Chairman of WTDC 2017, Mr. Oscar Martin Gonzales, Honorable Ministers here present, heads of delegation, the Secretary General of ITU, Mr. Hulindzao, ITU elected officials, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen, a very good morning to you. The Republic of Zimbabwe commands the ITU and our gracious host, the government of Argentina for their stailing efforts in putting together such excellent facilities and creating the ambience for what has so far been an engaging, progressive, and interactive world telecommunication development conference. We appreciate the warmth with which the people of Buenos Aires have welcomed us. Ladies and gentlemen, we meet once again under the umbrella of the ITU to share experiences, reminisce of a progress of the ITC sector for the four years gone, consider programs and strategies, and ultimately set a trajectory for ICT growth, development, and integration in the next four year cycle for the betterment of mankind. This is indeed a noble task for a very good cause. Zimbabwe cherishes WTDC 2017 as a landmark global conference, as it is the first such forum to take place after the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals. It is therefore, without doubt, that ICTs for Sustainable Development Goals, ICT for SDGs is a befitting theme for this WTDC. Zimbabwe will work with fellow delegates in crafting strategies and action plans that can push the global community towards the attainment of the SDGs by 2030 in the process to deliver a better connected world over the next four years. Mr. Chairman, as we look towards the next developmental cycle, we need to cast our eyes into the rear view mirror and take note of what was achieved under the Dubai Action Plan of 2014. Our assessment is that much has been done and milestones achieved, particularly in the areas of capacity building, ICTs for disaster management and climate adoption, digital inclusion, telemedicine, and spectrum management to name just a few. To this end, I'd like to sincerely thank the ITU for the assistance we received for the implementation of a telemedicine project involving the connection to each other of clinics in remote rural areas, district hospitals, provincial hospitals, and referral medical centers. The project is crucial to Zimbabwe as it improves access and delivery of medical services to undersaved remote and rural areas and moves Zimbabwe closer to attaining universal health coverage and indeed the SDG goal on good health and well-being. Ladies and gentlemen, apart from the telemedicine project, we have registered a great success in the area of access and accessibility. We have installed over 200 community information centers, 80 of them in 2017 alone at post offices across the country. These CICs, as we call them, provide local communities with access to high-speed internet, printing and other related services at sub-commercial and affordable rates. The CICs have brought access to all genders in Zimbabwe, particularly in rural areas, thereby making progress in bridging the digital divide and ensuring gender equality in terms of access, in line with the SDG on gender equality and the goal on reducing inequalities. We are also continuously implementing the school's digitalization program. Currently, we are connecting 1,300 schools to the internet. We have noted with delight that we are on cost to achieving the goal on quality education. The high literacy levels in Zimbabwe are evidence of all robust education policies aided by ICTs. These efforts have seen increased use of ICTs in undersaved areas by all genders of our people and our people are becoming digital natives. The groundwork has been completed for a major ICT infrastructure project involving the construction of over 500 units of towers and the extension of the national backbone fiber network across the country. This will result in a massive rollout of broadband to all corners of the country. With regards to the SDG on elimination of hunger, the ICT sector is partnered with the agricultural sector by conveying information on farming inputs, weather, transport details, and offering insurance related applications for the success of Zimbabwe's command agriculture and presidential input programs. This has seen grain reserves for the staple grain hit the 1 million ton mark and are expected to exceed the usual requirements for the country. No one will go hungry in Zimbabwe. We are living no stone and tent in ensuring that together with the rest of the ITU community we achieve the sustainable goals. With regards to the agenda of this conference, Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, we are pleased to note that WTDC17 will consider matters and challenges that are crucial to all regions of the world, Africa included, as emerging technologies that applications and trends including cloud services, big data, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, IMT 2020 Broaden. It is rather tempting to run with the mill for getting to carry along with us that which we could not accomplish in the last developmental cycle. A case in point is the need to do more on bridging the gender divide. Indeed, Mr. Chairman, it is true that much effort has been exerted in this area and considerable success has been achieved but the numbers are not yet good enough. We have to scale up our efforts to connect the remaining unconnected. We believe that there is a greater scope for closer cooperation between those with developed economies and those with developing economies in addressing this undesirable phenomenon. My message, ladies and gentlemen, is that in this global village, let us join hands in connecting the unconnected. It is our responsibility, it is our obligation. Finally, honorable ministers, excellencies, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen, the Republic of Zimbabwe is committed to work with the ITU and will continue to do so today and in the future by rendering support in the form of human resources and other forms of support where we have competences. Allow me at this point, Mr. Chairman, to wish you and distinguished delegates to WT DC 2017 great success. And if you may, Mr. Chairman, allow me this opportunity to invite all of you delegates to a luncheon that Zimbabwe will be hosting this afternoon at 12.30 at Kalima eventos just outside this Hiton hotel. I have outlined some nice things that we are doing in Zimbabwe. There are some nice things at this luncheon this afternoon, including the celebration of the Argentinian's qualification to the World Cup. I thank you.


QuickBooks Desktop 2023 in voice form. Let's do it within Tuits QuickBooks Desktop 2023. Support Accounting Instruction by clicking the link below giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website broken out by category further broken out by course. Each course then organized in a logical reasonable fashion, making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again, click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. Here we are in QuickBooks Desktop Sample Rock Castle Construction Practice file provided by QuickBooks going through the setup process we do every time by maximizing the home page. Going to the view dropdown, selecting the open windows list to make sure those are open. I'm going to make this a little bit smaller down here as well. I'm going to go to the reports up top company and financial profit and loss P&L date range change from 010124 to 123124 January to December 2024. I'm going to customize it up top fonts and numbers so I can change the font bringing it up to at 12. Okay. Yes, please. Okay. Let's go to the reports dropdown again company and financial down to the balance sheet standard range change date change 123124 and customize fonts and numbers change the font 12. Okay. Yes. Okay. There's our setup process we do every time going back to the home page and prior presentations. We've been focusing in on the customer cycle, which you can call the sales cycle, the revenue cycle, the accounts receivable cycle where at the end of the day we expect to be paid. We expect money to be going into our checking account for goods and services we provide to customers. Remembering that in real life, we could be a customer of our vendors, but in QuickBooks, the customer are the people that pay us for the goods and services that we provide them. We talked about the general overview of the customer cycle, which could change could differ depending on the type of industry you are in. For example, a very easy industry would be a cash basis, even a step away from the cash basis where we might be dependent on the bag feeds to record transactions such as with gig work. We might have a cash basis where we have to enter the transactions as we make the sales possibly like a food truck or something like that. Or we might have the full service, full accrual basis that we might need tracking the accounts receivable, recording the invoice first for the work that we did and then receiving the payment after that. That's where we're going to start this time with the full service accrual kind of process. Now you might say, why don't you go to the estimate first? We might talk about the estimate a little bit in a future presentation, but that's going to be something that would be there in a special kind of industry like a job cost system where you're going to give the estimate before you do the work. So we're going to start here basically just at the invoice at this point in time. So let's go into an invoice. Notice there's multiple ways you could do that. You could do that from the homepage here. You can also go to the dropdown up top for the customers and go into a create invoice. You can also go to the customer center and create an invoice from the customer center. So many places to get into this particular document. We would open up this document if we're making a sale to a customer that we expect to receive money from in the future. We're going to have to track that and collect from them. So I'm going to go back to a prior invoice. So we go to a prior invoice here. This one looks good. I'm going to close up the carrot for now and just review the invoice form. The basics of the invoice would be that we have the customer. Now oftentimes if it's a repeat customer then we'll already have the customer listed and that will be easy to do if it's a new customer. Then we could add the new customer as we go on the fly as they say instead of going into the customer center and adding the customer. So we have the customer up top and then we've got the class. Now class is a special field that's being used here for the job cost system. We might talk about that more later but we've got courses designated just to class tracking in of itself. We've got the template that's being used. We might talk a little bit about how you can change your invoice template to customize it. But the default template will record the transaction just fine in terms of the standard journal entry. We've got the date of the invoice. We've got the invoice number which will be generated automatically by QuickBooks. Typically we've got the bill to information. This information is drawn from the data that was entered when we set up the customer. We've got the ship to one we've got the ship to which is going to be the address that will be needed. If you're going to be shipping anything there we've got the terms net 30. Now this is going to be an important field because it helps us to determine when we expect to be paid. Noting that the invoice is done for work that we did but we haven't received payment for. We expect payment in the future by what point do we expect the payment to be paid in. This is net 30 means we expect to be paid in 30 days. We could set up some situations where we give a discount for example if they pay us early and that's what these items are up top. So that means that the due date is going to be 114 30 days from 1215. Actually it looks like they changed the due date but oftentimes the 30 would be 30 days from the 1215. Okay so then down below you've got the items. The items will talk about how to set up the items in a future presentation. But these are going to be an important component to the invoice because they're going to help us to populate the invoice automatically. So the better we have the items set up the easier the data input would be when we enter the invoice. So for example if you have some bookkeeper that's recording invoices you would like it to be fairly standardized that you could basically have the items set up and they could just record the items that are there and then the amounts will be populated by themselves on their own. So the items just so you know are in the list drop down item lists which we'll talk about later and we want to set up basically our item list which are going to be the list of things that we're going to bill. This will give us the cost it'll also help us to track the inventory if there's inventory that needs tracking within it. So then the items are going to give us the description the quantity of the items the rate and then the amount and then we have an appliance and then so on and so forth the dishwasher for the items they give us a subtotal on down below and then we've got sales tax if sales tax is applicable this is another area that takes a little bit of thinking to kind of figure out what the sales tax is or how to set it up once set up then hopefully it will be automatic when you basically make the invoices so that you can have someone doing the data input of the invoices and not have to worry too much about this sales tax being calculated properly because it's been set up within the system. We talked a little bit about how to sell set up sales taxes will go into that a lot more detail in future presentations but you got the sales tax calculated you got the total here and then you've got the balance that we expect to be paid in the future. I highly recommend whenever entering any kind of data input form like an invoice you try to visualize what the impact will be on the end result of the financial statements that being the balance sheet income statement or profit and loss and then actually go to those financial statements double click drilling back down to the zooming function back to the source document and that will really give you an idea of what's going on so let's try to do that now the invoice looks deceptively simple if the items have been set up right if the sales tax have been set up right but there could actually be a lot going on with the invoice as you entered into the system some of it not being on the face of the invoice so for example because it's an invoice that means accounts receivables going to go up that's what an invoice means we didn't yet get paid accounts receivables going to go up on the balance sheet by the full amount which includes the sales tax $1,636.69 the other side is going to go to sales however you would think it would go to sales at $1,636.69 it's not it's going to go to sales for the amount that we charged before sales tax $1,522.50 in this case so why didn't we record sales of $1,636.69 because the sales tax in theory is charged to the customer it's not us it's not charged to us so you can imagine a system like why don't I just put it on sales at $1,636.69 and then record an expense when I pay the taxes to the tax collector of the $1,114.19 and then it would wash out on the income statement you could do that but the idea is that it's not really your expense you're not the one that charged this $1,114.19 the government did so we don't want to record that as revenue on the income statement we want to record that on the balance sheet directly as a sales tax payable so the difference will be this $1,114.19 which will go on the balance sheet as a payable that you're going to have to later pay in the future also if you have inventory that you're tracking on a perpetual inventory system method then you're going to have inventory that needs to be tracked the inventory is going to be driven by the items but this number over here for example this dishwasher for example this number right here represents the sales price not the cost but the system knows the cost because we set it up with the item therefore it can decrease the inventory not for this number but for the cost and it can record the related expense cost of goods sold so that's kind of a lot going on for one invoice you can check that too by going to the reports on this side and look at this transaction journal so if I go into this transaction journal it gives me giving us basically a journal entry with the accounts that are impacted this one looking a little bit overwhelming because we're in a job cost system so if you're in another industry it might not look this complex even if you are tracking inventory because you might be in a system where you're just buying the inventory marking it up and then selling it as opposed to a system where you're taking raw material and converting it to finished goods in which case you would be using a job cost system or process cost system that's why this one's a little bit more complex but in essence you've got the accounts receivable up top you got the materials income you got the labor income the subcontracted labor and then the sales tax that is applicable down here I'm going to close this back out and so there is that just a quick overview of some of the other items that are in this area you can go to the prior invoice or go to a new to the future invoice you can view or new a new invoice you can save as a PDF you can delete it so and that does QuickBooks does allow you to kind of delete transactions but you want to be very careful of doing that because the invoice could be tied to like a receipt payment create a copy so if you have a very complex invoice then you might make a copy of it if there's a lot of line items down below for example you can memorize it we might talk more about memorizing reports which could be useful save a little bit of time mark as pending saves the invoice but doesn't record the the accounting impact behind the scenes you can print it so you could preview it you can so if you preview it here let's just do it looks like this right I'm going to close this back out looks a little bit different than the data input screen itself so then we've got the email so we can email the invoice if we so choose which of course is going to be more and more useful these days print later email later we can attach a file if we need to add time costs so adds any cost you mark as billable to the customer job we'll talk about time tracking and how you can kind of use that to add to your invoice for time that you've been tracking within the system for example apply credits applies an existing credit for this customer we might talk about that in future presentations and then progress after you record this progress invoice based on an estimate the estimate was changed do you want to update the estimate amounts and recalculate the percentage in the windows that shows progress invoicing details that's kind of a specialty tool that you would be using for progress invoicing receive payments so we could go from here to the receive payments that's what we expect to happen in the future when we get paid on the invoice we've got to create a batch which creates one invoice to send to multiple customers so we could create one invoice and use that could be a time saving tool and then we've got the refund credit creates a credit memo using the items and prices on this invoice in other words if they returned the item and we need to reverse the transaction we typically don't want to delete it but rather create a credit memo so in the formatting we can basically preview it here so we've got the preview which we saw earlier in the print option as well we've got the managed templates so you could make different templates and use those different templates to customize them download templates if you need to customize data layout customize what information appears on the invoice spelling check that insert lines delete lines so that would be similar to inserting and deleting like you'd see in the grid lines so it deletes the selected line item helping you to sort the lines in the order that you might want them to be appearing copy a line and customize design send and ship so you've got the email then you've got your shipping options here and then mail invoice prepare a letter and then we've got the reports so the reports then we've got the quick journal here so it gives you a report that you that gives you a quick journal of that particular customer which you could find generally in the customer center would be a place you'd probably go to look at that information we've got the transactions history we got the transaction journal that's actually a nice tool to help you to see what's being recorded pretty quickly view open invoices basically a report that you can find the report area or go to the customer center sales by customer detail another kind of report option average days to pay summary so the main thing is generally on the main page and the data input forms let's close this out and let's imagine the impact on the financial statements and kind of work backwards from the end result to the source document now so I'm going to open up the carrot we're going to go to the balance sheet so we can imagine if we entered an invoice we would have an impact in the accounts receivable so if I double click the accounts receivable and change the date 010124 so there's our invoices increase in the accounts receivable and if I drill back down on the invoice it will take us to that particular invoice back to the source documents we're going to the end result back to the source document closing this back out and note that this amount that we have this invoice is the total the total amount down here not the subtotal so I'm going to close this back out and close this back out the other side typically we think of going to the profit and loss that's how I think about it so the other side would be going to income in some way note that we have a lot of income accounts because again it's a construction company so they grouped it up a little bit more a little bit differently than you might see in another kind of industry but if I double click on an income account actually I'm going to close that and I'm going to look for this materials income because the materials income is likely to be having sales tax applicable to it so I'm going to go to the materials income and so now we have all of our invoices increasing the income side of things if I double click on a particular invoice then it's going to take us to that invoice and if I'm going to make this one a little bit larger there's the materials item so notice it's only recording the amount not including the sales tax right it's recording this case that line item of the 2400 right I believe it was 2400 not including the sales tax that is being charged so the sales tax is not going to the income statement is the point so I'm going to close this back out and so where's the sales tax going I'm going to close this back out let's go back to the balance sheet the balance sheet if I go down to the liabilities then we've got the sales tax right here so it's increasing the sales tax a liability account on the balance sheet changing the 010124 beginning date so the sales tax is increasing with an invoice increases the sales tax because it's charging in theory the customer for the sales tax closing that back out and then closing this back out now the other thing that we could have is inventory so if inventory is being tracked then generally you would think that the inventory account would be going down when you enter the invoice in other words the inventory account usually it gets again it's a little confusing with the job cross system but if you were just buying inventory marketing it up and selling it you would think the inventory generally is going to be going up when you purchase the inventory with a bill in essence and then it would go down when you sell the inventory so if I double click on this account and change the first date 010124 then we've got it's going up with the bill and then these invoices are bringing the inventory down if I double click on this note this number 1500 to get to the source document we don't see the 1500 on the invoice anywhere why because that's the cost this is where it gets a little bit tricky and this is where we have to understand the items so it's just like when you kind of mark something off at a grocery store and you try to check it out and you see the sales price that's great but you don't know what they bought it for you don't know the profit that they are making because they don't have the cost on it well this invoice assuming it's going to a customer is not going to have the cost on it even though when you scan something at a store when you record an invoice it's going to be recording the decrease to the inventory at the cost the other side of that then is going to the income statement income statement to the cost of goods sold somewhere down here in the cost of goods sold I'm just going to click on the cost of goods sold here and you can see that the invoice is being used to create the cost of goods sold account so one more recap on that what does an invoice do if there it's going to say an invoice means there's an increase to the accounts receivable the other side is going to go to sales some kind of sales account on the income statement if the sales tax if there is sales tax involved then the sales tax will be included in the accounts receivable but not in the income statement sales side the difference there go into the balance sheet in a payable account a liability sales tax payable which should happen automatically if the invoice is set up properly if you're selling inventory then you will also have a decrease to the accounts receivable account and then also on the profit and loss an increase to the cost of goods sold account of some kind net impact on the profit and loss will be the increase in the sales less the increase in the cost of goods sold the income minus the expense related to that transaction okay the other thing with an invoice if I go back to the balance is that this accounts receivable we also want to see the sub ledger related to the accounts receivable the impact on it which you might find by going to the customer center company drop down or customer drop down customer center find the particular customer and look at the invoice that has been applied here you might look at the subsidiary reports reports drop down customers and receivables accounts receivable customer balance detail let's say and so now you've got the invoices by customer increasing the balance per customer the total of the sub ledger report then adding up to 93 was it 93 007 93 tying out to the balance sheet 93 007 93 the other common receivable report being reports drop down customers and receivables AR aging summary breaking out by how past do the amounts are 93 007 93 and that ties out to the balance sheet here and then we have the inventory if we're tracking inventory in the system we also want to see the sub ledger related to the inventory which is going to be impacted by the invoice decrease in the sub ledger on the account of inventory reports drop down inventory inventory evaluation summary so now we've got our physical count of inventory that's going to be impacted decreased by the invoices when we sell inventory the asset value then should tie out here 30,638 38 to the balance sheet 30,624 52 let's go back on over here this is 30,683 let's change this to 1231 to 430 is 30,624 52 and 30,624 52 so you can see there's actually a lot going on with the invoice depending on if you have inventory or not and if you have sales tax or not and so you really want to whatever industry you're in be able to break down what's happening with that invoice and later we will talk about in the second half of the course how to set up all that stuff sales tax items inventory so that you can do the data input as easily as possible with the invoices


The Hubble telescope took this image in 1998. It shows faint arcs and filaments embedded within the diffuse gas of the nebula's smooth bowtie lobes. The nebula's shape appears to have been created by very fierce 500,000 km per hour winds, blowing gas away from the dying central star, that's 310,000 miles per hour. This rapid expansion of the nebula has made it one of the coldest known regions in the universe. Huge waves are sculpted into this two-lobed nebula. It harbors one of the hottest stars known, and its powerful stellar winds generate waves 100 billion km high. The waves are caused by supersonic shocks, formed when the local gas is compressed and heated in front of the rapidly expanding lobes. The atoms caught up in the shock emit the spectacular radiation seen in this image.


The Janus piezoelectric hydrogel patch, JPHG, is a new type of medical device designed to treat infected wounds. It combines two layers of material, one containing gold nanoparticles that are activated by ultrasonic waves, and another containing growth factors that stimulate tissue regrowth. When exposed to ultrasonic waves, the gold nanoparticles generate reactive oxygen species that kill bacteria, while the growth factor layer promotes tissue regeneration. In tests, the JPHG was able to eliminate bacterial infections and promote tissue regeneration in infected wounds. This technology could be used to treat a wide range of conditions, from burns to chronic wounds. This article was authored by Dan Qing Huang, Yi Cheng, Guo Puchen, and others.


Item number SCP-628 Object Class, Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-628 is contained in Bio-Research Site 104, built on site at the perimeter of its containment is to be clearly marked by a circle of 3-meter wire fence, no less than one kilometer from the edge of the cops. Non-class D personnel are not to enter the perimeter without appropriate hearing protection and seismic sensors. Protective gear sufficient for all personnel on site must be available at all times. All structures on site, and especially the listing post constructed just outside the perimeter fence, must conform to the stringent earthquake and wind-proofing building codes laid out in Document 628-3. Personnel assigned to Site 104 should preferably be selected for a low absolute threshold of hearing. All newly assigned personnel should be briefed on the visual and emotional effects of infrasound. A brief training course on distinguishing these effects from normal human affect is to be made available on site. The weather at Site 104 must be monitored carefully. In the event of a sudden increase in wind speed, the presiding researcher is to be notified. In the event that any winds in excess of 50 kilometers an hour are observed, all personnel are to evacuate to Site 104's soundproofed shelters. Construction may be continued via ground sensors, remote drones, or D-class personnel. Botanical personnel stationed at Site 104 are to monitor SCP-628 and maintain it in good health. Regular consultation with MTF-Theta-4, gardeners, has been scheduled for this purpose. Description Above the soil surface, SCP-628 consists of a copse of 31 large hollow American sycamore Platonus Occidentalis trees, with trunks from 224 to 455 centimeters in external diameter. The copse is a colonial organism. Below ground, the trees are linked by massive hollow woody stolons. These runner trunks, which lie roughly 2 meters below the soil surface, connect the base of each trunk to between 3 and 7 of its neighbors. An average stolon is 2 meters in diameter and completely hollow. Above ground, the trees never produce leaves, flowers, or fruit. Although their bark is photosynthetic in summer, as is typical for P. Occidentalis. The individual trunks are designated SCP-628-1 through 31. All major above ground trunks have at some point been broken off. Their truncated ends serve as openings to the trees' shared internal cavity. Each member of SCP-628 is oriented geographically such that the prevailing winds at the site tend to blow directly across these openings, producing considerable Helmholtz resonance. Observation by remote camera has revealed contractile structures, superficially resembling animal spinkters, located at numerous points inside SCP-628's trunks and branches, each capable of restricting or blocking airflow to a particular large branch. The trunks' internal diameters and wood structures differ enough that each resonance chamber thus created, when sealed off from the others and subjected to sufficient wind, produces a different pitch. On average, each tree has three resonance chambers. The cops can produce 93 notes in total. Its total range is equivalent to that of a pipe organ, although much of it lies in the low base and infrasound. The notes correspond to a western chromatic scale. SCP-628 is capable of isolating any given resonance chamber within 0.2 seconds, quickly enough to play recognizable music. Under sufficiently windy conditions, it does so spontaneously. The cops' repertoire includes numerous works composed for pipe organ between 1366 and 1898, as well as a number of previously unknown compositions. Level 2 personnel and above may refer to Site-104's database for recordings of original works. The sounds produced by SCP-628 are not anomalous beyond their origin. Ordinary infrasound, however, has been shown to cause feelings of fear, awe, sorrow, anxiety, and disorientation. Some waves, at or very near 18 hertz, the resonant frequency of the human eye, can also produce simple optical illusions. Since the sound is only audible under ideal conditions, exposed personnel frequently ascribe supernatural causes to these sensations. Incident 628-023 On 0404, 2000, as part of an approved test overseen by Dr. OG, two D-class personnel equipped with chainsaws attempted to harvest SCP-628-8. Approximately at the moment of contact between the chainsaw blade and the item's bark, the local wind speed began to increase from 9 km an hour to 77 km an hour in less than 80 seconds. SCP-628 activated accordingly, playing at roughly 150 decibels, a piece later identified as an augmented version of J.S. Box, little fugue, in G minor. While it remained active, personnel across Site 104 experienced effective and physical disturbances, consistent with the effects of high decibel infrasound. On-site seismometers recorded the equivalent of a Richter magnitude 0.63 earthquake. Anomalous weather activity persisted for 3 minutes 31 seconds, exactly the duration of the fugue being played. Wind speed and cloud cover quickly returned to normal once the piece concluded. In accordance with containment protocols, experimentation had been suspended shortly after confirmation of anomalous weather activity. SCP-628-8's trunk had been almost halfway severed at that point. When Dr. G in the research team returned to SCP-628-8 five hours later, however, they observed that the damage to the item's trunk had begun to heal. Its bark and wood tissues closed smoothly from both sides of the wound, in a manner inconsistent with known patterns of plant growth. Incident 628-024 On 0504, 2000 events substantially similar to those reported in Incident 628-023 occurred, with a significant difference that SCP-628-8's trunk, which had healed entirely in the intervening hours, was completely severed before evacuation. The item was partially toppled in the wind, before being caught in the branches of its neighbor, SCP-628-15. The damage to SCP-628-8's trunk healed entirely over the following 24 hours, although the item did not write itself in the process. No scar was produced, but data expunged, tension would have considerable interest to the presiding researcher. Dr. G was reprimanded for recklessness.


Hi, it's Bridget. Welcome to Above Life Channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you up with hope. This weekly channeling video is with a theme. So I thought because it's the holiday season, when this video was first airing, that you would appreciate a holiday theme. And so this is with someone who sang an incredibly well-known Christmas song and was in a great Christmas movie. Let me give you a hint. White Christmas. Does that ring a bell? Hmm? We are going to have an afterlife conversation with Mr. Bing Crosby. And before I invite him in, I wanted to show you all that I am in the festive spirit with a cardigan, which really feels like a lot like a Bing style. You know, the guy like to play golf, right? So here we go. Here is my festive holiday lights cardigan. There we go from Mr. Bing Crosby. Come on in Bing. Oh, it's so nice to meet you. Oh my gosh, you guys. This energy is so great. I just, oh, so great. Now he's going to sit kind of off to my left, which is nice. Thank you. Usually they sit off to my right, but the window is here and I've got my beautiful tree in the background. We're in my kitchen. So this is the kitchen tree. Lots of purple on there. He says lots of purple on there. Yes. Purple medium. Yes. Energy. Very cool. Thank you. All right. So I have wanted to talk with you Bing for a while.   And yes, I know.   I love your voice. I have loved your voice since I was a little girl. I grew up listening to the Christmas carols in my home and you, your voice just resonated so strongly with me. And that's synonymous for me personally with Christmas. And we celebrated Christmas in my household. And so the holiday season was not the same unless we heard your voice and the iconic song White Christmas. And now as an adult, I love the movie White Christmas. And I just want to say thank you. Oh, I just wanted to express that. I really, wow.  He says, thank you. He says, thank you. Thank you. That's very kind, very kind. He says very kind. And you guys, I'm going to tell you he's very charming. And he has an energy about him. That is his energy is good looking. I mean, you're not really my type. I mean, we got there's quite a bit of an age gap here. But very suave. He feels very charming. And I could see how people will be like, Oh, like swoon over him a little bit. I can't help it. I feel energy. You guys, what is that? Do you remember what that is? When you feel energy like that? Do you remember what that is for channeling? It's Claire sentience, sensing feelings through the heart chakra.  So you can tell I'm feeling that right? Yeah, I'm just like, wow, powerful spirit energy. So I have some questions. I actually wrote a few questions down because I knew I'd get a little distracted by the charming energy. So I do know, and many people probably know that you transitioned after a day of golf, he says, what a way to go. I can't think of a better way to end it all. He says, on the golf course, he said, you know, my handicap is not so bad either. He says pretty good. And he says, that's, he says, I can't think of a better way to go. A beautiful weather. He's a beautiful day. Good friends. You're very social being it feels like is that that accurate? He says, Well, am I, you know, do I like people? Yes, I like people, for the most part. I feel like he's referring to a daughter, I feel like there's a daughter and a son, he just said son, or son in law. I also feel like he has a grandson, daughter. Okay, so he says, daughter, son in law and grandson. He's referring to this little family unit. Just acknowledging that. And so I have some questions for you. I wrote down some questions. I thought it would be great since it's the holiday season when this video is first being shared, we are getting into the spirit, regardless of how we celebrate the ending of the year, it is an ending of a year. And so it's a transition time. We're moving into the end of the year. So this is like, high energy voltage time from my experience as a psychic. And I would like to know if you have a message for us as we end this year and step into a new year. Is there is there a message for the ending of this year that you would like to share with us? And I should mention, in this video is recorded in December of 2018. If you're watching this at another time. So you have a particular maybe advice. How would I ask you for advice? This is now a lot of people did ask me for advice.  It's like, you've got to indulge. You got to indulge every now and then. I feel like you probably indulge most of the time. He said, now that might be true. But I also worked very hard. He says, hard work. Hard work deserves the reward. You know, you must we must enjoy the rewards as well. That's the sweetness of life, he says. So being give us some advice as we're ending this year. And and hopefully, you know, opening up and stepping into a positive new year. Do you have any advice for us? He says, well, you know, with the holidays around, as the holidays approach, it's a time where people really think about what matters most to them. He says, it's their family. In most cases, for some, that can be a painful thing to think about. I think about our troops overseas and those who cannot be with their families on the holiday. And I also think about others who are struggling now, or going through some difficult times in their lives. And it's a good thing for you all to think about that, to recognize that not everybody's in the same situation that you're in. In fact, most people are not in the same situation you're in. Just to have a little, have a good, I think it's a good idea to have a sense of that. Have a so I want to say Bridget, I want to say awakening or awareness of that. But he's saying a sense. It's a good idea to have a he's using a different word have your wits have your wits about. There's some there's different energy coming in a little bit with him. He says, I think mountain, I think now more than ever, peace on earth isn't just a concept, you know, and that begins in your own homes. I know that might sound cliche or like old school values, you know, kind of true traditional, maybe to tame for some of you, especially younger generation folks, but it still rings true. It's still important that peace on earth. It seems like a far out of reach, but it's not not in your own hearts, not in your own lives. You to focus on where you can make the most difference, you know, and support one another. I think there are many people who are very lonely during this time of the year.  I mean, I, I appreciate what I got and opportunities I had in my life. I can only hope that you can enjoy some of what was created by some of us who come before you. And he's like, I hear I hear the white Christmas song. Beautiful. We talk about that particular song. Can you share about that particular song? Does it mean anything special to you? Or what is the message? What is the meaning? Well, it's like I said, he says, he's holding a cigar. So when I'm doing this, it's like that's how he's gesturing to me. He's like kind of pointing says, well, he said, it's like what I said, that peace on earth, it starts inside of you, inside your own families, at your own dinner table with your loved ones.  We certainly are in spirit. That is true. I don't mean the kind of spirits you drink my friends. I mean the kind of spirit that you are. And there is such a thing as God. And I'd like to share that with you. There is such a thing as that as Bridget would say, the creator says nods to me and says the creator source, you know, all that. There is such a thing as higher power. But you're all connected to that. You are. And in that song, that simple little song written for that, the time of year that everyone loves, right? It is special. And it's from the heart. And it is whatever you need it to mean. That's what it is. Just one simple man sharing some memories. And if that touches you and your heart, then I'm glad for that. I am glad for that. It is quite a legacy, isn't it? It's quite a legacy. It sure is. I would say legendary. That song is the legend. I love it. It just puts me in the Christmas spirit and gets me in the mood for the holidays. And it's being, it really brings peace. That the song, the music just brings peace, you know? It says, you know, lots of songs. Lots of songs do that for you. Lots of music does that. That's pretty wonderful, isn't it? That's pretty special. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Speaking of songs, let's ask Bing Crosby, who we are chatting with in the afterlife, about the song, a drummer boy, that you sang with David Bowie, who's also in the afterlife. Can you talk about that song? How did that come to be here? What's that like for you? When you, when you did that or when you reflect back upon that? He says it all, it all really unfolded quite naturally. And he just showed up and we worked on some music and bada bing, bada boom kind of thing.  He said it really wasn't that much of a production. Nice young man, a bit different.  And I, he was a father, so we had some things in common, both musicians, you know, both singer-songwriters. I think it turned out quite nice. The harmonizations, the melodies, I think it turned out quite nice, quite nicely. So did you have any reservations about doing that? I mean, I'm sure you sang with many people in your career and you're known, like, for the Christmas Carol, obviously, for the White Christmas song. How is Bowie compared to other people you sang with? Dare I ask? Oh, he says, oh, he was a good guy, he was an all right guy. He said, he's an all right guy, he's an all right guy, just we're different, you know? We're different, we're different people, that's okay. There's nothing wrong with that. I don't think he was too keen on working with me, though. I don't know, you know, I'm an old guy and, you know, I'm not quite sure how he felt about working with me, but I was just fine with that. He has a, you know, there's a tone in his voice that's just really, really pretty special, really quite spectacular. Very impressive to me, that little something there. I got to respect that. Got to respect a talent when you see a talent. So you didn't answer my question. How'd you feel about working, singing with Bowie? It's compared to other people. He says, well, he says, well, he wasn't the prettiest I've been able to perform with. I can say that. Okay, he wasn't the prettiest, huh? All right, all right. Oh, gosh, okay. So let's see, do I have anything else? So do you have a message about the new year? Oh, wait, wait, I know what I want to ask about. So in the afterlife, this is a great question. I know many of you would like to hear about this, I would assume. And that is, in the afterlife, are there, how do you celebrate the holidays? Like, are there, is there Christmas? You know, is there Hanukkahs or Kwanzaa? Is there that, is there the holiday season? Can you talk about that a little bit? Or how do you celebrate or even notice marked the passage of time between this year and another year? Can you talk about that a little bit? He says, oh, that's a good question. That's a good question. You know, it's not the same. It's not, he's showing me like batteries being plugged in.  It's not as simple as that. It doesn't go from one place to another. It doesn't, it's not a here and there concept, he says. I would liken it to a bridge, because I think that that human minds can understand that, he says. The idea of walking across the bridge and first you're here and then you're there is relevant to the changing of the years or the time, he says, but it's not completely accurate. It is a way that the mind could understand, he says, but it's not completely accurate. It's more of a hot air balloon ride, he says. You get into the hot air balloon and you float up and you just kind of flow or the wind goes and you kind of adjust to the wind and the atmosphere and you kind of just float and flow into the next place. That's more accurate, he says. That's more accurate as far as the passage of time, like a hot air balloon and not as much like a bridge, more like a hot air balloon. As far as holidays go, there is a connection to how people are celebrating or honoring the holidays, whatever the holiday is for them. And that also goes with birthdays and anniversaries and special moments of time that are marked on a human calendar and times from our lives that we experienced that were important to us, that our loved ones who are still in human bodies remember. And it's the loved ones who are still in human bodies that remember. Those are the connectors. Those are the little marks on the calendar, the little dot on the calendar date because they remember. So then too, we are aware of that and we can then be present. Now it's not the same, it's not like I'm gonna, you're not going to sing beat, you're not going to sing, see being the ghost floating on in when it's a Christmas time, stuffing the stockings or singing the songs or anything like that. But you may get a memory and the memory is that little dot that pin on the calendar date and that is extremely impactful. That is a connection right there and it's through that memory. And I think it's through that heart, that love that really bonds us all, soul to soul connections. But because I've been a person, because we the spirits and the afterlife have been people, we can relate to that. We can remember, we can connect into that little dot on the calendar. We can translate that way, we can speak that language of humanity. That's how we can reflect and we can remember. That's how I can remember and recall my memories on earth. It's the same. So because you hold it and you have that memory, that pin on the calendar, so do I as a soul, as a spirit. But don't be confused. That doesn't mean I'm stuck. I'm not, you're not gonna see ghost of being floating around waiting for that holiday season to start. So people can remember me. It's not like that. It's not like that for me at least I can say and for many of my colleagues we agree. But yes we can visit and we can most commonly visit in your memories and what you remember. And Brigid could probably describe this better than I.  That's where we connect. And I do believe it probably is easier for you in your bodies to feel spirit during the holidays because it is the spirit of the holidays. A spirit of the energy. It gets all stirred up and many things are possible and people are so caring. People just all of a sudden get so caring, so giving. There's charities and contributions and toy drives and all this stuff that you connect to and open your hearts and then you connect with each other. And because of that it's easy for us to be around that and for you to feel us because we are that energy. We live in the heart. We live in the memories in the mind as well. Both. Both. So while we don't celebrate the way you celebrate we celebrate with you while you celebrate. That's the most accurate way to describe how holidays are in the afterlife. Now that's from my opinion. That's just my opinion what I know my perspective. Now I've been dead for a while now. So I think I know a few things but somebody else might have a different view and then if they do that I'm alright with that. That's okay. That's okay, that me. Okay. Alright. Wow. Awesome. Wow you guys. Can you feel this? Take a moment and just feel the energy, the spirit of the season and know that your loved ones are with you. Especially during this time because your hearts are open and we are connected. So the soul. Remember that. Remember that. You heard it yourself from Bing Crosby in the afterlife. Mr. White Christmas. You know. What a wonderful, wonderful way to share and connect to this holiday season. This is Bridget at Above Life Channel. I'd like to thank my guest today Mr. Bing Crosby from the afterlife. I hope you've enjoyed this video dialogue and that has given you some insight and I hope it has inspired your spirit and filled you up with hope. Remember here at Above Life Channel the purpose is to inspire your spirit. This is your life right here right now. So live it. Just just live it. Thank you so much for watching.