The Cavalcade of America, presented by DuPont. This evening, the DuPont Cavalcade presents the story of the first American citizen, Benjamin Franklin. Our program is appropriately timed for this week marks the dedication in Philadelphia of a national shrine to the memory of Benjamin Franklin. Tomorrow at the Franklin Institute, a new heroic statue of Franklin will be unveiled as a fitting memorial to perpetuate the spiritual presence of the great philosopher in a stronghold of scientific progress. As a special guest at the close of our program, we have Mr. Irone DuPont, who is one of the Board of Managers of the Franklin Institute, and who will review some of the contributions science has made since Franklin's day. As an overture, Don Voorhees and the DuPont Cavalcade Orchestra play, I live the life I love from one of the mask and wig productions of the University of Pennsylvania. The DuPont Cavalcade moves forward. Years before the American Revolution, Benjamin, youngest son of Josiah and Oviah Franklin, was born January 17th, 1706 on Milk Street in one of the largest towns of the colonies, Boston, Massachusetts, whose population then was about 10,000. 16 years later, in the printing press of his elder brother James, under mysterious circumstances, he began the literary career that was to last over 60 years. It is early in the morning. Benjamin is starting the day's work at Collins. Another apprentice discovers a folded paper shoved under the door. Look here, Ben. Another letter from Mr. Silence DuGood. Leave it on the ground for my brother to find. I wonder what the old James Ritt this time. The old towns are talking about her pieces in the paper. Wait until they read this one. It'll give those empty heads and Harvard a good rattling. How do you know, Ben? Have you read it already? As a matter of fact, Collins, I wrote it myself. In a disguised hand, like Ben. Oh, another missy from our Mr. Silence DuGood. Well, read it, James. I'm a god with curiosity to see what she'll scold about my miss. Oh, my. Go about your work, boys. Yes, it's not for young years. Talk into this. She's writing of people who send their sons to Harvard. She says, most of them consulted their own purses instead of their children's capacities. Most part of those who were traveling with her were little better than blockheads and dunces. Well, she's out of here. Have you any suspicion who she may be, James? Well, some say she's a disgruntled spinster and others that she's the widow of a minister with a young son in Harvard. I've published two appeals to her to reveal herself, but Benjamin, where is that paper with the last advertisement for Mr. Stugud? She was here this morning. Was she not Collins? Why? She was here. In fact, brother, she is still here.  I say that Silence DuGood is hiding in this room. Well, where is she? Behind my leather apron. What? You young rascals! In fact, my worthy brother, Mr. Silence DuGood is none other than myself, Benjamin Franklin, whose articles and witty comments were published in praise. It's quite true, Mr. Franklin. Benjamin wrote them himself in a disguised hand. Well, but now there's my state of mind. Take that, boys! You young good for nothing, and that! Oh, oh, stealing my time. It's affecting your work. Seeking yourself the high young Kakarola, now you dare! And dare! And dare! That will teach you a lesson.  But someday I'll run away from here. I'll have myself a newspaper of my own that everyone will want to read. Not long afterward, Benjamin Franklin did run away to Philadelphia, and before long he was publishing his own newspaper, and the famous poor Richard Zalmanac. He signed him now at 26, the most widely read and quoted writer in the colonies. He has his own printing shop, and is married. With his busy body commentary on current events, he has become the first columnist in America. Still wearing his red flannel shirt and leather apron, he trundles his paper through Market Street and a wheelbarrow to his little shop, where we find his young wife Deborah, stitching binding and tending counter. Open the door for me, Debbie. How you do look, Benjamin. Cutting that paper through the street on a wheelbarrow like a common apprentice. It's a very good example. Brings attention to my industry and pleases the merchants and good folk who buy my paper. You never did have a care to your looks. Well, do I remember the first time I ever saw you walking along the street with two great sticks of bread poked out of your pockets? Little did you think when you laughed at me then that I was going to be the town's most successful printer and journalist? Hey, Debbie. You've proved to every one what you could make of yourself, Ben. Even your own family.  Really? I owe James great deal. I often fancy his harsh and tyrannical treatment, but the means of impressing me without aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to me. Come in. Oh, William. Good day to you, Master Coleman. Good day to you both. Come in, William. What's the newest with you? I stopped by to go with you to the Junto. And I've just finished reading your almanac, Ben. Everyone is laughing at its humor and praising your good sense. I particularly like this saying, early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Aye, and he himself never gets more than six hours sleep, Mr. Coleman. Truly, Mr. Franklin.  Oh, be still, Pappy. Please pour Richard out of it. But he did say there are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. And he has neither dog, nor ready money, and neither am I old. If I could write just for my reader instead of my wife. She takes them all to herself, poor Debbie. Who may this be? Come in. Good day to you, sir. Good day to you. My name is Frank Pierce. I've traveled up from the Carolinas to see Benjamin Franklin, publisher of the Gazette and of poor Richard's almanac. Why, he's the young man in the leather apron who let you in. This young man, the famous Mr. Franklin? I'm glad to welcome you, sir. This is my friend, Mr. William Coleman. How you doing, sir? How you doing, sir? And my wife, Mr. Deborah Franklin. How do you do, Franklin? You say you have heard of poor Richard in the Carolina colony? Oh, yes indeed, sir. People say today there are two books you may find in every man's family. The Bible and poor Richard's almanac. I know Richard by heart, myself, is my daily guide. A penny saved is a penny earned. When thieves fall out, honest men get their due. Three moves as bad as a fire. Necessity never made a good bargain. There you see, sir, they're well known to me. And also, you said, if you would have your business done, go. If not, send. And that is why I have come to see you, myself. And rightly so. Well, what may I do for you, my friend? Well, we have very few printing presses in our colony, sir.  Well, I would learn from you something of our craft. You see, I want to establish my own printing shop as soon as I have the means. Perhaps I may be able to help you do that. Let's all help one another. My friend here helped me to get me my first start. Mankind is all one family after all, and good will should prevail. If I help you, you in turn may help the next one, and so on, in an endless chain of friendly kindness and aid. I don't like to hurry, Ben, but we're due at the Junto. Oh, the Junto, Mr. Pierce, is composed of young men like ourselves, mostly leather aprons and no fuss of feathers. We meet each Friday for mutual entertainment and counsel. Tonight, I believe, I have something of importance to present for discussion. Ah, Ben, every night you have something of importance to present. Truly, Mr. Pierce, his is the finest mind in the colonies. At one of the Junto meetings, the first public library in America was born from the fertile mind of Benjamin Franklin. Through his energy and genius came the first organized volunteer fire department, the first police system, the first move toward paved and lighted city streets, the first city hospital, the University of Pennsylvania, and the American Philosophical Society. At the age of 42, Franklin had worked hard, saved his money, and sold out his business, all that he might be able to retire and pursue his scientific studies and experiments. We find him now at the beautiful home he had built for his family out on the banks of the Delaware River. After seven years of happy retirement with his children and Deborah, he is absorbed in his new experiment with electricity in the air. For pity takes, Pappy, what's that noise? My bells, Debbie, my bells. A thunder storm is brewing. I have wire-strung for my lightning rod to give the warning, and it came. Ah, more silly things with your experiments. Mr. Leet said at the meeting the other day that your lightning rod was a tinkering with Providence. And I'll never forget how you made it all ridiculous running around the cow pasture with William Astorokite, a man of your age and dignity. Ah, Debbie, if you only knew what my little kite proved that day, didn't the King of France send me a personal letter commending those first experiments? Ah... I should think you'd tire of sticking around the house, tinkering with wires and whatnot when you could be at the very top of your trade.  You see? Here comes my storm. I've lasted, Debbie. Good evening, Julia, Mr. Franklin. Good evening. And to you, Mr. Franklin. Good evening, Mr. Curtis. Hi. Seems to be gathering rain.  I'm afraid there is more than one storm brewing tonight, my friend, and one that is not of the elements. I've only just come from the assembly. They have named two commissioners to leave at once for England to present their grievance against the Penn family taxation to the King. They still claim exemption through the Old Indian Treaty. But there's the later one, I'm certain. Mr. Franklin, the assembly feels that you know more about this matter than anyone. And also, you're acquainted in England for your... from your early days. Your position as Postmaster General gives you authority to represent us over there. And tonight, you have been appointed commissioner with Mr. Isaac Norris, Speaker of the Assembly. Let Norris go. I have my scientific work here laid out for years to come. And I've retired. A man cannot retire from the service of his country when his aid is needed. We ask you not to decline this appointment. It's a crucial time, Mr. Franklin. Listen to my lightning bells, Curtis.  And our house was never harmed during the last storm. Every house should have one. The Speaker of Norris has said that he cannot go. You'll be gone only a short time. You're not going to England, Pappy, surely? I must, Debbie. They will make me the lightning rod to divert the Penn family out of here. It's all right. We're perfectly safe. I love a good storm. But I don't want you to go without me, Pappy. And you know I'm afraid of the sea. I shall only be gone a few months, my dear. Only a few months. A few months became ten years and a half. Except for one brief visit home, Benjamin Franklin remained in England as the principal representative of the American colonies during the crucial period before the Revolutionary War. He helped bring about the repeal of the Stamp Act, and he sought a peaceful solution to the increasing bad feeling between the colonies and the mother country. He returned in 1775, believing his mission a failure. His beloved wife had died the previous winter, but he is tenderly greeted by his daughter Sally, who is living in his old home on the Delaware with her family. We never disturbed anything here, or in your library, father. Mother wouldn't let us. She was always expecting you back. And I was always expecting to come back to her, my child. Sit here, dear. Ah, the same old chair. Yes. How it fits me. Oh. Father. I have always accompanied now, Sally, by my faithful gout. It never deserts me. Tell me of your voyage home, dear. Was it very rough this time? Terrible. I shall never cross the ocean again. But I made some amazing observations, Sally. There is a warm stream of water I have discovered, almost a great sweeping river that flows directly to the Atlantic Ocean and causes the mild climate of England. But, Daddy, how did you ever find that off? I devised my own method of sounding with a thermometer at varying depths. I call it the Gulf Stream. Wonderful. And tell me about visiting Europe. They say you were fated and acclaimed everywhere. And you met kings and queens and statesmen and scientists. Oh, I was so proud of you, Daddy. Well, I am glad. You know, they are using my lightning rod now on Buckingham Palace and the Queen's Palace and on the Ducal Palace in Venice or besides many, many more all over Europe. They call me the Thundermaster. The Thundermaster. And our mother used to scold about your little bells. She was very patient with my tinkering about the house. But it all came to good use, Sally. Now I have been elected to the Royal Society of London and the Royal Academy in Paris and the Society of Experimental Science in Leighton. That little string of my kite has led me a long flight. Well, Father, it's right that they should all honor you. They were all very nice to me. Who's that? Just the children, Father. Don't play at the end of the garden, children. Don't stop the mighty, eh? I enjoy hearing my grandchildren's voices. What was that song they were singing? Something that started in Boston after the tea party. Everyone is singing it now. In Flettington and Concord more than ever.  Whoever that may be, I won't let you be disturbed, Father. My father is resting, sir. He only returned yesterday from a long voyage from England. I'm to deliver this to him at once, Mrs. Bates. Bring me the message, Sally. As you wish, Daddy. Here. Thank you. It looks important. What do they want of you, Daddy? Oh, yes. This is imperative, my dear. I have been chosen as one of Pennsylvania's five delegates to the Continental Congress. They are organizing for war against England. But you're too old, Father. Old and probably good for nothing.  My old friend Colonel Washington has been named Commander-in-Chief of the Army. I cannot refuse to give my services at his command. One year later, in September 1776, with the American cause facing defeat for lack of funds and supplies, the Continental Congress unanimously elected Benjamin Franklin as Special Commissioner to France, whose alliance he was instrumental in securing. It was nine years before he set foot on his native shore again. On September 14th, 1785, he arrives home on the London packet. Beloved and renowned, he has been named the first American citizen. Cheering crowds swarmed the same old Market Street in Philadelphia, where he had arrived 60 years before as a runaway apprentice. The Committee of Welcome is waiting for Dr. Franklin in the ship's cabin. He did more to win the war than any one man. Oh, what about Washington? And where, I ask you, sir, would Washington and the rest of us have been if Dr. Franklin hadn't persuaded King Louis to the smart tune of 26 million francs? My excuse, he comes. Welcome, Christ. Welcome, Dr. Franklin, to your native land again. God just be praised and thanked for all men. Are you satisfied with the peace terms, doctor? There never was a good war or a bad peace. What kind of a voyage did you have this time, sir? Dreadful. Dreadful. I was in my cabin most of the time, writing on a new paper. The cause and cure of smoky chimney. Doctor, we are electing you Chairman of the Philadelphia Common Council, and you will undoubtedly be chosen later for the highest office in the state. Yes. Yes, they have eaten my flesh, and it seems they are resolved to pick my bones. Perhaps you would all like to hear my epitaph. Oh, I'm sure you have many years before you, doctor. I am, I amuse myself by writing it. I seem to have intruded myself into the company of posterity, when I ought to have been a bed and a sleep. The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer, like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and yielding, lies here, food for worms. Yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will, as he believes, appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by the author. Benjamin Franklin never realized his ambition to retire from active public life. After his return, he served Pennsylvania as chief executive of the state, filling that office on three occasions, and taking active part in the constitutional convention of 1787 in Philadelphia. Until his death on April 17th, 1790, at the age of 84, he never ceased his scientific labor, writing incessantly on his pamphlets and books for the improvement and betterment of mankind. No American ever led a more useful and productive life than Benjamin Franklin, first citizen in the cavalcade of America. When Benjamin Franklin was in France, he often visited the laboratory of the famous French scientist Lavoisier, where a young man named Elefaire Irénée Dupont was working. Later this young man emigrated to America, and in 1802 he established the Dupont Company on the banks of the Brandywine Creek in Delaware. Tonight, one of his great-grandsons is with us in the studio, Mr. Irénée Dupont, vice chairman of the Dupont Company's board of directors, who continues the association between the names Franklin and Dupont through his service on the board of managers of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, which this week is dedicating a national shrine to Franklin's memory. Mr. Dupont, if Benjamin Franklin, as he suggested in his own epitaph, were to return today, what accomplishments of Dupont chemical research do you think would interest him most? Benjamin Franklin was very much interested in agriculture. He carried on experiments in improving the productiveness of his farm near Burlington, New Jersey, especially by means of crop rotation and liming the soil. Franklin would be astonished at the present great production of chemical fertilizers. The more so because no one of his time dreamed that nitrogenous fertilizers could be made from such raw materials as air and water. It would amaze him to visit the Dupont plant at Bell, West Virginia, where this complicated process is carried on at pressures as high as 13,000 pounds per square inch. And he'd be pleased that products so valuable to agriculture can be produced by this chemical route at a lower price than by any other. Mr. Dupont, what other chemical discoveries would Franklin regard as important contributions to better living? I think the observant Franklin would be astonished at the low cost of modern coal tar dies and equally astonished at their brilliance and fastness or ability to resist fading. 25 years ago America was almost entirely dependent on Europe for dye stuff. Now the Dupont company and other American manufacturers produced dyes equal to any others produced elsewhere. And the dye stuff industry has given us other things besides dyes, hasn't it, Mr. Dupont? Yes, indeed. Chemists found that the same processes or raw materials used in making dyes would also yield an endless variety of so-called organic chemicals. One of the most widely used of these is tetraethyl lead, the compound that takes the knockout of gasoline. Other organic chemicals supplied by the Dupont company to rubber companies help make our present-day automobile tires last three or four times as long as the tires of a few years ago. This calls to mind the new man-made material, neoprene, a compound very like rubber, but in certain ways eminently superior to rubber. All natural rubber comes from tropical countries thousands of miles away, but neoprene is produced by Dupont chemists from coal, limestone and salt. A great advantage to this country should our supply of natural rubber ever be cut off. A somewhat similar case is camphor, essential to the plastics industry. This material was formally imported from the Orient where it was obtained from camper trees. Today Dupont produces camper from southern pine trees at a price that freezes from a threat of foreign control. Mr. Dupont, it's easy to see that chemistry has come a long way since Franklin's time. What do you see for the future? No one can tell just what new developments will emerge from research laboratories. In Franklin's time progress was slow, for even such a genius as he worked largely alone and had very limited facility. Today research chemists work in cooperating groups in well-equipped laboratories and have available the accumulated knowledge of those who have preceded them. Though we cannot predict the specific results of their labors, it's certain that we have only begun to uncover the possibility. The most important point is that all these new industries born of chemical research provide jobs for thousands of people and produce an endless stream of new and better products for our comfort and convenience. Thank you Mr. Dupont. The facts you brought out throw new light on the work that the Dupont company is carrying forward to create better things for better living through chemistry. Child welfare, a story of the growth of an organization in this country devoted to improving methods of caring for children and understanding juvenile problems will be the subject of our broadcast when next week at the same time Dupont again presents the cavalcade of America. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.


there's one thing that's incredibly hard to fake and that is the precise timing of eye contact and you'll see him mostly avoidant of eye contact here. This I don't think is demonstrably deceptive. He's displaying these genuine nonverbal behaviors that we typically associate with true feelings of shame. These include him just being hunched over is kind of avoidant gaze toward the table in front of him. A lack of large expressive hand movements and most telling of all is his stillness. There's just stillness there and it's not rigidity. There's smoothness in the stillness. It's not a matter of self-regulation. Then the moment this point comes up there's a powerful and direct shift into eye contact and confident behavior. So different. There's just about no way I've ever seen a deceptive person be able to pull that off and this is overall honest behavior here which doesn't mean he's telling the truth. It means he's exhibiting what we might expect to see in an honest person. Might see something different here coming up.


what's up you guys it's Adana I am back with another video for you guys today's gonna be about studying my study tips or how I study for PA school I've gotten that question quite a bit lately in talking to some pre-PAs and it's something that I had a question about when I was first starting because I was like man it is so much information how am I going to retain all of this information and it was kind of a learning curve you guys like it was something I really had to get used to and I had to figure out because I was not sure how I would retain all of the information that I was expected to retain that I knew that I needed to retain because had I have not retained it that could be somebody's life further down the line you know so it was definitely like nerve-wracking and definitely like I don't know like I was I was pretty like scared on entering PA school and then studying because I knew that in undergrad I really didn't like I didn't really have to study you know there are some things that you kind of studied for but you a lot of my time was in just spent studying but pretty much every minute of my day is spent studying in PA school so that's one thing planning out my day and making sure that the time that I'm utilizing is important with respect to how I study I know some of you have seen my study with me videos where I just kind of do block studying for certain things I'm literally just kind of going over like really really big ticket buzzwords and you know some presentations and trying to make sure that I understand exactly like what goes with what why does this disease process go this way as opposed to allowing the body to do this so it's very very important to find what works for you definitely what worked for me in undergrad does not work for me now and they they've always say like PA school is like that it's that meme you know where it's like you're trying to drink through a fire hydrant I don't know if you've seen it but it's like you know somebody is sitting up there and then there's like a fire hydrant just pouring water into their mouth and that's kind of how it is with respect to the information that you're getting you're getting a lot of information it's super dense you really have to remember pretty much everything but you can pick and choose and that's that's the smart part I know that in my early on in my medical terminology class that is the class where you learn what the disease is how to treat it what the presenting symptoms are the all of those you know basic medicine stuff I did not really do that too well on my first exam I think I got like a low B or B minus and as I've told you guys before if you get below a 73 that is failing in my school and I may have gotten like an 80 or something I don't know but it was not as high as I would have expected it to be and I was like what's going on you know how am I like not doing as well like I know I studied hard for this and it's not always about studying hard it's about studying smart so after I talked around some people spoke to my upper classman mentor you know I got some tips I looked I bought pants I will show you guys that book I bought pants prep pearls which helped me out a lot just consolidating the information helping me to realize exactly what I was looking for in the vignettes and then I also like made study guides and others made study guides that I used to study for one really really cool thing about my class my cohort is that they're super helpful so we have like a class of 2019 Google Drive and we just they just put everything in there so all the study guys that they've made for themselves they put it in there and they share it with everyone so if you may do better with you know Jane's study guide then you use Jane's study guide as opposed to using Martha's you know so it's like it's really cool because you get to pick and choose it's like going shopping and figuring out what works for you and after after making study guides and looking through pants and doing that making a little stupid mnemonics it worked it helped me out so that is definitely something tried to figure it out figure out what works for you and how you will study best and don't be ashamed to like ask questions I'm like well how did you study for this I will show you guys exactly what I'm talking about with respect to my study guides and pants how pants breaks it down because it's definitely a benefit to have so if you are a pre-PA student if you have gotten into PA school and you haven't gotten pants prep pros yet go ahead and get that book because it is definitely a lifesaver in PA school with respect to pharmacology I think I did worse than I did in my medical practice class on that first test and I went to the teacher I was like I don't know what's going on like this is not me I'm not this kind of student so I don't understand why I'm not getting like these drugs and I don't understand why I can't figure out like the questions I don't know if it's just me not understanding the way that you're asking the questions or I just don't know the drugs at all but I know that I studied and he told me you know he's like I had a problem with this when I was in my doctoral program I had a lot of drugs that I needed to know and so what I did was I broke it down and I put them in bubble maps and I put in the adverse effects I said this is where these are the uses this is the mechanism of action because these are all things that you need to know because different drugs interact with each other you're never supposed to use certain drugs together you may death you you know you may cause someone's death if you do an overdose on this if there is an overdose how do you revert it back how do you counteract that so those are all things that you need to know and in my bubble that I may take like 80 slides and break it down into two bubble maps on you know on my PowerPoint because I make the maps on PowerPoint so that has worked really well for me I've done so much better in farm than I did the summer before and I only expect to do even better in medical microbiology because that's kind of what it changes to in the third semester that's when we learn about all of our what are they oh all of our antibiotics so we're gonna learn about all of our antibiotics in medical microbiology and I only expect to do better in that class so I definitely make bubble maps I draw it out I spent I may have a template already ready and then as we're going through the slides I add in the information and that works tremendously for me with respect to by anatomy class I literally just down arrow every slide it's not a lot of slides it's any of I think the max amount of slides that we've had in that class it's like 36 but it's a lot of information and so what I have to do is just down arrow down arrow down arrow continue to go back to the beginning down arrow down arrow down arrow and then I use there's a book an atlas that I use for the lab and then for the class as well to know the origin insertion the nerve innovation and the action those are all things that you need to know with respect to the muscle and in my anatomy class so definitely that book helps me out a lot it has a lot of charts that I can actually use which is beneficial when I am studying because sometimes charts work for me even though I hate Excel sometimes just seeing it in a consolidated chart works for me with respect to my anatomy class so I use that and again you know our classmates put up their study guides they put up their Excel spreadsheets we print out the different pictures and then we also have to do radiology and anatomy and that again is just more repetition looking at what it may look like knowing the the actual orientation of the different muscles and how to read the film or you know the CT scan knowing exactly what side you're on so that you're picking the right structures when you're doing the test so that's usually how I study with respect to my anatomy class and then every other class is just kind of like how you're generally studying you know just kind of going through reading the slides because everything is pretty much online although we have books everything is pretty much over the computer I'm looking at slides constantly and then I only look at paper really and truly when I print out my study guides to study for the exam but that is it I mean I spend a lot of time studying maybe four to five hours a day or a night you know after I've come home I try to be in bed by no later than 11 just because I need that time to function and so but I break up my day and I break up my study time and that's really what works for me and that's what's been working for me especially this semester because this was a difficult semester was so dense so much material I thought the summer was hard well this semester was a beast and I'm just looking forward to next semester to see how things roll with that see how I do there and prepare for clinical because I will be in clinicals in about five months so I'm really really excited about that if you guys have any other questions on studying study tips maybe even like I don't know like I really like cool colorful pens and pencils and stuff so maybe you guys have some tips for me on where I can find some really cool colorful pens that would be nice leave that in the comment section below and if you have any comments or questions on my studying that I didn't my study tips that I didn't necessarily touch on or questions that you would want answered leave that in comment section below as well if you haven't already done so go ahead and follow me on Instagram at adana the PA and I will see you guys next time bye


Welcome, everyone. I'm Joy Elam, DAV's National Legislative Director, and with me here today, I have Representative Julia Brownlee. Representative Brownlee is the Chairwoman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Health, and we thank you very much, Representative Brownlee, for joining us for this special forum and virtual salutes. DAV is celebrating our special milestone, a special milestone this year, our 100th anniversary, and we're very proud of the 100 years of service that we've provided to our nation's ill and injured veterans. We wanted to highlight the work of the committee, your work specifically on improving services for our nation's women veterans. This has been a really important issue for DAV. As you know, we've had two reports that have come out with regard to women veterans, the long journey home and the journey ahead, and we certainly appreciate all of your work on women's issues. One of DAV's top legislative priorities for the 116th Congress is getting legislation passed to improve health care services for our women veterans and any gaps and barriers that exist for them. And your leadership in Washington and on the Women Veterans Task Force has resulted in a number of legislative bills being introduced, including and the passage of your bill, the Deborah Sampson Act of a HR 3224. So with that, I think we want to, you know, tell you how much we appreciate all the hard work that you and your staff did over this past year, really developing and introducing, getting that legislation introduced and getting it through the House. And now the Senate has acted at least within the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on their bill, the companion bill, and passing it out of committee. And they did mark it up and added a number of provisions from your bill. But I wanted you to have the opportunity to just talk a little bit about your bill, the genesis of that, and why you think it's so important, you know, the provisions that you've included in there. Well, thanks, Joy. And let me say congratulations on 100 years. That's incredible. And I will certainly want your members to know what a great job you do back in Washington, because anything we do as members of Congress or legislation that we try to put forward, we can't do it without the help and support of organizations like yours and your personal attention on these very specific bills. So I, you know, I just want to thank you for that. It's been a joy to work with you, Joy, as we, certainly on the subcommittee on health and certainly on the task force for women veterans. So I'm delighted to hear of the great news that the Senate has marked up a companion bill to Deborah Sampson. That's very, very exciting. It's a step that needed to occur. And now we have to make sure that it gets to the Senate floor and voted on and that we can merge these two bills together from the House and the Senate and move it to the President's desk for signature. So there's still a lot of work that still needs to be done. But it's exciting to know that there's really general agreement in both houses in terms of what really needs to take place as it relates to services for our women veterans across the country. So it's, it's quite exciting. And I think in both bills, they're very comprehensive bills. There is a lot, certainly a lot in mind and a lot in the Senate. So it just underscores how much we need to do and how much work needs to get accomplished to be able to appropriately serve our women veterans who have served our country so valiantly and bravely. Excellent. And our grassroots, our membership, you know, they're all on board. We're going to do everything we can. We did an alert most recently just to make sure that senators, we're going to get that over from the Senate, hopefully passed and again so that, you know, any differences in the bill can be worked out. But we're really pushing for this year. I know there's a short window with the legislative days left and the elections coming up in a very busy time, but I know it's going to be the full force of DAV and our VSO partners as well to make sure it gets over the finish line. And we appreciate, again, all the hard work that you've done to make that come about. One issue that I thought was really important that is included provisions included in the bill are regarding harassment issues. As you know, VA research identified last year that one in four women veterans who were surveyed reported that they had experienced some sort of sexual harassment while trying to seek care at a VA medical facility. And I know how disturbing that was for you and for, you know, the many women, men and women who use the VA health care system. There was recently a hearing that was held about this issue and a GAO report that came out that also spoke about sexual harassment issues within actually for VA employees, including VA employees. I just wanted to get your take on, because your bill does include very extensive policy changes and procedures that would really ensure that VA can safely, the veterans can safely use the VA health care system. And if something should happen, it's going to be appropriately reported and to, you know, to the authorities and addressed. And, you know, I just want to get your take. What did you think about the hearing VA's response?  Do you want to see more? What's your opinion? Well, it's an important question. And this was an issue that really the task force unraveled early on in its work to really, it was shocking to me to find out that, you know, harassment was actually going on in VA facilities. And really the VA didn't really have any policies to address this specific issue. Certainly they had policies in terms of harassment and assault, but not within their own facility so that when patients are coming in, women veterans are coming in to receive services, their employees working there, that they really didn't have concrete policies in place for that. And as you said, the GAO did a report and made seven very clear recommendations in terms of what is needed. I was very disappointed, I have to say, in terms of VA's response to that. Certainly they said that they would comply. They said they would comply to six out of the seven, you know, of these issues. But the timeframe in terms of their commitment to meeting these corrections was, you know, 2024. I can't remember all of the exact dates within there, but this is an urgent, urgent situation. And we know, as I think you mentioned, one in four women veterans are harassed or assaulted. It's the same statistic within the VA and within VA medical facilities, whether we're talking about patients or employees, and we all know that those numbers or that statistic, that data point is probably even worse because there's so much non-reporting that still goes on within the VA community and certainly within our facility. So this is an urgent situation that really requires comprehensive, urgent leadership. And it certainly the first step is to have the appropriate policies in place that there would actually be a handbook that people could refer to in terms of exactly what the policies are. But as it relates to VA medical facilities, anybody that sees any action of harassment, it must be a culture and an environment for anyone to, if they see it, to say something. And immediately, so that this is immediately addressed, this has to happen in every facility across the country. And as you know, Joy, this comes up so many times in our hearings is, if you've seen one VA, you've seen one VA. And I'm sure there are VA facilities out there that are doing a relatively good job as it relates to this. But this is a policy that needs to be implemented equally and as strongly and with strong enforcement across the entire VA to think that women veterans come to the VA for help because they may have been traumatized and may have been traumatized through military, sexual trauma. Then coming to the VA for help and being traumatized again is unacceptable and inexcusable. Well, thank you for that. We feel the same about the urgency of it. And in fact, our national commander, commander Whitehead, you know, feels so passionately about this. He, you know, filmed a video media message for our members and said as we go back to the VA as it opens as COVID, you know, hopefully with the pandemic, as we start to, you know, use the VA again, that that's absolutely what we need to do. Nobody can buy standard about this on this issue that we all need to do our part. And I know we're going to have, you know, all of our members really pitching in. And we've shared that with the VA and the VA secretary and the under secretary for help that we want to be part of that our members use the VA healthcare system. And, you know, they're just appalled at these types of reports that it's still happening. And we don't want to see any woman veteran or any veteran who experienced some sort of harassment going to VA and that limiting, you know, being a barrier to them getting the care that they really need. So such an important issue. And we appreciate you really highlighting that issue. You mentioned the women veterans task force, the congressional task force. And that was one of the first things that chairman Tecano starting at the 116th Congress created and put you in charge of that. Could you tell our members just a little bit about the work of the task force, why it came to be, you know, how often you meet and who participates in the task force meetings? Well, thank you for that. And I'm very, very proud of the task force and very proud of the work actually that we've accomplished in a short period of time. It became abundantly clear to me in my early years on the VA committee that women veterans are invisible in many cases. They're very visible as they serve in our military and leave the military and become invisible. In the services, there are huge gaps in services as it relates to women veterans. And as you know, women veterans is the largest cohort within the fastest growing cohort within the VA veteran community. And the VA needs to be ready to serve that growing cohort in a way that is again comprehensive and the services across the country. So the task force, as you know, we meet often. We've had many roundtables of which you have participated on in Washington, D.C. And we have taken the task force on the road, if you will. I mean, up until COVID in this pandemic, we were truly traveling across the country and talking to actually women in the military and women veterans across the country to better understand what their issues are. And we had to speak with women who are currently serving in the military because so many of the issues take place there in service. And as a consequence, VA needs to be ready and prepared to help and assist our women veterans when they leave the military. And that has been an extraordinary personal experience for me, I have to say, because in each city and places that we've been across the country, we gather together whether it's women in the military or women veterans or a combination thereof.  What does this really mean? What is she trying to get from us? A little hesitant, honestly, to be sort of forthright and candid about what their feelings are. And as soon as I sort of start the meeting and talk about how I really want to, you know, really do want to hear from you, this is important in terms of legislation in terms of moving forward in Washington. And I will share with them, you know, I've had some other meetings and women have talked about this and they've talked about that. Well, as soon as I start to let them know that other women are talking and as soon as that first woman in that meeting begins to speak, the whole room opens up again. And women have a lot on their minds and a lot that they want to share and their experiences. And many women have had good experiences in the military and probably will stay in the military for their entire career. And others have left the military because it was a horrible experience for them. And so we need to make sure that the culture within the military that needs to be addressed in that culture carries over to the VA. But, you know, one of the areas that the task forces tried to work on is to bring, you know, the Department of Defense and the VA together in these meetings to say, we've got to work on this together. We can't do this in silos. We have to do this together. And we've made some progress. I think at least you probably know better than I, but it's been my understanding that, you know, this has been one of the first in terms of defense and VA getting together to talk about these issues around military sexual trauma, harassment, sexual assault, to be at the table together and talking about it. Yeah, I think that's such an important point and really brings home, you know, what you've done with the task force, again, making it a comfortable situation where you bring together a number of people from different backgrounds and some, you know, smaller organizations, some, you know, organizations that generally haven't had a seat at the table in the past and DOD and VA.  And I'm impressed about how many members of Congress make time, you know, men and women to join you there that are interested in these issues. And they come to learn and they ask the questions when somebody says something, you know, they say, wait a minute, did you just, you know, say, because they're really trying to understand what it is to serve as a woman veteran, what those barriers and experience are for those that don't have that good experience and then really count on VA. And as you know, for DAV, our focus on service disabled veterans and all the women that are serving in our war, you know, have wartime service, very complex medical histories. And they need the VA, they need the specialized services that they offer. And we want everyone to feel comfortable to use the VA. We don't want any veteran to be marginalized and feel they're not welcome there and that they, you know, need to seek care elsewhere. So again, kudos to you and the task force for really, you know, focusing on those difficult issues and listening to women veterans. That's what women tell us all the time. I just, you know, I feel invisible. People don't listen to what we have to say. These issues continue on, you know, why should I participate? And we keep telling them, you need to keep speaking up, make your voices heard. And I think together, you know, the committee and the VSO community, everybody's very energized and excited. You've moved the ball forward tremendously. I think with all of us, we can push on VA. We want them to take this issue seriously. And they did have a briefing the other day about the white ribbon campaign that they're going to be rolling out. And they also talked about what they're doing at their medical centers and having their directors do walkabouts and really getting down to talking with the people and experiencing it from another perspective, how it is to walk in that front door in a facility when you're the minority of, you know, population and, you know, certain things happen. So, again, we really appreciate that. And before we close out, I just want to give you an opportunity. If there's anything that's really on your mind that you'd like to share with our membership or something we missed talking about, please. Well, I, you know, I think, again, I just, you know, want to thank you, Joy, for all of your help and support on this and certainly DIV's leadership in this area and certainly deep, deep gratitude to your membership for their service to our country. We honor you and we are so, so very, very grateful. And it is our utmost responsibility to, in return, provide you with very best of services and particularly your population, Joy, your membership, as you said, who have very complicated issues that really can't be resolved any place else except within the VA. So, we're going to keep working on this until we find parity in terms of services. We're going to keep working on this until we can really change the culture that is taking place. And I really do believe that there is, there, I start to see shifts in behavior and shifts around the culture even in the military. I'm beginning to see it, but there's a lot more work that needs to be done and this has to be, you know, razor sharp, intensive, sustainable leadership around this to change the culture. And it's imperative that we do. The future of our country, quite frankly, depends on it because we have a voluntary armed services now and more and more women are stepping up to the plate. And we've got to be ready and prepared to help them transition out of the military and certainly serve all of their needs. They have earned and deserved that. So, there's still a lot more work to be done and I am going to stay razor sharp focused on these issues as it relates to women. And I know that we will succeed and there will be progress. It will take time, but it will happen. And I'm just very, very grateful to you, Joy, and your leadership. Thank you for that. And you know you can count on DAV and our members to have the full weights, you know, supporting what you're doing. Again, a real champion on this issue, very thoughtful legislation, not just, you know, a couple of provisions here or there with reports, but really cutting edge legislation that could move the ball. And we're going to be there to push it over the finish line and celebrate. We hope that when that happens, you'll invite us and we can all really, again, congratulate you on those efforts. And thank you so much for being here with us today. We know how busy you are and it really appreciate your time. So thank you so much. Take care.


Hello people! I'm Ginny Metherill and I am a fourth generation witch. Today is the return of my ever popular Almanac series looking at what a witchcraft you can do on witch days throughout January in 2023. This is my witchcraft in January. If you haven't seen these videos as always I'm going to give you a general overview of the type of witchcraft that you might be looking at for the month of January. Then we'll get into the nitty gritty detail of the days and what witchcraft works best and when. So, with that said, let's start with the general overview. January is very much a month of finishing off what was begun at Yule. Yule, as I'm sure you remember from my Yule video, which was only a couple of weeks ago, lasts for 12 days as does Christmas because it sort of, you know, imposed itself on the top of Yule. And so this first part of January is very much a finishing off of the celebrations that are going on about the midwinter solstice. The name January comes from the Latin and we don't know whether January is actually named for the god Janus, the Roman god Janus, the one with two faces, one looking forward, one looking back, or it's named for Janus, the Latin word, for a door, as in a door into the new year. We don't know. It's most likely going to be the god Janus but we don't really know, do we now? We haven't got a clue. Maybe it's all just intertwined and bound up with each other. However the important thing here is that January is a month of change. We come from the old and into the new, hence why we have the new year. Although we appear to be in the deaths of midwinter, because January is really very much the deaths of midwinter, it is the start of the animal mating season. For example the moon is called the wolf moon at this time because the howling of the wolves, who aren't just howling for scarcity of food or something, they're howling to get themselves a bit of a rumpy puppy. They're looking for their girlfriends and protecting their territory. The fox, which is a close relation to the wolf, you will also hear howling away. It's got a really unearthly sort of river. During the daytime we can hear the robin calling out the beautiful robin's red breast. They've always been associated with witchcraft. Robins are reaching their peak singing at this moment in time and also their breasts particularly bright. That's because they're trying to attract a mate and finding their territories or guarding their territories. It was said by the Christians that the robin's red breast came because when Christ was hanging from the cross the robin landed and sung to the Christ as he was nailed to the cross. Whilst this was happening some blood splashed upon his breast and stained it red and he carries this as a proud mark forevermore. However it is believed by the pagan traditions that robins were spiritually connected with the dead and they could pass messages to and fro. So should you see a robin in the garden at this time of year feel free to speak words to your loved ones that have passed over in the knowledge that the robin will take those words to them. I do like that tale. It's rather sweet and charming. The first few weeks of January pale the end of the yule season and the start of the agricultural year. So January is very much a new beginning you know we finish off the old and we start with the new. So that was the general overview for my witchcraft in January. Right that said let's get down into the nitty gritty and of course the best possible day we can start on is the first. This is obviously one of the biggest witches charms day of the year. Wherever you go throughout the British Isles you will find that people will be carrying charms across your threshold on the first of January and these charms vary. My mother who was a very good witch always insisted that it's midnight the first person to cross our threshold had to be a tall dark handsome man. Well they're all good so far in my opinion and he would be carrying a lump of coal to bring you the warmth in your life a bag of salt to bring you the necessities of your life and some sugar for the sweet things. This man was normally a member of the family who was pushed out of the house just before midnight because they had to be out of the house as at midnight finished he then banged on the door and we let him in. I quite like my mother's one I think that's quite a good one isn't it but throughout the varying parts of the world people have different customs of bringing witches charms into your house to ensure good luck for the year. In Wales the children would carry apples skewered with sticks and evergreens and these would be given to their neighbours in exchange for a couple of pennies. These new year's apples were always placed at the window to bring good luck into their house for the new year. The northern parts of the UK had it that at midnight you should open the back door of the house to let the old year out and then open the front door of the house to let the new year in and when you opened the front door to bring the new year in you'd be banging your saucepans in order to put off anything negative and just or welcome in the good luck for the new year. On this day it is very important and it is a very old tradition not to give people a light from your fire now this could be something as simple as lighting someone's cigarette for them on new year's day because this takes the light away from your own half so do not give away candles at new year or allow people to take a light from your home. In Nottinghamshire it was thought that if you took stuff out of your house on new year's day anything before you bought something into your house on new year's day then this would cause a bad luck and they had this rhyme saying take out take in bad luck is sure to begin take in take out good luck will come about so make sure that you only bring something into your house on new year's day before you take anything out now this is a rather difficult thing to do if you're having a new year's eve party because your new year's eve guests will likely leave your house on new year's early morning or just after midnight or the next day maybe so you must ensure that someone brings your present into the house what I would suggest is the tall dark handsome man choose one of your guests a shoves some cold salt and sugar in his house before midnight throw him outside as midnight strikes get him to come back in that is my suggestion the 6th of January is the night amongst other things of the full moon now the full moon rises in cancer and it is the culmination and termination or fulfillment of the great event that was started on the great and new moon of the winter solstice on the 23rd of December cancer is a homely sign and so this full moon is going to be all about romance family fertilization with the capricorn aspect of astrology in the sky at the moment mixed with this cancer energy helps us bring a sense of duty and responsibility to our home and family the first full moon of the year is therefore a homely family orientated one the first full moon of the year has a lot of superstitions going with it if you see the full moon with a slightly reddish tint on it then it's not going to be a great weather for the year ahead but if it is high in the sky which it might well be then you are going to have a really great harvest it is said that if you wish upon the first full moon of the year your wish will come true by the end of this year and wish magic as we all know is always incredibly selfish if you feel like wishing for a million pounds this is the moon to do it on the 6th of january is the last day of christmas which used to be the last day of yule but kind of calendar fluctuations avayas already said have changed these dates around circuit the last day of yule was always a celebration with a huge feast and was almost bigger than the yule celebration at the beginning itself there were plays there were performances there were all sorts of excitements that happened and this is still seen in the procession at bankside in london with the holly king it's obviously taken from some antique pagan holly king mythology that we had you know it's slightly been lost in the mists of time i mean neo pagans have it that the holly king was defeated at yule but in this case he is still being transported around on the last day of yule so maybe this is his last day of reigning who knows it is also considered the end of the wassailing season on the 6th of january and so this is the last time that you get to go to your orchard pour cider everywhere beat your trees sing songs make merry and a lot of noise in the orchard to awaken the spirits of the trees so that they can produce a great crop for the coming year the 9th of january is plough monday which marked the start of the recommencement of the agricultural year it was also the start when people were returning to work after the christmas festivities plough monday is a little bit witchy in its aspect because the ploughmen liked to have their ploughs blessed and would take candles and do rituals for blessing their ploughs in order to give them obviously a good harvest in the coming year anyway but much more excitingly on tuesday the 10th of january there is the straw man festival i have absolutely no idea where this comes from what they're doing or why and so but i'd like to show it to you because it's bloody hilarious these men are led by a lead dressed in straw depending on which town you live in the rituals differ but they're all about this straw man if you know a bit more about the pagan traditions behind this i would love to hear your thoughts it must be some sort of fertility festival or awakening of the new year spirit but who knows the 13th of january is known as the coldest day of the year i don't know if 13th of january is actually going to be the coldest day of the year but it seems quite likely the 19th of january is when mercury finally finishes being retrograde what this means for all of us is our tempers are going to improve our plans are going to come together technology is going to work let's hope so because i can't live without it and generally everything is just going to run a bit smoother mercury has that edge of putting things at odds with each other and so stopping its retro gauge journey is brilliant for the whole human race the 21st of january is the new moon and this new moon is in aquarius traditionally the new moon is a time to make plans and focus for your dreams and hopes for the coming month each new moon is affected by the energy it's the star sign that it's in and being in the water sign aquarius brings a trail blazing quality to your dreams and hopes so if you wish to run wild with your plans for the next month now is this time to put those plans in motion and just let your imagination and creativity flow because this aquarium new moon will help those plans and dreams come true this new moon is also a moon of divination so you should stand in the light of the new moon and take some seeds nine of them preferably and these seeds should be some form of seed that might be useful traditionally i think they used hemp seeds take your nine seeds and throw them over your left shoulder and this will conjure the wraith of your future lover if you want to see him that is then you have to plant the seeds and tend to the crop if you wish for that future lover to be yours and the last date of course is the 31st of january this is one of my favorite dates of the year because this is the ap heli ar festival it's in lyric in the shetland's aisles and this is a viking pagan fire festival and it's one of the biggest in europe people of the aisles spend the whole year planning this and they like thousands of torches and process and end up burning a viking long ship on the and i also don't know why it is there and what this fire festival is one presumes it must be part of lighting the new year because that is after all january january is all about bringing in the new and sweeping out the old and for that i hope you have a very happy new year if you like this video please do give me a thumbs up and do subscribe it's a new year come and join my coven meeting online it is a thrilling ride go to patreon.com forward slash a jenny meddral and you'll see the details there otherwise i hope you have really happy a new year if you haven't already and i will see you in a couple of days


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We're hosting a reserve boat crew college where we're teaching a group of reservists from all stations from around the sector to be qualified as RBS crew members. The college I believe right now is 16 reservists that are from all the various stations. Every station has volunteered instructors along with small boats to help facilitate the training. The station here we've been able to provide five or six instructors plus a couple small boats. All the instructors are all active duty, bosomates or MKs so they're the ones who would naturally be teaching the active counterparts. So everybody's fully qualified who's doing the instructing. We'll go through almost all of the PQS for boat crew. It'll be anchoring, pyrotechnics, physical training. We'll teach them how to navigate with charts and do all the chat work. It literally covers just about all the PQS for the boat crewman. This gives them a base core knowledge of all the the tasks that we're teaching and it's up to that student to go back to their unit and complete the PQS at their unit to the satisfaction of that command and then they'll be able to be qualified from that. Probably one of the hardest things for them to grasp or learn over this past week was probably navigation, the actual plotting out positions, you know learning the different chart symbols and computing speed, time and distance. Instructing was great, you know, you had questions, everybody was really willing to help you out and they would really sit there and work with you until you actually were able to fully understand what needed to be done or what you asked. Probably the easiest thing to get is actually the survival swim. We went into the water as a group and we performed a surface swim and from the water we fired off a combination of flares and smoke. We have a lot of support, a lot of people who allow time and effort, we could see that they were here every morning with us if not here earlier than us. The attention that this course got was definitely motivating. Well what the students get out of the graduation ceremony was just an appreciation for the job that they do, how seriously they need to take their job. We're gonna build this concept into the sector's long-range training program, remain safe, no one's gonna hurt, the instructors did a great job. We'll reassess throughout the year on what we need to do. Students did a fantastic job showing up doing what they needed to do.


Welcome to All Hands Update. Here's what's happening around your Navy. Four C-17s and two C-130s from US Transportation Command evacuated nearly 700 dependents with 65 pets from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Pensacola, Florida. Naval Hospital Pensacola, along with the Red Cross, USO, and Fleet and Family Services, provided assistance upon arrival, providing meals, pet food, and basic living comforts. The Naval Education and Training Professional Development Center upgraded and redesigned the Navy College website. Sailors will notice new tools to include a text and web chat feature, a search engine, and a callback feature. Sailors and Commands observed National Cyber Security Awareness Month during October. Adhering to the best cyber practices and behaving with integrity online are critical to protecting Navy networks that the Navy expands into cyberspace. You can read more about what's happening around your Navy at navy.mil.