Announcing Moodle 3.4, our latest major release. With a big focus on usability and making the world's open-source learning platform more powerful and user-friendly, we're pleased to share a number of improvements in Moodle 3.4. Manage events and deadlines more efficiently with improvements to the Moodle calendar. One of the biggest enhancements in Moodle 3.4 can be seen in the calendar, where you can now, amongst other things, enjoy the ability to easily input event details in a pop-up window. There's also the ability to simply drag and drop events to different dates and months for faster editing. You can also choose the new category event type feature, so you can easily separate them from site or course events. In Moodle 3.4, easier editing functionality helps users to create and amend their calendars more efficiently. Thank you to the Moodle Users Association for making this calendar project possible. Enjoy better course management with a combined participants and enrolment screen. In Moodle 3.4, educators can enrol and manage their learners from a single screen. Functions such as searching and filtering course participants, for example by role, status or group. The ability to edit or delete selected users and a clearer view of a participant's status are some of the new features you can now access as part of our aim to make sure our users are able to better manage the navigation and administration of their courses. Navigate activities faster by using the new links. You'll find new links below course items in Moodle 3.4. These links have been added to make navigation from one activity or resource to another easier and faster. You can see and use links on the left to move back to previous activities or resources and to the right for the next activity or resource, along with a jump to menu offering you all the course items to choose from. Moodlers move through all your activities faster and intuitively through the addition of new links in Moodle 3.4. Easily specify assignment and workshop submissions formats with a file types list. In Moodle 3.4 our educators are now presented with a list of file type suggestions when they click on the choose button. We've added this enhancement to our new major release so that educators can easily specify which format they would like their learners to upload their assignment or workshop submissions in. Always know how much space is available in your private files. Our Moodle users, educators and learners can now easily see how much space is left in their own private files in Moodle 3.4. When users upload or drag and drop files a message indicating how much storage has been used will be displayed. This feature will assist Moodle users in managing their private files more easily. A new capability allows educators to mark activities as complete. In Moodle 3.4 we're introducing a new capability, Override Activity Completion Status, which will allow educators to mark learners activities as complete or incomplete. This capability gives educators marking flexibility for instance to check the quality of forum posts rather than just the total number of them. Our educators are also able to mark activities complete on behalf of learners for instance when the activity is offline such as giving a classroom presentation, attending a workshop or a seminar or participating in a field trip. Meet your learners where they are with easier access to the Moodle mobile app. When our learners and participants access their Moodle 3.4 sites they will now see an option to download and use the Moodle mobile app when enabled with a useful link to be found on the footer of the site. Users can also download the app through a visible link in their profiles. In Moodle 3.4 links to download the Moodle mobile app empower users to access their site anytime, any place through their mobile devices. Introducing Inspire Analytics, our open source solution to learning analytics. Since the beginning of 2017 we've been working with our global users to provide educators with predictions, diagnosis and advisements of learners' performance in their courses. In our previous major release Moodle 3.3 we made Inspire Analytics as a plugin. It pleased to announce that Inspire Analytics is now available in Moodle 3.4 Core. Descriptive and predictive data analysis to inform educators of their learners' performance in courses can assist in making decisions and providing the right level of support. The addition of Inspire Analytics in this major release is just the beginning. We look forward to continuing to refine Inspire Analytics through user research and feedback from the entire Moodle users and community. Many more improvements are available in Moodle 3.4 including new filters by category, course and course format for user tours, a clearer site registration form, HTTPS conversion tool is now available in Moodle Core, the ability to choose whether or not users must verify their email with OAuth 2 services and much much more as outlined in our release notes. As with every major release all of the improvements you'll find in Moodle 3.4 are made possible through the countless hours of collaborative work between our dedicated team of core developers at Moodle HQ and hundreds of key developers and other contributors who are members of our amazing global community. While there are too many to name, we nevertheless thank you for all your efforts, commitment and support on this release which all contribute to advancing Moodle's mission of empowering educators to improve our world. We look forward to continually working with our users, our community members and our Moodle partners to make our learning platform more accessible and more powerful.


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Good morning guys, welcome back to another vlog. I got my Starbucks this morning red cup season has officially started It's number third. It's actually my little sister's birthday Everyone's a happy birthday Maddie in the comments if you guys watch the last vlog I did something really weird to my shoulder and a chiropractor DM'd me so I'm going to the chiropractor I've been canceling my work, but I know that like working out supposed to help it But like I just feel like I'm gonna make it worse. Okay. I'll go back to working out tomorrow I've been off my workout game all week. It's Thursday and so far I've only got a walk so she's like totally fine, but I rely so heavily on working out for my mental health Why I make up like my eyeliner will not come off. So if I look a little bit crazy, that is why today We are setting up the Christmas tree. I'm about three days behind due to my very severe injury. Thank you very much Also, I got my iced coffee. You guys know the past Well like four years at this point Morgan hates to actually start at this order and then I copied her I would get iced coffee with peppermint and oat milk, right? If you know it wasn't maybe it wasn't oat milk Let me what did we get when we call her? No, it's 7 a.m. There Every season I have to ask you guys what my orders are for the winter and the fall because I just forget and I feel Like something is off, but I will say stop as I go to they pretty much They're new and they pretty much like never get the order, right? Which is kind of fun because like you get a different drink, you know, but so no anyways I have my outfits for my live show. I've got a try on today. I've got an event tonight I have a chiropractor. I have a meeting for the live show and most importantly the Christmas decor is going up I'm so excited. So I'm gonna start by bringing it all upstairs, which is what I've been dreading I asked my mother to come help and she's too busy for me. This is this is what we're doing the dogs These are my little helpers today. Oh look at them. Oh Coco. That's embarrassing. Coconut. Okay. Well, let me move on to Fitz Oh, there she is. Oh, you look so cute. I had a drink. She was a lizard last night, so I really don't know So look at how cute they look right now. Oh my god. Well, the tree is up and the top lights are Off they are not working.  This is a Taylor Swift ornament the first one I put up. It's furbish I also have dolly over here. This one's from favorite of the kind. I'll try to link these below I don't remember where this text is one is from. I love cute like meaningful ornaments and I have just stuff throughout I'm gonna start collecting more this year. My favorite of furbish I have a lot of anthropology ones. Any of like these like the felt ones are anthral the circles are Target and then the green disco balls. I believe are West Elm I think they're West Elm I don't they might be CB2, but I'm pretty sure they're welcome and then the tree skirt I have no idea where that's from anyways very Festive and then over here. I have our stockings me fits in cocoa the garland over here This is not what it's gonna be I just have this stuff here until I decide part of me one like an arrangement here and just put it in this In the center, but then it's also kind of big, but I could also move that one I just added some things here and then these are here. I don't know look I knew my mom to come over and fix it. This is not gonna be here This is just because I said that down there and then over here We have my typical little Christmas tree thing which I'm kind of over I don't even know if I'm gonna keep that this year. We'll see it when my mom comes It's gonna look better. Also Ashley Cook sent over her collab with Abel Which is not even in this box. They just brought it upstairs, but it's really cute It's this like never till now necklace and gold and then this ring. I also got in gold so cute I love her the time you're watching this vlog the podcast episode with Ashley went up She's just the best like so talented and also just a great person. So love her here.  Hey time for a little chiropractor fit. Also I don't really care to have a debate in the comments on physical therapy versus chiropractor So just honestly save your breath. Don't even worry about it My leggings are story. Hope as always this vest is free will movement. I got it in a large It's so big, but it's so comfy got a really big too So you can have like more space to wear like huge hoodies, you know long sleeve is Eritzia that I already stained and then my Chanel my coffee order is incorrect and uh, we're off What a productive morning love this. I need my lights to come back on great guys. Look at my new Background I haven't put the boxes up just caught off a meeting for the live show Which is very exciting and I'm actually going to go to restore Which is where I go to do like my ember at sauna. There's red light cryo my IV drip Russian boots Hi from Berg chamber. I mean they literally have everything and they've reached out to do a deal I don't even they realize that I'm actually a member So I'm gonna go film that and do the sauna Doing cryo and I'm doing red light today. So I'm gonna bring my book and just relax when I'm very excited I'm so excited for the live show. I don't know when this video is up at November 11th at the factory in Dallas And yeah, it's gonna be so fun Marco and Dom will be here next week. I'm very excited I'm back from my little quick Wellness up. I was only there for like an hour 15. I do it ask me the king I'm back on my smoothie king grind like it is just so good I was shopping online for the live show and I picked up a lot of things that look the same For bizarre I just got some like random stuff that I figured out a knee for the fall and winter first thing of being at this Skirt it's navy cute. Looks fun I'm gonna try all this on because I'm not sure if it will fit I also got this brown skirt, which makes me like kind of want to wear it tonight I have like a launch dinner at Parkhouse, which is like kind of like so housemen in Dallas And this was like kind of nice. I don't know where else I'll wear it to you. I feel like it looks Very like dressy and then I also got this set I also need to learn how to like blot my own hair because I was just going through with my Dyson like round brush And I just can't get it to look like it did yesterday. I'm like, how do you do that? I don't know how I've like tried so many times also my sweats They're available. Okay. This set is so cute. It's this long sleeve blue top It's like blue and red which is kind of like odd, but I'm into it and then this open matching skirt Which I thought was so cute. There's a little slit.  You know what I mean? Pink Milita pants, which like look like Barbie pants So I kind of do want to wear these like these look Very very cute. Yeah, I could really be into this and I have so many Pink tops. It's like not even funny, but I do want to make sure it's like the right shade of pink I do have pink heels that are cute I do love Okay, so I got a pink top just to make sure this one is very like similar to the ones that I have from skims But I still thought it was cute. It's not this exact same. So I probably won't need to keep it Oh, I also just randomly got these like pink T&A like yoga pants They're really inexpensive and they're cute. So I was like, you know what that's what I need Oh, you know what? I like them in an extra small. I do like these cut of like tank tops and stuff But it's one of the best basic they have shoulder pads and I love them But I weirdly like the extra small size I have these in like a bunch of different colors and I got it in a medium and I regret it I should go out an extra small and then I wanted to try the effortless pant because I don't have any and I felt like I needed to try a pair to see if I like them. So I'll keep you guys posted I'm gonna try out some of these outfits and see how I like it. I don't know if I should do this one already This is the other pair of pants. I got it. So I'm gonna try all these on and see but there's pink pants over here They're really cool. I'm raining. All right guys, we're gonna do a little bit of makeup as I update y'all on my wellness routine So I go like I said to restore Putting some mocha song. This is the by beauty agave lip mask. I believe yeah, it's really really hydrating I'm actually gonna try to combine the hourglass and Giorgio Armani foundation to how I like that But anyways going in it to more of my wellness routine as you guys saw a few clips earlier I have been really at my wellness era and it really started when I started going to restore because I could regularly go This is not sponsored by the way. I'm just telling you guys. I can regularly go to The infrared sauna, which I love I find that for me the infrared sauna calms me down. It really centers me It's really good for circulation. It's great for your skin. It's like literally there's so many benefits. It's crazy I love it. I'll sit there and I will listen to I've actually started getting into meditation. I will play a superhuman Meditation and really really enjoying those and then I will go in and I'll follow up with cryo. I Love cryo therapy you go into that machine where all of the like it looks like steam But it's just like ice because it's like negative a hundred forty degrees in this room or something crazy And I've worked my way up to three minutes on a intensity of three I play the same Beyonce I'm a girl song all the time when I'm in there and when I leave I am so Focused that I actually like think I can run the president the crazy thing is if I take that out Out of my day to go do those things a lot of the time I'll like guilt myself in like always should be working It should be doing something more productive Or should be doing this this whatever but if I take that hour out of my day I get so much more done on the in those days because I'm just so much more focused and helps with energy It helps with sleep. It just it's helped me a ton. I also am a big fan of red light I did red light today red light just like there's so many benefits to all this stuff But I do red light because I like that it helps my skin And yeah, my wellness era has been incredible. I've been trying to get facials more regularly I've been going to the Thompson spot You can use code Kinsey through the end of the year for 20% off of the Dallas location I get the skin better facial go to Cheryl if you can she's the best and What else are we doing? I don't know. I'm just like getting more into like cold and hot therapy. Okay? Well, I ran out of storage. I finished my makeup. This feels so like old-school YouTube still not done with this movie. It takes me like literally four hours I used a little bit of this hourglass palette that I just had a VR. I liked it What else am I making a lot a brush that I've been loving is this co says brush Bronzer brush. It is so incredible and I've been like patting in my bronzer instead of going like this Which I've always done but take talk told me that's what makes it look muddy and like drag down But I noticed that if I like pat it it looks a lot better. So I've been doing that Just now I did liquid eyeliner, which I haven't done in forever I honestly like I look like I'm 16 because that was probably the last for my war like liquid wing Liner on my own. I feel like no, I do brown with eyeliner. I did that last fall, and I I love that I actually need to get brown liquid liner. I think I'm out. This is the liner that I used today I really liked it. I've been loving the milk clear brow gel as well. That has been a good too I've been using the Laura Mercier highlighting powder in rose glow for my highlighter in the recent months Dims I love so much the stick that I go to let me make sure this is the one I go to the most as you Can probably tell it doesn't like have a name.  Oh, actually, that's not true Because the concealer I really really like and then the costas like soft blur powder I tried this first when I was in New York, and I was like I really get it like whatever This powder is incredible My skin is like extra shiny right now because I use the like Hollywood filter thing But this powder when you put it on your skin it truly blurs it does what it says it does But it makes your skin look so soft It's such a good powder like cannot recommend this enough 10 out of 10 All right guys I changed or looked through so many different outfits just to end up in the most subpar outfit that I could put together My top of skims my pants are Princess Polly these shoes are Sam out of my way the wrong time Chanel I might throw on my look oversized erythia blazer. That's also you guessed it brown And this is the look I'm going to a launch dinner for Ashley Robertson. She is launching at the show She ran today. I'm pretty sure so that's exciting. We're gonna park us. I have literally no idea who else I'm going I'm sure onto someone But yeah, I'm heading out No, if you all saw my garden drama on Instagram stories last night, but I have two raised beds as we know and The bottom of the raised bed that's holding at the soil. It's like black plates, right? And I guess two of those fell Conveniently when my HOA sent over people I literally think they're taunting me when they sent over people for my roof And I know some people will one person said that happened to me. I had too much dirt No, no, that's not the case. That's not what's happening here because my raised beds were totally fine They were fine in the storms and then all of a sudden people come over to fix my rooftop which as we know will probably not be fixed and They like move things. They just left it like that. Okay, and I'm gonna live in the reality that the HOA did this to me So I woke up very early this morning had to cancel my morning walk went up to the roof and so I did You know gardening away trying to fix my garden got it all done and then I hit something and it fell So the people who are working at my house today, so they're gonna fix it for me But I just like I'm in mourning right now I'm truly in mourning.  This just cannot be happening to me anyways, I'm on my way to Wait, let's say it is Friday morning as my first workout actual workout all week besides like 12 through 30 or oh my god walks my Like back Sony's we just said again. I have an appointment at 1045. Oh my god I'm getting a lash lift too for the first time. So I've heard good things and I guess I'm just like trusting them with my life. I was gonna go shopping for Fabrics, but I was gonna get off my grandma and it's like storming. It's gonna storm this afternoon So I we might I don't want her to go drive the rain. So we might do that Monday So We will see okay. What's gonna get for you? Okay. Can I just do an iced coffee a grandeur vinty grandeur iced coffee?  Yeah, I'll do both then. Thank you. It's so embarrassing guys I've had so many points that though and I like always my god I'll give you another time for whatever reason and they were like you need to start using them cuz they're gonna expire and I've gotten free Breakfast the past two mornings. So that's actually humiliating. It really is Anyways, I'm gonna go wait left. It's my favorite workout now in Dallas. I've been really into weightlifting It's because I actually really like my coach, but And it's just like a low stress environment like it's very Welcoming it's only a 45 minute workout Which for whatever reason feels so much shorter than a 50 or 55 and it's not like obviously weightlifting is hard But it I don't know how to describe it the environment is not like crazy intense. So anyways on my way Head and heart the chiroctor All right guys, I should have done it before and after But there is a very big difference in my lashes. I just can't get them wet for 24 hours I Really wish you could see more and there's gonna be an even bigger difference whenever I put mascara on but I Don't know I like I feel like it's obvious, right? So I'll review it more as time goes on the tent is gonna last Like seven to ten days. I think they said it could be wrong and then the actual like lash lift last five to eight weeks and I got a tent and a lash lift So it's just very convenient. I have finished my work for the day. I was just watching the Kardashians I had it Selena Gomez's documentary on while I was working and it was so good Like I wanted to cry multiple times. This one. I by the way is amazing. It's free people It's been storming like crazy.  I'm just going to dinner with the girls. I'm in like a very Good cozy mood. I'm gonna start getting ready because I think I'm gonna go to their place first and Then I'm gonna head over there, but Selena Gomez's documentary was incredible. So anyways I'm gonna get ready and then go to dinner just got this package from said active and I have to say the quality of this puffer is A like 20 out of 10. I like this better than the super puff feel like I'll say it. Okay, and I have super fun I love super pop.  I love it. All right y'all. I'm ready for the night. This is my outfit. By the way update I love this closet room. I brought my speaker up that Laura got me for my birthday I've just been playing music and they're just taking my time getting ready, and it is so much fun I do need to go through this weekend I'm not gonna vlog this weekend because next week is a big week with the live show. I'm very excited Um, and we would drop in a bunch of stuff people are coming in town I just like don't want to burn out.  I'm saying any no you guys don't care You literally don't care. Why am I telling you this? Anyways, I need to continue to go through and get rid of stuff because I still have too many clothes stores a little bit too cluttered So I always I don't enter give it to friends I normally give it to friends and they don't have the rest of what they don't want But yeah, I'm very happy with how this is turned out and I was going to come into this room It really is really good dream come true I never thought I have a closet like this and I'm just so grateful and inspired and it's just like really cool I would have never expected off my clothes or in my house, but like it really does make me feel inspired So I love that. Anyway, it's my outfit, which is what I came on here to say. The shoes are boots from Jeffrey Campbell You guys listen Morgan Stewart on Colorado. She said ankle boots are out and I don't like ankle boots I don't really wear ankle boots like it's very rare that I have a pair that I like like maybe a pair from Tacoma's And like that's it. But like here's the thing. I wear these under Jeans so like does that count Morgan? You know what I mean? They go up like mid length like to here, but I just have these like wear with pants and it looks like they're higher You know, not that it matters what you will think. I just want you guys to let me know what you think Jeans are Abercrombie, but look what it's Morgan Stewart. I kind of just matter. You know what I mean? Anyways, Jeans are Abercrombie curve love. I don't know exactly the fits I never know if it's you have to go back to like my Abercrombie hauls when I link them because like I just don't know off my head Jacket is I think Princess Polly my top is just a like short sleeve body suit from skims because it's pouring out It's about to stop it's gonna be hotter today. So that's why I'm like, I don't even know what to wear I pulled my hair back just because I didn't want to get rained on I just like don't care and then I have my Chanel bag And that is it so I hope you guys enjoyed this vlog. It was a little bit shorter I think hopefully then the past ones because we've been really getting a little too chatty there, you know So anyways, hope you guys enjoyed this video and I will talk to you soon It's something I'm like struggling with even as I get older because now I'm becoming the age of some of these like moms and teachers that were so I mean evil to me and my daughter and just very Brash and it's like hard for me to now understand like I would never even like when she has like little beefs with her friends It's always like smiling still way because I'm like, I'm 30. I don't care what their issues are You know, so it's hard for like me to now sit back and realize like how actually Like main women were


Well, thank you all for coming. Small, well intimate turnout. But for those of you all who haven't met, I'm Olivia, and I'm the opioid overdose rescue box program coordinator, and also Maripura Vista. And we are here tonight in response basically to a non-flex project. I'm kind of going off script a little bit. Don't do this. I can talk to them. It's like, you don't have to resize it, I think. We are working to get these nalox boxes installed throughout central Vermont. They already exist in a couple locations in Vermont, but they would be the first in central Vermont here. And we put out a pre-survey to the community to gauge their interests, their questions about overdose, their questions about Narcan. Received a lot of feedback that people wanted more information, wanted more education around Narcan. Which is what the start of these trainings are about. There's a series of threes. We have two more in Barrie and Montpelier. And so we teamed up with Vermont Cares, which is Teresa over here, so I'm sure you all know. And they were going to do a little Narcan training. And then I was going to just talk a little bit more about the project. And yeah, that's like a little intro to why we're here. But thank you all for coming. And so I don't know what the best way to kind of go about if we want to just have a conversation about our experiences and you guys being out here tonight. Or like you said, Teresa, I don't necessarily want to preach the choir like we all are here for the same reason. But yeah. I guess I have a question. So my piece of this was going to be to share with community members who might not know how I recognize the signs of overdose or how to use Narcan and that kind of thing. But I know that you all know how to use Narcan. I don't need to do that. I believe that probably most of the people on the Zoom, I'm not sure. I just want to find out what folks need because I don't want to do a Narcan demonstration for folks that know how to use Narcan. And I'd love to, for me, I told Olivia and Eva and Javed, I have also a story that I wanted to be able to share this evening after I talked a little bit about how to use Narcan. And also we've done a lot of community events where we've had really intimate groups like this. And a lot of times we've turned them into really amazing, rich, deep conversations that we could really still get some really awesome work then. But here's a smaller intimate group. And so I'm here to support you all and whatever you need, answer questions you might have, talk about resources. So that's kind of, that's me. Oh, and I'm the executive director of Vermont Cares. So. Why don't you share your story? Yeah, open with the story. I think that's really important. And then, hi. Hi. Welcome. Let's sit with us. I'm here to get some photos around the back. All right. Thanks. You're welcome. Yeah. Maybe we need to do or not. You know what you're doing? Make sure you know what you're doing. Oh, God. I believe he was all over me. I guess we probably should at least share a little bit about who I am and who Vermont Cares is for folks that may not know that would be helpful probably also for folks on Zoom here. So Vermont Cares is one more part of the CDPC coalition, but we also are a statewide nonprofit organization that does HIV prevention and care and harm reduction. And so we operate syringe service programs around the state, one in Barrie, one in St. John's Barrie, one in Rutland, and then we have two mobile vans. So it was a pretty expansive program across 11 counties. I have been the executive director for just over a year, but I've worked for Vermont Cares for 11 years. I started at Vermont Cares as a case manager working with people who are living with HIV and sort of made my way up through the ranks to the executive director position. And I think the reason that I've stayed and been so committed to this work is, one, I'm a person who has recovered from really life-threatening chaotic drug use. And I've always wanted to be able to help other people. And recently, I've had a renewed sense of urgency to the work that we are all doing. And for the reason that we're all here is so important. We're here to learn how to save lives, right? The work that we all do with harm reduction in your fields, emergency service providers, medical providers, we all are here to save lives and to help people. And I live and breathe this, right? And I recently was in a situation at a little bar restaurant for an event with my family and someone experienced an overdose while I was there in the dining room. The worst thing ever I could ever imagine happened and that was I didn't have Narcan on me. Me, the person who talks about this every day, who has devoted the last decade of my life to this and genuinely really believe that everybody should have Narcan and access to Narcan. And I didn't have it. I do this work every day. I talk about this every day. It's around me all the time. I left home without it. And so I guess I really wanted to speak to people here tonight and say, I get it. Like, why would someone who doesn't do this and doesn't know anything about it hasn't impacted by it also be like, gosh, I need to have that medication on me at all times. New perspective. I then decided to just say, oh, my goodness, I wonder how many of my staff, who we also all do this work, is everyone carrying Narcan and ask the staff days later. And only one person had been carrying Narcan on them because we became complacent about this. And it's not going to happen to us, even in this field. What happened in that moment for me was there was a lot of people in this building and not one person had Narcan. And people were screaming, does anybody have Narcan? Please, somebody get Narcan. And I just, I kept looking through my purse even though I knew I didn't have it. And I just kept like dumping it out and I knew I didn't have it. And I felt so helpless and also so, so upset was super traumatic. Like probably nothing I've ever experienced before. And I realized then, and I've done a lot of these trainings and a lot of times community members, especially will say, I don't know about that. I'm nervous. What if I don't use it right? What if I get too close to this person? You know, they're nervous, they're scared. I don't blame them. Especially in a scenario where you may not know the person. And I realized in this moment when I went through this experience that it didn't matter if you knew how to use Narcan at all, if you just had it on your person and were able to give it to the people who were trying to help save this person's life, that's all you needed. And that feeling of helplessness when I knew I had a way that I could have helped in a different way will live with me for a very, very long time. But I'm using this as a way to really implore people to consider what it means just to carry it. Even if you don't know how to use it.  You might breathe in some fentanyl and overdose yourself. These are things that aren't true, but there's still things that are circulating out there in our communities and in our world. And then, of course, people are fearful. And I just wanna say you don't have to be scared to carry Narcan, you can save a life.  I've been waiting to be able to talk about this without crying and without breaking down. I appreciate you all. This is the first time I've told this story publicly, being very broad about it to protect people's privacy and just renewed a renewed urgency for me also. Not that it ever went away, but just a different perspective to have. We talk about the signs of overdose pretty nonchalantly. Actually, I realized, I didn't realize how nonchalantly until experiencing it firsthand. And I can almost, almost, yeah, I'm gonna stop there. Yeah. Thank you, Sharon. I mean, I think that's the reason we're here tonight and we're gonna meet other places that we need to have, this is a life-saving drug, but if it's not there, it doesn't save anyone's life. And we need to get it into the hands of people, not only that use drugs, people that are with people that use drugs, family members of people that use drugs, and the general public, because all it takes is one of these things to be there and you're right, you don't have to give it up now, Conrad, there are plenty of people that can and will, but it has to be there.  Sorry, let me go. But we're gonna bring some good for that. We're gonna bring some good from that. That's right. And yes, yes. And I would like to say also, when EMS came, they did such a great job, and that felt really good too to see that interaction happen in this particular place in a really kind and compassionate way. So that was good too, yeah. So, yeah, what?  No, thank you for sharing that, again. I mean, yeah, I guess I could talk more about it. I don't think that's live. Sure. That'd be sort of a good piece to start. I'd love to see it. Sure. Do you want me to share it with you? Yeah, that would be great. I want to have one of these in every single business across the state. Yeah. Well, yeah, I mean, your story reminded me very much of probably the first person who landed as someone who coded in a public except, who maybe had seen the CPR course or had heard about CPR, but everyone around him is nervous to do it or you need an AED, someone please get an AED, I mean, it sounds like we're working on something that will be similar to that, which in turn will, I think down the road, we'll find that similar to the AEDs, we're gonna find people who are going to, we're gonna be saving lives by implementing these. So maybe that segues you to see. Yeah. Yeah. So that's a great idea. Yeah. Yeah. So, let's go through these slides and then we'll discuss where we're at. Okay, you can go to the next one. So I wanted to start with this graph, which is showing opioid related deaths over the past 10 years in the state of Vermont. So it's a statewide graph, but it's pretty jarring, just the drastic increase over the past 10 years. 2019, there was a little dip, but then it went right back up in 2020 due to the pandemic. And in 2021, there was 217 opioid related deaths. And we don't have the data yet from 2022, but they are set to surpass these numbers. And I just thought this was just a good visual for everyone to just really understand that it is an increasing issue for sure. And it's not going away. Getting Narcan. So we actually have Narcan here for everyone in person tonight who would like to take some, but these are also locations that you should be able to get Narcan from. In, there's other organizations, or let me backtrack it. There should be places where you can get personal Narcan. This is where you should be able to go and get those. There are other businesses and organizations that will have Narcan such as like a nurse's office and a school, having it behind a desk, things like that. But there isn't a broad system in place to have personal Narcan. And this is why it's so important to know where you can get it. And I know we had a brief conversation tonight about pharmacies and being able to get Narcan at pharmacies. I don't know if you wanted to say something about that, Matine, or I'm not sure that's okay. I'm sitting in for Matine tonight. So I was very happy to be asked to come. It's been a while since I got to come out with the community. So yes, pharmacies. This is a little, if it's been in a standing order for a very long time that you could go to a pharmacy without a prescription to get Narcan. And way back when this first came out, I know there was some secret shopper stuff done around that to see how are people, how are they really met at the pharmacy with these requests? And I know that Eva had maybe done some of her own as well prior to this. And I think it's been a real mixed bag. And I like to be pretty straightforward in the secret shopping that we've done and that we've heard of other people do. It's been difficult to actually get Narcan at a pharmacy. We've heard of pharmacists charging up to $295 for a single box of Narcan in one of our secret shopper experiences. Another one charged the exact price, $75, exactly what it was. But then also like the attitudes have been different towards how you're treated when you go in and ask for something extremely similar to the law of syringes, being able to be purchased without a prescription also from a pharmacist, but it's pharmacist choice. They can charge you what they want. They can say yes and they can treat you anyway that they want. So just for people that are considering doing that without a prescription, just to know that you may be met with a surprise, you might be surprised at how you're met. And this isn't across the board by any means. I don't want to stereotype pharmacies or pharmacists for treating people poorly. That's not what I'm doing. I just want to be really honest about what could happen. And you also may just go into a pharmacy and they immediately have that in stock. A lot of pharmacies are saying they don't have it in stock or just making it a little harder than it needs to be to access that day then. And we know that there is a law that requires you to receive a partner prescription for Narcan if you're prescribed opioid pain medications. And I believe that those prescriptions, the feedback I've heard on those, it's been much easier. If you go with the prescription because you're also picking up your prescription from your physician, those folks haven't had as many barriers and getting the Narcan. And this is some old stuff too from years ago, some newer stuff. But I try to just be as straightforward people as possible. Eve, I'd like to, I know you mentioned maybe you brought the standing order here so people needed it. Sometimes it's nice to have that with you. So in case the pharmacist is unaware of the law or the rule that you can provide that to them. But yeah, I hope that helps. No, that's great, good to know. Yeah, I'm glad you shared that with our pharmacies for sure. Thank you. And yeah, I can go to the next slide. So the Locksbox Project timeline. So I wanted to just give you all a little overview of what has been going on over the past couple of years. So in 2020, 31% of the overdoses that happened in the state of Vermont happened outside of the home. And you also saw for the past side just the drastic increase of overdoses in the state in general. So due to this is why a workgroup formed and our workgroup consists of partners from the very fire department, very police department, Vermont CARES, the Vermont Medical Center, EMS and many others. And they have worked with us to try to increase access of Narcan to visators and hopefully save lives. We learned about in the Locksboxes and thought that this could be a great initiative but we wanted to check in with the community. And that is why we conducted in the fall of November 2022 we conducted a survey. And the survey results were, we were able to create goals and understand the community a little bit more. And it sounded like a lot of people really were eager to get more education surrounding Naloxone and overdose. So that is partially why we're here tonight or mainly why we're here tonight. We have a series of three trainings. There's one more in Mount Piliar on Monday and then April 11th in Barrie. And we hope to launch off of those from installing some pilot locations for our Nalox boxes. Usually they're gonna be like at some of our partner locations and then broader installation around central Vermont is the goal. Yes, okay. And so as you saw on the timeline in November we did a survey and these are just some highlights that we wanted to touch upon that the survey brought us. So 248 people were able to complete the survey and we were able to reach people from Barrie, Mount Piliar, Waterbury, Matter of the Valley, Plainfield, Marshfield and East Mount Piliar. So there was a wide range of people who were able to answer. 76 people agree that having Narcan available in public places will help their community. 63 said they were not sure how to administer Narcan in the event of an overdose. And then 53% said that they do not know if they know the size and symptoms of an opioid overdose. And yeah, these are just some statistics that we thought were interesting from the survey and why we're here. Yeah, can I add to this? Please do, yeah. So I think what's really partening here is that the vast majority of people who took the survey feel like Narcan would benefit their communities because it's much easier to provide training and education than it is to sometimes change people's minds about what they think is a good or right idea. The reason that we're sort of taking this methodical approach to the Norsebox project is that working with some partners who were part of the Barry Sharps project many years ago. And I heard you came up with the logo, which is so nice. And so that project has a really nice toolkit that you can use to do exactly what we're doing now. And one of the things I think that's a little bit different that happened then is that there was more community resistant to the idea of sharps boxes going up. And so we spoke with Joan Reeve in the health department and she said, I'd really like it if you kind of did this sort of slower methodical public health approach. And so anyway, my point is that that's really heartening because we can work with that. I can work with 76% of people thinking that publicly available Narcan is a good idea. So thanks for letting me chime in, Joan. Yeah. Yeah. If I tell a quick story. Please do. I'm not recognizing the signs of overheats. Yeah, yeah. On that data point, it was just, and I actually was just telling Eva and Olivia this story earlier, but the 53% of people that didn't know how to recognize the signs of an overdose remind me of another story that I'd heard many, many years ago, had a training in Mount Holly and someone had gotten in this ties back to the pharmacy Narcan had had a family member who they were concerned about. So they went to the pharmacy and got Narcan through the pharmacy, but they didn't know anything about Narcan. They didn't know how to use it. They also didn't know how to recognize the signs of overdose. Their son was overdosing, but they didn't recognize the signs because no one had told them what to look for. And unfortunately he died while they were, had the Narcan out in the package, but didn't know if they should use it and weren't sure how or when to. And that story also has stayed with me this all of these years and how sad that was that just a little bit of education could have saved a life and they were ready to carry that. So yeah. The other specific that's not on here that's important is about 75% of respondents didn't know where to access Narcan in their communities. We should probably have that on here. And that's a really important piece of that previous slide and also this conflict behind the blocks boxes. Do you recall if there was a, which communities of respondents sort of felt this way? Do you see differences? If you recall, in Montilier versus Waterbury or, I think it might have been a while ago. Yeah. We didn't separate. I was just saying. I don't think people separate. Gotcha. What's how they're coming. Yeah. We made a conscious decision actually and the survey was five questions. It was those four questions and then you wanna tell us anything else. And we had to decide are we gonna ask more questions about where do you live and what's the zip code or some demographic information? And we decided not to. I think that might be partly why we got such a good response. So the public health data expert in me wishes so much. But it makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. So inside of a nalox box, there is a rescue breathing kit and a container of Narcan. As you can see, it's right next to a EED, but they resemble an EED box and other first aid kits and they provide quick access to Narcan in the event of an opioid overdose. And yeah, I know Eva, you mentioned this to me and I also agree. Like I really like this picture and just the sense where it's right next to an EED. It just shows how it's like very much. It's just as important, just as easy to install can be right there just like an EED is in every restaurant you go to pretty much every building you're in. There really isn't any reason that it can't also be there. So. One thing that's nice about co-locating them too is that my impression is that, is it fire has to know where EEDs are installed? And so I think that this is a nice pairing. It could be with a fire extinguisher or other sort of emergency supplies. One thing I just want to point out here is that in this picture, this box has an alarm here. Not all boxes have an alarm, but in this case, if this box was open, it would trigger the alarm and it would sound sort of an emergency signal. But the boxes that we have don't have that. And sometimes people point that out and wonder what the difference is, not what it is. Can I point out one more thing? Yeah, please do. This kit has one box of Narcan in it. I have seen pictures of communities that stuff it full of Narcan so that you don't have to worry about one dose or two doses being gone and taken from it. So there are different ways to do that. Yeah, so Nalox boxes are actually installed all over the country. And there's two locations, I believe too, that already have them in Vermont. And that is White River Junction and then the GE Aviation Facility in Rutland. And our project would be the first to bring them to central Vermont. And it really is just a community-based solution for what we have discussed as a nationwide epidemic. And we really think that if we treat, this would be a way to really educate and allow bystanders to save lives and really make a difference. So that's about it. That's it. On that last slide, where that's all there are in the whole U.S. Really? Wow. I mean, whoa, that's- There's actually a website, their website you can like, if you see one that's not on that map, you like type in where you saw it. And it's kind of like, I think a self-record types, but that is, yeah. I have a question, Eva. How can you obtain one of these outside of the central Vermont project? Did anybody purchase or obtain these boxes? How does that work? Yeah, you can go to www. I have Naloxbox.com, I don't know. They have a website. So it's super attainable. It's to anyone, I'm under the impression that anyone can order Naloxboxes. We get them from the UVM Center on Rural Addiction. They cost a couple of hundred dollars. And they do not come stocked with Narcan. So you and your community need to figure out how you will stock them, monitor them. Yeah. This is really great. Really, really great to know. I will, I, we will be purchasing some of these to put out in non-central Vermont areas. I think it's just really, really, it's really such a great, easy way to, like you said, to get this out there for people who aren't carrying it. And I think, because we are all gonna maybe forget to carry it on our person every now and again. And really awesome. Thank you all so much for your hard work on this project. It's really awesome. Yeah. Are excited for the pilot installations and then that will help us work through some of the processes and how do we, how often do we want to check them and how often are we checking in and that kind of thing. And then the next step will be putting them up and trying to make sure that their installation locations are data driven so that they're really making a difference, but also finding where there's readiness with partners to install them. So there's a little bit of a balance there. Yeah, I mean, I think this whole kit is amazing. I mean, after hearing your story, I'm just thinking about myself, like being an off-duty EMT in my community.  You know, like I'm in plain clothes, I leave my car, I'm going to the ice center. If someone goes down in front of me, I can most likely rely on an AED, but if it's not a cardiac arrest and it's an overdose, I'm not carrying Narcan. I mean, that's on my work truck. Like that's on my ambulance, you know? So in seconds count, you know, someone is not breathing.  So the stuff really matters. And, you know, you kind of touched on it. Like people have a negative look on Narcan. And some people have a negative look on Narcan. And it's hard to change their minds, but I have to imagine that there are people in the same, you know, outlook on people need an AED, you know, people who maybe are overweight and, you know, didn't take care of themselves if they collapse. It's like, well, at what point did they do it themselves? I mean, that's not fair. That's not our judgment. You know, it's our job. It's our job as people to help our community.   And it doesn't matter what I'm using. People all have their own things. So it's my job to help the user and do a great job. So if you wanted to have a kid yourself, would he just be like any other person to get a kid or would EMTs be able to be provided a kid when they're off duty? So the intention is that it's installed on the wall somewhere. So if there was a place that it would be important for it to be installed, we could definitely work with you to make that happen. And then maybe we could talk about, you know, one of the really important pieces is how do we make sure that it's still, it's always as an arcane in it? Because the worst case scenario is that somebody goes to use it and it's empty. So like my, like what we're constantly thinking about and it's going to be different, I think with every place that it's installed is we have to have a really clear understanding of whose responsibility is it to check this and how often and do they know how to receive more Narcan and where does that Narcan come from? So that's why we're starting with two places we know very well. We're going to go with Turning Point, center of central Vermont and then the foundation house which is a new recovery residence opening in Barrie for women and women with children. So we'll start there and then sort of see how that goes before we go to, you know, broader. I wonder if you could figure out where there are AEDs around? I mean, I'm sure, you know, and that might be, maybe you guys have already thought of this, but like a starting point of people who are, or organizations like schools like that are willing to put up, have AEDs there. Maybe that would be a good, you know, that might be organizations who have a disposition to be public spirited in that way and might be willing to consider it. Yeah, that's exactly kind of our thought process. And initially, I think Rachel and I wrote a letter like over a year ago, because we were like, let's get it in every school in central Vermont. That's like what we wanted to start with. And we thought, oh, we'll just, that's exactly what we'll do, we'll put it next to AED. And then that's when we thought, okay, if we did this and parents said, why are you doing this? The project could die. And we said, we gotta do the survey and see where the community's at. Now I know the community wants this and now we can start doing it. But yes, absolutely. I mean, for schools, the school boards might be a good place to start. You know, it'd be interesting to see how people respond to it. The other thing is I feel like having these things around, and this is in my mind, an argument for having them in schools is that even just having them there raises awareness. Like people are like, what's that thing? Oh, wow, yeah, this is really, this is important enough that we're putting things all over the place, right? Not only raise awareness and also Olivia just sort of said this quietly, but it starts to work on the stigma issue, right? Yeah. Yeah. I think when it becomes a normalized piece of equipment like in a evening, and when it's positioned right next to an evening, which most people recognize now, they see that lightning ball, they know what it means. Right. It goes a long way to sort of making people aware that it serves the same purpose, right? For a different disease. Right. We did in that survey have some misconceptions in that sort of open response. People express some concerns that we made a handout to address them, but some of them included people, being concerned that you could use Narcan to get high. So that was one that we have on the sheet that this really has one purpose and it can't be used in that way. Yeah. So I think those are the kinds, in addition to the general awareness of what are the signs and symptoms of an overdose and how to use Narcan, I think there are some other important things that we still need to do education on. And just getting these out into the community. I mean, it's similar again, not to weed a dead horse here, but same with the AED. I mean, if you start putting those out in public places and people start realizing like, oh, I know this is here. I have no idea how to use it. Then there'll be a group of people who are also like, well, I see these boxes overdose emergency kits. I don't want to have to use it. Eventually there will be people requesting the trainings. And my hope is to see these go out in public, have people have questions and spike their curiosity. And I get to the point where having CPR trainings in the community is, I mean, we're having these like right beside them. That would be the hope. Well, at this point of the night, we were going, we had a pre-post assessment that we didn't do, but we were going to transition into like an open questions and answers section. And I didn't know if Java, if you had any words that you wanted to say or if you already did. But. No, so I'm Java Meshkuri. I work in Central Automatical Center Emergency Department. This is Dr. Ben Smith. He's the director of our emergency department. And we're both proponents of low barrier access to care. And care can mean a lot of different things. It can mean saving someone's life with Narcanic. It can mean having treatment available for people to try to see treatment. But most importantly, I think we both share the belief and that we need to be there for people to address what they want to do with their lives. And we were there to help them. And we have a lot of things that we can do to help them. And what I like about Narcan is that, it sort of signifies the rule of people taking care of themselves when they use drugs. And the first rule of getting help when you use drugs is what? Being alive. You gotta be alive or you can't get better or get help. So that's a really powerful piece. And I think the simple things for the public are how do you prevent overdose or some real simple things? We want people to avoid using alone, right? Because then people don't know your use, you can't get help. There's actually a neverusealone.com. It's a helpline that's got, you can go online or there's a number to<PHONE_NUMBER> where if you have the need to use and you're alone, someone stays on the line with you. They know where you are. And they can call for help. Sterile syringe programs are so important for people to have the right healthy, to stay healthy while they're gonna use. They need the right stuff. Hepatitis C, HIV, endocarditis are really significant problems for people who use drugs and we need to protect people so that doesn't happen. And then things like this, fentanyl test strips. Most people still don't think they're using that alone and we know what the makeup or drugs are. Plus there's all these other things that are, this is the synthetic wave of the opioid crisis now. There's just all kinds of things that people don't know and why they're putting themselves. So being able to test is really important. Using smaller amounts of drugs if you're gonna use them. Carrying Narcan, like we talked about all my, and then having people know the call line when we go up so you folks can get there and help them. That's what we're trying to do. And then if people come to our department and want help, if they wanna get into treatment, we can do that. We can start people on medications and we can link them in services. We're staff 24-7 with people with lived experience. They come in, they've been there before. They're an example of what happens when people wanna get help. It serves both not only to remind the people that are using drugs, but the people that take care of people are using drugs. This is what it can look like. So I think it's really important to have these kind of forums where we come together and talk about it. Even if we're talking amongst ourselves, this is equally as important. People may be able to see this another time. We're gonna do more of these.  So it's good. But it's really important. And it's exactly what you said. It's like, the fact that people use drugs has been going on for centuries, but it's not a family's problem. It's not Theresa's problem. It's not the hospital's problem. It's a community issue. And there's no way that we can do it in our little silos. I've been to work together with some community. So this is the crux of what it's about. There's little meetings like this that go a long way to get things done and get people to help them. That's all right. Thank you. Yeah, so I think we can really start wrapping up. Yeah. Does anybody have any more questions or comments? Hey there, I do. This is Alice Spurrito. Hi guys. Thank you so much for having this. And Theresa you did great. I appreciate that story. And I'm sorry you went through that. I actually kind of had a similar situation. I used to work at the hub in Berlin, the Methadone Clinic. And we very sadly lost a patient due to the family member not calling 911. So they used the Narcan, but the process was incomplete because they didn't understand where they were fearful of calling 911 for their family member. And they went back down under into being the overdose and then expired during the night. People went back to bed and it happened like a few hours later. So I have a couple of questions. And one of them was do you have a sense of the community having resistance to just like the visual public health education, like the signage that, I forget what the name of the agency is, the VDIC gave us at our meeting some beautiful posters for harm reduction, like never use a loan called 911. And I put some up and they were taken down the next day in downtown Berry. That was one question. If you feel like there's just so much resistance driven by misunderstanding or not enough information or whatever it's driven by. And then my other question sort of related is, so we're doing these nalox boxes now, which is really wonderfully presented like with the next to the AED machines. And I'm thinking about, oh, these are gonna be, before I came to this meeting, I was visualizing that they were, you're gonna be talking about the vending machines. The nalox on vending machines that are being put up at universities and whatnot. What does the community, like how, my question is, do you have a sense of, you're gonna go slow with the public health education and how much longer would we need to wait for those kinds of things to be put up in public areas, the vending machine? It might feel like overwhelming for some people who are resistant to it and I'm just curious what your guys's thoughts are on the vending machines and visual aid public health harm reduction information. Like what do we need to do in our community as proponents of harm reduction? What your thoughts are on that? I mean, I think you're right, Alice. I mean, when I think about the reason that those posters come down where there's pushback is because of the stigma around drug use. And I don't know, I think Teresa taught me. I mean, the way to combat stigma is through education. I mean, the more education we can do, the more this becomes acceptable practice. And I think that that's really important is that there should come a day where those posters don't come down. They should be everywhere. You walk into a library or they're there just like the choking ones, right? Back when people were learning the Heimlich language. It's all just something that has to be educated. And then when you get into things like Narcan distribution centers, if you have an organization like a university that can provide that. And again, provide the infrastructure of filling them when they're empty, educating students and people around it. It does take infrastructure. I mean, I think that we have a lot of great ideas but what I appreciate about this project is that Olivia and Eva realized when they started was that there was just a lot of misunderstanding and antiquated beliefs about all this. So they realized that by doing a survey, kind of seeing where the public's at, right? We have to meet the public where they're at too, right? Really gave a lot of information and then we can target education. And hopefully, things like this are really important. We have to keep doing them. We have to get out and know a lot of communities. It takes time and it takes people that wanna do it but I think clearly the interest is there. Great, thank you guys. Could I just chime in real quick on something here? Allison, I know a lot of us have been doing this work for a long time and I was just thinking back to the times before Nalox boxes were ever heard of before we were doing recorded community conversations where I was just going in just me, just with a box of Narcan and talking to the community restorative justice center and I was going to their residence houses and just doing quick and dirty, just like, this is what this does, this is how you use it. And I was giving them a box of Narcan to keep and with the first aid kit at the house. And the time of going to city council meetings where we were being voted no, you can't bring a syringe service program into our town. Those days have changed, right? And so I have so much, we're doing what we're doing right now is how to get to that place. And I just, I remember those days so well, fighting so hard to bring harm reduction services to places and we don't have to fight the hard anymore and we see how far we've come. It's just amazing. So have faith and hope where we're doing the right thing and where it's going to keep growing. So, but thanks for bringing it up. I thought I'd give a little boost of the old school. May I ask a quick question? I'm a, this has been helpful and I will go back and watch the video because unfortunately I couldn't start. Couldn't be here at the beginning, but on some levels I'm a little sad that there's not more people here. Actually on a lot of levels, I kind of expected a lot more people to be here and I don't know, just in terms of getting the word out and things, I wonder if something like farmer's markets where people might be more amenable, just even have like a, if they would let you do a booth, just like an information booth, like maybe near it or outside it, just something else is just more passive where people could just stop by and say, oh yeah, I'm interested. I never really knew more about that or if that's like a later phase of things because I think the more that it's normalized, as it already kind of is, but anyway, just I'm trying to think of other ways to get the word out. I mean, this seems pretty accessible. All I had to do was click a link, but clearly I think there's another step that people need to have in order to participate. They probably think, oh, it's a great idea and then that's it. So I guess my question is how, what else could people tangibly do to help get the word out about these things? Yeah, well, that's a good point that you're raising. And I think, and Rachel, before we got started, said we should go to the grocery store and do this, which is similar to the farmer's market idea, but I think that the point is it's always hard to bring the public here to us. It's asking a lot of the evening, people have kids, people have responsibilities. So I think we should get creative with how we can go meet people where they are and do it.  It can be shorter and easier than that. So it's a really good point. Even having a handout that you give people and saying here's a link to more information, here's the video for people if you wanna see what we've been doing recently, something like that, yeah. Absolutely, I feel like a lot of these recent questions are very related and I agree, Melissa, going into a variety of public places, like I was sort of kidding when I said the grocery store, but I'm not kidding. I mean, and I think similarly to the presence of an locksbox is the work that we're doing is by putting this out there in the community, we are saying people who use drugs exist and they have a right to be in these spaces and they have a right to be here, however they wish to be here and we want to provide what we can be, like providing to make sure they are safe or as safe as they wish to be. And so I think, like it sounds strange, but in a way, these boxes are almost aesthetically pleasing, right? They are not big, scary things. And I think it says to people like, folks have a right to be however they are and they have a right to be standing next to the cardiac patient too, right? Like these are all just ways humans show up and so we should be at the grocery store, we should be next to the AED, we should be in the home, we should be here in the library. So yeah, I think there's like Alice and Melissa's questions are very intertwined in that way, like we have to fight to show up, folks have to like fight to show up every day, no matter who you are or what your life is about. So if they take the posters down, we bring them back, we get a friend and we have our friend who are too, like we go to the pharmacy and we secret shop for the lungs and ourselves and when we get it, we give it to our neighbors, stuff like that. So yeah, I think it's also intertwined, but I think that yeah, you just continue to put it out there and give it the beauty that it deserves. So well said. I also love the idea of the farmer's market too. I could totally just see like, Waterbury, I feel like I saw I was born, you know, and at CBH and I've lived in Waterbury my whole life. I feel like I've gone to so many farmer's markets and I've run into so many people and just seen people have random booths and you learn a lot of, you know, weird, funny, cool things there and something like this, having someone go over it and then even just like an anonymous box where like here you can just select yes or no, like would you want this in the community and get a box of like, you know, now 50 people filled it out and they all said yes, like that's a good start. That's a pretty good group of people and I feel like people who go to the farmer's market are pretty prominent in this community. I mean, they're the ones that go there to support, you know, their neighbors, their friend who was up on stage playing the music at the event, the concert in the park after the farmers would have been, you know? I love that idea. I think that's a great idea. In my other hat that I wear is in suicide prevention and we're often at the farmer's market tabling and talk about a topic that people don't want to touch. But I talk to people constantly throughout my time there, just one after another coming up and talking and sharing and being open and asking questions. And so I think if we can do it with that very heavy sort of scary topic, I think we can certainly do it with this. Yeah, I love that because not only would you have this box to be talking about your community project, but you could also tap Vermont Cares and make sure you had the personal carry supply at that same table. You know, we could do that together so people could not only hear about this and when they see this box know what to do with it but they could also leave with their personal carry at the same time and get a quick little tutorial at the table how to use it. I think we could do so many things, right? Well, we're using this as a great launching point for the conversation too, because it's digestible. It makes sense. It's logical, people who aren't familiar with this can say, oh, yes, I've seen those AED boxes and really understand that because the bottom line is we're all humans and we naturally want to help other humans, like that's just inherently who we are as beings and I don't think it's that hard of a sell, but it does seem like, oh, would we go to the farmers market because of all that stigma that we've all been entrenched in for so, so, so, so long. I love it so much, such a great idea. Yeah, I love farmers market. I'm getting the word out about how easy it is to use this. I'm just listening to the conversation and wondering how many people actually know that, right?  I mean, this is so simple to say. So easy to save a life like this and it doesn't require a lot of training.  Take the judgment out of it, but goodness gracious. When you think of each component of ZPR, it's like, I mean, you need to start your compressions, you're gonna replace the pads. I mean, and before that, yeah, you need to open it. Like there's so many things. And this is, yes, you open the package in the nose, push, push, push, push, push, push. Right, you're knocked by it and I got it right. Yeah. Yeah, basically, that's enough. Right. Yeah, I'm gonna turn it to somebody. And don't worry, I have personal care, you know, I can't hear for anybody that wants to take that with them before you go. We'll make sure that we get that for you. Yeah, Melissa, we would love to connect with you if you'd like to receive some of yourself. We can easily make that happen. That would be great. I would love to be part of it. Well, we're a little past 7.30. You wanna close this out? Yeah, yeah, thank you all for coming tonight. It was, I'm glad we were able to have this conversation and I hope that you all continue the awesome work you're doing and maybe our next trainings will have some more community members and so, yeah. So thank you all so much. Thank you guys. Thank you. Have a good work everybody. Bye. Thanks Alice. Thank you all. Thanks so much. Bye bye. Bye.


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Hey, what's up you two welcome to trending reviews? So in my previous video I gave you a quick overview of the differences between the Huawei P20 Pro and my Samsung S9 plus So today I'm going to be showing you a quick comparison of various different photo situations in low lighting in bright lighting in Just portrait modes and so on seeing which ones are better and giving you a Opinion at the end to see which I prefer from using both of these phones. So let's get straight into it Okay, guys, so I'm going to run through all of the different comparisons in the pictures So let's start off with the selfie portrait modes. So the front facing camera portrait modes are on So this picture here, you can see that the P20 Pro has got a little bit of brighter image I can see that the S9 plus is has a little bit more natural feeling to it If you look around the edges, I think you can see that both of them have done a very good job Some might say they prefer the P20 but I actually prefer the S9 plus in this situation because it just looks a little bit less sort of photo shots and Hans that kind of stuff now just to note that the Beauty mode was on level 3 for the P20. So that's on this picture Going into the next one. I have now turned off the beauty modes on the P20 Pro So looking at the focus here on the front facing camera, I can see the S9 plus for me is a better option It's more sharper. It has more natural feeling to it so the S9 plus wins on that one and Another front facing selfie portrait mode I can see here the P20 Pro outside in the sun. It has done a really good job. There's a better Background blur on the S9 plus. It just feels a little bit more to the point and it's more natural I think both of them look really good in terms of the background blur I do like the one on the S9 plus a little bit better there Okay, now I'm having a look at the back camera portrait modes So here one thing to note is that the live focus mode on the S9 plus, which is essentially the portrait modes for Samsung They always zoom in for the pictures. So once you switch to live focus you get a very close-up Photograph of the subject. So here I am sitting outside in the sun. I have my green smoothie I'm gonna say the P20 Pro is better at taking portrait pictures on the back camera That's what they've built this phone for is the quality of the camera. It's sharper They don't zoom in when you switch to portrait mode. It keeps it at the natural distance I really like that. It's done a really good job blurring the background and reaching the edges of My cap my body shirts even the chair etc. So for me the P20 Pro wins on that one Here's another one of me sitting inside a pub Now this one you can tell a massive difference So most of my portrait modes will probably be be inside some places maybe restaurants and different people's houses and so on so I Wanted to get a camera much like the Google Pixel where it's very good in terms of the portrait modes to pick out the quality of the Subjects and equally get the background blur perfect and the P20 Pro wins on this a Lot of the time when you look at the live focus modes on the S9 plus You'll see that is very grainy. It does wash the picture a little bit It doesn't keep it consistently sharp with the pictures even looking at the colors on the P20 Pro there You can see the table the bench that I'm on. It's just sharper and it's just Outweighs the Samsung on that one. So for me the portrait mode on the back camera will always win on the P20 Pro Okay, so let's quickly have a look at the back camera auto modes So here's one of just a tree with some buildings in the background I think for me personally the P20 Pro Looks a little bit sharper. You see more details on the floor there You can see a little bit more dust and stones and that kind of thing the sky is a little bit brighter blue I think the colors on the windows and the building at the background I think they stand out a bit better on the P20 so overall I think because of the lighting the adjustments. It's done a really good job on the P20 Pro compared to the S9 plus This next one is just me with my jeans I just wanted to see what it would look like focusing on something close up using the auto mode and It's a very close Comparison against these two I think the one on the S9 plus the color on the jeans look a little bit brighter a little bit better I think the blurs much better on the P20 Pro now this one I'm gonna give it to the S9 plus. I just think it looks a bit sharper brighter Better focus and overall just slightly beats the P20 Pro on that part Here's another one of a market Just wanted to see in the sun the type of colors that will come out and I think the S9 plus Wins on this one if you just look at the guy on the right-hand side in sort of the maroon top I think his top and the colors in the Clothing in the background is more sharper. I think there's more washed out in the P20 Pro So the S9 plus for me wins on that part Now going into interior lighting a little bit of a darker atmosphere. This is just a restaurant I was at so it's very close. It's minimal differences between both of them I can't really say which one would be better for me But overall things very close and that both of them have done a really good job in that sense Now let's have a look at the auto mode for the front-facing cameras So here I am in the park I have the sun facing directly at me So this should be a really good quality photo Now for me the S9 plus wins this on the selfie modes because I can see more of a natural color to it The grass in the background is a little bit greener Whereas the P20 Pro in auto mode it tends to brighten the pictures up a little bit too much I think that doesn't look very natural I think S9 plus captures all colors correctly the sky in the background I think the blue is better on the S9 as well Whereas it's a little bit too light blue on the P20 Pro So for me the S9 wins on that Now let's have a look at the selfie pictures in auto When the sun is directly hitting the lens of the camera So I just wanted to see what effect that would have And as you can see on the P20 Pro especially at the bottom half of the picture It's got the light streak and it's very washed out You can see that the trees behind my face they very brightened up Whereas in the S9 plus it has done a very good job capturing details on my face Details of the background, there's no light streaks Although the sky in the background is better on the P20 Pro You can see a little bit of the blue coming through Whereas on the S9 plus it's just a big white wash out of the sky There's very subtle differences but for me overall I do think still the S9 plus has won on this one Okay, so just having a look at the nighttime pictures in auto So back camera auto selected the S9 plus here taking a picture of my garden As well as the P20 Pro I can see that the P20 Pro is a little bit sharper I can see all of the plant pots on the side, on the right hand side of my garden As well as my left hand side Whereas the S9 is a little bit blurry It doesn't do as great of a job in very low lighting as the P20 Pro But then again while we have mentioned that this is the camera that can see in the dark And I do have to hand it to them They've done a very good job just in auto mode for that part Now here's a picture of the front of my house down the street And this is also at night time Cameras work on auto mode so I just want to see the difference It's a very subtle difference I don't think there's a lot in it Although I do think the P20 Pro again has done a very good job in that sense If you look at the details on the bottom right hand side of the picture You can see there's a bit of grass next to the fence It's a little bit more blurry on the S9 It's more sharper and detailed on the P20 Pro Overall just looking at the cars down the street There's not that much in it I think they've both done a very good job capturing as much detail as possible But for me I would slightly have to hand this to the P20 Pro And lastly I wanted to check the difference between the auto modes on the S9 Plus And the specific night mode on the P20 Pro So one thing to note is on the P20 Pro night mode You have to keep the camera very still It will take about 5 seconds for it to render the picture As it brightens up all of the details So again I've left the S9 Plus on auto Took a picture down my street I can see that it's done a good job capturing most of the details However the night mode in the P20 Pro I can see it's done even better job capturing the details of the tree Big tree on the left The details of the cars There's not really any blurriness If you look at the tree on the right hand side There's more details and sharpness to that picture on the P20 Pro Whereas the one in the S9 Plus It sort of blurs and blends in with the clouds as well, that tree So overall P20 Pro night mode is really good Now night modes are specifically useful for those that maybe have tripods They have to keep the phone very still as soon as they take a snap It takes about 5 seconds to render the pictures as I mentioned And I don't see people using that very often Most people will be happy with the auto modes as well as the night modes Here's a picture again in auto mode for the back cameras I've just caught a sunset Just wanted to see how the colours of the sky will come out So for me I think the S9 Plus you can clearly see everything in the picture It's clear, it's bright, it's detailed The P20 Pro it has darkened a little bit Mainly if you look at the differences in the road and the pavements It's darker on the P20 Pro Perhaps it's focused more on the sky But I think overall for me personally the S9 Plus took a better picture in this situation Now it's a personal preference, you might think the P20 Pro is a little bit better Because it might be more natural of the lighting situation when you was there in person However when you do want to look at pictures I think the S9 Plus has captured the colours a little bit better And I think it's overall something people would prefer more Now I also wanted to test the zoom levels on the cameras on both of these phones So the S9 Plus here I'm sitting in the park It's a nice hot sunny day, there's loads of people out So the S9 Plus only zooms in up to 2x optical zoom Whereas the P20 Pro goes up to 3x and 5x So here's the comparison between the 2x optical zoom and the 3x optical zoom So if you have a look at that girl sitting in the middle of the picture You can see there's better details in the zoom for the P20 Pro Now for me the P20 Pro has done a really good job But also one thing I really liked about the P20 Pro Is it detected that there's a lot of greenery in the background So automatically it's sharpened and brightened up the green In terms of the background automatically So you didn't have to do that So I think that's really cool Now let's have a look at the 5x zoom compared to the 2x zoom on the S9 and the P20 Pro So that girl in the red was sitting possibly maybe 25 meters away Now the 5x zoom I would have expected it to be a little bit blurry If I was to zoom that close on the picture for the S9 Plus Maybe after transferring it to my laptop it would have been a little bit blurry Whereas the P20 Pro has done a very good job It's captured a lot of details It's not really blurred everything It has sharpened it automatically itself as well So I think it's done an awesome job at the zoom capabilities of the P20 Pro And I think if you zoom in even further after you've uploaded your picture to your computer Then you would have still seen a lot of details in the zoom So a great job by P20 Pro Right so having a look at the video comparisons I wanted to test the optical image stabilisation Now looking at here I'm walking at the same pace I have both phones in my hand connected to one handheld device Now the P20 Pro I think is a little bit more stable You can see the S9 Plus is a little bit shaky whilst I'm walking So the image stabilisation on the P20 camera I think definitely wins on this one Alright guys so having a quick comparison I can see that the Huawei P20 does take a lot better pictures in low lighting Depending on when you change the apertures it does do a good job Taking pictures of various different situations in dark, bright and medium lighting situations I guess In my opinion I'm going to be sticking with the Samsung for now I think Huawei's done a really good job is catching up to the market It's given Samsung a rivalry to really compete against again I know Samsung have always been rivalling with Apple and they've always done a better job But in my opinion that is So Huawei have done a really good job in jumping themselves into that competition And taking really good pictures In most situations in probably about 80% of the situations the Huawei P20 camera does win I think it's not that far off from the Samsung camera I think it's still close enough, it's still good enough for me to keep the Samsung It's not something amazing where I'm going to be switching away from Samsung for the rest of this year for example But let me know what you guys think and what you prefer Do you prefer the Huawei P20 or do you prefer the Samsung S9 Plus Let me know in the comments below and thanks for watching guys Please do subscribe for some really cool videos coming up soon And take care and see you next time