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Okay here's a quick recap on the scientific poster revolution. Scientists try to communicate tens of thousands of new findings to each other every year through posters. And all of these posters have used basically the same approach to design for decades. You put your vague jargony title on top followed by your 45 author names and then you try to cram your entire paper on the rest of the poster. We call this the wall of text. If we can create a new design that transmits knowledge even a little bit more efficiently then we can speed up knowledge dissemination and learning across all of science. And it's a really low bar to make a difference here. We're not basing this design on any evidence or mature design principles or anything. We just use it because everybody else uses it. The research we do have on posters has found that direct quote here the wall of text is undermined by a limited ability to effectively disseminate information. And that posters have quote outgrown their traditional format. Link to that research and more in the description of this video on YouTube. Every time you hear this sound or this sound that means I've linked research in the description and I'm going to be doing that a lot. But the biggest red flag here is that this hasn't changed in 30 years. Nothing in science should be stagnant like that. For perspective this design hasn't changed since before the modern internet. And we've learned a lot in the last 30 years since the internet about the science of how people consume information. If we were really applying science to posters they would get better every single year. So last year I took a shot at creating a new default layout for scientific posters. It looks more like a billboard and it works like this. You can't help but learn the main finding as you walk by or you can stop and skim a sidebar for a minute or you can talk to the presenter for a few more minutes and he has his own sidebar to present from. Or you can just scan a QR code get a copy of the whole paper and move on to other posters. And you can buff up your hero area with key figures and graphs. We call this the better poster version one. The better poster cartoon and templates went viral across the entire scientific community. It was featured in major news outlets like NPR and the Boston Globe. The free better poster template file has been downloaded over 250,000 times. And a lot of wonderful scientific conferences have encouraged their attendees to try it. And the feedback from scientists who've tried it has been overwhelmingly positive.  I got more conversations. I got better conversations. At this point you'll see at least a couple better posters in any poster session across all of science. And that's incredible but we can push it so much further. We want a whole session full of creative efficient posters that teach you more as you walk through them or click through them online. And we want to unstick posters and use science and evidence to constantly improve them. Better poster version one was just a bridge between what we were doing and something much much better. And that much better thing is you. I'm going to teach you the research backed design rules behind layouts like better poster so you can apply them your own way and we can all create a new generation of posters together. And these same principles will help you improve virtual posters, presentations, reports, anything you design for people to use. So get ready to level up your science communication skills because you're about to learn the magic of user experience design. Lesson one. User experience design is not graphic design. Like here's a quick poster graphic design lesson. Make sure you line up everything with something else. Give the thing you want people to notice first the highest contrast and use a block test to make sure everything has the same amount of spacing and padding around it. These rules will help you create a more attractive poster but it's still possible to use all of them and create a poster that communicates nothing because it doesn't respect the user's context enough and that's where user experience design comes in. When you're doing UX you're trying to figure out where people are getting frustrated so you can smooth out those frustration points and get them to their goal faster and more efficiently like those ketchup bottles with the cap on the bottom or how you can order a product from amazon in a single click or when you search for something in google scholar and it finds the little pdf link for you and saves you 10 clicks and you're like oh thank you that's good UX. The central truth of UX is that if something is hard to use people just don't use it that much. In science every extra click it takes to access a journal article or every poster if it's so badly designed that the good science on it gets lost. That's a little bit of delayed progress on things that could affect you and people you love one day and smoothing out these friction points so you can get to a journal article faster or understand a poster faster can accelerate scientific progress. Lesson 2. Be realistic about people and love them for their limitations. Look at this image these are called desire paths.  A UX designer looks at this and just goes oh good now we know where to pave the next path you can't fight how people behave you have to figure out how to go with how they are behaving.  A lot of grad students have told me they don't even want people to see their posters they just want to give an overall impression of effort which kind of explains how we design them. This isn't a realistic picture of a human being in all their limitations this is this is dummy. Dummy represents the inner lazy distracted person in all of us. Dummy has evolved to be really lazy about how he processes information as a matter of efficiency like all of us he just wants the maximum possible reward for the least possible effort. Dummy's goal for this poster session is to learn something new anything he's completely open. In fact when people start a poster session they're probably in a temporary state of openness to experience which means they're actually less judgmental they're in a mood to see funny stuff and creative stuff and stuff outside their normal area. Lesson three information foraging theory you forage for information using the same mental processes you used to use to forge for food in the wild when you were a cave person think of posters like bushes or patches that may contain food knowledge food you're gonna approach the bushes that smell like they contain good knowledge food unless they're too thorny looking and then you're gonna skip that bush that's called patch switching and it's gonna be really important later but if a poster bush smells insightful and isn't too thorny looking then you'll forage for knowledge barriers until you run out or it's too much effort to keep going and then you'll move to a fresh patch now dummy has some limitations first of all he only has 26 minutes to browse 150 posters before yesterday meet up with his friends for more day drinking which dummy calls networking he's under time stress and that shrinks his attention span and working memory capacity which weren't like super high to begin with people can only process so many things at a time like seven things plus or minus two and dummy's not like sitting at home focusing on your poster in silence he's already thinking about other stuff like the last 50 posters he walked past and that one he kind of wanted to stop at and probably should have stopped at and that thing he's gonna say to that person he's gonna network with later and of course juggling how much time is left in ux terms he's already at a pretty high cognitive load which only leaves a tiny part of his brain left over for processing your poster and makes it extra important to design your poster to minimize cognitive load citation which basically just means help people think there are lots of things you can do to reduce cognitive load through your poster design but the easiest way is probably just to give dummy fewer things to process every time you add something to your poster dummy has to process it and that adds cognitive load and every time you remove something from your poster that's one less thing that dummy has to process that reduces his cognitive load and leaves more of his resources left over to deeply process what is on your poster but if you add more to your poster than dummy can process it once it overloads him so to relieve the load dummy's brain very helpfully just chunks the entire thing into noise most traditional scientific posters are way over that threshold I know there's a lot of important information you want people to read on your poster but putting it on your poster is not the same thing as people actually reading it a lot of that content you put all this time putting on your poster just gets chunked into noise when people first look at it except maybe like a couple familiar words in your title and a picture or a figure or something that stands out from the noise and people will try to glean what's on your whole poster just based on these little bits they can process quickly it's almost like they're giving off a smell and they are that's called information sent right now the main thing giving off information sent on scientific posters is the title and when you write your title what you're usually doing is trying to create like an intentionally medium information sent like clickbait you're like i gotta write a title that's just witty and mysterious enough so they'll stop doesn't give away too much because then they won't have to stop and then no one will talk to me and trapping people into talking to me is my only real goal this medium information sent is too weak in a crowded poster session under time pressure if people's goal is to learn something then just hinting that your poster could teach them something isn't enough because they can't just learn it they have to stop walking walk up to you engage you in conversation and probably miss other posters because that conversation is going to take forever and the sum total of all these things someone has to do to actually learn something from your poster is called the interaction cost citation and because every one of these identical wall of text posters has such a high interaction cost it's like all the bushes are thorny so the attendees just keep rapidly patch switching every two to five seconds if you watch people walk in poster sessions you'll see them blow by way too many posters way too fast when somebody does stop and approach your poster you can hear that high interaction cost in their voice you're like all right let's do this so uh tell me about your poster and what that means is so tell me about your poster because i have no idea what it says except those two keywords i recognize in your title and kind of light if the first thing someone says when they walk up to you is to tell them all about your poster it means your poster told them nothing which is scary because so tell me about your poster is the most common thing said at poster sessions right now but it gets worse because having to filter out these walls of noise over and over again and paying all these high interaction costs fatigues people's attention people can only browse so many posters in a session right now without just getting tired but being an overloading wall of noise with a high interaction cost and a weak information scent that's fatiguing to use still isn't the worst thing about the wall of text the worst thing is that in ux research when you combine a high interaction cost with a weak information scent and put it under time pressure you get a negative attitude towards that thing citation so ux research can predict how we're using poster sessions can explain what's wrong with them and even predicts how we feel about them now let's use it to fix them we want to create posters with a low interaction cost low cognitive load a strong information scent and some unexpected fun stuff to keep people entertained and energized and maybe one day make posters downright addicting i'm going to give you three options easy mode challenge mode and next level let's start with easy the easiest dead simple way to improve your poster's performance using information foraging theory is to just do your normal wall of text thing but replace your title with some kind of statement that gets directly to the point even if you just copy and paste your main finding from the last sentence of your abstract that totally works doing this is going to boost your information sent because the only purpose of a title is to provide information sent if people are browsing through and their goal is to learn something then teaching them something is the strongest information sent you can put off information sent is about concordance with goals and this small change also does something profound it transforms your poster into one that teaches something to everyone who walks by it not just like the three people who stop challenge mode remember our desire paths we can't fight how people behave we just have to go with it so people are going to walk by our poster and only give it five seconds of attention let's see how much we can teach them in five seconds i'm going to do the better poster thing and try to summarize my main finding in just a short sentence and you can speed up interpretation by translating it into casual conversational language if you don't translate it dummies gonna have to translate it in his head anyway and that's going to increase cognitive load so your goal here is just to say it the way people are going to think it anyway and we all think in casual language casual language also creates a sense of social presence which is better for learning it's like the poster is talking to me so this is about as many words as people can process walking by but we still have room in dummies brain for a fast image you can use a related graphic or a quick illustration of a process or best case a real image from your study as long as it can be interpreted really fast i think most real data and figures are too slow to be interpreted walking by but i've seen notional figures work really well teaching people the same fact in both text form and image form helps people elaborate on your finding in their mind so it roots more deeply now we're pretty much at the cognitive load limit for this layer dummies attention is maxed out right wrong there's a free space where we can store a little more data in people's emotions triggering emotion is scientific and the stronger emotion you trigger the better for learning this means it's time for us to stop defaulting to our school's branding colors use color and fonts and images and anything you can to trigger an emotion that reinforces what you're trying to teach people any science can be made emotional are you studying something harmful something helpful something clarifying or just reuse one of the colors from your image just take your best shot and now it's time for the most fun user experience rule of all you want to surprise and delight try to make your poster unexpectedly rewarding in some way like do something that makes you giggle or makes you think wouldn't it be funny if i just did this here's an early better poster about searching for bacteria and sea sponges and he added a little sponge bob on there and sponge bob is searching it's completely relevant to what he's doing and it helps you remember it here's another one on pathogens and the author just turned her bullet points into little pathogens okay surprising delight fairy would you mind adding some surprising delight to our example posters sure thing my copy to do that we could make a little meta joke on this one get it i'm helping people imagine that helping people imagine helps them learn i did my best see the bar is low for you now we're gonna add more than this but these simple one sentence posters already transmit a higher quantity of information on the walk by then the wall of text the wall of text tries to communicate a thousand things at the same time and gets nothing in these posters only try to transmit one piece of insight but they land that one piece of insight into people's minds in five seconds with imagery and emotion for elaboration and learning a poster that successfully communicates one thing is more effective than a poster that fails to communicate a thousand things now people are learning a lot from the posters they're just walking by and we're putting off a much stronger information scent so paradoxically people might be actually more likely to stop and when someone does stop all that work we did in the five second layer has given them a richer stimuli to respond to it's triggering more of their long-term memories and schemas we've given them a richer retrieval cue so they don't say so tell me about your poster they already know stuff about your poster so they start with a deeper question or comment about what you already taught them in the five second layer this isn't just a prediction people who use better poster often report getting better conversations not just more and i've experienced this myself with my own better posters now when people stop at your poster it gets tricky because your social presence is consuming so much of their resources that they're probably just going to look at you and not the poster unless you point to something in which case they'll kind of glance at it and dumbly half process it as you're talking so this is your second constraint see how much you can get people to dumbly half process while you're talking you can try the better poster version one thing and have a sidebar located far away from you for people to skim and if you make that far sidebar approachable enough people will actually stop and skim it before talking to you and then ask even better questions but a lot of better poster presenters tell me they don't end up using the cheat sheet bar and they want more room to show off key figures so maybe try something like this we'll call this the hero figure layout or you can just treat the rest of your poster like a presentation aid put up a few key figures make them big and then write little punch lines on top to quickly explain what the graph shows help people think we'll call this layout the presenter all right challenge posters over let's take this to the next level right now when people walk down a row of posters they kind of blow past most posters in the row in three seconds maybe stop at one and then blow past the rest so their patch switching pattern looks like this better poster tries to go with this so you still learn from the posters you're blowing by but we shouldn't be blowing by posters that fast that's a symptom think of how you move at a museum you kind of shoelace and pause in front of each exhibit for 30 seconds or so we could get a lot more learning into people's brains if we could get 30 seconds of attention on every poster it's gonna sound counterintuitive but i think one way we could do this is by designing posters to encourage patch switching like museums and art shows do a museum doesn't want you to spend 45 minutes staring at one statue and then leave and miss all the other exhibits posters they want you to keep moving that's why they just have one little paragraph next to each painting or exhibit they limit the knowledge berries so you run out and you switch patches this could mean designing posters with less than 30 seconds of total content that you can read at a distance just pausing in front of it really fast data visualizations would be perfect for this like this one this was so memorable it got put on pants and cars and concerts and magazines and i'll better help the author's career and more importantly gave him a sense of impact and fulfillment that we really struggled to get in science and i don't think any of that would have ever happened if we debuted this in a traditional poster format it would have just been lost in the noise which makes me wonder how many cool things like this have been lost in 30 years of the wall of text you can also tell a whole story in 30 seconds like this one the meat of this poster is right here just a punch line that your eye goes straight to real pictures of their results that help you remember them and communicate the methods which is eye tracking and then just one paragraph explaining why what they're doing is really important this is already one of the most efficient research posters i've ever seen but we can push it even further first this paragraph is really tightly written but it be kind of awkward to try to read it while the presenters are standing there looking at you and way easier just to ask so we can pull out the main key points about their methods and then focus in on the most impactful sentence from their paragraph and then make it bigger so it's readable from a distance now this is all i would do but surprising delight fairy told me she would do something like this which would actually help you remember the finding even more and yes this layout would require scissors but you're allowed to do that do we really need to put more than this on the poster if jen and alex are standing right there able to answer any question you could have i think in a lot of cases the answer is no we don't oh we forgot something what about all the author names and credits and stuff that you have to put on your poster i'll bet you didn't miss them let's do what movie posters do and put them on the bottom where people can still find them but they're not hijacking people's attention before they've learned anything and we'll include the qr code again that links to a copy of the full paper or your contact details if you want so thank you for the poster donations jennifer sims and alex hanes from sociology kelsie merlot from work psychology and ilia kashnisky for showing me ed hawkins awesome warming stripes and now i'm going to summarize everything you learned in this video into two golden rules of scientific poster design number one don't put things on your poster that people will ignore number two people will ignore most things now it's on me to prove that these new designs teach better and i'm hoping to have some updates for you later this year on our formal studies but so far all the available evidence points this way there's evidence that the wall of text is ineffective and a lot of empirically driven theory suggesting that new layouts like these should communicate more insight to more scientists and better develop your science communication skills and get you more and better conversations so now you have a choice scientist you can download powerpoint templates for every poster you've seen in this video on the open science framework there's a link in the description or you can apply these principles to create all new layouts just experiment and the crazier the experiment the better and as always please tag me on twitter and show me what you come up with so i can retweet your awesome poster i'm at mike morrison now go out there and create a better poster for all us dummies but above all don't forget to surprise and delight


Mae myl i chi, eich meddwl, eich myl i'ch meddwl yn cael ei bywyd y cyfnod digwydd, yn ei ddiddordeb, fe y bydd cael y byd yn cael ei meddl bydd yn ei ddiddordeb o'r gwneud ymddiriaeth yma. Mae'r ysgol ffordd iawn yn eu gyrraedd yma a'r rwyf yn fwy gael amser. Wrth gwrs, nid yw rwy'n meddwl yn ei fod yn lle o'r meddwl. ..y'r ffordd yw'r ffordd yw iawn. Yr hyn y gallu'n ymdianneb yn fawr o'r tyn yn tabloid. Mae hyn yn fawr o'r thawd yn oed yma yn ymdianneb yw yn tawd... ..y bydd hynny'n gweithio yn y rhan o'r llwyddoch yn ystod... ..yny'n gweithio o'r fan hynny yn fawr o'r hwn... ..yny'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. a he also doesn't recognise the need and value of good journalism or he doesn't explicitly realise that. So, him as a press reformer, tricky. One of the ironies of the press coverage here, the really terrible UK press coverage, is that you have people bloviating about how badly Harry's behaved and being terribly terribly critical of him ac yn bwysig ni i'w gael hyd yn rhoi gwybodaeth ein monerci. Mae ei bwysig yn bwysig i hoffi eu mwrdd i'r monerci oedd yn cael ei ffordd gwneud o Mandod i hynny gyda meddwl. Ond efallai, ei gael, mae'r monerci yn bwysig i gael y pwn yn ei wneud a'r unrhyw o agliannu hynny a yn bwysig i ti wedi ei pob hyn sy'n dod, mae'r monerci'n oed yn unifyr. Ond rydw i'r monerci'n bwysig i'r monerci all o'r angen. ..cydwyd arferwyd. Mae hynny o'r mwyaf, mwyaf. If the end of the game is a reconciliation with his family, again, I wouldn't have thought that this was the way to bring it about, but that doesn't mean that I'm critical of him doing it. Because I think his real purpose in all of this is that he has felt traduced by everything that's been written and said about him, a dweud hynny'n gynnwys i'r hyn o'r narod. Mae'n gweithio ar y dyfodol y ffrindio'r gwaith yma sy'n dweud hynny. Mae'n dweud hyn sy'n dweud hynny'n gweithio'r narod. Felly mae hynny'n gweithio'r narod sy'n gweithio'r rhain i'w ddwylltyniad sy'n dweud hynny'n gweithio'r rhai o'r ddwylltyn. absolut nonsense. If you actually look at the press responses to the interviews to the book, these are planted stories. This is exactly what Harry is talking about. You know, it's all about palace sources and if like me you're a royal watcher and you know who has which source, you actually can tell who's planted the stories. And this is a huge constitutional issue for him. It's a huge reputational issue for him and it comes ahead of his coronation and in the very early phase of his reign. So he is having to respond to this both as a parent and as a monarch and I don't really know what he's going to do but he absolutely needs to try to do something. It can't be something public, it can't be by way of a public response so it will have to be some kind of reaching out on his part but given the levels of anger and hurt that there are in royal circles it may be hard for him to do that. I think one of the really big problems is that the royal family is misunderstood as a tourist attraction, as celebrities, as a sideshow, as the cast of the crown, you know a long-running soap opera. This is a huge institution of state, it has significant powers, it has significant influence, it gets a shed load of money from us, the taxpayers, it has you know the king is head of state in 14 other realms as well and we're treating it like a soap opera. Obviously this is reputationally damaging in all sorts of ways because how can you have credibility as head of state, how can this be a credible system if what you're seeing is dysfunction and also inequality because this is a story of course about you know race, about misogyny, about all sorts of things that are part of modern discourse and the institution is failing every time it tries to deal with these things.


First of all, can we get reaction to the League Cup draw and obviously Villa away next round? Yeah, you know, obviously a tough draw because they're going well, starting to see them well. But main thing was to get through last night and see what comes next. How much of a positive beto getting off the mark instantly and also his arrival as a whole? How much pressure does that take off someone like Dominic Calvert-Lewin? Yeah, I mean, I think it, well firstly, it's not about taking pressure on anyone, it's about adding to the strike force, we've been searching for that for a long time. He's a player we've been monitoring for a long time, a player that desperately wanted to come here, so we finally got that done. And then back to his performance, I thought, it was always easy. I think I mentioned last night his clearance, sorry, came through late. So we couldn't plan any of his time, but we thought he'd be what we were hoping he'd be available. So the plan was always to get him on for a half if we could, at least a half. And then I'm pleased with his performance. Quite obviously he looked what we hope he will look. He looked, you know, physical presence, but also dealing with the ball, but also stretching the pitch, you know, with... I think the biggest thing for me was with the real desire. You know, he doesn't, he can run, we know that, but he can run hard and he wants to run hard and he wants to get in the box. And I think that's a very powerful thing for a striker. It sounds mad as if that's the norm, but it's the body language in the intent he drives forward with. And I think that was impressive last night. Obviously he's only just got it, but that's certainly, I think, laid down a mark for him to continue building on and something for us to look at now that we've got him in the building and sort of be pleased with that's what we thought, what we'd seen and we saw it last night. What do you have to weigh up now when deciding whether or not to start him against Sheffield United? Well, the good thing is he's played already, so he's had a pre-season, he's up for it and ready physically. You know, there are some slight differences in the Premier League and the way it is, but he's certainly, I mean, he's made it clear, he's desperate to get involved as quick as possible. So that's good. And Dominic, Calvert-Lewin, what's the diagnosis? What's the prognosis for him? Yeah, so it's nothing that needs surgery or anything, but there was a minor situation on this kind of sinus area that is delicate, so he's got to be careful with it. The good news from an overall picture, he's managed to train through it, not with us, you understand, because of the type of injury it is, but after a few days, he's managed to keep fit as in his body, so that's good because we want to keep him going now, he's got this far. And then as we go on the weekend, it's more of a touch-and-go situation, see what the decision is and how fragile it is, but no surgery or anything like that. Is it maybe having to play in a mask or anything like that? Yeah, maybe, but at this stage, it's more to make sure that it doesn't get knocked really. So if you touch-and-go over the weekend, and then after that, obviously with the international right, you'd say he's clear straight away. Dwight McNeill, is he available this weekend and Jack Harrison, I'm presuming, will be ready after the international right? Dwight's just back on the grass with us, as in, sorry, with our training group. He's been on the grass for a few days working, but he's back with our training group today. So another one, we'd have to make a decision on that, but he's feeling pretty strong. Jack's on the grass with the sports science team, but not quite training with us yet, so he needs to get to that stage before the next steps. He'd probably need a build-up, you know, half a game, a full game, because obviously it's been a laid period from last season, which is one of them things, but he's going well, and I spoke to him today, and he's feeling better about things, so hopefully that just keeps progressing. Deli's getting back on the grass slowly, but surely. So that's good to have him back around it, because he had a setback, so we're monitoring that. With his injury, that is by the eye, he's well in himself. Yeah, so there's a few things that we expect anyway. Although it's not ideal, because we're stretched, but after the international break, then I think a lot of these people will be fit again, or certainly very close to. Obviously a transfer window is about to shut. What's happening with Alex Iwobi and his future? Yeah, look, there's a few circling, a few of our players, he's one of them. There's nothing in agreement yet, but there's, you know, him and Tom and similar sort of situations, a number of clubs circling their situations. With that in mind, would it weaken the squad terribly if Alex were to go, what do you have to weigh up as regards whether you allow him to go now, because obviously he has only got a year left on his contract? Yeah, exactly, the obvious thing that's been, I think it's been apparent, although I still had to spell it out last weekend, it was a bit odd, you know, the club have to look at the business side of it, and there is a business side of it, quite obviously with a player with a year left, Tom slightly differently. Money's not free-flowing, so it has to be looked at. Is there also an indication then that you're maybe confident of getting in a replacement, being a winger?  So if anything happens with them two players, then we'll quickly assess what can be done next. We've obviously monitored situations for our own, I mean, not about them, I mean, of our own avenues, we could go down, but at the end of the day, you know, you need to find us to make them work, so we'll find out over the next couple of days, obviously. I take it you're working to the wires as regards bringing players in then as well. What is the priority? I mean, is it a winger? Is it a midfielder sent off? Even another striker again? Well, I think the obvious one, if these things change with Alex, Tom is, you know, the wide areas, because we're the injury side of things as well. The front area, I mean, you know, we're trying to find that balance. You saw with you several times, I made it clear, the other way is a young player learning. You saw that good experience for him. You know, it's going to take him time to adapt to what it is. We're better, he's longer in his learning, obviously. Dom can go back to full fitness. And it's seen what's available, you know, the mark is unforgiving at the best of times, so we've been trying to stay on situations, seeing if they open up. Obviously, it's been a delay because of the finances, that's been tricky. We are managing to, so far, managers of whether it's loans, whether it's signers to find our way, and it's very difficult. I meant to mention Damari, as well. I mean, if he goes to Saudi, then there's a few more days beyond. Just another one that there's a couple of situations swirling around. What are you expecting from Sheffield United? Obviously, last week, we saw a spirited performance against Manchester City, I suppose you're expecting a tough battle there, as well. Yeah, I went into the game. I mean, you know, an outfit that worked very hard to get to where they've got to. The manager there has worked hard with them. He doesn't mind playing direct when they need to, and that kind of working ethic football, which is something that should be a given anyway, but they certainly do. They work as a unit. They work very hard. They've got a team ship about them, which serve them so well. Yeah, they put up a good show against Man Cityside. Sorry, they won't forgive me for saying that. Man Cityside are very good. We know the prowess they've got. You know, last night went against them. That's the way it goes, but they're new to the division. They'll have that kind of crowd behind them, that new feel to take on the game. We've performed well. We haven't won, but we've performed well, too, out of three. We got the job done last night, so we'll see what's in. We can piece together and see if we can go there and take it on with the proper performance, like the last two out of three, but we've got to score goals and set that all along. Finally for me, Sean, obviously we've spoken about the first-half performance against Villar and the first-half performance last night as well. What can you do differently to really set the tone in those first half? Well, first of all, last night is a completely different animal. Villar, I thought we're very good on the day and we were a long way off. That can happen. Last night was a different situation. You've got everyone's desperate for us to lose, obviously, just by the nature of cup games. Not in a vicious way, but it's just the way it is. You know, a kind of group in the first half, some of the younger players playing, it's a big experience for them, big expectation on that game. Donnie made it very awkward and kind of that cup feel. Second half, I thought we gave a relatively strong, certainly strong enough to win the game. So, yeah, good in different ways, I think, but it's a different style of game than what the Villar game was. Thanks, Fenean. We'll go to Richard. Sean, just circling back to Beto, the manner with which he conducted himself when he came on the pitch last night, scoring a goal, just how much of a lift has that given everybody around the club? Well, I think the idea was that, you know, get someone in who can be effective, get someone in who's different to what we've got, obviously, and someone with a track for a while, when they go and deliver that kind of performance and have that impact, then, of course, it's beneficial to the side, but it's also beneficial to the fans. The fans have been well aware for a long time now that idea of getting a focal point in the team, another centre forward, a different way of operating, and he certainly showed that. But, yeah, mainly just another weapon. We want as many as we can. And I think if you get goal scorer scoring, it often releases the kind of feel of other players to go and score. They feel a bit freer, you know, because of goal scorer scoring. So, we want that. We don't want it just from him. We want it from all of our goal scorers, of course, and other players on the pitch. I've mentioned that. You know, it's important we have the mindset to score from everywhere on the pitch, as many times as possible, quite obviously, but it is fair to say if you've got strikers performing and scoring, well, that's got to be a massive benefit. And on Sheffield United, you mentioned New Club, in the Premier League, fans excited. On Paul Heckeybottom, what are your thoughts on the job he's done there? Because it's not been the easiest period by all accounts. You can relate to that from your experience, but he's got them into the Premier League and he's got them playing in a place that can be quite intimidating. Yeah, I mean, I've known him on and off for a while. Congratulate him at the end of last season. I know it's a tough task, and excuse me, he's done great with them, you know, and not going a million miles away from the format they've used. Do not? I think there's a period they signed quite a lot of players a few years ago. They're trying to do maybe different things, whatever reasons, maybe financial, maybe constructing the club at large, I should say. Or as a whole, even better. And I think some of the players there are still working as a unit and I think it looks like he's got value in that and he wants to stick with that. So that can be a weapon, of course. We've got to make sure that our own unit performs and find the moments that are important to us and find ways of winning games, and that's what we're looking to do. Is there a greater emphasis than this environment on starting the game well? You've referred to Billeron last night, obviously, but you know what you're going to get. Well, the other games, we haven't just started them well. I think our consistency through the two home games has been really good.  So I think they're the things we've got to correct both boxes, you know, not give away soft ones at the defending end and also take some of the many chance we've made, start taking them. Thank you. Thanks, Richard. We'll go to Ian up right on the other side. Thanks. So it's done a simple war, so... I'm sure I've just talked a lot about Beto, obviously, with his goal, but just how significant was it for Arno Danjumar, as well, to score his first goal for the club? How big is that for him? Yeah, I mean, he's come in, he didn't play much last season, so he's still learning about how we want him to operate. That fitness has come in the real depth of fitness and really getting used to the players around him, I think, so it was good to see him score a goal. You know, he's still adapting to what we want from him, but no, we think he'll be a good player for us. And how are you looking at the international break now, because obviously, with the transfer window yet to close, then there's the break and then you could have a number of players maybe back available to you again. Is it almost like you don't quite have the team that you hope you're going to have maybe a couple of months down the line yet? Yeah, I mean, we started the season with the... Well, just sorry, the end of pre-season, we started losing a couple of bodies, and then all of a sudden you're going to the scene and you think, well, we've got some good players here, suddenly not available. Then we lost Alex at Villa as well and Dom, and then all of a sudden you start looking stretched. We lost a couple of last nights, which we hope are not too serious, we'll settle down today. It's not ideal, especially when you're out in the window and you're out in the reasons that why is it where for us and how tough it's been in the window for us to get the players we wanted to get. But this is the challenge, this is the reality. I'll speak about it all the time, because it is. I've been trying to get to reality line and say, right, this is where it's at and we're kind of there. Within that, in the league mainly, we're two very positive performances, they just don't look like they're going to play. We're two very positive performances, they just don't look it because you don't get a result. No one really cares about positive performances. No one really cares whether you're stretched or not, but I still have to give them the facts. This is the truth of where we're at. And it's our job to change all them things around. Start scoring goals, quite obviously, keeping clean sheets or certainly low goals against and then winning games. That's the reality of it. I can tell you a million different things, reasons why, but that's the facts. Stop at one end, put it in the other, and always speak to the players. That's the brutal facts of it. That's the job. So that's what we're looking to do and we've got to do it again this weekend. Actually, just another quick word on transfers. Are you concerned that there might be an effect on squad numbers in terms of some people will go out and you might start difficulty and get them replaced in life like in numbers? But yeah, again, that's where we're at. That's where the clubs are. It loads of money to be proactive before pre-season. You know, every manager in the ideal world wants the players in before the first day's train of pre-season, but it's just simply not that easy. Not many clubs want to sell at that stage either because they try and work in the market and expand the market, make the numbers grow. And then usually that implies you need a fair bit of money to make that happen earlier into the pre-season period. It often starts getting towards the end of the pre-season period before the first season and then it goes on to where we are now, which is the last few days and then there's usually some activity.  So now we've had to wait and we've managed to construct deals that were, we were capable of doing and the other parties agreed. And then we've got to see what the next, what is it, 40 hours or so brings. You know, that's just the reality of where it's at. And I can't emphasise that enough. You know, if you're going to ask me, that's the reality. That's my job, is to manage the reality. It's everyone else's job to put in the myths and the perception. I want us to look at the reality of what the challenge is and what the group we've got and add to it where we can and that's what we're still looking to do. I just mean in terms of the balance and obviously if you're going to lose somebody, that's a body out squad you've got to replace, but are you going to be allowed to lose them if you can't get an immediate replacement? Yeah, but that's what I was just suggesting. There's a business to run as well. So it's a certain situation. The business has to say, right, we're going to have to do that. That's the challenge of it. And then if we can't get anyone in, well, that's part of it. You know, it's the risk or reward of player trading and usually you can only win that battle if you've got plenty of money to go start within the first place where you're proactive, you get the players in you want and then you look at the outs but we've had to look at it differently. That's just the time and place we're in at a football club.


The first speaker is Alejandro Echeverde, who is the architect and director of special projects for the municipal company of Urban Development, Medellin. I want to first thank the London School of Economics, the Dutch Bank, Richard, Philip and Ayako, who were the people who have invited us to share this experience of Medellin. This has been a work of many people. I am only a representative of a very large team that has been led by a person who should be here and who was invited by Sergio Fajardo. I am going to talk about two or three things in the context of the political issue of the city to enter the technical issue, which is the one that competes with me. Fajardo arrived at the mayor in 2004 through a civic movement, which was completely unthinkable in our city. He was leading a process that sought transparency, security and confidence in a new way of making the policy that was invested and that was worked in the city. The focus of this challenge is the issue of education. The reason you see the yellow on the screen, Medellin the most educated, understood in a broad sense, including urban transformations, civic programs, was the most important. And we define our urban policy as social urbanism, urbanism as the medium to make definitive transformations that incorporate multiple processes. It is not the ultimate goal, the architecture of urbanism, although we always seek the best quality of design for the poorest areas of the city. Two problems in the notes of Fajardo mayor, deep inequalities that many Latin American cities have, and violence, which in the case of Medellin was absolutely traumatic. You can see here the square of indicators of violence in 1991, the most violent city in the world, with 380 violent deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. In 2002 we continued with 184 violent deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, which was absolutely worrying. And last year we reached 26, for us it is a great achievement, but there is still a very big future challenge. This is an image of Medellin, taken from the towns of the north, in the upper part of the mountains. Medellin is a narrow valley that has a long river. At the bottom are the areas of the south of the high classes, which I am not going to talk about today. In the center of the city, we are not going to talk about, many policies have been implemented in recent years. I am going to talk about the last 5 years of the city, of public policies, and I will focus on where we are standing in the image. Two immense challenges, how to connect the big differences of the center consolidated and developed in the central axis of the valley, with all the neighborhoods in the towns and in the upper part of the city. The plan of human development indicators, which for us has been very important, the clear green areas are the poorest, the dark green areas are the richest areas of the city. The challenge in a simpler way was to darken the clear green areas. The physical transformation was concentrated with a management instrument, which for us was very important, and it was the urban development company of the city. In this company, it coordinated and managed resources, planning and execution, as a transversal structure with the different centers of the mayor. Four great strategies were, in some way, the policies that we have implemented and that continue today. The first program, all in the framework of education and culture, large library parks, public schools and equipment for the poorest areas, the second, to invest all the capacity of the state in the most violent areas of the city, the urban projects, the housing program in the risk areas, I am going to touch on it very lightly, and the last point, which we are not going to talk about today, is how to connect these specific actions with transportation systems and the urban public space of great importance. There are some aspects that I want to mention. The urban project as a complex project that leads an action in the territory that incorporates social actions. The urban projects require a special management, and that is what we call urban management, management by territory that coordinated a team of architects and technicians and engineers, communicators and sociologists. Medellin in the 70s, you see the magnitude of the mountains, today more than half of the mountains are invaded and that has been our focus of work. The plan of Parque Biblioteca was focused on this periphery of the high part, five large parks of integrated services, integrated with public transportation systems of great power, the last station of the metro cable that is integrated with the metro, our metro has ten years, the metro cables have started to work two years ago, the peripheral ring of the metropolis that is in construction, connecting the other Parque Biblioteca, as well as the metro system that goes along with two lines, one longitudinal and another transversal. The program of the Bibliotecas is complex, they are integrated services centers for the children, for the people who study, art centers, recreation, really the Biblioteca is simply a name, they were made for a national public contest, here we see the Biblioteca of San Javier, that goes up to the commune 13 in 2004, we had a very strong urban war, and that connects with the new transport system in the metro station that arrives here at this point. The Quintana Biblioteca, which starts the recovery of the natural system with a park that is also important, that connects the two neighborhoods, is in the upper part of the west, the Lalladera Biblioteca, where the old prison of men of the city was, meaning the place, and the Spain Biblioteca on the other side, in the north-eastern part, in the most violent part of the city, connecting with the transportation system. The most important thing happens in the territory, that here in this image is not seen, six times the investment of the metro cable is what is being invested in social programs and recovery. The Biblioteca, the new school that connects with urban walks that we will see later, giving it a legible structure to these places that they did not have. They have become activity centers, very important. A topic that I will not extend, 132 schools reformed, also in the poorest areas of the city, with the best equipment, with the open school concert, that have been transformed into new public spaces, recovering the neighborhoods of the city, against the exclusion and inequality. The program of integral urban projects, which is perhaps the most important in our area, in some way critical of the city, insecure, that have three components, the institutional component, the social component and the physical component, as an action center. First comes the transportation system, and the transportation system is accompanied by a large amount of interventions of public space, physical, that are coordinated with detailed studies, where the sense of place is restructured, with new urban walks, new bridges, that connect the neighborhoods with the city and with the recovered systems, meaning the site. They have made community participation, development centers, rural areas, sports equipment, libraries like new services, schools, and they have worked with the people. This is the mayor of Fajardo, with a structure that includes a recognition of the place, with the community first, to identify the projects, a community participation process, with imaginary workshops, a phase of implementation, where people participate in this transformation and this execution of the works, and the last phase of animation and appropriation, people from the city are invited to large events that are programmed simultaneously. There is a manual of this, in some way, of these intervention processes. Finally, the way we act in these areas of risk, where there is a very critical settlement process, we try to recover in the site the places, avoiding the risk, replacing more or less 30% of the neighborhoods, localizing public buildings, and building in the open place, improving the buildings in the site, achieving a re-structuring process of the building, where people remain with their affective and economic ties. In this image you can see the process of building recovered in the neighborhood, the buildings without walls closed, the metro station, and in the upper part, the St. Domingo Savio library, like a distant shadow that can be seen. We are going to talk about these other urban recovery processes, structures, transportation systems, this image synthesizes a little the action, the library to the right, the last metro station that connects with the first metro cable to the upper part of the West, transforming with the urban project integral, to achieve new cultural spaces and encounters for all people, connecting the differences of the communities that belonged to different militias, with new symbols of culture. This is a little the very quick theme of some examples of many other projects that we have done in the city. It has been tried to combine physical transformation with social urbanism in the framework of educational and cultural projects to achieve that these children have the same opportunities as our children. Thank you very much. The thing that I am struck by was the thing that you passed very quickly and spoke of for five seconds, and that is you have a new mayor, you had a mayor who had a vision, and through a democratic process came into leadership and brought very talented new people like yourself, and when that happens, we sometimes get this, which is really quite fantastic.


They say I'm getting picky about the economy. So a couple of guys don't rinse out their socks. Picky, picky, picky.  Deep breath, deep breath. Deep breath. Somebody needs to start getting picky. Try this. Can't eat that. Picky, picky, picky. This economy can't breathe. And rather than being picky, the current administration is clearly just one huge booger. It's a huge, huge, huge, huge. Which means we the people are the ones they traded liberty for safety and us that need to start getting picky round here. We the people ended up losing both. And that giant booger should be the first thing we start picking on.  That's how we get things done in America. That's how it's done. Just one thing at a time. I'm doing something. One thing at a time. Or put more poetically, we get things done picking just one booger at a time. I think he's up to something. One thing at a time, Bart. We'll clear the nose that is the economy. Where's the nose? The nose! Slow and steady. A handkerchief is coming, beloveds. Let us pray the Almighty. Just one booger at a time. We'll exhale a breath of compassion on us all. Don't get ahead of yourself, people. We lift our noses, club and unblown, in reverence to you. Then we can flick that booger out the wall saying, send a handkerchief of blessed ones so that it may wipe us clean. Bye bye, Biden booger. Bless you.


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Ableton on Air has been seen in the following publications, Park Chester Times, WWW, this is the Bronx.com, New York Power Online Newspaper, Muslim Community Report, WWW.H.com and the Montpelier Bridge. Ableton on Air is part of the following organizations, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Boston, New England Chapter and the Society of Professional Journalists. Welcome to this edition of Ableton on Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns and achievements of the differently able. I'm your host Lauren Seiler. I'm Lauren Seiler. And on this year end 2021 edition, I know it's been a strange year with COVID, but let's take a look back of what we saw this year in 2021 in the field of special needs on Ableton on Air. But before we do that, we would like to say special thanks to our sponsors, Green Mountain Sports Services, Washington County Mental Health and many others, including the partnerships of the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired and many others, the Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired, the Montpelier Sustainable Coalition and Central Vermont Habitat for Humanity and many, many others as well. Now let's take a look at our year in review for 2021. First up, I recently completed a history class at Southern New Hampshire University. Part of my last assignment was to do with permission from the college, Southern New Hampshire University online, was to do a project on the work of President John F. Kennedy and his family. Let's take a look at two parts. Part one, the Rosef Kennedy in the Bronx has a wonderful program for people with disabilities. Back in the 1960s, it was set up with services such as occupational and physical therapy and many others, you know, many other services. Let's take a listen to co-director Joanne Siegel of the Rosef Kennedy Center. Let's take a look at this clip. Tell us the missions and goals of the Rosef Kennedy Center and its work in Bronx, New York. Sure. The Rosef Kennedy Center for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities basically established in 1966 with the ground breaking on the grounds of Jacobi Medical Center. And it was part of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and today it remains the leader in our work in developmental disabilities. The purpose of the Kennedy Center was actually part of the 1966 legislation that was signed by John F. Kennedy. It was the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act. With that legislation, monies were set aside for university settings to provide science research, community education and clinical services for people with, at that time, the language was mental retardation. We now use the terminology intellectual disabilities and we also include developmental disabilities, which is a little broader spectrum of people having certain conditions that appear before the age of 22. I'm sorry. My question, I'm sorry for interrupting. Why was the language different back then versus now? Why was the language, you said mental retardation, why was the language different back then versus what it is now? Okay, so essentially many of the language evolves, okay? Language is never stagnant. And the words mental retardation were actually clinical terms that were part of the diagnostic manual for medical conditions. Over the years, through advocacy, the terminology has changed and mainly because of the negative connotation or the negative connections that people have when they use the term mental retardation, it had become, over the years, a derogatory term. And so people that are self-advocates actually spoke up and asked for that terminology to be changed. And so the terminology that we now use today is intellectual disabilities. Now, let's take a listen to our second clip from the Kennedy series, from the Roosevelt Kennedy series of Abel Denner later. The second part is Dr. Herbert Cohen of, you know, Amritus. He's also a lecturer now also with the Roosevelt Kennedy Center. Let's take a listen to his work in pediatrics and people with special needs. Let's listen to his interview. Let's take a look at this. A lot of your work and let's start there. What has been your work in the field of pediatrics and working with special needs for many years? Well, I came to Albert Einstein Medical School under the mentorship of Dr. Larix Taft who established our program in 1956. And I came there as actually a fellow of his from 1962 to 1964 and I stayed, eventually became the assistant director and then became the director of the center, which I did until about 12 years ago when I became an America's director. And I've continued to teach and until a year and a half ago see patients of my own and follow them over the years. So I have been a became a specialist in developmental pediatrics, which includes taking care of children, adolescents and some adults with developmental disabilities. So I became a specialist in the field beginning in 1962, really, and then continuing on for the rest of my career until the current time. I'm now an emeritus professor and I am semi retired. I still give some lectures, but I've not done any hands-on work with any patients for the past year and a half. Okay, let's take a listen and look at Team 2 of Washington County Mental Health. One of our sponsors here are Abel Denanera. Let's listen to their interview. Well, Team 2 is a statewide training for first responders really in a nutshell. The missions and goals are really to build the relationships necessary for first responders to be able to collaborate in responding to a mental health crisis call. So we offer the training in five regions around the state with the purpose of building those relationships with fellow first responders who you might be responding to a call with in that region. So for police dispatchers, mental health crisis workers, EMTs, emergency department personnel are invited because of that handoff in a mental health crisis. I also invite state's attorneys to attend. And that's about who gets, you know, notice of the trainings and the dates and things. So the goal is really just to hear about what's working in that region for them, what isn't working to give some people some ideas about how to better collaborate and come to a really peaceful resolution in a mental health crisis. Okay. Like my wife says, let's take a look at Central Vermont Habitat for Humanity. Abel Denanera was recently there at a house building. Let's take a look at this. Yeah, why don't you, let's come inside because it's raining today. This is actually quite an improvement from where it was a year ago in the UK. Which is Bruce Landry. That's Bruce, yeah. So Bruce, do you want to? Yeah. So today what we're going to do today is if the weather permits and it looks like it's not going to, I wanted to get the shed roof on. Recently in the news, there was someone who did the Boston Marathon. His last name was Hoyt. Let's take a look at that show. Let's take a look at this. Who has ran marathons while pushing his son dies at 80. This is according to the New York Times and other newspapers. He finished more than a thousand road races with his son, Rick, who is in a wheelchair. They were best known for competing in the Boston Marathon. Now here's a man, despite his challenges. If you look at video, he was getting older and so on and so forth. Yes, Dick Hoyt pushed his son Rick in the Boston Marathon in 2006. And the two competed in the race nearly every year from 1980 to 2014. And how to get out of them, part one and part two. Okay. Back in 2021, we did two shows on, back in 2021, we did two shows on scams. Let's take a look at both of them. Let's take a look at this. Or there's a term used, taken to the cleaners in terms of being scammed out of large amounts of money. Okay. Recently, I need dental work in the state of Vermont. And recently I had gone to affordable dentures in Burlington, Vermont. Now affordable dentures is a large discounted or a corporate chain of dentists. So come to find out when I go there, they couldn't help me anyway because I have seizures. Almost had a seizure in the chair and I told them to stop. They stopped and they're giving me my money back. However, due to some of the people that I've spoken to, why is it that it takes a company 10 days to two weeks to give you your money back? They owe me a large amount of money, $2,255. So turns out, I disputed it with the bank and the bank is going to be giving me some money before affordable dentures is. Recently, back in 2021, Ron Rondon stopped by and he did a show on sports because he does a show in Brooklyn called Road Trip with Ron Rondon. Let's listen to his interview.  Let's listen in. Back in the Bronx, we have a friend, his name is Luis Torres. He's been a friend to me as a journalist for many years and also here on Abledon on Air and with my former show, Special People Special Issues in the Bronx. But Luis Torres also teaches the direct workers, the direct support professional classes in the Bronx. Let's listen in to his interview. Let's take a look at this and see how we can work together to fix the staff shortages when it comes to working with people with special needs. Let's listen in to Luis Torres' interview. You've been training people to work in the field of special needs for many years. For those that don't know, what is a DSP and how has the position been dealt with during the pandemic or even before the pandemic? People with various disabilities, autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy. It used to be known as a DSP or previously known as a direct care worker. The reason for the change is because operations become independent or just as much as they can do for themselves. What type of training do you do in terms of the classes you teach at the Equal Opportunity Center? Let's start there. You're different than a person with Down syndrome and the same with somebody with cerebral palsy. 6th Annual Cerebral Palsy Conference. Oh, Green Mountains Cerebral Palsy Conference. Who happens to be a sponsor on Ableton on Air? Did their 6th Annual Cerebral Palsy Conference virtually? Let's listen in to Mr. Smith, their Executive Director, talk about the virtual conference. Let's take a look at this. You've been on the show before to talk about conferences and so on and so forth. Since we are in a COVID mindset at this point, we're talking about the 6th Annual Cerebral Palsy Conference. You can go to www.CerebralPalsyConference.org and also gmssi.org. Josh, why don't you talk about the conference and what you guys are doing this year? This is our 6th Annual Conference and we're super excited to do this. This is the second year we're doing it virtually this year. One of the things that we've done differently this year is that we have three peers of registration. The first one is free. We've never been able to do it for free, to give people free admission. Ultimately what it is that we're doing it for is for people living with cerebral palsy, for friends and family who are living with cerebral palsy. This is a great opportunity for people to network and share education and share stories. We are to do that. It's super important to make sure that we have the ability for people to come out of any background, any location because it's all virtual and all you really need is an internet connection. Mental Health and Homelessness with Malin Brown. Montpelier and State of Vermont has a huge homeless problem. There's a situation where hotels are being put into either homeless shelters by Good Samaritan Haven or homes to get people out of homelessness. Let's listen in to Advocate and Activist Morgan Brown talk about his plight from homelessness to house. Let's listen in to his interview. Morgan Brown on Able Denyne.  First off, it's not a job for me. It's always been a labor of love and I've always done it on a volunteer basis. I never have been tied with other organizations but I network a lot, you know, share information and things. But I've always been an independent operator and basically when I get started, mostly I just observed and listened and watched what's going on and obtained information, especially when I started going up to St. House in 1991 after I moved to Montpelier.  So I'd go sit on those committees when they're taking up certain bills and stuff to have nothing to do with the things I'm interested in necessarily. And what that helped do was I was able to learn what was important to certain legislators. What kind of questions do they ask? And that helped with a number of things including, you know, some people when they go to the legislature, they go like a bull in a china shop and they're saying, we want this and we want that. And the legislators go, yeah, and okay. And they don't necessarily listen to them and stuff. If you go in prepared and you've done your prep work, you're not going to get all excited necessarily.  And the other thing that helps is they get to see you. They don't necessarily know who you are or what you want, but they've seen you. And that helps. And the other thing, a real important thing is you go to the cafeteria and go have lunch. And it's open to the public. Well, we would like to say thank you for listening in and watching Abledin Arnair in 2021. There will be a more powerful 2022 despite COVID-19. We would like to thank our sponsors and partners and especially Orca Media for giving us this opportunity to have a wonderful show for people with special needs. We would like to thank the following. We would like to thank Orca Media as well as Green Mountain Support Services, Washington County Mental Health and many partners such as the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired as well as the Montpelier Sustainable Coalition, the Central Vermont Habitat for Humanity and many, many, many, many others. Also, we'll leave you with one last clip. The Association for the Blind of and Visually Impaired of Vermont came by and showed us many things on how to work well in the kitchen despite your visual impairment to working with your prescription medication and seeing the prescription better despite your visual impairment. Let's take a look at Daniel Norris of the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired of Vermont and we leave you with that. Happy New Year. Merry Christmas. Happy Belated Hanukkah and many other holidays on Abledin Arnair. See you in 2022. We would like to say welcome to Dan Norris, the Director of Adult Gay Services of the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired. The Vermont Association for the Blind. Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired who is here today to discuss how to be independent in your apartment, house or life if you are blind and low vision and visually impaired. Welcome to Abledin Arnair. Mr. Norris. Happy to be here. Tell me the missions and goals of the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Sure. The title is pretty long so we shorten it to VABVI sometimes. So VABVI is dedicated to helping Vermonters of all ages to be able to be independent and to reach their goals and their aspirations as they live their lives as visually impaired individuals. Okay. I see that you brought a treasure trove of things that we're going to show. Do you want to ask any questions, Abledin Arnair? Yes. Since you said that you can go ahead with your treasures that you had brought with us. Excellent. And as far as, you know, there's a lot of technology that's come out over the past several years that's still tried and true and there's new stuff where I'm going to show you a bit of everything here. But there are high and low tech solutions for people. And what is the difference before you start showing things? What is the difference between high and low vision technology and is it expensive? Yes. How can we, as people with special needs and who get services afford this stuff, knowing that it is, it can be expensive? Absolutely. So I'll answer that question by first saying, when I say visual impairment, that's a huge spectrum. Some people, to drive in Vermont, you need to have a corrected visual acuity of 2040. Right. And so if you cannot correct a 2040, technically that does not meet the driving requirements. And there's some field requirements there too. But when we talk about vision loss, there's a wide spectrum from needing glasses that can correct the refraction so you can see better. To maybe, like in my case, I'm legally blind, which means my visual acuity does not correct better than 2200 in either eye. And I have no central vision as well in either eye. I have peripheral issues so I can't see you on the side of me. Oh, so put us together and we're set. So I don't have any central vision. You have some peripheral issues. Some people have spots of vision, cataracts, strokes, all those things can lead to different kinds of vision loss. And so there's a wide variety of visual impairments out there. And so if you have what's sometimes called functional vision, we call it low vision sometimes. And then you can be legally blind, which means you're beyond the 2200 correction or you have less than 20 degrees field of vision. And then blindness, that term kind of covers a full spectrum of having very little vision to having no light perception. And so as I showed stuff today, I'm going to be talking about high-tech solutions include technology. Low-tech solutions are simple day-to-day things that you can find that can help. And so hopefully I can show you a wide variety of those today. Okay, open your treasure chest. So just to start off with, here I have a chart with lots of different tactile dots on it. This is a sampler that comes from a catalog called Maxiades.  Whatever you can think of that could use a tactile locator button or dot, this can help. And they even make dots that are even smaller than this if you need to have something very, very small, like on a cell phone. What about Braille oven knobs or things like that? Is that tactile? Major sponsors for Ableton on Air include Green Mountain Support Services, empowering people with disabilities to live home in the community. 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An Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has advised the federal government to support splinter groups among bandits as a way to end mass abduction of school pupils. Gumi, who spoke to the punch on a telephone on Wednesday, on the abduction of 200 Islamist schoolchildren in Rafi'l-Luku government area of Niger State, said many bandits were ready for a dialogue, adding that the government could use them to fight the ugly ones. He said in quote, ''Government needs to be proactive with them. We have a lot of them that are ready to fight the bad ones, use the bad to fight the ugly and use the good to fight the bad ones when you're done with the ugly.'' Look at Boko Haram, who finished Shekau, was it not the splinter group? End of quote. So you get notified about fresh news updates.


Hi everyone, Sean with jaspyscasebrakes.com here doing 2019-2020 puny clearly Don Russ Basketball six box half case break pick your team number six second half of the same case that we did for pick your team five So here's our list. Let's print and rip We've already got the boxes set up because like I said, it's the second half of the previous case Here are those boxes. You can see they're all written on with pick your team six and my Incredible handwriting Carlos last spot mojo Cavaliers and Philadelphia 76ers For the 40-ish people still watching or listening right now Um, that break credit promo has been adjusted and made considerably easier to attain All we have to do is sell out one more break So if you're listening Check the break schedule So you can see the modified Needs for break box one jaren jackson jr Memphis grizzlies Sean maddock Trey young Atlanta hawks patrick cologne Very nice start tyler harrow purple Miami heat zoom in kim there you go zoom in nesir little trailblazers mark haraki quendiri weather spoon for the spurs david almeida deandre aiden phoenix sons roger nass pascal siacum toronto raptors darin mckenzie quendiri weather spoon rated rookie gold going to the spurs david almeida Grant williams rated rookie boston celtics mark haraki cody martin rated rookie charlotte hornets jason johnson Steph curry golden state warriors Sean maddock cj mccollom Portland trailblazers mark haraki star gazing nicola joekick denver nuggets michael hepler pj washington jr rated rookie charlotte hornets jason johnson taylan horton tucker for the lakers cori shalik carl anthony towns timbre wolves mark haraki kevin durant brooklyn netts joe perissi deer and fox gold for the kings david mosley rated rookie zion williamson new orleans pelicans rodrigo overlander very nice eric pascal golden state warriors Sean maddock nice box one we got a redemption get your guesses in anthony davis los angeles lakers cori shalik joel m bead for the 76ers carlos katnack bogey scene bobole on the redemption here's a nice one though 93 out of 99 yannis on the tucumpo blue milwaukee connor weirce tarence davis rated rookie toronto raptors darin mckenzie brandon clark rated rookie grizzlies shon maddock demar de rosen for the spurs david almeida derrick rose detroit pistons brian peoples star gazing steve curry golden state warriors shon maddock bruno fernando rated rookie atlanta hawks patrick cologne cameron johnson rated rookie phoenix sons roger ness victor aledipo indiana pacer serenity love here's a redemption like i said derrius garland rated rookie purple cleven cavaliers carlos katnack laspa mojo nicole meli rated rookie for the pelicans rodrigo overlander randy's guessing rui on the redemption mefandu kavi galley rated rookie for the clippers matthew sims yannis base no walkie connor weirce kairi erving brooklyn joe pericy jordan pool rookie rated rookie gold warriors shon maddock alan smaljik rated rookie for the warriors shon maddock taco fall rated rookie for the celtics mark haraki our redemption clearly rated rookie autographs red is the red out of five anybody know card 25 c r s en karson edwards thoston celtics mark haraki 49 for the red that's not bad there you go mark good young teen really good player bogie saying red is to 49 nice karson edwards there for you i think it'll be nice kate it'll be really nice i mean it'll be a good peak at what uh prism is going to look like next year for basketball you know always mark always he was really good at purdue i think he started to come on pretty well in the g league towards the end of the year didn't really contribute at all during the playoff run but people like him victor oladipo indianis or indy love yannis milwaukee bucks connor weirce chris middleton gold milwaukee bucks connor weirce brandon clark rated rookie for the grizzlies shon maddock bruno franando rated rookie hawks patrick cologne kairi erving net's joe perissi russell westbrook houston rockets thorn kennick king day and here's a red parallel and it is number to 49 admiral school field for the wizards randy lou so that uh auto mark redemption that red parallel should be number to 49 as well cameron johnson rated rookie for the suns roger ness nicole meli rated rookie for the pelicans rodrigo overlaunder brandon ingram for the pelicans rodrigo overlaunder and that's your bed, huh randy blake griffin detroit pistons brian peoples russell westbrook all clear for takeoff rockets thorn kennick fondue covingelli for the clippers matthew sims alan smalgic for the warriors shon maddock collin sexton cavaliers carlos katnack lebron james lakers quarry shillick derrius garland purple cavaliers carlos katnack taco fall for the celtics mark rocky and isiah roby for the thunder tony that's the first half three more boxes coming up uh joe nick et changed it we only had to sell out two of the three so we're actually only one break away platinum hockey it's the easiest route to 600 bucks in break credit so i told them all if we can't even do that and to earn 600 bucks we don't people don't want it apparently so yanis onto the compo the walkie bucks caught our weirs yeah i updated it in the uh in the break uh schedule kairi erving nets joe perissi donovan mitchell utah jazz purple james cinda nassir little portland trailblazers mark rocky quenderry weather spoon for the spurs david almeida rustle westbrook houston durin kenig brandon ingram pelicans rudrigo overlander daniel gafford gold for the bowls mixed over grant williams for the celtics marco rocky cody martin rated rookie hornets jason johnson blake griffin detroit pistons brian peoples collin sexton cavaliers carlos catnack pulled one of these last night one of my favorites labron james defying gravity there you go very nice going to the lakers cori pj washington jr hornets jason johnson tailin horton tucker lakers cori schelig the brawn james cori ben simmins 76ers carlos catnack nicole voosevich gold orlanda magic andrew hearman zion williamson rated rookie pelicans rudrigo overlander there you go rudrigo congrats eric pascal for the warriors shawn mattak i know brine let's find one two boxes left brine davontae graham for the hornets jason johnson kawai lenard for the clippers matthew simms another nice one for marco rocky karson edwards green 16 out of 25 nice team color matching on that there you go mark bull bull for the nuggets michael hepler romeo langford marco rocky celtics chris paul thunder and tony e i know pat i'm kind of noticing that devin booker for the suns roger ness coby white my house for the bulls nix dober derrius basley for the thunder tony e jama rant i can't take any sugar memphis grizzlies shawn mattak there you go shawn congrats luka donchich dallas mavericks patrick fernando there you go bogey nice little second-year luka there for you you got an auto taylin horton tucker for the lakers poorie shaley all right bogey admiral schoolfield gold for the wizards randy lou followed by admiral schoolfield base rated rookie for randy and the wizards goga patadze for the pacers serendilove rudigo bear for the jazz james cinda jaren jackson jr grizzlies shawn mattak bam on a bio gold for the heat zoom in i don't think so randy i just hit a couple admiral schoolfield back to back for you nicolas clackston rated rookie for the nets joe perissi jackson haze rated rookie for the pelicans rodrigo overlander one gold one regular one gold one regular but yes last box mojo guys make everything come through last box everybody good luck and uh check the break schedule break credit promo still in play 20 minutes left 20 minutes joel mb 76ers carlos catnack demar de rosen san antonio spurs david almeida blake griffin detroit pistons purple brian peoples kyle guy rated rookie king's david moseley nassir little trailblazers mark haraki oldadipo pacers serendilove derrick rose for the pistons brian peoples devin booker gold phoenix suns roger ness quinderry weather spoon for the spurs david almeida right grant williams celtix mark haraki yannis anta ticompo for the bucks connor weir's kairi erving brooklyn nets joe perissi jason tatum my house celtix mark haraki having a hell of a break kody martin hornets jason johnson pj washington hornets jason johnson russell westbrook for the rockets doran kennick king deep brandy ningram pelicans rodrigo overlander jackson haze purple for the pelicans rodrigo overlander talen horton tucker for the lakers cori shellick zion williamson rated rookie again for the pelicans rodrigo congratulations last card eric pascal rated rookie golden state warriors shon matty those are the six boxes guys that was 1920 punini clearly don rusk basketball six box half case break pick your team number six i'm shon jaspiescasebreaks.com we'll have more clearly don rusk in the store jaspiescasebreaks.com thanks for hanging out and i'll see you next time


We work with and we cover some of the old guard, older companies like Dell EMC, HPE, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and they're doing really good work pivoting and trying to be ready for this new wave. It's not just on a blockchain, it's just how the world works, cloud, you know, IOT, but decentralized cannot be ignored. Are they ready? Do you think they're ready? Do you think they even understand what's coming? No, no, they're not ready and it's not, to me it's not even about just blockchain. I mean, in blockchain technology they can adopt. The bigger issue is digital disruption and digital disruption is all about the data at the core of the organization and business models that are built around data and if you think about the history of companies, it's human expertise and data is bolted on. We've seen this time and time again, but if you look at the top five market cap companies, Facebook, Amazon, Google, et cetera, they're data companies. Data is at the center and they take human expertise and wrap it around there. So the future is going to be about innovation with data, with artificial intelligence and cloud economics and the old guard doesn't have those things. Blockchain fits in there. To me, blockchain is about building out a new distributed web and on top of the old web and rewarding those who are building it. It's a new form of open source where the builders get paid.


It went away for a couple years, it was back, it was better than ever. The band line up's amazing, I think the energy, you can just sense it. Here we are early in the morning, it's going to be a great day, you can just feel the buzz about this excitement here in Five Points, back to the city. What a lot of residents don't realize, people come from all over the Midlands for this big, big festival. So we like to show out a little here in Five Points when it comes to St. Pat's. Wearing your green, wearing your beads, having fun, so we're excited today.


A team led by Ben Zhao has created a tool called Nightshade that lets creators fight back by poisoning their work. The art that they make looks fine to you and I, but it messes with the algorithms that then are used to train afterwards. 50 poison samples, the dog just looks weird. 100, it starts to look like a pretty stretched out cat. 300 poison samples, that dog is just a cat. It also made hats come out as cakes, handbags come out as toasters, possibilities are endless.


What do you mean, hell, is that noise? I got this in here, just heard it again. That's what we got going on here. We've been hearing more stuff through this thing. This is the receiver. Out here, I have the two cameras, the transmitter, OK? So when I hear a noise, I'm going to try to film this for you. When I hear a noise, I will come out here just as quick as I can, and you'll see me come out in that camera so you know nobody's here, OK? Through them cameras, and you'll know it's not us, because we are in here, all right? So you can hear me close the door on that thing. So let's give it a couple of minutes. OK, mama? I'm going to show you there's no one in the bathroom, and you'll see in that camera right there that no one. This is mom's room, and you'll see on that camera out there that nobody has come in or out of this room. That's feedback from this thing. Sorry, mom, right there. Hopefully the camera picked that up, but it was footsteps or something going on out there. Pretty weird. So that's what we deal with quite regularly. Sometimes, like this week, we've been going a couple days and didn't hear really anything. Sometimes you can go weak, and then sometimes it's like all night, just bang, boom, thump. So there you go. No one was in this house. You seen that from different cameras, not nobody. So I don't know, guys. Let us know what you think. We'll see you in the next one. Stay tuned for more videos like this. I don't know what's going on, but it's really strange. We'll see you, guys. Take care. Bye-bye.


Left side throws the fade, left side verbats it, cuts down! Haha! Yes! Go ahead and stack that line, Bears!