What's going on and welcome to the NBA DFS Q&A show my name is Tom Vecchio every week to every Wednesday at 4 p.m I am here taking your questions about the night's NBA DFS slates You can find this on the Fandle YouTube, Twitter, Twitch, Facebook page You can follow me on Twitter at DFS underscore Tom. Let's jump in we have a loaded slate There's a ton of value options we can be considering. We have a ton of high scoring games We want to be targeting those. There's obviously a ton of stars on tonight's slate Let's jump right into the questions starting off from Grimm. He's saying Austin Reeves, Lexi Pokubeski, Tony Snell, Deandre Hunter or Corey Kispert A better start at small forward. Out of that group, I'm liking Poku Just the minutes locked in for him going up against the Timberwolves is looking to be solid We know that the Thunder are very very shorthanded because they're dealing with a number of injuries So we want to be locking in a player that's going to be seeing probably 30 plus minutes as we have seen from some of their starters Just a ton of injuries across the board. $5,900 a very modest salary We didn't look to Deandre Hunter probably out of that group. Tony Snell is not really a player I go to too frequently But Deandre Hunter playing against the Bucks in just a very very solid game environment 240 over under with a four and a half point spread is something you always want to be going to He's also asking trend in Watford any value as a starter so the Trailblazers are another team that dealing with just a ton of injuries They have all these value plays and they're starting a lot of I think Watford is a solid play The 17 and a half or 18 point spread against the Jazz like oh it's 19 points now okay Is an ideal but we're going to be seeing Watford we're going to be seeing Williams for Portland some of their depth players I guess they're not depth players anymore they're starters now for them they're going to be seeing a ton of minutes So we want to be locking in minutes for a player that is very very affordable DJ is asking the classic Wednesday question the sixth man of play who do we want to be looking to that's likely coming off the bench That likely shouldn't be too popular I'm big on Dante DiVincenzo tonight I wrote him up as one of the value plays for tonight's slate Solid usage for him solid production over under is looking good against the Nuggets it's a six point spread that you know got a little bigger since the line opened at four I grabbed the Nuggets last night actually when the line first came out at four so I'm on the Nuggets tonight I'm also on the Bulls tonight at six and a half Going up against the Pistons line actually came down so it is what it is I think that this is a pretty straightforward spot for the Bulls As I said on today's daily ISO like they're on a five game losing streak they need to win this game you know they're slipping in the standings a little bit in the So the Bulls need to come out you know regardless if Vucevich does play which year which is one of the injuries we're waiting on it for tonight's slate There's a good amount of injuries we do see Simon's ruled out so again we should be seeing Williams get started point guard for the Portland Trailblazers But these are some impactful injuries for tonight's slate LeBron he obviously missed their most recent game Jimmy Butler popped up as questionable this morning Anthony Edwards, D'Angelo Russell both listed as questionable obviously if we see Christian Woodout we could be seeing Alperine St. Goon step into the starting line before the Rockets There's a lot to monitor on tonight's slate so these are the slates where injury news is extremely important making sure you have your player pool I would say pretty condensed is extremely important so if you're going to players like Williams and Watford like I said I'm pretty big on Dante DiVincenzo I like you know the upside he brings especially in a strong game environment you always can be going there you know we're working with 8000 per player remaining If you want to go to a player like Hoku for where am I looking for OKC if you want to lock in Hoku he's not overly expensive 5900 You have plenty of salary to pay up for some of the stars if we do see Jimmy Butler ruled out for the Miami Heat What would they do with their starting lineup maybe they get Tyler Hero in there that's always an option maybe they give Victor Oladipo to start obviously a player that We're seeing return from injury so his minutes situation is always going to be in question coming back immediately from the injury DJ is asking would Ken Burch or Damian Jones be a decent play at low salary he's talking about the center position because we have Sabonis suspended for the Sacramento Kings so Jones should be in line to get the start for them or Ken Burch for Toronto also in line to see plenty of minutes for them I think they're both in play realistically I would probably take Ken Burch if I had to choose one we do see this as a very big pace up spot for the Toronto Raptors 25th in the league and Pace San Antonio sitting up and if a lot of potential in this game we have seen a lot of San Antonio's games be super high scoring close No defense which is always good to see a 228 over under it's a one point game so I would choose Jones I would choose Ken Burch over Damian Jones at the center position If you're looking for value at center I will say I also like Mo Bam but tonight at center pretty solid value placing at forty nine forty seven hundred dollars he's also a player I'm considering No I will say if you're running one lineup that's maybe not the spot you want to be going I think spending up at center is probably you know one of the ideal calls tonight getting to yoke at your towns at both in great matchups we want to be attacking there I also like Rob Williams a lot tonight going up against the Charlotte Hornets we saw what Andre Drummond did last night he ended with was it forty six or forty seven Fandal points going up against the Hornets obviously a very very weak defense against centers They're allowing the fourth most Fandal points per game we also see the Charlotte Hornets number one in the league in pace so a great spot for the Celtics nine obviously just another spot we want to be going to Tatum and Brown for the Celtics great options for them green on YouTube is asking is porzingis a viable on FD cash at six thousand dollars so I spoke about porzingis a good amount on the podcast for today just because his salary is six thousand dollars I think we'd all agree that's very very affordable The issue for porzingis is the minutes right how many minutes will he be playing will it be 21 again will be 25 will be 30 you know if we got some updated report in terms of his minutes how many will he be good to go that is ultimately going to gauge the interest I think you should have them because 20 minutes is OK if they're going to bump them up to 25 28 or no minutes restriction that's when ultimately I have a ton of interest in him because he's he should be the main usage leader so you know as of now at 407pm I I would say porzingis right now isn't viable in cash because 20 minutes isn't enough and that's really what it comes down to like 20 minutes if he's going to be you know cap there isn't enough for him so if that's going to change to again 25 or 28 I have a different opinion on that if it's going to be 30 plus I'm going to love porzingis at six thousand dollars so the player that can easily break value as kind of what realistically should be the primary option for the wizards so I am on board with that I think whose month 9300 is a little bit too expensive considering grant see some of the usage go away from him to porzingis so that's my kind of feeling on porzingis as now he's viable if we get an update on the minutes for him. LeBron also listed as questionable he missed their most recent game. We're also waiting on the injury news for Jimmy Butler. Devin Booker is expected to return tonight he was in the league's health and safety protocol so looking to him obviously with Chris Paul is a solid option. Will Booker be able to go for a full set of minutes is probably the only thing holding him back I would say yes until we get some further update good game environment overall good not great. That's my kind of opinion on the Phoenix Suns in Miami he we do know that he one of the better defensive teams in the league it's a 220 over under which the grand scheme of things is good but it is a little bit further behind some of these games that are up in the mid 230s and again some of these games 240 is obviously very solid so I think Devin Booker is good tonight that game overall again good but not great. DJ on Facebook is asking is Rui Heichimura value going to going back up is he is he used really that high for Rui Heichimura. I think he's okay overall if you're worried about like the minutes for him coming off the bench. That's obviously always a factor with porzingis returning you know seeing these these 15 minutes when he was up in the mid 20s is concerning with porzingis coming back so that's my only concern on him. If we see that porzingis is going to be limited again maybe you can take a dart throw on Rui Heichimura. He would be a six man play to go to which which is what DJ asked so it'd be maybe Heichimura, Dante DiVincenzo, maybe Keon Johnson coming off the bench I mean 14 field go attempts is good to see for a bench player 3 or 14 is obviously not good. No one's ever going to argue that that's good but the double digit field go attempts for Keon Johnson coming off the bench for the short handed trailblazers is good to see. Maybe Spencer Dinwiddie as a six man option for the Mavericks that's always in play Malik Beasley potentially you know obviously always going to hero is always a solid option. Yeah I would say the six man tonight is pretty straightforward where we've been over the past few weeks for some of these players. A lot of it depends on the injury information where you know Carmelo is always a threat to hit some threes especially in a favorable matchup against the Rockets. It just depends on you know how many minutes is he going to see is their rotation we change if LeBron doesn't play again like those sorts of things. Bob Donovich is always a factor coming in off the bench for a six man option always can hit a ton of threes and the Bucks guess what they're terrible they're dead last in league for the most three pointers allowed from their opponent.  Let's see what his three prop is listed at tonight. See for Bob Donovich isn't listed okay. Okay Bob Donovich is not listed that would be a player maybe as the live lines come available for players points that could be a player you could be going to obviously his three points upside is always always strong. Brian Hamilton is on Facebook is asking a fibril matchups fibril matchups just overall we look to the Celtics the Hornets play super fast they don't play a whole lot of defense that's a spot you can be going. This is just a great game environment overall it's a one possession game 240 over under the Lakers obviously have a great matchup against the Rockets but also don't forget about the Rockets. It's not what the Lakers are playing a whole lot of defense this season right. So this is also a great back and forth game environment can be going to I'm big on the pelicans tonight I think we'll see a lot of their work not a lot of their players but some of your players be very popular. See Jim McCombs should be leading the way the Timberwolves have a super easy match up going up against the Thunder. I think that this game environment is probably one of my favorites on the entire slate. It's a one possession game it's a 228 over under we can be going to I would say several of the options for both the San Antonio Spurs and the Raptors. So these are some of the core games you want to be looking at and of course the Denver Nuggets like easy match against the Kings super high over under all of these sorts of things. I think Yolkage is a fantastic option on tonight's slate he could easily go for another triple double against the Kings. The Jazz 18 19 point favorites is not really a spot that I want to be looking too much that blowout factor is huge as we saw the other night for the Timberwolves going up against the Trailblazers. They won that game by whatever was 30 35 points you know the limited minutes for players at the end of games is certainly a factor throughout the season. I think we're getting to the point where you know especially later in the season when we're when we're not dealing with a whole lot of games remaining that you know seeing teams back off some of their star players in terms of minutes if they're really really you know up in the game just to give them a little bit of extra rest is not going to be surprised. Joseph on Facebook is asking Don bit Mitchell or CJ McCollum at shooting guard it's McCollum 10 times out of 10. Yeah as Jeremy saying CJ McCollum 10 times out of 10 shooting guard tonight. We have let's see Mitchell is 8400 and McCollum is a five it's McCollum McCollum McCollum. This is an eight point spread. I think the pelicans have to come out strong after kind of a bad loss last night they have to come out strong into the map the magic there's a winnable match up the pelicans are you know trying to secure their spots in the play in the playoffs whatever you want to call it this 19 point spread for the jazz is not really a spot that I want to be going seeing Mitchell. Seeing Mitchell as I've said before about these these huge spread games seeing the jazz witness game wire to wire and Mitchell literally not play a minute in the in the fourth quarter is not going to be surprised we saw it on Monday night for Jimmy Butler and I was on the under Jimmy Butler points rebounds assist and he literally didn't play a single minute in the fourth quarter because they were up by so much over the Rockets. So this is the situation where why do the jazz need to put Donovan Mitchell out there if they're up by 1520 heading into the fourth while McCollum is $100 more playing a game of the closer spread. And ultimately he's the driver of the offense for the pelicans not saying that Donovan Mitchell isn't one of the drivers of the offense for Utah but also with Brandon Ingram ruled out for the pelicans we want to be going to McCollum time and time again tonight. So that is very, very easy. Joseph is also asking Zach Levine or Jalen Brown sign that's a coin flip that's like almost you know just personal preference at shooting guard looking for Levine 77 or Jalen Brown also 7700 you're obviously working within the same price range for both of these players. I think they both have great matchups. It's not like we're worried about the defense for the for the pistons at all or worried about the defense for the Hornets. We look to Chicago overall this season. Obviously this is a bit skewed because they're. That's injury reports. Let's see who's out for them. Lonzo Ball is out. Caruso is out. Let's just run this quickly. Let's see if Vooch got officially ruled out. See there's an update on this because it's splitting hairs here essentially for some of the usage. So Levine, you know, 29% usage rate over one fan to point per minute. He's obviously one of the main guys for them and overall on the season for Jalen Brown it's minor differences in terms of usage and production. If I choose one, I'm going to go with Jalen Brown. I have more faith in the Hornets to come out scoring hit a bunch of threes and keep that game close compared to the pistons. So if I have to choose between one of them, it would be Jalen Brown. These are all good questions, you know, keeping these players within the same price range. You don't, you don't want to be asking about like, which player do you prefer, you know, Jokic or, I don't know, Jokic or like Mo Bamba. Like I said, I like Mo Bamba as a value plate tonight. It's like we're completely different parts of the salary tier. So we want to be sticking the same salary tier for like which one players or which one type question. So I'm big on Jokic tonight. These are some of my core value plays tonight. Again, on larger slates like this, you can't play everybody can have exposure to everyone. So try and narrow down the player pool of values that I want to be getting into a lot of my Lyme's values. They're going to be seeing a ton of minutes that are going to be seeing, you know, extra usage for due to injury situations, whatever it might be. And then also prioritizing the top tier player. So Jokic is a bit of a priority for me tonight. I have some interest in Devin Booker again. That game environment is good, not great. I'm just hoping that he's not super popular. Obviously Towns is in great spot, but it's really going to be Jokic, McCullum and probably DeRozan as some of my core options overall tonight. So if we lock in McCullum at shooting guard, then put DeRozan at small forward. That's 6300 remaining per player where two spots open and you have some great stars and scrubs for a nice little build there. Grim on YouTube is asking for an underdog spread bet. Do you like the Rockets, Wizards or Nets tonight? Well, the Nets don't play tonight. So I would just double check what you're selecting and you're not selecting tomorrow's games because the Nets play in Philly tomorrow for the spread tonight. I mean, if LeBron doesn't play, the Rockets, Rockets R was at 3, 5.6 point now. So if LeBron doesn't play, the Rockets would be the spot that I would be going. I would probably rank, I mean, I would take Rockets, Wizards and again, the Nets aren't on tonight's slate. So Rockets, Wizards probably in that order. Grim is also asking any 3x2s you like tonight. So let's bring up the 3x2s NBA. 3x2s for both of those, for any of those people that are new is 3x2. Will there be two plus three corners made in the first three minutes? So we know that the Milwaukee, the Milwaukee box, the Charlotte Hornets, the Portland Trail, Wizards, okay. Atlanta also in the bottom 10 for the most three-pointers. So immediately two teams, Milwaukee and Atlanta facing off against each other, both in the bottom 10 lead for the most three-pointers allowed. So we could look to the Hawks and the Bucks. Minus 132, it's a little bit of juice.  Kate and Brown come out firing. That would be a surprise. Portland, we know that Utah can get the three-pointers rolling early and often as they have for a couple of seasons. And OKC in Minnesota going head-to-head both also in the bottom 10 of the league for three-pointers. So I would certainly put Hawks and Bucks number one. Celtics Hornets is plus money, which is always nice to see. And then Thunder T Wolves, a little bit of juice at minus 120. So I would go Hawks, Bucks, Celtics Hornets, and then Thunder T Wolves for the three-by-twos tonight. I'm going back, Joseph saying on Facebook saying I'm going back to Alperine Sangoon with Christian Wood out again. Yeah. So if we get the update that Christian Wood is officially ruled out, it's Sangoon season on tonight's slate. So yeah, Christian Wood still listed as questionable. Great value at the center position. So you don't have Jokic. I mean, if you just take all this value, there's a ton of value to be had, especially if Wood is out. You can be going to Sangoon and ultimately, I would probably try to play Sangoon at power forward. As I said, time and time again, when these players have multi-position eligibility, especially at power forward and center, I want to be making sure I'm selecting these players at power forward only so you're not blocking your lineups. Like if you're using an optimizer, you don't want to block your lineups from potentially having towns or Jokic in there because they only have center eligibility. I mean, 7000 per player remaining and you have McCollum de Rosen and Jokic all in there. You have a lot of value with Williams, Watford, and Sangoon. Plenty of minutes for them. I'm personally big on Steven Chenzo. I like this matchup. He's been consistent as of late for the Kings coming off the bench. So absolutely Sangoon for the Rockets if we do see Christian Wood ruled out. That would be one thing to monitor. As we get closer to Lock, I will also say, let's see, at 4,600 at power forward, just look at this tier overall real quick. So that game is an 8 p.m. start. If he, if let's say you don't want to play Sangoon because Christian Wood is ruled in, where would you pivot or where could you pivot? You could go to Trey Lyles, 200 cheaper. That wouldn't change your lineup build overall. You could go to Herb Jones at 4,600. He's the same salary. So that's what I would say. You know, keep in mind if we, if Wood does start, like have that pivot ready that you just make an easy swap to your lineup. I'm going with Sangoon and power forward and Rob Williams at center and paying up for Luca. Totally, totally great build. Like I said, I'm big on Rob Williams going up against the Charlotte Horns tonight. Great spot for them. Again, we saw Andre Drummond last night have, I think it was 47 Fandal points against them. 225 over, under huge pace of spots. Charlotte number one in the league in pace. Boston is sitting at 19th. So a big pace of spot for Boston. We also see Rob Williams, despite not having a high usage rate, he's getting it done on a point per minute basis. Look at this. He is in terms of usage. He's the lowest usage player among the Celtics starting, starting five. And he's the third highest in Fandu points per minute at 1.12. He also has a very nice ceiling, you know, rack in a three, four, five blocks per game.  So Rob Williams absolutely in the mid tier at center. If you don't want to be paying up for Yolkich or towns, 7804 Rob Williams is totally an option you can be going to. That's what's, that's what's great about tonight's bill. Like you want to prioritize Luca over Yolkich. That's great. We have other options you can be, you know, pivoting to and still keeping some of your value plays consistent. So you want to pay up for a tent cumpo and, and Luca instead of Yolkich and the Rosen or Yolkich and, I don't know, McCombs, not super expensive. So if you want to, if you want to go to SGA. So SGA and Yolkich, but you want to go to Luca and a tent cumpo, that's great because there's, there's easy pivots on both sides. DJ is asking, how's Tristan Thompson value tonight if Vooch, if Vooch doesn't play or does play? I would assume, I assume you mean if Vooch doesn't play because I'm not going to Thompson if Vooch is in. And that's kind of one of the key things I'm, I'm waiting for tonight's slate because ultimately it's a, you know, you know, favorable matchup going up against the Pistons. If we do see Vooch ruled in, if, you know, Thompson is not a player. I'm really going to be going to ever kind of with or without Vooch in there at 3,500 at power forward. Tristan Thompson at 3,500. He's not really a player. I'd be considering power forward center.  I'm just not a fan, ultimately not a fan of Tristan Thompson. He's just not going to be a high usage player. Drew Eubanks is $4,000. Watford's only 4,100. Dad Young, Zach Collins, Greg Brown, like I would be going to some of these players ahead of Tristan Thompson. Yeah, I assume it was auto correct or something like that. Tristan Thompson is just not a player like Tristan Thompson, Tony Snell. Eric Gordon, like these are players I just generally don't go to. Not high usage players. You know, yeah, can they reach value at the bare minimum? Sure, but like we want these players to not just, you know, reach value. We want them to exceed value and just given the, the offense that Thompson operates in. You know, this is going to be a derosen in Levine game if Vooch is ruled out. So I would not be going to Tristan Thompson. I'm not going to Gordon. I'm not going to Tony Snell. These are players that are just low usage players, not taking a ton of field goal attempts. Just in their given offenses. They just don't have a true path to upside. Joseph was asking KCP or Kelden Johnson, Tiger Hero or Scotty Barnes.  Kelden Johnson, you know, this game with a 228 over under and a one point spread is certainly great. Not that KCP isn't a good option going up against the Clippers. We know he can get hot from three, but I would prefer Kelden Johnson. In that circumstance, and Tyler Hero or Scotty Barnes, that's a good one. Tyler Hero, we always know coming off the bench for them. And then Scotty Barnes is, Toronto is right here. He's also 7,200. You know, I might lean Scotty Barnes again, just getting the extra exposure to this game environment with a one point spread against the Spurs who just don't play defense. The Spurs are in the bottom 10 lead in terms of average fainting points per game to all positions combined. So the Spurs are not playing defense. I would take Scotty Barnes. I mean, I guess I would go to both those players from that same game. Again, not to say I don't like Hero, but you know, if we're comparing things on a one-to-one basis, it's got a higher over under and it's got a closer spread. Very marginally, you know, with eight points higher, four point closer spread very marginally. But I would just prefer those players in those given matchups. Grimm on YouTube is asking Al Horford or Jeremy Grant. So Horford for the Celtics or Jeremy Grant for the Pistons, 6400 for him, 6300 for Horford. I might side with Boston again. I might side with Boston probably was just, you know, attacking Charlotte via big man. It has always been profitable over the past few seasons. They're the sixth worst team against Power Forward and they're the fourth worst team against Centers. This just screams fantasy points combined with the pace of Spofford Boston. I mean, we saw like the upside for players going up against Hornets the Hornets last night, right? Obviously Irving is a bit of an outlier going for 50 plus real points. But that upside for a team that plays this fast and gives up so many points on a nightly basis, not to mention the fact that they're just giving up a ton of threes is immense. Not saying Al Horford is going to step out and take a ton of threes, but it's just the overall matchup versus the Hornets is so good. Balance on YouTube is asking, how do you feel about Jalen Brown in GVPs? Great matchup. You know, same things I just said about Boston going up against Charlotte. Pace-up spot. Charlotte doesn't play defense. They allow a ton of threes. Let's see what Brown's three-point prop is looking like tonight. See the Celtics, Jalen Brown, recent games. Obviously taking a consistent amount of threes, five, six, seven, maybe eight threes per game. Let's see what his prop is looking at because I do have a little bit of interest. So two and a half is minus 138, probably not a spot that I would go. Plus 192 for four plus me threes for Jalen Brown in this matchup, two, three, two, one, one, three, five, two. So it would have to be, you know, a ceiling game for Jalen Brown. The attempts are certainly there for him and the matchup is certainly there for him to get it done. But I love Jalen Browns and I him, Tatum, Rob Williams, all the options on the Celtics that I'd be going to. Low usage possibility with best value for players. So just overall value, we have, let's go back to all positions. In terms of value, there are a number of good players rated pretty high. Obviously Damian Jones jumped up to the top with Sabonis ruled out tonight, solid game environment there. A lot of the Portland players are going to be up here just because their minutes are going to be locked in. I'm not going to Eric Gordon, just personal preference. I'm big on Devin Chenzo tonight. I'm not really going to Westbrook, just giving his recent form. You know, Porzingis obviously rates high just because his salary is so low and we know his production per minute can be so high. It just comes down to how many minutes is he going to be playing. I'm also big on Mo Bam. So low usage possibility, I think you mean like low percentage plays with the best value. That would be a different story because these are not based on projected, you know, percentage in terms of popularity in tournaments. But I'd be going to a lot of these value plays. Damian Jones, from not paying up for Townsend Yokic, going to Devin Chenzo, going to Mo Bam, but also if I'm not paying up at center. Brandon Williams for Portland, always forget his name. He should be in the starting line with Anthony Simons ruled out. Key on YouTube is asking, do you like R.J. Barrett for against Dallas for Torvins? He's probably not going to be popular. I'm just not a fan of the matchable world. Dallas has been pretty solid on defense as of late. We also see both teams in the bottom five of the league in offensive pace. So we are not looking at a super high scoring game tonight. 2-16, is this the lowest on the slate? This is 2-17. Yeah, so that's the lowest over under on the slate. So R.J. Barrett, probably not an option for me tonight. I mean, he's 7,700. Jalen Brown, Zach Levine, Chris Milton, all in significantly better game environments. I mean, 240 points for Chris Milton in the box. I will take that 10 times out of 10 over R.J. Barrett along with Jalen Brown against the Hornets. Also over R.J. Barrett. All right, let's end 4-30. So let's run through this quickly. Grimm is saying quarter Joseph is a no play correct. Not really for me. If I'm going to that offense, it's going to be Kate Cunningham, Jeremy Grant. Kate J. Marin or Trenton Watford as cheap on power forward. I'm going with Trenton Watford. Just a ton of minutes available for the Portland players. Brian Hamilton, Corey Joseph. I would go, like I said, I'm not going to Corey Joseph in that Pistons offense. So that answers that one. All right. So that does it for today's Q&A. We'll be back next week on today's, for today's Feindl, NBA, DFS Q&A show. You can follow me on Twitter at DFS underscore Tom. Until next time, good luck in your contests.


Hi, I'm Akhil. I'm a student doing my undergrad in computer science in Amrita University, India. And I'd like to start off by saying thank you, like, thank you to each one of you for making what KD community, what it is, for giving me this fine opportunity to be standing here, giving a talk about my project. So a big round of applause for you guys. Come on. Yeah. Thank you. And yeah. So back to the topic revamping the title too. That was the project that I did over the summer for Google Summer of Code. And it was with KDNLive. And the project involved revamping, for those who are not aware what KDNLive is, it is one of the most popular open source non-linear professional video editors out there. So my project mainly involved revamping one of the major features in the tool. It's called the tidal tool. And what the tidal tool does is it makes tidal clips. So what tidal clips are, it's basically like, you have these, like, at the end of, say, a movie, you have, you know, credits or something like that. You have text, right? So if you want to, like, composite these clips which contain text or images, or you want to animate this in some sort, and you want to composite this over your video, you use the tidal tool. So the problem is in KDNLive, the tidal tool uses the deprecated QGraphicsView since Qtify. And this has had many problems. Like, we had to drop many effects, many popular effects like typewriter effect. And the whole code base is obviously prone to upstream bugs. And, yeah, it's a mess. So what I proposed to do was to, like, yeah, let me tell you an old user's deprecated QGraphicsView. So my solution was to redesign the backend right from, like, it uses XML. Currently, what I proposed to do was to use QML and render it using a new Qt class called QQuickRenderControl, which allows you to, you know, carefully select and render, control the rendering, you know, processes in a very efficient manner. So, yeah, that's that. And I'll just have this, yeah. So before you have the tidal tool, MLT, yeah, that's another term. MLT is basically the media framework on top of which KDLive is built on. So basically to do anything you need an MLT module, you need a producer or a consumer depending on what you're doing. So with the tidal tool, what you need is a producer. So for QML frames, I needed an entirely new producer. So that was part of the work that I did for the summer. I couldn't complete it. Unfortunately, I'm still working on it. And, yeah, so I hope to see the tidal tool live in the coming months. And, yeah, so about 80% of the work is done, really. And, yeah, I hope to continue being part of this great community. Currently, I'm asking for anything more. The experience has been great. The learning curve has been steep. And this community has been great. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, everyone. I'm Aman. And I've been a season of KD 2018 GSOC 18, mentor in GCI 18 and 19 GSOC mentor. So since we have a very small time, so I'll just briefly start with GSOC 2018. Well, in SOKI, I made a block programming language for the Project GCompre. And in GSOC, how do I move the slides forward? So here, the GCompre had a GTK plus version. And in that, there were a lot of piano simulating activities. These were one of the major activities which needed to be ported to the cute version to move to the version 1.0. So I ported all the four activities which were a piano music composer, in which the user will be able to compose a music, a piano music, using various components like he can control the rhythm of his composed music. Here is 152 BPM. It beats per minute. So he can control the play back speed of his music. And then there's play or either clear the entire stuff. It's also kind of sheet music. So it's mainly inspired with the software called Musecore. And itself a great KD application in the minute. So there are also many features like it has treble clefs and bass clefs. It also has rests. It also has different kind of notes. Let's say quarter note, full note, half notes and so on. So on the right, we have some predefined lyrics. These musics are already composed and we have stored it as a form of a JSON object. So these are directly imported. So the lyrics are shown as well as the music are also played. So the user can also modify it and then practice on his own. So these are the melodies that we had preloaded. And it was the file manager that I made to handle the creation. So like the user creates some music and he wants to save it. So he can save, he can load, he can delete, he can edit, and he can do anything with his file manager. So I've also integrated with all the other activities which needed its use. So it was another activity named play rhythm. So here you can see the metronome over the help button. So this metronome was oscillated. So it oscillates as you said the BPM, which is 90 BPM here. But you can change it according to the playback speed that you want. And the user had to click the metronome. So with this, the user can train his accuracy while playing his piano. And now last thing here is, it is an activity called name that note. So in this, the user gets to learn about all the various, you know, like keyboard keys and all the tones that he'll be playing. So it extends from C3 in the third octave to C6 in the sixth octave. So it has around 18 to 20 levels. And there are algorithms that I had implemented to, you know, make some focused keys that you can see in red and some normal keys that you can see in black and then the user can learn accordingly. So now, so that was my GSOC 2018 project. And so what's ahead of it? I got my project merged in the master branch and it got released right in the next month or two with the help of my mentors, obviously. And the next, I continued contributions and I did mentorship in Google Code in 2018 where I mentored 75 participants which resulted in completion of around 80 tasks, including coding tasks and community outreach tasks. So the next thing, like, and then I did my mentorship in Google Summer of Code this year for the project company for the project title one step closer to version 1.0. And we, along with my three other mentors, we let the student and he successfully completed all three evaluations within the perfect time. And, you know, like what's ahead for me and Katie after all the contributions. So my aim is to still remain active in the community and continue contributing code-wise as well as doing mentorship. And I hope to come here again and give a talk next year also. Thank you. Hi, so this is more or less aligned with our next goal that is Katie is the app, all for the app, basically. I'm going to talk about Laplot more on it. So before that, I'll start with who am I? So I started contributing in Katie in 2014. My first mentor was Alex Paul. He guided me throughout. So I picked up Calgem, that is Katie EDU project. And in that, during that time, we were voting from Qt 4 to Qt 5. So he guided me throughout the process. And in 2016, I did my GSoc in which I worked on the Laplot. And in 2019, I mentored in GCI where I created a few tasks related to Katie EDU projects. So a little about Laplot. Laplot is a Katie application where you can... It has a very interactive UI where you can plot scientific data. And it's very easy to manipulate and edit and figure out different analytics and the graph that you plot. So this is the UI of the application. On the left side, you have the project explorer where you can see all the worksheets that you have created. The center line is the main area where you see all the plots. You can mark with different colors, denoting different analytics or measurement, whatever you want to show. On the right is the properties of each plot that you select. You'll be able to see what are the X and Y values you are selecting and stuff. And on the status bar, you can just drag and draw all the color changes and everything like that. So Laplot, as I said, it's a scientific data plotter. So you can give inputs in the form of spreadsheets such that it has a X column and a row. You can give in the form of metrics, metrics like data, like X, Y sort of form. Or you can import some files. For example, if you get data from another third party source or something, you can import the file and directly play around with the data on the plots. So when you combine multiple spreadsheets or metrics, that forms your workbook. And when you start plotting your labels and everything, it is called spreadsheet. So there are different types of curves that you can create using Laplot. One is XY, which is normal, like using a spreadsheet, using X values and Y values. It can be like a normal equation where you get the straight graph. The second is you can use a mathematical expression. For example, a graph for sine, cos, or any other mathematical expression. And third is for data analytics functions, which is again your third party tool that you want to somehow manipulate your data and show the graph of that. So during my GSOG, my task was to extend the functionality of plotting by using Histogram. Histogram is a discrete data plotter. So here we added a lot of different bindings and all. So my mentor was Alexander and Garvid Khatri from India. And also I created some few small tasks on GCI, like for example, improving the Laplot websites and seeing around and writing documentation on Laplots and all. So what was the major things that we did? It was for extending the plotting capabilities. And Histogram is a continuous data. For example, it shows from X-axis to Y-axis how the data values are changing and the advanced features, as I told you. And the external file that I used was a JSL Histogram for that. We have the complete source code and the GitHub, so you can just fork it and look around if you want to contribute more to it. That's it. Thank you. Hi, everyone. My name is Alex. I study at UCL in London. Study mass and computer science. And I worked on polishing KIO fuse. So there's not many slides to this because I wrote this in five minutes on the plane. But you can see if there's more details, especially in the status report, for whatever I haven't said in the next three minutes. So a bit about KIO fuse. So there's a bug report 75324. It's been around for 15 years. And basically the feature request is that for apps that don't use KIO, so aren't KIO enabled, when we send URLs, for example, SAMBI URLs, FISH URLs, et cetera, to other apps, what we basically do is we use KIO exec, which basically downloads that URL into a kind of temporary file and allows you to do edits, but it's kind of really clunky. And so KIO fuses a kind of solution around that. And there's been many attempts in those 15 years, but there's been one this winter developed by Fabian Watt. And he worked on it that winter and over the due stock period, I tried to improve it. So in particular, basically, there's KIO, obviously, that we know, that allows obviously no more local file IO, but also kind of network-based IO that's kind of transparent, especially if you use Dolphin, it's quite clear. And there's also Fuse, which is kind of like a Linux module that allows creation of file system in user space. Obviously, most of them are in kernel space, and obviously they don't really accept patches for KIO. So Fuse basically kind of allows other applications to kind of see transparently what KIO is doing. And so it kind of merges together to allow it to take advantage of it. So I should go back a bit. So there are some limitations. So KIO doesn't always map well with semantics of what Fuse would expect. So there's a bit of hacking around, a lot of hacking around. And then Fuse itself has its own issues. So there's obviously different layers of cache shared away. KIO, if Fuse is implemented, is that every file in KIO is, or when you open a file via KIO, Fuse, what we do is we download it via KIO in a temporary file as a kind of cache. So we don't have to send requests all the way up and down to the actual remote system. And we kind of take advantage of the kernel caching. So they have write-back caching, which is very complex that I won't go into, but we can't use it. So we can then use write-through caching. That's kind of like a small performance issue. It's not really a big issue, in my opinion, because you have network IO, which is a lot more important. And so KIO Fuse kind of has a lot of hacks around currently. And it's currently all in one class. There's about 2,000 something lines, soon 3,000 once everything goes into master. To be honest, I don't know how to go around that cleverly. You can kind of use polymorphism, but that just makes the stuff really hard to read. So I think that's kind of a problem for later. In terms of getting it into kind of use and everyday use, merge and remaining merge requests. So there's obviously some stuff in KIO Fuse that we need to get in. So for example, there's file jobs. So we have different types of jobs, like transfer jobs, et cetera. But file jobs allow kind of like seeking. So say for example, you want to open or read the first few bytes or a large file, currently you'd have to download the whole file and then read the first five bytes. And you can pretty much endorse your system if the file's big enough. With file jobs for certain slaves, which is SFTP and SMB and IO slave, you can actually do seek-based kind of reading and writing. The problem was that it was kind of very poorly documented. So there was some stuff that was upstreamed and it's actually upstream now, so all good. And so what's left is to just get the remaining MRs in and we're good to go. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. I'm Ritu Kapatwal and I would like to thank KD Community Plasma Mobile Team and my mentor Bhushan Shah for helping me throughout the project. So my project was Next Cloud Integration on Plasma Mobile. Plasma Mobile is an open-source interface for the phones. Basically the idea is to bring the Linux distro to your mobile phones. And to make a device mobile phone handy, we all know how useful clouds are. So the Next Cloud Integration because Next Cloud is open-source and we support open-source and it supports security and privacy. So I'll break down my project in three steps like what I did. Mainly the work was done for the contact synchronization. First is the Next Cloud login plugin. These are some screenshots. What happens is in settings apps, you can add the Next Cloud account and you can add the Next Cloud account. And I used Webflow for login because in Webflow, the password is not saved. Random password is generated for the system. In that way, the user's password is secured and real password is not saved in the application. Next is K-Accounts Contact Sync plugin. What K-Accounts is? K-Accounts is a system to add the accounts and to manage accounts basically, to manage accounts on the plasma mobile. And Sync is a data access layer that manages synchronization, caching and indexing. So I use Sync plugin to synchronize the contacts, to save the contacts of the accounts to manage by K-Accounts in Sync data source. Then is the Next plugin, K-People Sync. So K-People provides the access to contacts, provides the access to contacts, phone book, etc. And the Plasma phone book app uses K-People to access the contacts. So what I did was to transfer the contacts from the Sync data source, these contacts that were synchronized by Sync plugin to the K-People data source. That's it. There's a demo video if the time permits. So right now the work has been done for the accounts, sorry, contacts. You can add your Next Cloud account. Now the contacts are synchronizing for the account added. And in the Plasma phone book app, those contacts are visible. Now I'm adding the new account on my cloud server. The Sync will happen automatically after five minutes, but for the demo I synchronized it manually. And that was visible on the... The changes were visible on the phone book app. So for the work, similar work I will do for the calendars and then for the files and photograph system. Thank you. You can read more about all the plugins at orepaula.home.blog and my GSOC status report. You can continue. Thank you. So my project was to port KD Connect to Windows. So for those who do not know what is KD Connect, KD Connect is an application for end users to sync their mobile phone, like the usual tasks that they do on the mobile phone through their laptop and vice versa. You can sync the notifications from your desktop to your phone and you can also sync the clipboard. And there are a lot more plugins like inhibiting screensaver and a lot more things. So the main issues that KD Connect had, like initially it was being built just fine on Windows, at least it was building and connecting, but it still had to do some work on notifications, the SFTP plugin and many other plugins because mostly they were still focused on Linux and they didn't have their Windows counterparts. So the main part of my project was to develop the plugins and ultimately publishing the port to the Windows Store. So most of the improvements that I did for KD Connect for Windows. So the first one was the notifications plugin. So for notifications I developed a SNOTOS backend for Windows so that we can use the existing K notification API calls so that we can use the existing code that we use in our end applications and still get the notifications on Windows like we do on Linux. So I have uploaded a video for that on YouTube so we can check that later. And the next was SFTP plugin. So for SFTP plugin, a technical limitation was that we do not actually have any implementation of SSHFS on Windows right now. So instead I developed the KIO extras SFTP plugin so that it works on Windows as well. So some of that work has been integrated but currently the limitation is that I can make a connection through KIO extras but still I cannot actually like browse all the file system because many parts in the KIO extras is still Linux specific like the permissions and stuff and we hope to make that more cross-platform at the KF6 release. Most of the other plugins were ported as well like the screensaver plugin and a lot more plugins. So I have a playlist for all the plugins uploaded on YouTube as well so you can check that out as well. So the final deliverables for my project were two installation modes so like Windows has two types of installations available one of them is the .exe setup that is a desktop application like the conventional ones that we have been seeing on Windows and the new one is the windows so wrap that is a .abpx package so for that we don't have as much freedom like we do for the desktop applications so we are still working on getting the more developed desktop application features on the windows application as well but the basic functionality of the project still works on both of these so if you want to try out the final deliverables that I have made I have some blog post on my blog as well the link will be at the end and otherwise both of the installation modes are available on CI thanks to Ben. So the current status of the project is that most features have been ported but there is still more documentation required for the project it still needs most testing because sometimes the K notifications back and causes the current port to crash so we still need to look into that some minor challenges like the one I told like the windows store build doesn't have the system integrations yet so that is one thing to work on but we are hoping that the deadline for the next release date will be the one for our release as well because we cannot actually release a project before like we cannot release a project that uses the master branch like most of my work has been on the master branch of frameworks and I cannot actually make an official release on windows store before the next release of KD frameworks that actually I am using so that was all so my blog and contact details are on journal.use.tech most of my blogs are first posted on the KD specific blog because somehow my RSS feed doesn't work for the original blog the GSOC final status report is available on this link and my project details for the GSOC are this link. Thank you.


Welcome to NTN Nightly. I'm Huma Di Mark. This edition stops stories. Early childhood sector to undergo face reopening. Local cruise sector service providers enthusiastic about resumption of calls to the island. And the local emergency medical personnel are trained to operate advanced equipment donation. The Department of Education, Innovation and Gender Relations through its Early Childhood Services Unit have been working collaboratively with local health authorities to ensure the safe reopening of the early childhood sector on the island. Officers from the Department of Environmental Health have been conducting island-wide inspections of the various early childhood centres to ensure compliance to the guidelines provided in collaboration with the St. Lucia Bureau of Standards. The early childhood sector will reopen on a phased basis. With all approved private sectors resuming operations on Tuesday 6 April 2021, government-operated centres will reopen their doors on Monday 19 April 2021. Only centres which have met the approved guidelines and demonstrate a sense of readiness to receive children in a safe and conducive environment have been granted approval to reopen. The Early Childhood Services Unit commends the administrators and staff of the various early childhood centres for their patients and efforts in ensuring that all the stipulated protocols are in place at their centres to ensure the safety and well-being of the children in their care as well as the staff and parents. The unit welcomes the reopening of the centre and urges all early childhood practitioners to remain alert and vigilant and ensure total adherence and maintain all of the COVID-19 guidelines which govern the operations of the centres. Teachers and educators in early childhood education from across the Karakum community are involved in a four-week training workshop to ensure their capacity to deliver high-quality distance learning experiences for young children. More from Karakum News Times to Sankin English Francis. The workshop commenced on Wednesday, 17 March, through a partnership among the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO, the Karakum Secretariat and the Caribbean Child Development Centre of the University of the West Indies, UWI Open Campus. Concluding on the 7th of April, the free online workshop explores topics including how to help parents to support their children during home-based learning, expectations for teachers and children, the appropriate time frame for children's attention span and how to keep children engaged during online learning. Speaking during the virtual launch event, Dr. Loret Bristol, Program Manager for Human Development at the Karakum Secretariat, underscored the importance of high-quality early childhood education in the growth and development of individuals. Regionally, a great deal of attention has been paid to the upper levels of the basic education sector, particularly the examination classes. And we all know why, because there was anxieties around how do we continue education to fulfill transitions for higher levels of learning. But we also know, and you know as well, because as practitioners in the early childhood development sector, you understand deeply and appreciate that the ECD, the Early Learning Years, is a foundation. And we know that our homes is only as strong as its foundation. Dr. Farrell Khan, Program Specialist for Education at UNESCO's cluster office in the Caribbean, in her remarks at UNESCO is taking steps to prioritize early childhood education and care in the COVID-19 response. This training is conceptualized to provide hands-on skills for frontline practitioners. We have identified early childhood development or ECD as a priority area based on a number of considerations. First of all, from the global and regional experience in the overall COVID-19 response, the early childhood education and care sector has not been adequately prioritized in spite of its fundamental significance to one's life. Fully aware of this fact, UNESCO has recently organized high-level and technical dialogues to advocate for early childhood development and care as a priority area for COVID-19 response. Speaking at the opening, head of the Caribbean Child Development Centre and director of the Concertium for Social Development and Research of the University of the West Indies, Miss Cecile Menot, said the University is pleased to be associated with the incredible partnership with Caricum and UNESCO. It was only too much our pleasure for us to say yes, we would definitely be able to do this with you. One of the big surprise, we had to keep it within 40 and you will understand why when your facilitators speak to you because it is a workshop setting. It is not a seminar, it's not one where you will be talking. This is very participatory. In the fine style that open campus operates because we are an online institution, we've been able to work together and come up with skills and strategies as to how we could do this. So you are in very capable hands with my colleagues as they share with you some strategies and some things to help you in your environment, in your different countries. March 16th, 2020, registered the last commercial cruise call to St. Lucia amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. Tourism authorities recently announced preparation for the possible reintroduction of the cruise ships to Port Castries this summer. While efforts for seamless operation are being made by local authorities, noting that dormancy of the sector over the last year has left a deep impression. Much hope has been expressed by ancillary service providers. More in this report. Noting the last cruise call on March 16th, 2020, there has been minimal activity at Port Castries. The announcement of St. Lucia's preparation for assumption of operation within the cruise sector in mid-July has been noted by ancillary service providers who state that stagnation of cruise activity over the last 12 months have left them cash-strapped but optimistic. We have one tour going out based on hotel only. So the cruise industry has affected us tremendously. And we are excited to hear that soon that it will be starting up again. I think it's going to be a great thing for us here because a lot of solutions including myself and the persons I work with, we...this is what we do. We are beyond elated and everyone is anticipating that as soon as this happens things are not necessarily going to return to normalcy but at a minimum we are going to find ourselves creeping towards that. So we are excited. The last few months, feels like an entire year, was indeed a challenge. And so the news and the efforts of the command centre, the Ministry of Health and Tourism as well as the Government of St. Lucia in general, the efforts have been phenomenal and commendable. We lost a lot of our business that normally came in during the period, especially during the winter months whereas our busiest period. But it has a significant impact on everybody including Cox and Company and a lot of people who benefit from the cruise industry as well. And we hope that things will turn around and I'm very confident that the future looks strong for the industry and we should see cruise ships return in during the summer and then the winter season will pick up. From all indications, next year is looking to be a fairly strong year and 2023 is going to be an even stronger year for the cruise industry. Taxi drivers, although certified for operation, have had little to no income over the months, expressing what seeing a vessel return to port castries would be like. My name is Constantius Francois. I'm the Vice President of Holiday Taxi. I'm indeed elated to hear the return of the cruise setter. The cruise ship industry is very important to our shareholders and for some of them, that's the only place they earn a dollar is at the cruise ship. And I think you would understand how difficult it has been for the past year. The St. Lucia Solid Waste Management Authority is a major ancillary service provider to the cruise sector. The hauling of waste from the port to the disposal site is critical for continued operations and the environment overall. Managing Director Justin Sealy expressed his views on the advent of cruise tourism. The St. Lucia Solid Waste Management Authority's operating budget depend on the head tax to the tune of about 35 to 40% of that budget. With that shortfall, which equates to about $400,000 per month, the authority was severely limited in what could have been undertaken. This resulted in lack of remediating of illegal dumps, removal of derelict vehicles and other activities like that. With the reopen of the cruise industry, these activities could be undertaken again. With Celebrity Millennium scheduled to make her initial voyage of the season, in mid-July, a committee has been established to chart the way forward on welcoming the return of cruise tourism and minimizing any possible risk of COVID-19 to local communities. It must be noted that the health and safety of the nation is of paramount interest and that cruise visitors will not be permitted to certified sites and attractions on the days designated for locals and on-island guests to proactively avoid commingling. With the cruise sector impacted, thousands of jobs have been compromised. Consultation commenced last week with positive input from the Vendors Association and will continue with all sub-sectors. For the Government Information Service, I am Jesse Leance reporting. The Substance Abuse Advisory Council Secretariat recently held a panel discussion to educate the populace on the impact of alcohol abuse and other controlled substances. This comes after a stream of social media posts depicting the high level of alcohol use and dependence among St. Lucian's. Statistics from the World Health Organization on the global consumption of alcohol indicates St. Lucian's consumption levels are above the global average. And if you look at alcohol per capita consumption in 15 and over in liters of pure alcohol, St. Lucian males 26.1, the global average 19.4. Females 9.3, the global average 7. Pointing out that we are consuming more alcohol than the global average. We are drinking more than other people in this world. In addition to that, people who abstain about 50% of St. Lucian's actually are currently using and 50% are not. 50.3% are not abstaining. The global average is actually about 35% of people that are currently consuming. Dr. Stephen King says the statistics show 69.9% of the male population practice heavy episodic drinking or binge drinking. That number is 33% in the female population.  And the multiple ramifications. We're talking about physical disease, mental disease, social disease because of your drinking. During the discussion, it was highlighted that the use of alcohol can lead to impaired judgment or reckless behavior. Corporal Anne Joseph says, as it pertains to crime, being under the influence of alcohol is not an excuse. I think sometimes people believe that you're going to get a whole pass, so to speak. If you use alcohol, the police believe you're drunk. They'll just say, oh, that person was drunk. There's no excuse in law. It actually makes it worse for you if you are intoxicated because there are sentencing guidelines that there are aggravating factors like the abuse of alcohol. It will actually adversely affect you. Dr. Naomi Jabat is a consultant psychiatrist at the National Wellness Center. She says, while treatment is imperative to those who suffer from alcoholism, there are barriers. Because a lot of people, they're comfortable with the use of alcohol and they don't think it's a problem for them. So you think it's a problem because you see the way it's been affecting their family and everybody else, but as far as they're concerned, they're okay. They're comfortable with it. They like alcohol. And I saw a lot of videos that were going around on WhatsApp after the alcohol was released, after we had the two weeks' tints of no alcohol. And you could see people, like, they were so happy and insulting everybody and everything, like, they don't realize that they have a problem. Everybody else does, but they don't realize. The panel discussion aired on NTN analyzed the impact of alcohol abuse from a medical, psychological and legal perspective. Platinum Ambulance Services, a leading specialist private ambulance company in the United Kingdom, has deployed a training team to St. Lucia to complement their donation of ambulances and medical equipment to the St. Lucia Fire Service. Emergency medical technicians began training with them on Wednesday, 31st March, 2021, at the Kokopam Hotel. Local Fire Service Chief is Joseph Joseph. Platinum Ambulance Service donated a contentment of equipment and they're also donating three ambulances to St. Lucia. And the equipment on board is a little more advanced than what we already have in St. Lucia. So the objective is to provide the necessary training for our EMTs to use that advanced equipment and of course to boost the efficiency in our response to emergencies. Paramedic and Director at Platinum Ambulance Services, Sophia Burrell says training for the local fire service EMTs will primarily constitute medical training for trauma, obstetrics, illness and the use of the advanced equipment that they are donating. We're bringing over equipment, the predominately the most important bit of equipment that's so exciting is called a life pack 12 and it helps you so that you can do EKGs or ECGs as we call them in the UK. We take, we look at 12 different aspects of your heart and diagnostically we can tell if you're about to have a heart attack or if you're currently having a heart attack or if you're not going to have a heart attack hopefully. It also has got an AED in it as well so it's got enough electricity in it to light up an entire football stadium for two seconds so that we can stop your heart and hope that the natural rhythm will start to take over it. It can measure your oxygen saturation levels, it can take your blood pressure, it can do your end tidal CO2 and we're going to teach your students how to recognize all the different rhythms that we're going to pick up so it's going to be quite a long week for them but hopefully they're going to become top guns when they finish. Additional training includes emergency driver training and community first responder training of which the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force will also benefit. Iranias Henry, like the other 20 trainees, look forward to the coming days of impartation. It's not that we are not proficient in our skills but most of the skills, since we are using mostly American equipment and the equipment we are getting there are sort of British and also the instructors are British so most of the skills we are learning from a British perspective so that's just it and we are learning some more advanced techniques. It's not that we are not all that proficient in what we do just that we are learning more advanced techniques to make us more effective in our duties as ENTs and to bring us up to an advanced level. The training will culminate next week Friday. The generosity of Platinum Ambulance Services is made possible through the High Commission of Saint Lucia in London. This is NTN Nightly. Up next, Primus Hutchinson with the NTN novella Quayall. One of the eight universally recognized rights of the consumer is the right to satisfaction of basic needs. This means that every consumer has the right to basic goods and services that guarantee survival. This right includes adequate food, clothing, shelter, health care, education, water and sanitation. Welcome back. We join Primus Hutchinson for the NTN novella Quayall. Thank you very much. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, from the University of Saveleté for the information of the government of the CIS, the National Television Agency of NTN, and the new president of the Quayall, Primus Hutchinson. The government has made a decision to limit its editors who are from the West or the West in order for the public to come to the end of this week. This is a consequence of the number of corona cases that have increased since the holiday season to the end of this week. This is also why the government has established this arrangement for its editors who can continue to operate under COFU. According to the Chief Officer of Communication Affairs in the office of the Prime Minister, Nicole McDonald, I started the first in May 2020 when COFU started at 7 a.m. to 4 a.m. I started the second in May 2020 when COFU started at 7 a.m. to 4 a.m. Somdegloria started at 6 a.m. to 4 a.m. Dimash Park, the fourth in May 2020, started at 3 a.m. to 4 a.m. to 4 a.m. I started the sixth in May 2020 when COFU started at 3 a.m. to 4 a.m. I started the sixth in May 2020 when COFU started at 4 a.m. According to McDonald, the main reason is to try to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases so as not to eat and pay. The government has been very concerned about preserving certain purposes and trying to manage the good activities that could be paid to the country. The head of the communication office said, I understood that the amount of money that was paid to the country was more than enough to finish the week on a holiday. McDonald said, it's only for us that we have a good time and the exam is if we all cooperate to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases. So, to cooperate and to pay for the government also to do a successful job. It's full of corporate companies with the best accessibility that is more concerned about health protection. Health, even health, especially here, in general. Last week, tourist authorities announced preparations to be able to keep the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the opportunity taxi west in San Yon Saleh for the rest of the year. The authority of the management of this city is very important for the tourism sector in the country, like the people who have deposited all this money, including the tourism sector in this city. I have a lot in place to visit this city. This is Amita Madjouyet, the general committee who is in place to come to this touristic city with the same leader to seriously reduce the possibility of COVID-19 to affect this community. For example, the tourists from Cai have visited the city who have certified to pay the same amount of money. I have also started to associate to this touristic city to be able to affect the economy. Before we finish, I would like to make a test of COVID-19 to see if it is possible to travel as much as possible to make it possible to work as a commander. I would like to inform the public that if the editor of this touristic city wants to know who will be finishing the course in Gosele I would like to say that the second touristic city has 8 stages for the media for example, the third touristic city has 8 stages for the tourism sector for the media. Dimash, the fourth touristic city has 8 stages for the media and the sixth touristic city has 8 stages for the media. For the respiratory clinic for the fire department there are 4 stages for the tourism sector for the women the third touristic city has 8 stages for the women Dimash the fourth touristic city has 6 stages We are going to do a test to see if we are able to visit the clinic that is available in the United States to make it possible for us to come here. We are going to take a look at the clinic, the respiratory clinic, and the clearing. and also to be able to finish the work in a week or so. So, everyone who works in this field can go out and have a good time. The hospital is very busy and it continues as it is. That's all. I'll see you again next time. Thank you very much for watching. I'll see you again next time. I also consider that I'll see you again next time. See you again next time. Thank you. Messier Field Primers. That brings us to the end of NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7pm with a repeat at 7am. You can also catch up with us anytime on the Government of St. Lucia Facebook page or YouTube channel. I'm Hermione Ma.


Sometimes as ABCs, we bought into their narrative about us. That's why I see so many ABCs push away from the culture. That's what I hate, too, man. All right, everybody, welcome to a very special episode of Feng Bro's Food. We are in the middle of New York's Chinatown on Mach Street at a brand new restaurant called Charhouse, and they are bringing a new concept to the game. It's like a Chinese steakhouse, something, in my opinion, and through my travels, I've never seen before. But we got chef Eric, and we got local business owner Chris here, and we are going to be not only having a feast, but having a very interesting discussion today. Of course, we're going to be talking about the food. We're going to be talking about how Chinatown, New York, is changing, and of course, we're going to be talking about the controversial G word, gentrification. All right, starting off, Eric, you actually cooked all this food, man. What is Charhouse, and what are we looking for? The steakhouse concept is very American, so we wanted to do something unique, and because I grew up in Chinatown, I wanted to represent where I come from. Here, we have the classical Tamahawk steak. It's done, salt, pepper, real simple, dry-aged, fat, just five-spice, chashido peppers, red wine sauce, or Pua sauce, that's French wasabi butter, that's just different. Here, we have our salad, the dragon slaw, we call it. It's inspired by a salad in Malaysia and Singapore. Here, we have the whole fish, and the whole fish is a representation of longevity in the Chinese culture, so we kept that traditional, but instead of steaming, we did grilling and roasting. Here, we also have the scallop and foie gras, very classical French combination, but we tied it together to be Chinese with the sweet potato puree and some black garlic and lotus chips. Here's our classical steak tartare, very classical American steakhouse dish. Here, we have a traditional steakhouse crab cake, jumbo lumps, and we have our green sriracha and ginger remelade to Chinese the fire. Exo sauce is a very famous sauce from Hong Kong. We make it here in our own fashion with dried scallops and shrimp, and we bind it with a tomato jam, and we have some prosciutto chips. Here, we have a classic Caesar salad, except wanna represent the chrysanthemum green. In Chinese, we call it ho, ho. So it's a very traditional dressing, parmesan cheese. Chris, have you ever seen a Chinese-inspired steakhouse before? No, I've eaten a lot of places, but this definitely takes the case. I think you wanna let people know that they can get a very fine steak in Chinatown, served and conceptualized by a Chinese person. I feel like we would be remiss in not starting off with the steak. This is dry aged. Dry aged. Here at Chara House, we do 28 days. It's gonna have a little funk, so dry aged meat is not for everyone. I like it with the exo sauce. What are the two sauces that we're looking at here? We got a ho, ho, ho, and a red wine. It's so good. What does it mean to bring dry aged beef to Chinatown? You're talking about price here. What's the people that live around here can afford? So here, we're using prime cuts. That already, when you buy it in, it's already that much more expensive. Dragon salad. Eric, when it comes to authenticity, right? I mean, a lot of these dishes are maybe not authentic in the traditional way, but they're very authentically personal to you. It's not authentic in the way that stuff was cooked maybe 50 years ago. Fusion was a word to describe two cultures on one plate. People started using that term in the wrong way. They just carry Thai food and Jack with Yam Sushi and Thai Thai in the same place. That's not fusion. That's like having two different restaurants in the same restaurant. Yo, you gotta go at this foie gras. So it's a fattened duck liver and it's very unctuous and rich. That is like a texture battle in my mouth right now. It seems as like Asian, do you try to put like that umami in everything? Or like it's just...  It was unctuous and it was scrumptious. That's my Jesse Jackson. It was unctuous and scrumptious. We got the beef tartare. We're gonna throw the quail egg and then we'll also... Some people don't like raw eggs, so they'll just do without it. Y'all down with raw eggs? Yeah. Also a lot of the people who started businesses that built Chinatown started businesses for so many other reasons other than just like the love of food back then.  Unless you're a grandfather then from before, you know, like it's very hard to make a living in Manhattan, especially not just to mention New York, but we're in Manhattan. And that's why you see them moving out to Flushing, Brooklyn. That's why the food is better there. And that's why it's not as exciting here. But you know what? I'm here. We're gonna make things happen. Hey, I talked to every... Talked to every... Give it here. Yo, let's keep it moving with the food, man. We gotta try this exo shrimp. This is like a plate on like guacamole and salsa kind of thing with the shrimp. Wow. That's good, man. This is so good. That shrimp is delicious. I've never had exo sauce with avocado. Wow, that tomato jam? That's that fusion. Tomato jam? It's fusion, like you said, but done the right way. And so few places can claim that. Like you said, that word is just like...  As a business owner, I hate the word.  The last thing you want is Asian fusion on your Yelp description. That's exactly what it is. Like, for a Russian owner, it's not fusion. It's inspired. Like I'm trying to stay open for tomorrow, bro, too. I gotta say though, when I saw the brand Xeno, I didn't think it was gonna taste like a Cantonese steamed fish. But it totally did. This was even elevated one notch up. It was like extra ginger, extra spices. What did you do to this to even take the classic Cantonese steamed fish? Ron Xeno is a type of European bass. Puree, ginger, and I train the juice. And I just spoon the juice all over the meat before cooking, and then put the lemon inside. Chris, you own a couple of businesses. You're involved in a Chinese concept coming up soon, right? Chinos, New York, 23th Power Street. So we're gonna be the first rotisserie in Chinatown. We're gonna do some flavors. We have like a Szechuan style. We're gonna have like a sugarcane tide style. You know, lemongrass. Peaking chicken. Peaking chicken. I'm about to steal the idea right now. I'll give it to you. Cut that up. I'll blow the skin up. What can like the Chinese take away from maybe the way the Japanese and Koreans price their food? Chinese food is always considered so cheap, but just the amount of work goes into it. I mean, the Chinese love value, you know, we're at a time where if you don't charge the prices, like the right prices, you're just gonna lose all these restaurants. They're not gonna even have that to taste anymore. Do you think that's gonna change? I think it's gonna change. I don't think anytime soon, but I mean like when I go to other places, I mean like California, I mean places a little better. I think sometimes, and I don't know if you guys agree with me, sometimes as ABCs, we bought into their narrative about us. Like we started to believe what everybody believed about us. Like that we are only like low end or we are only blah blah blah. So that's why I see so many ABCs push away from the culture. That's what I hate too, man. Because it's almost like you bought into other people's perception of you instead of having your own self-identity and knowing, yeah, I can see why you see that about us, but we just not showing our full, our full, at least. Coming soon, $15 Chashu bow. He doesn't have to be that cheap. Tiny's Tuxedo down there, $28 Chashu. That's a really good Chashu though. It's good Chashu. I had it, that was pretty good. It is a good Australian guy. Some people feel some type of way about that, but I'm like, that's Chinese. Hey man, I'm Chinese, I cook French. I don't mind. Right, right, right. Cause if I say an Australian guy can't cook Chashu, I'm saying the Chinese guy can't cook steak, right? Right. How would you want people to view New York's Chinatown? Yeah, I want this Chinatown to kind of like lead all the world's Chinatowns all over, to be an example of how beautiful it can be and how good the food can be and how diverse it can be. If you will come to Chinatown, I think you should start with what makes Chinatown sort of from the bottom, the food stand people, the guys in the back of the kitchen, you know. Those are the guys that make Chinatown Chinatown, really, you know. Chinese culture is sort of like the original Asian culture. Due to being the originator Asian culture, it's also sort of the most conservative. Will that mindset shift or is it just so ingrained in Chinese history to be like dominant and non-adaptable? My dad, he escaped China, right? Like he wanted to get away from the communists, but he's still telling me, I love the Chinese culture. There's so many great things about China. Like don't overlook just because of that bad leader. That period. Yeah, that period, like it was a lot of little tougher for him. God gives the biggest players daughters. That's the only thing I say, that's that's that's. Yeah, I thought I was gonna say that. I never heard that. I like that. I mean, that's definitely what it is. I mean, especially when you have more resources, you have, you know, more connections, you definitely can get back a lot more. Thank you so much to Charhouse. Thank you, Eric. Thank you, Chris. All right, everybody, thank you so much for watching that video. All right, in the comments below, let us know what you guys think about the idea of like a Chinese inspired steakhouse, something that's very uncommon to the world right now.  Thank you so much for watching that video. Shout out to Charhouse once again. And until next time, we out. Peace. And then my grandmother was like the Victoria's Secret. She had like four trucks delivering lingerie. Ma was not about the sexiness. Ma was not about the sexiness. He didn't want no women looking sexy. Who knows? Ma Mingdong. Ma Mingdong.


1. Karat cat vs Russian blue cat. Where are the differences between these two cat breeds? They are medium-sized cats. Karat weighing from 6-10 pounds and Russian blue weighing 18-15 pounds. The smart and opinionated Karat is possessive of his people. He likes to stay close by and won't desert them for visitors. He gives his heart to one or two people whose company he prefers, or with whom he spends the most time, but he's certainly willing to accept affection from others as well. Be aware of this propensity before you get a Karat, just in case having a cat follow you around all the time would drive you crazy. A Karat is not a loner. He does best with companionship, whether that is someone who works at home or another animal. There's a reason, it seems, that traditionally they were always given in pairs. A Karat who is frequently left alone or ignored may develop behavior problems such as aggression or separation anxiety. That's not to say that adult Karats can't switch their affections. Karats placed in new homes quickly adapt and bond closely with their new family.  It's easy to teach household rules to the Karat if you reward him with petting, a happy good cat or a treat. If you have multiple cats, be sure you have plenty of toys to go around. The Karat did not learn to share in the kitty garden, and he can be stubborn about giving up toys or other objects that he views as his. Although he can be bold with definite likes and dislikes, the Karat is generally a quiet cat who likes a quiet environment. Although he's not known for being talkative, he is capable of making many different sounds, from a chirp to a scream, when he wants to get his point across. Choose the Karat if you enjoy having a lap cat. He will be pleased to fulfill this desire anytime you like. The Russian Blue has a reputation as a gentle, quiet cat, somewhat shy, but don't get the wrong idea. This cat may have a reserved nature, but he loves to play and enjoys jumping or climbing to high places, where he can study people in situations that is leisure before making up his mind about whether he wants to get involved. Guess will not receive his immediate attention and may never see him unless he decides they are worthy of his notice, but toward family members, especially his favorite person, he is ever loyal, following them through the house and even riding on a shoulder. The Russian Blue is a sensitive cat who doesn't like to be ignored and will be hurt if he doesn't receive the same amount of affection he gives. Lack of attention can cause him to become anxious or fearful. While the Russian Blue loves your company, he is capable of entertaining himself during the day while you are at work. Unlike some active, intelligent breeds, he is not destructive but moves through the house with the live grace of a Russian ballerina. When you are at home, his subtle sense of humor and manual dexterity will never fail to entertain. Just make sure you laugh with him, not at him. He has a strong sense of self-worth and doesn't like being made fun of. This is a cat who does best in a quiet, stable environment. He doesn't like change, and it's especially important to him that meals arrive on time. Count on him to be a faithful alarm clock in the morning, not so you don't miss work but so he doesn't miss a meal. If you take the time to develop a relationship with a Russian Blue, your reward will be a deep bond with this loving cat. Both pedigreed cats and mixed breed cats have varying incidences of health problems that may be genetic in nature. Karats are generally healthy, but they have a couple of issues buyers should be aware of, a genetic neuromuscular degenerative disease as well as low body fat, which can make them sensitive to anesthesia. GM1 and GM2 gangliocidosis occur when cats lack particular enzymes that are necessary for the proper functioning of the nervous system. Karats typically have a low percentage of body fat, so veterinarians should take this into account when determining how much and what type of anesthesia to give in when a Karat is undergoing any type of surgery. Be sure to ask a breeder about the incidence of health problems in her lines and what testing has been done for any that are genetic in nature. In the case of GM1 or GM2, both parents should have been tested, and if one is positive or a carrier, the kitten should be tested as well. The Russian Blue is generally healthy, however, an owner's main concern will probably be this cat's hardy Russian appetite, which can turn him from sleep to stout in no time. Hello. This video is sponsored by Beemix Pets. Are you looking for high quality cat collars at an affordable cost? Check out BeemixPets.com. Use coupon code KittenLife to get 20% off. The Karat's short single coat requires little grooming. Comb it weekly to remove any dead hairs. A bath is rarely necessary. The Russian Blue's dense coat should be combed twice a week to remove dead hair and distribute skin oils. Brush their teeth to prevent periodontal disease. Daily dental hygiene is best, but weekly brushing is better than nothing. Trim the nails every couple of weeks. Wipe the corners of the eyes with a soft, damp cloth to remove any discharge. Use a separate area of the cloth for each eye so you don't run the risk of spreading any infection. Check their ears weekly. If they look dirty, wipe them out with a cotton ball or soft damp cloth moistened with a 50 to 50 mixture of cider vinegar and warm water. Avoid using cotton swabs, which can damage the interior of the ear. Keep their litter box spotlessly clean. Cats are very particular about bathroom hygiene. It's a good idea to keep them as an indoor-only cat to protect them from diseases spread by other cats, attacks by dogs or coyotes, and the other dangers that face cats who go outdoors, such as being hit by a car. Korot and Russian Blue cats who go outdoors also run the risk of being stolen by someone who would like to have such a beautiful cat without paying for it. With his silver-tipped blue coat and huge green eyes, as sparkling as the dew drops on a lotus leaf, the Korot is one of Thailand's most beautiful exports. He is noted as well for his heart-shaped head, large ears, and alert expression. A Korot's eyes are blue at birth. As he matures, the eyes turn to amber, the pupil surrounded by a fringe of the green. By the time the cat is two to four years old, the eyes have become the brilliant green for which the breed is known.  The Russian Blue's elegant yet muscular body led one cat judge to proclaim him the Doberman Pinscher of Cats. He has what's called a semi-foreign body type, meaning it is moderate in shape, falling somewhere between the short, compact body of breeds such as Persians and the sleek angles of Oriental breeds such as the Siamese. The Russian Blue stands out for its coat color. To the uninformed, he might look gray, but in cat show terms he is an even, bright blue with silver-tipped hairs that make him seem to glisten. Some Russian Blue kittens are born with ghost stripes, a reminder of the tabby gene that all cats carry, even if it isn't expressed in their coat, but these generally fade, leaving the cat with the solid blue coat of maturity. Karats will appreciate the attention of a child who treats them respectfully, and they enjoy playing and learning tricks. With proper supervision, they can be a good companion for children. Russian Blues have a tolerant nature toward children who treat them kindly and respectfully. They will even put up with the clumsy pats given by toddlers, as if they recognize that no harm is met, and if necessary they will walk away or climb out of reach to escape being bonked on the head. The patient and gentle Russian Blue should always be protected from rough treatment, so always supervise very young children when they want to pet the cat. They can get along with other cats and with dogs, but they expect to have pride of place. This may or may not go over well with other animals. The Korot and Russian Blue likes to have company, however, and if he spends a lot of time with another cat or dog, they will likely become close friends. Introduce pets slowly and in controlled circumstances to ensure that they learn to get along together. If you enjoyed this video, kindly press the like button. Also don't forget to subscribe with notifications on, so that you don't miss out on videos like this. Thank you for watching.


I'm with a magazine called Adbusters. It's from Vancouver-based, but we're just curious. We often hear about how, like when the Lancet study was released about how many Iraqis have died, there are so many different sources that basically discredited saying, oh, you know, that's the numbers too high. That would, I did not do so many for nine per month. It's impossible. But even speaking with some Iraqis who have come to Vancouver, it sounds as if the study is accurate. How difficult is it for journalists, given how dangerous it is, how difficult is it to do an accurate body count? Because there's just a lot of people saying that the condition is being so dangerous. Part of the reason why the numbers are so vague and so, I guess, best versus because nobody can get an accurate count, I mean, if you would like. Yeah, good question. And I love your magazine. There's an organization that's essentially led the charge against the Lancet survey. And that organization is a rock body count. And a little bit about a rock body count, it's this NGO based in the UK that started up right when the invasion was launched. And they already have the domain name for Iran body count.org, just FYI. But this is a group that they started out and they were outraged that General Tommy Franks had made that quote, we don't do body counts. And so they said, OK, we're going to try to do a body count. And so they started keeping tabs of the number of Iraqi civilians killed. But as the occupation progressed, it was clear that this number is far too low. I mean, there was like tens of thousands. When already, we were seeing mass carnage in places like Najaf and Fallujah, et cetera. And so if you read their website, it's interesting because so the brunt to this day of the establishment journalist, site IBC, as if it's a credible source, at best it's sloppy journalism. Because as a journalist, if I'm going to site a source, I better damn well know about that source. That means with that survey group, I need to understand the fact that according to their methodology, they only count deaths that have been reported by three different media outlets. And they don't count something as a legitimate media outlet in their survey unless it has an English website. So Fox News counts as a legitimate news outlet. But over half the Arab media outlets don't. And those are the only ones with reporters going around un-embedded in Iraq today. I actually had, as you can tell, I have strong feelings about this group. I actually wrote John Sloboda, one of the co-founders of it, and said, look, you're being misquoted in the media.  Why don't you just put something on your website that says, look, this is not a total figure. This is just taken from media reports. It's a low ball figure by far. But it still serves a purpose. I mean, it's good that they're doing it. But just be very clear that this is not a total figure. And that would stop people from Mr. Bush, the brilliant statistician that he is, of quoting your figure in the media. At the time, it was 30,000. And that's when I wrote to John Sloboda, because he just let it go. And obviously, egos are involved, because he said, no, we're not going to let this go, because this is legitimate count in the Lancet guys or not. And the interesting thing about the Lancet survey, and this has done so much damage to the Lancet report. But if anyone looks, it's the most updated scientific methodology available for tabulating deaths in the wakes of wars of natural disasters and other famines, droughts, catastrophes, this kind of thing. I mean, this is the same statistical survey methodology used in places like Darfur. It was used in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Nobody questioned it in either of those two places. Why are they questioning in Iraq? Gee, it's a little bit of a political situation. Do the math. But it's really ridiculous that that group has done so much damage and called into question the validity of the Lancet. The Lancet is a peer-reviewed medical journal. It's akin to the New England Journal of Medicine in the United States. And this little group in the UK is calling into question their credibility. It's absurd. So I said, at best, it's sloppy journalism for a journalist to cite the IBC. And at worst, it's being complicit in war crimes. Because it's hiding the true catastrophic nature of Iraq.