What's good Josh Wood Ross back again with another video so ready to check out the curious case of Enzo Mori now this This is really one of those things where There was so much potential For Enzo and Big Cash, especially on the main roster when they got to the main roster. They were over They were legitimately One of if not the hottest tag team in WWE they were that over and It's crazy because you would have thought you know their careers in WWE would have skyrocketed Maybe even had some good solo runs respectively between each other but Unfortunately Enzo from just reports and People's personal testimonies. He was not really liked that much Backstage in fact a lot of people weren't big fans of them at all and the thing about wrestling especially in a in a business Politics is a part of it Politics is a part of a lot of things, but especially in wrestling and especially in WWE So you don't want to go out your way to make people upset or piss them off Even Vince McMahon, you know, no matter how over you are people can persuade or make Certain type of behind-the-scenes move To derail your push or damn they even get you fired You know just depending on what you do what you say and how you move backstage. So we're gonna check out this unfortunate situation and of Enzo Amore and and his downfall because honestly he really could have been something something Useful for WWE because I mean he was hella popular especially with big cash So we're gonna check this out. Let's get right into this one When Enzo Amore and big pass got called up to the main roster in 2016 on the roar of the WrestleMania They got the most insane Unholy reaction of all time. They were called up without their partner Carmella But just two years later Carmella was the only one that remained in the WWE out of the trio So what happened to Enzo Amore? Where is he now? Why did he get kicked out of the WWE locker room and then fired all that and more in today's video? But before we get into it be sure to like and subscribe Subscribe to Top 10 Wrestler man. Link to the original videos down below Let me know if you beat the count in the comments The story of the way Enzo Amore got signed to the WWE is probably the most Enzo Amore story I've ever heard. Enzo and Triple H had shared the same trainer in New Jersey And when that trainer showed Triple H a video of Enzo cutting a promo whilst doing exercises That was apparently all it took for him to be given a tryout which would result which is so crazy because the dude He's naturally gifted on the microphone like He's naturally gifted like it's literally kind of the best of both worlds He can talk on the microphone and then you have Big Cass who's seven feet tall and you can't teach that and Vince McMahon loves like tall huge larger-than-life wrestlers boom Big Cass is not the best talker. Enzo is the best talker It's it. It was perfect. It would be everything that Vince would want He sold him in signing a developmental contract with the WWE and reporting to NXT He originally went under the ring name of Eric Anthony But that quickly would be changed to what we would come to know as for the rest of his time in the WWE Which was of course Enzo Amore He debuted on the May 22nd 2013 episode of NXT debuting as a heel and playing what was described as a cocky Josie Shaw loudmouth being squashed by Mason Ryan Stevie Ray as Quaker Lundra Blaze A few weeks later himself with Colin Cassidy a man who would come to be known as Big Cass The two would turn face and begin pursuit of the NXT tag team championships They were mainly just a mid-card team But the team would have to break up for a while due to Enzo getting injured in training in November 2013 According to Simon Gotch Enzo Amore sworn arch nemesis from critically acclaimed video Simon Gotch shoots on Enzo Amore He broke his leg doing a wrist lock and blamed it on the map being too loose Enzo returned in April 2014 reuniting with Cass and feuding with Sylvester Laforte They had a hair versus hair match at WWE NXT takeover fatal four way one awesome show That was by the way underrated show which he won probably his biggest win in his WWE career to that date Soon after this Carmella would debut with the WWE in NXT And she would join up with Enzo and Cass and this was probably the prime of Enzo's career in NXT These three got mega over and this was a synonymous trio in NXT And them getting over as much as they did can mainly be attributed to Enzo Amore's Mike skills And of course his intro that he would do for all of them during their entrance My name is Enzo Amore and I am a certified G and a bona fide stud and you can't teach That and this right here. This is big cat and he's seven foot tall and you can't teach that Bada boom really guys in the room. How you doing bro? It's even people know it to this day, you know people are not big fans of Enzo People know it word for word to this day And there was also that one bit where he goes and this right here. This is the subscribe button hit that 2015 would be the year that Enzo Cass and Carmella became stars in NXT They had numerous tag title shots and it was their feud with Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson aka the mechanics aka the revival aka FTR that saw them at their most over in NXT They challenged FTR for the tag titles at Roblox 2016 unsuccessfully But with how over they were WrestleMania being near and the fact they didn't win a main roster call-up was surely Imminent and that is exactly what would happen as on the raw after WrestleMania 32 in 2016 Enzo and Cass debuted on the main roster and yes, they debuted without Carmella But they debuted to an insane pop and reaction from the crowd legit deafening reaction They cut an awesome promo on the Dudley boys and they entered the tight title number one contenders tournament And they made it to the finals where they faced the Vaude villains But this would only be another setback. This match took place on payback 2016 And the match had to end early after Enzo got legit Concussed he swore an arch nemesis and star of crystal clear claim videos Simon got shoots on Simon got through him under the bottom rope and his head bounced off the rope bouncing off the mat Concussing him and following Enzo's return from injury. They kind of got lost in the shuffle in the tag division Well, I guess saying lost in the shovel is a bit unfair But it kind of lost that new debuting tag team bounce that they had that huge Overwhelming popularity and overness. I mean, there was still popularity. They were still over But that momentum was gone and we didn't seemingly want to bring it back in any way They were involved in some high-level programs such as when they team with John Cena against the club at battleground 2016 or when they faced Jericao at SummerSlam And they were in the four-way raw tag title match at mania 33 Which I was there to watch it was not a bad spot to be in what so ever They were on TV every week getting pay-per-view matches But they weren't winning the title and they should have been the top tag team But W3 had other plans and Enzo and Cass would break up in 2017 after Cass attacked Enzo back Mystery attacker and it was a bit of a dumb turn Don't really know why they did it But it was his next year in Enzo's career where he went solo for the first time in W3 and this next year Was just so hectic He switched over to the cruiserweight division and would very quickly win the cruiserweight title And this was just such a really weird time. Yeah, Enzo win the cruiserweight title It was a Vince decision very obviously and was done to try help get more eyeballs on 205 live But whilst he was champion Enzo had tremendous backstage heat Yeah, he had been kicked out of the locker room after punching a bully in Enzo's words He wasn't friends with Cass apparently at the time They fell out and the word was that what you saw with Enzo on screen was exactly how he was backstage He'd bring an outsider's into the locker room which apparently got him heat and all in all was just seen as too big for his boots And yeah, it was just weird because Enzo and W3 while he was champion He was still almost getting punished on TV like that one time when the Miz just randomly buried him on the mind When Braun Strowman who had nothing to do with the cruiserweight division just came out during a cruiserweight segment during a Commercial and attacked him like what was the point and I would just say it because Enzo's title reign with the cruiserweight title got a lot of hate But this was a good title reign and yes Neville losing the title was very questionable and at what cost because he left the company very soon after he lost the title But Enzo to me was a burst of life that 205 needed and it was pretty much dead Once both him and Neville were gone from it Enzo Amore was set to defend the title against Cedric Alexander at the Royal Rumble But on January 22nd 2018, he was suspended from the company It was confirmed the same day by Phoenix PD that Enzo had been under investigation since October 2017 For alleged sexual assault and the next day Enzo Amore's suspension was turned into a firing He was fired from the WWE and the cruiserweight title was vacated WWE fired him due to his failure to inform them of the investigation being ongoing But he claims that he didn't know he was under investigation either until it was made public on May 16th 2018 The Phoenix Police Department ceased their investigation due to insufficient evidence Yeah, Enzo was already out the company at this point and I think it's fair to say that since being fired from the WWE Enzo has definitely made the most of his time. Let's just talk about some of the things he's done since he left the WWE. He released some music under the name real one. It was absolutely awful He got into a fight with Joey Janella at a Blink 182 concert and he very infamously snuck into Survivor Series 2018 In the disguise sat on a floor seat on hard cam and midway through one of the matches Got up on his chair and started doing his catchphrases before security dragged him out Absolute craziness. Enzo still wrestles to this day and you can find him in MLW He meant Cass even reconciled and they teamed up for a bit on the indie scenes after they were both out of the WWE They were even meant to join the Ring of Honor. Oh god. Remember that leave a comment If you think AEW should sign Enzo Amore and reunite him with Cass Hey, I'm not gonna lie to you That would be interesting It would be interesting I'm not gonna sit up here and say that wouldn't be a bad idea if they were to ever do that. But the problem is It has Enzo Changed he has he matured since then Doesn't look like he has but I will say this if they did do that AEW would have another tag team With a catchy like entrance because you have the acclaim they're already pretty much over you have another tag team That you know would instantly be over because of their catchphrase and and people knowing who they are and stuff like that it just really comes down to if Would Enzo be a good? I mean what they already have a what's the name of big cast there? So he's already there.  It's just adding Enzo to the mix with that work So, I don't know. I mean it hasn't happened now. I'm not saying that it won't happen later, but it hasn't happened now. So Who knows man, but comment down below Let me know do you guys feel like they should have gotten a championship run a tag team championship run at some point Either an NXT or on the main roster me personally I do feel like that was always a missed opportunity from Vince to put the titles on them They were so over they were so hot. I would have put the titles on them hot as in fan Reception, let me say that now for someone take it out of context But yeah, like I definitely would have put the titles on them and not as soon as possible But definitely would have built up to it to the point where they would have you know became tag team champs And it would have been a pretty cool moment. So comment down below Let me know if you guys feel like they should have gotten at least one title tag team title run in WWE at some point, but I appreciate all of us what wrote 250 K I'm still the unspeak the YouTube resume champion world. Appreciate y'all kicking me. See y'all next one


Welcome to Crimson Engine. My name is Rubidium. We are very lucky today to meet the gaffer Luke Siaveld is here And we're going to be talking all things lighting light products future of film as you see it. Yeah Been a fan of your channel for a long time. I think you're one of the handful of actual professional working filmmakers on YouTube who are working hard to create content for The YouTube filmmaking community you're a gaffer and you have a great channel called meet the gaffer which I'll link to in the In the comments of this video, please check it out and subscribe But first How do you start working in film?  Sure? Yeah well, there's about a 30-year gap between those two things, but You know, I think I started making super eight movies with my friends in high school and We made something called In search of the holy fruit basket. We like learn to knit and and with metallic yarn and make our own fake mail Yeah, that was a Canon super eight camera and Then you know, I was part of a little group in college. They didn't have any kind of a film. I mean film studies was Was about theory, you know, it wasn't about what is it? What does this movie mean? What does he mean? It wasn't nothing to do with like how do you turn on a camera? Totally. Yeah, and I they had a lot of review theaters. So they would just show old movies but in like double headers or whatever and and When I was in later years of high school and early years of college whenever I was in Toronto I would just do that like nightly almost I take the subway downtown and and I just eat up the old, you know, Fussbinder and Fellini and and just yeah, just really enjoyed movies for a long time at the start of Hollywood I guess to this day like gaffing is one of those interesting things where For some people, it's a it's like a work a blue collar working-class job Right and for others. It's like a stepping stone into Symmetography I actually thought I was gonna produce and so I did some producing and And I just found I got too far away from the hands-on part of it and then I got a bigger truck and kind of Rejuvenated like rejuvenated me to to enjoy what I was doing. There's a creative side to gaffing but you're always in the service of Sort of your DP, you know, isn't there in service the director exactly who's in service to the story. Yeah, you know, but Or the agency but so in a way, we're a little more removed from it and and in starting The vlog it kind of that was another rejuvenation It's kind of like, you know, when you teach something you sort of have to learn it again yourself and for years I Didn't use a light meter, you know, just video. We used monitors and you'd have a waveform on it and away you go a Vector scope whatever it was but Lately it seems like I've been enjoying using a meter More and thinking about it sort of old-school wise. Why? I mean in my experience just starting Super 35 35 mil The light meter was so critical because the camera took so long to build Yeah, right the camera picture wouldn't be up until like nine even if you got there at seven so like if the if the Gaffer was waiting to get waveform, you know forget it Right, you gotta you gotta you gotta be there and like so that when you know The finally the cameras turned on the scenes already lit, right? Right industries changed a lot and we'll talk about that a little bit later but You know, I ask I'd like to ask this of people I talked to of you know What do you what have you learned in the you know the time since you started that you wish you'd known when you started out? I think the main thing And I see this in young people now I was just Tentative, you know, I like even though I felt like I was Jumping ahead pretty quickly in my career Compared to some of the people I see now, they're just like leaps and bounds It's like it's almost like you don't have to tell young people these days. I mean they just go for it and and Yeah, I guess I didn't have big enough balls That's an interesting regret that's interesting all like less than to to possum I know on the other hand now You have like for vlogging and stuff like that. You just have tools that are amazing That's right Really when you started out you were probably like they the camera and the lenses were worth $100,000 the lights were with $100,000 right like it was in a place And no one would let you on set if you had that look just throw it around That's true. Yeah, well just an anecdote. I remember a DP on a commercial, you know, he was just a really good film DP and We would always be joking and having a good time and and he'd be like, yeah, you know, you guys can have fun But if stuff doesn't work out here, I'll never work again. It's on me. So, you know, we got to get this right Yeah, and I impressed me. I would say my best experiences on a film set is when Everybody is is flown in the same direction and and So, you know, there's some people that like to be screamers. There's some people that that, you know want to squeeze you for every, you know dollar You know while they drive up up in there their fancy car, but so My feeling is the better people feel The better you should it's gonna go. Yeah, and yes, it's true Like there's a sort of corollary to that It's like when you see a low-budget film you think like, man, that was just awesome that that just hit every I really engage with that film and then you find out later that the crew Was beaten up. Yeah, you know, it's just abused and I actually look at that movie differently speaking of cinematographers What in your opinion separates a good DP from a great DP? Just on a sort of a really reduced level if you have a pre-light. Mm-hmm. It's huge And some people take pre-lights for granted. Well, I don't you know, because I don't get them that often and Even scouts, it's like I'm commercial. She usually have scouts on corporate. You hardly ever have scouts Yeah, sometimes you do any kind of pre-production any kind of time you have to actually Think through something is is huge. So I remember watching the ASC Roundtable that they did recently and that you know all of these DPs were like listen to your gaffer. Listen to your gaffer. Yeah, that was that that was a big takeaway from all that They all repeated it being mean like, you know a DP might light a scene like this You know once a month like a director might do it a couple times a year if we're lucky like a conversation scene Right, whereas sometimes gaffers are All day every day out doing it right and rather than come to set With your lighting plan as a DP or even a director for a lot of people It's probably a good idea to talk to leak like lean on the gaffer's experience lead on their Skills, right that are specialized in this lighting thing and let let that take care for a lot of directors I think that's hard because they feel especially on a commercial they feel that's that's their one creative Sure outlight is the lighting sure I think the main thing is to be collaborative and Sometimes you don't have time and so you just have to be a little more dictatorial, but and you the same goes for heads of department, you know, sometimes you're not given the guys gals that you wanted and so you have people that don't know your way of doing it and you just have to you know There at that setting 20 here. Yeah, yeah If you've worked with someone a lot then you have a language if you haven't worked with someone sometimes that rapport is like immediate and sometimes you sort of have to work towards it and and Sometimes you never get that. Yeah, to me the the important thing is to always Make the person in charge feel like it's their idea Same with active actors and directors. Yeah, it's like I think real real interesting things happen in film when you know the friction between ideas between personalities between Interpretations sets the sparks that that make things that happen amazingly. I mean when you trust people They'll rise to your expectations. You know people want to hear well What's the answer to working in this business or whatever? And it's like the answer is be flexible.  And then yeah, just know when to stop and that that just takes experience because some people want to tweak tweak tweak tweak and Okay Why don't they let cinematographer smoke on set and take it out to light it That's good Thank you so much Luke. Thanks for thanks for being part of the the channel today Please check out meet the gaffer in the in the links below and yeah, hopefully we'll get a chance to work together in the future That would be cool right on


chapters one through nine of Amos, American Standard Version. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and to find out how you can volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Sam Stinson. Chapter one. The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. And he said, Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem, and the pastors of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither. Thus saith Jehovah, for three transgressions of Damascus, yea for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron. But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad, and I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the valley of Avon, and him that holdeth the scepter from the house of Eden, and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kyr, saith Jehovah. Thus saith Jehovah, for three transgressions of Gaza, yea for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof, because they carried away captive the whole people to deliver them up to Edom. But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, and I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashtad, and him that holdeth the scepter from Ashkelon, and I will turn my hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord Jehovah. Thus saith Jehovah, for three transgressions of Tyre, yea for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof, because they delivered up the whole people to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant, but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. Thus saith Jehovah, for three transgressions of Edom, yea for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof, because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever. But I will send a fire upon Timon, and it shall devour the palaces of Basra. Thus saith Jehovah, for three transgressions of the children of Amon, yea for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof, because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border. But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Reba, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind, and their king shall go into captivity. He and his princes together saith Jehovah. End of chapter one. Chapter two. Thus saith Jehovah, for three transgressions of Moab, yea for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into Lime.  The saith Jehovah, for three transgressions of Judah, yea for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof, because they have rejected the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers did walk. But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. The saith Jehovah, for three transgressions of Israel, yea for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof, because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes. They that pant after the dust of the earth, on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek, and the man and his father go unto the same maiden to profane my holy name. And they lay themselves down beside every altar, upon clothes taken in pledge, and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined. Yet destroyed I the amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness to possess the land of the amorite. And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel, saith Jehovah? But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.  And flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force. Neither shall the mighty deliver himself. Neither shall he stand that handleeth the bow, and he that is swift afoot shall not deliver himself. Neither shall he that right at the horse deliver himself. And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked. In that day saith Jehovah. End of chapter two. Chapter three. Hear this word that Jehovah hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying, You only have I known of all the families of the earth.  Shall two walk together except they have agreed? Will a lion roar in the forest when he hath no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den if he hath taken nothing? Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth where no gin is set for him? Shall a snare spring up from the ground and have taken nothing at all? Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? Shall evil befall a city, and Jehovah hath not done it? Surely the Lord Jehovah will do nothing except he reveal his secret unto his servants, the prophets. The lion hath roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken. Who can but prophesy? Publish ye in the palaces at Ashgood, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold what great tummels are therein? And what oppressions in the midst thereof? For they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, an adversary there shall be, even round about the land, and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be plundered. Thus saith Jehovah, as the shepherd rescueeth out of the mouth of the lion, two legs, or a piece of an ear. So shall the children of Israel be rescued that sit in Samaria, in the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed. Hear ye and testify against the house of Jacob, saith the Lord Jehovah, the God of hosts. For in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground. And I will smite the winter house with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith Jehovah. End of chapter three. Chapter four. Hear this word, ye kind of basin, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that saith unto their lords, bring and let us drink. The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by his holiness that lo, the days shall come upon you, that they shall take you away with hooks, and your residue with fish hooks. And ye shall go out at the breeches, every one straight before her, and ye shall cast yourselves into harm, saith Jehovah. Come to Bethel, and transgress, to Gilgal, and multiply transgression, and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes every three days, and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings, and publish them for this pleaseth you, oh ye children of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah. And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places, yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. And I also have withholding the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest, and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city. One piece was rained upon, and the piece where upon it rained not withered. So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, and were not satisfied. Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.  Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. The virgin of Israel is fallen. She shall no more rise. She is cast down upon her land. There is none to raise her up. I have overthrown cities among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning. Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. Therefore, thus will I do unto thee, O Israel, and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. For lo, he that formeth the mountains, and created the wind, and declareeth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth. Jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name. End of chapter four. Chapter five. Here ye this word, which I take up for lamentation over you, O house of Israel. The virgin of Israel is fallen. She shall no more rise. She is cast down upon her land. There is none to raise her up. For thus sayeth the Lord Jehovah, the city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel. For thus sayeth Jehovah unto the house of Israel, seek ye me, and ye shall live. But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba. For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to not. Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it. In Bethel, ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth, seek him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night, that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth. Jehovah is his name, that bringeth sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress. They hate him that reproveeth in the gate, and they appore him that speaketh uprightly. For as much therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat, ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof. For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins. Ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right. Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time, for it is an evil time. Seek good and not evil, that ye may live, and so Jehovah the God of Hosts will be with you, as ye say. Hate the evil and love the good, and establish justice in the gate. It may be that Jehovah the God of Hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. Therefore thus saith Jehovah the God of Hosts, the Lord, whaling shall be in all the broad ways, and they shall say in all the streets, alas, alas, and they shall call the husbandmen to mourning, and such as are skillful in lamentation to wailing. And in all vineyards shall be wailing, for I will pass through the midst of thee, saith Jehovah. Woe unto you, that desire the day of Jehovah. Wherefore would ye have the day of Jehovah? It is darkness and not light, as if a man did flee from a lion and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it.  Yea, though ye offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them.  Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs, for I will not hear the melody of thy vials. But let justice roll down his waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, a house of Israel? Yea, ye have borne the tabernacle of your king, and the shrine of your images, the star of your god which ye made to yourselves. Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity, beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the god of hosts. Chapter 6 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and to them that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come. Pass ye unto Calna, and see, and from thence go ye to Hamath the great, then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Or is their border greater than your border? Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near, that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall, that sing idle songs to the sound of the vial, that invent for themselves instruments of music, like David, that drink wine and bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief oils. But they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. Therefore shall they now go captive, with the first that go captive, and the revelry of them that stretch to themselves shall pass away. The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by himself, saith Jehovah, the god of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces. Therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein, and it shall come to pass if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. And when a man's uncle shall take him up, even he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is in the innermost parts of the house. Is there yet any with thee? And he shall say, no. Then shall he say, hold thy peace, for we may not make mention of the name of Jehovah. For behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breeches, and the little house with clefts. Shall horses run upon the rock? Will one plow there with oxen? That ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood? Ye that rejoice in a thing of not, that say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength? For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah, the god of hosts, and they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath unto the brook of the Ereba. Jehovah repented concerning this, it shall not be, saith Jehovah. Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me, and behold, the Lord Jehovah called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land. Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee, how shall Jacob stand? For he is small. Jehovah repented concerning this, this also shall not be, saith the Lord Jehovah. Thus he showed me, and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plum line, with a plum line in his hand. And Jehovah said unto me, Amos, what seeest thou? And I said, uh, plum line. Then said the Lord, behold, I will set a plum line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more, and the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste. And I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. Then Amosiah, the priest of Bethel, sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words. For thus Amos, saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land. Also Amosiah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go flee thou away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophecy there, but prophecy not again any more at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house. Then answered Amos and said to Amosiah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore trees. And Jehovah took me from following the flock, and Jehovah said unto me, go, prophecy unto my people Israel. Now therefore hear thou the word of Jehovah, thou sayest, prophecy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.  And I said, a basket of summer fruit? Then said Jehovah unto me, the end is come upon my people Israel, I will not again pass by them any more, and the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, sayeth the Lord Jehovah. The dead bodies shall be many, and every place shall they cast them forth with silence. Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath that we may set forth wheat, making the Eiffel small, and the Shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit, that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat. Jehovah hath sworn by the Excellency of Jacob, surely I will never forget any of their works, shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein.  Behold, the days come, sayeth the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah, and they shall wander from sea to sea, and from north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, and shall not find it. In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst, they that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, as thy God, O Dan Levith, and as the way of Beer Sheba Levith, they shall fall and never rise up again. End of Chapter 8 Chapter 9 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, smite the capitals that the thresholds may shake, and break them in pieces on the head of all of them, and I will slay the last of them with the sword, there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape. Though they dig into sheol, thence shall my hand take them, and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down. And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out, thence. And though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and it shall bite them. And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them, and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good. For the Lord Jehovah of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it melted, and all that dwell therein shall mourn, and it shall rise up holy like the river, and shall sink again like the river of Egypt. It is he that buildeth his chambers in the heavens, and hath founded his vault upon the earth, he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth. Jehovah is his name. Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel, sayeth Jehovah? Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt in the Philistines from Qaftor, in the Syrians from Kerr?  Save, that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, sayeth Jehovah. For lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least kernel fall upon the earth. All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say the evil shall not overtake nor meet us. In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breeches thereof, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old, that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations that are called by my name, sayeth Jehovah, that doeth this. Behold, the days come, sayeth Jehovah, that the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed, and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof. They shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them, and I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be plucked up out of their land, which I have given them, sayeth Jehovah, thy God.


Hello, I'm Mick, and today we'll look at how you can assess plant diversity in your sites. Identifying the plant species present at your camp will help you understand whether you are attracting native or invasive species, but it will also tell you something about the quality of your soil. For this test, we will need the one square meter quadrat, a camera, if you have a plant ID guide, some marking sticks, and eventually a tape measure if you want to use a transect. If you can, explore some plant identification and local botany resources in advance. On your site, select at least two points in the area you wish to survey. Label these points physically and on your site map. It's important to avoid areas where reading by humans takes place. Then place the quadrat on each of these points. Count the number of different plant species you can see inside the quadrat. Try to identify as many as you can. You could also try out mobile applications to identify species you don't know yet, such as plant net. Record the occurrence of the different species in your datasheet, by species name or assigned code. When you assign codes, consider taking pictures to match the codes. If you have no camera, take leaf samples for identification later on. Perhaps try and estimate the abundance or percentage cover of each species in your quadrat. If you do so, document these values as well. Before you leave, take a picture of the quadrat. If you are interested in the effects of certain environmental factors, such as moisture or altitude, use a 10 meter long transect along that environmental gradient. And survey your quadrat every one or two meters, depending on the effort you are willing to put into your research. Assessing plant diversity on a given site tells something about the overall health and resilience of the ecosystem. Repeating the tests throughout the restoration process indicates whether we are successfully promoting the species we wish to see on the land. Depending on the goals of our project, this could be nitrogen fixing plants or native species.


Glutathione, GSH, is a redox-active thiol that serves as a cofactor for antioxidant and detoxifying enzymes in cells, and its distribution in different compartments, including mitochondria, plays a key role in defense against reactive oxygen species and in the detoxification of lipid hydroperoxides and electrophiles. Mitochondrial GSH regulates cell death and prevalent human diseases such as cancer, fatty liver disease, and Alzheimer's disease. This article was authored by Vicent Iribis, Carmen Egar Siruiz, and Jose C. E. Fernandez Checa.


Namaste! My name is Godavari. I am Secretary of the Sakhi Federation in Maharashtra, India and a member of the Viro Commission. Before women were organised, they never stepped out of their homes. After the 1993 Latur earthquake, Swam Sikshan Prayog organised grassroots women into SHGs and supported them to come forward as leaders who participated in community development. The Marathvada region of Maharashtra is susceptible to recurring droughts due to climate change. Drought has severely affected the food, nutrition and livelihood security of communities. To deal with this, grassroots women leaders developed and adopted the one-acre organic farming model in which they diversified into 25 varieties of food grains and vegetables in their farms and kitchen gardens. This is ensuring food and nutrition security for women, their families and communities. In response to the COVID-19 crisis, women leaders organised a special Sakhi Task Force. The task force surveyed returning migrants who were particularly vulnerable to assess their situation with regard to food, safe water and sanitation and basic health and hygiene in institutional quarantine. And we provided information and counseled those in distress. Migrant workers who returned from cities such as Pune and Mumbai had lost their jobs and didn't have enough food to eat. Women leaders worked with these migrants to understand their skills and then set out to match their skills with work opportunities. In Neelaygaon village, the women's groups gave loans from their group savings to migrant workers to start small businesses such as photocopying shops and snack shops. Our women leaders worked in partnership with the local government to provide information to communities, particularly migrant workers regarding government programs and entitlements such as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Program, where people can be employed in farming and water conservation, pond desilting and other works. Also, our women explained the procedures and facilitated access to free rations under the public distribution system for families in partnership with the local authorities. Our federations women gave rupees 25 lakhs loans to their members for farming and other allied businesses, which had local marketing opportunities. We partnered with the local government at village, block and district levels to advocate and jointly plan to improve access to government programs for communities affected by the COVID crisis. Our message is that being organized, having a strong grassroots network and our robust partnerships with the local government allowed us to deal with the COVID-19 crisis and help our communities and the migrant workers. And my request to the government is to come up with some measures and solutions, including enterprise opportunities for the migrants. Thank you.


view for comprehensive part of our mission speaks to preparing our students to be true 21st century leaders. And we understand that this can only happen when our children are equipped with the best tools possible. And while the devices are not all in and of themselves, we know that they are critical in helping our students to truly compete on a global stage. And so we are very, very happy and certainly feeling very warm, very fortunate that we are at this juncture that our students will be the recipients of these devices. Now I should stress our form two students, yes? And I imagine we will see this program continuing for years to come, Mr. Minister. Right, excellent. And so I just want to again express our welcome, express our appreciation for your presence here as well, parents. I know it was short notice for some of you. And so we are thankful that you made the time to be here. I think your presence speaks to your investment in your child, in your child's education, and this is something that we certainly would love to encourage. Finally, I know you are receiving these devices at what some might say is an odd time. It is the end of the term. However, I want to lean on this line that says to whom much is given, much is expected. And so students, I am going to implore you, I'm going to throw a challenge to you that when you receive these devices today, you are going to put everything possible into ensuring that we realize the returns, not just as a school, but as a country, because this is an investment in every single one of you. So we are asking you today to please make this investment count. On that note, let me say thanks again and welcome. The government of St. Lucia made a promise. And if I know the prime minister well, he always keeps his promise. And I can stand by him for that. So today we are here so that your students can receive the promised laptops. And let me assure your principal that the other children will get. Those of you who have children who are coming in September in form one, they will also receive their devices. And if you didn't know, I'm a product of you for comprehensive secondary school. I'm very proud to say that.  This is an investment. It is hard economic times, but the prime minister of St. Lucia has made the students of St. Lucia a priority. And you know very well that some parents received assistance at the beginning of the school term. And the form five students, the CXC Mathematics and English A, this was also paid for. And the facility fees as promised, the government has also paid it. And we are not going to pay it only once. We shall continue to pay it every year. And if the economy improves, if the economy improves and we can, we shall pay more CXC subjects for your children. This is a promise. And the government will keep the promise as long as we are able to.   And this is why you are receiving your laptop today. And as your principal has said, cherish it, take care of it.  The devices are expensive. It's more expensive to repair it than to buy a new one. So take very good care of it and use it to improve your education. We are in the 21st century and technology is part of education in the 21st century. So it's not only because COVID came that we are using technology. It is because the world over, if you are not on board, if you are not on top of things, you will be left behind. And we want to be able to compete on a global stage. And this is why we are equipping the children now so that you can perform, you can compete, you can operate anywhere in the world. So I want to wish all of you the very best. Make very good of the resource that you have received for your education today. Thank you very much. You will notice that today I'm decked out in my school uniform. Now for me, this is a mark of my pride, my respect and my admiration for my school. It is also a statement of honor for my school. Whenever I do have the opportunity, I do make use of this school uniform because it is a symbolic reminder of this school, how it helped to create who I am and what I became. But I can hardly believe it. 59 years ago, I became a student of this school sometime in 1963. And when you have 59, you must be saying, my goodness, this man is ancient. Because in another year, it will be 60 years. So it's a long time. And to hold the memory of a school so long throughout your life and who you are and what you are today is really the finest statement that one can make about the school that helped to shape you and to make you and to nurture you. It's not an opportunity for me to boast in front of Minister Sean Edwards, but rather it is an opportunity to say to all of you, who are here today, that you are not just students of any school, but you are students of a unique and very special school. And you need to be exceedingly proud because you have created and produced some of the best minds in this country and not incidentally this country, but indeed throughout the world because you're graduating so everywhere and institutions making us very proud. That being said, I listened to Dr. Prosper and said to myself, she's taken me back to the very first time that the laptop program became a reality. On that occasion, I did come to the school here to make a symbolic gift of the very first set of laptops. To the students in form three or form four, I think it was at the time they were prepared for the CXCs. I am exceedingly pleased now that this initiative that was started way back is being allowed to continue and that you now have a chance to own your own laptops and work with your laptops. When I addressed the students at the time, I said to them that laptops were a powerful tool. It was a great equalizer because what it did was to make sure that you are not disadvantaged but most importantly, you were in the same position as any child, any student anywhere in the world because you had the capacity with that laptop to source the very identical information that you were sourcing. Whether the students were in the UK, in France, in Holland, all for that matter, in the Middle East somewhere in Saudi Arabia or elsewhere or somewhere in Africa, but then you were joining them in access, getting access to information. But I never ever thought that the changes that have been so dramatic as they have been in the last couple of years. I remember trying to justify these laptops to parents and to teachers by saying to them that we are fast approaching the time when they wouldn't have to buy textbooks or all the textbooks would be in a thumb drive and they put in the thumb drive and voila, all the textbooks would be made available. We still need to accelerate that possibility but what has been dramatic has been the last two years with COVID because COVID despite the fact that it has brought us illness and death of loved ones, it also opened new windows of opportunity. The legal profession of which a part has changed too. The chances are even when COVID recedes we will no longer be appearing in court for all matters. Yes, for trials maybe because judges need to see your faces when you give evidence to determine if you're witness of truth or not. But procedural matters, case management, what we call case management matters, that is to say the preparation for trials will all be done virtually. So our lives have really changed and we'll continue to change. I want you to use those laptops very wisely but just a little caution. I use a word recently when I was addressing school principles I warned them against what I call deification, treating your laptops as if they were your only companion, treating your laptops with so much reverence that you forgot the interesting things of life and you no longer did pleasurable things. Now listen, I really want to discourage you from that. I want to discourage you from feeling that technology is the commencement and the end of the world and there's nothing else. And I want the parents to join me in encouraging you to develop strict hours and times when you use your laptops and urge you to enjoy the world around you, the environment around you. We are not enjoying each other as we used to do years ago. I don't see many of you on our playing fields enjoying track and field and sports. We have to change all of that because we have a life with each other. We have to learn how to love each other. We have to learn how to cooperate with each other. We have to learn how to hug each other all over again once we are given the green light to do so. And I want to say to the parents that many of you like to get your children away from you because you feel they're bothered. You tell them, go and watch television. Don't you have homework?  Please, please. Rather, say to your daughter or son, look, why don't you go outside and do X, Y, and Z? You can use your laptops from five o'clock to 7.30 or to eight o'clock, whatever the case is, but after eight, put them away because we have interesting things to do. Whether we sit together and have dinner together so we can have a good laugh, or whether we sit together and maybe just watch one program before you're ushered into bed. I just want to say to you, do not behave as if your whole life depends on these phones. Why am I telling you all of this? Because I have had to make adjustments in my life. There was a time when my mobile phones, two of them, one for cable and wireless and one for digital. They were next to me in bed. Then I would get up in the night and switch them on to see if I got any messages. Those were Prime Ministerial days, mind you. But I began to understand how dangerous that could be because one of the unspoken things is that science has not quite yet ascertained whether those devices are actually causing you ill health and particularly exciting the possibility of accelerating cancer and the rest of it. We don't know the jury is still out. So I want to say to you, don't make the mistakes that I did and make sure put away those phones and put away those laptops and enjoy your family, enjoy each other and remember that we still have to live with each other. So use your laptops very wisely. Use it to conquer the world, use it to conquer knowledge, use it to apply knowledge and use it by all means to communicate with each other but understand the daily limitations. At the end of the day, it's not what the laptop makes you, it's what others make you, your parents and your friends. And please, as much as you search for knowledge, at the same time, don't forget you have a life to live and so give yourself the opportunity to enjoy what is so beautiful around us. Thank you and I wish you the very best. Teachers, I don't understand them. My job is foster. Teachers, I don't understand them. They say, when you're handling your work, make sure it's neat and tidy. Then they mess it up by scribbling electrical comments all over it in red ink. They say, don't interrupt, interrupt, interrupt when I'm talking. Put your hand up and wait until I finish. But if they've got something to say, they've got their hands up and stop your discussions in new sentence. They say, always plan your writing. Take your time, think it through and do a rough draft. Then they sit you in an examination hall and ask you to write that essay on one of six topics, none of which interests you in an hour and a quarter. They say, it's you and the group. Make sure you allow yourself time off from your studies to relax and enjoy yourself. Then when you don't hand your homework in on time because you took that advice, they keep you in at lunchtime. Teachers, I don't understand them. I truly believe that the view for in all seriousness, Comprehensive Secondary School is a great school, a great institution. And you measure the greatness and effectiveness of a school, not by the colors that students wear or how neat the surroundings are. But over time, you look at the quality of citizens they put out there. And when that particular yardstick is employed, the view for Comprehensive Secondary School stands head and shoulders above quite a few institutions in Central Asia. And so over time, I mean, we can look at the various government departments and as Dr. Anthony said in his remarks, the former students of this institution, you will find them on almost every continent of the world doing well for themselves and being very good professional ambassadors, force and luscious. But it's not what you did 10, 15, 20 years ago. But you come to view for Comprehensive on a day like today or you would have been here last week. And I'm certain if you come next week, what you see happening here reminds you of what obtained before and it gives the assurance that the school is in very competent hands and that the teachers are delivering an education here that is in keeping with the mandate of our government and can only be a better place for it. And so, Madam Principal, your staff, students, your parents and all the other support personnel you have, I want you to convey my appreciation for the effort and the Ministry of Education stands ready to lend all the support we can within the confines of the resources available to us. Today is a very significant day for myself as Minister. It is for the parliamentary representative, the parliamentary sect and senior management personnel of the Ministry of Education. Today is also important for the parents but today really belongs to the students of Form 2. The spotlight is yours and we singled you out today for a special ceremony where we want to present you with the laptops and we are giving laptops today, as I would have said at ceremonies of a similar nature, not because we believe those are fashionable and it is a tool that a child must have in 2022. We are giving it to you because there's a conviction that the incorporation of technology in education is a must for us if we have to compete on a global stage. We can no longer prepare our children for work in Zanlushan. We can no longer prepare our children just to live in Zanlushan. The education that we deliver must produce what we call global citizens so that by the time you are finished at the view for comprehensive, you'd have been able to take your place in any society in the developed world and by so doing we have to align our education programming with what obtains in more developed countries. Today we are giving you a laptop because it is a promise that we made on the campaign trail as a party in opposition preparing for elections and today we have kept that promise and the government has procured that we've bought 3,800 laptops at a cost of $2,945,000, almost $3 million laptops to be distributed amongst the second formers. So here we are in the month of June. We are making the laptops available to the second formers, the children in form two. So as we speak today, the fifth formers who are currently engaged in CSEC exams, they are on their way out or as Dr. Anthony would say they are in the departure lounge of the secondary school system, they would have had e-books. The form fours in the school system have e-books. The third formers have e-books but the second formers, you students here today, you do not have devices or state issued devices and it is for this reason you have been singled out to be amongst the first to receive your laptops. The form ones whom we have at the default country and the other secondary schools, they do not have state issued devices, they do not have laptops. And so in September at the commencement of the new school year, they will be receiving their laptops. The students who are currently in grade six, who did the CPE exam a few weeks ago, they will be receiving their laptop computers upon entry into the secondary school in form one. So in September, we will be having two bites of the cherry in that we'll be providing to the current form ones who become second formers and the grade sixes who will become the first formers. And after that particular program is rolled out, every child in the secondary school system would have been accounted for. There's just one issue I need to touch on in relation to a debate that was started recently as to whether we should have stayed with the eBooks or by laptop computers. We are convinced at the Ministry of Education that reinstating the one laptop per child program is the better option. The eBooks that you've heard about, they're very flimsy, they're not very robust and I'm sure that parents here who have students in the upper forms, you can attest to what I am saying. With the eBooks, the government of St. Lucia has to find millions of dollars for the renewal of licenses for the contents or the work that they uploaded on those devices. We are saying that at the level of the OECS through the global partnership for education, we have the resources to develop our own content and I can assure you, instead of the millions that we pay, it will cost us less than $100,000. If at all it costs $50,000 to develop our own content, content that is culturally relevant to our Caribbean experience. So when you have people come and they tell you we should have stayed with the eBooks as opposed to reinstating the one laptop per child program, they have their motive, but today is not a day to get drawn into that, but I just needed to say it here this afternoon so that when you leave, you'll have a better appreciation for the position that we have taken as it relates to the issuance of devices to our students. Students, you heard what I said as it relates to the amount that the government has to spend, almost $3 million. That is money that could have been used to fix roots in view for it or maybe then Rinoff is a better example. Or that is an example, that is money sorry that could have been used to put more medicine in the hospitals. But we've taken a decision because we understand the value of educating our children and we have invested almost $3 million to buy the laptop computers. So you have a responsibility. Parents, you have a responsibility. We are going to put monitoring mechanisms in place. People who destroy the laptops and do not take care of them, you will be held to account. We cannot just buy laptops and just place in the hands of children. Parents don't care, children don't care. And then you see the laptops in all places where they ought not to be. As I said, this is not just fashionable. It is a very critical instructional tool in 2022. You cannot enter any school compound in this day and age where it is just a chalkboard and chalk and a teacher talking, no. Multimedia is critical to instruction delivery. And that is why we are going beyond the call of duty. And even things that are hard and the revenue streams are not performing as well as they ought to, we will find the money to make the laptops available. So we've done our part as a government, the parliamentary representative has done his part. He initiated the program sometime between 2011 and 2016. We have continued and we have reinstated the laptop program because we believe there's so much that we can derive from such an initiative. But it is not enough to just give it to you. What about connectivity?  We are aware of that. So the island-wide Wi-Fi program that started during Dr. Anthony's premiership, it has continued, but we've realized that it does not meet everybody on the same level. And it is for this reason, our government, in the last few months, we have engaged the service providers, namely DigiSell and Flow, and they will be providing 5,000 bundle packages where 5,000 homes, you will be getting internet and other telecommunication services for $20 a month. It is not costing $20, but we have negotiated and the government will play its part. So the most you will be asked to pay or you will be asked to pay is $20 for internet and as I said, other services that come with that. So we've given you the laptop and we're going further to ensure there is connectivity. And as I said previously, content development is something that is ongoing and we're not going it alone, but we are partnering with the other OECS member territories to ensure that we put the information, the contents, what you need to learn on the laptops to make instruction even more rewarding than it probably is at the moment. So once again, please take good use, care, sorry, of the devices, make good use of them. We have to teach our children to be responsible users of technology. Our children can do a lot of things with those laptops. When you are sleeping and you think they are studying or they're researching, they can be engaging sites that are just not favorable, sites that are not in keeping with the well-being and the positive development of our young minds. So parents play a part. As I said, the government, we have gone out there, we've gotten the resources, but we need everybody to be singing from the same hymn sheet for us to deliver the results we want as a country. I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be at the Viewport Comprehensive Secondary School. Yours is a stand-out school in more ways than one. And as I said, the ministry stands ready to partner the management of this institution to make you even greater than you already are. So thank you very much, and I'll send you a hand. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


In Casino State following a series of alleged keelings of suspected smugglers over the years, the Nigerian Senate has set up an ad hoc committee to immediately investigate the involvement of the Nigerian customs and CS on the matter. The 11-man committee headed by Senator Francis Fadahose has six weeks to complete the investigation on the alleged abuse of firearms by customs officers and report back to the Senate. These are some of the resolutions reached on the floor of the Senate after deliberations on a point of order raised by Senator representing Casino Central, Abdulaziz Yerudwa. In his presentation, Senator Yerudwa expressed worry that despite the unprofessional handling of arms by the service, he has yet to bring the culprits to boot. The Nigerian customs service is authorized to carry firearms in the course of their duties. This is aimed at assisting the service to effectively counter activities of smugglers who have recently become emboldened in their attack on custom personnel in many cases using sophisticated weapons. Worried that some officers of the Nigerian customs service who should be civil and professional in their engagements and handling of firearms have had a series of shootings of innocent citizens. People living around their border, their livelihood is this business for a very, very long time. When the customs decide to take position of shoot a site, what happened? The smugglers went and collaborated with the bandits. So therefore it's become a kind of clash that's happening day in, day out. After the debate, President of the Senate, Gautul Akbabi, urged the NCS to improve on training of its personnel in handling firearms, especially fire discipline when dealing with Nigerians. I know that in the armed forces, you have to explain where a bullet has gone. I don't know whether that applies to the customs, but the issue is there must be reward and sanctions for those that have killed or made people. There must be consequences. And I believe that this motion, even though it's at the moment talking about what the customs did, but it applies to all our security agencies and armed forces. And I believe that the investigation must be thorough and somebody must take responsibility. They say, Mali, that they were protected. It's now haunting them. Automatically, why must you tolerate a military incursion in the customs? Customs to collect revenue and to prevent smuggling.  It doesn't need to kill anybody because of tokumbo. When he kills today and nobody sanctioned him because he asked somebody there, he didn't respect anybody here as of that time. It is that corridor that has been a recurrent dismount. There hasn't been issues with customs in Lagos, in the Bajan, in the east and in the southwest. But the corridor between Cassina, Niger, Kano, a lot of people love their lives simply because they are suspected of carrying a bag of rice. The Nigerian Senate condemns in totality the killing of innocent citizens just because they are found with bags of rice without any investigation and that we condemn it in totality. We don't believe in any way that a bag of rice on a motorcycle is enough to attract capital punishment. And then I also want to commend my colleagues for your contributions, particularly that of the Air Vice-Marshal Napoleon Ballet retired, he pointed out that it is also the nature of the arms that are being used by the customs that could result in some of these accidental discharges that led to various loss of lives.


How do you guide your students into making their own meaning out of what they study in Shakespeare's plays? Why do you feel that this is important? One of the things I want to do is make them aware of the fact that they are always already bringing their own meanings to the play. That they are actually already attaching various meanings to what they read. And that they are never really passive recipients of what's going on, although it may seem to them when their first reading Shakespeare's plays. I try to make them aware of the assumptions that they bring when they are looking at the plays. For example, assumptions about race are really important in my course, especially as I'm teaching a play like A Fellow. There are many different ways you can imagine producing what A Fellow himself looks like. In Shakespeare's time, they often did A Fellow as a white person, as Elizabethan white Englishman, who was put into blackface. When you're reading the play, are you thinking about a white man who's in blackface presenting this character? What does that say about that character? In the first act when A Fellow has first heard from Iago that Desdemona's father is really mad about his elopement with Desdemona, he said, A Fellow says, my services which I've done as scenery shall outtongue his complaints, the complaints of his father. And at this moment, A Fellow is just so sure that what he has done, all the work that he's done to fighting wars for the aristocracy in Venice, is going to alleviate everyone's concerns about his elopement with this white woman, Desdemona. But if you imagine this as a white person saying this, for example, in the BBC production, Anthony Hopkins plays A Fellow, and a lot of students know Anthony Hopkins, and I show them that clip.  You can believe in his confidence.  And you wonder maybe about his confidence then.  What are the students doing when they're reading the play? Are they imagining a black man? Are they imagining a black man with a set of assumptions that they're bringing about race from American culture? What do they think about a set of assumptions about how dark-skinned people were thought of in Shakespeare's time? What kinds of meanings do they bring? Another thing that I find really important is gender. Viola, in Twelfth Night, has a line where she says, I am the man. And what she's referring to is that the fact that she's been cross-dressed as a man, and she has gone and courted a woman named Olivia for her master, for her seno, and Olivia, this woman, instead of falling in love with her seno, hasn't fallen in love with her. And Viola is just astounded by the fact that her cross-dressing has worked so well that a woman has fallen in love with her. And what I try to get the students to think about is, how do they say this line? Do they think about this character as Viola as a modest person, as a woman who's really taken aback by the fact that she's been able to do this and really worried about what she's done? Or did they see this as a person who is liberated, who is, I am the man, who is euphoric about the fact that she's actually been able to portray a man at this moment? And I try to get them to think about how their ideas about what is a woman, what values do they attach to being a woman? What does it mean that in Shakespeare's time, that in England, that all the women's parts were played by young boys playing the role of women? What does it matter that they see a real woman on the stage, and not a man playing a woman, playing the man, as in Viola's situation? How does that affect what meaning they bring? So I try to show them that they are never in a passive or neutral position when they're reading the play. That when they see a black man or when they see a woman, that they are already bringing meanings to the play, certain cultural beliefs that they're bringing to that play. And I want them to interrogate those cultural beliefs. I want to put them into doubt about those beliefs. I want them to question what values they assume go along with these different kinds of characters. And that allows them to see that they have a very active role in shaping a play and bringing a play to life.


This isn't one of those haunted game stories. At no point are you going to hear me claim something within the game spoke to me, reacted to my words, or forced me to punch myself repeatedly in the face. No, this isn't about a haunted game or a game doing something impossible or even something it shouldn't have. This isn't about a glitch or a hidden satanic message and at no time did iPhone Nintendo headquarters only to have my questions answered with hushed whispers or anguished screams. This story is about a game feature I don't think anyone else has unlocked. That's it. No ghosts, no conspiracies. Just a secret we were all supposed to find, but never did. Something that changes an entire generation's childhood and the very essence of a multi-million billion dollar franchise. This is about what I assumed to be a previously undiscovered alternate ending of Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo. In 1996, I received my first computer as a birthday gift. I'd been on the internet before, had used computers before, but it had always been in school or at a friend's house. This one was mine. All mine. I explored the crude, prehistoric web of the time with great interest. I downloaded all sorts of pornography and even printed it out, which made absolutely no sense. I also pirated media like a madman. Music, games, anything. This was where I first discovered Mario World. I'd never had a Super Nintendo as a little kid, so it was all new to me. I downloaded tons of games along with the SNES emulator, but Mario World was my favorite. For over a decade, the same Mario World run was my time wasting hobby. I played it over and over again, beating the game faster and faster until I began to lazily explore the worlds with no particular purpose. Even genie codes helped immensely. I could turn off the timer and relive a particularly entertaining bat for an hour as I waited for a download or any number of boring events. It was in this manner that I must have beaten and rebeated the game thousands upon thousands of times. There was comfort in the obsessive compulsive behavior of this routine, but all of that was shattered when I saw the blind boon. The blind boon, as I referred to it, was hovering over the exit from the haunted sunken ship level later on in the game. I call it blind because it actually had no visible eyes. It was like someone had made a lazy rum heck, but I knew from years upon years of experience that this was a normal game. The blind boon just hung there over the exit pipe, blocking it. I turned my back on it, but it didn't chase me. How could it? It didn't even see me. Then I noticed something else out of sorts. There was a key and keyhole misplaced above the exit. Keys and keyholes as such are ways of ending a level in an alternate manner and discovering a secret area. Still, this didn't belong there and I knew it. For a moment I considered the fact I'd actually broken a rum file from Overuse. After taking a screenshot specifically to show all of you Mario Brothers fans out there, I picked up the key and opened the door, figuring the game would seize up and I'd have to restart. Instead it opened up a new path on the map selection screen. A whirlpool next to Bowser's already creepy head gave thing. I pressed the right arrow and moved on to the whirling drain. Oh god no. This didn't really strike me as odd because if you're familiar with the Mario World game, there's an area called Star Road that you may note has similar names.  Most of the areas were called Vanilla Forest 1 and Donut Mountain 3 and all that, but there were maps with odd names like that. What did concern me though was Mario's expression. Surprise? Shock? Fear? I entered the map. Oddly enough the whirlpool in the middle of a leak began with the standard castle entry animation. Mario walked up to a castle door, looked up, then went in. I could tell it was underwater though because of the bubbles that periodically emerged from the sprite's mouth and floated to the top of the screen. Inside the castle, it started to look more and more like I was in fact experiencing a glitch. There was no room to jump. No room to do anything but run left and right. I must have gone right for 10 to 20 minutes, just holding the B button and running along at full speed. After a while I ran into one or two blind boos in the darkness above. Then three or four, then the screen was full of them. They just kind of hung there, doing nothing. They wouldn't chase me if I turned my back, as with the previous blind booh. If I made any noise, like Mario's jump sound, they would just kind of shudder a bit, like they heard the sound of Mario's movements, but couldn't do anything about it. Then something made me stop and turn the other way. Now I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that this map was designed specifically to screw with the player. Not because the giant bleeding bill was hemorrhaging profusely from its face, but because it was inescapable. There was literally no way to avoid being killed by it, as you can clearly see above. That is, unless you're like me and you have the game genie cheats on hand. I switched on the code for permanent invincibility. I let the bleeding bill chase me for a while when I was invincible, just to get a good look at the thing. I stopped and killed it with my invulnerable touch, only when I saw a message that hadn't been there when I'd passed before.  That kind of creeped me out. But on the other hand, it was kind of interesting because it meant this was definitely a map that was supposed to exist. There was some sort of plot element here. Something undiscovered. What did it mean? Who hated me? Can Koopa seem the obvious answer? Or maybe just the ghosts?  I saw it again as I approached some giant booze. I was thankful that the blind booze ended at this point, because the more I watched them shatter, the easier I felt, almost empathetic toward them, etc. The thankfulness ended when I turned my back on the giant booze and this happened. The giant booze will faces I hadn't seen before. They always looked bad at being awakened, angry that you were invading their haunted houses across the Mario World island. This was different, and they looked gleeful. Demented. I could see right down their throats, which seemed odd given the lack of detail their mouths usually displayed. And yes, of course I'm going to address that message you saw in the picture.  I don't know why. Am I supposed to? Booze asking. I let the giant booze touch me, and they died like the bleeding bills, of which I had encountered two. Despite any attempt to scare the player, I knew that being invincible meant invincible no matter what they threw at me. After a while of running down this strange claustrophobic corridor with no more eventful happenings, I came to a room with an exit pipe. Taking the pipe downward, I came out the other end and dropped into a room filled with water. The water made sense, this being a sunken castle beneath a whirlpool and all. I was rewarded for my troubles with a question mark block that released a mushroom for me. I could have easily done this with a cheat code, but the thought had escaped me as I faced all these new and strange sights. The first creatures I encountered in the underwater portion of the castle were thwabs. Unless you've been living under a rock since the mid-80s, you know thwabs are stone-like square creatures that hang from the ceiling and fall whenever you come near. They try to crush you, essentially. Well these thwabs, lined up in a tight row, dropped repeatedly and randomly with no real trigger or any sense of logic. They would just wait or drop whenever they seemed to feel like it. It also looked like these thwabs had been very successful thwabs.  This was getting pretty unusual for the Mario Bros franchise, which I hadn't recalled seeing blood in at all. Now I'd seen it used three times.  In the haparang effects of the water, I walked slowly under these things, making sure every single one touched me and died. There were almost 30 of them in a row. The sight of them mindlessly crushing over and over again just made me hate them with an unsettling intensity. What's weird is that the blood caused Mario to slide as if he were on a nice level. After walking through that gauntlet of depravity, I swam into a more open area that was filled with spikes on the floor and ceiling. It was difficult to swim in this manner without touching the spikes, but since I was still invincible I didn't think much of it. I avoided them more for fun than out of any sense I'd be damaged. It stopped being fun really fast though. Now I knew some of what was going on.  It was other Mario's. Past Mario's that had tried to traverse this level and failed. I had to admit this was an excellent touch, even if it was a bit ghoulish. Trevor had designed the map actually broke the fourth wall and showed you the bloated motionless abortions of the player's own careless treatment of Mario's tiny life. The bodies only floated straight up and down a tiny bit, as if to show the effects of a light current. It was genius, and I couldn't believe I might be the first and only person to ever see this. I toyed with the idea of taking more than the one screenshot I just presented to you, basically so all of you reading this could enjoy the secret map as much as I had, especially this weird little touch. But without swimming, without kicking or moving in any way, the dead Mario's started to come at me like torpedoes. Their faces remained blank and blue and dead, but they moved with astounding speed. They angled and positioned and worked all sorts of unique trajectories that left me almost nowhere to move. They continued coming at me and swarming and backing up to try again, and I just couldn't bring myself to let them touch me. I moved with more speed and skill than I'd ever exerted, frantically trying to keep Mario free of the drowning victims that seemed dead set on rocketing straight into him. When I finally reached the purple exit pipe you see above, there had to be 10 of those things right behind, pitching, turning and chasing me. I entered the pipe as fast as I could, thankful that it worked properly and had Mario out of that situation in a heartbeat. The corridor that followed was empty, thankfully. It was just a blue underwater hallway of sorts with nothing to avoid or kill. It was boring and predictable like the game had been all these years, which brought back a sense of safety. At the end of the hallway I came to the standard pair of doors you'd enter to face a final boss. Decide the doorway, a mushroom power up.  Going through the door was as you'd expect. The typical change of map views occurred, and Mario was standing on the ubiquitous bridge over boiling lava. Or had it been blood all along? When Mario walked out onto the bridge however, there was no boss creature. Instead, Mario immediately looked to the side and froze. I couldn't control him anymore. He just stood there. Keep looking until you see it. I didn't even see it at first, so I don't expect you to notice it right away. If you still haven't spotted the thing, look in the third window from the left. For your information, that's not usually there. Mario seemed to regain his composure and looked back and forth slowly, surveying the room. There was still no boss, and I still couldn't control him, so I stopped trying and just watched. This went on, and on, for what seemed like forever. Nothing happened. Then a familiar face walked in from the right. Dressed in green, tall, and angry. It was Luigi. Mario recoiled in horror. It's difficult to say that without thinking how crazy it sounds, but Mario really reeled back with a sort of terror that wasn't characteristic for such a peppy happy go lucky mascot like him. Then Luigi spoke. You thought Koopa worked alone? It was all connecting now.  Luigi. He's always been Mario's second banana, the player two, the one who doesn't get the princess in these early games. No matter how identical he is to Mario in skill set and ability and tenaciousness and bravery, at the end of the day the game is Super Mario Brothers, and he's just the brother. How he must have hated Mario. Who among us wouldn't? Think about it. No matter what happens, Mario always comes back. No matter how many corpses he leaves littering the battlefield, he's always there once more to leap and cheer and get all the iteration. And Koopa hadn't worked alone? I didn't know what that meant at first, if anything, but again you just have to think it through. How exactly does King Koopa consistently succeed in kidnapping the princess? From day one, from the original Mario Brothers onward, it had always been an inside job. Still unable to control the character, I watched Mario simply cower in fear as Luigi left high into the air, as high as he could in Mario 2, the bastard child of the franchise.  I was powerless to stop it. When he was done, he seemed to look at Mario's limp body with this overwhelming rage. Then the bridge started to disappear. Soon Mario would be dead. As I looked on, I had an irrational thought, would it be permanent? Within an instant, as Luigi turned to seemingly strike a victory post like he beat in the level, Mario awkwardly got to his feet and took him by surprise. Fear and sadness and confusion had given way to anger, and Mario overpowered his brother with little effort. To this day, I'm still haunted by the final result of his wrathful reprisal. Oh god no. There was the match title. None of this was a glitch, none of it was a mistake. It wasn't a developer getting back at Nintendo and it wasn't a ghost haunting in the Nintendo cartridge. It was a planned, purposeful part of the Mario Brothers mythos.  But why? Money? Power? No, it was all there. Because he couldn't take not being the one in the spotlight. Not being Mario himself. After Luigi died, well and truly died, Mario just sat on the edge of the bridge and wept. I was forced to watch this for minutes on end before the screen faded to black. I played the rest of the game through to see if anything changed. Nothing else odd happened, as one would expect since this whole ordeal was just supposed to be part of the actual full story. I couldn't access the whirlpool again. I'd seen the events once, and that was all I was apparently allowed. It was back to the game as usual. The same exact game I'd played since the 90's and would probably continue to play for the rest of my days. Well, it was the same except for the final image.


Lagos State Governor Babajideh Songolu says the state remains safe for business operations and laid fears of insecurity. Governor Songolu stated these while responding to fees by business stakeholders during the seventh edition of the Lagos Corporate Assembly, tagged BOS Mids Business held at the State House of Laosa in Ikeja. State House correspondent Love Ikuku Yodokun who covered the event has more in this report. The Lagos Corporate Assembly, tagged BOS Mids Business, 17th series is a forum where the state government and the business community converge to discuss issues of shared concerns. In a skin-to-dress, Governor Songolu says the state government is abreast of the security situation and is taking all actions to guide against any unfortunate happening. One of our primary responsibilities as a government is the security of life and property. I want to assure our businesses that this is one area that we are not shining away from. This is one responsibility that I want to assure you that we are doing everything that we need to do to keep Lagos safe, to keep Lagos secure and to make sure that your businesses and your properties are safe for you. The governor who briefs on the actions the government has taken on demands presented by stakeholders at the last edition of the assembly says the government has made efforts to touch on virtually all the issues raised. Some of the interventions he mentions are the cutting of charges, rates by 75% on water licensing permit given five years' waiver of arrivals on water licensing and permit amongst others. I'm happy to say that we've asked them to reduce the charge on signages to a maximum of one square signage, not more than 10,000 naira, and I'm sure that also has been well implemented. We've also, I mean, over the year, part of our own developmental agenda, you know, we're aware of what we're doing with our metropolitan fibre optics, we've actually done about 2,000 kilometres of fibre optics infrastructure. In her remarks, the state's commissioner for Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives, Lola Acondiz says the assembly has been able to reinvent and strengthen the relationship between the state government and the organised private sector. At this time, when the COVID-19 pandemic is ravaging the world, discussions on the establishment of a new type of strategic partnership, more dialogue and exchanges between government and the organised private sector will revitalise businesses in the state. In her submission, the President's Lagos Chamber of Commerce, Toki Mabugunja says the private sector has a central role in the actualisation of the vision of Emego City and making Lagos a 21st century economy. From Lagos, Love Ikuku Oyeduku reporting for PLOS TV, Africa.


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