Welcome to NTIA Nightly, I am Genelle Norville, this edition's top stories. Phase 1 of the reopening of the tourism sector has been extended. Five countries are removed from the designated travel bubble and countries the world over celebrate International Youth Day. Due to the high risk associated with phase 1 of the reopening of the tourism sector, it has been extended. This disclosure was made during the COVID-19 national response update to the nation and on Tuesday 11th August 2020, where officials from the ministries of tourism and health and wellness asserted that the health and safety of the public remains paramount while returning livelihoods. Officials highlighted that while moving to phase 2 is not possible at the moment, other areas are being explored. And this year Antoine has the details. Phase 1 of the reopening of the tourism sector has been extended to September 30th 2020 due to the risk associated with this phase. The ministries of tourism and health and wellness are working collaboratively to ensure strict health and safety measures exist and are followed. Minister for tourism information and broadcasting, culture and creative industries Honourable Dominique Fede, indicated that while the first phase has been extended the Ministry of Tourism is exploring options to add more attractions and restaurants to name a few. He explained its importance so as to ensure that individuals are able to gain an income to be able to provide for their families. I think we are at a stage now where we need to consider having a look at if not moving into phase 2 maybe phase and a half for want of a better phrase and that is to ensure that every step of the way that we place paramount importance the health and safety of the people of St Lucia it is the only way that we can succeed and that is by maintaining the very disciplined and stringent protocols which we have put in place to make sure that A our population is protected first and foremost and then B to get some business and get the country back to work. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism Information and Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries, Donalyn Vite, highlighted that considerations for phase 2 encompasses the inclusion of dive as an activity, reopening of other sites and attractions once COVID-19 certified for operation and reopening villas and Airbnb properties to international jurisdictions. Right now we are getting the direction from Ministry of Health that the level of risk still present in our source markets is too high and it is too concerning and so we are currently evaluating what phase 2 is going to look like for us. Like Minister indicated, it might mean that we have a phase 1 and a half or we can extend phase 1 where we are able to add in more services to those that we can do safely and where we have the cooperation of the service providers but we are still holding consultations. We will hold with the sites and attractions. We have been speaking to the divers and other water-based activities but essentially it is a decision that has to be taken on board with the consultation of the sector and whether or not they are willing to participate because their participation within this high risk period would mean the level of preparation would have to be in check before we move on. The Ministry of Tourism would provide an update as to the next steps to be taken in the reopening of the tourism sector. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. The Ministry of Tourism, Information and Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries assures that as it seeks to reopen the tourism sector there will be no compromising on the health of the citizenry. In fact, the country's management of COVID-19 has been described as exemplary as it continues to make adjustments where necessary, instituting rigorous protocols to ensure the safety of all. St. Lucia is setting the pace for the region with its exemplary management of COVID-19. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Information and Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries, Donalyn Vite, indicated that as the country seeks to adjust to the new normal, no efforts have been spared to ensure the public safety. Thirteen properties on island have been COVID-19 certified, having met rigorous protocols which required a level of investment by the properties. Of these 13 properties, nine of them have reopened and are taking in active bookings. This, according to the Permanent Secretary, aids in gaining the confidence of both staff and visitors staying at the properties. Other entities have been taking the necessary measures to become COVID-19 certified and resume operations. We also have a yachting that has resumed and resumed its service. We have the IGUI Rodney Bay Marina which is open as well as Marigoby Marina. We have the yachting sector, the maritime sector. Apart from yachting, we also have the table charters that are open. We have about 26 operators that have gone through. We have 56 in all in terms of those who are actively involved. In terms of Sufra, Sufra is putting its house in order and ensuring that protocols are in place for it to resume and really announce itself to be part of the sector again. And there are lots of people within the Sufra Bay who are operators who are ready and willing to resume their trade. The tourism sector, according to the Permanent Secretary, is a diverse one and as efforts are made towards its reopening, she assures that the health and safety of all Saint Lucia remains paramount. As of the 12th of August 2020, all 25 COVID-19 patients have fully recovered and tested negative for COVID-19. This gives Saint Lucia a 100% recovery rate as currently there are no reported active COVID-19 cases. The island has recorded no COVID-19 related deaths. 99 test results received on August 11, 2020 were all negative. A total of 4,373 tests have been conducted to date. National epidemiologist in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Dr. Michelle Faswa, urged members of the public to remain vigilant and continue adhering to all stipulated protocols given the increased risk associated with the reopening of the country's various sectors. We remind everyone that as we continue with the phase reopening of the country, the risk for introduction of COVID-19 has increased. The public is advised that all protocols are still in place, including the reduced numbers for public transportation and hygiene protocols for private sector establishments. These also include the use of face masks in public, sanitizing of hands and maintaining the recommended six foot physical distance from others. The Ministry of Health once again reiterates the importance of maintaining the quarantine of returning nationals and visitors, as it is a great measure in minimizing the risk of transmitting COVID-19. The Ministry of Health and Wellness urges individuals who have been placed in quarantine to adhere to the 14-day quarantine period, where home quarantine has been granted. Individuals must remain there for the full period of time. This action is to protect the health and safety of every individual in the country. The Bureau of Health Education reminds the general public of the do's and don'ts of home quarantine. This after 10 nationals were placed into a government facility for violating home quarantine protocols. 14-day institutional quarantine remains the goal standard for observation of individuals internationally, including those entering St. Lucia in the wake of the coronavirus. Health and family life educator Naomi Grandison is concerned that the gravity of the pandemic may be lost on many because of the information they choose to rely on. If for instance, persons are receiving information from one or they're just bent on receiving an anti-establishment information, like even if they don't know the credibility of the source, what I'm feeling on the ground is that there are quite a few people who, because they have an antagonistic perspective of whatever the establishment is, they will tend to gravitate to information that just goes against it. People need to understand that giving into information that minimizes COVID-19 is only going to put us at greater risk.  If we're going to act like it's not an issue, we put ourselves at greater risk and we're encouraging persons and it's not until it hits home sometimes that we don't change and we don't have to wait for that. In an interview on NTN's Morning Brew Thursday, Grandison stressed that those who home quarantine and their relatives in the household must uphold the protocols. Major requirements for home quarantine are restrictions on visitors to the home. You need to reduce on the visitors and this individual should have a separate room or at least be sleeping at a distance further from everybody else, have a separate bathroom and if there is not adequate facilities for that, that there is sanitization after they use the bathroom. Okay, a specific time for them to use it. So this is just as a precaution. So if the person is infectious, is shredding the virus for whatever reason, then it could mitigate the further transfer of that infection. Over the last few months, people who have been granted home quarantine have not been adhering to the protocols. All persons on home quarantine are required to stay indoors for 14 days. As such further restrictions on home quarantine have been instituted with immediate effect. Anyone found in breach of home quarantine will be immediately taken to a government quarantine facility to complete their time. Under this act, the police officers have the duty to enforce compliance. Five additional countries have been removed from the designated travel bubble. The Ministry of Health and Wellness highlighting the criteria for countries to be added or removed from the designated bubble indicates that based on information, it is able to respond quickly to changes adding or removing countries as in feet. Anisia Antoine tells us more. Kareb Keshan's latest marketing brand, Bubble Keshan, allows travelers from countries within the designated travel bubble to reconnect with family and friends or enjoy a getaway in St. Lucia. Visitors within the bubble countries with a travel history from these areas in the last 21 days will be exempt from quarantine. However, they are required to obtain a negative PCR test result no more than seven days prior to the date of travel and are subject to mandatory screening on arrival. Ensuring that St. Lucia remains a safe destination in the face of COVID-19, the travel bubble has recently been revised. St. Lucia Tourism Authority's Public Relations Manager, Jarene Georges, noted that following examination of travel bubble countries by the Ministry of Health and Wellness, five countries have been removed from the travel bubble including the Bahamas, Jamaica, Aruba, St. Martin and Bermuda. As of August 12, 2020, the following countries now form a part of the Caribbean bubble and are eligible for participation in the ongoing Bubble Keshan campaign. Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Barbados, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Caracou, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Montserrat, St. Barthelmy, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago. To qualify for Bubble Keshan, participants are reminded that they must be coming from the jurisdiction of origin, no less than 21 days of having been there and must present a negative PCR COVID-19 test within seven days of arrival in St. Lucia. They too must refill the travel registration form on stlucia.org and check with the airlines for travel schedules. The Public Relations Manager explained that the health and safety of citizens and local communities remain paramount. Medical Officer of Health at the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Dr. Glenford Joseph, explained the criteria used to determine a country's status as to whether or not it is included in the designated travel bubble list. The Ministry of Health and Wellness continues to assess the COVID-19 situation, not only in St. Lucia but globally. And as such, depending on the level of transmission, the risk of the level of transmission that is taking place in country, in those countries, where the risk would be elevated, at least once you recognize those, you want to limit these persons who can come to St. Lucia and be moving around freely. Because once you come from a territory where there is a relatively high level of transmission, it means that persons, even though they may have a negative COVID test at the time when the test was done, they could have been exposed subsequently and within that seven days, come to St. Lucia and develop symptoms and begin shedding the virus. So for those countries with a low level of transmission or no transmission, those who want and especially those within the Caribbean territory to be within the Caribbean bubble. For more information on the bubblecation, individuals can log on to www.caribcation.org or call 458-7101. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. Countries across the world are celebrating International Youth Day. Everyday, young people are enriching institutions and processes at the local, national and global levels. This year, the theme of International Youth Day is youth engagement for global action. It highlights the importance and value of young people's contributions and draws lessons on how their representation and engagement in formal institutional politics can be significantly enhanced. Minister for Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development, Honourable Dr. Gail Briggebert indicated that she remains committed to seeing that young people continue to be at the forefront of the development of our country. She explained that continued investments in education will ensure that no one is left behind and that equality education for all becomes our reality. The government she added will continue to amplify efforts aimed at modernizing our education system, making it more relevant to our times and provide greater opportunities for the learning and application of science, technology, engineering and mathematics as well as the creative sectors for our young people. The minister explained that young people are also the country's hope in achieving the sustainable development 2030 goals and the government will continue to encourage them to play their part and allow their voices to be heard. She welcomed the United Nations theme and ended by reiterating her unwavering commitment to the young people of St. Lucia, stating that she fully supports the youth in their positive endeavors and will continue to empower them so that together they are able to build a new St. Lucia. This is Ntn Nightly, up next, Primus Hutchinson with the Ntn Luffel of the All. In an effort to ensure patient and first responder safety, the St. Lucia Fire Service has reviewed its patient transfer procedures, especially for patients with respiratory distress. Face masks will be provided. At no time during transportation should the face mask be removed. Please be patient and cooperative during this time to ensure you receive the best possible care while keeping our first responders safe. Welcome back. We now join Primus Hutchinson for the Ntn Nouvelle of Quaiol. Mr. Otar Genel, Mr. Madame, Department of University of St. Lucia, for the formation of the government of St. Lucia, called GIS, and the National Television of the Ntn Caposito Nouvelle of Quaiol. Primus Hutchinson. The Ntn Nouvelle of Quaiol, and the National Television of the Ntn Caposito Nouvelle of Quaiol, are now operating in the city of St. Lucia, and they are also starting a commercial aviation journey in the city of Quaiol. To make this possible, we have a large number of tourist properties in the city, to find a certification for COVID-19, and to open the doors for the foreigners. Among them is Sandals Grand, St. Lucia, Laddera, Sugar Beach, Viceroy Resort, Stonefield Villa Resort, Big Gardens Beach Resort, Anspoir, Jed Mountain, and Sharsney, Windjammer Landing Villa Beach Resort, Marigoby Resort, Anspoir, and Marina, Serenity, Tete Wouge Resort, Caïblin Villa Hotel, and Cap Mizzant. To make this possible, I would like to declare that in this economic situation, I have made a lot of efforts to support them, but, in the meantime, I have seen a total of 4,600 tourists working in the hotel, while they are still operating in these facilities. To make this possible, I have found a total of 600 taxi drivers who are also working in the tourism sector. To make this possible, I have made a lot of efforts to support them, while they are still working in the tourism sector. To make this possible, I have found a total of 4,600 taxi drivers working in the tourism sector. To make this possible, I have found a total of 4,600 taxi drivers working in the tourism sector. To make this possible, I have made a lot of efforts to support them. To continue working in the tourism sector. To make this possible, I have found a total of a proof that you're negative, that you're going to have to travel. Since the 7th of May of 2020, there have been a lot of things that have been going on. It has been a lot of things, such as rubber, anguilla, babad, boomyuda, bonheur, British Virgin Islands, that's the country of the old English, Curacao, Dominic, Lagunade, Guiana, Montserrat, Saint Bartholomew, Saint Kitts, Agnevis, Céves Saint, Lagunadien, and Trinidad, Agtomego. There's a lot of things that have been going on that have been going on for a long time, such as international jurisdiction, which has been going on for a long time. It has been a lot of things that have been going on for a long time, a lot of things that have been going on for a long time. I would also like to declare that I am now in place for the foreigners, for the international country, and I am also in place for Pogambobla, a Caribbean country that complies with the repercussions of the corona pandemic, who have found a place to host more establishments in this country. So these foreigners who have the highest wish to host more tourist establishments, and protocols that are much more important to protect their country and the international community, can also open up this place to the world. And this place is still in the west, and I have found a place to host more tourist establishments in this country. In this place, I am now in place for the coronavirus pandemic, and I am now in place to test yourself, negative. Situations a la place de cette lycée a dégoué 11% libre de malades coronas et que ça a blédé, puis il y a posaitement ni 0 cas malades salaires. Resultat, un total qui sorti les 11 ammades à hauts moutoués qui catuvaient 19% négatifs et un total de 4,363 tests. J'ai fait déjà le département sorti qu'a fait public la changer qui, puis il y a caviré ouvert en phase. C'est faux changer. C'est le signe, oui, c'est toujours des malades coronas. Alors, il y a qu'un conseil publicable pour continuer de suivre tout le protocole pour éduire à sa possibilité malades salaires s'y manger. Il y a qu'a m'a dit pour moins passager avant l'auto et pour l'anis WEG, un établissement secteur public. Principalement, pour l'availament, Servie Massa Soufidjai, ex-spiricite sociale. Minister de santé a continué à faire appel pour mon qu'il y a quarantine pour obéir 14 jours et qu'il y a aussi qu'il y a quarantine à Khayomem pour aussi respecter 14 jours salaires pour protéger cette publique et payer à généralement. Minister de santé a plaidé et puis public l'a pour aider au continuer de faire bataille contre malades coronas et continuer de suivre tout le WEG de protection contre malades salaires. Les travailleurs à l'opération WASCO en façade sous-pays, il faut qu'à y trouver plus meille facilité d'accommodation pour placer aux adagions en position qui plus faveurables pour y occuper et travailler étilité salare. D'un sérémonie pour les marchés troisième phase au Gédelot en paresse salare semaine passée, Minister a fait agréable qu'il y a aussi une responsabilité pour WASCO. On va beseiller le Joseph, annoncer plein pour faire la vie plus libre, pour faciliter meilleure opération pour les travailleurs WASCO en soeur de vie et fort. Et puis qu'au gouvernement nous décidait que nous pouvions commencer à mettre un office neuf pour ces travailleurs nous n'y en sommes là et puis nous allons commencer à projeter ça. Et puis nous allons hopter que pour gérer finir, bonheur l'année prochaine. So, at least nous pouvions commencer à glorer, nous pouvions commencer à l'office là, so at least nous pouvions concentrer pour impouver situation en soeur de vie. Moi ça a eu son offlet car moi j'ai une question qu'il s'agréait faite. Mais ça a eu son offlet pas de bon. Et puis nous commençais à mettre son offlet avant. Et puis là nous finions son offlet, qu'au gouvernement nous aient concentré son offlet. Mais définitivement, moi j'ai appris que moi j'ai des ressources, et puis je me suis dit qu'il y a des travailleurs, et puis il y a des contracteurs pour bâtir ces gens au soeur de vie, un premier place pour travailler. Merci madame, ça s'est coté. Nous allons faire un bout de nouvelles là pour aujourd'hui. Moi je vais remercier autant pour qu'à garder, je vais avoir une invitation pour que je ne puisse pas encore se dire qu'au soeur de la vie, on va appuyer sur tout un lot de nouvelles à croire. Alors pour ça, je vais appuyer pour ça tout au Chanel.


Let's go over to our man Mr. Teddy cakes that as you do every Wednesday at 40 past the hour You can reach Teddy every trading day folks at 4x dash trading dash unlock calm That's 4x dash trading dash unlock calm Teddy cakes that You riding that way. How are you guys doing great man yourself? You know, I'm doing pretty good It's kind of a quiet day in the currencies today. Not like well since we talked last It was quite the volatile period for sure. Oh, there's no doubt man. I mean, how about that move in the euro, huh? Oh my gosh, that was the biggest move that we've seen in the euro You know for like a week and a half just the the volatility to happen intraday Let alone the full moves off that is yielding. So so what do you think like when you're looking at this euro right now? I mean is this thing game? That's a one, you know, 15 118 or what are you thinking? Well, you know what? I mean where the the recent low is that's been a very strong support area for the euro for a long time Yeah, now what really surprised me was the the Volcker-esque way of cutting interest rates yesterday. Okay, you know Yeah, so now the market I think it's pretty much factored in the corona virus, you know or as at least as far as the currencies I think I think the equity markets still have a little bit more to go as far as like the S&P's and stuff like that especially with the way the volatility looked yesterday. Yes, so but like I look at the yen You know for instance like this market was in a very strong bull market for a very long time And now especially with what's going on and even with this interest rate cut. I don't understand how the yen isn't Isn't bouncing right now, you know, so it's it's very odd You know that we last week we talked about how there was a divergence We were starting to see that these countertrend murt moves were either gonna follow through even more like they did Or we start to see a little bit of a turn which we didn't get and now I think we're starting to come into that little area Where the dollar dollar weakness?   This thing looks like it's charging down to this 104 level. I mean, we're right and you know, you remember when we talked last week It was only halfway from where it is now from the low to the high Yes, the other most recent high anyway We were talking about how if it does go like I didn't think it was gonna get as low as it did But now it's me.  They had a nice little corrective move You got the Canadian US dollar Canadian dollar It looks like they're trying to have a little bit of a corrective move So there's some weakness and strength that's starting to show Versus the fundamental trade that we've seen going on for the past couple weeks But the US dollar yen is a total puzzler.  We just say in there and we were talking about this a few weeks ago Teddy you I and Tommy and what it was is that that was the first time that the yen Even when it was a weaker meaning higher in price, right, right gold market didn't react and remember I said, you know It was like this is so strange man because what happens folks is that the yen almost runs the gold market I mean, it's that dramatic. Okay, and Maybe that was one of the tails. Do you know what I mean? That's like, okay, man This is like crazy man. Okay, cuz we were right up there normally folks with that would happen, you know And then and I guess I can make the case. Okay was the delayed action because they whack gold a hundred bucks on Friday, right? Right It's like, okay, man. Oh You gotta love it though, I'll tell you Well, you know, it's kind of funny like you're you're drawing the correlation with which we both know how gold and yen are very Interrelated yes, and I'm starting to think too is that it could be you know Oil has taken quite the little nice little sell-off over the past couple weeks and now isn't a very nice area So let's say that even with all the supply chain slowdowns and whatever would have you if Production is slowing and even if if sales are slowing But your costs are also diminishing at the same time What is the severity of the whole situation? You know what I mean, right? So and I think that with the yen you might be seeing the yen strength because if when oil is low It's good for Japan because they don't have oil to begin with they have to import it no matter what sure, you know so and especially, you know If the corona stuff starts to really stabilize now over the next couple weeks, you know The numbers are it's kind of weird in certain places. It seems like they're stabilizing in other places They're not you know, so we don't know what that impact is yet, but I think maybe for the Asian trade The yen might start to be a baby. It's a bull right now. I don't know I it's it's a really hard thing to gauge especially with how gold's moving, you know Yeah, there's no doubt one of you know We just had those oil numbers and one of our tigers in the den brought up a great point And what it was folks is that that yeah, the the airlines are getting killed You know, there's no doubt, but more people will probably jump in their car using gasoline and it's so wild because last night I'm talking to one of my cousins and You know, he's gonna get another one of my cousins is what you know They're gonna jump in their car and they're riding down here They said what what coming man and it's always so funny and but they're jumping in their car Do you know what I'm saying, right? So we that's that's a phenomena that We do want to pay attention to folks and you know Millions of people jumping the cars that use an oil maybe you know oil can basically get stabilized. Yeah, you know It's right, you know gonna be interesting that there's no no especially with the holidays coming up You know, you got spring breaks and stuff like that It will be interesting to see how that those numbers start to pan out. Yeah spring break I forgot about so with you know with the European currencies, you know It's pretty interesting how you know the dollar has been in a little bit of a retreat recently The pound still just seems to be a sideways kind of grinding little bear kind of not really But it just doesn't seem to want to get a rally But it doesn't want to sell off either, you know Like when the euro was really stretching this these point this through resistance over the past few sessions before today When you look at the pound, which is also one of the biggest currencies out there It was really not very much volatility in the pound at all, right, you know, so and the Swiss strength also kind of shows me that That the strength in the Swiss is returning, you know, so I think we're gonna see a divergence, you know But like I said, I think so we had found good support in the euro US dollar whether it can maintain any type of rally You know like that's significant. I don't think so, but I think the volatility we have now if that stays Well, that changes things, you know, I mean we saw more you guys have been trading for a long time I mean the currencies in on Thursday and Friday, especially Friday afternoon the last few hours It was trading like the S&P's in a fast market. It was crazy with the range and how fast it was moving, right? Yeah, going into these weekends for currencies, right for gold is always dangerous, man You know because right there the market is looking like two days folks and $48 in this market here But might as well be like five weeks. It's like sure sure and here's another thing to work we are gonna be coming into earnings season soon and These earnings aren't gonna be reflective of this virus until six months from now the earnings for the I mean right now All the economic numbers are coming out great. No, no, folks You can reach Teddy every trading day 4x dash trading dash unlock.com Teddy you have a great one safe one We look forward to speaking the next Wednesday. Absolutely guys. Thanks a lot. We'll see you next week. Thank you Stay right there folks Tommy and I come right back


why a smooth jazz connection. I am your host, Wendell and Harris. My guest today hails from Jacksonville, Florida and is an award winning musician, songwriter and producer. He has a graduate of Berkeley College of Music and he has a protege of the late Nick Coleone. He has played with Mike Stern, the late Nick Coleone and Elon Trottern just to name a few. This young man has an amazing and bright future in music. And I am so excited to have him here today with me, here with me today. Please welcome Mr. Willie Soul to the show. Aloha, Willie, how are you? Aloha, Gwen. It is wonderful to be here and I am doing wonderful. What about you? I am hanging in there. I am hanging in there. As we spoke earlier, you know, I'm getting over a bit of a cold after being out of town. But you know what? We're gonna make this work. We're gonna make it work. We're gonna make it work. We're gonna get through it. We are going to make this work. Now, I wanna tell my audience. I first, you know, I heard about this young man through two of, well, my business partners now, but two of my mutual friends. And you know, Mr. Roshan O'Dell and Mr. Jesse J. T. Jack Thompson, right? So I heard about this young man and they were just bragging on him and he played with them at a show in Buffalo, New York. And I was like, well, I can't wait to hear. Well, I got to hear him about three weeks ago now. Right. When you played at Jesse's CD release. And when I tell you this young man is amazing, OMG. What I need you to tell the audience is, how did you get your start in music? I know you started at a very young age. So long. Well, you know, most don't know music in general, how I started was, you know, I really, guitar really wasn't my first instrument. Drums was, and that was like at a very, very early age, you know, just been kind of, like most musicians or artists kind of born into music, most males per se. I don't know what it is about the drums that they're drawn into. I think it's just beating on things. I think. But obviously, rhythmic and beating, you know, and, you know, with the drums, that was something I first fell in love with. My mom bought me, you know, the drum set, the toy drum set. And I was, you know, playing that at an early age. And we had this thing in Jacksonville that is no longer here called Jacksonville Landed, set right on the water. And bands would pull up, boats would pull up, people would play. This was every weekend. I would go out there with my Fisher Price drum set. I would play. And at the time, I guess people just found that. I don't know. But what they did was they would tip me at an early age. I mean, this was before seven years old, they would drop, you know, cook dollars, quarters there as I would be playing the drums. So that was kind of like my stark into music. But I bring me on up to speed, you know, after that. I kind of diverted in doubt because we just talking about music, you know, you want to know how I got my start into music. So, of course, I was still, you know, always wanting to play the drums, always wanting to play the drums. And I remember just like, again, like most musicians, you know, especially African-American as well. We grew up in the church, you know? And I never forget my father telling me, he was like, son, everybody want to play the drums. All the males want to play the drums.   And then, you know, I never forget, you know, elementary school, I kind of diverted in doubt with the trumpet. And that was, you know, kind of my middle, well, no, let me back up. My elementary school years kind of diverted in doubt with the trumpet. And around that time, that's when I started messing around with the guitar. Like, you know, I would see a guitar, never forget, it was always interesting. I'd pick it up, play that thing, and I wouldn't play it with a pick, man. I'd be playing it with my fingers, get blisters all in my finger. My dad had an acoustic guitar. I would mess with his, get blisters all on my fingers and, you know. And then, you know, around that time, I never forget, not sure, cause they kind of slowly fading away. There's a store called JCPenney. And I'd never forget for one of my birthdays, around seven or eight, my dad bought me my first guitar. And it came with, it's kind of like that start. It came with the amp, the harmony amp and the harmony guitar. And I ended up getting private lessons. And, you know, around seven or eight, that's when I first started playing guitar. And that was kind of the kickoff. You know, I would stop right there cause I could keep rolling, but I want to, you know, keep that conversation going back and forth. So, you know, I kind of brought you all the way from the beginning on up to how I first started playing guitar. It will take off from there later. Oh, okay. Well, you know, thank you for that. You know, I just enjoy listening to you speak. I really do. And I told you that. So what type of music did you listen to in the household? Well, honestly, it's kind of funny though. At an early age, man, I was listening to the, what are the first guys that I remember listening to at an early age? It's funny now cause I'm just thinking how young I was, but I remember BB King, that was my cat. That was my guy, you know, at an early age. And this was the time, of course, I remember it wasn't on DVD, it was on VHS. And this was the young BB King I was listening to. He was standing up, had a Jerry curl, you know, then of course, you know, from there, that's when I got hip to George Benson. That's when I got hip to Norman Brown. So then, you know, it was that. Plus, you know, I ride in the car with my dad and I never forget this one, Barry White. So I'm listening to Barry White. Now I'm digging his old school music, but it's like a full orchestra behind it. So I'm like digging that, you know, the strings and all of that stuff. Then, you know, next thing I know, my daddy got some of the spinners, you know, I'm listening to that kind of stuff. And, you know, everything I'm telling you, at an early age, it was just kind of embedded in me, that Marvin Gaye and the James Brown. But, you know, the first thing that came to my mind was BB King to be quite honest with you. You know, he wore those blazers and the bow tie with the cummerbund. And I mean, he was killing Lucille back then, you know. And like I say, from there, you know, I would hear George Benson and I remember getting that DVD and listening to Norman Brown. So it was kind of, it's just crazy kind of now to think about it, because you don't think about it then. You know what your parents are really trying to do. You just kind of listening at the time, but you don't know they kind of trying to feed it to you. You know what I'm saying? Slowly, but surely. So, you know, I mean, I kind of had that mixture and I'm kind of about to jump the gun, but we're gonna get to the whole really soul thing and this mixture.  Like, that's where I guess it all started to be quite honest. So now you said what I just said was I went from blues to George Benson. I mean, he almost, he could play straight ahead jazz. He could play R&B. He could play, I mean, he could even blues George Benson can. He got Norman Brown, smooth jazz. Then I started talking about Barry White. I mean, that's straight up old school R&B. Then I started talking about what, the spinners, that's R&B, Marvin Gaye, you know, R&B. Then you got James Brown, the funk. So now just think about all that, you know, I'ma just leave that there for a minute. Just think about all that that was embedded in me at an early age, you know? Yes, yes, most definitely. And so people have not heard you play yet. They're gonna hear you playing just in a little bit. But you are deemed as the late Nick Coleone's protege. And when I heard you play a few weeks ago, I was like, yes, yes. Now I wanna read something. I'm gonna read you a quote or, you know, a quote that Nick Coleone said about you. And this is a published quote, all right? So everybody can read it. And it says, I was impressed with him from the beginning when I heard him play the guitar. His approach to the guitar and his musical, musical vocabulary is vast for his age. There are a lot of young guitarists coming out. But I think Soul has the thing that it takes, that it takes to go all the way and be a real force in whatever genre he decides he wants to play. Soul has the ability to play a lot of different styles. He will not be stuck in one thing because he has the chops to cross over and adapt to whatever the situation. Soul has the juice, the stuff which makes the grapes. Yeah. And I know you were very close to him. So what was it like working with him? Well, you know, it's kind of funny. I was just thinking about like, it's just crazy, you know, having this conversation and conversing with you, you kind of get to reminisce, talk about certain things.  This is real, you know? This was like thinking about everything and how it's coming together and, you know, thinking about the, but listening to that quote, it brings back memories on conversations of, just kind of when I was trying to get in the game, but, you know, I was trying to figure this whole thing out.  I'd be like, man, you know, I'm trying to fit into this smooth jazz thing, but I'm really not in, you know, I want to sing in, but, you know, a lot of smooth jazz don't have. And he would be like, well, you know, you got to figure out what you want to do. And it's just, you know, listening to that quote on, he could fit whatever genre he decides or he has many styles. You know, then I just was like, I was just thankful that he said that about me, but now it all makes sense, you know, just based on what I just told you previously about, you know, what I was listening to at an early age.   And I knew it was always this jazz thing, but it was like, you know, at the end of the day, I think what it really came down to, I'm his protege and that's my mentor, but I'll never ever be able to be him, you know? I can be me influenced by him, or, you know, I can never try to be anybody else in the smooth jazz, you know, genre.  Like when he walked in, he demanded the room. So when I touch down wherever I am, that's the first thing, you know, my image and presentation is everything before I even pick up the guitar. So, you know, it's just, it's demanding that stage, you know? And I'm laughing because I'm just thinking about something somebody said after one of the shows, but, you know, it's not an arrogance, but it's a demand, it's just a demand that you put on. Like, hey, I'm here, it's showtime. And that's just, I remember, you know, just before shows, walking with him out the hotel room, he just had that walk hand be in his pocket. Like, just before he even hit the stage, everybody like, there go the man, that's the man right there, you know?  And I'd be like, matter of fact, on the last time before he played, I was like, yo, what the last time I seen him? And I was like, man, what an orange one. He's like, what an orange one? Yeah, I'm a what an orange one, you know? And it's just like, you know, that style, it's just gonna be, that's the first thing, you know? And just being true to yourself. And, you know, it was just, I learned a lot of things through conversation, especially when I got into recording. He would always be the first one, I'd be like, hey, what you think about this? He'd be like, man, that's hot, man, I'm so proud of you, or man, turn this down, turn that down. This song is about you, it's not about that person. So it took me a while to get into recording, but that was the first, because I mean, he was a recording artist, and like, he got in smooth jazz. So I knew he knew what the sound was that they're looking for, you know? So on the terms of recording, stage presence, image, you know, demanding the stage, you know, all of those things, it was just, those were the things that I learned. And, you know, just being in this presence, I just admire how he dealt with people. I told him, I said, man, listen, you don't get tired of saying, thank you so much. I mean, I walked with him, I don't tell him, I don't know how many times he was like, thank you so much, thank you so much. He was like, man, I should just get a assignment and wear it around my neck and say, thank you so much.    I should say that, you know? I learned all that from him and just life in general. Well, you have, because, you know, we're running short on time, but you have three singles out. The first one is What's Going On. Your next one was Please Come Home for Christmas. And your latest one is entitled Willys Group. Just tell us really quickly, what was the mindset behind Willys Group? Man, so Willys Group, so that was my first original, right? So I knew my first original, I knew it had to be quote unquote, I'm gonna use this word, a banger. So, but I wanted it to be different.  I'm young, you know? I'm 26 and, you know, but jazz is a mature genre, it's a mature, but the question that came to me, how can I get people my age, those that are mature, that love jazz, those that, you know, how can I make it all come together personally? And so I took those ideas and I, you know, I was like, man, it's gotta fit soul. It's gotta be all of that, you know? Like when I perform, I mean, it's got to be able to grab everybody.  So, you know, I took that idea and, you know, me and the producer, we went back and forth, back and forth about this for a long time, you know? And that's normally how I'd be, you know?  And we finally came to a conclusion on it. And, but that's how that came apart. You know, I just wanted it to be different, but I wanted it to be something that everybody enjoyed, you know?  And I told you, our time is going to go quickly. So, can you, of course, we have to do a part two with you, but can you just give us a little snippet of what you can do with a guitar? I want to do my best. Just a little bit, just a little, you know, couple minutes, you know? Oh. It's my time up, or can I keep going? I wish you were here. There are questions that I have to ask you, that I would like to ask you. Yeah. And the first one is, what would you give, what advice would you give a new artist coming into the industry? And I need you to be, you know, kind of short. Yeah. The first thing that came to my mind is love what you do. If you love what you do, it's, let's say this, it's hard. You know, it's a rough genre out here. You know, it's, well, let's not just say genre. It's a rough industry out here. And you don't want to quit sometimes. It's going to get hard sometimes. You'll cry sometimes. You're going to question it sometimes. But I think if you always remember why you're doing what you're doing, I think it'll always bring back some strength and some encouragement because you love what you do. But on top of that, based off our conversation and you know, I never really called it. Well, to some people I called them my mentor, but I always called them my OG. That was my OG. You know, I always think that you need somebody in the game or in the industry that you can talk to, that you can call and be like, hey, what do you think about this? What do I need to do about this? What did you do when you were coming up? You know, you need somebody to bounce the ideas off of and get encouragement and feedback.   That a lot of times just got to make sure they're a positive individual. Wow, stop right there. Wow, wow, wow. So and that's so true. Everything you said is true. And I haven't had other artists to say the same thing. Now, what I want to know, first of all, is are you going to be willing to come back for a part two for me? Oh, yeah, absolutely.  But the next question I want, I want you to say what do you have going on? What should I mark on my calendar? Well, coming up soon and very soon in Jacksonville, Florida is my next show I'll be playing is the summer series Jacksonville Beach Jazz Festival. The date on that is June the 5th, 2022. That is a Sunday. And I hit the stage at five o'clock. You don't want to be late. Five o'clock on the dot. I don't have much time. What do you say? I'm not there for a long time, but for a good time. You know what I'm saying? So you got to make sure you got your own chair. You got everything situated by five o'clock. So that's in Jacksonville, Florida, June the 5th, summer series Jacksonville Beach Jazz Festival. June the 5th, 2022. Now, where can people go to follow you for your music? And if they just want to start following you as an artist? So social media wise, Instagram is one of the biggest things I do. That's one of the biggest platforms, I think, for artists and anybody. You can follow me there at Duck, real Willis-Sole. That's T-H-E-R-E-A-L-W-I-L-L-I-E-S-O-U-L. The real Willis-Sole question on Facebook. Just look, you know, look up Willis-Sole or www.facebook.com slash Willis-Sole music. Twitter as well, you know, twitter.com slash Willis-Sole music. Now, that's the social media, pretty much my social media handles, but I'm really big on Instagram. If you want to listen to my music, my music is on all platforms. That's Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal is big these days, Pandora, I'm sure there's some other stuff out there. You know, I'm on all platforms, but anything you want to follow me on, just give me a shout out, a direct message and I'll respond. And I advise you to go and listen to his music, listen to that Willis, that Willis groove. Oh my gosh, I love it, love it, love it. It's definitely a groove. Yes, yes it is. And if you get a chance, if you're in the Jacksonville area and you get a chance to see Willie play, go see him play. Go see him play, you will not be disappointed. Trust me on that. With that being said, Willie, I thank you so much for being here with me today. Yeah, it's definitely my pleasure.  I love it, love it, love it. Don't say that like that, maybe sound like a talk too much. No, no, no, no, no, I love it. I appreciate you for having me, it's definitely a pleasure. I love it. So my viewers, thank you so much for tuning in today and until next time, aloha and God bless. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. 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Sì, è impressionante la quantità di sogni, di visioni, di capacità d'immaginazione, di creatività e poi di concretezza che sia lei che Taka che ci hanno dimostrato stasera. È davvero un grande regalo averli qui oggi perché ci mostrano che è possibile, ok, qualsiasi sogno è possibile, ha fatto di lavorare, di riuscire a mettere insieme dei gruppi di ricerca di alto di velo, di cooperare straordinario, per me è veramente straordinario. Io devo dire, l'ultimo ospite è Werner Hoffmann, Werner Hoffmann è direttore del Max Planck Institute di Heidelberg ed è portavoce di CTA, c'era in Cove Telescope al Reiki, ha organizzato questo symposio, ha avuto anche questa splendida idea di un incontro con tutti voi, con tutti voi questa sera. Noi tutti siamo abituati a pensare a la velocità della luce nel vuoto come un limite che non si può superare e questo è certamente vero se appunto si considera la velocità della luce nel vuoto. Però quando la luce si muove attraverso un mezzo tipo l'acqua oppure l'aria, l'atmosfera può capitare che in certe circostanze alcune particelle la superino in velocità. Quando questo accade queste particelle mettono una luce. Bene è proprio da questa idea che si è partiti per pensare al Cerecove Telescope al Reiki. Questa luce è messa da particelle che si muovono a velocità superiore della luce, si chiama appunto luce effetto Cerecove, è messa per effetto Cerecove. Bene parlerà appunto Werner Hoffmann. Well, the reason we are all here is because of the CTA symposium and so maybe it's not a bad idea to tell you what the Cerecove Telescope Re is. Now what we've heard so far, we've heard about cosmic messengers, neutrinos, we've heard about gravitation waves which send ripples through space and time. But still most of what we know from the universe, we know through electromagnetic waves, through light, all the wonderful pictures which modern telescopes like the Hubble Telescope give us, pictures of distant galaxies amazingly resolved, also pictures of Nebula in our own galaxy of star forming regions, all these wonderful pictures you probably have seen somewhere in journals or in talks. And there's for example this sparkling cloud of stars towards the galactic center. However you're probably aware that these pictures of the sky which you see with your eyes in the visible light, this light encompasses a certain range of wavelengths of frequency, it goes from red on one end to blue on the other end of the spectrum, the red end has the light with the long wavelengths, the low frequency, the low energy per quantum of light, the blue end has the short wavelengths, the high frequency, the high energy. However this range in wavelengths is just a factor of two so it covers it can be compared to one octave on a piano. The light or the electromagnetic radiation we receive from space however is much more radiation from space encompasses about 70 octaves and 70 octaves that corrispondent to the sounds of a 15 meter long piano. So on this 15 meter long cosmic piano you have on the on the low pitch side the radio waves, then comes the infrared, the visible light, the ultraviolet, the x-rays and the very high pitched sounds on the right end of this cosmic piano are the gamma rays. Much of modern astrophysics has been exploring the other 69 octaves of the spectrum outside the visible and making this accessible to observation. And to illustrate to you why it's so important to be able to listen to this whole spectrum of cosmic sounds, what I've taken is I've taken a familiar piece of music and I've cut out one octave of the spectrum. One octave corresponds to the visible light which we see with our eyes. Now listen to this familiar piece of music in one octave of the spectrum. Let's hope this works. Very strange. You probably don't figure out what it is. You certainly don't enjoy it. So that's the problem because you're listening in just one octave. Now let's try to take the pin piece of music and listen to it on the only 10 octaves of the acoustic spectrum, not to mention the 70 octaves of the cosmic spectrum. And if I play you the music with the whole spectrum, you will certainly recognize what it is and you certainly enjoy it. So this just serves to illustrate how important it is to listen to the whole spectrum of cosmic sounds from the very low pitch radio waves to the very high pitched gamma rays. And gamma rays is what CTA is about and what we'll be talking about for the rest of the day. Gamma rays are the most extreme radiation. They have wavelengths, which is a small fraction of the size of an atomic nucleus. They have energies per light quantum, which is a million, million times higher that of visible light. They're incredibly energetic radiation. But gamma rays in the end, they are a form of light. They're electromagnetic radiation. But it turns out they are somewhat different. And if you wish, the reason they are different is basically all Einstein's fault. Now let me explain what I mean by this. Let's take an atom, which is sort of the elementary nucleus of matter, the elementary building block of matter. It's made of an electron which circles around a nucleus. The energy with which the system, this electron is bound, well, you take Einstein, energy is mc squared, mass times square of velocity of light. So the energy at which the system is bound is something like the mass of the electron times the velocity of light squared times some numerical factor, which I don't care about right now. But that's the relevant scale and it's just Einstein E equals mc squared. Now the important difference now comes because for all the left hand side of the spectrum, the energy of the quantum is much smaller than mc squared, the binding energy of an atom. On the right side for the gamma rays, the energy of the quantum is much, much larger typically than the binding energy of an atom. That has very important consequences. On the left hand side of a most of the spectrum, radiation is emitted by hot bodies. It's like iron glowing red at 800 degrees and yellow at 1200 degrees. It's thermal radiation, it's just hot stuff producing the light that we see. That works well except for gamma rays. Why? Well, a gamma ray has an energy which is much larger compared to the binding energy of an atom. How can an atom emit something which is much larger than its own binding energy? It would immediately blow up. So you cannot make gamma rays by thermal radiation and the only way people have come up to make gamma rays of these energies is by cosmic particle accelerators. Imagine things like our earthly particle accelerator somewhere in space, of course they will look different. They accelerate nuclei to enormous energies. This nuclei bump into something interstellar gas. They perform secondary particles and among these are these high energy gamma rays. These are particle reactions like the one which we see in our colliders here in the bubble chamber and some of these things coming out are gamma rays. So that's sort of the idea. Gamma rays show you a different universe. They don't show you the thermal universe of hot bodies. They show you a universe of odd things like cosmic particle accelerators. Now this boundary, this gap has another important consequence and the consequence is that it's hard to detect gamma rays in a sense. Why? Well, in all this range you can build lenses and mirrors that focus light. Of course Galileo's first telescope with a few lenses imaging light. Radio telescope which focus radio waves on a receiver here. Infra x-rays you can build lenses. They look a bit odd in fact in telling company is one of the pioneers of these technique. But just believe me this thing focuses x-rays and makes an image. Now gamma rays, the energy of a quantum is much larger than any energy in matter. So if that hits matter just blows up the matter. There's no way to build a mirror or a lens for gamma rays. The other thing you can do is you put a block of matter into the path of the gamma ray and having energy which is much larger than MC squared it will just make new particles. It generates a cascade of secondary particles running over typically sort of a meter of say a concrete block until all the energy is used up in secondary particles and the thing is slowly stopped. So the only way to detect gamma rays you put something in its way and makes this cascade and you're somewhat ready to detect the cascade. Ok, now these are some of the instruments, some of the telescopes which we currently detect gamma rays. You see here the band of the Milky Way. This is a time lapse movie of course. Things move much faster than they do in reality. But now you should ask yourself, what is this guy telling us? First I tell you he cannot build telescopes for gamma rays and then I show you instruments which detect gamma rays. What's happening there? Well, these things work a bit differently and let me tell you how they work. They're so-called Cherankov telescopes and what we do is we simply use the Earth's atmosphere as a block of matter. A gamma ray comes in, it generates a cascade of secondary particles and now we somehow need to detect this gamma ray track, this cascade of particles and fortunately when particles rush through the air at the speed of light they emit something called Cherankov light. It's a blue light and it's beamed forward like the headlights of a car. So you get this beam of blue light which on the Earth illuminates a circle of maybe 200, 300 meter diameter and if you place a telescope in this or if a telescope happens to sit in this light pool as we call it you can take a picture of this particle cascade. This picture may look like this and then you track this cascade back to the sky where the gamma ray came from. So you can think about it, it's like a meteor track. A gamma ray makes in the atmosphere what's a meteor track and you take a picture of that meteor track except it's very faint, you can't see it with your eyes and it's very short-lived a few billions of a second. And what one typically does since one is looking at track in the atmosphere one wants to point it back in space one needs not just one view but multiple telescopes looking at this track from different sides so that like with the human stereoscopic viewing you can reconstruct it in space. There are a number of such instruments which do that so these are big telescopes collecting the faint Cherankov light. This is our head system in Namibia the magic system on the Canary Islands and the Veritas system in the United States. Let me just highlight the magic system here a little bit because that has a very strong participation by Italian scientists and has some very spectacular results recently. Now there's one important thing you need to understand about this technique. These telescopes don't take pictures of the sky they take pictures of tracks in the atmosphere which point back to the sky. So one of these pictures of a particle cascade in the atmosphere gives us one point in the sky where this gamma ray came from. It's not yet a sky image in gamma rays to get a sky image we need to collect many of such pictures and superimposed and slowly some structure in the sky will emerge and that can actually take days or even weeks of exposure until slowly a picture of the gamma rays' sky builds up. Now this picture which you see building up is of course nothing in the real sky. This is CTA written into the sky as the future of gamma ray astronomy but that's sort of how CTA a gamma ray source would look in the sky. Now how does the real sky look like? Well it took over a decade of observations of the Milky Way to see how the Milky Way looks in gamma rays and this is of course now an extreme time lapse and you see that the entire Milky Way is lined with sources of gamma rays meaning all these are cosmic particle accelerators in our Milky Way. It's not a rare phenomenon it seems to happen everywhere this strange non-thermal universe. Now what are these things? I can tell you all the details but one type is something which you already heard of which is a supernova explosion. A supernova an exploding star sends a shock wave into space at speeds of many thousands of kilometers per second and this shock wave can accelerate particles and one wave imagining how it does that it's a little bit like an atomic nucleus being caught in this blast wave and like a surfer riding on a wave this atomic nucleus is riding the blast wave and it's gaining energy and what we see in the end of course is not the accelerated particle but the gamma ray which is made into this accelerated particle bumps into something so we don't see the surfer we see the cry the surfer lets go and it's a log or something So that's now you can ask well if cosmic explosion may gamma rays all of you of course have heard about the giant black hole discovered in ABM87 a black hole is a very violent cosmic event shouldn't that make gamma rays? Of course it does it's in fact a joint measurement of all these three instruments e il problema è che il flasco di gamma rays in questo evento sta andando a scale di giorni che è sorpresso che questo black hole ha una scale di giorni quindi come questa cosa può tornare e fare gamma rays in un giorno è uno dei grandi misteri ok quindi uno dei miei colleghi astrofisici ha detto compare questo chiaro di low energies o questo non thermal universe per la universe gamma è come comparare una piccola con una piccola star di twinkling questo è il nostro universo thermal per una piccola della scala di Vincent van Gogh che è chiusa qui è un turbulento, è una scala dinamica vedete la scala di luci dove ci sono molti metalli dove c'è la concentrazione di energia e il mio collo ha chiesto che i gamma rays mostrano l'universo ora c'è un po' di problema che è che i nostri instrumenti currenti non sono abbastanza sensativi per rivelire questa scala di van Gogh dinamica vedete le fascinate glimpsi ma non vedete la scala di luci quindi questo è il motivo che un team di scientistiche che vedete qui solo una piccola fractura hanno preso iniziato un instrumento di generazione che ci fa una piccola di questa dinamica e questa piccola sarà fatta con la scala di luci questo gruppo di scientistiche è un compasso di più di 1.400 scientistiche e d'ingegneri da 200 instituti in 31 paure la questione è come buildete un instrumento più potente per detectare i gamma rays e guardare l'universo extreme beh, vediamo questa è uno dei nostri instrumenti currenti c'è quattro telescopi simbolizzati con questi circolari e ora cosa che sta passando è che un gamma ray vada e fa un cascato in l'atmosfera illuminata un circolo di circa 200 metri sull'interno questi 4 telescopi prendono le immagini di questo gamma ray possiamo riconstruire il track in spazio e tutto è fine ora avranno il prossimo gamma ray e ovviamente avranno in qualche paura vabbè, vediamo questo è il prossimo missiato no, non una piccola piccola questo è andato questo è un telescopio singolo bisogna fare due occhi per riconstruire il track in spazio ah, questo è una bella questo è 2 telescopi non perfetto ma di solito usefulo questo è, ovviamente, messo quindi, adesso il fianco deve essere l'opera come puoi creare un bel telescopio un bel strumento semplicemente portare un po' più telescopi e ora si prende il mismo gamma ray un cattivo qui, perfetto un cattivo qui, perfetto un cattivo qui abbiamo visto un cattivo qui, fine un cattivo qui, tutto è perfetto ora c'è un piccolo problema che è, i telescopi costano dinheiro e molti telescopi costano molto money quindi bisogna economizzare un po' e il modo in cui economizziamo è per non building un tipo di telescopio ma building different types of telescopes building a few large telescopes che cover the very low energy dim gamma rays and building many small rather cheap telescopes to cover the large area and cover the high energies where gamma rays are rare and we need to detect them over large area so this is sort of an artist's view of the telescope array and let me just get this movie going you see it is in this case 100 telescopes close to 100 telescopes spread over the side you see the different telescope types which different mirror areas and you just in a second see an aerial view of the system showing at the core the low energy part then medium sized telescopes and very small telescopes at the outer edge covering a large area so thereby economizing the construction cost and still covering the full spectrum of gamma rays with a required sensitivity so and then these telescopes observe the light flashes from space symbolized here in this animation so we already have we are at the verge of starting the construction of CTA there are prototypes of all these telescopes this is a prototype of a small size telescope inaugurated on Sicily and you notice small is relative sizeable telescope there are three different designs of the prototypes on the test in France and Poland so we will build 70 of these then this is a medium sized telescope we will build 40 or plan to build 40 of these and you see this is a quite sizeable instrument and the large telescope which has a 23 meter mirror diameter of which there will be 4 on each of the sites that one was inaugurated on La Palma and Taccati was participating in this event this is the first actual CTA telescope on the northern side now what do you mean by northern side well one essential feature of CTA is we want to see the full sky because there are many phenomena which are in the south or in the north to be really sensitive if you want to cover the full sky so there will be two sites of telescope arrays one on the Canary island of La Palma in Spain one in Chile on the Aesolands in the southern hemisphere and here you see artists views of these two arrays on the north construction has started with the first telescope in the south right now there's just an empty desert and it really calls for being filled with telescopes and we'll do that over the next years so you've already heard the CTA headquarters from which the whole project is steered are here in Villania that's why we're having this symposium Federico Ferrini is the director of the observatory of the company which will build the observatory and so we're really looking very much forward to in about five years so having CTA operational and then together with neutrino observatories together with gravitational wave observatories together with new radio observatories give us new visions of the sky allowing us to look beyond borders a to explore the unknown universe and I must say I'm very curious I'm very much looking forward to all the surprises and to all the great discoveries and to the news about the universe in which we live which these instruments jointly will bring us Thanks a lot Thanks a lot


You do not have two natures. The flesh is not you. The flesh is not a part of your true identity. Yes, you still bear the responsibility of the decisions that you make in the flesh. That's true.  Who you are is connected with God. In the spirit, you're one with Him. In the spirit, you already have peace. In the spirit, you already have love and power and grace and mercy and righteousness and clarity and revelation. All of those things are already yours by the Holy Spirit.


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of NoviGlabs where we build this tool called Bidler. It's a smart contact development task runner and we recently launched Bidler EVM and it's a test development network, I mean a development network which has this very distinct feature that whenever your transactions are all phased it generates a soliti stack trace. And this presentation is going to be about how we do that. But going back to the beginning, let's talk a little bit about how Soliti Divine has evolved. For me it started in 2017. I was a Bitcoin maximalist or recovery maximalist back then and one of my friends Manu convinced me to join them to build their first app and I knew nothing about Ethereum but I began reading about it got super excited again about crypto and started building this tab. And I wasn't in charge of the smart contacts so I knew nothing about Soliti just doing some frontend stuff and the day came where I finally had the smart contacts to integrate them. And the first thing I tried to do was the most basic thing just send it to the contract from my UI and I was super happy about that but all I got was in Bali Doko.  In Bali Doko, I was sure that I was using the right compiler. How can I have it in Bali Doko? I wasn't doing anything with Doko so I wasn't modifying the contract just combine, execute in Bali Doko. No sense. So I must have spent at least one day trying to figure out what was going on and then my friend Manu again came and told me oh, in Bali Doko, there's a new keyboard now. It's payable. If you don't have payable into your smart contacts, you can't send it to it. And he was like, man, I check every single line of the documentation, every tutorial, everything. And he was like, okay, man, it's the linear, it's the linear of technology. That's why they call it like that, but it will eventually get better. And ever since then, this is how I felt whenever I tried to touch Soliti. I mean, with that, I developed my own techniques for debugging, like this one, certainly console log between every single line of JavaScript and at least like that I could figure out which transaction was failing. Or this one, just commenting random chunks of Soliti and rerun everything until I eventually figure out what was going on. But I keep thinking about what Manu told me that it will eventually get better and it was a little better. We got real reasons that are super useful, but I don't know, we weren't comfortable enough with the speed of improvement so we started working on our development tool. And last week, we launched what we call integrated JavaScript and Soliti exceptions.  So in a single trace, you get the entire picture of why your test is failing. You get like up until which point in your test it failed and then you get where in your contract it failed.  Just revert in without reason, it takes you, you are trying to call a function that doesn't exist. So how did we do that? Before going into that, let's talk a little bit about how stack traces work on a normal environment. So let's say that you are running a C++ program, it's just a binary. Whenever you have a data structure that everyone knows the stack is called stack, just stack. And whenever you call into a function, a new stack frame is created that is just its local variables with a bunch of metadata. And whenever you return from a function, a stack frame is popped from the stack. This program needs to generate a new program extension. It will just start the process that it's called stack and rolling. It's popping up stack frames one by one until it gets into a narrow handle. And I know that Super Easy, it's the same program that is responsible for doing the stack frame, so some CC. But the thing is that in Soliti, in the AVM in general, we don't have a code stack. Why? I have no idea, but it's that way. There are some people proposing an EIP to have an actual code stack in the AVM. I don't know who they are, and I don't know the state of the EIP, but I think it's a super valuable effort. I hope that keeps them there. And the other problem is gas. So in C++ or for whichever language, you can generate extra code or extra metadata just to do things like stack traces. But in Ethereum, you pay every single local that you execute. So Soliti is kind of forced to generate as small a vital as possible. So things like metadata for stack trace doesn't seem to belong there. So that forced us to generate the stack trace externally. You just, your only hope is to be an external observer of the AVM and somehow map the AVM execution into the Soliti sources. And what does this mean? That you trace, you execute your contacts, trace the AVM. Trace in this case is just get a list of upcodes that you execute. And then you have to do lots and lots of things to reconstruct the Soliti semantics. So our first challenge was how to get from upcodes to Soliti. When you compile a smart contact, you get a ton of output. Between those things, there are bite codes. So bite codes are just a list of instructions, not much. And luckily for each bite code, you also have a source map. And a source map is an option that takes you a little bit about the bite code. It's just got an offset length of 5 that maps into a chunk of a 5 that generated that output. And then it has this runtime thing that we'll talk about that later. But okay, this is super useful and without this we wouldn't have done nothing. But the problem is that it's super low level. We need to have a more semantic model of the thing. So from a bite code we want to be able to get which contract it belongs to, all of their functions, if they are payable, external, internal, their selectors, everything. Which source were they defined on? I don't know, I think this doesn't look like hard. But this was probably one of the most challenging things. You get the output of the compiler and the Solidity input. And then you have to recreate lots of logic from the compiler just to mimic what it does to make sure that you are actually creating a model that maps what Solidity uses. So for example, there is a selector of a function, some CC. But when you start to take into consideration all the different features from Solidity, I assure you that computing selectors is super hard. But okay, so if we have this model, the next thing is to reconstruct the cost tag. And this is the easiest part. You don't have a cost tag in the EVM, but you have an EVM and you can create your own cost tag. It's just a stack.  That's an EVM phrase. And you inspect by byte by byte iterating. And whenever you find a sham, here you pay attention to that sham type thing that the source map gives you. And what's in there is whether if the sham was a sham into a function, a return, or an internal sham like an EVM. So it's easy. If your sham is calling into a function, you push that function into your stack.  And that's it.  So we have some special cases for things like that just to, I don't know, make the life of developers easier. Because, I don't know, if you just go into a function that is only owner, you may end up just showing only owner and not which function was called. But apart from that, creating a code stack is pretty easy. So next challenge, external calls. What I just said about the code stack is, in fact, a super simplification because the EVM is a very weird machine. Whenever you have to do an external call that's called DelayCode or all of those, the semantics of that is that you have to create another EVM, an empty EVM, and you execute there the other contract. So, in fact, the price of the EVM is a reclusive thing. So you get a list of outcomes that were executed up until an external call and then you get another price. And then some outcomes continue. And of course, these are the price. These are smart content. You can also have an external call. So it's a reclusive thing by nature. So yes, creating the code stack for each of these traces individually is very easy. But then you have, then you need some logic to combine them because they are just different executions with different stack traces. And how do you combine them? Well, it depends. It depends on what's going to the smart contract do with the external call phase. So most of them, especially if you are doing anything low level, we just forward the error and eventually reverse the transaction. But you have to detect that because some calls just don't forward errors and ignore them. And in the case, and if the error is forward, that means that you have to combine the stack traces like merging them somehow and keep going because maybe you are still on an external call and you may have to merge the thing multiple times. But that's fine. I mean, we had lots of logic to detect those phases, but once it's done, we got a step closer. Another challenge, and this is also a big one, is recognizing which contracts are you running. Because up until now I was assuming that I knew which smart contract I was looking at, but that's not the case when you are running lots of tests with multiple smart contracts. You only have an EVM that executes chunks of bytecode and that bytecode belongs to a smart contract, but figuring out which one is not that easy. For each smart contract there are two different bytecodes generated, one for deploying it and the other one for running it on runtime. I mean, it's the deployed bytecode, and recognizing the deployed bytecode can be very easy, especially if you don't use libraries. It's just an exact match, you just search for it, and that's it. But the problem is that when you use libraries, when you link libraries, you are actually modifying the bytecode. You just have to add an address somewhere in the bytecode. And also when you are deploying a smart contract, you are also modifying the bytecode, because you are appending its parents at the end of it. So the exact match search thing doesn't work. What we did is to create a modified write to search for these bytecodes. It's a kind of tricky thing, but in general terms we created a canonical representation of each bytecode by zeroing out the places where the addresses are going to be placed, and then used that canonical representation to save the bytecode model that we talked about before. And then when you are executing a bytecode in the ABA and you don't know which model it belongs to, you just search it on the drive. If you go to the match, you're done, that's fine. But if you don't, there are two possibilities. It might have got stuck, because the next byte is the beginning of the parents of a constructor, and if that's the case, you can check if that node has a constructor associated and use that. But if not, you are probably stuck because of a library that got linked and you have the normalized version of it associated to the drive. So what we do there is to check all the descendants from that node, figure out which of them used libraries, and try to normalize our bytecode as if it were one of those, and rerun the search, rerun the search. And that works. It can't sum issues about how to implement it, and you can't use things like normal drives, using records, things like that. But after some work, we got this working, and we were happy because we felt that this was the last missing piece to get stuck traces. So we started doing some integration tests, and everything worked great for some time, because then we started doing crazy things with our slide contacts, and we figured out that most of them failed on things that are just not mapped by Solidity. So I know I told you that for every bytecode, for every old code, you get this source map object, and that's true, but some of them mean nothing. They are just, you know, they are just there to keep the indexes but they just have a five minus one, that means this didn't come from Solidity. This was also generated. So we could stop there, because you kind of have a stuck trace, and if up to some point you have a stuck trace, and if your users were actually using reverb, require, and things like that, they have the entire thing. But, given a great developer experience, it means going direct to my to get that better error message or to get that info to your users, just to make things better. So we really compile lots and lots of contracts with weird error conditions, and just look at their bytecode for weeks. I mean, it's a very stressful thing to do, especially at the beginning, but then you get used to it, and you start recognizing the different error patterns that Solidity generates, and once you are pretty certain that you can recognize them by chance, you can codify that in Shavascript and just repeat the same thing and detect them. The thing is that you may overfit a little bit too much on how you recognize the patterns, so you have to create some loosely heuristics. You can't just look at the actual code that Solidity generates, because that may change from version to version, and you have to do things a little bit more flexible. So our heuristics are things like, okay, this smart contract failed in an opcode that's not mapped, and okay, so let's look at the latest map source code, opcode, and things like that. I don't know, maybe each of them work like that, with super loose heuristics, but that also means that they can't go wrong. So what we did was create a whole lot of unit testing for, especially for this part of the thing, actually got it working correctly. So our final challenge, how do we show this info? Because so far it's just a Shavascript data stack chart, or a JSON, and we need to show it to the user. So one of the ideas we have was just to create a mocha reporter. Reporters are just the UI that happens to be shown when your test fails, and that was a nice idea, but it failed a little bit to convert it to mocha, because VDL AVM doesn't just work on mocha, but it just runs everywhere, no branch. And also we don't want to tie VDL to mocha. For example, some guys from changing came to say hi, and thought that they are using, or trying to use VDL AVM with chess, so they need to mocha, would fail like a failure. And the other thing is that we really wanted to show these Solidity stack traces in the context of Shavascript, because before your transaction failed, you probably executed a whole lot of other things, mostly on Shavascript, to set up the smart contact in a particular state that makes it fail. So we wanted to take that into account. Using some not so well known, but very well documented and supported V8 APIs that let you create stack traces as you wish. So we get the stack trace up until the point where you started executing the AVM, you started executing your contract, and combine that with the Solidity stack trace. So that's how we got this result that I showed at the beginning. This is just a Shavascript extension, with a few Shavascript frames, the whole Solidity stack trace, an automatically generated error that was recognized with one of those characteristics. So, how can you use this? You just have to install it there.  So that's it. Thank you to the people who supported this effort, some people at the EF, and mostly to the few Shiges team, Sina and Holger, who have been super helpful, and to my friends who support me when I was crazy doing this and asking lots of questions.


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