I am laughing my A.S.S. at Nackby Head of Jehovah. She's done several videos on the James Charles situation, but then I guess she has some people. You have to understand that young lady, those of you who don't know, is Nackby Head of Jehovah. I stand for her. I love her content. She has a quirky sense of humor. She's very blunt. She does curse those of you who are not new. It's forewarning she does curse, but it's not that, not all the time I should say. Every now and then you will hear an F-bomb or something. She was stating on her recent, one of her recent videos that her channel was going in a new direction. Look you guys, and I've said this before, I get that you initially subscribe to someone and if they have hair, the content is hair, you may feel a certain type of way, but we don't have to watch them. If they've been on YouTube for a while, like she's been on YouTube for a while, it gets old. I mean, we're more than just our hair. There's nothing wrong with bringing other topics to her channel. And baby, there are literally hundreds of other natural hair YouTubers out there. Like seriously, so many. So yeah, she's changing the direction of her channel and she's gotten a little pushback from some viewers, but it is what it is. Y'all, I'm struggling with this perm rock set. I can say that because I can't see. I subscribe to a young lady named, I am a loho, it's E-L-O-H-O. And I've seen some of her videos come up on my feed as suggested and recommended and I just never watched it. But baby, when I started watching it, I was like, oh, I like you. I like you a lot. Yeah, she's one of those too. She tell it how it is. And some people may not like it and they don't have to watch, girl, you just don't have to watch it. So yeah, y'all, I'm gonna do a little bit of oil to help with that frizziness, I think. So let me tell y'all about some music I've been listening to. I am absolutely obsessed with a young lady by the name of Doja Cat. When I tell you she is the weirdest little thing I've come across in a long time, but I like weird people. I really do. I mean, she's weird in a good way. She does not follow the cold, so to speak. She has a song called, one of her most popular songs is Moo, I'm a Cow Moo, which really she's trolling. She was, it was a joke. Another one is Tia Tamera, which I kind of put a sample of that in my Bantu Nod video. I love that song. I listen to it almost every morning. JB Little Rose, his eyes, he's like, oh my God. I like her. She's so different. She really is and I like that. Another person who I started watching and I had to like stop watching her videos and listen to her music because it was, it's a little too much. Megan Thee Stallion, now Megan is based out of Houston, come through Houston.  She's the rap version of Idina Howard and I don't know, I think I said this in one of my blogs. There is only so much coochie popping, talking about money and drinking that one can handle. She's worse than Trina. She's kind of like Lila Campbell with a Southern flair and you know, she can rap. She can actually rap when she has a deeper voice. She has a natural body. I was laughing at some of the comments because people were like, she has a natural body and oh my God, like, how can she be that thick? Girl, Texas brand, the women in the South, let me tell you something. When I was in college, there was women walking around and this is no exaggeration. There were women walking around in college with 26 inch waist and 40 inch hips. My best friend was like that. She literally had like a 26, 28 inch waist and I think she was actually 42 at the bottom. It is possible. So yeah, Megan is all natural. All right, I can do those two over because it was complicated. So y'all, I'm going to talk about something serious real quick with two subjects that's kind of serious. I am so tired of hearing these stories of young girls. And when I'm young, I mean 10 and under, young girls who are being murdered by a boyfriend, many murdered by the mother's boyfriend. I really do not understand why these young girls are so quick to jump into a relationship with someone else. Is it really that important, is getting some penis really that important to you to where you will put your child's safety at risk?  The short time I was single and by myself, I could have definitely jumped into a relationship with someone. Absolutely. But that wasn't my priority.  I was not worried about no man.  Most of these girls are under the age of 25. They jump into these relationships and boom, like literally every week, every week, I am seeing a story. I was on Facebook today.  Real culture of the hospital and she was severely raped and abused and she didn't make it. She died and apparently the mother knew about it. The mother knew she was being raped and didn't do anything about it. That is absolutely horrible and I just don't understand. First of all, there are some people who should never be parents. You should not be parents. If you cannot put your child needs before your own, you should not be a parent. Give your baby up to the grandmother, give the baby up for adoption. That is just horrible and I know a lot of people mean I agree with this, but I honestly think this is my opinion and it's okay. You don't have to agree with me. But I think there is no place in our society for pedophiles. I don't. I do believe in a, you know, the proper process of a judicial system. But in my opinion, if someone has been found guilty of molesting and raping a child, they should get the death sentence. There is no, there's no rehabilitation for people like that. They end up typically doing it over and over for a predator, serial predators. There's no reason for you to be alive in my opinion. I'm sorry, but none, no reason at all. Just disgusting. Seeing a lot of that, seeing still a lot of, not as much and there's probably some that are not being reported of children who are committing suicide due to bullying, but even just in general, children who are being bullied. I've been speaking to my best friend often on and her little girl is being bullied at school. And kids who are being bullied over this crazy, and the sad thing about it with these schools is that a lot of times the kids that are being bullied, they're not allowed to do something about it. So dog, you know, damn, if you do, damn, if you don't, you know what I mean? We have told JB that he has every right to defend himself whether verbally or physically against someone who is bullying them. I am so sorry. I know these schools nowadays, they preach that we don't want a, what do they say? We don't want to encourage an environment of violence. Well, I don't want my kid coming home crying either and threatening suicide. Did y'all see the video of the California mom who went into the school and basically was like, I believe it was boys that were bullying her little girl?  She sent free-ass whippings for everyone, 18 and over free-ass whippings. That is what I'm talking about. And she went through the proper process of contacting the school. She asked to speak to the parents. The school refused for her to speak to the parents. As a parent, you have to do everything possible to protect your child. The school isn't going to do it. The teachers aren't going to do it. The bullied parents are not going to do it. And honestly, it's still our responsibility at the end of the day. You will hope that you have support from the school, the administration, but they're not doing it. And I think that at this point, there's so many kids that are being bullied and because they're not seeing anything positive being done to the bullies. A lot of the kids don't even report it. Thank God now I still have a connection with JB and I hope to maintain it to where he tells me everything. He has told me about a child that says something about his skin tone, laughing that he was dark. Oh yes, I wrote up on the school. I just busted up in the middle of lunch. I walked right past JB and it wasn't for this reason, it was for another reason. He was doing some stuff to JB. He was being mean. I just wrote up in the middle of lunch and was like, hey, just sat down and had lunch with him instead of JB and I spoke to him and I said, I'm going to need for you to stop that. I know his mom. I've already told the mom once this at this point. This was like the third or actually this was like the fourth or fifth time this kid had been messing with JB just so he stopped. I mean every now and then JB will say something, but the consistency consistently doing it every day has stopped. JB is also in karate and so we have little drills with JB. I asked him like, okay, if someone hits you for the first time, what do you do? He says, I will tell the teacher.  He thought about it for a while because he has a little brain working and he's like, well, you may need to move me to another school because I'm going to knock them out.  He said, or, or I could hit them and then go tell the teacher. I said, I like that answer too. Look I'm not encouraging my child to be running up on kids, but he has every right to defend himself.  I pulled that child aside.  I said, as a matter of fact, I want you to stand up.  I had JB to stand up. JB has him by an inch and about five, five or six pounds. I said, JB is bigger than you. If he wanted to, he could lay you out. They five years old, but I'm letting you know. He could lay you out, sweetheart, so you may want to keep your hands to yourself. Y'all, he never touched JB again. And I don't think, I didn't keep him again. Wait, girl, absolute mess. So yeah, y'all, in between the bullying and these, these young girls being, you know, taking advantage of and just the mother's not caring. It's just been sad. I try not to get online and look at that type of stuff because it can be very depressing. Like honestly, it can't be. Um, so moving on, y'all, those, you know, uh, moving on to personal, personal stuff, those, you know, I got a promotion at my job and let me get this hair out of the way. I've been working towards a promotion for a couple of years now. So I was very grateful to get it. And that just got me thinking about, um, what do I want to do as a career? And I don't know y'all, I really don't know, um, those who you don't know on what's called a LMS, a learning management system administrator. Basically what that is, is excuse me, I'm belching. Oftentimes we are hired. Well, you should go through what's called workplace harassment. If you are in the medical field, HIPAA, there may be a number of compliance training that you have to take. Um, perhaps there is some type of training you need to take for the job itself. And let's say it's online. While I am the person that manages that, um, training online. Now I don't create the actual WBT or what's called the web based training, but I would register you for the training. I want ensure that you get credit. I will manage materials. All of that behind the scene is what a learning management administrator would typically do. Now what I wanted to go into with why I got pregnant, what I wanted to really go into was, um, uh, I'm blank going blank y'all. An LMS administrator consultation to where you were hiring me just to set up your system and then I would bounce out. They make good money. Oh baby, they make really good money. Uh-huh. But because I didn't go in there, I'm not, I'm, I'm doing good. I'm comfortable, but I could be making more if I did that. Um, my friend and coworker, Nick, he went into that for a while and he was making good money. The reason why I can't do that now is that they tend to travel a lot of people who do that. Um, they travel to the client location and yeah. And a lot of those jobs tend to be contract jobs too. So I can't do that. I need to guarantee that I have benefits.  I have a type of personality that attracts a lot of different people. I don't go to work to make friends. I go to work to work. I'm that type of person. I'm there for a reason to work, but a lot of people get attracted to my personality and then they want to be my friend. Um, but I will say a lot of the good friends I have are from work and that's like one or two within that particular like company that I become really close to. I don't overshare information at work. I'm not like that. I know some people who are girl, don't be that way. You don't want to be telling people all your business at work. It's just not, it's not professional. You know what I mean? Um, but one thing I have done and I do advice is make sure you get close to one or two people and make one of those people, someone who's not on your team. Um, Christine is my go-to. We're pretty close. And I have another friend who works in quality assurance QA, Michielanda, and she's been a huge help to me. If I wanted to, I know that she could train me to go in that field, but I don't want to do that. I don't want to, I don't want to do QA. It's more IT focused and I don't want to do that, do that. So y'all need to be thinking about where I want to be in the next 10 years with my life. Um, I know a lot of things was on standhold on stand still after I had JV. I started to redo some things that I've been passionate about. I did write a children's book like it's been like two months. Um, my friend offered to edit it. I'm going to contact her this week actually and let her know girl, I'm going to Texas when I get back. We're going to focus on editing my book. Um, so yeah, y'all, you know, oftentimes you get, you get those questionnaires to say, well, if there's one thing that you could do without getting paid, um, and that you're passionate about, um, what would it be? Nothing. Oh my God, y'all, I'm sorry. I'm using the wrong thing. Hold on y'all. Um, yeah, not nothing. I would sit at home and just be cute and fluffy. But you know, for someone like me, that's good at doing a lot of different things. That's hard. That's really hard. I was going to say because I like old people y'all. I have a soft spot for old people. So, you know, in one life, I would have loved to have a group home and care for old people. Um, that's, that's such a, uh, different area for me to, um, maybe later on in life, that's something I could consider. Um, it didn't even have to be me opening up one, just possibly even getting back to volunteering, um, with the elderly. I could, I should really consider that, you know. Sorry, y'all, I'm chit-chatting it up. Let me continue to roll up this hair.  I know I'm all over the place. Girl, if you a single, count your blessings, girl. Stay single. Cause some of these women, first of all, nearly every, I would say at this point, nearly every day, the group has almost 30,000 women, right? Why am I whispering? They can't hear me. Nearly every day, at least one woman, uh, talks about that she's found out that her husband is cheating, which I think is absolutely horrible, right? So y'all know, y'all, y'all heard me talk about in my vlog, how the one woman she found out, her basically, her husband walked out on her while she was in the dango shower. Girl, he just packed up his stuff and left. My, I told y'all, my husband knows I'm crazy. Whenever he tries me, I let him not seem to remember that time. I went down, I drove down to Dallas and through your BCRH. You know what it was about.  But I just remember I got there after class and I just stayed in my car in my little center and when it said he got there, I had his BCR, y'all, I chunked that BCR. I said, here's your BCR.  Ooh, girl, yeah. So anyway, wife group. I'm all over the place, girl. Wife group. So a couple of weeks ago, first of all, just when I think, you know, sometimes I read these stories or posts and I'm thinking, this, this can't be real. Like this can't be real life. There's someone's actually going through this. So a woman posted last week because it still has comments going on it, right?  I think he has like two or three kids with, with his first wife. So when they, when they first got together, he said he didn't want her involved with his kids because he didn't want any outside influence, influences. To me, that was, that was already a red flag in my hand. 10 years later, 10 years later, I guess one of the kids is living with them, his daughter wants to have a graduation party. So the wife asked him, this is a vent post, by the way, she's not asking for anything. The new wife, second wife, asked her husband, is it okay for her to have a graduation party for his daughter? Cause again, he doesn't want her involved with the girl who lives there and who's been living there since she was eight years. So he agrees to it. He's like, yeah, you can, you can throw a party for her. That's fine. Tell me why the wife posted in her post. She said, he completely ignored that, counsel what she was doing, went behind her back and invited all these different people, cook all the food, just held everything about her knowing and boom, he was supported that I did. I was, I had to read that post multiple times because it's, first of all, why would you marry someone who doesn't want you involved with someone who lives there, a child? I said, you know, I, I respond, I'm like narcissists, narcissistic and controlling. So yeah, no. And what, what would happen since the daughter probably doesn't know that her father has told the mother not to be involved, what would happen is that daughter will, will, she probably does resent her for not having a relationship or not trying to have a relationship because she doesn't know that her father said, no, I don't want her to have a relationship with y'all, crazy, crazy. So another one who she posts every now and then I have to remember, she's one of those, if you were in the Facebook, one of those fake Facebook groups, you know, you have one or two people who always has drama. Child, this one girl, she's young. When she posted a couple of weeks ago, it was during tax season. So this was around March. So she was like, you know, my husband, no, my, my soon to be ex is basically saying how I need to give him, oh, he's not willing to give me any of the tax refund money because he needs something with his car. Yeah. And he got to, why did I scroll down?   So I look at a couple of comments later on and she's like, someone said, why are you still bothering him? Isn't this the guy that you caught sleeping with other men? I said, you know what, I am done.   Girl, what? I'm okay with my husband. Like he is born. He doesn't talk to me a lot because he, he's an extreme introvert. He doesn't talk too much.  That's why I come on here talking to y'all, but I ain't got to worry about any of this type of fool to read. And it's not even, it's not even like you can say as young people. It's all ages, acting crazy. Oh, I feel like the crazy ones are the ones in the mid forties. And I know some of you, I agree. Lord have mercy. Y'all, I'm putting a little bit more moose on this end because I wanted to curl around this rod. All right, y'all. So that is it with this chitchat. I am talking out, it's going to be 2020 by the time I'm done with this. So that is it, y'all. Thank you so much for watching. And thank you as always to all of these subscribers. Take care.


This is the SF Productions podcast network That wonderful TV year 1977 from the pop culture bunker. I'm Mindy and I'm mark you can check out our audio podcast How I got my way three comics on iTunes or on our website SF podcast network comm well first off We made it to 100 episodes That's our party exactly So I mentioned recently that I collected TV guide fall Preview issues over the years and thought it would be fun to talk about which shows made it which didn't and which ones We actually watched yes, and now I have to give credit to Ken reads TV guidance counselor podcast for this idea He apparently has an enormous number of TV TV guides and his concept is he brings in this other person generally a comedian and They pick an old TV guide issue and then talk about what they would have watched. Yes so So 1977 this is a year when Star Wars came out But it came out too late to actually impact much at all. Yes in television the next year big time so we start with Saturday night and Operation petticoat now on for one year. Was that like a military show or something where there were like nurses exactly Okay, it was based on a movie But the TV show was an early role for Jamie Lee Curtis wasn't her dad in the movie. I believe he was yes There was also we've got each other which we're on for three whole months and it is so generic No, that was on our own you wouldn't know the difference I it's we've got each other Ah boy, I don't even Which is why it was only off for three months Oliver Clark and Betty Archer household names. Yeah, okay But then we move on to something that went slightly longer the love I watch the love boat. Yeah. Well, no question. Yeah, that was that was standard viewing. No no question in my mind And it's actually available now on if you get me TV I think they show it on the weekends. The only trouble is The syndication package doesn't include the whole series. Yeah, it stops after like the third season You never get anything without Julie, right? And I think what happened was they started doing musical numbers and they don't want to pay for the lights Because that was when like the last season is when we got The the the the dancing girls. Yeah with with Terry hatcher Early role for her Moving on to Sunday on our own it lasted a year. Yeah another incredibly generic series Monday night we had the Betty White show which lasted five months It was her playing the role of an actress on a TV show that kind of parodied police woman They should they should show reruns of that now. Yeah We then had Rafferty which was on for three whole months and Featured Patrick McGowan as a doctor Yeah, okay generic doctor Yeah We had the San Pedro Beach Bums also lasted for three months So even back then things didn't last very long. No, no it was especially shows like this It was like, okay, you know here. We're giving up now That's what I do want to note here is that back in the 70s You didn't get like a four-episode commitment. You got at least a 13 episode commitment So all of these shows should have 13 episodes. Well, maybe they got maybe they got They didn't actually produce them But they had a commitment that they would actually, you know Paid for the 13 So we also have young Daniel Boone One whole month. That's Parker wasn't it? Well, it was Parker was the original one. Yeah, this one people you've never heard of and would never hear of again All right Then finally on Monday night, we have Leucan 1.5 years a year and a half About a kid raised by wolves That's vaguely to me, but I don't think I'm glowing eyes or something. I don't know. Yeah, kind of supernaturally Well, there's a lot of shows that came in on Tuesday night in 77 starting with soap soap Which lasted for four years very popular a hugely popular show a parody of soap operas Although frankly near the end it always came a soap opera of its own Oh, yes, because it got actually dramatic and a character was killed off and the da da, but So there you go Lou Grant five years dramatic spin-off of Mary Tyler more. Yes So this was the first time you took character from a sitcom moving him to a one-hour drama and So he moved from being being working at WJM to moved to Los Angeles and he Newspaper editor. Yeah, right and as we learned at the Emmys It was the first time that someone had won an Emmy for playing the same character in both a comedy and a drama. Yeah Hey, we had the Richard Pryor show lasted one month very controversial show But it was an early role for Robin Williams pre Morgan Mindy. Yes, and Tim Reed. Yes, pre WKRP The Fitzpatrick's five months an early role for Helen Hunt.  Yep. Yep. Oh, and not even I think in the main cast. Oh, okay And finally for Tuesday night Mulligan stew three months the big thing here was there were three People actors who were TV kids Eleanor Donahue Johnny Whitaker and Suzanne Croft so Johnny Whitaker was a family affair Suzanne Croft was Partridge family. Yeah Wednesday night the Oregon Trail Lasted two months and it's pretty much what you think it is. It's them the prequel to the video game. Yeah, exactly Yes Game is based on the Oregon Trail We have then big Hawaii and early prime-time soap that lasted two months a prequel to Hawaii 5-0 Thursday night Carter country which lasted two years. So this was a sitcom about a Northerner who goes down and works in this small town southern police station Okay, and And the Carter country is referring to Jimmy Carter. Okay, okay We have then chips. I watched chips. Yes six years Which of course introduced Erica strata to the world. Yes, the California Highway Patrol Then we had man from Atlantis Okay, I watched me in from it as I one year of course introduced Patrick Duffy with the webbed hands In the swimming like a dolphin. Yeah, yeah Okay Rosetti and Ryan which sounds like a USA show from today, but it was a lot drama which lasted two months. Okay Red Fox comedy hours lasted five months. So after Sanford and well technically, yes but this was red doing a variety show and It was very generic and It didn't last very long We had then James at 15 a one year show Well, I couldn't last more than a year because then he would be 16 Well, then they renamed it at one point James at 16 And it was a realistic teen drama which actually got a lot of critical praise. Yes. I vaguely remember it Then finally Friday night Now that Red Fox has moved on it's the Sanford arms a spin-out without Red Fox And I think Luanda Paige was the star of the show Odesta It lasted a whole month And finally Logan's run in the grand tradition of Movie turned into TV show and failing and failing miserably it lasted six months But it was an early role for Gregory Harrison who then letter later went out to trapper John MD Okay, and as I'm paging through here I'm seeing like big long articles about say the mini what you would call a mini series or You know a network special kind of thing and yeah specials and then they even have a section on what's changing on the news Yeah, there was so little stuff on television you could actually cover everything ABC news plans close-ups on teenage alcoholism Vietnam veterans today and the volunteer army and a January documentary on hostages and terrorism You know, you couldn't do that now because they do so much of this stuff It's just you know, like what's happening now, right? You know, right? Maybe that's just the result of the 24-hour news cycle. I Think that's fine. Yeah, so this is our first shot at a fall TV preview issue episodes We might do more in the future. We'll see what happens. Maybe I'll I'll pick out like my favorite year, huh? And in the meantime, you can check out our radio podcast how I got my way three comics on items or on our website I said I guess And I'm mark thanks for watching for 100 episodes


The initiative to develop African research leaders career open day, a measure to build capacity in health research organized by Camry Welcome Trust in partnership with African Academy of Sciences aims to attract university graduates from multiple disciplines towards health research. According to the African Academy of Sciences program deputy director Dr Alphonse's neighbor, such initiatives in the continent are aimed at promoting African-led researchers to solve Africa's health problems. The African Academy of Sciences is the only pan-African Academy of Sciences that deals with promoting science and development on the continent. We have as our vision transformed lives. So what we do is we work towards transforming lives on the continent using science mobilizing resources and partnerships and collaborations and other resources that we are able to work with with other stakeholders across the continent and globally. We also provide think, think and advisory services or functions in order to shape policies in health and science on the continent. Then thirdly we are an honorific organization so we recognize excellence in science through a number of excellent schemes that we implement. I deal the program which is having the open day is one of the 11 programs and they cover a wide spectrum of health research fields including bioinformatics and genomics including one health that is those diseases that affect humans and they can cross onto animals and vice versa. We deal with immunology and infection, we deal with malaria elimination and a whole lot of other areas. We have other programs again like the H3Africa, H3Africa is a human hereditary and health in Africa which is looking at the underlying determinants of health genomics so to speak and the environment how all these affect our health and our resilience as human beings. So to speak we have other programs which are solely based on promoting postdoctoral education on the continent. So we have about the African postdoctoral training initiative, we have what we call ISA RISE, we have what we call FLIR and these are all programs that are providing research opportunities for young and promising early career Africans to pursue research at the highest level on the continent and even outside the continent when that is available. The program's aim is to provide quality research training to 20 gifted students within an eight month internship period rather than those who are financially capable. The aim of the career day is to give young and recent graduate an opportunity to interact with researchers. What we have come to understand a bit more about research career because what we have come to realize is that a lot of the people coming through from our universities often haven't had a chance to really interact with researchers and many of them don't know what it takes to become a researcher or what research career entails and part of that it's not their fault is that there are not that many researchers and often there are not that many forums and opportunities where they can interact with the researchers and so this open day we spend a lot of time telling them a bit about how researchers they get to hear life stories of people who are current researchers, Kenyan researchers, African researchers and also they get opportunity to ask questions about what being a researcher means what they're taking up a research career will mean for them what they need to think about or to consider as they're considering research as a career. The second part is that it is part of our recruitment process for what you call a postgraduate diploma in health research methods. This is an eight month program that we offer together with the upon University and it is really a PGD that is focused on experiential learning for research and so what happens today is that in addition to having the open day talking about careers they do get to do just a very short aptitude test and with that aptitude test we will then look at the scores and we'll invite the top 60 or so for now face-to-face interviews and eventually we'll take about 20 will come and spend time at our programs facilities in Kilife and interacting with the researchers being mentored doing a research project and also getting teaching from both members of the Cameroocam Trust research program and Pony University. The Pony University is located in Kilife and the Cameroocam Trust is also located in Kilife about two kilometers away and apart from the physical proximity the collaboration we have a formal MOU between the Pony University which is a chartered public university and the Cameroocam Trust which is one of the parasitutors of the Minister of Health and the Pony is a young university you know which got its charter in 2013 and Camero's March all over 30 years and when the university came up we found the mutual kind of interest between the two institutions in terms of here is the Research Institute whose mandate is largely research and here is a public university whose mandate is largely training so and there's a novel up between these two and we took advantage of these to sign an MOU with them and to largely collaborate in various areas but the main one being postgraduate health research training from undergraduate to postgraduate diploma which we will talk a little bit about to masters to PhD and to us this is a very unique opportunity and a kind of paradigm shift in the country in the sense that many of our institutions research institutes the industry the universities sit in silos on their own without necessarily talking to each other and as we bridge this gap and came up with programs that are of mutual interest and mandated between the two institutions and identified postgraduate three-side training where the university is mandated to be in charge of accreditation and quality control in terms of you know according to the Commission for University Education and the Research Institute on the other hand has good infrastructure both the physical infrastructure and the human resource the stakeholders appeal to the government and the private sector for funding and support in order to enhance the outreach of the health research training for i2-5 for news I am Abdul Razak in good here


Hi everyone, I'm Joe for jaspeyscasebrakes.com coming at you with 2023 Tops Chrome Disney 100. Pretty nice stuff. Hobby box, random pack break number 10, a lot of nice stuff here. The secondary market potential might baffle you if you're not familiar with this sort of stuff. Big thanks to this group for making it happen. They're the pack numbers. I've also printed out the pack numbers because that's how we're going to label the packs. We're also down to our final two boxes so we're going to do a dice roll just like which one we're going to do. It's going to be one, two, three for the top box, four, five, six for the bottom box. And it's one. Top box. So this box will be for break number 10 which I believe, so we're doing break, no we're doing break 10 now so we're going to break 11, which will be the last box. I don't think we have any more. So that's already on jaspeyscasebrakes.com. Now at the start of this video, I'm even looking at Ores right now, there are let's do this part of it. There are no spots taken in the next Disney box. If you were feeling frisky and you wanted to buy all 18 spots, yes, that does mean it would be a personal box. So something to keep in mind, jaspeyscasebrakes.com. All right, good luck everybody. So break number 10 looks like Denver at Philadelphia just tipped off. Kind of weird that we're going to start to have fewer and fewer NFL games. So the slow transition to the basketball season has, I think it is slowly starting. The time of year where my investments on certain teams, certain sports will eventually change to the hoops and baseball. Jeremy's saying Disney used to be good, but awful the last few years. I think this has been a return to good because we saw some of the dual autos or some of the autos that have come out of here going for thousands of dollars, selling properly for thousands of dollars. So back to form I would say. All right, so now let's do all the randomizers. Let's roll it, let's randomize it two and a one, three times for all the lists. Moves first, one, two, and three, and Denise down to Darren, two and a one, three times for the pack numbers, one, two, and three. You got 16 down to five. All right, Denise with 16, Cassandra with seven, Alan with 14, Cassandra with eight, Darren with 13, Teddy with two, Craig with six, Chris with three, Anthony with one, Darren with 12, Thomas with 15, Darren with four, last but not Mojo. Honors with 10 and nine, Cassandra's 17, Alan with 18, Ryan with 11, and Darren with five. Now we see sort by A to Z or Z to A. We'll do that three times, side on top, we'll get the honors. One, two, and three, after three times we're going Z to A. So go by their first name, you can see sort sheet Z to A. So Thomas, you are up first. Sorry, Anthony and Alan. Right now I will also print out a lot of setup for this right now. I'm going to print out the labels for you as well. All right, here we go. So Thomas with just one pack, Teddy you're up next. Pack 15. So now we'll start building a little fun momentum here. Got a little refractor here. There's Roz, Ernesto de la Cruz, Anton Ego, and Nice Mushu refractor. There you go, Thomas. Thank you. All right, Teddy has one pack, pack two, or Thomas's name here. Pack two. Good luck with this one. I really like the card stock on these here. They're made in Italy. So the card stock definitely feels different. There's a Maleficent Ursula, your cold Visconti, and some Purple Mowgli. Nice. All right, Ted, not bad. All right, Ryan's got a pack. Pack 11. Denise, you're up next. Hey, Teddy, you're welcome. Ryan, let's see what we've got for you. Dopey, a little color, Aurora, Doc Hudson, and Green Olaf. Nice. 63 out of 99. I'm sure the kids will love this one. Sure. Listen, I'll be honest with you folks. I'm not sure if I'm the biggest fan of Olaf. I know he's wildly popular, but this wasn't my favorite character in footage. All right, Darren's got a bunch of packs. Craig, you're up next. Darren has 16 and 4. 16, 16, 4, 13, 12, and 5. 12. Just want to double check. 13, 4, and oh, Denise is 16. So sorry, Darren. Denise, you're first, actually. Pack 16. That's why I do those checks. That's who we got here. We got Nemo, Princess Tiana, Wade Ripple, and we got Stitch being goofy. Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities. All right, fun Stitch insert here, playing Jungle Book. Now we can get to you, Darren. Once again, 4, 13, 12, 5. 4, 13, 12, 5. Kuchow, Moana, Eeyore. Sometimes people feel like this after our group breaks, but we try to get them to be more positive. We want you to be a little more positive like Winnie the Pooh. And here is Off the Pages insert, Pete, Mulan, Wreck-It Ralph, Blotso, and Iconic Moment. That is an iconic moment, one of those tear jerkers at the beginning of the movie, at the front end. All right, a couple more, Darren. Good luck. Genie, the Evil Queen, Joe Gardner, and Refractor, Mowgli. All right, last pack, Darren. Good luck. We've got Ember Lumen, Kanai, the Cheshire Cat, and Once Upon a Time, Pinocchio. I don't think I've seen a lot of these Once Upon a Time inserts, so I feel like that's a shorter print, I guess. All right, Darren, there you go. All right, thanks, Darren. And we've got Craig, get ready, Craig's up next in Chris. Pack six for Craig, Judy Hopps, the Fox and the Hound, Prince's Vanellope, and Nemo, Humor Refractor. All right, Chris with a few packs. Cassandra, you'll be after Chris, three, ten, and nine. Good luck, Chris. There's Pocahontas, Barely Lightfoot, Bambi, and Marita from Brave. We've got to be positive, we've got to be positive, like Winnie the Pooh. And there's Princess Jasmine, and she reveals the Incredibles family. All right, last pack for Chris. Good luck, Chris. We've got Maui. There's Mirabelle, and Olaf, who's going to reveal a Snow White, just a base card. There's always like one of those per box. All right, thanks, Chris. Nothing too crazy there, but I appreciate you getting in. Cassandra, you're up next with a few packs. Then Anthony, then a couple for Alan to close it out. Speaking of closing it out, our last box is loaded up right now, jaskyscasebreaks.com. All right, 7-8 and 17. There's 7-8 and 17. 7-8 and 17. There's Belle, Russell, Baymax, and Judy Hopps numbered refractor, 368 out of 399. Nice, one of my favorites of the more recent Disney movies, Utopia. We've got Heimlich, Lilo, Ian Lightfoot, and iconic moments. Yes, that is an iconic moment. The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Sully, the Tramp, Mater, and Mushu to 399 numbered. All right, Cassandra, not too shabby at all. Thanks for getting in. All right, Anthony with pack one. Good luck. Nice Pluto. Mini. Jafar. And Stitch in the clock strikes snack time. I haven't seen this, I feel like I haven't seen this particular one. Maybe it's a little bit shorter printed. All right, Alan, thanks for your patience last, but certainly not least. Pack 14 and 18. Go on, Alan, two more chances to see if we can pull something kind of crazy. I think they are, so yeah, I think we might be crossing our fingers for an auto. There's Meg, Anna from Frozen, Asha, and we've got an Asha refractor. That's pack 18. Pack 14. Good luck, Alan. Thanks, everybody, for getting in. Another box in the store right now. All right, so we've got Mushu, Tinkerbell, Carl Fredrickson, and bam. An iconic moment indeed. Peace Sherman 402, Wallaby Way, Sydney. All right, thanks, Alan. Thanks, everybody, for getting in. Last box in the store. I'm Joe for jasphyscasebreaks.com, and I'll Disney with you next time. Bye-bye.


Thank you very much, Lisa. Welcome. I think I'm going to let you introduce yourself if you'll feel much better for the different names. So thank you very much, Lisa. Thank you very much. Thank you everyone for coming. I can see there's a lot of it in and out of the room, the same people come in and going, so I don't know whether people are getting kicked off. But it is an awkward time in the afternoon to be sitting in with your family. So thank you. My name is Lisa Barrett and I'm a birth worker in South Australia. I have previously been a midwife and I want to talk to you today about the sociology of beliefs. So this is not a talk about women. So before I get on with it, I really want everyone to understand that the most devastating thing that can happen to a woman is that her baby dies. It affects her for her whole life. It affects her partner, the siblings, the grandparents, the friends, and the community at large.  We often go to call it an adverse event. So if I call it an adverse event, it's not because I'm trying to diminish what happens. It's just the way we talk about it and I think often it makes us feel less involved in what's going on. I also want to acknowledge that Agnes was kept for over 700 days without a court appearance and she was shackled when she was at court and whatever it is that happens is a totally an abuse of human life. And say that Agnes is not the only person who is in jail for attending birth. All around the world there are people in jail or in court and we know nothing about them. So this is for them too. When I talk to women, especially around their home birthing, I tell them that it's not just about safety. This is the actual talk they get. It was told to me that I was forthright but there is no point pretending. If you are planning to birth at home, it's not just about safety. It's about responsibility. And if you are not happy to take on responsibility for yourself and your child, home birth is not for you.   They will say you made bad choices and they will blame your care provider and say that they were negligent. That is a fact. And as a birthing woman, if you can't accept that you shouldn't be at home no matter what and I think it applies to midwives and birth advocates and birth workers too, you really have to know that that is the bottom line. And I also want to say that when it comes to the section rate, I don't really think that money is a driver to me because there's not enough of us to create a problem. I actually think that what I just said is the main driver. I feel that CTGs, aninduction and augmentation and instrumental birth are a symptom of the real problem which is very difficult to accept responsibility. But if you do any of all of those things, then they will say you did everything you could and nobody wants to be in a position where they can be accused of not doing everything. And I think until we all look at that absolute issue, then we can't ever change this to their intersection rate no matter what we say about all the interventions that happen. I want to tell you a bit about sociology and about belief. So when we're coming to the main part of the talk, you know exactly where I'm coming from. Sociology is a scientific study of human society. It's all in development, the institutions and how it supplies to social policy. Beliefs are really shared ideas that people have collectively and they're mainly gained from social experience which comes in lots of different forms and for efforts they need now as we all know on the internet. And our values are abstract to society that define the idea of principles of what is desirable and what is socially correct. And really that's how we form all the opinions that we have. There's a really good book that was written in 1928 and it's called Propaganda. It's by Edward Bernay. Sorry I'm reading this because I don't know that I remember who it was from. And he worked on the hypothesis that there are invisible people carrying the power that saves our thoughts. And he looked at psychological manipulation and the examination of techniques in public communication. It's a really, really good book to have a look at. Yes I'm really sorry I don't do slides. I expect you to all listen really closely and chat and tell me what you think. Why would you need slides when there's such a fabulous picture of me out there? I don't even look like that today, trust me. Okay so I thought that I would look at some fundamental beliefs that I had or I used to have and I think is true for most of us as midwives. And that really drives what we would believe to be true about everything. The old fact was Edward L. Bernay's and the book was written in 1928. You've probably got to go on to Amazon to find it. You know one of those old places. Okay so we have a few fundamental beliefs and I thought of myself and where I was quite a few years ago now and I trained as a midwife at the age of 21 and I totally believed in regulation. I thought being in a registered midwife was pretty amazing and I think regulation is one of midwifery's fundamental beliefs. If you were here at the very beginning you would have shared the lady from ICM talking about regulation and standard practice and we pushed for that because we believed it to be to the public safe because it protects midwives even fewer standards and it makes everyone competent. Well does it keep the public safe? I don't think so. Does it protect midwives? Definitely not because even if we're not on trial in a criminal court there are tribunals that are trials that are coroners courts that can be perceived as trials under a civil court so it really doesn't protect the midwife. Does it ensure a standard? That's always debatable because we all have different standards on fewer and does it make us all competent? No it definitely doesn't do that. Some people will get their qualification and never ever do anything else, never do any advanced learning, never go anywhere with it. Another one that I really thought and I find it's ingrained so deeply in people they don't even know they think it is that doctors know more about health than anybody else and they're probably the most knowledgeable people. Even in my own family, my older children once I tried to say, well I'm going to the doctor and when they've gone they've come back and said, what you said, that even it is generally, you're right, doctors don't know about health, they know about thickness, however the perceived, we're looking at the perceived thought which is the thought that it's hard to get out of and that's not going away from the fact that if we really need antibodies they save our lives. If we really, if we're in a car crash they can save our lives. We're looking at a general community thought. A dead baby means that someone's to blame. Now I can't say that I always thought that, but you know that is a time when you think it couldn't happen to me because I'm safe because I'm a hospital midwife because I've done everything right and that is definitely perpetuated in society, especially throughout the home birth and community. The next one is, if it's in the newspaper there must be at least a grain of truth to this and I am totally guilty of this until it happens to me and I can tell you now that I don't believe that anymore and any piece of news I look at I just think, oh yeah, but what's the real story? Yeah, you're right, these people are mostly lies, but mostly, you can even put mostly in there so even you would think there's a grain of truth in more things and the biggest one of all is the country we live in is free and most people, countries, we tend to believe that and I myself sort of believed it until I realized that anyone, they can take your DNA and you can't control that and they can get your bank account details and your email and take your things and you can't control that either and we think that only happens to criminals and we'd be glad if it happened to criminals but it's not how it works, it affects everybody every day. So when I was looking at those things and I think they are fundamental beliefs that give us what we believe, we come on to Agnes' case and how we believe it couldn't happen to us or it couldn't happen to in our country because we're free, because we have midwifery, people recognize us and there's no way that it's going to be the way it is over there. So what I wanted to do and we could go to the horse's mouth and email Agnes and say what's the real story here or we could sort of look at so many things but I thought I wanted to see what most of our perceptions would be by using tools that we use to get our perceptions and that's mainly the news and in this day and age, in today's world countries it's probably Google, so I did fully Google Agnes and I had to really commend Tony Harman for the fantastic job she did of getting her stuff out there and making it really ingrained into us throughout promoting her film and getting it out there that the newspapers picked up what seemed to be an AAP statement because I looked at many newspapers from the lefty guardian in the UK to the sunscreen tabloids and most of them said the same sort of thing and one, that Agnes was arrested in jail for championing home birth and two, that home birth is illegally hungry and that's a terrible thing and I think that most of us think that it's a terrible awful thing that she was arrested in jail for home birth and championing home birth and for maybe not American midwives but for most of the Commonwealth midwives when midwifery is a regulated profession we really think that that couldn't happen to us and home birth is illegal and hungry which is horrific and again for those of us who have literally regulated bodies we really, yeah, it is a mistake in your life so that we really believe that these things are not going to happen so what I try to do then is look behind that because I first came to know about Agnes the same way probably all of you did by seeing the literature put out there and saying there was this film coming and we wanted to show it so I did do a bit of googling myself before then and so you have to go back to your 40 pages to find out what was going on then and there's such a good job now on all the stuff that has come up since and when I watched the movie of the things that we think that can't happen here I spent quite a bit of time crying because when she was going through the reporters and through the court case I felt that that did happen to me it wasn't a criminal case although many people did ask me if I'd been convicted it was actually a coroner's case but they can run it however they want except they can't convict you at the end so I thought that it is so close to home that how could it be that she went to prison then and she was arrested for homeless being illegally hungry so I had a good look at all of the things over the last couple of days because I've only been googling this for a few days and the truth is homeless wasn't illegally hungry it was unregulated which is very different so unregulated homeless means that basically the government in January a lot of the time and what I read was about one in three births were followed up by the police and sometimes they were looking old unless they went to the hospital they were treated pretty shitty but they were going on with it and I don't know how that's any different this year even as a registered midwife in Australia that's pretty much how it was there were good relationships and there were crap relationships and then sometimes you treated brilliantly and the women are well respected and sometimes the women are treated digitally as well and yeah I think that in the name I'll believe that things are illegal is not always when it's unregulated and unregulated doesn't mean illegal we just think it does and that's what fuels then our beliefs that it couldn't happen to us because it's not illegal or it's regulated or whatever so on the note of it being unregulated I read some very interesting comments about what happened because Agnes was fighting for regulation she wanted regulation because they felt that that would make midwifery better and this is maybe how she put her head up she was actually stopped from practicing for six months back in 2003 after an event that happened in 2000 but obviously at that point nobody was paying any attention and I know lots of midwives who have been suspended from practice for different things for a short length of time, a long length of time they've been on restricted practice and no one ever really knows unless you put it out there no one knows and sorry, I... she was also an obstetrician but she was suspended from being an obstetrician and she went and retrained because obstetricians couldn't really go to the bus although some do go to bus she's not the only doctor that goes to home bus in Hungary and what happened with the push for regulation was it was finally regulated and those midwives that were doing it couldn't really do it anymore I read something that an apprentice midwife said well I had to stop because I was afraid of exactly what was happening to me to Agnes and the members of the practice happening to me and that I'd get thrown in jail so once regulation came in it was up to the government to regulate midwives and from what I Google there's only one regulated midwife and that was only last year so we're thinking so I was thinking that Italy could never happen to us we're already looking that the nuances of this is that actually it was going on before and in the minute that regulation came in and the more that regulation happens the harder they get on regulation actually the more difficult it is for women to actually get the birth that they want so we also know that saying that there's an illusion is sometimes political strategizing and I know for myself so with Agnes getting more and more out there pushing more for women to have a regulated midwife and I'm sure she wasn't pushing for regulation to stop midwifery she was thinking like all of us think regulation will make it better say for a more standard that she put her head quite far up over the precipice and I don't know about any of you but I was getting along quite nicely myself and before 2009 when what happened to me was I was on some committees I was on the home birth committee besides Australia where they were making policy I was on the policy committee for water birth I was on the South Australian New Zealand Outcome Stealing Committee and slowly I realized that actually there's nobody really on the side of women and there's hardly anybody on the side of midwives to the point that the health department said to me in one meeting when I complained excuse me it's okay for you to talk but you're here to support the women well I don't know what the other midwives or the politicians or the consumer were there to support but at that point I sort of realized that it wasn't really really something that I wanted to be involved in I was also Vice President of the College of Midwives in South Australia at the time and ended up having to resign because I had clients who didn't fit anybody's criteria even though there wasn't any at the time and I was apparently told I was giving them a bad name so rather than drop clients I actually had to resign from there then in 2009 things were changing and again this comes into what's happening what's happening with Agnes we were pushing for Medicare and we were pushing for practicing rights at the hospital and mainly the people who were pushing of it were homeless yes we are still on the Sociology of Belief and this is because I'm just trying to explain to you that we believe that it couldn't happen to us but actually it can happen to any of us I use myself because I know what's happening to myself but I believe if you look at Bethany Reid a similar thing is happening to her and I read on the Mandala Law that they were looking at that Agnes being imprisoned why did they do that? Because they can and what motivates them it's just the power and power corrupt actions and that really is the Sociology of what we choose not to believe which is why we think it couldn't happen to us we can talk about Agnes's case because she wasn't jailed for something in home birth and when I was talking about myself what I actually was going to say was until I stood up and started logging about what was happening under changes I don't think anybody really had noticed me it was only when we started logging documents and we started getting information to the public that before you know it the Parliament House was following me and the State Department of Health was following me quite openly on my RFS feed and before that I wasn't really noticed by anybody Agnes was arrested and she was charged with killing as a result of carelessness during work so what she really was charged with was over some death and we might think that wouldn't happen to us because we have a regulatory body but anyone who's been to a tribunal would know that a tribunal is called a trial and it might not mean that you go to prison but at any point the police can be investigating you anybody, any time, any midwife so what we want to believe in the Sociology of what we want to believe is because everybody needs a hero and quite rightly Agnes is a hero she is an absolute hero and she does every bit of accolade that she's ever had and she has been treated abominably and her human rights have been violated but look around in your own country why is it easy to support Agnes for the Australian College of Midwives and the International Confederation of Midwives and the UK College of Midwives why is it easy to support Agnes because we think that Hungary isn't a physical country that Hungary's laws are not our laws but it is not easy to turn around and support a similar thing in your own country because it is too controversial or it is too close to home or you don't want to be charged by the same breath when Agnes went to court her charges when she finally went she was held without beliefs and without going to court because they felt that she would just continue to do this and yes I believe a witch hunt is an abuse of human rights that doesn't mean that I don't think that things should be investigated or that we should never look at our practice or we should never look at improvements or we should change that means that what we believe will happen to us if we are safe or if we are good or if we follow the rules is not a real thing just by before we get to the court case again I was talking to an aviator because this applies to lots of different scenarios and it was a really well known aviator in South Australia and we were talking I was talking about this subject and he talked about crashes and he said in flying there are two people there are the people who have had a crash and there are the people who haven't and the people who haven't might think it's because they are the best or they are safe or they got great equipment or the best training but actually they're just in the queue to become the people who have and it's not until you have had one that it's not really because of any of those things and I think that actually applies to midwifery so when Agnes is in court the court case was similar to many court cases that go along some in a criminal court and for people in regulation if we're just looking at the tribunal which doesn't mean a custodial sentence what happens to Agnes is awful but it does mean that how they are taken how it is taken on is similar so when she was charged she wasn't allowed to have any expert witnesses from above because by this time everybody is involved and everybody wants to put in there was only written submissions for an expert witness and you might think that wouldn't happen because there are lots of expert witnesses especially in the UK and in Australia and what happens again in our case is that there was an expert midwifery witness and she was sidelined and in the write-up of the case she was barely mentioned all of the facts all of the recent stuff that she said about midwifery didn't make the final cut and there were so for Agnes's case the experts were objected experts in her country all of them totally against home birth and some of them not even with an appropriate of gynequalification and her case was done on protocols for a hospital well I can tell you that's exactly what happened we did have some obstetricians give written submissions but they were never cited their expert obstetrician was against home birth quite openly and they did also put an expert on the stand who wasn't an obstetrician nor gynecologist but was part of the ANA who have an open anti-hundreds policy so it is not so different what happened there as to what happened here in Australia or to what happens in the UK when you're looking at why governments do this and that comes back down to the propaganda of what we believe often for the governments who don't want to be seen who shackle a midwife and put it in prison for seven hundred days will do things that will make society in general believe something that they want and what I was saying about heroes is something that a journalist said to me and she said you are either a hero or a villain in a story because that's what people want and if you're not the hero then you must be the villain and you can't do anything about that so I know in the media in Hungary that Agnes was the villain she had started with some kind of media and at the end the media was horrific and what turned it around was the amazing Tully Har-Harman and her fantastic film about what are the real issues here but again it's really what makes us believe it and for me sometimes I think that some of that stuff makes us believe it couldn't happen to us because it doesn't actually go into detail on all the issues so governments who can't stop midwifery because that would look terrible on there and we're free put out there in the media what they want make regulations as what they want and dress it up so that it looks like they're full midwifery I heard a talk earlier about maybe Tamid Rose in Australia and there were lots of people and questions being asked but it really didn't get answered because what happens when you regulate more is that you get more rules and more rules to protect some people that it doesn't protect a woman who wants to be back after two sections at home and it won't protect her care provider I don't know if the media really oh I see the media does need more regulation no the media just need to understand what they do is to report the facts and that would be really the best thing for the media I think that we do all want a few reasons that it won't happen to us and that's why we believe that regulation is a good thing but regulation doesn't protect that in fact sometimes it makes it happen also and again you can go and look at Becky Rouge case in the UK which is the highest profile case in the UK and I could find at the moment so what the government in Hungary did was they prosecuted Agnes over cases to make home birth look devastatingly dangerous I saw another little quote that said a few babies died and they used that to create the issues and that's what they did and I said a couple of cases where the baby died and I saw a really good quote because I thought I'd add because it was from Sarah Stewart and it says clearly this is being used to score particular political points in Hungary and of course she's right because of course it was to score political points in Hungary and the midwife that I told you that said she was afraid that something like this would happen to her so it made her stop so prior to regulation prior to regulation sorry that's my phone so prior to prior to regulation the midwives could do it and then we'll look at but after regulation the government had to make it so that everybody was scared to do it and make the rule so tight that nobody could get the ability to do it and that's exactly what is happening in Australia and it's really what's happening in the UK and that's right in Canada we all think that oh we have midwives here so it's fine but we only have midwives here to do the things that either the government bodies or the regulatory bodies say that you can do it so when we're looking at what we believe about Agnes it's that we believe that she was just championing her birth and in our country nothing like that would happen so what the truth is about Agnes is that she was birthed and with lots of women she put her head up there and she was broken and when a baby dies you either look at it as an adverse event or you put it in the media and you make sure that nobody else wants ever to do it if they put media out there about the hospital birth then actually there will be no room in the press for anything else so I think that they have to push what their agenda is and do you know what Emma? It can happen to a hospital midwife inside Australia there was a case where a couple sued the hospital and the hospital counter sued the midwives so yes none of us are protected and midwives are the bottom of the heap and if they're looking for someone to blame it's always going to be a midwife I wanted to tell you something else about Agnes' court case about what they said were her problems so after they made the charges the main things were that in a shoulder discloser there was a shoulder discloser case where the baby died that they couldn't expect the baby over four kilos to give birth and she should have known that and in fact that's pretty much exactly the main reason that they said that is a maneuver that we did was impossible for midwives to do and that when I needed help to get the baby out it was simply because I was incompetent so when we look at the net symbols of what actually happened to Agnes it does happen here it happens all over the world it happens on a daily basis I must say that some of my own issues started when I was looking at Agnes' case started because I was more than a little pissed off that the Australian college of midwives and the Australian private midwives both of which I belonged to when I was a midwife supported Agnes so much and they got it out there and they showed the movie but they couldn't support somebody in their own country and I had already been told by the private midwives association I said be a secret member because I was controversial and that was back when I was a midwife and I also know that the British College of Midwives sent Lezy Page went personally to do the test and she put in a piece for Kermansy and she is someone who has given evidence against midwives in a very similar situation in fact there is a social case in Canada so why are we not looking at a thing where every body of midwives can support midwives all the way down the line I don't know why there is I don't know what makes the difference but I do know that when they had the right to try the international conference that there was lots of talk about what was going on and in Australia they thought they'd have a conference too and I thought well great that's a really great thing to do and a great way to get everything out there but I was told I couldn't sit on the floor because I was too controversial and so I bought a ticket and just went along and I was not allowed to speak I was not allowed to say anything however a professor did get up and used the coroner's note to create a massive talk against me I was in the audience I wasn't allowed to say anything I wasn't allowed to get up I wasn't allowed to ask a question so where is it that we think that human rights start and end and who is it who is able to be the people that we support and the people that we don't really support I think that's a massive midwifery issue that Hannah Darling was talking about that no I wasn't allowed to ask a question when she was saying that we should all stick together she showed a great picture of a pile of different types of space all tied together and that's what it's like we are all different we don't all agree with what each other say however if we all stick together then we are a formidable body I remember when I was nominated for the Private Midwives Association for every role and I wasn't allowed to take any of them but all of that is personal to me and I understand that but I'm not the only one I'm not the only person in Australia that has gone through Hellenberg for supporting women and I'm not the only person who has put her head up and spoken out and has been vilified for that and I'm not the only person who has been at a birth where they have passed away and it's just if we all support each other no matter what our type is no matter where we are because we're supporting women then actually we will all get together and we will be successful and I think that's where we come back around to the sociology of our beliefs if we believe that it could happen to us and we believe that we are all in it together then actually we can affect social change in the way that the books tell us that it's an invisible people carrying the power that shapes what happens but until we believe that it couldn't happen to us because we live in a food country it couldn't happen to us because we're safe because we're regulated because we're good practitioners then I don't think we're actually going to get anywhere in maternity services and things are never actually going to get better okay so I stopped the breath now yep, taking a breath that's marvelous, 40 minutes please so we're out of breath at all so I don't think we're going to be coming up to the end of this session because anyone got any questions in particular questions that you'd like to ask Lisa does a brilliant job of answering questions if you go along, does anyone there in the last few minutes want to ask anything specific if you put your hand up I will enable your mic for you I'll go ahead sorry pardon Denise, if you want to ask a question yes I use Lisa and maybe Licky Thompson going to write your stories please well, I won't be writing a story anytime soon because I'm still being investigated by the police but you never know the only question here is how do we cross the lines and it gets more and more difficult to cross the lines the more we agree with regulation the more we bow to it and the more we don't stick together then we can't until we all agree to disagree but work in one community then it's almost impossible really um I don't know that we can because there's the people who are in and the people who are not in what of differences is women it becomes very difficult to um put aside our own fears and going back to that it could never happen to us and the way we do responsibility it's almost it's almost an impossibility really because midwifery is quite broken as well as obstetrics is quite broken I think that uh Lisa you've got a couple of hands up a couple of people would like to ask questions do you like to take a question do you like to have their hand up or block them now do you like to have their hand up can you put it up a bit you've probably taken it back down again at least I've lost whoever it was so go ahead okay um yes I can talk about the times when you were raided by the police and I have also been detained and read my rights by the police um what happened here in Australia with a home birth um whether the baby is compromised or not alive is that the police are called and you are detained by the police and they search your home and they take your equipment and they take your telephone took a little noodle that I had and asked me if I broke water with it so um that is basically what happens here every time and this is not just for the midwife this is for the woman as well it happens to the woman, they go to the woman's house even if the baby has just passed away they take her equipment, they take her photos they take her telephone um in a serious way. Yeah. There was a question earlier that I was going to answer, but I can't really remember what it is now, because so many people are tapping. I'm sorry about that. This has been a thing in the media. It's always a double-edged sword. A positive view of midwifery is a good thing to let people know what midwives do and how they act. However, midwives are constrained in what they do and how they act. So you can say once one midwifery is really important and we will be with you no matter what, however, this is not actually true. And they only care about negative outcomes because that is actually printable news and it is actually what the government would want you to know about because they want you to think that home birth is so dangerous and certain care providers or all care providers or midwives are really dangerous and that you do it at your own risk. And that's why they drag women through the news as well as care providers. Tell them about my DNA. I had to give up my DNA. I didn't want to, but they review your rights and if you don't voluntarily do it, they do it with reasonable force. And that can apply to anybody. They can't stop until they do, but they can stop you on the premise of a random breath test and then trying to achieve and that has also happened to me on US cases. But this is all happening in Australia today. I think that it is different in different cases. I think it is particularly bad here and it is particularly bad around me at the moment. I agree Rachel that it does depend, but the police still get to investigate all of it whether they are overt or covert. I don't think it does, being a private midwife in Australia, although I think being a private midwife and being an independent midwife is different. If you're a midwife with maybe care, you are not going to be home birthing with anybody unless you're going to sort of put that aside. It's really quite a complex system that we have here now. Lisa, I think you've taken a breath and I'm going to jump in there. We can sit around and talk about these issues for the rest of the conference, I know. But I'm going to have to draw close to this session and thank you very, very much for being very honest with us and sharing with us what your experience is. Lisa, I'm going to thank you for that. Is there anything you just sort of do that with? I don't know about anyone else, but I'm feeling a bit surprised and a bit scared.  Well, I don't think you need to tell people because once you've been to and understood that there is nothing as amazing in the whole world and we fight every day so that every woman gets the right to have that exact birth. And that's where there's so many people fighting for the cause because it's something that we all believe in. And that is a really good thing. Lisa, thank you very much on those inspiring words. I think what I just said to be inspired was that it could be challenged and maybe the things that you said. So thank you for that, Lisa. I'm sure you've done that for all of us. Really appreciate you stepping in, particularly at the last minute for us. So I'm just going to turn the recording off now.


It's a great honour for me as Chair of the EMCDD Management Board to introduce the European Truck Report 2022. This annual report delivers the latest overview of the truck situation in Europe up to 2022, exploring long-term trends and emerging threats. Based on data from 29 countries, such as EU27, Turkey and Norway, the report includes chapters on individual trucks as well as on truck supply, production and precursors. This flagship publication is an essential resource for gaining a strategic and holistic understanding of the European truck situation and its implications for public health and security. It illustrates the US balanced approach to explore the impact of long-term trends on the health and safety of the public and detect more quickly any new threats enabling decision makers to improve their preparedness and response. The added value of the EMCDDA lies in its ability to help European and national policymakers and professionals in the trucks field to tackle the causes and consequences of truck use. As part of its Strategy 2025, the EMCDDA is therefore recalibrating its activities, proactively making them more customer centric. For many years, the agency's task was to produce, share and disseminate data. Today, it is increasingly called upon to provide analytical and targeted information to allow policymakers and practitioners to develop evidence-based policies and services. In December last year, the EMCDDA Management Board adopted the principles of a new business model for the agency that will improve how it interacts with its audiences and how it identifies and responds to their needs. The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly reinforced the need for change and I am pleased to see that the EMCDDA is engaging in such important developments. I would like to convey my special thanks to the EMCDDA Director and to all of its staff for this high-quality report. My thanks also go to the national focal points, to the EMCDDA Scientific Committee and all national European and international partners who contributed to this analysis. Thank you for your attention.


It is currently 11pm and I am in a hotel in the middle of nowhere in Arizona and this video is the story of how I got here. So why am I here exactly? Well, in this video I hope to catch you up on the past couple months of my life where I'm headed and what my plans are for the future. For those of you that don't know, my name is Josh Beasley and I'm a recent graduate from Yale University where I study computer science. Ugh, that still hurts to say. Graduate. I don't know if I feel like a graduate yet. Anyways, with my journey into the wild blue yonder of adulthood, this channel is slowly shifting away from college and more towards a weird amalgamation of the things that I love in life. Whether that be software engineering, magic, vlogging, reading photography, learning, self-development, if any of that sounds fun to you, hit that subscribe button if you're new here and like if you're excited that I'm finally posting again. So as all of you know, I graduated from Yale University this past May and unfortunately ended some of the best years of my life so far. I'm optimistic though, although I was sad to leave some of my best friends. I had an exciting summer ahead of me. Before I even had time to reflect on my college experience I was on a flight to Hawaii to escape adulthood. It was a little graduation gift to myself and to make the most of the last couple weeks of freedom that I actually had. Upon returning I started my summer job and although I was still technically in the military, I was kind of in this weird twilight area reserve status where I graduated and I commissioned but I hadn't ascended into active duty yet. So they highly recommended that I find a job because it could be a really long time until I actually started my time in the military. In fact it could have been as long as a year so it was very important to find a job that I was interested in and that was fulfilling and was also able to pay some of the bills. Luckily as a proud CS boy it wasn't too difficult to find a software engineering position somewhere close to where I lived. Specifically I was doing some more research engineering I would say, very similar to what I actually did with my senior thesis, machine learning, AI, deep artificial neural networks, that type of stuff. So I was able to apply all of the AI techniques that I had learned throughout college to a real life position and real life problems. It wasn't any test data sets anymore. We were creating our own unique data sets, training models on these data sets that were accomplishing tasks that had never been done before which was super cool to kind of be on that cutting edge of that. I can't really talk a ton about it but it was super cool that I found something so fulfilling and something that I enjoyed so much that was exactly what I had previously been doing to kind of fill my time during that summer. And obviously since I was still living at home I got to spend probably a little more time with my family than I would have liked but I definitely miss them now. And speaking of now back to the main question, why am I in Arizona now? Well eventually I did receive a phone call with the news that I would be entering into active duty and would be moving to my very first duty station, my first assignment. I heard news of this at the end of August and literally had to leave a couple weeks in September so I think I had three and a half weeks between the time that I heard to the time that I had to be packed up, ready to go. So it was definitely a scramble to one, find out where I was living in my new home, find to buy a car, I had to buy a car on my own and do research on that. So it was definitely a whirlwind of three and a half weeks to get prepared. Not to mention like I didn't even have the latest, you know, uniform that I was supposed to have let alone ranks, patches and stuff that I needed to have sewed on. But I was super excited because I was moving all the way across the country to my new home, which is not Arizona, this is actually just one of my last stops. But my new home is Dremel Please, Los Angeles, California, where I will be stationed and will be living for the foreseeable future, which is I'm beyond excited about. It's been a long journey out here so far, especially on my own for the past couple of days, but I was able to make some stops in, you know, Nashville, Oklahoma City, Little Rock to kind of break up the trip a little bit and, you know, really didn't have too much of an urge to film until I got here.  I'm not, it's hard to put into words, but I really felt an urge to film this just kind of document this moment and share it with you all. Luckily, though, I was able to calm some of my nerves because I spent the entirety of today in Sedona, Arizona, just hiking my heart out, taking some pictures, flying the drone, but I can't tell you how excited I am to continue sharing adventures like this and the adventures that I'll be having in the future with you, especially since I'm living in such an exciting new home. LA is full of so many creative people and I cannot wait for the opportunity to, you know, meet and collaborate with new friends. So thank you for all of you who stuck to the end of the video. I know the white hotel walls aren't too appealing of a background. And thank you even more to the people who have been here since like the beginning of my college experience. It's crazy that a new chapter of my life is starting and really do hope that I can continue to document it. If you're excited to stay updated with the new phase of my life, drop a like down below, comment what I should do when I get to LA.  I'm going to hit the sack and get some sleep before my last, like I think it's a six or seven hour drive tomorrow, but see you guys when I get there.