Great. Is it okay now? Absolutely. Absolutely. We have, yeah, we have 50 minutes basically subtracting three minutes for the time delay. Go on, please. Thank you. In the name of God, I just, today I'll just speak with you about the effect of the cell-like topography on drug suspectibility of the breast cancer cells to dark stormy. I'm sorry for the interruption because I think you're in the presenter mode. That was great. That was great. Go on. Thank you. Let me introduce myself very short and briefly. I'm a PhD of Bacterial Science and I have worked on surface engineering and modification of biomaterials. Okay. Good. As you know, when the biomaterials implanted the body, you know, it is near the cells. So the surface properties of the biomaterials can affect the cell response. And what I mean is that the response of the host organism in microscopic cellar and protein level to biomaterials is closely associated with the surface properties of the materials. Okay. Effective And in this slide, you can see the effective surface parameters and the biological response of biomaterials. You know that these parameters are wettability, surface charging, and topography, and surface chemistry. But among these, topography has been reported to play an important role in biological response. And you know, until now, the effect of the surface topography on cellular response has been investigated for so many times and for lots of years. And currently, the influence of the micro-nano topography features on the cells has attracted more and more attention. You know, we can use the micro micro-patterns or nano-patterns, but the best one is micro-nano topographical features. And actually, this is because these kinds of the patterns can completely resemble and mimic the nature extracellular matrix and actually ECM, which is around the cells, and cells can interact and reside with them. These platforms have shown great promise on creating a reliable micro environment. And you can see in this slide that there are so many patterns until now can be checked on the cells' behaviors. But to tell the truth, hierarchical micro-nano patterns have great influence and actually they can have an impact on self-functions and even gene expression or cell differentiations or even the inhalation of the tumor cells into the surrounding tissues. Okay, basically, a quantity of platforms have been introduced until now and check the interaction. And the interaction of these patterns with the cells are completely checked. But recently, but the problem is that most of them are not realistic and they are unnatural. But recently, unfortunately recently, selling printing techniques has been proposed as a straightforward and easy and even cost-effective method for fabrication of these kinds of micro-nano patterns, which is called soda-3D patterns or substrate or even some selling printed patterns. In this method, as you can see in the left top part of the slide, in these patterns, in this method, fixed cells are used as templates and to mimic and recapitulate the cells membrane. And actually, these specific biogeomersical features are implored to changing some kinds of the behavior of the cells. You know, you can see that previously it was demonstrated that culturing of cells on the selling printed patterns can change the morphology, adhesion, and even cell differentiation of cells. And in another study, it was also shown that the some cells can even could be re-differentiated or trans-differentiated when culturing on the cell and selling printing substrates. In addition to the changing of some kind of the cells behavior, just like the adhesion and morphology and gene expression, as a proof of concept, also, there is another study which just showed that the morphology and the morphology of the cells and the physical architectures of the cancer cells, actually, could also enhance the clinical activity of some kinds of drugs. And we just use this idea and try to expand this idea to check the effect of the morphography on the viability and even drug susceptibility of the breast cancer cells. You know that the breast cancer is one of the leading and dominant cause of the death in all of the world, not in Latin Iran. And you know, some kinds of the chemotropic drugs, just like doc-sorbasing, have been extensively used. But the problem is that the doc-sorbasing has some kinds of effects. And we just try to optimal the dosage to decrease these kinds of side, in order to decrease these kinds of side effects while maintaining the efficacy. And we're just thinking to use the Gelma Hydrochial as a promising matrix for in vitro-making breast cancer environment. And also PDMS, which is a well-developed substrate and currently used as a cellular studies. Okay. At first step, we just try, we use the cell imprinting to fabricate some soldo-3D substrates. You know, the platform was manufactured by the cell imprinting methods. And I mean that the cell imprinting surface is fabricated on the PDMS and Gelma. And you know, this was the first time that the Gelma was actually the Hydrochial can cell imprinted for the first time. And you know, we use the Gelma, it is worth mentioning to say that we use the Gelma because we can change the stiffness of the Gelma to adjust with the in-wheel tumor, breast tumor. And then we just characterize both of these substrates with the SDM and also AFM to make sure that we can see the patterns of the surface. Okay. At next step, we check the viability and some cellular behavior of the two kinds of breast cancer cells on this cell imprinted substrate. And the results was okay, because the results showed that the breast cancer cells exhibited higher viability and higher attachment and even better growth on the both PDMS and the actually Gelma cell imprinted platform compared with the plain surfaces. You can see the PDMS data here and here are the results of the Gelma substrates, with and without MCF7 patterns and hence also the viability, which is in the right top of the slide. After the proof of concept to elaborate the phenomena, we just use another cancer cell, something like KBR3, and check if when we change the imprinting of the substrates, if the cell's behavior will change or not. And we found that the MCF7 cells had these similar growth properties on MCF7 cell imprinted surface compared to SCA or B3 cell imprinted surfaces. And this was just because of the higher roughness and also larger surface area, which were provided by the MCF7 cell imprinted substrates. And then after assessing the viability, and we just checked if the cells can immigrate and actually located in the pattern or not. And the results showed that for longer time of culturing, for example, five days after culturing, some cells professionally added and spread on the embedded cell-like patterns. So we ensure that the cells are completely located and migrate to imprinted features. So Fatima, we are at the 10-minute mark, so maybe we have two minutes. Okay. And then at last, we just checked the effect of the drug for the different cell-imprinted substrate. And the results showed that the imprinted cell-like topography altered the toxicity effect of the drug. And interestingly, the gelma hydrogel that we used, that we were used, presented better and higher toxicity. And that was great because most of the cells were completely dying. And we just checked for another and get the good results. And now we are going to do another project. We're just thinking to combine the cell-imprinting methods with another methods, which is currently used, which is microfluidic. And then we try to determine the drug efficacy in more and more reliable environment. And in order to target our dreams, we just thinking to follow some steps. At first step, we should try to develop the engineering cell-imprinted microchannels. And then we design and fabricate the microchip with the hypoxic condition. And also we want to define electrode for cell monitoring. And then we check the IC50 in more reliable environment. And at last, we try to culture cells on the microchip and try to check the drug efficacy in more and more reliable environment. Thank you so much. It's gone. Well, thank you very much for the interesting talk. Again, it's great we have such a diverse range of talks today. So we have Yasser waiting for us and another, and we have one question from Mariam, but we have to wait for the break. So let's leave the question for the very, very squeezing speakers for the second round. I'm sorry about that, but let's see how we proceed to the whole session. Yasser, I hear you are online. Can you present? Share your screen.


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A tiny group of immigrants came to our left country down in Lower Manhattan 100 years ago. We still have our seminaries and affiliates, but we're now in major university medicine, law school, the Benjamin Cardinals School of Law, graduate school of social work and psychology, undergraduate schools for men and women in New York, in various sections of New York. Just a few days ago, we announced the creation of our new Sising School of Business and the degree of Mr. Sings Theatre this afternoon. Mr. President, we're proud that you've joined us for the celebration of our centennial in the president of the Schiff University. Dr. Norman Land was proud to bestow our highest academic honor upon you, the honor of president of our country. Dr. Land, I'm privileged to present the president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, for the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa. As president, you are a place of staff of your unique personality on New York and our great country. 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And I wanted to just give you my name, the Jefferson letter, who recently acquired the letter on this Jefferson to the Jewish community, giving this very, very wonderful evaluation of American means in terms of tolerance and religious freedom. I think it would be nice if we gave this to the President of the United States as a successor to the Jefferson. Along with that, Mr. President, there are two things. Number one, our prayers to your help in recovering and the Hebrew words, the ancient Hebrew words, we wish you with the Koulash Lema a speedy recovery. And we hope that if your calendar permits it and we're confident that you're healthy now, well, thank you very much. I hope and pray that I can accept that invitation when the time comes. I'm deeply grateful for this. I do know the meaning of it. And for that letter also, Jefferson's words about religious tolerance, I think our country's tolerance more than any other nation has, lived up to those words. 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Good afternoon. For those who are new, I'm Dr. Theron Sherman, and in today's briefing, we will be studying SCP-6306. There isn't any objectionable material in this document, so let's begin. Item number SCP-6306 Classification Level 1 Unrestricted Containment Class Neutralized Special Containment Procedures The remains of SCP-6306 have been properly disposed of. Dr. Weddle is to report further incidents correlating with SCP-6306 if they occur. Description SCP-6306 was an A4-sized sheet of paper formerly belonging to Dr. W. Weddle. It contained various New Year's resolution goals, though the exact contents of SCP-6306 have yet to be disclosed, as Dr. Weddle refused to elaborate on the written desires he planned to fulfill the coming year. While SCP-6306 itself was non-anomalous, the circumstances surrounding its sudden neutralization warranted its SCP designation. It is unknown whether the incident involving SCP-6306 was caused by an unidentified third party, or SCP-6306 itself. Dr. Weddle has prohibited any further exploration into the anomalous makeup of SCP-6306, due to it being, quote, unnecessary. The following is a transcription of the events immediately leading to and after SCP-6306 is abrupt nullification. Recording Log Date December 31, 2021, to January 1, 2022. Forward Footage taken from security cameras implemented within Dr. Weddle's office. Footage begins Dr. Weddle is seated in his office chair, skimming through SCP-6306's contents, faintly smiling. He takes a sip from his coffee mug while still holding onto SCP-6306. At the stroke of midnight, a spark is seen on the bottom-left corner of SCP-6306 before it suddenly catches on fire. Notably, this occurred exactly at midnight. Dr. Weddle sees this, and accidentally chokes on his coffee as he steps from his desk, leaving SCP-6306 resting on top and kicking away his seat as it slides across the room. Dr. Weddle appears confused. Dr. Weddle swears under his breath as he notices the coffee stain on his lab coat before turning his attention to SCP-6306. He gradually approaches it before throwing it on the floor and repeatedly stomping on it. Despite this, the fire does not subside and continues spreading throughout SCP-6306. After Weddle's sighs, putting his hands on the back of his neck before swiftly exiting his office.  He coughs and closes his eyes. He eventually succeeds. However, SCP-6306 is entirely disintegrated before the flames were put out. Dr. Weddle sets down the fire extinguisher off-camera. A message composed of SCP-6306's ashes remains, reading, as if you'd fulfilled them anyway. Dr. Weddle stares at this for a brief moment, before leaving the room to retrieve a dust pan and brush. The rest of the recording shows him silently sweeping the ash and discarding it in the trash bin. Footage ends. Afterward, Dr. Weddle filed a request to take the rest of the day off. Request was accepted. As of writing, Dr. Weddle has made no attempt to redraft his New Year's resolution plans. Thank you for listening.  Please become a patron or visit our merch store at the link in our bio to support our work. Secure. Contain. Protect.


Aloha, this is Rob Hack again with another edition of Exporting from Hawaii. Today I'm very excited to have my friend Tom Sirivata here with his goldsmith assistant Hanae Matsuo and they're from Lahana Jewelry here in Honolulu on Bishop Street. They make customized jewelry and some standard products that they do very well in the Japanese market so we're here to talk to them about exporting their products to Japan and elsewhere. So welcome, Aloha. Thank you very much for being here. We have some samples of your products here but before we get into the samples tell us tell the audience Tom how did you get started in the jewelry business? I guess I started with my mom. We started at the stadium a low-state and flea market when I was doing high school and I have sent out most of my order to private company to do it but they keep doing the wrong thing that we asked for so that's how I end up telling myself oh I gotta learn this trade and this skill so I actually went to school in Kansas for firearm and gun engraving and then I was in San Francisco for dream-making with Allen Rivera Academy so that's how I kind of start out how to make jewelry how to engrave so it become my passion you know so I was a high school teacher and for like about three years and I found the hobby become like something that I can stay all day and work all day and I don't feel like it's working yeah so that's how I started it and then it goes from there one of the things that it shows in the products because one of the things I love about your products is that it's clearly infused with Hawaii and there's a lot of aloha behind this and that's that obvious right but how do you design your products so that that comes across first I try to figure out what the trends are and especially the shape shape is very important I think every year or two years shape change you know from the heart from the round from the rectangle that's what I'm trying to figure out like I would not only will do something and then I will test it out at a stadium that is my indications of what customers are looking for and certain styles certain technique is it for a woman or is full for men you know is this going to be for gifts or is for personal item so that helped me to determine what kind of design I should make so I kind of give them option either go with the traditional or they can go up to a modern you know niche so that's how I actually test out my market when you say traditional traditional would mean a traditional sort of Hawaiian bracelet yes well just the engraving part when you go into the high end part that require a lot then you have like a firearm engraving for something like this right so it's required more work more thinking about how you want the flow of the designs to be for Hawaiian jury it's a little bit more simpler because it's actually have a pattern but it repeat itself so that's more traditional you know so people will normally buy for graduation a birthday present yeah so I find it very interesting you're doing a lot of market research by going to the stadium yes just displaying the products and see what works and what doesn't right and you're still doing that yeah I still doing that yeah and that's like a key to test out your market because you have variations of customer from tourists from local depending on what they want so it's kind of help both you know so you can see the low end you can see the high end people can afford it so that you try not to figure out which market you're gonna go with so for me I choose Japan because I run into a friend of mine that actually kind of tell me hey you should come to Japan because we have a lot of Hawaiian events going on and that's how I started to kind of take that journey so but I want to stay on the topic for a second of the tourists that are coming here and you're doing market research with the tourists that are coming here do you find that there are a lot of Japanese tourists that are going to the stadium yes yeah I mean we have a bunch people comes in and we have people that don't know about the flea market and maybe the first time and they kind of surprised these products is here I'm surprised because some of these products are I mean especially the very intricate ones are these are not inexpensive jewelry it's what it's can be somewhat high-end and it's wonderful pieces it's just not the kind of thing you'd expect to see at the market that's great and most of your customers do you find they're male or female I wish it both like a 50-50 because I try to market actually I try to market to the males audience first because there's so many people are doing for female so I'm trying to capture the male market and then the females already there I mean my my piece that I make before is all female so I'm just trying to figure out how to get a male market but I know I would say both so are the males buying for themselves or is it mostly females buying from males actually male buy from themselves yes yes and then they will buy a female products so that's why that's what I'm trying to aim at I think because I think everybody's else competing with the females market I mean 80% of the you know jewelry is meant you know meant to make full female so I kind of like going the opposite so do you have his and hers designs yes we do we do yeah so we do and we have like males tend to be a little bit wider in millimeters and the design itself you know you can go it all like with flower or without flower and then depending on how the because I think female would dictate the design you know when they come in the couple come in you know I want this you know then I have to make something that it's not manly or it's not femininely so you have to be like kind of in balance so that's what I normally will tackle my experience with your jewelry the ones that I've seen is there's a lot of silver but when I look at your website I also see gold so which do you sell the most of I think small silver I think gold because the price point is getting so high now but the market here I sell more silver but in Japan it's more gold so that's interesting from a manufacturing standpoint when you're hand making the jewelry is there a difference between silver and gold or do you yes it goes a little bit harder silver it's a little bit softer but she was harder to deal with because it oxidizes so if you don't have enough skills on those that you can easily oxidize it and it punishes really quickly so you don't get the bright cut the way you want it so go you don't have to worry because the top that the heat doesn't really affect them much so but it is the engraving part that is is tougher so it would require knife after knife you know sometimes you might be able to get away with it in silver but you kind of get away with gold you're gonna snap the knife so a lot of your products I would say that the majority that I've seen are rings bracelets earrings here's some necklaces some charms or pendants in the phone cases are there other things that I'm not aware of well I actually travel as artists sometimes I go to a car show I'd like engraving felt cover or gas cap even a mod you know e-cigarette so pretty much anything that come out from the street did they want me to do I pretty much agree anything from us yeah sometimes they I have a customer come in like hey can you engrave you know a bottle of a bottle of us salt with paper so yeah so I just etching you know that kind of stuff what is this on your neck oh this is a pendant I actually made this is like a spearhead yeah yeah so these are combinations of yeah top of design and Hawaiian engraving so well when I looked at your website recently I saw and I've seen other people wearing them there's a whale tail which is beautiful and some of the fish hooks of the Hawaiian designed fish hooks are gorgeous are those selling well in Japan yeah the fish hook selling really well on the whale tails too I think the heart shape now as of right now I think the heart shape that was taking off maybe because it's Valentine's Day is this past Valentine's Day probably and the pineapple pendants right I showed my words the plumeria she liked the plumeria I think yeah the plumeria is always you know the top the hot topic well the fish hook right now is the in thing I think in Japan I think because of because of the movie Moana comes out yeah so but I think Japan market is like a it had to be a very special niche female you know wouldn't wear a fish hook right but now I start seeing a lot of female wearing a fish hook because we make it a certain size and not just for the pendant but also for the earring as well so yes that's how I go and also I also do some like a bracelet too do you get many tourists visiting your shop it's all by appointment so we have a lot of refer so most of them is all refer that comes up so they normally will either tell us oh we're gonna be here this day this day can you know that's how I normally do it and tourist contact you I know Hanai-san obviously can speak Japanese is it important for you to have Japanese staff on board that can answer emails and take questions and this sort of thing I will say yes but most of my contact through Japan is to Miho is in Yokohama that's where all the contact is done and then when they come here they normally set up the time and the schedule for me to be there and we either they need something like for translation then I have to ask Hanai or you know another worker that I have but other than that most of the Japanese people actually speak English you know so that but if they don't they normally communicate with my partner up in Japan and then she will tell me oh what the customer is looking for what do they want so but of course having a Japanese speaking person with you is a plus yeah it's a plus let's talk about your office in Japan I've met Miho she's in Yokohama and you are how long has that operation been going we just we just thought I think in November we have an office just to get a return client comes in because I actually do an after-service so when a client buys something for me my guarantee was that I'd be doing them after service for like twice a year so I will fly up there in the office and actually cleaning or polishing you know to to actually help keep the jury to you know to the quality that it's supposed to be met wow that's incredible service yeah so that's why we have all this return client and refer client comes in so and right now and then we run like a family and a friend events so that they can come in and bring the jury to be service or to be you know look at and see what you know if they have broken maybe they don't have for me but they got from somebody else so that's my service to them that they have to you know pay for it or something like that well that's wonderful I'm really glad to hear that I think that the Japanese market the Asian market in general but particularly the Japanese market needs that extra after-sales service care to draw the repeat customers right they look more for the artist they don't want cookie I think the Japanese market they just want something that can touch the person behind the artwork I think that's what it is that Tom really particularly all his skills and that's a really good point because when when we're consulting to the local companies here I find the companies that are doing the best with Japanese customers foreign customers in general but very particularly the Japanese customers the companies that do the best with them are the ones that are able to convey their story into the products and the packaging and after-sales service and what have you and I know you do a very very good job of that trying to get the aloha into the designs but then I think the customers really feel that from the product and from you personally that's great now your office in Yokohama are you stocking inventory there yes we have we have quite a bit of inventory there as a live products so they can actually purchase it if they want to and then sometimes we have a client that wants something right away then it's better for them to ship directly and it takes a day to get there what percentage of the products are customized versus standard product okay right now I will say maybe about 45 customized and the rest like 55 we just buy off from what we got so it's pretty close you know yeah so it's pretty close so that's why I feel like it's getting stronger and stronger in the customized part before he said oh 20% and then whatever we have we just sell around the back but now it's more like customized because a lot of Japanese people in Japan don't get this privilege where to meet our artists and then to kind of like envision what they want to make and then you know to be able to actually can express that in the piece of jewelry if they go to the department store or any of the vendors in Japan they already have a template so you just have to pretty much have to follow what the template is in giving to you okay we're gonna take a quick break on exporting from Hawaii we'll be back with Tom and Hanai right after this short break thank you Aloha and welcome to at the crossroads I'm your host Keisha King you can catch me every Wednesday alive at five I'll see you there Aloha this is Winston Welch I am your host of out and about where every other week Mondays at three we explore a variety of topics in our city state nation and world and events organizations the people that fuel them it's a really interesting show we welcome you to tune in and we welcome your suggestions for shows you got a lot of them out there and we have an awesome studio here where we can get your ideas out as well so I look forward to you tuning in every other week where we've got some great guests and great topics you're gonna learn a lot you're gonna come away inspired like I do so I'll see you every other week here at three o'clock on Monday afternoon Aloha Aloha and welcome back to exporting from Hawaii we're here with Tom and Hanai from Lahana Jewelry here in Honolulu and we are talking about their wonderful products that they make and how they export to Japan and elsewhere are there other markets well I'm thinking maybe like Canada and Australia later you know in the future but clearly Japan is Japan is yes Japan is probably my priority right now I have seen you at various trade shows in Japan what are some of the trade shows you've gone to well we went to TIG right Tokyo International Gift Show and then also Aloha Tokyo now and also Nagoya show Hula festival and then we just got accepted into one of the department in Nagoya to do the show Hawaiian show too and I think so did you've been to the Haukew Hawaii thing yes yes so and then also we do some like Hula show in Osaka yeah so and then we do a small little show too just to test the market Hapuna Cafe they was nice enough for us to come and display our products and then they they have their own clientele you know come in there and then you know you learn a lot and from the customers idea or what you should do and you know so that helped us a lot for marketing part of it and what kind of products we need to put in there certain region of Japan is totally different that was the question I was just going to ask you so can you elaborate on that a bit well like Tokyo versus over Nagoya right so different but different is Tokyo is like they want something more like modern you know something different and it's not about the price point it's pretty much about what uniqueness you have in Tokyo you know so in Osaka the thing is you need to tell the story what why do you make this piece you know so and they are more frugal too they like certain fashion but they need to get something that we mild remind them of when they come to Hawaii like certain thing that remind them oh when we was in you know Hawaii and we was doing this and then this is a homey agai cannot yeah yes yes so that's that's thing in Osaka in Nagoya I mean that's a tough market people that are so frugal they want to have a quality piece but yeah they don't want to spend that much money until they learn about your skills and your work your credential before they purchase it sometimes some customer comes like six time back and forth back and forth you know I think if you can actually do business in Nagoya you can do business anywhere in the world that's how yes that's how different you have customers in Japan who have never been to Hawaii or yes or does it help that they have been to Hawaii it would help it would be more helpful it would be more easier to close the deal but some of these people haven't been to Hawaii and then you have to persuade them or show them or kind of give them idea what this work is all about and for me I think the best thing for me was to demo right so to show them like this is a hand on and it's not something that mass produced you know so it takes time to make one piece so that's what helped me a lot when I in Nagoya so but I guess once you can pass it like what you can pass anywhere but telling the story again I harp on this subject because I think it's really important getting the story into the product is extremely important and Hanai-san does a very good job of explaining it like like he Tom just mentioned like Japan doesn't get the privilege of getting into the touching the jewelry itself wearing it feeling it if online or picked a catalog that's touched so they what they do is they search they love the history of Hawaii they have this mesmerized feeling towards Hawaii and then they do study about the history the background the Queens what they were wearing why this got into Hawaii they go there and then what Tom brought in is that the authenticity that when Queen Kapilani Princess Lilo Kalani when they first got this gift from Victoria Queen Victoria it was so beautiful they wanted to give it as a present and then that's how it spread out but then this that he what I thought that he could articulate his art and his craftsmanship his skill is all goes in there just like it was how the Queens and the princess was just miss mesmerized right that's why yeah well I agree completely and again getting the story into the silver into the gold is such a fantastic marketing tool you know I bet some of these customers can't control themselves they just will take it will take it all you know once they see it in person that's great let's talk about shipping for a second because a lot of the companies we talked to they have a difficult time with shipping to foreign markets shipping to Japan for example it's expensive and quantities can be complicated in the jewelry business do you have these kinds of issues with shipping yes we do because I think have everything to go to the custom the shipping part depend on what company using we're trying to use black cat but it's super expensive yeah and they're very how would I say this they really need picking every single thing like you know you need to come up with the scientific name for thing like we don't want to see silver you know because sometimes I try not to send some gift box like when you see here right and then even this I have to write everything down you know what is for and where is made up from and with that normally when you send it to those kind of a private company it tends to get stopped and then it can be very expensive what it's nice about Tom is sometimes I'm surprised that are you sure you're going to keep this price this low compared to the competition out there who make all these Hawaiian jewelry he just tends to bring it down so reach all these people who wants it and who wants it true beauty and there you know as a gift or for themselves but all this that tax and all this adds up and and then he has to put that on that's the hurting part of us too of course just not the money but it just hurts that when we want to render give all this beauty to the people out there over the seas yeah so I think the best shipping is USPS flat rate yes yes yes I think that but even that unit has stopped me just a map we have some snag now and then like I don't know the I feel like the policy when you try to ask the people here and you try to cope with the custom in Japan sometimes it's not like in the same level yeah so one person has said something like okay you're gonna follow this policy and by the time you get Japan is like out of window the policy changes yeah so we have to like adapt every single time and we try not you know so they tell us like oh you put a you know like inventory number into the box and we used to do that and then like they still send tell us okay since this is the number this is how much we gonna charge you right so and then some stuff charging they all charge it differently depending on what what kind of finished product you put in you know it's not like okay silver it's silver right so but because they see the design on top of the silver then they assume is like oh this is high-end so they want to charge you according to what the actual piece would be but you don't have to worry about any product being stolen in the shipping process no not not not to Japan yeah so now I don't now I don't bring back anymore because I don't want them to ship it back to me I just leave it there and then yeah just keep it there saving them the you know this the cost of shipping I think that's the part of doing business in Japan I think because when you come to the custom even come to the airport you know they have to go through all that stuff again and then you just still have to pay taxes coming back right because you kind of use Kanye we call it like sample whatever goes out have to come back in you know so but I mean I would love to know more about that you know if we can have some expert that I can explain things to us yeah it's difficult we're on all these our companies here are just out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and trying to ship product but it's very complicated I assume most of your product goes by air right not but all right we're going to wrap up this episode of exporting from Hawaii okay let's tell people how do they find lahana jewelry how can they order I know lahana a la hana jewelry comm is one source but where's your office of business 1088 Bishop sweet 205 and they can contact you by my telephone number or email 3 8 6 1 3 5 9 is my contact number and the email is under Tom at lahana jewelry calm THOM ok also Wednesday Saturday Sunday we are rain or shine time out there and listen to the ball game yeah and also good now we just recently started launched out if see oh really see oh that's why just hit Tom's your body he'll come out on Google switch thank you for bringing that up I didn't know I also demo at the stadium so you want to come see a live demo yes wonderful well thank you very much I wish you nothing but continue to excess success and expansion in Japan and beyond with your exporting activities so thank you again this is Rob hack wrapping up another episode of exporting from Hawaii thanks to Tom Srivata and Hanai Matsuo from lahana jewelry mahalo mahalo


Good morning everyone welcome back to my channel today's video is just going to be a healthy 2020 morning routine you guys seem to really like these so I'm very excited I just wanted to say thank you to Best Buy for sponsoring today's video Best Buy has the tech to help you become the best version of Yourself this year, which is very exciting I'm gonna show you guys my new juicer that I am so excited for but yeah This morning is just gonna be a nice little morning routine I'm gonna probably change into my workout clothes because I'm gonna go Juice the first thing I like to do in the morning now is juice. It's my new thing. I'm really excited about it So I'll take you guys there then we're gonna have a hike So I'm gonna change right now and then we're gonna head off to the kitchen if you guys are new here subscribe. Love you guys So something that is really important to me that I implement just in my mornings is a healthy morning routine I really believe that how you start your morning is like how your day is gonna go So I'm super into like eating healthy and working out and doing just basically any healthy habits I have in the morning and the New Year is literally the perfect time to start new healthy habits So basically you're just trying to become the best version of you So that's why I'm really excited to work with Best Buy because they have all the tech to kind of help you In these endeavors and becoming your best self I'm kind of getting healthy making great routines in 2020 basically being the best versions of ourselves It's very important, but it's not always easy So Best Buy kind of comes in with the tools to make your life easier and to help you become the best version of yourself So we're gonna be talking about how to start and maintain a healthy routine. I'm gonna first start off by making some juice I love juice. I love juicing. I feel so good in the morning when I do this It's so healthy like oh I just love it So this is how I've been starting up my morning and it's just the best. Okay, so this is my new juicer It is the Breville juice fountain cold electric juicer. It's very powerful and efficient It also processes fruits and veggies in less than a second, which is so crazy You guys are gonna see me make some juice using my new juicer I also really love how easy this juicer is to use you have the option of like going lower high and Then right here. Obviously. This is where you put in your fruits and veggies It's just card to waste here and then it juices right here. I'm gonna make this drink called the chocolate kale drink It's just pineapple kale and banana. It's really good. Um, this is just a really great way of getting a lot of nutrients in Right in the morning. It's just so much better. Also, you save so much money juicing at home Then you do going out and getting those juices wherever you get them that are like $10. So love that Currently, I'm just putting in some pineapple As you guys can see I've added a lot of kale into this and then I'm just gonna add a banana Okay, so honestly, I'm really just getting carried away. Now. I'm adding some apples as well You can really just add anything and it's so freaking good and I guess like I feel like the more the healthier You know what I mean? Here's my finished juice. It's really good. I added a green apple as well Chew green apples, but it's so so good. It makes me feel so healthy. I save so much money I started my day on the right foot and if I Drink and eat healthy in the morning then I'm way more likely to drink any healthy for the rest of the day That's my biggest tip with healthy eating and stuff. So anyways, I will have a best buy linked down below as well as the juice fountain Cold so freaking good. All right guys once again, this is just the Breville juice fountain cold electric juicer I'm gonna have it linked down below and you can find it at best buy one of the things I'm trying to do in 2020 is expand my fitness routine I go to Pilates every day as is so I'm trying to do other things like hiking or Mainly hiking honestly is what I really want to incorporate maybe some other like spin classes or whatever I really like hiking especially in the morning because it's almost kind of therapeutic at the same time And I feel like I get a lot of clarity on hikes And I just feel like my head is more clear and then round us jumbled around because I took that hour So I work on myself and to like be better You know what I mean sort of my day on a better foot So we are on our way to go on a little hike that I like to go to near my house It's really pretty and then at the end of it There's a lot of like really pretty houses and stuff because you kind of like and in a neighborhood So it's one of my favorite hikes. That's pretty too. We're pulling into My favorite hiking trail sometimes I listen to music I normally listen to a podcast on the way. I feel like that really starts off my day Well, it depends on what I want to listen to kind of on the hike But you guys can check out even more at Best Buy Tech for that stuff, but we're parking and I'm going to hike Okay, we're starting to hike feel so good. It's like 8 a.m. I Love when it's cold enough to where you have to wear a jacket. That's like my preferred hike Bye, but when it's really hot in the summer, it's actually so awful right now is the perfect time Wow, so peaceful So peaceful Guys the view is just so freaking pretty Really about to finish this hike Feels really amazing and it's really nice. It is kind of like get outside in the morning if I don't go on a hike I'm not gonna get outside like I know myself I'm way more likely to hike than I am even to like take a walk in my neighborhood So I think it's also like Knowing what works for you. You know what I mean? All right guys. I'm now ready for the day I'm feeling really good. I think it's just so important in 2020 to Make a morning routine that kind of aligns with your goals and your fitness and health goals like how you start your morning Really, I do believe it's like the biggest part of your day So Yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you guys want to learn more about achieving your fitness goals through a Best Buy Tech You guys can click the link in the description below. There's so many options guys I really recommend the juicer though seriously the best so if you guys want to achieve your goals with wellness in 2020 you guys should check out Best Buy with all their tech options all of these just make your life easier and just kind of like Expand on what you can even do. So it's really cool. That's why I love my juicer It's why I'm just like really passionate about having Just routines and stuff in the morning and things that you do because like I can tell like today I feel so much better than I did on a day where I like went somewhere last minute and woke up 10 minutes of Four and whatnot like I think it's just really important to have your nice little Wellness morning routine. So again, I will have Best Buy linked down below I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you guys did let me know by giving it a thumbs up subscribe and check out Best Buy Link below. Love you guys so much, and I'll see you soon. Bye


In this video, I will describe the role of the cerebellum and basal nuclei in regulation of motor commands, describe how the midbrain influences the activity of the basal nuclei, and describe the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease. The cerebellum is located just posterior to the pons, the middle region of the brain stem, and the functions of the cerebellum are important for unconscious coordination of motor commands, maintaining posture and balance. The cerebellum performs a type of learning that will store information from previous motor commands and will enable a corrective signal to be produced to fine-tune our future motor commands based on errors that we've made with previous motor commands. This is known as a feed-forward control mechanism that enables the correction of motor commands based on learning from past experiences. There are three functional regions of the cerebellum. The vestibulocerebellum receives sensory information from vestibular receptors of the inner ear that are monitoring movement of the head, and this information is important for coordinating balance and eye movements. The spinocerebellum receives sensory information from the spinal cord from proprioceptors like the raffinic corpuscles that are found in joint capsules, monitoring the position of the body, and this sensory information will be important for the cerebellum to send out involuntary commands to help maintain posture and in order to help coordinate complex movements of the body. And the cerebrocerebellum is connected to the cerebrum and receives the motor commands coming from primary motor cortex and then we'll use that input in order to generate the procedural memories and in order to develop a feed-forward control mechanism that can correct errors in our motor commands in order to fine-tune motor commands. Basal nuclei in the cerebrum contribute to motivation of motor control. They receive input from the cerebral cortex and then we'll send an input back to the cerebral cortex that will help to regulate the motivation for motor commands to come out of the cerebral cortex. Major basal nuclei that are important for regulating the motivation of motor commands include the striatum. The striatum consists of two nuclei, the caudate nucleus and the putamen. These regions receive input from the cortex and then send commands to another basal nucleus known as the globus pallidus. Globus pallidus will then regulate a pathway from the thalamus to the motor cortex providing the information that has been processed by the basal nuclei in order to regulate motivation at the level of the motor neurons in the cerebral cortex. So here we can see the network that controls motivation to initiate motor commands. The excitatory connections where glutamate is the neurotransmitter are shown in blue in the illustration whereas the inhibitory connections where the neurotransmitter is GABA are shown in red in this illustration. So the cerebral cortex motor neurons project excitatory connections into the striatum to stimulate neurons in the caudate and putamen. Then neurons in the striatum inhibit other neurons found in the globus pallidus. Then these neurons in the globus pallidus will inhibit other neurons in the thalamus and the neurons of the thalamus can stimulate the neurons of the cortex. So we can see the flowing through the stream on the left that I've just talked through is the direct pathway. The direct pathway involves the cortex stimulating the striatum. The striatum inhibiting the globus pallidus and then the globus pallidus inhibiting the thalamus. So by stimulating the inhibition of inhibition we are increasing the activity of the neurons from the thalamus that stimulate the cortex making it more likely that a motor command will be sent out from the motor cortex. On the right side we can see the pathway that's an indirect pathway through the basal nuclei where the striatum inhibits the globus pallidus and the globus pallidus that inhibits subthalamic nuclei that stimulate the globus pallidus to inhibit the thalamus. In this indirect pathway we have stimulation of inhibition of inhibition that stimulates another inhibition leading to overall a decrease activity of the neurons in the thalamus that would stimulate the cortex. Therefore increased activity of the indirect pathway makes it less likely that a motor command will be generated and sent out from motor cortex whereas increased activity of the direct pathway increases the likelihood of a motor command being sent out. There's a region of the midbrain called the substantia nigra paris compacta that produces the neurotransmitter dopamine and releases dopamine into the striatum. Dopamine has a modulatory effect in the striatum so the neurotransmitter dopamine will increase activity through the direct pathway and decrease the activity through the indirect pathway. Therefore dopamine will stimulate the direct pathway as a way of increasing the motivation to initiate motor commands. Parkinson's disease is a neurogenerative disease involving loss of the dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra. This leads to impaired motor control, common symptoms of Parkinson's disease include increased muscle tone and stiff rigid muscles, unwanted involuntary movements such as arresting tremor and a characteristic slow hunched shuffling walk. Studying the brains of patients that have died from Alzheimer's disease we have learned that there's a characteristic pathology in the brain known as Lewy bodies which are abnormal protein clumps found in the dopamine producing dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra. As the Lewy bodies accumulate in these dopaminergic neurons, dopaminergic neurons will die and this loss of dopamine input to the striatum is decreasing the activity of the direct pathway and increasing the activity of the indirect pathway which decreases the likelihood that a motor command will be initiated in the motor cortex. So it makes it more difficult to develop the motivation required to send out a motor command because the dopaminergic neurons have died. One of the treatments for Parkinson's disease is a medication known as L-dopa or levodopa. L-dopa is a chemical that is a precursor to dopamine so by providing the drug L-dopa a patient with Parkinson's disease is able to produce more dopamine even though the disease is killing the dopamine producing neurons in the brain. Taking this medication will increase the amount of dopamine that can be produced by the few dopaminergic neurons that remain in the midbrain. Another approach for the treatment of Parkinson's disease known as deep brain stimulation involves electrodes that are implanted into the basal nuclei in order to disrupt the indirect pathway helping to increase motivation to initiate motor commands.


Welcome to the MTN Nightly, I'm Nisha Charles. This edition stomps stories. The Saint Lucia Parliament takes a significant step towards bolstering regional security. Saint Lucia secures additional flights from the UK market. Anticipation is high for Saint Lucia's Little Folk Tale at Carrot Festa, all that plus the latest in youth development, sports, and the NTN Nouvelle Arcoillon. A bill to incorporate the Carrot Festa Warrant Treaty in the laws of Saint Lucia has been passed. The treaty, which has been in existence since 2008, seeks to combat cross-border crime and enhance cooperation among law enforcement agencies and security in the Carrot Festa region. The treaty was developed in response to the deficiencies of the extradition laws in Carrot Festa member states. Prime Minister Hon. Alan Shastney says it is meant to provide a more efficient system of surrender of persons among Carrot Festa member states. In the treaty, a Carrot Festa warrant, the warrant can be issued by a judge of the High Court for the arrest and surrender of a person who is reasonably suspected of having committed an offense for which the maximum penalty imprisonment for at least one year in the State Party that issued the warrant or has fled from justice after a custodial sentence has been imposed for that offense. Saint Lucia must designate a central authority to be responsible for the administrative transmission and reception of the Carrot Festa Warrant and other correspondence relating to the warrant according to the treaty. A central authority of the issuing State Party must make a request for the surrender of a person. When the request is received, Saint Lucia as an executing party state is expected to take necessary measures against the requested person in compliance with the laws of Saint Lucia. Hon. Shastney says provisions must be made in the law to empower a competent authority to arrest and detain someone under the warrant. The consent of an arrested person must be given to the executing authority in accordance with the laws of Saint Lucia. If an arrested person consents to be surrendered, the person must be surrendered within 48 hours of given consent. But if consent is not given, a decision in relation to the surrender of the person must be made within seven days of the arrest of the person. Saint Lucia signed on to the Carrot Festa Warrant Treaty on July 6, 2017. The integrating water, land and ecosystems management in Caribbean Small Island Developing States IWECO project, a five-year regional project that addresses water, land and biodiversity resource management as well as climate change continues to advance in Saint Lucia. Amanda Faye Clark tells us the progress. Here in Saint Lucia, the IWECO project will allow the application of existing proven technologies and approaches best suited for small island developing states to improve the management of fresh and coastal water resources, land resources and forests. One such initiative under the project is currently underway in Forseshack Souffre and is being facilitated through the Department of Forestry. Chief Forestry Officer Alfred Prosper says, plans are running full steam ahead on the land stabilization project as farmers and residents alike have appreciated the need to implement sustainable land use and agriculture practices in order to safeguard life, property and agribased livelihoods. The genesis of the initiative, he explains, is the widespread landslides and massive losses sustained by the Forseshack community after the passage of Hurricane Thomas in October of 2010. The project really came about to address what we call the poor biophysical conditions of the Souffre watershed, meaning the devastation in terms of massive soil erosion, massive soil loss, mutation of rivers. So these are the poor biophysical conditions caused indirectly by poor land management, unsustainable land management in terms of that watershed. And it really involves stabilization of the graded areas, river banks, etc. We currently have 17 persons employed and some of these persons are involved in the production of plants at our nursery because we have a nursery where we produce tree crops and forestry where we provide those trees to the farmers free of charge. We also do what we call farm assessments. So we not just go and walk to a farm or farmers holding and say, we're planting mahogany, we're planting mango, we're planting mahogany, sorry, coconuts, etc. We do what we call a farm assessment. So we actually go on the farm, we take the GPS position, we look at the farm activities happening, we look at some of the issues with regards to land management, soil erosion, etc. And we come with a recommendation and a plan for restoration, etc. So we've done almost 100 farms since the start of the project. Iweko is funded by the Global Environment Facility, Jeff. And the United Nations Environment Program is the lead implementing agency for the national and regional sub-projects. With the United Nations Development Program implementing some activities. From the Ministry of Agriculture, I am Amanda Fee-Clock reporting. Following high-level discussions with governments and tourism officials, Premium Carrier British Airways on Thursday, August 22 broke news of the introduction of two additional direct flights per week to St. Lucia. This comes as Virgin Atlantic Airways prepares to suspend services to the island in June of next year. Taking effect next summer, the no-tag flights will commence July 4, 2020 and will run throughout August 29, 2020. The flight offers three classes of service and will add an average of 600 additional seats weekly to facilitate travel to the island. Tourism Minister Hon. Dominic Fadie says, together with the additional flights, several other marketing initiatives are being explored as a means of infusing added life into the British market. The additional flights will bring British Airways' scheduled direct service from London to St. Lucia up from seven to nine flights weekly. Currently, St. Lucia is serviced by 14 direct BA flights that interconnect between London, Trinidad and Grenada. Regional carrier Liat has reduced fares to St. Lucia just in time for St. Lucia Roots & Soul, slated for August 23 to 25, 2019. With 40% off airfares until Sunday, August 25, fans can seize the opportunity to connect on the high-frequency inter-island carrier to be a part of the music festival. The highly anticipated performance of legendary British reggae and pop band UB40 is expected to bring additional excitement to year-long celebrations in commemoration of St. Lucia's 40th anniversary of independence. The highly decorated group featuring Ali Campbell and Astro will sound off at the upcoming third annual St. Lucia Roots & Soul Festival, thrilling audiences with the extensive repertoire of fan favourites. And speaking of thrilling audiences, Friday, August 23, 2019 will be very special for two young St. Lucia writers as their play, A Little Folk Tale, is performed at Carrifesta 14 in Trinidad and Tobago. GIS's Rodvara Lawrence reports. The cast of A Little Folk Tale has been rehearsing enthusiastically for St. Lucia's biggest night at Carrifesta 14. It's an even bigger occasion for the play's two young St. Lucia writers, 20-year-old Monique Auguste and 19-year-old Jesse Meyers. Their masterpiece, A Little Folk Tale, started as a secondary school project highlighting St. Lucia folk characters. We started off as an improv, I did in secondary school, in a theatre arts class and it was basically about this book that whatever you write in the book it comes to life. The play brings into focus four famous St. Lucia folk characters. Their stories passed down from generation to generation. The background stories of St. Lucia folk characters, the Laja Bless, the Supuyo, Pocma, and Tibolo. A Little Folk Tale became a theatre production at the South Arthur Lewis Community College. When Monique was asked to write a play for the school, she reflected on the secondary school research project and the many folk tales that excited her imagination over the years. It was at this stage Monique teamed up with Jesse Meyers, then a stage manager, to write and produce the play, now getting international attention at Carrie Fester 2019. We had a lot of fun writing the play. We mesh really well together. We have a very similar sense of humour, a similar writing style. So sitting down with Monique was always fun. It's a very exciting experience I would say and complain because like Jesse said, they started off as a very small project for Jammer Club. A lot of heart and effort was put into this and we really didn't expect any. We didn't expect it to go so far. Monique Ogiste and Jesse Meyers are hoping their exciting journey so far and the play itself will inspire young writers to explore their culture and to keep writing. One I would advise the young artists and writers to go out there and create content because the reason why I think this play was so well received was that it was kind of written with a young voice but it also bridges a gap between the older generation and I feel like sometimes we feel like we're not represented because of course our Nobel laureates and everyone before should replace but sometimes people find it difficult to identify so I would advise them to go out there, use your voice, don't give up. A Little Folk Tale was commissioned by the Cultural Development Foundation after director Draenia Frederick spotted its potential and cross-generational appeal. From the Government Information Service, I am Rog Varro-Lorens reporting from Carifesta 14 in Trinidad and Tobago. And this is the NTN Nightly. We have more from Carifesta but first, Ryan O'Brien has the sports. Hey, look at your breastfeeding. I give him both just now but I don't think I can breastfeed. Why won't you breastfeed? The thing is my breasts are so small. I don't think I will have enough milk for my baby. My dear, you can breastfeed. The size of your breast does not matter.   I don't mind to fall. Eventually all breasts will fall. Once you wear a supportive bra, it will help maintain the muscles of your breast while you breastfeed. Breast milk is very important for your baby's health. It is complete nutrition for your baby with the right nutrients. I did a lot of reading whilst I was pregnant and found out a lot of good things about breastfeeding. Really? Like what?   It is also cheaper and practical since you wouldn't have to buy artificial milk or boil bottles. Breastfeeding does all that? Hey, now you make me want to breastfeed. I want my baby to be healthy and smart. There's more. In addition, I saved a lot of money from not having to buy formula. Do you know how expensive formula is? No formula? How is that possible? The baby will go hungry? No. The breast is adequate for the baby's need from both to six months. The baby needs no other foods or liquids during that period. Is that so? My sister had a baby last year and my granny insisted she give the baby to a Roma and she was only three months. Nothing before six months. The nutritionist will guide you on how to introduce foods to the baby. Wow, I learnt a lot. I had no idea breastfeeding was that important. Yes it is. Breastfeeding is the best thing you can do for your baby. Do it and you will see. You will also bond with your baby. I will, my girl. Nice talking to you. I'm happy to hear that. Also encourage your friends and family too. Welcome back. We join Ryan O'Brien for the latest happenings in youth development and sports. Welcome everyone to your update from youth development and sports on the NTN Nightly News. I'm Ryan O'Brien. President of the St. Lucia Football Association, Lyndon Cooper, says it was very important that Prime Minister the Honourable Alan Shastney and the President of the Federation of International Football Associations FIFA, Giovanni Infantino, told the FIFA-funded football facility at Granivier-Denri as it provides them with some knowledge on how the sport is being developed on island. I think the President of FIFA wanted to see what the investment was and now I think he is satisfied at where he thinks that small countries like St. Lucia are going to be. The visit itself is going to be a lot of dividends for us because the Prime Minister is their concave present, is the enterprise president, and they understand what the challenges are in order for us to be able to go to the game and to take the game to the next level. Cooper also revealed to the NTN Nightly News that the country can look forward to more success coming out of its youth program. At the end of the 15th team, we are going to take a second look at it simply because having their victories brought from a amateur study we would have to bring in the experts and all the consultants in order to erase the discrete of those boys so they could approach that game and the next round, which is sometime next year in 2017 from a more professional standpoint. This actual facility where we are standing right now, how much has that impacted on the success that we've realized so far? The first set of teams to train is the under 15 boys and those guys have been training for in excess of eight months and they actually began training on these three or four days as of January of this year and because we have the facility, we could have managed to have one or two teams trained uninterrupted. The SLFA president spoke during a brief visit to St. Lucia by the FIFA president recently. Staying with football, a contingent of 16 boys and five staff from the boys training center are currently in Grenada competing in the Caribbean Children's Charity Shield Soccer Tournament which ends on Saturday. The St. Lucia are competing formidably in the under 17 category having already reached the semifinal stage of the competition. Wang Sanson is a general manager of the BTC and it's one of the five member staff accompanying the wards in Grenada. I believe that this trip is much more than football. It's first of all a form of rehabilitation for the boys, education because we have taken them on a trip around the island where they visited all the historic sites in Grenada. So we're looking forward to participating in this tournament, being a very disciplined team in this tournament and if we don't win we would have achieved our ultimate goal which is rehabilitation of the boys. Meanwhile, organizer Trisha Brown spoke about the aims of staging such a tournament. The Caribbean Children's Charity Shield started in year 2014 in Barbados. It's actually a grassroots initiative which helps children from different stigmatized and marginalized football groups throughout the region and through this program and this competition we help children to develop and find their own self-image and through sports, through the game football we allow them to travel from country to country. The tournament was first held in Barbados in 2014, Trinidad and Tobago in 2015, Guyana 2016, St. Vincent and the Grenadines 2017, and held in St. Lucia last year. And before we leave you, parents and guardians of students who will be attending the St. Lucia Sports Academy, formerly known as the Grosele secondary school, are invited to an important meeting on Saturday, August 24th, 2019 from 11 a.m. at the Finance Administrative Center. Transportation arrangements will see the following buses, M465 departing the Philip-Mars Legrand VFO at 10 a.m. and M538 departing from the Catholic Church by the square in Souffre at 10 a.m. Parents are encouraged to assemble at respective meeting points by 9.30 a.m. And with that, we have come to the end of your weekend update from youth development and sports. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Thanks, Ryan. The St. Lucia Chirofest the Roadshow was taken to San Fernando this week where an appreciative audience got to experience the very talent and creativity of St. Lucia dancers and musicians. Rajvaro Lawrence takes us behind the scenes with director Drenia Frederick as the cast prepares to perform the Napa Rima Bowl in San Fernando. Today, we're at Napa Rima Bowl and we're doing the first set of our contemporary pieces, which we call Ocean Crossing Journey of One and Reptide, which is based on the transatlantic slave period. The St. Lucia Chirofest the 14th delegation traveled an hour and a half to San Fernando on the island's west coast to tell the story of a people's resilience after the atrocities of slavery. It's a piece that we have taken from St. Lucia's story and adapted it where the slaves are rising out of the sand under the sea and they're going on this journey to reach the new world and it's a piece of triumph. Travelling and performing in another Caribbean island has been an enriching experience. Performers have had to adapt as they travel to different venues to be unique in its own way. Right now we're putting on our makeup and the dancers are sort of doing a sort of memory exercise. We already did our technical rehearsals earlier. We had 20 minutes on stage and I think that I must commend them. We had never performed in this space. It's almost like a state of the art theater. For the St. Lucia's, it's a learning experience. One they hope to energize a greater love for arts and culture in St. Lucia. We have discovered as we're going through Trinidad and performing at different places that there is spaces to suit every performance, the theaters. And what is even more striking is the way that they take care of these institutions. The St. Lucia cast is also inspired by the deep appreciation of audiences wherever they perform. You can see this general love for the arts and the audience is coming out to these performances. This is almost in the middle of the afternoon at six o'clock on a Monday and the place is almost filled. The cast hosted St. Lucia Night on Tuesday and the big performance that everyone's been talking about is slated for Friday. That is the staging of a little folk tape. All persons who applied for admission to the divisions of agriculture, arts, science and general studies and technical education and management studies of the St. Louis Community College for the 2019-2020 academic year are informed that they must collect their responses from the division to which they applied on Monday 26 August at 9 a.m. Picture identification must be presented in order to collect their responses. In cases where applicants are unable to collect their responses, a written authorization along with picture identification must be presented. Every effort must be made to collect the responses at the stipulated date and time. Further information is available on the website at www.salcc.edu.lc And stay with the NTN Nightly. Up next, Primers Hutchinson is here with the NTN Nouvelle en Croyol. Welcome back. We join Primers Hutchinson for the NTN Nouvelle en Croyol. Thank you very much. Destinations in England for this year I found a lot of hats. Later, I had a great discussion with the authorities of the British Airways, the government officers and the tourist affairs officers. The first time I said on the 22nd of September that the British Airways was going to have a trip to England for six weeks. The trip started on the 4th of July, the year 2020, on the 29th of August, the year 2020. The flight was offered three days of service and was also added 600 days. The flight took place every week to facilitate this trip. The Prime Minister, Alan Chastney, said that he was very excited to find a better flight and a better quality. He continued to find the tourist in England to visit this trip. Minister of Tourism, Dominic Fede. Congratulations to the British Airways for setting up such a long trip. Minister Fede, I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to visit this trip in the Atlantic. I would like to thank you for taking the opportunity to benefit from this trip. I would like to thank you for taking the opportunity to visit the French Air Force and the French Airlines for providing the opportunity to travel to England. I would like to thank you for taking the opportunity to visit this trip in the Atlantic. Minister Fede, congratulations for setting up such a long trip. Minister Fede, congratulations for taking the opportunity to visit this trip. Gaini Settlesi, a specter who has started to visit San Fernando and Trinidad, leading elsewhere, including your Guancatiti Mampubliclati, as well as her performance. In addition, the group has performed various talents in front of dance and good music. They have performed a lot of different stories, such as the Slavage, Equicilius, Pepla, the Vector of Production, and the various performances and productions of cultural development. Settlesi, Trinio Fadrik, they have performed a lot of different things, such as the Slavage, the Tessoti, Abbas, and the Poetry of the Nèfla. Fadrik Avae, who is a member of this group, has done very well in terms of how to embrace these different places and how to perform. He also spoke of the ways of the Trinidad, which are the cultural and cultural aspects, and how to support these performances. He has established a very good way of performing the Settlesi, which is the Poetry of the Nèfla. I also did the Settlesi, which is part of the chain of research for Settlesi and Madi, which is a more strong way to perform later in the art episode. It is also a little folk tale that we want to use in the folklore. Because we had been involved in the novel, we also tried to focus on the revitalisation, which I consider vital in the work of the novel, the Coeur de la Fusor. We also did the audio and music show. Messi and Pell promised and here's a look at what's happening to us weather-wise. Fair to partly cloudy skies with a few scattered showers today. Tonight into tomorrow, partly cloudy skies becoming cloudy at times with widely scattered showers and a chance of isolated thunderstorms, mainly over the northern Leicester Antelopes. Low-level moisture and instability will cause a few showery periods over the eastern Caribbean islands today. A tropical wave located a few hundred miles east of the Leicester Antelopes is expected to bring cloudiness, showers and possible thunderstorms over the eastern Caribbean islands from Saturday into Sunday. Another tropical wave located over the eastern tropical Atlantic is moving westward near 12 miles per hour or 19 kilometers per hour. Tides for castries have lower to 12 p.m. high at 8.58 p.m. Tides for view for day, low at 3.39 p.m. high at 10.05 p.m. Seas, slight to moderate with waves three to five feet or 0.9 to 1.5 meters. The sun will rise Saturday at 5.51 a.m. And that brings us to the end of the NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7 p.m. with a repeat at 7 a.m. You can also catch up with us any time on the Saint Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I'm Nisha Trouse.