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He and I and Pat are really very aware of the importance of this regional body, the importance of the Pacific Island Forum at this time. I said today at the Leader's Forum dialogue that we are here to listen and learn. It's obviously my first forum and it was very important to listen to the contributions from the various perspectives of Presidents and Prime Ministers around the table. And I gained a lot from it. As I've said previously, the Australian Government, the new Australian Government, is committed to bringing new energy and new resources to the Pacific and we recognise in particularly the importance of climate change. I had a very good discussion today with the Foreign Secretary of the FSM and we spoke about the lived experience of the Micronesian states to climate change. And as you know, that was one of the key aspects of Prime Minister Albanese's election campaign. I'd like to make a comment about the unity of the forum, which has obviously been a big discussion over these last weeks. The region is stronger together. It's a simple proposition. The region is stronger together and in the bilaterals I've had, in the discussions I've had in my previous visits and in the dialogue today, leaders talked about the challenges the region faces. Climate change, COVID and the recovery from COVID, both of which have fallen harder on this region than on many other parts of the world and of course, strategic competition. And all the nations of this region are seeking to navigate those challenges. All the nations are seeking to navigate those challenges and we do it best when we can do it together. That's the approach Australia has taken. That's the approach the Pacific Island Forum is taking and that is why Pacific Forum unity is so important. Now as you know, there have been a lot of discussions about Pacific Island Forum unity and the position the Australian government has consistently taken is we were seeking to support whatever the consensus could deliver because the most important thing was to ensure that at this time in a contested world, in a world confronting climate, COVID and the economic recovery from COVID, that the forum remained united. So I do want to commend Prime Minister Banu Mirama and the Government of Fiji and leaders from the Micronesian states for their work to try and bring the forum back together. You know, we obviously have a civil agreement which Australia is supportive of as the pathway to that unity. Can I note that we are continuing toward, working towards further greater unity and I note where the position that the leader of the President of Kiribati has articulated and I say along with all other members of the forum that we seek reconciliation and the door remains open and we hope that progress can be made there. In that vein, I wish the President and the people of Kiribati all the best on their national day which is today. Happy to take questions. Oh, that's just okay. You go first. So in the Micronesian split, it might be transferred back to the election of the past as Secretary-General. Sure. It was obviously a very tight vote. You've been very critical of the previous Governments if it's in the Pacific. Sure. How did Australia vote? Is it worth hearing those grievances? No. Do you have a view on how damaging that episode has been? No. I think my focus along with those of the leaders in that room is to try and do what we can to strengthen the forum at a time where the forum needs to be unified. That's the approach we've taken. Minister, just on Kiribati, are you worried China will sweep into the blunt and what is Australia doing to help remedy that situation? I think Australia has taken the view that we should facilitate the discussions and the cooperation between the Micronesians and Prime Minister Banu Marama and others. That's the approach we're taking. Obviously, as I said, competition is one of the challenges the region faces and we do think it's best faced together. Minister, can I ask you a question? When will those discussions happen? They have happened. The Beijing Times said this morning that five nations will either forge anything together or take individual paths. How likely is that latter scenario? I think we have to give this some time. I think that a lot has passed, a lot of progress has been made and you looked to where the forum was over a year ago now. We are in a much better place than we were and that's a great tribute to leaders who have been prepared to come to the table when there were really strong differences, some of which you've referred to. But obviously, where things are with Kiribati, we need to keep the door open and keep working towards reconciliation. Minister, on climate change, what's there any discussion of Australia hosting COP 29 with the city nations? Minister Conroy discussed it last week. Was that last week at the Foreign Minister's forum that I only attended one session virtually because I was in Bali and he may wish to go to that. Thanks, Penny. And on the broader point at the Foreign Minister's meeting last Friday, there was a real sense of enthusiasm and quite frankly a palpable sense of relief that Australia isn't back in the game of taking action on climate change. And the communique last week welcomed our action on climate change including obviously 43% emissions reduction by 2030 on the way to a legislator net zero emissions by 2050. A commitment to a Pacific infrastructure financing partnership on climate change. A objective of our policy of reaching 82% renewable energy by 2030 was really welcomed by the region. And the communique also welcomed our interest in hosting a UN conference of the parties, a UN COP in partnership with the Pacific. In both that meeting and in our bilaterals there's a real sense of enthusiasm for Australia undertaking that endeavour but we'll see how it goes. Just on a follow-up on that is Australia's emissions target credible as one of the highest in the developed world if it is going to close a COP form with the city? It's absolutely credible. 43% will be a challenge from where we are now but we'll get there on the way to net zero emissions by 2050 getting to 82% renewable energy in our national grid the climate financing facility for the Pacific. These are all really important parts of our climate policy and as the Prime Minister has said 43% is the floor we will achieve it and we'll go from there. Excuse me, excuse me. I think the position of Australia has made clear at the Foreign Minister's meeting and including in the joint resolution which was adopted and I can throw to Minister Conroy more on that if you want but I think the position has been made clear. Would you like to ask a question on the regional media? How do you plan to achieve the emissions target considering the 27 coal mining approval projects before you? As you know the 43% target is quite a substantial target and the coal mines will be dealt with in accordance with Australian law I would make the point that the target that we are proposing would see Australia at 82% renewable energy for our domestic market by 2030 but Minister Conroy may wish to add. Our 43% target will cover the whole of Australia's emissions so economy-wide targets. So those coal mines that you mentioned will go through the normal environmental approvals but Foreign Minister Wang is absolutely right the 43% emissions reduction target will be across the whole economy and we are confident we've got the policies in place to achieve that. Minister Wang can I ask I didn't quite hear that question before so I apologise but in 2019 Australia was effectively asked to stop any new coal mines or gas reserves being exploited and utilised the government at that time obviously stepped away from that. Have you been asked at this summit at this forum whether Australia would follow that line in not allowing any more coal reserves or gas mines to be utilised in response to I suppose noting that coal is now Australia's number one export? No I have been asked and you would know from our previous answers what the position is and it's consistent with the answer we just gave. Well you know what the position is. Minister, any push from Pacific Island leaders for Australia to do more on climate change seeing as we've had years of little to no action? To be honest I obviously argue for more ambition to date in my bilaterals and my private discussions and in the public discussions I've had there's actually a sense of relief that finally Australia is prepared to actually do something and I've been climate minister I know and it's completely legitimate for Ireland states which are already experiencing and have for many years the effects of climate change just to do more but given Australia has been so intransigent for the last decade I think that the view particularly has been relieved. This is going to be one of those can you confirm? To what extent is Australia working with the US to shape US strategic priorities in the Pacific? Well the view we have consistently brought to our strategic ally is of the importance of development in this region, the importance of climate in this region action on climate and the importance of showing up and we're really pleased that there's been a recent announcement by the administration about an additional post in the region. I hope that continues. Well that's a matter for the forum and for the chair. The Fiji sets the agenda, Fiji and the secretary general look at how the forum is to be run I wasn't aware there was a request for that but certainly this is a regional forum, it's a matter for the region and the Pacific family to resolve how the forum is run. Anything else over here? Sorry. We don't unlike our development assistance that doesn't come with those sorts of political strings attached. Sorry. And to demonstrate the conviction that Mr Wong has articulated, only yesterday we announced an additional $2 million of assistance to Kiribati to assist with their crippling drought and that's on top of the $600,000 we announced a couple of weeks ago so it's very important that aid is unconditional like that. Minister do you have a... Sorry there's just so many here. Can the 2050 blue continent strategy be successful without Kiribati? Does it need Kiribati? Look, I think well first can I just talk about the strategy and for the Australian who may not be aware. It is the strategy that leaders will consider and hopefully adopt. It is a very, very good, a lot of work has gone into it, a very good document that really talks about the oceans and natural environment as a resource that needs to be collectively managed and asset needs to be managed in a world where there is climate and strategic competition. And that's out to 2050 you'd want the whole region engaged which is why I again emphasise from Australia's perspective and I think from the form's perspective to Kiribati the door is open. Anything further? Last question please. Has climate change been overshadowed as the biggest threat facing the region and will that still be the centre of discussions at the forum? I can only say this that climate is central in the boy declaration in many leaders' statements past that it is the number one national security, economic challenge that the region faces. Obviously people have spoken about climate have spoken about strategic competition and have spoken about COVID and the path to recovery where there are real challenges for the Pacific. We know that there's a risk and we had a discussion today about the development path what they call economic scarring as a consequence of COVID this is not a region that can afford that we need to work with them to try and avert that. Thank you very much. Behind you. What does Australia stand on the influence of China in PG and with reports that they were excluded from in person meetings? That I was excluded. The reports that they were excluded from China? China was excluded I'm sorry I just didn't hear who you said well the membership of the PIF is clear in Australia and others are members of the PIF others are not so it's unsurprising that members of the Pacific Island forum would meet together I've made comments before about China we think in relation to Pacific security that members of the Pacific family are capable of providing that security and we think that the Pacific unity is important as we navigate a world where we confront climate COVID and strategic competition. This last question we've got reports of Pacific workers not being paid if we're still here. I'm happy to talk to you about that because we're a Labour government we're a government that has a very strong ethical and philosophical commitment to ensuring workers are not exploited. We've made some changes we will make more changes we looked at this a lot in opposition you can't guarantee everything but I can say to you we work very hard to make sure that we crack down on exploitation. Thank you very much.


So I still see we're still waiting for Sandy to join, but I will go ahead and call the meeting to order. And the person who is missing is Jennifer. And she is today's minute taker, but in any case. So this is April 11th and it is the joint capital planning committee. I am going to call the meeting to order, although I see we're missing a couple key people. So, and one of them has just joined. So I'm calling the meeting to order at 401 p.m. On Thursday, the 11th, and I will just go around the screen as I can see people's faces and just call out and let me know that you can hear them. We can hear you. Bob. Present. Jean. Present. Lee. Present. Anna. Present. And Sarah. Here. So we're missing. I think one member. And I'll be right back. Okay. So, um, Sandy sent us yesterday afternoon. An update of the update. Um, I think that is, uh, is, I guess the best way to do it where the major change was on the, uh, earlier recommendation to move the $1.9 million for a radio safety, public safety radio system to next year for debt. And he, uh, I will let him speak to the changes. Okay. So I think, um, I think the update of the update for the, uh, is that it will, uh, necessitate, um, changing a section of the report. So Jennifer, I just want to, I'm called, I called the meeting to order at 401 and I'm confirming that you can hear and be heard. I can. Um, I joined us an audience member just as I heard you say something about someone taking the minutes, which I think is supposed to be me. Am I taking minutes? Sandy sent us an update that changed one of the recommendations from last week, which will also change what we have in the report. But Sandy, I'll let you speak to it and then we can change the wording in our report to match this if I'm assuming we agree with the decision but your recommendation, but I think some people have questions. So the floor is yours to say as much as you want about the update that we received yesterday. Thank you, Kathy. Nice to see everybody. I got a long email with some backup material from the assistant fire chief yesterday about the radio system, showing that the fire and police departments had done a lot more research into this whole issue and had conducted a third party. It's a current vendor of ours, but who did an analysis of both the equipment and of the brown spots or the blackout spots around town, plus more detail about the compatibility with other systems, both police and fire and UMass and other communities around, some of which had been mentioned, but it was good to see it in a report. Based on that, I then changed the timing of spending on the public safety radios to have 900,000 be borrowed for FY25 and just be spent then was payments starting FY26. The 900,000 would be to buy components of the base radio system, the towers and the controls and so forth. And then another million dollars a year later that would be used to buy the actual handheld radios. The handhelds would then have multiple bands on them, fire would speak on one band, police on a different band, but because they are multi-band radios, they could then switch over and listen to each other if they needed it. But they really need to do the base system first, get that in place before they can actually go in and buy the radios. So with that, I changed the numbers on the plan. It didn't affect at all our FY25 spending. It did somewhat increase the deficit in 26 and the overall deficit some because we're just borrowing money a year earlier. So that's reflected on this sheet. You can eventually see it. Actually, for some reason that's not reflected there and that's funny. It is reflected on this sheet here showing the public radios one and two in these blocks. With that, I'll stop sharing and answer any questions people have. Sarah, I know you had one. So Sarah Marshall. Yes, thank you. Sandy, can you, so this new system is being bought over two years, are the base, the new base pieces can be used with the existing subscriber? Radios. Or okay. Yes, because they all, yes. So it'll go into use as soon as it's installed, but then they'll. There may be some point where they're running in parallel just because they are testing and so forth. But at some point, the new one will take over. Anna. I just wanted to thank Sandy for looking into this. That was something I was worried about. And so I wanted to just appreciate you for checking in on it. Thank you. All right, I appreciate that company's concerns about these issues and it's good to have that back and forth. So we will fix the section of the report that said the whole 1.9 was moved and change it to say this split. And so people can assume that I will do that. I'm not going to do it in real time as in on the screen. So Sandy, I think what you're saying is that the debt table, I can talk to Sandy later about what tables we submit with the report. We don't always submit all the level of detail that we looked at with the report because the town manager already has that, but we submit enough that readers of our report will be able to at least have some idea what we're talking about. So I think that was, and then the one other, we had two other things we asked for either more information or verification. One was, and I shared it with everyone in explanation of the spending in the school out years that wasn't Crocker because there was an issue of, with a new school, why it's all this and Rupert sent us in a couple of paragraphs explaining what the technology now there was. And that didn't affect this year, it affected the next years. And then we questioned, because someone's very sharp eyes, not mine, saw the Greensmower in the middle school in addition to a Greensmower at the golf course. And we asked whether that was just a mistake and a duplicate and Sandy confirmed that it was a duplicate. So that freed up 71,000. So just to give you a little birds of you in the report, the way I drafted it after our discussion last week was that we're recommending $60,000 for the two resident requests and that we thought there was enough money in the budget and there's enough money because of this mower. And we can just say that. And I don't think we need to update the longer lists because the town manager still will have to approve those resident requests in terms of, whether it's 60 or 50, it comes out to 54, 500 if you just add them all together. But we didn't know whether that had installation costs. So I just want to confirm that without going into a deficit in the FY25 budget, we can achieve that recommendation. So I'm turning to all of you for any comments, substantive editorial and other on the draft report. Sarah. Well, I do have a bunch of a little punctuation things which I'd be happy maybe just to call you and walk through them. But I did have a comment or question about section D, JCPC and CIP plan meetings and discussion because it is basically just repeating information that has been presented earlier in the report. So I didn't know why that was useful. I mean, one could just append all the minutes of our meetings, I suppose. So it's just duplicative, yeah. So can people see the section that, can people see my screen? I just put it up. Yes, no. This is minutes, is this minutes? Those are minutes. Wrong file, thank you, Sarah. Wrong file. Okay, Sarah, I do agree. I wrote it with one section and then another. So the question is, should I shorten the first part to just be one-liners and have the longer paragraphs be at the end? Does everyone see what she's talking about? And I can try to find the report and pull up the right one. I just, Anna was an early reader on this and she had a, well, Anna, you can speak for yourself. You suggested that I shortened the first part to one sentences. Yeah, I thought the first part could be shortened really just to be an overview and that the second part could go more into the detail. I thought that might be more helpful. Sorry, first part and second part of what? Of the report. So the first part, the parts that you were talking about being repetitive, it's in there twice. And so the first instance of it, I thought should really just be about one sentence. And then the second part should be the details, why and how. So I'm looking for, I will try to, I think I can bring it up at this point. This is a problem with here, draft two, that's it. Okay. So this is the issue when we did, this first part goes through a long paragraph of the things that were moved out of FY 25 or changed. And then later on, a lot of that is either completely repeated in this section D or we say more. So this, I think the honest suggestion, and I just didn't, I didn't do it because I didn't have time, was make the first part just things like move the sidewalk plow. One quick sentence and then make this part the longer. Do people agree with that change? Okay, so I will do that. So the first part is just a list of what we moved and the clearly the 1.9 million will now have different wording in it. And what Sarah suggested on, just so people know, in my past life as well as my council life, I'm known for missing words, small typos, not enough spaces or too many spaces between a period in the beginning of the next sentence, so punctuation. So any and all, I appreciate. And I think one way to do it is either set up a time to talk with me or just send me a track edit with highlights and I just can merge everything. I'm pretty quick on getting those. I have no pride of authorship or worry that I'm a little bit better at not repeating the same words over the way I used to. So any other comments on the draft? I particularly wanted the couple places, well, the one place we had a fairly long discussion was on the resident proposals and I tried to capture a sense of not so much discomfort but we thought these were reasonable proposals and we wish they fit into a larger policy and schema and we're leaving it to the town staff, the school staff to figure out how many of these should go where and whether they should be mobile or not. So I think we left it with a strong approved recommendation, but caveat. So I just wanted to make sure that that wording worked with everyone. It looks like I'm not seeing anyone say no. Oh my goodness. All right, so then I do think we said it but we're not out at the woods with our capital five-year plan and we're not even seeing the out years. We've got, and Sandy probably says I hope there's a finance director for next year because the next year budget, both to give it a longer planning time but we're a nearly $500,000 deficit is problematic, particularly when a chunk of it is driven by the debt, some projects we've accumulated and I put one sentence in that flag when we get out five years there's even less for new projects as we decide to debt finance that debt service starts coming in and that means some of the projects that might be in the wings aren't gonna come in if we still wanna do roads and we wanna do vehicles. So, but this is, the JCPC report has always really focused on FY25 and I think Bob was the one who said last week he doesn't believe anything that goes out much than a year because too many things change over time. So if there are no other major changes and what I would ask that people get any editorial, whatever you wanna call it punctuation to me if possible or make up a time to talk with me if that's easier and I can go through it by, could we say by the, either the end of the day tomorrow or by Monday morning because I'd like to finalize the report and we send it to the council where we also send it to town manager. Does that deadline work for people? Yeah, Sarah. I'm leaving town tomorrow for four days. So I wonder if this meeting is shorter than two hours which looks like it may be if you and I could just talk immediately. Immediately after this meeting that would be fine, that's fine. Before my next meeting at six, yeah. Okay, that's fine with me. Did I succeed and stop sharing? Stop sharing. There we go. Okay, so Sarah and I are gonna talk after we end this meeting and I'm open-ended after we end, Sarah. So I think we're at a point that there's an emotion to approve the report as amended or as we've discussed, it will be amended if someone can make that motion other than me. Lee. Second. Great, then I'm putting it to a vote. Bob Hegner. Aye. Nothing is a yes. Eugene. Aye. Anna. Aye. Sarah. Aye. Lee. Aye. With thanks. Jennifer. Yes. Well, thank you all. And I wanna give a big thanks to Anna because she read a much rougher draft than you saw and both the great queries and what exactly did you mean here? In some cases it, I had no idea, you know. It was a sentence left over from another thought that didn't get removed and then she made some clarification. So I thought that was extremely helpful just that a really close substantive read which made it possible. I got this done in a day but it made it possible to get it to you earlier. Thank you for writing it today. It's a beast of a report and so I appreciate you doing that work. Well, you know, it's, I will say for whoever's chair next year, now there is kind of a format. And so, you know, unless there's something really controversial you can start to plop in pieces before that discussion. You know, you can speed it along but a lot does change. So Sandy, I just, I wanna thank you so much. I mean, we thank you in the minutes but again, as Anna just said, continuing to follow up on details like this and double checking with staff is extremely appreciated because we really, your wisdom in what you were doing was a good guide to all of us but you'll be able to go back and be able to talk with staff and raise questions and respond was fabulous on what I know was a very tight timeline for you and Jennifer and all the staff that worked hard on this behind the scenes. So thank you both so much. And I will lead you to clean up the list of the projects and working with Anna, the final report will have that summary table in it and we may put the, since the debt, tenure debt schedule is of interest to people put that one into and not put the longer project list just until you tell me it stopped moving. So what, in terms of some of the other components that were in the report in the past, I'm just gonna look at those past reports, see what other things we need to create if any and then I guess we should be on the same page as to when you want to then transmit it to the board or to the council and to the manager so that I make sure that all the past reports are that all the backup material is in place. Okay, so if Sarah meets with me at the close of this meeting and we just get back on the phone or Zoom or something with each other or because I have to close this meeting, Sarah, to just then talk with you about the edits but I can do that easily. But you could just stop the recording. I can just stop the recording. I can just stop the recording and I should double check to, we don't have any attendees. So we won't have any public comments. So Sandy, I ought to be able to give you a final draft of this by Friday and I'll double check against your, the one place in the report was so much in each major category. So that I took off of the last version of the project list. So that just mainly gives you a sense and so Chiller, as you pointed, as we all read, Chiller was under facilities rather than under police and now safety equipment and radios might be under fire rather than police, but it's labeled as such. So just that line is gonna change with this 1.9 million split in two different ways. And then we got, just so you know, we got, as Jennifer will know, we got a fuller package at the very beginning that was the beginning draft of what Paul shows to the town, which had each project in with like two sentences on it, but we don't need that for our report, you know, we don't need that for our report. That was just easy to refer to if people wanted to know what the project was, we didn't recapture it in our report. So we kept it to the kind of length you're seeing, you know, five or six pages with the summary table at the end. Okay. Ben, that's great. I think we should be in good shape then. So any other closing comments, Jennifer, you signed up for a good minute session. Any other closing comments or questions? So I wanna thank everybody because I thought this year, this year was harder in some ways, but because we had a less fully formed, there was a lot more participation of all the JCPC members. You know, when you get a totally balanced budget that looks like it's in good shape, you have to look more, you have to, it doesn't, things don't jump out to you as much. And so we, in the last few years, there were one or two things we focused on and this time it was a wider ranging discussion, which I think is healthy. I mean, it's the purpose of JCPC. So thank you all very much, Bob. Yeah, I just wanted to say this is, I think the way this committee operated and the real focus on getting the job done is a testament to how the town itself, how the various pieces of the town work together in order to get things done. There's not, there wasn't a lot of jockeying for position or anything like that. It was, we were focused, we were wanting to just get it right. And I think we did. And I wanted to thank everybody for their cooperation. Yeah, I would agree with that entirely. So thank you all. And you are, you're giving the gift of time as we've had a very efficient last meeting. So I am going to end the meeting by stopping the recording and then everyone can leave. And then I think Sarah can stay on. Do we need to vote to adjourn? Oh, yes. Is there a motion to adjourn? So moved. And I think Bob is seconding. You second Bob. Bob. Yes. Kathy say yes. Eugene. Yes. Anna. Aye. Sarah. Aye. Lee. Yes. And Jennifer. Yes. Okay, unanimous that we are adjourned and I'm going to stop the recording, but Sarah, we can stay on and you can, and I can, we can do the copy. Together. So thank you all. Have a good. Thank you everybody. Thank you everyone. This is good. Bye.


From Soldiers Radio and Television, this is the Army Today, a daily feature from around the globe.  The Security Force Assistance Team, or SFATS, are teams of highly trained officers and non-commissioned officers who will assist and mentor Afghan national security forces as they conduct security operations. The SFATS are currently training at the Joint Readiness Training Center, or JRTC, in Fort Polk, Louisiana, in preparation for a spring deployment. What we've done is taken the JRTC and Fort Polk training area, and we're replicating RC South during this exercise with the 47 SFAT teams that we have. The facilities at JRTC are very realistic and include role players who occupy the training villages as though they live and work there. We have former Afghan military, local role players, cultural role players. We have people that have come from numerous units to support this mission. The training areas the SFATS are using may look a lot like Afghanistan, but it's the experience and guidance of Soldiers deployed that gives the training a real world edge. What's been most beneficial is the subject matter experts that the RC South headquarters, which is the 82nd Airborne Division, provided to really give us the most current look at the TTPs and the doctrine that we're passing along to the SFATS. Although JRTC replicates the battlefield through rigorous realistic and relevant training, it is just a simulation of what life is like in Afghanistan, but it gives the teams a better perspective on how to conduct their missions downrange. Army Sergeant Jennifer Rooks, 43rd Public Affairs Detachment, Fort Polk, Louisiana. That's the Army Today from Soldiers Radio and Television.


personal weapons for defense and counter-attack. The hand used as a fist is the most common personal weapon, but other parts of the hand may also be used effectively. At times, the elbow may be a better and more powerful weapon. The foot and knee can have damaging effect. These personal weapons of defense are most effective when applied to structurally weak areas of the body. Blows or pressure directed against any of these vulnerable areas will cause severe pain, loss of consciousness, or even more serious results. In the region of the head and face are found several vulnerable points. A number of effective blows can be delivered here, at the temple. The eye, the bridge of the nose, and base of the nose and upper lip. The lower lip, the chin. In the throat, a multitude of blood, air, and nerve lines can be severely injured by a blow or pressure directed against the atom's apple area. Further down the body, a sudden weakening effect, even crippling, might be caused by a counter-attack aimed at the region of the heart, the solar plexus, the stomach, and other abdominal organs. The legs and feet are particularly susceptible to injury through pressure directed against the joints or blows delivered to areas where bones are located near the surface of the skin. The backs of these limbs also provide areas where damage can be inflicted. The hands and arms are equally susceptible to injury through pressure against the joints or blows directed against bones near the surface. Additional vulnerable areas located on the back of the body are the spinal column, which houses the spinal cord, the tailbone, internal organs such as the kidneys, the liver, and side of the neck, the mastoid, and the ear. It is difficult to find a single area where the proper type of counter-attack, skillfully executed, will not handicap or severely injure the criminal who attacks you. Here in the FBI gymnasium, officers studying defensive tactics learn that a basic principle is balance. Only from a well-balanced position can you realize your maximum speed, power, and accuracy in physical movement. In achieving this type of balance, proper leg and foot position is of primary importance. One position of the feet offers better balance than another. But only by constantly shifting the feet and body with the direction of the attack can a well-balanced position be maintained. With proper balance, the principle of leverage can be employed. Leverage is a great equalizer. By skillful use of this factor, it is possible for you to overcome a stronger opponent. The hip throw illustrates how the muscles of the truck and good general body mechanics can be used to put into practice the principle of leverage. Maximum strength should be directed against a point of minimum strength. The finger lock, more effective than a strenuous counter-assault. Despite physical appearances, always assume that your adversary possesses greater strength, then use your strength to direct his movements. By pulling when he pushes, pushing when he pulls, it is possible to use the adversary's strength and momentum to your own advantage. Even when on a routine assignment, a knowledge of defensive tactics is important for your protection and to assure that the arrest will be successfully made. In any situation, you should always be aware of the possibility of danger from an unexpected source. O'Bain? Huh? Are you Frank O'Bain? What about it? You got a minute? I'd like to talk with you. I ain't running out to no charter parties today. Well, that's not it. I'm Spatial Agent Putnam of the FBI. Oh. Well, come on aboard. So what's on your mind? It's just a routine check, Frank. I just wondered if you'd heard anything about your brother, Roy. I reckon you're going to have to ask him yourself. That's right.  Start the engine, Frank. The old pal wants to take a swim. Well, it's good to see you out of way, Roy. Knock off the chatter, pal. Get back. Frank, hold it close up.  Way up. You just saw a criminal disarmed. His mistake was holding his gun within reach of the officer. Never hold your gun within reach of a criminal. This is emphasized in the FBI National Academy. Indeed a formidable weapon, but only one handled properly. Disarming is a highly dangerous maneuver and should be attempted only when extreme necessity demands. Though the gun need not be in front of you, it must be within your reach. Judge your distance and act quickly without telegraphing your plan. To move the muzzle away from the body, you have less than half a second. In a large eastern city, two officers were about to make a routine inquiry in an effort to pick up information concerning a fugitive. OK, this man, have you seen him in here? He says, as I held. A lot of guys coming in here, you know it. Look out. Come on, get up, pal.  In this situation, the officer's hands were held together to form a wedge to catch the attacker's wrist. Then a personal weapon was immediately used to subdue the assailant. When necessary to force a reluctant criminal through a doorway, tactics should be employed that take maximum advantage of his exposed vulnerable areas. As for a knife-wielder, fighting him from a half-sitting, half-supine position can at times be effective. Now let's observe the experience of two officers tracking down some stolen property. Joe's done the housekeeper. What do you want? I'd like to see Mr. Yoast. Well, he ain't here. Do you know where I can find him? You might find him down at the barn. Thank you. Time to recover. Other personal weapons are brought into play, rendering him unfit for further combat. A come-along hold brings him to his feet and eliminates further resistance. Speed and surprise were effectively used to repel this attack, but knowledge and skill are worthless unless you are ready at all times, your whole body imbalanced, ready to defend yourself even in the most innocent-appearing circumstances. The FBI and other law enforcement agencies never condone the use of brutality or unnecessary and unreasonable force, but a knowledge of defensive tactics is essential for your protection and to discharge your responsibilities under the law. Training is necessary. Practice is important. Experience is not always the best teacher. In self-defense, you may get no second chance.


Well, today we announced a partnership with Prevenable to coincide with the start of the summer boating season, with the first long weekend of the summer, to get the message out there that it is illegal and risky behavior to use alcohol while operating a boat. So this is very important as part of our message of responsible use of alcohol and balancing the modernization of our liquor laws with the need to ensure health and public safety. Our message today is to remind British Columbians that alcohol and boating do not mix, to ask them to remember to make sure that they're tied up or anchored before they start having happy hour. And we know that that's a regular part of the boating community's activities, but to do it safely. We want people to enjoy the water. We want people to get out and enjoy this fabulous scenery here in BC, but we want them to do it safely and we want them to be able to do it again a second time without being hurt.


Hi everyone, this is Alice Gao. In this video, I'll start talking about the 3x4 grid world. I'm going to use this as the running example throughout this unit Markov decision process. The robot is trying to explore this grid world. In the grid world, there are three rows and there are four columns. So the first row and the first column in this picture are simply indices for the rows and columns. In this grid world, let's use a coordinate system. So let's use s of ij to represent the state or the position in row i on the column j. So the top left corner, we have s11 and the bottom right corner, we have s34. S11 is the initial state. I've labeled this in the picture as the start. We have a wall at s22. So this is represented by this x at that position. So having a wall means that the robot cannot get into that square. There are two goal states, s24 and s34. So if the robot gets to either goal state, it's going to escape the world. So think about that state as an absorbing state. If the robot gets there, that's the end. That's the end of the process. So we have the reward at s24 is minus one and the reward at s34 is plus one. So these are the only two goal states in the entire world. This world is kind of not very interesting and the robot is exploring a lot and ideally it's trying to get to the state s34 and avoiding the state s24. There are a few additional components of the problem that I need to describe to you. I need to describe the actions. I need to describe the transition probabilities and also the reward function. For each state, there are four possible actions. The robot can go up, down, left and right. And in this example, let's assume when we say up, down, left and right, it's from our perspective, not from the robot's perspective. From the robot's perspective, it's really only going in whatever direction it is facing right now versus to its left, to its right, or to its behind. We are going to assume that every action is possible in every state. Now you might have a question about this. What if the robot bumps into a wall? We're going to take care of that when we define our transition probabilities. Let's talk about our transition model. So the transition model in general is a conditional probability distribution. It says starting from a particular state s, if we take an action a, then what's the probability that the robot is going to reach the state s prime? s prime may be different from s, or may be the same as s. Remember that we have a stationary process. That means we only need to define one conditional probability distribution. This distribution is going to work for all of the states. This great world the robot is in is full of uncertainty. And one kind of uncertainty it has is that every action may not achieve its intended effect. So let's take a look. In this world, and any of the four actions up down left or right, achieves its intended effect with probability 80%. That means if the robot tries to go to its left, for example, it successfully gets to its left with only 80% chance. So what about the rest 20% chance? Well, with 10% chance, the robot is going to turn to its left. So it's going to make a 90 degree left turn. And with another 10% chance, the robot is going to turn to its right, make a 90 degree right turn. Now in a lot of scenarios, the robot might bump into a wall. In that case, the robot stays in the same square. So it bumps into a wall and comes back and remains in the same square. Let me draw a little picture to illustrate how the transition model works. Suppose this is a current state. And suppose that the robot is trying to go down, go to the state below, below the current state with 80% chance is going to succeed with 10% chance, it ends up going to its left, which is our right. And with another 10% chance, it ends up going to its right, which is our left. All right, so by using this picture, you can see that the transition model is sort of specified from the perspective of the robot with 80% chance, it goes in the intended direction with 10% chance, it goes to its left. And with another 10% chance, it goes to its right. Finally, let's talk about the reward function. So by the reward function here, I don't mean the total discounted reward over time. We're not going there quite yet. We're only talking about the reward of entering each state. So r of s is denoting the reward of entering state s. Recall here that we've simplified the reward function notation a little bit. So the reward is supposed to depend on the starting state, the action and the resulting state. But here we've only included the resulting state. We're saying that it doesn't matter which state we started with and doesn't matter what action we took. As long as we end up in this state, we'll get this reward. So this is mostly a boring world, which means there are only two go states. If we get to the state 2, 4, then we get a reward of minus 1. We want to avoid this state, if possible. If we get to the state 3, 4, we'll get a reward of plus 1. We like this state, we like to get to this state if possible. Otherwise, for any other state, if we enter any other state, we're going to get a small negative reward, minus 0.04. This small negative reward is used to model the fact, the cause of taking actions, the cause of expending energy to explore this world. The robot is roaming around in this world and exploring it. Ultimately, its goal is to get to one of the go states, but it has to explore in order to eventually get there. And as it moves around, the moves, the actions, deplete its energy. So we're using this small negative number to represent that. This is a reasonable assumption for a practical scenario as well. In practice, exploration requires energy. So as we explore more and more, we're going to have less and less energy, and this should be reflected in our utility function. It can be tricky to understand the transition model. Let's look at what practice question to make sure that you really understand how the transition model works. Here's a question. Suppose a robot is currently in state S14, I've highlighted the state there for you, and the robot is trying to move to our right. So let me draw the intended direction of the robot for you. Given this intended direction, what is the probability that the robot stays in the same state as S14? Think about this yourself, and then keep watching for the answer. The answer is short, so I'm going to include it in this video. The correct answer is D. With 90% chance the robot is going to stay in the same state. Here's why. The intended direction is to our right. If the robot goes in the intended direction and succeeds, that's 80% chance. But on our right, there's a wall. So the robot is going to bump into the wall and come back to the same state. So it's 80% chance it's going to come back to our current state. And then with 10% chance the robot will try to go up. But there is another wall there. So if it tries, then it's going to come back to the same state with that 10% chance as well. With another 10% chance the robot is going to try to go down. If it does that and succeed, then it will get to one of the goal states and escape from the world. So all in all, with 80% chance plus 10% chance the robot is going to bump into a wall and come back to the same state. So that's a total of 90% chance for which the robot will stay in the same state. That's everything for this video. After watching this video, you should be able to explain the components of the grid world and especially explain the transition model. Thank you very much for watching. I will see you in the next video. Bye for now.


Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K. The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. I wanna take a look ahead, even though there's a lot going on right now, I wanna take a look ahead to tomorrow on Friday for a big time SBC player of the month that could be coming out. Player of the month, Messi, could be coming out on Friday. So I wanna talk about that, talk about the SBC, possible link investments, rating of that card, how much it might cost, and of course what that could do to the market. But then also I wanna circle back and talk about rewards today. We're heading into rewards. Fodder has dropped off a little bit. People are waiting for their rewards to go out and do that base or mid icon player pick pack. We have got upgrades on price ranges and our first ever what if card being upgraded and Babu has been out and upgraded. They finally boosted Holland to a 90 as well. So I wanna talk about that. So there's a lot going on in the video today. So buckle in, get ready. I got the polo on, right? We mean business. Let's talk about Player of the Month, Messi, because every time there's an SBC for Messi in this game, there's people that are interested in it and there's always people that wanna complete it. Now, Messi is in the voting. It's behind my face game, you can't see it. I've shown you guys this screen before. This voting finished, I think, at the end of the month. On the 28th, I think it's closed. And usually looking back, both El Nezri and Asbas, the last two La Liga Player of the Months were released on Friday. So with that expectation in mind, we are expecting Player of the Month, Messi, to drop tomorrow. Now, of course, Messi this year has got three special cards. He's got the Inform, the team of the group stage, and the team of the year. Now, last year, we had a Player of the Month, Messi, as well. It was this 96-rated right-wing card. And this was a very highly-towed at SBC, because this was the first ever Messi-SBC to grace FIFA. The first ever Messi Player of the Month, first ever Messi-SBC. Now, the only issue with this was, last year we had a 95-rated Inform, a 95-team of the year nominee, and a 96-rated team of the group stage. And I've seen a lot of concept cards for this Player of the Month, Messi, this one included, and they're giving him a 96. This year though, just like last year, it looks like EA could either go one or two ways here. EA could either make Player of the Month, Messi a 95 and equal the rating of the team of the group stage, or they can make it 96 and up that by one. I honestly don't know what makes the decision here. Maybe it's just if they know they're gonna give Messi more special cards throughout the rest of the year. Of course, last year we got that team of the season card. He did get his shapeshifters, and he got a second Player of the Month along with the team of the week moments. But when EA released this SBC in December, they definitely weren't thinking about having to do the whole team of the week moments stuff with COVID that went on. So I think this year, I could very easily see EA going both ways, either 95 or 96 rated, but I wanna do point one thing out. Messi, and this goes for all Player of the Months, not just Messi, this concept card here is shown as a center forward, but Messi's Player of the Month most likely will be a right wing because when they release Player of the Months, they usually put them out in the position that their base card is in. So Messi PLTM should be a right wing. Now again, whether you think it's gonna be 95 or 96, I do think that impacts the price. Fodder's very expensive at the moment, right? We all know it's expensive because of that mid-prime pack. We'll talk about that. But with this SBC in mind from last year, the 96 Messi and knowing what these informs and what this team, the group stage and the team of the year cost right now on FIFA for FIFA 21, I think that EA could kind of go either way here with how they price Messi. And I also think it'll give us a little glimpse into the future of what they maybe even plan to do with SBC fodder. So right now, again, this Messi team, the group stage card is about 1.7 million coins. It has dropped off a lot with the market as a whole, has dropped off a lot of panic selling, a lot of crashing going on on this game right now. But I think people are starting to sell off this Messi a little bit because they expect Player of the Months coming on Friday. I think if they make Messi a 95 rated right wing, you will probably see that SBC somewhere priced between 1.75 and like 2.25 mil. That's my opinion, right? I think if it is a 95 right wing, EA never make these cheap, right? Last year, the Messi 96 rated Player of the Month when it was released was 2.1 million coins. It dropped down to 1.8, 2.1 and it's kind of flutter between 1.8 to 2.1 while it was out. I believe that was about the same price or around the same price as this 96 Messi that was out too. So in December, this Messi was like 2.1, December 20th is when that card came out which is around the same time that this one came out. He was 2.1 on December 12th. So this SBC was just a smidge cheaper than that 96 Team the Groupsage card. But I think this year with how expensive SBC fodder is, you're gonna see the Messi SBC be a little bit more expensive than this current Team the tournament, Team the Groupsage Messi because think about it this way, right?  If they make Messi cheap, right? Cheap for right now, like 1.5 mil is what I would kind of say would be cheap. If they make him 95 or 96 rated, if it's a 96 rated card under two mil, that's in my opinion kind of a W with how expensive SBC fodder is right now. And if they make a 95 rated Messi under like 1.6 basically cheaper than this card, then I think that means EA will look to keep fodder higher for like the next month because they know if fodder drops off a decent amount. I mean, right now, we have 86 rated cards in this game, right? I look at the 86s all the time. These are kind of like the middle ground for SBCs because they're smack dab in the middle. Some people use them for 84 squads. Some people use them in 89 squads. These 86 rated cards, Thomas Muller is 39 or 40,000 coins, 40K. These guys were higher a couple of days ago too. Yesterday, 40K for Muller. Can we just look at his graph for a second and can I tell you, you guys know how high this is, but this dude was 25K last week and that was even pretty high. Now imagine if SBC fodder dropped back down to like, these 86s were back down at like 30,000 coins. And you talk about all other high rated fodder right now that is through the freaking roof. You look at 91 rated cards that are 135K, that used to be like 80 or 90,000 coins Oblak was 85K last week and we were like, wow, that's pretty expensive. Imagine what that would do to a messy player of the month card if they released this messing is worth two million coins right now, how much cheaper he would be worth throughout his 30 day time period if fodder were to drop off. So we might be able to kind of figure out what EA is gonna do with fodder or what they plan to do with it as a whole over the next month by how much this messy player of the month costs. So that's gonna be the most interesting thing to me on Friday, but regardless if you wanna do messy player of the month I do not think fodder can withstand this high of a price that long. Again, with more promos coming out every Friday we don't have mid-icom player picks. This is a brand new SBC that we've never seen before. I do think fodder is gonna settle off maybe not back down for like 20,000 coins for 86s but maybe 86 is going back to 30K I think is pretty legitimate and pretty reasonable. So that would make me think that if you're wanting to do player of the month messy you wanna wait as long as possible to do it. But that also makes me think EA might over price it. Now I guess if we wanna talk really quick about what's gonna happen if they release messy people are gonna go out and link invest right away.  Even if he's a center forward you might see other Barcelona links go up. You'll see like the young special cards go up maybe like Usman then Bailey freeze. Cards like that could rise up a little bit instantly on Friday when that SBC is released but I will say if it's a really outrageously priced messy you probably won't see much more of a longevity on a rise on these cards. It might just be a quick up. People realize oh the SBC is too expensive so then they go and sell their link investments that they just made.  So that's kind of what I have to talk about the messy SBC. I feel like it's gonna be interesting to see what EA does with that and I'm curious to know what they're gonna price it at what the rating they're gonna give him and yeah I'm honestly really curious to see that SBC. Now of course he did get into team of the week this week and we did have a brand spanking new team of the week that was released today on FIFA. I wanna talk about that just for a second. We're gonna see these guys get packed a lot during rewards. Levin Dossi is 524 that's actually crazy cause I sold one today at 670K. I bought him during the fourth or fifth hour that he was out in packs. I got him right here at about 600K sold him at 670 and now he's back down to 520. That was a really nice flip right there but this team of the week is just pretty average right? There's Gareth Bale which is dope wants to watch upgrade on him. No Goretzka this week we were maybe even looking for Osman Dembele we did not get that. This Boadu card is 100,000 coins right now. I think he is massively overpriced he's gonna be dropping 100%. I know there's a lot of links right now to the AirDivisi but I think this is one of those cards that people are just trying to snipe up and keep extinct even though he has a lot of hype I expect him to drop down with rewards today and if he manages to stay extinct at 100K that's crazy but I think that car will start to drop off here before rewards since they haven't updated the price range and that's just one thing people like to do this year is they like to snipe in forms and make them extinct first day to hope that EA updates the price range and then they can artificially increase that card's price I don't understand but it's something that we've seen a lot of this year I think a lot of trading groups are trying to do but the next thing we gotta talk about is these freaking what if cards man these what if cards are they gonna get supplied at rewards today I think they are a little bit but honestly after rewards I do think you will see people going and investing into some of these as we head out people who have completed their icon player pick pack already if they're going to do it or if they're not gonna do it at all they know that these are live cards and live cards get invested in a lot to go out of packs and they usually do pretty well out of packs because again a lot of these cards look like they're going to get upgraded smalling is literally at the lowest price he has been since the first hour of lightning rounds when he came into packs because of the Roma non clean sheet today 662 I do think you'll see some of these guys kind of bounce back Sancho I have my eyes on Papu Gomez I got my eyes on Odegaard on three goals Le Melu is on four goals right now he all he really needs is nice to score two more goals in the next game and this guy is getting upgraded I believe he's on four goals yeah they scored two goals in their first game two goals yesterday so he's on four again Sancho is on three and Babu got upgraded and this is the point I want to talk about right now this in Babu card just like we had with the headliners and the headliner streaks if you search for him Babu under the what if filter you're not going to find him right and Babu is not going to show up unless they like somehow fix this which I don't think they would have this is not like the what if upgraded card right you can see on the quality it doesn't have the two arrows as white so this is not the updated version so if you want to find him Babu on the market you have to do it as the old way we used to do before all these quality filters and FIFA in and you have to actually search by the special quality and then use a price range so in Babu got a price upgrade tonight they double this price range up to a million coins he dipped down to about 440K went to 480 and is now back down to 450 so he's fluctuating a lot yes this card does look absolutely cracked but also a lot of people I think are scared to buy into this because rewards is coming soon but also there's a lot of hype to try this card out because he does look pretty cracked it does look pretty good and it looks like he's getting bought up around 440,000 coins at the moment people are saying they want to use this guy at center back which is crazy but I guess you could that's just the meta this year fullbacks at center back but I think I originally thought this guy was going to be above 500K when the price range was updated but my thoughts on that quickly faded after we had the mid prime pick released earlier this week because that really just destroyed the whole market and I did think that this guy was going to drop after they updated the price range after we saw all that whole market stuff go down with that mid prime so I'm not surprised by this at all but it is nice to see our first card upgraded and it is nice to know the time frame that they upgraded these what if cards on as well they did not upgrade Marcelo now Marcelo clinched his upgrade earlier yesterday on Wednesday with a clean sheet but he did not get upgraded so we will look to next week a week from yesterday so six days from now is when we will see that Marcelo upgraded most likely and hopefully through the weekend we see a couple more of these cards upgraded as well whether that's because of clean sheets or because of more goals being scored and stuff like that so that's one thing we're really watching for today and one thing we want to keep our eyes on I know that there's a lot of hype right now again on this SBC right here it's the mid or prime player pick a lot of you guys are maybe even waiting for rewards right if we take a look at the indexes really fast I'll use this tab to look at the index 86 we did see SBC fodder drop off a lot today and it's still kind of going down until rewards but here's the thing we talked about this on stream today I even talked about it in my video yesterday about Thursday flipping I actually think that when rewards hits yes you will have some pack supply but the people that will be there will be people that want to invest because more supply will be coming for high-rated unless EA juice rewards this is what I see happening and EA can juice rewards whenever they want right that's a variable that we live with every single week they could juice rewards and that will maybe drop some fodder down and then it would rise back up as people go and complete that mid-prime pick SBC but at rewards time you're gonna have people investing in fodder because they think it's gonna go up because people are gonna complete that SBC and also people that will be opening their rewards getting SBC fodder and being tempted and wanting to go and finish having more coins and more fodder in their club to go and finish that player pick SBC so I've actually bought a few fodder players they're on my transfers right now I bought some 87 yurises because he was down around 50,000 coins and he was 62k earlier today so that's why I bought a little bit of him Sterling at 67k honestly looks pretty low too I'm honestly a fan of looking into the stuff before rewards and taking a bit of a risk because I know there's still a lot of demand post rewards the only thing that worries me just a slight bit is that there's still maybe the amount of people that are still waiting to do this SBC is less than I originally thought but I think right now there's still a lot of people that are wanting to do this SBC and they're gonna be doing it after they get their rewards or after they get coins from opening rewards so that's why I'm invested in a little bit of fodder because I saw how high it went yesterday and I feel like the hype here isn't 100% done and of course one thing we have to think about today is we should get you not you wait for market matchups but regular market matchups that could impact the market a little bit in terms of SBC fodder with supply so that's one it kind of squishes us into a short timeframe where usually market matchups brings a decent amount of supply so unless EA dropped some sort of player SBC today or another pack SBC like an 85 times five or some sort of pack like that with a new set of market matchups coming out you might see fodder dip back down later in the day today as well so that's one thing to kind of be mindful of and to be I guess watching out for today on the market now of course I'm looking at a couple icons a couple of these other out of pack special cards that I think could look pretty nice for a small rise after rewards I'm not expecting a big rise but since so many people are like scared to invest right now there might be just normal people buying some teams or buying some cards to play with and nobody's gonna be wanting to buy those cards or to invest in them so you'll literally have like no competition on the market which you know that creates a scenario where you could make some Thursday flipping profits so I'm gonna keep an eye on some really, really meta players and some really rare cards as well as you see me looking at Kane I love trading with this Kane card that Rashford card, I'm a big fan of watching him fluctuate so we'll watch some open bids before rewards maybe look at some icons, see what happens watch this team of the week as well I do feel like that Levandosky that I sold today at 670 I know that was very high and it was a one time thing but I think this guy is pretty cheap I honestly do Levandosky's informs are always cheap just because he isn't the most meta card but this guy being 520k before rewards already even though this should drop further kind of makes me curious to see what's gonna happen after rewards or even during rewards as people open their team of the week packs and stuff like that so I'm gonna keep an eye on this card obviously it'll be very rare he will fluctuate a lot he's Bayern, he's one of the best strikers in the world so he does have some demand but one other thing to be on the watch for today would be potential and I'm gonna say it and I'm not saying it's guaranteed but if EA are really trying to take coins off this game maybe they don't drop a player SBC today but maybe they bring back icon SBCs you know they used to do throwback Thursdays that used to be what we had on Thursdays and Feefield was icon SBCs coming back on Thursdays I'm not sure if they're gonna do that today it's been like what 52 days since we had icon SBCs released crazy hopefully they do release some of those we'll see there's potential for it not guaranteed right but every day further we go beyond having no icon SBCs there's just a little bit of potential so we'll see if that happens today or potentially one of those pack SBCs or something like that also EA have they're kind of all over the place sometimes with the second week of promos but definitely keep an eye out for a potential loading screen today with new promo players on it for what if team two because we are expecting a what if team two and that loading screen if they were going to drop one could either come at the content drop today on Thursday or possibly two to three hours afterwards sometimes they've been doing those delayed loading screens so definitely keep an eye out for that as well but of course this was our new objective player from yesterday I wanted to shout this really fast they're already on two goals right six goals to upgrade this card now I don't I would think he would get a plus two just like all the other ones but since he's a silver is the boost any higher like EA if you wanted to boost this to an 81 like or a 78 I don't know that'd be cracked so I think it probably goes to a 74 but Leo is already on two goals after their game yesterday so that card is out for a few days but if they keep scoring it might have already been upgraded before the objective ends which is kind of crazy and if you want to do a last second buzzer beater caputo objective which expires on Friday Sasuello I think right now is on three goals three or four goals it might be actually just three because they played Napoli today it was a three three game so they're already halfway to getting upgraded this card to an 89 which would be nice SPC fodder four sure so that's the video for today boys right we talked about that player the month messy today on Thursday on the market it's gonna be a wild one there's potential to make a lot of coins it's gonna be really interesting to see where that demand is at but I think people seeing that this SPC has dropped about a hundred K in value themselves getting rewards and being able to do this or finish off this SPC I do think since it's an SPC you kind of like work towards right this is almost an icon SPC that you have to like take three to four to five days to try to craft your way towards it or to get enough players to do it with rewards and coins and stuff so I think you will see a decent amount of demand for this SPC again because again the picks have been interesting right some are cracked some are not cracked so that's gonna be a lot of what goes on today but of course player the month messy tomorrow we're gonna keep an eye out for that and hopefully we get some cool content on Thursday that we can interact with as well but if you guys enjoyed this video smash the thumbs up on a comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new it's been Nathan with a count and I will catch you guys later peace out


Recently, Pikeville Fire Department acquired a new boat for their swift water rescue team. Every member of the department is being trained to operate it in various conditions to minimize safety hazards. The main purpose of the boat is to be used in rescue and recovery missions. Actually, we just took it out for just a quick demo, see what it can do, see if it's going to hold up to our expectations. We took it on the river right behind Holiday Inn in the downpour. We just want to see what it was like in those conditions as a brand new. So we're going to be using it for rescues and also recoveries, whereas we used to have an airboat, like a swamp boat, is what we had. And it was just too loud, too quick on the water. And this one allows us to slow down, be able to talk to each other, and see what we're looking for in a slower paced condition like we need to be. Cancer. It's a very scary word. But an outstanding treatment facility was here at home. I was led to the Lawson Cancer Center. As a nurse practitioner at the Lawson Cancer Center, we are champions for our patients. I am so happy for Robert. The treatment worked. The boat is suitable for navigating any body of water Pikeville Fire Department needs it for. Training will continue for some time in order to test the boat's limits. It's not a quick boat. And we don't need to be so quick that we don't see what's on the banks and people yelling for us and asking for help. We had actually the same type of boat that Elkhorn had. Chief Cofield let us use for a little bit and see, kind of demo it out and see if we liked it or not. We could take us in any low creeks and also the rivers. We can get up in these little streams a lot easier and actually maneuverable. Not have to worry about the prop going down or any backup plans with it. You may see us out from time to time. It's brand new, so we're definitely going to get it out on the water and try it out, test its limits and see what we can do with it. And put them in those areas that may not seem safe to the public, but we're taking two or three steps ahead safety-wise to make sure that we're doing it the right way and the correct way when we do these practices. That way when a true emergency comes out, we can expect the conditions of the river to be a certain way and how to react it if it's a lot of current towards us or how to do a rescue off of it. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Colum.


I was debating on having a slice of pizza with me. Yeah. Hey, welcome back to our Stupider Ecstasy. It's up Corbin. I'm Rick. And you can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. Don't forget to click the link in the description below. We're doing a movie review. In case you didn't read the thumbnail, which would be weird because you clicked on the video. You did. Or maybe you clicked on another thumbnail, thinking you were on that thumbnail, and you accidentally clicked on that. So welcome to this one. But we are doing a movie review of the Canada. Sorry, not Canada. Tomo film, caca, which is weird, because in English, well, in Spanish. And Spanish. In Spanish, caca means poop. Yeah. That's little kids can see. Oh, it's caca. In the East Coast, that was a big thing for little kids. It's caca. But it's called caca, mutai. Mutai, I guess. Yeah, caca-mutai. Did you figure out what that actually means? No. I guess we should. We should. I don't know that. But yes, it's 2014. It means it was caca-mutai senior and caca-mutai junior. Yeah. 2014, it says comedy, drama. Sorry, I'm just looking at that. That works. I would call it a dramedy. Crozeg. Crozeg. That makes sense. That makes sense. So it was Crozeg senior and Crozeg junior. Yes. Directed by, say his name for it, please. Directed by M. Manacandan. And produced by Danush. Yes. And amongst others, written by Anand Anamale. And then also written by the director as well. Starring who are the, let's see, those are the kids. Yeah, Ramesh and J. Bignesh. And then, is that the mom? Vashwarya Rajesh. Yes, that's mama. And a few other people. The only one we knew previously, I believe, was Yogi Babu, who we've seen in a couple things as well. So if you haven't watched it, go watch it. Come back, because it's going to be 100 minutes before the reviews. Just how we like to do things came out in 2014. We got to see it on Hot Star. So if you'd like to go watch it, go watch it and come back. Rick, your initial thoughts, please. My initial thoughts are, aside from some of the acting challenges that I have, as far as just some things with indicating, not from the leads. I felt like the leads were very, very good with the kids and the mom. My only complaint is that aspect of it. Story, off the charts. I love the story. So that ultimately, my takeaway from this is I really liked this movie. In many respects, I was watching this and thinking to myself, this should have gotten more attention than Slumdog Millionaire. Yeah, absolutely. Just came out the same year? No, this came out. That came out, wouldn't it? 2000s, early 2000s. That came out in early 2000s. Early 2000s, yeah. But obviously, I wouldn't have been able to be in the same conversation. But if someone were saying to me, they were going to watch Slumdog Millionaire, I'd say that's fine. But if you really want to see a more realistic depiction with a better message, you should watch this. Yeah, I actually really, really enjoy this. Probably one of my favorite Tamil films there is, one of the big issue I have is probably, towards the end, when I think they focused a little bit too much on the business, people. And I didn't care about them. I understand why they're there, of course. And I think that could have been in the story. I just think you focus the entire time on this kid, these two kids, and the mom. And that's who I care about. And then you try to introduce these other people. Obviously, they have this dilemma of, they slapped a kid and- Right, and you need that in the story. Yeah, and you need that in the story. I just don't think they needed to focus as much because I don't think one, those actors were strong. And I didn't care about that part of the story. I agree, that could have been a good change. So I think they could have at least maybe cut that part and made it a little tighter. Because other than that, I really, really enjoyed the film. I thought our two leads were phenomenal. And they were great. I thought their mom was fantastic. I even loved the grandma. I was gonna say she was perfect because there weren't any flaws in anything she did at all. And the grandma was good, except there were only, there was a couple of times where there's indicating, by the way, as a terminology, many of you would know this, many of you don't. But indicating is something and acting that you're supposed to not do because it doesn't come from a place of genuine expressiveness. You're doing something just to do it versus doing it because it's generated from something internally with a Y attached to it of deeper meaning. So when somebody's gonna cry, this is the most stereotypical indicator of somebody who's not trained, is they'll go to wipe a tear that isn't there. That's a lie. If there's no tear to wipe, don't wipe a tear because what you're doing is you're creating a behavior to make us think you're crying. We don't need to think you're crying. We need to believe you're crying.  Because I've been breaking down these aspects for my rating of films. And so acting is obviously for us way high up there. That's pretty much it for me. I agree with the story change. I think they could have focused more and stayed with them. Mostly acting that I had a problem with was in that part of the film, when it was the business people trying not to get sued. Even though there was some funny moments in there, obviously with how much money they're paying him and the funny moments and like that. But I think that could have been chopped into a much finer that didn't take up that much time. Still obviously you needed it for the story because let's get onto the story. I really enjoyed the story for lots of reasons. Obviously these two kids who played these roles brilliantly, they were just kids. They had no idea that their world was any different from another kid. Very Florida project. Yeah. So they were like, they saw this other kid who, yeah, he has more money. But he's a kid. He's a kid. We're having fun. We're having friendships together and they just, they don't understand why somebody would look at them and not let them in a store because of the way they looked. They don't understand why they, like all this stuff is just over their head because they're just kids. Kids don't notice that stuff. Right. Even if it's like a drastic, these are kids from a really poor part of town slums, right? And you think that obviously the parents will know, but like kids, they just, they're oblivious. Yeah. Kids are smarter than we give them credit for it. I'm not saying that. I'm saying in terms of like their situation, if they're happy, that's all they care. How many stories have you heard of adults that has said that as a kid I grew up with, I didn't realize that when I was a kid, we were really poor. But as a kid, I didn't think we were poor because we were happy and we had what we had and we were happy with what we had. The other thing about the child aspect of it is, how many times kids experience things that adults take for granted and don't realize how much it impacts a kid. Something as simple as this, when they saw the tree go down and they saw their playground getting changed, that's something you carry with you all your life. That's a story that when you're 35 years old, you're saying, I don't know why it hit me so much, but when I was nine years old, they took our tree down where we used to go get the crow eggs with my brother and that was the first time in my life I learned about loss.  And that was one of my things I loved the most about this was, first of all, it was a reminder of how blessed we are when you realize this is a reality. There are so many millions of people, especially little kids, their dream is to just be able to taste what pizza tastes like.  A good pizza, I can tell immediately that was shitty. We could tell it was bad pizza and it's not a surprise because I've tasted pizza in India and it's India-fied. It's not really good, but that was, I love that. I thought it was great at the end.  They're gonna hate it. They're not used to this style of food and one, it looked terrible. It looked like garbage pizza. And I love that the message was, the grass isn't always greener. I love that he said, grandma's dose that tasted better than this. And that's another aspect that I really love about the story that I really enjoyed. The fact that all this was happening, the kids are oblivious to them trying to right the wrong, pay somebody. Basically all these other people, these other two guys from the slums that are trying to take advantage of that situation and give money off it, these adults from the restaurant that are trying not to get in trouble, then the politicians come along, try to make it about them. And all that the kids care about it is pizza. All the mom cares about. She didn't even know it. She didn't even know what was going on.  Exactly. And it wasn't a piss-off that she didn't go into the restaurant. And I thought that was a lovely moment for her and well-directed when she finally does see the clip of her son getting slapped. And here's a great opposite of indicating. She's watching the scene and the tear rolls. Mom Rage took over. Mom was very, and I loved when they were running and she called them and they're like, that's mom. Hey, mom! It was just so innocent and how wonderful it is to be that innocent and not like, because all these other people were worried about getting paid about not having a publicity done. Another great moment was the news was covering their story. These two kids who this story was about got pushed to the side and told to go around when it's literally about them. No one actually cared. They just wanted their part of it because they were trying to take advantage of the eyeballs on it. Obviously the restaurant was trying not to get sued or shut down. Politicians were doing what politicians do and taking advantage of it. And even the connection with the endorsement by the superstar. That aspect too, I thought was smart. From a story which the number one criteria for a film is gonna be story because film is storytelling and I just felt like this was as good as story can get. Very believable, moral to it. Our two kids, great job. You see a lot of great kid acting in India. I'm so shocked. Yeah, we do. Because we don't get a lot of it here. That's rare. Which is, I don't know why. I don't know either. Maybe it's because they're not performing. It could be that it's not in their head as much. I think kids here in America, it's in their head. And they're thinking about all the opportunities. They know what the industry is. They know the industry, the opportunities that are ahead for them. If their parents are probably for sure. If they've got stage parents, whereas in India, for them, they're probably doing it the way these kids are doing every moment. It's just, yeah, this would be fun to do and we'll just do this and then when we're done, can I go play? They literally look like kids you could have picked up on the street and did a great job. Kind of like in other films. Keela and other films that are kid-centered. It seemed just like that. They were just very natural. Yeah, yeah. I don't understand why we don't get a lot of it here. I mean, there's some. It is rare. That's why we talked so much about like the last time it happened was a few years ago. Haven't seen anything like it since Florida Project in a Western film. Outside of in Game of Thrones when what's her face? Of course, but that, I'm talking like in a motion picture that is carried by the kids where the kids are the main story. Spy kids. Yes, spy kids. So yeah, they were great. They did great. The mom. Mom was great. I thought mom killed this role. I 100% believed her in everything she was doing. It was also really interesting going into the story. The fact that we never knew why the dad was in jail. I love that. And they didn't touch on it in the end. There was no resolution to that, none. And I was like, that is super interesting. Normally like if it's a big thing you always thought that they were eventually gonna get the dad out. They were, my wife thought it was like, she thought at the end they were gonna get the politician to get the dad out of the jail. But then it just ended. And I was like, that is super interesting. One that doesn't normally happen. People like closure and they like to know this thing. But I thought it was a testament to how the film was. It was like a slice of life. Not all the things were answered. This was a story about the kids wanting pizza. A super simple story. Since that is so great. Yeah, that's one of those things where if you do a log line and you're pitching this thing and if all you said was- Two kids want pizza. It's a story about two kids in poverty who just want to get a piece of pizza. It's intriguing. That is very intriguing. Because it's so simple. And the story is very simple. Similar to, what do you, what's the story? What am I thinking of? I just lost it. I just lost it. I don't know. Kid movie? Kid story? Not Florida Project. No.  Recent? Yeah, it was an Indian one. I forget what it was. Okay. But in terms of just how it's a completely simple story. It's just two kids who want pizza and things unfold. Yep. That's it. That's it. And sometimes you don't need more than that. No. And I think it's wonderful that they just let it kind of breathe like that. Hats off to Dhanush. I think this is the first unless one of his films he produced. But this is the first solely produced Dhanush film I believe that we've seen. And we've been told that he likes to produce things that are very artistic. It's wonderful. In terms of like getting stuff that wouldn't normally get out there. Yeah. Him attaching is obviously finances and his name to it will help it get out there even more. Yeah. I think it's wonderful. I love it. It reminds me and I think he probably approached it this way. There's a really great video clip of Christopher Reeve who was the original Superman in motion pictures, not on TV, but Christopher Reeve who I love. And he's talking about film in the 1980s. And that was at the time when the movie Bonfire of the Vanities was out. And that came from literature. And there was this trend that was happening that he said when the film industry started in America, the people who wanted to make films were very well versed, well educated in the arts. And they wanted to create these pieces of art. And then business people started to take over the industry. They didn't really have much care about art and literature as much as they did profits. And what happened is people were starting to make decisions about films, not based on story, but based on who can bring in the biggest box office. And for him, it was a warning and felt the audiences really would, they just want a good story. And if their stars happen to be in it, it's secondary. And that's what I loved about this. This didn't have any names, had a great story. I much prefer something like this than to some formulaic thing with stars in it. This is what movie making is supposed to be about. And I'm gonna shout out to G.V. Prakash. Yeah, Prakash Kumar. I thought the score was fantastic. Agreed, beautiful score. Very subtle, but also very unique at times. I thought it complimented the film and its simplicity very, very well. So did the cinematography. This is one of those things in cinematography where nobody's probably gonna talk about it because there aren't a lot of bells and whistles that draw your eye to it, technically. But it too was really intimate. The spaces they filmed in were incredibly confined. And sound-wise, this wasn't done on sound stages. They were, this was in a neighborhood. So the technical aspects of this to make it feel believable and real almost like someone was there documenting it, documentary-style, and everything. When I think about the film, I just see everybody's face like this. Everything was so intimate and so close. It's just really well done. I'm looking at the list of Tamil films and there's a lot that I really, really enjoyed. So it's hard to actually say, because obviously 96 was fantastic. The boxing one that I can't pronounce is fantastic. I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it. Bombay, Tharapasi, Roja, Heyram, and then Padambu as well. A bunch of ones that I really, really enjoyed. This is probably one of the ones that is one of the easiest watches. Cause it's one, it's a nice watch. Right. It's not, there's not a lot of like really stuff that's going to either enrage you or in terms of like, like, you know, how, I don't know, Mimi, you know, enraged you. Yes. And it's like- Stuff justice. This is like more of like a, these kids want pizza, right? This is really, really cute.  With very big, it's really interesting. For a film that doesn't have those kinds of cathartic, angering, triggering things, it does have really big mortal lessons to it. And that's another, it's such a watchable film that it really is for me, the film that if somebody's getting introduced to Indian cinema and they say to me, should I watch Slumdog Millionaire? I would say you probably should for the history of it. I'd wait until you know some of the people in it first. And if you're really wanting to get realistic depiction of what it's like for kids who live in poor areas of India, you should much, much watch this instead. Yeah, 100%. Really, really enjoyed this film. Also, this was the Patreon regional film of the month. Thank you Patreon. Thank you Patreon. If you'd like to join Patreon every month, they get to pick everyone on Patreon, gets to pick one regional and one Hindi film every single month. It's based on polls and recommended only on Patreon. So that's one of the perks you get on the, even like the smallest, the smallest here. No, whatever it is, the base. The first one, the word I'm trying to say. But yes, so thank you so much to Patreon for recommending us. Let us know what you thought of the film, Dambulal and what should be the next Tamil film that we should watch. Dambulal. Dambulal.