قال الله تبارك وتعالى في كتابه الكريم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم هو الذي جعل لكم الأرض The Lulan it is he your lord who made the earth tractable for you The Lulan فم شوفي مناكبها So travel in its open roads فم شوفي مناكبها وكلوا من رسقه and eat from his provision وإليه النشور but you're going to stand before him Your resurrection is going to be before him My friends this life is a journey of learning A journey of learning from the beginning to the end Every day is a day of learning Is a day of inspiration Is a day of discovery for us And one of the things that we learn through them Is when you travel a seir of the earth A seir of the earth Which is mentioned in the Quran How many times the Quran says سيروا في الارضي فنظرو When you walk, when you travel, reflect ونظرو Look left and right, go to other nations Go to other countries, go to other societies But you have to learn Don't go blinded Don't go just to lay down in the sun So you get sun tan and then you come back After two weeks with different color Go there to learn To discover To learn The Prophet asked his community At the time where there are no airplanes No trains, no vehicles, no vessels, nothing That even if it takes you to go to the farthest point Which is China Then you must go to learn Go to learn To discover سيروا في الارضي فنظرو كيف بدأ الخلق That is in Chapter Al-Ankabut In Surat Al-Rum God encourages immigration God says travel If you are restricted in your area No work, no job, no opportunity, no change Then move it Move, go to another area Leave it and go to another area ألمتكن أرض الله واسعة سورة الروم ألمتكن لم أصدر هذه العالم for you This is for you Why are you restricted? Why do you stay in one area For the rest of your life Even the conditions are terrible and bad Don't do this ألمتكن أرض الله واسعة فتهاجرو It's an encouragement for us to move Leave that spot Don't stay If there is no progress Don't stay, don't blame it on God God says I don't create an opportunity for you here Maybe it is somewhere else Go and find it Until you find it Until you grab it Don't sit somewhere and say I'm poor God wanted me to stay poor No, no, no, this is not right God says I want you to be rich But at the same time I want you to move I want you to go and discover Discover nations, what is happening Sometimes we think This is the best village And my people are the best And my language is the best And my country is the best I don't know that God created many other cultures And nations And languages And people يا أيها الناسوا إنا خلقناكم من ذكر And we made you into Thousands of nations and tribes وجعلناكم شعوبا وقبائل So you discover each other You travel and you learn from each other We learn how they Did they succeed And how they failed We learn from both Quran says also learn Not only from their success But from their failures If they have a problem You have to learn Why they have this problem Why they have dictatorship Why they have famine Why they have civil war Why they have discord among them وانظروا كيف كان عقبة المكذبين So learning Is not just going through the scuri But when you travel In the land When you walk in the land of God That belongs to God And see the people around you Interview people Talk to people Learn from these people This is a huge encyclopedia of knowledge About anthropology About sociology Psychology And so on and so forth We have to learn it One of the benefits of Travelling Is that we learn patience And tolerance And for burns When you travel When you leave the comfort of your home The comfort of your bed Your living room Then you're going to encounter difficulties And challenges One of the mind-boggling stories In this book In Chapter 18 The trip that Musa made Musa made a trip An important trip And it changed his life It changed his life entirely It was a wake-up call for Moses Because Moses one day asked God God show me some of the unseen Some of the things that ordinary people Do not notice God says Okay are you ready for it He said yes But he wasn't quite ready He wasn't If you read Surat Al-Kahf He wasn't He's a human being So God said to him Go to such and such a place To find such and such a man That is going to be your mentor Your tourist guide Listen to him Don't disobey him So he found him Some stories say This is another prophet Al-Khidr Who was the teacher of Musa And Musa humbled himself before him To teach me I accompany you And I serve you I'm even ready to serve you So it changed his life He saw things that are Very incredible in this story And thinkable some of them And thinkable Musa was shocked But that guy said to him You have to be patient You have to be patient till the end If you are not patient You are not going to learn So when you travel Tell your wife Tell your kids You have to be patient One of the things we learn When we travel Is we are patient The other thing that We learn And I learn when I travel When I go to poor areas Deprived areas Poor communities They have no privileges They don't enjoy what we enjoy In the richest state in America The state of California In the richest county in America Orange County They don't have these privileges Amenities They don't They can barely find in some communities Barely find some food To survive On basic food So when we return We have to be thankful to God We have to be grateful to God When you look at your family Living in peace They have education They have healthcare They have bed They have electricity They have running water They have medicine They have peace and security In some countries They don't dare leaving their homes Their neighborhoods It's not safe So when you find these things You have to give thanks to Allah Always give thanks That Alhamdulillah Much better than others Look at the suffering of others But sometimes I see the opposite Sometimes I see the poor people They give thanks to God And the rich people They don't give thanks They complain I see the opposite We have to learn To be thankful And to be thankful is not easy This is the biggest test To be thankful To be thankful To appreciate To be grateful to God One day Someone came to Imam Al-Sadaq He said to him God has given me so many things So many things in my life How can I thank him? Imam Al-Sadaq said You can thank him When you say sincerely From the bottom of your heart Alhamdulillah رب العالمين When you say it With conviction With understanding You are paying back to God You are becoming thankful to God Do we say this sentence? How many times do we say Alhamdulillah رب العالمين So we have to say it We have to learn To be thankful Otherwise we lose what we have لأن شكرتهم لأزيدانكم And the last part Of traveling What do we learn? Traveling also Teach us How to survive on the minimum Because sometimes thanks to United Airlines And Delta And American Airlines They charge you on the back So people put all their things In the carry on So they don't pay extra money But this is good Believe me It teaches you How for three days Four days one week Ten days You survive on the minimum And then when you come back home You realize that Much of the things that you have Is extra You really don't need it It's not necessary You can survive without it You come back You look at your wardrobe The stock of clothing Shoes that you have Too much You don't even use them And you could survive For two weeks On the minimum So we learn We learn that Happiness does not mean I have more and more And more I go to the market And buy more and more And more They become burden on us Imam Hassan says Take what is necessary And necessarily leave it for others Leave it for others This is how we fight a greed We fight a greed When I use what I really Whether it is food Clothing Space Vehicle I use what is really necessary For me to survive The rest If I leave it for others There is no more greed There is no more conflict There is no more fighting


For the Circuit Python Parsec today, I wanted to show how you can use user input from the USB serial REPL to control code on your microcontrollers. Right here I have a Feather RP2040 and I've attached to it, or kind of held close to it a little Macintosh, sort of classic Macintosh keycap that my daughter gave me for Christmas. So that's a keycap and has a light pipe running through it, so we're going to see LED lights showing up. Now for the actual code part of this, you can see in my REPL it's given me a list of colors and then it says type a color name from the above list. So I will go ahead and type in how about pink. And you can see I've just changed the color of the NeoPixel on the microcontroller. I'm just piping it through this cute little keycap here. And I can type in other names in here. I can type off, I can set it to white, I can even type something that it doesn't understand and it's going to say, hey, I don't know that one, it's not from the list. So give me something from the list. So how does this work? Well, the key component here, if you look in my code, I've got some libraries I'm importing. I'm setting up NeoPixel. I've created a little dictionary of color names and color values. And then when we're running this, we're going to print out the little instruction to tell people to type in something. And then this is the key element. User input equals input, and that's it, input in parentheses. So the next thing that happens is it waits for you to type something in. It just sits there and watches the REPL, waits for you to type something. Then it proceeds. In this case, it echoes back the color you picked and then it sets the color of that NeoPixel or doesn't if you've picked something invalid. And so that is how you can use user input from the serial REPL over USB inside of CircuitPython. And that is your CircuitPython Parsec.


Hi, my name is Leon Roeb currency trader and trading coach at trading 180.com and in this video I'm going to explain why Bitcoin went past its $30,000 level really kind of blew past it and it's all to do with liquidity and Value just because something is at a high doesn't mean that something is expensive and just because something is at a low doesn't mean it's a bargain or you know a cheap price and and Liquidity is one of the main Drivers of price whether you know, you know it or not. It's fundamentals risk sentiment and liquidity are the three main things that drive price and Before we get into understanding the liquidity side of things The first thing we must understand is value value is not price and price is not Value it's very hard to determine that the true value of something a intrinsic value of something based on its price And looking at a price chart and really what smart traders do what? You know Well retail traders don't tend to do this institutional traders do is they determine current and future value whether something is expensive at a fair value or bargain prices or Bargain by understanding the fundamentals behind the asset that they are Attempting to buy or even sell but we're focusing on buying at the moment So stop fundamental analysis that some of the things are you know that traders will look at fundamental traders will look at To determine values revenues earnings return on equity etc Currency fundamentals are driven by central bank monetary policies Government fiscal policies and which is based on really GDP in the business cycle So whether we're in a recession or whether we're in the boom phase And that is driven by inflation and interest rates commodity fundamentals are driven by supply and demand macroeconomic factors And that is usually driven by things like you know risk on or risk off sentiment or even scarcity And in the case that we're talking about with Bitcoin fundamental analysis the narrative around Bitcoin and why? Traders and investors are getting into Bitcoin is that it is a hedge against inflation and is a store of value so Understanding that and understanding why you should be buying something based on fundamentals and not price Yeah, then you can understand where potentially I guess At all-time highs why something may not be considered expensive at an all-time high so What is liquidity so you hear this word Bound around recently especially you know in the last year or so online. It's all about liquidity liquidity liquidity Da da da da da, so liquidity, you know defined according to investopedia is It refers to the ease at which an asset or security can be converted into ready cash without affecting its market price What that actually means on a price chart is the amount of buy or sell orders that there are in at any, you know price point so For as an example of this if you have a large institution that wants to buy You know Bitcoin you have to and it's let's say for example They want to place a million dollar a million pound order Which is basically broken up into maybe smaller orders. What is known as iceberg orders? You can research that But there needs to be enough if they want to buy there needs to be enough sell liquidity there needs to be enough sell orders at a Certain price point for them to facilitate the buying that they want to do yeah And it is not enough liquidity for them to buy. Yeah, there's not enough sell orders. There's not enough Retail looking to sell So that they can buy Then the market will look for wherever the liquidity is now at all time highs or obvious levels of support and resistance There's lots of liquidity lots of liquidity going on, right? So we have new traders Who are looking at obvious levels? For example, the obvious level was 30k. Why was in the why was it an obvious level? And it's really because you had the Media were talking about this $30,000 level right so 30k and fortune in you know This is money Bitcoin on track for its longest monthly winning streak in more than a year as price edges closer to $30,000 Bitcoin could hit $30,000 in 2021. So $30,000 dollars was a level that pretty much lots of traders and Investors were looking at now at any All-time high or obvious price point or all-time low or any kind of key level Yeah, there's lots and lots and lots of liquidity from two main traders There'd be new traders looking to enter into new trades and also profit-takers. So the smart money for example Yeah, if you bought down here 20k Yeah, I should say if you bought down here, right you were a new trader down here and Where are you likely to potentially take profit if the media are saying that it could possibly get to 30k? You're gonna have a 30k profit target, right? You're not gonna want this price to kind of reverse before it gets to 30k or just there or there abouts right so there's profit-takers and if you've bought down here if you buy Yeah, if you buy your take profit is a Seller yeah, that's your take profit order is a sell order. Yeah, let me just pass you blame because sell order here Yeah So you've got buy orders and you've got a sell order So profit-takers are taking profit here sell orders in and around here You've got also new traders, right? So smart money would have been buying down here Maybe taking some profit here potentially potentially not but at this 30k level. Yeah, you've got new traders now new traders We tell tend to generally want to short into a what is known as a trending market and Again, this is the lack of understanding potential Value just because something is at an all-time high or at a major high Doesn't mean that that's where you should be shorting Yeah, because really understanding supply and demand and liquidity is understanding where There is going to be more supply or more demand in that area And if there's more demand in that area then supply then prices will rise And if there's more supply then demand then prices will fall, but you will never know at Levels, yeah, or you don't really have an idea. Yeah, why you should be buying or selling unless you understand the Overall long-term value of what you are looking to buy Yeah, so there are new traders who are looking to do what short at 30k and that adds more Sell orders. Yeah, so they're trying to you know time the market time the highs and get short but When you have Lots of sell orders, which is basically what we know as liquidity Yeah, and retail is selling who is on the other side of the buying Who is on the other side of the buying has to be institutional, right? Trading generally is a zero-sum game for someone to win someone else has to lose There is always someone or another entity on the other side of your Buy or sell order, right? So when you place a buy trade on your broker, your broker is forced to sell to you at that price And when you sell your your broker is forced to buy back at that particular price if you're in a profit So 30k was a psychological level. It was a level with a lot of liquidity now If retail generally are looking to sell and retail generally don't understand value Yeah, then what was going to potentially what was likely to happen who was taking the other side of these sell orders And who was doing a lot of buying at this area You guessed it it was retail and smart money hence the reason why you had Prices keep going higher because that provides retail provide the liquidity or they can provide the liquidity for the Institutions to look to buy and they push prices higher Yeah, because they understand potential value And what they're buying and they're buying for the long term does that mean that price is going to continue to go higher? who knows nobody knows but if The institutions are buying in and around certain key areas Prices continue to go higher. Of course, it's gonna be pullbacks Prices might even come back and go below that area, right? Which is what is known as potential stop-hunt, but if they are right about the future value So for example, they have you know a year two years five year forecast ten year forecast for example Then buying at 30k. Yeah is going to be Advantageous if they think that for example Bitcoin in the next year may reach 100k 200k They're not worried about certain price points and one thing for sure. They are definitely not shorting. Yeah at certain areas Just because of a technical pattern. Yeah So liquidity at highs and lows are There's lots of liquidity at all-time highs and all-time lows because there's a lot of eyeballs on it. Yeah, so Smart money will do what they do Buy into liquidity hence the reason why you have Prices going again higher said that they have enough liquidity to buy at these Areas also as well, you're gonna have traders being stopped out So they put their stop-loss, right? If you if if traders are getting Short here, for example, this is sell order. Yeah, their stop-loss is also a Bi-order and that as their stop-losses get triggered that also creates more Demand and more buying. Yeah, so everybody's stop-losses was up here being triggered by price and that Creates demand. Yeah, this is what is known as as a stop-hunting, but it's all about understanding Value and I had a video on this On my YouTube channel talking about Same thing exact same thing happened with gold for example, right and if we go to a gold Price chart, right? We were talking about this back in July August and there was a psychological level I think it was 1920 right and in the video I speak about just before that happened why The exact same principles and why gold eventually went above that. Yeah. Now one of the things you want to do is If you're time trying to time a reversal is wait for proof of You know value and what I mean by that is wait for the market to prove that a price point is expensive rather than just looking for a Reversal at a key level so wait for the price to actually Move to the downside much move to the downside like this Yeah, really prove that this is an expensive area like what's happened with gold in the in earlier this year this price point here 2075 is seen as a recent expensive area and You've seen something like this now again fundamentally if you want to be a Buyer of gold then you're not looking at this area of this all-time hire, right? You're not looking at what you're looking for is actual pullbacks But let's say for example prices come up to here and then the fundamentals of gold change Can't see it happening anytime soon with all the money printing that's going on and inflation potentially into 2021 and Beyond but when you have Prices do get up here and if the fundamentals have changed for gold Then that is where you may potentially want to get short. Yeah Bitcoin let's go back to the all-time high from 2017 Go through this again same exact thing happened So we had an all-time high of nearly 20,000 and you can go back through the the media I go back through Google and 20,000 was being spoken as as the price at which, you know Psychological level will build bit Bitcoin, you know go past 20,000 level. What happened was Is again the same principles you had traders Right, so you had new traders Getting short at this 20,000 level, especially when seduced by price action not understanding bitcoins Maybe true value as being a safe haven. What was happening? You had Profit takers as well Right all looking to do what and all in seducing Or or the liquidity was sell orders right profit takers who were buying from maybe, you know, 1300 141500 Looking to take profit at a psychological level that's selling new traders getting short that selling Not understanding that they were providing the liquidity Yeah for the institutions and smart money and you know fundamental traders who understood fundamental investors who understood Where the value of Bitcoin may want to go so they provided the liquidity Right, so when they were selling who was doing the buying at 20k? Smart money and you can see what pretty much happened the same Situation happened at 30k so again Just understanding all-time highs Isn't enough to just want to sell a market the key to this is looking to Know why? Fundamentally your you want to be a buyer of that asset and then Simple thing to do is to just wait for pullbacks into the man zones right and That's what we look to do shorting at all-time highs is really Really a fool's game if you don't understand the fundamentals and you just looking at price anyways guys I hope that helps and next time Bitcoin does reach an all-time high or you know the next 50k level or 40k level that is being touted don't just you know want to or look to To short that area whether it's on gold whether it's on you know Tesla the same thing was done on Tesla as we know There were so many traded looking to short and look what happened You can see the same thing on you know the the Stocks stock indices the S&P 500 for example this year, you know prices have made new highs So Understand why fundamentally you want to be a buyer if prices get to all-time highs and the fundamentals have changed Yeah, then Maybe consider shorting, but if you don't understand the fundamentals then I would probably just stick to understanding You know a different strategy a technical strategy, whatever it is if you don't understand fundamentals I think you should basically get to learn fundamentals as you're really kind of trading blind anyways guys, I hope that helps and all the best


The narcissist's illusion of happiness part 2. The narcissist is never happy. It is nothing more than an illusion. They are hypersensitive to criticism. They are easily hurt or offended because they have a weak fragile ego. They have to control the environment in a way where they always come out on top. But sometimes they do fail. Sometimes things don't turn out as well as they thought they would. Over the years it has built up more and more anger, frustration and resentment from things that they have never reflected on or dealt with. Well they are now experiencing great torment. They are experiencing severe mental suffering. Yet they do everything they can to avoid feeling the pain. So rather than becoming the tormented, they become the tormentor. And they inflict mental suffering on other people. They become abusive. They will do whatever they can to mask their issues or problems. But no matter what they do, the unfulfillment is still within them. They feel as though they are not enough. And they don't know how to correct the situation. They don't want to change because they know that change would require accountability. And they don't want to accept their faults or mistakes. It's too painful for them to deal with. So they deal with the same situations again and again in the exact same way as they did before. With the same results. Believing that maybe this time it might work itself out. They hold these idiosyncratic beliefs or impressions that are contradicted by reality or rational argument. It's a symptom of the disorder and there is no way for you to get through to them because they are lying to themselves. They are lying to themselves so that they can escape reality. They live in their imagination or fantasy. They invent things in their mind to deceive not only other people but also themselves. So that they can mask what is really wrong with them. They use denial as a form of self-medication. You can try discussing the truth for them. But unless it validates their delusional beliefs or superiority, they're not going to want to cure it. They have to believe that they are above everyone around them. It is a coping and defence mechanism for how they really feel about themselves. For the emotions that they don't want to accept or deal with. So they project it onto everyone around them. They create this fake world or alternate reality in their heads where everyone else has the problem. You can ask the narcissist how they feel and they will tell you that they're great. They will tell you that all is going well for them. But deep down inside, I can assure you that they are miserable. They are suffering inside. The narcissist is never happy. If you look closely, it is clearly evident in how they treat other people. If you want to know how someone feels about themselves, look at how they feel about other people. Look at how they treat them. Look at how they talk about them. That will give you all of the answers that you need. When you feel whole and complete and at peace with yourself, there is no desire or motive to bring someone down. The narcissist operates at the lowest emotional vibrational frequency of shame. They are shame based individuals and while other people may be at higher frequencies, whenever the narcissist is around them, they will quickly bring them down to their level. Higher frequency individuals cannot exist around these people. The narcissist is dealing with a lot of shame about who they are and whenever they are around people, they will try to deflect their feelings of shame onto them. They have to reduce the worth or importance of other people. So that they can then boost their own false sense of worth or importance. They cannot acknowledge another person's value unless they live vicariously through them. Unless they share their experience by imagined participation. And even then, they are not really acknowledging the other person as a separate being. They see them more as an extension. Because they recognize similar traits in them or traits that they aspire to have. Otherwise, the narcissist will only bring people down. They will only deflect their feelings of shame onto other people. They are never happy. They are never at peace with themselves. There is always something triggering in their minds. There is always something causing them severe mental suffering which prevents them from ever being at peace with themselves. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonated with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for all my future videos. If you would like to donate, my PayPal link is in the video description. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


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Ableton On Air is a member of the National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences, Boston, New England chapter. Welcome to this edition of Ableton On Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs concerning the achievements of the different label. I've always been your host more than a cider. And on this program today, we talk about team two, but before that, we'd like to say special thanks to our sponsors, Washington County Mental Health, we love support services and many others, including the partnership with the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired of Vermont, the Division for the Blind of Visually Impaired of Vermont, Central Vermont Habitat for Humanity and many, many, many others. With us, we have Christian Chandler from team two. We're supposed to have another guest, but that person has not shown yet. However, we'd like to say thank you for joining us on this edition. Happy to be here again, you bet. What is the missions and goals of team two? Well, team two is a statewide training for first responders really in a nutshell. The missions and goals are really to build the relationships necessary for first responders to be able to collaborate in responding to a mental health crisis call. So we offer the training in five regions around the state with the purpose of building those relationships with fellow first responders who you might be responding to a call with in that region. For police dispatchers, mental health crisis workers, EMTs, emergency department personnel are invited because of that handoff in a mental health crisis. I also invite state's attorneys to attend. That's about who gets notice of the trainings and the dates and things. So the goal is really just to hear about what's working in that region for them, what isn't working to give some people some ideas about how to better collaborate and come to a really peaceful resolution in a mental health crisis. Please tell our viewers and listeners about the program and really how it works. Sure. So team two was the idea of Mary Moulton just about 10 years ago when Mary came to the state and she came to the Department of Mental Health. She came from Washington County Mental Health where she had been a crisis screener and for many, many years. And when she came to the state level, she realized that not every part of the state enjoyed the same great collaborative relationship that they have in Washington County between crisis workers and law enforcement for many, many years. And so she had this idea about let's see if we can't improve that around the state. And so she brought together a bunch of stakeholders from various police agencies, state agencies, consumers, advocates, lots of people from different mental health agencies. And we met for probably over a year trying to come up with a curriculum that would fit into one day because we realized, Mary realized, we actually in discussion, we realized that it'd be a lot easier to get people to a one day training as opposed to two day or even a week long training, which is what's done in a lot of other parts of the country. So that started 10 years ago, I was at the Department of Mental Health then as an assistant attorney general working with Mary and once we got the basic ideas down about what we wanted in the curriculum, she kind of handed it over to me and asked me to make this happen. So in 2013, we started our first train the trainer program around the state again. So people are trained by their peers. There's 35 instructors in the five regions around the state. And I've brought one of them here with me today from the central region, from the Montpelier PD. And I will pause right there so I can have Victor introduce himself. We'll be right back in a couple of minutes to talk more about team two. We'll be back after these words. Welcome back to Abel Doronner and joining us is, what is your name, please? A Victor and a Hossa. I work for the Montpelier Police Department. So we're talking about team two and how it started and all that. Have you pre-perceived any notions regarding team two prior to training? Like what type of training have you received and any expectations thus far and how is team two working as a program? So before I took team two, the only, the closest training I had in mental health was the ACT-80, which is required by the Academy, which Christian actually also was my trainer there. So when I took team two, I thought it was gonna be similar to that. And I wasn't expecting the amount of collaboration that we had having people from FIRE, EMS, mental health professionals, people from state's attorney's offices and also dispatchers. I thought it was very interesting having all these stakeholders that respond to crisis is all in the same training. Define mental health crisis and how, so it's paired with a social worker and a police officer or how's it work within? Well, let's back up just a second because I think you asked just a couple of different questions right there. So I would, first of all, what is a mental health crisis? Yes, and how is it? We're kinda getting away from that term a little bit, Lawrence, we're more calling it like an emotional crisis or a behavioral issue because it can really run the gamut, right? I mean, people just are in crisis, especially now during the pandemic. People are finding themselves stressed to the max on all different kinds of issues. And so it has been a fallback for forever really. If you're in a crisis, who do you call it? You dial 911.  And we're really trying to kinda back up from that right now and allow for some alternative types of response. And so to that end, Montpelier police have collaborated, excuse me, with Washington County Mental Health and with Berry City police to hire a embedded, what we call an embedded social worker. So somebody who is employed. Who has a new embedded social worker. Yeah, I'm explaining that. She's employed by Washington County Mental Health as a licensed clinician, but she sits with the police departments. She has an actual desk, both in Berry and in Montpelier and she can ride along with the officers. So she splits her time between the two cities and she can ride along with the officers. She can go out on her own on calls. If safety is not a concern, she can respond on her own. Because of that real variety in what is a crisis. Maybe that somebody, they just need a place to stay or they might need some food and that will put them in a crisis. That's something that Susan could handle, the embedded worker. Versus they're in an acute psychotic episode and they're causing some property destruction or something, any police intervention perhaps. But Susan can also be there to then offer resources and follow up. And I know, I think Victor has been able to benefit from having her in the department. So you may wanna say something about that. So let's piggyback off, but even before the pandemic, I mean, I'm gonna kind of add a couple of questions here. Even before the pandemic, since we're getting away from crisis, but people that have emotional situations, how before team two, right? How has the police department been dealing with that? And then now with team two, has it gotten better? Has it gotten, I wouldn't say worse, but kind of walk us through the situation. So I don't know what we did before, but I know that with team two, from an officer's standpoint, it helps open our eyes and see all the different resources that are available. And it puts us all together in one room so we can actually have conversations with the same people that we're gonna be calling upon. And it gives us a little bit of insight into their job and their role. And in turn, that helps us because then we all have a better understanding of when we're responding to a call, how we can all help each other out. Yeah, what outcomes or impact of team two trainings, wait, to be quantified or put together? Like, what have been the outcomes of team two training? Well, I think one of the things, I'll just ask Victor to respond to this because I remember when he was in training, you know, part of the curriculum for that one day includes a little segment on responding to people on the autism spectrum because that's a pretty frequent call. And it was within a few weeks, I think of the training where Victor had a call like that, he responded to that and I'll let him take it from there. We had a 911 hang-up call. There was no other information besides 911 hang-up. It mapped the address for it so I went out to the address, made contact with a mother and she told me that they, the parents had not called 911, they weren't really sure where it came from, but they told me that they had a son that had autism and they thought that he might have done it and so she went into his room, found her cell phone there and found that he had dialed 911. This is the right after I took it. You didn't actually get in trouble for actually dialing 911? Well, they weren't in trouble. In his case? No, no, no, they weren't in trouble but if someone does dial 911, we have to go out and just make sure that everyone's okay. Yeah, so I was able to make contact with their son, check their welfare, they were all okay and obviously he just made a mistake that everyone made. I think when I was a kid, I made that same mistake and I think it's something that, yeah, I was a kid, you just have to get out of the way once and then once you see the police show up, that's probably the last time that it happens but I took that time to connect with the child that was in the residence and their family and I talked to them about the team two training that I just had and I talked to them about how it would be important for the department to know that they have, they have their son that's living with autism with them and he had, the mother told me that several times in the past and she expected in the future that he would elope from the residence and possibly run into traffic, try to run to school, which is very dangerous. So it gave me the opportunity to turn that pretty simple call 911 hang up into an opportunity to let the other officers on the road know that we have this community member that we should take extra time and care with and I was able to let the rest of the department know that should they respond in the future, and I don't know if, I probably shouldn't say the child's name, but when they're responding to him the mother told me things that he liked, things that he didn't like, that he was non-verbal, that he was attracted to water even though he- So the certain non-verbal cues with autism that you were being trained on within- Right, with team two, and recognize those when I was on scene at this 911 hang up call and the mother was very surprised at the amount of knowledge that I had and I told her that was from my team two training and she said she wished that every police officer had that same training so that they'd have that same understanding. Did you wanna ask, go ahead with some of your questions? Yeah. Staying away from that other one, go ahead. Yeah. What improvements have been made since our team two has been in- What improvements in police response? In helping people with mental health issues? Sure, that's a great question Arlene, thank you. Well, as Victor just touched on, the training itself just opens people's eyes to a gamut of possibilities and not just responding to people on the autism spectrum, but it's a scenario-based training and every year we have three scenarios in the day and every year we change them a little bit depending on what's going on. There may be a current issue statewide that I've heard a lot about so we'll add that in. So it has, I will say it has improved the relationships between mental health crisis teams and their local law enforcement and the state police. Obviously, do other states have something similar to team two? They do not. We've actually presented team two at a few national conferences where I've had the opportunity to go and present and I've learned that other states actually don't do this and this is really geared because we are a small rural state it makes sense to do this kind of training in a one day, eight hour training that because we have so many small police departments it makes it a lot easier for them to be able to attend, first of all, as opposed to what's the national training really is a 40 hour training and it's really hard for local departments to send all their officers to a whole week of training because who would mind the shop? So the improvements have been, they're anecdotal, but I will tell you that meaning that I hear about various calls around the state where people have responded and they've gotten a much better resolution that they attribute to the training just as Victor just talked about. I mean he attributed his ability to make that, respond that way on that call directly to the training that he took and so that's what I, we don't keep, it's hard to keep statistics on that. We do do a follow up evaluation of, we send a survey to everybody six months after they've taken the training, anybody who's attended to see if they're using the tools that they learned in the training and I'm gonna say, I think it's about 92% of the people say that they continue to use those tools, they continue to have really good relationships, improved relationships with their fellow first responders and they have a much better understanding of how each other does their job really. They learn each other's limitations and their language during the training and they've been able to retain that, which is great. Mm-hmm. How long? Yeah, like how many? Eight hours. Yeah. Over three days. No. It's eight hours. And it's one day. It's one day, yeah. And it's offered in at least six times a year in five regions around the state. So the Northwest region, which is Chittenden and Franklin counties, they get the training twice a year. Everybody else gets it once a year. But I have added, I mean there's always some additional trainings like some police departments might ask for some extra training and we'll figure out a way to do that for them. What is the value of recognizing the importance of mental health and policing? Either both of you can answer this question. I think that every day we get a call for service that in some way, shape or form involves someone either having a mental health crisis or having a crisis in general and having the team two training under your belt helps you better respond to those incidents because it gives you a better understanding of the services that are available and it gives you a better understanding of how those services is gonna help that person. I think Lawrence, if I can just add to that, I think it's important to note that team two is funded by a collaboration between the Department of Public Safety and Department of Mental Health. They collaborate in a grant but it's year to year. So it's, and this is not a training that's mandatory for police officers. It's voluntary. You said that? Yep. Okay, look at that. Should it be in all, should team two or a version of team two be in every single police department globally because this is new. This might be new, but due to the fact of the situation with the way people proceed policing, in various incidents all across the globe, not mentioning any particular incidents, but should team two be or a version B in every single police department, do you think? I think that here for my team two should definitely be mandatory for any law enforcement officer, mental health, professional, anybody that works at a state attorney's office, firefighters, EMTs, they're all gonna benefit from that. Globally, I think anybody in public service or really anybody at all would benefit from having some sort of mental health training. Your take on that? Well, I think, we've discussed this a lot over the years since team two started, especially I would say in the last three years or so the legislature has actually asked me that very question. Like why, if this is such a great training, why isn't it, why don't we make it mandatory? Like some of the other trainings are for police. And my response is I think you have a different approach when you come to a training because you wanna be there or you're there voluntarily, maybe your supervisor has asked you to come, but as opposed to if it's mandatory because law enforcement has a lot of other required trainings they have to do every year. And it's just, I think you get a whole different attitude and perspective when you're there because you're interested in the topic and you wanna be there. That being said, I do think that a lot of other states have a required follow up training every year in mental health for police and we do not, Vermont does not. The only requirement Vermont has is that initial eight hour training that Victor alluded to that I teach at the police academy along with a clinician and a law enforcement officer, that's required by statute in Vermont. But other than that, there is no other requirement. And I would love to see a requirement for a refresher in mental health, specifically geared for mental health response, whether it's four hours or eight hours or if it's every year or every two years, but something because things change. The law changes certain political events can change how a community, a pandemic, can really affect how a community responds to crisis. And so I think it would be beneficial to have a follow up training. Can you describe a scenario without violating HIPAA, obviously? But can you describe a scenario where training was put into use? I think that the 911 hang-up one was a great one. I think that to add off of what I already said about that, after that call, cause that was probably, that was late at night, a couple of days. After 12 midnight, probably around midnight that that call came in. A couple of days after that though, the mother asked me to go back to the house because her son had a gift for me. And I went and he had wrote a thank you officer on a piece of paper and drawn on it and decorated it for me as a little token. And I thought that was pretty special. I think that we respond to mental health calls, like I said, every single day. I think that the impact that we make can be positive or negative. And if we can make those positive connections, it's great because then we can build relationships throughout the community that are gonna be everlasting. I think that that was a very good experience for me certainly and for that family. What is the, well we have some, obviously we have a little bit more time left. Perhaps an obvious question would be, but what is the ideal outcome in a scenario following a mental health question? The ideal outcome? Yeah, like what have outcomes been or I don't know, can you tell what an outcome would be if you're there or not? I think I understand your question, so the ideal outcome in any mental health crisis would be that everybody, that it gets resolved safely with nobody getting hurt and that the proper resources are provided to the individual to hopefully prevent another crisis happening again in the future. I don't know, that's my take on it. I don't know, I'd like to know what Victor's take on it. I think that's absolutely right. I mean, we want everyone to be safe. We want them, I'd like everyone to be happy with the outcome that they have and if that means that we show up on scene and provide a courtesy ride to someone to go somewhere that they need to get resources, I think that we would very much so do that for them. The best outcome for us is making sure that that person gets the type of help and services that they need. I'll say, Lauren, I think Lauren's just for your viewers that one of the things that we really focus on in any mental health training with police is to slow things down and to take the time, excuse me. What do you mean by slow? What do you mean by slow things down? To really evaluate the situation, to think about, not just rush in and to think about, get as much information as possible on the way to the call and then during the call and to partner with the correct experts in the field and if it's a mental health call, it would be hopefully partnering with Washington County Mental Health crisis screeners who would be able to come to the scene or at least provide assistance over the phone and just slow things down and take your time and this has been, this is not new really but it's, I would say in the last couple of years more and more police chiefs and administrators have realized that this is really what's gonna keep their officers safe as well as the subject safe is if you can take that time to establish those relationships just as Victor did in that 911 hang-up call, he took, he didn't have to go back and meet this kid and hang out with him in his room and play with him but he did and that just goes a really long way and I know, I've heard from lots of other officers and other consumers where they're like, wow, if we just take the time to really talk to somebody and figure out what it is that's at the core of the problem, we might be able to resolve it now as opposed to having to go, you know, hands-on and into a big scuffle thing. The situation becomes worse if you know that. Right, right and that's really what we, and we really want for the situation to not become worse, right? We want it to be, we don't want the presence of the police to escalate the stress or the concern and we know that for some people that can be difficult, right? Seeing the police come to their home or to a scene can sort of increase that anxiety or increase that stress. And so that's the other thing we talk a lot about is just how an officer's gonna approach a particular call, whether they're gonna come lights and siren or they're gonna just come park maybe farther away and walk up, you know, really focusing on what's still gonna keep them safe but what might actually benefit the subject of the call. Any questions?  Oh yeah, all kinds of female officers taking the training. Yeah. Does the training differ between, you don't mind me asking this, does the training differ between male and female? Like is there a certain other training that the female takes that the male doesn't take or is it all one training? It's all one training. You know what? Yeah, no, there's nothing different for her. Certainly, I know that like, I know the regular police training involves like obstacle courses and other things. Sure. Yeah, I just wanted to. There's a lot of exercise involved in the police academy and the women do it as well as the men. Okay, no, I hope that wasn't a bad question. No, and I can tell you, so I do some training at the police academy for the Vermont State Police and a couple sessions ago, for the first time they had more women in their class than they did men, actually. I just did one couple weeks ago for them for this current class and it was all men, it was 13 men. So it was just a little bit unusual that they didn't have any female applicants or recruits. Normally they have quite a few. I know they've made a big effort to try to recruit more women and minorities. Okay. Please, okay. What is the value? Oh, wait, very good. Anything you want to say more about Team Two and the future of Team Two? I just think, I thought of another great example of that training being used in the field. I responded to a call that there was a female that was in the bathroom. She had fallen and the people I called said that they didn't really know what was going on and they weren't sure if it was a medical call, they weren't sure if they needed to fire the Department of Police Department. It was very vague. Well, she got stuck in... The call came in very vague. And when calls like that come in, typically they dispatch the police just because they want someone, they want a first responder on scene to see what's going on. And I walked in and the people that had called, this is at a hotel, they called and they said, we don't understand what she's saying, we don't know what she wants, but she seems like she doesn't want anybody to help them. She keeps moving her hands around and it seems like she doesn't want people to be around her. So we just left her alone and we called you. I go into the bathroom and it was a female that was sitting on the ground and I could tell she was crying, introduced myself, hi, I'm Officer Victor, what can I do to help you? And she turned to me, she made some movements with her hands that at first, I didn't really recognize what were and then I quickly realized that she was deaf and the way that she communicated, she couldn't talk, but she could write. And so I just like Christian said, what all law enforcement officers are trying to do now sew things down, sewed everything down, recognized what was in front of me, took out a pad and a pad of paper and my pen and just wrote and that's how we communicated back and forth and realized that she had been recently discharged from the hospital, she didn't have a ride home. She knew the name of her social worker, so I called them, they came right over from the hospital and helped me get a better understanding of this person and I was able to provide her a ride home and that's really all she needed. So that call came in very vague, got on scene, recognized what happened, sewed things down, called in additional resources and then we had a really great outcome of- Are police officers in the monthly police department, do they have training in sign language or anything with deaf individuals? In this case? I know I don't. So I had to use the resources that I had available and I was fortunate that writing on the piece of paper, that was the best way to communicate with her and that's what her social worker said that that's how she communicates with people. What's the future of team two? Well, hopefully it continues on. As I said, it's usually it's a year to year grant from the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Public Safety. That's just part of their budgets. So we've really seen the benefit of the training just over and over again, saving resources. So I think it's a good investment. So I certainly hope it will continue. I think we may expand the audience a little bit. I've had some requests from like college security officers who aren't police officers but and who don't get a lot of mental health training but do respond to a lot of mental health crises. So we have that request. We've got, I've had some requests from the Department of Corrections. So there's a way to. Isn't Department of Corrections officers? So wouldn't that. But they're not first responders. This is really geared towards first responders. Okay. They work in the prisons. Yeah. Or in the field. But there's, so I hope that it will, it could expand. I've had some requests from some other states about how to model the training in their states. So we'll see. Hopefully it'll keep going. Well, anything else you want to, Alexa? I think something important to understand about team two is it's not a stagnant training meaning. Not just one day and it's finished. Well that, and I think that we've seen people that don't just take it once they come back and take it multiple times after that because the training material adapts I think with the current environment that we work in and with the updates from law enforcement, mental health, state's attorney, and all the other stakeholders that go to the training. So it's not something that you go to twice and it's the exact same material every single time. It keeps growing. It keeps building. And that's very important for training purposes. Any questions you would like to add and involve with team two? So I started at the Berlin Police Department in March of 2019 and I just recently switched over to the Montpelier Police Department at the beginning of September. And I started, I forget when I did my first team two training. I want to say it was like April of, we were on Zoom, right? Yeah, it had to been 2020. So beginning of 2020. Yeah, before we end, I was, I know we should have done this question at the beginning, but during the pandemic, team two must have been a little. We had to pivot. We had to pivot a little bit, Lawrence. So we did the trainings virtually on using Zoom with everybody safe in their own environments. That was all of last year. And this year we're having two in-person trainings of the four that were scheduled for this fall. Two have been, will be in-person and two are on Zoom. Is it hard to do a training of police training on Zoom? Oh yeah, it's a lot harder. But it's also has, I mean, during the pandemic, there were more participants than I've ever had because they could do it by Zoom. They didn't have to travel. They didn't have to find parking. They didn't have to worry about being away from picking up their kids or whatever. So we had way more people sign up and register when they could do it virtually. So that's why we left it with a couple of trainings still by Zoom, also because of the, there's a couple of regions that are really big. The Southwest region is Bennington, Rutland and Addison County. And so there's a lot more travel for people. Here in Montpelier we did the training in-person at the end of September. We were able to use a really big space over at the Pavilion building so people could spread out. But also the central region is, you know, people aren't coming from very far away. It's just Washington and Orange counties. So it was relatively easy for people to get here. Okay. Well, we would like to thank you for joining us. Thank you for having us. And thank you so much. For more information on Washington County and its programs, you can go to www.wcmhs.org. That's www.wcmhs.org in more information on, is there a number for people who are in crisis that would like to? The crisis number? I don't, I actually, I don't know the crisis number. So if you're in crisis and need assistance with Washington County Mental Health, you can go to 1802-229-0591. That number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Well, we would like to thank our sponsors, Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services, and many others, including the partnership with the Association for the Blind of Vermont, the Division for the Blind of Vermont, Central Vermont, Habitat for Humanity, and we would like to especially thank today the Montpelier Police Department and Officer, how do you pronounce, how do you pronounce your name? Everyone calls me Officer Victor, but my last name's Hena Hosa. Okay. Officer Victor Hena Hosa of the Montpelier Police Department, and thank you to Christian Chandler of Team Two. This puts an end to Abel Denonair. I'm Lauren Seiler. I'm Lauren Seiler. See you next time. 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Welcome to the John Stoltrager show. I'm Joe Ambo, joined now with John Stoltrager, head coach of the swimming programs. And coach, it's that time of year that it's all been done for.  It's a four-day meet. It's going to be really long, really grueling. What are the things working in on this weekend? On the girls side, I think we're going to look for a couple of our medley relays to try to place pretty high. For the girls, I mean, our backstroke events are going to be pretty good. Our IM should be pretty good as well. We should place a girl. Jules should place pretty high in her breaststroke in the one breast, two breasts. So we're looking on the girls side to try to get someone in almost every single event, at least in concies, if not finals. And on the boys side, we're going to be pretty strong in our fly events. Jack looks pretty good in his IM. So again, we're looking to make a statement and to see that hard work pay off. That hard work has been paying off all season. You guys have been breaking school records, personal bests. Are those any of the goals for this weekend? Or just having a solid time finishing in your top five, finished best, or anything like that? We always want to go in and do a personal best. I mean, ideally, you do three personal bests in the three events that you swim. That's our goal. Again, positioning where you position in the conference is secondary to personal best. We have some lofty goals for some of our kids. Some of our kids would like to try to make a B cut for nationals. We have some kids that want to win a conference title individually. Our relays, a couple of them, we're going to try to get top three. While it's going to be very tough, I still think that it's a possibility, for sure, especially with all the hard work that the kids did this year, we look pretty good right now. And it's been a season of progressions. Everybody's been making progress. Everybody's been swimming faster, even when they were tired. Now that they're rested, are you expecting even faster times? And last year, we had two podiums. Maybe even more podiums this year. Oh, yeah. We should have many more podiums this year than last year. We had a girl last week actually do an in-season best during practice, which is a great sign for taper. And yeah, I expect multiple kids dropping several seconds. We're going to be, it's called suited up. So we're going to have our tech suits on and fully rested, fully shaved. It should be a fast meet. I'm looking forward to it. And I'm smiling. So I mean, it's that time of year. Yeah. Smiling's always good heading into the conference meet. And again, it's four days, really grueling. How do you space that out? How do you plan that weekend? Well, the great thing about how we train is we train to swim this meet. So all the yardage that we put in, all the mantra that I've been saying, swim fast when you're tired, it comes into play at the conference meet because on the fourth day, you're doing 200 to stroke. You have the 400 free relay. There's the mile. And I don't care how rested and in shape you are, your body does get tired. And at least my kids will know how to swim fast when they're tired because it does happen. But I would say historically my teams on the third day are pretty strong, pretty, pretty strong. I think it was the third or fourth day last year that the podiums were made. So maybe aiming towards that again this year. Yeah, we will not slow down, lack of a better word, on the last day. We will be as strong on the last days we were on the first day. And again, it's a testament to the kids and how hard they swam this year and to the work ethic that they put in. And again, that's our goal is to swim as fast on the first days we do on the last day. Well, Coach, we wish you the best of luck and safe travels into York, Pennsylvania for the MAC conference meet. Thank you very much. He's John Stoltzrager. I'm Joe Wamba, and this has been the Stauncho John Stoltzrager show.