There's history here. And here. There's history there. History is everywhere. Welcome you here. I have a we're going to do a traditional old Bedturning it's called. This is Linda Allison and this is Margaret Rambo and They are all members of our Sisqa's Henry's lady and Roe Valley a so we have a team effort going on here Okay, the very first quilt is not a 1930s vintage quilt it's 1980s and I did it on purpose so you can see the drastic change in our color scheme that come through and The yellow is the cheddar cheese You'll see red is the turkey red and then we have one on here. That's called secondary morning and If a lady lost her husband for the first year she would wear black second year she would wear kind of a grayish black or a print with a gray and That was also a signal that she was now available Because she was wearing her secondary morning, so it's morning not like good morning, but morning boohoo that type of morning morning cloth this little quilt the blocks were all given to the Jacksonville Museum quilters and they Put it together and hand quilted it and it's just exquisite hand quilting then it was published in a book It was published in a quilting magazine and The date on this magazine was 87. I believe 91 close and The setting you would have put it together on the diagonal so we took us a while to figure out But how that went but anyway after all those years that quilt got put together It was it was really phenomenal It's it's flying gaze and Square in a square is what the middle part would have been you can come up later and look at the pictures, too. Yeah. Yeah We usually use For our authority Barbara Brockman's encyclopedia of quilt patterns that helps us the most in identifying some of the blocks and patterns So I may reference her now and then she is Fabulous she goes into museums and really does a good job of documentation The next is some bonnet Sue and There is hardly a person alive who doesn't know who Sue is Is there anyone here that doesn't know a Sue or has seen a Sue in their whole life? Yeah, yeah, or maybe got one as a child She is probably the most well-known ambassador for the quilting world and Yes, our air has popular Sue quilts. This quilt was made in the 30s and the hand quilting is exquisite There are 30 sews and every single hat band is different So whoever made it and I didn't make it Really use their imagination because there's no two bonnets alike the next sue Another sue they're all marching to the left. Do you suppose the Quilter was left-handed don't know but they're all marching to the left and The hand quilting on this one is 12 stitches to the inch and The front and the back background are all flower sacks And that's one reason I brought the flower sack feed sack collections because in the 30s They used a lot of feed sack Okay This next son bonnet Sue This just broke my heart there's no two sews alike, but the reason it broke my heart was a Lady came by at one of the antique fairs where we were sharing quilting and she said Would you like to buy this and I just thought you know It's your quilt and her grandmother made it for her as a child in the background is little chickens It is the cutest quilt But she said no, I need the money worse than I need the quilt So it came to live with me and I love it But my heart's still broken because I like to see a family keep their quilt in the background of the It would be the pink fabric. They're little baby chickens And there's a little dress up here with little chickens on it too a little tauts chickens popular But you have to have a rooster if you're going to have these hands, you know, so the rooster came This next one is called star flower the pattern was designed by Ann or She's very famous in our period of time She did a lot of geometric things like Squares and then hooked them all together. That was her style. She was also famous Lockport if any of you have heard of Lockport, I think there's a famous Model 8 parts house there. I've been to Lockport, but Lockport also manufactured batting for the quilters and patterns and and or Published through them. That's where she Star flower It's a 1930 designed by and or now at the very top If you want to relax your arms just a bit and show the top up here is What's called a whisker guard and Under here that the quilter sewed it on to feed sack And that's because the men's whiskers were so oily and it just ruined your quilt And you put that many hours on a quilt and then have some man drippiest oily beard on there So anyway, it's called a whisker guard and We'll let you put that oh one more thing I want to tell you though this binding on this quilt is Called knife edge so they brought the back which is all feedsack by the way and the top and Poked them together and then often use a knife to get it straight. So it's called a knife edge Binding so they didn't sew a separate piece of fabric on that one Now my Vanna whites they get to sit down a minute because I'm going to talk over here about the feedsack display Many of the feed sacks up here on the top still have their labels on there and the housewife would send the mister down to the feed store or Wherever they were able to get them I went with my daddy when I was a little girl and mama would haul her out Be sure to get for that match Because she make a dress from it and from that dress then there was leftovers for me address And there was dolly clothes dresses and I love feed sacks because they were fun So I got to help him and they were hundred pound sacks and they were piled high and Of course the ones that match were at the bottom so the young man at the store had to put them all down and home we'd go with our four matching feed sacks and I often got to pick out one that was just for me that wasn't that mama had it was mine and But that made it really special Now not all feed sacks are rough Some are made out of fine percale But the only real way you can tell it's a feed sack is you're going to have to See how it was stitched and this one here has the holes if you held it up to the light Or if you find one and a store That still has the string attached And you know and this little machine right here is called a chain Stitcher and that's what they would have stitched it and This little machine belongs to Margaret Rambo here and there's a little sign about all about it so you can come up and read but it's a cute little machine and They worked really hard those little machines and they just did the chain stitch so you could pull out the string So this one here is cute. It's It's child Many of them were fashioned Holy they were still available into the mid 60s. So feed sacks were very popular for making Underwear for children oftentimes you get boys underwear that said self-rising and Because the label never The labels never washed out. They didn't wash out.  They saved they saved everything There wasn't any waste at all. It was everything was used and of course there were many quilts that were I've got a board up here So you guys can come up and touch you can feel some are finer and some are really rough like burlap almost But anyway, you come up and enjoy Let me see if I've got anything different here miss Hazel This is Hazel and she's wearing it. Am I too far? Oops, I'll get on this side. I can pull it more. Okay, I Don't want to come on Just the thought of being on television scares a person to death my gosh Hazel here. She is very our heir. She's pals around with me but this is the dress made out of feed sack and her little buttons were sewn on with the string and We're not real sure. This is our vintage. It could be The 20s or the 40s the sleeve isn't quite right. So those of you that are really good at professional Diagnosis of what we wore Let me know if you think it is but it could be let's put it that way. It could be I guess I'm ready for my Venice to get back to duty This one here is you could order these blocks to embroidery and they would send the fabric and The thread and everything everything was sent to you as a package deal and The quilting on this one is just lovely. It's really pretty isn't it? The next one is a very similar. It's called a morning glory summer quilt. There's no baddie in it So they would put that over And again they ordered those blocks and they came with their fabric and everything and They put them together. It was just lovely This one here is the same. It was ordered all one piece and I believe it was something like I was looking for my note that I had on it like three dollars and something for The package deal on that, but you paid a little bit extra to order your thread Here it is. I'll read it to you It's out of a 1928 the very same morning glory top and It is You can kind of rest your arms if you're getting those poor girls. I know it's hard Unbleached sheeting is what they call it on here A close-even weave and a creamy tint of this material makes it ideal for this type of needlework So it was three dollars and twenty five cents Now you could order curtains and a dresser scarf And a fringe to go on this Evidently I didn't end up with the fringe But I found it in the 1928 Frederick Herschner Incorporated Chicago, Illinois And it's it's identical to to what it is. Okay, the next one is a single morning glory and the Purple and bubblegum pink and These blocks are all hand-piece and this is just a top so it hasn't been quilted yet It's something in my future. Maybe Sometimes though, I just like to see when Things are all hand-pieceed. I like to look at the back and I don't want to quilt it because Part of the joy is somebody spent a lot of hours making that Okay Yes It's a bittersweet story our oldest son was killed and he loved morning glories and his so his wife And I we have a thing about morning glories. So whenever I see a morning glory. I'm very interested in now this is called colonial lady and The binding came from the back to the front when they made this one So she just left enough fabric and folded it right to the front And that's unusual to how we do it today. We usually make a separate binding Do I have a lot of quilters in the group? Good. Good. Good. Good. Good So, you know what? I'm I'm not just talking to myself Okay, I Know it's fun, isn't it? It's fun The next one is called glorify nine patch and I Absolutely love it. It's our colors with a scalloped edge and It's just pretty it's very 30s So if your little model a went home to its little model a house, you would have this on your little model a bed And that has a beautiful bubblegum backing on it They do My husband says I have the best insulated house in all of Jacksonville This is called Dresden plate and the little alternate block in the middle is pink and green which is very much our colors and It was hand-peaced and hand-quilted and I love the little edging going around the whole edge of the border It's very very pretty This next quilt is called a double wedding ring and the blocks were given to the Jacksonville Museum quilters to put together and it was from the 30s and the Jacksonville Museum quilters then hand-quilted it and They also made a pillow top to go over your pillows that are are Made, you know to match but it's really really pretty and Double wedding ring. There's a few pins here and there in it I've placed the pins there because they forgot to quilt that part So I have to go back and get it one of these days But the quilting is exquisite. This was a group effort quilt Quilting and I can usually tell if a quilt's been quilted by one person or a group This is a really hard one to tell on because they were all just such good quilters that This is one of my very favorites and I wish it was I Wish it was brighter for you Grandmother's tulips and the binding comes from the back to the front on that one It is sweet. I'm not sure if it's like a hundred percent cotton because it feels real Like a little sheen to it. It's just really different. Isn't that pretty? No, it's original. Yeah, it is No, it's not faded Delicate so sweet Mm-hmm I know I know I know Back in the old days, they did not have the rotary cutters like we have and they usually made their template out of cardboard or something They were just really good at it and I have example. Well, one example. I'll just share with you right now Where did I put it? Oh, it's over behind Linda. That's a grandmother's flower garden. That's hand pieced So they would have put each little piece together And it's called what we call Y seams They would have left the fourth of an inch on each hand so they could join it to the next one and They go on and on and on for hours. I mean, maybe they're Evening work by candle you just don't know what kind of light they had but it takes me that hoop Takes me three hours to hand quilt just that hoop and there's 70 flowers on there And I'm hand quilting it for a friend and there's Phenomenal quilting on some of these quilts and my quilting isn't even that good And it's less much less than some of these gals that are doing 12 stitches to the inch I mean it'd be a tiny perfect But in order to answer your question It it was a labor of love because if I've seen somewhere They didn't sew them Accurately together and then you get a mass at the end because it grows and it gets really roughly and I've got a couple of Those that I keep for education purposes to show people what happens when they're Not laid out flat and you don't sew the seam right the next one is called Magnolia blossom And the binding on this one matches the little print inside Isn't that pretty? This one here I found in the magazine to Barbara Brockman, but it was in Needlecraft magazine 1930 the pattern and It's called all hands around And it's definitely our air it's Marley and This one's heavier. They've got a little heavier batting in it. It's To keep you warm. I know isn't that something? She noticed that that that pattern continued to the border this one here the border is called streak of lightning and This was made In the 30s and I was out for a walk one day in Jacksonville and there was an estate sale and I had no money I was walking my dog, but I went in to look and here was this gorgeous quilt and I said how much and and I said empty pockets and Will you go home and get it and we'll save it for you? Well, they know everybody knows me there So that guy came I Won't tell you how much I paid for it because you'll all go oh But anyway, it wasn't very much and I can't believe that it wasn't swiped away the first two days of the sale I got there on the last day So it was meant to come and live with me. I think I Rolled them. I'll tell talk about that a little bit later. This one here is called double X It's turkey red and the binding is sewn on with an old treadle machine And I can usually tell if it's treadle or regular. It's a treadle. It's tighter than tighter than anything and Turkey red is turkey from the country turkey. It's not a Double X And now that could be many other names. I need to tell you if I give a name There are other names because the locality youth that you lived they may be named it differently than So it would be Yeah, they're not for in the car. No, they're not no this next quill is Made for me by a friend her name is Nancy Hines and She wanted you guys to see what 30s reproduction fabric looks like so this is This is what we're doing now and if you look at the fabrics closely. There's a lot of the same colors Muted in there that we had for our model a so And Scotty dogs are so popular in the 30s. They were on a lot of things so It says here that that the vent whites get to sit down again I'm so glad there's a script because I wouldn't make it without it. I Wanted to share with you some of the quilts hanging around the room today This one here is called Table Rock Local artist What did you guys to see this one because when you're out and about in our area if some of you went to the Crater Rock Museum is that happening already or tomorrow? Look off in the distance and you'll see crater or a cable rock and The our local artist Evelyn Brian Williams she designed all the flowers Well, lo and behold The third one down on the left is called Redbells and What happened is the Gentner family Mr. Gentner he studied these rare flowers from the university and he said that is not That's a fritillaria So the fritillaria was put on the endangered species of course the quilters don't know this they're doing Redbells They didn't know how famous they were going to be but anyway The fritillaria is is listed as an endangered species by the US Fish and Wildlife Service in 1999 and the city of Jacksonville has set aside over 300 acres of habitat for getting their eye fritillaria Well, my children used to go through the woods our house backs up to the woods And we'd have a bouquet for Sunday morning of fritillaria sitting on the church snack table, you know for for the reception room after church and Nobody told them they couldn't pick them and I didn't know they shouldn't pick them in But now I guess you'd get fine a nice hefty charge if you're messing with them But anyway, I thought that was kind of cool so we've had different this quilt gets out in the community a lot because We just had a recent speaker who talked about the rogue Indian battle and on that whole treaty and they used the quilt and then we had another talk about the flowers the wildflowers on table rock and Others will come and talk about Landmarks of the area rocks or whatever so the quilt gets out to the community and this quilt is owned by The Jackson County genealogy library and the Jacksonville Museum quilters gave their historical quilts to the genealogy library And they built a special Sort of like these things that they these alcoves they have here in the room And the quilts are rolled Put in a Like a bin they're rolled covered with muslin hundred percent muslin the quilts can breathe and They're rolled so you don't get that quilters cross from folding over and over and I'll talk about that in a little bit Any questions about this guy if not I'll move on the other quilts over here are Next to Linda is and was it 2008 we did that Margaret Margaret and I Decided to make a quilt for the raffle room when we had the Northwest meet here so we worked and worked and I did the cars with the etgy jet ink ink jet printer ba-ba-ba my Santa right and Margaret get all the stars and then we got together in our little place with our featherweight sewing machines and We sewed up a storm. Anyway It came time to draw the ticket on the quilt and My husband put one ticket in the pot and he won the quilt well Another another group from our Northwest regional group drew the ticket and another one was the odds So there was no hanky-panky. But anyway, that's Jerry's quilt first thing he wanted to do was trade it with a man for an engine So anyway, it's fond memories and my friend she machine-colded it with Ooga all around the border so we thought we should bring it back out Margaret and I said goodbye to it because we'd worked so hard on it and we said goodbye And we know it was coming back and Now we have very many dear friends on that quilt that there are no longer with us and so it's really special I think it was a God thing that that we got the quilt now the last little quilt down there is Someone in our committee for this meet ask if I could do a quilt that would represent Oregon and I thought about Crater Lake because we all love to see Crater Lake and Phoebe is a little 28 faton that belong to belongs to Eileen and Dick Mace and They would go up to Crater Lake a lot and so I had Rick black Take their pictures out of the car where they're sitting And so I could just get the car and then I went to the builder's supply So I could enlarge the pattern and so on my design wall at home in my quilting room and on the big window there Hung Phoebe for quite some time. She's not as detailed as the real Phoebe, but you get the point real real quick One man told me I was one spoke short, but I'm often more than one spoke short Anyway, there is a little lad sitting in Phoebe and he's watching the bears I think he's more interested in watching the tri Ford motorplane flying over But anyway, that is a replica of a real vintage Postcard from Crater Lake that had Lindbergh flying over and the couple waving and they had no Faton in it. So I didn't think it was worth the price. You know, it didn't have a car Anyway, you're welcome to buy tickets. There'll be someone here today that loved to sell you ticket on that So, let me see. Where are we girls the Vanna whites get to hold the quilts up again When blown tulips Marie Webster design Marie started a mail order business and also was editor for the ladies home journal She also wrote quilts their story and how to make them First book published on quilting. This quilt was probably a kit. I would guess This one came by me Quite accidentally there was a girl who was going off to college and her mother won it in a raffle and she said I would just love if you buy this quilt from me so I could take the money to college so I felt like I did a good deed and and When blown tulips Resides now with me This next quilt is called Catherine Kellogg's grandmother's flower garden Catherine went to out to Gold Hill and in those days they were called. They weren't called yard sales in those days. It was like a Church-rumming sale is what it was and she bought this top so she came and brought it to me. It's all hand-pissed and She said I'd like to have it hand-quilted now And I'll pay you for it. And I said, you know Catherine. I do not know how to hand-quilt, but I'm learning Can I use it for my? Practice piece. She said oh sure so home. It went with me and Grandmother's fire garden traditionally hand-quilted is is You echo each little cell Around each one So I got it done finally The border or the binding is the interesting part it scoops and scoops and scoops and scoops around And how in the world do you put a binding on? I'm so new at this I don't know what I'm doing. So I cut it on the bias. Thank goodness, but I did it double bias So that's like a rope going around there. Well, I didn't know any different So took it to Catherine. She put it on her bed Catherine's daughter came to visit and Catherine's daughter owns a quilt shop back east and she said mother Where did you get this quilt? Oh my friend? She quilted it for me She wouldn't let me charge her pay her because she's learning The daughter said her mother down and she said mother That quilt needs to go back to that lady anybody that puts that much work in a quilt needs to have it So Catherine gave it back to me for my birthday Which was December 29th and I let her have it for the whole year on her spare bed because she could have had it longer she's past now and What a thoughtful daughter. I think daughter either it was pretty bad if she wanted to get rid of it or I Don't know but anyway, that was that was it. Okay. We're now to Maggie's dressed in plate Maggie's my granddaughter and we were over visiting with a friend the other day and the friend brought this out She said Maggie you might as well start a quilt collection like your grandma It needs a lot of repairs and it does But it's dressed in plate and Maggie's an artist so she has already drawn this beautiful oil painting of this and Made some fabrics of her own and it's just you know really encouraged her and it's our air So I asked her if I could have it for today. She said sure grandma This next one is another summer quilt. That means no batting Lots of sewing machine sewing on it But it's still very pretty and I think it's going to date us 20s 30s Not not just our air because there's a lot of dark prints in there and We were more the 30s. We're we're happier. We're come out of a depression and we want to we want happy in the 30s, so So I'm pretty sure that's It's a little pegged fence On the end, I think we'd call it. It's really different This one's got many names, but I chose to call it Joseph's coat It's a home art pattern hand-pieceed and hand quilted and the binding back to the front and The back of this one is very interesting. It's got some oriental look to it. So it could be as Early as about 33 when Sears had that big contest because they had oriental things and then the quilters Started doing everything oriental after that. It was quite so I can't be sure on that one this one here is has a lot of Devon Shire cloth in it and here's an advertisement I found for the Devon Shire cloth It was rugged and it shows pictures a little kid sliding down the banister And it was expressly made to stand hardware. This is a tide quilt is Made utility they call this a utility quilt So it keep you warm, but it's our colors and It's our Devon Shire cloth So it's our period Someone talked earlier about Taking care of your quilts. How do I care? At home I have the rollers system and I roll them up and cover them and I don't let light get to them light Quilts are just like us. They have to breathe and not too much light You'll see a beautiful example of a quilt and they've had it on a bed and one whole side is sun bleached You know and you'll see that in stores but if you find Don't give up on a quilt just because it has the quilters crossed but when you fold it in half and fold it in half and it sits for 20 years then when you open it out you're going to have this they call it the quilters cross and Fabric has a memory so it's going to remember that and it stays there forever And it won't come out so rolling is ideal and one of the things we've been doing recently is we're folding our quilts Diagonally so even if it's not square you can kind of square it up a little bit and then fold over corner to corner and keep going And stuff it in a cotton pillowcase if that's what you have and then refold them once or twice a year so it's got new lines to Memorize it's not the quilters cross so that works If it depends on what your rod is on my rod I have a Little piece of batting Slit on my rod some rods are just metal. There isn't anything coming off Yeah, I'm rolling them on a metal rod and It works great and we do that at the genealogy library too. They're all on a wrap Yeah You there's slot there's slotted on I have two boards going up the wall With with slots in them so you'd stack them down the wall But you need to have a big room for that. That's another thing that really works well is if you have a spare bedroom One of the quilters Judy Matheson she came up and stayed with me in Jacksonville Then I told her I may be coming down to her place and she said oh I gotta get the quilts off the guest bed because she can't have me until they're removed But it's really healthy for them to lay flat on a bed It's another good way to preserve them they are Wonderful to have they're also Kind of a chore because you got to keep keep them nice and take care of them and They're a textile they can you know fade away, you know dredge or whatever Crazy quilts are notorious for the dyes that they had in those early days and they just there's nothing left They're just they disintegrate in your hands. This is the other thing you don't want to do ever Store them in plastic Suck the air out now. I brought all of these in plastic bags today because of the ring, but I'm not leaving them in there But this is one lady asked me Can I just Put all my quilts and they only take up a little bit of room, but Like I said, the quilts need to breathe just like we do and this has chemicals in it. That's really bad for the fabric Oh, it's not Not good Okay, there's the handout I think this is the conclusion Yeah, yeah Yeah, that's it


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Good morning guys. Welcome to vlogmas day 17. Christmas is one league away I'm in the middle of doing so much laundry all the sheets. So ignore my bed Again favorite perfume ever. This would also be such a good gift. It smells so good by the fireplace I have never gotten more compliments than when I wear this also I'm wearing my new set active set that I bought yesterday that I love I'll leave it below because it actually was under evolved last night I'm about to go grab coffee with Liz I'm wearing this Puffer from a misguided guys. I just need a bigger closet That's what I really really need when we just get down to it, you know, or I need to go through my closet Maybe I'll go through it. That's probably a fun idea actually really cold right now So like this is not gonna cut it right. This is the new plan. It's just one more layer. This jacket is a Ritzia It's so soft. It's Tina. At least it's one added layer You know, I actually do have a shirt under this the dogs are getting groomed at 10 So that will be good for every party involved Maybe it's a fox straw. We're at the one in uptown. So cute Remember when I used to get these in the studio every day, and then I realized how bad they were for you So I stopped for a while Also, that is so good You're here Got some matcha with oat milk. I don't think I said oat milk and they still gave me a milk Which is so nice of them. So anyway, it's foxtrot one of my favorite coffee shops in Dallas. It's so cute We're in uptown and then I got breakfast tacos To leave foxtrot. I need to go grab the dogs and take them to the groomers and then I'll probably go home I need to upload today's vlogmas and then I think I'm gonna work out. I need to work out So I will go work out Before shots for the dogs Coco's hair is long right now. So I am just grabbing some water I'm gonna go do 12 3 30 and get a little workout in it's my first workout in about a week Honestly, maybe not a full week. That's a long time for me Working out helps me use so much mentally and I'm just pen having the worst brain fog Even a friend this morning was saying that like I feel like a lot of us are feeling this I've been seeing it on Twitter. Maybe it's the holidays. Maybe it's like getting closer to the end of the year I don't know, but I just feel like I've been having really bad brain fog So I listen to a motivational podcast. I'm gonna finish that. I'm probably gonna watch vlogmas That's what honestly is good about 12 through 30s that I watch vlogmas while I do it and then I'm gonna shower and maybe going with my day. I have a few meetings. I therapy at one I also Have a lot of to-dos that I need to get done even before then so gonna go work out Feeling my best guys. I'm just like determined to make 2021 the best year of my life. Even if You know, we have these circumstances. I'm gonna make it a good year. It's gonna happen. I'm getting on a call I just got off the call. I was going to say I cannot find an outfit that I like today I just it's just it's one of those days. Anyways, I'm just wearing this like really cute revolve Set that looks like pajamas white boots and I have a white coat. The white coat is just so uncomfortable I need to run on the street to pick up the dogs and then I need to leave to go to therapy So I don't even know if I'm gonna wear this to pick up the dogs, but I am leaving right now I was trying to set up there like new dog colors. Okay. I'm dropping them back off so I can leave for therapy But like look at their bandanas guys. They're Santa bandanas. I'm actually crying and they made them That's so cute. I'm back from therapy and I stopped a trader Joe's. I didn't really go in with a game plan I just got random food That's kind of been already cooked just because I've been busy just a lot missing everything I haven't been cooking as much which I actually don't want to do I want to go back to cooking but I couldn't decide what I wanted to cook so I just got a few pre-made meals I've heard these stuff peppers are really good. I actually love making stuff peppers Maybe I should make those soon comment below what recipes you guys want to see me make I love making Instagram rules that I also just got a lasagna So as we know I really want to make mocktails and I just can't decide which mocktail I want to make so I just got random drinks that I've heard I needed in mocktails like pomegranate juice Sparkling water. I'm definitely gonna still need to go to the store. I just got sparkling water. Oh also brewed ginger beer Interesting never had it then I also got some strawberry soda guys like I really went overboard I think with the drinks, but I love those also I was really hungry and so I ended up getting cheese puffs like don't this looks so good This is my beverage all basically guys I'm also dying so Fitz looks like a fluffball, but look he wants my cheese puffs in my hand. That's not happening. It's not for you Dude Look at that. I mean look at my Christmas Miracles here. I mean. Oh my gosh. Who is dying? I'm dying these photos of them that I took after the rumor. Oh, whoa, these photos took of them off to the groomer It's so funny. Hey fitzy. What'd you do dude? What you doing boy? He looks so funny like they cut his head so weird and His hair gets like blown out essentially got a haircut and I like it way more when it's like more Clumped together just I don't know the word. I'm looking for maybe it's just the head.  You are so handsome. You're the most handsome man in the whole world. Yes Guys, he's actually the love of my life. You don't understand time for me to get some work done Made some lunch and I'm going to get to work I am going to try this lock alone draft latte with oat milk if you guys remember I used to always have the lock alone lattes at Dear media at the studio, but I haven't I haven't had one in so long And I've never had the draft latte and I saw Lauren posted about it recently We have the exact same case and everything so I feel like I'm gonna like I feel like this might be the one that Maggie loves too Comment below if it is I'm pretty sure it's the draft latte But it may be without milk or something like that I need to show you guys some of my best Amazon purchases in today's vlog I'm gonna show you guys some of my best Amazon purchases. Okay, the first being these light bulbs now Listen, I know they have better ones where you can control it with an app, but I use this remote obviously as an app will be better I don't notice the difference. I don't mind it But it's really nice because I dim them all the way down and I can do it for both or at the same time You can make them different colors which I honestly like I don't know I know everyone really likes the red light, but I don't really find that it relaxes me at all How do I get that? I always have a problem with how I'm gonna get back to white. I just like this I like that I can dim. I use the dimmer all the time also Really really really random gift idea But I just feel like this would be such a good gift for even like a brother or someone who is hard to shop for I feel like this is a really good gift idea You can give gift ideas. I actually thought about this earlier today, but over here We have this room scent guys. This is the best scent you will ever smell This is honestly a good present for anyone, but specifically I feel like guys are just harder to shop for it's a very masculine set Smells absolutely amazing. It's just I don't know. I feel like it's just like a little bougie thing This whole bottle too is only like $28. I want to say I need to order more I've had this since the spring or the summer and I'm still not out But honestly great gift great thing to just have in your own room I'm so sorry that I forgot to review my lush products yesterday I hope honestly, I haven't used them all I use this in the bathtub. This is nothing new It's my favorite mask. Just a green and mask It's the classic kind of face mask when you think of one. I haven't used this either I've had so many of their lip scrubs I've never had cookie dough though and they haven't used this yet, which is why I haven't Got into review it. It's really interesting. It's dusting powder, which I've never had But still like moisture as you're like your skin not really enough so Rose Argan honestly guys if this stuff smells so good I'm really bad about putting lotion on right after I get out of the shower and I did it today and I feel Incredible this stuff smells so So good so again great for yourself great for gifts, but guys I just cannot describe how amazing this product is It's by far my favorite This dog I know I probably sound crazy with how much I like talking show my dogs You just don't understand until you have your own And that literally sounds like I you have your honest and then you give birth to your own Okay, I changed into this really cozy outfit. I'm gonna get ready to show some new products This look alone latte is bomb another thing I have from Amazon I have these claw clamps, which honestly I probably should wear because it would be cuter Thing is it does get a little bit annoying sometimes because like when you're driving they kind of get in the way Anyways, I got some packs from Amazon. I will link them below this specific pack and maybe One I'll link another one that I have to but basically pull your hair back all the way Okay, so like all the way I try to brush it out this question a lot It's like so so easy to do even if you have a lot of hair or long hair I'll show you guys how I do it. I'm gonna take this hair tie and I'm tying The back is low as my hair can go and then I hope you guys can see you twist it up like this Thing is my hair is really thick so I need even bigger clamps So it's all the way twisted and then I'll kind of bring it down a bit So then I create this little thing and I think we're gonna do this one today. We're gonna do this one This one Okay, then I will just grab it all with this claw clamp and there you go It's pretty easy.  I'm gonna do a little get ready with me I haven't filmed one of these in so long in the bathroom I'm just like a really good mood because I feel like this sweater just like looks weird on camera But it looks good in real life So I don't know but anyways, this is my new favorite product I've shared it with you guys already in vlogs, but it is so good This is how I apply it Because if you apply it right to the beauty blender I found that the beauty blender absorbs it too quickly because it's an oil So I really like just applying it to my face and then blending it out Okay, so I started watching the undoing last night and I get it. I get the hype. It's really good I only watched two episodes I'm the worst about watching shows because I just view watching shows as taking away from my reading time But I just cannot get into the book that I'm reading and I don't think it's the book I think it's me Sometimes you don't feel like a reading rut and you just can't find anything that you look absolutely love Anyway, the undoing is really good. Oh, I didn't even tell you guys what I'm doing time next thing I have is my new concealer same brand Okay, this is like honey yellow and I put too much on Okay, I'm gonna set this really quick. I'm just like not great with concealers. I've realized it's not the concealers It's me. I have one breakout right here. I don't know where so I know I also I love this bronzer the Marc Jacobs bronzer This is a very product heavy vlog But I feel like I haven't even been talking about what I've been using lately So Alyssa and I are going to a very early like happy hour at the Henry The Henry is one of my favorite restaurants in Dallas. I know the house of an Arizona in LA I don't know where else, but I love the Henry and they have this like winter wonderland I like going to things for happy hour for a multitude of reasons one you save money to no one's there three You can do that at 8 p.m. Still so it's just like really my ideal life situation Okay, I'm using my new mascara. I used this yesterday, and I really liked it. Okay, what I do really like about it is that The wand is curved. I'm gonna try this bite lip gloss The product itself is really pretty, but the applicator is like super odd last thing. I really don't like this packaging But it is a dewy setting spray Which honestly should not be using a dewy setting spray with this these products, but Whatever what's done is done. Yeah guys. I'm about to head out. This is what I'm wearing. This coat is princess I parked here one other time, and I have good memory, but the Henry looks so good guys 518 perfect for happy hour. I wonder if they have happy hour like advertisers. That's a line Oh good love that all the lights just turned on Look love love this city. We really just talk about it 24-7 like We are obsessed look at what we have we can handle we love the good Christmas production It is so cute. Oh my gosh Wow my friends started a new travel app and she had me do my favorite places in Dallas And I keep thinking of one I need to add We're right by oh It's so much cuter in person even than the camera speaking up on Guys Alyssa has made the executive decision, which I back. I'm very back on my drink. Yeah We're moving to the other part of the rooftop because it's cooler. I mean this is a great vibe Don't get me wrong. It's just more festive over there I just this is exactly This is exactly what I've been looking for today. Wow even the music is louder I get the lounge and I get in our respective hear me on any other day. I would probably be more of a lounge girl I will say however Things have changed. Yes, it's festive and this is actually really good by the way So feel this just looks incredible Incredible short cocktail and we got some short rib hot stickers. We're just having a great time guys We thought as though it would be appropriate to order the free and I just want to say it's best to never we haven't had any But it looks incredible So beautiful look at all my camera how pretty it looks though. It's not weird. Hi It's actually so cute though. I came home to a bunch of packages, but I am so excited Oh my gosh guys my war and Elizabeth collection package. Well, this is one of them I made multiple different orders.  Oh my gosh. I'm so excited. I gotta say small which honestly I probably should have gotten a size extra small but The quality is so So nice and then I got the matching bottom so I will be wearing this tomorrow. I cannot wait I gotta say small. I believe no, I guess you're gonna says medium the quality is So nice. I have probably a few more packages coming because I made like multiple different orders So I am so excited for this stuff. Also. I'm really excited to try this I got these chocolates sent to me and They're supposed to help with periods basically, but I'm really excited to try these out. Oh my god They look so good too. I've been talking so much about PMDD in this vlogmas But that's just because it's actually look legitimately ruining my life Yay, and then I got more liquid IV my favorite. I think it's candy Elizabeth for 25% off my favorite things ever I cannot take these dogs seriously right now with their bandanas fits. What are you doing? Be nice? Thank you All right guys, so it is 8 p.m. I am in bed. I'm going to watch the undoing I think I'm going to use the episode not season episode three and four and Then hopefully I'll be able to finish it tomorrow. Very seriously It's nothing better than having a calming bedroom with a nice night routine like oh Honestly if you guys haven't seen my night routine video You should go watch it because it's one of those videos I'm very proud of and I feel like you guys would enjoy it not that I do that night routine tonight But it's a great one and I try to stick to it. I just have been so off my game this month Honestly, I know everyone says this but vlogmas just really throws you for a loop, you know My gosh, look at him. He's so cute. Anyways, that is it for vlogmas day 17 I cannot believe we are already at day 17. I'm sure everyone says this but like that is so crazy Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy and I will talk to you soon. Bye. I'll talk to you in the morning. Okay


My name is Haroon Saafi and I'm calling from Beijing. Beijing. What are you doing in Beijing? I'm studying medicine. I think arts is the thing which can represent a culture, which represents people, which represents a country. So if a country and people don't have arts, I think they don't have their culture, history. So arts is a very basic thing for culture and history. And I think history and culture is similar for everywhere. I think in China or in Afghanistan. But it's a relate with the culture, how their culture is. So their arts is like this. Right. So we just talked to Dr. Saafi. Do you know another medical student named Dr. Saafi in Beijing? Yes, yes, yes. Yes. Okay. Because we were like that's a very odd coincidence. So today we're talking about the importance of art. Yes. And you know what, how important art is, especially in Afghanistan, because people tend to forget that there is art in Afghanistan. But you know, it's a long history. It has a long history and it has a lot of culture. Yes. Well, I think everybody in this world know that there was golden era of Afghanistan. And we had a lot of important architectures and art in Afghanistan. But unfortunately in this some decades we lost it. And now this is a big challenge for youth to bring art again to the world and show the culture, emotion and Afghanistan once again to the world. Exactly. So I think art is the most important thing to represent Afghanistan and represent the golden era of Afghanistan once again to the world. Right. And I totally agree because a lot of the art, the important art is being taken away from the country in the wrong ways. I hope this is a good time. Hello. Talking to you on the street in Austria. Yeah, no, I'm in the city. Oh, nice. Oh, what is that right there? Yeah, please. I was like, where are you right now? What is that building? It looks like a church. It's a church. Wow, it's a beautiful architecture. What city in Austria are you in? Vienna. Vienna. Oh, that's cool. Why don't you keep turning your camera around and describe because we're talking about art today and these are all beautiful buildings. What do you see? Tell us about what we're looking at right now. Yeah, please. I was like, today we're actually talking about art and architecture. So this is a beautiful, you know, where you are. You're taking us on a tour of Vienna, I see. So can you describe what the buildings are that we're seeing? Yeah, I see. I come to Tourista. It's a tourist attraction. Because my English is not too good. My name is Rohit Namialkosi. And where are you calling us from? From Afghanistan and Balkh province. Oh, in Balkh province. Oh, that's very nice. Oh, yes. I am as a student in the Iowa University Medical. Okay. It means Medical Portes. I have some guests that spoke about art in Afghanistan. And one of our anchors today on their Facebook page asked the questions about what type of art do you like and what specific architecture or places in Afghanistan that you would like to visit. Parts of artists coming to, it means bringing people to Afghanistan. It means painting that it means rot on the wall. I didn't know what is the name of that, you know? Which one? What are you talking about? I'm sorry. It means they're rot about in various fields, yeah? Yeah. On the wall. And I didn't understand about that art. What's the name of that, you know? Right. Are you talking about calligraphy? Which? Yes. On the walls, you know, on the mosques. Oh, yeah. Yes, it means advertisement on the wall. It means they painted about different in various fields, yeah? And they painted about it means a different issue, yeah? You know? It means they show it or view it about the different issue to people, you know? Right. So like advertisement and billboards and things like that? Yes, yes. Just a minute, listen to me. I'm as a businessman, you know? I advertise to one of the media, yes? Right. One of the media, that means receive to the other man, it means painted by, it means spray, you know? Spray painting. Graffiti. Graffiti. Graffiti. Yes, yes. Graffiti. Okay, okay. So wait, so you're saying that... It is very advantageous for all. Got it. Listen to me. I have not power, it means I have not television to visit the advertisement of, it means government. What is the new? What is that? It means, what is that? It means invent, new invent things, you know? Right, exactly. On that time, we can know by this it means painted on the wall. Got it. So you're saying that the graffiti should be more, there should be more graffiti done to aware people of what's new. Yes, yes, yes. What's new. Okay. Yeah, I mean art, yeah. They call it street art.  We actually did a story on this one female artist, she was doing graffiti on the walls in Afghanistan. She was doing the burqa, the lady in the burqa. I don't know if you heard of it, but she got a lot of good, you know, feedback from it and...  Yes, yes, yes. My name is Sahil and I'm living in Vienna, Austria. Austria, thank you. We're from Afghanistan. Right. That's the biggest income for the country, you know, the tourist guys are coming to see the historical places, like the Buddhism, big health, historical things, you know. But the problem is right now, the big major problem is security, you know.


I understand one of the things that gets done after there's been a major hurricane event is to go out and try to create some sort of record of the water depths and the water surface that represents the flow from storm surge and flooding of rivers and so on. And I was wondering if you could explain to me a little bit how that data gets collected, what kind of turnaround time there is involved in doing that and what kind of logistically what it takes to go out and collect all that perishable data and put it together into some kind of comprehensive results. Well it's interesting you said perishable data because that's exactly what we call it and so it's important that we get out relatively quickly in the first week certainly to be able to start to collect that data before people begin to disturb the affected area. So particularly like when waterline data there's a distinct pattern between the way debris is spread by wind and by water so that's usually used by building science people. Well I'm not a building science expert but my understanding is that generally flooding base, flooding debris is is usually sort of collected in sort of these lines if I if I understand it correctly and wind tends to be more uniformly scattered over the area so usually building science experts are able to pretty accurately discern where that is. So could you look at things like where there's mud and absolutely there's a whole bunch of indicators that are large stands of trees might have all fallen in a particular direction or correct indicate wind rather than water right along those lines. So why is that data considered perishable? Well usually you know following a disaster people are interested in you know getting getting things squared away again so they begin to clean up and those clues that you just described and I talked about briefly are begin to be disturbed by people cleaning up so that's why it's perishable. On the high watermark side there typically are sort of like mud lines or there's a there's sort of this you know sort of like a pool that had drained slowly you can see where that waterline was and it becomes more and more difficult to find those those clear lines as time goes on. So you typically try to get out there in the first week to be able to find those points and mark them and what they do is they go out and flag them they spray paint on on a building on a structure something that's not going to move where that wind waterline is make a note of it and then the survey crew comes back and actually gets an accurate elevation of that of that high watermark point. Correct.  So I'm do you typically have these are people going out in the field to do the flagging? Yes. Are they engineers are they technicians? It's it's a little of both typically for safety purposes we have two individuals go out so there's usually one more experienced person one more junior person that would go out and there's you know photo documentation and so forth that goes along with that. How are they recording data? Well we've built a whole sort of tool suite to collect data along from sort of cradle to grave on the high watermark stuff first side of it is the planning aspect you don't want to have points at too high a density or or or not enough density so there's a planning exercise to sort of make sure that you've got a good distribution of these high watermark points flagged. Once that happens then they come back into the centralized database and our QC and if they're considered appropriate and reasonable quality then they go to our survey crews which we have you know multiple crews throughout the area we dole those out and and the surveyors actually go out and collect the more detailed information. So you described employing people and planning and deciding where to send people and how many people to send and the density of points that you need to have collected. How do you very quick and you need to send people out almost immediately after the storm has passed how do you know the extent of damage at that point kind of information do you get that tells you roughly what total area you need to cover and where what areas are most affected. Well in the you know in historically it's been it's been really a sort of you know visual inspection kind of process you know I'm at such and such a town and this town is is not damaged or significantly damaged those sorts of things and that's where remote sensing can imagery can really help us post-event imagery to allow us to deploy people more effectively and to put them in the places that they really need to be. So you would need it quite quickly. Correct. A day or two after the event but it would not necessarily have to be incredibly accurate in terms of its geo referencing. That's correct. You need to just sort of get an overall big picture and be able to identify towns and roads and things that you can use in planning. Correct. You don't have to have actual really accurate coordinates off the imagery. Yeah and the team leaders you know essentially will tell a particular team I want you to go to this town or I want you to go to this quadrant of the town they won't tell them to go to a particular structure etc. It's up to the flaggers to identify a high watermark that they think is is is really clear and that they can get it you know collect well. So roughly geo reference image produced very quickly within one or two days after the event would be really helpful. It's very helpful for the planning. Absolutely. Now once the information is collected you have a lot of people out in the field collecting data, collecting elevations, collecting all these survey points and that you're going to use to eventually map a water surface. Is there some quality control process? How do you know if you have a thousand of these individual points that were collected? Is there a way to identify a bad point? Well there is. I mean obviously if there you know if there's large discontinuities between neighboring points that's a that's a pretty strong indicator. But generally from the quality standpoint it gets to looking at the photos that were collected by the flaggers to get a sense of you know how how well do we think this how well defined do we think this point is. And then once you have those points you sort of end up with this very blurry picture as a way I kind of think of it at the beginning of the process and it gets increasingly clear through time. And that you know the topographic information is valuable because if you can use the offset from the ground surface to the to the flag location even just you know rough flag information you can begin to start to see that water the eventual water surface elevation that will come from a high-water mark survey. And you can then you know the surveyors you can then overlay that data as that becomes available. So it's you know the goal is not to wait until all the every point in the data set is complete before you start to evaluate the next step. You want to sort of see these things and increase in clarity through the process. So I heard you say that some roughly geo-referenced imagery turned around very quickly would be helpful in terms of planning deploying mobilizing getting a getting everyone out in the field to collecting data. Once the point data comes back in if we had a more accurately geo-referenced image at that point we could compare the location of the point and what we can see on the aerial photo to the ground photos that were taken and make sure that the ground photo in the point is really located in place it's supposed to be. Yeah I think it's another it's another point that helps you kind of from the QC standpoint it makes sure that you've got what you think you have you know it's easy in the field to make those sort of disconnects between images and and textual records that you collect in the field. And I'm wondering about the topographic data for measuring the height of water above the ground surface that having a terrain model that represented the ground surface a fairly accurate terrain model to add that water depth on top. Yeah well that and that's very valuable in in the in the pre-survey portion of the project because you have you have no survey data you're only collecting relative elevations essentially from a flagger's perspective. So to have topographic data that you can you know Barrett data that you can use the the elevation that was observed by the flagger is an offset then you've got you do have that water surface elevation you're kind of mimicking what the surveyors will ultimately give you. And once we come up with this water surface that's been a three-dimensional water surface that represents the extent and the depth of flooding how is that used? Well it's used for you know a variety of reasons. A couple of them are one to be used to validate models storm surge models and things like that ad-sirc and surge models like that. And also to look at the effectiveness of floodplain maps as they go through and and reevaluate those maps they may use that data to to validate whether they're accurate or not. To be comparing a real storm to a theoretical storm that's represented on a flood map. That's right. Tell someone whether or not that flood map really needs to be updated. That's right, that's right. There's another application I understand that has to do with we talked about it early on delineating the difference between wind damage and water damage. Why is that important? Well I'm not an expert in this either but from my understanding of where that gets used and it's been a pretty it's been a pretty visibly publicly visible problem is insurance companies insurance companies flood damage will pay for flood damage not for damage caused by winds. There's a there's a big push to understand where that wind water line is and what structures are affected by flooding and which ones are affected by wind. So my homeowner's insurance would pay for wind damage to my house. Flood insurance. That's my understanding, yes. So knowing where the line is between water damage and wind damage is an important part of the storm insurance claims settlement that sort of thing. Correct. How is that currently done? Is that also you mentioned in our earlier our conversation that as people go out in the field they're looking for clues the debris field direction of trees falling certain kinds of damage to structures. It's been typically the wind water delineation is done by sending people out in the field to make observation. Yes absolutely and historically I know in some storms they've even sent individuals on like helicopters where they're able to to see that pattern from the air which is exactly remote sensing can help you keep you off helicopters but to be able to start to roughly put that line in so that when you get individuals out out on the ground you're able to target those folks to the right locations. So if we were able to as geospatial professionals or remote sensing experts again provide that kind of accurately geo-referenced imagery then a lot of this wind water delineation might be able to be done in the office rather than in the field. Certainly for the planning aspects of it and to put people in the right location yeah it could be done in the office or be done even in a distributed environment where you may have more senior individuals that may not be geographically even in in the location of the affected area could actually provide assistance in targeting people on the ground and making sure that you know we're using those resources effectively because it's very costly to have people there. Right and then the people that are sent to the field could be in a sense more validating the remote sensing result rather than picking up being the only source of data. Right. It would be more of a ground-truthing and it could be done maybe you know a small percentage of points would need to be collected to validate the remote sensing results rather than trying to gather all the data. Yeah I could certainly see an instance where over time you know as sort of people began to train their eye if you will using remote sensed imagery to be able to identify those lines you could maybe begin to start to sample if you will on the ground and be very efficient in doing that. Does the windwater delineation often follow topographic features? I'm imagining that you know flooding would follow topography therefore having not only an aerial image but also some kind of three-dimensional topographic data to combine with it might give some clues as to where the delineation is between wind and water damage. It's certainly a strong indicator but you know there's there's a lot of processes involved with wave run-up and all those sorts of things coastal engineering type processes that are way too difficult to try to model with simple topography but yeah it is it's a strong indicator. So I'm getting the sense that the remote sensing could be a really valuable support tool in planning, in validating field results, and in also making some sort of large-scale depictions of the record of the storm that could really enhance a lot of the traditional field survey techniques. Oh absolutely I mean you could use it through the entire disaster life cycle and you know certainly in the in the response phase that we've been primarily talking about but also in preparedness and mitigation and so forth. So yeah it's it can be used in many many locations many places throughout that cycle. Well this has been really helpful and I think based on our conversation I could potentially put together some technical specifications for remote sensing imagery that we could kind of have ready at hand in an emergency response situation. Okay thanks for your time. All right thank you.


Notice from the Foundation Records and Information Security Administration. The following file is a digitized copy of an American Secure Containment Initiative file that has been preserved for posterity. Please consult your local HCML supervisor before acting on any information in file. Maria Jones, Director, RAISA Item No. 6789-AH Class Humanoid-Antokinetic Possibly Threat Level No threat currently ASCI Protocols for Containment A bounty of 10,000 francs have been placed on 6789-AH's head, with an additional 100 francs for each of its crew members. As political complications resulting from Emperor Napoleon's military campaigns have prevented the estate noir from supporting the ASCII, Ben isn't a state of France concerning 6789-AH should be conducted through intermediaries. Description Item 6789-AH is the French Captain François Aranotto, Captain of the Duke de Zanzig. The item is believed to be a preternatural being of some renown, though a full description of its abilities is unconfirmed. What has been observed is that 6789-AH is able to physically control the path of other ships within an ice site, manipulating their sails and riggings any way it pleases. 6789-AH has used its ability to run vessels and their crews aground, or dash them against rocks and collect whatever of value remained. As a result of these abilities, 6789-AH was able to become a highly successful privateer in service to France, capturing over 30 military and merchant ships in under 10 years. Extension of the item while at sea is highly inadvisable. Officers should wait until item 6789-AH is disembarked and sink Duke de Zanzig as soon as possible to cut off a means of escape. 1412-1812 In December of 1812, a report was published in a local French newspaper of a naval ship's encounter with the Duke de Zanzig. Due to the Second War of Independence, a full examination and review of the event was not possible. We had spotted the vessel floating at sea late last night, floating on the wade with seemingly no direction. The decision was made to contact the crew. If they were good and courteous Frenchmen, we would assist them in whatever distress they had found themselves in. If they were brigands, we would assist their distress. As we drew closer, we were perplexed to silence of which the ship stood. There were no signs of a recent skirmish or the impact of a storm. It was in perfect condition, a boarding party came up beside it and I was first among them. We found an ungodly amount of bloodstain in the deck. It appeared that the whole crew, at least fifty men strong, had been slaughtered. Men were hanging off the ropes like criminals, others laid on the ground with their entrails thrown astride, and many had simply had their faces caved in with cannonballs fired from their own cannons. One man, dressed in the finery of a captain and with the putrid stench of a corpse, had been lashed to the main mast, swords piercing his hands and feet like a ghastly crucifixion. Bloody papers in the hole identified the ship as a duke to Denzig, a privateering ship of some small fame. It had gone missing some time ago and resurfaced here. What had happened? Had the crew gone mad, overthrown the captain? Why would they destroy themselves in such a manner? Francois made the decision to burn the ship, one I agreed heartily with. Whatever evil occurred there, it was best to leave it. Based on the details of the scene above, it is the opinion of Ascii command that a mutiny occurred against item 6789-AH and which it was slain, but not before it used its anomalous abilities to enact the deaths of its crew. The possibility of other members of the duke to Denzig having had similar powers has not been ruled out. With the death of item 6789-AH, the mission has been closed. Item number SCP-5987 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures A three kilometer radius around SCP-5987's manfistation area has been blocked off from all sea and air traffic. Mission vehicles should not go within two kilometers of SCP-5987. Description SCP-5987 is a Type IV-H apparition, centralized to a small area in Arcachan Bay, off the southwest coast of France. Between the time of nautical twilight on the evening of one day, and nautical twilight on the following day, a 19th century brick wall appear, sailing around the bay before vanishing. SCP-5987 has been observed to always stay within a kilometer of his manfistation point. All vehicles that approach SCP-5987, hereby referred to as SCP-5987-1 instances, will be unable to be controlled by their operators. Wheels, pedals, and other methods of directional movement will still function, but will not produce their desired results. SCP-5987-1 instances will then immediately dive under water, typically killing all passengers aboard. An annual analysis of the predecessor files in 2017 revealed that the ASCII had documented an anomaly similar to SCP-5987. Centered around a vessel 200 years earlier, that was believed to be neutralized when Item 6789-AH, the Captain Francois Arinoto, was killed at sea as part of a suspected mutiny. Due to an increasing risk of sighting by civilians, current containment efforts are being redirected toward neutralization of SCP-5987. A mission was approved to search the manifestation area for any signs of spectral significance. Video log Date January 7th, 2019 Vessel SCP-S submersible neftis Began log 2300 SCP-S neftis approaches the radius of SCP-5987's area of effect. 2305 SCP-5987 turns towards the submarine. Command loses communication with neftis as it submerges. 2305-2316 Command attempts to re-establish contact with the submersible. 2316 Communication re-established. Some do may report to the submersible experienced heavy, but not essential damage from colliding with the ocean floor. However, anomalous influence of neftis has ceased. Do may request an update on its current objective. 2316-2334 Deliverations are held between the members of the research team. Some wish to take the opportunity to investigate SCP-5987 more closely, while others insist on relying on the original mission parameters. 2334 Deliberation ceases when SCP-5987 is observed retreating to a further distance. A white flag is raised from its main mast. 2337 Taking it as a sign of approval, neftis is cleared to proceed on its original parameters. 2345 Neftis reaches the approximate manifestation point. These wooden and steel shipwrecks can be seen dotting the sea floor. Neftis switches to search mode. 218 Neftis pauses by a small wooden shipwreck, ready in the dive team. At sea level, SCP-5987 lowers its flag to half-mass before raising it to full again. 219 This information related to Dumeir, and the divers are deployed to clear access to the wreckage. 225 All skeletons are found, all with various levels of saltwater corrosion. 230 Agent LaCroix finds a large ornate figurehead carved to resemble a siren or mermaid, buried underneath the large section of the hull. Notably, the figurehead lacked any damage. 235 A loud bell chime is heard as the divers depart, and SCP-5987 vanishes prematurely. The mission is declared over, and neftis returns to the surface. At Nautical Twilight the next day, SCP-5987 did not appear, and was considered neutralized. The figurehead has been designated SCP-5987-1, pending further examination. Item No. 597 Level 1 Unrestricted Containment Class Euclid Disruption Class Dark Risk Class Notice Special Containment Procedures SCP-5987 has been treated for saltwater protection, and fitted to a historically accurate miniature 19th century sailing ship, which has been placed in the saltwater enclosure at Area 34's Marine Observatory. SCP-5987 should be examined once a month for any signs of damage. Description SCP-5987 is the former figurehead of the Duke de Danzig, a French privateer rigged from the early 19th century. However, analysis of the composition has revealed that SCP-5987 was made approximately 200 years prior, and was most likely added after construction of the brig. SCP-5987 is able to control all seafaring vessels within a kilometer of its vicinity. In the past, its ability was used to sink rival ships, or run them aground for looting. It appeared to present its task, however, and ended up killing its captain, Francois Evernoto, and his crew in 1811. After it was burned at sea by a French naval ship, the manner of its death was strong enough to create a spectral disturbance tied to its location. Currently, SCP-5987 uses its ability to sail around its enclosure. Personnel in close vicinity report hearing an unknown chorus of voices, singing to French chief shanty, Boney was a warrior.


Hi everyone and welcome back to the vlog. I'm so sorry I haven't posted for a couple of weeks, I've been taking some time out, haven't been very well, I'm okay now, I'm back to it, getting stuck in and here we go. Today's video I wanted to do for somebody who requested a little bit more information about health promotion and what a great video because this is my job as a GP nurse. So I first came into contact with health promotion just like this person as well during my excess course we had a health promotion module. We had to set up a stall in the middle of the atrium of the college and create this health promotion event. Our one was based around alcohol awareness.  It was really, really fun. But before then I didn't know much about health promotion as such. But basically what you're doing when you're doing your health promotion spiel at work or as a student, wherever you are, you're trying to get the person to be healthier, to make some healthier choices in their life, to be able to live a long and healthy life ahead of them. And that's really not gonna work if you're gonna sit there going, you need to stop smoking because it's bad for you. So it's really important that the way that we do our health promotion is gonna meet the person's needs and what they need and how they're thinking and we're all different. We're all individual people. So it's really hard to sort of get it right for everybody.  And this is something you do get used to when you keep going over it and meeting different people and doing it, you do get into a routine and you do get into a flow of doing things and you do get used to your patients, especially in general practice, like we see our patients time and time again. So they get used to you and you get used to them. So it is really nice. And to be honest, it does become a little bit easier as you go. But you will always have that one patient we've all had that one patient. It doesn't matter what you do, what you say. They don't wanna change. They don't wanna change their behaviors. They don't wanna live a long, happy life.  And I said, that's fine, that's your decision. That's your decision. I can just give you all of the information and all of the health promotion and all the leaflets in the world. But if you're not gonna take that on board, then that's absolutely your choice. Document it, done. Do not take the burden of all of their health on your shoulders, because at the end of the day, the person has to work with you. The best you can do is give all of the information, try and make change where you can. If you can't, then that's up to the person. So one tip for health promotion is, ask open-ended questions. Don't ask closed-off questions. So you want to say, okay, so why do you smoke? And they'll say, yeah, I enjoy it. I'll give you all their reasons for why they smoke still. And then you delve a little bit deeper so you could say things like, okay, but why is that? And then you delve a little bit deeper and say, have you ever thought about what a smoke-free life would look like? See, plant the seed, get them thinking and think, oh, what would my life be like without smoking? How much money would I save? What could I do with all that money that I'm saving? How healthier would I feel without smoking? What about the people around me? What would they think? And it starts to get those wheels in emotion just to get them thinking about their health. And this is the sort of thing that I learned recently, actually, during a motivational interviewing training session. And it was just trying to input these little questions and little bits into people's minds to get them thinking about it, getting to think about changing their lives, but getting them to make that decision for themselves rather than you telling them to. And sometimes when people start to open up and talk to you, you'll find that there's deeper reasonings and deeper meanings that maybe might be above your expertise where you then have to refer on to maybe mental health teams, for example, smoking cessation, the doctors, things like that. And that's okay. You can't know everything, you can't help everybody. You're not their saviours. But as long as you put in place these little things to refer them on and get them the help that they do need, that's all you can do. So in my role as a GP nurse, it is my job to health promote. It is our job to hopefully prevent that hospital admission at the end of the day. So we've got asthma, we've got COPD, we've got diabetes management, we've got hypertension. We want to stop those heart attacks from happening. We want to stop those blood clots from happening. And as part of that sort of process, we now do the NHS health checks and these begin when you are 40 years old. And these are to help make people aware of things, but also to help pick up anything that might be going on. Is someone's cholesterol a bit borderline? Is it a bit high? Have they got an irregular pulse rate, for example? Something that's never been picked upon before so that we get it and we prevent anything from happening to them whilst they're okay and they're walking into your clinic. And that is my biggest part of health promotion is during that time. So I'm telling them about the benefits of exercise, the benefits of eating better, making little tiny changes, switching from one oil to another oil, cutting out high fats, high saturates, high dairy products, things like that and making these simple little changes in their life to get that level down if they've got a high cholesterol, for example. Same with diabetes, like learning about carb management and sizes, switching portions and things like that, eating less sugar as well, obviously, because it's diabetes. And just these little things that they can look out for symptoms-wise as well to help manage their diabetes. But in my role, I'm the respiratory nurse for our clinic so I do that a lot of asthma and COPD so mine is very much smoking cessation. I'm not trained in smoking cessation but I do try and give as much health promotion as I can and trying to get them to cut down or cut back or stop smoking if they can, especially with COPD because it's just gonna affect their lungs more and more and more and cause more damage. So as part of my role is a little bit of health promotion with the smoking side of things and things like that as well. And doing things like lung exercises, breathing exercises, which is hopefully gonna help their lungs.  I love all of that sort of thing. So I'm really passionate about that. So when I get people in for their cervical screening, for example, oh, I love it. And I love just talking to them about it and I love promoting breast health as well. So some people don't know how to check their breasts. So I do all of that now and I've got extra leaflets as well that's gonna help them do that. And I just love talking about that sort of thing. That is where my main experience lies and my passion. And health promotion and getting people to take better care of their own health is a massive part of the NHS long-term plan at the minute. As some of you are aware, we are under massive strain at the minute at the NHS. We haven't got enough staff. We've got way too many patients. We've got things like obesity and long-term conditions that are rising. Then we've got COVID impacting on top of that. There's quite a lot. So the more health promotion and prevention that we can do now, the better the impact on the health services later on in life. So, but again, like I said, it's up to the patient as well. It's not just up to us. The patients are gonna do whatever they wanna do at the end of the day. We can only do our best and hopefully our best is gonna make a difference to someone's life. And health promotion can come in a variety of forms. It could be verbally. So while I'm sitting, talking to my patient, I will do it. There's plenty of leaflets on the NHS website, on the specific long-term condition management websites as well, on smoking websites, alcohol awareness websites, all of that. They've got some really good resources that you can give to your patients. You can download, print them out. Where I work, we have a text messaging service. So sometimes I'll text patients, all of the guidelines and leaflets and things like that that they can use. They can print off at home if they want to, but they've got it on their smartphone, ready to use if they need it. We have visual aids. So we'll have posters and things like that, open surgeries for people to look at. And hopefully it's that subliminal sort of message that they pass as they walk into the waiting room and they think, oh, yeah, I have thought about stop smoking. I'm just using smoking because that's the easiest one to look at. Or a Weight Watchers program. Like NHS, we do three, 12 weeks free Weight Watchers programs. So people might see that in the waiting room and think, oh, I've been looking at something like that and this is free. So it sort of entices them in a little bit by little by little. But just, there's so many different ways of doing health promotion. Another one is events as well. So creating like we did for our access course, we created an event in our atrium to create a bit more awareness around it. Awareness days, using making use of the awareness days as well. If you go on the awarenessdays.com, I think it is, I'll put the link here. It'll show you all the different health promotion events that are going on. Things like the cervical screening awareness week that was a couple of weeks ago. It's really good to get that health promotion out there as well. Get it on the news, get it on social media and just spread the message. And hopefully these little tiny things will eventually sink in and just make people think about their own health and creating better lifestyle for themselves. However, one of the biggest problems I think that we have is things are costly. Like if you'll go out and you want to buy some vegetables, some fruits, it's really expensive. Compared to going to Mac-E-D's where you can get a happy meal for £2.99, £3, whatever it is now. And that's a meal. And then you're going buying salad and fruits and things like that. The price goes up and then it runs out a day as well really fast. That's what I've found anyway. When I put it in the fridge and then after a few days, it's not very good anymore. Maybe it just depends where you get it from. I don't know. But so then you're just wasting food as well. So I think that's a massive problem as well to consider if you're thinking about health promotion is cost of things. The things like inequalities in healthcare. You know, rich people can afford to eat well if they want to. But someone like me, I've come from a really poor background. A salad was a treat for us. You know, we would have a lot of frozen foods, fried foods, chips, things like that. No wonder there was cardiovascular disease in our family. And every now and then it'd be like a treat. Like, oh, should we have a really nice ham and egg salad or something like that? And it'd be like, oh yeah, I'm really fancy that. We go out and we buy all these nice salads and things to put in the salad. Because it is expensive. Same with gyms and memberships and things like that. It's really expensive. Weight Watchers program, Slimming World, all these sort of different things that people want to do, they can't do because they haven't got the money for it, is a really massive, massive problem, I think, in healthcare services and in the population. And also people out living in the sticks in the rural sort of areas, they're not gonna have access to these things like fancy gyms and Slimming World and Weight Watchers that might not have any transport to get to places. So it's how we target these people as well that really matters with health promotion. Not only that, but people can easily access YouTube and things like that now, which is great if you've got the internet. But a lot of people, again, don't can't afford the internet. They haven't got laptops, they haven't got technology to make use of YouTube, yoga or something like that. It's really hard for some people and it's really hard to sort of, when you're trying to do your health promotion and things like that to manage that sort of thing. And that's probably one of the downsides to health promotion is trying to get it right for everybody because sometimes you just can't. But there are also a lot of charities and a lot of food bank services and things like that that go out and provide sort of meals for people. There's so much that going on out there that you just don't think about. So my next tip is have a little research around and see what sort of charities there are, see what sort of campaigns there are around your area that you can include in your health promotion that might help someone that's like that that's got this massive health inequality. And one campaign that I've seen recently is, I can't remember what it's called, it's like the healthcare bus or something, but it's a bus that goes around. It's got nurses and healthcare professionals that goes round to those rural populations that can't get into their GP practice. So they're going to provide a service in a bus out there. I just thought this was amazing. I haven't looked into it 100% properly, but I'm gonna find the link for you. I'm gonna put it in the description below because it is amazing and that'd be really, really good to include again in your health promotion stuff if that's what you're doing at the minute. But if you're not and you're just watching this for information, have a look at it because it is an amazing idea and there is funding as well actually out there through different places like the Florence Nightingale Foundation, the Burdettros, things like that. They set up scholarships for people to do these little projects. So there is some little money pots and charities and things like that that you can sort of pull from if you would like to set up something like this in your area, would be incredible. And please let me know below if you've set up something like this, if there's something going on in your area, that I might not have seen out there, please comment below because I love looking at this stuff and I love seeing what's going out there. It makes my day. So it's just a little bit of food for thought for you. Like we always think about health promotion as this really good thing, like, oh my God, I'm gonna do this health promotion, I'm gonna save lives, I'm gonna make a change. But actually it's not always like that. It's very much down to costs, it's down to money. What can people afford? How feasible are things for these patients? How are they gonna get to places? It's quite a lot and I think that's really good. If you're doing a health promotion topic or a presentation or an event or something like that, it's really good to put all these discussions in there because that's your critical analysis then as well for it. Your pros, your cons and what's going well but what's actually going wrong and how can we improve that? But yeah, I think that's it from me. I can't think of anything else to cover on health promotion. I feel like I've talked about health promotion a lot and I don't wanna bore you to death but if there's anything else I haven't covered you wanna know more about, comment below. I will get back to you and help you out. But for now, goodbye and see you next time.