Would this be very complicated stuff? Good morning, everyone. I would like to thank the organizers for organizing this nice workshop and also for their support. Today I'm going to talk about telecollections and link to regional scare precipitation from a statistical perspective. I would like to thank my colleagues and some co-workers, Leon Shafik, Faisal Siyad and Mohamed Latif, Nikolay Tandevilov and Igor Zviriav and those team warnings from different parts. So I'll talk about, I'll give you a background on atmospheric flow, large-scale features and the relation of telecollections to precipitation and then briefly on comment on teleconnection and extremes. So as I start, I thought maybe I'll give you just a very brief background on where we come from. So that's a nice winter view of MISU. The department was established back in 1947 by Gustavo Rosbi when he came back from MIT and we do quite extensive research program in different parts, in different topics. We also offer bachelor master and PhD programs and I must say that MISU actually pioneered the application of the open IFS in teaching that was encouraged by Ireland, thanks for that. Unfortunately the last two years no students actually registered for the numerical prediction. Are we looking for PhD students? We offer PhD. Yeah, we have some positions advertised but not at the moment. So when you talk about teleconnections you can't really forget, you cannot overcome the dichotomy between weather and climate and also Rosbi waves. So I chose here to show you two pictures of difference between weather and climate. So the weather basically is the state of the atmosphere at a given place whereas the climate can be defined as the collection of long-term statistics of weather as was put by Edward Lawrence in 1970. But I also thought about something else which is the memory we keep about the weather aggregation and that's not really taken into account. Of course I'm not going to develop this. So large-scale flow and Rosbi waves when we talk about Rosbi waves we basically look at propagation of small perturbations. Ivana also talked about this before. A simple framework to study the Rosbi waves is to use simply the linearized beta plane vorticity equation. And this can explain actually a number of responses atmospheric responses to various forces such as diabetic heating or topography. And this is an example taken from Huskens and Karoli where you have propagation of response to a thermal forcing here. The response normally follows great circles and that's also shown early on by Ivana from Horan Wallace. Now what is the problem in teleconnection? What is it? If you take for example here I've taken the monthly sea level sea surface temperature over the Indian oceans. If you take a base point which is given by the blue cross and you correlate that point with every other point normally what you get you get one at the base point and then the correlation decreases outward. Normally monotonically if you have an autocorrelated noise but this is not a generic situation. If you take for example the sea level pressure what you get you get a kind of tipping point where you have positive correlation in the south and then negative correlation in the north and that's what we know the North Atlantic constellation. So a bit of history here. The question of teleconnection that seems to go back to Hill Benson in 1897 and also Lockyer in 1906 where they saw some sort of see-saw between southeast Australia and southern America. But it was in 1935 that Angstrom in this paper Angstrom was not actually by the way was not an atmospheric scientist. So he noticed that the weather at a given place is not an isolated phenomenon but intimately connected with the weather at adjacent places. And also we cannot forget Gilbert Walker. Gilbert Walker actually mentioned that the relationship between weather over Earth are so complex so that it seems useless to try to derive them from theoretical considerations. By the way Gilbert Walker was sent to study the Indian Mansoon but he ended up discovering the North Atlantic oscillation and the southern oscillation. Some of the main teleconnections this is also a background material, the ENSO which is known, ENSO is a Capricenome in the ocean and the atmosphere in the tropical Pacific and also this is the southern oscillation. So this is a point correlation where the base point is here. So you get a higher correlation for a plus one and then decreasing outward and then you get a flipping or a change of sign of the correlation. So that's the time series of the El Niño and that's the Darwin sea level pressure so you see the anti-correlation between both. This also shows the worldwide effect of El Niño that was also shown by Ivana early on. So these are also famous northern hemisphere teleconnections where we recognize the polar Eurasian pattern, NEO Scandinavian pattern, PNA East Atlantic pattern and also the East Atlantic West Russian pattern. So I should say that these patterns are derived from a linear perspective using EOS and rotated EOS. So the North Atlantic Oscillation, one of the main modes of variability in the northern hemisphere, basically measures the CISO of the atmospheric mass between the subtropics and Iceland. The northern annular mode, which is a hemispheric version of the NEO so that's a time series of the NEO plus the spaghetti plots for seismic prediction. That's what we are supposed to do in this workshop. The dichotomy between NEO and the AEO can be seen just by M-bomb. He can tell you more about it. So why are we interested in teleconnection patterns? So as we have seen in the previous talks, they link obviously remote locations on the Earth and they also have a large impact on surface weather and climate and they also describe large amounts of atmospheric variability because that's how they have been defined. They have been defined based on EOS which means maximizing variability. They can use it for different purposes such as extended range seasonal prediction and also downscaling. So how to obtain these teleconnections? There is no unique way to obtain them. As you should know from the outset, there are different ways. For example, state linear analysis based on regression, point correlation, particular orthogonal functions, nonlinear EOS, teleconnections, cluster analysis, and also composite analysis. And the norm we tend to give slightly different results. So I will comment here on one of the mostly widely used methods for orthogonal and particular orthogonal EOS. So EOS basically looks at solving a linear eigenvalue problem. C u equal lambda u, c is the covariance matrix. And this means that you end up with orthogonal pattern and uncorrelated pieces and that's one of the weaknesses of EOS. So this shows, if you have, for example, a nice distribution like multi-normal, that's the EOS one and this EOS two. So this is an application of to sea level pressure from and set and car. So the leading EOS comes out as Arctic Oscillation or any EOS, a bit mixed. This is also one drawback of EOS. We tend to mix physical patterns. Whereas the second one is known as the Pacific pattern. And then you get the EOS three with nine percent explained values as the Scandinavian pattern. And these are the different explained values of the different EOS. There's also paper that I published last year on giving an alternative to EOS. And this is a regularized EOS and actually what it does is it simply overcomes the pitfall of this geometrical constraint. And it does instead a generalized eigenvalue problem where mu here mu is the smoothing parameter. And the nice thing about this is that you can see here by just plotting the Lagrangian there is an optimum value of the smoothing parameter. So for mu equals zero you get the standard EOS. So there is a standard base price here. This is an example of showing the difference between EUF1 and smooth or regularized EUF1. So the EUF1, this smooth EUF1 comes out clearly more as an Arctic oscillation rather than a mixed pattern. So other tools like cluster analysis can also define clusters using either K-means or Gaussian mixture models. And I also mentioned that yesterday for example we've seen with Barbarasi talked about other tools like networks. So this is also, Ivana also mentioned teleconnection link to jet streams. So the jet stream is a belt of high wind speed around the Earth because it's not continuous with a picture of the jet stream. Jet stream also has two components the polar jet stream or the edge driven jet stream to hide the subtropical jet stream. And the distinction between them is not really as clear perhaps only over the North Atlantic. It also depends on the end-of-phase as mentioned by Ivana early on. So link for example, so now you can see the link between the jet and some of the teleconnections and most variability. So this is a work by Wollings et al. in 2010 when he showed that the NO essentially describes variation of the latitude and the position of the jet. Of course much of the extra tropical weather and climate is associated with the jet. And this can be used for different purposes such as climate change and large scale flow. So here I'm going to talk about the sum of the work I have been doing with colleagues on precipitation and teleconnection. And the first thing is, the first one is a work by Igor Zelia from Moscow where we looked at the link between the Mediterranean Evaporation and Teleconnection. So these two show the EUF 1 and 2 of the Mediterranean Evaporation which comes from the Woods Hole Ocean Institution and also group precipitation in year 40. That's the PC 1 and PC 2. So you can see the PC 1 and PC 2, the PCs of the most variability of Mediterranean Evaporation has got internal annual and also inter-decadal variability. So if you compose for example, following PC 1 positive, so they take the positive phase which corresponds to a positive anomaly of the evaporation, you get a large positive SST anomaly in the eastern Mediterranean and vice versa if you take the opposite of this. So now look at the link between the evaporation and sea level pressure. So that's a large scale. So here I show you two, one for the winter and one for the summer. So for the winter, the correlation between the PC 1 which shows overall excess or reduction of evaporation of the Mediterranean, you get what we know, that's precisely the East Atlantic pattern. And if you look at now the composite with respect to the PC 1 positive, so you get the effect of the negative, the positive phase of the East Atlantic pattern where you have dry wind from the northern. From the northern Mediterranean. And that enhances the evaporation. The negative phase now leads to a decrease of the evaporation of the Mediterranean. Notice also that in the summer time you get some sort of tropical origin of the effect of the Mediterranean evaporation. So you have two sources depending on the season. We also looked at the water budget and by looking at the moisture transport and the conclusion was that during the positive phase of EUF 1 which is global excess of evaporation the moisture convergence is obtained over the minor Asia whereas during the other phase the main moisture convergence is over the western and central Mediterranean. Another nice example is also the link to the Asian monsoon, so this is some sort of work in progress. So you can see a nice dipole structure, that's the correlation between the Mediterranean evaporation and all Indian rainfall. All Indian rainfall is a nice index of precipitation for the monsoon. I mean despite the shortness of the record you get a very nice enhancement of evaporation in the eastern Mediterranean and vice-versa. Some of the work also relates to the rainfall trends over the Indo-Pac summer monsoon. So here I'll show you here the trend of the precipitation of the summer monsoon over the Indian subcontinent. So you can see here there is a negative trend of precipitation over central India but there is an increasing trend over northern Pakistan. This is by Latish who is a PhD student in Islamabad. And so he tried to link this to the moisture transport so that's the vertically integrated meridional moisture transport. So there is a positive trend here on the negative trend of the Bay of Bengal so that links the decreasing trend of central India to the Bay of Bengal whereas the increasing trend over Pakistan is linked to the Arabian Sea moisture transport. There is also a link of the Pakistan precipitation to large scale and that's a picture showing the circum-global teleconnection pattern more than the Indian precipitation. There is also some work progress on the monsoon moisture transport and global SST. So Faisal is working on this and he's looking at the two boxes one of the Bay of Bengal and the other one is of the Arabian Sea and he looked at the correlation of PC1, the vertically integrated meridional moisture transport and sea surface temperature. So it seems that Elinio is forcing the moisture transport of the Arabian Sea monsoon brush. Whereas the Indian Ocean Dipole forces more moisture transport over the Bay of Bengal. There is also work on the now de-trended. This one I showed the trend but now they have been de-trended. So this is now the correlation of PC1 of vertically integrated meridional moisture transport with oil and the rainfall. So what you can see here is that the south Indian precipitation is forced by Elinio whereas the northern Indian Pakistan is more forced by the opposite phase. This is my last example which shows a different part this is the northern tip of Africa. So that's Tunisia and I looked here at two stations Vizert which is in the north part and then Siljana which is in the foothill of the Atlas chain and I looked at the lagged correlation between Vizert and October precipitation and September sea level pressure. So these are monthly precipitation. So we get significant correlation over the SO region so that's associated with the positive phase of the Enso so that's Elinio. So that's the northern part I mean there are simply a few hundred kilometers away but yet if you look at this southern foothill of the Atlas chain you get an any correlation any signal which is a bit surprising. So three words on teleconnection and extremes so as I said these EOFs they are based on a linear analysis so you take the EOFs which are directions they are not actual positions in the state space and it has some serious drawbacks and in particular they don't treat extremes in any special way. So here we propose a different alternative by myself and Nikolai from Open University on archetypal analysis. So what archetypal analysis does it basically identifies the convex hull of the data and try to identify typical patterns on this convex hull. So this is a picture of the convex hull so this is my data this is the convex hull this is the convex envelope and then you try to identify a number of typical or pure types, archetypes on this convex hull. So the objective to minimize is this is the cost function that we minimize and A and B actually are probability matrices like those used in Markov chains. So if I'm applying this to the sea surface temperature you get really three robust quite robust patterns and they come out as El Nino extreme phase and Glaninia extreme phase notes the asymmetry between El Nino and Glaninia now these are no directions they are actual positions in the state space and the other one is which surprised me is what we labeled here the western boundary current and that's the time series associated with the western boundary current so it seems that the western boundary currents are increasing not much work I looked at this in the literature but there's not really much work done on this so it seems that the western boundary currents are increasing sorry so this is also an application to the sea level pressure from 1948 to 2015 and I also get some four robust archetypes so the first one is the Nino comes out really robustly the other one is not is not really a positive Nino it's more of a mixture between Eurasia and Mediterranean so these are the extreme phases of Nino and this pattern but there's also the polar Eurasian archetype extreme phase and there's also a pattern here that links the Atlantic to the Pacific the northern Pacific to Scandinavia and this is my summary which basically contains what I have been saying and some references if you are interested in more references


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I'm going to show you my five benefits presentation real quick and how the eight questions are incorporated into the benefits presentation right now. Miss Betty, there's five benefits that our clients love, is it okay if I share this with you real quick? Perfect. And you can have more. Like I've seen people have nine, right? You've got to have some. Miss Betty, the first benefit is that it's a whole life and you can do the same thing for home and auto. You can do the same thing for Medicare. You need benefits. You need features. People like benefits. Miss Betty, it's a whole life, which means that it's going like, so I write it down. Here's what I do. I write it, I say it, I explain it, and then I ask a question. Okay? After everyone, that's what I do. I write it. Whole life. Miss Betty, what that means is that it's going to last your entire life. There's a lot of, say it, explain it. There's a lot of policies out there, through the mail, on the phone, through the TV, whatever, to where they don't last your entire life. They may end at 60. They may change every five years. They may end at 70. They may end at 80.  Is that important to you? That's a trial close, right? That's a trial close. So I have eight trial closes, and we're going to keep track of them together, right? Eight trial closes. That's number one, right? I just ask. Trial close. I get feedback. Yeah, that's important to me. That's feedback. What are you doing? You're getting them to say yes. You're getting them used to making a decision. Eight times later, it's powerful, I promise. Number two, our options come with a price lock. Our clients love that, because there's a lot of stuff out there where the price goes up every year, or every five years, or every time you turn 65, or when you turn 70, the price doubles. There's a lot of options out there that aren't as good. Ours come with a price lock, so the price stays the same forever. How awesome is that one? Do you like that? Trial close. Actually, and I've already done three, because I asked her if I could share the benefits with her that my clients liked. They said yes, that was one whole life price lock, so that's three trial closes already. Third one, that it pays, and these can be anything, but if you don't know the benefits and you can't express the benefits to your client, they're never going to see the benefit in doing business with you. Ask and show benefits. I'm telling you. You've got to show benefits. What's the sort of doing this and showing benefits? My closing ratio changed forever, and I go through it, just like I'm going through it now. I go through it slow. I go through it passionate, and I get answers to my questions. I'm telling you, this was huge for my business. If you're not doing this, you're missing the boat big time. Miss Betty, double accident, which means is if you pass away due to an accident, and it may happen, if you have 25,000, and they use the big option that already wrote down, now use one of the options that already wrote down, 25,000, your beneficiary, whoever they said, your daughter, Jen, will get double, she'll get checked for 50,000 really fast, which is pretty cool, am I right? It may not even be the most important benefit, but I can still get a yes out of them. That's pretty cool though, right? I mean, if it were to happen, it'd be nice to know that you get an extra 25,000. True? Yeah. Okay. Fourth benefit, these can be, I'm telling you guys, these can be anything, right? Say it, builds cash value, explain it, Miss Betty, it's nice to know that there's some money occurring in your policy that it builds cash value, kind of like a savings account within your policy, and it's growing. We don't recommend you touch it, but it's kind of cool to know that it's there and that it's your money and you have access to it if you ever wanted to, right? That's kind of cool, right? Good. Trial close, that's number five, right? Now we go to the fifth benefit. You see what we're doing here? You can close anyone, if you get them to say yes eight times, you get them engaged, they're in the process, you're exciting. Fifth benefit, I do two trial closes in this one. I may be biased, Miss Betty, but this is my favorite one, it's a local agent. A local agent is super important, write it, say it, explain it.  Unfortunately, a lot of times there's a burden with insurance and policies and all this because you've got to call a 1-800 number, you've got to wait on hold for 42 minutes and you get frustrated and you're like, I just want to change my address, like I don't want to go through all this.  That's kind of nice, right? Yes, that's one, okay? So now we're at number six, okay, but we're not done with local agent. But Miss Betty, more important than minor changes, when that day comes where you're no longer here and your daughter, Jen, has to figure out what to do, rather than her having to get the death certificate, talk to the funeral home, set everything up, get claim paperwork, get claim paperwork, call the insurance company, sit on hold for 42 minutes, talk to three different departments and get claim paperwork, meld to her, get everything notarized, get everything signed, get everything sent back, weeks go by, she's got a plan, she's got to take care of her family, she's got to feed everybody, she's got to make sure everything goes, she's also got to like celebrate your life or grief, however she chooses to do that, while adding this burden of doing all this stuff, instead Miss Betty, it'd be nice to know that your daughter can call the local dude down the street, named Cody, on his cell phone and he takes care of all that immediately and gets a check to her as soon as he possibly can. Is that not awesome and super important? Try and close. Number seven, right? I said there was one more. I got responses to all these. Now, how would you do another question, Cody? How would you get eight? Miss Betty, I love all these and these are all really important. Which of these five are most important to you? Is that good or is that good? I'm talking to you guys. Is that good or is that good? And then they say, well, Cody, I don't know, they're all really important. That's not an answer. Miss Betty, remember earlier, hypothetically, if you had to choose, which one would you pick? This is no hypothetical, but for some reason putting stuff in hypothetical terms make people choose and they'll say, oh, I don't know, price lock's really important. I also like local agent, perfect. I agree with you. Those are my two favorite two and you're right. Those are very, very valuable, super important. You'll love it. Your family will love it. It's amazing.


We had a silly ejection again. Bottom of the sixth inning. This one's brought to you by DraftKings. That is, they want it as a strike. Is it low? Is it in the zone? The box that's fake says it's low, but that box is fake and he's upset about it. He wants the low strike. That's gonna really help him out. He goes outside, gets the strike call over there on the 3-0 count. He's like, all right, whatever. So it goes back outside again, gets the swing, has to protect, and then goes up, ball and play into the sun. Look, just in the sun. He was in the shadows, the ball's in the sun, blinded. Next batter comes up, swing, fouled back. Then swing, fouled back, 0-2, way upstairs, down low. He thinks that crosses in the zone, doesn't get the call. The ump is gonna say, you can see his hand, the ump's hand that's inside. He's telling the dugout. Burns, he doesn't like it. Next pitch, dead center, strike out. Okay, don't even rely on the ump.  Does he get the swing? Yes, nasty little curve ball there. Then, oh come on, he wants that.  Give him the bottom of the zone. Is that the knee? He likes it. He wants it, it's a perfect pitch. Then just right dead center, 96. Fine, don't need ya. Oh, jam shot, I'll catch it myself. Don't need ya.  Nice spike, aggressive. Football fans, they like it.  Tells the umpire, inconsistent zone. Don't like it, I want the bottom of the zone. Don't care about the outside.  Oh no, I don't wanna hear it, they say to each other. And then, yeah, look at the play. Tracking it, who says pitchers can't catch balls? He was under it the whole way. So now, first pitch of the top of the seventh is a curve ball away, strike, and Burns, he says, probably not. And then the ump says, what did you say? Did you say probably not? And he's like, I might have said it. I might have, and he says, okay, well you're gone. Burns, he just laughs. I don't know what his pitch count was. Was he gonna stay in the game? It seems like no one's really fazed that he got ejected so maybe his day was done. But I think he yelled probably not. Did the ump strike call, and that got him ejected. Well that and all the other stuff in the complaining beforehand. But I think, you know, the triggering thing was probably not, or probably high. But I think the ump just says strike, he's probably not. And he says, did you just say what I think you said? Oh, I don't know, well it could have, maybe. And he says, all right, you're gone then. And then a big chuckle. So, always fun when players are getting ejected way after the main altercation. Thanks DraftGames for sponsoring the breakdown. Appreciate you guys, thank you guys for watching. Thank the umpires for being so entertaining. And Burnsey, for being very good at pitching.


We're pretty much back on schedule, and I think almost everything in these slides maybe has been addressed, so I'll just highlight a few things. So these were the questions, which are what methods can we adopt or develop to most effectively generate the evidence, how can we leverage ongoing work from other groups, and what's the evidence that these will scale. And so just a few things from my reading and the discussions beforehand, not necessarily obviously during this discussion, I think that it is important, and this was raised again I think by Gail, the steps that the early phases of emerge use SNPs that are much more common and therefore you could get more power. Emerge 3 has done this, sequencing of consensus lists within emphasis on the ACMG 56, and now they're, as Richard pointed out, there's a lot of work to semi-automate the reporting. But it is important to remember just the point that Gail made that some of the critical SNPs have been brought through, and so those studies can continue. But just by switching to Mendelian disorders, I'm not sure it's been highlighted enough, it was mentioned, I forgot, by which of the panelists that you are, I think, Mark, you are switching now to a very small proportion of individuals, and we saw that in Gail slide with positive findings. And so if we're talking about cost-effectiveness or intermediate biomarkers, are you actually going to have enough people to do that? And then I was struck that although the sequencing is harmonized, the re-phenotyping, the return to results is not, and obviously you're going to learn from the different approaches, but perhaps in future consortia one has to kind of decide, does that continue to be a good thing, or is it better to have more harmonization at the beginning? I just wanted to, I stole Eric's slide and then just added in more of the different programs that Terry reviewed, and then I put all of us here on the right with a big logo, because it's a big study. And I just think that this is really going to be critical, and I think I've made many comments about that along the morning, that we really harmonize much better. Things that have been built in one consortium, we really need almost like a boot camp. So the PIs of the new consortia or even the renewing, whatever, really say, okay, what's been built over there that we can use? I think we need some more effective way of doing that, harmonizing across, and of course all of us has spent a lot of time recently building their tools, and their tools are much more based on smartphones and things like that than some of the other consortia. But these are all different consortia that are trying to address this issue and figuring out the most effective way for us to work together. I think will be critical as we look to future studies and trying to generate, I mean the group in the back has particularly pushed us on how much data are you going to get, how much evidence are you going to be able to generate, and the more we are using similar measures or harmonizing measures, the better off we'll be. And then this slide basically just says what I just said. So in ClinGen in particular isn't doing any trials, but we're also generating standards, and it would be great if those standards are also in addition to the measures that the other consortia are developing, or one more thing that could potentially be harmonized, the actionability or clinical validity that we're talked about, but we really need to standardize measures for genomic medicine of clinical utility and cost-effectiveness and actionability. And one of the things I've learned from this morning and from my own work is genomic medicine is in kind of its own weird space. And certainly the people in CSER that have tried to look at cost-effectiveness, can't just translate existing tools into genomic studies very easily. So I think that's a challenge for future consortia as well, and we had a lot of discussion about that just in the last hour. And then finally scaling. One thing that hasn't been talked about is what's going on out in the rest of the world. As many of you know, colors just announced are 99 for the October breast cancer awareness month. The BRCA one and two is $99. Many of the companies are coming out with very cheap panel tests. I've been struck by how large scale the testing going on in the community is. And all of us, of course, is another example of really increasing scale of research protocols that will include return of results. ClinGen is looking at crowdsourcing. So certainly planning for the next phase of a merge, we really have to have a very thoughtful approach and I'm sure it will get talked about more this afternoon with disruptive technologies on how do we actually scale our efforts so that it may need to be considerably larger than the current size. And I think that's it. So we are on schedule. I believe there's a plan for picture. I assume the picture is before lunch. Yes? I just make two announcements. One is the group photo upstairs, outside of first floor. Outside is cold. But it's better than last time we had a slow store. So get out as quick as possible and get it in. And the lunch, if you already had your lunch reserved, the lunch will be provided outside the table. If not, we have a very nice cafeteria on first floor. You can buy lunch from there.


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Commissioner Stewart has asked me to make some comments today following the sentencing of a suspended officer. Commissioner Stewart said that now that the court matter was finalised the QPS would seek the court transcripts and continue with internal QPS processes which will include amongst other matters consideration of this officer's suitability to remain as an officer of the QPS. This incident was identified by the QPS and an internal investigation into the conduct of the officer led to charges being laid. Commissioner Stewart said and I quote for obvious reasons I cannot comment on the specifics of this matter which may ultimately find itself before one of the deputy commissioners for consideration. Commissioner went on to make the following comments. I would like to thank the investigating officers who work quickly to bring this matter to court. Their work on this case embodies the QPS commitment to ethical lawful conduct. As soon as the behaviour was identified the matter was investigated the man was charged and he was suspended from active duty. The QPS has extensive protocols in place around the seizure of drugs and money and those protocols are constantly scrutinised both by senior officers and external agencies. However this case highlights that we can never ever be complacent about the work we do or how we do it. The expectation of the professional standards required by our police officers to maintain are clearly known. Integrity is a key aspect of those standards. Above all we expect honesty from our officers and believe that you do as well. The community is entitled to trust its police officers to do the right thing. Dishonesty simply has no place within the Queensland Police Service. It erodes community confidence, it erodes office of morale. This suspended officers actions have been dealt with by the court and those actions sadly reflect on the excellent work done each and every day by his fellow officers. Thank you. So is there a chance that this officer could get his job back or something back in the QPS? What will happen from this point is that the QPS has processes for dealing with this situation. We will examine all of the information that's been placed before the court and we will continue with our investigation of the officer's suitability to be an officer and we will do that as soon as we can. In the meantime the officer will remain suspended with our pay until a determination is made. How long will that be? Look we'll get it done as soon as we can but we are obviously in the hands of the courts in terms of getting hold of the transcript and then we'll have to examine the medical evidence that's been provided by this officer perhaps conduct our own medical examination and then we'll come to a view about the future of the officer. In court case today they heard some pretty damning things about the Queensland Police Service and the fact that they were saying that there was sort of a culture of them that they didn't accept human frailty or mental illness and this person had struggled with bipolar and tried to conceal it for a number of years. Is that the case?  No look I'd totally reject that. This officer has been a high-performing and valued member of this organization for 20 years. I know this officer personally and for anyone who knows this officer would be very surprised to find that he has struggled with this mental illness over the period of the last few years as was indicated in court today. I'm not disputing the fact that that is the case but he has been a high performing and valuable member of the organization and this mental illness has been kept totally secret and wasn't known to any of us. So that's the point that they were making that he was trying to keep it concealed because he didn't want to be seen as the weak person in the team. No look... Is that culture sort of the way you show that you're tough for? Within State Crime Operations Command where this officer worked we have mandatory psychological testing of all officers who go into the command. That officer underwent that testing and that revealed no issues. On top of that officers who work in specialist squad such as Task Force Argos are subject to more rigorous annual testing. So we take the issue of the mental health of our officers very seriously. On top of that we have a very strong support network. We have peer support officers who are their colleagues. We have human services officers who are trained psychologists and we have chaplains attached to every region and command. So an officer who is concerned, struggling to cope, has a range of support options that he or she can reach out to and get professional help. So we believe that we very carefully look after the health and well-being of our officers. What about the culture when an officer gives information? In this instance he claims he gave information to the CMC about another officer and he copped it for that. Things like leaving dog food, cans of dog food on his desk. What does that happen? Any person who is a whistleblower has the option that we have an internal witness support unit within the CMC and within ethical standards command. These officers are offered every assistance and they have the option of taking up that support. That offer was made to the officer. He was made well aware of that. The option to do that remains with the individual. So did he take that offer? The offer was made to him and we can't force anybody to accept support. All we can do is make the mechanisms available at which they are and again I think that we do very well in this area of supporting officers. We understand the pressures of police work generally and particularly people who whistleblowers and that's why we have these established mechanisms in place to support them. Is that concerning? Of course it's concerning and every officer knows that if that sort of conduct is unacceptable in this department and that if any officer is the subject of that they should make a complaint and if they do make a complaint and we become aware of it we will take the appropriate action. I'm satisfied with today's sentence. Two hundred hours of community service. Look the matter of sentence is always one for the appropriate judicial officer be it magistrate or judge. As always in these cases we'll examine all of the material and we'll have a legal opinion prepared on whether we should launch an appeal. You said you personally knew the officer. You must be disappointed then because he'd been so long serving and obviously high performing. Look it's extremely disappointing. There are no winners in this situation whatsoever. This officer has effectively destroyed his career. He's betrayed the trust that the community has in its police force and he's let down ten to half thousand other police. So there are no winners. It's a sad case all around. Will you if this officer does make a complaint regarding these claims of things like dog food. So will you investigate that if he does make a complaint? Of course of course yes we we have a very open culture in the QPS. If anyone makes a complaint about harassment bullying intimidation of any sort under any circumstances we will investigate it. Sorry I didn't understand the question. Given the kind of mental health assessments you do in state crime operations. Are you skeptical I guess that that could be the case? No look I'm not in a position I'm not a mental health professional I'm not in a position to be skeptical or challenge any evidence that was presented. But what I would say is that the symptoms that this officer now has were not apparent to his work mates and were certainly not apparent before he was confronted with his actions. It wasn't until he was confronted about the stealing matter that the symptoms and the full nature of his mental illness became knowledge to everyone.


Hello, everyone. My name is Anu Mandi and I am the instructor for this section of History 113, World Civilizations Since 1550. Welcome to class. This is a course about the history of the modern world, which is an interesting and ever-evolving narrative that spans continents, centuries, and culture. Now, let's begin with the course title. Some of you are probably wondering why the world's course title includes the year 1550. Now, this is really a matter of historical interpretation and perspective. 1550 is certainly not a universally agreed upon starting point and different historians may use alternative dates or periods as significant turning points. However, there are a few reasons why some historians argue that the modern world, as we understand it today, emerged around the year 1550. So, let's briefly review some major developments of the early modern period. First, the Renaissance. It brought about significant advancements in European art, science, and philosophy, and challenged medieval traditions and emphasized humanism, individualism, and secularism. And around the same time, the Protestant Reformation, which was led by figures such as Martin Luther and John Calvin, sparked religious upheaval and challenged the dominance of the Catholic Church. And that had profound social and political consequences. Second, the voyages of Christopher Columbus, Vosgar da Gama, and other sailors opened up new trade routes that connected different parts of the world and facilitated the exchange of goods, ideas, and cultures. And the resulting globalization had far-reaching effects, and that included the establishment of colonial empires, the spread of European ideas, and the integration of different regions into a global network. Third, powerful rulers such as Henry VIII of England, Francis I in France, and Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire, they centralized their authority, established bureaucratic institutions, and solidified their territories. New concepts such as sovereignty, nationalism, and the nation-state system emerged. And these concepts also led to important shifts in political thought and the emergence of many of our modern ideas about governance, individual rights, and laid the groundwork for our current political systems, including democratic principles and the protection of individual rights. Fourth, scholars such as Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler, they challenged prevailing religious beliefs and paved the way for a new understanding of the natural world based on experimentation and mathematical principles. And the scientific revolution marked a significant departure from religious explanations and that led to profound changes in scientific inquiry, knowledge production, and technological advancements. So, while 1550 may seem, may be seen as a significant period and as an important transition point to the modern world, historical events are interconnected and different regions and cultures experience changes at different times. So, it's important to understand that the choice of 1550 as a starting point is a useful framework for understanding key developments, but it should not be seen as the only perspective on the history of the modern world. So, now let's understand what events and transformations define the modern world, what changed, and how is it different from the ancient and medieval periods? The history of the modern world is full of dramatic changes, revolutions, and remarkable achievements that have left an indelible mark on human civilization. And our aim in this course is to gain a deeper understanding of the significance of these historical turning points and their enduring influence on the present. So, you'll see that the readings in the first couple of modules focus on the voyages of discovery, the transatlantic trade, the scientific revolution, and the enlightenment. Now, the enlightenment was a transformative period in which reason, science, and individual liberty emerged as guiding principles that laid the foundations for the modern world by challenging traditional authorities, sparking revolutions, and fueling intellectual advancements that continue to shape our political, social, and cultural landscapes. Now, from there, we'll move on to the industrial revolution that brought about unprecedented technological advancements and societal transformations. We'll analyze the profound impact of industrialization on economic systems, labor conditions, urbanization, and global trade, as well as its consequences for class structures, the environment, and the nature of work itself. The 19th and 20th centuries witnessed events that reshaped the course of history. And we'll examine the rise and fall of colonial empires, the struggles for independence and decolonization, the devastating world wars, the Cold War and its aftermath, the quest for civil rights and gender equality, and the emergence of globalization as a defining force in our interconnected world. Now, throughout this course, the readings and assignments emphasize the interconnectedness of historical events and their enduring legacies. And I want to emphasize the importance of incorporating a few unique topics that highlight the invaluable contributions of historically marginalized actors and events from various regions across the globe. By exploring the experiences and achievements of marginalized historical figures from different parts of the world, we can gain a more comprehensive understanding of the interconnectedness and diversity of our collective history. So, by the end of the course, you'll have tools for understanding how revolutions happen, why empires and nation states gain and lose power, and what it means for global connections to emerge. Now, in addition to building knowledge about world history, this course will also help you develop a foundation set of skills that all students need during their university years and beyond. And these skills include identifying reliable sources for research topics, writing well-research papers, and engaging in group discussions. So, I hope you'll enjoy the readings and assignments in this course. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions and I look forward to the stimulating discussions and insights that will emerge as we work together. Thank you.


Hello, njroute22.com here with the weekly last one before Christmas supermarket roundup and We're gonna go real quick here. I always say that real quick. Look at this mess on mine I don't know what the heck that is But how are we gonna start this out this week? We'll start out with Walmart we don't really We don't really do Walmart. There's something just unnatural about it I've said in the past that you can occasionally find some pretty expensive stuff like avocado oil pretty cheap there, but Most stuff we we don't we don't buy at Walmart. They're convenient many times, but I don't know. It just feels like like we're doing it the service by shopping here and Stop and shop We don't we don't include them for some bizarre reason. There's not included in our In our mix However, I thought there was something really I mean they have good deals in here But the overall the the shopping experience to stop and shop Makes me I'm not satisfied. However. There's something interesting. I wanted to talk about is Heinz has something new it's it's mayo chop. You see that mayo chop It's finally here like for all these years. None of us could mix mayonnaise and ketchup together Which is interesting But you look at the ingredients this is this is just not good for you You're better off finding an organic ketchup and some organic mayo and doesn't have high fructose corn syrup And I didn't look at the ingredients, but I'm guessing that this isn't good for you There's something bad about it. It's not not a big fan of Heinz and Kings we we find is extremely expensive, but they're convenient for many people And occasionally if you find a bogeo bo go buy one get one free It actually works out. They had some a great deal on paper products last week, but they there's some interesting deals here I mean these cheese bars are Okay price two bucks a bar You can sometimes get it for $1.77 or even 99 cents at shop, right? And they have an okay deal in this carry gold Irish butter But they don't use sea salt in this and I don't care how pure and Irish it is It's not sea salt. They put refined salt in it and lastly if you're in the mood for a quick prepped meal These these large quiches from Kings are actually pretty good.  They're only nine now for a quiche. So that those are some things that might be worth considering and IGA bishops of White House and Pennington Market down south way far off the end 20 and J route 22 area We shop there because they're local Occasionally not regularly, but we we hit them up. We hit them up. We give them our money But they have something of course they have the good Oscar Meyer bacon for four bucks a pound That's our our break point for bacon, but I find it interesting. Look at this. I Guess a lot of people still don't know that sweet potatoes are yam, so they had to actually Sort of point it out here. I find that man it's you know useful for to you know get the message across but it's funny that they have to call it both and And you know, we'll save shop right for last and we'll do a job lot again Something a lot of people waste money on wrapping paper and stuff like that They get this really expensive stuff.  Put some tissue in there and then you have a wrapped present boom Really fast, and I don't know if there was anything else interesting the crazy deals this week They have these copper pans, you know, you can buy them in basic basically get them for free Here and here you got some cake pans You know you buy two of them for eight bucks get eight dollar card free and two of these and get a $16 card free There was something also very interesting. We tried buying this mystery craft box For one of our kids and because you know they show some kiddie things in here, but it was like all goth jewelry They don't allow you to return them, but they made an exception for me. Don't I can't promise that'll happen for you You got to watch out for those mystery boxes if you have extra money spent here's more Christmas stuff dirt cheap Don't don't waste money on wrapping paper. They're not going to judge you based on the quality of wrapping paper Okay, that's just a silly little Habit oh and last week they had a nice coupon for Christmas tree shops. It's also exported imported junk from China But they have a lot of stuff that that's entertaining it's ten dollars off 50, which is if you can spend exactly 50 It's a 20% savings and last but not least our shop, right? They have their super coupons again I'm not impressed per se. It's a lot of junk on here as you can see and The and the Cabot cheese as you can see is a lot cheaper than it's well 33 25% cheaper than than Kings with this coupon a lot of junk chips and soda and this is just stuff You shouldn't be eating and this oh it's a great deal for for basically $4 for these avocados I've gotten avocados for 50 cents a pop at at Aldi Aldi I was saying Aldi all this time and here's a good deal. I mean Frank's are Sodium nitrate and all these are this is like next to eggs It's like a perfect food because it satiates you they're high in fat low-inch carbs two for four bucks good to have around Use your coupon and there was let's see what else there wasn't much in the shop Right flyer this week that was compelling to me or us in this family. I mean there's so much junk I could talk about buy these Dan and Okay, yogurts and get like high carb creamers for free. No, don't do it. Please don't do it I didn't see anything good in the meat section There really wasn't much going on there was one other thing I highlighted in the flyer this week And this is something we know as parents. You see these Pampers pure diapers. They're ridiculously expensive They're more expensive than like earth's best or seventh generation. I don't know how they managed to pull that off But I diapers are diapers we get diapers at Aldi for $3.99 a pack and they're they're awesome They're like they're they're really good And that's it for this week's supermarket roundup not a lot before Christmas a lot of junk Try not to eat any of this stuff if you if you don't want to be way behind on your New Year's resolutions in a week and that's it have a nice Weekend and enjoy the holiday season


And we're live. I'm gonna say good morning, good afternoon, good evening wherever you may be across the planet around the world. I'm Greg Prescott from n5d.com and I have a very, very special guest today that I absolutely and unconditionally love. There's a special bond that a father has with his daughter and it's the kind of love that you would die for. I would step in front of a bullet for you. I'd do anything for you. You know that. I would like to introduce you, everybody in the n5d family to the young lady who ultimately brought us all together, my beautiful daughter, Brittany. Now, you're wearing one of the shirts I gave you. I gave you a seven shirt. Oh, nice mug too. That's my girl. But you're wearing one of the shirts I sent you. Yes, yes. We almost say, but I decided to do the purple instead. Yeah, cause we were talking beforehand and Britt said she almost wore this shirt, the water element.  But your moon and rise, your sun is Leo, but your moon and rising are Pisces. So I have the fire and the water in the best of both worlds. Yeah. And I'm a triple Libra. So I'm an air sign, triple air. So my air feeds your fire. And there's times where I get you going. There are. Well, I have my high emotional aspect of the Leo that God Almighty all knowing. And then I have my lowest of the Pisces where it's the emotional dip in it. So it's a little challenging, but. Yeah. Right, the waves. Exactly, exactly. I'm with you on that. Now, I'm going to give everyone a little lead up to everything and why you're on right now.  And 33 is a master number. So it meant a lot that you came in on my 33rd birthday. Your mom and I didn't last long, right? As far as you knew, basically, mommy's live in one house and daddy's live in another, right? Yes, but parents always got along. Yeah. Yeah. But, and we had joint custody anyway. So I would have you like Mondays and Wednesdays and mom would have you Tuesdays and Thursdays and whoever had you on the weekend got you on Friday. So they had the long weekend with you. So one, it was my turn to have you for that weekend and I went over to your mom's house when we were all living here in Florida and you weren't ready yet.  Well, she asked me, have I ever seen the secret? I go, no, the trailer to it and I said, no. So she invited me inside and I watched the trailer and I was so blown away by it that by the time you and I got back to our house, I ordered it. It's everything, you know, what you put out there. Thoughts create manifestations and apparently Jodi didn't care for that. Her mom said, my ex-wife, her mom said that she read the book and it was all spiritual mumbo jumbo. And so Jodi never even gave it a chance. But some people would believe and some people don't. Yeah, it is what it is, right? It could be nothing else other than that. But one time, so one day, this is when I was living in the townhouse is in Apollo Beach. I remember, I felt like, you know, at the time I had my business, the child and family therapy business. I had to have that program, patent pending program that I had that was approved by the area's largest human services facility. I was working in a three county area, but I thought, man, there's something more I need to do. And I surrendered that day and I'll never forget that day. And when I surrendered, I got, and it's the only way I can call it is like a galactic download. I got a download that you need to build this website in 5D, here's the name in 5D. And I got that for surrendering. That's what the secret taught me is to surrender to the universe. And had I not watched the secret, had you not been born, none of this would have happened. You have no idea what an instrumental role you have played with everybody. In 5D didn't start from in 5D though. There was a couple of prequels for the main part of it too. And there was a couple of things that led up to it, but in 5D was really what took off and invested in energy into other people finding out how we also feel and broadcasting it. Yeah, yeah. And yeah, before that, I had the Maya 2012 website that was showing people that 2012 was not the end of the world. You know, a lot of people were freaking out over that.  I'm gonna be a senior in high school. And that's when I did the research. And I'm like, wait, it's the exact opposite. It has nothing to do with the world ending. Yeah, and that's why I ended up building that website. But it was the secret that led me to building in 5D and ultimately that day when I came over to pick you up. Is it funny how things come into play when you need them most?  Because I remember when your mom was pregnant and people would ask you want a son or a daughter. Like most men, I said a son. I'm sorry. But I learned that I am so grateful that I wouldn't trade you for all the sons in the world. I am so grateful that you are you. Uh-oh, lost your camera.  I got it back, I got it back. I wouldn't trade you for all the sons in the world because you've taught me, I think more than I've taught you overall. It's amazing the lessons we learned from our children. Yeah.  But... I'll zap. Pardon me? Have the walls up. Yeah, yeah. But with you, you knocked those walls down instantly and you showed me a soft side of myself that's basically called the divine feminine. Everybody's got divine masculine and divine feminine, but us guys tend to suppress that. And sometimes it takes a daughter to come into our lives to soften us up. And not only did you do that, exactly, not only did you do that, but you also showed me that inner child that was locked up and away for a while.  The hitting of the lights. Yes, yes, yeah. Or the pictures that we took at Walmart. Yeah. And the screensavers and the computers there. So, yeah. But yeah, you taught me that. You taught me unconditional love. You know, you think you know unconditional love, but man, once you have a child, you don't know until you know. You do anything for that child. And you also took me away from the pressure of working and doing well in school. There was a lot of pressure on me. I was working, bartending, and I was going to school full-time, plus raising a child. I remember going to school with you. Mm-hmm. I brought you to school a few times. My professor. Sending in psychology classes. Yep. Dr. Rainn Bill and Dr. Ben Balkenberg. Who else? I brought you to a few classes. I had to. And you were a perfect angel. So, did you ever watch The Secret? Yes, back when you guys first... Sorry, I'm trying to charge my phone. Back when you guys first discovered it, I watched it once, but I haven't really watched it in my adult life since. Okay, I can send you it if you want. I have a copy. Like a disc copy? Yeah. Yeah. Well, something you could play on your computer. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Right. Mm-hmm. You're like the vision boards and the speaking to existence kind of thing. And I remember like what you put out will come back to you kind of like karma, but not really. The good, bad, and the ugly too. Yeah. I remember Michelle and I were driving around the parking lot looking on a Sunday looking for a place to park for the drum circle. And she was driving. And I remember her specifically saying, we're never going to find a parking spot. I could think of that. Is that Aladdin on the secret? Your wish is my command. And the genie. Yeah, the genie. Yeah. And at the time I was a smoker and I asked her if I could get out of the car and have a cigarette. And I did. And as soon as I got out, there was a guy walking toward me and I go, excuse me, are you leaving? He goes, yeah, I got Michelle right here. So, yeah, it's, you can create, but you got to be careful of what you put out there. As far as I'm concerned. So I'm spoiled if you wish negative. Mm-hmm.  No, no. Must be in the front row. Yeah, that was a old Miller light commercial with Bob Uker. I forgot about that. That's funny.  You're the one person that gives bear hugs. Stronger than I give. No. Yeah, you do. You do. You do. You do. At least to me, you do. I was brought up that way. I, do you remember this? In pre-K. They told me not to hug you so much. Because other kids weren't getting hugged. And buggy. Yep. Yeah. Same parents. Yep.    Kidding me. I yelled at him. Mom just actually told me a story the other day about the first time. Like my age group started learning how to ride like. Two wheelers instead of the four wheelers on the tricycles and the bicycles.  And then you just kept going. Laps and laps and laps and laps. And then it's just like a group of you. And that was the, the mentors of the teachers or whatever you call that bugby. They're were very like. Careful and watchful of all of us, but it never. Did the thing that reminds me. When you said, you know, you got back up, got back on the horse, right? Remember when we went to center street school and I was playing stickball with you. I throw. I throw, I pitch, I pitch one to her. And I, it wasn't very fast, but she, she, she nicked it.  And she started crying. I'm like, oh, honey, you know, we can leave now. She's like, no, no, okay. She goes, throw it again. And I didn't, she's, it's this line drive over my head.  I'm sorry, B. That was awesome. Never forget that. But yeah, I, you know, when you were younger, yeah, I would, I would call you Brett. You didn't like being called Brett though, originally. I still don't really. No. No, only by certain people. And I only like one tee and not two tees. Oh, that's picky. Brett. Brett. Also like Brett. Not Brett. Like Greg.  So the loves of my life, you know, speaking of marriage, you know, when, this is what Brett gave me. Brittany gave me for Father's Day and it's got the lyrics to Butterfly Kisses on it. And of course, you know, I played the song Butterfly Kisses and like any dad, I cried.  There's no way I'm giving you away. You can borrow you. I'll never give you away. I think I'm crazy. Like you always said, the universe can love you as much as I do, but they can never love you more. Never love you more. Never. It's a special dad and a daughter, especially when we have one. Yeah. Yeah.   Two great parents that equally loved me and equally raised me and raised my sister and we all had community bonding. Like that's something people don't get out of divorced parents. And I was lucky to have. There were times where we all would like, for example, meet at Apollo Beach and go fishing. And cook out. I was really in that aspect. Yeah. Yeah. That's true.  Remember instead of, you know, you calling me dad or daddy, how I used to make you call me Lord Prescott, king of the multiverse. You'd come up to me and ask Lord Prescott, king of the multiverse, can I have some juice? And I'd go silence. Silence. Do you remember that? I don't. If you have it in your own world, then yes. Remember, I remember all those times I yelled at you too. Oh yes. All the times I hit you. No, I was very, very blessed to have two great sets of parents that raised me right and cared about my invested in my life and invested in raising me into the person I am today. Yeah, I can say to this day, I've never spanked you. And I only yelled at you one time because Jody made me. It was well deserved. It was, but I felt horrible. Well, can you imagine going off the block now and just, I wouldn't let my kids go off the block now. No fricking way. We're going to look at a few pictures. You ready for this? I'm ready. Okay. All right. I'm going to do a screen share. Bear with me. Screen share. All right. Here we go. So, what do you think? This is my mother, Brittany's grandmother. Yes, that's me. 110%. It looks, you guys look identical in that picture. Everybody says the Prescott trait is so hard, but it's really the Fernandez trait that's... Yeah. Yeah, I would agree because I look more like my mom too. And somewhat like her father as well. So, here's our next picture. Did you know your grandparents were hippies? What did somebody comment on that picture? Oh yeah. Dad looks like Jack Nicholson and mom looks like Winona Ryder. Winona Ryder and Jack Nicholson. Those are your grandparents. And you have hippies for sisters too, or for aunts rather. Early 60s, late 60s, early 70s. It's probably, yeah, probably 1970 right there. Oh, with the 90s, the 1969 hair. Oh my God. I'm wearing a Libra pendant. So, even at the age of 10, I was into astrology. Here's me flashing my peace sign. Hippie hippie. And here's my pumpkin seed. Look how adorable you were. I look the same. Adorable, yes. I agree. And here we are at the PlayStation. In McDonald's. What's on your hand? It was lamb before time. It was a big spot out of a Happy Mail. Chances are it's in your Brittany box. One of your Brittany boxes, right? Okay. In Denny's. Yeah. So, I bite into, we go out to Denny's for breakfast and I bite into the bagel.  I'm like, no. I'll tell the way to the bathroom. And this is when I got back.  But what you see behind me are the lights that they have at Denny. And when the waitress wasn't looking, I would tap the light and push it back and forth. And you'd be like, Daddy, stop. Don't do that. And blame me when she came by. Yeah. And so you would always reach your hand up to stop the light. And one time when you were reaching your hand up, I took a picture of you. And it looked like you were the one that was pushing it, not me. Brat. So, yeah, pranksters. Now, here's one of the times that we were at Walmart. This is a Walmart computer. And we took pictures and saved them as screensavers. So when people would walk by, that's what they would do. That actually, people started trending that. People said, I'm going to do that. For a very long while, people started making very screensavers in the funny pictures, like the desktop pictures. Yeah. So, OK, yeah, you're wearing a Hollister shirt. And I think I have just a great t-shirt on there. But here we are a different time. Can you imagine walking by and seeing that on the Walmart computers? I love this picture. Us making the faces. Yeah. Us making the faces. Us making the faces. That's great.  I love that picture. I do, too. Everybody has the traditional smile, right? Didn't we make it on the poster board for the cruise thing? Yes. Carnival, Nassau, Ecstasy cruise for our cruise to Nassau. That was the first time you ever went on a cruise. Yeah. That was fun. Swimming with the dolphins. Swimming with the dolphins. And here's you at work. Oh, my parents. Yes. And what I always try to do when I come up there is get us all together and go out to dinner or something so you can spend time with your parents, right? Right. That's important. And sometimes we go out and drink it. I think we're great. Like mom there? Like we could be sisters or twins or like she could be my older sister right there. Was that fireball that we were drinking? Yes. I think so, yeah. Especially now with the bangs.  Thank you. Put me next to my father and I look exactly like him.  So this was, some way recently, when you came down and you came up with a new color combination, you used the burgundy and the yellow and it came out really well. Like the fire sign. Exactly. That's, you're the one that inspired me to do the elements. I saw that and I saw the fire sign and I thought, wow, what a great idea. Once again, you even in your adulthood, you inspire me. Here we are making ornaments at Sal's pizzeria. Yeah, the Santa Fe ornaments. Yes. You have your cup of apple juice there. Apple juice. And I love this picture. You and I on the beach. Siastiki. There it is. I love the look on your face. I couldn't be any more proud. So, yeah. She's 80%. I love you so much. We had, you ended up having like a ton of pictures in the paper and people thought that I was paying off the photographers because it would be you and every time we're together. Crime page, daily start. Yeah. Building a snowman. The kiddies on the main street by the bank. Sidewalk chalk drawing on church or on Lawn Avenue. Playing hooky and catching the Landlock salmon. I forgot about that one. Yeah. That was front page? I don't know if it was, it wasn't front page, but it still made the paper. And hopscotch or front page, but the Landlock salmon was in the daily start. Yeah. And that day, it was April 1st. It was cold out and the photographer was looking for a father-son combination. And Brit was the only one that caught a fish, this 28-inch Landlock salmon in Ossego Lake. I remember you going, Daddy, help me. Help me, I'm going, no, it's your fish.  And you did. That was a big fight for your young. Little girl. Yeah, little girl. That was a really big in the chat. And Venus is saying, is apple juice code for something? Yeah, beer. We were having some beers and we're having some apple juices. Apple juices. Yeah, it's code. We're having some apple juice. So, yeah. There were times though, when we were living on Church Street, I had that one bedroom apartment. Your crib was in the corner of that bedroom. I don't know how much you remember of that, but... Here, and the back was here. Yeah, yeah. All the way. Yep. And I remember one Christmas there, I was so broke. You know, I'm going to college. I had to make wrapping paper, homemade wrapping paper, and I had to give myself presents. So I'd take like an old shoe box and put some old sneakers inside of it. And you would never look inside.  Wait, tell them time where I requested for you guitar strings. I put Christmas-less guitar strings. I love you so much. But yeah, I had to wrap up presents for myself. I couldn't afford anything for myself, but I didn't want Brett to think, well, why didn't dad get any presents? Was he a bad this year? I know we would spell Santa the same way and your name the same way, different penmanship. Horrible chicken scratch, penmanship. But when he signed presents, it was beautiful penmanship. Yeah, because I would take my time. But my penmanship is horrible. Yeah, so. What else? I got some questions for you. Are you, would you say that, are you Christian? Just put it out there. Are you Christian? I wear a cross and I pray to somebody up above.   Yeah. Okay. Fair enough. Yeah. And my beliefs have always been, well, you know, that there is an all loving higher source. And not the bipolar God in the Bible. I don't consider myself Christian. But there is, there is definitely a greater source. Power, creator, whatever you want to call it. What's up in your opinion? What's up with the Jesus story? It was he real? Did he actually live? Or was it? Everybody has their own opinion on that story. Whether it be the, I don't want to offend anybody. Whether it be the Buddhist belief, whether it be the Israel belief, whether it be the Christianity belief, whether it be the atheist belief. Whatever your story is, is your story, basically. And you want to make it fine. They all intertwine eventually. It all comes back to one certain story. And honestly, to me, it doesn't matter who you speak your truth to, as long as you're speaking your truths out loud, and you believe that somebody is listening to you. I agree.  And, you know, we're not going to not love somebody because they're Christian or we don't share the same beliefs, especially family. You know, I love my parents with all my heart and soul. And I'm as I'm back guys under, I can't even remember what one of my baptized under. It's not Christianity. It's well, it's a it was an arm of Christianity. But I was a Baptist. I actually think it is Baptist. So technically, I am welcome into the heavens. Yeah. I would always get the E.B.G.Bs when I went into a church. I never felt comfortable going to church. Well, church anymore is just so money greedy and given, given, given. It's not anymore about what you're praying to and what you're praying for. It's more or less like, help us, help you, help us, help you, help us, help you. Right. I never liked church. Yeah, me either, me either. But I can tell you from after coming back from this operation that I had, there was a lot of people that sent me prayers and positive intentions, thoughts, Reiki energy healing and all of that stuff makes a difference. Yeah. Do you remember that time with Bogey? I bear so bad. I really, really, really tried.  What happened? She's just she was just 15 and she got old and we, mom and I tried. We tried running energy. Kaylee came up and I tried running and she just Oh, it didn't help at all. It was just her time then, right? Yeah. And we don't want to extend her life and like make her ailing and put her through pain and suffering every day on day end. So we 15 is a long time, especially for a dog who has had puppies before. So we had the vet come over and we put her to rest in our house. And now she's buried out back under the pine tree and she has a beautiful little resting space. I'll watch over her and she can watch over us. I'll tell you what, I don't think that that energy healing that you guys did was for naught because it provided comfort to her regardless. Yeah, she would just pass in her sleep that night. But we would rather that she be here with all of us and be comfortable and not get in the car and not be stressed out by the vet's office. So the story with Bogey, we had a German shepherd. Bogart von Reichert. Bogart von Yogart. And he was unusually hyperactive this one particular evening when it was round dinner time. I had already fed him and didn't know why he was just being so hyper.  It grows and grows.  So I placed it on his head and he drops immediately to the floor and goes to sleep.  I go, you're next. They're like, no. Or what about Belle with her cancer and I put my hands on her and she had no cancer screens the next time she went into the office. Yeah, you have gifts, honey. You have gifts and abilities. One of them, we share the same gift of seeing things before they happen. How does it work with you? Is it lucid? Do you see like get a vision in the daytime or while you're dreaming or both? It's not a dream. It's like almost a thought that runs through your head. And then once it happens in real life, all the hair stand up on your arms and you see like TV static and that is happening. Like I don't know when it's happening until it's happening, until I'm like, oh, saw that before. And you were afraid, you were telling me you were kind of afraid to talk to anyone about it until one of your friends, I think it was Cassidy, said that she has, she does that. And you realize that you share the same ability. Well, it's a little strange because a lot of people don't like to admit it or don't like to admit that they have some sort of gift. Especially in the teenagers, it's very hard to be a teenager and to admit that you have like a, and to just confirm it and to use it and to build on it. And I just never built on it. And now it just happens like randomly, I'll see it. And then when I know it's happening, I'll have all of my hair and my arms stand up and I'll go tunnel vision, like TV static and tunnel vision. And that's how I know.   Nothing, anything important. It's just, oh, saw that deja vu. Right, right. Last year in 2019, on Christmas Eve, I did a show with my friend, Kerry Sanders. And I made a bunch of predictions on New Year's Eve 2019. And one of my predictions was that by the end of 2020, life as you know, will have changed drastically. And it did.  But, you know, I get my vision. Sometimes they're in dreams. Sometimes they're in meditation. And sometimes they're lucid, where it just pops into my head. So they come in various ways. I stopped dreaming for a long time, probably for about a year and a half. I didn't have dreams that I could remember because you dream and you may not remember it, but I didn't have dreams that I could remember once I woke up. And I started having dreams again, and I started writing them down. And they say, if you drink lemon water before you go to bed, you can more vividly remember your dreams. So I started writing those down, drinking lemon water before bed. And I definitely dream more now than I did then. Yes, those are all. Yeah, go ahead. There's also other factors that come into play. I don't really want to call it substance abuse, but if you smoke, if you smoke, if you drink, that affects it because you're not getting the full cycle of the REM sleep and you're not going into the dream phase and you're not really remembering your dreams. But I tried. I really, really tried.  Like it's just random masterings that don't make sense at all. They might make sense, though, down the road. That's why I write mine down, yeah. At least I had one. Reading into it is kind of neat. I wish I don't know if I can mute the Zoom and go into. I found this new astrology app that I really am into lately. It's called CoStar. I believe it's like, no, there's a couple of things. So Human Design app is $1.99 to start up, but it shows your whole entire life path and how you do the things you do and why you do the things to do. And then CoStar also has a book and it's a daily update on astrology. And it was pretty accurate for me. One day it said, do something old, something new, and like the same goes, something borrowed, something blue. So I wore a turquoise necklace and I borrowed a ring from mom and I had a really good day. I mean, it's, to me, it's pretty accurate. And I really don't believe in app astrology like that. They're just telling you what you want to hear. But it says, stay away from these things. Do these things. Talk with like an air fire. What's it? Like a fire sign. Like whisper with a water sun. Learn from water suns. Avoid fire rays. It gives you daily updates and all the life aspects that you're going through. And I, that's the first time that I've ever found like an astrology app that is relatable, not just like a basic, here's your horoscope kind of thing. Right.  That's complete. So I'm also a life path nine. And I'm hoping that this is our, well, this is my last incarnation here. I'd like to move on to whatever my next challenge is, but as far as I'm concerned though, I mean, I give you all the credit in the world. None of this, we wouldn't even be having this chat on Zoom and on YouTube if it wasn't for you. I'm so grateful. And for so many, so many things about you and couldn't be any more proud of you. Gotta thank mommy too because she introduced us to it. That is true, but had you not been born, that wouldn't have happened. Yeah. Remember when we all went to see Panache Desai, the spiritualist, remember what happened afterwards? Not entirely. You were at my townhouse and you were up in your bedroom. Oh. And yep. And you got into an argument with somebody. So I heard the door slam. You come running downstairs.  And I'm like, okay, I'll give you a few minutes. Check on you in a little while. So I quietly open up the door and you're sitting in the pros position meditating on the sidewalk. You were like what, 14? I don't know. 13, 14. Yeah. Yeah. I was very impressed. You have to introduce them at a young age. Tell them that anything that they think they can't do, they can't do. Definitely. Definitely. And that was my thing. I always try to give you new experiences. That was really big for me. And that's why we were out and about and doing fun things. And that's why you end up getting your picture in the paper so many times because we're out doing fun stuff. Trying new sports. Trying new things. Yeah. Always outside doing things. How would you describe our relationship? Eventful. There's always something to do when I went to Dad's house.  I forgot about that.   And we remember the story in the exact way it was. Yeah. That's awesome. I remember going to the park and roller skating and ice skating and going down the stairs and banging my head and cleaning the snow and fishing. Fishing. First time bowling. Yeah. Always taught me new things. Not maybe the tomboy I am. Yeah.  Oh, I coordinated. Yeah, yeah. When Dad learned to put my hair in a ponytail and paint my fingernails. It was horrible, but I did it. I still did it for you. And you didn't care because you at that age, you couldn't tell how horrible of a job I did. With the glitter. So you couldn't really tell how bad it was. Oh yeah. Lots of shiny sparkly. Because yeah, I dig shiny sparkly too. You know, so yeah. I remember yellow notepads and Sharpie markers and writing down things on the notepads in the bedroom. Your clubhouse that you had when we had the house on Lawn Avenue. We painted the walls white and let you guys put whatever you wanted it on there. And the band in the garage. Yeah. What was the name of the band? Wait, I just happened to have a video of it. No, I'm kidding. You're kidding. I actually do. Yeah, I do, but I'm not going to play it. I had a good childhood with both parents. I actually do have a video somewhere. Hang on. Kaylee got to be an only child. I got to be an only child and together we were sisters. Yeah, the best of both worlds. Yeah. Yeah, she's a good kid. I like it. It's crazy how you can hate each other so much growing up, but when you get older, you really appreciate each other. There are some times I look at some of her pictures and she looks like a spitting image of me. And I'm like, how's that possible? Do you have different dads? Yeah, let's see if I can find that video. Bear with me. Underground something. The garage something. What was it? I don't know. I could look, I could, I could figure it out because I'm sure we mentioned that on the video. I think I found the video I'm looking for though. Nope, that wasn't the one. Sorry. It's so wild thinking about growing up in Onianta back then, as opposed to thinking about growing up in Onianta now, even though it's only 26 years ago, times have changed so much. I would never let my kids off the block. I would never. No.  Parents don't do that anymore. It's just so different. Okay, I found it. I was the last generation of go outside and play and have play dates and don't call before noon and make sure you say yes ma'am and no sir. But you know, I still was much more protective than my parents were back in the 60s. It was a lot easier even back then. And you know, as easy as it seemed to you, compared to now, today, I was still.  And I did a couple miles away. I could walk all over campus at the age of 10 years old, the state university right down the street. No problem. So here's, I got a video I'm going to play. Oh god, I'm nervous. You have no idea about this. None of this is scripted with Brit. I didn't say, okay, this is what I'm going to, we're going to talk about and stuff because I want it to be organic. So here's, here's a video of Brittany and me and from 19, March 17th, 1997. So it makes you two years old. Two and a half. Yeah. March 19th. 17th. March 17th. Yeah. Mom, I'm pregnant with Kaylee.  Okay. But you're, we're at my apartment. Oh my goodness. Upstate New York. I know. You ready? I'm ready. All right. St. Patrick's Day, 1997. Yep.  How was I so blonde? Especially in New York, right? Seriously. And I'm dark brown, curly-headed. Look how young you look. Yeah. No gray hair. 36. I was, yeah, 36 at that time. Yeah. Goes by quickly. And to me, it seems like yesterday, that, that was the apartment that you learned how to climb up the steps by yourself. You no longer needed, I remember that frickin' day where you no longer needed me to climb the steps. And while I was really happy and proud of you, I was like sad. It's like she's growing up. But that's our job as parents to make you independent. Mom actually asked me the other day, I've been saying I'm 27 for about six months now because it's just, right? It is what it is. And mom made the other day. She's like, are you going to be 28 or 27? I'm like, 27. Don't push me closer to 30, right? I know. That's what I said. I'm closer to 30 than 21. The Prescott jeans will keep you young. You know, everyone looks younger than their age on our side of the family. So you'll, you'll be fine. You'll still look like you're in your 20s when you're in your 40s. I guarantee it.  She goes, what? But that's, that's the kind of relationship we have. It's always been lighthearted. And easygoing, yeah.  And I couldn't have ordered a better child.  I never saw that. That is angel. Always work. You always were. Yeah. And I'm, I'm so grateful. And I'm sure everybody that's watching is, is grateful that you're here because you brought, you have no idea how many millions of people you've brought together. We all think you played a huge role in my life. And I just love you so much. I do. I love you too, dad. I'm happy to see that you're happy and healthy again. Me too. And hopefully, maybe we can do this again sometime. Is that meowsie? Get out. Is she in the crisscross blue dress? Is that a plaid dress? Of course she is. You told me to keep meowsie, meowsie so I would think about you. So I wouldn't forget you as if I would forget you, right? I have flip here at mom's house. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Oh, I got you the, the everyday witch tarot cards. Tarot card? Yeah. Do you use them? Yay. Awesome. Yeah. Are they wrapped in snow? Good. Good. Good. Good. They only come out for the moonlight on a full moon. Okay. Awesome. Ellie got me the, the, the, she has Oracle cards. She has. I have the Oracles for those too. Oh, you do. Emma, you sent me, oh, where are they? Oh, goodness. Um, I have the Oracle cards because you sent me those and then I was into the tarot for a second and I was like, well, fuck, I really like the, the, like the pictures and the explanations and was like, I'll just get it from the same author. So I got the tarot cards from her and. This woman is, her name is Deborah Blake. And she works at, she, she has a shop in the town that in Onianta, upstate New York. And she, she sells all her stuff right there. What? Yeah. Yeah. The, the artists Guildsman or something like that. What's, what's that place? On Main Street? Main Street. It's a craft shop. By the bank? No. It's kind of like across from where Brazies used to be. They're, it's, Onianta is small now. Yeah. The only crystal shop is on Deet Street by. No, it's a craft shop. It's a craft shop. They sell like soap and homemade soap there and stuff like that. But yeah, she's a, she's a high priestess in Wicca. And just a beautiful woman though.  Just going and talk to about stuff like that. I wish I really shopped local now. Yeah, you could have. You could have, she would have signed it for you too. I'm sure she still would anyway. Lost my cards. Anyway, I'm not going to grill you any longer. You're off the grill, my dear. Thank you. I'm well done now. I just want, I do want to thank you for coming on. I thank everybody that's, that's watching, uh, live right now, on, in the chat room on YouTube and anyone that's watching on that recorded version. This is my princess, my little pumpkin seed. Brittany. So thanks again, honey. I love you so much. Of course. We'll talk soon. All right. Thank you soon. Bye.


Racing cars on the street is not only illegal but very dangerous. As a Darius Autosports, the car club in Sigonella joins Etna Tuning Club, a local Italian racing club, in a controlled environment of a track. A community of car enthusiasts who likes to go track days and who likes to enjoy the driving of their car. And what we do today is just enjoy the pleasure of driving without the risks you can have on the road, on the street, so you can go full throttle without any danger, without any risks. UT3 Levi Alvarado, a member of Etna Darius Autosports, explains what draws him to the sport of auto racing. Push yourself to the limits along with your vehicle, hit in the corners. Filling yourself, dig into your seat as you go around the corner is one of my favorite things to do. From Naval Air Station, Sigonella, I'm Seaman Luke Askew.


The paper discusses the design of digital aids for Autism Spectrum Disorder, ASD, students. It examines the challenges they face in learning and socializing, as well as the benefits of using digital tools to help them develop their communication skills. An e-simulator was designed to encourage ASD students' speech, and its key features were outlined. Finally, the paper concluded that this tool can be used to address many of the issues faced by these students. This article was authored by Laiadmila I. Bilosova, Laiadmila I. Greizen and Natalia K. Volkova.