Welcome back to the Breakfast and Plus TV Africa. We're about to look at the pages of the National Dailies. We call it Off the Press. Hopefully we have our guest join us up in our boat in Kataria. But however, it's also important to let you know that Kofi is right here with us this morning on the show. Kofi is good to have you join us. Yeah, Mesh is also good to have you join us as well. We're looking quite bright and of course it's a brand new week. We're looking forward to all the activities lined up in the week. I mean we have some rallies, shadow political rallies in Lagos. So we're counting down to the general elections. You know, it's excitement all the way. Nigeria is a country of resilient people and you can see it on the roads. Despite the fuel scarcity, narrow scarcity and the novel, everybody's out, you know, running as if we're being chased. So it's great. We're counting down. It's time to pray and hope for the best. Talks of, you know, international government and all that. Elections hold an all that sometimes seem premature or necessary. But these are the issues. So let's go to the paper's health to say for us this morning and we'll get up to speed with that. Well, we started with the punch. Six days to elections. That's what the punch is quoted to say. APC, governors, bank CEOs and last minute rush to clear Naira mess. And underneath 12 governors, APC chair, Wante Mehfili, Malami to obey Supreme Court order. Naira crisis has brought too much pain. Adamu Lamez, Ghandu J Abiodun Absent in all of this. You also have bank CEOs want ordinary notes collection extended to a very protest and attacks on branches.  You know, two wrongs can never make a right. That's, that's the saying. And we need to remember that. Buhari Jonathan orders became president unprepared. Matthew Coker, I hope I'm correct. That's what I find there. It's necessary, Matthew, but I have a cold car. Good that and that. Stock investors lose 281 billion one week. INEG to get poll allocation from CBN on Tuesday. Fuel queues may return as NNPCL depots run low. So far, if you notice, not necessarily that you don't have the queues, but they have reduced to a bearish minimum. And we just have reports saying that the NNPC depots are running low. What happened to the 1.3 billion litres of petrol that we claim to have had? And CBN laments, yes, Shaibu's continued captivity. I beg your pardon. Can't laments, yes, Shaibu's continued captivity. Ogun Ruman sets self ablaze over 70,000-hour death. Well, that's, that's really unfortunate. That said, this morning on the punch. Let's go over to the next newspaper. Of course, in our, on our table, the Guardian newspaper, Tinibu APC governor's beg Buhari Malami to respect Supreme Court. Tinibu APC governor's beg Buhari Malami to respect Supreme Court. The writers of that one from Addis Ababa, Buhari calls for patience over Naira hardship from Addis Ababa. Banks not ready for 200 Naira payment as cash, squeeze, enters for the weekend. We asked about that if it would be, there would be any difference. Addis don't reverse policy, expand cashless outlets, arrow, fire, instructs, caduna, MDAs to accept old notes. Merchants mop up old 500, 1,000 Naira notes increase, minting of 100 Naira, other Lorde nominations, security expert Agis CBN. We have so many experts in this thing nowadays. More from the Guardian. NIPC moves to improve national branding, FDI. That's foreign direct investment. I'm sure that's talking about the Nigerian Investment Promotion Center. Nigeria lost 825 billion dollars to graft in 23 years as CEO. I wonder where the money went, where did that money go? 825 billion dollars. That's a lot of money. Shurika distanced himself from fake quotes on social media. It happens to not just Shurika, it happens even to Robert Mugabe, even though he is gone. People still give some things and put some things out and say according to Mugabe. Again, Caduna asks agencies to accept old notes as lawmaker seeks aerofies arrest. Interesting times. Atiku, Tinnabu Obi in last push to sway voters. 80% of PHC's non-functional SFG reneges on total rehabilitation plan. And that's talking about primary health care centers. That's very important. 80% mercy. Non-functional.  Really, really bad. Unacceptable, you would say. Those are some of the headlines on the front page of The Guardian. Well, we turn our attention to the daily independent newspaper. Bodily written. Be patient. I know there's hardship. Buhari begs Nigerians. Ask parents to warn wards against trouble on election day. That's what you find there. Another one says, Naira Swar policy. Obey Supreme Court order. APC national working committee. Governors urge Malami and MFALI. 2023 elections. Don't disappoint Nigerians. The Nigerian Guild of Editors, I quote her to say, the urge INEC and security agencies. That's what you find. Ask journalists to be professional in coverage. We're right here and ready for it.  Okay. AROFI asks MDAs to accept payment in old, new, narrow notes. I mean, this sounds very polite, you know, because if you listen to Governor AROFI, when he was giving us, he really didn't sound like he was like, hey, please accept it or don't accept it. It feels like there's another government and another control, you know, in Kaduna state. But well, that's what you find. Training of 381 AVSEC cadets to fight terrorism. And again, you find narrowly designed. Serap sues Buhari over a band on 500 and 1000 narrow notes. Serap has been sewing. And Serap will continue to sue. South Africa begins issuance of 10 years visa to Nigerian investors, aviation practitioners. 40% crude oil losses due to measurement and inaccuracies or not tests. Wow. That's very interesting to note. 2023 election. Policing. PSC appoints coordinator and threatened sanction against airing policemen. We deemed raid Tunubu's house. EFCC is quoted. I mean, yesterday there was this, you know, news that was making the rounds as to the EFCC raiding the house of the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress. But of course it was only a verified tutor handle that, hey, we did not raid the house of Tunubu. That said this morning on the Daily Independent. Right. And we must not forget to point out the front page picture on Daily Independent. You have the River State governor. I can spot some faces of mercy. The one in Etibor, like Lemone Etibor, that's what he called it, is a commissioner for information in River State Chris Feinborn. And he was in Lagos over the weekend to represent years on the weekend. He was given an award by Daily Independent at the Independent Award 2022 award of a man over a year. You know, quite interesting there in correlation to Governor Yes on the weekend of the River State term. Let's go to the final newspaper. Daily Trust is what we have on our table this morning. The leading story there, insecurity, credibility, fears may affect voter turnout. I mean, we're talking about, for instance, the violence in the southeast with some police stations set on fire. How will that affect turnout? It says insecurity, credibility, fears may affect voter turnout. Candidates are in Northwest 22 million votes. Why previous elections recorded low turnout experts and security others to determine turnout CDD? More from Daily Trust, to APC Governors, your loot now completely useless. Cash crisis, what we urge is patients, reaffirmed support for Tenable. We put out a tweet yesterday. Daily Trust and the Twitter is quite interesting. You want to analyze that tweet. You can analyze it 100 ways. Daily Trust's economists, credible elections will boost confidence in the economy. Race to Aso Rock article, six-time lucky or last rodeo. Very interesting. I'm told we have a guest ready to do justice to this headline. So quickly, say a very good morning and welcome to Opunaboy and Kotaria. Opunaboy, good morning to you. Thank you very much for your time. All right. It seems that Opunaboy and Kotaria is not ready. Oh, we have some challenges. But we'll try to get back to him. We'll just take a few more of those headlines from the front page of Daily Trust before we try again to connect with Opunaboy. Hopefully we get some communication as to what the situation is. Naira Swap, APC Bax Governors asks Buhari to obey Supreme Court. All right. That's in the bottom right corner of bottom left, whichever way you want to look at it of the Daily Trust. Naira Swap, APC Bax Governors asks Buhari to obey Supreme Court. So it's the president now working against his party. Elections. The lady who was a member of a PCC, that's the Tinnable campaign, and she told us that she didn't want to join, but she had to fly to London. Bola Metin would pay for offer to pay her flight. She said she would pay for herself and went to find out why he wanted her to join his campaign, only for her to join. And then later, say, you know what, you're not the right person for Nigeria. I'm residing. But hey, she resided to go join someone who's older than Bola Metin over the president of Latiku. Well, should she be listened to? Elections. Naira, R244 others to monitor police officers conduct. So that's a good one. We need people to do all the time to ensure we have free and fair relation. The one that really catches my attention on the front page of Daily Trust is the peace of Latiku. You know, it's on page 14 and 18, and it's done quite well to give us something interesting to read. Race to Asorok, Latiku's sixth time lucky or last rodeo. You know, we always say third time lucky. Do we have open up one, Kutaira? Miss Kutaira, can you hear us please? All right. I mean, we've been told that we have some kind of issues. Open up. Can you hear me? Good morning. You know, connect with us. But Kofi, just as some of the points that you have raised this morning, it's a power week, so a lot is going to happen. I was asking if a year from Ricky has passed. No, I mean, I know that that's- He's placed an executive order on Open Up Boards Network. No, that's not the case. We know that. But maybe Open Up Boards Network is excited because he's the only one that's just won an award. So the thing is, I think that it's a power week and a lot is going to happen. You know, when it's a power week, so everything is jump up. We're trying to do everything at the same time. There's countdown to the elections. There's everything.  We've also seen that even as we inch closer to the election, you still have a lot of persons decamping from one party to another. And it's very despicable, just few days to an election, just, you know, a month to election, two weeks to an election. And then people are still moving on. It just shows you that for most of the persons who are vying for political offices, it's not necessarily that they're there for the interests of the people. But, you know, it's for their interests. And therefore, every time you don't have their interests represented, they would always tilt towards where the interest lies. And so that's what it is. And that's what, that's the politics we talk about.  I am going to test your diamond. I'm going to test your diamond. Then if we had a tester as to testing, you know, the intentions of our political elites, you can really tell that you would see the motive behind it. Well, I mean, we don't have superpowers, so we can't really ascertain. But to say that most times, everyone would always act to their interests. I mean, they're acting for their interests, up until when their interest is not upheld. And that's when you begin to see all of the disagreements. So you begin to hear the things that you're not supposed to hear. Oh my God, that's what's happening. Oh, really? Was it really for the interests of the people? I've been around many of them together, so I've been there when you get in. Kofi, you know what's going on. I mean, you cited one of it. Do we have a Kunabon Kataria back on? All right. Then we've been told that we have to take it very quickly. That's because of some technical issues we sincerely apologize. We'll be right back. Please stay with us. Good morning.


The first day of classes is coming up soon for UPIKE students. But today was the first day for incoming freshmen to move in on campus. Today is move-in day at the University of Pikeville. We have a lot of first-year students who are making their way around campus, and that includes both undergraduate first-year students who are enrolled for the first time in college anywhere, a few transfer students, and then we have 64 optometry students who joined us today as well. We're located on the side of a mountain right in downtown Pikeville, Kentucky, and for folks who aren't familiar with where that is, that's in the far eastern tip of Kentucky and one of the most beautiful parts of the country that exists. We think that students have a great place to study here in a rural area that's really free from a lot of distractions that you would find in the big city, so our students have an opportunity to thrive and to connect with local folks and to really plug in and become part of the UPIKE family. We all have great connections here. Of the environment, the atmosphere that we try to build, our faculty have wonderful connections with the students, and for me personally, I like to spend time with as many students undergraduate and graduate as I possibly can to build those relationships so that in four years' time when they walk across that stage, I know who they are and a little bit about their story. Early on in our time here, they built the campus up on the hill and they put a staircase that brought students from the train depot, which used to be at the bottom of the hill, all the way to the top. Originally, that staircase had 99 stairs, so we call it the 99. When students come as first-year students, we bring them to the bottom of the 99. They'll climb those stairs all together. For students who struggle with that, we have students who help them because it's all about family. It's all about getting to the top of that hill together. And when we arrive on the top of the hill in the plaza, we give them a first-year pin that welcomes them to campus. We have alumni who are there who welcome them to be part of that family, our faculty are there, some of our staff are there.  But it's really only the first step because the goal isn't to enroll in college. The goal is to graduate from college. And so this spring, we will meet again on that plaza and we will lead them down the 99, out into the world. It's pretty exciting. It's nervous, too, because you don't know how to expect just going from senior to top and then back to a freshman at the bottom of the totem pole. It's a little nerve-wracking to figure out what you're going to do and how you're going to fit in with everybody already here. But I'm pretty excited. I'm happy to be a U-Pike Bear. August 23rd will be the last day to register for the fall semester as classes will begin on August 26th. You know, it's great to be a bear. It's great to be here at the University of Pikeville and we look forward to seeing you all around campus. Go Bears!


Today we're gonna make some delicious breakfast burritos. This was inspired by my son who is a burrito fanatic and he always comes up with some great ideas. This has eggs, bacon, some cheese. We have some Frank's hot sauce and I have one ingredient that's a little unusual for a burrito but I'll tell you about that a little bit later in the video. These are easy to make and of course much healthier for you than if you went out to buy one. So let's get into it. I'm Rockin' Robin and I'm gonna show you how to do it right after my chef joke. Okay, so let's start off here with chef joke number one. What do you call a selfish bacteria in a Chipotle burrito? Me coli. So the first thing we're gonna talk about is that unusual ingredient that I said was in the burritos, right? Well, that ingredient is French fries. So I'm using frozen, which cook up very quickly and easily in the oven. It takes about 20 minutes, I would say, total time. The other thing we wanna cook at the same time is some bacon, right? We talked about the bacon, there's bacon in this. So we're gonna cook that up in a frying pan and that takes about, I don't know, 15 minutes or so. So we'll cook those two things at the same time. After the potatoes and the bacon are done, we're gonna save some of that oil from the bacon because it has so much flavor. So I'm gonna pour some of that out and then we'll leave some in the pan. Keep it in your cup. That way if you need to add a little more cause you need some more, you got it. To finish prepping the bacon, I like to stack it up and then cut it into bite-sized pieces. And this way this ensures that you're gonna get a little bit of bacon in every bite. So next we're gonna prep up a little bell pepper and some onion and we're gonna cook that with our eggs. So just go ahead and slice up your bell pepper. I like to use the superfine dice here. And with the onion here, we're gonna do pretty much the same thing. I just like to get the dice nice and small. This ensures a little bit of flavor in every bite. What we're gonna do here is we're gonna cook up that diced onion and a little bit of bell pepper in that and just cook that for like three or four minutes until it's nice and soft. We also have to prep up our cheese. I'm using a white medium cheddar here and I'll just grate it up. Now I'm ready to scramble our eggs. I'm gonna use about two eggs per burrito just to give you a guide. Give those a really good mix and then pour them into the pan and we'll add some salt and garlic powder. The garlic powder really adds some great flavor by the way. And then I'm gonna mix that up a little bit and remember this is over about medium heat. Now it's time for cheese and I'm adding a nice handful as you can see here and sprinkling it all over. Feel free to use as much as you like. Now I'll stir this and cook it until basically you wanna get it to where you get the consistency you like. Some people like it softer than others so just do what works for you. This is about how done I like it. It's done but it's still soft. It must be time for Chef Joke number two. What does a burrito say when it finishes doing something? That's a wrap. We are ready to assemble our burritos but first let's talk about the tortillas. Now I'm using regular flour tortillas here if you wanna use gluten free that works because this recipe could certainly be gluten free with no problem. Take your tortillas, I have a tortilla oven here. These things are incredibly useful so if you have any interest I'll leave a link in the description for you and you can pick one of those up. All you gotta do is take your tortillas and place them into the tortilla warmer and pop it in the microwave for 30 to 45 seconds and they'll stay nice and hot for probably a half an hour. You can use tortilla warmers for other types of foods as well like flatbreads, pancakes and crepes. And anything else you wanna keep warm. I'm making two burritos here so all we have to do is pull out a nice hot tortilla, add half of my egg mixture because I have enough here for two burritos and I'm going to add the bacon and some french fries. Now just add as much as you want.  And then we're gonna add some of Frank's red hot sauce. This gives it some really nice flavor with just a little bit of heat which is not overpowering, it's really good. I will say that my son the burrito fanatic prefers sriracha sauce over Frank's but both are good. He just happens to like a little more heat than some of us. Then we'll add some sour cream to that.  Remember, gotta have a little bit in every bite. Roll this puppy up and it is ready to eat. Breakfast is officially served and it's delicious. I can't wait for you to try this. Man, I'm telling you the flavors in this are incredible. The eggs with the onions, the bacon grease, the little bit of bacon, bacon makes everything taste great, right?  The sour cream certainly calms that down. The flavors are great. You can pull this off in just maybe 20, 25 minutes and you've got a great breakfast and you could even meal prep these. If you're a burrito fanatic like my son and you've gotta try his creation that he came up with, burrito pie, this thing is very popular on my channel and a definite must try, it is delicious. Click the link on the screen and it'll take you right to the video. I hope you enjoyed today's video. If you did, smash the like button for me and leave me a comment. I always love to hear from you. We'll see you back here next week for another rockin' recipe. Cheers.


Hey guys, here is part three of Jayden and I's discussion about Supernatural the finale, the final season, and the fandom as a whole. Thank you guys so much for your responses to these videos. It's been really awesome to see that Jayden and I had a real great time putting these together. And on a side note, as I mentioned several times in this video as well as the last few, my video essay about the Supernatural finale will be coming out this week, so be prepared for it. It's going to be a fun time. In the meantime, enjoy our conversation. It's a real fun one. And you guys can expect that video essay coming out this week. But again, these guys have just done themselves like essentially by the end of the show, they had become well, Dean essentially was a giant caricature of what his former character was. I've put side by side audio of him in season four and then him in season 15 and he is doing the cheesiest in his voice in season 15 and I'm waiting to see when that like right now that's when he's starting to go like he's come from hell so he's brooding now. But I'm waiting to see when that voice transition fully happens because if from like you've seen you've heard you went to the con you've heard how Jared Jensen actually talks. He doesn't talk like that. Yeah, no. All of them, I think except Jared, they all like lower their voice to play the character, especially Misha. Misha totally does. I think that was part of the reason why the French connection is such a funny episode is because when he's on his phone and he's tweeting like hanging out with the guys. Yeah, it's yeah. I do admit though I what was it I watched someone who just did a kind of compilation of different things from some of the conventions and I don't know a part of me would feel slightly like at one point what did Jensen do? Jensen said he got some he spilled something on a shirt or something and he pulled up his shirt as a like a flash move to like take care of it but it was more to show it was clearly to show off his abs and when all the girls were like he just did this yeah kind of spotless like oh oh I didn't really like seeing that that was weird. Yeah, no I get that. I because that's like you have like all the fangirls who like over sexualized the characters a lot and it's just and the actors too and that's it makes it makes me think of NT and what's it of like all the the middle age housewives who would go to the new kids on the block reunion too. Yeah yeah it's like they see them like take off one layer of clothing and they're like whoa and it's like chill.  Oh there was one too where I watched one um and I don't know they were they were re they were talking about a scene and it was Jensen and Misha and Misha or Jensen was lying on his back and Misha gets on top of him and he's slowly doing it all the while everyone's going whoo and then I can't remember what he said because he went up to him he's I think they were talking about when Misha was beating the shit out of Dean in season eight and he's like Misha's describing the scene but then all of a sudden he goes closer grabs Jared Jensen's like kind of his collar he's like ah you like that don't you son of a bitch I was like oh wow okay they are definitely playing into this they are clearly playing into this and that's kind of my reflection on how the show ended is that they were playing into those crowds they were playing into like fuck me if I if I'm wrong but I think the convention's uh receptions are what changed the show like it went from like it's a it's a like it's a bizarre thing like we're watching your videos and like that's the strangest kind of thing I've ever seen and like um just the whole thing it's like it's you get to like the the signings and the photos are that of like a normal comic con but then everything afterwards is totally well maybe then I'm on the stage and answering questions the q and a's yeah but they do a lot of honestly um I've only been the two supernatural conventions and there's actually one 20 minutes away from my apartment um in 2021 so hopefully I'll be able to go to that if uh you know COVID is um I don't know though I'm not getting my hopes up for it but I yeah well right now yeah the thing is uh it's more with creation entertainment they um they have like a lot of cool events at these conventions but they make it so astronomically expensive oh it's like there's like a pajama party for a lot of uh Brianna and uh uh look uh go jody mills uh kim rhodes kim rhodes yes I blanked for a second um but like that's a it's like 300 for like a pajama party before the con starts and like I get that they're like exclusive events but it's like you're already paying a thousand dollars for like or like 700 dollars for a silver ticket honestly like really really honestly I hate I it's not uh I'm not making the comparison but it did remind me it reminded me of well back when I when I was a teenager I worked at a trade expo uh hall in Abbotsford and we had a uh like a Christian preacher preacher guy come by um and the mannerisms of the people the the giving the money the the the over zealous work like uh celebration and worship obviously but there's like some of the clips I've seen of the supernatural things and this guy just gave me like whoa that is that is eerily close not on the knob not on not on the button but just in terms of that hundred percent like it's it's not it's not celebrating the fandom anymore it's sell it's like worshiping it yeah and like it it got me it weirded me out a little bit it gave me a little bit of like certain people at these things kind of give me like a cult vibe to be honest and it's just like I don't know if I could ever go to one of these things um personally like I worry that it's what I mean like if I went and ask them well now I don't feel so I wouldn't feel as alone to say it now considering how the season happened but I was I was terrified of the notion of going to one of these and actually giving a critical question like hey don't you guys think that the show has kind of gone downhill the last I wouldn't afraid I'd be fucking murdered uh you'd probably get booed at yeah uh because um you know a lot of the people who are willing to spend that much money to go to one of these conventions are people who are like super diehard fans and are really very critical of the show and I'm not saying I'm not speaking for everybody and I'm not saying that I'm like I I'm like ultra super die I mean yeah I kind of I definitely am like diehard fan but I try my best to be like critical from a point where it's like um fair but also like I really sometimes there's there's just some things I just can't get past like the entirety of uh episode 20 um but yeah no you're you're right though it kind of gives me cult culty vibes a little bit um and it's hard to come down from that it's definitely hard like that's why I I wonder how Jensen and Jared are going to be going forward because maybe I think Jensen is the more humble of the two um maybe I also know that he has more money than than Jensen does um that was something that I was told that he's the one I thought both of them had jets but no it's Jared it's Jared who has the jet um but it's I don't know it's a weird thing to think of just the whole idea that this is something that's it's a past thing now and to see I'm curious to see how they where they go forward with this well because they're still uh under contract with um creation entertainment they still have to do the conventions and I they they even said they didn't plan on stopping doing the conventions and oh fuck no would you if you got that much of a reaction no the the whole thing is like uh you know obviously they're probably their management wouldn't make them stop because how look about how much fucking money that brings in it's it it feels kind of exploitative because you know like I don't want to have to pay $500 for a picture with my favorite actors but oh yeah no gonna yeah because I love them no I've I've always want I thought of yeah no and I I applaud you for doing that like fuck I've I've thought about it and I just I can't I can't uh allow myself to spend that much money on something yeah uh for I actually this this was at the convention I went to um there was a video on Twitter of Jared looking at the photo op prices for um the con and he like looks slightly taken aback and it's like how do you not know the own prices of your photos but at the same time like I paid uh like the picture that's my profile picture on like everything with Jared I paid like $200 for that picture don't get me wrong it was I it was worth it um I'll be like 260 $270 here it was it was worth it oh yeah you know for a one-time thing yeah for sure yeah and like if I went to another convention I'd definitely probably get another photo op it's just uh I would probably instead of just getting the one with Jared I'd save up for the one with all three of them because I feel like that's probably worth it a little bit more oh I uh just the last few cons that have like the ones in Seattle the one in our in Vancouver I I don't like I'll go and maybe I'll walk in the line just to say hi but I unless I really really want to I don't get anything signed by anyone I don't get photos with anyone um like I have a photo of me and where is he he's in this room somewhere where is it is it down there where the fuck did it go I don't know somewhere around here um there's a I got a photo with Billy Boyd from uh Pippin and I've always felt like that was just the strangest choice so it's like there's just this photo of me and him was like I maybe said like a couple of words to him and that was it and I was like fuck that was kind of with uh with the honest like I get um a lot of times the photo ops are like kind of rushed but Jared um at least with my experience um with both the photo op and the autograph he like took the time to like talk to you and like kind of make it worth it because um during my photo op I was like a giant ball of fucking anxiety and he could tell because when I when I went to go walk away he like grabbed my arm and he was like are you okay oh that's nice Jared Padalecki himself asked me if I was okay and um the answer is no um but like with my autograph for example I got a little deep when I was talking to him because it was like my moment to be like hey you like changed my life and um you know the first thing he said to me was uh he was like I have a question for you and I'm like Jared Padalecki has a question for me and he's like what the fuck is wrong with my marker and his marker was all fucked up and I was like I don't know man and he thought that was really funny um and you know it's like um and we talked still and I was like sobbing in front of him oh yeah though honestly that's why I prefer those signing sessions are I feel a lot better because you actually get to have a conversation with them right yeah you're not allowed to record it or take pictures um and honestly I yeah some of them do kind of sucks um but with mine I got my guitar signed um yeah my guitar oh I I know you can't see me right now but in the background of this video that I'm recording my guitars in the back it's signed by Jared Jensen Amisha and I asked him can you write always keep fighting on it and the handler right next to him was like he's not allowed to write anything extra on it and literally she didn't even finish her sentence before he like already finished writing it and it's it's one of those things where it's like I know they don't probably agree with all the rules of the autographs because they want to be able to like you know give fans the experience that they're paying for and that they're hoping for it's just it's capitalism it's fucking capitalism oh no it is it is definitely very it's a really strange thing um some of these cons it depends on it's why I like going to the overall cons because you know there isn't as much favoritism towards one thing um yeah and then again like you get different experiences with different shows and whatnot yeah but I guess we'll see how it goes in terms of I just realized that we went on a really long tangent that's okay you should keep it in the video oh hell yeah no this is definitely saying this is this is definitely staying in um but I guess uh kind of going back to it um yeah I don't know in terms of uh I like essentially how you you're what did you you said uh all the things you wanted but in the worst way possible yeah everything I wanted in the worst way possible it's a good way it's a good way to describe it um yeah because it's more like um I was okay with the fact that Sam and Dean are living in heaven together for eternity I'm just not cool with how we got there um I'm honestly just gonna kind of go off of that season five has been the end and then this has just been a glorified fan fiction ever since like I'm like my plan is I think from from what I've gathered for my math I'm going to be finishing season five by October or November and I plan very this is a very stupid story but when season six premiered I was in I was in the I was in Washington state uh on the on the west on the left side not like the capital I was in like where Seattle and whatnot is I was on the the peninsula the Olympic Peninsula it's apparently it's where the fucking twilight books take place I was there watching the season premiere episode of season six and I remember being so infuriated with how bad the audio was but the I made a long distance phone call to the production to the the uh what's it the channel check tv it's like for Victoria tv I was like get your goddamn audio sorted because the first half of episodes of the first episode of season six was uh not synced it was off and it was jarring for the first 20 minutes it like the audio was off and they didn't fix it until the latter uh until in the middle of the episode but I just associate season six with this place because it was a it was a shitty trip with my family it just sucked it was like it's a boring place it's not that interesting at least for me and I plan to go back there to film to do my first review of episode six and I don't know it it it turns back it basically my whole long tangent of this is it comes back to that supernatural has has significant meaning in my life it's I can remember where I watched fucking episodes of it I can remember moments of it I I my life my first five years of the show kind of formed to like what I wore what I talked about what my interests were even though the show does end on a note that is honestly very underwhelming for a lot of people it's had its effect on me and it's had its effect obviously on a lot of other people and I'm not going to take that part away like yeah the show kind of turned to garbage at the end but there are like I've been going on a bit of a nostalgia train and I think I haven't been able to come out of it since the episode since the episode aired but there's a lot no it was a part of my life it literally half of my life and going forward like technically speaking when September comes around October September comes around of this year it's going to be really weird not knowing that Supernatural is coming back yeah because you know I personally I've been watching Supernatural for since season like I've been watching it live since season 10 but I binge watched season like one through nine on Netflix um so it's only been about five years that I've been watching granted I was you know like three when Supernatural first came on the air in 2005 right uh yeah so two two three four I was four um or wait I can't count hold on how's it go I was born 2002 so three four five no I was three I was correct yeah no I I just turned 18 a few months ago so I kind of grew up with the show a little bit just because I started watching it when I was like in middle school um when it was like the Super Hulak days where you had like Doctor Who and Supernatural and Sherlock all on Tumblr those were like the three main fandoms that like took over the internet yeah it's it's a piece of media that's gonna have a long lasting effect in terms of yeah and just like shit like I don't know uh there's certain things that well I guess we'll move on from but it's it's gonna be weird mainly because I have a connection with the show because of my dad and I he that was we started watching this show and I even got him to watch uh after the episode it aired I went over um and I watched the final episode and oh man he was if you think that I've been brutal he was really fucking brutal my dad was brutal about it I forced my dad to watch Supernatural and he was like what the fuck was that yeah my dad was just like well this is rubbish uh he was um yeah but it was cool because it was something that we connected on and that was yeah that's what I'm gonna take like I'm gonna take while the the show ended badly I'm gonna hold on and take those good memories I have of it with me yeah I'm I'm just gonna like I'm gonna do that too but I'm also gonna like re-watch it and cry about the way it ended just because I'll never be over that well I'm interested I'm interested to see how I haven't re-watched season seven I haven't finished all of season six I like since I watched it eight nine and ten haven't re-watched any of those fuck I might even try and re-watch season 11 and see if it's still as good as I think it was but I'm never re-watching the entirety of the last four seasons again I will I will watch a few episodes here and there like for particularly I really want to re-watch regarding Dean from season 12 because that was the last good episode I feel that the show ever produced um but and I think that's because it really stuck to me because I have a history with Alzheimer's in my family um but yeah I don't eh um I I will never really re-watch this show again I have like a little bit of emotional attachment to Supernatural just because it's been like my comfort show um for a long time so like I uh I know I'm gonna end up I haven't re-watched it since the finale just because I feel like um I don't think the finale ruins the show that's kind of like what I was gonna say but I don't think it does it's it's more like the finale kind of just like watching it from the beginning and knowing how it ends now kind of makes it feel a little like fuck because like I said before like um the ending is exactly you could it just kind of like negated 15 seasons of character development for these characters and like um yeah so like when I do end up re-watching it I'm probably just gonna like cut it off on episode 19 and be like that's it that's Dean to Supernatural episode 20 I don't know her yeah it's yeah people are gonna take it differently right um yeah I know everyone has like different opinions about the finale there's some people that like love it there's some people that like absolutely despise it there's some people who are in the middle which I I'm I'm I am kind of roasting it a little bit but I did enjoy the episode um besides the fact that deed got killed by a fucking screw and that I had to see Jared and Jensen be all sappy and stuff and that that was like I honestly think that scene of them like that kind of just like carried that whole episode um that was like the one scene that actually stuck with me through this episode you know what I mean oh that that's essentially the main well because it's like 10 fucking minutes long yeah it oh yeah now I yeah like I like I said I have that video essay coming soon and it will kind of give my thoughts on what it what the episode did good what it did bad and what it could have done better as well as I I dare say I dip into fan fiction territory and I actually give my own idea of how this show could have ended which I have never done so it's not going to be it's never it's not going to be perfect I'll admit that it's got its own issues but it's something I think a little bit better maybe probably anything better than and your dad well really I'll I'll I take what he gave and I kind of twist it to the only one of the things that I said that should have been done is don't make Sam's life a fucking montage you could kind of make it a montage but do it not just like literally like a minute of his development actually show how he moved on yeah hell I even say that he could he should have gotten his law degree yeah fucking go all the way back to season one or I honestly like I think it was kind of implied with um having you know Dean jr have the anti possession symbol that Sam continued hunting um and like we didn't see any of that and I would like to see that um which I think it was just like Sam has a kid or it was more like Sam's really sad but Sam now has a kid also wasn't his also wasn't his kid like at the baby it was blonde but then his older son had dark brown hair yeah fuck I just noticed that they explicitly had to put Dean on the overalls to make it very very clear that Sam named his oh yeah that oh no it was like you don't don't end the show on a goddamn montage like if yeah like if you want like that that essentially it was a kind of a different example of how how I met your mother and instead of like you wasted an entire season on something that didn't fucking matter and then you try to wrap up your entire show in one episode yeah that ending should have been um I honestly think that like the the plot with a god should have been taking care of like that's like episode maybe 17 or 18 so that episodes 19 and 20 could be used to actually give Sam and Dean a proper ending one episode one 40 minute episode for 15 years it just doesn't feel right you know especially when the episode right before was just they just defeated god it's like yeah we got to see like Sam and Dean will be all like domestic and uh well even sat they even then yeah um there's just like so many other things that could have like shown us oh exactly had they actually planned this out and not left it up to one episode because I feel like honestly one episode is just not enough time to send Sam and Dean off with a proper ending and I I know people are probably gonna still like disagree with me on this and not everyone will but like I just honestly don't feel like that was like Sam and Dean I just I maybe I'm in denial but I just I don't feel like that was like an ending for them I just feel like oh that will learn heaven yeah I just don't want to like I can't like accept it oh yeah no I guess it's a divisive ending right it's not it's not a very good ending but yeah but actually I hate to say it but I actually I gotta go because I gotta go to Washington I've drank all my coffee um but I guess all right but thank you Jade for this um this was fun to do it was actually like I like how our our conversation went on a tangent but it went in a good way yeah I go on tangents all the time so I'm glad I'm glad we had that no me too um and then oh so I guess we should lay this little tidbit we we will do um the part three of the fan question stuff in the future for those of you who kind of wondering when we were going to do part three uh we will be doing that but obviously like with how the year went things are um it just it couldn't be done and but we'll try I guess yeah if you're up for that we'll finish that sometime yeah I'm down for it yeah yeah but anyways guys thank you for watching this has been a very long discussion but hopefully a very entertaining one for y'all and I guess as before Jade thank you for doing this this was really fun to do no problem and thank you for having me and for tolerating me no problem no problem all right guys I guess we'll uh we'll see you guys later goodbye thanks for watching the video my name is Nits and you might remember me from the animated cult classic tv show undergrads it's been a while but I'm happy to say the click is finally getting back together in an all-new movie thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign but we are still asking for your support to see any and all updates about the upcoming undergrads movie be sure to check out and like the bring back undergrads facebook page and with any luck we'll see you guys soon


Yannick Sinner vs. Carlos Elcaraz is a second semi-final for the Men's Miami Open for 2023, and both players have been super impressive to get to the semi-finals. Yannick Sinner started the tournament off as a number 10 seed, and we get a buy in the first round. In the second round he take on Jera, this was no problem for Sinner, getting through in straights, 6-4, 6-2. In the third round he take on the 21 seed Dmitrov, but again this was no problem for Sinner, getting through easily in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4. In the fourth round he take on the number 6 seed Rubelev, we had had interesting matches against in the past, but Sinner was on fire and destroyed Rubelev 6-2, 6-4 to advance to the quarter-final stage. In the quarter-finals Sinner would take on the unseated Russavari, who had a very good tournament to get to this stage, but this was no problem for Sinner, getting through in straight sets, 6-3, 6-1 to advance to the semi-finals. Elcaraz started the tournament off as the number 1 seed, and we get a buy in the first round. In the second round he take on Bagnes, and as expected he won in straight sets, 6-1, 6-2. In the third round he take on Lyovic, a man he'd already played two times in the last couple of months, but again, like those two other times, Elcaraz was winning in straight sets, 6-love, 7-6. In the fourth round he take on the number 16 seed Paul, who had beaten Elcaraz in Canada last year after saving match points. But this time Elcaraz would get his revenge, winning 6-4, 6-4 and getting to the quarter-finals of Miami. In the quarter-finals Elcaraz would take on the number 9 seed Fritz, who had just come up beating up Runa in the fourth round. But unfortunately for Fritz, Elcaraz was on another level, getting through in straights, 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the semi-finals. These two have played five times before, with Elcaraz leading the head to a 3-2, including their last two matches on hard courts, and actually played this time last week at Indian Wells, with Elcaraz getting the straight sets win. Having a look at the insights from Tennis Insights, the Miami Open averages show that in attack, Elcaraz is actually winning 25% of the points compared to Sinner, who's winning 22% of his points in attack, where the conversion goes to Sinner by 1% at 74% to 73% of Elcaraz. The steel percentages are absolutely identical, both at 37%, and in the baseline rallies, during the Miami Open, Sinner is 1% ahead of the baseline battles at 59%, with Elcaraz at 58%, so very closely contested for both, and both being attacking baselineers is going to be a very interesting matchup. The margins are going to be thin. These Tennis Insights are a new way of explaining how things are played out in a match. In attack shows the percentage of shots played in attack. Conversion score calculates the percentage of points, one when the player has been in attack to deal a score, calculates how often a player has won the point when they've been in defensive during the point, and baseline battles calculates the percentage of points won for both players when they're at the baseline. This is a new way of analyzing matches, brought to you by Tennis Insights. If you want to check out more, you can go check them out on Twitter, link down in the description. This is going to be a very fun matchup, because last week we saw them play at Indian Wells, and it was Elcaraz who got that win. I think Sinner's been very underrated on the hard courts against Elcaraz, and he's been very close to winning. Unfortunately, he hasn't gone his way, but I reckon this is the time. He loves playing here, he's made the final here before, and I think he's going to make the final again, taking out Elcaraz, but let me know down in the comments below who thinks he's going to win this one.


Good day and welcome to the Government Information Services panel discussion on two very important bills, which will be discussed in the House of Assembly on October 30, 2018. Now the two bills are the Child Justice Bill and the Child Care Protection and Adoption Bill. And to discuss this, we have three guests in the studio. We have Mrs Elizabeth Lewis, Director of Social Services, Beverly Ann Poyott, Director of Family Court, and Yolanda Jules-Louis, Director of Probation and Parole. Welcome, ladies. So let us start with the purpose of these two bills and a little bit on its background. Can you speak on that? Well, yeah. This morning we are here to discuss the two bills, as you indicated, and so we should take a step closer to improving our legal landscape with respect to how we engage and deal with children and families. And so we will hear a little more, a lot more, in fact, about what is referred to as the Child Justice Bill, which speaks mainly to children who come in conflict with the law and the Child Care Protection and Adoption Bill, which speaks to how we deal with children who are victims of abuse and who need support from the state. Okay. For now, I just want to speak briefly on the Child Justice Bill. The bill mentions the age of criminal responsibility. Could any of you explain what that is? Okay. Age of criminal responsibility in St. Lucia currently is 12 years old. It is the minimum age at which a child can be held responsible for committing infringing penal law in St. Lucia. In other words, a child at age 12 can be arrested and charged for committing an offense. After the bill is passed, the age will be 12. Or is it currently 12? It is currently 12 and it will be 12 after the bill is passed. It will remain 12. So what are the sort of implications that you foresee with the passing of this bill or with the age of criminal responsibility being 12? The age of criminal responsibility, what really it does is to allow us within the juvenile justice system to really look at whether that child has an understanding of what it is that they did. And that is what the age of criminal responsibility really speaks to. As we know, all children go through their development in a progressive manner, but some quicker than others and so that will allow us to be able to determine whether that child understands what it is they have done and whether they can actually be held responsible for the action which they have committed, an action as we are speaking, something that would be against the laws of the state. Has there been any sort of psychological research to determine that at that particular age, a minor would understand their responsibility? Yes, there are studies that have been done. And if we just look at the general child, the way, the manner in which a child develops, general developmental stages of children, it has been determined that that is a reasonable age at which a child should have a basic understanding of right from wrong, good from bad. Things that a child is normally taught, you know, from a very early age. And what sort of, does St. Lucia have any secure facilities that can house children who have committed offenses at that age? Yes, we currently have the Boystream Incentre, as everybody knows, that is our detention centre for boys who have come into conflicts with the law. For us in St. Lucia, it's the only institution that we have. And Boystream Incentre also houses our children, some of our children, who are in need of care and protection. The facility has been separated in two, so that they are not completely together. So you have that facility. It is our hope that we will get a facility for girls. Currently, we don't have a secure residential facility for girls. However, having said that, we, when we look at the Child Justice Bill, one of the things that it speaks to is diversion. And I guess we will discuss that a little bit more. So diversion really is going to allow us to be able to assist children, to be able to put programs in place where children don't necessarily have to be housed, don't have to be in detention centres in order for any kind of rehabilitation to take place. So what exactly does diversion mean? If they're not housed in the detention centre, so that means they will be taken care of in another facility or in a sort of transit home or at their own homes by their parents? Okay, basically, Diverian is going to speak to a procedure that the courts will use for children in conflict with the law. To send them to programs that will help with their rehabilitation. So these programs may be their programs, hence they will not stay in any residential facility for that matter. Just to add a bit, and let me just take us back a bit in terms of a brief background and history. One of the things we've recognised, or it was recognised back then, that's San Nushan, other OECS countries signed on to a number of conventions and treaties, and of course we have to live up to certain standards if you're going to sign on to them. So these bills actually came out of, these two bills that we are discussing this morning there are coming out of another group of five or other bills that were put on the table as areas that we needed to improve on as we deal with children and families. So there's going to be a lot of changes. Now I heard you ask about the issue of the age. Age becomes a big issue, not just in respect of the criminal responsibility, but age is going to become an issue in respect of the changes of who is a child. So this in those bills, a child will be considered somebody under the age of 18. Now that is a major shift for us. That is going to be a major shift for us, because as it stands now for us at the family court and at probation and at human services, a child is considered somebody under the age of 16. So with the passage of those two bills in particular, we will see age of a child now changing and so we are going to have a wider spread, a wider net by which we can provide support for children. And so the whole issue of diversion is for us to ensure that we provide enough services and support to young people, that we don't just take them and place them in institutions, that when we pick them up on offenses, minor, minor offenses in particular, then we can provide them with a way out that they don't necessarily have to get themselves within the juvenile system, the justice system, and of course, be labeled as criminals as we do. And so the whole idea of the bills is to now ensure that our young people, our children, our families are given greater support within the justice system. In terms of, as you mentioned, that the punishable ages is, well, children are considered children under 16. What does that mean in terms of punishment of a minor who is committed to crime? Will they be held to the same standards as an adult committed to crime? Well, like anything else, if a young person commits a crime, we will under this child justice bill, there will be a particular way of dealing with and managing with this child. Of course, it doesn't mean that children will not be punished, as we say. You know, we always want to know that people get punished for doing something wrong. But certainly we are going to look at several other issues surrounding the child as to why the child got themselves involved with such, you know, in such a behavior. And so it is not just going to be you have stolen from X and so now we are taking you to court and now you're sending you to bodily or, you know, or to BTC, the boys' training center or somewhere. But now we are going to look at your history. We are going to look at your background. We're going to try and understand what made you do this. And of course, once it is deemed that this child, there is hope, you know, that we can work with this child, then we are going to provide services for this child under the whole idea of diversion. Diversion is a major aspect, as you would have heard from Ms. Poirot and Mrs. Mrs. Louis under the Child Justice Bill, because it really now is going to cause us as practitioners to work much closer with other entities within the society, because it doesn't mean that we see diversion, that diversion has to be done at the family court or at probation and parole or at human services.  So what would be the role of the police officer in terms of apprehension or attention of a minor offender? Let me let Mrs. Louis, because this is really the role of probation. Actually, under the Child Justice Bill, the police are the first responders to apprehending a child. Once the police apprehends the child, they need to inform the probation department, so that this word is, this word that a child has been apprehended is actually communicated to a probation officer, who will then, in all respects, begin to handle the matter from then. So the police actually are the ones who are going to apprehend and they have to communicate to probation. And what is the process when it goes? Within a specific time period. What is the process when it goes to the probation officer? Child's matter of case is reported to probation or to probation officer. The probation officer will engage with respect to carrying out assessments, risk assessment, mental health screening tools, getting parents and all significant others involved. And the child, after all these assessments and reports are going to be submitted to the magistrates who will be sitting along with two other social workers on what is called an inquiry. What happens in the event that a police officer is unsure of the minor's age? This is verified, having hold of both certificates for the child. That's one of the first things that has to be done. The age of the child, you spoke of uncertainty of the age of the child in as much as the police officer who makes the apprehension reports to probation. The child's parent or guardian also has to be called in. So in that manner, all of the biographical details and all of that would be part of the preliminary assessments that Mrs. Louie was speaking about together with the mental health screening and all of these kinds of things. Mrs. Louie also made mention of the initial inquiry. It is at the initial inquiry that our first level of diversion can come in. Because at that inquiry, we would already have a background of the child. And it's very important for us to note, hey, that is one of the major differences that we are going to have in our system. Generally, when a child is apprehended now and brought to court, we know very little about the child. It is only right before sentencing that the probation officer is required to do a pre-sentence report. With this new system coming into place, we're going to have information about the child prior to going to court. So we already know who it is we're dealing with. And it's important because we are now looking at dealing with children who come into conflict with the law in a very individualized process. It is no longer one-size-fits-all. And so knowing about the child going into the initial inquiry, whether the child takes responsibility for their actions, all of these are going to determine whether diversion can happen at that point in time. And that is what we call pretrial diversion. What are the sort of the rights that a child or a minor would have while being detained in police custody? Rights of the child. The child has the right to have an attorney. That, again, is another major shift in the manner in which we deal with children. So attorneys will be made available for children who require it. The child also has the right to have their parents and guardians present. The child has a right to speak and to say whether they understand or don't understand something. So these are just some of the basic things that the child is going to be part of the process and not the process happening around the child. Is there any circumstance where a minor could be sent to a place like Bodley Correctional Facility? Based on our current system, because we do not have any additional facilities, there is a unit at Bodley that has been designated for age 16 to 18. And in the absence of any other institution, that area at Bodley can still be used to house our children age 16 to 18. But as I said, it is away from the general population and it is designated specifically for that category. With the passage of the new legislation, all of the processes and procedures will also be extended to them because they do fall into that category as children now. Okay, we are actually due for our first break right now. So this is the Government Information Services panel discussion on the Child Justice Bill and the Adoption Bill. We'll be back in a moment. I'm with my 13-year-old child. She's driving me crazy. I just don't know what to do. All that I need is some good leaks to wake up. Alice, ignore the counseling pension given. Government employees have free access to professional counseling services under the Employee Assistance Program, known as EAP. EAP? EAP? What's that? Not me that telling people my business. Listen to me, Alice. I was struggling with my child. I made an appointment to see an EAP counselor and I was very satisfied with the service that I received. And you know what? Up to a day like today, my information remains confidential. Cox, how come nobody in the office knew anything about your counseling? Ah, that's because EAP counselors, they work on the strict clauses of confidentiality. I know you know what confidential means. EAP, providing professional counseling services? How much is it? Girl, the counseling is free. Free for you, free for your child. And you know what? Your information remains confidential. Call the EAP unit at the ministry of the public service. Telephone number 468-2269 for more information. EAP Works, let it work for you. Welcome back. So before the break, we were speaking about the Border Lay Detention Facility. Could you speak on what circumstances would lead to a child being sent to the site facility? How specifically for minors? The main reason would be because of age. And the second reason would probably be because of the nature of the offense. Offenses come on different levels and based on the level of offense, the law speaks to what can and cannot be done at a particular level. Say for example, if a child is accused of committing murder, that would be one of the instances where the child would be sent to the secure facility at Border Lay. And could you speak on when the Division of Human Services actually becomes involved in criminal matters regarding juvenile offenders? Right, so the Division of Human Services really does not. When it comes to children engaging in offenses, there's children who would be dealt with through probation and parole under the Child Justice Bill. Division of Human Services, however, comes in where we talk about the Child Care Protection and Adoption Bill. Currently, we have one act that is a children and young persons act that would guide us, provide guidance to us and the court for both dealing with juveniles and children who require care and protection. And so with the separation now, which we are going to see with the passage of those two, with those two bills, Human Services now becomes the agency will have legal responsibility to ensure protection and providing support to children and families to improve the social situation. And so this is where we'll fit in. When this bill, the Child Care Protection and Adoption Bill is passed, Human Services will be named in this bill as having that legal responsibility, as I mentioned earlier. And so one of the things that is going to be different for us, apart from now having a wider span of children to deal with, now we are moving from just focusing on children under 16, now to focusing on children under 18, is that we will also have the responsibility for adoption. Currently adoption is being done at the Ages Office, the Attorney General's Office, they are responsible. But this new bill is going to move forward in that there's going to be an adoption committee, working very closely with Human Services for adoption because we recognize that adoption is still a child protection issue. And it's not just facing a child if anybody anywhere, sorry. So it's going to change how we do things at Human Services really and truly. We are going to see a difference in the type and number of orders that the court can provide to ensure protection of children. We are going to see changes in how we do our own processing at Human Services. There's going to be issues on time limits for investigations that is going to be very critical as we go forward in ensuring that we respond in a timely fashion to issues of children, anything that comes in for needing child protection. And of course, another major one first is going to be the issue of supervision. So whereas a child may present in challenging behaviors, presenting challenging behaviors, currently probation and parole would engage them. It would now become the responsibility of Human Services and we would have the option, if after working with the family, that we are not seeing that kind of synergy, that kind of work with the family and the children, then we can go before the court and ask for a supervision order to ensure that things happen in the manner as was planned with the hope that it's going to improve the child's situation. I want to get to the adoption bill in a second, but before I move on to that, I want to explain the issue of confidentiality with regard to the Child Justice Bill. And it's important regarding the identity of alleged child offenders. Could any of you speak on that? Like anything else, I'll start off on what Mrs. Louis take on. Confidentiality is always very important when you're dealing with children and families.  There's going to be a penalty for anybody who gives out any information regarding adoption. And likewise with young people, that when they come in contact with the law, what we certainly do not want is for the information to be out there in the public. We have to respect that, notwithstanding that they are children, they have rights too. And one of those rights is to ensure some level of protection and support for them. And this is where the whole issue of confidentiality is coming, how we are going to engage and process them. It's going to be very, very critical in their own development and how they turn out under the system. Then, if Mrs. Louis wants to add a little more. Yes, just basically to state in the initial inquiry process to maintain confidentiality until only be persons who are important to the process of what is happening to the child. For example, significant others, no other person will be allowed in the initial inquiry process. Okay. I want to stretch that a little further and speak to the whole issue of record, a police record, as far as a child is concerned. When we speak of confidentiality, when we look at people who come into conflict with the law, we know that there's a police record that follows them. With our children, there's going to be no record that follows them. So if anything happens before the age of 18, yes, it is logged, it is catalogued, it is kept in confidence. But after the age of 18, there is no criminal record that carries over with that child. So in the event that I'm thinking of a scenario here where a minor offender gets to the age of maybe 2021 and they're applying for a job or a scholarship or something of that nature, their criminal record from under the age of 18, it will not have to disclose that, it will not affect them in any way. It should not affect them unless, let me just clarify, unless it is one of the level three offenses which are the higher category of offenses. Such as, as I mentioned earlier, for murder and things like manslaughter. But if we're talking about things like stealing, petty theft and so on, that is not going to be on record. Okay, the other thing I can share on that is, this child having a teen age past 18 can now apply for their records to be expunged. Okay? Okay. Now I want to speak about the child care protection and adoption bill. With the child care bill, will this give children more of a say in their own welfare? And what exactly does it mean that they will have more of a say with regards to their own welfare? Currently, and I'm going to speak from a wider societal issue that we seem to think that children should not have a say in things that concern them. Part of what this bill is going to be is that when we sit to discuss plans on behalf of a child, once a child is of an age to understand, then the child is allowed to make an input. Because if, let us face it, if you are going to make a decision on my behalf, shouldn't I be part of that decision making to say what I would like, what I would not like? I mean, it doesn't mean that it will always take what they say into consideration. I mean, to do what they say. But of course, this bill is going to allow for a wider discussion to take place, to allow children to be able to present their side of the story. And not just us as adults sitting and making decisions about them. I must say though, currently what happens when a matter is taken into court, the magistrate at the family court does sometimes allow the child to come in and present their issue. So it's not going to be very different. It's just that it's not going to be in a bill. Because sometimes you need to hear from the children what really happened and what would they like, especially when it relates to placement of children. If you are going to remove a child from their home for whatever reason or the other and you're looking to place them somewhere else, they may be able to guide you in terms of where best they can be placed or who is the best person to have them. And that is also taken into consideration in adoption situations where when children are of a certain age, you can ask them.  How do you feel about it? And so this is the whole idea behind that. Now you mentioned the child being removed from their environment or their home. What sort of circumstances would lead to that? Well, as happens now and as will continue to happen when this bill is passed, is that when a report of child abuse is made to the Division of Human Services, so we now have to investigate the matter and to move immediately into determining the safety of the child. And so if this deems that the issue is within the home and the child needs to be protected almost immediately, then what we do is make an application to the courts to have the child placed in another setting. Always and always, we look at family first. So we may look for an aunt, an uncle, somebody who is directly related to the child or somebody who has stood up for the child in the past. And so this is something that we are currently doing and it is going to continue with this new bill. Now, I also, you mentioned that the, obviously earlier on that the child would have more of a say. How do you ensure that the child understands what is going on? Are there provisions in place to ensure that the child, let's say a five-year-old, if he's being removed from his home or his environment, how do you ensure that that five-year-old understands exactly what's happening? Well, for a lot of us who deal with children, we know at different ages there's a language that you can use. And of course we are going to have our clinical psychologists, our counselors, persons who understand where the children are at and we'll be able to explain to them in their language what is happening and it is very important and that is certainly there in this new bill that we explain to the children in their language and at the age and stage of development what the process is going to be. The bill, just to expand on what Mrs. Lewis was saying, the bill also makes provision that human services can place a child with a perspective adoptive parent even prior to the adoption and this kind of situation would allow for the kind of synergies we want to see to see whether the parent and the child is a good fit, to see whether everything is working properly. So having the ability to do that, having the law state that it can be done is also very important. Along with that there's also the whole issue of foster care. Foster care is a system that we have had in St. Lucia for many, many years but it has never been legislated. This bill is actually going to legislate foster care and allow the division of human services to take even more stringent measures in terms of who can become foster parents, what are the responsibilities of the foster parents, what are the responsibilities of the division to the foster parent and in addition to which what are the responsibilities of the child who is now going into foster care. Because in as much as a child is placing foster care for say some sort of abuse, that child also has some sort of responsibility in that new environment that they are being placed and the responsibility obviously is for their own safety. Okay, we are actually due for our second break. This is the government information services panel discussion on the child adoption bill and the child justice bill. We'll be back in a moment. Pamela, I noticed that you built your retaining wall on my property. You'll have to give me my land back or compensate me for that. My contractor isn't dumb. I trust that he will not build anything on your property. Where is your proof? Let's go to court. This situation does not require you to go to court. Looks like we have to go through mediation here. Mediation is a way people resolve conflicts like this. Someone, a third party comes to speak to both parties. This person is called the mediator. The mediator is impartial. He or she makes sure that communication between both parties is effective and efficient. So, the mediator is a judge? No, the mediator is not a judge. Mediators, unlike judges, do not decide cases or impose settlements. Let me get a mediator to handle this retaining wall and that kitchen. Kitchen? Yes, your kitchen also falls on my land. Let me call the mediator. Welcome back to the Government Information Services panel discussion on the Child Care Protection and Adoption Bill and the Child Justice Bill. So, earlier you were talking about foster care. Could you speak a little bit about the role of a foster parent? What is a foster parent? A foster parent is somebody who puts themselves forward, wanting to assist a child who's in need, a child, say, for example, who has been abused or neglected. And so the foster parent now becomes the legal guardian of that child, taking full responsibility for the child. As I indicated earlier, the Division of Human Services has that program in place, but now the law is going to speak to it and is making it something that is legitimate if you want to call it that. So, let us say that I have knowledge of a child that is not being adequately taken care of or abused in their home. What do I do? What is the process that I have to initiate to ensure that that child is removed from that environment? If I am a neighbor and I notice something's going on, what happens then? I'll start and then I'll let Mrs. Liss continue with that one. If you are aware, your first responsibility is to report it. And you can report that abuse to either the police or you can report it to the Division of Human Services as well. OK, so that is the first responsibility report. What it is you see, how often you see it, what is happening, and what are your perceptions of what is happening. And once you do that, of course, you now are going to do that without any fear of your name being mentioned or anything. So again, it's a confidential process. So once human services get that report, then they start with whatever processes, with their processes of investigation. Yeah, and to add to that, one of the things that I'm going back to the bear, one of the things that we're now seeing is a whole issue of persons who are mandated to report. So we have the issue of mandatory reporters and persons. I'm speaking of persons like teachers, persons who work with children, doctors, nurses, counselors, school counselors. They will be mandated reporters, and that is actually in the bill.  And your concern should lead you to reaching out to some agency or somebody who can provide support to the child. Hence the reason, and we always ask people to make that call to the police or to the Division of Human Services. And I mean, as Ms. Port indicated, we commence the process of investigation to determine the issues of safety and protection of the child, and of course, move it through the challenge to be removed, the challenge to remain in the family. If it's a situation where you just work with the family and the child, that will be determined after we have assessed the whole situation. Now, Mrs. Lewis, this other question is for you as well. When is the decision made by the Director of Human Services that an investigation should be launched into the welfare of the child? Once a report is made. Once a report is made, that starts the ball rolling. Is there anything specific you can mention in terms of a red flag? Well, a report is made, and I would imagine if somebody makes a report, they would say to you, I'm a way of this child, and this is a situation. And once a report is made, it is our responsibility. But even more so when the bill is passed to launch an investigation immediately to determine the safety of this child. And what happens if a report is made falsely well through a malicious intent? That's interesting, because we had just had some major discussion on that some time ago. Because as it stands, before I answer your question, we have lots of persons who see things and do not want to report. And these persons will be protected under this new bill. But of course, we have those persons who report with malicious intent. And that new bill does carry a fine, if it is found that anybody reported something maliciously. And I guess that is left for the court to hear the evidence and to make the decision. And you mentioned that you could ensure the complete confidentiality of the child throughout the entire process. I don't know that I could say it's full confidentiality. We recognize it's a small society. We always say to people, you can call anonymously. You can give the information. And we will as much as possible protect once you say you do not want to be identified. We have persons who call and say, it's me. Put my name down. And so they're happy to come into the court and to come to our offices to give reports. But there's going to be something in the bill for persons who also do not want to identify themselves. My other question is, when a child is removed from their environment, is their education interrupted significantly? Certainly not, even as we speak now. Once a child is placed, whether as we spoke earlier in foster care or placed at the new beginnings transit home, to some extent at the boys training center, the education is continued. They do continue with schooling. And of course with the bills, this is going to continue as far as possible. The child's education will continue once it's on the situation of care and protection. And is this whole process, in the entire process, what happens with children with developmental or physical disabilities? Yeah, well, it always poses a challenge in terms of getting placement. But when you look at the care and protection process, should not be any different for them. As it stands, now I know sometimes within the court and my colleagues I will tell you, issues of women dealing with children if speech difficulties and the blind child. We are very limited currently in terms of persons, experts who can provide support, whether it is for Braille or sign language. And so that is something we recognize as a society we have to work on, especially for those of us working with vulnerable children in that way. But it shouldn't be any different in terms of how you're going to process a child, whether it's what child is special needs or a child. A child, a child. Child is a child.  Yeah, and so we just have to look at this child as a human being that we need to assist. There's something I want to go back to is what we, earlier we were speaking about the adoption committee. Who is on the adoption committee? The adoption committee really is a new dimension in our process. And the adoption committee really is going to be there to assist and to guide the Division of Human Services. Division of Human Services is going to present all of the information. And they sit as a committee to determine whether this is a feasible alternative for the placement of a child. So the adoption committee for us is something that is really new for us in the legislation and something that we are hoping is going to make a significant difference. When we speak of adoption, the other thing too is that we are going to have some changes are going to have to be made. Once the bill is passed, as Mrs. Lewis indicated, the Division of Human Services is now going to be responsible for adoptions.  So there are some things, some structures, in all of the departments, as a matter of fact, that will have to be made in order for the proper use and fulfilment of these two pieces of legislation. And could you speak on who exactly is on the committee? Who will be on the committee? The committee would comprise a pediatrician and attorney from a representative from the attorney general's office, the director of social services, a clinical psychologist, a member of the NGO. But that committee is really under the remit of the minister with responsibility for human service. So he is going to look at what is needed and to identify persons who would suit the criteria in the bill. OK, we're coming closer to the end of the program. But what I want to talk about, the bill makes reference of care application, care orders and protection orders. Could you expand a little bit on those terms? OK, these are the various orders that the court is going to grant with respect to an application that comes before it for a child. So depending on the information that is given to the court, the Division of Human Services brings in the application and requests a care order or a supervision order. And then the court, the magistrate grants that order. So each of them is dependent on what specifically the child is required for the child and the order would be granted based on what the child really needs. So each of them, there's a slight difference between each of them and so the information and the evidence indicating whether which of these orders is necessary will be brought before the court in order for that to be made. And is there anything else that you, ladies, would like to add before we end the program? Just to say, I think, and I am sure I could speak from Ms. Boyotan, Mrs. Leigh, that we are extremely pleased that Senouchia is moving a step closer to legal reform to ensure greater protection and support for our children. We all know that our current laws are a cake. They do not reflect what actually happens now in society. It is a process that we have been on from since 2001, this model family legislation process. A lot of our partner OECS countries have gone ahead and passed some, one or two. But Senouchia has left, has been behind for some time now. And so we are certainly looking forward to this legislative change that is going to empower us as practitioners, empower families, ensure that there are proper guidelines and policies and protocols that are followed to ensure that our children and families get greater support. We sometimes, we say we live in a very punitive society that we want punishment. It is not always about punishment, but it's ensuring that there is development and growth for the better. And so it is, things are going to be different for all of us when those bills are passed and different for the betterment of support to children and families in Senouchia. Okay, well, I thank the three of you for joining me here on this panel discussion on child care protection and the adoption bill and the child justice bill. My name is Jacques Kingston Compton. Thank you for watching and stay tuned to more programming and to the, in the station. ["Pomp and Circumstance"]


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My friends is the 16th of February and this plant has many new leaves and it is blooming! Stay tuned! First of all, I want to thank you so much for being here with me today. As you may know, I am a plant beginner and I learn from my plants every day. So in this channel, I like to share with you what I am learning so we can bring more nature to our homes together. So if you want to learn how to take care of your plants, how to display them or even how to connect with them, make sure to subscribe so we can see each other every week and talk about plants. But now, let's get to the video! Okay you guys, this is really exciting because as you may know, we actually started in this community this new challenge that is called the poinsettia challenge. And what this basically means is that we actually take care of our poinsettias all year round so they are healthy and happy not only on Christmas but actually the whole year. These plants of course are very Christmasy plants and we use them in Christmas. We display them in our homes and actually in Mexico they are really popular. We actually call them the noche buena. Noche buena means the good night and basically this means the 24th of December for us. After Christmas the poinsettia may seem a little bit more sad and then we see maybe she's dying and then we throw them away. But guys this is such a beautiful plant and we can actually have it in our homes the whole year. So this is what we're trying to do in this community and in this video I'm gonna share with you what I have been doing to keep her happy, what happened in January and now in the rest of February and some of the new leaves and blooms that we're getting in this plant. So let's get to it! So as I told you in my Instagram post, I actually continue watering this plant just as normal. So this plant actually prefers moderate watering. The way that I continue to check is with my finger. I put my finger inside the soil until the second knuckle and once I feel that the soil is drying out then I water. But after I saw that the leaves were actually falling down I did more research and I discovered that this plant needed to be repotted. This is actually recommended because these plants have been growing in a very small pot for commercial purposes so they actually grow a lot and then the pot is too small for them. So I decided to repot my plant to a pot that was two sizes bigger than the previous pot just like this and continued water as normal. I make sure that my poinsettia is getting as much sunlight as I can provide because in Berlin of course the winter is not super sunny but we've been lucky and we've had some sunny days and this plant is actually in a room that has a south facing window so she's getting lots of sunlight and I think that's also good for her. So yes those are the main key points that I can tell you that I have been doing. So now let's look at the plant. So as you can see we have some new leaves over here some blooms so you can see over there it's so exciting so these are actually the flowers in the poinsettia I've never seen them actually and then you have of course the other brats on the sides. You can also see one here this is a bloom and then some other leaves on the sides. Then if you look at this one here this is actually one that was there on Christmas so it's already gone but then we have more blooms here. In this it's also getting some new leaves on the stems here and you can see them right there it's super exciting and of course another bloom here right there you can see another one there and one more on this side. So there you have it I want to first of all thank you guys because actually this community gave me the strength and inspiration to actually continue with this challenge and it's the first time that I actually see a poinsettia flowering in front of my eyes in February. It is super exciting you guys and I am just so happy to be able to share it with you and for all the positive energy and inspiration that you sent to me to do it please let me know if you also are doing this challenge and how is your poinsettia doing. If you see some new leaves or if your poinsettia is blooming I would love to see it so make sure to send a picture on Instagram and I cannot wait to do the next update and see how this beautiful plant keeps growing. Okay my friends for now I sent all of my positive energy to you and I will see you in the next video okay ciao


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