ol um not just covid but also the financing pieces the people waiting piece has been stressful so i just want to say thanks to you both and um thanks steven you you you're sitting in a seat i used to sit in and you don't get paid to be on the school board but it's very rewarding when you get to go visit the schools and see the difference you're making for so many the lives of so many children so i hope we can find someone who will step up um so thank you for your service thank you genie thank you representative chena may me cornell please um i just really wanted to say that um like covid has really hit home this week for me like i have my neighbors um they all like her whole family has it and so i was exposed and i'm quarantining at home and like i see doubt like i see people all day every day on facebook asking for these at-home tests and there aren't enough and the way the school wants it done is really difficult if you don't have a car or you don't have a parent that has the time to take their kid to first of all find an at-home test and then they still have to get the other test so then it makes no sense of what is the point of having the at-home test done if you still want the other test done like i'm just hearing this a lot again and again and again and it's just it's very it's very frustrating you know it's it's very scary you know i i just like i don't know i hear you and i you know there's been this whole thing about the test kits and everything but there was a mean Flanagan had a meeting tonight with with some doctors and some people who joined them it was a zoom meeting at six o'clock and it was recorded but and i he did mention i listened to a little bit of it he did mention that there were five thousand new kids just arrived in burlington so i would not i would encourage you not to give up on trying to get those i know it's it's tricky just to get them oh no i have them because i have access to like i'm i have access to a place that has access to the test but the thing that is scary is that i i see people like someone asked it someone in winewski um you know someone needs a test to go back to work you know i mean and just like seeing how many people have gotten infected this is the first time that it's really gotten this close to where i live you know like i i've been very careful and i am lucky i have the ability to stay at home and to keep myself safer than some people have but you know kids can't not go to school and then parents are put in a position well do they want their kids to go to school when the numbers are so high like these are the conversations that i see happening and people are scared like they literally like people are panicking because they can't get their hand on a test or they have to take their kid to school so they can get a test but they work and if they don't work they can't pay their bills you know because they're a single parent household you know and i'm not like i'm not placing any blame i'm just saying that you know there are some things that factor in when you're you know when you're low income or you're a single family household even if you have a car you know you then have to take off work you have to get your kid tested and then you miss a day of work you know thank you ma'am just did you have a question looks like we have somebody from the school was there was that you patrick that was going to had a response it was just 915 i was just asking jess yeah i was gonna say jessica does have her hand up so i was like going to rescue recognize her okay thank you yeah and me and me that's such you know a really important point and we do need to make sure that there's more access to test kits and that access is is equitable and and that everyone can can can get to them i did want to just quickly thank steven for for your service um as a school commissioner we really appreciate the time and energy that that goes into that work um and also to thank mac so much for your decade of service to the city and and your spirit of community and um compassion and the fire that you've put behind everything you do um and i know that the you know heading up the city council has not has not been easy and you've done it with with tact and with grace and i really appreciate that and so thank you for thank you for your service um i do before we finish up as you know we only have 20 some people left we never really had a proper vote for our our grantees and i want to thank our grantees for the for their time and putting in this application and apologize for the fact that we had some technical difficulties that didn't allow folks to to vote since everyone in in the zoom or most people in the zoom are panelists we didn't realize that panelists didn't have access to the poll which is how we are going to do the voting which was going to be the super efficient system which became incredibly inefficient um so there are two things we could do now for the voting we could move everyone into the attendee section reopen the poll and folks could vote granted we'll be getting responses from only you know 22 people all together so that's one option the other option would be to table um the grant vote until the next npa meeting which would be in march um so i would open this up for a a motion on one of those options okay i'm here in the community center could i propose another option since the total funding requested was 5400 dollars if everyone would be amenable to this if the food not cops portion be changed from 2500 to less than that essentially if we could vote for all of the proposals as a slate since you know we are all here tonight we got to hear the proposals and i support full funding of all the other proposals do we have a second i second this this is lamb or any discussion on the motion uh the motion as i understand it is that we will be voting on the proposals as a full slate um to point of clarification you had mentioned a reduction in the requested amount for food not cops um what would be the new amount that you would be seeking i could tell you precisely since according to the email that got sent out by jessica i saw a total amount in here somewhere 54 23 79 uh 2076 dollars and 21 cents if we are indeed dispersing the full 5000 as a shared group between ward two and ward three any uh mr representative mccormick it looks like you have a question yes should we all be voting on these questions or um just the steering committee now um as i understand the process uh this npa is open to all uh residents of wards two and three uh and residents of wards two and three do have voting rights and that would include all of our elected officials including state representatives school board members and city counselors jessica looks like you wish to add something to that sorry and just a point of clarification so we did have an earlier vote that established the process which would be that folks would vote to either fully fund partially fund or not fund each application and that the steering committee would make the final determination about the dollar amount allocated um so that was what we had voted on and approved earlier so if we're going to change that process i think we do have to have a vote to change the process um just so i guess it's not out there and representative cheena since you're kind of our acting parliamentarian tonight if you would weigh it on this it seems that this motion would not be germane because it is in conflict with the prior motion which had passed i had my hand up for that i didn't want to call a point of order but i was going to ask about the process and furthermore uh i i think it's undemocratic to have an election um after there was a a technical issue um there's a there's vermont statute around the purity of elections and not that it applies to this but it it lays out how when there's a a someone opens a ballot bag too early someone something goes wrong you can't just plow forward you have to stop and kind of assess and so i lean towards like i i actually think we're it's we're probably going down like the wrong path trying to like overturn that motion and i would lean more towards like how can we move forward on that motion like perhaps there's another process like um some poll could be sent out to people you know where you i know you can do a google form where you can only vote once from your email maybe there's some way that that could happen or maybe the vote could happen at the next meeting i don't have an answer but i do have concerns about us pushing forward with a different process and with voting without everyone here i don't know if that's helpful but i totally understand that i just want to state that uh as the facilitator i believe very uh strongly in maintaining the integrity of the process so if at any time in a future meeting you feel that we're deviating from that please feel free to speak up and say your piece process is very important and it sounds like there are some concerns there looks like we have representative mccormick again and uh jessica you did have your hand up but it looks like it's down so uh representative mccormick yes thank you um i want to agree with brian um you know we have people who voted tonight thinking that they voted and then maybe they're not with us right now i take it there are some people that voted and they're not with the meeting any longer so um we'd be disenfranchising their votes um without them even knowing it so i think we have to do a a restart a revote i would like to make a proposal that we uh table this till next month and work out the details so unfortunately all those people who can accumulate receipts now who know they likely get approved for funding next month and those receipts will be paid postated and given everyone has already worked out the numbers to meet the five thousand dollar criteria i believe call us not food can just adjust their budget appropriately point of order it's food not cops not cops not food there's a big difference um so with respect to our process do we have a second for patrick's uh motion to table uh second okay we have two seconds uh this is a priority motion this does take precedence over the prior motion so all in favor of tabling this discussion and vote until the february meeting uh say i or raise your hand hi hi i anybody opposed hearing no opposition seeing many folks in favor the issue is now tabled and we'll be rescheduled for the february uh meeting um thank you all for coming and thank you for being patient it was my first time facilitating and i think it was uh one of the first times for our staff folks from cito that have been helping us um so thanks for that and bull is a steering committee circle backs talk about ways on how we can keep things more on track and also be a little bit more cognizant of the time of our elected officials i know you guys put in a lot of time whether it's here in burlington or down in the state house you all deserve you know time to come home and spend with your families and get a good night's sleep so i'll do it i kind of see that that happens and and thank you for being patient and coming out tonight um with that said i'll entertain a motion to adjourn uh do we have represented in the cormac did you have a comment no my hand was often from people before thank you uh do we have a motion to adjourn uh daniel yep motion to adjourn and sorry for interjecting so early with that idea i wasn't sure of all the technical difficulties online or that a lot of folks seems to be a theme tonight uh trailer g has seconded that motion so all in favor of adjournment say aye aye we have by a vote of affirmation um meeting is now adjourned thank you for your time thank you chris nice job thanks everyone for coming out


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Hello everyone, welcome back to another session in dentistry and more. So today's topic in oral surgery is local anesthesia. This is a huge topic, this will be dealt in 3 or 4 sessions. So today's session is about the mechanism, the repolarization, depolarization and action potential mechanism and the basic things of local anesthesia. So next session we have the theories of local anesthesia and then we have the properties, the local anesthetic solution and its classification. So all will be covered in future sessions. So today's session is about the mechanism, that is the action potential mechanism across the nerve membrane, how the polarization is happening, the resting potential and how it is getting changed and what is the role of local anesthetic in this polarization. So all this will be dealt into. So let's start learning local anesthesia. The loss of sensation in a circumscribed area of the body caused by depression of excitation in nerve endings or an inhibition of the conduction process in peripheral nerves. So it is going to act on the nerves, either on the nerve endings or the conduction process, okay. Either it depress the excitation of nerve endings or it inhibits the conduction process in peripheral nerves, that is how it is creating the anesthesia. So it is a loss of sensation without inducing loss of consciousness, there is no loss of consciousness like general anesthesia. So we have lots of method to produce this local anesthesia such as low temperature, mechanical trauma, anoxia, neurolytic agents such as alcohol or phenols and the chemical agents such as local anesthetics. So these are the other methods for producing local anesthesia. So not just local anesthetics does anesthesia. We have local low temperature, mechanical trauma, anoxia, neurolytic agents such as alcohol and phenols. So all can produce the effect of local anesthesia. So what are the properties of local anesthesia? So the properties we have instead synonym I4 non-irritating, okay, non-irritating because it should not be irritating due to use to which it is applied. Then it is related to nerve. It should not cause any permanent alteration of the nerve structure. Then the systemic effect should be very low because anyway it is going to enter in the blood circulation so it should not create any systemic toxicity. Then the time of onset should be short. Then it should be effective regardless of whether it is injected into the tissue or applied locally to mucus membranes. It should be effective and the duration of action. So it should be long enough to permit the completion of procedure that is the duration. So we need to have proper local anesthetic effect so that we can complete the surgical procedure. So it should be non-irritating, should not create any permanent damage to nerve structure. The systemic toxicity should be very low and it should be having very low or short time of onset and should be effective irrespective of if it is injecting or if we are applying it on the mucus membrane and we should have enough duration of action. And also it should have the potency sufficient to give complete anesthesia without the use of harmful concentration solutions and it should be free from producing allergic reactions and it should be free in solution and relatively undergo biotransformation in the body. It should be either sterile or capable of being sterilized by heat without deterioration. So these are the properties of local anesthesia. Now let's learn the electrophysiology of nerve conduction. So this is important part, electrophysiology. So what exactly is happening at the nerve membrane where the local anesthetic going to work? So we have a nerve membrane here, let this be the nerve membrane and this is inside the nerve membrane and this is outside the nerve membrane, this is outside, this is inside. So usually the outside the nerve membrane we have positive charges, okay so this is positively charged and inside we have usually negatively charged, we have negative charged inside. So this is our nerve membrane and there will be always a electric charge across the membrane. So that is known as membrane potential, okay membrane potential. So this membrane potential is also known as resting potential which is equal to minus 70 milliwatt that is the resting potential. So without any excitation, without any changes in the cell this will be the electric wall to which is existing between or the membrane surface. So we learned what is membrane potential. Now let's learn what is action potential, okay so action potential is nothing but when this membrane potential is going to change under stimulation or fiber excitation, okay so this is outside and this is inside, outside we have positively charged and this is negatively charged. So this minus 70 milliwatt is because of the gradient, okay so we have lots of positive charge and lots of negative charge. So the change in concentration gradient across the membrane is resulting minus 70 milliwatt. So when there is an action potential before we have all the channels or the sodium potassium channels are closed at resting potential. So when this nerve fiber is excited or stimulated what happens is the sodium channel will be opened, okay. So this is the inside area, this is the outside area. So from outside there will be influx of sodium ions. So lots of sodium ions will be entering, okay. So sodium ions will be entering into the cell membrane. So once this sodium ions enters from outside to inside this process will be takes place. This is known as depolarization, that is a polarity is going to changed. So the sodium channel closes once it enters and it reaches level the minus 70 will become plus 20 that is depolarization happened, okay. So this minus become positive because of the influx of sodium ions. So the sodium channel will be closed because it is depolarized, okay. So we have sodium channel closed. So after that what happens is the nerve membrane or the nerve tries to go back to its original position or original state that is a resting potential to maintain the equilibrium. So again one more channel will be opened that is not the sodium it is potassium, okay. So from inside there is out flex of potassium, okay until it reaches minus 70 millivolt, okay. So resting potential we have depolarization and this is known as repolarization because we revert the polarity, okay. Before it was depolarized now it is repolarized because we revert back. So that is minus 70 MP we went back to the resting potential. So once it is reached minus 70 what happens is this channel also will be closed. It is like resting potential where sodium and potassium channels are closed. So during depolarization sodium channel open and it enters it reaches plus 20 that is depolarization then potassium going outward and balancing to reach the minus 70 millivolt. So this voltage gradient along axon causing a current, okay. This causes configurational change in sodium channel in the next segment and the conduction process is happening. So this is how the electro reaction happening in nerve endings or in nerve membrane, okay. That is a depolarization and repolarization mechanism. So what exactly happening with respect to the two types of nerve membrane? So we have two types of nerve membrane one we know myelinated and the second one is unmyelinated. So it differs from myelinated and unmyelinated. So this impulse spread from one segment to another segment because a depolarized segment impulse will be spread to the next segment. So the propagated impulse travels along the nerve membrane towards the CNS, okay. The spread of impulse the rate of speed is differ in myelinated and unmyelinated. So first let's take unmyelinated nerve fibers. So unmyelinated nerve fiber it doesn't have a myelin sheath. So because of this it has high resistance cell membrane and extracellular media. It produce a rapid decrease in density of current within a short distance of depolarized segment. So it doesn't have a myelin sheath. So it will be producing a rapid decrease in density of current. So what happens is the spread of impulse is characterized as a slow forward creeping process. Slow forward creeping process it cannot propagate in a very fast manner. So the conduction rate is very slow 1.2 meter per second and it goes like this. So if we have a nerve membrane here we have this impulse. So just go like this okay. So the impulse moves forward by sequential depolarization of short adjoining membrane segments okay. But whereas on the myelinated nerve fiber. So in myelinated nerve fiber it's a different story. So the current leaps from nodes to nodes is happening not the sequential depolarization. So here the impulse goes like this from nodes to nodes. Here it was sequential depolarization. So the impulse moves forward by sequential depolarization of short adjoining membrane segments okay. But here it is impulse leaps forward from one node to another one. So the myelinated nerve fiber process the nerve impulse from nodes to nodes forward movement is known as saltatory conduction. So it is more rapid in thicker nerves because of increase in thickness of myelin sheath and increase in distance between the adjacent nodes of ran wear. So this is the nodes of ran wear. So if conduction of impulse is blocked at one node of node the local current will skip over that node and prove adequate to raise that membrane potential at next node to its firing potential and produce depolarization. So that the process will not be stopped if there is blockage at one node. So it will jump to the next one it will skip that particular node and jump to the next one. So the conduction here it was just 1.2 meter per second but here it is almost 120 meter per second almost 100 times faster in myelinated nerve fibers. And now we are going to learn the basic mechanism of local anesthesia. So so far we finished our electrophysiology of the nerve fiber how the repolarization depolarization is happening. Now the local anesthetic action. So this local anesthetic agent interferes with the excitation process. So it can be done in many ways. The first one is changing the resting potential of nerve membrane. So we know what is resting potential. So the first mechanism of this local anesthetic is changing the resting potential then changing the threshold potential. So this local anesthetic will increase the threshold potential so it will remain repolarized. So there will be less chances of depolarization. So ultimately local anesthetic is increasing the rate of repolarization. That is it is not allowing depolarization. So increasing the rate of repolarization and decreasing depolarization. So repolarization is the process happened when we apply local anesthesia because there is no depolarization or it prolongs the repolarization or decrease the depolarization. So that's all about local anesthesia. So we can say it as a part one where we discussed about the action potential, the membrane potential, the sequential depolarization, the solitary conduction and local anesthesia mechanism that is changing the resting potential, threshold potential or increasing the repolarization or decreasing the depolarization, the electrophysiology. So this is the introduction part of local anesthesia. So the next session is about various theories of local anesthesia. So we have many theories such as acetylcholine theory, calcium displacement theory, surface charge theory, membrane expansion theory, then specific receptor. So all these theories we are going to learn in next session. Okay. So I'll come back with the theories of local anesthesia in my next session. Thank you.


Gary, can we start with the team news? Poor dear Connor, unusual injury, is it dead glute, I think? Dead glute, yeah. He's recovered, he's recovered his train today, so we're pleased with that. He was struggling with it in the game and obviously we made the decision to bring young Tyler on who I thought did ever so well when he went on there. For what was his league debut and we missed that. The lad's making great progress, unfortunately he picked up a bit of a knocking training this week, so he's not trained a couple of days, so we're delighted that Pauly's there. OK, so with Matty Parm, what's the latest on him please? The latest is, he's been to see a specialist who doesn't need an operation, which is great news first and foremost. Time wise then, it's how long's the piece of string, he's going to be missing for the next month for sure, but the time after that it just depends down to the amount of work that he does and how quickly he heals. These things can range from anything from six weeks to twelve weeks, but after the initial month and the brace is off, we'll know exactly where he's at. James Horne, you have available to me now Gary, but obviously you won at the weekend, I know he's captain, but is it as simple as wanting him back or having him back this weekend? I think with the squad that we have and the colour of a player that we have, we want everybody available and so the fact that he is available strengthens us. You're right in what you say in the sense of we won last week without him, we won last week without Ben Richards Everton and a couple of others as well, and that just shows you that it's a squad game. We said that all along and I've got an interesting decision to make, that's for sure. Would that decision involve changing the style of play? Not the style of play, no, I don't think we'd change the style of play all season if I'm being brutally honest. What about Morgan though? Clearly they're having a Torah time at home particularly, is it about putting your foot on the neck and just not letting them off the rack at all? I think I said to the players straight after the game on Saturday, next Saturday against Morgan when we are toughest game of the season and so we have to go and play ourselves with the right attitude and go and play with the way that we did against Swindon. We've seen again from last week's performance the character from getting pegged back from 1-0 to 1-0 to go again and in the recent weeks the resilience that the lads have had to going to go down and coming back from that. We've got to go and do that again and the exciting thing for us is 12 games in people measuring that as a quarter of the season gone. I still feel that there's a hell of a lot more to come for us and that's the exciting bit. I've watched him in training today and they're growing. It's a funny one, my brother-in-law is building a house and I've asked him if he's completed it yet and he said, well how long do you think it takes? It just made me laugh and he said, you know, we've got the foundations down and I was like, yeah, that's where we're at yet. The world that we live in now and the society as you want it all done within 12 games, well that's never going to happen. Even the teams that are above us at this moment in time, they tell you that it's working progress and it's the same for us. We brought a hell of a lot of players in, we had to deal with obviously getting relegated but we're really building a culture if you like. The players are going about it in the right way at this moment in time and we've got to continue on that. Are you using that house analogy or how do you mean analogy? The foundations are really going down course in, doors in or what? Well he's a bit more qualified than me so I think it's really challenging much more on that. It is exactly that. We're rebuilding the house, we've knocked the house down, we've brought in new players and it takes time. But like I say, we're living in an instant world now and everybody wants it yesterday. Well I'm afraid there's some things in life that you can't get it instantly and it takes time and success at a football club is one of those. When you're trying to change everything if you want to restart, is culture the hardest thing that the change was at and it takes the longest to change? Well I think it's certainly a mindset for sure and it's well documented what happened to this club last year and we needed to bring the right people in. Winners into the building with the character that we've shown so far but we've raised the standards and we need to continue that now and not settle. Nobody gives you anything after 12 games and that's the message that we've been drumming into the players this week. You haven't done anything. All they've done is be competitive in every game so far. Which is what we said would be at the start of the season would be competitive in every game and in the first 12 games we have been. Now we need to build on that like you say further. The last three or four games I believe me personally that we're starting to see a way of playing and how we want to play and how we're going about it. But most importantly I think we've really seen a fight and a passion that the fans cannot identify with and there's been a like a reconnection with them. Dylan Connelly is fantastic for it. I think he's brilliant with the supporters and they love him for it. And he's just picking out one pair. In your experience because clearly you've got people like James Vaughan. You've sort of seen it all in football and then you've got maybe others like Harry Pritchard who come up maybe a different way. What's the best way of delivering a message as a manager to them? Is it short, sharp, concise or is there like an option? What do you mean to a group or to the individual? I think you do it constantly on a daily basis whether that will be as a group, begin before training, during training, individual chats. Just having a brew with them on a social part of it, I think there's loads of ways and you know it's just reaffirming the messages and this morning alone. It's a good conversation with Dylan, with Paul, with Danny Devine, Jermaine Anderson and just letting them know how important they are to the club and how well they've done so far and how much more they're going to play and the impact that they can have and to be ready for one or two of theirs opportunity when it comes out. Thanks Kelly. You say you're having a brew with them, Jonathan? Lemsip at the moment if I'm being brutally honest but it's very easy for them because all you have to do is pour the water in. When you ask them to make a brew, you don't have to get some puzzled look at how do I make a cup of tea. I can imagine. I'm not so sure what I've got given the other day by a powder if I'm being brutally honest. But when you say that the players can take a time to settle the team and take a time to build. Is that also true for you that you need to learn whether it's a player that needs to know around the shoulder? 100%. It's relationships, isn't it? It's like when you first start dating, isn't it?  It is, it's a learning day. Every day is a learning day and I know that sounds a bit cheesy, doesn't it? But it is. We've done something with the players today and I just stood back for the last five minutes of it in the trees and I just saw something different. I had not seen it with one of them. I just walked over and had a little chat and it's great. It's brilliant because like I say you're learning every day and the day you do stop learning I think that's the day you pack in. On to that Ben, with the progress of the team, you've used the house analogy. Would you say it's fair to say that it never stops with the team because there's always another challenge? You sound just like my wife, she wants another extension on the extension that we've already got. But I suppose that's it. You can never be satisfied. Don't settle for what you've got now and that's what we've been saying to them all week. Don't settle for a pat on the back because the one last week, don't settle for that. Go again now. Go on and win on the road again. I think we've got 1600 fans going to sell out. Wow, unbelievable. So go on and give them something to be really proud of and cheerful of at the end of the game. Gary, about obviously raising the standards each time. Having said, you're still a working motion. Having played as well as you did. Is that sort of raised the bar again? Yeah, definitely. Myself, Martin, Robbie, John, we've got through the game. We have a look at the game again. We watched the game back. This morning we fed back to the areas where we did well last week. The areas where they missed opportunities to capitalise. We then take that onto the grass this morning. Again, it's all for gearing us up to improving and be better again than what we were last week. That's what drives us as staff. Ben, the fitness guy and the medical guys, they want to push them on and keep them fit and stronger. That's what drives us on a day-to-day basis, is to keep on improving. Is that another challenge of the job or not to let anyone rest on their laurels after a good performance? No chance of that happening. You don't know me well enough yet, do you? No chance of that happening. Because presumably some players might think, we've cracked this. Yeah, might. Do you feel the team has started to click? I think they're starting to grow. I looked at them and they're sweet. There was a lot of belief in them. I saw a lot of belief in the team. They've got to back that up and keep backing it up. There are real positive signs there for us. We're not unaware of the challenge that lies ahead this weekend. I know Jim, so I think he's done a fabulous job there over the years. He deserves, in my opinion, a crack higher up the leagues for what he's sustained at Morkham over the years. And a style of play, by the way. They play. You mentioned about James Vaughan and the decision you've got to make. What's he like as a player when he's not in the team? I don't know yet. I don't know yet for leaving him out. I knew last week because he was suspended. He wasn't very happy because he wants to play football. I would imagine he's been like that throughout his career. Has there been a spring in his step this week in the sense that there's a game at the end of it? No, of course. The fact that the team won last week as well. He's got to prove to us that he deserves to be back in the team as well. I'd say it's going to be interesting. If you said to me that I'd die back, players, if they get the shirt and they do well, they might think, well, I dare you to take it off me. That's the culture that we're going back to and the environment that you want. Where the lads that come in, they're hungry for it. When they perform at a level that you say, they say, they say, you can't drop me off that. Not me, they say it by their actual performances. That's something that we push and encourage. Me personally, I think that's real healthy when you've got real competition. The whole group know that no-one's safe, as in no-one's guaranteed a place in the team. Is seeing that together, I'm to the results report? Of course. Is seeing that together, let's find the results report at this start of the season? I think it's growing. It's growing like the performances. What we have done in these first 12 games is for over 50% or 50% of them, we found a way to win. Even when we've not been as smooth as probably what we all would have liked, but we understand my experience in this league previously was it does. It does take time. It's as simple as that. It takes time. Over qualities, as well as how you play are so important and fight and the passion and the character is massive. You took something being the hardest game? Yeah, it is. The Bullocks, I mean, they haven't won away and I hope so for a while. They've got 16 of them and Bradford's fans. It's a big atmosphere. That's probably a dangerous perhaps game in that respect. No, it's the biggest, it's the toughest game because it's the next one. I know the way that Jim goes about how he's prepared. I watched that video last week. They were winning until the lad got sent off. He's proved over the years that he gets his teams going and we're in for a real fight and we've got to go and match the fight.


Attention Clayton residents, this is a community notification of a new sexually violent predator in your area. Please stay tuned to the following short program for more information. Hi, I'm Technician Ron Hackett with the Denver Police Department. The sex offender registration and compliance unit at DPD is responsible for the registration, monitoring and tracking of all registered sex offenders and sexually violent predators who live in the city and county of Denver. Here's a brief history of sex offender legislation in Colorado. Our state laws trickle down from federal government mandates. In 1994, we had the Jacob Wetterling Act, which mandated that states would establish a sex offender list. Megan's law of 1996 said that the public would have access to those sex offender registration lists. The Pam Litchner Act of 1996 stated that some offenders might have to have lifetime registrations. And the Adam Walsh Act of 2006 unified sex offender laws across the country. In Colorado, the legislature has determined that sexually violent predators by definition pose a higher risk to the community at large and therefore mandated that upon their release from the Department of Corrections, the community must be notified. Sex offender notification in Colorado happens in two ways. The first is passive and ongoing through the sex offender registration process, which is a list maintained by local police departments. The second way is active via community notification for those offenders determined to be sexually violent predators by the courts or by the parole board. Most sex offenders in Colorado are supervised by the criminal justice system in our communities. Most sex offenders engage in crossover behavior, which means they may have been arrested for one type of crime but be apt to commit another.  There is no typical sex offender, but all tend to be deceptive, manipulative, and secretive. 80 to 93% of sex offenses are committed by someone known to the victim. Sexual deviancy begins in mid to late adolescence. Sex offenses are not impulsive.  The community has a vested interest in helping offenders to be successfully managed in the community. Sex offenders have the same need for housing and employment as any other citizen. Any citizen who uses sex offender information to harass, threaten, or intimidate an offender will be subject to criminal prosecution. There are approximately 16,500 registered sex offenders in the state of Colorado. About 65% of convicted sex offenders are placed in the community on probation. The remainder are in the Department of Corrections or Community Corrections. Offenders may be caught for one type of offense but be at a high risk to commit another type. Crime of conviction is only one indicator of risk.  The offender's residence must be verified quarterly by the Denver Police Department. The full sex offender registration list is available by calling the Denver Police Department Identification Bureau at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Convicted felons and those with multiple convictions are posted online at denvergov.org slash police.   Now, here's a look at the newest sexually violent predator living in Denver. Here's an overview of the registered sex offenders currently living in Denver. There are 2,268 total living within city limits. In Denver Police District 2, there are 394. Precinct 212 has 61 registered sex offenders. Of those, 40 have felony convictions and 21 have misdemeanor convictions. Alfonso Greer Jr. is a sexually violent predator currently living in Denver. He's 57 years old and was born on September 25, 1957.  He's currently living at 3450 Monroe Street in the Clayton neighborhood of Denver. Schools located within one mile of this offender include Pioneer Charter School at 3230 East 38th Avenue, Bruce Randolph Middle High School at 3955 Steel Street, Barrett Elementary School at 2900 Richard Allen Court. Parks located within one mile of this offender include City of Nairobi Park at 3500 Cook Street. Recreation centers located within one mile of this offender include St. Charles Rec Center at 3777 Lafayette Street. Bus routes located within one mile of this offender include Route 2828B, 28th Avenue, Route 4444th Avenue, Route 3838th Avenue, Route 40, Colorado Boulevard. A brief history of charges against this offender convicted in Denver District Court for criminal attempted second degree sex assault. He's not on parole or probation, registered with the Denver Police Department on July 1, 2015 to 3450 Monroe Street in the Clayton neighborhood of Denver. Past charges against this offender include criminal attempted second degree sex assault, possession of cocaine, shoplifting, larceny, burglary, carrying a concealed weapon, assault, arson, obstructing police, vehicle theft, kidnapping. Alfonso Greer, Jr. has been determined a sexually violent predator after meeting the following criteria. Criteria one, age 18 or older on the date of the offense or under 18 and tried as an adult. The offender was age 44 at the time of the offense. Criteria two, the crime must have been committed on or after July 1, 1997 and convicted on or after July 1, 1999.  The offender was convicted on February 19, 2002 for criminal attempted second degree sex assault. Criteria three, the relationship to the victim was one of the following. Victim was a stranger to the offender or the offender established or promoted a relationship with the victim primarily for the purpose of sexual victimization. The victim was a 30-year-old female. The offender was known to the victim. Criteria four, positive results are the passing of a risk assessment instrument administered by probation parole staff and a qualified treatment evaluator. Positive results include an assessment for the presence of a mental abnormality, a level of denial regarding the offense, treatment appropriateness and motivation, presence of sexual deviant interests. The offender was evaluated by the Colorado Parole Board with positive results, determining him to be a sexually violent predator.


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That concludes First Minister's Questions. The next item of business is a personal statement by the First Minister. Today marks the final contribution in this chamber of Nicola Sturgeon MSP as First Minister, our longest-serving First Minister and the First Woman to hold the post. On behalf of the Parliament, I thank the First Minister for her service. I thank John Swinney MSP, the Deputy First Minister for her service too. They have both been in government since 2007, and I wish them well for the future. I now call on Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister. Thank you, Presiding Officer, and thank you for your kind words. I'm sure that I speak on behalf of the Deputy First Minister in expressing that gratitude. I have, indeed, just concluded my 286th and final session of First Minister's Questions. This is the final statement that I will make in this chamber as First Minister. No matter what I do in future, nothing, absolutely nothing, will come close to the experience of the past 3,046 days. Being First Minister of the country, I love, has been a profound honour. I have led Scotland through good times, but also through the toughest period of our recent history. Exactly three years ago today, I stood at a podium in St Andrew's house and I asked the country to stay at home. My thoughts today and always are with those who lost loved ones to Covid, with those who live still with long Covid, with our young people who lost out on so many of the normal experiences of growing up, and with everyone who endured the trauma of separation and loneliness. Covid shaped all of us. I know that it changed me and, in many ways, it defined my time as First Minister. Above all, it reinforced in me an abiding admiration for the people of this wonderful country who made such painful sacrifices to keep each other safe. In the toughest of times, our country showed the best of itself, with love, care and solidarity, and that will live with me forever. Being First Minister has been variously, often all at once, challenging, exhilarating and exhausting, but every single day without exception it has been an utter privilege. I have set out already my reasons for stepping down now, and I won't repeat them today. Suffice to say that I know in my heart that this is the right time. After more than 35 years in politics, 24 years in this Parliament, 16 years in government and more than eight years as First Minister, it is time for Nicola Sturgeon the politician to make a bit of space for Nicola Sturgeon the person. It's time for me to contribute in a different capacity to the causes I care so deeply about, gender equality, care experience young people, climate justice and always until the job is done winning Scottish independence. No matter how difficult change may be, I know also that it is right for my party, the Government and our country that I now make way for a new generation of leadership. I have made my fair share of mistakes in the past eight years and of course there are things that I wish I had done better or differently, but overall and overwhelmingly I am proud of what has been achieved. The doubling of early years education and childcare, the Scottish child payment, widening access to higher education with a record number of young people from backgrounds like mine now going to university, minimum unit pricing, a policy that is saving lives, a policy that is publicly owned, mission driven national investment bank and putting the climate emergency at the heart of all we do. Just a few of the many policies that I believe will have a lasting impact on our country. As the first woman to hold this office, advancing gender equality has also been very close to my heart. My cabinet has always been gender balanced. It is Parliament legislated for free period products and strengthened the law on domestic abuse. Unless tangibly perhaps, but just as important, no girl in our country now has any doubt that a woman can hold the highest office in the land. I heard a phrase the other day that really struck a chord with me, when women lift girls rise. I have tried, First Minister, to put that into practice and I will continue to do so for the rest of my life. Presiding Officer, there are countless people who have supported me along the way. Today I want to say a heartfelt thank you to just some of them. Firstly to my family, nothing, absolutely nothing would be possible without the love and support that you give me daily. To my extended family, the SNP, the party that I joined at 16, when on a good day we would hit 12 per cent in the opinion polls, we have come such a long way together as a team. Let us keep going, serving Scotland together as a team. To my colleagues here in Holyrood, in SNP parliamentary groups past and present and to the central office staff who support us, to all of my ministerial colleagues over the years and especially to John Swinney, the best deputy First Minister and the best friend I could have wished for on this journey, to our staff in party HQ who have built a formidable campaign operation enabling us to win 14 national elections since 2007, to all those who have worked in my constituency office and particularly to my current team Paul Enster, Caroline Scott, Mary Hunter, Carolyn McConville, Irfan Robani and Nikita Basi. You have had my back throughout and you work tirelessly every single day to help me to represent the people of Glasgow Southside and to my constituency party and to my constituents, thank you so much for putting your trust in me time and again. To my special advisers, you have given your all to me and to the cause of building a better country. You have been led by two outstanding chiefs of staff, Liz Lloyd and Colin McAllister. To our partners in the Scottish Green Party, I am very proud of the Butehouse agreement. Thank you for joining us in government. To our brilliant civil service, Scotland is so fortunate in the integrity, impartiality and professionalism of our civil servants and I am privileged to have been served by some of the very best. I thank each and every one, but let me make special mention of those who have served in my policy unit and in my FMQ team. The latter, especially on Wednesday evenings and Thursday mornings, really do have the worst job in government. For the avoidance of doubt, the good answers have always been down to them, the bad have been all me. Finally, I want to thank from the bottom of my heart three groups of people who, because of the nature of the jobs that they do, have probably spent more time with me over these years than with their families—at least I am sure that that is how it is felt. To my security team, thank you for keeping me safe, to the wonderful Butehouse staff, thank you for always making me feel at home and to every private secretary, diary secretary, co-respondent secretary, to the visits and events team, to the communications and camera teams, to everyone in my private office who has supported me over 16 years in government, thank you for keeping me going. Obviously, I cannot name everyone much as I would love to, but there are a few that I do want to mention. My longest-serving principal private secretary, John Summers, and the current incumbent, Chris Mackay. Last but not least, three very special people who, individually and collectively, have been with me for almost all of my time as First Minister. Three people who were the core of my team during Covid, coming into the office while others stayed at home to give me the support that I needed to do my job—Nicola Dove, Patrick Crolla and Gary McGee.  As I come to the end of my last speech here as First Minister, some final reflections to you, I am sure that you are hoping for a new First Minister whose answers on a Thursday lunchtime are not quite as long-winded as mine. Thank you for your patience. To my colleagues across the chamber, robust debate and holding government to account are the hallmarks of what we do in here. That is as it should be, and I thank those in other parties for that. But maybe, just maybe, we might actually enhance our democracy if, occasionally, all of us treated each other with kindness too, if we remembered that we are opponents, not enemies. To my successor, next week we will find out whose portrait will go alongside mine on the stairwell of Bute House. Subject to this chamber's approval, it will either be Scotland's second female First Minister or the first from a minority ethnic background. Either way, that will send the very powerful message that this, the highest office in the land, is one that any young person in Scotland can aspire to. Never forget that every day in this office is an opportunity to make something better for someone somewhere in Scotland. Do not shy away from the big challenges or difficult debates. You will not get everything right, but it is always better to aim high and fall short than not to try at all. Always draw strength, energy and wisdom from the people of this wonderful country. It is now to the people of Scotland, all of you, whether you voted for me or not, that I reserve my final words from this seat. Thank you so much for placing your trust in me. Words will never adequately convey the gratitude and the awe that I hold in my heart for the opportunity that I have had to serve as your First Minister. It truly has been the privilege of my lifetime. With those words, Presiding Officer, I draw it to a close. Thank you. That concludes the statement by the First Minister. I will now call on other members to respond, and I call on Douglas Ross. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I believe that the First Minister and I see each other as adversaries rather than allies, and probably the final session of FMQs reiterated that impression. Let me add a little balance in my final remarks to Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister. When Nicola Sturgeon leaves office, she will bring to a close a political career in this chamber that few, if many, can or will match in its length. 24 years of service to her constituent so far, 16 years as a Government Minister and over eight years as First Minister. Indeed, since 1999, she has been a permanent fixture in this Parliament and on her party's front bench. In these times of political turbulence, that is staying power that many of us could only ever wish for. She has been a formidable campaigner, as her political opponents over the years can unanimously agree on. No one can deny that Nicola Sturgeon has left for better or worse a mark on our country. We have all lived through the Sturgeon era of Scottish politics, and that era is now coming to an end. Nowhere will that change be felt more keenly than in the ranks of her own party. However, returning to the Government role, and as First Minister, for Nicola Sturgeon and her predecessors and successors, it remains the rarest of honours, and even rarer still for what Nicola Sturgeon described herself as a working-class girl from Ayrshire. I recognise the positive message that it sends that in Scotland every child should have the ability to reach the heights that they dream of. Do you know what, Presiding Officer, sometimes dreams do come true? I stand here in this chamber as the only recent politician to beat Nicola Sturgeon. I won the bet. The bet I had with Nicola Sturgeon made back in 2021 £100, and I won that. Just for the record, I have to say that I am still awaiting payment. It is perhaps one final example of delays from Nicola Sturgeon's Government. I mean it in all sincerity that the exchanges that we have have been sometimes difficult, always robust, and we seek to do better in our politics. I think that the message that the First Minister had can be listened by everyone in this chamber. The First Minister has also spoken of the additional responsibility that she has had, and she said that in the past, to help every woman and girl in our country to fulfil their own potential. I think that, as the first woman holder of her office, she has been her own model that women and girls can aspire to in Scotland today. Those are all achievements for which the First Minister should be rightly proud. Yet, while the First Minister is a talent and politician, those talents have not always been used to the best of their ability in government. I am not going to use this session to lever over the arguments that we have had on this side of the chamber time and time again. I simply say this that, on her first day in office, Nicola Sturgeon promised to be the First Minister for all of Scotland, regardless of your politics or your point of view. However, for some, too often, she used her position to further her party's political objectives rather than bring the country together and govern in all of Scotland's interests. However, I accept that holding the high office is a great burden and honour. I think that it is right that, on this day of all days, we acknowledge the difficult responsibilities that the Covid pandemic placed upon those in power. Along with the First Minister and others, I put on record earth thoughts on this side of the chamber for everyone who sadly lost their lives and those who continue to mourn the loss of loved ones. As I said earlier, it is no secret that the First Minister and I are not best friends, and I am sure that she will not miss our weekly FNQ exchanges as she watches on from the back benches. In my time as leader of the opposition, I have asked Nicola Sturgeon 256 questions. Once or twice, I have even got an answer. But, away from this chamber, I know that political leadership also takes a personal toll on those who attain the highest office, and it takes a toll on those closest to them as well. I think that we could all see that the thanks that the First Minister gave to her family and her staff were difficult for her to articulate, but are keenly felt. There will have been countless times that the First Minister will not have been able to have been there for her family and her friends as she put the demands of leadership first. I hope that, in standing down, the First Minister will be able to take comfort from having more time for family, friends and, of course, her passion reading. On behalf of this side of the chamber, we have passionately disagreed with Nicola Sturgeon over the years and no doubt will continue to do so into the future. We wish her well as she leaves the office of First Minister and forever the future holds for her. Today is a significant moment in Scottish politics. It has, of course, personal significance for Nicola Sturgeon, but it is also significant for our politics, as Scotland prepares to face a new era and a twin crisis of the NHS crisis and the cost of living crisis. I would like to start by placing on record my respect and recognition for Nicola Sturgeon for more than 20 years of public service. I first met Nicola Sturgeon when I was a teenager and that is not meant as a disparaging comment, it is a compliment, and it is safe to say that both of us have grown up and changed a lot since then. Regardless of our many differences, even our harshest critics would accept that Nicola Sturgeon is an able and formidable politician who has stood at the forefront of Scottish politics for more than 15 years. While we have disagreed passionately about what is best for the people, I have never, for a moment, doubted her love for Scotland. Seeing the first woman elected as First Minister, an achievement, Presiding Officer, that cannot be understated, was an important moment for our country. It was a sign to women and girls, regardless of their politics, that there should be no limit to their ambition, that there was no position, no office in the land that they could not aspire to, and that there was nothing that they should not be able to achieve. I am sure that many people will point towards our more robust exchanges at First Minister's questions, but on many occasions Nicola Sturgeon and I have attempted to build consensus, particularly in calling out and challenging the rising levels of prejudice and hate in society. That is, in part, driven by our deep connection with the south side of Glasgow, something that the First Minister herself referenced, the most diverse part of Scotland. I know how much celebrating the rich diversity in our community's means to her. I would even challenge perhaps maybe she's worn traditional Asian dress more often than I have in my lifetime. There are many things that we can disagree and divide on, but there is one issue that I believe should always unite every political party in this Parliament, and that is the fight against prejudice and hate. In our resignation statement last month, Nicola Sturgeon spoke about the personal toll that politics takes, and I often reflect on how much our politics has changed, how much more divisive it has become, how intolerant it can often be. The challenge, I think, for all of us is how we build the politics that, of course, allows for strong disagreement, passionate debate and robust arguments, but that it never descends into hatred, because far too often, particularly online, our politics does descend into that hatred. It is not by the praise or criticism of her opponents that any First Minister will be judged. It will be their record. As the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon led our country through challenging times, most obviously during the pandemic. I think that she's right—I think that that is what will define her time. I recognise the immense pressure and the toll that many of the decisions taken in those difficult years will have taken. At a time of uncertainty and anxiety, she attempted to provide stability and reassurance to people across this country at the darkest moments. I think that it is fair to say that during our many robust debates with one another, I have learned some of Nicola Sturgeon's tells when her grasp of the detail perhaps might, on occasion, escape her or isn't on her side, she is obviously quick to point to her electoral record. We've heard it again today, eight election wins. Of course, undoubtedly a political achievement to be proud of, a legacy that no one can deny, and of course many of us can be jealous off, but she is right. Winning is important. Winning does matter, and that's why it also matters that leaders of whichever political party do what they do with that power when they do win and how they govern. I think that it's also safe to say that never in the history of devolution has there been a First Minister with so much power, so much time and so much political capital. Despite that, we all know that there is still so much more to do. The promise of devolution remains unfulfilled. Child poverty is still too high. NHS waiting lists are still too long. Our public services are struggling, and our economy needs to be restarted. We must now urgently confront those challenges, and that must be this place that is focused. I am sure that this Government will feel her absence from the front benches. Perhaps no one is keenly our successor. Nicola Sturgeon leaves a Government and a party shaped in her image. It will not find a replacement like her. I and my entire party wish her the very best for whatever she chooses to do in the future. I am privileged to be able to offer a few comments from the Scottish Green Party at this moment. Over the last wee while, I've heard both the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister reflect on how they might have felt back in their early days as teenage activists if they had known the role that they would go on to play in providing the role of leaders of government for Scotland. However, my first memory of meeting Nicola Sturgeon years before I stood for Parliament myself was when she was providing Opposition, not Government. I'm sure that there were times when Opposition meant saying no, but in the first year of this new Scottish Parliament, with the rights and equality of a marginalised group on the line, Nicola Sturgeon recognised that when the Government does the right thing, the role of Opposition involves being constructive. The law, most often called section 28, was a nasty homophobic hangover of the 1980s. In the first debate about repealing that law, Nicola Sturgeon said that section 28 is plainly and simply about discrimination. It is about singling out one section of the population and labelling it as unacceptable. She was not the only politician saying so, but what she did helped to ensure that that issue was not seen as Government versus Opposition and that rival parties with serious disagreements could work between them to find the common ground and work together for the good of the country. I've agreed and disagreed with Nicola Sturgeon on issues over the years since then, but in recent months she has shown that same commitment to stand by another vulnerable group in our society, while so many in politics and in the media were dredging up the tropes and prejudice of past decades and redirecting them against transgender people. I can still see today what I remember from those days. Nicola Sturgeon's commitment to be an ally to marginalised people remains part of her character as a politician. I didn't know at that time that I would go on to join the Scottish Parliament, or indeed that I would have the chance to sit with Nicola Sturgeon on the advisory board of the Yes Scotland campaign for Scottish independence, or that I would share the stage whether the Glasgow hydro of all places, even if we did have to share the bell with a certain Mr George Galloway. I certainly couldn't have imagined that she and John Swinney would pick up the phone and offer to negotiate an agreement that would bring the Greens into government for the first time in this country's history, advancing action on climate justice and progressive values and, in doing so, infuriating right wingers, vested interests, polluting industries and even one or two of their own back benches. I also see today what I remember from earlier days that Nicola Sturgeon sees the value in politicians and political parties, recognising their differences but seeking common ground and finding ways to work together for the good of the country. On this day of national reflection, we all share the sentiment that Nicola Sturgeon expressed a few minutes ago. As for the things that her time as First Minister will be remembered for outside of the political bubble, I think that for most people it will be her leadership during a pandemic that changed all of our lives. At the start, as we were just coming to terms with what the world was facing, some Governments around the world chose bluff and bluster pretending they knew the answers or offering false simplicity in place of the complex truth. Nicola Sturgeon made a braver choice to be clear about what was not known and to express the same fears and uncertainty that we all felt. Throughout the pandemic, she not only fronted up the Scottish Government response on an almost daily basis, but she did so with honesty, clarity and humility. By doing that, she earned the public trust. I thank both Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney for their service to Scotland. I wish them very well, and my highest hope for them is that they continue to find ways to infuriate all the right people. I now call Alex Cole-Hamilton. Those of us who seek a life in public service must deal with events and times as we find them, not as we would wish them to be. Regardless of what circumstance throws our way, it is incumbent on all of us to commit to the task before us to seek the best for our communities and, in so doing, try always to reflect the better natures of the people that we seek to serve. As the first woman to achieve this office of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has provided inspiration to the women and girls that will doubtless follow her to this, the highest office in the land. She has been Scotland's First Minister through some of the darkest hours in our modern history. I think that it is important to recognise her tireless and substantial commitment to the office that she has helped for longer than anybody else. That tireless commitment was no more evident than in those, the worst days of the pandemic, a time of unprecedented anxiety for our country when she offered a voice of calm to people stuck at home. She will be aware of the times that she has walked in step with my party when she adopted our policies on things like childcare and pupil premium. She will recognise the times when we have voted with her, sometimes against the prevailing wind, on the physical punishment of children, on alcohol pricing, on advancing the rights of Scotland's LGBT plus community. She has acknowledged some historic wrongs as well, like yesterday, for the victims of forced adoption. She knows my background and, as such, I will always appreciate her dedication, her continuing dedication to young Scots currently in the care of this state, or who have experience of the Scottish care system. Presiding Officer, good and bad, this chamber will debate her legacy long after her departure. The First Minister and I are very different people. Our visions of the future of Scotland and of the United Kingdom just do not align, but I recognise hard work when I see it. I am also grateful for the kindness that she has done me personally on occasion. Indeed, the words of comfort that she once offered me in private conversation when my daughter was hospitalised are something that I will not forget. The sands of politics, the Scottish politics, are now shifting in big and unpredictable ways. This is a moment, a crossroads, a chance to do things differently, and people are now looking for inspiration. People are looking for new hope. I would like to finish by thanking Nicola Sturgeon and indeed her deputy John Swinney for both of their service to our country, and I wish them well with whatever comes next. Thank you. I now call on Emma Roddick. Thank you, Presiding Officer. It is truly an honour to be speaking today on the resignation of the First Minister, though it is a decision that I and I think the country are still needing to come to terms with. When the First Minister became the First Minister, I was 17 and I was in the audience at Eden Court where she came to speak to voters and activists about her plans for Scotland. I am going to come back to that moment later, but for now I am going to reflect on that plan for Scotland, because that plan is what brought us the baby box. It is what brought us the Scottish child payment, the promise, all emblematic of the progressive values that the First Minister not only brought to the four of the SNP but brought so many into the SNP on the back of. Now, stop the world Scotland wants to get on is rightfully a very famous campaign line of Winnie Ewing's, but Nicola Sturgeon did not wait for independence to bring it to life. She has been an ambassador for Scotland and that will serve us well when her successors deliver independence. She has also always stayed true to herself and as a young survivor of sexual assault, this is the First Minister I watched stand up not just when it was easy or abstract, but when it was difficult and say women deserve justice. I think that we can also look at how she spent the last few weeks in her role when people can't accuse her of being about keeping her position next time or winning applause. She has tackled misogyny, she has delivered a very moving apology for historic adoption practices and of course spent time with the care experienced young people of Scotland to whom she was the first to say the state does not just owe them a home, we owe them our love. At a time that we were so isolated, so separate, Nicola Sturgeon was trusted, invited and welcomed into millions of living rooms across the country. The last time I was allowed to visit my mother was before the last lockdown, the lockdown that she caught Covid in and we sat in her garden and she told me all about what Nicola had said to her that morning, talking about the First Minister of Scotland like this was someone from down the road who'd popped in for a coffee and that's the kind of connection that Nicola Sturgeon has made with people the length and breadth of this country, which brings me on to the second part of her legacy because it's not just the policies that she put in place, it is the people she lifted as she climbed, the women that she mentored, inspired, empowered, the people that she told, their passion, their voluntary work, their opinions are politically valuable. They'd been disenfranchised and she brought them in and gave them a voice and they are all a part of her legacy and that includes me because that day in eating court I got to sit in the front row and ask the First Minister what she was going to do to make sure that more women and girls would enter politics in future and it's a question that's been thoroughly answered since but I remember her specific reply to me because she said, well Emma, I would like to see more young women Emma making their voice heard Emma and those words led me here and I think that will be the same for other women in this place both now and in the future because I see little girls dressing up as Nicola Sturgeon for world book day and I think the First Minister has very safely achieved the goal that she set out in her statement earlier, she has lifted and girls across Scotland are rising to meet her and as one of those girls I am confident that she will continue to inspire no matter what she does next. Now Presiding Officer, this has been a personal contribution but as I speak on behalf of the SNP today I know that we all want to thank her for her service, her selflessness and her dignity as First Minister and I'm going to end just by saying I've read quite a few books on the back of First Minister's recommendations and I cannot wait to read the books that Nicola Sturgeon is going to write. Thank you. Thank you and I call on Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister. Thank you Presiding Officer, I'm going to be brief firstly because I know everybody wants to go and have lunch but secondly I'm not sure that I can go much further without crying so just to say from me to colleagues across this chamber thank you for your generous comments they mean a great deal to me and I deeply appreciate them.  Thank you for that contribution. Emma's is one of probably thousands of interactions I've had with girls and young women across these eight years of my time as First Minister and if I have encouraged even just a few of them to believe more in themselves and to stand a bit taller then I will be very happy because that means a great deal to me. More generally Presiding Officer, to lead this country is the pinnacle of what this shy, introverted that's still the case not just when I was a young girl but what this shy, introverted working class girl from Ayrshire could ever have dreamed of and this country is truly amazing and the people who live in this country no matter where they came from are also amazing. As I've travelled overseas as First Minister and that has been an enormous privilege I have had the opportunity to see just how much Scotland punches above her weight and I have seen directly the respect that we are held in by people right across the globe perhaps all we need to do now here at home is believe a bit more in ourselves. Now even although I know without a shadow of a doubt that the time is right for me to go I do feel emotional today and perhaps the reason for that is that I know beyond doubt that even if I live to be 100 years old there is no phase in my life that will be as special or as meaningful to me as these last eight years have been. You will of course see me very soon on a backbench near here but in the meantime for the final time for me as First Minister to the people of Scotland thank you from the bottom of my heart for the privilege of being your First Minister. Thank you it is now time to move on to the next item of business which is a member's business debate in the name of Pauline McNeill and there'll be a short suspension to allow those leaving the chamber in public gallery to do so before the debate begins.


Hey curlfriends, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today and today, oh today, is going to be my biggest curl transformation curly hairstyle probably of the year. Today's video is also sponsored by Lily Silk, hence the silk pajamas. I mean look at them. The emerald green, it's just like put my hair down. It won't get frizzy. It's great to get ready in that way your hair isn't getting friction as it dries and it's just so cute. Little pants set. Not only does Lily Silk have silk pajamas, they also have silk pillowcases which as you should know.  But when you sleep on silk, it just slides and doesn't cause any friction. So this is a curly hair must have. I'm gonna have on my pajamas, I'm gonna have on my silk pillowcase, and I even got silk sheets. So no matter where my head slides, I will stay frizz free. Another curly hair must have are silk scrunchies. Silk scrunchies are the best way to put your hair up in a pineapple at night. That way when you take your hair down in the morning, it'll just slide right out, make it really easy to refresh your curls. Not only do these Lily Silk products look luxurious and super soft, there's actually a lot of benefits for your hair and skin. Did you know that silk contains natural cellular albumin, which actually speeds up metabolism of your skin cells, helping reduce the signs of aging? Silk is also a natural heat regulator. So for someone that sweats in the middle of the night a lot, this silk will keep you at a comfortable temperature while you sleep.  Lily silk products are super durable. They're made with the best quality Milbury silk, which can easily last up to 15 to 20 years if cared for properly. Silk is very breathable. It's the most hygienic material, hypoallergenic, and you even can choose between like the envelope fold or a zipper. I personally prefer the zipper that way my pillow does not slide out and they have a variety of different colors. I have so many Lily Silk products from my sheets to my pillowcases. I even have my name on one, which I think is a really cute customizable gift for a curly person. If you get them a silk pillowcase and put their name or their logo on it, do keep in mind that not all silk is created equal. Lily silk is a very quality brand made with Milbury silk. They have zero waste and they're very environmentally conscious.  They have everything from really cute, large silk scrunchies to silk bonnets to silk pillowcases, sheets, blouses, anything you could really make out of silk, they probably have it. So if you're interested in matching my PJ sleeping on a silk pillowcase sheets or whatever, make sure you order it from lilysilk.com and use my promo code for a little discount. Really stepping out there, trying new things because we are going to attempt curl formers. Curl formers are going to make these big volumptuous curls, kind of like curling wand curls without the heat. Now because we are going to do this heat-free, it's going to take a long time because my hair takes a long time to dry. Hence why I'm wearing pajamas because we are literally going to sleep in this style overnight and let it set a long time. I'm not exactly going to call it a tutorial just yet because this could end up being a hot mess. I got the classic styling kit with 30 curl formers for a long hair. First things first, we're going to connect these two. Let me get one of my little lilysilk scrunchies. Put this away. Now actually because I am going to be applying product, I don't want to mess up my beautiful silk pajamas. These aren't no rinky ding satin ones. Okay, this is high quality millberry silk.  I did notice that a lot of girls were starting off on clean hair but it was kind of already dry. So maybe next time I'll just wash the night before, put it in braids so it's a little bit stretched but still clean. But today we're going to start off with my hair freshly washed out the shower. I think I'm going to start with the back and you're supposed to do really small sections and I'm going to add a leave-in conditioner first and then apply a mousse.  And because I don't really want to experiment too much, I just really want this to work. I saw a lot of people using mousse and many use the Shea Moisture coconut hibiscus frizz-free curl mousse. Something lightweight without too much hold. Really want to get those in so they're not frizzy. Place the curly dew on here, like so. I'm going to attach this part to the top of my hair. I'm going to kind of twist it, hook it on, then I think I just pull. This might be too much hair. They said if it's hard to pull through you might have too much hair. So I'm going to take out that much and see if that helps. Twist, hook it, hold it, bop it. Just kidding. There we go. That is not a good sign. Is my hair too long? My ends are going to look crazy. All right, change of plans. These curl formers are just too small and I don't know what happened because it says long. So I'm going to have to do some research and see if they make them even longer than this and then try again in another video. But I also bought some bootleg wavy dews from Amazon. So that's what we're going to do today instead because these look long. Seems like the same concept, but instead of making big curls we're going to make a little crimped wavy dews. That's what I'm going to call them. Let's give it another go. Has the same little attachments. I'm going to actually apply all the leave of conditioner to one side so that I can start moisturizing and then I'll just apply my mousse as I go. We are conditioned. Starting again. All of these look like they're the same. So I don't think it matters what side is which and I think I have 14 of each color. So let's begin again starting from the top in a small section. Adding a little bit more loose. Taking my wand, putting it in the wavy dew. So let's do two. So we're ready. Then grabbing the loop, pulling it there, pulling it to the top, squeezing this up. One. Okay and my hair fits. Woo! Twisting, looping it at the top. Hold it. I don't know how this is going to work. This is very finicky on how much hair you put in. That's for sure. You really can only use little pieces. I just don't know what to do about the lengths of my hair because it's sticking out the bottom. Today is just an experiment I suppose, but you do kind of get the hang of this. Last one on this side. Darn it I meant to time this. Now we'll never know. All right! There is that side and those little fuzzies are gonna be a problem. Maybe I should just pull them down and help the top of my head stretches. Now we're gonna do pink and finish her off. We have come to the end. I really feel like this would turn out so bomb if my hair actually fit in all of them because now I don't know how the top of my head's gonna look. Let's add some mousse and hopefully it'll just like kind of weigh it down. Okay so in conclusion my final thoughts on just the application process. I need to figure out what to do if your hair is longer so it doesn't look all weird and frizzy on the bottom. It is pretty easy to latch on if you get a small piece of hair. If you're having trouble pulling it through the piece is too big. Make it smaller. Even with me making the size pieces that I did I actually ended up having three or four left over and my hair is very fine so if you have thick hair you might need two bags of these. I'm really excited to see how this is gonna look. At this point you can put it under a hooded dryer which sounds like a really hard thing to do actually.  I don't know how to get all these in the hooded dryer. Maybe I'll try it next time but today I want to try it being completely heatless and just sleeping on this overnight. So let me go ahead and put my lily silk pajamas back on. Alrighty taking off that shirt was a nightmare. Button down closed so you could just take it on and off and not the pulling thing over your head is definitely the way to go. I feel like a really cool jellyfish like a rock star. Punk rock. I should have pink and purple hair. I'm doing color next. So that took me about an hour to do including all my mistakes in the beginning so if I wasn't filming and I really got it down maybe 30ish minutes to do which isn't that bad but it is going to take a long time for my hair to dry so I'm going to let you know how it is to actually sleep on these which doesn't seem like a very fun thing. Just got an idea for this long piece of hair because I'm over here waiting for this to dry but like look at this that's just that's too much hair sticking out. So let's try this one again and I put this little extra piece in the middle to make a super long one and maybe just maybe I can add two to one and now we have a super duper long one maybe sort of kind of like that. I'm going to hold these two together. Yo I think I'm a genius. What is that? Yeah girl went to college. What can I say? So I'm just going to just get the really bad ones and do this little double up and see if this helps.  See you in the morning. Good morning. I am back and I cannot wait to take these out. That was a very annoying sleep. It's kind of like sleeping on a bag of Legos. I did you know just go like this and then sleep on my pillow and then it was fine but I toss and turn in my sleep so then I had to like re-toss and turn it was an issue.  Let's take them out. My two little long extensions that I tried to finesse did fall out so I'm not sure how I'm how I feel about this. Not the cutest. Let's just do it. So we're gonna let's just do one at the top and we just pull. Well that's kind of pretty. Oh snaps. This is gonna work. This is actually gonna work. It's really easy to come off. It's cute. I just have to like fix the top. Maybe shush it up a little bit. It is very shiny and it's just like this little like crimp look. This is my curl smith oil because you guys know it's my favorite. Smooth down any frizzies up top. Smooth down frizz. Oh it smells so good. It is a different look. It's pretty. I do I just wish that they were longer because then like my ends would be a little cuter. Gives me like that tessled wavy look. Definitely gives me elongation. Okay I'm actually gonna use my raw intuition to find me moisturizing foam. This is the film I use when I have braids and I want to slick down my flyways. This is also the mousse I probably just want to use next time instead of the shea moisture one just because I know how good it is. Sorry it's the new bottle. So I'm just gonna a little bit and just use it to slick down these. There we go. Yeah I think I'm gonna use mousse to fix any little pieces. Gonna add a little bit more oil to my ends. That's the only thing is just like my ends aren't that cute because they weren't long enough. And to end it off I'm gonna grab my inner sense. I create finish which is a hairspray. Hold them. Inclusion. I don't know cute. It's definitely like a loose wavy look. When you're someone that just loves her curls as much as I do it's hard. It's hard to beat them. It's hard to beat the natural curls. But this is a nice little different look. Switch it up. These were fun to use. I would definitely just use these like starting this at 8 a.m. and then either using a hooded dryer with a blow dryer to sew it dries faster or just letting it air dry all day long. I personally didn't really enjoy sleeping on them. I would just start early in the day and get longer ones. Let's get some more volume. There we go. Okay. Okay I like it now. Now it's giving me like her vibes. I feel like the artist hurt and now I'm obsessed. So yeah I just kind of have to get it off the scalp. Raise the roots. I know I like volume. What was I thinking? I like it much better now. If you enjoyed this video and you like me kind of showing you how I do things for the first time please let me know. Give me a thumbs up and subscribe. Or would you rather be like Bianca I need you to go figure it out and then once you've mastered it then come make the video. Let me know what you prefer. I post new videos every week and we are trying new hairstyles all year long for my hairstyle challenge. So I challenge you to try this hairstyle. Try my previous ones and then tag me on Instagram at Ms. Bianca Renee. You also can follow me on TikTok and Twitter. I'll see you guys next time. Thanks for watching Bianca Renee today.


I'm Dr. Margantuno. I am the Section Chief of Pediatric Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation here at K. Hovenanian Children's Hospital. I would say the majority of patients that I see are children and adolescents with concussions, kids with cerebral palsy, and other neuromuscular difficulties, as well as children and adolescents with chronic pain conditions. I chose to work with children because, one, they keep you young. So it allows me to be a kid every day at work and have lots of fun with what I do. But children are really very resilient. The way that they are always optimistic and see the bright side of things, even in the times where they're hurt or having difficulties or struggles, they always know how to play and have fun. I've seen so many children come back from such devastating injuries and illnesses and really maximize their potential and get back to not only where they were before, but even to that higher level. That's what keeps me going every day.


Brent, we're looking at both of you there on the flight deck, and it's had your discretion. Okay, it's okay. We'll bring them on now.  But if we're not going to take any more data, it just, it doesn't seem necessary. Roger. We copy. We're looking at the, that the GPS... A little bit more information overload. The disk has 26.5 megabytes available on 700-14. Okay. We copy. We're just puzzling over your call and wanted to make sure that we're configured properly for the GPS INS troubleshoot procedure that's timeline little before 2300. Yeah, I'll bring them.  We're in the chamber. This is John Baja. We have you loud and clear, John. Thanks for the call. We also can see you on the monitor in front of us. You asked me what did I think about the, how did that go with the BTS and the cartilage? Is that correct? That's my copy of that, John. Well, first of all, a tight bearing and a broad really shows the value of long duration. So on the ground had done a fantastic job designing it and everything and tested it on the shuttle. We were to find through the whole system and finally get into the vessel. And when I saw the bubbles first but then the people on the ground as before we, I mixed a new bag and we just had to get the human being involved. So that experiment as it turned well as human involvement. I'd like to again, I'd like to echo congratulations to you. My question is dealing more with on the psychological aspects of long duration. We're also doing some evaluation, psychological evaluations for our tests here. I was wondering, were there any, some things that you found helpful in making your stay more enjoyable for your, for the duration of your mission? One minute. Yes, I understand. You know, you're talking about something now that I think is crucial to a long duration flight be it a flight on a space station with an international crew. And I stress that international crew or a flight to Mars with an international crew. When you put people together who are from different colleges, their primary language, you even add to the psychological problem. For example, the four of you, your laboratory on the ground. And in fact, I think you could think of next time you do something like this, try nationalities together, language real well, because that introduces, I think, another element of psychological. And in my case, I had trained with two ready for a year and a half. And then unfortunately, a week before their launch, one of the people held, but so they had to change the crew. So I flew with a completely different two Russians than I had even trained with, which even added more to, I think, some stress in the first. So, but you're onto something that's very, very important, parameters, and we really need to think about it in the future with our international space station. For example, we have two Americans, two Russians, a European and a person from, say, Japan, owned by themselves and don't have a friend from their own culture. I think we're going to even have a little more special kind of problem that we need to pay attention to. Test, I was wondering if you had any experiences or interactions with the mere life support systems that you'd like to share with us? Absolutely. You know, you're right on at those life support. And I would say a couple of things on that that I noticed working with my two Russian colleagues, Valerie and Sasha. First of all, those systems at a deeper level than I remember I knew the ecosystems here on the shuttle. When you're able to clean a vehicle up on the ground as we do and then go into orbit and stay for two weeks and come home and clean it up again, that's one kind of level of knowledge. If you're going to go up there on our new space station, you need to go to a deeper level of knowledge and into that deeper level of knowledge because when something goes wrong, maybe the spare and take a small component out of this bulk and then actually fix it and then put it back in the box. That's the type of training we're going to have to do. And I saw a lot of that during my flight on Mir. Houston lent us for a job brought with him and we put them in PTCU-1, which is a five-degree C container. They're not supposed to be frozen, so we didn't put them in Leslie. We just want to make sure that you and the Biorack folks know that that's where they are. See them and concur. Thanks. Houston, for CMRF, we have a question. Do you want all of our little data runs here with only one CMO or we'd love to use two people to restrain the patient? Marsha, we'd like to use two, if possible. Okay, the first one went dead with, of course, a record time of 55 seconds of getting John restrained and now we'll do it with two. Space habit minus FO 12, step 12 is complete. And we copy, thanks. Houston, very impressive. We're one minute to the ZOE. We'll pick you up at 2233.


Often, we need to cite books, reports or articles that have multiple authors. To do this in CDU Harvard style, we use the et al rule. Et al is Latin for and others, and allows us to cite three or more authors in text without having to name every author each time. So if our resource has three or more authors, we can use et al. When it comes to writing the reference list at the end of the assignment, include every author's name. To see more examples, go to the CDU Harvard referencing style guide.