as by nature it's got to be a huge consumer of energy, but they are doing a lot of where they can to promote energy efficiency and nowhere maybe is that more evident than in rapid deployment. That's where the military gets a sudden call to go to usually a remote spot and set up really quickly and that involves getting helicopters there and that involves getting planes there. That would seem to be a major major massive energy consumer except that my guest today Jeff Verenkem of Gold Wings Supply and others have devised a method or a technology for lighting this rapid deployment space in an incredible energy efficient and resource efficient manner. So welcome to the show Jeff. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. I mean very innovative. Wow. So why don't you just start at step one and tell us what the challenges that you faced and the solutions that you found. Sure. So Gold Wings Supply we're actually more I would view as more as like a value added reseller. So we have partners that have these various technologies that we typically focus on green energies, quick deployment, solar being a primary platform and then we integrate these and come in with creative innovative solutions to bring all these technologies together to bring a total solution to our partner. In many cases it is the Department of Defense but we do have several other government agencies and municipality agencies that we support as well. And in this particular case you're doing you're dealing with lighting and we have LED lighting is way way way more efficient than the lighting we grew up with and you have the massive use of LED lighting. What do you need to light when you set up a rapid deployment site? A place to set it up. They're all self-contained and they are very quickly deployed and they are movable by hand so it doesn't take heavy equipment, doesn't take a lot of skilled labor. So it's something that the Department of Defense has migrated to very rapidly and this is being hidden and deployed around multiple bases around the country in preparation for the inevitable or what may be an emergency. So there's a lot of elements that come into this solution. And one thing I'm thinking about is weight. You have to carry a heck of a lot of stuff to this site and in the old days you used that used to include a heck of a lot of fuel, barrels and barrels of fuel. Now I believe that your lighting is taken care of by photovoltaic panels plus maybe battery storage. Is that the case? That is correct. So the legacy systems were hardwired so if you can imagine trying to put in a 6,000 or 10,000 foot runway you would have these legacy systems that had massive generators that required a significant fuel supply. You'd have a tremendous amount of labor running out spools of wire, skilled labor that's having to interconnect all of these and when you get done with the entire system you've deployed 30,000 feet of cable, connectorized it, interfaced it with generators, put control circuits on that and put everything connected to the various lighting devices for the airfield whether it's runway, threshold, taxiway, touchdown, whatever it is and it would take four, six, seven weeks to deploy that. So with the new systems that we've brought to their attention they're able to honestly for a helipad you could technically deploy a helipad in 30 minutes and that would be fully controllable by the pilot where the pilot has the ability to control the intensity of the lighting as well as if it's a very covert or secret mission they can switch everything to infrared and they can put on their night vision goggles and have everything operating just with the click of their mic so now it's much quicker. For a 10,000 foot runway to put it in perspective you know a constant current system that we spoke about earlier would take four to six weeks they can deploy an entire runway in less than two weeks which would enable them to bring them C5As, C17, C130s to bring in massive deployment of heavy equipment, troops, supplies so it's a much much more rapid deployment system that's capable and I think the other key element of this is that it is expeditionary so they can set it up very quickly they can also tear it down, re-containerize it in the mobile trailer and move it to a new location so if the mission has been accomplished or they need to move it to a new location they're able to tear this down relocate it and reuse the same system have it back in operation very quickly. Wow do you know if other nations are are emulating this system though? This is deployed worldwide I mean the U.S. is really in the forefront of this and you know probably the biggest element that changed this was you know in the legacy days of the military they had mill specs so everything was mill spec so they own the design they kind of drove the technology the downside of that is that it also forced them to own the design flaws they weren't keeping up with the latest technology it was much more costly so they've kind of converted over and said okay this is this is not working for us they went to what they call COTS which is commercial off the shelf so now we're going commercial off the shelf which has leading edge technology that's available in the market today much lower production costs much higher quality supply chain is much more stable so it enables them to get these products quicker because they're not mill spec so they're able to get these with normal supply chain lead times and get these products a lot quicker. Yeah this is a classic example of following the latest latest trends in technological improvements and taking advantage of them very very rapidly now if you look at the total weight involved you you specify the time involved down from seven weeks to two weeks and yeah just the weight of carrying all that old stuff everything's got to be much much lighter so it does one solar panel control one light or does one solar panel go out to a gang of lights or how does that work? So each light is self-contained and it has four panels on on all four sides so it's omnidirectional from both a solar absorption as well as a light dispersion so if you can imagine something being maybe a little bit larger than say a milk carton you set that out that thing starts absorbing sun it has batteries in it it has wireless networks and engaged in it it has technology that manages the solar charging of it so it takes it you put it out and it will run dusted on there's a graphic of it so these things they will run dusted on they have 14 days of battery storage capability in what we call autonomy it also has a manual control on it so you can check the charge status you can put it in a intensity of output you can change it over to infrared and you can put it into a wireless mode which would be picked up by the handheld controller then either ground control crew or the pilot are able to control these remotely and they'll illuminate change the intensity or go to infrared or turn it off in you know any location whether you're in the air or on the ground wow you can control it from from the air also yep it's a vhf radio that comes from the pilot they go to a frequency they use mic clicks to determine the intensity levels and a different mic click pattern and it will change the light so the pilot has full control of it and they can kind of set it up the way they want that works best for them wow well Jeff you've got some slides to show us also I do I do so I'll help articulate what what this narrative has been about and give you a little bit of a visual perspective so we've kind of talked about you know the different types of what the the basically expeditionary airfield lighting is all about but it's it's basically the ability to quickly deploy a runway or vertical takeoff and landing site to deploy equipment and resources whether it's men or food or whatever it is they also have it's also critical for if they have to do extraction missions if they have warfighters that are out in the field they need to extract them they can bring them in it should bring in helicopters and just pull them out real quickly medically extractions but the key element is that it gives you the ability to set it up very rapidly and adversely if you get into we're moving the mission or mission's been accomplished at your current location we can pack it back up and and move it to a new location next slide please so we kind of talked about this a little bit that the legacy systems had a lot of cabling a lot of electronics required specialty labor you kind of look at the one graphic in the middle there I mean it's a spaghetti factory is what it is and trying to untangle this and keep in mind that the warfighter traditionally you know a lot of these warfighters that are handling this equipment are between 18 and 25 years old most of them have no college experience or college degree so they're just straight out of high school gone into the military and they're having to handle this stuff so it gets very clumsy and cumbersome and not very quick to deploy Jeff when you refer to legacy basically what you mean is old-fashioned in in this case it is old-fashioned it's kind of what they the old school and so the beauty of technology that advances very quickly and this and honestly just kind of a setback is that this whole technology started with a self-contained lantern that was developed for the Canadian Coast Guard I actually worked for the company to develop this first technology so they put this on top of a buoy to give mariners a visual perspective of you know the the marker before it had solar panels mounted on it had batteries had lights so they took this technology and said why don't we use this for the airfield as well we can use this similar technology that technology advancement brought it into the airfield lighting arena with the very similar technology so being that it was maritime to start with it's fully waterproof so these are fully waterproof we've I've seen airfields completely underwater and then when they dry out everything works just fine so it's all good yeah I knew your boss the owner Leah Hunt back when she first brought this online and I think this was the first company in America to bring this technology online the marine technology you're referring to correct correct so yeah thanks for highlighting that so if you can step back to the slides let me walk through this don't give you a little bit more next slide please so as I mentioned earlier you know kind of the the legacy was you know mill spec sourcing strategy so the mill military on the design they own the supply chain they own the little intellectual property so it just made for it to be very cumbersome so they've moved to you know and this has taken some time this is probably 10 years ago it's like look you really need to look at commercial off the shelf this is commercially available this technology is right exactly what you're looking for and we can take care of this for you with a commercial build structure that we can manage for you much quicker lead times lower costs everything so they've moved to the commercial off the shelf and that's what enabled us to bring these new products to their introduction and ultimately they have adopted it next slide please so you know as I kind of highlighted there's all kinds of advantages with going commercial off the shelf there's commercially available commoditized components that make it much lower costs we've got multi source components so it's not just a single source you have multiple sources that are making similar leds circuits batteries solar panels etc so it's much more available volume production because this is used in multiple either municipalities or do d it's used by the forestry department where they need to use it to bring in aircraft or helicopters for refueling and reloading so it's used across a various array of government agencies so it's readily available it's all ISO 9000 you know produced so it's and the product reliability testing because there's so much field deployment is very strong and supports the the low failure rate so it's a it's a solid direction for them to to adopt those are just kind of a quick snapshot of the various solar technologies that we're utilizing up in the upper left you'll see those are actually the solar self-contained lanterns as we call them below that is the wind sock that's all solar operated as well so that illuminates at nighttime so they can see the wind direction for more permanent deployments when they're going to be in a location for you know a year plus they'll put in runway signs and directional signs to give them because it's much more like an international airport just running product in and resources in and out of the airport on the right is the what we call the R cal which is the air to ground radio system solar operated as well so in the upper right corner you'll see a what we call a happy system it's a precision approach path indicator tells the pilot if they're on the glideslope blower above and then all of this equipment except for the signs is loaded into the trailer so that trailer carries all of the airfield lights and all the installation hardware and I'll talk about that a little bit more in a minute so the lights they are omnidirectional they run dusted dawn they have 14 days of battery storage capability so if you basically have a blackout heavy storms it will still work dusted dawn for 14 days and no problem but that really doesn't happen so we've had virtually operations where the these lights weren't run for five six seven years until they have to replace the battery so they work very well and again their wireless connected with a 900 megahertz radio so next slide this is the solar wind con they're called the l806 l807 l807 is the primary l806 is the secondary it has a light that's illuminating inside of the wind con and this as well can be interfaced with the wireless controller runs dusted dawn so it's all self-contained these you can set these up in probably 30 minutes we're in a regular airfield it would take you couple weeks because you have to run wire and undo it and trenching and these are the signs again these are more for when there's a long deployment airfield that they're going to utilize but it still gives them the ability to have removal and reinstallation very quickly so it works well works with the the wireless controller as well so this has kind of two configurations depicted here the upper two slides reflect this is the rcal this is more for a permanent location that they're going to utilize for a long period of time it's got a cabinet with batteries with the receiver and transceiver in it which is that red box and then it has a solar panel that charges that so that enables the pilot to communicate with the airfield from its vhf radio the photo below is actually the rcal unit that's installed inside of the trailer so once that trailer rolls out to a location it's already mounted there and it just it deactivated and it's running so it's very quick deployable to have that thing set up in the trailer this is the precision approach path indicator and a happy which is a helicopter approach a path indicator we do both of them so it it enables the pilot to know if they're on glide slope high or low so the left graphic kind of depicts what the pappy looks like if it's all white you're way too high if it's all red you're way too low if you have a red white you're right on the glide slope relative to the happy on the right it's a little bit different configuration it's more of a red green so if it's flashing green you're way too high flashing red it's way too low and if you're solid green you're right on the glide slope in a helicopter can just come right in pitch black no lights infrared um configuration they can see everything just fine and just come right in with no obstruction or uh or hazard that probably saves a whole lot of lives because in rapid deployment you're in a very uncertain sometimes chaotic situation that is correct and additionally these aircraft are not cheap right i mean they're very expensive so protecting those assets is very important as well so this is the trailer so it's as i've indicated it everything fits in there you'll see the rcal on the left side that's the air to ground radio the next graphic next to it is the all of the installation tools and parts to install those on a runway and then you can also you want the trailer designed you can plug it into a 30 amp shore power and it will charge all of the lights while it's just sitting there so it keeps them all brimmed up so that when you deploy they're at 100 percent um small graphic above that is every light is connected with a cable so they're all connected to either the shore power or on top of the trailer there's solar panels as well so it charges if it's sitting outside or you're rolling this down the road on the back of a hum v it's getting charged at the same time so it's always ready for deployment at 100 capacity with the battery strength one of the most recent tests that we had accomplished is what they call sling load testing so for even quicker deployment they can just lift these trailers up with a sling load on a helicopter move this to a location set it down hook it up to a hum v pull it short distances and you're setting up the airfield so I mean they can deploy this very quickly so having done that although this is utilized for the Department of Defense this is also a dual use technology and what that means is that it's good for Department of Defense but it's also good for civilian usage as well so for example these uh the trailer with the airfield lighting this can also be utilized for firefighting this could be used in national disaster where we have earthquakes decimates a region you can bring it you set up airfields or vertical takeoff and landing sites for helicopters to bring in medical food supplies emergency services so it's very possible to utilize this in the um private sector as well a couple other products that we um do represent are solar outdoor lighting so we have solar bollards in the middle that light up pathways and then we also have solar street or pathway lighting in that right graphic we also utilize this at the Department of Defense so they don't have to run generators not they just mount these in the ground hook them up takes about 30 minutes to set up a solar light they run dusted on or you can turn them off with a actually an iPhone interface app and they can light up the barracks area perimeter fences around the airfield or in the commercial sector if we go to the next slide we've been very integral in the rebuilding of the Lahaina community so they have the ohana hope project and they've set up these small communities with small houses with uh community kitchens community bathrooms they get these communities back intact and as a community unit and then we've actually had several of these solar lights put around there for pathway for safety pedestrian walking for street lights for the parking lot and for area lighting so the dual use technology military civilian um state municipality it's all usable in all of those arenas so that's the innovation that we bring uh with this solar technology do you know approximately how many people are being housed in these communities in Lahaina well we're on phase three right now but i know that um there's probably it depends on the size of them but the first one was kind of the test unit but i think they had like a hundred families that they put in there and then they were branching out we're actually in the stage three and stage four they're starting to deploy more and more of these communities out there to bring them out of the hotels and back into their community so they can carry on with their with their lives yeah that's that's so impressive and we've got to wrap up but i'm thinking of the horrible earthquake recently in japan they certainly could have used this technology to bring in helicopters and provide people with food shelter and whatnot it's absolutely absolutely yeah well on that very cheery note we have to wrap up thank you so much jeff barron camp of bullwing supply this is technological advance on steroids and everybody especially americans are benefiting so thank you so much jeff you're very welcome thank you for having me think check hawaii bye


session will be Sheila Murphy with a question. Okay I first I wanted to thank Dr. Flanagan for a very thought-provoking, I'm still kind of you know in my head thinking about all that he brought forth. But what about the women? How do women fit into all this? The women fit in. Good that's it. Yeah so you notice certain features except for Morphe and Mary they were all men my examples and they're all white. So I'm aware of that. So here's here's roughly the idea I think the the answer is that women are out there but part of the sort of my aim behind this whole talk was to sensitize us actually following up on the your talk and then Carl's talk that the concept of addiction is it not just an individual level phenomenon. Now because I have substance abuse disorder either now depending on what you think it is a permanent disease or in my past I'm actually pretty good at speaking from my own personal experience about what it was like to be the kind of Irish Catholic male oldest kid in a large family six children. I can tell you about that I can also tell you read memoirs of men who are like me or listen to them at recovery meetings where I feel I really get it I can they can understand my experience and I can understand their experience. But I think that this is what's to me in one way the point I don't feel that I have the position to speak from authority about what it's like to be a woman addict. I've met plenty in my meetings over the years I would just say this here's a sociological observation more men come into meeting alcoholic meetings having gotten into sort of public trouble jail institutions police trouble they were also you know back when I did get sober some people I saw there were people I used to drink with but I didn't know they had a problem we just all drank together. There are more women who are likely to come in because of social stigmatization of female behavior in drinking who you find out as I said at lunch today and I made the minister nervous is the minister's wife and she's 65 years old and she's been drinking for a really long time and it's been painful so I partly you know my message today was really partly that the people who get permission to use in ways that we think of as abusive Keith Richard baby's the best example tend to be white rich and middle class or above men and I think there's a different profile depending on the way they a certain drug or substance runs through a community there are sort of sociological features of it and so I intentionally decided not to speak for women I don't know anything to say about I spoke about I know about like what it's like to be Keith Richard I wish that was yeah that makes sense yes very much but I guess I what I guess I wanted to take a moment to think about was in this notion of willing addiction women are left out of that picture and they're left out of that picture for very concrete and discernible reasons one of which is childbearing of course yeah and the other one is our you know patriarchy you know the fact that men get to do a lot of things that women don't get to do and get judged in a much harsher fat fashion and therefore it becomes you know you know that that all seems unfair and unequal but it also has real consequence for things like seeking treatment and if they want to quitting using drugs and and I think they're doubly punished doubly stigmatized for their behaviors and I think those are these are important things to keep to the forefront when we're talking about these things. Thank you all for really a really good talk and helping us to think about some of the important issues I just wonder if we could talk maybe further about two issues I mean the panel I know it's a difficult situation in with you or you find yourself right now because you just gave a talk a long-ass talk and now shorter than yours really but but now now but now you you're asked to like pay attention and answer these questions from all of us I know that's difficult so I want to maybe ask others to help out you know but thank you for raising these important issues two issues that you raise that I think needs some more clarification some more discussion deals with the issue of addiction is a brain disease and the issue of just the terminology particularly when I think about morphine Mary addiction as defined by the DSM of course the word isn't used and we think about clinicians the main thing is that people are distressed and you have these social dysfunctions disruptions not physical dependence the field moved away from that many years ago so physical dependence is not even that important we all know that at least in the field and so I wonder if we could talk more about that and the issue of brain disease it's kind of simple when we ask people can you show me in the brain where is addiction can you show me how addiction is a brain disease like other brain diseases Parkinson's disease Alzheimer's disease Huntington's disease brain diseases what evidence do we have that drug addiction is a brain disease can I speak to that one that's that's a topic that's close to my heart no pun intended and mark I'm just gonna ask to make sure you speak up clearly okay I'm gonna speak as loud as I can you know my whole my talk tonight is going to be about whether addiction is a brain disease and the answer is no so that's there you don't have to come to my talk thank you thank you but although and I agree with you call that you know that you can't point to an area and there's no spits okay let me let me say this oh the one thing you said that I disagreed with is that you say addiction is not a natural kind now it's not a one of not a natural kind I say that natural I said oh and oh and oh I'm gonna get back to you that addiction is not a natural kind you said and a natural kind for non philosophers I guess is means something that is like definable as a unitary separate independent thing like a zebra a zebra is a zebra okay and and so forth and there's no there's no different ways to be a zebra you're either a zebra or you're not so but I think addiction is a natural kind but I don't think it's a brain disease so that's where I want to draw a line normally when we think it's a natural kind I it's a disease no it's not a disease but it's a very specific phenomenon that's got really specific characteristics to it and such as itself perpetuating itself building it feeds on itself you know and all there's there's a number of different things I think of it as an attractor in a state space which some of you might know what that kind of language means but I mean it's it's a place that people often end up in because different paths lead to it like different paths lead to Rome and then you're there and then it's very distinct and you know like people say about an orgasm you there's no question about whether you must have one or not you know if you had an orgasm what are you faking it I take it there's a question to Owen here about the natural kind what we mean so let me so I mean why don't I just finish yeah and then I will stop so yeah so I think it is a very specific phenomenon but it's not a disease so that's why it's difficult that's why it's confusing that's why we have such a hard time that's why we continue to argue whether it's a disease or not is because it is a natural kind it's a very specific thing but it's not a disease I'm just going to leave it there but you think it takes place hold on let's give you a chance to response what I took to be the question so yeah this is where I think so three three points helpful so you heard that I I claim that it can't possibly be a brain disease for reasons that Carl just indicated no one's able with lots of work to show the distinctive brain profile but even if they were if you think about the logic the sort of social logic of the way we describe whether someone's an addict or not it depends on all kinds of features independent of the person's brain and even body and that's why I think what car I'm not sure of Carl and I Carl might have think he disagrees with me about morphine Mary the reason I like morphine Mary is if there was suppose a squiggle squaggle that every morphine heavy morphine user's brain did then morphine Mary would show up that way but the reason no one is going to attribute to her the normative scar of being an addict is because she's not on the street scoring street drugs and causing trouble or potentially causing trouble so she gets permissions because of features that have nothing to do with her or her use but as I as I tried to say yesterday I think some of us know here who hang around in the addiction talk circuit that there are a lot of people who just want to say it is a brain disease the simple solution is just to say of addictive use or abusing drugs involves features of the brain that might be one location of intervention for different drugs with different other drugs perhaps or different kinds of therapy it's just as an aspect just as the normative and political structures of society which say this is a really bad drugs that there's black drug fiends on the streets in 1914 or whatever it was in the south or the cocaine I remember the year in which I read in the must have been about 1981 I was still in the northeast that crack cocaine was an epidemic and no one in the history universe who ever used crack had ever recovered from crack addiction and that was the rhetoric that was out there with regard to the quick other point about natural kinds the way philosophers of science would usually use natural kinds it would apply as Mark said to like when you go into a chemistry room and you see the periodic table of elements you know gold is a substance with atomic number 79 that's a natural kind and some people say zebra is a natural kind I pretty much think that social kinds are never natural kinds because we sometimes say a natural kind is a kind that cars nature at its joints and I think that any kind like something like addiction substance abuse all these things have so many political cultural gender related how the society is viewing them treating them which are so politicized and economically and in every other way that you're not carving nature at any joint that I know about that's all Mark Willenbrink was a couple things first of all in some ways it doesn't matter whether we call it a disease you know in terms of where to intervene is really the the the question and that's on multiple levels I mean the reason tuberculosis is no longer highly prevalent has had very little to do with antibiotics had almost everything to do with public health measures to get better water and sewage so and taxation is a way to reduce alcohol use for example so one of things I wanted to do well first of all I just like to offer in to try to I mean the issue of whether whether something is a disease is fundamentally to my mind definitional and that's a lengthy and complex discussion I guess I just like to offer one conceptualization I have of it which is from George Kub who's the head of the alcohol Institute at NIH where some a system that's in homeostasis shifts into a different stable configuration called allostasis that's less adaptive and whatever levels of the system you're talking about everything from social to as Ken Kenler says you know if we want to get really reductionistic it's all about particle physics but I think one of the key aspects is so there's two things about this fundamentally I think that we it's often about a biological reductionism to say it's just a brain disease and I believe it was Stephen Jay Gould who said who wrote that biological reductionism politically is always reactionary because you blame an individual for their problems that may well have been caused because of social policies and and and other things like that family situations and so forth so and but I wanted to kind of circle back then to one of the very first things you said Ellen which was at the very beginning is that and it took me 40 years as a clinician and a researcher to finally get it that there's only one thing happening there's only one it's not we we we have so much trouble getting away from linear oh it's caught this causes this and then that causes that whereas in fact the whole system is constantly interacting we are complex dynamical systems and it's very hard to model that but it's only one thing happening at once and they're just different levels of analysis yes thank you I think this is a very rich discussion and I agree with my colleagues we could go on and on and on but I'd like to bring us to the other part of it as a humanist first and foremost in this work I follow the adage and forgive the word disease replace it with condition or whatever you want don't ask what disease the person has ask what person the disease has let's talk about the person who needs our help because we all know someone who has the condition the disease the biopsychosocial disorder and I'd like to bring us there because we know that how we interact with people with whatever level of issue they report affects whether they're willing resigned motivated or not so I think I'd like to move us in that direction how do we talk with these folks to help them find what they need I work at an outpatient program it's innovative unlike any I've ever seen and we almost never have this conversation it almost never comes up because it's irrelevant to whether or not they get well so I agree with Michael I'd like to ask a question from a student he asked many people that I look look up to and when considered to be role models fall into the category of willing addict do you think this is either positive or negative or neither and he signs it a white male artist slash student well I would first say let's not assume that they're a willing addict let's figure out what that is I mean that that was very useful in terms of the talk but it's not something that really in any empirical way defines the person if that person I wouldn't even call that person an addict I don't use the word addict alcoholic clean or dirty I use these more disease-like terms because they take it away from the person that they're not pejorative so don't assume they're a willing addict there's some issue do they want some help ask them if they want some help why they might want some help so the more labeling we do even if we feel empirically accurate I think the more difficult it is to motivate people to change just a quick response to it that's a very moving question that the student asks and yeah just I think it's tricky I think actually the class of people that I was willing to trying to ask us to think about who might fit might fit the profile of people who are okay with their addiction because I think it's important to like realize that this is a really complicated spectral phenomenon or set a phenomenon but I was thinking of people who like a Keith Richard would just say with impunity I do this the people who love me are fine with it and I'm just gonna do I do this yeah and I'm fine with it right certainly don't meet criteria for addiction social disruptions no disruptions no distress right right but I mean there are people here tonight who will go out and drink their alcohols and their usual ways right that's right there's one clarification just one just that quick but I thought the very moving question is you know one never knows and it goes back to some things that were said earlier about that we've all been trying to say I think about the complex system level one might be looking up to adults that one thinks have a problem as opposed to someone who people who are fine with whatever and that and there are lots of family rules on this Sunday night on 60 minutes Patrick Kennedy Ted Kennedy's son spoke about a 1993 intervention with his dad about his his dad senator Kennedy's drinking and he reported that his father opened the door and went out and wrote his son a mail letter saying don't ever do that again and they never talked about it again so these things are very very complicated situation specific I don't think there's any general algorithm for knowing what you're dealing with exactly or what the system is like it's very complicated and individual I would caution us to be very careful if we're listening to Patrick Kennedy about anything related to this issue I just just a quick clarification is that in terms of the diagnosis it requires clinically significant impairment or distress so if somebody is using and they're neither distressed nor impaired then they don't have a disorder disorder yeah all right mark Lewis but my it's quick too I just want to say that zebra even though it's a natural kind zebra is very complex well more I mean so addiction can be a certain thing and still have many levels to it and yes I think a lot of them you I can point to in the brain but that doesn't mean that there's not a lot of very also important levels going on in the social realm that's all yeah I'm just a comment about the Kennedy interview I started out kind of with that reaction it's like oh here we go the old party line but I will say that one thing that I felt that he did in the interview by coming public coming forward in such a prominent way breaking the family rules in the taboo is that so many families who live with this have tremendous shame and I think that he helped to kind of break some of the rules about that and help some of those of us who have struggled with that feel better about you know we we should be able to talk about this publicly just the way we do about a family member with cancer or diabetes and I'd like that part of it thank you and thank you I just have to say something you know and point is well taken it's just that I've heard Patrick Kennedy say so many in name things on this subject that I'm biased well and what I was just gonna say is you know I think that some people in the audience are saying well what the hell are they talking about you know it's a brain disease it's not a brain disease who cares you know if I have somebody in my life who's losing their job you know wetting the bed doing whatever it is that's that's that's disrupting my family life what you know what do we care if it's a disease or not but it has real importance how we conceptualize yes it has importance with took for us as scientists as to what kind of questions we can address it has real importance for that person who is thinking about themselves and their drug use and saying well if I have a disease I haven't heard of any drugs that are gonna cure this disease and drugs are my problem maybe I should be a resigned person I mean what why should I try I've already ruined my brain and what we're saying is no no okay that's and and I think we have to think about that that's why this discussion is important because the way we as people who are trying to understand addiction treat addiction live with not addiction is the wrong word drug drug use and or drug abuse is has real import and real consequence Mike no good points excellent people can recover you know we haven't said that here people can recover they can get better well and if we bring in a doctor candell's work here in plasticity the brain can rebound whether it came from the brain or not it certainly affects the brain we all know that and so it can rebound people can get well I just wanted to make a point that about what we talked about before with the Patrick Kennedy you can come out and talk to your family members that you're concerned about I think that's a good part of that I want to those stress the message that traditional interventions and that approach to dealing with your loved ones does not work so that's not the way to talk to them and later on this afternoon we'll learn more ways of doing that right final comment from Mark Lewis and then we'll adjourn but we'll be back here at three o'clock with the panel discussion about okay not only people can recover they most often recover and you know there's I mean you hear stats between 60 and 75% do recover from real from real addiction without any treat and a lot of those a lot of us yeah recover without treatment like the majority you know people are not aware of that and it's really doesn't mean they have to do it that way it's a very painful no some people need treatment for some people it's very beneficial but some people don't a lot of people don't so it's just important to mention that you know and the funny thing about the brain disease issue which I will come back to in my talk is is and I really agree with what you just said that it really matters the first the first article that said that came up with the brain disease official designation said addiction is a brain disease and it matters that was the title of the article and that was in the 90s 1997 and it wasn't an article it was an opinion piece that's right in science right that's right it was an opinion piece by Alan Lester okay but that's like a short article but anyway and then recently a couple of pieces have come out saying addiction is not a brain disease and it matters like those of the title and and yeah because all that matter it matters because it really helps helps us with our thinking helps us know I would really encourage anyone who thinks it's a brain disease to read Alan Lester's 1997 science paper and evaluate it for evidence evaluate it for rigor it won't hold up I disagree what you haven't read it or you don't know what you're not I'm not defending the paper but but I I think that but I know we have to stop but we will be back at three o'clock at which point we will have Mark Willen Bray Mike Panalone and Anne Fletcher and then they'll all be joined by the Mary band again so back here at three thank you wonderful paper by Owen Flanigan thank you Anne Fletcher Mark Lewis and Carl Hart will be available for book signing in the forum unfortunately we're sold out of Dr. Hart's book but there are a hundred some copies floating out there that I think some people would like to have signed otherwise Anne's book and Mark's book will be available for purchase over in the forum


Hey, this is Brett with Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Ram headquarters. And today we are checking out the all new, brand new 2020 Ram 1500 Limited with the Black Appearance Group. This is the first truck that we have gotten with the Limited and the Black Appearance Group on it and it is the one. It is the sharpest Ram we have ever had on our lot. Blacked out all the way around, everything is blacked out on this truck. The rims, step bars, the taillight bezels, everything. So we're going to do a walk around on this truck so you can get a really good feel of the styling and look of the truck and then we'll get up close and check out the options on this particular truck and feel free to like and comment and share on this video. Just really one of these sharpest trucks we've ever had and that's why I wanted to do the video so everybody could check it out and if you wanted to order one of these we can do that here at our store as well, summitauto.com. So this one comes with the 22 inch black kind of dark charcoal alloy rims. This is Goodyear Eagle Touring 285-45R22 tires that has highway terrain on there or highway tread I guess you could say. This one comes with the LED headlamps, the LED running lights, the LED fog lamps as well, the front bumper parking sensors. The Black Appearance Group gives you the blacked out grille, the sport hood, the blacked out lettering on that hood comes with black tow hooks as well. This one has the 360 camera on there, the black fender flares, the black RAM logo, the gloss black color matched mirrors. The color on this truck is diamond black if you were wondering and here's a picture or here's a look at the original window sticker here. Feel free to pause it at any second. Diamond black MSRP of $69,575 and it's all loaded up. Black Appearance Group is a $3,995 option, limited level 1, 392 gears and the dual pane sunroof and 33 gallon fuel tank are the options on this truck. This one has the Hemi with e-torque.  This is a power down tailgate so you can do that with the key fob or the button inside of the truck has the LED bed lighting, the factory spraying bed liner that's really nice, it's not too rough, it's got a little bit of stick to it so your stuff's not going to slide around, the tailgate's very light to lift up, the other thing I like about the new Rams is the capitalist fuel fill on here, this one has the enter and go system, the four corner air suspension, heated mirrors, built in directional signals and blind spot mirrors and the blind spot indicators, you get the power running boards, the limited level one package gives you the black leather interior, it's a really soft touch leather, you get the gray stitching, the gray piping, both these seats are heated and cooled lumbar factory all-weather floor mats with the removable carpet pieces, auto headlamps, power pedals, power windows, power locks, power fold in mirrors, they also power fold out, has the Harman Kardon sound system, the memory driver's seat, inside you get the seven inch instrument cluster, you got compass, outside temperature display, the heated leather wrapped and wood grain trim steering wheel, cruise controls and adaptive cruise controls on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left, you get your gear selector there, you also have your audio controls on the back, this one comes with the 12 inch Uconnect 4C radio, AM, FM, Sirius XM radio capabilities, you have the factory navigation system, this one also has your backup camera on here, which is an HD backup camera, I mean look how clear that is, and you also have the dynamic grid lines that turn as you're turning the steering wheel, and it also gives you the 360 camera there as well, you can do your heated and cooled seat buttons as well as your heated steering wheel button, here's your four corner air suspension so you can raise and lower the truck, stability control, you can turn those front and rear parking sensors off in a tow haul mode, it has two USBs, two USB C's and an aux jack, also has the ram charger and a 115 volt 400 watt plug in, over here you have the 8 speed transmission, axel lock, this is your start stop capabilities which you get with the e-torque system and your push button four wheel drive including four wheel drive auto and a neutral feature, passenger side seat, love the design on there, has the power vista roof, sunroof or the dual pane as they call it, up here you have the assist and SOS buttons, there's your tailgate button that you can put your tailgate down with and all your sunroof controls and your power sliding rear window controls, home link buttons right there for your garage door security systems and lighting systems, here's a look at the key fob, you have your tailgate power drop down, your height adjuster, you can press that to get into the truck, it will lower it for you and you have your remote start right there as well, we'll take a quick look at the back seats, then we'll do one more walk around on the truck, so these floor mats you can remove that carpet piece and then they become all weather, you have two in floor storages on each side, you also have the back seats are nicely appointed, you have the cool stitching, that soft touch leather, the power sliding rear window with the built in rear defrost, you have your speakers in the ceiling as well and these back seats do front seat things as the commercial says, they have heated and cooled seats and 115 volt 400 watt plug-in back here, two USB C's and two USB's and these seats do recline a little bit, it's kind of tough to do with one hand but they do recline, they also go up like so, so you can store things back there as well and the door trim looks really good and it does have the child safety locks back here, we're gonna go around one more time, so you can check out, I put the fog lights on this time, really bright, really a good looking truck, really appreciate you checking out the video 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The study found that antimicrobial use in periurban smallholder poultry systems in Kenya is high, with most farmers self-administering antibiotics through water. Additionally, many farmers purchase antibiotics from agrivet shops without prescription and often fail to observe withdrawal periods. This practice could be contributing to the spread of antimicrobial resistance. This article was authored by Florence Mutua, Gideon Kyrie, Miriam Batha, and others.


Hello everyone, it's Monica Wahee reporting back to you after attending Invent New England's Spring Inventor product pitch event. The event was held at the Haverill Innovation Hub, also known as the I Hub, at the University of Massachusetts Law. Actually, first, let me take a moment to talk about how cool the I Hub space is. Of course, the interior is pretty cool. They have a lot of offices you can rent. They also have a 3D printing lab you can use, and this is all set against a gorgeous view of the Merrimack River. The agenda for the event had many different activities on it, but I want to focus on the product pitches. There were ten pitches, almost all of them live, which were given to a friendly panel intended to coach the inventors. Not one of those mean, shark tank panels. Personally, I found that style much more comfortable and helpful from a learning standpoint. In this video, I'm going to highlight the products that I heard about from the pitches that inspired me. First, I'll start with Flicker Lighter. Flicker Lighter is a combination of a lighter and a fidget spinner, as you can see being demonstrated on the slide. Okay, I admit at first I thought this was the dumbest idea ever. But then, when the founder started talking about these as branded shwag for dispensaries, I was like, yes, for imprint, here they come. So I see a use case for this one. Let's keep it on the radar. Another one I liked, actually loved, was our YOLO, which is a totally natural yoga mat that you can wash and dry. And yes, it has a stabilizing side, so you don't slip around. The founder told us about giving it away in the Oscars gift bag this year, and that she can't keep the product in stock. So I'm probably just increasing her anxiety by promoting this, but hey, this is one of the greatest products I have seen in a long time. Then there was this grab bag of the other ones I saw. I'll quickly hit them all. We had an entrepreneur fresh out of the military pitching UV, a sunscreen that fluoresces under black light. The idea is you can use that feature to tell if you've missed a spot, or if the sunscreen has worn off in the water. We had J-pick, a J-shaped toothpick, so you can reach into all those hard to get crevices. I told the inventor that oral health people frown on toothpick use. But the reality is a lot of people swear by them, so why not innovate? We had a musician inventor who demonstrated a very elegant and attractive standing guitar case. He showed how with his case he can just set it on stage, open it, take his guitar out, and then continue to use the case as a stand during the performance. Oh, and the J-pick guy? He's a very prolific inventor. He also invented these plastic discs with little slits in them that you can set on a cake, or a quiche, or a pie, or any circular food, and then cut perfectly equal pieces in odd numbers, like five or seven. He said he did market research and about 50% of the people loved the idea, and about 50% were, eh, I don't care. He's an honest guy. There was this guy there with a spinning thing, and it was set up next to one of those square fans you use in the summer to cool a room, and I admit I didn't get it. Then he showed us this video of his invention mounted on a tree, so there are these four spinning billboards going around the tree with the wind, and it is absolutely the coolest thing you've ever seen. My colleague with me commented that she thought it was an art piece. It was really a neat looking contraption. We also had a very compelling pitch from a young inventor. I think he said he was eight years old and in third grade. He was trying to pitch using nanobots to drill through pathogens.  The panel really didn't know what to make of him. They asked how he learned all this, and he said, Google, which is probably true. I literally spend my life on Google Scholar. I'll link you to my Google Scholar video in the comments. So I asked him if he considered using these nanobots in conjunction with white blood cell transfusions. He said he'd never heard of a white blood cell transfusion, so I suggested he Google it. I'm not kidding. Expect something pretty great from this kid in the not so distant future. Finally, my last shout-out goes to the entrepreneur who figured out how to use moldable plastic, the kind for hockey mouthpieces, as a remoldable plastic underwire for bras. She had replaced all her underwires with these, and of course, I wanted to buy some. But she was looking more for a business to business rather than direct to consumer deal. But she definitely has something there. All right, so that wraps it up for my highlights from the product pitches at Invent New England Spring Inventor product pitch event. Many things are in order to President George Peters and Executive Director Lexa Gandolfo for their grand hospitality. 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Hey my social media family, just wanted to take a moment to wish you all a very happy Christmas and to thank you all again for tracking me this past year in whatever way you've been able to. Thank you for any likes or comments or engagement or conversation we've had reposts. Thank you to all of you. I know in this attention economy that we are and what everyone's fighting for a piece of our attention, I'm grateful that you would give some of that in my direction. Listen and our Christmas is not a great time for many of you. Some of you are alone and don't want to be. Some of you it is a triggering of a memory of ones that you have loved and lost in this past year or two. Or you are battling perhaps some illness or some other difficulty or tragedy in your life. I especially send much love and prayers to you at this time. 2022 is coming at us whether we like it or not and it feels to have still a lot of uncertainty, doesn't it, in it. So one thing's for certain I'm committing again to put my voice out into your world in this year ahead and I hope that you can track with me in the year that's coming up for us all. Much love to you all.  So whatever you do, don't quit. Maybe the best days, the breakthrough, the turnaround, the shift is just ahead. So just keep going for a few more days and weeks. I will see you in 2022. Love you guys. God bless. Thanks again for being here.


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I very much welcome the decision of the member states to hold this conference. I think it provides an opportunity for us to step back from our routine daily work in the committees and to consider an extremely important subject. I don't think there is any subject that is more important really in a relatively, let me say, risk free and open environment, risk free for discussion and open for discussion. Of course, the purpose is to investigate or to explore and to discuss and to consider the connections that exist between, on the one hand, the ubiquity of intellectual property in the current contemporary world economy and on the other hand the imperative of development. We're very pleased to be hosting this conference because actually the World Intellectual Property Organization has at its base a public-private partnership which is extremely interesting. Of course it's an inter-governmental organisation and it is composed of its member states. But nevertheless, if you look at the operations of the organisation, 97% as I think you are aware, 97% of the revenue of the organisation is derived from fees for services that are rendered by the organisation director of the private sector. And 21% of the expenditure of the organisation is on development and capacity building. So that is very interesting and I think unique partnership that we have at the basis of the organisation and a very precious one. The decision to hold this conference I think is an extremely timely one too if I may say because it's an opportunity to consider the very much changed environment in which intellectual property is operating at the moment. In the world and the accelerated pace of change for the, in respect of the circumstances of the context in which intellectual property is operating and allow me please just to allude to a couple of those elements of change that we see in the context for intellectual property. First of all the position of intellectual property in the economy, it is no longer on the periphery of the economic system, it's very much central to the economic system as we see now. We see on the one hand more and more governments around the world espousing innovation as a major element of their economic strategy, a major way of creating sustainable economies particularly in a time where commodity prices are suffering and have been considerably lowered around the world. And innovation value addition is increasingly the economic strategy that we see in all forms of economies, developing least developed transition economies around the world. And of course the role of intellectual property in relation to innovation is to protect the competitive advantage that is conferred by innovation. We see similar developments I think in respect of the cultural and creative industries. There was a recent study done by CISAC and Ernst and Young at the end of last year, December 2015, which valued the world market for cultural and creative works at 2.25 trillion United States dollars, so it's an extraordinarily large market as well. And which estimated that there are some 29.5 or 30 million jobs involved in the cultural and creative industries. And again when you look at those industries, copyright is a central mechanism for financing cultural production and for creating markets. For both innovation and creative works I think intellectual property does play the role of creating the possibility of market exchange and that it does so by actually making access a saleable commodity and since access is a saleable commodity this is the basis for the possibility of market exchange. On the other hand of course that role of access also raises questions about the possibility of access and the cost of access. And that raises in turn the pervasive question I think in the field of intellectual property of finding the right balance between on the one hand creating the appropriate incentives to enable market exchange, to enable investment, and on the other hand ensuring the social enjoyment of the benefit that is derived from innovation and from creative and cultural works. An army to mention three other changes besides the I think the centrality of intellectual property which has emerged in the course of the last 20 years. We also see it's a more multipolar world and I'll give you two statistics if I made in terms of international patent applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty here at WIPO. Asia now accounts for 40% of those applications which is an extraordinary change from a period just 20 years ago. And that compares to about 28% for Europe and about 27% for North America. A similar analysis can be done in terms of sales in the creative industries. We see again that Asia is the region in which the greatest number of sales occurs for creative works around about 34% of world sales. It's a world also in which I think we've seen great changes in the instruments of international cooperation and this is particularly irrelevant to development cooperation and the role of intellectual property in development. I welcome the public-private partnerships who are present and who will be represented amongst the speakers here. And we see that these are creating also instruments of balance in dealing with this fundamental and pervasive question of finding the appropriate balance across the world of intellectual property. And finally let me say that of course it's a globalised world and one of the best expressions of this I think recently and of the relevance of that to intellectual property was given in an article by Bryn Hoffson where he said that in a world of a globalised world of open markets and free trade labour and capital tend to drift to the location of higher value use and what becomes the scarce resource is ideas and innovation. So it's a very complex environment, a very fast changing environment and I think the subject that is being addressed by this conference is certainly an extremely important subject. I welcome your presence here and I welcome the discussions that will take place over the course of the next two days.


What is up guys Noah Banks here and the topic of the day is alcohol and the reason why I want to go over this topic this is something that a ton of people ask me up here in New York because there's so many happy hours birthdays celebrations a new job graduations all this type of stuff and everybody the first thing people want to celebrate with are drinks you know the champagne whether it's liquor whether it's wine you know watching like scandal or something like my girlfriend does it that's that's why I say that but I want to do some research and give you guys a few things just give you an intro into alcohol which you probably already know give you some crows and cons and then I'm giving my recommendations and that's about it so let's go ahead and get to it all right guys so intro so alcohol I kind of separate into three barriers you got your beer you got your wine and you got your straight liquor itself and if you want to think about it in this type of way if you want to see from an alcohol content perspective beer has about 5% wine has 8 to 14% and then liquor can go anywhere between 35 and 45 keep in mind different types of alcohols have a little bit more higher alcohol concentration and for you guys who don't know like so you you might see something that says 80 proof liquor what that means is basically it's twice the amount of alcohol content that's in the actual bottle itself so if you see an 80 proof any type of drink it has 40% of alcohol now a lot of people want to go ahead say you know you want to drink moderately you want to be a moderate drinker well what is a moderate drink size look like right so I did a little bit of research into it and a moderate drink if you want to look from a beer perspective it's 12 ounces of beer 12 ounces of beer has around 153 calories and then if you want to have a light beer it's around 103 calories and then for the wine it's basically five ounces so one serving of wine equals five ounces so five ounces of a red wine is around 125 calories and then for white wine it's around 121 calories so there's not really a difference actually between the two and then for liquor it's around 1.5 ounces which is around the size of a shot so that consists of vodka gin whiskey that's gonna run you for one around a 100 calories and the biggest thing about alcohol a lot of people are like oh man like what's the benefit so it actually technically it does provide energy so you know your cards provide four calories per gram your protein four calories per gram your fat nine calories per gram alcohol actually does seven so technically it is a you can say it is a food but the thing is it's not a nutrient it does zero like it does nothing for your body and that leads me to talk about the effects of alcohol on your body so it does have positive and negative effects the biggest thing to realize actually is that alcohol actually is prioritized over your carbs the proteins and fats in your body for when it comes to breaking down so your body's gonna be like try to get all the alcohol out of your system first and then it's got to worry about everything else so you got to keep that in mind if you're trying to lose weight or really optimize the food that you're eating and the energy that you're expending if you're drinking alcohol the alcohol is gonna be broken down first and then the rest of your macro nutrients so that's number one to the liver is your the main organ that breaks down alcohol and it can only do so much in a given amount of time so how I kind of like to explain is you think about it that your blood alcohol content level so your BAC is at its peak at like about 35 to 45 minutes after you've had only one drink your liver can only take so much alcohol after after it's had enough it's over capacity it's all the alcohol is gonna go right into the different body fluids so think about like your sweat the your urine your lungs and that's why you use to get that breathalyzer test of the police comes and catches you driving or anything like that so don't don't do that PSA don't do that and that's how they can tell from your breath another fact that I learned actually is for the women out there actually so women and this is actually something I find out do the fact that usually women tend to be a little bit smaller and they also have 40% less of the enzyme the stomach enzyme that breaks down alcohol in the body so it actually their body absorbs alcohol a lot faster so just be cautious ladies when you're out there that's why they usually say for our moderate serving that guys can have two drinks and girls can have one it's just because the fact that your body naturally biologically absorbs alcohol a lot faster another effect that alcohol has on your body is of course hangovers we all have those times where you wake up the next morning you had a little bit too much fun the night before you wake up the next morning your head's hurting you're feeling gross you might throw up again and those are all effects of alcohol so alcohol one makes you dehydrated which makes that's why you're really thirsty it makes you dehydrated and very light headed stops any type of glucose production and that glucose of course is your energy if you don't remember that go watch the carbs video so yeah so you have low glucose levels you already have low energy it irritates your stomach which is why you throw up so those are a couple negative effects that you have to keep in mind and we all notice this but a big solution to this and it's not like I'm not saying this is the 100% solution but one of the main reasons why people have always stated the don't drink on an empty stomach is because food actually slows down that process of alcohol getting in into your bloodstream so when you eat especially to eat a little bit more fat of your foods it lets your stomach digest more of the alcohol and really get it out of your system so it doesn't go to your blood and that's what really makes you have that hangover hangover afterward so always make sure you don't drink on it that's actually a true that's not a myth that's actually a real thing make sure that you eat before you drink now there are supposedly positive effects to it one is that you have a lower chance of getting any type of cardiovascular disease lower risk of diabetes your high blood pressure improves your good cholesterol which is your HDL and it helps sometimes reduce blood clotting and then I'm gonna finish up on my recommendation so my recommendation one is to think about the goal that you have in mind whether that's for your body with just health like what's your main goal so my main goal to be honest is to gain a little bit more weight and gain a little bit more muscle in order to do that I need to eat a lot of food and my body needs to metabolize that correctly I drink alcohol a lot of it it kind of hinders that process because of course my body's got to try to take care of the alcohol first then then it's got to take care of everything else like the protein which is gonna be huge for me that also leads to number two if you do decide to have some drink moderately right that means having maybe one drink every day or so I would say like maybe four or five times you know four or five times max during the week and that doesn't mean binging a lot it means just taking a moderate drink enjoying and having fun and then three my biggest recommendation is if you are gonna drink don't this is actually something I started doing it helped so much even with like hangovers actually is don't try to get high calorie mixers so you know these big sodas these juices all these like great concoctions that you think these margaritas they're actually adding the more more stuff you put in your drink that's more calories and that's the more unhealthy or that your drink gets so I personally I know it doesn't sound so like tasty but I drink most of my drinks straight and it makes me one makes me drink less because the fact that it's so strong and I could sip on it throughout the night so I usually do that or you can get it like a sugar-free mixer my roommate usually does like cranberry like sugar-free like cranberry juice I think and it's still like you know he still gets a nice effect of mixing with something else now I want you to make the choice for yourself I can't tell you all this is good this is bad you don't do this or do this that is up to you that is your choice based off of what you think is best for you and what's best for your body so I just want you I just wanted to go ahead and relay the information that I did all the research facts I did feel free to look up any information yourself you find something let me know if you liked this video feel free to like and subscribe and don't forget if you have any questions feel free to email me at noblebanks at embraceahype.net and I'll be happy to answer and get back to you thank you guys for watching I hope you have a wonderful day and you 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