and government of the canton of Grand Boudin, the citizens and government of the municipality of Davos for being such gracious hosts. And on behalf of all of us at the agri-meeting, I'd like to thank the police from across Switzerland and the Swiss military for the dedication to keeping us all safe and secure day and night. So lots of people to thank. And on behalf of the Managing Board of the Forum, I'd also like to express our appreciation to our colleagues for all their many efforts since the last annual meeting and to make this Davos so special. And to our partners that work tirelessly to create this special atmosphere and unique environment. And to the staff of the Congress Center for their care and attention throughout the annual meeting. And over the past four days, there have been many exciting ideas and new proposals that have emerged from our time together in Davos. So I have the great pleasure, I'd like to now invite Borgie Brande, President of the World Economic Forum, to share some of the key initiatives, conclusions and next steps from the 2019 annual meeting. Borgie. Thank you, Lee, dear friends. Rather than bidding farewell, I'm here to thank you for a great annual meeting. And invite you on a shared journey ahead. We see it as the beginning of a journey together for the year ahead, as the first step in our way to shape a new architecture that is adapted to the age of the Fort Industrial Revolution. In this context, to remind us also of the significance of the task that awaits us, it may be useful to revisit some of the key outcomes that were achieved during the annual meeting. The forums closing the skills gap initiative launched last year at our annual meeting with a target to reskill and upskill 10 million workers by 2020 announced during this meeting that it has already secured pledges for training more than 17 million people globally, 6.4 million of whom have already been reskilled. Voice for the Planet, a global campaign to build a movement for a new deal for nature and people was launched on Tuesday by Vice President Al Gore, Prime Minister Ardern of New Zealand and Andan Mahindra of Mahindra. The campaign garnered 21,000 individual pledges within 48 hours. Five Asian countries dump more plastic into oceans than any else combined. The Global Plastic Action Partnership, GPAP, announced its first national partnership in Indonesia to be launched in March. We are walking the talk. A group of international businesses teamed to launch partnership for global LGBTI equality. Members of partnership agrees to operationalize the UN's LGBTI standards of conduct worldwide across their businesses by 2020. The partnership plans to enlist at least 50 other member companies by 2020, mobilizing the private sector. The forum launched a new initiative preparing civil society for the Fort Industrial Revolution aimed at helping civil society meet the challenges presented by the rapid technological change. The Wellcome Trust committed 260 million US dollars over five years to improving our basic understanding of depression and anxiety. The research will concentrate on psychological therapies that can be delivered early in life and early in the onset of illness. As mental health problems typically start at a young age. Valuable 500 launched a new campaign aimed at releasing the social and economic potential of the 1.3 billion people around the world who live with a disability. This campaign will seek to sign up 500 global businesses to commit to putting disability on their board agendas only this year. A group of 70 plus countries today confirmed intentions to commence WTO negotiations on trade related aspects of e-commerce following a ministerial meeting in the margins of our annual meeting. Positive signs even on the trade side. I hope it will inspire other players too. Prime Minister Abe stood on this stage of Japan committed his country's G20s chairmanship to launch an agenda for global data governance. The engine for growth is fueled no longer by gasoline but more and more by digital data, the Prime Minister underlined. The forum teamed with the World Bank and the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC to launch a high level group on humanitarian investing to unlock private sector capital for investment in fragile economies, in particular to move away from short-term emergency driven funding to long-term investing in people affected by crisis. The annual meeting has truly evolved into also a safe and trusted space of diplomatic dialogues. The forum facilitated multi-stakeholder diplomacy dialogues on key global fault lines to advance peace efforts with the support of relevant international organizations and the private sector. In this context, we continue dialogues on Venezuela, Sahel and Syria and convene public-private community of leaders for a special dialogue on Israeli-Palestinian relations. This meeting, I just came from it, also saw the gathering of top Israeli and Palestinian business and political leaders to underscore the importance of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They also agreed concrete steps to boost the Palestinian economy in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution through the support of startups and entrepreneurs. This makes a huge difference. With the support of Prime Minister Abiyah of Ethiopia, we held a diplomatic dialogue on the Horn of Africa, which I hope will bolster his efforts to bring peace and prosperity to the region. Also, we initiated discussions on the Korean Peninsula, European-Russian relations, and on the new development architecture for Africa, Europe, engagements. Through our platform, the President of Azerbaijan and Prime Minister of Armenia met to advance negotiations on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Also, today, the Greek Parliament meets to ratify the agreement that was reached following an initial discussion in doubles exactly one year ago to solve the name dispute with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and to normalize relations between the two countries. The Foreign Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network, established in 2008, initiated by Professor Schwab, announced it had grown to more than 100 businesses and governments, including five G7 nations. Meanwhile, the network also welcomed countries of Colombia, Israel, UAE, with affiliated centers. A pilot project to protect airports and other critical infrastructure from cyberattacks was also launched at the annual meeting under the leadership of our new Center for Cybersecurity. I could have continued. The list is long, but, dear friends, let's get inspired by the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, that put it in such a consequential way yesterday when he said, we need more integrated global action to repair broken trust and uphold dignity for all. In the era of globalization 4.0, achieving this and shape a global architecture that is adapted to the new and pressing challenges we are faced with is crucial. This imperative will certainly not be met unless all stakeholders are at the table. As the forum celebrates its 50th anniversary next year, we will not be resting on our laurels. We will be looking ahead to improve the state of the world for the next 50 years by continuing to leverage our platform for public-private cooperation in the common interest. Finally, I would like to thank our founder and executive chairman, Professor Klaus Schwab, for creating this unique organization in 1971. If it didn't exist, I think someone would have had to create it because we cannot solve the most pressing global challenges without a unique partnership between governments, business, and civil society. I also would like to thank our dear participants, who are also our partners for impact. And I would like to thank my colleagues at the World Economic Forum without your dedication and efforts this annual meeting would not have been possible. Thank you all and see you soon. And then I will do another presentation, but thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to introduce a great friend of the World Economic Forum, a leading global supporter of the arts, and a vital voice for creating the access to opportunity that is so vitally important to achieve the best of the fourth industrial revolution. Built Vista Equity Partners, one of the largest enterprise and software firm in the world, making him Forbes Magazine's 100th Greatest Living Business Minds. Underwrites countless organizations that create pipelines of talent from undeserved communities for business, public sector, civil society, and arts. His chairman of Carnegie Hall, where his signature cause is to expand the hall to bring music into communities that might otherwise not have access. Robert's generosity in bringing the extraordinary Swingsward Josie to Devos is emblematic of his values and generous spirit. Please join me in welcoming Robert Frederick Smith. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen in Borgia. Thank you so much for the wonderful introduction and frankly, the fantastic overview of what was one of the best, if not the best, annual meetings of the World Economic Forum. It is my pleasure to be here. For as long as I can remember, music has been an essential part of my life, an essential part of my soul. I grew up in a household where music was played all the time, and even as my life and career took me to far and away places, the right song always brought me back home. This is not an extraordinary,


Here is one easy thing you can do to be on your way to get better grades, and that's having a daily testing session. Most students will struggle by having a four to five hour study session in the evening and having very little of it that actually assesses, how much do I know? They're just trying to get through the information. But if you wanna be a top student, specifically dedicate an hour and a half that says, this is going to be my testing time. And what you do during that time can vary anywhere from doing things like flashcards, practice questions, or having a whiteboard where you say, let's go ahead and practice regurgitating everything I've learned over the past few hours, identifying what things I actually know versus what things I convinced myself. Having the small guarantee session every single evening will help you assess your strengths and your weaknesses and also help you become more efficient in those times where you just have to cover the material. And now you know that the most important chunk is actually assessing and testing yourself. Give that a shot and let me know how that works for you and your study system. And if you enjoyed this content and want more, hit that like, subscribe, and follow for more content just like this one.


Enbridge Energy Partners and the Fond du Lac Band of Superior Chippewa have reached an agreement regarding the construction of the Line 3 replacement pipeline. The agreement allows replacement Line 3 to be built along the existing corridor through the reservation with the comprehensive set of safety, environmental, economic, and financial benefits to the band. Some benefits include protection of the wild rice waters and removal of the old Line 3 pipeline. With the changes, the band will also have access to portions of the reservation that were previously unaccessible. Enbridge has also agreed to comply with the band's laws, as well as state and federal laws regarding environmental protection. The right-of-way through the reservation will expire in 2039. After that, the band can reassess matters regarding the pipeline. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Hello, in this presentation, we will be recording journal entries for business transactions related to accounts receivable, otherwise known as the revenue cycle. We will be recording these using debits and credits. At the end of this, we will be able to list transactions involving accounts receivable, record transactions involving accounts receivable using debits and credits, and explain the effect of transactions on assets, liabilities, equity, revenue, expenses, and net income. We're going to be recording these transactions up here on the left-hand side, constructing those journal entries in accordance with our thought process, our list of questions to most efficiently construct the journal entries. We will then be posting them not to the general ledger, but to this worksheet here so that we can see the quick calculation of the beginning balance and what is happening to the individual accounts as well as account types in that we have the accounts categorized as is the case for all trial balances, accounts being in order, that order being assets, in this case, in green, the liabilities in orange, the equity, light blue, and the income statement accounts of revenue and expense type accounts. First transaction perform work on account for $10,000. First question we will always ask is cash affected? In this case, no, we didn't get cash and the key term here is on account. Be aware of that key term. In real life, we would know what would be happening here, meaning we did work. If we were a bookkeeper, we did the bookkeeping and then we sent out the bill, have not yet received the cash. In a problem that's in a book, they have to indicate that in some way, often a very generic type of thing here where we're just a service company and we did work and the key term being on account. On account will mean either accounts receivable or accounts payable when working with the accounts receivable or sales cycle as we are here, the account when you see on account will be accounts receivable. Some books might use the term on credit and in practice, you might hear the term credit. The reason many books avoid that term is because we don't want to confuse it or the book doesn't want to confuse it with the idea of debits and credits mixing up the meaning of what a debit and a credit is. But when you hear that term in real life, you got to know what the distinction is when someone says they're going to have something on credit versus debiting or in crediting the account within a journal entry. If cash is not affected, then we're going to ask what did we received and what we got in this case is an IOU. We got people owing us money. We got a promise to pay at some point in the future. That's going to be our accounts receivable account. It's our second favorite asset account. Not as good as cash, but we like people owing us money. Therefore, because it's an asset, has a debit balance. We need to make it to go up because people owe us more money. So how do we make an account to go up? We do the same thing to it as its normal balance. It being an asset, having a normal debit balance means we will do the same thing of another debit. So we're going to debit the accounts receivable and that means we are going to have to credit something for the same amount. Why are people going to pay us $10,000 in the future? Because we did the work today. We performed the work today and therefore earned revenue or income. The credit going to revenue or income. We already know that if we know that it's going to be revenue or income that we will be crediting it because we debited the accounts receivable, but we want to think through that. Remember that revenue is an income statement account. Revenue and expenses being the income statement accounts and income statement accounts only go in one direction. Revenue accounts going up in the credit direction. Therefore, we're going to do the same thing to it, which in this case is another credit. Also note that according to the revenue recognition principle, we're recording revenue here when the work was done, although we have not yet received the cash and typically this would be like an invoice transaction. The transaction would be recorded when invoicing the client as is shown here. So if we post this out, we're going to say that the accounts receivable goes from zero up in the debit direction by $10,000 to $10,000. The revenue starts at zero goes up in the credit direction by $10,000 to $10,000. Remember here that we are representing debits and credits in two columns and the credits with brackets on the journal entry. But when posting, we're showing the credits as bracketed numbers only, not in a separate column and debited numbers without brackets. This will save a lot of room when we post to a worksheet like this. That's why we will be working with this in practice. It will save a lot of time. If you're working with Excel, which I highly recommend doing, then it'll save a lot of functionality in the formulas as well. The effect on the accounting equation as it's increasing as cash goes up, liabilities remaining the same and equity going up because net income is going up, net income going up because revenue is going up, net income calculated as revenue minus expenses, net income increasing equity. Here we see that that net income is increasing due to revenue increasing, net income starting at zero going up by that $10,000 calculated as the $10,000 minus the zero minus the zero. Remember that that brackets does not mean negative number for us when considering this in the format of debits and credits. It represents a credit. It represents revenue over the debits, the credit of revenue over the debits of expenses by net income of $10,000. Next transaction. Receive cash on account $10,000. First question we're going to ask is cash affected? We're going to say yes. We're going to say received cash. Is it going up or down? Up. Keyword, received. How do we make something go up? We do the same thing to it as its normal balance, which in this case would be a debit to an asset account, which has a debit normal balance increasing cash. Now when first seeing this many times when we start working with journal entries, we start to think, wait a second, is cash really affected in this? Because I also see the key term on account. And I start to think that when I see on account, that means cash isn't affected. It means that some other accounts receivable or payable thing is happening here. And when we are purchasing something on account, that will be the case because we purchased in the last example, we purchased something on account, or in that case, we did work on account. And therefore the on account was affected rather than cash. But in the second half of that transaction, what's happening is we're going to receive cash for the amount that was owed to us in this case, what was in the on account of accounts receivable.  If it says received cash, then we received cash. Think about that first. And then we'll think about why did we get cash? We got to credit something. What are we going to credit? We can't credit revenue because it says on account. And that indicates that we didn't do the work at this point in time. That indicates that we did the work sometime in the past. And if we see this this transaction without having first seen the prior transaction, we've got to be able to look at this and say, what must have happened in the past? What must have happened in the past is that prior transaction. That's how the accounts receivable works. We do work on account. We invoice the client. We put that money into this account called or that receivable, that IOU into this account called accounts receivable. It represented here with this 10,000. Now once we get paid, that 10,000 needs to decrease. So the credit is going to go to that accounts receivable. It's going to reduce that 10,000 back down to zero. So if we post this out, we see the 10,000 debit to cash increasing cash from zero up by 10,000 to 10,000 accounts receivable then going down with a credit, it being a debit account. We do in the opposite thing, crediting it, bringing that balance down to zero, the effect on the accounting equation, assets going up. However, assets also going down, one asset increasing one asset decreasing. In essence, we're getting a better asset and losing the worser asset. We're losing the fact that people owe us money and getting the fact that we have now got the money. There's no effect on the liabilities and no effect on equity. If we look at the net income, no effect on net income. Note that although we got the cash now, we already recorded the net income in the past and therefore in the current transaction in the middle column, nothing's happening to net income and we are remaining at 10,000 representing net income calculated as revenue minus expenses. We are now able to list transactions involving accounts receivable, record transactions involving accounts receivable using debits and credits and explain the effect of transactions on assets, liabilities, equity, revenue, expenses and net income.


This study found that pregnant women in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo had limited knowledge about hepatitis B virus, HBV, which can lead to serious health consequences if left untreated. The majority of women surveyed did not know how HBV is transmitted, how it can be prevented, or what its symptoms are. However, those who participated in both studies showed improvement in their knowledge after being screened and treated for HBV. This suggests that providing more education on HBV could help reduce the spread of the virus and protect newborns from contracting the disease. This article was authored by Sahal Fahir, Samantha E. Tulenko, Patrick Njimbay, and others.


The Nets are planning to hire Ime Udoka as their new head coach. Sources tell me they've been vetting Ime Udoka for the last 24 to 48 hours. This goes back to the weekend, really, Sunday into Monday. They've started discussions with Ime Udoka. I'm told even before the firing of Nash, as far as the concept of hiring Ime Udoka. So that is a process that is underway. There's obviously different steps that they have to take. Ime Udoka is under a one year suspension with the Celtics, because there's an improper workplace relationship that they need to vet out. They need to have conversations with the Celtics to get Ime Udoka aboard. But I'm told the Celtics have already granted permission to the Nets to speak to Udoka and they will let him go freely. They will let him go without any compensation. Essentially, they're going to let their coach that was one of the top coaches in the league last year go for free. So he's going to have his hands pulled regardless. He has a relationship with Kevin Durant through Team USA, through the one year he spent there as an assistant and Ben Simmons, he coached in Philadelphia as well. So there are relationships there.


Hello friends welcome to today's video where we're going over all the details for the brand new max raid event den update in pokemon sword and shield as it is the holiday season and we are coming up to christmas pokemon have decided to throw a new max raid event den update in pokemon sword and shield so without further ado let's hop over to serabee and check out all the details of this den as always the links to serabee will be linked down in the description if you want to take a look through this list a bit closer yourselves but we'll start off with all of the details go through everything that we've got available to us this is coined the holiday 2021 event and it is running from the 17th of december until the 26th of december so just a little over a week for us to take advantage of this den we'll start off with pokemon sword although pokemon sword and shield will probably be exactly the same in this event den we'll start off with the one star raids the one star raids that we're going to get are deli bird star me and cryogeniles they're the three available in the one star raids all level 17 and roughly around a 20 chance to encounter all of them no special items given out here obviously deli bird known for normally giving out a lot more items but it doesn't appear as though you're going to get anything more in these one star raids moving down to the two star raids the pokemon aren't going to change you're going to have that same array of deli bird star me and cryogenile same percentage chances of them spawning just level 30 this time with a few additional more items and then we'll move down to the three star raids again same pokemon more items level 40 this time and then the four star raids and obviously you need to be a bit further along in your playthrough in sword and shield to access these higher star rated dens but again the same pokemon you're going to have about that roughly 20 chance for these pokemon to spawn and a few more items you're going to get for the four star raids and then it comes down to the juice of the event den and this is going to be the five star raids and you've probably spotted it already but you're going to get a lot more items and it isn't that what you're spotting but it is a chance for a shiny deli bird you've got a 2% chance of deli bird being shiny it is a guaranteed square shiny in the five star raids only and then the rest of the pokemon are exactly the same just level 60 rather than what they were in their lower levels on those lower star ratings to get access to five star raid dens you're going to have to have beat the game all your gym badges become the the galore champion and then you're going to have access to these higher star raid dens now the 2% rating is quite low but it is possible to do and we'll jump into game in a minute but before we do we'll check pokemon shield and as i said i think that the pokemon will be exactly the same all the way through and it does appear to be the case again the five star raids the one that we're going to be really going after is that pink shiny deli bird so as i say the the event itself is running from the 17th until the 26th so you've got plenty of time to take advantage of this event get a lot of nice items as well your dynamics candies and so on and have a chance of getting that shiny deli bird so let's hop into game and show exactly how you can do it feels weird being back in sword and shield after playing brilliant diamond chair and pearl for so long but here we are we are in a drapled grove i'll bring it up on the map so you can see exactly where we are if you want to be between these two raid dens it is in the wild area in the galore region and what i tend to do is drop wishing pieces between the two dens until we get an event dens spawning it has to be a red beam it can't be one of the purple beams and it's advisable if you're wanting to manipulate the date in the den to drop a wishing piece into the den otherwise if it's just a regular spawned den that you're coming across you won't be able to do the time skip glitch to change the pokemon in the den so you have to drop a wishing piece in it if you're wanting to chase that deli bird the way we're about to do it in the event then we've got an evie so that was a little while ago about four weeks ago now but what we can do to change that update the dens is come into our menu screen go to mystery gifts and then get wild area news this will connect us to the internet and this is i know a lot of you already know how to do this but there are still new players coming in to show sword and shield so this will be useful once you've connected to the internet it will come up with this message and your dens across the wild area crown tundra and isle of armor will have all updated yes you can use this method in all of the the areas different areas the dlc areas as long as it's a den you're going to be able to use and get these event pokemon so as you can see we'll go back into the den and it has updated and we do have a five star deli bird waiting here for a soul jump in and we will check it we don't need to invite anyone at the moment and we'll see if it is the shiny if it's a shiny that would be great i don't expect it will be it is it is the shiny i think i think it's the shiny it is the shiny we got the shiny on the first goal that's insane okay so it is the shiny we managed to get it and that is a great that is that is a little christmas present here okay we finally beat the deli bird what ball are we gonna go for let's go for a dream ball here this would look epic in a dream ball color matching and all not very often you get the chance to catch a shiny deli bird so here we go hopefully we get the catch two three and that's it we get the shiny deli bird i can't believe it i can't believe we've got the shiny on our first attempt it never happens in these videos but it was going to happen at some point so there we go you can see a list of the items that you're going to get so you get your standard candies there the dynamics candies armory or dinite or and then a bunch of tms and some bomb mushrooms so that is the deli bird and look at that it's got almost perfect ivs as well so the best best best pretty good and best not too bad i catch there and as you can see fully dinamaxed up got a nice moveset as well not the best nature but cannot complain great shiny for us to get okay for those of you that are wanting a deli bird and don't so happen to get the five star shiny on the first attempt what you can do is just drop a wishing piece in a den any den this can work in any den you need this red beam to appear and then you check the den to see if the regular pokemon are in it or if it is the event den so this is the regular pokemon that spawn in these dens so this is why i use this area what we do is just run to the den just next to it and we can drop a wishing piece in and there you go you see just run between the two dens in drap or gov and until you spawn the event den here and you can see that we've been able to spawn it so we can go into it and if we don't want the cryogonal what we can do is just make sure that we're not connected to the internet when we do this you can go to invite others and then you can go to your home menu come down to system settings down to system down to date and time just make sure the synchronized clock for the internet is off come down to your date knock the day forward one day click okay click back into your home menu into the game and then exit out of the den and this will be the way of date skipping it'll change you see the weather's changed and the pokemon will change in the den as well full the game to think in the days past and then when you click into the den again you'll get that two thousand watts and you can check to see the pokemon has changed to a star me this time and you just repeat this process until you get to a deli bird of five star one for that shiny save in front of it check the den if it's not shiny come back and reset the game come back in and then start the process again until you find that next five star deli bird and then check in hopefully that when you do do it it does turn out to be shiny so friends that about does it for this video I hope you found it useful and I hope you have a lot of luck hunting the shiny deli bird in this event it's a nice event got some nice pokemon in there and it is of course Christmas holiday themed so I hope you will have a great holiday if I don't see you before then and and enjoy this event and have a lot of luck hunting that shiny deli bird let me know down in the comment section as always if you do manage to get it do love to hear the success stories of course with any of you that do manage to get the shiny deli bird still can't believe that we got it so quickly but that that's just that's just mad never happens but it was gonna happen eventually we cover all of these and we'll be covering all future updates so do stay tuned for that friends thanks again and I'll catch you all for another video on the channel very soon so until then take care and bye bye


Welcome to In The Studio. I'm Maria Contreras-Tebbett, the director of the bike campaign. And today my guest is Zane McDonald. And we're here to talk about the high shift to cycling. Zane, you're exactly the kind of person we love to meet because you yourself were new to Davis. And what did you think about all these bikes when you moved here? Yeah, Maria, I'm happy to be here. Thank you. It was really a shock to come to Davis. I'm initially from West Virginia, a little bit more of a rural section of the nation where everybody gets around in pickup trucks. It's really, it's the popular thing to do. It's the cool thing to do. And that's expensive. That's a difficult way to get around. And not only is it expensive in just fuel, but it's expensive in time. It's difficult to find a place to put your vehicle. There's a lot of congestion when you have all these large vehicles on the road. And you have to earn the money to pay for those large vehicles. It's a really expensive thing. And so as a student in college, I went to Marshall University. I kind of got tired of paying all of this money to operate this big truck to get around. And so I started making a transition to biking. And it was difficult. There was very little infrastructure. And there was a lot of social stigma around being a biker in this college town. And so coming to Davis and experiencing what it's like here in Davis is really phenomenal to have the social acceptance for cycling. It's really exciting.  So it's really exciting. It's a great place to be.  I came out to UC Davis because I was interested in studying transportation. And so I started looking through some of the literature and some of the big work that was being done throughout the nation really in transportation studies and in energy studies. And all of the great research was coming out of the Institute of Transportation Studies, ITS Davis. And so I was immediately attracted. And so I visited Davis. I came out in 2014 for a visit and immediately fell in love with the city. I felt like I was home. I saw all of the biking happening. I saw all of the fresh food and all of the open-minded people. And I fell in love instantly. And after the application process, there was no question. There was no question why I was headed. We feel very lucky to have you here with us. Many people don't know about the Institute for Transportation Studies and their part in the world actually doing studies and research that affects and impacts all kinds of things, including papers that are presented at the Paris Climate Accord. So maybe you can tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, the ITS is really influential on a small scale just at the community level for Davis and then all the way out to a global scale. And some examples of these. Dr. Susan Handy was very influential in 2014 in the Fifth Street Road Diet. And that was something that happened just on a community level for bikers to narrow down Fifth Street, to slow down traffic and to implement different street design measures so that it was safer for people to bike. And it was extremely successful in reducing the number of accidents for bikers on Fifth Street. And then we go out to statewide legislation where you have people like Dan Sperling working for the California Air Resources Board helping to craft a lot of legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. And then we have researchers working on a global scale to look at things like Dr. Lou Fulton looked at the impacts of cycling on a global scale and where cycling is at right now and what cycling looked like in the entire world moving all the way forward to 2050. Wow, I'm excited. I'm excited. And I love the fact that cycling is one of the least expensive changes that anybody can make, whether it be individually within their own household, within our communities and creating more complete streets. Can you give everybody a little bit of a description of a complete street? Of course, yeah, a complete street is this idea that everybody owns the roads, that the road is not a place for cars and then the cars invite bikers to be on the road and the cars invite people to skateboard on the road. The complete street idea is that we can have our band practice on the street and we could coordinate off and say no cars here for the next two hours because the marching band needs a big open place that is safe that they can practice.  And we're gonna let the bikers on the road. We're gonna use the road for everybody. It's a complete area for the entire community to interact. It's not just a place for cars. It's not just a place for bikes either. It's a place for everybody. Absolutely, and complete streets, and my understanding is anytime new streets are being designed or reconfigured, my understanding is from places like Los Angeles to Washington DC to Chicago, they're changing streets. So instead of having four, six lanes of car traffic, there's going to be a dedicated lane for regional transit for the different types of buses and where people travel together. And a safer lanes where people on bicycles or scooters or skates or whatever can also be on.  You kind of brought up the topic of open streets like Ciclovia, which we hope to see more and more of. I have yet to see one happen here in Yolo County. I think Woodland does them occasionally where they shut down streets and people just have a really good time doing things other than driving in the streets. So that's a great way of celebrating that streets are for everybody. So tell us a little bit about your area of research, what you've been doing and I believe it's called the steps program. Yeah, so I work with the steps program. It's the sustainable transportation and energy pathways program. And there I look at the nexus, the overlap of transportation and energy. And this isn't just cars using gasoline as an energy source, but this can be people needing to transport themselves through active transit like walking or biking. And so within steps, I have done research looking at the possibility for a global high shift to cycling. And here we looked at the position of cycling right now in the entire world and how policies were impacting cycling and then what were different techniques that we could implement in different communities to try and encourage cycling. And it turned out to be very enlightening at the different communities around the world and how they were incorporating cycling into their culture. And some big success stories we saw were like in Denmark where they're implementing cycling interstates where people are purchasing these low cost lithium ion electric bicycles or even just very lightweight road bikes and they're moving between cities on these wide multi-lane, very safe bike interstates that are just for cyclist walkers to get around with. Other interesting things we've seen in Columbia, we're seeing a lot of car free cities and zones in cities that are car freeze on certain days of the week.   And then there's some more pessimistic cases where we see in a lot of developing countries like India and certain parts of Central Africa where it's really frowned upon to own a bike and there's the social stigma that the poor operate bikes and that the disadvantaged communities are the ones that have to rely on bikes. And often in these communities, there's a lot of poor infrastructure that makes it difficult to operate a bike and difficult to keep your bike in good working condition. The tires deteriorate quickly and the frame takes a beating on these hard roads. And so it's really interesting the way different communities have chosen to interact with cycling and the way different communities are choosing to interact with cycling in the future. The Netherlands is continually making greater and greater areas within their big cities car free. And a lot of the communities initially, especially the business owners are very scared that they're going to lose a lot of business because people can't park there. But in all actuality, as soon as they make these streets car free, the community flocks there. It's a fun place to be. It's a fun place to be where there's a lot of street vendors and people are walking and you can be safe in your public space and business skyrockets. Business goes through the roof and it's so interesting to see how some communities have embraced cycling and gotten all those benefits and other communities have chosen not to do so. Well, we have the macro situations going on in places like Holland, the Netherlands and we see that in Davis when we try to introduce the idea that we should have less car parking, people get pretty scared. They get scared that this is going to hurt business and yet time and time again in cities all over the nation and the world, we see exactly what you're talking about which is more people flock there than we become a community where people want to come and see what we're doing and come and join us. And I just envision people coming from the Bay Area and coming from Sacramento on the train, maybe bringing their bikes or renting bikes after they get here and enjoying our farmers market and a wonderful place to be. Like Holland, we're flat. Unlike Holland, we've got great weather and it doesn't rain that much. So give me those first impressions again. You just got here from the East Coast coming to the West Coast. You're now in Davis. Were there any unusual things that you saw that you didn't recognize or know how to manage on a bike? The things that struck me the most when I first got to Davis was definitely the infrastructure. I was amazed at how connected the community is to their bikes and through their bike lanes. The Davis Bike Loop is a great example of this. You're so capable to move from point A to point B on your bike. And that really helps you overcome a lot of the big barriers to biking like going grocery shopping. It's really intimidating the first couple of times you have to tote some gallons of milk around on your bike. And if you have a proper bike lane and the cars are looking out for you and you're in a nice, flat, safe spot, it really helps you overcome those challenges. And so I would say the things that struck me most were definitely the community's approach to biking and the way the community has invested in biking with the infrastructure that we see in Davis. And we have lots of great role models of things that we might not have seen in other cities. We have Dutch bikes here, what's called the buckfeets. I've seen several families that have three children in the front of their bike and they just look so happy. Nothing makes me happier than seeing an entire family up on bikes because it sends a message to everybody that this is a great place to ride a bike with your family, which is so much more interesting and engaging than taking your kids someplace dark to watch a movie and eat popcorn. So we love seeing this. And I really appreciate your views and perspectives and I'm hoping that we're going to be able to include you in many of the projects that the bike campaign is involved in. We're producing a new transportation guide and bike map. One of the things that we all need when we get to town, how did you best, what tools did you best use when you first arrived to figure out how to get around? Was it your phone or what worked for you? I found the thing that worked for me the most were the locals. There's no substitute for interacting with people to learn how to best get around. And I think if you talk to anybody in Davis that has been here for a little while, you can really start to learn from them the best way to get from A to B in a safe way, on a good bike path. And it's because they know, it's because they've done it and that's because the community really has embraced this way of getting around on a bike. And so I think that's the number one way to do it. The next best way is definitely your phone. There's a lot of interconnected ways to get around and most of them are on Google Maps from my experience and so it's a very useful tool to help you navigate the intricate bike network in Davis. The key being to keep in mind the rules of the road. I think that's another very important thing for people coming into Davis to realize is that if you're on a bike on the road, then you're interacting with everybody else on that road in such a way that you have to follow every rule that every car has to follow. Absolutely. And so you cannot be texting and driving and you should be wearing a helmet, all of your proper safety equipment. You can't cut lanes, you can't go against traffic.  Absolutely. And it's really important for anyone watching our in-the-studio program today to understand that we all have rights and responsibilities when we're out on the street. And thank you for joining us. I'm Maria Contreras-Tibet, the Director of the Bike Campaign. See you next time.


Agriculture on the move! Agriculture on the move, ma'am! Agriculture on the move! Hello again, Saint Lucia, and welcome to the program, Agriculture on the Move. My name, Philip Sidney, your host for the next half an hour. Before I introduce my guests, I will put this topic into context. We'll be talking about agricultural exhibition that we attended in Martinique over the weekend. But to put it in context, let me give you a little history. In November last year, a group of French persons came to Saint Lucia, invited by the Castries Constituency Council under the leadership of the worship Lendo Gabriel, who was the mayor of Castries, together with the collaborated with the Saint Lucia French Association under the leadership of Therese Samuel. And they hosted the French people here in November, where we put up a little business expo, exposing what it is that we do in Saint Lucia, as far as agro processing is concerned. After that was done, there was a discussion to reciprocate the activity, where Saint Lucia's will go over to Martinique to participate at an exhibition, which is an annual one. It's called Foei Agicol. It's an agricultural exposition that is done in Riviera Pilote, and it is organized by the mayor of Riviera Pilote, together with the farmers of Riviera Pilote. And that is where we were able to showcase some of our products in Saint Lucia by its participants. And with me are three of them here today, who are sitting in the studio. We have Srivita Halsey to my immediate right. We have Mr. Suwin Senkwa in the middle, and of course we have Janitha Rigobat to the extreme left. Welcome to the program. Thank you very much. OK, great. Of course, we had a wonderful time in Martinique. But before we get to that, I just want you to tell me, Miss Halsey, give us a little history, very short. Who is Srivita Halsey? I am a young entrepreneur. I've been in the field of entrepreneurship for the past 12 years. I'm passionate about good health, and I share the knowledge of how we can obtain good health and live a longer life. Great. Interesting. Short and sweet. Suwin, tell us. Well, I'm a very determined person. I push myself to the limit. One thing that's tough is if I'm injured or something. Bad would happen to me. But I always push myself. I'm driven. So I started doing CMOS, I think, like probably a year and a half ago, about that. And I realized the importance of health in a country. People really need to eat healthy, because healthy body is a strong mind. So I like to keep on pushing, because I'm into fitness as well. I want healthy body, good eating, and everything altogether. That's basically it. Great. Rigodollars. Yes. My name is Janita Rigodollars. Basically, I'm into business for about 10 years. So when I started my business, I started dressing dogs with dry leaves, different types of leaves. And I incorporated it with the madras, like the sentient madras. And a couple years on the road, I just branched out into teas and natural spices, because my current mother, who I raised with, was somebody who was like gardening. And I used to go to the farm with her sometimes. And I just decided to, like the ginger and the tumeric which is growing, just try to do something with it. And I decided to grind it, turn it into powder, from give it to a few friends to sample, and I get some good feedback. And now I have it on the market, and I have my natural teas as well. And my product is something that's very ideal to both children and adults. And it's no preservative, no additives. Very good. So you have been in this for 10 years? Yeah, basically, okay.   Yes, I have a place that's certified to do my agro-processing. So how did you get through that, to get your place certified? Well, I registered with the St. Lucia Manufacturers Association. And even before I registered with the St. Lucia Manufacturers Association, I went to Environmental Health. I mentioned that to them, I told them that. And they told me, well, I need the sketch. They told me how to design the place, what I need. And then I gave them the sketch, they registered it, and they come and visit my place, and they take it from there. And they told me, yes, I'm satisfied. So I could go ahead and do what I had to do. Great. So where do you buy your raw materials from? 90% of my raw material I grow it. You grow it too? Yeah.  Yes. But being because of the demand, I have to buy it from some of the farmers. But I never go on the farm. Most times I go at people I know. I have good friends I know. They grow in these things just by their home, by their doorstep, in the backyard. And I buy it from them. But to go on the farm, I never go on the farm because some of the farm, they use a lot of chemicals, a lot of pesticides on the farm. So 90% of what I use, I grow it. How many products do you really produce? I produce about, let's see, 10, 11, 14 different products. But in the spice shakers, I have basically about nine different flavors. Okay. And these are the things that you can, how do you use the things that you produce? Say that again? How do you use the things that you produce? Well, basically, for example, I grow the lemongrass. And when I harvest my lemongrass, I process it in, not, when I say I process it in, not in any own bad way, but in process it, in turn it into a teabag form. And some of them I have them in two shakers in spices form. Okay, so they like teas and you sell them in teabags? In teabags sachets. Yeah, I have them individually in the teabag sachets. How do you market those things then? Well, I have a Facebook page, sometimes I do market it and I have somebody marketing for me as well. And sometimes I go out there, they have different promotion out there, sometimes I take part in different events, which I market my product as well. Okay, but I was told you are in the Massey stores also? Yeah, I'm all Massey outlets. So how are you able to penetrate Massey? Well, when I, the reason, okay, sorry, how I penetrate it into Massey, I remember when I first introduced it to them, they told me I need backward and I need, they need certified, I need to be certified where I'm doing my product, need to be certified. So I brought a copy of this document for them and then a document from Environmental Health as well, the license to operate, I brought it for them. And when this other somebody will tell me, well, they have to take it to other people in authority.  So you supply them every week? Well, it's not every week. Basically, if like for example, I supply them with eight lemongrass, eight ginger, three more week, eight rosemary, it depends what they order. It's not to say they order a case, like depends the other units. So if for example, they order eight lemongrass, eight ginger, three more week, eight sourcups. And as time goes by, they realize the stock is going down. They'll tell me, well, they need another four to repainting or they need another five, but it's not something they're ordering by the case. Yeah. So apart from Massey, what else do you market? Dealies, taste of St. Lucia, point seraphim, if export St. Lucia. I have somebody that have a store on the airport down View Fort. Okay. And there's a hotel down Suffice Supply as well. And there's a lot of people that come down to St. Lucia, they buy for their loved ones when they're traveling back home. Yeah. Great, great. So you tell us about you. What do you market, you produce and what's your market? Melanade produces supplements, beverages, strictly natural beverages. We use strictly natural ingredients. We produce the Super Boost, which is an alkaline smoothie. The Super Cream, an alkaline milkshake. It's strictly plant-based. We produce the desserts. And I sometimes do catering for persons who are really unwell and would like to reverse the damage that the acidosis has already caused. So I am also aware that you are in the CMOS products. What do you do with your CMOS base? We only use strictly natural CMOS, so it's a limited amount of CMOS that we can use. What I do with the CMOS is the beverages. We also have, we use the Irish CMOS for the supplements. The beverages, the desserts, most of our desserts have CMOS in it, it's CMOS base. We have some really good, good tinctures that we have given to persons who are unwell. Examples, persons who had COVID or who have stomach issues. And this particular product, which is called Revive, it actually reversed the dam, they no longer feel unwell or the uneasiness that they had within the stomach area. It was done, it was reversed and they now feel good about their health. Okay, so where do you actually market your supplements? Our products are marketed online on social media. We also have a website, MelonadeMix.com. And most of the marketing is by word of mouth. Persons we have given the products to who has experienced that great result of good health, reversing the damage, they tell other people, they share that news, that good news with other persons.  And when I say us, I also would like to mention my daughter Chelsea, I'll say, she is the owner of Melonade, she's just 20 years old. And I am the alkaline life coach who gives off the knowledge, the wisdom about obtaining good health. Okay, so we need the two of you. Yes. Involving that business. Yes. Okay, where do you get your natural ingredients from apart from the Seamos product? We get our, most of our herbs, we get our herbs. Our herbs, the Seamos is from divers. Our herbs, we get it from some farmers. And some of the other, the fruits, the vegetable. We get it from some farmers and some vendors that we know who use strictly natural products. No GMO, no hybrids, no pesticides in their produce. Yes. Okay, great. So, Wynne, tell us about your, it's not Wynne Swain. Yes, Wynne. Tell us about your products. Well, basically I was a hustler. When I started off Seamos, I was, I didn't know much about it, like about, about maybe three years ago, I didn't know much. And as I improved, I got better. But what I realized that I have ability to speak to people and influence them. So, I decided one day to start to sell. So, at first I was just selling for people within my community. But then I realized I could sell more to others. So, I went through town and I started selling out like 25 bottles. And the 25 bottles a week turned to 30. And then the next week went to 40 and 50. And soon or later I was doing so much bottles in one day. I had a lot more work to do. And people keep on calling me. So, you know, I did batten and I'm a batten. So, I was learning a lot about Seamos. And I learned that Seamos has a very high mineral contents, which is 92 out of the 102 minerals the body needs. So, since I knew a lot about spices, how to mix water and how to mix, you know, stuff like chest power, how to put them together to make like a very good spice blend. I started doing that to kind of help boost the immune system, give you energy. And I started making like a proper punch. I'm putting it in a bottle and started selling it for many people.  So, I start just doing the small ones. Right now I'm expanding and doing more flavors. I try to do more things with the Seamos. And I incorporate that with like a healthy lifestyle because I work out. I have a page dedicated to doing fitness and also I have a page dedicated with the Seamos. So, I'm bringing everything together so that people take a very good punch, mix with a good work hard plan. So, that's basically my plan leading into the future. So, I just keep on improving every day. And the Seamos is getting popular day by day. So, I actually need a team of people to work here because I only work on my own, you know. So, how are you certified? Not as yet. Okay. So, you have something you're planning? Yeah, it is. I just started up. I just started up just coming up. So, I'm doing things like step by step by step. So, do you see in terms of locally marketing your product, do you think that you have enough products to market locally? I think I have enough products to market locally. I have customers all around and I just deliver to them. I just need like a team of people to work with because there is sometimes having, you know, certain things by package is easier, but by bottles, by drinks, they go really quick.  So, it's just getting a whole team of people together. To work with you? To work with me and then we could go for it. Where do you get your CMOS from? Well, I get my CMOS from, well, my brother father, he has a farm. I think he sells in the supermarket as well. I think it's Linda CMOS and family. I think he was the first person to start selling CMOS in the supermarket. So, I get it from them as well. I do get from other farmers because I take different kinds of CMOS and I blend them together because different CMOS, they have different texture. I think some of them have less or more mineral. Sometimes the quality is not all that. So, I need to get different ones and put them together to make this special shake. Very good. Oh, so, I mean, so you're aiming for the top? That's your objective, your aim. Why are we going, we're about to discuss, we're going to our break. We'll be back in a while. You're watching agriculture the more we do for our break. Stay tuned, we'll be back soon. The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development continues placing heavy emphasis on the concept of food security. It's our prosperity, our future. The crop production unit conducts surveillance and monitoring for trans-boundary pests and diseases of quarantine importance for St. Lucia. It provides technical assistance in the areas of post-harvest technology, agro-processing and soil and plant tissue diagnosis. The unit facilitates prudent management of agrochemicals and toxic chemicals in an environmentally friendly manner for sustainable development. Soil analysis is also being carried out. Need further assistance on crop production? Contact the Senior Research Officer at 468-5601. Welcome back to the program, agriculture on the move, of course, with me. Here is, of course, we have Rigobots, Rigodolls, we have Swin and we have Miss Alsie. And just to tell you, you've heard them about what they do here in St. Lucia. Very interesting. They are all entrepreneurs and they are hoping to get to the top. They traveled with a contingent to Martinique over the weekend and that was facilitated by the mayor of the Castries Constituent Council, Miss, her worship mayor, Lendog Gabriel. And, of course, behind the scene was, of course, Hon. Richard Fedrick, who gave all the support to assist the Castries Constituent Council as far as the marketing was concerned, the financing was concerned. They facilitated both the fare fare and, of course, by the boat. They also facilitated the hotel accommodation and also the boarding and lodging and also whatever they traveled with that was paid for by them on the boat to ensure that every package reached in Martinique safely and sound. Together with them, there were another five persons which I will mention the names later on as we move on. But I just wanted to find out exactly from you all what was that experience like for you going to Martinique My experience, it was wonderful. I enjoyed the interaction with other entrepreneurs. I enjoyed how we all united and we came together and we were helping each other. I enjoyed meeting the new customers that we got and how they were so interested in the products that we supplied them that we provided for them. They were quite impressed. What they were really concerned about was okay, we love what we got. How can we get it? How can we reorder? They were very excited and my experience, I am very thankful that I got this opportunity to travel to Martinique and to feature, show my products and to share the knowledge of obtaining good health. How many persons, you know, said to you that they probably would, did you get a market with people interested in getting a product? Almost everyone who purchased from me, they asked me how can I reorder because I sell supplements. All of my products are supplemental products. So if you take it this month, you have to re-stock, you have to re-supply, you have to buy more. So this is what they wanted to know. So there is a market for the melanin product, the supplemental products. There is a market for everything that we brought, the teabags from Rigo Dolls. There is a market for it and they were asking us when are we coming back. So it was a wonderful experience. I learned a lot and I hope I am going back next year. Definitely. So tell me about your experience. My experience was incredible, I would say. What really happened the first day when I started to sell, I was like, oh my goodness, this is so much bottles. I would even start to clear that. But what I realized by the next day, afternoon didn't turn down, I had like 15 bottles left. I'm like, this is incredible. How many bottles you came up with? I came up with 365 bottles, something like that. Yeah, in two days they were all gone. I wouldn't even full two days, let's say. No, let's say less than that. You know what I mean? Less hours, maybe 40 hours and everything was gone. So that was incredible for me. I wasn't expecting it to go as quick as I could have been more. So you came back walking on one side, you rose on one side. Yeah, too much weight, so I had to hop. Yeah, so it was a remarkable feeling. What I did was, my mind said now that I've been there and I see how the society is, I'm actually going to jump back up there this month. So I'm going to go there because I actually got a call from some people and they were interested in getting more bottles and I'm like, I can't get over there. But what I'm going to do, I'm going to go over there and see how I can make a market for myself because I like to move fast, I'm an extreme helper. I was living in my rest days, even when I'm dreaming. In fact, as you mentioned that, I had a discussion with the mayor briefly this morning, not really official, but she wanted to know exactly how things went. Because Niky, I hope you get better Niky, I know you're not too well, I hope I didn't give you the bug. But Niky, of course, will be able to give a full rundown. I know we'll have a meeting. But one of the things that came up really is the marketing end of it. We are so close. And I believe that, I mean, there's a vessel already. So all we need to do now, and I'm thinking with Export Send Lusia, which I think I'll have to have a chat with Sonita, Daniel Onda, the CEO, to see whether we need to sit down and see how we can, they can facilitate that. Because I believe there is a market, there is a market, there's not two is about it. There's a market and we need to access that market, tap into it. And then by so doing, there's a chain reaction, because the farmers are going to produce more, you'll buy more from the farmers, and then you sell more. So there's a chain reaction. Regal, give us your experience. Yeah, my experience was fantastic. Because when I got the call from City Council and they called me and I was saying to myself, what? Unbelievable, because it's something I always used to talk about, always asking them to get that opportunity to showcase my product in Martinique. And when I got the call, when she said, I got your name from, she told me from who? You got the opportunity to go to Martinique, I said to her, I'm always asking for something like that, you know. And she said, yes, but she told me she'll call me next day to be more information about that.   Because we remember you always told me about that. Always talking about her, always. And life is patient. If you don't have patience and trust God, it will not be possible. And my experience, trust me, it was awesome. Because when I got up there, I remember I bought the spice from a few packets. And the first days, it wasn't even 12 o'clock when I sold out all. And I had the teas, a lot of people bought, I bought a lot of teas, a lot of shakers, like the spice shakers. And a lot of people was asking me, if they have to buy from me again, how are they able to get it? So I told them, well, maybe, maybe next year. That's what I told them. And there is an inclusion girl that I have chaired before then. She was telling us, and she told me, hey, Wednesday. I wanted to send two boxes up for me. So I tell her, I don't believe it would be possible for me to do it by Wednesday. So girls give me some chance and I'll let her know when I'll be able to get it from her. So she messaged me last night. This morning I told her, well, I have to work on it. So when it's ready, I'll let her know. Because I know I don't have it ready. So when there is another one who called me yesterday as well, in regards to the same thing as well, they need the product, they like it. And it's not all natural, no preservative, no additive. And it's a product that's ideal for both children and adults. So I find that opportunity, like I pray to God I get that opportunity next year, which I know we will. We will, definitely we will. Because there is a market for it. Yeah, definitely there is a market for it. So once you see I get the opportunity, just tapping to it. So you're able to sell almost everything at your house? Well, I'll say maybe 80% of what I went up with. And the price was right? Yeah, the price was right. Because I remember three or four people came by me and they told me I find your prices very reasonable. Yeah, they told me I find the prices reasonable. And so many came to my booth and asked me if I have seamos. I told them no. I told them there's a booth down there that has seamos. Some people ask seamos down there. They tell me but they don't have it finished. So I tell them, well, it's finished. But I myself don't sell seamos. I sell spices and teas. That's right. Yeah. Well, in addition to the three of you, we had veils, wines. Yes. And these brooms and veils, wines went like hall kicks. Yes. You know, and people are looking forward to that. Yes. We also had the Choisel crafters. Yes. You know, and they went well. This solution network of rural women, that is the Babu Nuklasta. Yes.  We had some mixed products with barons, foods and other. And that was there. That went very well. Yeah. We also have the... Well, the St. Lucia distillers from up there itself. Yeah.  They didn't do not selling, but they were out doing tastings. Yeah. And that went very well too. And of course the promotion from the St. Lucia Tourism Authority. Yeah. We had the promotion booth. Yeah. Promoting jazz festival. Yes. Yes. You know what I said. So I think we had a potpourri of persons that went well. But what I also liked was the... I walked the entire exhibition and you had the livestock section. Yeah. We had fresh produce right next to us. Yes. The market. Yeah. And you see how well laid out these things were. Yeah. You had the agro processing section. Lots of honey in marketing. Yeah. And you have a series of honey producers. Oh. And that spells well for them.  So I mean... And of course not forgetting the entertainment. You know, right next to us. Yes. Yes. And that kept us going. Mm-hmm. You know. But I must say... Before I end, I must say thank you to quite a few people. Of course, the mayor of Riviera Pilots, that is Jean Fossois Bonnel, if I pronounced it well. And then we have Mr. Lucien Adonis. This gentleman has been working with us, having this exhibition for many, many, many years. I worked with him. And he is still the president of the Farmers Association in Riviera Pilots. I want to say hello to him. Annie Lefroy, who was a seller marketing person for SLTA, the St. Lucia Tourism Authority. Cedric Jean-Marie, who is of course the socialist guy that was there. And we also had... Of course, don't forget Ms. Samuels. Ms. Samuels, yes, yes. I mean, she played a leading role. Yes, definitely. And she has been doing that for years. Yes, definitely. You know, as the president of the St. Lucia French Association. And of course, the Consul General for St. Lucia. That is Ms. Alison Joseph. She blessed us with her presence there. Yes, yes, she did. And of course, that was very nice of her.  You know, I can't forget you. We worked well together before. And of course, again, it should have again, had this exposition. So, get well. I want to thank you again. And of course, I represented the Minzora culture to do the logistics. Mr. Marius Modest, who is a counselor at the Cassie's constituency council. And he was the communication man taking all the photos. And I'm hoping to get something coming from him, you know, as far as news was concerned. So, I really want to thank you all for being at the exhibition. And of course, I'm sure you're looking forward for next year. Thank you for being on the program to express yourself. And of course, I want you to continue working hard. And anywhere we can help, we can help. Feel free. Cauldron, I know you're very interested in my young man. Continue doing what you're doing. Continue what you're doing. Thank you. So, regularly, it's an old-fashioned thing. So, thanks again. Yeah, thanks. And I wish you success. Thank you. And I want to say a big thank you to the mayor's institution, the government's institution. Definitely. We make that weekend possible. Definitely. I would also like to put in my two cents. Tell me what to end with. Close ending. Okay. I'd like to thank the Taiwanese embassy and the prime minister, Honorable Philip J. Pierre, for allowing Melanie to go and be featured in Martinique. Beautiful. Great. You have been watching Agricultural Move. Thank you for being the program. Remember, agriculture is our business. And eat fresh. St. Lucia's best. I'm Philip Sidney, saying goodbye and see you again.


Well, it seems as if the momentum that Democrats had over the summer is going away momentum is now Definitely shifting in the Republican Party's direction this is according to a new poll conducted by the New York Times and Sienna College between October 9th and 12th and It shows that 49% of likely voters now lean Republican compared to 45% that lean Democrat Women as you can see are split down the middle and younger voters lean Democrat although by not that much So things are changing Momentum as I stated was in Democrats direction after the Supreme Court repealed Roe v. Wade There was a lot of backlash to that lots of women registered to vote and Now the anger seems to be dying down There was also a bump in momentum after Joe Biden announced that he was canceling 10,000 to 20,000 dollars worth of student debt And now that's also fading away. Now first thing to keep in mind is that momentum It's it's very dynamic. It's gonna change. So between now and November It can change again. Now. It's also important is that as the election nears polls tend to tighten So this isn't necessarily that out of the ordinary But something is happening things are changing and it's because the Democratic Party Has not sufficiently gotten out the message So the New York Times explains the biggest shift came from women who identified as independent voters in September They favored Democrats by 14 points now independent women back Republicans by 18 points a striking swing Given the polarization of the American electorate and how intensely Democrats have focused on that group and on the threat Republicans posed to abortion rights the survey showed that the economy remained a far more potent political issue in 2022 than abortion now if we held the election a week after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade I think that Democrats would have won easily But like all political issues the momentum the anger the emotions They die down and that's kind of what we're seeing happening here Democrats I think have done a good job at elevating the issue of abortion But the problem is that they focused on abortion and they haven't focused enough on other issues ideally the economy and that's where They're failing. So I want to read what one voter in this article was quoted saying because I think that she has a lot of insight that kind of Should give Democrats the indication that they need to change course right away quote I'm shifting more towards Republican because I feel like they're more geared towards business said Robin Ackerman a 37-year-old Democrat and mortgage loan officer who lives in Newcastle, Delaware and is planning to vote Republican this fall Miss Ackerman said she disagreed 1,000 percent with the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and to raise the national rights When abortion, but that doesn't really have a lot to do with my decision. She said of her fall vote I'm more worried about other things. Yeah So what this tells us is that voters have different levels of salience for issues if somebody cares about abortion They perhaps care more about a different issue and that issue is going to be what determines How they vote? So for me, for example, just as an individual my number one issue is climate change My number two issue has historically been health care But over the last year or so trans rights and LGBTQ plus rights has increased in its salience And now it's more salient to me than health care Abortion is also right up there as well The difference is that what is your top two to three issues isn't going to be the same top two to three issues To every single voter and the way that you run a successful election is you try to cast the widest net and how you get Most voters is with a really strong populist economic message because economic issues by and large are going to be what brings people out to vote and Bernie Sanders believe it or not while this poll is being conducted wrote Or not that about just that in the Guardian where he argues that Democrats must continue to focus on abortion Of course and highlight the extremism of the Republican Party But he also made it very clear quote you can't win elections unless you have the support of the working class of this country But you're not going to have that support unless you make it clear that you're prepared to take on powerful special interests and Fight for the millions of Americans who are struggling economically Whether it is extending the three hundred dollars a month a child tax credit that expired in December that slashed the child poverty rate by over 40% or increasing social security benefits or expanding Medicare to cover dental hearing and vision or making childcare affordable The Democrats must stand with the working class of this country and expose the Republicans for the phonies that they are now Bernie Sanders Here is correct There's a number of things that the Democratic Party can brag about that they're not really highlighting for example Democrats increase the corporate tax rate But they're not bragging about that They also got funding for climate change. It may not be what we wanted But it's still something that I think they should be bragging about student debt cancellation. That's really important But the problem is that Democrats tend to lean away From economic issues and whenever Democrats end up and this is a generalization by the way Whenever Democrats end up talking about economic issues rather than trying to craft a message They just run with whatever the right-wing talking points are and pretend to be Republican light Now Bernie Sanders for that op-ed actually got a lot of backlash For example, he was criticized in an op-ed written by Kylie Chung of Jezebel who I normally agree with but in this article She wrote even if we lived in some alternate reality where abortion is separable from the economy It's pretty sexist to suggest that the state ripping 50 years of bodily rights away from pregnant capable people and Reducing them to baby-making machines is itself too trivial to take center stage now Renee Bracey Sherman echoed that same sentiment Saying imagine not knowing that abortion is a health care issue that sits at the intersection of economic and racial justice Our failing health care system capitalism and the needs of working families.  So if you're going to make the issue of abortion your centerpiece Then you have to simplify the message make it about freedom. This is about freedom Should women have as much freedom as men should they be able to control their own bodies to the extent that men are able to You can't get down to all the technicalities and talk about these systemic issues and how abortion is related to other issues Because that's going to be very confusing and complicated to voters What Bernie Sanders is suggesting here is that Democrats craft an economic message that appeals to everyone This doesn't mean that you stop talking about abortion It just means that you also highlight other issues that are affecting the American people Inflation is at a 40-year high So you can't just seed that ground to Republicans because as it stands right now Republicans are monopolizing discourse when it comes to inflation. So even if Democrats are rightfully attacking them for abortion Well, they're getting away with their extremism on the issue of abortion by choosing to just not talk about it as more Perfect Union explains via Twitter Republicans have spent $44 million on TV ads focused on inflation and the economy since Labor Day per lever news Democrats have spent just 12 million less than 7% of their total ad spending. That's just not good enough So while Democrats I think are correct to hit Republicans for their extremism on abortion You also have to point out the ways that they have failed when it comes to the economy, right? they refuse to raise taxes on corporations they refuse to join Democrats in capping these price gouging oil companies you can actually hit them for these things and Still talk about abortion. Believe it or not You don't have to have a one-dimensional message But of course you should emphasize the issues that is going to that are going to resonate the most with voters now Stan Greenberg you saw his picture in that tweet from more Perfect Union He broke it down into the most simplified message that Democrats can have that would win over voters. Let's watch Democracy Corp recently did a large survey and found the economic argument that resonates most with voters It's pretty straightforward. So let me kind of present it in the form of a 30-second ad Corporate profits are high but hardworking families aren't seeing an increase in our paychecks I'm running for Congress and have elected the first thing I'm going to do is pass a bill that would deliver Working people up to six hundred dollars a month to help with the rising costs of groceries gas and housing And I want to pay for it by taxing big corporations whose greed is unacceptable My Republican opponent is an extremist who takes contributions from oil and drug companies and he doesn't get it Let's work together to tackle the high cost of living I'm Stan Greenberg and I approve this message pretty simple, right? So let's deconstruct the elements of the ad that are most important here So what we found in our polling is that expanding the child tax credit Resonates almost more powerfully than anything else we tested With working-class voters under the age of 50 when voters understand that Republicans took the tax credit away It is one of the most effective attacks that expanded child tax credit could deliver up to 600 dollars a month in the pockets of Working people it's an economic promise that you can explain and show it how it makes a difference in their lives And at the same time you show how the Republicans are standing in the way But here's the danger when we tested arguments that top Democratic accomplishments Talking up the economy and the creation of good jobs while avoiding discussion of the challenges of high cost of living Those messages provide the worst results What we also found in our survey is that engaging at this point on the crime issue hurts Democrats more than their jobs We get a reduced vote margin after we join the debate on funding and defunding the police This is not the time to you know elevate the crime issue The good news is that Democrats hold or get to a four-point lead when they can test the cost of living Time is short, but we can still make gains if we focus Democrats on making Populous economic message the appeal to working people Yeah, it's not that complicated. So the salience of an issue is going to vary from person to person Even if somebody might Hate that Republicans supported the repeal of Roe v. Wade Well, if they Believe that Republicans are gonna be better when it comes to the economy and lower inflation for example Well, they're gonna vote for Republicans because they just don't know any better and the anger that they felt in June is Now gone and remember voters are self-interested. They're selfish and they're thinking what's gonna benefit me the most So if for example, LGBTQ plus rights is your number one issue Well for another person, they might care about it a lot, right? The problem is that they care less about that than they do about issues that affect them economically Because even if they really care about LGBTQ plus people and they know someone who's LGBTQ plus They're going to vote based on what they think is going to help their family first and foremost So we've got to keep this in mind with voters and we can't superimpose our values and our levels of salience of Issues on everyone else Economic issues are very very important and for years. It's not just this election But for years Democrats have ceded ground to Republicans and they've allowed them to monopolize discourse and make it seem as if Republicans are better on the economy than Democrats when that's just factually incorrect It's demonstrably untrue But yet there are times that call for massive action and Democrats can point out how they've tried to take action If you give us more senators, we're gonna make sure that we codify that and make it permanent So your family no longer has to suffer like there are messages that they can Have and it doesn't just have to be based on one issue but Democrats they kind of went all in on abortion and Republicans were able to you know sidestep them so it hurt them for a little bit But things have changed and if you want to run a successful campaign, you've got to adapt and that's what Democrats have to do So I agree that abortion is a very important issue and I don't necessarily doubt folks like Kylie Chung who think that You know, this shouldn't be the main focus But the point is that voters are complicated and they care about a lot of things and ultimately they care about what's going to Effect them the most you can't have this convoluted message message about the way that abortion is tied to the economy and whatnot That's not gonna resonate with voters realistically speaking. I wish that it did but people just aren't that savvy So instead you simplify the message and you cast the widest net. That's what Democrats have to do Otherwise Republicans will take control of both chambers of Congress and that's not gonna be good for any of us So the best thing that Democrats can do is get out of their bubble talk to real voters and craft messages based on What their needs are and what they view as the most salient issue because otherwise, you know You're not gonna win elections that doesn't mean that these issues can't be prioritized or should be put on the back burner Of course, they shouldn't be but the point that Bernie Sanders and people like myself are making is that you have to focus on Multiple issues not just one issue. Otherwise you will lose and to be clear I don't necessarily think that abortion is hurting Democrats. I think that it's helping them to the contrary It's just that Republicans have been able to be more persuasive when it comes to issues like the economy and Democrats have not realized That yet and they haven't gotten that signal and they haven't changed course But they've got to emphasize the economy and they can't do it from a right-wing perspective Come up with a populist economic message and you still have a chance, but I just I don't know if It's too late for them at this point in time. So we'll just have to wait and see I


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