Welcome to another show of Celebrate Life. My name is Gary DeCarlas and I'll be your host today again. The goal of this show is quite simple. We want to celebrate people's lives while they're very much alive versus wait to read an obituary and then say, gosh, I wish I had met that person. This show is all about celebrating people's lives while they're here and with us. I'm a firm believer that everyone has a story to tell. This show is an opportunity for people to be able to share their story with all of you. If you would like to be a guest on the show, please email me at celebratelife0747 at gmail.com, or if you have a question for our guest, you can do the same. Send an email at celebratelife0747 at gmail.com, and I'll make sure that the guest gets a chance to look at it and respond to you. Well, for all transparency sake today, I want to say that I'm interviewing my sophomore in high school math teacher, Mr. Simpson, or today we'll call him Bob Simpson. He also was my father's best friend, my father who taught music at my high school in East Brunswick, New Jersey, and Bob were very close. I'm honored today to introduce to everyone Bob Simpson. Hello, Bob. Good morning. Hey, Gary. Did you see that after all these years? Yes, after all these years, and there are many years that happened between then and now. We're one of our separate ways. You're up in the North and I'm way down here in New Mexico. Yes. I'm sorry. It's great to see you and the years have, you look terrific. The years have done you so well. Young jeans, that's what it is. There you go. Gary, when I first came to East Brunswick High School, orientation, teacher orientation, before the kids got there, they told me that there were soccer coaches down in the gym. So I went down after the meeting, and there was Whitey Waldorf and Leon Florek, you know, and we were chatting for a while, and Whitey turned to me and he said, get a crew cut and shave close and we'll put you on the team. I looked more like a senior and a teacher. I guess I've always sort of had that youngish look anyway. Yeah, yeah, and you still do, and it's wonderful. But, and it's all about that. Go on. You just don't see the wrinkles, that's all. Well, the fact that the belly's getting bigger. Well, let's start. Where would you like to start about talking about your life? I know you're from, go on. One thing that has always been with me throughout my life is the fact that I, being born on January 25th, that's the anniversary of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns. So I've always had an association with him, and it's rather strange, maybe you might call it. My grandfather was John Burns. Not that we know if he was related to Robert or not, but in Britain, it is the custom to give you the middle name of your grandfather. So I would have been Robert Burns Simpson. But mom and dad thought, people are going to say that, talk about this, you know, we're just trying to be high, high-falutin, as we would say. And so they changed it to my other grandfather, Campbell, John Campbell. And so I became Robert Campbell Simpson. Born on 25th of January, 1936. I was born about 1235 in the middle of the day. And at one o'clock, my father was at the football game. We were born at home. Yeah, right? We didn't go to a hospital or mom didn't go to a hospital. The doctor came to the house. Did that ever happen here in America?  A long time ago, maybe, yeah? Yeah, yeah. A long time ago. Anyway, that was me in this world. And then you were in, where in Scotland were you born? I was born in Lark Hall, which was a village of about 10,000 people at the time. To be a town, you had to have a charter. And we didn't have a charter, so we were a village. We were the largest village in Scotland and had the distinction of having the highest viaduct in Scotland. Not much of a distinction, is it? Anyway, as I said, three years later, my brother came along. Unfortunately, he missed me by a day. He was born on the 26th of January. Wow. My brother, Johnny. Yes. Did Johnny live, did he move to the United States? He came over, yes, he came over about, what, 63, I think it was, December of 63. Yeah, it would be because I had just bought a nice new 64 Dodge Dart. I picked them up from the airport in this new car, you know. Yes. My dad had flown over before that, though, and he had established himself with a job before Mum and Johnny and my sister Margaret came over. That was a long time ago, right, enough. That was even before you, so there you are. Yes, that's right. So what was life in Scotland like as a little boy? Well, I went to school at the age of four and a half. And everybody walked to school. There were no buses or anything like that. I went to Glengoren school, primary school, because that's where my dad had gone. And you sort of followed along. And there, it was a good school. It really was. I learned an awful lot in primary school, I can assure you. We're good teachers, we're disciplined, wouldn't we? Which, you know, you learned, you went to school to learn. But you had a lot of fun, just the same. Because they had a playtime in the morning of about 10, 15 minutes. And before it, remember, I was in school during World War II.  And we got cheap milk. And that was the big thing, the kids could get milk. It was a third of a pint. And it cost us a hipney, which was this, well, not the, that wasn't the smallest coin in Britain at the time. They still had farvings. But the hipney was valued at two farvings. And I used to drink five of them. Three in the morning and two in the afternoon. We've got another playtime in the afternoon. It was a, you can't be thinking or holding kids' interest for too long. Right.  That was a lot of fun. I enjoyed, I really enjoyed my schooling. As a matter of fact, and of course I did work. I did work. I learned as much as I could. As a matter of fact, we were living, we didn't have a home. I was born in 88 Manille Street. That was my great grandmother's house. It contained my great grandmother, my grandmother, father, mother, and me. Wow. Two rooms. Wow. And we did have an indoor toilet. Wow. That was a biggie. Wow. But when Dad went into the army in 1940, he was conscripted. Mum and two children, because Johnny had come along by that time. Right. Behind them. And we just lived in Manille Street for a few years. And then I don't know what happened. Probably a disagreement between the women. But we moved to my other grandmother, Granny Burns, for a short time. Then we lived with great-grandfather Woods for a few, not very long. And then we lived with grandfather Campbell for a while. And we lived in, with a family, we rented a place, a room.  You rented a room up in Neverson Street. Now, I can't remember the name of the people. But we ended up renting later from the Miller family in Albert Drive. And then we got the news, the war was over this time, the news that we had been given a prefab, which you probably, not unlike a mobile home, really. Yeah. They moved it in, they built the foundation, moved it in, set it down, bombed. Well, that was wonderful. Oh, I bet.  Wow. Tiny, it must have been about five cubic feet, and that was it. Indoor plumbing? Indoor plumbing, great. We had our fire, we had a coal fire, of course. This was, we were in a mining district, that's how it was, my grandfather Campbell, he lost him to black, black lamb by the age of 27. Oh, boy. So I never knew him, he was gone before I came along. Wow. But we had the coal fire heated low water, and we could have a bath. What do we, whether we want to do or not. Okay. So that was that part of it. Yeah. That's how we, that's how we grew up. And back at school, I got burned, I was a kettle of boiling water getting knocked over, and I got my ankle burned, and it was our final exams, and Mrs. Armitage had taught my father, was teaching me and promised to teach my brother before she retired. She was a terrific teacher, tough as nails, tough as nails. But my mum put me on the bicycle and wheeled me, holding on to the bicycle, to school, because I couldn't really walk. Wow. Remember, I told you we walked all the way here. Hey, right. That's, that's amazing. But that's the way it was.   You couldn't get petrol. Right. Only people like doctors could get petrol. And they, of course, was, that was because they were out saving lives, you know. Yes. So. Well, so when you think of those days and be in your young years like that, whether people that you aspired to be or that were, you know, I told you about that Mrs. Armitage, right? Yes. That she is the one who made me become a teacher. I want you. I wanted to be like her. Yep. Yep. So from there on, and I was what? I would be 11 years old. From there on, all my aim was to be a teacher. And so all the courses I took in high school were aimed at getting me to university to get my degree to be a teacher. So I guess, yes, I would love to have been a soccer player. And I did get, you know, I did get to play for the school. I played when I was at elementary school at Glengoren. I'd left half back. They don't have, they don't call them that anymore. A midfielder, I think. Yeah. Yep. Yep. And then I played in high school too. And on the high school team. And how, how well did your teams do? I'm sorry? How well did your teams do? Did you have, were you successful? Your teams, did you win a lot of games? Oh, no. We didn't have, in spite of the fact that almost everybody, including a few girls, played soccer, you know, or football as we call it.  Exactly. The, we, we didn't get a coach or anything like that. One teacher would take us to the game and sort of super by hand out the uniforms and what have you. And that was it. There were no practices. You just played on your own. And I was fortunate really, because that house that I was born in backed onto the local soccer field. So I went out the back gate and I was in the soccer on the soccer field. And that's where we played. And I, although not always on the actual field because the groundskeeper would come around and chase us. Wow. There were public soccer fields, of course, that you could play on and traveling and all I had to do when I was young, if I stayed with my grandmother, which I did at the weekends, was get up, eat and go.  So that was those were good days. Yes. When you don't have anything, you appreciate everything you get. Exactly. Me to have a ball. Oh, I was the center of attraction of everybody. No, that's right. We played with newspapers all balled up and tied with string. Wow. Somebody found a tennis ball and we played with a tennis ball. That's amazing. When I got a size two football, wow. That was the BZs. But it's those little things in life that we take for granted. Exactly. Wow. And it teaches us to make do with what other we've got. Right. You make things out. You know, people don't do that nowadays. That's right. That's right. That's right. Now you there's two awards that you got while you were in school that I want you to talk about the. What academic. Okay, yeah. They were, I got the duck's medal at Glengoren. Because I, I scored higher than everybody else. You know, It's a matter of fact, and that Mrs. Armitage, she was just, I spoke about earlier. I worked hard for her. Because, you know, she just took an interest in me because of dad. It taught him all those years before. Right. Teaching me. And she was a tough taskmaster right now. And. Of all the weeks in school, we had. We kept grades. Each day. At the end of the week. At the end of the day. They would. We would sit in seats according to our grades. Oh my goodness. Seats. I was in it 33 out of the 36 weeks. Wow. Wow. I lost it once to Willie Scott. You were the star. You were the star. Oh, it was tough though. I mean, not. Willie Scott was rare. It was always close. Wow. It was always really close. But that kind of competition. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, we were friends. We played on the stage. Wow. One of the times when I was home, I met Willie. And his. Son. His young son. Was an absolute genius. The kid was talking at. You know, we, we before. Anybody else. Yeah. We were friends. We played on the same soccer team. Wow. Wow. We played on the same soccer team. Anybody else and everything else. Yeah. Willie was a smart lad. Right. Okay. So it was Tommy. Tommy and I used to sit together. We had in the high school. We had what we call chummy seats. Two people sat at the desk. Okay. And Tommy would be sitting next to me. And we were sitting in the middle of the class. In the middle of the class. In math class anyway, not the English or a job review or anything else. But in math class. And we used to. See who could get through the homework. Fastest. The teacher would give out. Mr. Fairleave. You. We would give out the assignment for the next day. And we would do it before. racing against them. But that, as I said before, that kind of competition was good. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, we learned. I never, that's, that's an idea that I never thought about before in terms of when you're young, having some competition to push you, to do more. Yeah. It keeps the interest going. Yeah. Wow. Oh, yeah. No, it's great. I'm enjoying this. So then, at some point, you decided to leave Scotland. Yes. Again, here comes the football.  You would pick sides. You'd play maybe five against five or whatever number you had. Or if you didn't have enough, you'd just kick it back and forth. So when I graduated from university and then went to Jordan Hill and got my teacher's diploma, I couldn't teach in Larkhall. All the kids knew me as Bobby. How can you teach the kids that, no, they say, hi, Bobby, how are you doing? So I was going to have to move or teach somewhere else. And Isabel, my wife now, had been in the United States at the age of 11, I think she was. She had an aunt here who worked in service hotels. She worked down in Miami in the wintertime, and she worked in the Adirondacks in the summertime. And her husband was a chef and did the same thing, see? So Isabel came over to visit. And as a child, you know, the family couldn't come. But Isabel's fear was paid for by the, by her aunt, since she came over. And she had such a great time. Of course, being a wee Scottish girl, she was different from everybody else in the center of attention. And when they went up into the Adirondacks, they had horses and that kind of, so she got to ride horses, oh, wonderful, you know. So her eyes were as big as fire as that. And when we talked about having to move to someplace else, I wanted to go to New Zealand. I had been in classes with a merchant Navy lad, merchant Navy during the war, and he came to the university on a scholarship afterwards. He had been in New Zealand, and he thought it was a wonderful country. So that sparked my interest. And besides, their education system was the same as ours. So I fit in as far as that's going. But Isabel won out. And we came here, came to New Jersey. She had an uncle in New Jersey who worked for, oh dear, Isabel reports, he worked for the printing company, McFadden, McFadden Press in Dunnellon, New Jersey. He was a proofreader there. And so he arranged that I would have a job, because my brother was in education and promised, but that was only on the surface. Don't tell everybody that. Well, I was really an English teacher. That was my major. That was your major, yeah. And so I went to different schools looking, you know, were openings. But they were afraid that my Scottish accent would confuse the kids. Or they wouldn't understand. And I went to Petty and to Hun. And both of them wanted me. Not because I was a teacher, but because I played soccer. It's such a competition. Isn't that something? No, I could do this. But then they wanted me to be in a head of a dorm of kids, you know. But they wanted my wife to be the house mother as well. And so I turned that down. Went to East Brunswick and they had filled the position. But I tried. Who was the principal then? Do you remember his name? Jesus, I don't. No, I can't either. Remember he was killed in a car crash. Yeah. Well, he, if you remember, we had a German teaching German. Yeah. And we had a lady from the islands teaching Spanish. He wanted to have international teachers. He wanted to have that broad school. That was a good idea. Yeah. Yeah. Although there were some good ideas in East Brunswick. So he said he would make some arrangements and I could teach math. Well, math was a minor, really. And so I took the position and started teaching and went to New York with Charlie Hammond. Remember Chuck? Oh, yes. That's right. I do absolutely. Niceest guy in Orville. Yes. I used to go into Newark College of Engineering and at nighttime to taking math courses. And then I got my extra six credits that I needed to, you know, to get my qualification in math. Right. That was good though. It was good working with Charlie and good being with Charlie. We also played golf together. Wow. And then you ended up coaching. I ended up coaching because if you're, I don't know if you remember the history of it, but when the high school opened, it had, would it go through? It started with taking eighth grade, ninth, 10th, 11th and 12th. But then the other two junior highs are really going and so eighth grade disappeared. And that was as much as Whitey Waldo was qualified to teach. He wasn't qualified to teach the high school. Yeah. Leon was Leon. It's funny we were all in math, isn't it? Yes. Interesting. Leon became the head coach and they needed a JV coach. And so I got the job. Wow. JV coach. Yeah. And I had to, I never had a losing season out there. That was hard. That doesn't surprise me. Do you remember Lou Cosser? Yes. He came along and he became the sophomore coach when they did that. Wow. Great team. He ended up being a girl soccer coach. What a fantastic record. So we taught him well because he didn't play soccer. Wow. He just learned it by watching and looking and working with us with Leon and I. Yeah. But he became very smart as a coach. How did you meet my father? Well, I love music. I love music. And they went along to the concert, the first concert that was on, you know? And I heard him play that saxophone. Oh, my. Could he make it sing? Yeah. So being outgoing as I, as you would no doubt realize I am. I, you know, I just, I hadn't met him. Yep. And when I spoke to him and got involved that way, we chatted. Then, excuse me, once we got to be acquainted with that, we'd go to all of these concerts and I recorded them. I just put that booth up over there with an old reel-to-reel recorder and got the microphones out there and all of these concerts, band concerts and the concert concert. Yes. Yes. And when it came to, we got to go to up the Buffalo where your dad was born, right? Right. Yep. And with the drill team and band and everything, we were in the parade. Wow. And he needed, he needed somebody to come along and, you know, help look after the kids. Yep. So he asked me and we went up to Buffalo and well, that was a, that was a nice thing. And that was my first, I got to see a bit of Niagara as well. Oh, yes. Absolutely. We've been up there. Did you get to meet my grandparents? I didn't meet any of the family. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Well, that was a big treat. I have all those tapes here. Oh, you have. I have all, all those tapes. And then later we went down to Disneyland. The one in the world. Yep. Yep. Disneyland is California. And we, that was another trip we took together. Okay. That's wonderful. That's wonderful. And if you're, your dad remember had lost his hearing on the lower notes when they lost his leg, he lost his hearing there as well. So he asked me to pick him out. I find equipment, you know, we went along the Radio Shack, which was just, it was right there where the model is now. Yeah. And we got an amplifier and we got the tone table, we got the speakers and I set them up because he couldn't hear the lower notes. Right. Thought to a certain level, everything was fine. Yep. Interesting. Excuse me. And he even called the dog Saxie, didn't he? That's right. That's right. The dog was called Saxie. Music was his life. Saxophone is, oh, he had it. He wanted it as a youth. That's right. And he had another one, but he, he didn't particularly prefer to keep that saxophone that he won as a he had it repaired so many times. And that's right. Person who repaired it said, you know, Chick, this is not going to last much longer. You know, if this goes again, I'm afraid you've had it. Yes. Whatever happened to that saxophone? I have it right here. You don't play. I used to put, I used to put, no, I don't play that one. I would not ever attempt to play that one, but I played saxophone through high school and then a little bit after, but not much after. And I, you know, I consider myself someone who loves music, but I'm not a musician. He was a musician. He had that gift. He was a natural. Yeah. He was. He could make it, say. Oh, yes. But remember when he was blowing a trumpet when he burst something in an eye and he could only see halfway. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it didn't, didn't bother him. No, he carried right on. Never stopped him. That's right. Even with that artificial leg, he would still march, march, march. Yep. Oh, oh, he loved his music. Yes. Yeah. So you stayed with teaching long after I had graduated. And then at some point you, you said it's time to move on. Well, yes. Where we lived in Piscantui, it was growing, unfortunately. When we bought the house originally, there weren't houses all around us. There was a few and that was fine. But people that moved out to the country, the first thing they did was buy a dog or bring a dog and tie it outside and it would bark all day. And it drove my wife crazy. She actually sought help, medical help or psychologists to try and overcome this. But right across the road, directly across from us, was a big galsation. You call them German shepherds. And it was a policeman's dog. He was a policeman. And as soon as he would go to work, she would put it outside and bark at everything, kids, cats, birds, whatever. Brought my wife bananas at home and find her in tears. So we had to move. Yep. We had to move. And my father, by this time, had gone out on a trip to California and enjoyed it there. We set out, we had a travel trailer. It was about a 28 foot or something. And a big forward station wagon to pull it. And we just set out. We had to go to Florida first, because that aunt that I told you that Isabelle came over to when she was a child, she had died and we had to go and take care of the getting rid of the house, etc. and all the stuff. So we went down there with Isabelle's father and mother had come over to go with us because he would be the one who would inherit, you know. Yes. Yes. Being the brother. And then from there, we spent a Christmas down there in 78 under 79, went across country, came up to Albuquerque because some members of my church back in the Netherlands had retired to Rio de Janeiro, which was, you know, they advertised all over the place at the time, come and live here, you know. Yes. Buy a plot, an acre land or something. And so I came up here because the fellow who sang tenor with me in the choir, he had moved here. Wow. From here, we went over to California and then we found that houses there were a little bit more expensive. Yes. Yes. At that time, you were, they were in the 90s. Ha ha, I wish I'd bought one. Put an X for zero on it now. Oh dear, dear. Yeah. But we were, I also went up north just to see the country with the trailer and the kids. We had stopped to Grand Canyon and everything, you know. So it was a good trip anyway. Absolutely. Come to Washington and bite down again with, as I say, just looking at the, I quite liked Washington because it reminded me of a lot of Britain. The same kind of plants grow there. I could see fox collabs, I could see broom, I could see gorse, you know. Yeah. It just tugged a wee bit at the heartstrings. Yes, absolutely. But we didn't know anybody out there, you know. We looked at the property, but we decided we were, I needed to get a job. I had applied at a couple of schools, but you know, it doesn't, you don't transfer from one state to another. You've got to be re-qualified and lawyers and doctors and that was hard. No reciprocity, no necessarily. See, I could teach in Canada. They recognize everything from Britain. I could teach in Australia, New Zealand. My goodness. New Zealand was willing to pay my fare. Wow. Wow. By boat, you know, but and I had to promise to teach where they sent me for, I think it was two years, and then I could go anywhere. But I was to teach where I was needed. Exactly. Which was fine, you know. The only thing I get in there though is so far away. Right. You know, it's the other side of the world. Right. You don't exactly fly home. Right. Exactly. No. That was another reason that the United States, you know, you could get home and from New Jersey, well, from New York, it would only take six and a half hours. Right. Home. So last night wasn't too bad. Had your parents moved to the United States as well? They had, they moved, they came, dad came about just after Heather was born, 63 he came. And the following year, mom, Johnny and Margaret came over. Wow. That's wonderful. Yeah. And Isabel's family, did they come over? Isabel's family, no. They only came to visit. They were older. Isabel was the baby of the family. Okay. Yep. Whereas I was the number one child. Yes. And my dad worked here until he passed away. Unfortunately, at the age of 64 and 11 months, he never got a chance to retire. Very young. Yeah. He had a hard, he had a hard condition. When he was in the tank core, the first loathing and border Yeomanry, when Yeomanry are food soldiers, but he was in a tank, it was a tank core during the war. Well, they used to have to sleep under the tank for safety. Wow. He went, he didn't go over on D-Day. He went over just after D-Day. Wow. Wow. And the Americans used to laugh at them. The British would go in three ranks. The first rank would be firing, you know, the second rank ready to go in. And the third rank getting everything prepared behind. So when you were in that third rank, you had time for tea. Used to get what they called a billy can with full of dirt or petrol on it, set it alight and boil low water for the tea. Oh my goodness. British really did run on tea.  It's still my favorite drink. I'll be having a cup later. Oh, good. I'll have a cup with you. Oh, I really like, yeah, I can't function without my tea. Oh, that's crazy. So you ended up settling in New Mexico in the end. I ended up here, we came back because the prices here for houses were better. And besides, I had friends. It's kind of nice to have friends, isn't it? You know already. So we found a place to rent while we looked for a house for ourselves. And it was writing like three doors down from a friend of ours. So you know, that was fine. Wonderful. And then we bought a place and stayed there for a while until we built our own place or had it built. We picked out a design and had them build it out. We out in the Mesa. I had 2.78 acres that I was sitting on the desert. But it had a wonderful view of the Sandia Mountains. Wow. Now the peak there is, what, some 10,000 feet high. It doesn't look that because you're already on a plateau. 5,000 feet. So it only looks like that. But it was, you know, the sun comes up over it in the morning. It's quite something. That's beautiful. It was until somebody built a house between us and our view. They had, all the lots up there were acres. And he built at the back of it. If he'd built it up a bit, he would have had the view of the sand at the back. Nobody else could build on. Anyway, we decided our youngest daughter, our younger daughter, had moved to Texas. Her husband was a Texan. And he's hard anyway. I don't know. I think he was actually born there. But he, you know, he wore his stets and all that. He wore it to bed. Anyway, they moved and she was pregnant. So, you know, family who want to be there with the grandchildren, you know, we moved to Texas. We had a nice house in Salado, Texas. Then they were going to move to another part of Texas. And I, you know, I sing, I sing in a choir. I wasn't happy there in Texas with a choir or being without a choir. I was pulled back here, my old choir. Because my other, my older girl stayed here. And we used to come through like in the summertime and we'd come through again at Christmas time. And when I come home, I go with a choir. No other welcome, you know. I go with, oh, Bobby's here. Bobby's here. They missed you. So, I had that and Heather, of course, who, Heather was the actress. She was the one who went to New York to make her fortune and came back to New Mexico eventually. She did the circuit of, oh, through the, what are the, the Poconos. Oh, yeah, right. They had the Pocono Playhouse and it was up in New Hampshire that she went to as well. They had three of them and they took the shows, you know, in rotation around about them. So, she was a singer, dancer, actress, you know. Well, it was not paying money and she was, when she did finally come back to New Mexico, she weighed 97 pounds. Oh, boy. She's only, she's only about five foot two though, you know. Okay, yeah. But she was skinny. It was, it, it was costing her every penny she was making for a rent and just to keep going. Just, you know, whatever you could get. Their minimum, yeah, tough life. Yes, that's a tough one for acting, although I did, but only on the amateur stage. Right, right. That was one thing I did in high school. I joined the drama club. We used to do one act plays, but in those days I could learn lines like that. Now I can, I have to look inside my jacket to find out what I need to do. No, no question. Yeah. I have to, although I can't memorize music anymore. The tune is all right. That's in there. But I can't memorize the words of the music, so I have to have it always in front of me. Yeah, that makes sense. Last night, you know, if I get, we were site reading, as I call it, for the first time, you know, so you have, you have to look at the notes, the words, and the director. I have a tough time with that. I've slowed down quite a bit, Gary. I don't play soccer anymore. Now just watch. I haven't kicked the ball in ages. Did you coach? Must be about 10 years since I last kicked the ball. And with my granddaughter. How about coaching? Did you have you coached at all after you left? Oh, I, I, uh, oh, when I came here, I couldn't teach.  I would have to have taken you in Mexico history. Right. Cheers. As a math teacher, what was I going to do with you? Did you have to take New Jersey history when you came to New Jersey? No, New Jersey, New Jersey is good. Believe it or not, New Jersey is good. Interesting. They accepted me. No problem. Yeah, yeah. They did need some teachers, but they wasn't bad. When I got here, they said they had, you know, 100 applicants for 10 jobs or something like that. You know, great. Nowadays they'd give the right teachers. Yeah, that's exactly right. You're absolutely. There are out over 100 teachers short. Yep. I'm too old to take it out now. I would probably forgive the fact that I don't have any New Mexico history. I'm sure they would. No, no, yes. Inspiration. But it's a mixture of cultures, you know, a very large Hispanic group. There's the Navajo Nation. That's right. And the Apache. Yeah. South. And a lot of playblood as well. Yeah. It's really a hodgepodge and that's concerned. But that's fine. That's fine. You know, listen, we're getting close to the end of the interview. Are there anything that we haven't touched on that you would like to talk about? Oh, I don't know. We've been chatting away for nothing. How about any words of wisdom about life that you'd like to pass on to the audience? Get that education. Get that education. Really. And it really has to be when you're young. Or you have to be exceptional not to or to catch up if you start late. It's really from day one, learn, encourage them, encourage the kids to learn. Don't blame the teachers. You know, they're laying down with all the responsibilities. But my son is, he's pretty smart. He dropped out of high school and applied to UNM, University of New Mexico. And he dropped out in his senior year, actually. He wasn't challenged, unfortunately. He needs a challenge all the time. All the time, that boy. I understand that. That boy, that boy is 50. Yeah. Anyway, he is the entry exam. And then he came up to New Jersey after a year at UNM. He finished his education in New Jersey, working in a bank during what he could. And whatever else. Well, he graduated magna cum laude. So he's a pretty smart kid. He went to Southern California, UCSD. All the professors wanted there was help with his book. They have to publish apparently in California if they want to maintain their professorship or whatever. Yes, publish or perish. That's it, exactly. Publish or perish. So that wasn't for him. He's a bit of a rebel like his father. But you know we were rebels, because remember when we went on strike? When the two of us, dad and I, on the picket line. You know, that's an experience. We were having a meeting that night as well with the board and your dad said, well, why don't you just come home with me and have dinner with a little doll and I. And I called my wife and said, told her that Chick had invited me to dinner. That's when I first made McQuentin's with garlic. Oh boy. And it goes in everything I make. Oh, that's great. Yep. Again, my wife said she could smell me before she could see me. Yeah. Harry made a good Italian meal, that's for sure. Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. Oh, wonderful. Oh, listen, it's been great having you on the show. It's been great seeing you again. And I hope this is not the end. We'll do this again off TV. Well, we'll keep in touch this time. Absolutely. Thank you very much. All right, you're welcome.


What if you build a CD transport with a power supply that wouldn't be a mismatch for a lamp? Use the CD Pro 2 LF mechanism and build it in an extremely heavy cabinet. Then you get the Jace Audio CDT-3 MK3. From here on I name the Jace Audio CDT-3 MK3 the CDT-3. There must be a serious high end culture in China, given the number of serious brands coming from there. Jace Audio was new to me and when I read about the construction of their CDT-3 CD transport I was rather intrigued. Being involved with file based audio for so long I almost forgot there still are a lot of people that prefer a CD player. Now the CDT-3 isn't a CD player but only a CD transport, meaning that it doesn't contain the digital to analog converter. It has several digital outputs that are to be connected to an external DAC. Let's see where it has its place in your stereo. It is to be connected to a DAC over either AS-EBU, SPDIF, TOSLINK or I2S. That DAC then is connected to your amplifier over a pair of RCA or XLR cables, depending on your gear. The amp then drives the loudspeakers. The CD player can be controlled from the front on the player or using the infrared remote control. The CDT-3 has a full aluminium housing that measures 450 x 380 x 150mm and weighs 22 kilos. So it is about 17-20mm wider than is usual with full width equipment. And it is extremely heavy. Later on we will see what causes the weight. The front holds the power button, an LED that indicates the power status, the pause button, the play button, the stop button and the previous and next skip buttons. The 3.12 inch OLED display shows the track and time information, plus functions like repeat and random that can be activated from the remote control. On the rear we see the main switch that needs not be operated unless the player is not in use for a longer time, since there is a power button on the front that puts the player in standby. Next to it the shorter IEC mains inlet. Then the digital outputs, starting with AES-EBU on XLR, SPDIF on BNC, SPDIF on RCA and two I2S outputs, one on RJ45 that uses transistor to transistor logic, a single ended connection and one on HDMI that uses the low voltage differential signal system that is less susceptible to common mode noise. The HDMI labelling here might mislead people thinking that it can be connected directly to the HDMI input of an AV receiver, but that is not the case. You need to connect this to a DAC that has an I2S input on HDMI connector. The HDMI cable was chosen for its wide bandwidth. And even if your DAC has the same I2S input on HDMI, it still might not work since there are several pinouts versions on the market. J's audio adheres to the PS Audio Pinout, a wise choice since it is the pinout scheme I see the most. To the left we see the reference clock output and input for interfacing with other digital equipment and or external clock. Let's go back to the small toggle switch I skipped. It engages four times oversampling. When the top is removed, the first thing we see is the renowned CD-PRO 2LF transport. This is a very expensive mechanism, even secondhand they cost several hundreds of dollars. Then we see a board that contains a discreet linear power supply, probably to power the CD mechanism. And there is a second one that powers the digital output board. On that board the four times upsampler. The ADS3 inputs are all transformer decoupled. Note the Mundov capacitors here. The digital board is connected to the clock over a high quality HF connection. The board itself holds the oven controlled crystal oscillator and is powered by a third discreet linear power supply. This all is mounted on a machined aluminium baseplate with the circled boards recessed to avoid crosstalk. Front sides and back are mounted so that this baseplate is halfway resting on three pillars. If you think that's impressive, wait for when I turn over the player. For when the bottom is removed we see five TALMA encapsulated transformers with 105VA combined output, a field of diode, an array of voltage regulators and a half a circle board full of capacitors. I know a lot of amps that contain less power supply components. One last remark, the three pillars that support the central mounting plate stick through holes in the bottom plate and are terminated with shock absorbing feet. My mother would have said, that's the way to make even bricks taste great. I don't know if it works in English but I think you get the picture. The CDT-3 is a top loading player. The CD is loaded by sliding the transport lid backwards, taken out the disc clamp, placing the CD label up on the spindle, replacing the disc clamp and closing the lid. Then the play button on the front can be pressed to start playing. If you want more options, you use the remote control. This again is a fine piece of work, machined from a solid block of aluminium. It weighs almost 300 grams and lets you select track numbers, repeat, random play, scan, set volume and more. The CDT-3 is a CD player that accepts Redbook CDs, the ones you know. CD recordables and CD write reads. The latter two need to be recorded and finalised on a CD recorder. HD-CD, SACD and DSD are not supported. Of course I did the listening test in my setup 1, where the Air Acoustics AX520 amplifier drives the PMC FAC12 signature loudspeakers on Isoacoustic Gaia 2 isolators. They are connected to the amp over AudioQuest Robinhood 0 loudspeaker cable. The Chord Dave DAC was connected to the amp over Grimm Audio SQM XLR cables. The CDT-3 was connected to the DAVE over Siltek ADS EBU cable. All is placed in the CREATECH TREN3 rack. The CDT-3 has the relaxed sound you might expect in this class. It has a very fine and deep bass with good texture. The highs are also of fine quality while there is a good deep stereo image with reasonable good focus. It is the lower mids that offer a bit less resolution for its class. When the upsampling is engaged, this improves to a certain degree. Overall it is a good sounding player that I rank halfway between my setup 1B and 1A. The Dutch MSRP is €5,595 including 21% VAT. The price in US dollars is €4,998 but that is excluding sales tax. Looking at the build quality, that price is fully acceptable. Another nice machine this is. Although some think that CD players always sound better than network players, getting good sound quality out of a CD player is rather complex. As the inventor of the CD encoding scheme, Case Immink once told me, the CD player works thanks to the imperfection of the system. He meant the optical storage. The rock solid build quality of the CDT-3 might be a good thing but for instance the green audio player isn't built like this and still outplays the CDT-3 and rightly so since it's about twice the price. It shows that hi-fi and ratio are not always bad fellows. And on that bombshell, I'll end this video. I'll be back next Friday at 5pm central european time. If you don't want to miss that, subscribe to this channel or follow me on the social media so you will be informed when new videos are out. Help me reach even more people by giving this video a thumb up or link to this video on the social media. It is much appreciated. Many thanks to those viewers that support this channel financially, especially in these times. It keeps me independent and lets me improve the channel further. If that makes you feel like supporting my work too, the links are in the comments below this video on YouTube. 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We are back with our expert of the day. It's not his first time here. He always has a gem of wisdom when it comes to mental health and everything around it. Allow me to introduce Tere Morioki, who is a very passionate activist of positivity and good mental health. Karibu Sana. Asante, Mori, it's a pleasure to meet you again. We've been keeping well and at least we've done a lot for giving us help and being able to meet once again. Thank you for honouring us with your presence once more. I think you're becoming a fast-fave right among our audience. I love what I do. Politicians are happy when they meet people and embrace them. I'm happy when I assist a soul to come and realise this and this I need to change. Absolutely. Any time. Yes, that's your true calling. Thank you. And today is not different. We have this amazing young mum. Her name is Queen Muthel. She's gone through her own time well of now having a baby and not being in an okay mental state to take care of her baby. The more she kept telling her story, the more I kept realising. Oh my, this is something that is very common and I don't want to label it but it's a chance of having postpartum depression. And maybe from your professional perspective you can explain to us what postpartum depression is, factors about it, what are the symptoms and then we can also decipher towards the end how we can avoid it altogether or how we can actually deal with it when it arrives especially for young mums like herself. Please have the floor. Thank you and Karibu Muthel. Thank you. In simple terms to the language of every person, like I like avoiding all terms that are scientific. One thing, what is depression? It is trauma. And trauma that is beyond your mental capability. Actually in the medical world we do not have the real cause of depression. So they don't exactly tell you it is caused by this and that and that and that. They will give other many reasons. This causes this. Now back to depression. Depression simply I can call it sandiness that is not coming to an end. In simple language you are getting annoyed you are so unhappy until the unhappiness. I'm happy with you. It's done with you. Okay fine I'm staying too. You do not know how to deal with it. You do not know how to address your pain. In layman's language depression is pain that is billowed expression. I see. You've lost somebody. You've mooned. You've grieved. But you are aching until you can't ache anymore. And now this goes beyond trauma because you are already dealing with trauma. Now you go to the next level. You are depressed. Now you cannot tell the moon you are unable to deal with your feelings. You are not in touch with the reality around you. And you know the normal social realities.  Absolutely. And it happens all the time. I could be annoyed with you. You could be annoyed with me. But then after a few hours we are back. We are expected to go back. Now this one you don't come over it. Now when you get to that level like you are saying about her. The moment she sees that child it becomes a reminder of a painful experience. And who wants something that hurts them? No. Not anyone. And indeed she actually mentioned it. And she said every time I see my child I'll just remember. One minute this child was calm in the trauma. But the trauma I went through to bring that to the world. Just to push the baby. Yes. Without painting any profession. But these people help women and ladies to go through the process of delivery. And giving birth. If you ask me they need to go through serious training in the field of counseling. And handling human beings. I don't mean to say they don't know. Yes. But sometimes they do not understand when someone has crossed the path of their trauma and pain. And they do not assist instead they increase. They increase or they even create. Yes. Right. So now you find a lady who is coming out of giving birth. The voices that she had from the maternity. Right. The delivery room. Yes. The treatment she went through. Right. And then she realized. And it's true. By the way for you queen did that happen when you were in labor? The people who are assisting you kind to you? Yes they were kind to me because one of the nurses was my aunt. Oh okay. So they were treating me with care. Yes. But one of them was very ash. Oh no. Actually because I was trying to measure the. Yes yes yes with the fingers. The dialysis. Yes. Then I would cross my legs and rotate myself. Yes. Then they were so annoyed.  I can see. And we can identify already. Yes. From that. And I want to believe this was her first baby. Yes yes yes.  No one loves being called a mandara. No. However the trauma she is through in she is unable to reason and understand. Yes. The magnitude of what you are telling me. Absolutely. And you are two people not communicating. Right. One is in this world. And the other one is in another. She wants you to deliver so she can move on to the next one. And when they measure. I am not trying to teach them. Yes. But you realize. Yes. This is a person who has maybe the first child. Yes. Who has not been examined on a private parts. Very true. In public. Very true. I do not know why she is laughing. Yes. She should have experienced it. No I am remembering when I was about to give birth. Yes. Like I was feeling like true poop. Yes yes yes. Yes. The doctor said na kulete ando. Kuna ando mingya. So now they brought two parts. No. But unfortunately it was the baby. Oh. So I was with my mum there. Okay. My mum told me no don't continue. Yes. So I ran to the bed. Yes. Then when I slept there and opened my legs. I opened them myself. Yes. My friend and one to touch me. Yes. Yes. So now I saw the doctor. Amela and coming with those instruments. Yes. The instruments for delivery. Yes. Why? I just pushed the baby. Yes. And fainted. Oh my.  Yes.  To cut me because of the pain I was going through. Okay. The fingers, the needle. Yes. In fact they kept a needle to pierce my water. Oh wow. So it was. Yes. Oh. Sorry to hear that. And you can imagine. Yes. She passed out. Yes. Not because of what you say. Yes. The pain she was through. Yes. And this now brings us to looking at depression. Yes. It's a very painful experience that one goes to. Very true. And if as a society we can be able to help people walk through their painful experiences. Right. We can listen. Yes. The people who are turning into depression. Very true. Because losing a family member. You can be depressed and postpartum. There are so many causes of depression. One thing that is very clear. Depression has a root cause. Which is either physical. Yes. Or mental. Yes. Yes. And these two you cannot separate them. Very true. However when we go deeper into it we will not say this chemical, this neurotransmitter is not working. Yes. And so we can balance it. Yes. When you are in depression they will always give you antidepressant. Yes. So that they can know you and balance you. Yes.  It's true. So from a psychological perspective. Yes. How can we reduce pain and trauma. Yes. People go into depression through abuse. True. Have you ever thought of people who have been raped. They enter into serious depression. Yes. Because this is not what I expected. Yes. This is not what I planned. Yes. If we ask her our imagination of having a baby. Yes. And what she went through. That day and night. Absolutely. And that is not what she had begging for. Exactly. To start with. Exactly. And that is why. Now coupled with the pain that she went through in the process. Yes. I do not know Muzewa story. But if my experience. I have delivery problems and issues. Yes. I can almost tell the yandan issue with the boy friend. It's true. Right? It's true. It's true. It's true. So this depression is not a car when she gave birth. It's true. It's a car a long time ago. Yes. Maybe she was rejected. Yes. Actually just for matters and purposes of just recovering. She had actually lost her first pregnancy with the same boy friend. And then months later she became pregnant.  We're going to have a baby. She was only a baby. She was a baby herself. Yes. And then she has this boy who at that point he is just having his fun. And he's not going through half of the things she's going through. Carrying this child, delivering it. But he's a boy who is just observing from another perspective. So yes. And that's the closest person she expects to go through the journey with. And those are the places where our depression gets to the rooftop. Because there is no day I expect my partner, my child. Yes. My mother to neglect me or to do a negative thing that causes me pain. Exactly. And because it is done by my mother, I am able to understand. Yes. How could ma'am do this? Imagine Maureen if you put something or hurt me. It is easy for me to deal with it. Sure. I will say Maureen nimuki kwe. Yes. Maureen nandikwana. I will have reasons that give me an opportunity to overcome and cope. Absolutely. It's true. Wait until Maureen will become my darling. Yes. How could Maureen do this? How can she do this? Yes. And I am unable to come out of it. Very true. So if we can be able to address our sources of depression and trauma and pain. Yes. Because it is not the depression that comes. It is trauma and the pain that comes first. It is the cause. Now when it is, I am unable to deal with it. What can we do? My body moves. It moves and it goes into a state of... My mind realizes we are in danger. Yes. We have to do this so that we can address this. Exactly. And that happened to her a lot. And her thoughts were this baby I don't want to hold it. I don't want anything to do with it. In fact, at some point her baby was so malnourished. Yes. And it's only because she was unable to feed this baby. And then I think everyone around her...  They started taking the baby away from me. Exactly. And she sent me to you. Yes. So that I can interact with people. Yes. Friends. Yes. I think it all comes down to purposes of ignorance. Yes. Once people do not know what they are dealing with. How can they resolve it? Now unfortunately in Africa, in our country, we do not have deep understanding on how to help people who are grieving, who are in pain, who are suffering trauma. We actually aggravate the issue. It's true. One of the best solutions for someone who is going through painful moment is to allow them to be themselves. It's true. And it's one way to allow the body, the mind to do what it needs to do. If they are making noise, she was in a family setup. The best if she was undressing. Most people undress. Sure. Allow them. Yes. Allow them. Okay. As long as the environment is safe. Yes. If for example it's a time when daddy is not there, it's a big girl, mother, brothers are not there. Yes. And sometimes we feel to remember it is in the family where our shame is supposed to be protected. It's true. Unfortunately we don't do that. It's exposed actually. Yes. Now we cause more pain. Because I always agree with people. It's the worst if she's undressing, if she's making noise. Allow her. Make sure there's no object she can harm herself. Right. Let her be with time. If it has reached some levels, mix it with medication. With time it is easy to come out of depression when you are in the right support. Absolutely. Than when your support system is pushing you away. Allow saying and pushing you away. Or aggravating. By calling new names. Yes. And by hurting you. Right. Right. Now when we go in pain and trauma, that is when we are reminded Uliaribu Pensa, Kukuni Skisah. Kupichongumu. Like for her self-blame also. When she was like Muna nilizan kuwama dogwa in it. Yes. And I can maybe tell it was coming from the family. Of course. It's always the family. So she starts asking. So I am good for nothing. My esteem dives down. I have no word for I. And that's the end of it. When we lack word, there's no meaning of living. So you feel I am not needed. Actually. No wonder we have so many people in depression and trauma. Yes. Thinking of killing themselves. It's true. Because they have lost it. It's a never ending tunnel. Yes. That's dark. Every day it gets dark, darker, darker. And you do not see. Right. The end of your way. Especially. And not only is it mental, but what is mental also transpires to be physical. To be physical. Because personally having gone through actual depression, actually postpartum depression and actual depression, I'll find myself never wanting to get out of bed, never wanting to open the curtains, losing interest in everything, not being able to eat. It's never ending and it's physical manifestation as it is mental. And what I'm hearing is this hope. This hope to just go through it, but most importantly, recognise it. So, with your final remarks, for instance, we speak about the general depression, but it's the same depression that comes with postpartum. What would you tell people out there, especially again young parents like Queen and also parents of Queen and the family members around them who actually are in charge of this person. What message can you send them out there? One word. Love. At that particular time, I know it's the most difficult time for both the caregiver and the person who is in pain. But when you love, I am able not to push the person deeper into the state. One thing is very common anyone who is in depression or one who is in pain, they always get back on even if it is for a few seconds. What word do I release when they have come back on? At that particular time, they may ask, ma'am, am I that bad really? It's the moment the mother should wake up hard the child and assure them you are my best. You don't know how far that takes the person. It's true and I agree. Because they are down they are only looking for affirmation assurance that I am not a right of. And once you do that, you reassure in small bits so they say, ma'am, do you love me? You are the best child. I do love you. I have said the word, hug. It is the greatest thing you can offer that you don't need to pay for. It shows attachment. Protection. Cover. The moment those things are done you might be shocked at the weight of recovery of the person. But now when they ask those questions and you offer something negative you push them because they are asking from the premise they are having doubts about themselves. They have a state they are in they can see where they are they are wondering will I ever make it absolutely or will I move forward from this. And the person they are asking is a caregiver someone who has authority and they have all what it takes to help the person come back to themselves and with love I can assure you it's the best medicine and it breaks barriers it overcomes everything and that's what I can say is the most thing because when they come for therapy we don't over much an animal we call Yes Unconditional positive regard and we give them an environment to express themselves without judgment without coordination and we start the journey of recovery I believe even families can do the same. And should anyone want to reach you where can they find you? Thank you I am based at View Park Towers the 15th floor door number 11 and I practice under the name Papas Cancelling and Wellness Center this is where we transform minds from this to that and I have seen tremendous change all what they need is to carve courage and walk to Papas and the journey of recovery very few cases of any with a lot of cases of success and I'm not drumming I'm not beating my drums that's the reality and I know therapy works therapy works and everybody needs a bit of therapy Queen your last words to a young mum like you out there to a mum who is like your mum out there who doesn't know what's happening I think they should just understand their daughters they should not even look down upon them like they start telling them those bad words because of the depression and actually they should bring them closer so that the daughters will be able to share everything now just like my mum back then I would not talk to mum some things but now I'm free I can just tell my mum everything okay and should anyone want to reach out hear more about your story where can they find you your social media do you have social media handles yes okay I just want to thank you both for again sitting down with me and sharing from the bottom of your heart this transformational journey of the nest it's a safe space kiyota and you're welcome again and I hope that you keep spreading hope and being an activist of saying it is okay not to be okay and everything comes to an end thank you so much for always giving us a gym a gym of wisdom for accepting our invitation and again like I said you'll be coming in a first favorite on the nest guys kinacho, moanzo, kinamusha pier and this is where we conclude today's program on postpartum depression I hope you've learned something the takeaway for the day is love love love love love cures it all love with hugs love with therapy show and tell that person who could be going through this thing called depression which we do not know where it comes from but at least we know it is brought by a traumatic event can be overcome let's be kind to one another professionals out there especially people who come into transition with mums always have an encouraging word and we can make this world a better place by bringing home happy mums who will bring up happy children should you want to reach us you can always get us on our social media handles at Y254 TV you can also reach me on NYT2 on all my social media pages and you can share your story and get in touch so that we can keep nesting on the nest special thanks to the crew my director, my producer and also Tomoka Kofi for hosting us every time and for your delicious coffee and again today I'm dressed by Boss Bebs Boss Bebs 254 I really love the look from Strines and Cows by Mo and everything else is good see you next week sometime simply


the sounds of 18 wheels humming down the highway fresh air we're just missing the birds chirping where are the birds oh yeah it's fall time it's getting cold they're all gone it's sad winter's gone oh wait there they are they're just not singing you guys not having a good day or what start singing you're supposed to be singing it's morning time the best part of waking up in the country i guess in the city too you notice it a little bit but uh it's the birds singing in the morning i don't know if i like it diesel don't eat that come on this garbage i know like look at all this how does all this garbage get here how does that happen there are garbage cans right over there people good morning everybody it's gonna be a good day you want to know why we're going home today oh i'm excited i'm excited i'm excited to see what uh what the house looks like now that it's more settled in and stuff and i'm excited to continue the process there's a lot of uh moving around i gotta do yet uh she's she's organized everything for me now i've sort of got to take everything to storage and uh we've got to get our camper out of our driveway and bring it to our land and uh go to the land i can bring there uh bring you there tomorrow show you around there and uh explain to you what we're going to do with it we'll be home for a couple of days i'm excited first we have to deliver this load though are you ready to go home we're going to go deliver this freight and then we're going to go home you excited i'm excited who wouldn't be excited all right you got to get in the truck though there you go old man so i'm at the manitoba ontario border at the rest area on the ontario side so i've got about an hour and a half to win a peg and they're supposed to live unload me today it's got two levels on it again so it's probably going to take them a little while so we're going to go sit in the dock there wait for them to unload me as soon as i'm unloaded i'm going to rush back to the yard our own yard clean up the trailer make it ready for the next person get all my stuff into the pickup give this truck a good little clean out so that they the the shop can get into a clean truck because they're going to service it and do some maintenance on it while i'm gone or while i'm at home and then we're going to take ourselves home home diesel i know you're excited i know you're excited you're going to hardly contain your excitement i'm just gonna quickly go ask them if they want me on the dock helping them or if they want me to stay in my truck every place is different most places nowadays actually they want me to sustain my truck which i'm perfectly fine with i got lots of games to play some places they still don't care and they want you on the dock helping them so better to ask them to just assume never assume they don't want us on the dock definitely don't want us on the dock they didn't even seem happy that i asked but hey just wanted to know if they needed some help trucker josh was willing to help he was willing to work you don't want trucker josh's help i'm okay not working i'm gonna go back here and relax play some games on my phone maybe even pull out the computer play some civilization i don't know diesel what do you want to do want to play some tic-tac-toe or something oh i always win and you get mad no fun playing with people who get mad when they lose we call them sore losers say good boy are you ready to go home ready to go home our new house our new home mom is waiting for us and chevy and frankie and weiner you're excited and grandma's coming down this weekend i heard but its mom is coming to spend the weekend at our house you know what that means she gives lots of treats doesn't she she does you can get a little bigger aren't you gamm is gonna give you all kinds of treats yeah look at this tail going over here gamm it means treats man i like to treat she spoils you guys i know so we have a lot of plans for while i'm at home i'm scheduled to be at home until thursday now i believe or friday kind of hoping it's going to be friday because i need an extra day to get a few things done on thursday we're getting a the utilities to come out and mark where the underground lines and gas lines and hydro and everything is so that we can start building our fence around our yard i haven't even shown you the yard yet that's how little time we spent at our new house had to go right to work right away so those are coming on thursday uh there's a whole bunch of stuff that needs to go into storage uh stored away at the house i've got to take that to storage i'm storing a couple of things at my dad's shop got to do that we've got to take our camper which is in our driveway right now got to get it out of there because there's no room for it and bring it to our our land outside of town set it up there and you know set up security systems and stuff make sure that everything's okay there and uh show you guys around the land got to take some garbage away still do a few garbage runs get settled in and i want to just relax and sit and do nothing for at least a couple of hours i just i just want to sit there and i want to watch my tv or my youtube and just sit we'll see if we have time for that there's not always time for sitting there's always work to be done so we'll see what happens i'll take you i'll take you guys with me as soon as we're unloaded here we'll start heading towards the house i think brit's mom is getting to our house today i'm supposed to let them know when i'm going to be home once i know i don't know yet so that uh i can let her into the house i don't think she's got keys to our house we usually let our family have keys to the house but we just moved there we just got keys to the house so we've got to make a few copies we changed all the locks and door knobs when you do buy a new house it's a good thing to do as soon as you move in as soon as you take possession change the door knobs change the locks because you know the previous owners they're usually honest people and they give up all their keys uh but you you just don't know you don't really want other people having keys to your house just change the lock so that's what we did so we still got to make keys to the new locks and you get it i'm excited to go home all right let's go see what uh kind of mess they left for me in there i have a feeling that because they use two floors i have a feeling they didn't clean it up at all that i'm gonna have to clean it up which i guess is to be expected but let's go see how bad it is ready for this ready for this oh oh it's not even that bad they even organized them all on the side here for me i just got to bring them all to the front and there you go ready for the next driver first we had a gang of skunks out in ontario in manitoba we got a problem with gangs too the gangs of goose geese gooses what's going on guys they'll attack you winter's coming bud why aren't you going south already i'd be in mexico already man look at these guys look at these guys think they're all tough walking around their little gang some over there on the right two man they're everywhere diesel hey diesel we're on the way buddy last step we're in the pickup now took a little bit uh it takes a little while to get loaded up into the truck and into the pickup here from the semi truck and he gets so impatient when he knows we're going home i wonder if he even knows like that we're going to the new house do you remember the new house diesel we only spent two nights there we had to go we're going home do you know where home is home we'd wear mommies and chevy jesus we're home did you see me what is this let's get this out of here let's get this out of here hey guys watch your little brother watch your little brother hey guys chevy chevy watch the little guys hi buddy hi guys i'm back i'm back you guys like the little house getting a warm welcome when you come home hey guys so let's see what brit's done in here wow there's no fighting come on chevy show me around show me around this place looks so nice now look at this wow chevy did you help did you help looking great oh and i got there's a note on the stove for me that's nice i just made my day that's nice hey buddy hey i missed you too man i missed you too oh guys guys guys don't fight over me there's plenty of me to go around plenty of me to go around oh chevy you big boy you've been okay you want to hug oh why didn't you just say so give oh give me a hug give me a hug give me a hug come on oh okay i'm not supposed to you mom says i'm not supposed to jump i missed you too guys i missed you too now can i say hi to the little guys chevy go go chevy calm down i want to say hi to the little guys all right let's see the rest of the house there it is so we need to buy a new bed frame yet but uh this is all wow chevy wow look at this look at this and our spare bed remember all those boxes that were in here remember that look at it now it's my first time seeing this wow so there's still some work to do like i said but wow look at this place they did a phenomenal job wow hashtag impressed chevy hey guys okay i'm gonna get all my stuff in here britt's mom is gonna be here in about 45 minutes and i want to settle in and have a shower before she gets here britt does that work right now she'll be home later on this evening i think i think that's it okay lots to do talk to you later so our camper is right here beside our house in the driveway we're gonna be taking this to our land tomorrow because it's taking up too much space here but for tonight this is our very first bonfire i know you can't really see anything but this is a special night this is our first bonfire at our new place it's been a good day it's good to be home again tomorrow's going to be a busy day a lot to get done hope you guys tune in though it should be a lot of fun i'll see you then don't forget to subscribe and we'll see you tomorrow


Hello everybody, Andrea Majeski here with Dental and Mobile Hygiene. So what I started doing, which is such a great idea I didn't think about it initially. It was actually a patient of mine where I was cleaning her teeth I believe she was a nurse or she is a nurse and we just kind of got talking and She had said that there there would be a need for me to go to patients houses who had a Special need of some kind. So if they were autistic if they had MS if they you know on Parkinson's evening, you know Just special needs types of patients where having them leave their house is quite difficult You know, it could turn into a whole four-hour a four-hour affair to leave your house because depending on if they have a caregiver or not they might have to call for Transportation they might be behind and then the dental office might not be able to see them if they're that far behind You know type thing and I said that is such a good idea because quite often Everybody needs their teeth clean But for a lot of people it's just difficult to leave the house or yes They want their teeth clean but they don't want to have to do it, you know for four You know four hours to have to wait for transportation to pick them up and just some days are just easier than others I've seen a lot of patients where sometimes their back even is so sore They're in so much pain that they will call the office and say I know that I was supposed to come in to get my teeth clean today But I can't I am so sore. I can I can hardly move Now I'm not saying that me seeing them at their home makes it any easier But if they want their teeth cleaned it does make it so much easier for them because they don't have to leave the House, you know, they can take their time They can do what they have to do and then I just come to see them when they're Ready and able to so that has been huge for me being able to see people in their homes You know, it doesn't it doesn't matter if you're a child adult senior just anybody who would rather not leave their house and They would just prefer me to come see them Even I remember when my grandparents weren't in the nursing home yet They had pretty much 24 hour care at their house because at the time we were looking into nursing homes And they couldn't be alone, you know on their own and even that even trying to find Nurses, you know agencies with where the nurses were available to come To the house and stay for more than an hour was impossible. It was so hard to find anybody or We would find people but then to have them stay overnight or you know from 2 a.m. Till 8 a.m They might not have anybody well What if something happens? What if one of them woke up in the middle of the night not knowing where they were and tried to leave? So we always needed somebody there, but it was so hard So bringing anybody to come to them was almost impossible even even having Food brought to them was so hard So just to be able, you know if they could have had their teeth cleaned too because I would have been able to come to them I mean at that time I didn't have all of this Set up but now that I do it's just amazing how People are coming out of nowhere saying oh my goodness. That is such a great idea I know, you know so-and-so so-and-so and so-and-so who would love to have their teeth cleaned at their house While you're there Can you also see this person this person this person so it's amazing and the best thing is too is that the cost is so much less And there's no rush, you know, I am I am always on time because I I Keep track of my own schedule. I don't book patients back to back I see one person however long it takes me is how long it takes me because I would like to give them as much You know care as I possibly can and not have to think Sorry, I just heard something on that side. Sorry guys Tom had left so I just wasn't sure what the dogs were up to but um, yeah, it's just so much easier to see people at the house It's just so much better and I love being able to help people I I hear all the time now like oh my goodness I didn't know it was possible to have a dental hygienist see me in my house if I had known that would have been Like a night and day easier for everybody So I'm happy to help you guys if you need me let me know and thank you as always for watching Make sure to click a like on my page on Facebook. I do have the link on the bottom That would be amazing. If you have any questions ask me anytime. Thank you so much for watching


Alright. Alright. So can you please introduce yourself and what do you do? Sure. My name is Noah Samuels. I am deputy director and paralegal with the Northwest Consumer Law Center here in Seattle. Essentially it's a small non-profit law firm that helps out low and moderate income families with consumer financial legal issues like mortgage foreclosure, bankruptcy, debt collection, student loans and auto fraud. And we also do a lot of education and outreach to communities as well to empower consumers with the knowledge and resources to protect their rights. Very cool. So it sounds like the legal area that you are an expert in is very similar to the theme of this game jam. What do you think about this game jam taking on that theme? I think it's great. There was just a study released in Washington called the 2015 Civil Legal Needs Study Update that studied the legal problems most faced by low income communities across Washington state. And the huge difference that they noticed between this study and the study that they did about 12 years ago was that consumer has jumped to basically the top of the list just under health care. So it is an incredibly prevalent problem among people who need legal health but cannot afford it. So I think the time is right now to just rally our resources around giving consumer legal help to people. And this game jam is a great way to do it because technology is, I would say, where it's at now with legal services because people have smartphones and people have access to computers more than they used to, even low income people to a degree, you know. And also because there's always this challenge of not enough physical human beings who are lawyers or even paralegals or whatever to give legal assistance to people, we need some kind of way to augment that. And what better way to do that than through technology like smart phone apps or websites or things like that, games. Cool. What are some of the common pitfalls that you see over and over again when working with consumer affairs? Well, I think a pitfall, I mean, could you define your question a little more? I guess, you know, what is something I guess that is a major problem that you just see over and over that the everyday person might not notice and might accidentally stumble into? That's a good question. I think one major problem is medical debt is a huge issue. People, you know, we're in America where we don't have the kind of healthcare that can cover everybody. So people incur medical debt. And there's a program in Washington state called Charity Care where if you are low income or even moderate income, you can either get your medical bill paid for by the hospital or at least a discount on it, right? And a pitfall is people don't know about that. Hospitals don't let people know. So they rack up this debt. They get sued for it. They could have Charity Care to wipe it out and not be sued, right? Not go to court, not get a judgment against them, but they don't know. Nobody told them, you know? So that's a big pitfall. So I guess my message to consumers out there would be if you have medical debt, look into Charity Care. And that's only for Washington state, right? Okay. Other states may have it, but my organization focuses on Washington state. So that's kind of all I know. Very cool. And I guess one last question to wrap it up. What do you think about these people trying to make like the legal advice or trying to teach people about legal issues, especially when it comes to like low income, into interactive video games? I think it's totally cool. I think it's awesome. It's an avenue that, it's fresh. It's a different avenue. You know, when people think of law, what do they think of?  Guilty your honor, right? Instead of like, well, I can go on my phone and find out my legal rights and maybe stop myself from getting in huge trouble when I don't have to because I know something. So I love it. I think this is totally cool that like all these young hip people are all, you know, kind of getting involved in this. I think it's awesome. Awesome. Thank you very much for your time Noah. You're welcome.


trial-by-trial interobserver agreement. This one's a bit more conservative and a good method for using. All you're gonna try to do is look at whether or not you agree to each interval, right? So did person A agree with person B during that particular interval? If so, yay, divide the number of agreeing trials or intervals by the number of total intervals that you have and you end up with a trial-by-trial IOA. Of course, that's a little ratio that you end up with. Multiply 100 to get your percentage and you're good. So did Bob see me picking my nose and did Jim see me picking my nose? So we can do that for each interval. If they agreed, yay, great, congratulations. Then we can count that. So trial-by-trial, we get a ratio overall. Multiply by 100 and you're done. That's it.


So the following paper presents results, specifics, and problems which we are dealing with during research in Bogic woodland in northern part of Poland. Area of woodland which we are interested in belongs to the cooperative city and is located in the middle northern part of Polish Baltic coast, research area, covers approximately 1,400 hectares. So this is cooperative city and that's the place, the area of research and that's mostly the place where all the sites that will be analyzed are located. The area was formed by Vistulian glacier, the entire forest is not heavily modified by then, mostly because terrain was closed until 1990s, early 1990s when the Soviet air base in Bogic was closed and abandoned by Russian troops and then the area was reopened to the public. It is dominated by oak and beech trees, however intensive forestry is carried out at present. The oldest oak tree within the area is named Bolesław and it is about 800 years old. The whole area is part of the Nature 2000 project. The beginning of the research of the area is connected with the discovery of big part of cementsry in 2016 on airman laser scanning digital terrain model Derigate. So basically this is the cementsry we're talking about and it was discovered by coincidence. I was searching through the data, looking at the former Soviet base for buildings which were related to the storage of nuclear warheads and then I noticed that place and I said, ask Marta if she can check it out and she discovered that this is actually something meaningful though. So this is also the question when the archaeological discovery is made, when we notice something or when we actually learn what it is and see and can narrative its value. I believe this is the second case when we actually learn something about the place then we make a discovery not through basic notice of something that is quite unusual and should not be there. So due to geographical division of poem, the cementsry is located on the border of two measure regions, Slovenian coast and the older plane, approximately two and a half kilometers from the Baltic seashore. Sea is located on a slope of moraine upland at the height of 16 to 18 meters above sea level. And now something about the data we use. Information about special plan of the site came from analysis of ALS, DTM, the rigor. The data was taken from ESO's governmental program. Our density of process point was about four points per square meter. Archaeological site was scanned on 5th of April, 2012 and it had a positive influence on the quality of collected data because in this period of vegetation was not intensive and light up penetration was quite high. The point that was reclassified for the purpose of identification of archaeological relics created DTM has various of sites, half meter by half meter. Based on obtained DTM, several derivatives were created and some of them you can see here and that kind of visualization was then interpreted in GIS environment. The obtained data was vectorized to generate special plan of the cementure and to determine the approximate number of the mounds present in the area. Additionally the results of interpretations were verified during field reconnaissance, field walking to recognize chronology of the site. The decision was made about limited excavation or excavations of one of the barrels. Analysis of field walking, analysis and field walking verification led to the conclusion that all together about 57 mounds of varying size are present at site. Diameter of well preserved mounds ranges from 7 to 25 meters and barrel on eastern side of the road seems to be better preserved and their height varies from 0.4 to 1.5 meters. So as you can see the road cut the cementure later on I will be talking about that as well. Unfortunately part of the site was seriously damaged as these 10 mounds were destroyed by construction of the road by German Wehrmacht during their retreat from the air base in baggage at the end of Second World War. In most cases barrels were cut in half by the road whereas no information about any finds which may appear during construction works but we have to remember that it was last month of the war so nobody really cared about archaeology and think as the site war. Other destruction were caused by heavy vehicles and over old cars. Because of very wet terrain car was deeply penetrated the ground this situation led to a serious damage of the structure. Also activity of wild animals like foxes, badgers has an impact on their state of preservation not worth it is the destruction activity of detectors who happen to looking for some treasures there as well. The central part of the mound that was designated for ecological excavation was destroyed which most certainly was a result of mechanical removal of a tree growing on the barrel stove. Traces of this action are quite well visible on the LiDARB deliveries. It was also confirmed by terrain profiles based on DPM where in matter of the mound was quite well visible with an exception in the northwestern part. During excavation we noticed that barrel adheres to a small mound which was not being visible at the beginning of the research. So basically you got barrel here which was excavated. This is the place of destruction from removal of the tree that was growing on the top of it and that's the place where the small mound was located due to excavations. Actually you can see that it is visible at the derivative but at the beginning during the analysis of this derivative we did not notice it. So again the question when the discovery is actually made and we have this feature in the data because we did not notice it and those are of course terrain profiles with the destruction visible in the middle. And those are some pictures from excavations just to let you know how the site looks like. In the forest. And during excavations it was discovered that we are dealing with a barrel site of Gilbarc culture. Of course it shouldn't be there according to the current knowledge. So if you look at this map, this is the place where this barrel site is located and before that it was empty spot that nobody told that Gilbarc site can be located within this area. It was perceived as empty space until now. During our excavations in the woodland it turns out that many people knew about the site. It just happened that nobody ever reported it. For various reasons, maybe mainly because they did not know how to report it and to whom. It appears that both forest and local residents have some knowledge about the archeological sites in the area. We have started getting emails with information about sites not necessarily in the woods but we noticed that something was changing and people really wanted to cooperate with us. Thus we formalized the project. Main purpose of our project is not invasive archeological research of the forest area between villages of Kondelnos, Tramnicka and Bagic near Kowoczek as well as surveys of the coastal area near the former Bagic area. And those are following project stages. So archival queries and analysis of urban laser scanning data some pathological and biochemical analysis, palinology analysis from the context surrounding the sites, field verification of the sites of field walking, some limited excavations, geophysical surveys and in the end popularization of the results of the research. An important part of our project is cooperation with local environments such as museums, history enthusiasts, forest management and metal detectors. Without them conducting of our research would be impossible or at least very difficult. The forest ranger has the knowledge of what to take into account during field walks. The local explorers and metal detectorists are very helpful during surveys due to their experience with metal detecting equipment. At the same time this cooperation led to grow a mutual trust and those shows the need for presenting the results in less scientific and more popular form. It is also important because the destruction of the mumps goes on. We finished first stage of field surveys recently. We already took samples for palinology on the forested area, we noticed five new sites as well. We also started biochemical analysis of the grays from baggage. And the new site, new baro site was also located. It was registered to be the interpretation of LiDAR data and actually it's located in the area of Moran Hills with height of site nine to six meters above sea level with a distance of 20 baros on site, the diameter of which is in the range of five to seven meters and the average height does not exceed one meter. The barrier mumps are quite well preserved. They do not bear traces of destruction as a result of forest management or illegal penetration by the factories. So it appears that the site was unknown to anybody, even the local residents. And we have no idea of the chronology of those baros, but we will return the distance of 800 meters from the backend site, the site I was looking at the beginning about. Objects were registered that looked like another barrier mumps and have to be verified, so those are such places. But we are not sure yet if those are actually baros of something related to the forest management. Reset of the young forest area resulted in discovery of few fragments of pottery and the roots from the younger period of Roman Iron Age. We also found medieval art, probably, and probably the probable remains of graveyard of Pomeranian cultures that's probably one of the graves. Okay. In addition, during the research in the woods, we were able to register the object which could be interpreted as neolithic rondel near the forest. This unusual discovery was confirmed by our political material recognized during salvage. As you can see here, we've got vertical aerial photography and I believe it was taken from Google Earth and we can see here positive crop marks which marked the place where the backsuit ditch was placed. And that's the field where the site is located. We put your attention to the popular aspect of our research, so we are preparing website, we are going to schools, forestry and local museums with lectures. In October, we will be filming our research at the end of our project. We will present our research in a popular publication. In our case, the W.S. Ford is the popularization of archeology. We try not to keep our research secret or to talk about it as much as possible. Therefore, we encountered various surprises such as occasional destruction of burial mounds. Some other problems are related to the specifics of the salvage itself. Of course, salvage can only be carried out in the area of young forests. In other cases, we can try only to find artifacts in dens or pits, so we often do not have the possibility to state the chronological sites. Despite many inconveniences, at the first stage of the research, we were able to register many archeological sites in connection with this, and the studies conducted by us covered the empty spots on the map that was the forest of baggage so far. The results are so interesting that they have a real influence on what we know about the archeology of Northern Poland. Already, we have noticed two sites, which should not be there, according to the current knowledge. Therefore, we have nothing else able to re-enter the forest to continue our work. Thank you very much for your attention.