a great network of recruiters who are looking to recruit the best talent in the industry right now. So I'm able to connect you with them for free and you can directly submit your information in the form right now and link in the description of this video so that whenever we have a perfect match, we're going to connect you with the directors through email introduction. Go to link in the description and fill in the form right now. Make sure to check out the Prime Manager interview questions playlist to get ready for your upcoming interviews and like and subscribe for this channel for more free tips. This is Dr. Nia Sidi from PM Excerptor.io. Talk soon.


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Are you applying to the NYU dental school? Do you know how to kind of do your research to find their best resources, vibe, school, culture? If you're a good fit, stick around. I'm going to share some intel. Thank you for joining me on my channel for the best personal statement and secondaries coaching. Definitely hit subscribe and the bell so you don't miss a video. I've coached a few pre-dents applying to NYU and getting in successfully and we'll see the cycle but usually they have the why do you want to attend NYU dental and so for that secondary and the diversity obstacles ones definitely check out my template and guide in the description below. Hi, I'm Dr. Josie with Write Your Acceptance. I'm a university writing faculty and I coach students on their personal statements and secondaries so let's get started. Step one is to familiarize yourself with the mission. So if you're writing a why us for NYU but really honestly everyone should do this for every school because you would really learn a ton about their vibe and kind of if you are a good fit but if they are a good fit for you. So step one is to familiarize yourself with the mission and the doctor of dental surgery really kind of focuses on a lot of clinical hours, decision-making, best practices. So here is some language from their mission statement. The curriculum is to educate healthcare professionals who value health promotion and possess the knowledge and skills to diagnose manage and prevent diseases and normalities and other conditions affecting oral healthcare and so promotes decision-making that is evidence-based and reflects on current knowledge. The integration of biomedical behavioral and clinical sciences and we're going to see that a lot in the kind of balance between research and community engagement meaning and so we'll see kind of like how they bridge those two service and research which is important to NYU. There's also an option to do a DDS MBA or DDS public health certificate so that's interesting too if you want to kind of expand a little bit your intellectual breath. Step two, are they the right fit for you? NYU is a very dense urban campus and I put it in quotes right because although there is a feel when you go to kind of NYU and you're kind of immersed in the different buildings it's not the typical campus where you kind of like walk and you're walled off right. So it's definitely kind of a living breathing part of the city. It is very dense it's very fast and it's big it's the largest dental school dental program in the nation I believe with about 300 students per class and so in kind of year three there is an option there's an opportunity for international students to join the program international students who want to practice in the U.S. Having said that NYU you know having talked to former students do a great job NYU does a great job of kind of like breaking you guys up into smaller cohorts and so then there's a sense of like a more collective intimate learning setting for small groups and then you have this kind of backing of an incredible alumni network and just a super large class but do you get lost in the shuffle right so if you are more of an introvert if you want more personalized training this may not be the program for you so you kind of want to weigh those options as to how you learn best your personality and then kind of whether or not this program is tailoring to your strengths. So I wanted to read this this is kind of the cohort system so each cohort has a student success network it's basically an academic advisor a faculty mentor a peer facilitator and a group practice director so you have this kind of peer tutor peer mentor a mentorship and you have a faculty guiding kind of your small cohort and then you kind of can open up and you have this much larger class as well so you have the balance of both. One big positive of such a large class is the diversity in the class itself and the diversity in the demographic that you will care for as an NYU student right so it really will prepare you for any corner of the country that you will practice in so in that sense it's a strong draw for many students. Step three is the incredible robust course offering and just academic experience that you have at NYU they really dial up the clinical experiences so students are kind of sometimes it could be a steep learning curve but they are really really practicing hands-on real-world situations and in depth so that's excellent and I'll show you kind of a little bit of the course offering here. For research there is an incredible kind of array of vast resources and experiences that you can kind of delve into and participate so there's a Bluestone Center it's basically it has eight laboratories with a digital radiography there is phase one to phase four medical and dental clinical trials and then there's kind of working to connect the research to service the family translational research group and that study is a mechanism through which individual couple and family dysfunction cause significant public health degradation so this kind of connection between research and community engagement there is service that is incredibly valuable to consider there are two to four years student kind of government and there's a over 40 student clubs for dental specialties and a dental education program for the community that you can participate in spiling faces going places it's like a dental mobile dental van and then there's a global reach community link that I'll link below as well so you have incredible education vast resources for research and opportunities for community engagement. Step four is to consider cost. NYU is pricey I attended NYU for my master's but not in dentistry and ouch yeah it hurts as a private institution I will kind of show you on the screen a little bit of that info that tuition also I will kind of from bonus and for some serious inspiration of a student alumni and just kind of so impressive who your network and your peers and colleagues would be I will also link their kind of alumni profiles and you can see where everyone is coming from what their passions within dentistry are how they are kind of realizing their dreams and it's just great inspiration whether you apply or attend NYU or another dental program if you are applying to NYU or other programs that ask you why their program make sure you do the research make sure you start looking at their mission statement the education research community engagement opportunities what are the programs name the programs that you can kind of participate in really show them that you did your homework but then also add your personalized kind of dimension so you showed that you've done the kind of intellectual work to show them that you got that you are a good fit talk to alumni LinkedIn is great for that right connect with them ask them questions mention in your why NYU or why you know another school's dental program so really show them that you are kind of truly thinking beyond brand here and you can see yourself living and learning at that institution for your program thank you for watching click like if you like this video please and make sure you check out the secondaries template link in this is in the description below and I'll see you soon thank you


Ah! I mean, hello. Yes, I'm a sara and I'm presenting on skins and stuff and things. I made a skin and I'm going to show you stuff and how to make a skin. Yes, I don't know. Is it going to show the thing or is it showing the thing? I don't actually know how this works. It's showing it now. Okay, so this. Well, actually it's not done at all. But basically, I'm going to make this out of this. So, y'all should be familiar with winter, which is Brandon Harris's thingy with interface stuff and, you know, it's very fancy, very shiny. So if anyone has any questions or comments or whatever, please interrupt me because I don't know what I'm talking about. And if you interrupt me, then it'll be less obvious that I don't know what I'm talking about because I won't be allowed to ramble as much. Yeah, good. Yes, I don't know. So, that's good. Just to break in here, winter is the skin that Brandon Harris works on in a while. It's not underactive development right now, correct? Right. It's basically a prototype that's sitting there that you can do stuff with and it has some funky module things that... I think the idea was to have a lot of them that folks would just plug in and then make it fancy. I don't really know. But the footer here was one of those. The way it's darker than everything else. And basically the two that people are probably most familiar with, I'm assuming, are going to be Vector, which is the default on Wikipedia, and MonoBook, which is the old default on Wikipedia. And there are others out there that have said two big words, right? Yeah, so Vector, everybody's seen that. It looks like Wikipedia. And MonoBook, well, it looks a lot like Vector. Oh, and John also pointed out Monerva as well, which is Monerva the default on... It's a little off the front end. Yeah, but you can apply it to desktop like with the same... This one's completely different, which is actually pretty cool. Well, it has a lot of features that you only ever actually see in mobile, which is kind of a shame, because they'd be very useful in desktop as well. But there's work on that. I'm hopeful. Anyway, yeah, so making a skin. I'm going to try to show you how to do that, maybe. Yes, I don't know. So basically, the whole thing is fairly straightforward. You just make a skin and you stare at it. Good stuff. I don't know. So what we're looking at here that you have up on the browser window... This is the prototype, basically. It's not a real... It's based on Brandon's old work. This is Brandon's thing right here. So this is basically a prototype. It's not a real skin as yet, so I'm making a skin based on it. So yeah, if you've actually got a prototype when making a skin, it makes things so much easier, incidentally. What? Just tap. Hey, my computer started responding. That was random. Sorry. Okay, so yeah, but basically, when you want to make a skin, you figure out what you want to do, and then what you do is you clone the example skin. This is a clone of the example skin. There's not much to it. It's very exemplary. I can actually show you the source and stuff. Rachel, could you switch the things? Great. You can see the other screen? Excellent. So I've cloned the example that was whatever, and it's just... This is a timeless skin. So example is just very straightforward, very basic stuff. Basically, you just copy all of that, and then what you do to make an actual skin is you just replace every instance of the word example with the name of your skin. So that becomes time. Let's just throw out the entire thing, and you just go through all the files, and you do that, and then you wind up with a skin that looks exactly like an example that you can then do stuff to make it shiny. Okay, switch back over, I guess. I don't know. Okay, so there's basically the minimum example there has four files in it, correct? So these are the four main files. There's also the common stuff. Which one is sharing? Is this one still sharing? Yeah. Okay, good. I don't know. So yeah, there's the resources, some example stuff. I put some mixes just to show what they look like. Yes, and there's also the I18N files, which you also need to change. If you just do it according to the format, it'll all keep working, and then the translate wiki people will suddenly randomly start translating it when you least expect it and confuse the hell out of you. So yeah, you do that, then you have a skin, then you basically just delete all the stuff out of the skin. So I've got the commit log or whatever of Timeless here, so I can just check out the different versions and show you. So yes. Okay, switch screens, I guess. So now there's no styles, or at least there should be no styles if it loads. And I was just like, this is your basic skin. You just have stuff on the page, and then you can move it around and style it and do whatever. And okay, so we switch back, I can show you what that actually looks like. Okay, we switch back. So this is the skin template. Well, this is actually the base template. This is problem here where we've got a skin template, which is the skin class for the skin you're making. And then you've also got the name of the skin template, which is the base template, which I do not really know how to refer to these in any sensible manner that is not horribly confusing because these names are just completely confusing. Basically, there's a bunch of class stuff and object stuff in the PHP, and it doesn't really matter. Just ignore all that, please, for your own sanity. Another question, sorry to keep breaking in here. So the thing that you're doing here, which I think is a very cool thing, if I understand it correctly, is that you've got a repository that you've checked in the timeless stuff into, and then you're showing us snapshots along the way of that repository. Is that correct? Yes. And the repository will be able to get links to this after the presentation, right? Well, if I knew how to actually link to stuff, yes. It's in Garrett and on GitHub. Okay, I'll wait for that comment. Yeah, I'm not very helpful. That's okay, but we know that it exists and you intend to publish it, so we'll figure out how to publish it after the fact. Okay, keep going. It's not available. It's not done. I only really started on Friday and most of what I did was actually yesterday, so it's not really a fully working skin as yet or anything, so don't expect too much. But yeah, and also where this one is, timeless. Example is in the same area, so if you want to make one, go there, just copy all the files out of that. That's what you do. So this here is where the actual skin stuff happens. This is what renders the page. The base template class, basically. Don't worry too much what all the stuff is. It doesn't really matter that much. You just paddle the stuff and then you can rearrange it, basically. So say you've got the search thing. It's down here in the navigation right now. You can move that to the top if you want or put it wherever. Depending on how you want to style it, basically, you just move any of this stuff around. I'll probably want to only do it like that, but yeah. So for instance, this one is the sidebar. This one's like the page tools, like edit, view, history, etc. And then this is the personal menu here, the user links. So these are all functions that are at the bottom of the things. You can actually edit them however you want. They do horrible things. It's kind of a mess, but the point is you can just move things around and then you can assign them classes. You can add in divs and whatnot wherever. So that is basically the bulk of making a skin. You just do a lot of that. And then you apply styles and stuff. One thing that really helps I found in making skins is if you set up the less. If you actually use the less, it really helps for making things consistent and whatnot. So here I've set color variables and whatnot. So here's the links are using these right here.  So there's the gray. There's the text in the background, a bunch of colors, because I'm going to be using red, green, and blue a lot with this.  Sorry to break it again. The less is a templating language on top of JavaScript, correct? It's CSS stuff. I don't really know. It's like a language that compiles to CSS. It gives you the same mix and variables. Can you speak louder so they can pick it up on that? Yeah, sure. It's like a language that compiles to CSS. It gives you certain things like mix-ins, variables, and that are very useful things for general consensus. CSS is a crappy language. So this here is a mix-in. It just sets some stuff. Then you just put hit-in and a thing, and then it applies these things to that thing. And then you can reuse variables anywhere. This text editor is absolutely terrible. Why am I using it? You reuse those wherever, which is probably what you want to do, because that way things are much more consistent. And I think from there I actually applied them to the forms and whatnot. That's the wrong keyboard. Then I applied them to the forms. If we switch screens to the browser, why am I on the main page? Well, anyway, you can't see any difference on the regular stuff, but if you go to the... Oh, here. Here you see this on the search. So it's actually got a styled button now, and then these are styled, and suddenly they're styling. And it's just using the colors that I set before. So these aren't actually that great of colors. They're just basically random ones I chose. But this means that they're really easy to change and fix since they're all in one place. So that's good. Why is my mouse cursor moving? Hey, Sarah, this is... I had a question. Are those buttons the search and go... Are those media wiki UI or OOJS UI buttons? One of them is. One of them isn't. So you changed... So you restyled... Basically I overwrote everything because everything is horribly inconsistent. There's no sane way to actually make an OOUI theme in a skin. That really needs to be fixed. Can we switch over to the browser's side for a second on the view? Okay, so you're talking about the go and search buttons here. Yeah, thanks. Which one of these buttons is OOJS UI, and which one is it? The search one that's actually labeled search, I think, is... No, that's just a media... I don't know what... This is media wiki UI. I guess that's not how you do it, either, is it? I don't know. I don't actually know anything about this. Does anyone know what the classes are? It looks like that's using the media wiki UI CSS classes, but it's not an OOJS UI widget. Okay. I don't really know. I just overwrote everything because it's inconsistent. So, yeah, we switch back to the... If it was OOJS UI, it would be wrapped in some container elements and stuff, and it would have a lot more classes. It's not... That one's just... There are a lot of containers here.  No, Firefox. Actually, yeah, you're right, this is not many. Well, anyway. So, we switch back to the forms, the full-screen thing. Okay, so the forbes are this horrible soup that I need to open. I might as well show you all this horrible stuff. Was I just using this editor? Oh, weird. The other one started. Okay, so now we have syntax highlighting and stuff. Nice. Forbes. So, when I would have styled the forms, what I do instead of doing something same because there is basically no way of saying we'd do this is I copy everything out of gray stuff which I hacked together in a horrible soup initially. So, it has its own forms thing. Yeah, so gray stuff has its forms. I just copy all of this and change it up a bit. This is horrible. This is not the right way to do it. It just keeps getting messier and messier every time I do it because all the horrible hacks from before are there and then I notice new things look like the new UI stuff and then I add more things and I just override everything. Well, this should tell you how bad this is. It's just overwriting every single class I found. I would say don't do this but I honestly don't know of a better way to style these things so they're actually consistent. Although if you are going to do this you should actually style the progressive and primary and constructive and whatnot separately because they're for a reason. I just haven't gotten around to that yet. Yeah, anyway. Well, I guess the interesting thing is that MediaWiki UI and the MediaWiki theme in OHS UI were always considered sort of orthogonal to skins so that they really shouldn't be. Yeah, it's a valid argument and there was a thought that well, in each of the skins we ship, the buttons would be made sort of consistent with them but nobody ever offered code to do that so I think at one point there was a sample version of it where in MonoBook the buttons were, I think they were all just kind of gray but it didn't really take off as my reflection. And OHS or whatever that is, there are two themes, the MediaWiki theme and the Apex theme. The problem is Apex is for a skin that nobody actually uses and the MediaWiki one more matches winter than any skins that are actually in use and there is no way within a skin to actually define a new one which is very unfortunate because if you could you could potentially style all the forms so much more easily and not have horrible soup to catch 20 different random classes that are all different types of inputs.  We've got MW-Summary, MW-Input and there's MW-Input, Input and so on. Which screen am I even sharing at the moment? You're sharing the computer, not the browser. Okay, let's switch to the browser. So for random example buttons, this one has different buttons. This skin has buttons that are completely different from the other skins. Yeah, that was random. Okay, then there's these buttons which are different. So, I don't know. Point is, we've got form styling now.  So, you're making a skid and if you're me, what you do at this point is you just stare at the unstyled thing and go, what the hell? And then you come up with some structure and stuff and yeah. The problem is though, you do need to consider your desktop and mobile interfaces at the same time when doing this because what you really want to do is have stylesheets for each and a stylesheet for common stuff so that you have the least amount of redundancy and also don't have to override the styles from the other ones in each one. Though this does cause problems in Internet Explorer 8 because it doesn't actually support media queries with sizes set and they just completely fail so you need to give it a separate stylesheet which is another problem because there's no sane way to do that so you have to manually create that stylesheet for a separate one. Even though there really should be a weighing core to just tell it that this one is the fallback for Internet Explorer and then have it render that one. That would be really nice. Let's switch back to the full computer thingy. All right, you're back. I don't know what I'm doing at this point I guess. Oh, hey, structure. Yes, that's the next commit. So, there's a structure. Maybe that was what happened. So, I need some way to diff this. So basically what I did here is I went through the base template class and rearranged it and added classes so I put containers around everything because I love containers and I love to use containers and containers are your friends. Oh, hey, the skin actually has a layout now. So, switch back to the browser. So, now there's actually structure here because I set containers for each of these things. So, this is a thing and then little stuff is a thing and then there's sidebars on both sides because this skin I decided to go with was basically a three column layout because you can see in winter there are three columns basically the navigation, the content and then content related stuff. So, I set that up here and now there's a bit of a layout. And, yeah, I guess switch back to the text editor stuff. Okay, we're back. So, yeah, these things are... I don't know if I actually have anything. So, yeah, it's broken up into header stuff, content stuff. All the content includes columns too because they're in the same hierarchy. You can do fancier things with things like flexbox but the problem is Internet Explorer doesn't support it until 11. So, you need a fallback and usually I just don't bother with that very much. You just stick to floats and whatnot and then use that to make it fancier. The flexbox, I mean. So, yeah, each thing is in its own container. Each is clearly laid out according to what they are where they are on the page. And then apply some styles. Actually, I put those in the desktop one because this is clearly desktop layout. We do not want three columns on mobile. That would be very, very bad. Yeah. That's not very much stuff. Okay, then after that, more stuff happens. Oh, hey, here's a nice commit message. It says everything is horrible. I wonder what that is. Not really, I do. I don't remember. So, I guess we can switch back to the browser and find out. All right, we're back. Oh, hey, there's a broken header thingy. Yeah, it started to act more like winter-ish. I went through a few different colors with this header. I mean, in winter you can see it's just white and whatnot, but I didn't really like that because it doesn't provide enough contrast. You can't really tell what's going on with it. So, I made it gray because I like contrast. I can see if I called that horrible. That is broken. Yes. Well, we switch back to the full screen or the computer editor. We're back. Okay, so, yeah, there's a lot more CSS in here now. You just keep accumulating CSS or less or whatever it is. You just, yeah, it piles up. The template just keeps getting longer, too. I don't really have anything to show you of interest or I don't know. Oh, wow, I spent some time styling the search. Oh, actually, this is a good thing to show because this was adding an icon vector style where it still has a label but you can't see the label, which is theoretically good for screen readers because they'll still read it, maybe. I assume they did that for a reason. I don't actually know. So, I have a few questions that are a little more general if you don't mind. I'm just wondering if going through this if you have experience with other, like skinning other kinds of sites or things and you found things that they did that would make this easier? Nope. I have looked at PHP and I have looked at WordPress and I ran screaming away. Okay. Well, not screaming. Actually, WordPress isn't that bad but the forum one is like hundreds of files everywhere that you need to go through the files and change them separately because all the template things are just in these random files it's really kind of horrible. I'm sorry. Which one were you talking about again at the hundreds of files? I think it was PHPBB. PHPBB. Okay, got it. So that was the one that you didn't like and that's the one you're describing. Yes. WordPress does some of that but nowhere near as bad so that helps but it does have separate files for header and footer which is kind of annoying if you're just making simple things.  You can include as many chunks of things as you feel like basically because you just include it. So, yeah. You can really just make another class and then just call that class to do the rest of the page or something like that but it's also all in one place so if you're looking for something and you don't know where it's going to be it is so much easier just have one file and go through it assuming it doesn't get too big which they definitely can. But, yeah. Also, something that's really amazing about MediaWiki skinning is the internationalization. You can set every string to i18n thingy I didn't actually open that for some reason so basically you set every string as a thing and then it, well that's the documentation so you can set this to you set all the strings basically and then you can configure them on wiki you can change them quickly when they're all in one file so it really helps just for general use even if you're not getting your skin translated at all it's still nice to just have all the strings in one place so you can easily change them around and whatnot and, yeah, that is something I noticed that WordPress absolutely did not have and it was kind of annoying and sad and annoying. I'll see you can't just change one wiki and I promise this subject can you describe the difference between the en.json and the qqq.json so when you're making a skin you'll only ever edit two of the i18n files, the en is the English one which is basically the defaults and then the qqq is the documentation that says what they are, if you're just doing it for yourself the qqq is optional but it still helps just because that way you have documentation but what it's mainly used for is by the translator so they noted like this is a template on translate wiki that just says it's optional that you don't need to, it doesn't really add anything because it's just the skin name and then this description template then you add more and then you say that something is, well I can check out something with more stuff in it let's see so hold on, okay so, yeah Kate, seriously so yeah, see when you add more things these are the strings that show up on the wiki then when you put them in the skin what you have is so then you call them in the skin by doing this get message and then parse and then you have the message that's parsed and escaped or whatever there's documentation on how to use it exactly that I don't ever remember where it is so I always just do parse and escaped but that's probably really inspiring confidence anyway, the point is you have these strings then you just call them and echo them and then they're parsed and escaped and you can edit them on wiki it's nifty and the QQQ just says what they are for the translator so it says that the timeless talk page is that's what it is, it's just the link label and the personal menu for the talk page because I'm using a different link label than the default I don't actually know why but whatever point is, yeah so you just set them then you do documentation then you call them and magic happens and then people translate them and so that you've got languages and stuff yeah can we switch to the browser? okay so this is I think this is actually the current version of the skin so let's see I'm looking for a timeless page so this is actually an interface message for the if it loads this is an interface message for the skin so it actually shows up in the media wiki namespace you can change it wherever you feel like this is much in the broken word where the user menu doesn't show up that's not the best one to be using page action and actions let's look at page actions we can actually see that one okay no we can't what am I looking for I need something that's actually more you can see the more the more is right here that's this more yeah so yes it's really fun because you change it to ridiculous things I'm totally getting off track okay I don't know what happened there I may have broken my media wiki install never mind point is you edit this and this would change and it would say waffles and all caps yeah no I'm not saying you should do that what I am saying is you should absolutely do stupid ass things like so this is one skin I'm working on another skin I'm working on is this one how about that display message I didn't actually have a point there but you can basically set up whatever the hell it shows up in a bunch of places and it's all magical and odd and stuff and I was going to show you buttons or something yes so I was styling the search I don't know so you see this little icon in the search thing that is well that's a button it's like actually I stole the code out of so it should switch back to the full screen editor okay so that would be down here in the search thing I just going to decode out of vector and swap all the stuff around so that it's whatever so it's timeless and whatnot I don't actually know what most of this stuff is I don't really care point is the thing it does stuff and then you style it and then you have magical I'm looking at the wrong file so yeah you style it and then you do stupid stuff like that and suddenly you have magical no label that is visible that can still be read by screen readers and whatnot and you also have an icon that's a mix in there yeah basically this thing here setting the background image to an SVG if browsers support it and falling back to a PNG if they don't it's actually I might have it in here it's actually this mix in so the fallback is for internet explore and whatnot and old opera and stuff and yeah it just magically does all that nobody really cares what you do is you just call it and stuff works the other thing that the search thing did though was it also added a interface message somewhere yeah well maybe or did I not actually add that yet okay I didn't actually add that yet nevermind I did later change the placeholder text to be a specific message from the skin so they would say that it searched the number of articles on the wiki instead of just search because we've got all that space we might as well use it and it did do that in the prototype so yeah that was the search thing that was just stolen from monoblock mostly what else oh then there's just more structuring the footer actually no there's a placeholder I'll just check that out so here we change the placeholder so that it is that specifically and it's just a lot of the times in order to actually figure out how to call these functions the only real way to do it is to go into media wiki's documentation that's rendered with doxygen whatnot and just look at the functions in the class hierarchy it's kind of a mess, I don't know where it is just 5 minutes left so if there's anything that you want to show to since chef let's see do I have anything else actually that is mostly it most of what making a skin is just going around and reorganizing things and editing stuff so yeah the next ones are just more of that you're just styling it basically you're putting the things on the page and you are styling them and okay yeah I guess switching back to the browser if I can find the okay so somewhere is the I think this is it yes this is what you need to look through in order to find out how to call the functions differently so like for the search placeholder I found the search function that was actually being called which was make the search input from base template apparently and this is the rabbit hole that you don't want to fall into but there's holy crap there's a lot of API stuff okay so if you want to do fancy things with your skin there's no way to avoid looking at the PHP and if you don't know PHP you will learn PHP if you don't know classes you will learn classes because I did not know classes and now I sort of know classes but yeah so I found the base template function those things make search input so I just found this and I looked at what it actually took I think I just looked at the source so then I found that it actually took a placeholder so then I yeah I just set the placeholder I gave it a placeholder information thingy or array whatever the hell you call it I set a placeholder in the thing that actually calls the make search input within the output search function in the skin itself so that's how I change the search suggest stuff most things are pretty simple like this you just track down whatever it is you're calling and then look at what it does and if it doesn't make sense you you ask someone who knows what they're doing but some things are not so simple can we switch back to the editor yep okay some things are not so simple ah let's see okay so what I wanted to do is seriously what I wanted to do was also change how the page tools are output which there is no sane way to do that which screen am I on you are on the computer screen I can switch back to the browser do you feel it no computer is probably what I want right now actually now let's switch back to the browser okay so you can see the tools for the page are broken up into a bunch of different things it's the usual namespaces thing that you see in vector and mona book then these two are not all the ones you usually see because usually it would also have like the view source thing is an edit thing so that would normally be over here and then there are more tools which are all page tools which are broken out over here and then there's the wiki specific tools which I put over here the problem is there's no sane way to do that so switching over to the editor Rachel are we on the editor now yep we're on the editor okay so what I wound up having to do was basically just get a pile of all the tools and then manually sort them this is horrible I never do things like this except there's no better way to do this so I did this what we really need is basically well the problem here is that these are just the media wiki core tools extensions add all manner of tools the problem is extensions can't set where they want the tools to show up in this to my knowledge there is no way for an extension to say something is a user tool or a page tool or an edit tool or whatever it's just a tool that it adds to the toolbox or whatever which as you can see in the skin I got rid of the toolbox now there's just a pile of general tools they get dumped in so they don't get lost completely hopefully but that's less than ideal do we have more time no we are out of time but we have this space for longer so there's something you need to wrap up no no no I should stop are there any questions on the Hangout or on IRC oh actually there is one I did forget one thing I was curious about was the quick template implements this get and set for items but I've noticed a lot of skins they just go in and sort of dump out things from the data sort of array and I was wondering do you use get and set at all or do you just do the same thing and just if there's something in data you want you just kind of reference it yeah that is a serious problem part of the problem though is quick template only has some things base template does a lot of the dumping stuff out like you're extending base template and then there's a lot of stuff that's just plain missing we really need proper get and set functions we need abstraction for these things that's actually sane something I had to do with the categories is even though there is a get category function I don't think it's in these templates and it only so basically there's a bunch of get category links one of them is in title it gets the categories for the title one of them is in output page it gets the categories for the current page view so if you're actually viewing the page or editing it shows but otherwise it doesn't and I believe the quick template or base template whichever one of those is getting it uses the output one the problem is if you want the categories to always show up you need to use both of them because there's just no good way to do it the problem here is that yes we should be probably just using get functions they're just art get functions that do most of the needed things so I've been trying to find them and use them more if they exist but sometimes they're not where you expect them to be sometimes they're in quick template sometimes they're in base template sometimes they're in skin, sometimes they're in skin template sometimes they're in output page sometimes they're in title sometimes they're in it's a mess yeah I don't know any more questions? great thank you so much everyone stopping the broadcast thanks that was great bye


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Hi, welcome to Family Affairs, coming to you live from the Think Tech Hawai'i Studios in Honolulu. I'm your host, Lisa Kimura, here to discuss the issues, policies and initiatives that affect families in Hawai'i and what we can do to help develop healthier communities. With me today are Anne and Ken Yabusaki, heads of the Hawai'i FASD Working Group, to talk about the challenges for families living with these disorders and how various coalitions are working to address the issues and impact. Welcome Anne and Ken. Thank you. Thanks for being here. So, to start out, why don't you tell me a little bit about the FASD Working Group and how you got involved with that? Okay, about three or four, well actually earlier in 2000 I was working with juvenile drug court in Hawai'i as a family therapist and we noticed that there were more and more kids that we couldn't quite understand because of our system, because of who they were I suppose. And it got me curious because usually we help a lot of kids through that court and when there was a few it started to increase and then I saw I started to look into the idea could there be a fetal exposure to alcohol as a possibility and that's why we're not getting the results that we had with the other kids. And so then I began to explore a little bit more about the behaviors that come with fetal alcohol exposure and decided well we need to do something about this because there are more and more kids that we're beginning to see and out there. I delved into some of the research and got to get a few friends and coworkers and colleagues and Ken got involved and we formed a group called the FASD, the Hawai'i FASD Action Group. They wanted action. They would call ourselves action and we that was three years ago and so that's how it got started. We all got together and we gave our first conference in 2017 we're going to give a second conference again in 2019. Excellent. Yeah. And so for those who don't know FASD, can you explain to me what that stands for and what types of spectrum disorders there are? Yes. Yeah. FASD stands for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders meaning that it's a spectrum of disorders and that's not a diagnostic category itself but there are several other diagnostics under it. For example, fetal alcohol syndrome has facial features. Children have facial features that are characteristic of the children and 10% of the children. So it can go misdiagnosed or not diagnosed. Undetected. Undetected for a long time. There are other features that are some with alcohol related neurological developmental disorders. ARND would call that that's all under FASD and that would be without facial features but with behavioral that seem challenging and possibly misdiagnosed. And what would be some examples of those behaviors? It could be impulsivity. It could be aggressiveness. It could be most of landmark type of behavior is not understanding cause and consequence. So whereas in parenting we might say, okay, I want to give you a time out and then come back and let's try again, it doesn't work. And so it's this disconnect that we're looking at. They're very friendly kids but because they don't have a sense of danger. So they can be oppositional and look as if they're misbehaving. Well because environmentally they might have what we call sensory disorders so they might have things like the set overstimulated by the environment and so they don't know how to control that. You have issues of memory so when they can do something one day and they can absolutely not be able to perform it the next day. So these are the behavioral, some of the behavioral indicators that hey, let's take a look at. So for families that may suspect that something is going on, what is a way that generally you can tell or what's the diagnosis or what's the process for being able to determine that? Well generally it comes in through the behaviors and just like kids came to our court because of their behaviors, therefore it was not diagnosed. And what we can do is when I take a history for example, I look at the school history, the birth history. Birth history meaning that how were they premature, you know, were there growth within the normal range, were they able to make the milestones and so on and so forth. Usually a pediatrician does that if you're going to go for a full assessment. And then other parts would be I take a history of the school when these difficulties first arose. And some of these difficulties can arise in not even kindergarten but preschool. For example, I had a grandmother and all of this is confidential, I'm kind of mixing up the facts here. But a grandmother came in and asked why is my four-year-old who's so lovable and so wonderful get expelled from nursery school, you know. Because one thing he bit the teacher who startled him. And I, knowing some of the family history of many of these families, I suspect, I wonder if there was some fetal alcohol exposure. His child got overwhelmed, didn't know what to do, so he bit. So these are the behaviors that begin to indicate multiple school expulsions, difficulty focusing and concentrating, really misbehaving. They often have diagnoses of ADHD, you know, attention deficit disorders. They have oppositional defiant disorder diagnoses. They have everything, even autism. But it might be a disease.  Yes, especially most of a lot of the children go into foster care, unfortunately. So about 99% they figure are misdiagnosed. And adopted, well, that's for most of the kids, about 99%, anybody with AAF, with FAST. But what they're finding in the foster care and adoptive populations, about 85% are misdiagnosed or missed at all. So it's pretty high, and about 70% of the kids in foster care have an aviage. That's a really high percent. It's pretty startling, yes. How do foster families get support to be able to address that for them? Well, we often say that the best way to get support is to get an early diagnosis. Because when you get an early diagnosis and assessment and get diagnosed, then you'll be looking at the speech and language issues. Many times they have difficulty processing language. And so you might understand every third word. So if you can speak simply and concretely, you'll be given that type of suggestion on how to raise these kids. These children need support, special support, that deal with brain damage. And so that brain damage that occurs, occurs while they're in utero? Yes. What would, people often say that alcohol is the most damaging substance. Why is that? I'll have Ken answer. He's a biochemist. He has a better explanation than I do. To understand what happens in a person that has a prenatal exposure to alcohol, the pregnant woman, you have to understand what happens to the alcohol. When a person drinks alcohol, the alcohol is broken down by two enzymes, primarily in the liver, that converts one person's enzyme, converts the alcohol to what they call acetaldehyde. That's a very poisonous substance. And then that's further broken down by another enzyme that produces acetate, which is more or less harmless. When you think about the human brain and you agree that all behaviors begin in the brain, then you understand all the senses, everything, executive functioning, thinking, all starts with the brain. So essentially, when you have FASD versus a normal brain, you have two different type of brains. What's happening here is that when a person drinks alcohol, like I said, the poison, the acetaldehyde is formed, actually damages the construction of the neuron patterns or the nerve pathways in the brain. So the brain is made up of billions of neurons, and how they're connected can be kind of seen like train tracks. And so a normal brain, the train can run on the tracks easily. But for one that's been affected by alcohol exposure, the tracks are not formed properly, and therefore the train gets derailed. And so you see that in the specific behaviors. And is that more common among alcohol use, more extreme pregnancy than other drugs? People I think are very surprised and often want to say that you could have a drink, or my doctor said it's okay to have an occasional drink. Is that really true? It depends, because there's a genetic factor involved. As I mentioned, there are two enzymes that break down the alcohol. The second enzyme converts the acetaldehyde, which is the poison, and converts that to harmless acetate. Well, but then people have variations in that amount of enzyme and the activity of that enzyme within their livers, primarily. And so in Asia, for instance, there's a specific gene mutation in Asians. And approximately 600 million Asians have this particular mutation, which doesn't break down the acetaldehyde to the acetate, and causes, therefore, headaches and flushing and all that. And so they don't drink.  But they have that particular enzyme that can clear or detoxify that acetaldehyde. I see. And does the child's individual genetic makeup also make a difference for that exposure to alcohol? Yeah, so when the developing fetus is developing, their liver is also going to be formed. And then that particular liver will start metabolizing the alcohol, too. So you've got two double, kind of like a double whammy, where the pregnant mother has metabolized the alcohol to the poison, acetaldehyde. They have a baby that also is metabolizing. So the concentration effect is very strong. So, like I say, fetus is very vulnerable, many, many.  And therefore, many of these children with FASD have other problems, health problems besides just a damaged brain. I see. So does that kind of lend itself to the hyper sort of responsiveness or the sensory disorders? Yes. And then the impulsivity is with the executive function with the brain, for example, they can't control their emotions as well as most people can. And so they look aggressive, or could be. And I think they're just trying to, at some level, trying to deal with their environment. However, we do have to restrain them and help them learn what's best. And what kind of process is that for helping people to learn and self-regulate?  Well, it's difficult because it really involves a village.  And so you have coaches and other people around them that need to learn about this so that they can help the child maintain within an environment. For example, in the classroom, we often say keep the classroom as clear as possible to avoid over-stimulation. If a child is, that you know, has FASD, or you suspect, they might be poking at other kids and irritating other children. But that means that they need, the way to learn is through some activity.  And yes, you can have very successful kids. At our conference in September, we've invited someone who has FASD, was adopted, and she is going to present her story. And she's written two children's books. Yeah, and she says, were it not for the help of her parents, the help of the school, the help of a community, she could not do it. And she did go into drug and alcohol use. She did go into other, you know, she was bullied at school. She has her own history, but they can be successful with the right support. Yeah. Well, we will definitely get more into this and talk a lot more about the supports and what's available when we come back from this break. Stay with us, come back soon, and we'll have more here on Family Affairs. Aloha, I'm Cynthia Sinclair. I'm Tim Appachella. We are hosts here at Think Tech Hawaii, a digital media company serving the people of Hawaii. We provide a video platform for citizen journalists to raise public awareness in Hawaii. We are a Hawaii non-profit that depends on the generosity of its supporters to keep on going. We'd be grateful if you'd go to thinktechhawaii.com and make a donation to support us now. Thanks so much. Hello. I'm Karen Harris, the host here at Think Tech Hawaii, a digital media company serving the people of Hawaii. We provide a video platform for citizen journalists to raise public awareness in Hawaii. We are a Hawaii non-profit that depends on the generosity of the supporters to keep on going. We'd be grateful if you'd go to thinktechhawaii.com and make a donation to support us now. and make a donation to support us now. Thanks so much. Hi, welcome back to Family Affairs. I'm Lisa Kimura here at the Think Tech Hawaii Studios. With me today, Ken and Ann Yabusaki from the Hawaii FASD Working Group, Action Group. So we were just talking a little bit about the upcoming conference that you folks have in September. Why don't you tell me a little bit about when it's taking place and then any other highlights you'd like to share? Sure. One of the things that is gonna be held at the Halekoa Hotel in Waikiki on September 18, it's gonna be an all-day affair. And we're featuring speakers who have practical advice for the courts, for health issues, and for the school and home. So there'll be breakout rooms, breakout sessions for them to actually interact with the audience and talk about what we've been talking about earlier. We also are going to, we've had legislative issues and so we have some champions that we wanna honor from our Hawaii state legislature and recognize what work they have been doing to open it. Our keynote will be from Minnesota. Minnesota is one of the most progressive states on FASD. And so the executive director will be coming to share their experiences on how they got the services for their families. Excellent. And in what ways have they been so progressive, comparatively speaking? Well, they've been able to advocate for services and they are financially supported, not only privately, but through their legislature. And so they're able to have summer camps for families. You know, to learn about their children, how to work with their children and be with them and learn that there are a lot of other people like that. They have support groups. They have a legislative arm to help them educate legislators and move it. They have some research projects going on. So it's quite a, it's been 20 years in the making. So, you know, we have to keep that in mind because we get impatient sometimes. Yeah, and there's a lot to change and a lot of education that needs to take place. Exactly, exactly. What about with our educators and you know, Department of Education? Are they well informed or not informed enough? What else needs to happen there? That was what was a need. I think the Department of Education is concerned and they are trying to reach out. We are going to help and coordinate and all day training for those who work as counselors and they're supervisors, the supervisors of counselors, I should say, within the state. On September 19th, they'll have a special session, all day session on working with kids. Wonderful. So, I think they understand because it's been the long neglected and the kids need the help. And one of the things we'd like is to see the school psychologists, for example, who and the Department of Health come together and create assessments that are accurate for these children and keep the awareness going. I think that's what's the problem. Talk to me a little bit about the long-term prognosis. Can someone hope to recover or what can they possibly expect for their best possible quality of life? Yeah. Well, they'll always have brain damage, okay? It's a brain injury that is lifelong. However, with education and as they grow up, if we can catch them younger, they might be more amenable to help.  Sorry. So, they might throw off any kind of support systems. But as they grow older and start to understand themselves better, then we can maybe put in employment supports. We can put in living supports. We can help them find mentors in the community to help them get through. One young lady said, were it not for her junior college instructor who also had a child with FASD? She would never have gotten as far as she did. And what they did was change the classroom so that, for example, her learning was through hands-on concrete learning. She had difficulty with abstraction. So, they made her do projects instead to demonstrate competency. And that's how she got through school. So, yeah. So, it takes a wide array of services. One of our people in the Action Group has a home in Wisconsin that she started up with people with FAS, poor people with FASD. Yeah. I think also to give the parents some respite about this. As I mentioned, it's very draining taking care of someone who is very high needs. Yes. Yeah. What has the Hawaii FASD Action Group been working on in regards to legislation this year? Well, this year we've been... This is our first year with experiencing legislation. Great. Yeah. It's been great. One of the areas that we tried to get in was to create an FASD category for developmental disabilities, just to name it, because we didn't feel like it was recognized next to autism, next to cerebral palsy, and others. That was, did not fly. Another area is that, and we're still working on that, we're still alive, is to create services through Medicaid for our people, for people with FASD, and any other disability, you know, developmental disability. And that would include things like community-based services. We need case management. We need people who can help our adults find a proper employment. We need people who can educate the public and create homes and living situations so they can stay within the community. You know, we consider the primary cause of FASD as a brain injury. That is the primary cause. What comes after that is called secondary characteristic. And that would be like isolation, depression, aggression. You know, the feelings that come in a world that they can't understand can't make a comment about being birthed into a world that's impossible for them. And we have to make the world possible. So that's one of the reasons why the last tertiary is that 60% of people with FASD end up in their criminal justice system. Many end up homeless. Many will, 90% have mental health issues, long-term mental health issues. And so you have a lot of comorbidity that occurs. And so we're trying to avoid that. And is there any kind of perpetuating the cycle? So if someone's growing up with issues and say that it leads to addiction, is that then contributing to the next generation of children with exposure? Yes, yes, that's why you should have a whole gamut of services, what we feel like right now the state is trying to implement what they called a brief intervention strategy where you screen women at their routine exams about drinking and caution them if they want to get pregnant to withhold alcohol, just to educate them. All the way to the gamut of, yes, a woman who is pregnant and it has an addiction issue or has difficulty controlling her drinking. Yes, there are facilities that can help. And there are, but it's not to punish the woman. That's the last thing we want to do. We want them to say, hey, we want a healthy kid. If we can create a good nutrition program for you, if we can decrease the stress on the pregnancy, have a supportive environment, a supportive spouse or supportive partner or family, we can hopefully mitigate some of the long-term effects of alcohol damage. And I do think a lot of times women with addiction are very much demonized or vilified when they're pregnant, but addiction is a disease and it's not well understood by maybe the majority of people. How do women get into treatment or how do they get services? Because we know that there's not enough. Right, there's not enough. And also how do we prevent this exposure from happening? Well, my hope is that they would seek help. And this help that we have is, for example, we have Women's Way, that is a residential program for women. We're dealing with a lot of the, some of the substance use treatment programs in the community and trying to educate them about FASD so that they know that some of the people they have already accepted into the residential or outpatient programs can be screened and then treatment plans tailored to those with FASD. And what would a plan look like for them? We'll be an example of that. Well, it would be like concrete learning, simple instructions. It would be like, sometimes often in treatment programs they said, oh, okay, it's all cognitive behavioral, okay, we're gonna teach you how to cope with anger. Well, maybe the way of coping with anger is not counting 10, one to 10, or try to deep breathe and all that. It might be, okay, that means you need to go out in peace. And I'll tell you when, because you might not have the insight to know when you're getting angry. I'll cue you and I'll teach you. And that's, if we can get that cooperation between us, the relationship between us, it's okay. And so that I had one kid in residential treatment and he was agitated for whatever reason when I came there to talk with him and he was pacing with a chair over his head. And he says, Dr. Anne, I can't control this. It's as if my brain is switched cheese and that's holding on to what he had learned and trying to exercise his side just. So we put it down and went outdoors. So those are the kinds of things that we can try to control for them. Those are treatment programs. And a clear background, less stimulating environment teach them about what they need, teach them routine, we give them routines, we give them close supervision and coaching. I call it coaching. We just have a couple of minutes left, but how long would you say it would take someone to kind of develop and really see results from following a plan like that? Well, I think it's gonna come and go. If we can keep it up. For example, in the elementary schools, we get a diagnosis and elementary schools are great because they're one classroom routine. We go to middle school, they have different classes. That transition is difficult for them. So if we can queue, find out how they can transition into middle school better. Each child is individual because we don't know what, how the brain has been affected. So if we can prepare them for each of the transitions in life and create supports for them, that would be the way to go. Excellent. We're just about out of time, but one more time just remind us when the conference is and the details for anybody interested in attending. Great, it's gonna be September 18 at Halecoa and it's an all day affair. And they can, I don't know, they can contact me and I can, or the program, and we can certainly send out the registration to them. Excellent. All right. Well, thank you so much for joining me today. Thanks for being part of the show and sharing all of your information with us. We really appreciate it. Thank you for having us. Thank you for having us. I'm Misa Kimura. I'm the host of Family Affairs and we'll see you next time. Hello.


They call him the best center in the draft John Michael Schmitz, Minnesota six years. How many games did you play in? Over 60 a lot of games a lot of games. I don't know the true number, but it was I know probably had like over At least 30 starts a little more than that. But yeah What does it take to be a really good center?  You got to Just be that guy that connects the team together and at the end of the day you got to be a really good communicator on the line To make sure everyone knows the call everyone knows what they're doing. So yeah, you're running the show. Yeah Oh, yeah, we have a center with the Titans Ben Jones going to the Pro Bowl. Yeah red-headed guy 11 years Got some freckles good athlete and and being in command is a big thing when I've watched you in practice I've seen the same thing that has to be a natural trait if you're going to do this. Well, right? Yeah, I mean it does. I mean got to give the credit to my parents to my coaches and high school to my Coaches in college especially coach Flack for developing those leadership traits that I I mean we we had we've met with a leadership. We had we had a leadership class every week at the University of Minnesota and it was just Great information to have and it was a great resource to be along to be a part of that So yeah, what do NFL teams want to know about you? I'll just say like I can fit in any scheme. I'm a leader that I'm That I'm a tough I'm a tough tough player and I like to finish the play. So yeah, is that why you enjoy this game? So much. Yeah, I mean I've been playing since I was five years old Felt in love with it ever since I have a picture of me and my brother playing side-by-side together when we're that when we're kids and I mean it's it's this game is so special and I'm lucky and grateful to be To be in this situation good for you enjoy it all you've deserved it. Thank you Thank you John Michael Smiths from Minnesota Center at the Reese's Senior Bowl