All right everyone if you'll take your seats we can finish up this tremendous day, so how has your day been? Pretty amazing the morning was spectacular. I got a complaint coming up here So I got an opportunity. I made an opportunity I made it happen to try to get around to as many of the breakout sessions as I could they were pretty engaging yes Excellent and a special. Thank you to all of the presenters and the moderators people have given their time and then really did Get us engaged in an excellent discussion and moving toward what we wanted Which is thinking about some solutions and what do we do and really delving into the difficult issues and difficult problems? recognizing that many things that we have what's the word chastise and Ostracized along the way are Precipitated as Frank and others have told us this morning by people's experiences, and they react and respond Naturally right and and that we need to figure out some ways to help them Perhaps make different choices, but that is something we all need to be involved in so Before we conclude I'll say it now. Thank you all for being here and thank you all for Really digging deep and thinking about all of these issues. We greatly appreciate it So the charge now is now we're now we're informed We're all on the same playing field and the work is just really beginning right we've got to keep going And we'll talk about that so I'm very happy that you all have returned as I said to know the science and know the predictions and predictability and Epidemiologic studies etc. Is only to know half the story But if you don't know about resilience and healing and recovery We really are not seeing the full picture and as we as the interested crew as providers and educators and People in law enforcement etc. Really need to understand the full picture. So that's what we're going to talk about today What's what's on this other end and how do we balance so this last topic for the day is introducing and building self-healing communities Understanding resilience and recovery and we have two tremendous speakers here. I have worked with them both birth both highly trained and highly skilled Connie Noel is a nurse PhD nurse and Many of you have heard her speak at some of our prior community health Conversations in the past and she's really an expert on these issue these issues of recovery and resilience So she's here again to talk about this. She's a psychiatric nurse practitioner and recovery counselor And she practices up at the University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health in Hartford County She was down here at the medical center and that's where I met her many years ago And one of the very first time I'll tell you the kind of heart Connie has the very first time I met her She was talking about having volunteered following Katrina and what that experience was like working with the Red Cross So that's Connie Noel and I gave a shout out earlier this morning right at the tip of the morning to Ruby Parker as a member of the family tree There she is as a member of the family tree and she's the manager of public engagement and training there And she leads the effort to educate policy makers professionals and parents about the impact of ACEs, so We've had experts all day. These are our last two speakers of the day and I asked them to come forward Thank You Donna Is this can everybody hear me first of all I'd like to say how excited and privileged I feel to stand up here in front of all of you and talk about something that's really dear to my heart and that I love To talk about One thing I don't like to say, but I'll say it is that I've been a psychiatric nurse for over 45 years and I've been a Red Cross disaster mental health volunteer for over 25 years so And I have a lot of passion about Helping people and I became really interested in recovery Actually as an offshoot of the disaster work that I did starting in the mid 90s So I want to start off with the substance abuse and mental health Administration definition of recovery and Before I start I want to pick up on what I heard from the previous speaker And I just want to tell you a little story because Recovery oriented work is very story based and I think you will all remember the occurrence a few years back when Captain Sully Landed a plane in the Hudson. Do you remember that? well, I had the privilege of hearing his co-pilot speak once and He was talking about what happened to the people on the plane after they were rescued and What happened was believe it or not About 25 to 30 percent of the people on the plane took a cab to an airport and got on another plane To go where they were going some people Never got on a plane again some people took years before they got on a plane again and One person a young man decided to become a pilot because he was so inspired by the captain So what I want to start off and just pick up although I haven't been with you all day one of the things I really want to say is that It's not necessarily what you get exposed to although some things are absolutely horrific horrifying things It is actually what comes after that and what you do with it and many children normalize terrible Occurrences and they do fine for a while like Vicki Beck was just talking about and then what happens They're used to seeing mom get beat up by dad And they think that it's okay to hit somebody that you love and then they they can they excel Some of them excel in school and they do well They get into a relationship or they have their own children and then they're stuck in some communication Patterns that they can't get rid of so there is so many different levels of function That can happen after the exposure of trauma that I don't want you to think that one size fits all or Everyone is an individual so I wanted to make that point before I started so there's lots of different components of recovery and This is the SAMHSA wheel of recovery. I'm sure have how many people have seen this a good amount But this goes into all the aspects That are considered in terms of Thinking about how a person recovers and I'm going to go over some of them in detail Then I'm going to talk about Wellness and what goes into a sort of a wellness toolkit and what you can use every day So the first thing I want to talk about is hope because hope is the real underpinning of recovery hope is the anti stigma antidote So I heard someone say the other day that the most Powerful thing that you can say to someone who has an invisible illness to give them hope is I believe in you and so The components of this recovery and this model don't necessarily It's not like a cookbook where you do a and b and c It's more like this is the kind of approach that helps people the most and one of the things that happens and We heard in the very first community conversation That a lot of people who are in recovery and are successful Do not tell people that there's their in treatment and they're doing well and they might be taking medications and they're doing functional, you know professionals Productive members of society and the people don't know it because they don't nobody likes to say well, I have bipolar or I have a Depression or I've recovered from substances That's not something that is encouraged even so one of the first things to talk about in terms of recovery is Saying that recovery is real and it's achievable and it's possible and that people who have had symptoms and suffered with circumstances are able to Define themselves and to start on a journey and lead productive lives so I always Encourage staff that I work with to talk about the fact that People can have a meaningful life people can reach goals So I think one of the things that's important when you when you do this is you have to think about or Do you have any kind of internals? stigma yourself and I remember Many years ago when I was first exposed to the idea of recovery and peers and Working in a different way with individuals who come to us for help Was that I realized that I might have more hope? For someone who had a new diagnosis of a brain tumor or cancer Rather than someone who had a first psychotic break and so I had to get in touch with my own Bias and my own stigmatizing I'll think it just I'll give you an example How many people have seen that commercial on TV for cancer where it talks about this is a hard diagnosis to hear And then they say this our doctors are the best You've come to the right place How many times in the mental health world do you get that as a greeting message? Okay, so why don't we start doing that? You know why not take that I one idea and go take that one So anyway, everything begins with hope and understanding that it's possible Recovery also has to be culturally competent and culturally sensitive and Lots of these slides that I have you could spend an hour on each one But what I want to say about this is that it's important To know that some of the things that are published and are given as examples of different cultural beliefs You have to be careful about Stereotyping because people are different and people are individual and just because someone has a certain kind of background or a certain Aspect of one of these things doesn't mean that everybody who has that is the same So I think it's very important to keep that in mind and to understand that individual in a more definitive kind of way Recovery is person-driven and so a lot of times especially in health care in inpatient hospital side you hear about person-centered care and What that really means is that the person who's coming to us for services or the person who's obtaining services Needs to feel like they're the most important person in the treatment plan One of the things I like to say to patients that I see and I fall back to saying patient because I work on inpatient a lot is that you're the most important person you're the center of the treatment plan and One of the reasons why this is so important is because What we want to do and I'll talk about this more in a second is Empower individuals so that they can learn to control their own lives and their own symptoms Choice Leads to empowerment and it makes the person feel more autonomous Our goal should be that the patient or the person coming to us for services Learns how to manage their own lives and to do that they have to learn how to trust their own judgments Recovery is holistic So on this slide you see a list of things that are all aspects of living The things that have the little stars are the things that typically get emphasized when someone's in clinical treatment But there is a movement in many places and University of Maryland downtown Our patient services is a recovery based Type of treatment center So you're going to look at self-care practices. You're going to look at things about employment creativity is a person employed and Complimentary and alternative Services, I would just add a caveat here In practice I get an awful lot of people who want to who want to use cannabinoids who want to use THC and things like that And all I can tell you is that from a professional standpoint There's a lot a lot of evidence and that's even what the National Organization says There's not evidence that this helps everything and it does get marketed as a panacea So I just wanted to mention that recovery also Includes relationships and relationship issues and One of the things that I think I learned from Disaster mental health work was that The feeling of being connected to another human being is very healing So that after those kinds of major events One of the tasks of helping people through is getting them to shore up or create Connections with others as a person who's been a nurse and done a lot of care I do believe that the empathy and Trust and Relationship between two people is really the foundation for healing Excuse me So one of the things that happens to me is my mouth gets dry now you've spent an Entire day talking about trauma and I won't go into this slide because I think you've heard a lot about this all day The sort of the foundational pillars of Trauma-informed care have to do with safety Connections as I just mentioned and managing emotions and for some people particularly children and adolescents It's identifying emotions and then managing them because if you think about Some exposure to trauma occurs before a person even has verbal abilities They may not even have words to describe how they feel and so that leads to an adult Who has no idea how they got triggered because they didn't even have a word to use when they first got traumatized so identifying and managing feelings is key so So those are the the things about the wheel that I wanted to emphasize for this group today Another thing I wanted to talk about is how many dimensions there are so there's the health dimension There's the sort of like the biological healthy living sort of Aspects There's having a safe and stable home That's probably a key for many many people who are affected with some kind of symptoms And that's why you see recovery-based treatment looking at Housing looking at employment looking at employment gets to that sense of purpose So it's not just a question of taking your medications and keeping your appointments and Doing what the people in the residential house say it's about the person understanding that all these things and feeling healthy about all these things is What leads to them being able to have a meaningful life There's an interesting Experiment I believe it's in California where the first treatment for suicidal homeless Homeless veterans is to have these small houses and create a safe stable place to live No questions asked That's the first step because with that then someone can build on the rest of the skills They need to develop in order to feel like a productive member of society and to have that kind of meaning so Getting back to that plane ride and the people who had different functionality One of the things that is really important to talk about is that there really is no yardstick of what is normal It is what is normal for that person now? There are some things that automatically go outside if you break laws if you do things that are not socially acceptable if you you know Go to church in a bikini or you you know do things that are outlandish That's not going to be looked at as within a realm of normal But one of the things that's hard on a day like this is if you're not used to hearing about a lot of symptoms or a lot of Psychology we know what happens we you start thinking well I think I have that or I remember I know that my uncle Joe has this or maybe my daughter is affected like this and That happens we know because all nursing students and all medical students as they go through their chapters And they go through their systems and they learn about disease and illness lots of people start thinking that's what they have So one of the things that is important is to talk about function and Normality because there isn't this yardstick of this is what's normal and this is what you get measured against It's what your baseline is So what goes into all of that function? and this is a cute little thing because Lots of people with mental health issues think that they're the only ones and they're not the only ones What they don't know is everybody else is thinking the same thing Everybody thinks of this at least one time in their life So what are the things that go into function that go into thinking about? wellness tools for each individual To achieve this normal life. Well, I start off with what I call the basics, which is sleep Nourishment and what you eat and exercise and I think it's a fairly comfortable Clinically-based thing to say that if you make major healthy changes in these three areas this is Equivalent if you have a mild depression, this is equivalent to medicine So Making sure if you know you need at least eight hours of sleep Then you need to schedule yourself and do sleep hygiene so that you get eight hours of sleep and That single thing is going to improve someone's mood probably more than a lot of things Being careful about what you put in your body in terms of nourishment if you eat You know, I heard once that if you have black coffee and a donut in the morning It is the worst breakfast possible because it just spikes up your blood sugar and it puts you on a fluctuation all day So you may have to learn how to and I'm I'm Needing to do this myself as you can see you have to think about what are the best choices for you and what makes you the Best person you can be every day so The second level is Relationships personal relationships loving relationships where you get support family community church Social groups, where do you get support and then productivity work relationships school relationships? All these things go into How well you get along with others probably has a lot to do with how good you feel at the end of the day so for a lot of folks working on these issues and creating optimum situations is a pivotal part of Feeling good about yourself and being your best person every day So diversion enjoyment fun.  Oh, you've had a bad day.  Well, that's fine except sometimes that Glass of wine turns into a half a bottle And then it turns into a whole bottle and then before you know it you're you're in a category You don't want to be in and you're you're creating problems You're not solving them and you're not coping with them in the right way and that could be with marijuana It could be with cocaine. It could be with other kinds of self-destructive behaviors so people who have Symptoms that need to be managed often have to play a lot of attention to this and I think that it's Something that most clinicians and a lot of people aren't schooled in and don't don't get a lot of information About how do you help somebody with this aspect other than say don't do that and don't do that But what should they do? How do we use people's strengths? How do we use people's interests? How do we? Talk about their creativity and what they want to do So then there's there's sort of like the big picture they sort of why am I here? What am I doing? What is the world about? How am I contributing? What is what is the meaning of life? And if you can't see what it says inside the tree, it says the meaning of life is to find your gift The purpose in life is to give it away and that's from Pablo Picasso So I just I just love that Some people can go through their life and they're not really paying much attention to this But a lot of people are and some people do and so This is a important area to groom and to be aware of if you're on the helping side of Help of treatment and With that I'd like to introduce as you've heard or you're coming back up or yeah, okay This is Ruby hear me. I've switching mics here. So I want to make sure can you guys all hear me in the back? Okay, and so I'm gonna kind of bring it home for you guys So you've had a lot of information that's been shared with you all day long You've heard about what are aces how they impact the brain? You've talked about how that might impact the different communities you work with or in the different fields you work in And then Connie just talked about how that what we can do to build recovery amongst individuals So I'm gonna talk about how to what does it look like to build Communities that are self-healing. What does it look like to build a community? That maybe doesn't experience as many aces as the communities that we're living in now And so that's what I'm going to bring it back to and so really what I realized is I I Prepared my presentation and I I came here today and I listened to what everyone said and I thought gosh Everyone just stole my whole presentation. I'm pretty sure that everything. I'm going to say is really a Reiteration of what you've probably heard today And but I think that that's really the beautiful time of right now is is to remind you what you've heard today I think oftentimes we go to things and we wonder we leave and we go Well, what do I do with this now and and what I want you to all know is you already have the tools in Your pocket you already have the tools you've heard them today I know that many of you are probably inspired and so what I hope that this is is a reminder of how those different tools are Going to become useful to you as you leave today And you go back to your job tomorrow as you go back to your neighborhood as you go back to your family Wherever that is to share this information with other people And so really it's important for us to understand that aces and Are really important things for us to know exist and some people go I already knew this information. I'd heard this before and and now what we're doing is we're building a common language for all of us to talk about and What it doesn't do is it doesn't give us a step-by-step guide What do you do with this information? It doesn't give us a roadmap and that's because we have to develop that we have to decide what works best in our Community what works best in our family what's going to work best with the people we work with and so this is our Opportunity to take this information and figure out how that works with what we do And so what the things that we know have worked well for people who have resilience people who have built Resilience in their families and in their communities are three different factors and you've heard them all before so I'm just again I'm telling you what you've already heard today in different spaces The first one is is capabilities. Do people believe that they have the capability of doing something? The second one is attachment and belonging and the third one is culture and community and spirituality So I'm going to go into each one of those But the individual capabilities when we saw this morning when Kay and Frank talked about what are aces and we watched that video The little sketch video of adult capabilities and how important it was for individuals to believe that they can do something That's here is thinking about the fact that we have to believe that we have the opportunity to make change and That we have to believe that we have Possibilities in our lives and same thing for children. We need to make sure that children grow up with two different things They need to grow up with self-regulation So their ability to regulate their emotions, which is Frank talked about can be very challenging when they've experienced some of this drama and They have to believe in self-efficacy. They have to believe that they have the capability They have to believe that there's possibilities and so sometimes what we see when we talk about aces is people say Well, I'm an adult and I have an a score of whatever that a score is How how do I? How did I get here a or B? How do I change the course of the rest of my life now that I know this information? So some of it's about what can we do for children? But a lot of what's conversations happen around well, what about an adult who's already had these situations happen to them? and I think if we look at Toneer who is here this morning when we think about what Connie just talked about with individuals recovery plan We can think a lot about how Important it was for them to believe to have a possibility of a course path for them to move forward and to Understand that there was a possibility for them to do something and there's a lot of different People and things that help them move that way, but those are two factors that are going to help individuals and build capabilities and build skills to move forward So the second piece here is attachment when we had that panel up front earlier this morning How many of those young folks talked about a relationship or a person who helped them? All of them all of them every single one of them Toneer talked about a program But really probably the people within that program who gave her those opportunities to change the course of her life You know so those things were huge relationship But we know about aces and resilience is that children who have at least one support of adult Are the folks who are going to grow on and not have those a scores? Topple on top of them they are going to grow and have possibilities because they have support They have someone who tells them that they can move forward The other thing to think about is that those relationships if they don't happen when children are young and They can happen later in life. It's much harder We think way back to those first slides that we saw Frank showing us and you saw what those branches the synaptic density All those parts in our brain that communication that's happening What we know is that our brains decide what's most important and so if our experiences have been negative our brains gonna continue to Go down a path of survival But we what we know is that you can build Relationships and you can build new connections inside your brain later in life. It's just a lot harder But we can do it which means that when we work with adult populations We have the potential to build resilience in those adults and we have the potential to change communities It's just gonna be a little bit harder than if we do that work when they're children Has anyone tried to learn a new language as an adult? Not going so well It's not working out. So that's the thing is that these things can change we can add them back in It's just harder. It's gonna take a little bit longer for us to do then And so what we know about relationship is it's really important that we have caring and competent relationships So competent relationships are going to be relationships that help us build new skills and new knowledge And so they're not just someone who has compassion one time and and tells you that they're there to support you But people who show up time and time again and and show up even when that can be tough Sometimes people who have experience of your trauma are going to be people who might not be Someone who you want to show up for a time and again. They're gonna be testing you I would imagine if Tonya was still here She would tell us that she might have been a tough person to get along with when she came out on the other end of That but someone stood there and said we're gonna keep on coming. We're gonna keep on showing up We're gonna keep on supporting you even if you test us So thinking about the people who we interact with who test us might be those very people who have had a lot of trauma And it may not be that they're purposely trying to test us. It may be that their brains only know one way to communicate That's all that they know and so it's a biological response not a personal response The last area that we know that really builds resilience and people who and communities who have resilient is People who have a sense of community so they have their individual capabilities They have a sense of belonging with other individuals and then lastly they have a community that supports that and so I think when I was on one of the breakout sessions I heard someone say that they they believe that they live and they are from Baltimore and that Baltimore is a Traumatized community And so what does it mean when we live in communities that we might consider to be broken or to be traumatized? You know, what does it mean to live in a community that is building resilience amongst all of its members? And how do we do that? How do we build communities that are going to have? Support and to have resources and skill building for all its members for everyone. That's part of that community It's going to take a lot of work I mean, I think the one thing that I always think about we can't wait for policies and For structural change we have to be the people who start to make that shift Because it's going to start at that individual level and the relationship level and then we can move into that community level So what we know from communities who've been successful in this is that they follow us They have all different methods of how they've been successful, but they follow a similar path here and so what they're going to do is they're going to follow these these ideas of Expanding leadership, they're going to be people who are coming together They're sharing ideas and then they're making decisions based off that new knowledge And so that repetition is something that helps build resilient communities and helps build self-healing communities and so leadership expansion isn't just about and Putting someone at the top in charge of everyone else leadership expansion is about bringing people to the table It's about getting people at the table who haven't been at the table before and Letting them share their voice so it doesn't make a difference. It's not about having and Someone in charge who has that but really bringing lots and lots of different voices to the table so that they can be leaders of their own kind And then lastly and then secondly it's about coming together So now that we've brought more people now we need to come together like we're doing here in this room And we're going to share our ideas. We're going to share our learned Experiences we're going to share what kinds of things were successful for us We're going to talk about what might work in our community We're going to talk about things that we've done that didn't work well and what why was it that it didn't work? Well, and by spring all of that information together. We have the opportunity To make changes and make decisions that make sense for moving forward So if we make the same decisions that we've done in the past that didn't work We're not going to see a lot of growth. We're not going to see a lot of change But if we make decisions that are with new voices that have shared their learned experiences And then we start to learn that like we are doing in this room today We've shared a lot of different voices We've shared a lot of different experiences and now we can start to say well, this is an opportunity for us to move forward You know, we heard today voices of people who have have suffered severe trauma And they shared what worked well for them and what didn't work well And so that's our opportunity if we were people who if were people who haven't experienced that same trauma to listen and say Well, that didn't work well that wasn't working but these Different strategies are working and so what are some new strategies that we can bring back that might work? Well in order to build a new space that doesn't retraumatize people What does it mean to have a law enforcement that doesn't? Push people against a space and re-break the nose, you know What does that mean and how do we do something all while creating a safety net for everyone? Who's there? And so really we have to think about that we all together have a much more powerful stance than what we have as individuals And so one of the things that we think about when we talk about ACEs is how it's impacting all different fields of work It's impacting people who work in education. It's impacting people who work in law enforcement It's impacting people who work directly with families and in in a hospital setting in a caregiving provided Community all different areas, but if we all together work to reduce ACEs Then we have the opportunity to reduce all those social problems and health problems all at the same time So we continue to work on our own and make some different some impacts on our own But unless we start to make a change at a larger level and we start to share our ideas at a larger level We won't see that large impact happen at once And so we have the opportunity to all together work together to lift everyone up in all aspects of our community And so really I always like to say I've heard it say a couple times say talking about hope and that this is our Opportunity hope is there we have the opportunity to make changes and we have the opportunity to go back today and To tell someone about something that we've learned We have the opportunity to go back to our workplace tomorrow or to our neighborhood or to our church Or wherever it is that we go every morning and we have the opportunity to make a change And but really we cannot wait for that change to happen elsewhere We have to start making those changes here with everybody and and so I and I want you guys to each Turn to your neighbor, and I want you guys to take two minutes and tell your neighbor What is one thing that you think you could do differently based off the knowledge you learned today? Either in your personal life in your neighborhood or with your friends family anything like that or in your larger community whether that's your workplace or your Your church community whatever it is so turn to your neighbor Reintroduce yourself if you don't know them if you can hear me clap once If you can hear me clap once If you can hear me clap twice You can hear me clap three times if you can hear me clap three times All right, it should be a camp instructor. That's what we did at camp to get everyone attention I wasn't quite sure I didn't have a tool like Frank had to bring everyone back in I was a little nervous there So did everyone get a chance to share an idea that they had? Does everyone feel like they had at least one thing that they knew they could do after today? Good. Good. I hope that was a resounding. Yes. I Know I have a lot of things I want to go back and work on So I think every time we have these conversations It reminds us of things that we could be doing and it may be things We were doing at one point and we kind of lost track of them We lost track of the importance of them and this reminds us of how important it is to do something This reminds us of why we do the work that we do is when we hear about the impact that it has on people's lives And the impact it has on communities And so in order to make sure everyone gets out of here on time. We're going to do some questions So we have a microphone on the side here Kim's got it and so if anyone has questions about Resilience and recovery and what that might look like now is your opportunity You say no no questions. Nobody has any questions Just inspiration everyone's just excited to move how about some is it does anyone want to share what they thought they might do? Their plan their one thing. Yeah up front here. That'd be great. So he was thinking that from listening to Tonya this today and just thinking of my own childhood experiences and knowing about the reality of generational Abuse that goes on and on And then we talk about well, what can we do? How can we make a difference? How can we stop it? And I'm thinking how? I mean, how do you really take a child out of that? I mean you can help in whatever way you try, but they go back into that home or like Tonya said the One of the worst experiences she had although she was living in a horrible situation was being taken out and removed from her love siblings so I was saying this to my two partners on either side and then I said Well, the one thing I'll take is I'll say When I'm with people tell me about what happened. Yeah, so I'm gonna take that back That's a great one. So she said did that shift between what's wrong with people to what happens? What happens then? Anyone else feel brave enough to share what they think they might take from here. Yeah, we got another one over here I just want to say thank you To everyone all the presenters even the and it's not a congregation, but it's a community of people I've seen different reactions. I've seen You know just so much Today that I'm really full from all the information and for me personally It's listening because listening will give you a different ear of empathy and empathy is not pity It's just understanding and I think that each and every one of us with the resources that we've received We're smarter today and we're wiser in in the decisions that we're going to make when we're dealing with our communities our Families our co-workers Because it's it's everywhere, you know, and we've got to really listen to people and really Have a empathy ear now and not a preconceived notion because that brings the forth that judgment and so I just want to say thank you because I'm really just I Me elated from all of the information and I've really wanted trauma-informed care for so long Because this is what we need you got to get to the root cause of why people do what they do And then you have to address those generational things and then deal with it accordingly and not the way we think it should be dealt with So thank you Thank you because I was thinking on the same level as you but you know a lot of times well No, I have a granddaughter one of many Who used to say I can't hear you? When you were telling her something that she did not want to hear Figure that out and To that in we have to hear what people are saying Yep, we have to be in the state of I can Hear you even though I'm hearing different words It's the meaning that's coming from what you're saying that I hear I hear you heard I Hear it. I feel it And in my world, let's pray And ask God what to do because I'm not that smart Thank you so much I'm really touched by your comments. Hello, everybody. We all had such a wonderful time here I'm just still overwhelmed for all this food And I thank you Jesus for the food and your people But anyway, my thing is as a missionary and as a former teacher is to tell everyone you matter Everyone matters and you matter and the young people in that generation need are to stop Justifying their wrong behavior and we have to teach them all over again that it's not going to happen And it's not it may happen the way you want But it's not in God's will and you need to straighten up man up and woman up and be who you are called to be in Jesus Amen So I just like the clothes with a couple of comments I really liked some of the a lot of the stuff that you said Ruby But I think that one of the things, you know I was talking about all that functionality and no matter where you are and what you're doing and whether this is personal or Professional or something that's work related. It's really important that you be mindful of all those things about you And the reason for that is because that's what gives you the energy and good heart To do the best you can every day with challenging situations So Margaret Mead said that never doubt that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world because it's the only thing that has Ruby and Connie. Thank you ever so much for that Presentation what Kim pushes me out of the way Before I forget this and I would never want to forget this there are people who've run around all day in red shirts So the University of Maryland's medical system folks are in red shirts. That's my team They've worked very hard to put this together and in particular Kim Davidson And just once again a really big thank you to all of today's speakers I think each and everyone has been tremendous and we are grateful I got a few things to finish up here So we gave you the website earlier if you wanted to follow along This is just a listing of the events that we have done here to four We really thought two years ago right Connie that we were going to do one day about mental health And that would be it and people said what where's the rest? What's next? What did we miss? So we've been doing these every six months and intend to continue so we have a date already for November 2019 and it's November 13th. I asked earlier. Please do your blue evaluations They will help me legitimize and keep go keep going with these so that I can show someone Show some ones that they are working and that people are interested And we also want to meet your needs We have last year we decided to do two on depression and anxiety and this year We decided to make it about children so we thought that in November coming We would do something completely different But what we've decided is there's so much depth and there's more to do these are the aces and you've heard several References today that these ten aces are part of the story that there's death of a parent that there are other things that are not Articulated within those ten aces but are clearly part of the stress and trauma that children experience so We believe this team believes and many of our Great friends who work with us on this that there's more to do here So in asking about those evaluations. I said, please don't miss that question at the end which says What do you want to hear some of the things? We've thought about our bullying the LGBT community and some of what they deal with homelessness with children Suicidality etc. But I at this moment. We're thinking that we'll go to aces plus So a little bit of the recap vis-a-vis aces what else is out there related there, too That's causing some of the negative results that we may see people experience both in somatic and in behavioral health So we'd like your thoughts on that and as well we've we've started the discussion. This is a this was an energized group today I said it when you came in and I meant it It was a different kind of energy here in this room and I'd hate to see us lose it So we've had those cohorts break out and just begun to skim the surface and with Ruby's question What are you going to do? You know sometimes that can be really bold and say what are we going to do is one of my questions What are we going to do as a community? part of what we might decide to do in November is get back together as this group and there were plenty of people that Didn't get to be in this room But what is it that we're going to do and begin to think of some solutions set? So I throw that out to you. Please answer that question. We'll continue working But we would love your feedback because we certainly want to meet what you want to hear about as we move forward in this work So I had to say all that Evaluations evaluations that I mentioned evaluations. Yeah, all right And now we're going to raffle off find those raffle tickets that you probably if you like me You threw it is in the bottom of your bag somewhere. You can't find it, but we're going to raffle off six books six books from teneur cane and I'm going to find somebody up front to pull Got to be here to win I Guess they all start with five four seven one Last digits two eight eight All right She's checking. She's checking Connie's picking them all All right last four digits four seven six or seven six Ah, all right. This book really is very good. It's compelling as she was today Last four digits somebody who came in near her probably four seven one I Know this is pretty good when I start knowing the names of a lot of people in the room. This is great Last four digits three zero five Three zero five and we're going back to the well We went home four zero nine gotta be here to win Okay, no four zero nine going once twice three times Three nine nine That's a lucky row over there. I'm telling you if you don't win today You may want to go on Amazon and order one of these books. I kept this in my office and Kim kept saying can I have the book back? I'm almost done two six nine Getting closer. All right. Let's see what we can do here one eight eight It's this one is called healing mean These are signed and she wrote this one in 2014. That's what I thought. All right, and the last one drum roll, please Three seven four one more. Okay, three six four There we go. All right All right. Thank you all for coming today. I hope that you are taking home many gems We appreciate you being here. Thank you all very very much. You can drop your blue sheets out front


In this lesson, we'll learn how strings work in Python in order to help you work with text. And then we'll see how we can use these newfound knowledge to help us implement the rail fence cipher using Python. Strings are how we're going to work with text and other characters, such as numbers and punctuation, while we're working in Python. We saw in an earlier lesson that strings are denoted using these single quotes or double quotes on either side of the text. And you can assign them to variable names. Here we have the string Harry, which is lowercase h a r r y within the single quotes that are assigned to the variable named first name. And then we can use the print function either on a string directly itself or on the variable that contains a string in order to print it out to the screen. On the left hand side, we did that with a string that actually contains some characters. We'll also be using what's known as the empty string on the right hand side of our screen. We have assigned to the variable named first name, single quote, single quote, nothing in between. We call that the empty string is technically a string, even though it contains no characters, it would have a length of zero. What we'll go on to see now is that string data types can also be used with some specific operators or operations. And they also have some built-in functions that are called methods that'll provide some extra functionality to our strings. First off, we can concatenate two strings together. Concatenate is just kind of a fancy word for combined end to end. And we can do that using the addition symbol that we'd seen in a previous lesson for adding two numbers together. So here we have the variable first name assigned to the string Harry Potter, and then the string Potter assigned to the variable named last name. And we're going to print first name plus last name or first name concatenated with the last name. Now notice when we do that print statement, those two strings are glued end to end. There's no spacing in between them. Here in our second example, we'll do the same thing with our first name and last name being Taylor and Swift respectively. But we'll create a third variable called full name where we concatenate first name, a string that contains a single space, and then the variable last name. And then we'll print that new variable full name and we'll see we get this first string and the last string concatenated together with a space in between, making them a little bit more readable. We can use some of those built-in functions that we mentioned before that are called methods in order to create a copy of a string that might have some different format. So for our example on the left-hand side, we'll use the same string first name assigned to Harry. And we can print out first name and then we do a dot, so that's just a period. Upper, open parentheses, close parentheses. And we'll see that that prints out in all capital versions of the word Harry. Now notice it does not actually overwrite the string that is assigned to the variable first name. If we print that out again on the third line of code, you get the original string back. So it is just kind of a temporary copy of the string that is changed just for the moment. And unless you save that change, it'll only show up for that line of code and the string will revert back to first name when you see it again on that third line of code. On the right-hand side, there's a similar method that is called lower. So if you have a string that contains a mix of capitalization, like we have Potter there, all caps, we can display that using last name dot lower. And when we print that out, it'll all be lowercase. And again, it does not change that string as it's assigned. It only changes it for that temporary line of code. The next line of code last name is the same as it was previously. There are a few other similar methods that will be helpful for this course. The one on the left here is called dot title. It'll always uppercase letter, the first letter in a word. So if you had a string that contained multiple spaces, maybe a sentence, it'll always uppercase the first letter in each of the words on a string. And the one on the right, swapcase, we'll just swap the capitalization of every letter character that is contained in the string. There's a full listing of these on the course website and I'll link another set here in our lesson. So be familiar with them, these can be really helpful. We'll introduce more string methods throughout the rest of the course as they become more appropriate to what we're doing. Another vital piece of using strings in this course is how did you get just a part of a string? At its core, a string is just a collection of characters that are grouped together. And sometimes we'll want to use the entire string as a whole, but other times you might only want certain elements of that string. We can select certain characters from a string using what's called an index if we want just one character, or a slice if we want a selection of characters. Here on the screen now, we'll see we're indexing into the string that is named spell, and we're asking for the character that is at index zero. So that gives us that first E. Notice when we count in Python, we start counting with zero. So the word expel the armists, the letter E is at index zero, the letter X is at index one, the letter P is at index two, and so on. So if I were to ask for a spell indexed at the value of six, it's gonna give me that letter I. E is one, X is two, P is three, E, L, L, I is at index value of six. Now you can tell just by me counting it out, sometimes selecting characters that are towards the end of a string might take a while for you to figure out what the index exactly is. So we can also use negative indexes to work our way from the back. That S at the end of expel the armists would be at index negative one, and the U at the end of expel the armists would be at negative two. If you specify an index that is too big, so here we did spell index to 24, there are not 24 indices in the string spell, you're gonna get what's called an index error, and it'll give you a little bit of information there, it'll say string index out of range, meaning you have tried to go to a position in that string that does not exist. If we wanted multiple characters, say in a row, like we wanted the characters that are at index five, six, seven, and eight, we could do that by just cat-catenating those individual characters together, but it's a little bit lengthy, and in fact there's a better way to do this in Python using what's called a slice. On our second snippet of code here at the bottom, you can see we do spell, and we have the square brackets just like before when we were selecting a single index, but we specify the starting index and then a colon, and then the ending index, but actually one bigger. Notice I put index nine there, but it gives me back the characters that are index five, six, seven, and eight. So that second index you provide is what we call a non-inclusive index. So up to but not include the second value there. So you got to kind of just go one larger than you might think intuitively, but that allows us to select a subset of the string pretty quickly. If you wanted to say start at index five and just go to the end of the string, you don't need to count how many values there are in the string, you can just do five colon and then don't specify the ending, and it will allow you to select from index five all the way to the end. So that's a nice little trick. Likewise, you could say, count every other character. So I have spell square bracket, one colon, colon two. Notice just two things interesting there is that we skipped over the ending value. So it's going to go from index one all the way to the end. And that third value there of two says every other. So it'll go index one, index three, index five, index seven, and so on until it runs out. So we get back X E L A M S. You could have specified that middle value if you wanted. So this will go from index zero up to but not including index seven counting by threes. So we'll get index zero three and six or E E I. And you can specify just the last letter if you want to sorry just the last index if you want to so you could say colon colon negative one means start at the beginning and at the end and count using an index counter of negative one, you mean start at the end S and then go work your way back to backwards essentially to the front of that string. So S U M R A I L and so on. So a lot of different ways you can play around with string slicing to ensure that you get just the right characters that you wanted out of the original string. Couple other special things about strings or certain characters that have some special functionality. The first one here is that if you want to include a specific punctuation like a single character say you have the last name of O Riley which has the apostrophe well then you can't start and end your string with a single quote because when it gets to that apostrophe after the oh python will think you've just ended your string but in fact you had many more letters to go. So if you know that your string is going to have that special punctuation of an apostrophe or a single quote, you should use double quotes to start and end your assignment statement for a string that way python when it starts the string with a single quote it will only end it when it gets to the next double quote. Likewise if you think that your string will have some double quotes inside of it, maybe it's a passage from a book that's reading out a quote, you should start and end your string with a single quote. So you have to be a little bit on the ball to figure out what might you expect to show up on your string so you can use the correct single quotes or double quotes to define it. On the right hand side we have what's called an escape character. In my message I have h i and then a slash n and then world what the slash end does is when the python sees that when it's printed out so only when you hit the use that print function it sees the slash and it creates a new line. That's what the end stands for new line. There's a bunch of these others escape characters and I'll link them in today's lesson in case you're learning more about them. They won't show up too much in this course but it's good to know that they exist so that when you use those slashes sometimes you might get some unpredicted behavior if you're not familiar with these escape characters. So let's see how we can use strings to implement our rail fence cipher. Here we have a slide that we saw earlier in the previous part of our lesson that shows our zigzagging mathematics in the word grouped into the top and the bottom row. Let's think about how we might be able to use our string slicing to recreate the top row and then again to recreate the second row if we were provided a string mathematics that we've assigned to the variable named plain text. Think about which starting ending and step size you'd want to provide as the indices between those colons to recreate for our first group MTE AIS and for our second group AHMTC. Pause the video for a second and take a guess and when you're ready we can see the answer in 3, 2, 1. For our first group we could create that grouping of characters by specifying 0 and then a blank and then a 2 meaning start of the string mathematics at index 0 which is M and then count by 2 to also select the characters that are at index 2 T, 4, E, A, 6 and so on 0, 2, 4, 6 and so on. The second group will do the exact same thing except we'll just start at index 1 so we'll start at the character A counting by 2 so the characters at index 1 3, 5, 7 and so on which give us the AHMTC that we're hoping for. Now all we have to do is kind of glue those two pieces together to create our cipher text. So think about this how could you put it all together? How could you take a string mathematics and have a command when it's all done prints out the final cipher text? Don't worry about providing spaces in between the blocks of group of length 5 yet we'll write a function that will take care of that for us later on down the road for now let's just go ahead and make sure we get all the correct letters in the correct order. See if you can sketch out some code on your own and we'll go over the answer here in 3 2, 1 so here's one possible solution we assign the string mathematics to the variable named plaintext we assign the first group that we calculated on the previous slide to rail 1 the second group to rail 2 we can catenate those two rails together and assign that to the variable named cipher text and then we'll print the cipher text also using the dot upper method to ensure that it's capitalized remember we like our cipher text to be capitalized there are many other ways that you could have done this perhaps some with fewer lines of code perhaps some with more but the key is that we get the correct output for the correct input in this course we're not going to focus too much on the efficiency of your code meaning how many lines it took or how long it took for the computer to run it we're going to focus on the mathematical accuracy that ensures that the right plaintext goes to the correct cipher text that's it for this lesson on strings and the activity will push you to think a little bit further about how you can decode messages using the rail fence cipher and perhaps encode messages using rails of length 3, 4, 5 and more


Until season 3, episode 23 of My Hero Academia, I never liked Bakugo. When Bakugo is angry, aggressive, and in his younger days, he was a mean kid. I didn't understand his constant anger and aggression towards Midoriya. The constant bullying, always boasting the fact that he had a quirk and Midoriya didn't, and even bullying him for that very same reason. And when Midoriya finally received a quirk, Bakugo became overly competitive and jealous of the one-for-all user. It seemed out of place. As Midoriya started getting stronger and more accustomed to his abilities, Bakugo got angry and more aggressive towards him, to the point where Midoriya knew that he could not even save him because of his ego when he was captured by the League of Villains. It wasn't until the 23rd episode of the third season that Bakugo's true feelings were finally set out for everyone to understand, and they were let out in the most Bakugo way possible. Through his fists, through yelling, and through fighting. And what an emotional outburst it was. Unlike Deku, he has trouble communicating his feelings. Midoriya communicates often through his tears and is able to come to terms with his own thoughts and feelings. And he is able to let other people know what he is feeling. In short, he talks a lot. Bakugo however never truly stated or showed what his motivations were and more importantly why they were his motivations and feelings. He then tells us the state that he is in. Bakugo feels a lot of different things. He feels guilty that All Might can no longer fight as he was the one who was kidnapped and forced All Might to fight all for one. A guilt that he has been forced to carry alone. And he later forces Midoriya to carry this burden with him. As Bakugo feels that Midoriya is the only person who can understand what he is feeling. Bakugo had an inflated ego. From all the praise he received from those around him when he was younger, Bakugo was the prodigy, the perfect kid, the strongest kid who was expected to do great things. Even comparing his quirk to his parents, who had significantly weaker quirks, then created Bakugo whose explosion quirk was the perfect blend of the two. But over time the other kid started to catch up. And Midoriya having just received All Might's quirk, his strength grew exponentially. The spotlight had moved from Bakugo to Midoriya and even Todoroki. As All Might stated, this created an inferiority complex in young Bakugo. As he hailed All Might as his favorite hero, he watched the number one hero that he admired create a relationship with the one person he despised, instead of himself. And with that relationship Midoriya became stronger and stronger, leaving Bakugo behind, causing him to feel inferior. Bakugo wanted that special relationship with All Might. And this is shown in further detail, when All Might tells the world, after defeating All for one, Bakugo instead watches Midoriya's reaction, as the words caused him to react a different way than anyone else. Bakugo felt hurt at the fact that All Might recognized Midoriya's heart over his strength. Bakugo believed that strength would get him all the attention and recognition from those he wanted it from. And he believed strength was the only way to become the number one hero. But strength is nothing without a heart to match when it comes to being a hero. Bakugo's breakdown took me by surprise, but it was my hero giving Bakugo some character development and a reason for the viewers to understand why Bakugo acted the way he did, and where his anger is rooted from. And internalized fear of being left behind, while feeling inferior to the one individual he was always superior to. To add, the voice acting for Bakugo's character was incredible. The voice cracks, the emotion that the actor carried throughout Bakugo just added onto the inner frustrations of the young hero. Which made the episode that much more memorable and believable. It is in this episode that we understand that Bakugo and Midoriya are two sides of the same coin, the coin being All Might. The two of them represent what it takes to become the number one hero, but more importantly what it takes to become the next symbol of peace. And this is illustrated as both heroes walk on two separate sides of the center line with All Might in the middle. Bakugo as All Might's strength and victory, Midoriya as All Might's heart and his sense of justice. Without Bakugo's sense of victory and strength, the civilians cannot find true comfort in All Might's protection, nor can he become the number one hero. And without Deku's heart, he cannot become the symbol of peace. He would not be motivated to become greater than just a hero. Now as Bakugo has finally become vulnerable. He has laid all his emotions and his feelings out, and he can now gear his focus towards becoming the number one hero.  Beneath the anger, he too has feelings and emotions that he struggles to take care of. Until this episode, Bakugo was never grounded. He was just looked at as that angry kid, but his outburst gives him reason and tries to gain the sympathy of the viewer. To finally understand why Bakugo acts the way he does. The fact that he was almost brought to tears, and then keeping his tough guy persona when All Might tries to show him some affection. This episode was well written, and will resonate with me. Because it is that episode that I finally sympathized with Bakugo.


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It's cold. It's uh, just snow all over, but pretty much expected this time of year around here. Um, standing where hopefully the wind doesn't, it's not too bad. Uh, the tutorial video I had planned for stringier, for some reason the code I had was working on .NET Core 3.0 and what I updated to .NET Core 3.1 doesn't work. And I don't know if that was a bug that was introduced, which I find unlikely considering it's an LTS or if I was relying on behavior somewhere that should have been not working. So that's interesting. Uh, I plan on getting that fixed at some point this week.  And it's coming along quite rapidly, which is good to see. Something that helps a lot is, I don't know if I explain this at all. The approach I'm taking this time around is to basically follow the Eda reference manual as close to exactly as I can. That's not entirely possible. Uh, this has to do with a number of reasons. One being that even though the engine that they've developed is quite sophisticated and is capable of doing more than just regular languages, you still have this interesting sort of hacky regex approach that can't handle the complexity of a language that Eda is. But it gets it pretty damn close. Uh, the other thing is that obviously regex and extended Bacchus Naur form are not the same thing. So there's some translation there, but it's going pretty well. Uh, in less than 12 hours I've got it to where it's handling basically every type of basic type declaration. Uh, not some of the more sophisticated ones, so not like a task type. Um, I mean it's handling package specs and quite a few other things. Uh, and it's doing it much better than it used to be. Um, line breaks, for example, were a big problem with the previous revision. Uh, and as part of why I was saying it was a preview the entire time, part of why it was never a version 1.0 or anything above that. It was always 0.0. I think I got up to 0.88. Uh, a lot of fast revisions. But it handles line breaks very well now. Again, due to some limitations in the parsing engine that they're using, I can't allow line breaks to be put anywhere and not break it. But figure more than three quarters of the spaces between tokens can have a line break.  Um, basically anybody's styling should be covered now. But the other big reason for following the adder reference manual as strictly as I can is that it helps not forget things. So something that I had never done in the previous one because it's a feature that I've never used and regularly just forget even exists is the Usings Clause for Types. There's uses for it. I'm sure that people use it, but it's not something that I really see much other than in the adder reference manual and in the Wiki books thing for adder. I've never seen it. But because I'm following this, it's there, it's supported. So I still don't know who donated, but thank you. I appreciate it. Um, I'll make sure that this is as good as it can possibly be. Even if I'm not doing added development anymore, it's just kind of a thing of pride of how well the extension did. Um, so, yeah. Normally, you try to hit 10 minutes because YouTube... I'm not leaving my hands out for a full 10 minutes. They're already kind of hurting. So yeah, until the next video, have a good one, guys.


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And here at the HDMI booth, you're talking about premium HDMI cables. Yes, so here we're showing about the HDMI premium certification program, which is designed to be a test and certification for HDMI cables to ensure they can handle 4K 60 video, and that they're tested for low EMI, so they don't interfere with radio signals on products such as streaming media players and TVs. Because when you did the 2000A and B, they were all supposed to be backwards compatible with the same cable as our 1.4, but if they're lower quality, they might not quite be good for 4K. And so that was the reason this testing program was put in place, is HDMI 1.4B specification had a lot of extra headroom in it, so even cables of poor or quality construction could easily carry 1080p. But as we jumped to 4K 60, we wanted to put assurances in place that these cables were tested to carry the very high bandwidth video, the 18 gigabits per second, that is specified in HDMI 2.0. So for example, this one, it says here premium high speed HDMI cable, and it has a sticker right here, and they get this by being certified. So the cable manufacturers will submit their cables to an authorized test center once they pass, and they will test for each different cable length. Then they are eligible to put this premium cable label. And this premium cable label is anti-counterfeit proof. It has an encrypted QR code on it, and it has a unique hologram image in there that is read by the HDMI app, which will validate that it is a legitimate cable. As you can see here, it comes back and it says Panasonic 3 meter cable, which matches here 3 meter cable Panasonic.  Well, there are, with any product out in the world, there are counterfeit products out there, and there are also products may or may not have been tested. And so this anti-counterfeit label gives assurances from that manufacturer when it goes to a brand, they know this has been tested and certified, down to the retailer, and all the way to the consumer. Because I can guess that the way to do the materials could be 30 cents or $3. There could be a big difference in terms of using quality materials in there, right? So it's the quality of the materials, and it is the quality of the manufacturing process. How well they construct the cable, how well they bond the cable to the cable housing, how well they shield it to minimize EMI, how tightly they twist it to handle the very high performance. Because making a cable is not that easy. For all these Chinese factories, for example, some take shortcuts and then it's not that high quality. And that's why we're here at HDMI Licensing, is to put the best practices in the industry and have certification programs to allow the manufacturers who do a good job to promote that they are tested and certified. So let's say Shenzhen in Taiwan and maybe Korea and US, there's going to be some partners of yours that are doing all this certification work. Well, we have 84 companies who manufacture cables, have signed up for the HDMI Premium Cable Certification Program and have brought their products to the for testing and brought them to the market. But there's some companies doing the testing locally, close by all these companies. Yes, there are HDMI authorized test centers spread throughout the world. There's a number in China, Taiwan, US, Europe where manufacturers can take their cables for testing and certification. So it doesn't necessarily have to be an expensive thing to be certified. It's just you'd rather have something like this so consumers don't get disappointed when they want to have good 4K, 60 performance. It's really to provide assurances that cables are manufactured well and are tested. So when you buy it, a consumer will feel good when they buy the new 4K TV. The cable they buy with it is going to work and deliver the full 4K performance. Alright, and when you buy it online, is there a way to check what you're getting before you get it? Because this is in the store, all these stickers, right? But if you go on Amazon, how can you be sure it's real? The same, you look for the label, you can double check the manufacturer against the HDMI.org website which shows those manufacturers. And when you get the product shipped to your home, you can also check it there as well. And hopefully it's a good surprise when you get it that the app doesn't say oops? Yes, exactly. And so we also look out there at the manufacturers to make sure if they are promoting HDMI premium cable that they are actually certified. And all these are 18 gigabit per second constant bandwidth speed, right? Yeah, they're tested to ensure the full 18 gigabit will be carried across the cable. And then there's going to be a new program for 2.1, right? Because it's going to be new cables. So HDMI 2.1 specifies a new cable, that spec is just coming out and we will see what the future of testing for that will be is under development. That's going to be kind of like 3.5 times faster bandwidth. Yes, you're jumping from 18 gig to 48 gig. New cables, new, it's going to be fatter maybe, different materials, something. Well, we don't specify how cables get manufactured, we just specify what the performance needs to be in order for them to be certified. So if they want to use copper or gold or whatever. Exactly, so it's up to each manufacturer, choose the materials they want, choose the manufacturing process they want. But we set the testing and certification to ensure they meet the performance and the EMI radiation doesn't exceed a certain amount. And here we're looking at three feet, three meters. It's hard to do very, very long cables and keep the performance, right? Each different length has different performance characteristics and so that's why we test each individual length. And so as the speeds increase for bandwidth, cable lengths tend to get a little bit shorter.


You can find home remedies for all sorts of ailments, but the science doesn't always back them up. What does it have to say about using a common household product on warts? When I was reviewing the science behind common over-the-counter remedies used in dermatology, such as tea tree oil for acne or nail fungus, I was surprised to see on the same page a section on duct tape. The only time I remember saying duct tape used in a medical study was on the identification of the gases responsible for the odor of human farts, which involved a collection system comprised of gas-tight pantalones sealed to the skin with duct tape. That's the study where they assessed the wind-breaking ability of a cushion called the Toot Traber. But what the dermatology journal was talking about is warts. Duct tape brings out our inventive slightly kooky side, given this versatility it wasn't so surprising a few years ago when a group of doctors reported that duct tape could get rid of warts. As I noted in my last wart video, all sorts of strange things are purported to cure warts, because most go away on their own. A thousand kids will fall for two years, and two-thirds of the warts disappeared without doing a thing. So maybe we should just leave them alone, although there are cases that may warrant treatment. Otherwise, we can just let our own body take care of them. Warts are caused by wart viruses, and so spontaneous wart disappearance is assumed to be an immune response where our body finally wakes up and takes notice. This assumption is based on studies like this, where foreign proteins were injected into the wart itself, like a measly lumps rubella vaccine, straight into the wart, which compared to placebo, appeared to accelerate the immune clearance process. The problem, of course, is that injections hurt, and 30% of the kids that got their warts injected with the vaccine suffered a flu-like syndrome. Yikes. Okay, scratch that. What else do we got? Within a few months, any placebo treatment will work in about a quarter of the cases, so if you put duct tape on 100 warts and you have 23, go away, that wouldn't mean much. The traditional medical therapies, acid treatments, and freezing treatments, bumps to cure it up to around 50%. So if you were really serious about testing the efficacy of duct tape, you would pit it head-to-head against one of those, and that's exactly what happened. The efficacy of duct tape versus cryotherapy in the treatment of the common wart. Cryotherapy is one of the treatment of choices for many pediatricians. Objective. To determine if application of duct tape is as effective as cryotherapy in the treatment of common warts. Patients were randomized to receive either liquid nitrogen applied to each wart, or duct tape occlusion. When I heard about treating warts with duct tape, I had this image where they were like trying to rip them off or something. No, no, no, no. They're just applying a little circle of duct tape every week or so. Here are the details. Although there have been a few anecdotal reports of using tape, no prospective randomized controlled trial had yet been performed until this study, which found that the duct tape was not only equal to, but exceeded the efficacy of cryotherapy, which worked in 60% of the cases, but 85% of the duct tape patients were cured, significantly more effective than cryotherapy for treatment of the common wart, more effective and fewer side effects. I mean, the only adverse effect observed in the duct tape group during our study was a small, minimal amount of local irritation. Redness, whereas cryotherapy hurts. You want to hear the saddest thing? One young child actually vomited in fear of pain before each cryotherapy session. They were like torching the poor kid.  So duct tape, more effective, fewer side effects, and more convenient compared to applying a little duct tape at home to making multiple clinic visits, dragging the poor kid back every two weeks.  Duct tape can now be offered as a non-threatening, painless and inexpensive technique for the treatment of warts and children.  It's like a win-win-win-win. Ah, but the money you save is the money the doctor loses. There's no way the medical profession is going to just let this go unchallenged. Other studies were performed and failed to show an effect. And so we end up in the medical literature with conclusions like this. Is duct tape effective for treating warts? Bottom line, no. Huh, is duct tape really not effective after all? Or was there some kind of critical design flaw in the follow-up studies? We'll find out next. One of the unusual, innovative, and long-forgotten remedies noted in this dermatology journal was the use of duct tape to cure warts. Finally, put to the test, there's all sorts of conventional therapies from acid to crowd therapy to lasers, but most of these are expensive or painful or both. Whereas the simple application of duct tape is neither. It may even be more effective than trying to freeze the warts off. Some doctors lauded the study, noting that they've been using duct tape for decades as a painless, yet effective treatment.  But hey, when it works they appreciate your wise choice to minimize discomfort. Other doctors were not so amused. Here they are spending money on all this fancy equipment and then along comes duct tape. Things like that could damage the reputation of cryo-surgery, complaining that the 10-second application of liquid nitrogen they used in the study was too short. So it was an unfair comparison.  And yes, it hurts, but too bad, even making light of the poor child who vomited out of fear of the pain prior to each freezing by making some joke about it. Did they have a point, though, about the 10 seconds? Well, in the duct tape versus cryotherapy trial, those 10-second cryotherapy treatments worked 60% of the time, which is actually better than results of most cryotherapy studies that only seem to cure about 50%. In fact, the typical cryotherapy for warts works so poorly that statistically it didn't even beat out placebo. So all that pain may be for nothing, though aggressive cryotherapy does seem to work better. What they should have done, wrote another doctor in response to the duct tape trial, is take a scalpel to it and then really blister it up.  Yeah, but at what cost? In the duct tape trial, one patient lost a study wart in a trampoline toe amputation accident. Hey, there's a treatment that works 100% effective, right? Amputation, right? But at what cost? 85% of the duct tape patients were cured with no pain or tissue damage, whereas aggressive cryotherapy may require lidocaine injection nerve blocks to take the cry out of cryotherapy and cause permanent tissue damage. You can end up with these big necrotic frostbite lesions. I mean, one sense, I mean tissue damage, that's the whole point of freezing warts, but you can end up causing these deep burns or end up rupturing tendons, which can cause permanent disability or cause extensive scarring in rare cases. Just the psychological stress of having to keep going back for this painful procedure may ironically impair our ability to fight off the wart viruses in the verse place. And so even if the effectiveness of duct tape is shown to be merely equivalent to that of cryotherapy, it would be better and it was shown to be even more effective. In fact, maybe most effective compared to 10 other wart treatments, duct tape beat out them all in terms of effectiveness and also in terms of cost, cheaper than all, but the DN option, which stands for do nothing. Compared to the most effective prescription treatments available, OTC duct tape, meaning over-the-counter duct tape, is 10 times cheaper. It's an unusual and welcome event in healthcare when a common ailment is proven equally amenable to an inexpensive, tolerable, and safe alternative therapy. But wait, if you look at the latest Cochrane review, which is like the gold standard of evidence-based reviews, they acknowledge that cryotherapy is less convenient, more painful, more expensive. But while in the earlier review, they did get excited about the effectiveness of duct tape into subsequent studies, duct tape seemed to totally flop. So, should we give up on duct tape for warts, or is there another side of the story? We'll find out in the thrilling conclusion next.


Written, produced, and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Cogan. And starring two of Radio's foremost actors, Robert Carpenter and Lawson Cerberus. In strange new words. This is the mysterious Traver inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying. That it will thrill you a little and chill you a little. So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves and be comfortable if you can. As we follow two young flyers on a routine flight which suddenly deviated from normal and brought them to a strange new world. The story begins aboard his majesty ship, the submarine Valiant. Somewhere in the vast Pacific. Captain Farnsworth, commander of the Valiant, makes his way along the narrow passageway of the submarine to the sick bay and steps into the small cabin. No. No, Pete, no. You're wrong. Wing flaps are down. What? We're gonna hit Pete. How is he, I guess? He's not too good, sir. How many days it was adrift on that life raft? Did you find any identification on him? Oh, yes, sir. His dog tags. Here they are, sir. Thank you. Daniel Walker. Lieutenant of the United States Air Force. Of course, sir. I knew from his lingo, sir, he was an American. That's quite so, quite so. Well, Higgins, you'll have to do what you can for him until we reach a ship with the doctor. Yes, sir. Pete, where... where am I? I think he's coming out of it, Captain. Yes. Who are you? Well, I quietly left, Lieutenant. I'm Captain Farnsworth, his majesty's navy. You aboard the submarine Valiant. We picked you up an hour ago. Pete. The island. I take it you were forced down while flying, Lieutenant. And what happened? Pete, Mendez and myself were flying the C-47 from Honolulu to Japan. And only the two of us. Pete was the pilot I was holding down co-pilot. We were attached to air transport and had aboard a cargo of medical supplies. We were six hours out of Honolulu. And I'd taken over the controls. Pete was relaxing in his seat, chewing on a chocolate bar. And where's the newspaper we picked up in Honolulu, Junior? Right behind you. Oh, yeah, yeah, I heard it. Oh, that's the good news. They exploded another atomic bomb in Los Alamos. Oh, yeah? Anything else of interest? Isn't that enough? Hey, what are you doing? I haven't seen that paper yet. I'm sorry. What are you getting so worked up about? What's one atomic explosion, more or less? Oh, you're just a kid wet behind the ears. Okay, Bob, relax. I was there when the first one was used. Where? Hiroshima. Well, I didn't know that. There's a lot you don't know, Junior. Yeah, well, give me a chance, would you? I was on the plane that actually dropped it, were you? No, I was piloting one of the escorts. It must have been quite a sight. Yeah. I hope I never lived to see another one. Yeah. Now, look at those clouds ahead. We may be in for a rough trip, Junior. Better let me take over. Five miles an hour. This typhoon we're bucking must be hitting a piece of 150 an hour. We're right in the center of it. Wide open? Wide open. How about turning back? I can. We're an hour past point of return. We've been taking this beating for hours. When's it gonna let up? That's hard to say. The worst typhoon I've ever seen. Look at that compass, completely hay-walking. Any idea where we are? No, not anymore. You think we can take this? What I'm worried about is the gas running low. Yeah, how much we got left? Two hours. Two and a half. We're gonna sit down in the drain. One hope is that this lets up and we find a ship to sit down there. You better prepare a life raft. We're talking with plenty of water and rations. Okay. I'll take care of it right away. That was one to tell your grandchildren about. Go the engines. Okay, Junior. Get back to the raft. Be ready to launch it when we hit. All right, Pete. Those are my intentions, Junior. What's the altitude? 1,600. 14. Water rough? No, not too bad. 800. 600. Wing flaps are down. Get ready with the hatch, Junior. Right. We're down to 100. Hang on. You okay, Dad? He's going fast. Give me a hand with the raft. Right. There's a lot of water out here. I'll climb in, will you? Oh, yeah. There.  So far, so good. There was a sea that was running plenty high. In a few minutes, the waves carried us off and the sinking plane was lost to sight. Pete rigged up a distress flag so we could be more easily spotted. And then we settled back to weight. Two nights in one day, we drifted in a fast-running sea with a heavy overcast. It was the sign of a planar ship. By the dawn of the second day, the overcast lifted and the sea became calm. It was around noon time that Pete spotted the island. We rigged up a small sail and began paddling for it. Any idea which one it is? Your guess is as good as mine. It looks fairly big. Yeah. Hey, look. The channel through the reef and end of the lagoon is directly ahead. The tide is helping to carry us in. Good. I'm sure we're going to end up on those reefs. Brother, we're really moving. Yeah. Another minute or two and we'll hit the beach. Think there might be some natives on the island? There should be. It certainly looks big enough. I don't see any huts or anything. No. Hold on. We're going to hit the beach. Hop out and give me a hand. Let's drag it out of the water. It sure feels good to be able to walk. All right. Pull. Okay. That's it. Okay. Let's begin looking the island over, Junior. See if we can find any natives. Pete took some food in the canteen of water from the raft and we started walking along the beach. Alan then cutting in them to look for water. It took us six hours to walk around the island. And the sun was just setting as we got back to the life raft. Sit down, Junior.  I don't mind if I do. Cigarette? Ah, nice. Well, we found fresh water. Signs that natives had once lived here, but they sure aren't here anymore. No. That's strange considering the island is three miles wide, almost two miles long. I've seen natives living on islands one half the size. I wonder why they left. Got any ideas? No. Well, it's just you and me. Sit tight and lead the ride. Riley. We're picked up. The first thing we're doing in the morning is run up a distress signal on one of the palm trees. We'll also get brushed together for a fire. Check. What do you say we have a separate turn in? It's been a long day. Who cares, Junior? Sounds like a good idea. What are you waking me for? Go to sleep. Pete, I heard something moving around in the brush inland. Probably wild big islands will look good. It made too much noise for a pig. Holy smoke, Junior. It certainly wasn't an elephant. Well, maybe not, but do you hear that? That sound like a pig in the brush? Ah, maybe there's a herd of them. Who's kidding? Who? Okay. Okay, we like it, my 45. Come on. Let's have a look. Step lightly. It's over that way. And listen to that. It almost does sound like an elephant. The moon's coming out behind those clouds. That's a big... Yeah, and we're getting closer. We better take it easy. The sound of it, that 45 of yours isn't going to do much good. I got the feeling of bringing all this. I've been on dozens of tropical islands like this one. The biggest thing you'll find on any of them are wild pigs. That's no wild pig, brother. That's why this seems like a dream. What in the devil could it be? See anything yet? No. About those palm leaves are sharp. Yeah, okay. Good Lord. Look. A nightmare you can't escape from, try as you will. They are 50 yards away in a clearing in the underbrush. It was a monster. A monster that baffled the eye and brain for a moment then began to come into focus and take shape. What I saw before me was a water crab only a hundred times larger than the crabs that scurried along the beach. The monster crab in the clearing stood fully 20 feet high with legs the thickness of palm tree trunks. The head tent on its frightening head was yards long. No legs carried it slowly but lightly. Don't move, Dan. We don't want to attract this attention. Pete. I don't know. It's a crab of some sort. Only a hundred times larger than any I've ever seen. Don't I was thinking? All the size of it must be at least 18 feet high. And those claws. Hallucination. Both of us having the same hallucination hardly. Well, how do you count for it? I can. It's on the beach going into the water. That good. We better stay here, Junior. Just sit tight for the rest of the night. Let's take a walk over to that clearing in the underbrush. Where we saw it, huh? Okay. And what do you think about it? I don't know. I think what we saw was just a fluke of nature. Possible? Yes. Possible. And what other explanation can there be? I've got one. But it's so incredible. Oh, it's happening. I'll tell you later. I want to think about it some more. Well, here we are. Here's the clearing. Yeah. We first saw it by those palm trees over there. Larg and deep the tracks out. It was a beautiful morning. Let's follow it. Okay. Now they go through the brush here and towards the beach. Yeah. Yeah, this is the way we saw it go. The brush is flattened as though a tank had rolled through here. There's no problem following it. Look. There's where it came out on the beach. Yeah, there's the tracks on the sand leading into the war. It's out there. Somewhere in the waters of the lagoon. Yeah. Look, let's unload the rathen and paddle out into the lagoon.  Well, not exactly, but I got a hunch. And I want to check on it. It's crazy paddling out into that lagoon.  I don't. It's just a chance we'll have to take. But why? Well, I can find the answer to all this. Are you going with me? Okay. I'm going with you. It's paring down into the water. Are they trying to spot the monster? No. Well, but it is no monster you're looking for. What then? It's all paddling. I think we found it. Found what? Take a look over the side. Into the water. I don't see a thing.  Keep looking towards the bottom until your eyes get used to the water. I see it. But wait a minute. I can hardly make it out, but it seems to be a wreck on the bottom. A big one. It is a wreck. That's a battleship you see on the bottom. A battleship? Yeah.  This island. It's Bikini. Bikini. You mean when they dropped an atomic bomb on those old battleships? Yeah. A dozen ships on the bottom here. All sunk by atomic bomb tests. You don't think the island's radioactive, do you? Well, not enough to do us any harm. It's been years since the test.  Does that tie in with all this? Yeah. How? Now look, you'll think I'm nuts, but here goes. We dropped a bomb into this lagoon to see what an underwater explosion would do to those warships. Now what are you getting at? We know what the atomic bomb did to the ships. But do we know what effect it had on the fish life here in the lagoon? Are you saying that the monster crab we saw last night was the result of the bomb dropped into this lagoon? What other explanation can there be? Remember, Dan, the effect of the bomb on the survivors of Hiroshima left wounds and illnesses that doctors had never seen before. Now who's to say that the radioactivity in this lagoon couldn't have caused fish life to multiply in size? It can't be. It just can't be. Why not? Radioactivity causing a crab to grow a thousand times bigger? How else can you account for that monster crab we saw last night? Well, think about it. Meanwhile, let's paddle back to the beach. We'll drag the raft out of the water. Again, I found myself turning. Look out over the waters of the lagoon as Pete's words land through my mind. This explanation seemed an impossible one. What other answer could there be? The two of us sat on the beach smoking, watching the moon come up over the lagoon of the king. Sure, it's a beautiful night. Yeah. Do you think they'll send search planes this way, Pete? Sooner or later, they'll find us. As long as we have fresh water and fish, we're okay. Yeah, I guess so. Look at the waters of the lagoon. Holy smoke. It's been churned up as though there were a dozen whales out there. But if these whales are not in these waters, there's something enormous out there threshing around. Maybe it'll break through to the surface and we'll be able to see it. See that monster crab we saw last night? Oh, it's something bigger, much bigger. That will make whatever it is a couple hundred feet in length. Yeah. The way the water is being churned up, there must be a pike going on out there. Pete, look. They're coming out of the water. The monster crab we saw last night. No, they're following you. They're still on it. Dan, some of them are coming this way. Come on, we've got to get out of here. What about our supplies? There's no time to grab them. Get a move on. This way. There were dozens of them out of the water. They came out of the lagoon. So fleeing the fight that was going on out there. Whatever it is, it's in the lagoon. I don't want to see it. Well, it must be the side of the destroyer. Get them pushed. All right, stop for a minute. You got bearings, huh? Mr. Cratch, there must be dozens of them. Overrunning the island. Can't see much now. No, no, we might run into one in the dark. We'll better off staying here. Why are we just getting this way? Can you make out from which direction it's coming? No. The movement. Maybe the sound of shots might frighten it off. No, your eyes open. Sounds almost on top of it.  Don't stay here. Let me go over the medical support. When you're rescued, explain to them. Strange new world. Sea life. Multiplying hundredfold. Radioactivity. A metallic bomb. Sea life. We'll increase. Overrun. Seven seas. Once again, I overhaul the raft-gathered coconuts and supply of water. By noon, I was paddling across the three-mile lagoon to the channel through the reefs that led to sea. Here's a message to ship. Submarine valiant.  Fifty miles southeast of the island of Bikini. Now, you must try back. We need to sleep. That's it.  That's it, lad. He's fallen asleep, sir. Yes. Did you catch his ravens about monsters and all that, sir? Yes. Poor chap is clearly out of his mind. Must be, sir. Yet his ravens gives the one the chills they do. That's quite so, quite so. The devil will take it. What happens, sir? Feels as if we've hit a derelict. There he is. Aye, aye, sir. What was that? We'll walk you after this. Too bad. We may have hit a derelict. It's hard to say. The captain's looking into it. Now, rest easy, lad. Stop! What happened? I've been tossed about like a ball. Oh, excuse me. He's driving us down. Nonsense, lad. I'll just snarl back and leave everything. Now, hear this. Now, hear Captain Vardsworth speaking. We're being attacked by some creature of the deep. All crew members to battle stations. What happened to the submarine valiant? Well, after a two-hour battle with an unseen enemy, it managed to escape. But at a naval corps of inquiry, Captain Vardsworth was at a loss to explain the nature of the enemy his submarine had been in battle with. Of course, there was Lieutenant Dan Walker's testimony. Obviously, the poor fellow was out of his head, who ever heard of monster crabs 20 feet high and denizens of the deep as large as a destroyer. The court could reach no verdict in the matter of the submarine valiant. And there the case rested.  And one night as you stroll on deck, you see a gyke. Well, you have to get off here. I'm sorry. But I'm sure we'll meet again. I take this same train every week at this same time.