Okay, I'm one of the network guys as you can guess by the t-shirt so hopefully the network was working, okay, and How a networking guy can talk about the networking protocol at an application developers conference Well add this protocol into a cool application and then talk about it and talk about both So we will start talking about the mongrel 2 If the slides go and change, okay So mongrel 2 first of all is a really a Lego building block for building your web applications So you have clients coming in on the front end connecting by normal HTTP requests or if you do the things like web chat you can do long polling or You can have the flash Applications on the client side connecting to the mongrel 2 using the flash sockets and what mongrel 2 does is that it Converts those requests on the back end into the zero MQ Messages and you connect your back-end handlers via zero MQ to the mongrel front end So what this gives you is very much flexibility and language agnosticism. So you don't care which Language your back-end is written in so the mongrel is very much language agnostic in this case Now it obviously also handles the static files and the reverse proxy Manageability of mongrel 2 is also a very interesting thing. It has its configuration Embedded into the sqli 3 database So why that that means that you can not only use the built-in m2sh So mongrel shell that is used to control the operation of mongrel 2 to convert the standard text configs into sqli 3 but you can also Use your own configuration database and then you can integrate sqli 3 That mongrel 2 uses together with your configuration back-end another interesting thing is that you can use the rails like Routing so you specify which handle attaches to which URL subtree. So think of it like mounting of the volumes under any of the Unix operating systems Efficiency so how many people in the room worked with the mongrel with the previous Generation thing Okay a few What's mongrel and mongrel 2 have in common is the skeleton So the skeleton is the ragel made parser for the HTTP protocol and it's formally Generated code from the description of the HTTP protocol taken from the RFC. So as a result The performance of this parser is quite good And also the number of bugs that you create when you make the code manually is also much lower So you have automatically generated parser And this gives both the performance and the strictness of the parsing On the back-end at the same time we have 0mq. So 0mq is very lightweight messaging library and Using this library again allows to abstract from any language any kind of Protocol that is used to signal with the back-end Because with 0mq if you were I think there is Another lightning talk on 0mq Library itself and you can see there that the number of languages that the library supports is astounding. So there is probably 15 to 20 languages that it supports. So that's a really good thing Now the For me I wanted to have a great web server to use that would support IPv6. So mongrel 2 was perfect candidate with one Detail that they didn't support IPv6 So I started digging into the code and looking how the networking part is implemented and the networking part is implemented as part of leap task which is really a task library by Rose Cox and The abstractions that are in that library are really pleasant to work with so effectively You don't need to work with this one-time use structures Where you take the name then you convert it into the structure and then you just use that structure once So all of that is obstructed inside the library So effectively there are three primitives that are there that you need to work with it's announce the socket then start connecting to a client server and Accept the incoming connections. So this provides an abstraction layer from the rest of the code and How to add IPv6 there's plenty of documentation on the web So I just picked one of them which shows the example of code before porting to IPv6 and after porting IPv6 support. So I basically just went through the same logic as was there Obviously What I showed in the previous slide this very nice level of abstraction also gave Very few changes in other places in the system So there was only one one place to change in the remaining part of the code of mongrel 2 which is kind of giving an impression of the niceness of the quality of the code base Another assumption that I made was that bindv6 only variable is set to 0 So we'll talk a little bit about that variable later on now after I made this code then we Shaped the mongrel 2 with the support and there came some interesting problems So first of all Get address in 4 is not cached So when we use it in a reverse proxy and the configuration specifies the target by name then per Connection attempt to the backend server. We have at least one DNS request Well, in reality, it's two packets the IPv4 and IPv6 resolution attempt So that's not very performative. You have DNS server a couple of hopes away. So you Would either put the DNS server closer or maybe in the future We will change the logic a little bit by adding the local cache Now another interesting point that I heard is that some people at this day Don't have the kernels with IPv6 enabled at all So my optimistic assumption that hey, well if I net I need six socket will be just created it failed and finally Which is not specific to IPv6 Was the increased latency in serving the request because there is no non-blocking name resolution interface in the socket library So for the users who don't have IPv6 in the kernel Basically that came up with an interesting hack where you explicitly specify the bind address So if you specify the v4 wildcard bind address Then you bind only to v4 address family and then you work around this fact that some people don't have the v6 Support in their kernel or if you if you're ready when you're ready to deploy v6 Then you can just change that variable to colon colon, which is the wildcard for IPv6 address and then you can bind your server to IPv6 socket now a little bit of France about having to deal with two address families is that I know tend to pee is not really suited for printing out the socket addresses because It deals with the address as itself Whereas in the code you mainly deal with the socket structure where you have the address and the port So then you need to have a little bit of this Kind of slightly spaghetti code that has if families for then do this or if families six Then do that which is a bit of inconvenience because I would expect every program would need to have this kind of operation now Remember I mentioned the single socket so the bind v6 only it's a very interesting feature where you are able to port Your v4 applications in my opinion Much easier because you had one socket before and you still have only one socket afterwards It's just that this socket can handle both v4 and v6 addresses kind of magically So your previous v4 space gets mapped into v4 mapped addresses on this socket. So On the other hand, there are different opinions. So this was my opinion from the implementation point of view there are other implementers who may have other opinions and This setting had an interesting history It was first on then off and finally now it's again on in the Linux by default, but in BSD it's off by default Another interesting problem is address family selection. So it was not really a Big problem, I think for the mongrel 2 code per se because normally the scenario that Where we use the name resolution as a client Implied that we have both the backend server and mongrel 2 as a client So in this case both hosts are in the same administrative domain So you can fix if something is broken, but if you are developing applications that Our only client side and if you have the applications that require the real-time user response Then you probably would need to deal with it somehow less Relaxed manner, I would say that RFC 3484 specified because 3484 just says okay, you first select the six and then you start going by the addresses you get from get addressing for So for that me and one of my colleagues, we had a small internet draft on with the idea of how to do the address selection And also very recently Mark Andrews from ISE he published a blog post where he Specifies a different algorithm, but probably more efficient than ours where he bounced the connection time by fixed interval Now obviously all of these cool things for user experience are not to replace fixing the brokenness Finally a few conclusions that I've taken for myself from this mongrel 2 IPv6 exercise is that Well first mongrel 2 is really awesome application. So if you don't hack on anything open source I would really invite you to start playing with it and use it in your project By the way, the stats for the network So if you looked at the stats for the network at Fosdm.istdio.b, so that's my domain They were sort from mongrel 2 so I'm not going to demo it because we were demoing it for the past one and a half days and Really adding v6 in itself is not that much of a big deal But tuning it and making sure that it works correctly for all the users That's something that needs Sometime so really if you have your application it doesn't support v6 Then you would really want to start now and start to exchange opinions on how things work better So with this I would like to thank you and open for questions if any Yes, there are thoughts to add the non-blocking DNS But looking so the question was are there thoughts to add the non-blocking DNS There are thoughts and we've been trying very hard to find the asynchronous DNS resolver library that Well to state it politically correct that that would work Because the existing ones are interfering very heavily with the green threads that are used in the mongrel 2 because they They basically either start threads or they fork a process or they do some other weird things from from just underneath your back So I have some very very initial code, but it's not yet the async resolver as such So performance benchmarks The get other info is something that is really hurting quite a lot so in terms of Pure static files. I think that I don't have the exact data But I think they should be pretty much the same So protocol wise there is not a whole lot of overhead and code wise the paths as I said, they are very very similar So basically we use the exact same Socket code for v4 and v6 with the only difference that the well this this part is one of the few places Where it's different. So otherwise, it's exactly the same code


How do you build a UX culture in a company that doesn't value UX? What if you're the only designer? What about if you wanted to get promoted in the same company, how would you do it? Okay, so I picked up big time because I did not record on this camera and I just recorded the Zoom call, so the quality of this is gonna be terrible. Sorry about that, folks. Hi, I'm Chris, previously the head of design and now founder of UX Playbook. Today, I'll be speaking to one of my mentees about her two struggles. UX is not valued in her company and how to get promoted. I'll share tactics that I've used and a step-by-step process. Hopefully, she can get her promotion soon. Now, let's jump on the call. So, we have two main topics today. One is build a UX team and the second is career development. So, the company was founded 25 years ago and it's very engineering-driven. They built the whole product without a designer or nobody really values UX. Therefore, they don't really know how to do it and then you're expected as the lone designer to change the world, but you don't have a team.   That loop just goes around. So, it's like, well, I want to do some of this other stuff but I can't because I'm just producing and executing and there's basically no way to get out of this loop unless you actually slow down and have some more time. Well, the first is it's really hard to change company culture unless it's driven down from the top. That's just some of the realities of company building but that doesn't mean that you can't drive it from the bottom. So, the first example here is what we did in the previous places I worked which is training. We called this UX onboarding. It's important because one, you're saying expectation for engineers who have started, you know, just started so they're fresh, right? They have no idea of anything company culture, how the team works, but you can actually just quickly swoop in and be like, hey, you know, I'm from UX team. This is what we do. This is why we do it and this is why we're important. This is how we can work together better, right? So that's a really good ground that you're laying or foundation you're laying to the new people that are coming in and you don't even have to do this with new people. You can actually do it with older folks. So, folks that have never done this training before, right? Because it really depends on how much you're hiring at our last place we're working at. We're bringing on a lot of engineers almost weekly. So we did 250 people in one quarter, I believe. However, you know, it really depends on the size of your company and how ambitious you are, but basically give everybody a level set. Hey, this is a training I'm doing. It's only one hour.  Include some activities in it. Just kind of explain the whole concept of like design thinking and UX and how it works in software and why it's important. So one is training and that can help with the newbies, but also existing people. So some kind of training. The training doesn't stop in one session because I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of people coming up to you or just kind of asking you questions, but really you have to reiterate that message that you said in the training, right? Like every chance you get, basically. That's one idea. The other idea of kind of affecting company culture is bringing them into the design process. So I remember I read a while ago that Google did this big initiative where the user researchers actually required engineers to sit in on a usability testing session or any sort of test that they would run or customer interviews to really see how their work will be judged, I guess. So I think it's more about usability testing. So that is one. I mean, bringing them into the process is easier said than done, but there's multiple ways that you could bring them into the process where it's in the discovery phase. Maybe engineers don't care about the discovery phase and that's okay. You can bring them into the ideation phase because of course we wanna know our constraints right off the bat and they might like some of that. And then the prototype phase, they're probably involved in any way or you can do kind of quick and dirty tests around the office and be like, hey, can you test this? Is it easy? Like, can you do this specific task, right? Just super, like, what do you think of it? So use them as your testing subjects and then finally involve them in the actual testing with customers. If you do that, if you don't do that, that's still okay. You can use that earlier phase. So those are some ideas of like how you kind of make people understand what good UX is by bringing them into the process and kind of being like, isn't this useful, right? Like before pitching to them about joining a brainstorming or ideation session, you need to pitch the value and really sell it, you know? And it's good practice for you because if you ever think about going into consultancy as a UXer, then you have to sell the client on why ideation is important. So this is just practice for that. So that would be my two ideas. One is training and the other is bringing them into the process. One thing you mentioned, which is how do I prove the impact of UX, but I'm so busy, right? This is a classic one. It's really hard. Okay, so let's talk about how do we provide enough evidence for your manager to be like, oh, it is worth investing in. And there's a couple of ways. I think training and bringing people into the process will help because what you'll find is that people will start talking more about UX and bringing you into these conversations.  So first it's like winning these, what we call friendlies in the company that really believes in that process and UX in general. Another thing you can do is evidence, right? Like provide evidence. So how do we do this? Let's just say you don't have enough time to kind of analyze what you have already with the products out there. You can do another way where you can look at competitors or adjacent products. Why is one product winning over another? And what you could do is analyze who's better than you in one specific thing that you're working on, right? What did they do and how did they do it? That's basically proof that there's a product out there that maybe focuses more on UX or that's how you could spin it. And you can say, look, they're like huge in this niche that we're in. Why aren't we doing as good? Clearly they're doing something better. And that's fundamentally, that's the real value, right? Like your business wants to win. So if they look at other people winning, then that's a clear sign of they need to move closer to what they're doing to win. For example, if you had like, what's their UX team like? What's their development team like? What's the ratio of designers to devs? Do they publish their design system? Do they write a lot about it? Do they write articles about their users? And what are some successful case studies that they've shown? So I think if you do some more diving around, I think every single company has a competitor. Look, boss, they're doing so much better. Why? Like why have we failed? And that's kind of a good way. The other one is proof of success case studies, which I've already spoke about, but there are wider researchers out there from firms like Envision, McKinsey, and they do a lot of research on how design impacts the business.  So you can kind of bring that as a argument for what you want. But when you do kind of put together this evidence, you wanna be really, really clear on actually what you propose and what you want to do. So it's gotta be aligned with the appetite of your manager. Like some things you propose might never happen. So you've gotta be quite realistic on like what you would do. So I think the first thing you're asked for is more people, no? And then what more people means we can tackle more projects, but also you can focus on the important things like design ops, right? Like how we do research, how we analyze data, how we, you know, fix our process or make it better, anything like that. So come with recommendations that are realistic, but also be hyper specific with your ask right to your manager. Another point I have about you being overloaded. Sure, I think you, I'm not sure if you've had this, you tell me if you had, but you should have a frank conversation with your manager about your workload and how it impacts everything else you do. Have you had that conversation?  Like even if he knows, he's like, oh, well she's dealing with it, but you're not dealing with it. Like you're not happy with it, right? You're dealing with it, but you're not happy with it. He's just like, he just cares if you're dealing with it. But if you tell him you're not happy with it, then he'll take it more to heart, no? Like in a relationship, if you don't tell your other half that you're not happy, how the hell are they supposed to know? It's completely, you know, it's a, we can't read minds, right? Like we just want the work to get done, but fundamentally, if it's really affecting a lot of other stuff and you're saying, look, I literally have no social life. I can't even cook a meal at home. I have to order. You know, I'm not even working out. Like, you know, I go to sleep at 3 a.m. and I wake up at nine. It's like what you want me to live like this for like the next 10 years. Like that's not going to happen, man. Like basically the impacts of it is you'll just quit. If he doesn't understand, you'll just quit.  He'll have to find and replace you. Replacing someone is really hard. Like all of these reasons that he'll want to keep you happy is enough for him to make some of your recommendations come true. So you need to have that frank conversation. Communicate that, look, if you do this for another six months, it's going to be really hard for you to see a long-term future with him as a working partner, but also the company as a place to come to. Because if nothing changes, then it doesn't really make sense for you for career growth or whatever the reasons are, right? Like, but fundamentally, yeah, just be honest with him and just tell him because he should be the number one person you go to if you can't solve the problem yourself.  The next point here is you should ask your manager about being more involved in strategic roadmaps or some of these more strategic decisions because you're trying to change the culture, right? So you want to be in there in order to change the culture. I think very hard to change a culture from afar. So you need to be in these conversations. And so that means taking time away from you actually designing, but having being on the desk and at the table when it comes to some of these decisions, really like why would he involve you is one of the questions that he will think. And it says like, oh no, like if I involve you then I'm taking time out you to do like design work. But actually you can pitch it to him like, hey, I love to be involved in these strategic conversations when there's a roadmap discussion, when there's a feature development, because I can help you de-risk this project earlier so we don't waste resources, right? There's no point spending three months on planning this feature and we're not gonna build it. Or if we build it, it's gonna take six months and then we release it and nobody likes it, right? So let me help you de-risk it earlier by actually being involved at the beginning. I can think of ways to help you guys kind of come to a good decision. And that's it. If you're interested in UX mentorship, let's jump on a call. Link in the description. Or, or, or, hit the big red button. Here I think, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, okay, bye.


Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Thanks for coming. So we just showed you part of the reasons why shootings go down. So in the future, we hope with gun violence suppression division, with other resources that we have in the city, tackling this out of control gun violence that we've seen in previous years begins to decline, which you've seen in the last seven to eight weeks. We've seen a steady decline in shooting. So hopefully we start to get a handle on this. And with these cases goes a long, long way to bring it down to violence in this city. So Chief Savino and his crew do an excellent job over here as you see those gang takedowns. And I just want to emphasize the importance of this. This is not a huge, like they call them, roundups of gang members. These are specific, targeted cases at people who are out there with a gun in their hand and think it's all right to shoot that gun in the city, sometimes hitting innocent people, as we've seen tragically in the last few months. So these are targeted enforcement on gang members. And we take those gang members off the streets. You see a dramatic reduction in the shooting. So we continue to hit that. And I'll just pass that off to the mayor. Thank you. Remember, I can go ahead, Chief. Good job. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And thank you also to Chief Essek. It's an absolute honor to take over your helm.  So first and foremost, we do have to thank our team very, very briefly. I have 200 investigators that believe in creating pristine cases, the absolute best cases that can be certainly corresponded. But they are the best of the best. And the way I like to say it is we are the best of the best looking at the worst of the worst. Absolute great investigators. I'm surrounded by the team. Boss, I share your sentiment. When we include individuals in a takedown, these are by far the worst of the worst in the entire city. The trigger pullers, the alphas, the snakes' heads of the neighborhoods. Everybody knows who these individuals are. When you walk into your neighborhood, these are the individuals that create just an uncomfortable quality of life. Not to mention, they have really the gall, if you will, to pull a trigger. Regardless of who's around them, regardless of any unintended targets, something we've seen far too often, not only this year, but in prior years, we have to remember, bullets have no names. Bullets have no names. And we've seen that over and over again. So along with our team and the support from Detective Bureau, we're going to continue to look at every single street in the city and every gang in this city. So I do thank you for your time, and much appreciated. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And I am really proud of these guys and ladies that are here. They are at the heart of what I have been stating for some time. It's a small number of people who have made up their minds that they are going to inflict violence on our city. This is not a large number of people. It's a small number of people who are consistently inflicting violence. So Chief Essex for planting the seed of the gun violence suppression unit. And now Jason is the commanding officer of this unit, continually going after the dangerous people as they stated to shooters. Now we've heard this before.  No, that is not what is happening. They are laser focused on the shooters as they indicated the term as you heard the office, who's driving the violence and what they're doing. And thanks to their work, we are seeing. You see the numbers, the charts are not lying. This is saying the story that we have been talking about. If we zero in on those shooters and the individuals who are participated in the shooters, if we do the work to get it to the grand jury, to get that indictment, to make the arrests, then the other team must do their part. The courts have to prosecute. Judges have to make sure they stay in. Everyone has to do their part. If not, they go out and come back. And you know what's interesting? You do a profile, the picture that's emerging, after the shooting, after the arrests, after being let go, you know what they do? They go do another shooting. People no longer believes that you can't do a shooting in the city. You do a profile on all of these individuals here. You're going to see prior gun possession, prior shootings, just coming out. No one takes criminal justice seriously anymore. These bad guys no longer take them seriously.  We have to get serious about this, because innocent people are dying. But he also, Chief, made another important point of what we are going to do and what we're doing. You take the snakes. You take the alphas. Now you have a large number of people who are there. It's only a matter of time before another alpha steps up. But we announced last week with AT Mitchell and the crisis management teams, we're now going to go into those communities and find those who have headless leaders and have more leaders to give them the on ramp so that they don't continue to participate in the violence that we're seeing. Because if we don't do that, if we don't do the other part of making sure we give them an on ramp to leave violence, then all we're going to do is continue to run after the new alphas that are popping up. This is the strategic analysis that we are doing to go after crime. And in spite of the credits, NJ, that people criticize us all the time, in spite of that, shooters are going down. Shooters are going down. Without violating the constitutional safeguards that we have in place. With decrease in shootings, we're taking bad guys off the streets and we're going to create a safe city in the process. And so I'm proud of the men and women who are part of this unit that are going after those small number of people that are driving crimes in this city of this unit. There's three main strategies of the gun violence suppression division, gun trafficking, real problem, gun investigation, enhanced prosecution. When you put them together, you're going to create a safe, a city. We know that. Only thing we didn't factor in, I'm going to say this as many times as possible until it resonates, the only thing we did not factor in that we're going to keep letting bad guys out. None of us factor this in. It was unimaginable to us that we would do these cases after a year, take them down, and by the time we get back to patrol, we're seeing them back on the streets. That has to, you guys got to stop writing about this. This can't continue. It can't continue. And in spite of that, in spite of the naysayers, in spite of the attacks, in spite of the tweets, in spite of letting them out, these guys are still doing their job. Every day, going out there, investigating, taking these bad guys off the street. And we cannot thank them enough for what they're doing. Precision policing works. It works. Precision policing. Not a wide net, taking up anyone who happens to be affiliated with these guys. No, this team, they're going after the shooters, the trigger pullers, the drivers of violence. And we just need help. It's not a hard thing to ask for. We need help. They're placing themselves in harm's way. We need help to stop dangerous people from coming on our streets. We're going to continue to do so. We will do our job. Now we need everyone else to do their job. We're open to any questions you may have from the Chiefs. That's it here. One, Mr. Mayor? Yes. And these men we see here, are they in custody? Are they convicted? Are they just suspects? And also looking at every single one of these pictures, is a city you're leading failing young men of color? I'll answer the first portion of your question. As far as these individuals are concerned, like we stated earlier, we're talking about individuals that are true trigger pullers, quite often more than once. The vast majority are still in. We did have cooperation with the DAs in regards to these individuals, but like Mr. Mayor said, leading up to these takedowns, a lot of these individuals had three, four, sometimes five gun arrests. So once we incorporate them into the takedowns, they usually stay in, but for the most part, they have that record behind them, and it leads to really an empowerment of sorts. I call it criminality without consequence. So that's something we just, when we have our takedowns, with the cooperation of the DAs, generally speaking, people stay in, but leading up to it, I think that's where there's a lot of room for improvement. Steve, are there any? No, let me finish, no, because that's such an important question. Yes, yes, we're failing men of color, we're failing communities that have been denied with inequalities for years. I bet you, if you do a profile of these men that are here, you will find many of them are dyslexic, mental health issues, homelessness, fail out of school. I bet you 90% of them don't have a high school diploma or an equivalency diploma. I bet you. And why aren't we catching them before they become shooters? Because they can, by the time this arrest is made, we already failed. It's already done, it's a wrap. And there's a pipeline waiting to fill it. So yes, we have failed, and that is what we're fighting against to stop that failure. But we have to do intervention and prevention. The police officer's job is not to find out what is the psychological profile, what is if the person has other issues at home, that's our job as a city. Their job is to take dangerous people off the street. My job, and the job of my agencies is to prevent people from being dangerous. And that is the partnership we're creating. Steve Bernstein, Mr. Mayor, looking at these cases, they're a year, two, three years old. What would you attribute the last seven to eight weeks decrease on why are we seeing success as of late? The unit that everyone criticized me for is called Neighborhood Safety Team. Everyone said, no, not do it, don't do it, Eric. But you know me, being a former cop, I'm used to people yelling at me, screaming at me, spinning at me, saying what I shouldn't do, I'm focused. I knew we were doing the right thing. We have an excellent compliment to what they're doing on Neighborhood Safety Team. We took 3,000 guns off the street.  Our Neighborhood Safety Teams are doing it. So when you combine our Neighborhood Safety Teams, when you combine the everyday patrol that officers are doing, and when you combine the fact that they are saying, when I speak to the officers on the street, they say we have a mayor that understands the job, supporting us doing our job, and it's not gonna leave us out there for doing the job. So it's a combined effort of the men and women who are police officers. They want to go after bad guys. That's why you take this job. And that's what we're doing, and we're gonna continue to do so to take dangerous people off our streets. If I could follow up real quick, 3,000 guns at this point in the year is about on track where we were last year without Neighborhood Safety Teams. So what case can you make to say they are making a difference right now? Well, number one, students are going down. We are dealing with, in 2020, it was a different city, COVID, 2019 lockdown. We're dealing with a different city. And so in combination to taking the guns off the streets and in combination to arrest increase for dangerous felonies are increased, when you look at the combined efforts, we have made historical changes and how we're doing public safety in the city. Mark Norris, CNN. I ask Chris, first was, how many of these gang taketowns have we done so far this year? And the second was about the Supreme Court ruling that might overturn or might change the rules on the second amendment and cause people to carry more weapons. What conversations have you folks had, the mayor's office, the NYPD, any other law enforcement agencies in the area? What have you done to get ready for that possibility? And Chief would talk about the number of cases. I spoke with our counselor today, Brendan McGuire. And we are going to communicate with cities across America. We're going to look at the ruling because the ruling could be on several different levels. We're going to look at the ruling and see what powers we have and what are we going to need from our federal lawmakers to sort of put laws in place that could prevent the Supreme Court ruling from impacting our cities. And so we want to build up a real, a task force across the country, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, New York, San Francisco, all of these places that are dealing with violence. And we want to put our legal minds together, come up with some real legislation on a federal level, our state level and our city levels to get prepared for this. People hear of this right to carry. You should focus on it. If this right to carry, this keeps me up at night. If this right to carry goes through the Supreme Court and becomes the law of the land, can you imagine being on a four train with someone having a nine millimeter exposed? Everyone on the train is carrying. This is not the Wild Wild West. This law is frightening to think that we are even thinking about that and what they did in Atlanta and what they're doing. This fixation with guns is really, even in the midst of Florida, in the midst of Texas, in the midst of all of these shootings, we're still even considering this, those laws prevent these types of shootings from taking place. So it's a real concern and we need to talk about it more. How would that change policing in this country, in this city? And would that undo all of these initiatives that you've been putting into place? You folks have- And we don't know the limitation. I don't know if they're going to go as far as to say, even if you have a prior felony conviction for a gun arrest, you can still carry. We don't know if they're going to go as far as to say there could be no background checks, there could be no limitation. We restrict carry permits here. It's very difficult to get a carry permit. One could get, with the right credentials, can get a target permit, but if you're saying that it is illegal, illegal, unlawful for us to restrict carry permits and any other permit, this is going to be a real mess to police. And we don't know how far they're going to go. And so, I mean, we can't impact the decisions of the Supreme Court, but we're hoping that if a loud enough voice is heard, which I don't think is loud enough, I think people are really missing this opportunity to say to the Supreme Court, this is not what the people of the country want. I think we're being too silent on an issue that could drastically impact public safety in this country. He was asking about the gains. Yeah, on average, we have about 150 long-term investigations within the detective bureau each year, of which they run a gamut, gun trafficking cases, sex trafficking cases, grand loss any cases. There's about 35 to 50 active investigations, gang investigations that we look at. Some come to fruition, some don't. This year, there's been 16 taken down throughout the city. Some like this are quite big. Some are two, three, four people involved in two quick shootings. We are looking to take that shooter off the street as quick as possible. Thank you. Mr. Mayor, you've spoken a lot today about judges not keeping people incarcerated, suspects coming back out onto the streets. I know you asked Albany legislatures this session to set a dangerous standard in the Bay Law that obviously didn't come to pass. Can you speak a little bit what do you think that will mean for public safety in the city on what plan B is now that that standard has not been set to the Bay Law? Well, plan B is what plan A was. We're going to do our job. I am not in control of judges. I'm not in control of the state lawmakers. I'm not in control of the city council. My job is to present the case based on what I'm hearing from my law enforcement communities and present it to them in hope that they will see the expertise and make laws based on the case we present. We've made some victories in Albany around public safety. We would have liked to receive more, like the dangerousness standard. That's so important.  I think the judge should make the determination this person presents an imminent threat to the city. I'm hoping that they reexamine that in their next legislative cycle because we have to close some of those loopholes that are dealing with public safety as the governor presented her 10 bills that I think are important, including Michael Stampin. Sometimes I just feel with some lawmakers that they're just not dealing in the reality. Idealism can't displace realism. And when I had some of these conversations, I've had lawmakers say to me that young people are carrying guns because they feel unsafe. And so it should be understandable that they're carrying guns. No, no, it's not understandable. And so if that's the philosophy up there, I heard a lawmaker say that if you wanna deal with the Rikers issue, just let everybody out. I mean, where's the reality here? That is not what New Yorkers want. And so we're hoping that they listen to what we have been saying to make our city the safe city that we deserve. And just one kind of a related topic. We're hearing that your sister, when she arrived in town yesterday, witnessed some sort of... No, this is what happened yesterday. This is what happened yesterday. A family member was at the ferry and we were going to pick her up. I was en route to pick her up. And while she was waiting, three men walked in with hoodies on her. And yesterday it was very hot and they had hoodies on. And she overheard one of them state something to the tune of don't shoot until you get inside. She called me. I said, immediately call 9-11. And I got on the phone and called 9-11 to make sure they got to call. When we got to the ferry, my security team and I went to the boats and said, don't let the boats move out. Police responded and did a canvas of the area. And now they're going to continue the investigation. But I want to thank my family member because they listen, see something, say something, do something. Nothing would have been worse if someone would have gotten on that boat and something would have happened to innocent people. And that's what we encourage New Yorkers to do. And I feel great to know that at Thanksgiving when I've drilled in the heads of my family members, they did that. Yes. We just want to say thank you. Superheroes don't have S on their chest. They have shills on their waist or on their uniforms. These are everyday heroes. People talk about the superheroes. These are real heroes that save lives. They will save lives because of taking down these dangerous people. And just on behalf of the people of the city of New York, we thank you. Thank you for your job.  I'm going to send you to keep our city safe and I will be with you as we accomplish that task. We're going to turn around this city and I'm confident of that because of the men and women who are doing this job. Thank you very much. Yes, sir. Is there a contingency plan the city has any immediate decision to combat this before lawmakers join on board tonight? That's what we need Brendan to do. I need my council to communicate with our Corp council, communicate and coordinate with the attorneys across the country. There's a multi-layer plan. The federal government could put in place laws. The states can do what they have to do but really it depends on, as I learned this morning, it depends on what the ruling is and how expansive the ruling is going to be. If the Supreme Court still allows the local municipalities to make the decisions based on that ruling, that would make it a little easier for us. But if it's just an open-ended that is unconstitutional to deny someone to carry a weapon, that's some scary stuff. Mr. Mayor, first I just wanted to clarify on your family member, can you say which ferry terminal this was? Yeah, the 39th Street and 12th Avenue. And no arrests to this point. The police, you can reach out to the commissioner and they'll give you an outcome of the investigation. And separately on the class size bill that was passed in Albany, Senator Liu, the teachers union maintains that there is extra funding that is coming to help the city accomplish the goals of that bill. Do you disagree with that assessment? Do you see some financial hurdles that you're gonna have to go through to accomplish this? Yes, the CFE, it was improperly reported by some that the Campaign for Fiscal Equity covered class size. That is not true. It did not cover class size. When you read the bill, you see nowhere in the bill does it stay class size. The funding that's coming in is not to deal with class size. We're talking about $20 billion in capital, $500 million in dealing with the staffing and everything else. When you look at it, the money has to come from somewhere. And so our conversation was tell us what we should cut. Should we cut pre-K? Should we cut dyslexia screening? Should we cut the mental health professionals? Tell us what we should cut. And I would have hoped they would have put in the bill and stated that here are the areas you should cut because if we're gonna do something that's going to have a major impact on the funding of the DOE, then we should take the responsibility of saying to New Yorkers, we no longer want pre-K. We no longer want dyslexia screening. You can't just say, we're giving you this unfunded mandate. There is no money. They send the money that's coming in. They need to show us where it is. And when you look at this money, we're gonna, we're hitting the cliff. This money is not here as the governor stated. This money is not here next year.  We don't have that money. And so we're hoping that they look at those schools that are in greater need to do class sizes in that need. Now, we're down to the union contract called for 32 students per class. That's the union contract. We are 21.5. We're ready, we lost 150,000 families. We've dropped down to 21.5. Because we're dropping so low, it's gonna mess with our federal dollars that are coming in. And we're in a fiscal crisis that, you know, we are doing a good job, but let's not kid ourselves. The city is in a real financial crisis that we have to be prepared for so that we don't hurt. So I don't know where they believe the money is coming from because we don't see that at all. Looking, what should people make of it? Should they read the side of relief or would that be premature? My answer to that is we're going to do our job, NJ. There are still dangerous people out there. And we're hoping that some of the investigations that are in place are going to stem the tide of what we witness as just the violence that we are experiencing. And so my assurance to New Yorkers is that we're going to remain vigilant. We're doing several things. I was on the phone for an hour and a half with the commissioner yesterday, all out. We're gonna have uniform personnel, you know, going to patrol. Everyone is going to be on board. We have a few other initiatives that we're doing to get that uniform officer on patrol. What we're going to do in the subway system, the commissioner's going to be announcing to in addition to what we have done already. And so I want New Yorkers to be assured that the history of violence summers, we are going to fortify our law enforcement officers to be proactive and prevent some of that violence from taking place. Thank you.


Just so you know, the Odyssey is goddess of wisdom, Zeus's, Zeus's daughter, the God of God Beside the messenger of the gods, Hyperion, the sun god New basic, lit buffs out there, I guess Apparently the Cyclops is a very phallic representation of, oh wow we got rain Real rain gods, the Odysseus, our protagonist, the main guy Son of laity, his king, his wife, Penelope, instigator Former husband of Helen, instigator of the entire Trojan war Of course we have Helen, the son of Agamemnon, a reason to go try to sack And successfully doing so, sacking Troy We have Nazca, daughter of King Alsinus, Alsinus, king of the Fasions And the city of Troy was in flames Odysseus looked back and laughed, for ten bitter years The Greek army had laid siege, who had dared to steal away the beautiful Helen from King Menelau Odysseus is home, Nithica, of the setting sun, but every man loves the land where he is born In no place on earth was dearer to Odysseus than Nithica For all those years that the Greeks had warred against Troy His heart had been yearning, the soil of Nithica may be thin and starved But Odysseus had left one behind of his son and his wife Penelope In truth, he had never wanted to leave them What did he care if Paris had taken a fancy to Menelau's wife Helen, when Agamemnon, Menelau's brother Who led the Greek army against Troy, came to collect Odysseus to join the expedition How the seashore pushed his son Ptolemycus into his path Odysseus swirred to avoid him, and they saw through the act and was needed Where strength and bravery of two sides were so finely balanced It was Odysseus who came up with the plan to deceive the Trojans into opening their city gates So letting the finest Greek soldiers into the city concealed inside a wooden horse Then, as of Greeks, Odysseus was the most eager to be on his way He called his men and they sat and they sat, say, all while the sky behind them still burned red But bad luck was with them from the start Great Zeus, who wields, sent such storm arms that their ships bucked like frightened horses The rain scoured all color from the world until they could not tell sea and their sails to shreds and sick at heart for two days and nights, while the storm blew itself out On the third day they set sail once more, only to be dragged, caught by the fierce currents that pulled them far, dragged south by the relentless wind in waves for tent-fresh water Odysseus sent a party of men inland who lived in this hut At last Odysseus himself went in search of them In a clearing he found one of his men, he was laying on his back, humming Hum hum hum hum hum hum Odysseus recognized the melody, it was an old ethican flula-pie hardly seemed to recognize Odysseus Instead, he held out some fruit, saying, here, have some His voice was slurs, this was the land of the lotus-eaters So called because there only food was the honeyed lotus fruit They had offered their fruit to Odysseus's men. Whoever tasted it once, lived only to taste.  He began to slip once more into his waking dream, and nothing Odysseus did or said could stir him from. Odysseus returned to the ships and fetched more men, cautioning them not to eat. They dragged their blank-eyed, smiling companions back to the ship, one by one, from that deadly land where the lotus fruit traps men in a trance of childhood. As the oars dipped once more into the whitening sea, they tried to shut their ear in a piteous crowns of those men who had eaten.


Hello everybody. Welcome to part eight of our reading of the Hathor material by Tom Kenyon. We are actually starting today on part eight with section two, which is called Geometry of Consciousness. Section 2.1 Personal Encounters, a note to the reader. This section contains primitive sketches by the author to help readers conceptualize the various geometric patterns and additional benefit to these rudimentary drawings is that they should eradicate any art shame you may possibly have regarding a lack of artistic ability. The Hathor say that we live in a complex multi-dimensional universe and that we, like they, are multi-dimensional beings as well. They insist that our experience of being human, i.e. a human primitive with a physical body, is only one facet of our vast multi-dimensional reality. And so Shanti from Aquarius Rising Africa actually speaks about this, that the soul that we have lives in about 99 different dimensions and part of our soul has to be here in a three-dimensional body, a very heavy primitive body. So think about that. Part of our soul is anchored here in this very heavy density while our soul is also living in 99 other dimensions, wild, right? Wild. While our biological and social lives are defined by time, place, and circumstances, there are other aspects of ourselves that transcend our third-dimensional reality. And the only reason we don't experience this vastness of our nature is because we have been conditioned not to. Early in our encounters, my mentors begin to instruct me in a body of information they called the Geometry of Consciousness. It was, according to them, a description of how to use certain specific geometric patterns to affect human consciousness in profound ways. Specifically, the Geometrics could open the door of perception so that one could sense or experience his or her multi-dimensional directly, not as an idea, mind you, but as a direct experience. And I speak about sacred geometry all the time through my yoga practice, because the Ashtanga practice goes on account of grid systems. So starting at some CTH at point zero, and then drawing the lines, like to Aikam inhale, that's the first fannyasa. So Aikam is one, do we exhale, drawing the lines down to a forward fold, that's two, treating, inhale, head up, that's lengthen, lengthen in the spine, drawing a line out, then twaddy exhale, jumping back, drawing a line back, punch, inhale, up dog, curving a line up, and shot, exhale, down dog, curving a line back. And we look at even the yoga practice, our old spiritual practices, the body, the micro is mirroring the macro, making geometric shapes with the body that match the geometrics of our world. And also looking at things like the flower of life, the geometry that lives in the flower of life itself, we are all part of these geometric patterns. Direct experience of multi-dimensionality, according to them, improves overall brain function. Not only this, but they claim that it will improve the quality and general level of intelligence, as well as increase creativity and occurrence of non-ordinary insight, meaning new patterns of perceiving situations. They also say that when brain performance increases as a result of engaging these geometries, a sense of emotional wellness also increases. The very first geometry they gave me was a very simple one, which strangely enough was geometry I had already had a little bit of experience with. The horse and the figure eight. Many years previous to my first Hathor encounter, a client and I were wrapping up our work together after a few months of counseling. She asked me out of the blue if I would consider doing some therapy with her horse. I stammered something about not being a horse therapist when she explained her odd request. I knew that she was a very successful business woman, but I did not know that she was also an accomplished equestrian. She had evidently won numerous awards for show jumping. About a year earlier, she had purchased a thoroughbred stallion because he was a great jumper. She had won several blue ribbons with this horse and then for some unknown reason, he lost his edge and his nerve. Now when he approached to jump, he would back down, not only this, but his handlers at the stable where he was boarded said he was jittery much of the time. Sounds familiar sounds like me. It seemed like a case of equine neurosis to me and I once again informed my client that I had no background in working with horses. She said she knew that, but she thought I could somehow help her horse. I said it would drop by to see her horse out of sheer curiosity. Now this is not just a professional challenge to me. It was a personal one and the reason for this was due to the fact the horses make me nervous. My skittishness around horses traced back to an incident when I was 13. I was in full throws of puberty and my cousin Linda took me for my first horseback ride. As an accomplished equestrian herself, she showed me how to hold the reins and how to control the horse by pulling the reins in various directions. I felt a bit nervous being so high off the ground as our two horses started to trot across the pasture. Then my horse got very agitated. I think a horse fly actually bit him on the rock and he started into a full gallop.  One time when I was on horseback in Colorado in the summertime, my saddle, I was a kid. My saddle wasn't positioned properly on the horse and the saddle kept tilting to the side. And I literally as a little kid, like 12 year old, like my game, I just fell right up the horse. My parents were so concerned, but I was fine. I thought it was funny. I just very slow motion just slid right off the horse, going up a steep hill on the Rocky Mountains. Then I saw to my utter horror that my horse was galloping straight to the deep ravine. I knew in my gut if my horse got to the edge of the chasm, he would come to a dead stop and I would keep on going off the saddle onto the ground or worse into the gulch. It was then I saw my cousin suddenly transform herself from a mild manner teenager into Annie Oakley, one of the heroine's sharpshooters and horse handlers from the 1800s. Slapping the sides of her horse with her reins, Annie, aka Linda, bellowed, Haya, Haya. It was straight out of a B grade western cowboy and Indians movie, except instead of the dude rescuing the lassie, the girl was rescuing the dude. I was humiliated and terrified and I don't honestly recall which I dreaded most, the physical danger of the situation or the humiliation. Pulling up beside me and then past me, she reached down and grabbed my reins. She yanked them back and yelled, whoa, whoa. My horse pulled against the reins when my cousin kept the reins steady and he came to a sudden stop, inches it seemed, from the edge of the ravine. We walked our horses back to the stable and I recall trying to grasp onto the last shred of my budding manhood by walking like a cowboy or what I thought a cowboy might possibly walk like. An idea I had no doubt extracted from watching too many John Wayne movies. It was a beautiful autumn afternoon as I drove up to the stables where my client and horse were waiting. As I parked my car near the barn, I marveled at the strange wonder of the psychological imprints of how the singular event when I was 13 still affected my attitude toward horses some 25 years later. Walking toward the barn I was greeted by my client. She said her horse was in the barn and she would have him brought out. Pointing to a large Vincent area, she said for me to wait there. I posted myself by the empty corral and waited. A few minutes later, my client, her horse and his handler came out of the barn and they led the horse into the corral. After the handler closed the gate behind them, my client led her horse over to me. This horse was huge and just the sight of him made me a bit skittish.  His face was so big it engulfed my entire field of vision. He looked at me and it shook his head. So what do we do asked my client. Have a walk around the corral I said. I was biting time. I really had no idea what to do but I had learned to then to just trust intuition. I just needed some time for it to pre-locate up into my conscious awareness. As I watched the horse walking seemingly without any problem, I recalled the figure eight as it was used in certain types of kinetic learning methods. This popular geometrical pattern has an unusual effect when it is engaged through movement. It theoretically creates a neurological response called crossing the midline, meaning that it stimulates the corpus callusum, a thick band of nerve fibers that connect the right and left sebral hemispheres. When we are stressed, crossing the midline can improve brain function and performance. But this was used with people, not horses. How on earth could you get a horse to move in a way that he would not cross his midline? I asked my client to slowly lead her horse through a figure eight patterning sensing that something would emerge from this. The stallion did find walking through the first figure eight until he got to a particular point in the pattern. Whenever he got to this location in the eight, he would shiver, look down and try to pull out of the eight pattern. My client excitedly explained, that's just what he does now when he faces a jump. Barely believing my eyes, I asked my client to guide her horse through the figure eight several times. Every time, without exception, the horse would shiver, look down and do his best to pull out of the geometric pattern. I then asked my client to comfort him just before he entered the problematic area of the figure eight. I asked her to stroke his head and tell him something comforting in a soothing voice whenever he walked through this part of the pattern. After a few passes through the figure eight and my client comforting him through the difficult passage of pattern, the horse stopped shivering. After a few more passes, the horse stopped looking down. And as incredible as it sounds, after just a few more passes, the horse was able to walk the figure eight without any glitches. I said she should take her horse for a jump to see if this had resolved the issue and sure enough, she and the horse jumped a hurdle with the greatest of ease. My client was elated. I was intrigued by the simple geometry's ability to affect the behavior of a horse. My client thanked me and then she and the horse's handler started to lead the horse back to its stable. It was then the most extraordinary thing happened. The horse reared up on its back legs and pulled himself loose from his handler. He trotted over to the corral where I was standing and jumped the fence back into the corral. He then walked right up to me, put his giant head over the top rung of the fence and looked into my eyes. I then had the oddest sensation. I felt the horse was trying to communicate with me. I shook off the weird feeling thinking this is insane. People just don't talk to horses and horses don't talk to people. Still the feeling continued and it seemed like the horse was trying to thank me. It was truly one of the oddest experiences of my life. There were no words, just feelings and they seemed to be coming from the horse.  I looked into the horse's eyes and he nudged me again. What do you want? I asked loud. The horse nudged me again and then I got it. He was asking me to come back. I said okay, okay, I'll come back for a visit and with that the horse gently nudged me in the area of my heart chakra and trotted back to his astonished handler and my client. A week or so later I returned to the stable. I wondered what the horse might say or do as I pulled up to the barn. My client and a horse came out of the barn. There was no need for a handle now since the horse was no longer neurotic and it was back to his old ribbon-winning self. The horse walked right up to me and looked me in the eyes. That strange stream of feelings started up again. Thanks for coming, he said. I mean that's just a good for people who don't think that animals have souls.  Animals absolutely have souls and they absolutely communicate with us for sure 100%. And this figure eight patterning also kind of reminds me of what happens in EMDR therapy which is something that I've gone through myself and I've spoken about on my channel. I know a lot of the viewers have gone through EMDR therapy but you actually with your eyes they have you watch specific patterns so it crosses specific neurological patternings in the brain to get the brain to release anxiety. So it's interesting that that very much reminds me of what they do in EMDR therapy. So if that's something you're interested in especially if you've been through trauma I would definitely recommend looking that up in your area and finding a therapist who specializes in EMDR. The girl who couldn't wake up. My second experience with the ability of geometry to change behavior occurred during one of the most bizarre interventions of my career. I had received a panicky phone call from a mother who had been referred to me by another mental health professional. She explained that her 14-year-old daughter had gone to bed seemingly fine but had been unable to wake up fully the next morning. I asked her daughter if she was able to hear and respond to her. She said she was but her physical responses were very slow when she was still unable to speak. I said that I would see them during my lunch hour that day and wondered what on earth I would be facing when they arrived at my office. Upon entering the therapy room I noticed that her daughter seemed to be in a semi-comatose state. Her eyes were barely open and she was hunched over. She was nonverbal and also shielded from bright light. I closed the blinds to the afternoon sun and this seemed to make her more comfortable. That kind of happens to me when I ask for travel actually. When I come back into my body it takes me a while to actually come totally back into my body. It feels like you're kind of half awake and everything's running a little bit slow and the body feels very heavy and it's kind of hard to respond to people when they're speaking to you.  I began to ask her mother various questions about her daughter's situation at home, at school and so on, but my attention was also on her daughter to see if she responded in any way to what her mother was saying. Having revealed nothing in response to my question of her or her mother's awareness I asked her if she would try walking around my office.  I walked next to her matching her bodily posture and rhythm of walking. This was a matching technique I had gleaned from work of Milton Erickson who had accomplished wonders by matching his patient's realities. I began to have her make sounds that matched how she felt as she continued to walk around my office. I matched the sounds she made and continued to match her posture and the rhythm of her walking. My strategy here was to bring her out of her altered state of consciousness by engaging other areas of her brain, namely her acoustic and motor areas. I didn't know what had caused her to enter such an altered state of body and mind, but if I could bring her out of it, I could speak with her and perhaps help her resolve the issues behind her bizarre behavior. If that didn't work, she would have to be hospitalized. I continued matching her sounds and movements as I searched my mind for possible psychiatric referral. Suddenly I had the idea to have her walk through a figure eight patterning and I guided her through this geometry into my office much like I had done in the horse I mentioned earlier. She didn't show any signs of difficulty as she walked the pattern, but miraculously she began to walk more upright and her eyes open fully. After a few minutes of this, I asked her how it felt to be walking through this pattern and I fully expected a non-verbal response, but she said, good. With that verbalization, she began clearly to come out of her altered state. I guided her back to the chair and asked her a ton of questions, which required her to self-reflect on the experience. This process of verbalization helped me to ascertain if she was in a fully associated state of awareness before bringing the sensation to a close. A week later, we met again, the mother and her daughter. The strange behavior had not returned and the 14-year-old girl in my office seemed to be a normal, well-adjusted teenager. From our ensuing conversation, it had been clear that she had been under a lot of stress adjusting to a new school and the stress may have precipitated her semi-cosmato state. The night before the strange incident, she had an unusually stunning and lucid dream. It could have very well been stressed for her, but that sounds to me like astrotravel. Honestly, in my opinion, that's what that sounds like is astrotravel and the next time this happens to me, I'm actually going to try to do the figure eight patterning just if I can walk it to see if I can bring all my motor skills back. It's frustrating because if you have the ability to astrotravel, which we all have the ability to astrotravel, I didn't even know I was astrotraveling until not too long ago. That's what was happening to me. Now that I know what it is, I can take more control over it, although I don't have that much control over it. It can be very traumatic when you're able to do that and you don't actually know what it is or what's happening to you at that time. So very interesting, but lucid dreaming, that's a well, I don't even think it's lucid dreaming. I think it's actually you're in a different reality. You left your physical body and you're experiencing another reality where your soul is. As I said earlier, soul lives on so many different multi-dimensional layers that you're actually leaving and going to another one. You're traveling beyond the beams of your physical body. So here's her dream. In the dream, she found a milky white stairway that led up into the clouds. As she walked up the staircase into the sky, she encountered a woman with long golden hair who welcomed her home. The girl that sat on a cloud and looked down at her house in the earth below her. I've had that as well, where I've looked down at the world below me. Stars filled the sky all around her and she was very happy and quite content to just float on her cloud far above the cares of the world. At some point in her dream, she sensed that Dawn was approaching. She looked down and saw her body, which was asleep in her bed. Yes, she was asked for traveling and she would could clearly see the first light of the morning through the frilly curtains of her bedroom window. She was also at the same time aware of being asleep in her bed and being in a dream. Her last thought before waking up into a semi-cosmetic state was that she didn't want to go back down the staircase. As a therapist, there were several things that struck me about her dream. Some of them having to do with the classic nature of her dreamy imagery, but one of my greatest quandaries was the effect of having her walk through the figure eight pattern. How had that simple geometry been so effective? Enter dimensional consciousness training. We now shift our focus of time some 10 years later when the Hathors began teaching me the geometry of consciousness, both as a theoretical system and as a practical method for improving brain function and enhancing consciousness. I will go into the theoretical aspect of this a little bit later, trusting that you will find it as fascinating as I did. But for now, I would like to focus I would like to focus on the practical part of their information. In order to clarify these two bodies of information, I will refer to the theoretical part as the geometry of consciousness and the practical method that came out of it as the interdimensional consciousness training. The Hathors gave me three fundamental geometric patterns to work with, and then meticulously guided me in the subtleties of how to derive the greatest benefit from working with them. After a month or so of working with these geometries in a very intensive manner, I had to acknowledge that they were onto something. After working with the geometries, it often felt like my brain was more alive, and it had switched on in a new way that I couldn't quite articulate. Each successive exercise produced greater effects, and by the end of the progression, it felt like my brain was electrified. Not only this, but I had a distinct and growing sense that my ability to perceive multiple perceptives and realities was on the increase. Each of the geometries had a name, and the first, as well as the simplest, was called infinity, because it consisted of a figure eight laying on its side like a pair of spectacles. Tracing this imaginary figure in the center of my brain seemed to stimulate my corpus callisum, resulting in a feeling of increased neurological communication between the two hemispheres of my brain. I have used the word seed on purpose, since the feeling of having my corpus callisum stimulated was a highly subjective one, not objectively verifiable at the time. Nevertheless, the net result of working with this geometry was an increase in my ability to approach problems in ways that were both logical and intuitive simultaneously. The second geometry was called the atom, because its patterns resembled the path of electrons around the nucleus of an atom. But in this case, the nucleus was my brain, and the electrons were imaginary points of light. By moving these points of light around my brain in specific patterns, it felt like my brain was being charged with energy. The third and final geometry they gave me was called the golden octahedron, and this geometrical pattern was the workhorse that quickly increased my capacity to experience multi-dimensional realities. In a short while, I will take you through these three fundamental geometries so that you can experience them for yourself. But first, I think it might be helpful to share what other people have experienced with these patterns. After its undeniable effect on me and my own brain processing, I decided to see if these geometries would affect others as profoundly as they had affected me. Ever the researcher and skeptic, I decided to put up the beta test sites in three different cities and offered free classes to anyone who might be interested in experiencing the effects of these geometries for themselves. The classes attracted a wide variety of people from highly skilled professionals to late persons and students. The results were nothing short of amazing. For the sake of brevity, I will discuss just three individuals and their remarkable encounters with a body of knowledge, but virtually everyone who went through the training experience, some type of personal improvement in brain processing, creativity enhancement, increased intelligence and or heightened sense of wellness. Everyone who took the training agreed to meet as a group for two hours, one night a week for four weeks. Each person also agreed to work with geometries between classes on a daily basis. This was an important part of our agreement. Not a single day would go by without them having gone through the geometries at least once. Each week I would introduce a new geomic pattern and they would work with that pattern at least once a day until the next class. Then I would add a new geometric pattern and by the third class they had received all three geometries and continued to work with all three of them every day until the fourth and final class. Some persons experienced change after the first session with the first geometry. Others took longer before they noticed the effects, but by the third week everyone was experiencing some type of benefit. My observation of this is that the geometric patterns affected individuals in unique ways and the placement of development varies from person to person. Even though the geometric patterns can create changes rather quickly in some people, a consistency of working with geometries is vital for most people to experience the full effects of their training. In other words, you must repeat the exercise on a regular and consistent basis for your brain and mind to grasp what is occurring. Three students who went through my beta testing for geometries experienced profound and life-changing shifts in their now brain processing information and it is to their stories that I would now like to turn our attention. Per privacy's sake, I have changed their names. Understandable. The artist. Ron was both an artist and a professor of art at one of the local colleges and point of fact he was the dean of the art school, which made his situation all more difficult. A few years earlier, Ron began to be uninspired by his work, both as an artist and as a professor of art. But due to his position as the dean, no one really noticed his quandary other than himself. His administrative position kept him insulated from his emotional reality by diverting his attention from the creative void he had been feeling to the task of running a school and supervising other professors. A crisis emerged when the Sydney annual faculty art show was announced and his fellow professors invited him to submit something new to the show. Not to participate was unthinkable, but coming up with a creative idea for the show continually stumped him. He would go into the foundry almost every night and try to create something original, but his mind went blank whenever he tried to even sketch out an idea. Ron was in the middle of a creative block. No matter what he tried, his muses were nowhere to be found. He was caught up in the midst of a personal, artistic and professional crisis, and every night brought a new level of anxiety. When Ron appeared at the first class, I had no idea what was going on with him. It was only later in the training as people began to report changes in themselves that he revealed that he had been what he had been grappling with. Ron's first major breakthrough came after working with the second geometry, the atom. After his very first run at it during the second class, that night he dropped by the foundry as he had every evening for the past two weeks or so. This time, however, he reported that his brain felt energized. He entered the workspace, looked around and had a sudden artistic impulse. This impulse led Ron to create a sculpture over the course of several nights. He also reported that each time he practiced the atom pattern, his brain felt that familiar energizing feeling and he seemed to be solving technical problems that had arisen around his new sculpture with a degree of skill that fascinated him. He was intrigued and he was inspired, something he had not felt not by his own estimation for years. The woman who caught on fire. Evelyn was a woman in her late 50s who joined my second beta test group. She had been a librarian most of her professional career and was now on the verge of retiring. Her breakthrough also came during the second class when I introduced the atom pattern. Neither she nor anyone in the class was prepared for what happened next. I had just finished guiding the group through the rather complex geometry and I asked everyone to focus on the strongest sensation in their bodies. Most of the people in the class experienced a strong sensation within the region of their heads which makes sense as this is where they were focused when working with geometries. Evelyn however experienced the strongest sensation in her back. In fact she got very excited and said my back is on fire, my back is on fire. Her face had turned beat red and she was trying to wave at her back with her hands. After a few seconds her expression changed from one of concern to one of elation. Oh my god she said I can feel my back. With a look of utter surprise she started going around to everyone in the group and asking them to touch her back. Each time someone touched her back she squealed with excitement. I can feel you touching my back oh my god this is incredible. This went on for the first few minutes with Evelyn literally going around to everyone and having each person touch her back and then Evelyn plopped down in her chair and said I'm sorry I didn't mean to monopolize everyone's attention it's just that this is so amazing it's so amazing. What's amazing I asked. Evelyn then told the class that she had been suffering from a strange condition that no one not even her physician had been able to help her with. It seemed that Evelyn had been losing physical sensations in her back for some time. Her doctor was so concerned that he had scheduled an appointment for her to see a neurologist for further testing. Evelyn then shared her experience of the geometry. At first she said nothing in particular happened but then about halfway through the pattern her back felt warm and hot. Her nerves woke up and guys this is so incredible because this is this is what we talk about in yoga. So as I said earlier when you're making these different shapes with your body these geometrical patterns they're opening up different values or different naughties different pathways of energy in the body that can be felt in a subtle way through the nervous system. This is exactly what this is 100% and so this is another reason why people should be practicing yoga. Yeah this is it this is what this is. Finally right after completing the exercise Evelyn experienced her back catching on fire. She said that this was such a vivid impression she thought her back had literally burst into flames. This intense impression lasted only for a few seconds and then shifted from a heat to a feeling sensation in her back. Evelyn said she couldn't believe this was happening and reached behind her to touch her own back miraculously. She said she was able to feel her own touch. Although confused how the mental exercise could create such a result she left the class elated. The following week we all reconvened for the third class and Evelyn reported that she still was able to feel physical sensations in her back but she also noticed something else of great interest to her. She was remembering past events in her life something that she had not been able to do for some time as well and she was recalling these events with a great degree of detail. Yeah because the body keeps the score and the body remembers everything when the body goes numb the memory has gone numb. The thoughts the body the body is the minefield. Again yoga to different order. This is all yoga. This is what the ancient yogis were telling you. One of these events in her past have been particularly traumatizing she noted and she wondered if this blocked memory might have had anything to do with the previous lack of sensation in her back. Absolutely. She asked me point blank if I thought such a thing were possible. I said I wasn't sure but asked her if she would be willing to do a short memory exercise to determine where she stored memories and her energy field. She said sure. I then asked her to think about something that she would be doing in the near future. She nodded her head and said got it. Now notice where this impression is located. I asked in front of me right in front of me. She said now recall something from your past that you find pleasant. Got it. She said and where is that impression located. I asked to my right. She said great. Now recall something that was unpleasant and difficult. Got it. Evelyn said with a mark change in her tone or voice. Where do you sense this memory. I asked behind me. She said okay. I said open your eyes whenever you're ready. Evelyn opened her eyes immediately and looked at me questingly. I explained that most people store impressions and memories in locations seemingly outside their bodies like in front of them to the left or right of them or behind them. People also store impressions in other locations but these are the foremost common. Since Evelyn had asked me my opinion regarding the intense sensation during the first encounter with the atom I told her I felt that the geometry may have activated subtle energy lines as I just said that had been held difficult past memories in its place. So she moved stuck energy. She unstuck stuck energy. The impression of fire in her neck could have been her nerve pathways coming back online as often times there is sensation of heat or pain when nerves heal and based on what I witnessed I would say that there was some kind of connection between the repressed memories of her past and the loss of physical sensation in her back. What that connection was I couldn't say for sure but whatever the connection was it would seem that the atom had stimulated a healing response in her back and re-owning of her past. By the end of the fourth and final class Evelyn reported that she could still feel physical sensation in her back and she could still recall events that happened in her past with great detail. No longer depressed. Glenn was a second year student at one of the local colleges enjoying the third and final beta test group. She was in her early 20s and sat in her chair slumped over a bit. Whenever she spoke it was mostly in monotones with little deflection in her voice. After working with the first pattern infinity for a week Glenn reported that she was able to do her schoolwork a little less stressed than was usual but that was all she noticed. After the second week Glenn worked with the atom as did everyone else in the group. During the third class when I asked how everyone was doing with the new atom pattern Glenn reported that she didn't feel the buzz other people had reported but then stare that she had been too bummed out to do the geometric pattern more than a couple of times. I suggested that she try to be more consistent regardless of what she was feeling because I had noticed both in myself and with others that repetition of the geometries was very important for them to be effective. She said she would try and do better and that's again important as well when we're looking at the practice of yoga. This is why you don't do different yoga practices every day. You do the same consistent practice for a long period of time over and over and over again. If you're going to vinyasa flow classes you are not practicing yoga. You're not. Vinyasa flow is not yoga. You need to consistently be doing the same patterning over and over and over again to create our neurological held response. He just said that right here. After everyone shared where they were with geometry I had given a second class. We worked with the final geometry the golden octahedron. This pattern has three phases. One involving a rotation of the pattern in a specific way. The second phase involving viewing the geometry from the unusual perspectives and the third phase involved the circulation of the gold light through the brain. Gwen said that she really liked the feeling of the gold light. On our fourth and final meeting I noticed something distinctly different about Gwen. She was conversing with other class members before class started and when she sat down in her chair she wasn't slumped over. When it was Gwen's chance to share she was more of her boast than usual. She explained that while she had worked with the other geometries consistently during the preceding week she liked the golden octahedron the most. She especially liked the circulation of gold light through her brain because it soothed her. It was also during this final class that Gwen shared she had been depressed for a few months when she started the class but now she was feeling a lot more on top of things. One possible explanation for Gwen's response as well as the improvements reported by the other two individuals I mentioned may have to do with the theory of the brain function called dimensionality. This theory proposes that the brain improves both its function and performance when it learns how to coordinate multiple and complex tasks. For this theoretical perspective it could be well that the three combined geometries engage the brain of those in the class in ways that increase their dimensionality. Whatever the causation however all three individuals experience marked improvements in both their brain performance and their emotional well-being.


The World Health Organization designated 2020 as the international year of the nurse and the midwife. And while this designation came prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we cannot think of a better time to honour and recognise nurses for their commitment to the profession. Around the world, nurses continue to battle COVID-19 daily with increased risk of falling ill as the nature of their job put them at risk of contracting COVID-19 but they continue to press on. Recognition is especially meaningful during the COVID-19 pandemic. The nursing world quickly shifted attention from the WHO proclamation of the year of the nurse and midwife to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is therefore important that the focus on nurses not be lost. Who could have ever imagined that the critical importance of nurses in our society would be brought into focus so clearly by the COVID-19 pandemic? Every day, the media highlights the threatening conditions nurses face and how severe staff shortages impact the healthcare system's ability to save lives. Although life as we know it may have changed now to the new normal, the care character of nurses has not. We often talk about how nurses take care of the rest of us and how grateful we are for the extraordinary skill and compassion. More than ever, the rest of us needs to take care of nurses. One such way is to follow the Ministry of Health's protocols to help minimize the virus spread and place less burden on our already overworked nurses. We all depend on the resilience of nurses, the ability to deal with everything being thrown at them and still return the next day or night to do it all over again. We depend on the nurses' conviction no matter the circumstance, not only to treat us every day with their critical excellence, but also to deliver that care and compassion. The lessons of Florence Nightingale, nursing practice during the Crimean War are being applied today during the pandemic, basic hand washing and maintaining standards of cleanliness. Being on the front line of the battle against this devastating virus, we now are being heralded as heroes. Are we finally receiving this recognition we rightfully deserve? Where are our nurses who were awarded during the Independence National Awards? Let us show this recognition not by giving lip service, but by showing our nurses we appreciate them in a tangible way. I take this time on behalf of the Board of Directors of the Saint Lucian Nurses Association to applaud all nurses. Thank you, our COVID heroes. You are truly the voice to lead. We salute you. We are nurses and we ask, what is your superpower?


Hey, this is Brett, and this 2018 Ford F350 Crew Cab Longbox Dual-Rewheel is stock number 13403Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2018 Ford F350 has the 6.7-liter Power Stroke diesel engine. It's paired up with the six-speed automatic transmission. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video, inside, underneath, start it up, and take a look under the hood. Ruby Red Metallic is the color, and hopefully from this HD video you can get a good idea of the overall quality and condition of this vehicle. I shoot all my videos in 4K, so if you have HD capabilities, turn them on now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition options, and of course, cleanliness of the vehicle before seeing it in person. Down the driver's side here, the box and dually tub all look pretty good. I didn't see any major dents, stings, or cracks on there. The cab and doors are in fantastic condition as well. Those come with the driver's side door code entry. Didn't see any dents or dings. Front fender is in great shape. If you like the video, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, which is youtube.com slash Summit Auto. Click the bell notifications. You'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day here at Summit Automotive. This one comes with the polished aluminum rims, and it has Hercules tear track tires. These are LT24575R17s, and they are like new. You can still see a little bit of the wear knobs on there from Bean Brand News, so 95% to 100% of the tread left on those tires. Look at that frame and underbody. It is like new under there for being a 2018. Looks really good. Once again, no dents or dings on the front fender. Headlight lenses are nice and clear, and it does come with the factory fog lights. Front bumper is in excellent condition. You get your engine block heater plug-in right there. You get the chrome tow hooks, the chrome trimmed grille. This one has the 360 camera. The hood is in fantastic condition as well. I didn't see any dents or dings on there, and it does come with the cab lights up top. The passenger side front fender is in nice shape too. And the passenger side front rim, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. As you go down this side of this 2018 Ford F350, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. Take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that Brett sent you. Back rims are in excellent shape as well, and the back tires are just as new as the front tires. It does have the rear airbag suspension, the camper package with the anti-sway bar. That frame and underbody looks like new back here as well. This is all of the remaining factory exhaust, so it hasn't been altered in any way, and looks really, really good. Comes with the nice factory chrome step bars, and they are in excellent shape. This dually tub, I didn't see any major dents or cracks on there, does have the FX4 off-road suspension package. You also get the chrome-tipped exhaust. Coming around to the back, rear bumper is in great shape, does have the backup parking sensors full towing package, which includes a receiver hitch, four pin and seven pin wiring, and the tailgate is in really nice condition as well. It does have the tailgate step assist there. Comes with a draw tight, 24,000 pound fifth wheel, has the fifth wheel and goose neck prep package. The bed does have a little bit of wear in it, but it is a truck. You get the LED bed lighting back here, you get the seven pin wiring as well, and the tailgate is about the same condition. Nothing, a bed liner couldn't make better. Coming around to the driver's side, the rim here is in excellent shape as well, and those tires for full disclosure are just as new as the rest. Once again, down this side of the truck, looks really good, does have the driver's side door code entry, like I said. We do have the code for this truck, and if you ever wanted to figure out what your code is for your 17 to 22 Super Duty, in the upper right hand part of the screen, I got videos showing you how to find that code. Does have the blind spot monitoring, directional signals, these power fold in, they power telescope out, has a 360 camera there. Inside the Lariat package gives you the black leather interior, there are no rips or tears on these seats, you get the bucket seats in the front, they are in really nice shape. Both of these seats are heated and cooled, weather tech floor mats, tilt telescope exterior wheel, power pedals, auto headlamps, power windows, locks, and mirrors. Memory driver seat, you get the wood grain trim, like I said these mirrors do power fold in. I always like showing both sides so you know that both sides are working properly, and then they do power telescope out and same thing with the driver's side. Take a quick look at the back seats, back seats just as clean as the front, those have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Power slide and rear window with the built in rear defrost, back seats are in really nice shape. You get a collapsible floor, this is your gooseneck ball that's in here with the rest of the fifth wheel and prep package, get a couple of side box tie downs back here, and then this is a collapsible floor that can go up as storage area. Weather tech floor mat back here, keeping your carpentry and looking like new, you get a 110 volt, 400 watt max plug-in, two USB's and a 12 volt power point back here. Child safety locks on the back doors and the bottoms of the doors all look really good on this truck. We'll hop inside, check out the miles, the radio, and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior, does have keyless entry with the remote start and the flipper key. Alright, you can see that this one has 32,696 miles on it, instrument cluster is very nice and clean, you do get the digital speedometer, compass display, comes with the leather wrap steering wheel, cruise controls and information center controls on the left, Bluetooth and audio controls on the right, does have the six speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift, comes with the sync eight inch radio, you do get the factory navigation system on there, there is highway 41, so you can see that is working nicely. As far as your audio goes, you get AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities and also has a CD player and Bluetooth capabilities there. Your cameras, you get the surround view camera, the front camera and then you also have your cargo cam, see what's going on in the bed and of course your backup camera and everything there, so a lot of nice stuff that you can do with this radio, you have all your different settings, you have all your different apps including Apple CarPlay and Android Auto where you can project your cell phone to the screen, so really a lot of nice stuff that you can do with this radio. 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Let's start it up and take a look under the hood, I'll also show you the fin sticker and loading sticker, actually we'll do that first before we start it up. There's your tire and loading information sticker, everybody always wants me to show these, so I do. Alright, got the hood open there, start it up, starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality condition options and of course cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside and out. Under the hood we have the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel engine and jambay is very clean, runs very smooth. Once again this truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off. It's got six like new tires, if not brand new. 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