Okay, I want to invite anybody who is here who is part of an applicant team to go ahead and do a sound check. If you want to raise your hand within Zoom here, we can go ahead and get that started. Andy, I'm going to send you a prompt right now.  It looks like we have an email of elronchal.com. Do you want to try your sound? Yes, Ed, Ron Kelly with St. Rose Parish. Okay. Sounds good. Thank you. And this is Andy testing video and audio. Sounds good. Thank you. Looks good. And let's see. We have Monet. Can you hear me? I can. Thank you. Okay. Adam, I'm going to go ahead and send a prompt. I'm on. Thanks, Kimberly. Sounds good. Thanks, Adam. Are we ready to go? So this is in my name is Andy Gustafson. I'm acting zoning administrator. And I'd like to call to order the December 16, 2021, regular zoning administrator meeting. Thank you all for attending today. I want to announce up front that we do have. Two agenda items on our three agenda. Three item agenda that those two items are being continued. So I want to let you know that the hillside. Development oil. And our place. Permit is being continued. And also the. The landmark alteration agreement. Or landmark alteration and design review for a fence on college Avenue will be continued. Stay tuned. We'll give dates. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Mr. Zoning administrator correction on item three point two. That has been withdrawn by the applicant. I'm sorry. Item 3.3. I apologize. Okay. So it's not, it's not being continued to a date. It's been completely withdrawn. Correct. Yeah. 3.3. Okay. All right. I kind of jumped ahead there. I just wanted to give that headline for anyone in attendance who might be here for those two items. But let me go back into our agenda. This is a public meeting. It'll be conducted as we would conduct any in-person public meeting. We are doing so remotely to help to reduce the spread of COVID as required by the county's public health officer. This Zoom meeting is being recorded and can be viewed afterwards on YouTube. The link to that site is on the agenda. This meeting will be conducted as, as I said, as any public meeting. The items will be presented in turn by the project planner, and then the applicant will have opportunity to comment, add more information. After that, I'll open it up for public discussion. If any of you wish to do so, and then an action will be taken. Any action made today, whether it's approved, denied, or approved with modified conditions, can be appealed within 10 calendar days of this meeting, which will be December 28th, the 10th day. And if you wish to do so, then please contact a project planner and they'll instruct you how to file your appeal. So with that sort of preliminaries out of the way, we do offer opportunity for the public to comment on any matter that's not on today's agenda, which is subject to the zoning administrator's jurisdiction. If you wish to comment, please press the hand icon, raise your hand, and you'll be recognized and given three minutes. If you're calling it, I don't see any callers. If you do call in, press star nine on your phone, be recognized. Is there anyone who wishes to make a public comment on this at this point? Seeing none, let's then move on to our three scheduled items. So as I mentioned at the start, items 3.1 and 3.3 are not going to be heard today, but I want to have the project planner for 3.1, not present the project, but confirm that that has been, as I understand it, requested for a public hearing. Manet Shikali is the project planner. Manet, can you give us an update? Sure, correct, and good morning, Mr. Gustavsson. So yesterday we received an email requesting for a public hearing on this item. We have contacted the applicant and let the applicant know that we will not present the project today, and I'm waiting to hear back from the applicant when they will be ready to schedule the items. So either it will be in January or February for this item to be prepared and scheduled for the zoning atmosphere meeting, and we will send another notice, and an on-site sign will be posted also, and notice will be mailed to Perce Democrat. So whenever we hear from the applicant, when they are ready to move forward, we will again prepare all the noticing and schedule it. Excellent, thank you. So we will rely on that separate notice to inform the neighbors when it will be brought forward next year, 2022. All right, so I'm going to jump ahead to the item 3.3, and Adam, you said at the start that that landmark alteration and design review for 439 College Avenue, that proposal has been withdrawn by the applicant, correct? Correct. Okay, so that leaves us with item 3.2, and Adam, you are the project planner on this one. It is a landmark alteration permit for 44547 and 549 B Street, the fence on the property. Can you give your report recommendation? Yes, sir. Give me one second, and then if you could just confirm you see the presentation before you. I can, thank you. All right, I wanted to start off by saying to you, Andy, zoning administrator, it's been a pleasure presenting projects through the years to you, and I really do appreciate it and wish you the best in your retirement. So with that, you're welcome. I mean it. It doesn't mean I can't ask the tough questions. Oh yeah, you know, you typically do, so that's all right. So in short, not everything will be missed, but most things. Anyway, okay, let's get started. This is for a new black metal fence. It's a minor landmark alteration permit, file number LMA 21-017. The address is quite a few here. 547 and 549 B Street and 320-322-340-348-398 10th Street, and I am the project planner for this. This is a new black metal fence with gates consisting of one lower and two upper horizontal rails. So these are the images below that show what that design would look like. This is within the St. Rose Preservation District, and this is at an existing church site within that preservation district. So because of its location within the St. Rose Preservation District, it does require a minor landmark alteration permit. So here's an aerial view of the St. Rose Catholic Church. You can see here it's the project site. So it's quite a few buildings along 10th and B Street and the fence spans along those addresses, so that's why it's quite a few there. So this is just a neighborhood. I'm sorry, it just lists the surrounding type of uses on the site layered over this aerial. So here's a site plan for it. The red dashed line shows the proposed fence location with the little doors swinging inward would be what that is for the gates. Sorry, those would be the gates. There's a little corner, so it adds a fence here, and it goes along the site. It would connect to an existing chain link fence. So here's some of the existing chain link fence along 9th Street. Here's a view of the current site along B Street. This is kind of in the middle there, and this is the 10th Street and B Street corner looking into the site, and here's an example of the similar fencing around the area. So just to kind of go over this one just a little bit more, the fence design was analyzed under the requirements of a landmark alteration permit, and the findings show that it's a very similar material to the type of fencing that's been used for quite a while. It doesn't, it's set back from the street, from the back of sidewalk enough to not kind of intrude on the public right of way. The reason why it's not a chain link fence is because chain link fences are easily scalable, and for those reasons, staff is recommending approval for the minor landmark alteration permit. I do want to point out that there was some public correspondence received for this project. One is included in the agenda packet. The other was sent in via email but not entered in time, and I'll read that verbatim now. The Catholic Church created this problem in the neighborhood by having homeless services and attracting homelessness and indigent people. Should they be allowed to have a wrought iron, wrought iron can security fence protect them from what they have created? Should we all get one and charge them for it? This is unbelievable. No, they shouldn't get a security fence.  So as you can see that public correspondence was not in favor of the proposed project. Another discussion was had prior to the meeting with a member of the public, a neighbor, wanting to expand a bit of the portion of that of the fence to cover a section that is what he identified as a considerable nuisance to the property by not having it fenced. And with that, that concludes my presentation. Again, my name is Adam Ross. Here's my contact information and I'm here to answer any questions you may have. This additional fence is a six-foot fence around its lane? Yes, I apologize. It is six-foot. Okay, I don't at this time. The applicant is now invited to comment at more information. If you wish to do so, please raise your hand and you'll be recognized. I'm not sure if I see the applicant here. It'd be someone from Roman. I'm sorry, I'm getting the name confused as I'm trying to think about it, but from the congregation from the St. Rose Catholic Church. I have somebody, I have somebody, we did a sound check at the beginning. I can't remember what he said his name was, but his email is ELRONCH and he's got his, he's raised his hand. Great. You can go ahead. You don't need a prompt. Okay. Now this is Ed Ron Kelly. I'm a parishioner at St. Rose and I've been working with a pastor in trying to establish a proper location for the fence so that we can provide some safety to the property in the campus. There are many nights when the homeless will come into a side entrance and sleep and defecate behind the bushes, also up into the baptistry, that circular area in the center of the property where they will spend the night and defecate just anywhere in the property. I had the opportunity to talk to Mr. Greg Parker who is one of the residents in the area and he was most supportive in the fence and in fact he talked about himself going around the neighborhood various nights rousing out or calling the police to rouse out homeless or vagrants around not only the church property, but his property in the neighborhood and was very much supportive of installing the fence. Thank you for your comments explanation. Is there any other person or parties from the representing the church that wishes to make a comment at this point? If not, I see Katie Elmore. Are you part of the applicant team or representing the church? If we can recognize Katie. Katie, you should have a comment. Yes, there you go. Yeah. Hi. I don't really have any additional comments. I am from Tierney Figurito Architects and we have been working with Edron Kelly and St. Rose Church on this project and it would be very helpful to their work to have this fence and I think Ed has already explained the situation much better than I could. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So let's open this discussion up to the public. Any member and attendants who wishes to comment from the public, please raise your hand and you'll be recognized. Katie, if you could lower your hand at this point. Thank you. Okay. We had two hands. Oh wait, we've got hands kind of going up and going down. It looks like we have Denise Hill. I'm going to go ahead and send you a prompt. Hi everybody. Can you hear me? Yes. Yes. Hi. Good morning. Hey, so I'm a resident of the St. Rose neighborhood. I actually our house is right across from the church parking lot and we fully support this. We're thrilled that it's happening. We've had a lot of challenges in this neighborhood with encampments and we're hoping that this is one more tool in the toolkit to hopefully encourage people to take services rather than camp in the neighborhood. I'm also thrilled that it's the style it is because that does mesh really nicely with our historic district rather than a chain link fence. Would love it if the chain link fence around the parking lot could be replaced, but I know this is a pretty pricey item. One more thing about in just addition, if there's any way that the church would consider closing the parking lot gates like they used to their automatic gates, they used to close and now we have a lot of sideshow behavior in the parking lot late at night and so that would be something I just want to mention. Well, we've got someone here from the parish who could maybe consider reactivating those automatic gates at night, but really the bottom line is that we we're thrilled this is happening. We've been in contact with the church offices. They've been, you know, assuring us that this is what was going to happen in their goal and we're glad they're there and you know it's a it's I think it could be nothing but a plus for the neighborhood. There is that small area that was talked about expanding the fence from the east side steps over to the entrance to the church property on B Street and it really probably should be closed off because that is another area that unless the landscaping changes is conducive to people camping and other things there. So anyway, very supportive. Thank you for your time and thank you to the church for moving forward with this project. Thank you very much. We have another person, Mr. Greg Parker. Mr. Parker, please recognize. You hear me? Yes. Okay. Greg Parker, I live about a block away from the church on B Street and I do go down there pretty much every night to check three buildings down there that have no trespass orders to try to keep people off the properties and I've talked to Ed, Ron Kelly and Father Dennis and Adam Ross. I'm the one that has been bringing up the little spot from if you go from the corner of B and 10th Street it's between the fairway south on that map you have. I don't know how to if you can pull that up I could describe it to you but there's a section there's a little triangular section south on B Street from that from the very corner. They've got the little fence that's closing off some steps. Thank you, Adam. See the little red thing right up at the corner? It'd be on the yeah between there right there there you got it.  So I'm asking that you extend the fence down on that section number one and then in addition to what Denise said there's also access to the property from 7th Street there's a little well it's a short chain like fence between the the old school and a private property and there's a gate there that it is locked but they've cut open the chain like fence so the homeless can get in back there it would be Washington it's going to be you're down you're talking about down there um so I'm just trying to follow your your direction where it is okay you're talking about okay you see the the hashed out original St. Rose uh yeah go to the right of that and right up that alley there's a little alleyway going right back into the church parking lot if you go north or if you go straight up there that's fences up there that's a private house if you go between that house it's like a little yeah there's a little gap now you're over here back where you were go straight up yeah now come back down right keep coming down keep coming down keep coming in right there there's a fence there's a little fence and a gate there that fence is ripped open and so if you're going to close the property off close the property off you know close those two gates to the parking lot and close these off otherwise they just come in the back way then it's like you know a gated community forum and that's about it I appreciate it I'd love to see that closed off I've talked to them and I everybody seemed to be in agreement that it'd be a good idea so I'm kind of surprised it wasn't mentioned uh by ed but uh I think that's necessary thank you thank you mr parker um is there anyone else in attendance who wishes to comment if so please raise your hand I'm trying to look up my list uh Thomas drain hello can you hear me yes hi I'm actually Thomas John's spouse I'm using his computer but I'm at uh 615 B street I'm just within visual side of the corner of 10th street and B street where there's a it's like a stoop it's a next uh where you know this has been a chronic uh I call it the settlement because there's there has been constant homeless uh men camping out there for oh two two years perhaps a little more so basically I'm I hate to see any property needing to be closed in I like the openness of the the saint rose uh uh entrance way to the back to you know the whole visual but I I don't see any other solution uh other than fencing in the property and so I I just wanted to give my voice of support for the um the parishes project of fencing in as it's presented with the addition of what what uh Greg has mentioned about the other possible entrance entrances into the property so thank you that's that's my just my my statement thank you very much thank you very much mr drain um all right anyone else who hasn't commented I don't see anybody else on the list here um so I'm going to close the public hearing and uh I did have a a question um regarding this suggested uh fencing enclosure of that open corner on B street uh is that something that the applicant is considering or wishes to do that would that be linking all the way across that frontage as Adam has just kind of indicated there so that's a question to to um the applicant is that something you're willing to consider doing and uh you're gonna recognize Katie yeah so I know that this was discussed and I um I I had understood that it was within I mean looking at the map it doesn't look like it's in the vision triangle for those streets um but there was some concern about adding additional fencing in that area however um it would uh Ron Ed or if you're still there it would be great to hear your response on this particular item yeah Katie I'm here okay yes yeah uh actually after talking to Greg uh I was what really wasn't aware of what was happening behind the bushes and my thought was that we would run the fence from that stair little portico on the corner back along B street to the next exposed corner but do it behind the bushes so that you don't see so much of the fence the landscaping stays pretty much the same but you're fenced off that area so people can't get back behind the bushes and also if I might add to I think uh Denise's comment the lady who lived across the street intensity uh it is our intent to repair those channeling gates so that they are motorized and remote control great um what okay so um it sounds like there's there could be a solution to extend that fencing along the B street frontage to um to deny uh places where people might have access and conduct and and desirable activities um all right can I have a question there's a lot of line work internal to the property fencing is that exclusion fencing also I don't quite understand what that is how does that relate to excluding access to the property can I comment yeah yeah go ahead okay the the continuous red line you know it's a dark and red line that's an existing fence that separates um the back of the rectory from the church proper or the the church proper uh that's been there from the time the new the new wing which is forgotten how many years old it is but it's been there from the very beginning and of course the curly queue lines from there to the right uh that's all um landscaping vegetation they're they're tall um bushes that separate access and vision and that's primarily what the fence and that landscaping was put in for is to limit vision from the church to the back of the rectory so that I'll call it internal fencing it's not um the perimeter security fence but rather establishing an internal separation between the rectory and the church right except for the dotted line which is to the left of that yes that will be part of security keep going to let that yeah that yeah that dotted line that's new or would be new and it's for security purposes uh to the left of that dotted line there is a fence now that denies entrance into the back of the old convent yeah right there so that's an existing fence and then there's an existing chain link fence that runs from there to 10th street yes okay all right um I think I understand that better thank you for providing the explanation um so uh I read through uh the the resolution uh with the findings that are associated with the landmark alteration uh in this and I I do agree with the conclusion that this metal fence is of a of a type and a style that's similar to the architectural wrought iron features on on on the existing buildings and in that regard it does complement and also the the architectural historical character of the of the development on the property nor would the location of this fencing its placement on the property its height um to track or diminish the historic value of the um existing development on the property further I think it's it's um being placed well behind the sidewalk on B street as well as 10th street will help to avoid what often is a problem with security fencing along front tradition where it really looms and and and deprives uh kind of that open feeling or space along the sidewalk for pedestrian so I commend the the placement of the um the fencing that's proposed um I do think uh in this instance it would be appropriate to allow for the continuation of the fence alignment along B street to the corner to remedy that area inside corner that's been discussed and I would um say that it would be an appropriate revision to the resolution that would allow the project planner to approve a modification of this proposed uh fence to extend using the same type of fence material the fencing through that corner um same height same set back from the street as appeared where it would be accomplished or could be accomplished or that that would work well I think so um and that's really up to the project applicant to do so um so I just want to provide that flexibility for for the fencing to be extended to the corner uh along B street so yeah I do have a little bit of language to kind of identify that okay that I could read so the fence shall be allowed to extend along the eastern side of the saint rose parish offices building outside of the vision triangle is there anything else yeah something along those lines yeah completion of approval yeah I don't think a vision triangle is a concern here me either but I just wanted to clarify yeah yeah if it if the existing fence is extended north to that exterior corner and then to that already illustrated enclosed corner um and holds that set back that will not substantially alter that the visual character of the proposed fencing nor would it impact the historic character of that development complex so so let's let's allow for that flexibility if they choose to do so then Adam you or another planner will be able to approve it um and then um you know just in terms of what I've heard uh if if the intent is to exclude people uh to exclude trespass on the property I would really encourage the church to take a look at the existing perimeter fencing and close any gaps and maintain that it sounds like you will but I I think it's worth it to underscore here that if there's gaps holes like that out there at the outside of night street curb go ahead and do that so with the resolution with modified conditions as we just discussed um I will approve this landmark alteration permit and um and thank uh the parish for addressing this issue and uh I think a gracious and well-designed way unfortunate condition or circumstance you're having to deal with but I think the resolution is a good one thank you um thank you so uh that concludes the uh zoning administrator meeting of December 16th 2021 this is the last meeting of the year thank you very much for participating and have a great day and a holiday end of the year bye bye


Yeah, we're out of the track, covering the sport of kings coming up this week. A superbly polished mahogany on display in Saturday's Open Allowance 5 for a long-sprinted K-Manus Park in Jamaica. Last year's TNT Dabu and Ahsoka Harmony is much the best in the Caribbean champion stakes at Santa Rosa Park. And we go up north for a pair of stakes wins for Barbadians, Safi Joseph Jr. and Rocco the Jocoboin in the USA. Plus the weekly stats on Caribbean success on the North American continent, or opening store from K-Manus Park in Jamaica. Saturday's Open Allowance 8 race was among the main events on the weekend's double meet and Robert Halladine is aboard the big favorite mahogany, looking for a quick rebound from his mid-October 2nd place finish in the Philip Fiany Gold Cup. Number 2 mahogany, a massive 1-5 favorite ahead of the US bred. Number 6, is that a fact on a 4 race winning streak and a 75 bet here? Good support too for number 3 Jordan Reigns at 9-2. Let's get Brown Rickman's call now with mahogany in front aiming for the gate to wire win. The top weight mahogany out in front, there goes Jordan Reigns now chasing, freedom street is there, generational just in behind them, is that a fact is on the outside hidden from view and has made stealthy progress as they go flashing past the 3, forget regal and royal as the field now come toward the top of the lane, they leave the 5-16th behind them, mahogany is that a fact sneaking up on the outside, freedom street near the rail in between horses sandwiched that's Jordan Reigns but the big horse mahogany continues to take them along, the rider has a peep between his legs and is mahogany in charge approaching the furlong pole, mahogany running fast and powerfully, is that a fact left back on the rail having no answers to the kick of mahogany inside the final 16th, it's mahogany and Robert Halladine, they're all soloing kickback from mahogany who eases down to win by maybe 7. Winning like a 1-5 favorite should, Halladine in the saddle coasting home for the 6-year-old Gelding's 16th career victory in 28 lifetime starts, mahogany by 6.5 lengths clocking a smart 59-3-5 for 5 furlongs for trainer Ian Prasad, is that a fact the 2nd favorite was 2nd past the post but disqualified and placed 4th. The weekend's richest race was Saturday's hovercraft sprint for 2-year-olds, let's see how the 1-9 favorite, Digital 1 does here with Ryan Lewis up for trainer Jason Lacosta. As they leave the 5-16th and come into the lane, Digital 1 cruising on that lead, under the hand ride, they ride a motionless at the top of the lane, they leave the quarter pole with a lot in hand, run Julie, run best of the rest, blue sensation is over on the rail but it's all Digital 1, coming up toward the final furlong, Digital 1 in complete control at this stage, Digital 1 and Ryan Lewis, he looks as if he's sure to have his 2nd win on the card inside the final 16th, it's all over, Digital 1 has put paid to them all, Digital 1 winning it by maybe 6 lengths over run Julie, run. One of 2 winners on the afternoon for leading, Jockey Ryan Lewis who snapped a 6 race day winless streak as the fillet Digital 1 makes it 2 wins from 2 starts. Oakridge farms Digital 1 with an unchallenged victory in the hovercraft sprint, scoring by 6 and a quarter lengths as the 1-9 favorite for trainer Dacosta, chased by run Julie, run a 7-1 bet in 2nd, 1-13 and 2-5th the winning time for 6 furlongs. Leading trainer Dacosta would have an even bigger day on Sunday with 3 wins including the Kemana Spark announces trophy, providing him with a shock win for his 7 horse tech apunt, the 4 year old gelding looked almost hopeless here in about 9th spot at the top of the home stretch. Can they catch this Morimoto, he's determined and asked to open up the rider, opens the throttle and Morimoto is a clear lead on the run to the furlong pole, power ranking is over against the real, snowflakes is on the outside, get a pepsi in between horses and sunset silhouette coming at them wide, but it is a Morimoto out in front inside the final 16th, Morimoto and terrific Tevin Foster, the beginning to tire, can Morimoto hang on here his tech apunt, flying on the outside with reins, well it's close. What a finish, Philip Parchment among the most aggressive riders at Kemana Spark gets the 10 to 1 shot tech apunt to motor in the closing stages, reeling in the towering Morimoto, Parchment's been aboard tech apunt for 4 of his 5 lifetime wins and this victory closed Dacosta's 3 timer, the 38 year old trainer having scored earlier in the day where the 2 year old Philly come home to me in the Antonitaisen 2nd race and the 3 year old Philly show girl in the 5th race. To Trinidad, it's Vega O'sent to Rosa Park now where the Caribbean champion steaks returned for the first time since 2019, a small field of 7 but 3 classic winners in their Soka Harmony crown prince and Justex Hale plus 4 more horse of the year making headlines. As usual champion trainer Jonner Brand with a strong hand and it's his 2022 Daba winner Soka Harmony and Guinness winner last year crown prince, the leading duo heading for the home stretch. So it's crown prince and Soka Harmony, Justex Hale is making a giant move now and races into that 3rd spot, just ahead of making headlines, finishing touches going backwards. Pawanaputra is also on their ride, Princess Aruna is the trailer, they come out from the far turn and Soka Harmony has just gotten the measure of crown prince, Justex Hale is right there, then circling horses now at the top of the stretch they come and it's Soka Harmony with the lead, crown prince on the inside, Justex Hale on the outside, making headlines is running into that 4th spot but Soka Harmony is pulling away from this field, crown prince is holding on to second, making headlines is running a giant race but Soka Harmony wins the Caribbean champion 6th. Jon Rupert on commentary, 8 career wins now for Soka Harmony who snaps a 3 race winless run, 3 wins on the afternoon for champion trainer Jonner Brand and reigning champion Jockey Brand Boodram Singh, fresh from his first riding stint in Canada. The victory margin in the Caribbean champion stakes for Leicester Moore's 6-5 bet Soka Harmony, 7-3 quarter lengths, easily beating stablemate and 3-5 favorite crown prince, the winning time for 9 furlongs, 155.47. Next to those two Barbadian stakes wins in the USA, first Safi Joseph Jr. at the Keeneland racetrack in Lexington, Kentucky. Where his 6-year-old Chile bred O'Connor was a 5-to-1 bet here in Saturday's $350,000 hog yard fair at stakes, Tyler Gaffleon in the orange cap is aboard, swinging wide into the five-path to play his part in a riveting finish. Tyler Gaffleon with a fine ride here, O'Connor's 11th lifetime win this, 9 of those victories in his native Chile where he was a grade 1 winner. This though his first stakes win in the USA, the hog yard fair at stakes over 9 furlongs run in 150.61, O'Connor wins by a head for Safi Joseph's 14th stakes triumph this season. Safi has two runners in the Breeders' Cup meet in Santa Anita this weekend and the big $6 million classic will be live on Sportsmax Saturday evening. Rocco Boen is now the Mahoning Valley racetrack in Ohio following the closure of the 2023 thistle down season and he's wasted no time in opening his stakes winning account. Aboard the 5-to-2 shot fair and square in Saturday's $100,000 best of Ohio endurance stakes, the 34-year-old Boen grabbed the lead coming off the final bend and no one got close enough to challenge. Boen is unstoppable here with a huge victory by seven and a quarter lengths. On an afternoon that Saw Jamaica's champion trainer Jason Dacosta get a second place finish in the $100,000 best of Ohio disc staff with his four-year-old Philly R3 Angels. Fair and square as a 5-to-2 bet wins the best of Ohio endurance stakes with 9-to-1 shot Tantrum chasing in second, 206-6 to 5 the winning time for 10 furlongs. Three wins this past week for Boen including a victory Monday for Jamaican trainer Dacosta. Bad weather scupper the season-ending Saturday Sunday cards at Central Downs where Nelson had 12 weekend rides booked. Still the 39-year-old topped the table with 18 wins in the seven-week season. Five better than Barbadian Enrico Prescott and Tonya Whitehole also from Barbados joined fourth giving Caribbean jocks three spots in the top five. T1 for the Jamaican trainer Ruan Crichton, top Barbadian rider Patrick Bommel-Husbands had four wins at Canada's Woodbine Race Track, two wins at Mahoning Valley for the Jamaican trainer Ricardo Bailey and the veteran Jamaican rider Andrew Ramjeet now 60 years old had two wins at Mountaineer Park. We've been at the track covering top stories and exciting races in the sport of Kings. Check us out again next week.


Hello, I welcome you all once again to my channel Explorer Education. I am Dr. Rajpe Singh, assistant professor, department of education at the Sikhanda Girls' University College, University of Allahabad. And today I am going to discuss with you all a very important topic of educational psychology that is experiential learning. Anubhav Atmak, Adhigam, Anubhav Janne Adhigam, whatever name you know from it. The lecture will be in bilingual mode and it must be useful for your various regular professional courses and your competitive teaching examinations too. So, let's start. First of all, what is experiential learning? Experiential learning kya hai? So, from time immemorial, it has become a matter of discussion among educators that teaching must be performed in such a way that it eventually culminates in learning. I mean, we have been talking about this for a long time in Shibshavi Roti Beaches, that teaching is done in such a way that it is in learning. I mean, if we do Shibshan, then it will be in Adhigam, children, students, then there is no meaning of Shibshan. One such example is experiential learning. It is a type of learning that happens when a learner himself or herself reflects upon his or her experiences and then reaches to the conclusion on its application part. This is a kind of Adhigam in which Adhigam does reflection on its own experiences, it reflects on it and then it reaches to the conclusion or its application. Experiential learning has been an important pedagogy since a long time. I mean, it is not that now it is a new term that has originated from somewhere. In fact, it is a very old pedagogy. It is the way of Shibshan Shastra. It is so old that we find it in old Eastern Confucian philosophy. This is a very famous quote that you must have heard that I hear, I forget, I see, I remember, I do, I understand. This very saying has laid the foundation of the notion of learning by doing and you can say learning by experience. With the increase in significance and trust in education for acquiring 21st century skills. When it started to happen that we have to teach the 21st century's courses to the students, then the concept of experiential learning came back into the scene. So 21st century skills, what are they? Critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication, information literacy, media literacy, technology literacy, leadership skills, social skills, social skills, etc. With the increase in significance and trust in education for acquiring 21st century skills, then experiential learning has gained momentum again in recent past. So over the years, the concept of experiential learning has gained momentum again. It has come in the form of a revolution. Therefore, we as educators must strive to invite the qualities and skills of the future in our learners. So what should we do? We as educators should try to invite the skills and qualities of the future in our learners. Rather than acquiring them to simply read and reproduce the text without using their learning process. Not that they just read and reproduce the text without using their learning process. This can help us benchmark our students' progress to the international standards of education. We will be able to do so by using our thinking skills. So we can attain the international benchmark in the field of education. The international level of education. And approach like experiential learning can surely bring about the required change in the competency level of Indian students. And they can be at the best level of the party. If we can do something like this, then we will be able to add the best students who want to reach the level of competency. So let's see some definitions to better understand this concept. So let's go to Krumphal. In 1944, the definition of Lewis and Williams came. In its simplest form, experiential learning means learning from experience or learning by doing. If you want to understand the experience and learning, then what is experiential learning? Experiential education first immerses learners in an experience and then encourages reflection about the experience to develop new skills, new attitudes and new ways of thinking. So what is experiential learning? Experiential learning first immerses in an experience. It envelops an experience. When it deepens in an experience, we try to reflect on the experiences that you have experienced, to know how you felt. In this way, you can develop new skills, new attitudes, and new ways of thinking. CBRD and J Wilson in 2006 tells us that experiential learning can be defined as a sense making process. means this is a process in which the sense is coming out of active engagement i.e. the mind is reflecting, the mind is experiencing, so what is the mind? Active engagement, i.e. like an active engager, it is engaging, actively between the inner world of the person and the outer world of the environment i.e. in our mind, i.e. we are thinking, understanding and in the outer world of the world, there is an active engagement between the two and the sense is coming out of it, okay? Then, Simon Fraser University in 2010 has said that if the strategic active engagement of students in opportunities will learn through doing and reflection on those activities which imparts them to apply their theoretical knowledge to practical endeavors in a multitude of settings inside and outside of the classroom, okay? i.e. it is a strategic, you can make it a strategic active engagement of the students, we are providing it so that they can learn through doing and reflection on the activities through which they will get strength and they will be able to use their theoretical knowledge in practical endeavors in a multitude of situations which they will get inside and outside of the classroom this definition has been given by Simon Fraser University in 2010 so what characteristics comes out of these definitions is that learning is best conceived as a process not in terms of outcomes, okay? The process of learning is more important because it gives the required experience to the learners because this process is more important because it gives the experience to the person then learning is a continuous process grounded in experience i.e. learning is the process of learning learning is a holistic process of adaptation to the world we learn to manipulate the world learning involves transactions between the person and the environment i.e. the transaction between the person and the environment is learning and learning is the process of creating knowledge i.e. the development of knowledge okay? then philosophical underpinnings i.e. i am sorry the concept of experiential learning this was given by David Gold so where did David Gold come from the concept of it? did the concept of abacue or abacue come from the concept of abacue did the concept of abacue come from the concept of abacue that is not the concept the philosophical foundation behind this concept is very old experiential learning is not anything which is entirely new to the academy world it is not something new to the education world rather it is based on the already existing popular philosophies of D.V. Heelvin and P.A.G. he is saying that John D.V. your current living and where P.A.G. already said based on that Gold's concept of experiential learning Gold has himself stated he himself has said that his work has found its roots his work, his research his findings his roots is in the philosophical pragmatism of D.V. in the social psychology theory of living and in the cognitive developmental generative epistemology of P.A.G. now since we know about D.V. we know about living and P.A.G. we know that we read D.V. in the pragmatism the theory of living is a social psychology theory and the cognitive development of P.A.G. which is known as the generative epistemology of P.A.G. so what is John D.V. what is John D.V. he said that every experience has found its place in social environment John D.V. were the ones who included the concept of social environment in learning he said that every experience is found in the social environment hence knowledge is socially constructed based on experiences which is known as social and it is common what did he say experiential learning theory is the resolution of the dual tensions of action and reflection and experience or extraction he said that because of the topological theory field space theory he said that there are many conflicts tension vector theory repulsion reaction in this theory resolution of the dual tensions action and reflection the experience and extraction of the dual tensions is the learning what is John D.V. he said that this theory of cognitive development in which he has also emphasized that learning is a life long process of discovering knowledge assimilation and accommodation of learning from experience and knowledge the learning which is known as the learning in which we search for knowledge through assimilation and accommodation we get more knowledge from experience and knowledge she said good when we talk about experiential learning we move towards the behaviorist approach we move towards the constructivist approach you can say that this is a paradigm shift from behaviorist to constructivist approach Paul Ofrede all of you know that Paul Ofrede is a pedagogy of the opposite he has talked about critical thinking he has talked about banking model in the banking concept of education what do they say in the banking concept the traditional model the behaviorist model they say what he does he makes the child a passive recipient and we keep filling it like the money is filled in the bank the information is filled in the bank he is sitting like a passive recipient neither he does anything wrong Paul Ofrede has proposed his banking concept of education in which he equalizes behaviorist model of education in which learners act as passive recipients of information provided by teachers that's it in contrast the constructivism what is that is viewed as the meaning making the constructivism it says that every individual every student he makes his meaning he makes his own meaning he makes his own meaning that offers an explanation of the nature of knowledge and how human beings learn this theory asserts that each individual constructs his or her knowledge based upon his or her previous knowledge and present level of instruction and environment including physical as well as social this theory says which constructivist theory says that every individual who is a student he does his own knowledge and how he does it the knowledge is based on the present level of instruction that is present the knowledge is found in the material and what he knows and in addition to the social environment in which he lives now there is a clear shift from teacher centered to learner centered approach when we talk about experiential learning automatically from teacher centered to learner shifted towards teacher centered road learning to deeper understanding memory level thinking to reflective level thinking how we are able to reflect the half of the world in educational scenarios due to emergence of experiential learning one more thing experiential learning is going on you may be thinking that experiential learning is only learning from experience but experience until our reflection only experiential learning experiential learning is not just feeling there is no experiential learning which means correcting of learning to realize situation on the contrary it is a theory that defines the cognitive process of learning and it asserts the importance of critical reflection in learning critical reflection that we will get experience and we will reflect reflection ok, a very famous example of experiential learning cycle they say that learner first gets concrete experience he gets experience, he does something or he gets an autograph that way he gives his observation gives a break, reviews, reflects on that experience then what he does is abstract conceptualization experience is concrete conceptualization is being extracted means he continues experimentation, he plans trying out what you have learned what he has learned he tries to try out in a similar condition this is experiential learning cycle they say that anyone can enter it is not necessary that we will start with concrete experience we can start with reflective observation we can start with abstract conceptualization but you have to do 4 steps then your experiential learning cycle will be complete ok look at this in words concrete experience is that learner cannot learn nearly by reading or observing we will not only learn from observations but we will reflect if learner reflects at this situation and then what we will do is learner creates theories to explain his experiences which is our reflection and then we will apply what he has learned this is the part of application level which we will use in other places but we will use it ok then there are also pole's learning styles as we are more famous in which visual, auditory, reading reading and kind of aesthetic pole has his own learning style he has said that diverging, assimilating converging and accommodating he is saying that he had concrete experience he was doing these things what he was doing in reflective observation what he was doing in abstract conceptualization what he was doing in thinking and what he was doing in active experimentation so what is diverging what is feeling what he is reading assimilating is thinking and what he is watching what is converging what is thinking and doing so thinking is done and accommodating is between doing and feeling meaning he has said 4 kinds of learning styles learning or diverging assimilating or converging assimilating or converging diverging or converging assimilating or accommodating so you will remember so what is diverging it emphasizes feel and watch meaning he feels and observes it emphasizes the innovative approach of doing things what he was doing in thinking he was thinking and practicing he was learning a number of different observations and thoughts into an integrated mode what he was doing in thinking meaning he was believing in this application part and accommodating feeling meaning he was doing students with this learning style use trial and error rather than thought and reflection okay now policy initiates that only about experiential learning in the air a lot of policies have initiated experiential learning is brought to the classroom for that your NCF 2005 UNESCO CBSC has initiated experiential learning what is NCF? first curriculum framework you know curriculum framework consists of clear and implementable policies on how the growth and progress of agitation is envisaged with the help of various tools like syllabus, textbooks, pedagogy, explain co-curricular activities etc the part diagram the framework it tells you how to study what syllabus will be what textbook will be used how many curricular co-curricular activities will be so NCF 2005 has put greater emphasis on designing tasks based learning experiences that challenge students thinking and encourage independent thought and action so NCF 2005 has given that in the classroom we have task based learning experiences based on students so that their thinking capacity can be enhanced UNESCO said UNESCO launched the teaching and learning for sustainable future as a program for United Nations decade of education for sustainable development in that they said TLSF means teaching and learning for a sustainable future teaching T for teaching L for learning S for sustainable F for future teaching and learning for a sustainable future program as a key approach to student learning for sustainable future for sustainable future for students under learning for experiential learning and CVSE has identified the transformation of the pedagogical processes of teaching learning in schools as a crucial intervention to make the students future ready the transformation is to be implemented by incorporating active and experiential learning besides strengthening other aspects of learning like arts and sports learning of educators and greater emphasis on education in life skills CVSE has a handbook they have made a lesson plan to teach experiential learning math science you can't teach every topic like this but if you teach 10 to 2 life long learning you will always remember so what are the benefits of this the benefit from this is that TLSF is a technology which is available in the field learning by experience is far more effective in long lasting if we learn from experience then we will have more time for self-motivation because we have to do it by ourselves so we will be self-motivated if we study well then we will be able to do well offers opportunities to students to think freely differently without losing their confidence if we teach children to think then we have created a way of life because we don't just think we get information and we just follow the command we don't think and development of reflective practice happens similarly if reflective practice happens then it is very good for throughout your life and we can say that experiential learning is very important in our future and it shouldn't be why does it accelerate learning it gives us a safe learning environment it fills the gap of theory and practice it shows a mindset change if you are studying then the child goes towards growth mindset engagement level increases it is exceptionally effective for retention and personalised learning gives strength so how can we conclude that definitely the classrooms which are based on the principles of experiential learning models are the future of our education system but this is not as easy as it is shown there must be all together changing the role for experiential learning scenario we have to change the role of teachers teachers have to create such conditions in the classrooms so that students can gain fruitful experiences and they can reflect over there to produce generalisation and ultimately create knowledge which can apply in real life situations that means we have to first have to learn a lot then we have to learn a lot then we have to generate theory then we have to generate knowledge and then we have to learn a lot then experiential learning cycle is complete hence experiential learning classrooms require the role of instructors and facilitators or moderators in place of information providers for creating situations for fruitful experiences for students in a nutshell it is the demand of the present knowledge society that our future classrooms will be governed by experiential learning take care the experiential learning David you have taken 4 stages of his learning 4 learning styles you have also told the theory based behaviorist to construct the best approach and it is good so thank you and don't forget to like and subscribe my channel Explore Education I have done for myself


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From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of Red Hat Summit 2020, brought to you by Red Hat. Welcome back, this is theCUBE's coverage of Red Hat Summit 2020. Of course, the event happening digitally. We're bringing in the guests from where they are around the globe. Happy to welcome back to the program. And he's one of the keynote speakers. He's also a many-time CUBE alumni. Chris Wright is the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Red Hat. Chris, it is great to see you and we've got almost matching hats. You have a real Red Hat fedora. I've got one that the Kubernetes Red Hat team, OpenShift team gives out in Europe. So in case anybody in the Red Hat community goes, yes, I've been a long-time member of the community. I got, I think my original Red Hat baseball cap probably 15 years ago, but the hat that I had is not one of the nice felt ones. It is there. Chris, great to see you. Good to see you. All right. So we've got to wait a little bit to get your keynote, but so many topics I don't want to get to with you. But of course, as I mentioned, be open and it's pretty obvious. Everyone's remote right now is kind of, special times we are living in. So bring us inside a little bit.  Well, I mean, it'd be hard not to sort of acknowledge that there's a major global event happening right now and COVID's really changing how we operate, how we work. From a Red Hat perspective, our number one priority is just employee safety and employee health. And so we were quick to send our folks home and have everybody to work from home. And so what's interesting from a Red Hat point of view, I think, and then even if you broaden that out to open source communities, the distributed nature of open source development and specifically the engineering teams at Red Hat are pretty distributed, kind of mirroring those open source communities that we participate in. So in the one hand, you can kind of say, well, things haven't changed substantially in the sense of how do we operate in upstream communities? But on the other hand, people working from home it's a whole new set of challenges. I mean, my kids are 12 and 14, but you know, say you have toddlers, that's a real distraction. Or you have a working environment at home that's crowded with multiple people.  So creating that balance has been really important. And for our teams, we talk a lot about, just think empathy, think about how you're supporting one another. And again, when you broaden that out to the larger communities, I think probably a really important aspect of open source development is crossing corporate boundaries and being inclusive of such a broad set of contributors that there's a built-in resiliency associated with open source communities, which I think is fantastic. And then when you add to that sort of the enthusiasm around just doing great things, there's a lot of interesting activities that are collaborative in nature, that are community-based, that are trying to address the COVID crisis whether it's 3D printing of supplies or whether it's contact tracing applications that help people understand where they've come across COVID or anything like that. I mean, a lot of cool stuff happening that's inspired by a real challenge to the entire globe. Yeah, Chris, one of my favorite things the last few years at Summit has been talking to companies that are going through their journey of what we usually call digital transformation. What we have always said from the research side is what separates people that have successfully gone through this is that data and that they become data-driven and data is such an important piece of what they're doing. Well, I think everyone has been getting a real crash course on data because not only businesses, but governments and the entire globe now is watching the daily data, trying to understand data sources. Bring us inside as to really the importance of data and where that intersects with everything that Red Hat has been doing. Well, those are great examples. I mean, it's sometimes a little depressing, but the notion that data is a critical part of decision-making and access to quality data in real time is what helps us make better decisions, more effective decisions and more efficient decisions. And so when you look at the amount of data being produced, it just keeps growing. It's sort of on the exponential growth curve. And when you look at the commensurate amount of compute power associated with all of that data, it's also growing, which is maybe an obvious statement. What it says is we are gathering more and more data and the degree to which we can pull meaningful insights out of that data is really how much we can impact our company's value and differentiation. And in the context of something like COVID, that means vaccine discoveries and shortening times to field trials and in a more business context, it's talking about how quickly you can respond to your customer's needs. And we see a really dynamic shift in the workforce all working from home. That puts a real strain on the infrastructure. We're here supporting infrastructure builders and the amount of data that they can collect to efficiently operate infrastructure is critical at a time when people are distributed and getting access into the lab environments is challenging. And so I think there's a lot to be said for the amount of data that's being produced and then how we analyze it. We think of it in terms of bringing data to applications. And historically they kind of lived in separate, I'd call them silos, bringing the data sources and data processing and model development all into a common platform is a really powerful thing that's happening in the industry today, which is exciting. So we're bringing data to be a central actor is how I like to describe it. Yeah, well, I'm really glad how you connected that discussion of data to the applications because my background really is on the infrastructure side. And the concern I have a lot of times is infrastructure people, we talk about the bits and bytes, we talk about the infrastructure, but the only reason we have infrastructure is to run those applications and deal with that data. I'm hoping you can connect the dots for us. The keynote that Paul gave, one of the main things he's talking about is of course the open hybrid cloud. And I had a great discussion with him on theCUBE. So with that setup of applications and data, how does that intersect with what Red Hat calls the open hybrid cloud and what differentiates Red Hat's position there from some of the other discussions that we hear in the industry about cloud? Well, the open hybrid cloud is a platform. I think that's the best way to think of it. And that platform, it's a cloud platform that spans different types of infrastructures. So that's public clouds, that's on-premises, data centers, the enterprise owns themselves. And I think important increasingly out to the edge. So the notion of where you deploy isn't also coupled to, oh, what platform do I have to develop to in order to do that deployment? And when we talk about the edge, expanding out to the edge, that means you're getting closer to those data sources. So bringing the data in, doing the associated inference and making decisions close to that data where latency really can matter is a big part of what that open hybrid cloud platform brings to the market or to our customers. And when you think about an application developer, typically an application developer is trying to enable some behavior or feature or functionality. And the more we can use data to drive the behavior or drive the functionality, the more personalized an application is, the more intelligent the application is. And so the connection between data, the data sources, the data processing, the data science behind data cleansing and model generation and the associated models that can be easily accessed by applications, that's the real power, that's the real value that we're trying to help develop for our customers so that they can change their business. We actually do this internally, it's how we operate, we collect data, we use data to make decisions, we use data in our product release process and the platform that we've created is a data processing and analytics and machine learning platform that we use internally and we also make that externally available as an open source project, the open data hub. So open and data and hybrid cloud are all intertwined at this point. Yeah, one of the things that really has been highlighted to me at Summit this year is that connection. We always knew Red Hat had strong developer community out there, but you think back to Linux, Linux has ties directly into the application. You look across the portfolio and it's not the app dev team over here and the infrastructure team over here and how do we operate all of these various pieces? Ansible has a connection into all the various roles. So I want you to just comment with kind of your CTO role and you look over the entire portfolio, that discussion of how roles are changing, how organizations can make sure that they're not a bunch of various functions that aren't in sync, but we're really coming together to help respond to the business needs and move forward in the speed that is needed in today's world. Well, I think the early stages of that were well captured with the DevOps phrase. So bringing developers and operations closer together. It's not always clear what that means and in some cases that the notion of a platform and the notion of operating an application and then who operates the platform. I think there's been some question in the industry about exactly what that means. We're thinking of it today to sort of stick with the buzzwords in the dev sec ops context and even what I would call AI dev sec ops. So in data and intelligence infused dev sec ops and the idea is developers are just trying to move rapidly. So the degree to which the underlying infrastructure is just there to support application development is the operations team's need. That's what the operations team's trying to provide. Developers need at the same time access to tooling, to consistency from test environments through to production environments and also access to those data models that I was talking about earlier. So bringing that all together, I think on the dev ops side or the dev sec ops side, it's how can you build a platform that gives the right business specific guidelines and sort of guardrails that allow developers to move as quickly as possible without getting themselves into trouble and inadvertently creating a security vulnerability by pulling in an old dependency as a concrete example. So bringing these things together I think is what's really important. And it's a big part of what we're focused on so operational side being infused with intelligence as data and telemetry you're gathering from at the platform level and using models to inform how you operate the system. And then if you go up a level to the application development sort of CI CD pipeline where can you make intelligent recommendations to developers as they're pulling in dependencies or even writing code and then give easy access to the data science workflow to intersect so that what you're delivering is a well integrated model with an application that has a life cycle and a maintenance associated with it that is well understood. Yeah, so Chris, we've watched this is the seventh year we've had theCUBE at Red Hat Summit and of course Red Hat itself has a large portfolio but not only Red Hat, but the open source communities there are so many countless projects out there and you have a huge partner ecosystem. You were just talking a bunch about DevOps. I've got sitting at my desk, one of those charts that shows DevOps tooling and here's some of the platforms and here's all the various pieces and it's like, I think there's only 50 or 80 different rules on that but how's Red Hat and the community overall, how are you helping customers deal with this challenging world is, we've got the paradox of the place out there. We understand that everybody needs something a little bit different but how are we helping to give a little bit of structure and guidance in the ever changing world? Well, I think it's one of the values of pulling content together. If you think of a set of components being brought together as curation, we're helping curate the content and assembling pieces together, turns out is a lot of work, especially when you want to lifecycle manage those components together. So one basic thing that we're doing is bringing together an entire distribution of content. So it's not just a single, it's not just Linux, it's not just Kubernetes, it's Linux and Kubernetes engineered together with a set of supporting tooling for logging and monitoring and CI pipelines and all of that, we bring together in a context that we would call opinionated or prescriptive. What we also focus on is understanding that every enterprise has its own legacy and history and set of investments that they've made. So that process where we bring together an opinionated stack also needs to incorporate the flexibility. So where can we plug in a CI pipeline that your enterprise already has? Or where can we plug in your monitoring and logging tools? So that kind of flexibility allows us to bring together some best of breed components that we're finding in the open source communities with flexibility to bring a whole set of ecosystem partners. And if we go back to that open data hub conversation, there are a lot of data-centric tools that we put in the open data hub open source project. We have commercial partners that can support things like say Spark as a concrete example or TensorFlow. And so combine those, those are open source projects but they're not coming from Red Hat, they're coming from our ecosystem partners, combine that all together into something that's engineered to work together and you're taking a lot of the friction out of the system so that the developers can just move quickly. All right, so Chris, give us a little bit of preview. What are people going to see in the keynote and there's some people that are going to be watching this interview live but others will be catching it afterwards. So I believe Edge is one of the pieces we'll be touching on in the keynote but give us a little bit of what we'll be doing in fact. Well, you'll have to come to the keynote to really get the full experience but what we're trying to talk through is how data is really fundamentally changing business. And we talk through that sort of storyline starting with how it impacts Red Hats. But at one level, we're an enterprise, we have our own business needs. We use data to drive how we operate. We also see that the platforms that we're building are really helpful for our customers to harness the value of data and change their own business. And in the context of doing that, we get to take a look at some ways where those business changes have industry-wide effects. We talk about things like 5G and artificial intelligence and where these things come together, especially in edge computing, really interesting space where these things all kind of converge. And so kind of that broad storyline of data, something that we use to change how we operate something that we build is from a platform point of view of our customers change how they operate and ultimately those changes have major impacts across the industry, which is pretty exciting, pretty cool. Yeah, I'm curious, Chris. I think back a few years ago, I would have been interviewing you about like NFB and many of the themes it feels like we were talking about there. We're really setting the table for the discussion we've been having for 5G. Is that, do you agree with that? What's kind of the same indifferent from what we might have been looking at five years ago? It's very, and I love that question because it touches on something that I think is really important. It's very much an evolution. And so in the tech world, we talk so much about disruption and I think we overplay disruption. I think what's interesting is technology evolution, just consistently changing and moving forward gives rise at points in time to really interesting convergence of change that can be disrupted. So as a concrete example, NFB historically was about really improving the operational efficiencies of the service providers, building networks and helping them move more rapidly so they could introduce new services. Most of that was focused on 4G and most of that was focused on the core of the network. Today, we're introducing 5G across the industry. The discussions are moving technology-wise into where the containers fit into this new world and the discussion at the network level is not only in the core, but all the way out to the edge. And then when you look at the edge where you have a portion of the network operating as software, you have a platform like OpenShift that can also host enterprise or consumer-facing edge applications. So this is really all of those early stages of NFB are culminating in a place today where the technology supports total software infrastructure for the network and utilizing that same cloud that you're using to run the network to power enterprise or consumer-facing applications. That's pretty far away from where we were in the early days of NFB, very much in evolution. And then if you take it one step further and say 4G smart devices and cloud computing gave rise to a set of disruptive businesses. 10 years ago, those businesses did not exist. Today, we can't imagine life without them. 5G device proliferation, so not just smartphones but a whole set of new devices, and edge computing are the ingredients that give rise to that same next wave of innovation where 10 years from now, we can't really imagine what are the businesses that in 10 years we won't be able to imagine our lives without. So we're at a really interesting inflection point and it's partially through this evolution of technology. I think it's really exciting. All right, Chris, last question for you. There's always so many different pieces going on. RedHatch really striking a nice balance. There's not really as much of the hoopla and announcements but everything that RedHatch does is built on open source.  I think I'd heard that word before where all of the projects that the CNCF where RedHatch's involved in. So in the last minute here, give us any areas where people said, hey, go Google this, go look up this project, other cool things that you and your team are working on that you want to make sure to highlight. Well, you've mentioned one, which is Quarkest and oftentimes we talk about infrastructure. I think it's a really cool project that is developer focused. It's in the Java space and it's really bringing Java from an enterprise development platform into a modern language that can be used to build cloud native applications or even serverless functions. I think serverless is a critical space. So we've been talking for quite some time about all the ways serverless can be impactful. We're at a place now where K-native as a project is maturing and the kind of world around it is getting more sophisticated. So we have a serverless offering as part of the OpenShift platform. So making sure you're paying attention to what's happening in the K-native space I think is really important. There's a whole new set of management challenges that will be in the security and multi-cluster space. We're bringing technology to bear in this space and as Red Hat, we will bring those out as open source projects. So looking for the open source communities around where you hear things like ACM or advanced container management or multi-cluster managed environments which are the norm at this point. Those are some examples of things I think are important. And then there's a world of stuff that's data focused. There's all of the data science tools. Too many to really enumerate, but that I think is an example where open source is leading the space, leading the industry in terms of where all those tools are developed and how their and access developers have to data science tools. All right, well, thank you so much, Chris Wright. Always a pleasure to catch up with you and definitely looking forward to hearing your keynote. All right, thank you. All right, lots more coverage. Check out thecube.net. You can see all the interviews after they've gone out live. They will be on demand. All those projects Chris mentioned, I've had deep dives on all of them. So also hit up Chris for myself on Twitter. If you have any follow-up, always love to hear the feedback. I'm Stu Miniman and as always, thank you for watching theCUBE.


Good morning, everybody. My name is Jeff Nadel. I'm one of the neurosurgery interns. I'm here to give you grand rounds this morning about a topic that was relevant to me and that I saw a lot of in my time with you all on a neuro-octomology rotation last month, the surgical management of idiopathic intracranial hypertension. So I have no financial disclosures to report to you. I think most residents probably are absent of those. So in an overview for my talk, I'll give you a brief introduction into IIH, indications for surgical intervention and IIH, and then discuss a little bit about each of the surgical modalities that are in use for IIH and each of their supporting data, and then we'll conclude and have a moment for questions. So in order to talk a little bit about IIH, IIH is defined as an objectively measured increased ICP with no evidence of other source for the increased ICP, including mass lesion, evidence of hydrocephalus, as well as normal CSF studies. It's important too that the ICP is measured with somebody in the lateral decubitus position because the sitting position is not appropriate in order to actually get an accurate ICP rating. In terms of the etiology, it's still not super well understood exactly what is happening with IIH. It's a little bit of a chicken and an egg problem. Some suggest that there may be some sort of a cranial venous outflow pathology that results in a high ICP, which in turn the high ICP can worsen the venous outflow pathology by compressing veins, and this cycle just continues. On the other side, there may be some other reason that the ICP is elevated, which leads to what is often seen as venous outflow pathology, which then in turn worsens ICP. So it's a little bit hard to understand exactly what is going on with it. But why it matters, especially to ophthalmologists, is that the elevated ICP can result in papillodema, which can result in threatened vision, and that's often times when neurosurgery gets involved with these patients. And so in terms of the mainstay of therapy for IIH, I'm not gonna talk extensively about it, but medical management is how most patients with IIH are managed. The goals of treatment are alleviation of the symptoms, which includes the typical pressure headaches, as well as preservation of visual function for as long as possible, to try to prevent folks from having constricted fields and going blind. Standard medical therapies just briefly include carbonic anhydrase inhibitors, such as DIAMOX, the IIH treatment trial demonstrated benefit of the cytosolamide over placebo and improving visual outcomes. And so most folks are started on that standardly. There are other medications that are used if folks are not responding well to DIAMOX or have intolerable side effects. There are also other important adjuncts, including weight loss, other types of symptomatic headache control, and others. But if visual function continues to deteriorate despite optimized medical management, then surgical interventions become warranted, and that's where I'd like to focus on my talk today. So the first and type of surgical intervention that is often offered for idiopathic intracranial hypertension is optic nerve sheath fenestration. This is favored and is usually first-line surgical treatment, and it has been shown to prevent deterioration in vision and in some cases actually improve people's vision. Data shows that headaches also improve in about half of folks, which is an added benefit, and it's performed by ophthalmologists. And so I'm not gonna talk any further about that because the likelihood of me being able to teach you something about optic nerve sheath fenestration is exceedingly low. So we'll move on to something that I see a lot more of, which is CSF diversion and shunt placement. So there are multiple modalities for which folks can undergo CSF diversion. That includes ventricular perineal shunts and lumbo perineal shunts. Lumbo perineal shunts tended to be performed more commonly in the past, and I think folks are tending to favor ventricular perineal shunts at this point. This is just a diagram that shows a typical ventricular perineal shunt catheter, where you have a proximal catheter that's inserted into generally the lateral ventricle around the third ventricle, attached to a valve that controls the outflow of that CSF, and then a catheter that is tunneled underneath the neck, usually into the abdomen. So there are a number of complications, though, of folks undergoing shunt surgery. Shunt failure is a perpetual problem that we as neurosurgency all the time, most often from obstruction of the shunt, whether that's CSF debris or another cause. An additional problem is over-drainage and low pressure headaches that can actually result from shunting. VP shunts, you can place adjustable drainage valves. You can for lumbo perineal shunts, although it's not done quite as commonly, and lumbo perineal shunts are actually no longer favored quite as much because of a two-and-a-half fold increase in the need for revision compared to VP shunts. Often that happens because you can imagine folks, if that shunt is inserted right here around the flank, so with bending the shunts tend to kink, they tend to obstruct much more readily than a catheter that's coming down through the neck and going over the chest wall, which has a lot less mobility associated with it. Anytime we do surgery, there's a risk of infection, and certainly seeding an implant is a big problem, so shunt infections can cause big problems for patients. Bowel injury if we place the intraparentineal catheter in the wrong place. And importantly, there's a high failure rate due to the fact that these shunts are actually not designed for treatment of IIH, they're designed for treatment of hydrocephalus, and so it's important to consider that when thinking about CSF diversion. In aggregate, the data shows that the majority of folks who have IIH who do get CSF diversion through shunting do experience immediate headache reduction, although there's recurrence of those headaches over time. About 20% will recur, headaches will recur at 12 months, and then at three years, almost half of people will have return of headaches, usually not quite as severely, but that can happen. In addition, papillodema is improved and resolved in a lot of these patients. The amount of time that it takes for that papillodema to improve or resolve is variable based on the patient, and sometimes folks don't have any improvement in their papillodema. And in addition, visual fields were shown in several studies to return to normal or at least be improved in about two-thirds of patients, but a third remained stable from where they were previously. Here at the University of Utah, one of our neurosurgeons has actually begun to pioneer a new technique for the treatment of IIH with CSF diversion, this is Dr. Richard Schmidt, who's been putting in five ventricular shunts for folks with IIH. They are the proximal shunt catheters are actually tunneled outside of the head and connected to a single valve, so they're draining together at the same rate. And they recently published a paper actually in the Journal of Neurosurgery, which showed fewer shunt-related complications, and as well as those when compared to a unilateral VP shunt system, folks had better headache control, there was more subjective visual improvement in better papillodema resolution. So we're seeing increasing numbers of folks who are undergoing that. The last surgical intervention that I'd like to talk a little bit about is not favored, especially here, and is somewhat newer, and that's Dural-Venus sinus sensing. And so I talked a little bit about how the pathophysiology of IIH is thought to involve venous outflow in some capacity. And one of the findings that we oftentimes see in folks who have IIH is narrowing of the venous sinuses, especially at the transverse sigmoid junction. And in fact, now folks who have imaging that demonstrates that, those venous changes on imaging are recognized as nearly confirmatory of elevated ICP in these people. The method for Dural-Venus sinus sensing is endovascular, and so you tend to get access through the groin or through the wrist and snake a catheter up in to the, through the venous system rather than the arterial system up into the venous sinuses. You can measure the venous sinus pressure as well as deploy a stent and then measure the pressure after the stent. And the results, though, have been quite variable. Headaches only variably improve with this technique. Vision only variably improves. A lot of folks remain stable. There's actually a lot of complications that are associated with venous sinus stenting, including access site bleeding, intracranial bleeding, and probably most concerning stent occlusion. Folks will need to remain on antiplatelet therapy to prevent stent occlusion, and stent occlusion can be pretty drastic and have big time effects for folks. In terms of choosing to do something like this, people will need to have sinus stenosis, which not everybody does, and kind of getting back to the chicken and the egg problem, does it really work? We're not 100% sure at this point because the results have been so variable. And so in conclusion, for IIH that is not completely or appropriately managed with medical intervention, there's a number of surgical modalities that can be considered. Those include optic nerve sheath fenestration, which tends to be the first line that I've seen here, followed by CSF diversion with shunting. Fewer folks are interested in venous sinus stenting, but I think additional data will come out in the coming years about how it works and whether it works. So I'd just like to give a quick thank you actually to all of the neurophthalmology attendings, Dr. Warner for reviewing my presentation and Dr. Katz, Dr. C, Dr. Pram and Dr. DeGree who I learned from significantly over my month here. I was on rotation with Dr. Murray and Dr. Mamelis who were terrific and taught me a lot. I'm very grateful for them taking good care of me over the month. And then certainly to all of the technicians and staff who made me feel a little less lost while I was navigating the halls of the Moran. So these are my references. Thanks everybody. Thank you.


Hello and thank you for coming. My name is Chris Kenneberg and I'm from Dearborn Public Schools. We are a K-12 public school district in Dearborn, Michigan and Kind of what we've done is we started with a simple premise of how do we get students to log in and to learning as quickly and as efficiently as possible and so That kind of started our our journey on a deliberate and thoughtful Implementation of Moodle a lot of times in K-12 What ends up happening is they install Moodle and and then they turn it over to the teachers and so what we tried to do was come up with almost like a recipe and so I'm going to share a little bit of that process and we're going to take ten years of of that process and try to whittle it down to about ten minutes and Okay, so We set out to have some expectations and what we did was we tried to start Defining like some pathways so We had a lot of discussion about what it is that we want the user to see and do when they reach our site Once once they reach our site. How do they access the learning materials? And so we set out to look at a whole bunch of things and And this was about the time of Moodle 2.7 and so prior to that You know, I haven't I had never written a line of code and so with Moodle 2.7 my boss Troy Patterson who's with us here today He said, you know, we want to use Moodle, but we have to make it intuitive for our users There's too many distractions on the home page And we really need to focus it down so that You know, we can go back to that core Slogan that we have from login to learning. How do we get the kids there quickly as possible? so what we did was we had our first attempt during the release of Moodle 2.7 and This is kind of what we came up with we said when they reach our Moodle site We're not going to have all these blocks and three columns and all these Distractions which lead people away from what were actually there for which is to get them into a a class and At K-12 that's very difficult if you have a five-year-old to get them from the home page to the teacher's course so What we said was when they reach our site We want them to log in so that we know who they are and And then what we did was we said three columns is a bit much for elementary kids There's too much going on. There's too much of a cognitive load there for them so what we wanted to do was Basically, this was the start of looking at designing a theme Because we wanted to eliminate that third column And also when they got there, we didn't want them to do anything other than log in so our first attempt Was this and that was the home home page and as you can see the only thing they could do was log in They couldn't get around that we and you know, that's the Detroit skyline there And then once they entered the course again, we went with two columns and we introduced the concept of This icon navigation because we wanted the home page to be the traffic cop to say You know, you can go here. You can go here and this is what you do So we really kind of stripped down that initial home page and we learned a lot of things and then you know, so we got some feedback coming in from the Moodle community as well as our teachers and some of the students and What we were hearing Was they wanted some more enhancements done to the menus so Around the time of Moodle 2.9 we entered in a period of a lot of experimentation so The second attempt was We focused on the same goals that we had for for our first attempt But we wanted to improve the navigation and we wanted to look at user experience more and So what we tried to do were little things like for instance A lot of our teachers have many many topics in their course and when they scroll down the page and They realize that they wanted to add another resource They had to scroll all the way back up click the editing button and then scroll all the way back down to add that resource so we did things like the Turn editing on button we it's location aware So when the teacher Clicked it. It was always visible on the page and when the teacher clicked it It returned them to that same spot on the page And It was about this time that we really started to dive into a lot of PHP coding things that I didn't really know a whole lot about And We we were lucky enough that there was this awesome Moodle community out there and Some of the people like Richard Ollman Gareth Bernard Mary Evans Lots of Emma Richardson lots of people that were in the Moodle forums Kind of helped us through this process. So when we talked about customization and user experience We did things like adding, you know, like a header image. We did a lot of things with Moving the navigations around and Some of the other things that we did Were like for instance course completion or activity completion We wanted that readily visible and built in in a visual way to the theme and so in the upper Corner we did a little radial that would display to the end user those kinds of things There was also a little orange button that would show the user their grades So it would slide down and show them their grade. So this was a lot of experimentation That we were doing With different elements of bootstrap and and those kinds of things and really kind of just Learning about how to better present these things to our end users And then Moodle did something really really good During Moodle 3.2 They released the boost thing and that was like a game changer for us because we had really wanted a two column very clean minimal theme and And that really jump-started our development cycle My boss he kind of over the the couple of years that we had been working on this He was bringing more people into Our department and we had some other people that could also You know help develop and and write code and so we did we focused on three things The theme we created an enrollment plug-in and then we also built a secure Chromebook app that would allow us You know it kind of helps teachers when they give out a test to know that that that the kids aren't cheating And then we did a lot with the boost theme Holding true to Like the login when they come to our homepage. We want them to log in to get into the course and as you can see All of our themes it's kind of like a calling card for our themes We have that icon navigation because we want the students to go to just certain places But you'll also notice in this Picture we added the enrollment code That was a new plug-in that was developed because Again to get kids from login to learning as quickly as possible What we did was we mimicked Google Classroom They do enrollment really really well when you have a lot of You know, it's not programmed like a college where you pay and you get in Our courses Things kind of pop up and we need ways to get kids right from the home page into the class So the way that our plug-in works is it they type in a six-digit code They click the enroll button and they are present they are enrolled in the course and So so that was You know kind of how we came up with with a better way to get the kids into The courses the other thing that we did was we consolidated all of the menus We moved them into the upper corner and We made them little icons that have like when you roll over them. They tell you what they are But we wanted if we get lost we tell them look up Kind of like a DTE commercial You know when when you see a down power line look up that kind of thing So we put all of the menus in the upper left and What they the menus do is the first one that you click if you're a teacher you get a teacher dashboard and This goes back to getting feedback from our teachers They were saying that when they were in their course and in the boost theme they introduced the little the editing cog and It really threw them for a loop when they left the home page and the menu changed and So what we wanted was one button that kind of laid out and organize the menu for them That drop down some of the things have like little sub menus And so what we did was we laid it all out in a flat panel for them And no matter where they are in their course when they click that button this panel pops up And it allows them to go from place to place The next button in our theme is Again related to the easy enrollment plugin and what that does is You know With the integration when when our theme recognizes that the plugin is installed on your system it displays the the button and It generates auto generates the codes for the the teacher and Whether they give them a group code or just the course code It will you know, put them into the proper place in the course the one thing that I did not mention was again we deal with little kids and a lot of times they open up the Chromebook and It's about all the patience the teacher has just to get them to log in with a username and a password and So once they're in the the Moodle system What we did was we utilize QR codes so the teacher can print out a QR code and The student can click the little button to the left of the enrollment code and it pops up the webcam and The teacher can walk by and just kind of scan a piece of paper and it puts them into the course So whether they use the six-digit code or the QR code that was Kind of our solution to get them from the homepage right into a course and then Again once they're in the course We Remove the blocks We like the blocks but we did not want them always visible and So what we did is in the upper right corner We have a course blocks and again from the previous theme when we were experimenting with different User interfaces and and different things that you can do We utilize that gradebook slider That would drop down and that's exactly what We did with the blocks so the teacher or the student can click the blocks they slide down the teacher now has three columns to work with and We thought that that was a little bit better Interface and so I Guess at this point we would open it up to any questions. I Saw a cue over there It's gonna come and share the stage with you Chris I'm just while the mics getting ready there and if anyone's got any questions I used to be director of e-learning of a three to nineteen academy and I would have killed for a lot of this stuff I mean in terms of just getting kids to be able to log in when they're you know Between five and seven years old is such a hassle and as you say a whole lesson can go by so it's a great work Does anyone have a question for Chris just to raise your hands and someone will come around with a microphone for you There's a question here, please someone's got a mic And I'll point out is after the session they said that the power points would be released We do have some videos that kind of demonstrate some of this, but I we're short on time here Hi, Chris. Um, the the qr enrollment. That's really really cool. Is there is there an equivalent qr login? Idea or or plan or what did you what did you think about that? I I wish but not at this point Any other questions for Chris? Okay. Well, thank you very much Chris Kennyberg