Hi, my name is Mantea Jones, thanks for joining us on your home live tour of the Maples. Right now we're standing outside of Maple Hill South, so if you're going to live here, this is where you'll live. As I said, I'm Mantea Jones, I'm going to be a senior here at the University of Arkansas. My major is food science. So if you guys have any questions about, you know, bumpers college or food science, let us know. And behind the camera today with us is going to be Courtney. Hey guys, good afternoon. My name is Courtney. I am also a student here. I'm about to start my sophomore year as a nursing major and I'm from Fayetteville. So feel free to ask any questions today. I'll be behind the camera so I'll see all you guys' comments. We'll be sure to answer those for you guys. You can help us measure anything in the rooms, whatever you guys like. So thank you for tuning in and please do ask us questions. You know, I noticed above there, you can see there is actually a maple leaf. I had never noticed that before. So where Maple Hill is, it's going to be towards the north side of campus. So we're going to be next in between Reed Hall, which is going to be over here to my right, and then Hots Hall, which is going to be to my left. And then we're also right by Northwest Quad C and then Harding Hall. So you're really close to a lot of the buildings. If you have friends that live on the north side, you're real close to them. We're also going to be very close to the Epley Nursing Center. So if you're a nursing student, your advising will be in there. So real close to home. And then the Poultry Science Building, which a lot of classes are held in there. I know both me and Courtney have had classes in there before. And then there's also the Ag Culture Food and Life Science Building. How Walker Health Center is really close by. So you're about a lot of great, like, active buildings and then residence halls. And then some cool features for the Maple Hills is that we have a meal trade option. So here it's called Melt Lab. You can get, like, grilled cheeses and sandwiches in there. The S'more one. Oh my God, it's so good. There's a S'more, like, yes. So it's like marshmallows and Nutella and graham crackers. It's so good. You'll have to try it and you guys get here. There's a good soup in there too. Yes.  It's going to be over here. So you're going to have, like, chips and drinks. It's right under that awning over there. You can pop right over. I think it closes at, like, nine at night.  Yeah, so then the closest dining hall is going to be Fulbright Dining Hall, which is in the quads. So you're really close to there. There's even a computer lab in there. So if you're on the north side, you need to print something off late at night. You can go in there and print it off. You don't have to go all the way to the union or the library, which is really great. Yeah, so I guess we can walk this way. We'll show you, like, kind of where the south is, like the lobby area. And then move towards east and west. Yeah. Yeah, let us know if you guys have any questions. We would love to answer them. We have 40 viewers right now. Hey. Where's everybody from? Curious. I'm from Frisco, Texas. And then Courtney, I think you're from Fayetteville, Arkansas. Yes. So local of them, that's cool. So this is going to be where the south lobby is. So it's going to be something you go in there. That's how you get to the elevator and then to the residence halls. And right here, another great feature for south is going to be the classroom. So you might even have a class right in your own building. You can just pop right downstairs. It's a really convenient. Another room here in Maple is going to be the theater room. I think we can pop in there real fast and see it. It has, like, theater, like, seating. And there's a big screen, which is really nice. And this is Maple Hill South on the kind of the west side of the building, I guess. Yes. The south side of Maple Hill South. The west side of Maple Hill South. I think I got it. You got a lot of Texas people on here. Hey. This is going to be the theater. Louisiana. Yeah. So you might have some classes in here right now. They're using it from some type of conference camps right now. But yeah. So your RA's will have lots of great programming in here. I've been an RA in Maple Hill South for the past two years. So I know there's lots of programming in that big classroom and this classroom. So great spaces to meet people, get to know the staff. Y'all have a great time. And our residence interhaul Congress, for example, I believe, meets here. Yes. They meet here sometimes, which is a really great program to get involved in. Get involved in lead hogs. It's a great way to get involved on campus and some leadership opportunities. I was a lead hog, my freshman year, and that's how I became an RA. Because they introduced me to the process and the things I need to know in order to make it through the selection process, which was really nice. So we'll head towards the east and west now. There is someone from Frisco, Texas watching. Hey. I went to Heritage. Where'd you go to high school? I'm from El Dorado, Arkansas. So this is going to be the little green area outside of South. So programs also happen out here. Last year, we had a big, like, giant game. So they had Giant Jenga out here. Things like that. It was a really fun program. Yeah. So this is going to be east on this side and west on this side. Kind of goes. You can see Reed Hall right there. And then the UAP substation. So they're really close by. So there's a great security over here. And yeah. Even though we're on the north of the campus, we're still by things. So when we come underneath this archway, you can see into the east-west courtyard, which has a garden that's actively kept up by the Holkocen Department, which is a really nice feature. There's even a grill, a little patio out here for programming. So it's a really nice place to hang out. Enjoy the sun. Me and my friends had a painting party out here once. We just came out here with some canvases. It's a paint. And just sat here all day and painted, which is really great. In the fall, we set up a little makeshift campfire right there. Yes. In the little bowl that you can buy. And did some hot dogs and weenies. It was kind of fun. Yeah. SMORE is always a popular program when it starts getting cold. The past two years, I believe we've had a big Maple Hill cookout when you guys first get here in the fall, which is really nice. Come out here, enjoy some food, get to know other people and all the other maples. And then we head to the Freshman Year pep rally, which is also a great program. So yeah, this is the Maple Hill courtyard. So if you want to come out here and do some exercise and sunrise yoga, you can do that. Would you have some questions about the rooms that we will answer for you guys once we go in them? You'll get to see those. And Carrie says she went to Centennial and Independence in the first go. Oh my God. My dad is the, he said, he works at Centennial. Yeah. So we're going to head into the east-west lobby area right now to show you guys all the way.  So this is where a hall admin will sit during the day and an RA at night. So you can always come here, ask some questions. If you lose your key, you need a package. This is also where you get your mail-in packages out. So even if you live in west, both east and west will come here for their packages. South residents, you will stay in south for your mail-in packages, which is really nice for you guys. So over here is going to be where some mailboxes are and then your package boxes. So when you get a package, you'll get an email from housing. And I will tell you that you can come to your mailbox and check to see if you have a key. And if you have a key, you can come over here, do a big package box, put it in, get your key, get your package, put the key back. If not, you can just get the package on the front desk if it doesn't fit in these. This is really nice for you guys. You don't have to always wait for an RA or a hall admin to get your packages. So yes, RA on duty. There's always going to be an RA on duty every night. So if you have questions locked out, something's wrong, an emergency, you can call that number and then they will come help you. It's basically our 24-hour number if you have an issue. Yes.  You're never alone. There's never nobody around. Someone's always here. So when you come in here, this is going to be what we call the east parlor. There's a fireplace, a ping pong table. Lots of games happen here. You can check out ping pong paddles and balls from the front desk along with games, movies, cooking supplies. Which is really nice. So lots of programming in here. Are you good at ping pong? I am not. Are you good at ping pong? You know, I have my good days and my bad days. I spent three years being bad at it. I have not improved once in the three years I've been here. I tried. Yes. Myla asked which building we're in again. It is Maple Hill East. East is where the lobby is going to be for east and west. And right here is going to be what we call the cat lady room. It's not bad. It's just the vibe we get from it. It's what they already call it. It's not really official. But after two years, it's what we call it. It's a nice place to study and be independent. If you need to do a program. I know they've had Bible studies in here before. But yeah, it's just a nice little room. It's tucked away. Not everyone's in here. Not everyone can see you from the hallway. So if you want to be by yourself, this is a great place to do that. Yeah, you can see the courtyard and all that kind of stuff. And then Lisa asked how many refrigerators can go in each room. I actually asked about that yesterday. And we recommend just bringing one and communicating with your roommates to decide who brings what. You can also rent one from the university if you choose to. Which is a really great thing because then you don't have to worry about lugging it here or taking it back home. You can just, the university will have it in your room. You get here and then they will take it when you move out. And we're partnering with, do you remember the name of the company? Collegiate Concepts. Collegiate Concepts. And you can find more information about that at movein.ur.edu. So something we haven't really talked about, but that you guys have seen a lot, is the FOB system. It's a great security tool that we have here on campus. So in order to get into the buildings, you have to live there and you need a key FOB, which you will get when you arrive on campus. So if you don't live in East, you can't bob into East. So this unlocks the doors outside and inside. So for the lobby area, East and West residents can bob into East, just this lobby area. And for South, only South residents can bob into South. So if you live in East, and you want to go see a friend in West, they have to come get you from downstairs. If you live in South, they want to come to East, vice versa. So it just keeps everyone safe and makes sure the buildings are secure. Maddie asks, is it one fridge per bedroom or per room in the maples? I would say one fridge per bedroom would be acceptable. The same for microwaves. Charlotte asks about microwaves. And you can also rid those from. It comes in like a combined package of a microwave and a fridge. And I think safes are available too. Yes they are. So if you want to keep things secure outside, because there are some walking mechanisms on some of the drawers, that's a great way to do that. So we come down here, we're still in the lobby of East. It's a giant lobby, there's so much in this building. So there was an office back there for the CRE, which is the Coordinator for Residence Education for East, and then the one for West is going to be here as well. I think in other universities they call that a hall director. We just call them Coordinators for Residence Education. Or CRE for short. They're a great tool, a great resource. If you need help on campus, right here, there's going to be two small study spaces. You also have to fob into these. Oh, yes, we're on the way. Yes, we're on the way. So if you like, here you can fob in. It's a great little study area. There's a table, a whiteboard, and then your own EXO markers. The group and study, you know, and the way. Yeah, it's a great little space. There's going to be a little lounge and a whiteboard, so the study here can be... There's going to be a conference room back there, but you don't necessarily have access to that. But if you need it, you can ask an RA for approval to get led into that room. We got asked if each dorm is able to control their heat in AC in this building. So these buildings flip. So during the warm months, like the summer months, you're going to be running cold air. And in the colder months, it will switch to hot air. You can't switch back and forth. You can just control what not the fan is running. So if it's on heat, it's going to run heat. If it's on cold, it's going to run cold. You can kind of shift the temperature probably maybe five degrees. Yeah, look at that range. But you can always turn the fan off, so it's not blowing anything. And then Lisa asked if there are locking doors in this specific building. Yes, there are. There is a drawer on your nightstand that will lock and on your dresser that will lock. And do you have to bring your own lock for that? Yes, you do. Okay. But we'll show you guys how to do that when we get up there. So East has a plethora of classrooms in it as well. So this is going to be one. You might even have a class in here, which is really nice. I think you can pop in there just so you guys can see it. So it's a full-size classroom for probably about 30, 40 students. Yeah. So the teacher is a projector and all that kind of stuff. So really convenient. I know I think a lot of nursing, like those pre-nursing classes might even be in here, which would be really convenient for you guys. Yeah. It's a good space. There's three classrooms here in East and then the one in South and then there is also that theater room in South. So a total of five spaces. You can have classes in the Maple Hills. Would you like to be in there? Oh, yes. So behind us is going to be our vending machine area. You're going to have the public bathrooms and then the vending machines and the ice machine. So on the vending machines, you can use cash, cards, Apple Pay, Android Pay. So you need a little snack at night. A club where this closed. Come down here. Get yourself a snack. Yeah. Really convenient. Yeah. I think it's just like $1.50 over here and a plethora of prices over there, which is really nice. Cindy asks, is that mandatory only one refrigerator or microwave per room? I believe there is something on our website that tells you our requirements for water. Housing.york.edu will have that. So water requirements. As far as whether you can, we recommend that you only have one. I don't. I think let's get back to you on that, whether that's a recommendation or a requirement. Because that's what she's asking us. There's going to be another classroom down this way. So you might have a class down there. And then as we move this way, there will be another classroom. So, office space and system. These rooms are locked to students, but again, you can ask an RA if you have a group project you're working on and you need a big space. You can ask for a prevention to be let into these rooms. So they're great places to study. You can eat a white space and can't find anything. Which is sometimes the case around finals time, right? Yes. It gets a little hectic in here. You have to fight to the death for a study space. So this is going to be the courtyard that we showed you guys earlier. This is the east vestibule. We call it the vesti. East vesti, which is weird, but it's nice. It's just a little control air space. So we're going to go into the residence hall section. Sherry asks if we will be touring Maple South also. We will not, but the rooms are going to be the same sizes. So you'll be able to see the same measurements. And if you go to the housing website in our campus communities, you can see the floor, the plan layout for Maple Hill South. East and west are going to have the same layout sections. And south is a little bit different. We like to joke that when they did south, they just messed up and then just put it down. But it's really cool. I looked in south for two years, so I'm biased towards the south layout. So when we come in here, right off the doorway, this is going to be where the east kitchen is. So there's going to be a stove, a oven, and a microwave, and a toaster oven. The microwave's not in here right now. It should be back. Yeah. And then there's the sink. So there's no fridge in here. So you can just keep the stuff in your room. But this is a nice little space if you need to cook a little pizza, some cookies. I've had taco parties, like, fiesta nights with my friends, which is really nice. A point, too, that I asked to see a kitchen. If you're international, this will make absolutely no sense to you, our system. Yes. But this is ounces to whatever. Good to know when you're trying to cook. So there's a pool table.  There's really nice some tables. I know last year, the year before, they held a cooking matters class through our VAC program. So there was a class in here where they taught us some healthy meals, which was a really nice program. It was a great food. So encourage your RAs to have a cooking matters program with the VAC. Do west and south also have kitchens like this? No. East is going to be the only one that has the oven and the stove. Okay. But they have, do they have a smaller version of a kitchen? They have this counter space area and then the microwave, the sink, and the toaster oven, but they will not have the stove and the oven. Okay. Awesome. So we'll come back up here and show you guys where your trash is going to go. There's also going to be a water bottle filter on every, on this one? There we go. We'll check that. Right. But there are water bottle filters in every building. It's a great way to bring your own water bottle, save the planet. I know we've saved over 130 tons of plastic in the past five years from these filters. So it's a great tool. Highly recommend you use it. I use a Yeti personally. It's my favorite.  Highly recommend you add that to your, to your checklist when you arrive. So this is going to be the trash area.  You just open the door and see the trash through and it will come all the way down. There's also going to be some recycling in here. We do a recycle mania across campus every year where we compete between the buildings to see who recycles more. I think a couple of years have had one but the past three years we all took all those ones. So maybe make that a goal for you guys next year to a recycle mania. Do you know if West has an ice machine? Yes. It does. And then can students that live in West or South use the ice machine? Yes. You might need permission to get it all ready from the front desk to let you in but just ask and I should be able to let you in. And then do you know if they all have trash tubes? They all have trash tubes. So we've got a real live RA here. We've got all kinds of questions. In East and West there's going to be one trash tube on each floor and in South there are going to have two trash tubes on each floor. One on each side of the building and in East and West it's central. Yes we are. So we're going to head upstairs now you guys to see a regular room and then a locked room for you guys. Any more questions? Could you have some for when we get into the room? So you're from Fayetteville, Courtney. Yes. Do you think there's anything in particular people even know about? Fayetteville must do's. When do you arrive here? Fayetteville is very unique. I would say there's a lot of festivals that we hold that you can go to whether it's around Dixon Street or the Square. Bikes with a barbecue? Bikes with a barbecue or a sample? That is crazy in the fall. Y'all should really head to the Square. Yes. Definitely go see the lights on the Square in December because they're beautiful. Mm-hmm. Just test it all out. I think that's a nice one. I haven't. I've been to Square a lot and picnic up there to the view. I have not been here yet. So this is another, what the study rooms on the floor are going to look like. So there's not going to be the other area but there's going to be a TV. So on the second, third and fourth floor you're going to have a TV in the lounge spaces in the center. It's really nice. I know we have like watch nights in here. Like movie nights. It's really great. You have HBO and cable in all of your rooms across campus. So it's a really great tool. You just bring your own TV, plug it right in. We provide all the cords. It's included in your fees already so you don't have to pay anything extra. Sherry asked where the laundry areas are and there are two on each floor which we will show you guys. And then Burke asked on move-in day will there be big carts to carry out your stuff on? And I believe we do have some. There are going to be some dollies. Absolutely. So we have a limited amount between all three maples. So we recommend that you bring your own so that you don't have to fight to the death. Yeah. As you know it gets intense. It gets intense. Yeah. But we do have a limited amount that you can check out. Really your best bet is if you have one you just bring one and use that. But hey, do you have some available? We'll pop into this laundry room since someone asked about it real fast. So there's going to be two of these on each floor. You're going to have two washers, two dryers, a folding area. A great tool that we have here is the laundry alert app that lets you know when machines are full, when they're empty, if they're going to be ending soon. So you don't have to hang out in the laundry room to see if you can do your laundry. You can do that beforehand in your room. So you can just download the app and then update it to like where you are, like where you're looking for machines. Each machine is numbered. So you have to do is finding them before and then put an alert on it for it. So the alert sheet when it's done, if it has like 20 minutes left, things like that. It's a really great tool. We recommend that you use either pods or liquid detergent. Either one doesn't really matter. I use pods. It's easy, convenient, no mess. Lisa asked how much laundry costs, which is it? It's included in your fees so it costs nothing. You don't have to bring quarters or anything. Yes. It's already covered. You probably pay for it before you get here. So really nice. Marla asked if there's a lock on the machines. There's not a lock on the machines. Yes, which is why the alert system is good. So you know when the machine is done so you can come as soon as it's finished, move yourself. Yes. And if something was taken, we do have a process for you. I believe you're recording. Yes. But it's pretty rare. Yes. I think in like the two years I was here, I had like one time when someone thought they moved their laundry and I think she was just on the wrong floor. I've never stayed and watched my laundry and I've never had anything stolen. It's a good community. Yes. Very trustworthy. Everyone trusts each other. So we're going to head down this way and see some more of the study spaces. Maple has great use of study spaces for you guys. Random whiteboard. Yes. Yeah, random whiteboard. We always will post information for programs and things like that there. So check that out on your way to class. So this is going to be a long hallway. There's going to be three arrays on these floors and then two arrays on the first floor. That's the same for south and then west has three arrays on every floor. Yes. We have a lot of people asking about cable and we will show you where that is and remember once we get there. So when you get to this hallway there's going to be two classrooms, two study rooms on each side. One of them is going to have a whiteboard area and then a table with some chairs. They can study some group work from here. What we're seeing here on the fourth floor here on every single floor. Yes. East and west and maybe even south. Yes. The configuration is different but it's the same. Yes. Table. Nice table. Lots of plugs in here to study. It's a really great space. And before we were walking in the building you both said that you were struggling during finals to find a space here like this is premium space for studying. Yes. It's premium space. I had to give up super early in the morning and camp out for a study spot and I would just stay there all day and like never leave. A lot of people do group study sessions in here so it can get pretty crowded. And this side's going to have some couches and some chairs. Another table area. So this is a great place to hang out in. If you want to come in here or an Xbox there's a table hook up so you can do that. And in general we're perfectly comfortable with you plugging into our appliances. Yes. With your game systems or whatever. They're here for you guys to use. Okay. We'll head back now and go into the rooms so you guys can see that. We're going to look at the loft first and then the standard room. Locker access walk building we're in. East. So east and west would be exact same. They're just flipped. So everything you're seeing here you're going to see in west. South the layout is just weird. Slightly different. Which ones are we heading into? We're going to head into 422 and then 402. We did have a lot of people watching now and I believe our living on the fourth floor next year. Oh nice. For this year. I like 421. 421. Let's go inside and see what's up. So if you're living in 421 this is your room. Looks like. I like. I was going in this. Which one? It is 422. Okay 422. Yeah. That's a single room. Trust your gut. Yeah. This one? Yes. See it's 422. It's going to be the loft. Yes. We're going to the loft room actually right now. So I'm going to ask if we could look at one. So this is what you're going to see when you walk into the loft room. You need to have. So the lights going back. So it takes a minute for them to be going. Yeah. So this is going to be the loft space.  So you have the toilet and the shower and the room. So for 4 people that live in this room you'll have one bathroom. Yes. So 2 are responsible for cleaning. Yes. You clean it yourself. We come in and we leave twice a year and clean it. Yes. About twice a year. Week to week. That's on you. So please clean it before you move out. We had another person ask if we will be showing any rooms in south. You're not sure in south. South is being currently used for camps so there are students living in there so we can't really go in there but the rooms sizes are going to be the exact same. Yes. So this is going to be a standard room for a loft. You're going to have 2 beds to desk to wardrobes and then you'll have a nice like a drawer. And this room will be the same as we'll see in the other room. Yes. So let's show the loft area too. Yes we will. Do you want to head up there first and then come back down? We do have questions for the room which we could just go and get out of the way. Let me go see. Yes. So these beds can be lofted up to the top. You can then put things underneath them like your desk and your drawers. The wardrobes will not sit underneath but at least more space in the room. Someone asked about carpet size so in between beds so can we get the measurement from bed to bed over here? Sure. What size would work for a bedroom? You got it? I think so. That's going to be about 57, 56 inches. And will that be the same in the cell? Yes. The loft spaces and the room sizes will be the same across the board. Okay. That's awesome. And then someone asked for the measurement. I believe it was from the edge of bed post to the other edge for a headboard. Oh so like this way? Yes. Just the outside of the post so that they're outside. 40 inches? 40 inches. Okay. Yes, bed post to bed post. So that was, you got that one? It's good. We're catching up with your questions. We asked you to submit them. We loved it. I know someone asked about the cable. Yes. The cable box is going to be like right here. We see on the wall. So there's the box, the HDMI cord and the other cord. We provide the cords. All you have to do is bring the TV. Yes. And I think someone asked if we had a hook set up for you to put the TV on which we do not. Like a mounting system? Yes. No. So we recommend that you do not screw or penetrate the wall in any way that causes a damage charge to do up to pay for anything to be here. Yes. So command strips are as much as we want you to go into the wall and even then be very careful. Maple Hill is known for the walls peeling if you are not very careful with the paint job. Yes. So when you take them off into the air, be very careful. You have to take every command strip off into the air. You already will not check you out.  Right. I think we said be very careful and follow the directions as we are. Yes. It's going to be very careful do it at a certain angle. Do it at a certain angle because it will peel and you will be sad. Can we get the dimensions of the more drugs? This is going to be 35 and a half. 25 and a half wide. Come inside. If you want to come inside there is also a drawer in here. It can be moved out. All this furniture is movable but most students do leave this inside. Lisa did ask what is available to sit a TV on. I would say your desk or on top of the wardrobe. This is going to be 22 inches deep. And then we hold the steps. 82 inches tall. Can we show the drawer that has the lock option? Yes. Down here is where the drawer with the lock is going to be. You can see there is this little mechanism right here. When you open it, close it. When it is turned like this the lock is engaged. You can then put the lock right here and lock it. And it is locked. The same happens on your desk drawer. Here inside where the lock is. Close it.  Jenny asks, I believe she is referring to bags if we locked them ourselves for bringing tools. You can go to housing.york.edu forward slash fixit and you can submit a maintenance request to have the bed locked before you arrive. You can also do it yourself. Yes. Bring a rubber mallet. The same thing with the dollies. We have some but it is a limited number and it is available to all people residents. So bring your own so you don't have to wait on them. Could we go ahead and get the measurement of the bed post as far as high? Here I'll hold that. 72 inches? 72. Thank you. And then Beth asks for the window measurement. 38 wide. I don't know if we can... Do you have a paper? I think I had it on there. Yeah, I think I do. We had some pretty measurements that we tried to make for you guys before we arrived. And then we already did between the beds, correct? Just cheers. Yes, we did between the beds. Windows, 38.5, wide, 62 inches tall. And then I'm just going to pan through this area. Do you want to get a full circle of it? There's also going to be two desk chairs in here. They do this really cool trick. If you do too much spacing in here, there's a little hook on the back. You can engage it and separate the chair into two separate sitting options and this becomes a rocking chair. So if you have some friends over, you need some more places to sit, this is a great option. Is there only one setup or a setup for one TV? There is only one cable box program. Yes. There's going to be one in each room. So A bedroom, B bedroom, and then there's also a set of NB loft area. Yes. And did we talk about what comes included? What's cable? HBO, all the HBO's, and then regular cable channels. So there's even like SEC and like the sports networks. So you can watch crazy red games and things like that. Could we get ceiling to floor in here? You might have that. I think I might have it. How tall the build, how tall it is? It's just 13.7 deep. But I'm not sure if that's tall. If you can, yeah, I can try to hold it up there. Keep it straight. I got it. 108. 108 inches. From ceiling to floor. Michelle asked if there's room for futon. So I would say if you were to loft both beds and move both desks underneath the beds, you would have space. Yes. And this furniture is movable. So you can set the room up, whatever it is. But also with all these rooms, not only do you have the bedrooms, you have the living space area. So you don't necessarily have the futon in the room. In the loft, you have the loft space that has furniture already in it. So you don't necessarily need a couch up there. And then in the regular rooms, there's space in the living room they afford. We're still in the loft and we're going to look at the other rooms off the loft as well, see how sensible that is. Does anyone have more questions in here? Yes. As far as putting up a TV, they're asked, how can we do that if we're not putting it on the wall? We recommend you just sit it on top of the table. Sit it on top of this desk area over here. Yeah. You could have something else that you decided to use instead. Yeah. If you have another cabinet thing that you wanted to bring, it's not really necessary if it's on there, but that's how we recommend for the rooms. Someone asked, how does this room differ from a premium suite with three people in it as far as size of the room? Okay. So the premium seats of three people, they're going to be a completely different configuration for their living room spaces. That's going to be very special. Maybe we might be able to pop in there and see one. I know which one it is. I know which one it is. Yeah. I think the four, it's pretty close and we have an RA here, a former RA. So I know which one it is. So we'll try to pop in there and show you guys it. Yeah. We have a couple more questions for this room. Okay. So someone asked about command strips. You can use command strips. Yes. Can you show us what a sweet G style looks like? We'll look it up and see if you can find it. There's several different styles. There's several different styles. They're all online. Yeah. We may have to get back with you on that one. We'll show you guys the loft space, the standard size room and then a premium room for three people. And then if that's pretty much the only kind of styles we'll see. There's some styles. And I know we have several different styles of rooms. The differences between them are not gigantic. No. Right. Maddie wants to know how far the window is off of the ground. So from bottom of window to the floor. Okay. Okay. Can we have access to that? All about getting you guys those measurements. There is a lip. 33 inches. 33 inches on the ground. From the lip. Yeah. Two wardrobes and two desks, correct? Yes. Yes. What are the measurements of the shower soul? Can we do that? Yes. We can go do it. So there's going to be a lip on this as well. But from inside the shower there's going to be 36 inches. Like 20, 27, 26. And then about 12 inches. About 70, maximum. Okay. And then someone asked for bed post to bed post which we did already get so I'll go back and comment that again. Get the nice size shower. Yeah. Someone asked me if it's just a suite. Okay. It's like a curtain rod. You can have a curtain rod. So these, this can come down. You have to leave this in the room. Like it has to be here when you check out. But you can remove this pretty easily. And just put it underneath your sink. Express yourself. I have my own shower curtain. Yes. Joe asked if there's only one desk. There's two desks per room. Yes. We already got the ceiling height. How would you hang a curtain? Will a tension rod fit in between? Yes. The tension rod is the best bed. I didn't have a curtain both years I lived here and the room gets pretty dark with just the blinds.  And can mattresses be bumped one on top of the other? No. So you can loft it but not on top of another? Yes. You can't put two mattresses on it. And someone asked how much for this room per year? That is listed online as well. Under housing rates? Yes. All the housing rates are on the housing website. Lori asked the best way to hang curtains. Again we say tension rods. So we recommend tension rods. Does a trash can come with each room? No. Okay. We'd be going to the loft. Yes. We will be going to the loft. We'd love to see the room the living room space up there. Yes. We'll head over there right now. I'll show you guys.  So you can move. And then there is going to be a cable setup here also. There's the cable box for the loft. Table. It comes with this furniture. Yes. The furniture must stay in here. Yes. You're welcome to bring it in as well if you want to flush it out a little bit. There's a big space over there. You can see down below the housing in the corner I'm trying to pull off for you guys. It's a pretty big space. No, it's a very big space. It's a pretty big space. It's people media. Being mindful that if you have lots of people in here it does echo. The sound it does speaks to the hallway. You're always on that. Someone asked so what about a quad room that's not lofted or a three person? We're going to look at one room that's not lofted. Yes. How do you paint curtains? Again, tension rods. Again, the prices are on the housing website. What kind of lock do you use for the desk drawer? A simple like like a locker. Like a locker. Yes. We'll work fine. Yeah, just a good old fashioned hammock. We'll work fine. Does the shelf on the desks off? It does not. It does not. It's attached to the desk. We got asked about the space between the toilet and the wall. Let me see if I can find any more loft measurements before we go back down there. You don't have to bring your own shower curtain but you're welcome to do that. It comes with that one that we showed you guys. Can you measure the wall area near the toilet? We'll go back down there. Does style G have furniture? The ones that are going to have furniture will have some suites and then the lofts. A regular style room is not going to have it. We don't have the basic. Yes, it will have the regular furniture but it won't have the extra couches and table. Can we get the measurement of this window area upstairs. So let's get one of just I guess wall to wall because that's what it's going to be. 90 and a half. 90 and a half. And that's wall to wall. The inside 78 and a half. 78 and a half. And tall. Let's get the window 62 and a half. 62 and a half. To the lift. To the lift. It's about 62. Any more loft measurements? Yeah. Do you need to bring a TV stand for the loft? A lot of people use this table. Yes, they do. And scoot it back. But you can bring one if you would love it. Yes, you can bring whatever furniture you would like. Where do we call to find out if our room has furniture? It is on the housing website. And you get a housing .uarka.edu and under campus communities. It has the information for every residence hall on campus. Yes. So that information should be there. Or you can always call the housing department if you choose to do that. But it should be on there. Yes. Again the premium suites and then the lofts are going to have the couches. Other than that you'll have the standard furniture room. Yes. So someone asks premium suite F does not come with the couch correct. If it's premium we will check. Yeah, there's a lot of exceptions. It depends on the spacing in the room. So if the living room space cannot accommodate it it won't have it. So maybe your bedroom might be a little bigger than your living room. It just really depends. And honestly the website might not address every exception. So if you do have a question about your specific room then maybe a specific style we only have a couple of. You probably are best just calling housing and asking that question. After this broadcast Courtney is going to continue to follow up with answers. So an answer might appear here as well. Yes. And if you guys have specific room numbers we might be able to see that. But we'll get back to on the styles of room coming back in the column. We were going to check out on the non-loften. Yes. Before we leave could we get the measurement from this room? And then while we're doing this does each individual bedroom have its own thermostat or is it? It's 142 inches. 142. And that's a little. I believe no. I believe it's one central area for the whole room. Yes. I think I could show you that. The unit is right there on the stairs. Just a unit on the wall is going to be the one unit per. Any other questions in the loft? I don't believe so. We'll move on to a regular size room. A standard room. I'll show you guys. The light up there. The light up there. It's going to be 30 inches. 30. And then can we get to measure the wall area. You have the toilet for a shelf unit. Between the metal shelf on the wall and the other wall is going to be 26 and a half inches. Let's go ahead and get the measurement of this wall in case they want to put. This wall? Yes. 20 inches. Okay. And that was all of that room? A note. So this happens a lot in Maple. So there is a alert system that lets you know if the showers get too hot or if it gets too hot in the room. And it will set off and alert down to the front desk that there's a heat warning and something might be wrong.  No, it may trigger. If you close it because all the steam builds up and it left out and hits the thing and then they always come knocking because we think you're in trouble. And you just take a shower and it's not a big deal. A lot of people are asking about their specific rooms and whether or not they have furniture. What's the best place for them to get that information? Probably calling the housing building honestly or just checking the website. So if you're at the website then call us. Maples is really unique in that there's a ton of configurations. So it's a challenge to communicate that to a large number of people at once. So for your unique questions, please give us a call. Could we get the measurement of a mattress in here please? Well it'll be the same size as the other one. Let's just sit over there. So we'll move on to 402 and see a standard room. So this is going to be a room without a loft. And without furniture. Yes. Extra furniture. Someone asks what kind of furniture would you recommend bringing for a room like this? A standard with almost it. A pan of this room. Is this a good room? Good room, Chef? Yes. This is what a standard maple suite is going to look like. You're going to have the living space, your bathroom and then the two rooms. Yes. The sizing is won't you change right here. So each room might be a little bit different. That's why we have so many different styles. It really just depends on your specific room. I'm sorry, but you need to have a single version on our tour today. You can tell because we have an H hall type that we have a lot of them. Yes. And then this is room thermostat. It's going to be for this unit. So you'll have your sink and some cabinets and move into the rooms of the toilet and the shower room which is going to be the same as in the loft. What is this specific room number? 402. 402. Let me show this bathroom. Does the bathroom have an electrical outlet for a night light? It is not. No, but this area does. There's one on each side by the sink. And you're welcome to bring in a an extension cord, surge protector. Surge protector, yeah, as well. Yes. So we'll go ahead and measure the mattress that you guys were asking about. These two rooms are going to be this is room A and B. You will get a sign of a specific bedroom within the room. That's the room that you'll be responsible for so you can't trade room numbers because any damage done in your assigned room your responsibility. It's a really big problem that you guys run into if you move into B and you're supposed to be in A and you're like, why does my key work on this specific bedroom door? Do you think it's going to be a deal? It's a big deal. You don't want to be in charge if they like punch the hole in the wall in this room and you've been living in the other room. It's your fault. What kind of lock do you use for the desk door in the bottom of the closet? It is a regular lock. The same that you've used for a locker in school and you just put it through this loop right here. So a key or a combo lock? Yes. What do you prefer? So this bed is going to be 78 inches. 80, 80 is generally what we had. 36 by 80. 36 by 80. Which is a 20xL. Yeah. And they'll both be like that. I'm going to get in an area where I can show the whole room and what do people want to view of what it looks like all around. It is hard to get both of the beds in this show. Let me get another corner. If you have your bed lofted, can you fit the desk underneath? Yes, you can. If it's, I don't think it even has to get all the way up but almost all the way up and it will bend. Here's the other desk for those of you that are asking about that. You can move this wherever you'd like. This is how it's set up in these rooms. Can you raise the beds themselves or do you have to get it done by housing? You can do it yourself. We recommend that you bring your rubber mallet to help you with it but you can also do it without it. Get some help. Have multiple people helping you but it is capable of being raised by yourself. Let me see. When you do find out if you're from A or B and if you're actually from A or B that you're in which room they're going to be assigned to it'll a be an email. So when you show your room it should be an email that you got at your York email address. I would check there or check campushousing.york.edu. That's where you get your contracting process and it should say on there which room A or B you were in. And then are the beds in Maple Salad Twin XL? All of the mattress sizes houses are on movein.ur.edu. You may have additional information now. I think they are, because I think they're all 80 by 36. Yes, and again, Cindy, you cannot bump the beds on top of each other. You can bump them individually, but you cannot stack them in a room like this. I know that the thing that people run into all the time is storage for all their clothes. Girls, because I know we bring a whole lot of clothes, but I would recommend that you bring one season at a time so your winter clothes versus your summer clothes bring your summer, and maybe some jackets or some sweaters, a couple, and then during fall break, switch it over. Yes, can you request a regular twin mattress in here? I think so. If you're going to do that, then you would probably want to submit a maintenance request form, which is fixit. So housing.ur.edu.forwards.fixit and request the regular size mattress. And they may be along with that, I'm not entirely sure. Kelly asked what we would recommend for a rug size. If we could go ahead and do bed to bed again and then just do desk to, the end of these wardrobe, I think that'd be a good, or the end of the bed, either way. I know I have a, I think an eight by 10 rug and that fit, like a good portion of it. You can always lift your bed and put it underneath if it's a little too big. So from desk to desk. I just wanted to be 103, maybe 104 inches. 104 inches from desk to desk. And you can always move the desk, so it doesn't have to be that way. From bed to bed. I believe we measured 56 earlier. We'll go frame to frame. Yeah, it's just frame to frame. 60. Or yeah, 60. Yes, again, there are all movable, so you can always figure out the configuration that you like best in the room. Yeah. Any more questions? When you talked about going to the premium, do you want to try it out or? Yeah, we can try and do that. Okay, let's try to do a premium and we don't wrap it up. This has been great, getting all these questions from you. We are super excited to come. So we're gonna go to, where are we? Okay, I'm back. I can check to see if all the score of the slides will have to go down to the lower floor, because I know it should be a specific room. Just not sure which one. Should be 427, should be a three person suite. Okay. Did you say you have an A by 10 rug and it worked well for you? I think yeah. And then Maddie asked, is there a particular set up of furniture that you would recommend that allows you to have the most space? It really just depends. Lofting it is always gonna give you a nice space. Yes, I love to my bed as well. It's definitely a great thing to do to take advantage of the space that you have. So this is the 427, so this is your baby clothing space. You're gonna have two tables, some chairs, two couchs, two chairs and two tables. And then the pretty beds are gonna be here. The reason that there's a desk out here is that not all three desks fit in here. I'm gonna go ahead and do a circle this room. So here's the door. You have wardrobe, bed, wardrobe. Again, the furniture's movable. So whatever set up works for you guys. And someone requested to see the bathroom in a three person suite, so we will show you that. Do you know how much space is under the bed when you've locked? How high did you guys loft? So the highest that this can go, we can go ahead and measure that again. Yeah, sure. The highest option in here is 72 inches, 72 inches. So you'll have about 65 underneath when it's lofted all the way up. Yeah, there's a lip on that too, so the clearance is a little bit different. In the three person rooms, do they all come with living room furniture? Is this a premium? I believe this is a premium, but the three person room, I believe even in like south, it's going to have a living room space and then the bedroom space. So it really just depends, I'm sorry that we can't get to every single configuration, but there is a lot in these buildings. Variations. So if you only loft halfway, we'll just be splitting that in half, so. So about right here. But that is about halfway is what I personally did and I fit my own drawers under there. So I know, maybe they switched it since then, but for the past two years, east and west, they're gonna have these big posts and then south is going to have the half posts that you can double. You can get an extra piece to double it on top of each other.  It just depends on your room really and the furniture that they have at the time. And every room comes with bedroom furniture, so you will have your bed and your bed posts and a wardrobe and a desk. It's just the furniture that comes in the living rooms that is not standard. In every room, it depends on what. So this is gonna be the sink area for the three person room and then this is going to be the shower area. Same time shower as the other ones. They're all gonna have the same size shower. Yes. Do people typically bring TVs? Yes. They bring TVs, there's cable boxes and they just set them on top of some type of furniture. You can always bring your own thing to set it on if you prefer to do that or set it on the desk for a wardrobe, just whatever you prefer. All right, I think we've got a lot of questions. It's been great. Yeah. Were you caught up on our? Yes, right now we all are. Okay. Okay, so again, if you guys have more questions, you can always add more comments at the bottom of this video after we post it. We'll try to get to it if you can contact housing, the housing number, which is gonna be on our website, housing.uark.edu, or just find us on Facebook. We'll try to answer all of you guys' questions while we're doing these videos, so we'll get to it. If not, just send it again, we'll see you. Yes, thank you guys so much for tuning in. Yes, you guys are gonna have a great time in Maple. So enjoy all your time here, make the best, open your door, get to know other residents, get to know your RAs. They're really great people, they just wanna have fun, I promise you. And you know, enjoy your time here at the university. Who picks you? Who picks Zui.


guys welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Entry Adventures in Food and I am here today with a quick haul from Walmart. I spent 60 bucks. I went in actually just for a couple of things and ended up grabbing more than I expected so let me jump right in. So I grabbed some lenders bagels and I also grabbed some hamburger buns because we're planning on grilling out some burgers. I grabbed this Eagle brand squeeze bottle of sweetened condensed milk.  So this is perfect for him to squeeze into his coffee. I also grabbed some of these cut green beans. They're in the little microwaveable containers for Harrison who is our ten month old. I figured this was a quick and easy snack and meal for him so again I don't have to worry about opening up a can. I'm also planning on making some stroganoff so I needed some mushrooms and then Howard likes to have tomatoes on his burgers so I grabbed that. I needed some green onions and this looked really good to me. Have not seen it there before. This is Motor City Pizza Company five cheese bread. It says it is a deep dish cheese bread with mozzarella, Parmesan, asiago, romano and cheddar and that sounded right at my alley. I have some marinara already here at the house so I'm excited to try these. Look at those edges. They kind of look like Pizza Hut cheesy bread and that is my favorite cheesy bread so I'm hoping this tastes very similar. I grabbed some sour cream for the stroganoff and I grabbed some canned milk because I just like to have it on hand. You never know when you'll need it and then I grabbed Harrison just three jars of his favorite baby food which is the sweet corn and green beans. I can't remember if we have tried this or not but I got this for Howard and I to try. This is the apple pie Kit Kat so he loves apple pie. I'm not a big apple pie person but this looked really interesting to me. My last Walmart haul I picked up Great Value, the Great Value brand of Scoops Frito Scoops and I really liked it. It was really really good so I wanted to give their cheese puffs to try because I'm hoping I'm going to like them as much as the regular Cheetos cheese puffs. Of course these were a lot cheaper. I think these were $1.43. The Great Value Scoops that I got last time were 77 cents compared to like $2.98 for the Frito Scoops so I grabbed these and there were only two left on the shelf so I'm hoping that means they're really good. I grabbed a couple of bags of wings for Howard and I so Howard really prefers the wet wings. He likes the honey barbecue. I prefer the dry wings so I got him these honey barbecue wings to enjoy and then I got me the dry rub Cajun style wings to enjoy. Last time I went to Walmart I grabbed Harrison. One pair of these Geranimals sweatpants and they look so cute on him and they're really easy to wear so I grabbed him two more. I got him a navy and kind of like it. I guess an olive color and he also needed some socks so I grabbed some socks for him. I think six pair of socks and then this is something new that I also got for Harrison. Some teething wheels. He really likes this kind of stuff and this is banana cream and I also grabbed him this. Now he is not a fan of oatmeal or rice cereal but I've not tried him on whole wheat. I'm assuming this is like cream of wheat and I think he likes apple and blueberry so I decided to get this and let him give it a try because he's so picky so I may have wasted my money but we'll see.  Like I said it wasn't a lot but I wanted to share it with you guys. I hope you all enjoyed this video. If you did please make sure to give us a thumbs up. If you have not subscribed to our channel I certainly hope you'll do so. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys next time.


So, to complete this morning, at least the first session's comments, we've invited a radiation oncologist, and let me just make a few comments. Most people think that radiation oncology in relationship to kidney cancer, the kidney cancer, as you heard from David earlier, is what's called a radiation-resistant disease. That may be true, but the technology associated with radiation therapy has been changing dramatically over the last number of years, and its role is becoming increasingly important again in the management of kidney cancer. So, we invited one of our faculty members, Steve Schell. Steve, join us. Steve trained at the University of California, San Francisco. He's a practicing radiation oncologist with an active laboratory, and I'll talk to you a little bit about the novel radiation therapy approaches that we might be using in kidney cancer. Great. Thank you so much, Bob, for such a nice introduction, and thank you everyone for coming this morning. So, this is, so I'm going to talk a little bit about the role of radiation, and as Bob had already mentioned, there has been kind of sea change in the way radiation has become involved in treating kidney cancer, mostly because of advances in the technology itself. So, let me, one second. So, what is radiation therapy? So, I have to apologize. I'm covering for one of our other faculty who said there, so I'm changing the things. So, some of these aren't my slides.  So, we, we had long thought that radiation is a cell intrinsic mechanism. So, people think about radiation in terms of how, in terms of how many tumor cells can, can you kill with radiation, you know, and that's kind of one of the ways to think about it. But, but I think that as our understanding of the biology has evolved, we understand that radiation is more than, than the number of cells that you kill with radiation. It's also about how the body senses the, the cells that have been damaged by radiation. And it's that, your body's ability to sense this cells damaged by radiation, I think that has allowed the technology, which has also advanced to change the way kidney cancer responds to radiation. So, X-rays, the kind of fundamental idea behind radiation is the delivery of ionizing high energy to, to tissue. So, what that really means is that, you know, similar to lights or, you know, microwaves or things like that, that, that X-rays themselves come from the ability to they, you generate kind of wave energy particles that, that kind of free up, free radicals and then they're by damage the DNA in cells. And so, what we see here is that, that there's free radicals that get produced in response to radiation and that this damages the DNA and this is kind of the conventional way to think about how radiation actually works. But it's changed, it's advances in the ability for imaging over the last 10 years as well as kind of advanced computer modeling that have allowed us to really deliver high doses of radiation in a way that protects normal tissues. So, one of the reasons why historically it's been a problem to deliver radiation and why it's not been a greater part in treating kidney cancer is that there's been a lot of toxicity associated with radiation. So, it's very common to see in, especially in movies where radiation, you know, affects people and their skin falls off and, you know, they change into zombies. But, but that does not happen with radiation. And what we've done, what we have now is very sophisticated technology that allows us to shape the beams of radiation such that we can deliver hundreds, sometimes thousands of different beams, beamlets of radiation to focus on one spot. Almost like if you're on a stage, you see, you know, you don't see the beams of light that come in, but you notice that there's a spotlight on the stage. And so, that's the same way that we have learned to deliver radiation itself. So, what we use nowadays is something called a linear accelerator. So, a linear accelerator is not, doesn't use a radioactive source. So, unlike a nuclear bomb that was shown earlier, that a linear accelerator is based on, you know, almost similar properties like a microwave where you can plug in this and obviously it's a little bit more sophisticated than that. But, but it generates high energy x-rays that are allowed to treat the patient. And so, patients are positioned kind of floating in space. And so, I don't know, many of you have had radiation or even seen it, but, but there's a couch that's made out of carbon fiber and it essentially suspends you in space. And so, that way it allows our machine to rotate around you in 360 degrees. And we can deliver beamlets that come out of the, the top of the, the top of the, the linear accelerator right there. And so, one of the ways that, historically, that radiation has been used was that we give a little bit of radiation every day. And that was to allow the normal tissue to recover. And so, part of that, so historically when it's been delivered that way, kidney cancer doesn't respond that way. So, kidney cancer, every tissue type has a, a particular biology. And kidney cancer itself is very resistant to very small doses of radiation. And it's probably related to the different proteins that Dr. Kim had mentioned that are getting expressed in kidney cancer. And also, the way that kidney cancer is sensed by the body's immune system. But, so rather than doing that this way, now that we have advanced technology, what we can do is deliver extremely high doses of radiation in very short amount of time. So, you used to spread it out over five weeks. But now, we can do it, what we would used to give in five weeks, we can deliver in a day. And we can do it safely by protecting all the other normal tissue. And so, hence the term, radio surgery. So, we kind of coined this term because radio surgery is, it's highly precise almost, you know, like a surgeon's scalp, although nothing touches you per se, but it allows you to deliver a single dose of radiation to a specific area. And if you were to deliver it to a very wide area, it would be very damaging to normal tissues. So, the precision and the imaging is what allows delivery of high doses to be safe. And so, this kind of picture illustrates how the target is very important. And so, you know, we're down to submillimeter accuracy in terms of how we deliver the radiation. And so, unlike previously where in order to treat the tumor, you kind of have to hit lots of different things outside of the target probably in order to be sure you treated the tumor properly. Now, we don't need to do that because we can image patients before every single treatment. And so, you can hit it right on target. And hopefully, you have a better response though than the baby. And so, this is just an example of, for instance, tumor that would be found in the spinal cord. And that way, you can see the tumor here is, sorry about that, is leaving the bone and it kind of compresses the spinal cord. This is a very common situation we encounter in radiation oncology. And what we do is we use our sophisticated technology and we map MRIs, CT scans and kind of available imaging. And we delineate where the tumor is. And then, we focus a beam right on it. And so, we're allowed to do sophisticated planning. So, we have a computer mainframe essentially that calculates different beamlets in a way that allows us to deliver the tumor. And so, the positioning and the imaging is very important. So, what you can see is if you're off by a little bit when you do such tight margins, the next thing you'll know, you're into the spinal cord, which is too dangerous. And so, which is why previously, we weren't able to do this safely. So, you can see how we would have expanded that. And so, with this, we have advanced imaging that's associated with the linear accelerator. So, a component that you didn't see in the last scan are kind of different side pieces. So, as we've gotten more sophisticated, different pieces have gotten added on. And so, each thing changes the delivery of dose. And so, we can now focus the different things through kind of a series of different beamlets. And what you can see here, this is kind of imaging that we typically do. We look at it in multiple different planes simultaneously. And we delineate the target that we would like. And what you can see here is an illustration of how each of the different beamlets get shaped. So, this is kind of blown up for ease of seeing. But you can see each of the beams, instead of being a square, like it probably would have been, you know, even 10 years ago, we now have the ability to shape each one to conform to the shape of the tumor. So, you see the tumor shape is kind of round, a little bit oval in here. We make an exact beam shape that's the same. And then we can divide it up actually over the entire body. And so, what that does, it allows us to avoid certain structures so that we can let, for instance, the spinal cord get the dose that we know is safe for the spinal cord, but we can come from multiple different directions to treat it. So, other technologies that we've used to kind of enhance our ability to target properly, you know, we do things like respiratory gating. So, this is a way, so one of the things that we've now done is that we can deliver radiation anywhere. So, the main limiting factor is actually how patients move. And so, you know, the body is constantly in motion through breathing, through digesting. And so, what we do is we have infrared cameras that watch and monitor patients throughout the entire treatment so we can deliver it precisely and so we can target it properly. So, now I'm going to talk, since these are not my slides and I actually put another set together, but I'll talk a little bit about where we go with this kind of technology. So, unfortunately, I don't have pictures to show you, but in general, what we've done with this kind of stereotactic radio surgery has really been to look at these different lesions and we see that when we treat them vocally that we have local control rates in the 80 to 90 percent range. So, previously, before this technology was available, when we did kind of very slow, low growth rate, it tended to be that there was very little control, you know, nothing, no improvement over not treating it with radiation at all. But now, with kind of stereotactic approaches, we can have local control rates in the 80 to 90 percent. So, the first place that we actually saw this is with the gamma knife. So, I don't know if many of you have heard of the gamma knife, but it's a very similar type of technology. But it was really focused on the brain. So, we looked at metastases from renal cell cancer in the brain itself. And we found that, unlike what we would have thought for a radio-resistant tumor, that we could get control rates well into the 80 or 90 percent at five years. And so, obviously, it was very complicated. And so, what we had done now with technology is that we can image it outside of the brain. So, we do it in the body itself. So, we can treat the same thing that we used to treat in the brain anywhere in the body. And so, what we've done, we've also looked at kind of treatment of single sites in the body. And we found that, just like the brain, that we can get control rates that are quite high. So, you know, 80 to 90 percent at one year. And so, current trials are underway to really look at settings in which people have limited number of metastases. So, it's changed the role of radiation completely. So, for a lot of trials now that are being introduced and that we are trying to open here as well, is that for patients with five or less metastases, kind of anywhere in the body, lung, bone, things, we will treat all five of them with high-dose, stereotactic radio surgery. And we will follow them. And we assume that those lesions will, you know, be, have long term control like that. And so, I think in conjunction with a lot of the newer targeted agents, it's a strategy for, you know, in some ways we hope to, you know, accrue more people into kind of the cured or long-term kind of treatment or long-term surviving range. The other thing that's kind of been novel and I think we will hear a lot more about this afternoon is that there's a recent recognition from the biology of radiation that this kind of radiation actually stimulates an immune response. So, there have been a number of papers that are very, that report, kind of case reports. So, kind of very rare things in which treatment of one of these kind of tumors in kidney cancer actually affects the other tumors. So, you can imagine somebody that has two tumors and one gets treated with stereotactic radiation and the other one is untreated. But actually there's an immune response to this one that's been treated and it actually affects the other one. And so, it almost like you get a systemic response by treating kind of one small lesion. And so, that's obviously very exciting for all of us because we're so excited. I mean, when, obviously, when you have metastatic disease, what we're very interested in is developing systemic responses. So, you hear about targeted agents, you hear about chemotherapy, and you're going to hear about immunotherapy. And so, the idea that radiation can stimulate this immune response has really spawned a whole kind of genre of research actually in the radiation field in which we're trying to combine this type of highly ablative radiation therapy with immunotherapy. With the goal to understand, you know, how that, how this radiation can actually generate an immune response and how we can improve that by using immunotherapy. And the idea is similar to just using immunotherapy alone is that maybe you need a way to awake the body's immune system up and then generate and then thereby produce an immune response and can we improve that so that more patients can develop that kind of response, which is what we're looking for. And so, kind of going forward, what we do, you know, a lot of, so contrary to popular belief, radiation is a radio-resistant tumor in the way that, you know, historically it's been delivered and done. But I think nowadays that with stereotactic radio surgery, we have the ability to treat lesions kind of anywhere in the body. And so, for a limited number of metastases or even primary tumors, we have pretty excellent control rates. And I think that will play an increasing role there. And then I also think that as we understand the biology better, things that my lab studies as well, we try and influence the immune system. So we really want to understand, is there a way for kind of the body's natural defenses to be reawakened and radiation, we believe will play an important part in that.


Please keep in mind that separating the systemic and pulmonary systems is sort of arbitrary because they are completely connected to each other and the blood that came from the body has to go to the lungs and the blood that comes from the lungs has to go to the body. So there's like this cycle that whether you decide to include a structure with a systemic system or the pulmonary system, hopefully it will be clear here in a second how we're going to do that. Okay, so let's start with the right atrium because what do we know about the blood that enters the right atrium? First of all, we know that it's dirty blood. And look at what's happening. In the first picture that we drew, we actually drew just one arrow. Here we come from the body. But we have an upper body and a lower body. And that means that you actually have, this vessel has two parts. It's almost like this vessel kind of bulged out and formed the atrium, the right atrium. So it's kind of a whether you depict these vessels coming into the atrium in two different places or joining together to come into the atrium. It's almost like these two vessels became the atrium. So who are they? Well, this is the inferior, what? Vena cava. The inferior vena cava brings dirty blood from the lower extremities to the right atrium. So who's this? So nice. This is superior vena cava bringing dirty blood from the upper extremities, including your lovely head. Systemic because it's coming from the body. However, what happens to this blood? Passes from the right atrium into the right ventricle. And from the right ventricle, we go somewhere that we're not allowed to go to before talking systemic circulation. Oh, can't go there. So we won't go there. We'll pretend like it doesn't exist. If we're only talking systemic system, then the next place we have to end up is in the left atrium. But it's true, we went to the lungs first. So we're about to do pulmonary circulation in a second. Inferior vena cava comes, takes the blood to the lungs, brings the blood back into the left atrium. The blood passes into the left ventricle. And then passes up the ascending aorta. And this is it right here. I'm going to have to make a little star and put it over here. That's the ascending aorta. And the aorta has parts. So sure it has parts. All right, I'm going to make my other part look like this instead of a star. And then I'm making you a key down here. This is the ascending aorta, which turns into the aortic arch. Thank you. I can totally handle aortic arch because it's an arch. It looks like an arch. The ascending aorta becomes the descending aorta. And it actually has, oh dear, whatever that sign is, that's my next one. But of course, it's an upside down on its side A. That thing is my descending aorta. And we'll actually separate that out because it's the thoracic, the descending thoracic aorta when it's in the thoracic cavity. And it's the abdominal aorta when it is in the abdominal cavity. So that works pretty clear. But we might flesh that out a little bit more. Okay, guess what? That's it. From the descending or from the aorta that's down thoracic or abdominal, we're going to go to the body. We're going to go to some sort of capillary system. We're going to get dumped back eventually through a bunch of veins into the inferior vena cava and we're going to start all over again. We missed half of our calling and so we have to do the pulmonary circulation next.