Item number SCP-280 Object Class Keter Special Containment Procedures SCP-280 is to be contained in a 5x5 meter cell, and no equipment of any kind is to be left inside when staff are not present. Containment area is to be kept in total darkness at all times. Any items taken into the containment cell must be removed by staff at the end of testing, and any staff entering into containment must wear infrared goggles and be equipped with an infrared ID strobe and a strong flashlight. In the event of an SCP-280 attack, all staff are to power on their flashlights and illuminate the subject under attack. No aggressive action is to be taken against SCP-280, and staff are to keep one meter from SCP-280 at all times. Staff should continue to illuminate SCP-280 until it retreats to a sufficient distance to allow the recovery and extraction of the subject of the attack.  No feet or legs are visible, as the lower portion of the body appears to fade away several centimeters from the ground. SCP-280 appears to be wholly composed of matter that can gain or lose corporeal form. This matter is very black, with only the eyes showing any other color, and when changing to a non-corporeal form, looks much like smoke. The eyes are non-functioning, and it appears only when SCP-280 is retreating, appearing to be used like eye spots on some insects. SCP-280 is very strong, and has been observed pulling apart steel with its hands, showing no sign of stress. SCP-280 moves with a gliding motion, with its hands extended, described as a sleepwalker posed by observers. SCP-280 will move slowly towards any human beings, and attempt to attack them. SCP-280 appears to sense human life, no living has yet been found in this ability. SCP-280 will approach up to 14 centimeters of a subject, and then use its hands to pull and tear the subject, causing massive physical trauma. The attack can last between 1 and 5 minutes, and will continue until the death of the subject, at which point SCP-280 will expose its eyes, lose corporeal form, and move to the next human. If no humans are present, SCP-280 will move and ball up against a wall, or other structure until a human being is again present. SCP-280 will retreat slowly from light, exposing its eyes in the direction of the light, or at any nearby humans. This has been described as extremely disconcerting by those who have been stared at. If the area SCP-280 currently resides and becomes fully illuminated, or there is a very bright burst of light, SCP-280 will fade away and reappear in another area. This appears to be done purely as a defensive response to light, and will not be used to follow or attack prey. SCP-280 does not appear to eat, breathe, or sleep. It does not ingest any of the tissue removed during an attack, and simply drops it to tear a new piece. Due to its ability to become incorporeal at will, and its aggressive nature, no samples of SCP-280 have been collected. Addendum, notes on recovery, SCP-280 was recovered in ██████, Mississippi, after several reports of locked room murders and child deaths. All were reported as being extremely vicious, and victims were horribly mangled. The Foundation became involved after a family of five was murdered in their home. A survivor was found in the basement, nine-year-old David ██████, who had come over for a sleepover. He was found in an advanced state of shock, holding a flashlight and unresponsive of the outside stimulus. During an investigation of the basement, an officer was attacked and badly mutilated. His statement attracted the interest of Foundation agents. During recovery, SCP-280 was temporarily lost due to its ability to teleport when exposed to high levels of light. It was also observed that SCP-280 had frequently discounted as a shadow when seen in a dark, or dismissed as clothing, hair, or another object when accidentally touched in a dark. When tracking a subject, SCP-280 will remain incorporeal until the moment of attack, causing some to walk very close to or through SCP-280. This report a feeling of dread and unease when inside SCP-280. SCP-280 usually does not respond to this, but will sometimes expose his eyes and enter its retreating posture when passed through. No pattern has emerged for this behavior. Addendum ████, notes following testing. During a series of extensive testing of the effects of various illumination sources on SCP-280's retreat reflex, SCP-280 broke containment. SCP-280 was observed to repeatedly appear and dissipate throughout the illuminated site, progressing through the sub-levels and eventually appearing in SCP-1591's containment chamber. Upon being exposed to SCP-1591, SCP-280 displayed its eyes but did not retreat. The entity paused and knelt for several minutes before de-manifestation. SCP-280 reappeared in itself several hours later without incident.


Peter Lloyd Tyak is a professor of marine mammal biology at the Scottish Oceans Institute at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Professor Tyak is the world's leading expert on the influence of anthropogenic noise on behavior and echolocation in marine mammals. Professor Tyak has had close ties to Orhus University for almost 30 years. AU scientists have collaborated with him on several joint grants and numerous joint publications, and AU and St Andrews regularly exchange students and postdocs to give them the best training from both labs. My research has shown that whales and dolphins can learn to produce new sounds when they hear arbitrary sounds. And when we learn language and music, we do the same thing. We learn the sounds around us, but most mammals inherit pattern generators in their nervous system that make species-specific sounds. So for example, I've shown that Hupback whales learn the songs they sing during the breeding season, and I've also shown that dolphins learn to produce individually distinctive whistles, and they can even copy the whistle of a partner to call it. And there's a lot of work now testing how referential this calling is, where the dolphins actually name each other. I first heard about Arhus when I read a paper by Professor Bertle Mowell several decades ago, when he predicted that sperm whales should have a powerful directional sonar beam. My colleagues at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution at that point who are observational biologists had recorded clicks from sperm whales at all angles, so they thought these clicks were used for communication and were not well suited for echolocation. But what excited me about the Arhus work was that Mowell used his knowledge of functional anatomy, the structure of how sperm whales make sound, and acoustic theory to make really clear predictions about how the sperm whale signal should be produced for echolocation and how you can test for directionality. Some activities at sea have gone up a lot over the last decades. With that, we also face increasing noise levels at sea, and whales are potentially vulnerable to those increasing noise levels. Professor Peter Tyak has been a pioneer in developing techniques to understand the effects of these noise levels. In particular, he's been the co-inventor of this device that's called the D-Tag that can be placed on the skin of whales, and with which we can record received noise levels on the animals, and also quantify the effects of these noise levels on their forging and their capability to talk to each other out in the open ocean. I work quite closely with Professor Madsen on developing new ways to study the neural processing of the signals that whales and dolphins make. I've developed a set of non-invasive neurobiological sensors on tags, and we're testing these on purposes at Jordan Belt in Karedeminda in order to understand how toothed whales perceptually organize all the echo information to solve their complex biosonar tasks.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you with 2017-18 Panini Noir Basketball. Two box random team break number six from jaspyscasebrakes.com. Big thanks to all of these folks right here for getting into the action. Thanks to the people who bought their spots straight up and congrats again to the people who won their spots in those filler breaks. Always look out for those. All teams are in. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it. One and a five, six times for break number six, two, and six in final time. After six, we've got George down to Scott. One and a five, six times for the teams. And six in final time, Jazz down to Trailblazers. All right, so here's how it shakes out. George with the Jazz, Scott with the Kings, Lizzie Alchen with the Hornets, Daniel with the Sixers. Last spot mojo star next to your name. Reed with the Pistons, George with the Mavs, Raptors and T-Wolves, Matthew with the Magic, Lonnie with the Suns, Robert with the Brooklyn Nets, Jeremy with the Heat, George with the Pacers, Mitchell you got the Warriors, Adam with the Celtics, Christopher with the Rockets, Ryan with the Pelicans, George with the Bucks, Brian with the Knicks, Khalil with the Clippers, John with the Wizards, George with the Thunder, Kyle with the Lakers, George with the Bulls, John with the Cavs, Kyle with the Nuggets, Reed with the Grizz, Zach with the Hawks, John with the Spurs and Scott with the Portland Trailblazers. All right, so let's sort this by team. And trades are allowed if you would like, yes, Adam got randomized Celtics, you know, remember this is 1718, he knows what he's chasing right here. Now just to show you, these are the two 1718 boxes right here, did I mark these or whoever? No, but they're the only ones that we have, so I'm assuming that's from the that's from the same case. All right, I'm going to pause the video when we come back, we're going to see if there's any trades and then the break, stick around. All right, welcome back folks, a little bit of trade chatter, but in the end, no deals are done, so that list remains the same here on Tuesday the 8th, thanks for getting in on jaspyscasebreaks.com. All right, now according to Mikey, according to him, he's saying that these boxes should be great because the other two were just okay. All right, so let's see what happens. Packed full of hits already, can't even open the box. There we go. Is that a hit on the box? No, that's just a card on the bottom of the redemption, there we go. So let's bring that base card up to the top, nothing else in here. Lead off with four out of 25, Yanis onto de Campo. That goes to George and the Bucks. Let's see if the Bucks keep adding to that team in their hopes of hanging onto this guy. DeMarcus Cousins up on top right there, 37 out of 79 for the Pels. It's going to be for Ryan Cason. Got a Fox in the box, the Erin Fox. There you go, out of 78 out of 79 for the Kings, Scott, for the Kings. 25 out of 99, Jared Allen, Rookie Jumbo Materials Jersey for Brooklyn. Now that song's stuck in my head, Kurt. There's Jared Allen for Robert and the Nets. What does a Fox say? 98 out of 99, Christian Leighton, that's in everybody's head. 98 out of 99, Christian Leighton or T Wolves. No, Wizards Edition. That's for John and Washington. So Willie. We got Box Office memorabilia, poor Clay Thompson. 28 out of 49. Goes to Golden State Mitchell. We got a dual relic, we got Josh Jackson on the left side and Frank Mason on the right side. Two-shot Rookie Jerseys. 3 out of 25. Sons, that'll be for Lonnie. And the Kings, different person, I think, right? Scott. So that'll be a randomizer at the end. No, Willie, I won't. Sorry. If I subscribe to your channel then that's... No one's doing subscribe. Oh, look at this, Joann Evans. A bit of a Nike swoosh in there, 4 out of 5. What is that from? Maybe the jersey? A sock? A shirt? Shorts? It's pretty nice though, out of 5s and under. Get the train whistle. That goes to Khalil. There you go, Khalil. There you go, all aboard the Big Hit Express. Another nice one. 4 out of 99, Alonzo Morning. For the heat, zo. That goes to Jeremy. Got randomized the heat. Bought his spot straight up. Nice. Now this redemption expired earlier this year. But Peni, they should have this. Peni's pretty good about honoring expired redemptions one way or the other. And it's Brandon Ingram. Spotlight signature is vertical. And that would be... Is that still Lakers' edition of Brandon Ingram? When did Brandon Ingram go to the Pelicans? That's still Lakers. Yeah, that was just last year. I'm all screwed up here. Alright, so that goes to Kyle and the Lakers. Now he was a rookie in 2016. So it's a year after his rookie year. But still nice. He just got a big contract too most improved player of this past year. There we go. Sorry, these boxes are kind of terrible sometimes. Alright, I got another redemption on the bottom. Got Damien Lillard on top. Alright, we got Damien Lillard. 8 out of 25. Scott with Portland. There's Josh Jackson. 61 out of 79 for the Suns. That'll be for Lonnie. 37 out of 79. Lonnie for the Gris. That'll be for Reid. We are, Jack. We should. I think so. Keeping an eye on the website. I feel like we did last year. So I'm assuming we would this year. 20 out of 49. We've got Patrick Beverly for the Clippers. It's going to be for Khalil. Out of 49. A box office memorabilia. Drew Holiday. Pelicans edition going to... Triple Relic. We've got 80 out of 99. We've got three different Grant Hills. We've got Pistons Grant Hill. Clippers Grant Hill. And Suns Grant Hill. So that's a randomizer between those three teams. Detroit Reid. Khalil with the Clippers. And Lonnie with the Suns. These two guys are on the same team. This particular year. 65 out of 99. Lonzo. Left and right side for my Lakers. Champions. Kyle with the Lakers. Classic Laker right here. Eddie Jones. 62 out of 99. Another nice one for Kyle. And the Lake Show. There's a nice bit of splash of color coming up here. That's Nikola Jokic. Eight out of 20. Nice one for the Nuggets. That also goes to Kyle. Come on. Rookie Patch Autographs Color. Card number 303. Jason Taylor but he's a redemption. An expired redemption. Panini. You got to hook up Adam Levy. You got to hook him up. Don't let him down. Send it to him. I hope they do. They most likely. I don't know. A lot of times this is pretty recent.  And then send in the code and it'll just go right through. If not, talk to him. But very nice. Keep us posted on this. All right. Let's do these randomizers here. All right. So the dual relic was Josh Jackson for Phoenix and then Frank Mason for Sacramento. And then the three Grant Hills from left to right. Pistons, Los Angeles Clippers and another shot for Phoenix. Let's roll it and randomize it three and a four seven times for each list. Team on top gets it. One, two, three. And seventh and final time stays with Sacramento. So that will be for Scott and the Kings. There you go. All right. And the next one. Three and a four seven times for the teams. One, two, three, four, five, six. And once more, right? Yeah. And final time. Wow. Phoenix for this one too. No. Phoenix this time. All right. Phoenix. That is for Lonnie. There you go. Nice triple relic for you. And there you have it ladies and gentlemen. 1718 noir basketball in the books. Thanks for breaking with us. Thanks for watching. I'll see you next time. Jasper's case breaks.


The recruits are conducting table one course of fire today along with zeroing. So the roles of the coaches during table one is just to coach them on individual level aspects such as adjusting positions so it more suits the shooter itself. The importance of range qualification especially here in boot camp with table one and now ARQ for while they're in the Marine Corps is just to make sure that they understand how to utilize a weapon system to its fullest extent out to 500 yards. Table one course of fire consists of entry-level marksmanship training from the 200, 300 and 500 yard line. Shooting positions at the 200 will be sitting kneeling and standing at the 300 it will be sitting and prone and then at the 500 it'll just be prone. During table one biggest struggle I see is just fear of the weapon especially from those who have never shot before they tend to flinch a lot be more fearful of the weapon holding back closing their eyes things like that.


Hello everyone, welcome to STM Unique. When I started at ST a couple of years ago, coming from the mobile phone industry, one of my first questions to my new colleagues was, are we going to get a wireless MCU stock system on ship in our portfolio? The answer was obviously yes. It was just a matter of time before we selected an aggregated pass among the infinite possibilities of wireless. At that time, the most important points for you, customer, were rather CPU speed, memory integration or low power consumption. These needs are obviously still there, no doubt about that. This being said, since then, your need, your use cases, your application have drastically evolved along with our MCU footprint on the market. You want to be connected, your customers want to be connected, I want to be connected as well. And this, of course, in a wireless manner. Why this? First, because it's trendy fashion. Really, who still wants to deal with this kind of troubles? But more importantly, because we all take benefit from this ability to get information remotely. This is a case of trackers, COVID trackers, fitness trackers. This is a case of lighting. This is a case of energy monitoring or condition maintenance monitoring and many more. So your applications may have different requirements. For instance, it can require short-range connectivity or short-range distance. This is a case of a smartphone, so namely over BLE. This could be the case of a gateway that could be over BLE or over ZigBee. Or you can combine both. This is typically the example of the bulb that you have in your savings. They're all connected together within a network and at the same time, you want to control them using your smartphone over BLE. But it can also require a long range or a long distance. It could be point-to-point communication, so with a strong modulation. It could be also a low-power network or a cellular network or even you may simply want to geocallize your device. Based on all these new use cases, new requirements, we, STM32, have decided to go wireless. And this with a full speed, full energy, full commitment and of course, full investment that it requires. Why a portfolio? As we discussed, all your new use cases require to support different wireless bands, different wireless protocols and so different MCU designs. There is a common point, though, among all these differences. You do not want to reinvent the wheel every time you switch from a short-range protocol to a long-range protocol or from a connected application to a non-connected application. That's why we, STM32, are providing you with a single and unique hardware and firmware ecosystem to cover all your applications. On top, of course, we provide you with the state-of-the-art protocols, so namely BLE 5.2, ZigBee, OpenThread or Lora, SIGFox, NBIOT thanks to the recent acquisition of Riot Micro and Ultrawide bands thanks to the recent acquisition of Beespoon. Last but not least, at the end, you need to develop an application and for this, you need to get all the MCU performance and features that you are requiring. This is what we are bringing thanks to the STM32 wireless portfolio because this complete portfolio is based on the very well-known STM32L and STM32U that you just discovered. If you pay attention to the features and performance of this STM32 wireless, you will retrieve all the features and performance that we are used to get from the STM32L and U portfolio.


And this is the breakfast in Plostivio, Africa, time for the second conversation. Today's World Tobaccoist Day and Tobaccoist Remains one of the world's deadliest infections killer. Now, each day over 4,100 people lose their lives to TB and close to 28,000 people fall ill with their preventable and curable disease called Tobaccoist. Global efforts to combat TB have saved and estimated 66 million lives since 2000. However, COVID-19 pandemic has reversed the years of progress made in the fight to end TB. For the first time over a decade, TB deaths increased in 2000, that's in 2020. The theme for World Tobaccoist Day 2022, Invest to End TB, Save Lives. We're now being joined by Dr. Ibrahim Omar Gano with the Kano State Ministry of Health. Dr. Ibrahim Gano, it's good to have you join us. Good morning and thank you for having me. All right, let's talk about today, what's the significance of having this conversation and what's the significance of today? Today is a day that the entire world comes together and always when we have this day on the 24th of March each year, it's a day to actually talk about TB, and to commemorate the over 140 years or so of a lifetime of achievement in the discovery of the quality of TB, that is macrobacterium tuberculosis. But to also look at the challenges faced by the world in terms of controlling and then ending the TB disease. And it's a day that we always remember the number of the human lives that have been affected or infected by the deadly disease, which happens to be the second most infectious disease worldwide. All right, Dr. Omar Gano, the world or Nigeria seem to be doing so well in the fight against TB, until 2020 with the COVID-19. It does do almost all efforts were just drifted towards ending the pandemic. Now, what do we really have right now? What are the incident rates like now specifically in Nigeria? Can you give us some figures to work with? Yes, worldwide from the year 2020 to that, a little over 60 million lives have been set worldwide. However, with the coming of the pandemic of COVID-19, reverse has been made of over 10 years achievement in the control of TB. And that has really hampered the efforts being put together by all stakeholders as well as institutions, government, and partners to curb the disease. This year alone, we are having this situation whereby a number of individuals have been affected or infected with TB, but because of the pandemic, they have no ease of access to commencement or treatment. And that has really affected a lot in terms of care and support for TB. In terms of burden, we are taking off Nigeria as the first country in Africa with the highest TB burden, as well as number six in the world. And there have been also hit by COVID-19. A lot has to be made in terms of making efforts to actually bring the information to the people and make sure that people who have TB or have symptoms of TB come to the aid of the system in terms of getting diagnosed and treated for TB. More so symptoms-wise, it happens that some of the features or symptoms of TB also happens to be similar to COVID-19. And that has to do with the risk perception and the communication in terms of people understanding that this symptom that you have, it could also be TB or it may not be TB. So in essence, symptoms of TB also have similar to COVID-19. And then in terms of investment, we are making a lot of attention being pushed towards COVID-19 as a global pandemic. But we have to also remember that TB, as the epidemic, is also there with us. And a little over 400 people are affected or infected by TB every day in the world. Very scary statistics that you have mentioned. But let's come back to the fundamentals. And look at, you know, with LASA fever, you would definitely say, keep your environment clean, avoid rats and what have you. And so with the malaria, you talk about mosquitoes. What should we know about tuberculosis? What you should know about tuberculosis is that it's an airborne disease. It's a disease that is transmitted from one person to another. And it's a disease that is transmitted through coughing, sneezing, laughter, or even talking. And it's a disease that is affected by or that is influenced by in the nature of where people live in terms of crowdless, in terms of personal and environmental hygiene, in terms of good air quality, in terms of better ventilation and air flow. And it's a disease that if not diagnosed and treated on time, an infected person or an infectious person can transmit it to at least 10 to 15 people every year. I give you a look at the numbers. If you have the people infected by TB that are not diagnosed and put on treatment, chances are they have the risk of infecting 10 to 15 individuals in 12 months. And look at the statistics. We are taking of a country that is the most populous in African continent. We are taking of the most populous black nation in the world. And we are taking of one of the few countries in the world that has large population and then expanding population. So what we are saying is the rate of infection can be enhanced by the way we live and by the way people understand. So it's important that anybody who is coughing for at least two weeks or more should go to the nearest facility and get tested for TB, for example. And if I have to be positive for TB, you pay that person on treatment because that is the only way you can break the chain of transmission and then stop the spread of the disease because an infectious person who is not treated or treatment, who has not been commercial treatment, who is in interaction with other individuals has the risk of infecting 10 to 15 people. And we are taking of people attending events, attending to activities in the world. I mean, in their daily activities, going to the market, going to market places, going to weddings, funerals, gatherings, in churches, mosque, in other places, even in their workplace. These individuals, who happens to interact with others and are infectious or symptomatic and they happen to have TB, for example, they have the risk of transmitting that disease. Dr. Ibrahim Omarogano, can you quickly tell us what exactly is responsible for TB? I mean, just like we have mentioned, it's a good thing to know that it's a disease that is communicable, I mean, it can be transmitted from one person to the other. But what is really responsible for this? At tuberculosis, OTB, in short, is caused by a bacterium. It's a vaseline, it cannot be smoothened, it's a naked eye, and it's called macobacterium tuberculosis. That is a positive agent for TB. So it has nothing to do with lifestyle, behavior, so... Lifestyle behavior, they give room for ease of spread of disease. Because just like I said, the way people live, the way people interact, the way people behave, for example, so people who have the attitude of, for example, exploiting themselves to places where you have risk for, for example, putting your lab at risk or maybe putting things at risk that has to do with your system, your protecting mechanisms, your lungs because it's an airborne disease, so it easily gets spread through the lungs. So when you have something that harasses or affects negatively your system, your airways, it can put somebody at risk. There are other medical conditions, for example, that can also influence. For example, the attitude of people, their way of life, for example, if you take alcoholism, for example, take cigarette smoking, take other medical conditions like diabetes, like for example, heart disease, you know, all these conditions and attitudes or behaviors that can also influence and make ways or make it easier for the spread of TB among individuals because it's important about the rate of protection or the level of protection of somebody's airway to actually resist and actually contend in the event that somebody inherits the bus light because it's an instant that somebody inherits the bus light. The bus light will now undergo various changes, transformations, for example, growth and mutations, I mean, divisions, and then the bus light will have to divide from 1, 2, 3, 4, from 40 air, like that, like that. So those modifications and actually growth of the bus light is influenced by many factors. All right, Dr. Omar Oganor, can you actually be infected with tuberculosis and not really have active TB? It's very possible. It's very possible. A lot of people have the bus light but they don't have the disease. That's what you call tuberculosis infection or TB infection. Those individuals have the bus light and they keep having the bus light in their system. Somebody with intact immunity with no immunocompromised status or nature can have the bus light for as many years as possible. And somebody who has been vaccinated with BCT, for example, can also have that protection. But it's important to remember there are two ways that somebody can have active TB. One is infection from another person immediately, for example. The other one is by the activation of the latent or dominant TB infection. And that infection that has stayed with somebody's system for quite some time with decreased immunity, with so many changes in the body system or the status of somebody's immunity or protection can also give room for the activation of the dominant TB infection. And that is one of the reasons why it's important to always test and to always watch for symptoms in somebody. Somebody can have it and somebody can have the infections of the disease. All right, but then again, since you can be infected, I know it can properly be managed, but whatever happened or happens to an infected lung that has been affected with tuberculosis, over time, even if a person has been, maybe screened to be free from that particular disease, would you still be able to use that particular lung after you've been killed? Of course, that's the reason why it's always good to diagnose on time and put people on treatment on time because the longer the infection, the higher the infected dose of the baseline, the higher when somebody has depressed immunity, the more likely it has the possibility of destructive effects on somebody's lungs. For example, somebody who has had, who is already malnourished, for example, or has immunocompromised immunity, or is already a jet, or has some other infections or maybe disease conditions or other medical conditions and then has not been diagnosed on time and placed on treatment on time, they have chances of having more effects to their lungs, which can lead to, for example, other complications, which can be semi-permanent or permanent, for example, like fibrosis or maybe disrupting lung disease or other complications that may happen to their lungs. They have also the risk of having some, maybe opacities happening in their lungs or maybe having some consolidations and those things can be destructive to their lungs in the long run or even for maybe for many, many years in their lifetime or even for the rest of the time. That's the reason why when somebody is lytomatic, it's always good to diagnose on time and place somebody on treatment on time because while they are breaking the transmission, too, you are preventing the possible long-term effects of the infection in somebody and then you are also having to mitigate or minimize any possible side effects or drop-drop interaction that somebody may have because that person who may be having a symptom of TB, even that person has TB and has been diagnosed on time, will now prevent the other, probably other medical conditions that somebody is on or maybe some other medication that somebody may be on because it's good to remember somebody can also have TB infection right on other treatments for other diseases. Yes, so as we begin to course this conversation down, I know that you have mentioned persistent cough or coughing as one of the symptoms but which might not necessarily be until the individual gets tested. So you have mentioned symptoms. What are the symptoms, I mean likely possible symptoms that one could look out for the case of TB? Yes, so it's important because cough is a common symptom but there are individuals who may not have cough for that pain, we said. So it's important to remember cough is one of the symptoms. Other symptoms for TB are fever, weight loss, or night sweat. You call it drenching night sweat because it's usually at night, those some may even have sweat during the daytime but you know with weather conditions and things like that, you find that there are some levels of sweating that somebody experiences that I would do normality but cough, fever, weight loss, night sweat, these are the cardinal symptoms of TB and anybody with these symptoms should watch the nearest hospital for testing. And it's also good to remember that somebody may have extra pulmonary TB because there is a TB infection that affects early lungs as a primary source of infection but there is a kind of infection that affects other systems in the body. For example, kidney, liver, abdomen, intestine, you know all those, even brain, joints, balls, and even spinal cord or even the spine. So these are our body parts that can be affected by, I mean that can be affected by TB infection and where somebody has other systems affected by the TB baseline symptoms related to those areas would also be manifest in addition to cough. So that's why other constitutional symptoms for TB, weight loss, fever, and night sweat should also be considered when somebody comes and presented the facility with this history of cough and then with other symptoms in the body. Some may have cough a lot and then the other, some may even have weight loss or maybe chest pain or maybe back pain. It's only when they cough. So all these symptoms happen and then when they happen we should always think of TB and we should always go to the nearest hospital for testing. Dr. Omar, just before we go, the team for this year is Investum to NTB Saves Life. So it brings me to the question of management and treatment for TB. So far, how accessible is it for Nigerians? Is the treatment affordable though Nigerians have access to this quality treatment for tuberculosis? All right, so it's good to remember that there are two phases to this very important point. One, TB is an infectious disease that can spread from one person to another and there's a global effort to contain the epidemic and Nigeria have been part of that and then as part of the nation high-level mission as well as commitment of the entire countries in the world to end in TB by 2030 and then allow the sustainable development of 2035. The universal push to ensure every passing in the world has uninterrupted access to high quality and the TB drugs is being implemented in Nigeria. What am I saying? Every passing infected with TB has to be placed on the standard that which are recommended treatment for TB which is provided at no cost to the patient but it's not at no cost to the patient because governments and partners globally and in this country have put hands together, put two socials together from diagnosis to treatment. Secondly, with the pandemic of COVID-19 now, we know the investment for TB is still inadequate and then with this pandemic and the reversal of 10 years of TB controlled efforts in the world. It calls for more investment, more resources, more money in terms of awareness creation, in terms of sensitization, in terms of programs like this that will make individuals to be aware of TB and the ones that have symptoms come for treatment, in terms of more investment for diagnosis because we know our equipment for TB diagnosis are not covering the entire places in the world. All right, Doctor. We can do more for that. All right, thank you so much. I'm Dr. Ibrahim Omar-Ghanu. Thanks for your thoughts and thanks for all that you have shared concerning TB as we celebrate the day today. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. All right, Dr. Ibrahim Omar-Ghanu is with the Canada State Ministry of Health and that's the size of the show for today. If you missed out on any part of the conversation, it's all right to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and do subscribe to our YouTube channel Plus TV Africa and Plus TV Africa Lifestyle. Many thanks for watching. I am Messi Boko. 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Welcome back to Classic Replay. These are not necessarily the best Codemasters games you can get, but these are the ones I personally come back to and have played over the last two decades, maybe more. So kicking off firstly with BMX Simulator, this top-down colorfest for the Amstrad CPC, let's face it for £1.99 is absolutely amazing. Yes, I love all the dizzy adventures, still do, but this is the one I come back to over and over again, spellbound dizzy for the Amstrad CPC. Although very much spectrum-like in its appearance, this for me was the most detailed, engrossing and highly playable. With over 100 screens, a scuba diving section, a runaway mine cart section, and the need for lateral thinking, this one is a winner. Who you gonna call? Ghost Hunters! Not just one of the best Codemasters games ever released, but one of the best ever budget games of all time. It still looks great today, plays even better, and came with an intuitive crosshair as opposed to a run-and-gun style of affair. It still provides a fantastic challenge in 2020 and is a testament to game design of the 1980s. This next one from Codemasters might look a colorful mess, but she's got it where it counts in the playability department. Many will tell you that this is probably the best Codemasters game released for the Amstrad CPC, but I'm not about to even go there. The reality is this is just another great game from Codemasters. And back in the day for those on a budget, £1.99 gave you all the fun of the fair. Long before Pimble Dreams on the Amstrad CPC, we had Advance Pimble Simulator. Whilst nowhere near as good as the latter, it gave a good honest virtual experience of the physical world. Whilst many will choose ATV Simulator and other arcade simulations, I'll always be a Pimble Wizard at heart. Let's just admit it and get it out the way. DJ Puff along with the title is completely broken. But back in the day, I personally felt completely starved of a good platformer on the Amstrad CPC and for a budget title, despite its many flaws, I managed to gel really well with this game which is why it makes the list. Don't ask me why, but me and my family absolutely loved Fast Food Dizzy. From the bouncy in-game music to the fabulous colourful graphics, Fast Food Dizzy felt like an arcade game on your Amstrad CPC. And it's one I play quite often and when I meet up with family and friends, it's one everybody remembers. All the fun of an egg and spoon race without actually being there. If like me you love the original and classic gauntlet, your absolutely loved Ninja Massacre on the Amstrad CPC. Whilst not as graphically refined and lacking in a smooth scroll, the music and playability more than make up for it. What you have here is a fantastic piece of code from Codemasters and one to pick up if you've never played. I know what you're thinking already, why on earth as you pick this over the many classics available from Codemasters for the Amstrad CPC. The answer is simple. I love adventure games and this one is an exploration around the globe. For me it's just a great piece of code that continually draw me in. Includes locations from all around the world and features a rendition of Peter Gabriel's Games Without Frontiers as a soundtrack. No list is complete without a bit of shoot-em-up action. And for £1.99 they didn't come much better than SuperTank. Although not a patch on the original Akari Warriors, SuperTank gave me hours of fun. All the fun of the arcade without the serious need of coinage abuse. This one is definitely difficult to master but as I always like to say it's never any fun if it's too easy. This for me is my number one Codemasters go-to game. It's a complete blatant ripoff of SuperSprint but somehow betters it on the Amstrad CPC. Although sporting brightly coloured visuals the detail of the cars leaves a lot to be desired. Everything shines as usual once again in the Playability Department and this is not just one of the best top-down racers on the Amstrad CPC. It's definitely up there as one of the best. If you agree with this list please let me know or comment and let me know your personal favourites. Please like, comment or subscribe and don't forget to ring that bell. Until next time, bye!


What's up team? It is your biggest fan, TheRealCastadero. In this video, what I wanted to talk about is for anybody who's looking to get into web development. And you have a Windows machine. A lot of people, a lot of users out there, they're using Windows machines. And when you go on the internet and you're, you're watching people go through all these tutorials and you're, and you see these day in the life videos, not all of them, but a lot of them are completely fictitious. They aren't based on the real experience that most people are going to have. What you'll see in a lot of these videos is you'll see people using Mac computers. You'll come across some people who say you should use Linux. Linux is the best. This is not true. If you have a Windows machine, you can get started in web development, application development in general. Now there are some hoops that you have to jump through if you want to build stuff specifically for Mac or iOS and stuff like that. But for the most part, to be able to go out and to build your own applications, when I say web development, I'm talking about web applications and web applications, you can run anywhere. They can run on any device. They can run on mobile devices. You can use some of the built in features on, on mobile phones and tablets and all of this stuff. The beauty of the web app is you're not beholden to anybody. You can build something, you can put it on the internet and anybody can use it anywhere to do just about anything they want to do. And there's a series of technologies you can use that will allow you to write something using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, the core foundation of building web applications and you can port these out and run them on any device. So you don't have to know anything super specialized. The most important part, you don't have to have a $1,000, $2,000, $3,000 MacBook Pro to do any of this stuff. You can have a fairly new Windows laptop, a laptop that you bought, I would say within the last five years, if you bought it new. Basically any laptop that will run Windows 10, you can do just about anything you want to do when it comes to building websites, web applications, online stores, e-commerce site, even applications for Android and iOS. You can do this all inside of Windows. You don't need anything special to do any of this stuff.  Maybe you have a older laptop and you just want a new, you want a new computer but you don't have a budget, $1,000, $1,500, $2,000, $3,000, something like that.  Search the internet, watch movies, but most importantly you want to be able to build stuff. You want to be able to learn to build your own applications and websites and stuff like that. So let's hop over to the computer and I'm going to show you some laptops that you can buy that will help you along your journey. You don't have to learn Mac, you don't have to learn Linux, you don't have to spend a ton of money. Alright team so let's get to it. We're going to go to amazon.com and this is super simple right? You just go up in the search bar and you type Windows 10 laptop. Right here you got an HP 17 inch monitor, 8 gigs around 1TB hard drive, 529 bucks with free delivery. This is a good computer, this computer is just fine. It's going to come with Windows 10, it's going to have everything you need and you're going to be able to do everything you need on it. Here you got another HP, HP 15.6, this is 2015, it's got an Intel i3-7100 in it, 8 gigs around 1TB hard drive, it's got everything you need. You can use this to build websites, web applications. You can literally go out and buy a $400, $500 computer, go out and start selling your services and pay for the laptop in a couple months. Some of you can even do it in a week. All you need is one client that'll pay you 500 bucks to build them a website and boom you're done. Here's a secret that a lot of people talk about, is that you don't have to know how to do all of this stuff. One of the skill sets of the rich is the ability to use leverage. Like real estate investors, they don't spend all of the money in their bank account to go out and buy a property. What they'll do is they'll have some money saved up, then they'll go out and they'll get other investors and they'll partner on a deal. They're using other people's money to help them get what they want.  That's best leverage. When it comes to web development, you don't have to know how to do everything. You just don't have to know how to get the clients, get the customers and then you can go and you can have somebody else actually do the work. And as you learn, you can begin to do the work yourself or you can start working on more complicated projects and tasks. But at the core of it all, at the very least, you can learn how to set up WordPress websites and install plugins for people. And there's people out there who make a ton of money doing that. You don't have to go out and spend months and months and years and years learning web development before you can go get a client and start making some money. So anyway, let's get back to the desktop. Then down here, we've got the HP Pavilion convertible TouchBook 462 bucks. Boom. Perfect laptop comes with Windows 10. It's convertible, so you can use it as a tablet. It has a touchscreen. It'll do everything you need to do for web development. And the same with any of these other machines. It comes with Windows 10, and it's got a one terabyte hard drive and more than four gigs of RAM. That's more than enough power than you need to get started. Check this out. We get an Asus 155 bucks, two gigs of RAM. You can build web applications on this machine. Now, it doesn't have a lot of the features that the other ones have, but this machine is good enough for you to build web applications. If we go down here, we got a 14, 14.14 HD Windows laptop PC with Windows 10, four gigs of RAM, dual band, five gigahertz Wi-Fi. You've got everything you need. $229. You can build websites or web applications on this. So as you can see, you don't need a ton of money. The next place we're going to go, we'll go over to Best Buy. You can actually set a local store. It brings up a store right here. We can change the store, find another store. I set this store to the best buy that's closest to my house. Now we can go over here. We can go to Prada, computers and tablets, all laptop pickup today. This will show us all the laptops in the store that we can just walk in and buy. We can walk in and buy this laptop right here, $699. And if we find this exact laptop somewhere else for less money on Amazon, some other store somewhere on the internet, Best Buy will match this price. We can get it for probably even less. Like when I built the desktop computer, the computer you see behind me here, this computer you see right here. When I built this machine, every part in this machine was price max. I was able to buy like a four or five thousand dollar machine for three thousand bucks. The two monitors, you can't see the monitors, but I have two high definition monitors. These monitors originally sold for like six hundred dollars. Somebody was selling them somewhere else on the internet, three hundred and fifty dollars. So I, so instead of buying just one monitor, I got two essentially for the price of one. These are all Windows machines that we can buy, six hundred and ninety nine bucks. I can go to the store and pick this up right now. If it's on the internet somewhere else for cheaper, like I said, Best Buy will price match it and we can get it for whatever price they're selling it. Two ninety nine. This right here, four gigs of RAM, one terabyte hard drive. This right here, four gigs of RAM, 128 gig solid state drive. All of these machines you see here, you can use to build web applications. You can use to learn software development and you can use to go out and get clients and start, and start making some money. You don't need a ton of money. We go over to Apple.com from 2010 all the way up until 2016. I bought every version of MacBook that was released. They came out with a new one. That's what I went and bought. But if we go here and we go to Mac and we go MacBook looks good. Looks fantastic. But let's see what, let's see what the price starts at. Starting at one thousand two hundred ninety nine bucks. You could go buy a computer and you can be able to do the same thing, right? Build websites and web applications.  You don't need this fancy stuff that you see all these other people out here on the internet. All right, team. So I hope that helps a lot of you out. Again, you don't need like anything super fancy. You don't have to have the best equipment, the best tech, the best, whatever. You don't have to save up and all this other stuff. If you got a couple hundred, if you got an old computer that doesn't have Windows 10, I recommend that you that you get a computer with Windows 10, but you don't have to wait and get a MacBook or go out and buy a used MacBook and be worried about whether this works or whether that works or whatever. You can go buy a brand new computer with Windows 10 installed and you can start learning software development, web development today, today. And I showed you like you can go go down the best buy, pick up a machine. Boom, you can be off to the races today. And so for those of you who are just getting started, if you check out the code 365 startup lab, there's five or six free courses there. And they're not super long in depth courses. They'll just they'll get you started. They'll put you on the road of learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript, which will put you which will give you the basic foundation for learning all the stuff you need in order to build websites and web applications. Now I got one caveat for you. The deal is that when you start building applications and websites for yourself and other people, there is an element of creativity involved. And I covered this a little bit in the video is that you don't have to know how to do everything. If you change your mindset, and you're willing to think outside of the box, and you're willing to think about the wealthiest people in the world, all you need is some leverage. If you know HTML CSS and JavaScript, then you can go out, you can find somebody else to do the work. What I see a lot of and what I've experienced myself, what I'm dealing with is is this this want this need this desire to be able to do everything. The problem is that you get caught up in these tutorials, you spend all of this time learning to do all of these things, you don't have to know how to do all of these things. What a lot of people out there need. And I'm saying like, even myself, maybe even you what a lot of people need is they just need they need someone to bring them the work. If you are able to go out and you're able to get the clients, you can take the work to these other people and they'll be infinitely grateful.  What would be more fantastic that somebody who's figured out that all they have to do is go out and find clients and they just they just emailed you or text message or call you and say, Hey, I got a client that needs a website. Can you build this thing? How much do you charge?  That's that's what you can do. This is what all businesses do.  There's two types of people. There's employees and there's bosses, right? If you're thinking that at one day you want to be at the boss level, you don't have to wait, you don't have to go through the steps to be at the boss level. And when I say boss, I'm not talking about your boss and people around. I'm not talking about yelling at people and being up and being a I'm talking about the ability to help other people get what they want. Finding businesses. They need something. They need this service that you understand that you know about and you've got developers who need customers. They need they need projects to work on. You become the person in the middle and you piece that stuff together and you don't need a lot to get started. That is it team. Share, subscribe, like, hit the notification bell. If there's something I missed or any questions you have, leave a comment below. I will try to answer it for you. Until next time, I'm the real Casadero, your biggest fan. You can do this.  You can do it. You can do all of this stuff. Alright team, I'll see you next time.


Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Stepping Up, I'm your host, Daniel Dubois. This week, we feature one success story of how a governmental agency was able to assist a privately owned company to scale up and start export, and later on, for LinkUp, we feature St. Lucia Truck Superstar, Julian Alfred. Export St. Lucia is a government's national trade export and promotion agency and is mandated to spearhead the island's national export developmental effort. My overall objective is to increase aggregate volume and value of exports and works to promote and expand business in export markets around the world. We sat down with Export St. Lucia's Public Relations Officer, Jason Darius, to help us know more about the agency and how local businesses can access their support systems to achieve export capacity and quality. Let's take a look at the interview. Tell us a little bit more about Export St. Lucia. Hey Daniel, thank you very much for having me. Well, Export St. Lucia, like you said, our mandate is really to help move exports, help businesses get to that export level and help give out the best of what St. Lucia has to offer in terms of product services and let the world in on what we have to offer as a country. So we work with small businesses, we work with manufacturers, agricultural producers. We work with anybody in the scope of business that has that mandate and that effort to export and really help push the business forward. And that is really our mandate here at Export St. Lucia. Nice. And what about the history? Let's talk about the history of Export St. Lucia. I know they did a rebranding recently. What is the history of Export St. Lucia? Well, Export St. Lucia, I guess in the early beginnings we started off as OPSR, the Office of Public Sector Relations. There was a small office in the Office of the Prime Minister that really dealt with private sector, really small businesses just helping to manage businesses and help them get what they need. And then, I guess, TIPA came about as a Trade Export Promotion Agency. We live the same mandate but with more focus on exports and really helping the business get that promotion that it needs to help St. Lucia products actually get out there, let the world know what it is that we have to offer. And then recently, we actually just had a name change, Export St. Lucia. So just the name change, nothing else has changed. Our mandate is still to increase exports and make sure that we put off the best of what St. Lucia has to offer out there to the world. And with your interaction with small businesses, how does Export St. Lucia intervene? So let's speak directly to the programs that you're offering and the support that you offer. So let's say I want to sell mangoes and I want to export mangoes or whatever, and I realize that the export is not only about physical goods, tangible goods, it's also about services because I know you guys touched on music recently in terms of how we can package our music. So let's talk to the program and how does Export St. Lucia really and truly intervene on behalf of small business owners? Okay, so you would imagine there's a chain, there's a couple of steps that you actually have to get to before you get to us, I guess, helping you out. At first, you would have to register your business to go through the chains such as Seidu to help get your business really on a good foundation, so to speak.  And then we really help to guide you, give you that help in hand that you need to navigate those waters. For example, if you would want to get into the UK market by exporting mangoes, like you said, you would look at any restrictions there are, if any standards that need to be met, if there are any hurdles, challenges would help you overcome them and really help you get your best foot in that door, so not only are you likely to get in that door, you're likely to stay in there as well. And we were talking before and like you said, consistency is key. We really are just like a help in hand to really get you into the markets where you want to go in terms of your exports and that's what we are here to do, sorry. Right. So in your interaction with our business, let's just segue a little bit into how our businesses in St. Lucia are losing the opportunity to export. What is it that you see our small business owners not doing to be able to, I don't want to say exploit, but use the opportunities that they have available to be able to export. How can we, on a personal level, as a business owner yourself, what is it that you see that is lacking in our business community in St. Lucia? For me, what I think it is, it's that access to information and access to knowledge. People want to do things but they don't really have that knowledge or they don't know where to go or what to do. That's where we come in. We help with that process. We help find what it is that you need to actually get off the ground and run in. So this is why we are here and this is exactly what we do. But like you said, what's missing is really that knowledge, that information, dissemination aspect of it. And that's what we are working so hard to actually accomplish and just spreading information, making sure everybody has what they need. Everybody knows what they have to do in order to get things done. I know that Export St. Lucia recently won a few awards. Let's let us know a little bit more about that. And that's the thing again, we like to work with, we like working with St. Lucia. We like our people. We like knowing that we made a huge difference in people's lives, not only on an island level but only in communities, on the personal level, just hearing those stories. So our award that we won are the WTPO awards that happened last month. We won the award for Best Initiative for Inclusive and Sustainable Trade that was with our Pualesimos Farmers Association. Many of you know the amount of work that we've put in with the Pualesimos Farmers Association, getting them from really no Seamos being produced or limited Seamos being produced without anybody having any market for anything except for locally, and then getting them to the UK market, then that US market, and then having them stay in there and having continuous trade that happened between St. Lucia and the UK just for Seamos. Not everyone wants to grow Seamos. Everybody wants to grow the Seamos, you see? And it's very lucrative for them and having impacted those Seamos farmers from Puala, it really goes a long way in helping our future, brightening our future as a people in St. Lucia. So this is like really what we want to do, how we want to help our people, how we want to impact our people, and that is just one of the many stories that we have out there. And if that award, we got what, runner-up for that award after Procomete, that is one of the biggest TPO's in the world actually, and to get runner-up after them for that award, that means that we are doing something truly remarkable at the Expo St. Lucia. And it shows that there's a unique opportunity to develop these small cottage industries that is not just to serve local markets, but you can export your goods, people. Exactly. You just have to ensure that the proper standards and procedure are in place to actually meet those requirements for those territories and during business. Nice. So let's talk about some more success stories. Well, I know for sure about the Seamos farmers, they really hail the Expo St. Lucia, like the same way you're talking about them. So that synergy, that linkage there is solid. What are the success stories do you have to share with us? Well, just from this year alone, we have been doing a lot of stuff. You mean, sorry, I mean, you would imagine that with COVID, a lot of the stuff that we had in the pipeline would have to try to redirect efforts, try and look for alternative routes and in the inspiring words of our CEO in spite of what can happen in spite of this, what other routes can we take? So earlier this year, we actually had our biggest remissions to St. Vincent and Grenada. Right now, as a result of COVID-19, what we are doing is to just follow up on those, make sure our linkages are still strong in the regional territory as well as international markets as well. So we're just following up on these things. So testament to that would be recently, our 20 foot container of cleaning products from chemical going off to Dominica. That was last month, October. Another shipment from Abbey, a new exporter. Well, relatively new to Guadaloupe really. Sending off chips to Guadaloupe. And you have for a spring sending 4,000 plus cases of water over to St. Vincent. And these are just some of the successes that we had thus far in spite of COVID. So just imagine what we could have accomplished in spite of COVID. What we really could have accomplished. I mean, we continue to... Yeah, we're on a big thrust. Exactly. And we just had to try and maneuver those waters, see what can really happen. And we continue to promote and advocate for our businesses. We still take part in trade shows, whether it be virtually or with a limited presence. But we still advocate and really lobby for our clients, our businesses in St. Lucia. And that's what we really are about. So, how does supporting businesses with exporting, how does that benefit the country as a whole? Let's speak to that because we always talk about things like that, we'll find the economy and finding, boosting up our manufacturing and stuff like that. So this show is for anybody who has a business, anybody who has anything that they're thinking of scaling up, reach out to export St. Lucia because the long run is it benefits St. Lucia. So let's talk about how this echoes your national development and national economic growth mandate as well. Exactly. So take a look at St. Louis, for example. There was this cry for a really long time for us to diversify in terms of our agricultural offerings to the table. For a long time we'd have heard about bananas and everything banana exports are dying off. We need to diversify. So we started looking around, seeing what can be done and then we found this opportunity here. We saw the need for this to be taken up and we worked with the CMOS farmers seriously to get them to that level, to buy into what we see can happen with this product and lo and behold, look at it now. So this is just one way of bringing more of a success to our country. I want to take that back. Just, how do I say? This is just one way of helping our country be successful, helping us grow, helping just fostering growth for us. Because we realized, when we did the feature with the CMOS farmers, basically they did talk about how everything in the area just started to grow and that's what people don't recognize that once there's a demand, you now have to expand on the ground, you now have a little lady selling by prowl or you had the boxes and the packaging and all of these things along the line, everybody benefits. So I think when it comes to that aspect of it, once you secure that outside market, you're actually securing growth for yourself and your community and the country at large. Exactly. So we continue to work with the CMOS farmers and we continue to work with those smaller industries, like I mentioned earlier, just to help them see their potential and really meet that market standard and help them keep up with the demand as well because if you meet that standard, you get in the door and you cannot keep up with the demand that is something else. People lose confidence in you. So you have to sustain that demand and sustain that product commitment. Yeah, and that is really it for us. That's part of it. Intervene. That's nice. That's to intervene and just help bring up the best of what you can be. Yeah. Moving forward, I know before we start talking, you gave me a story about breadfruit export. So let's talk about what you plan to do for breadfruit and any of those natural raw products that are available. So we are looking at a couple of products, particularly for agriculture, like you mentioned earlier. Breadfruit being one of the ones we've had to work with the most recently. What we've noticed as of late that some of our offerings, they end up being spoiled more or less when they actually get to market, especially in the UK because of some of the conditions. What we try to put together right now is a training session for our exporters of breadfruit, for them to know the proper practices, protocols, procedures that should be implemented in their picking, harvesting, and shipping off of the product to actually get them the best product when it actually gets to that destination. So they wouldn't have any problems in terms of a buyer being dissatisfied or something just being wrong with it. So we put all these in place just to ensure that we have the best product possible when it gets to market. And that really is the end result. That is what we are trying to do with breadfruit. And a couple of other agriculture products, but more on that will come about in time. Well, Jason, thank you so much for taking your time to chat with us here today. So just let us know how we can contact you, what the process would be like to access some of your support, your services, someone who got to see the show, who might be like, hey, I could probably try and see because I know we're very big on chocolate and we don't even tap into these markets yet. The Rural Women's Association, I know there's one in Miku, there's Babono. So let's talk about how anybody watching this show can access the support from Exports St. Lucia. Well, all you have to do is walk in, although people can't really walk in not because of COVID-19 and everything, but you can call in, you can contact us via our website that is www.exportsstlucia.org and that's St. Lucia, S-A-I-N-T. And it's the same thing on all our social media handles. You're talking about Instagram, Facebook and Twitter at Exports St. Lucia. Anybody could reach us, just shoot us a message and we will reply, we are here to help. Yes? But thank you very much, Chaser. No problem, Daniel, anytime. Tired of battling large numbers of mosquitoes in the comfort of your home? The more you fight, the more defeated you feel? How about taking on a longer lasting solution? Ensure that drums or buckets are properly covered after each use. Drain and dispose of any unwanted containers to reduce potential breeding grounds for mosquitoes. Do not allow tires to collect water on your property. Fill them with soil to make your own vegetable gardens or plant flowers.  Use secure bins when disposing of garbage in order to reduce mosquito breeding. Keep vegetation low to allow daylight in and remove hiding places for mosquitoes and other pests. Check your roof gutters regularly to prevent mosquito breeding. Regularly inspect your property for signs of mosquitoes. Following these tips once a week can reduce the population of mosquitoes in and around your home. For more information, visit or call the Environmental Health Division in Guadalajara, at 468-3700 or 468-3737. Welcome back. Thank you so much, Jason, for letting us know more about the opportunities Export St. Lucia can provide to support local businesses to expand to export capacity. Thank you and keep stepping up. We continue our journey into understanding the role of Export St. Lucia and highlighted a local company that has benefited from their support. Chemical Manufacturing and Investment Company Limited Chemical is now exporting products to Dominica and hopes to expand further regionally. We went down to view for to visit their main office and manufacturing plant to learn more about this long-standing local company and how Export St. Lucia assisted in the regional export. Thank you so much for saying yes and agreeing to do this interview. How are you today? I'm fine. Thank you, Daniel, for visiting us and I'm pleased to be able to speak with you today. My name is Thomas Rosary and I'm the Managing Director for Chemical Manufacturing and Investment Company. We have been around from 1986 and that is about 34 years ago. Over a minute. We started this plant. It has not been a very easy road to travel. We have had our own challenges in terms of getting the plant to where it is at this point. However, I can recall when we started in 1986 we started with a little concrete tank and we were practically using our hands to do the mixing of the chemicals. However, we have come quite a long way at this point and we produce now apart from the household bleach that we started with we produce some 22 other products which you will get a chance to see in a little bit. But generally it's been an uphill struggle. We're still around and we are happy to be here to be able to provide the products that can develop the war against COVID-19 and we have been very lucky in the sense that we have been able to stay in production. Our employees have not been affected to date and we have about 55 persons employed with this organisation. Wow, 55 persons who have not lost a job due to COVID-19. No, we have had no doubt in terms of whatever. So, talk to me a little bit about why bleach? What was the, you know, I'm getting a little bit of history from you. I didn't know that you were into cars and insurance as well. So, talk about the what made you start chemical? Initially, we used to distribute a product by the name of Mavex, Mavex Bleach, which was produced in Ansleray. That's many years ago. I was the key distributor for bleach on the island and I found myself in difficulty with some of the local distributors who were importing bleach into the country. At that time, Mavex Bleach was protected by government and so persons were unable to import bleach on island. And for whatever reason, the efficiency of the plant was not there. And I came, in fact, a lot of the persons who distributed the product on the island was at war with me because we could not supply. When I observed that Mavex could not supply on the island, I decided that, hey, I better do something about it. And that's when I decided that I would set up a facility to produce a similar brand of product. And in August of 1986, we introduced chemicals into the market. Wow, so you basically developed chemicals started by solving a problem. That's correct. So we were now able to supply some of the local distributors and we are here. And how easy was it for you to establish because, you know, 1986 and now is a long time, how easy was it for you to penetrate the market? What was it like, were you welcomed on the local market? So talk about your deals. Well, let's not forget that when I started chemical bleach, I was already well known in the market as a distributor. And not only that, but I had established myself as a supplier for office stationery on island. So pretty much everybody knew me then. And so getting the product marketed at that time was not a very difficult task. I used to be a driver's salesman and I would go around the island marketing the product. So it was not difficult to get the product test done. And basically you are already in the supply channel. So right now you have to just step back and go into the production aspect of it. Nice. So, you know, of course, we know that recently that you were successful at exporting to Dominica. Can you talk to us about that and let us know? Well, exporting to the islands have always pulled the challenge for us. Many years ago, we used to distribute the product in Guyana, in Antigua, Dominica, and Grenada. However, I had some difficulties then, especially in the stability of the product. And we were experiencing a number of problems with the packaging. And so we lost some money initially as a result of that. And even in the local market, we have had our own problems. I'm sure, I don't know if you know it, but we have had people complaining about caps, cracking and stuff like that. We have been fortunate in the sense that we have solved those problems. But manufacturing is not one of the easiest things to get into. And so we have more or less fine-tuned the packaging of the products. And so there is greater acceptability of the product in both the local and regional market. And with the assistance of Export St. Lucia, and especially I have to thank Anthony John for his continuous support in helping us put this thing together. We had quite a bit of assistance from Miss Alphonse, who was with Export St. Lucia at the time. But from the time Anthony came in, we have had some success. And we were able to export our post-container of products to Dominica. And that's the first time you've exported in how long? In maybe the last 15, 20 years. So what exactly did Export St. Lucia do to secure that opportunity for you guys? Well, I think they had a trade show in Dominica. And of course, some of the distributors in Dominica came to see them. And they introduced my company and my products to them. And they subsequently contacted me. And I have been communicating with them along since. And Anthony has also been following up on what's been happening. So together, we were able to finally secure. Yeah, they were able to give you that exposure, to be able to snipe. What's next for you? Especially you on the advent of COVID-19, you imagine during COVID, you were able to secure that shipment. And I guess because the type of business you're in, sanitation, which is something that's like way up there in terms of demand. Well, actually, when COVID-19 hit the island, we were not prepared for it. And we experienced quite a bit of shortages because the demand was so heavy. But since then, we have been able to streamline our external purchasing to accommodate the production level that is required. And so now imagine we were able to complete that Dominica order. So we have been able to keep the local market supplied. And where do we go from here? It's a matter of time before we are now targeting the other islands in the Caribbean. And we're working along with Anthony as well to making sure that we are able to capture some of the business that are on the other islands.  And really, actually, it wasn't all of this. It started with what you said, a small town. And that's how you used to make the bleach? I used to make the bleach by mixing the chemicals by hand. Yes. So we've come a long way. So with that, as we conclude, what message do you have for young people, anybody in business today, you know, just based on your journey? What can you share with others? A lot of people believe that you must have a huge amount of money to start a business. I started on a shoestring. And one of the things I did is that I found a need and I was able to fill it. So don't think that you cannot start a business without having money. I had the cooperation of a lot of people. And I think that I developed quite a trustworthy attitude with everybody that I did business with. And as a result, I am able to do the thing that I'm doing by having the trust of a lot of my suppliers. And one of the things I have learned is that if I go to a shop and they don't have a product, there must be a reason for it. And once I can find the product, it means that the owner of the business probably have not had the time to go looking for that product or nobody with the product have come to them to supply them. So when I walk in and I asked for, let us say razor blades. As a little shop owner, you're supposed to have razor blades selling. So what I do now is I go find who who sells razor blades. I buy it and bring it for them and I make a percentage. And that is how I have been able to succeed in a lot of my businesses, even without money.  Give me a supply of it. I will bring it for him. When he pays me, I will pay you. And the collaboration continues. And that can happen with many businesses in St. Lucia where we can ensure we become the conduit in supplying what is required. So don't think that you need a whole ton of money. You can, our employment problems can be resolved here quite a bit by people becoming creative and developing the sales attitude. The sales attitude and solving problems and solving solving problems. We complain so much. They complain, but once you can solve somebody's problems, you have a chance to make someone. And that is the secret of it. Mr. Rosu, thank you so much for this interview. I must say I re-enjoyed this opportunity and I'm looking forward. He promised us a tour of the plant, so I'm looking forward to seeing how it all goes down and that chemical bleach or disinfectant you have at your home. You're going to see how it's made right here in St. Lucia in Newport. So we'll be right back. I couldn't help end this discussion without introducing Carla, who is our general manager and she does all of the coordination of the plant and she has been of tremendous assistance throughout the years with us. In fact, she's recently celebrated her 21st, is it 21st? 22nd year with us, so she looks young but filled with experience. Long-standing employee. Exactly. So she's been of tremendous value to the company. Okay, okay. What is it like looking for chemical?  It's been a good experience. I mean, it's had ups and downs, but all in all, it's been a good experience. Why is it that you would like St. Lucia to know about chemical? You know, it's just been an indigenous company. Everybody knows about it, but why is it that you think St. Lucia should know about the company? Well, we have a range of cleaning products for almost every need. And our products have been upgraded. They're more environmentally friendly. And we have removed a lot of the carcinogenic raw materials in there, which is safer for people with sensitive skin, people who have allergies and sinuses and stuff like that. I want to especially thank my wife for her support over the years. She's done a tremendous job in providing the necessary support for me. So to all of our St. Lucia's, I say thank you and especially to my staff and all of the employees of the company. I want to say a special thank you for their support and their cooperation. I cannot help but to thank the people of Viewfort and the whole of St. Lucia who have over the years supported and encouraged us and to help us to be where we are today. I thank every St. Lucia for their support and I look forward to receiving their continued support as we expand and create more employment in the country. Thank you, Daniel, and it was a pleasure having you. And I look forward to seeing you visit us again. Thank you, Mr. Rosary, for allowing us to visit the chemical headquarters. Now it's time for Linkup. Junean Alfred is a 19-year-old student athlete at the University of Texas at Austin. She started track and field at the age of nine and at 14, just finishing from two, she embarked on a new track journey at St. Catherine High School in Jamaica where she broke two junior records in both the 100 meters and the 200 meters and won the annual Digicel Grand Prix under 20 100 meters. She's won several medals and broke international records. A silver medal at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games and in 2019 outdoor season, she broke the senior national records in the 100 meters and 200 meters. Despite an injury, she recovered and got back on the track and in December 2019, she set a new national record in the 60 meters, creating history as the fastest 60-meter time ran in December since 2001. Ladies and gentlemen, Julian Alfred. Good morning, Julian. How are you today? Good morning. I'm doing fine. Thank you. And I understand it's really, really, really early and I just want to say thanks for agreeing to do this interview with you with us this morning. So can you tell us about your journey? You said that, you know, that you went to Leon Hesse but Renyan and Chuni, your talent was discovered at the C-serial combined primary school. So let's talk to us about your journey and give us a brief summary as to how you are in Texas today. So I started at the age of nine and my talent was recognized even before that. At the age of nine, I joined a club in San Monsha, the speed sprinty survivors. And from there, I went to Leon Hesse for like two years and I went to John Maker and my talent was recognized as a competition in Trinidad. That's how I got the scholarship to go to John Maker and I spent three years there and after that, I took some time off from school and from everything and I got a scholarship to go to Texas. Okay. And is it a track and field scholarship? What's the type of scholarship? What's the arrangement like? So I am one of full athletic scholarship in Texas. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Okay. And how long will you be there and what are you studying? So I'll be here for four years, hopefully if I don't, you know, take on the professional path. But right now I'm studying psychology. Nice. And in your vision when you were a child, did you envision that it was psychology? Psychology and track and field seems like too very... So tell us about that. Honestly, psychology hasn't really been something that I thought about but my first time representing San Lucia at the international stage, I realized the importance of a sports psychologist and that's when I decided I wanted to study psychology because I want to like help young athletes like myself like when they have to like go represent San Lucia. So that's why I took on that path. Nice. That's an interesting niche. I never heard about a sports psychologist, you know. So I guess they take care of like things like the motivation and just try to help them through it or would you say that sports men and women, they deal with a lot of things or are some of the things as a sports psychologist you would deal with? In that position. I will basically tackle like the mental aspects. So like when sometimes when we go out to compete, your mind takes control like over your body and I feel like it happens a lot, especially like with me. Like my mind really controls the way I feel and perform and just having that attitude to like just controlling those and just continue to have positive thinking like when they prepare to like compete. So yeah. Nice. So I know that you competed in a lot of championships and track and field. You've been blazing and winning medals. Tell us what has been your proudest moment so far, your greatest achievement as well. So I have achieved like a lot of great stuff and even though I have done a few great stuff like on the international level, I will say my proudest moment would be winning Big 12. And I say that because when I came to Texas, I honestly, I wasn't the best. On my first time running at Big 12, I only competed in the 16 meters and I placed fifth. And last season, 2019 to 2020, I was leading the nation in the 16 meters and I also won Big 12 and broke the Big 12 record. So I think that's my proudest moment because of how far I've come. And I guess you had to work a lot on your mental and lots of training. What was your preparation like for being able to do such a feat? So because I went out like so early last year because of a hamstring injury, I would say I was really motivated to come out and just show my true potential, sorry. And when I got back to Texas, like I've just been, I was just on my toes, like always doing like stuff, like just doing stuff at my best and just trying to be on top always with career. And I guess as an athlete, a lot of it is commitment to be in your best self and discipline and training. I guess the more you train, the better you become and it's the holistic being that you're grooming and you're developing. So from your experience, especially from judging your own self and saying, you know what, I have to do better next time. What is it that you have to tell to young upcoming athletes right here in St. Lucia, primary school, secondary school who are all watching Julian Alfred?  You know, so what he's always talking about, you know, she didn't say she just say she was going. So I guess that has, in terms of your mind, your grit and the fact that you wanted so much. What is it that you have to say to St. Lucia's watching you from afar? So one thing that I've learned over the past few years in Chuck and Phil, I would say to always give you your best.   So then you get that solace from just try your best and once you know you've done your best, you know, that's what makes you sleep at night. Yeah, so two more questions for you. What, how do you think St. Lucia can better prepare for support after you decide yourself? So I was training with the Space Printing Survivors and my coach in St. Lucia is covered modest. Most people know him as twatine. And I think that I got a lot of support from him as a person. And one thing that I've realized in St. Lucia, like when athletes get to a certain age, they tend to like fall out and not continue. So I think that having coaches in St. Lucia who continue to like be after those athletes and continue to like keep them on the game and continue to like motivate those athletes, I think that would be the best for them because some athletes for me, I would say that twatine was always on my back because there'll be times when I was going to Leonis, I would just go in town online and be on this go-in with my friends in town and talking to my own like- I might have a handshake. That's the rating I lost. But they would always tell me like, you know, those things would like always be there.  So I feel like having somebody like him by my side, honestly, me and I feel like there should be more coaches like that to like help those athletes to be on tour with the game and to like continue track, continue whatever sport that they're in. Also the support comes from the parents as well. Once the parents know that the children can like have two potential, I feel like the parents can also support those children because my mom supported me all the way. I mean, even though she didn't have it all, she still encouraged me to like continue track and feel like even like, she supported me to like go to Jamaica. I mean, some parents wouldn't allow the children to like go to another country by themselves. Secondary school, I didn't know it was secondary school and we informed to you just decide to go. You're bad, so I thought it was like a case like you informed five and you decided to go, but I didn't know it was in the middle of your secondary school tenure, so. Yeah, so I was informed to when I left. So if she didn't support me that way, then I wouldn't, I don't think I would have made it this far in my career. Yeah, I think people forget a lot about the support systems that we need for these people to be able to excel and sometimes it's not about having the biggest stadium or the best, you know. I mean, these things are important, but it's the push and the people and that support system to basically groom the talent. My last question for you.  Tell St. Lucia something about you that we don't know. You know, what is it that you probably think you could share with us? Um, I'm not sure what I expect and share, but I think that something that some persons might not know is that I'm really family oriented. Family oriented? Yes, I am.  I'm also a very shy person. I realize. I'm very shy and I'm an introvert. But once I like warm up to people, I can be the sweetest and I can be funny sometimes once I've warmed up to that person. So, yeah. Well, Junya and I'm looking forward to seeing you at press conferences and Berlin and fans and wherever they have Olympics, whenever we do have Olympics, saying thank you St. Lucia and thanks to my family I wish you all the best. I know we're waiting to see you reach Olympics and that we could, you know, raise our flag high and support you, but thank you so much and keep up the good work and all of St. Lucia is rooting for you. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. I'm ready to go. Bye. That's it for this week's installment of Stepping Up. Don't forget to shoot me an email at SteppingUp758 at gmail.com. If you or someone you know should be featured on the show. Thanks again for joining me. I'm your host, Daniel Dubois. See you next time. Until then, keep safe and don't forget to keep Stepping Up.


of all the taxes people pay both tax that we get the most complaints about is the property tax and that's because the property tax is very regressive it's based on the perception of the value of your property not based on your income and your ability to pay and as a result as people strive to purchase a home or to renovate a home the value of the property will go up the taxes will go up even though their income may not be keeping up with that and it's especially burdensome for senior citizens who often end up on fixed income and as the cost of living goes up their income does not keep pace and yet they want to stay in their homes and we want them to stay in their homes because after all that's where they raise their families that's where their lives revolve around that property those homes and sometimes for generation after generation and I was here in Pelham and I'm standing before the Pelham Town Hall I was here in Pelham for the Lions barbecue one year and it was actually I think my first or second year in the state legislature and I sat at the table with Abbey and Avis Weaver both unfortunately have passed on now but they were senior citizens at the time and and we're describing to me how much they love this community how much they wanted to stay in this community how much they wanted to stay in their home and how they wanted to support the services that they were used to receiving and that they knew their friends and neighbors and and family here in town needed and yet they were really struggling to pay their property taxes that message really hit home and I thought about that for some time and eventually sat down with the then state senator John over who was my partner representing Pelham and described the situation and together we came up with the idea of a circuit breaker for property taxes for senior citizens and it took about eight years maybe nine years for us to get that piece of legislation into place but the senior citizen tax break now for people who make limited incomes who have high property taxes or even who have high water or sewer bills in some communities you can apply you pay your property tax and then you apply when you fill out your income tax form even if you don't owe it any income tax you fill out the income tax form you report this data and you can get up to a thousand dollars back from state government and tens of thousands of senior citizens have benefited by this over the years and I'm going to say that it's been in place for somewhere around ten years now maybe coming on 11 or 12 years and my last checking on that was about 60 million dollars a year of property tax relief for senior citizens so that's 60 million a year eight six eight nine hundred million dollars over over a decade's time and a little bit more to help senior citizens so that they can stay in their homes and also so that they can support the services in their communities and here in Pelham that resulted in a lot of senior citizens voting to help build a new library which also contains the fire department that would not have been possible for many of those folks to support the override if they weren't getting some help from from this property tax relief so very proud that from the barbecue here and the DPW barn right next to the the town hall here in Pelham an idea was born over barbecued chicken it took a while to get it done but it's now helped thousands and thousands of people for more than a decade