Fellows and Lushans, once again we have brought to a close one year and ushered in a new year. As Commissioner of Police, it has been an honor to serve you and to lead the Royal Central Police Force in its quest to help make this country a safer place for all. The successes that we have realized throughout the past year would not have been possible without your help and support. This is a true manifestation of community policing. There were many hurdles to overcome during 2017. The men and women of the Royal Central Police Force must be commended for the resilience, commitment and dedication to duty, despite the many challenges. As we unpack upon the task of confronting the challenges of a new year, let us reflect on 2017. Whereas it appeared that crime decreased generally, there were record 56 homicide for 2017. This is of grave concern to the Royal Central Police Force. Notwithstanding this, we will continue to be steadfast and resolute in protecting citizens and all visitors to our shore. The force will continue to use modern strategies including technology and intelligence-driven policing to fight crime and social disorder in St. Lucia. During the Police Week of Activities 2017, many communities were visited and several activities organized in collaboration with communities. Some of those activities included a church parade, sporting events and boat rides. Visits were made to seek and shut in retired police officers during which food hampers were distributed. There was also an officer's ball and awards during which both retired police and fire officers were recognized for their outstanding service to the nation. There were town hall meetings conducted in Babuno, Jack Mell and François-Jacques Souffre. We value these town hall meetings as they provide the executive of the Royal Central Police Force and locally-based officers with an opportunity to interact with community members. They also present an opportunity for both the police and members of the public to express the concerns and make recommendations aimed at improving the quality of service that we provide. Our sister island of Dominica received assistance from the Royal Central Police Force following the devastation caused to the island by Hurricane Maria. During my visit to Dominica, members of the Royal Central Police Force came in for high praise from the government of the Commonwealth of Dominica, the chief of police and the citizens for the level of dedication and professionalism displayed while stationed in Dominica. Officers have been involved in the distribution of much needed aid and have helped stem the looting and restoration of law and order on the island. Until the departure, they served diligently and in high spirits, despite the extremely challenging working conditions, even whilst away from their families and loved ones, especially during the Christmas holiday. The efforts of police officers from the Marine Unit, the Special Services Unit, the Police Welfare Association and other units of the Royal Central Police Force have not gone unnoticed and I wish to commend them for doing a great job during these trying times. I also wish to thank and commend Assistant Commissioner Police Dorianne O'Brien for agreeing to serve as Commander in Dominica amidst trying times. During the past year, we received training from agencies both within our region and beyond. We are indeed grateful for the support and we look forward to partnering with those governments and agencies in improving the quality of training within the police force. The Royal Central Police Force is grateful to the management of Choice Television for allowing us to host our weekly police report at every Monday during the evening news. Special thanks go out to the press office of the Royal Central Police Force for preparing those reports. We also take the opportunity to thank the management and staff of NBC Television for partnering with the police to broadcast the police show, Police Inside. A big thank you goes out to the host, Corporal Zachary Hippolyte and Sergeant Chauvin Marfield who assisted in his absence. To the many listeners and callers both here and aboard, your support is appreciated. The success of this program would not have been possible without you. There were free press conferences conducted during the year where crime statistics were presented and major matters addressed. The Traffic Department continues to provide the motor in public with much needed traffic information via the various media outlets. Traffic safety is important and every effort must be made to ensure the public is ever so sensitized. It would be remiss of me if I neglected to mention the support provided throughout the year by the various print and electronic media houses and for the presence at our various activities. I want to continue to encourage a media-friendly environment and transparency at all times. 2017 was a quiet year as it relates to sports because of some key national events. This notwithstanding, the police participated in the National Basketball Commercial Commission and made it to the semifinals. We organized the inaugural RANDY about Small Gullorama which was born by Potts Police. I must thank Superintendent Ronald Phillip and his team for their foresight and hard work to make this tournament a success. There was also a road really which was won by the Boys Training Center. I thank them for their participation. Four police officers were recently selected to be part of the National Rugby Team which participated in the recently concluded 2017 World Rugby Competition in Barbados. At this tournament, Human Police Constable Chantal John made a debut as World Rugby Level 1 certified referee. To those officers I say well done, congratulations. During the year, the police successfully policed Asu Square, Soleil, Carnival and other events with no reports of any serious nature. As we start the new year, we are faced with significant challenges, particularly physical and human resources. Despite these limitations, we will continue to stand resolute in our quest to achieve our goals and objectives. In an effort to focus on our objectives for 2018, I will continue to forge deeper relationships between the police and the public. The responsibility for ensuring a safer and secure St. Lucia is not only that of the police but also that of every citizen of this country. The police cannot do it alone. This is our country and we must all play our part. I urge my police officers to act professionally at all times, displaying a high level of discipline and respect for the fundamental rights and freedoms of every citizen. At this juncture, I warn criminal elements and would-be criminals that the police will continue its zero tolerance to crime and social disorder. It is never too late to reflect and to search deep within to find ways to show love, to show compassion, empathy and respect, not just for individuals but also for property. Employ you, citizen, to think logically when faced with an adverse situation. Do not feel weak when someone does any wrong to you and do not strike back physically. You must display your strength by reporting the matter to the police as provided by law to get redress. Taking matters into your own hand, create further problems for the state and for you personally. Always think of the consequences of your actions and people who depend on and expect better of you. Do not allow your emotions to infuse you into becoming criminals. Remember that this is our country, our beautiful Helen of the West. We cannot allow the unsavory actions of some persons to hinder or impede the safety and security of our people and our visitors. I will ensure that every effort is made using legal means to apprehend and bring to justice anyone who chose to break our laws. The Royal Central Police force is truly indebted to the government and people of St. Usher for our various ministries, in particular our parent ministry for the support despite a challenging economic environment. As Commissioner Police, I will endeavor to do my best to justify the confidence reposing me. I call on every St. Usher to support not only me, but the Royal Central Police force in helping to make our country a safer place for all. We need to stand up, we need to stand strong because it is only together we can make a difference. I thank you and may the good Lord reach with you.


Hello and welcome. Thank you for joining. My name is Damien and I'm an engineer at ST Microelectronics. I'd like to present in this video how the ST25-DV dynamic tag can help developers like you solve real-life industrial problems. As such, the ST25-DV tag allows the I2C bus of a microcontroller to interface with the external world via radio frequency interface. The kit is divided in two parts. The first one is the motherboard with STM32-F405 controller and the other one, the daughter board is based on the NFC RFID ST25-DV04K device which is ISO 15693 and NFC4M type 5 compliant. Now, let me show you the setup. We're using a long range LR1002 reader from our friends at Feg Electronic. The RF reader is connected to a 30x30 industrial grade antenna also by Feg Electronic. Those are products that you can buy off the shelf.  Those kits can be ordered online at the address shown at the bottom of the screen. With a free software download and an RF reader, we will see how far devices can be detected. This range can be a key factor when detecting switched-off items on the production line, for example. Finally, you will need to download and install the ST25PC-001 from the ST website. Now, let me show you the inventory process on the software. As you launch the ST25PC-NFC software, you can see at the bottom right the connection status of the reader. Here it says LR1002 Connect. You click on the reader menu, and in the inventory, detect all the tags in front of the antenna. In continuous scan mode, the software launches a new inventory process at regular intervals. This allows you to find the range of operation of your tags. As you're watching, all the ST25-DV Discovery kits from this box are detected within 30 cm. In addition to doubly-pronged memory, where you can store custom data, the ST25-DV tag embeds 256 bytes of fast memory. This memory can be used to transfer information quickly between the RF and the I2C interfaces of the tag. One of the applications of this fast transfer mode is to transmit large files of 100 kilobytes from a reader to an electronic device for reprogramming. Let me now show you how the ST25-DV tags can be used to reprogram several electronic devices at the same time. The reader setup is the same as for the inventory, except for the antenna is not being oriented vertically. I have added four ST25-DV Discovery kits on a stand over the reader antenna. They are powered through a USB cable, and an antenna card is connected to each board. Back to the software, we make sure by running an inventory again that we see all four devices that we want to reprogram. Then we go on tags, ST25-DV, fast transfer demos, and firmware upgrade menu. And here I will select a binary file of about 110 kilobytes that I will send to the boards for reprogramming. You can see that the firmware transfer is happening through all four devices simultaneously. This can be useful to maintenance or support organization when having to reprogram devices on the field, for example. We have accelerated the transfer that took about 52 seconds with the FEG LR1002 reader. You can see that the CRC was verified successfully on all four devices, and that the firmware version has updated to 200. I hope I got you interested in the potential of ST25-DV dynamic tags for industrial applications. Thanks for watching!


Today, on the breakfast as the race to the 2023 presidency gathers momentum, presidential hopeful of the People's Democratic Party, Deli Mommoto joins us to discuss developing issues. Also, on the breakfast, the Department of the State Services warns about plans by criminal elements to return Nigeria to the pre-2015 era, where missing of improvised explosive devices attacks on softened-hat targets in parts of the country. How do we get on top of the security threats? And like always, we won't be reviewing all of the top stories making headlines across major dailies. Good morning to you. Thanks for joining us on the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. I am Justin Acadone. And I am Massey Papua, beautiful Wednesday morning. Thank you for joining us. All right. Thanks for staying with us. We just head up straight to top trending. There's a whole lot going on the Nigerians are not really learning lessons when it comes to Ponzi schemes and investment plans. And right now we're talking about a particular one which just went under a football investment platform crushes. You know, Massey, we've talked about this some investment plans and Ponzi schemes in Nigeria and Nigerians are, I won't say, the less wiser because over time people lost money to MMM and various investment plans. And yet they seem to have not learned lessons. This one is about a particular investment plan and they claim to have some affiliation with Manchester City. And Nigerians will just fall hook line and sinker and now just put huge money into such plans. So I'm hoping that we're able to, you know, run that particular tape, as it were, the video where you have a lot of peasants reacting and commenting and those who have actually fallen victim. But, you know, still staying with you and agreeing to the fact that we have not decided. I think it's a decision. It's something that we have not been very deliberate to learn from what's actually going on. And so all of the experiences. But it boils down to one thing and it's also the mentality of the quick, you know, quick syndrome, greed, like you have said over time. Just get rich quick, you know. So this is actually a way and so people will invest in, you know, the thing that was really sad for me because I'm not sure if we're able to put it out, I'm sure we're going to see all of that. So one of the peasants, you know, one of the investors who reacted was saying that don't put your money here again, you know, just look for another investment to put your money into. Another one. Really? It doesn't even make any sense. So I'm laughing because it's laughable and it's because we have refused to actually learn. Lessons. And usually we say that we cannot go by saying that experience is the best feature. But we say leveraging on others experience is the best feature. And that's actually the new norm now. But you know, for us, it's a different thing. So we have to. But just want to express it for themselves. Okay. We understand that we have the video. Let's see the video. Let's come back and talk some more. It's a city tour. I told you about this. So there are people outside. Everybody is starting out with their money. Everybody wants their money. People are here. They did not allow everybody to enter into the building. So they say we should write our name outside. They will be calling us one by one. Which is the latest strategy just to keep us outside. So that they can do what they want. All right, guys. So we all see what's going on with the C-S-F-B. We all see what's going on with the C-S-F-B. We all see what's going on with the C-S-F-B. We all see what's going on with the C-S-S-F-B. Well, now the main thing is that violent. We all see what's going on with the C-S-F-B. We all see the direct behavior of service firms. But unfortunately we only expect to see the 2017 review coming soon as we step into that same upsize process. So there are people out there that do not Catch your driver in order to send it to us. All right. Personally, I feel this is the end of 86 FB. This is the end of it. All right. It's no longer a safe investment. Don't look for another investment to put your money inside. All right. That time don't come and that time don't go.  What advice is putting out there? Seriously. When they are legit investment plan, fine. They might have little return on investment. You have commercial papers. We have bankers, acceptances. We have, OK, time deposit and all of that. Fine. You might not really get the quick fix syndrome or maybe 300% return. Like most of these Ponzi schemes promise Nigeria. But the fact is that why are we not learning lessons? No. So because first of all, this platform's they don't come as a Ponzi scheme. They don't come up and say, hey, we're a Ponzi scheme. Well, if you look at the operations and the activities, then you would actually decide for that. It's a Ponzi scheme. First of all, you need to understand that money doesn't work.  It doesn't work that way. So it's still driven by the fact that a lot of people want to blow. That's what it is.  You want to become the dangote of Nigeria. But you need to understand that dangos didn't start today. I mean, you need to understand how money works. And so we're all driven by the mentality of just get rich quick and just make the money blow. And that's it. And that's why people don't pay attention, you know, to details. That's all you say. So how do we constantly fall prey for all of this? So you had an MMM that was really very prominent. So you've had, what's the other one we talked about last week again? Funny names, I don't remember the name. What did you call it? Well, the names are even funny. But how do you tell me that you are linked to Manchester City? I'll not do my own due diligence. I'll not do my own research. You know, these things I've done. It is just how gullible we are. And as much as we constantly say we're the smartest people on planet Earth, I don't know if you have research backing that, but we constantly claim that we're very smart people, not just as smart, not just as resilient, not just as everything, you know, the best persons and best people to be, not to say that we're entirely nonsense, right? So you see, you have a couple of persons who have their minds working together. But I think that, you know, the ideology of wanting to blow and make quick money is what is actually driving a lot of people to putting up. So really, what would be the issue of attraction? Because I'm looking at it, it might just be the return on investment. And so when you look at the return on investment. Most of the people are outrageous. And they cannot sustain them. So how do you tell? So usually the point of attraction, and that's what this scheme's actually come.  They don't do that. They don't do that. But if you look at, when you look at it, how would someone tell you that, see, so you put, you know, 100,000 and in three days, you're going to get like, how much again? They're going to get 50,000 there. I mean, that's too good to be true. So you need to begin to query all of that. It raises a flag, but people don't pay attention. It does a whole lot. And a lot of people just think that, oh, because it's, so you're going to get 50, I mean, that's so, so good. That's a great investment. Trunking your money, just push it in and you want to get the money quick. But you see after a very long time, you know, it crashes because it's not, it doesn't follow the principle of how it actually works. They always crash because they can't sustain, you know, because the fact is that maybe we might do a particular session or maybe on financial literacy, you know, so people can get educated. No, maybe we really should. So people can actually get educated about investment. I don't even think that, so it will be a great idea. It's fantastic. We will constantly do our bid and that's why we exist, right? But I don't even think that we will get to that point. Everybody wants to, don't you want to blow? No, maybe not blow out of my side. Not really big, not to blow up more than that. Because the truth is that simple investment, if it's not hinged on any particular maybe service or product, at the end of the day, where is the money coming from? People should understand these little bases. Even if you're investing in banks, acceptance and everything. Okay, it is a service. The banks actually invest and they make returns and that's how they pay you. But this time around, you're just putting money into a Ponzi scheme. They'll tell you that in 30 days, you'll get this particular amount. How are they making the money or the returns? They're getting it from other people. So it's like crowdfunding? Yes, they collect from other people. At the end of the day, it will not sustain itself. It will eventually crash. Let's learn some lesson or two about this. I'm not gonna stay on this. We would never learn. Well... I'm serious. We'll continue in this cycle and it will just be laughable. Okay. We need to move away from this. Well, we have to move on. So that guy just advising people to go into a note. Okay, let me not dwell on that for now. Away from that. Away from that. The governor of Cross River State, Ben Iadi, has actually declared his presidential bid. But before we talk about it, let's see the declaration and what he said just yesterday. Leadership is given by God. God anointed President Muhammad Ubaray as the leader of our party and the leader of this country at this time. It is politically insensitive. It is completely non-African. It is not Afro-Politan. To walk into a man in the lofty of his seat and tell him I want your seat. I think by African morality, if we were to customize democracy to reflect the confinities that are specific to Africa, it will require a consultation to seek a direction than to declare a position. So I didn't come before the president, Muhammad Ubaray, to seek to declare to run for the office of the president of Nigeria. I came before him to seek his direction for me to understand how to align. All right, welcome back. That's the governor of a cross river state there, Ben Ayadeh, addressing these men after he sought consultation or consultancy as it were. Most of this, they have to step in consultancy fee because over time you hear and see that they're either consulting with IPB, OBJ, Abdul Salami, all they said want to gain from their years and wealth of experience. But let's see, your wonderful governor is actually declaring his presidential bid. And he said that what interesting thing he said is that he's not actually, he did not go there to see the president to tend that he wants to be his successor but just to get his nod. And he said something again that eventually, if his party were to choose the former president, Goodluck Jonathan, he would have throw his full support behind him. I mean, first of all, it is very interesting that everyone has a right to be part of the race. So we all have a right. I mean, as a matter of fact, I just probably want to declare my interest to run for presidency. Why are you clearing your throat? So, I mean, just to say that it's a constitutional right for everyone. So you have a right to vote and be voted for as long as you meet the requirement, you're not a criminal, even though you have several criminals that the Lord have not caught up with. So you have a lot of people who have offended the state and have done a lot of things but the law is yet to meet up with them and so that's why they're working as free men. But on the other hand, I think that it's a lot for the APC right now. So it's quite interesting that you see a lot of people being part of the race. In his statement, he's saying he doesn't want to succeed him but he understands how to align them. So I really don't know what the agenda is. There might probably be an agenda that we do not understand with the APC. You have a lot of persons. He's saying that he's gotten the approval of Mr. President to align. He's interested and that's why he's putting it out there. So what's the, it's politics and politics is about interest and so interest would always be, this is just the game. So people would play that game. It's okay. The president wouldn't have said to him, I'm not holding brief for the president but the president would not even tell him not to run or to run. And so we all need to understand all of that. But it would come back to the party politics. And so like people always say at what level. So right now you found out that the APC is so grappling whether or not we're going to go via the consensus or we're just going to have direct or indirect parameters. It's totally dependent on, you know, the parties at the party level to decide who becomes the flag bearer and on the largest scale. You also know that the party would have an influence to some extent, but really fingers are really crossed. So maybe when we get to that point, we'll talk about it. The sub-persons have rightly stated that, I mean, if you look at the cross of the slide, you can't really, you know, begin to put the pens, I mean, put the dots and cross the T's as regards some of the policies that he has put out. So it is totally embarrassing for some people to say that you have him saying, I want to become president. What have you done? Let's even begin to look at your antecedent at the state level. What's going on? What's the, you know, the level? He sounds, you know, very ambitious. Nobody can be unvovicious.  So it's okay. It's just a normal thing. The constitution has not limited anyone. And so the party would decide who becomes a flag bearer. And then maybe when we get to that point, we'll definitely talk about, you know, the ambition of Governor Ben Ayati of cross of a state. Well, in the meantime, fingers crossed and let's see what the party does. Yeah. And I know before time or before long ago, you will get to see more declarations, a lot of people, you know, coming out to declare their interest. And the thing, the question for me would be, what's your pedigree? What history do you have? What have you done at the level that you are at the particular moment? Some people, they have never really had any connection with governance or with politics. And yet they say they understand the terrain and they just want to, you know, leave, you know, that the lifelong ambition of wanting to be president. Like you said, the parties will eventually decide who would be bearing the flag and to contest Com 2023. Let's move away from Ben Ayati and his president short bid. There's also a video trending right now. Maybe we'll just take it and we'll come back and talk about it. It's about the Nigerian hunters and the hunters association they wear, you know, the coat in the latest hair. No matter what she has done, nobody has the right to just coat your hair just like that. And to the extent of the public, it is so embarrassing. What could she have even done? I mean, who gave them such rights? How come they could just go about doing whatever they feel? You know, when we have laws, when we have a democracy because people can not just be tormented just like that. We're just hoping that, you know, so we have a long way to go just before I get into that. We have a long way to go as a people and as a country and we constantly talk about, you know, police brutality and how the police have manhandled Nigerians over time. We see that, we complain, we have been speaking about it. One of the reasons why you have the hashtag and says protest. But if you look at those as a people, we're not even different from the police. I mean, we're just, we're just acting. Good weather to our fans all the time. So what is even the moral justification to begin to demand? It's not a justification for the police right now, but I mean, let's be very realistic here. So you begin to ask yourself, what is the difference between the Nigerian people and, you know, the behavior of the men of the Nigerian police? The difference just because they have the uniforms wearing and so we're not just very different from that. They were born here so they actually drink the same water. So they act like Nigerians would ordinarily. So it just brings us back to the fact that as a people we do not understand the rights that we have. Maybe we don't understand. We have a long way to go with orientation, with, you know, educating the people to understand the basics. It's that path, it's in the constitution that people need to understand the people have a right. I mean, that's too personal and that's very, very archaic in 2022 that you have this with all of the consent. I mean, if you say that the Nigerian hunters, we're hoping that they will be hunting animals or probably even hunting animals might some point be a crime. But probably look at the security consent. Why don't you channel your energy?   Now, you having a blonde hair, I could decide to have a blonde hair. I could decide to do whatever I want to do with my hair as long as it doesn't threaten, it's not a threat to national peace and security. And so what was done is totally barbaric and very archaic in 2022. I don't want to begin to say the 21st century because we have actually over. But, you know, yesterday, someone who's actually from Bainway State, a very popular person said, oh, Bainway is backwards. Always in the news for the bad reasons. I mean, look at it. You know, you still have a lot of security concerns right there. So why don't this individual channel their energy to the issues? It shows you where reflection of who we are. I mean, you see our government, it's just a reflection of, you constantly see what we pay attention to, issues that are not even of national interest or concern. And that's what we usually channel our energies to. And so you see policies don't affect it. Big on top of the, you know, anyone who wants to exact their energy and power, should look at security issues. We have the Boko Haram. We have the bandits. You have the all sort of criminal element terrorizing the peace and integrity of the people. And that should be the focus. So if you think that you have a lot of energy, maybe you channel that, you know, just go. Channel your energy to our start. It's quite unfortunate that we have to deal with all of this. Yes, we have a whole lot of bogging us as a people. So we don't really need to be tormented. We don't need to be brutalized. When we know the issues are plaguing us every day, let's not add to our worries. Let's not add to our plagues because we could do better. And I just need some sort of relief sucker. So we don't really need to add more. How did they say it? What's the word? What's the word? Poor guy. What's the word? It's all about the injury or something, or maybe petrol to the fire or whatever. The thing is that let's just channel our energies. If we're sad that we're the responsibility of hunting or maybe trying to do internal security, let's focus on that. Let's go to the forest. Let's go to the poachers and hunt down the games. And of course, those terrorizing Nigeria and maybe your state banter, but don't take it out on some girl just because she decided to make her hair blonde. She might even look very good in that. Okay, that's another conversation. Well, that's the much we can take on top trending this morning. We'd definitely return tomorrow. But more interesting conversations, generating reactions in different spaces. In the meantime, let's get back. And when we return, we'll be looking at the pages of our national dailies. Please stay with us.


Hello my Monet cafe artist friends and visitors this is Susan Jenkins and today I'm gonna be bringing you a little quick hopefully economical tip because pastel papers get very Expensive now. I found this when I was just at the dollar store. It's a little packet of 36 little squares. They are four and a half by five and a half Sizes so it's not really a standard size, but you know you could make it work I'm thinking these will be good for just a little practice pieces But the challenge is that as I talk about all the time you need with pastels to have a sanded surface So I've actually had a lot of our artist friends on Monet cafe art group on Facebook Share they've actually used real sandpaper But the challenge is that real sandpaper can be too coarse and it'll just eat up your very expensive pastels I'm gonna be using my pastel palette that I did from the last video Which was just such a blessing to realize I had I was trying to describe the color wheel And I happen to have this tray from Publix that was used as appetizers And it makes a neat little studio palette just to keep right here beside me when I work I have a very limited palette right here, but it works for what I'm doing today for sure And I wanted to show this The sandpaper here. This is the black and it is waterproof So if you want to add no, you can't add many paints to this Because it's black, but if you wanted to on some of the lighter colors, you know Maybe try a watercolor underpainting or you know something it is waterproof The problem like I'm trying to get at is that this is abrasive paper number 80 These are used I think to put in little belt sanders to sand furniture and things So this one 80 the lower the number the more course that one's very coarse That one's also 80, but you see you got black and then the regular color which is actually the color of you are paper It's almost exactly the same color, but then you finally get to where you get a hundred That's a little finer and finally 150. That's the finest grit that they have which is what I have up here on my board It's a little more coarse than The you are I usually use you art 400 grit But I happen to like the Sinelli a la carte paper that is very coarse And so I'm just about to try this and see what happens I'm going to be using a little reference photo from paint my photo of a cute little be with some flowers just something simple and Hopefully this paper will be something that we can use now. It's not archival quality, which is the quality that Artist that's the word that describes It is Going to last it's not going to yellow You know, it's an artist quality for if you're selling your paintings But it doesn't say it might last as long as the other stuff I don't know, but it's definitely great for practicing and a lot cheaper than some of the other papers So I'm going to just do a quick little painting. This is a quick video and hopefully we found something that can save us some money All right, let's get painting. All right. Yes, that music was getting a little annoying But I thought it was fun for the the fun painting of the bumblebee I've got some bluegrass roots and sometimes I like that a country bluegrass sound So anyway, but it was getting on my nerves a little bit, but I wanted to just share a little bit here I'm kind of purposely working on this Maybe overworking it a little bit. I'm kind of seeing how many layers I can get down on this sandpaper and So far it appears I can get a decent amount of layering on it Also, it's not eating at my pastels as much as I thought it might because this is still a pretty coarse piece of sandpaper It's the hundred and fifty grit like I mentioned at the beginning and I do notice a couple of things different about it With regard to comparing it to regular archival quality sand sanded papers for artists is that it is a little thinner you are paper is thicker I also noticed that while I was able it said waterproof on the back and indeed it was I was able to apply the Alcohol wash in this case I use that just because it dries faster and I think it behaves a little differently than water alone So it did receive the alcohol wash, you know fairly well and curled up on the edges a little bit But that does sometimes happen with you are paper as well, but again, this is more for if you're on a budget and You just want to play around a little bit or if you're not on a budget I mean who doesn't want to save money But you just want to play around a little bit and or practice something or do a preliminary painting before a bigger painting That is what I think that this paper would be good for and I'm gonna see we have like I said had some people in our Monet cafe art group on Facebook share that they too have used the sanded pastels and used more like a 400 grit maybe even a 500 grit I don't know my grits of hardware sandpaper hardware store sandpaper that well, but um it it's something else to explore So this was just like I said the one that I found at the dollar store this piece right here There's little five and a half by four and a half piece.  So again, I would use it for practice for Just getting more experience. I would not use it for a permanent piece that you might be selling Or anything you want to be sure that it has longevity to it.  Is that what these are called? But the bee gave it life and So I think I'll call him buzzy. So I'll be quiet now, and I hope you've learned something here I know I sure did please please comment and tell me what you want in a lesson and Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel and join our group on Facebook called Monet cafe art group So happy painting everyone and I really enjoyed this little painting. Bye


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We, Deina and Aletta from Icoholics, are embarking on another journey. This time we are in Italy, on the beautiful island of Sardinia. We are hiking the Camino Minerario di Santa Barbara, in the southwest of Sardinia. The CMSB is a 500 kilometer long Camino, which is divided into 30 stages. We are hiking stage 11 till 18 from Montimanu to Nougi, 100 kilometers along this beautiful trail. We are walking on the most ancient land in Italy, along mountains, mines characterized by the millennial mining epic of Sardinia. Welcome to the CMSB. Good morning from beautiful Italy. Right now we are on the island of Sardinia and we are hiking the Camino, the Minerario di Santa Barbara, or in English, the Minerario di Santa Barbara. Yesterday we arrived at this beautiful, beautiful passado. We arrived here by car. We were welcomed really, really warmly by the great organization. So thanks to Margarita and Nikolai for bringing us here. The drive over here was pretty spectacular actually. It was like on a dirt road and very steep and in the middle of the forest. And we slept like babies here because, listen, we didn't expect that from Sardinia to be honest. We are spending six days on this beautiful trail. Today is the first day from Montimanu and it's 20 kilometers to Pubucimo. Pubucino? Yeah, it's 20 kilometers to Pubucimo. It should take about eight hours with 900 meters of climbing, 650 meters of descent. So it's a pretty challenging first day, but we're really excited. The weather forecast for this week, only sunny, sunny, sunny. So that's why we brought our sun hoodies. Yeah, like we said, can't wait. We're really excited, right? Yeah, really excited. How's the trail been so far? Really beautiful. It's like wet sand with like Mediterranean landscapes, you know, like olive trees and everything is really dry, but really green.  It's really cool. I'm really looking forward to it. It's more mountainy than I thought Sardinia would be. And now we are eating a small snack because we are starting the climb in like, I think a few meters. It's a 600 meter climb. 900? 900 meter climb. Okay, maybe I need an extra snack for that. So normally there's water running here and you have to do a river crossing. But it's late summer. It's early September and it's bone dry here. So there's no water at all. There was supposed to be a waterfall, but of course without water there will be no waterfall. Just a fall? Just a fall. But it's easier to get over the water now, like do the river crossing. We just had a lovely break where we had some lunch and now it's only 200 meters climbing towards the highest point of the trail. So we're now at a little town called Arenas and we're supposed to get a stamp here for the booklet, but all the gates are closed. So I'm not sure, but I think we just have to continue from here. It's five kilometers to the place where we're going to sleep. I don't know the name, but I'll write it here. So five more kilometers and from here it's only downhill. So not very long. It should take about an hour, two hours maybe. And there, from what we heard, is a very good chef who makes dinner for us, like a good pasta. And his name is Alessandro. Alessandro, the chef, so can't wait. Something in me feels like all this warmth Made it to Pouboussino! Pouboussimo! And we are really warmly welcome by Alessandro. You can see it was a really hot day, so my face is a bit, well not so much, just warm. It was really hot today, it was like 35 degrees Celsius and we were walking from shade to shade and there were no water sources along the way. Like everything was bone dry, but luckily we just took enough water. But now we're waiting for the famous food of Alessandro. Yeah, we can't wait, he's super super friendly to us and we will show you the amazing food he will prepare. How's the taste? It's incredible. Alessandro doesn't speak one word of English. So he's everything translating in his phone. So all the local dishes that we don't even know. He has to translate it in his phone and try to explain it to us, but so far it's incredible. And today's hike was really beautiful. Something to be honest, we didn't expect of Sardinia. Those mountains here, there are really beautiful mountains and beginning of the day there was a very steep climb and afterwards it was a little bit less steep and then... We only had downhills. But like the technical part today was really a lot of fun and the views were just amazing. I didn't know what I expected from Sardinia, but it was more than I expected to be honest. Yeah, like a little bit different environment than we're used to because this region has a lot of abandoned mines. So there were a lot of abandoned buildings and old roads. Really strange, but really cool. Yeah, it was really like you stepped into history and it felt like the mine workers could just walk in that instant moment. But it was so different than we're used to it. That's the right word and I absolutely love it. The road we're supposed to be on the right and it's on the left. So that's how we found out that we took the wrong turn accidentally. That's crazy! What is it? It's like a never-ending tunnel. Enjoying the food every single day. We met some amazing people along the way. Like Paolo, supposed to be a famous guy here and we just met a couple of people and we gave them beer and it just really makes this day really special. I absolutely love it. This is my dream place.


Steve, can you riff a little about where and when math originated? Mathematics is innate ability that we have. It's a human ability and mathematics is just a language, right? And how did written languages come to be or how did language come to be? Natural languages came to be? Natural languages came to be because of our need to be able to communicate information. Written languages came to be because we were acquiring so much information that we weren't able to pass on the information accurately for one generation to the next, right? So we came up with written languages, okay? And mathematics being a language came about because our understanding of the language of the system we came up with to be able to quantify the world progressed to a level where we couldn't retain all the information and we had to be able to create symbols because mathematics originally was being done as written down in text like a natural language, right? And then slowly mathematicians created symbols to represent operations, right? To represent sort of things you did in mathematics and that's how the language of mathematics came to be and it's grown to a level where we can stream live, right? Phenomenal, phenomenal.


Hi, and welcome to the session. Let's discuss the following question. The question says express each of the complex number given in the exercises 1 to 10 in the form a plus iota b. Given complex number is 1 minus iota raised to the power 4. Let's now proceed on with our solution. We have to express the complex number 1 minus iota raised to the power 4 in the form a plus iota b. Right, we can write this complex number as whole square of square of 1 minus iota. Right, let's now find the square of 1 minus iota. We will use the identity of a minus b whole square. So this is equal to 1 square plus iota square minus 2 into 1 into iota. Right, iota square is equal to minus 1, so we have 1 minus 1 minus 2 iota and this is equal to minus 2 iota. So square of 1 minus iota is equal to minus 2 iota. So this expression is equal to square of minus 2 iota. The square of minus 2 is 4 and square of iota is iota square. You know that iota square is equal to minus 1, so we have minus 4. Thus our required solution is minus 4. So we have expressed the given complex number in the form a plus iota b where a is equal to minus 4 and b is equal to 0. So this completes the session. Bye and take care.


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