Joe Harris, 17 points, three of six from three tonight.  Another fine night. Here he is post game. Hey, Joe, what does this, what does this W say about this another road win?  So Portland's not the same sort of atmosphere. You know, there was zero fans there tonight, which I think has helped us out a little bit here on the road because we played extremely well, especially against these Western Conference teams. But I think, you know, just over the course of today's game, you know, we showed a level of resilience that that good teams show, you know, for us to give up 41 points in the first quarter and then to kind of like steadily take it down each quarter of following, you know, that's usually at the beginning of the game, it was looking like we're going to get ourselves into a little bit of a shootout.   You hold them to 21 points in that fourth quarter. What kind of strides have you guys made over the course of the season on the defensive side of the ball? I thought going into the break, you know, those last probably like 10, 11 games, we were playing extremely well defensively. You know, I think we were kind of finding our rhythm, our confidence on that end, guys are picking up for one another, sacrificing for one another. And for whatever reason, coming back from the break, we dipped a little bit. And, you know, we're slowly starting to get back there. You know, tonight was definitely a better defensive effort against a really good offensive team. Greg Logan, Newsday. Joe, you guys dominated them in the paint. And that's a game where the temptation could have been to try to match their three-point shooting. Did you guys, was that a conscious adjustment that you made to go inside? Or is Nick Claxton just having a major impact with his presence in the middle?  And if they're going to load up on other people and a lot of opportunities for other guys to make plays, you know, he's able to sort of exploit that weakness. And, you know, he does a time in, time again. Sometimes it's with perimeter players and then other times it's with bigs. And then tonight, you know, I think it wasn't necessarily a conscious effort, I don't think. I think it was just sort of how the game unfolded.


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Meg mentioned in CAPER, which is this kind of national effort bringing together lots of different people working in the arts field to do a variety of projects that are going to increase preparedness. And Jan has been at the helm of in CAPER for how long? A few years. She'll tell you about herself. Please welcome Jan Newcomb. Hi. I'm glad to be here. Drove in yesterday and staying at a little cottage just down the road apiece. And I'm from Corning, New York, and I've returned there after many years of running organizations kind of all over the place. And I'm a Johnny Come lately to the preparedness side of things. I was hired by the Performing Arts Readiness Project in 2017 as their token performing arts executive who knows why there is resistance by some small organizations, some large organizations to be prepared. And I have really learned a lot as Meg would attest. I came in with little knowledge of preparedness, however, I had a lot of experience throughout my 40 years. And that's kind of why I'm talking about this today. I ran, let's see, since I was 29, I have run eight performing arts organizations, local arts agencies. I've been a state grants director for the South Carolina Arts Commission. I've had my own dance company, done a lot of different things, and I've also taught. So what I'm going to say in answer to your question, if you get nothing else out of what I say today, please know that there are a lot of resources that can answer your questions on preparedness and including surf plus. Arts Ready is working with us on we're preparing an online tool that you can use to put all your preparedness critical stuff in and it will actually have an incident management app for when we do have times of need as we call the dark times. And the performing arts readiness has a lot of webinars that we've produced and end caper has a lot of resources on it as well. So if nothing else, and I do have some postcards out front, okay, so I picked my top 10. Actually you'll see there are only eight categories, but a couple of them happen twice. So the cause and effect. First one, stalkers. Having realized when I was really approached by two stalkers, limited egress for staff and for students. And I will go over each one of these, but I just wanted to outline it. And regional flooding due to hurricanes and one was just due to a recalcitrant deluge system in a theater and it caused the hurricane caused devastating loss of life and property. Loss of major donors for a series, this happened to me twice, two different orchestras, one in the south and one in the north and that you don't get a lot of warning on that, but you have to deal with it. Roof claps after excessive rain. And right under the roof was our library with no mitigation for having a leaky roof and no reserve funds for correcting anything. This would be something you would be aware of here, eight-inch surprise on the day of performance. So we had, the cost would have been $50,000 to cancel the performance because we had had four rehearsals, which I was obligated to pay for. Car crashing into my office. That was a special one and causing just before, two weeks before performance, no access to our office files where everything was, of course. And this actually happened to a friend of mine, but I decided it was an important thing, the bomb threat during a performance and how she handled that. When there was no, it was a brand new performing arts center and there was no plan yet in place for evacuation. And then also very important, clogged furnace, which almost cost us our lives. So, stalker, lessons learned. The first experience I was teaching a class of 12-year-olds, modern dance. And it was the second floor of an old building in the ballroom. The only means of egress was where the guy showed up. And he was a known person with difficulties. And here I had a class of these young 12-year-olds. And there was nothing to do, so I had them actually continue their dance.  And we all got out, it was before cell phones. So we had to commandeer a parent to get the police, to get the guy out of there. But lessons learned, you need help assessing if you're there at night. Doesn't even matter if it's at night. But to assess your security issues, also you need to know the state law. And this happened in Buford, South Carolina where I was running an arts council and the Performing Arts Center on a campus. And this gentleman, I loosely call him a gentleman, would come in and he would appear after my, when I was alone in the office. And there was no egress in the office as well. And well, long story short, they had just put in the South Carolina stalker law. And my assistant's husband was an NCIS agent, and he's like, this is serious. We're calling in the sheriff. And what we had to fulfill the criteria of the state law, which meant that the dean of the campus who was in charge of the campus had to be the one to tell the guy he was not allowed on campus before the police could arrest him. So there became this great operation to see when the guy was there. And it turns out he was wanted for murder in Texas. So you really need to know what you're doing when it comes to stalkers and, you know, the safety. Okay, another giant 1972 flood hurricane agnes in Corning. I'm working with the Southern Finger Lakes. We have our creative placekeeping network, mainly due to this experience, which this community has really never, never really, well, we recovered and such. And the arts council did this oral history project. It was 45 years later, and the memories of people were just so incredibly vivid. It's amazing, but it was 79 people were killed. Loss of, well, the Corning Museum of Glass, which is now on stilts rebuilt. And it was, actually, a good example of leadership at the local level, both public and private, as being successful in bringing a community around. But the other experience was also in Buford, South Carolina, where the deluge system just became activated on its own overnight and flooded everything. Well, it came down here on the newly laid beautiful stage floor and filled up the pit and everything, and it was before the grand opening of the space. So had to know who the vendors were, insurance policies, all these things where you learn the hard way. Loss of a donor, this is a real emergency when all your printed material has been done and you assume that the commitment that these two major, and if I told you who they were, you'd probably die. Anyway, I realized I had to find new donors, new sources of funding, and I wouldn't have anything in print. So there was the added expense of how do you recognize these new donors, how do you get them? And also what kind of crisis communication plan?  You can't keep it a secret. You have to communicate, and a message has to be specific for each group, each stakeholder group. And having a reserve fund is very important. And here we have the ducks. This was my first day as interim president and CEO of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. It had been raining for most of the month, and little did I know, there were ducks swimming in a rather large, deep pool of water that was about to injure the roof. And I had this fireman running up, lady, lady, you've got ducks on your roof. And I'm like, okay, what do I do about that? And as I said before, the library of the Rochester Philharmonic, which was pretty extensive 100 years since George Eastman was a donor, it was right underneath. We were able to get that out. But what I learned is, as the admin space we rented this building, we were responsible for all capital upkeep and improvements. That was in the lease that I was able to find, amazing. However, I had to find a new donor for the $50,000 unexpected expense. So know what your lease is and know what you're responsible for. Regional snow. And we didn't have a ticket refund policy. My orchestra was under $500,000 budget, and they were paid per service, all these members from all over upstate New York. And they got, so I owed them for four rehearsals. And if I canceled the performance, I was going to lose, would have to refund the cost of the tickets. And that was a $50,000 potential liability. Fortunately, it was late March and the snow melted quickly. And we were all be able to have the performance. But another reason for reserve funds and the communications plan, the phone tree, how do you get a hold of everybody? And of course, the Performing Arts Center was happy not to have the performance because they didn't want to come out and work in the snow. So you got to be organized. This actually happened to me. That was a door on the other side of the building. A car went out of control, an older gentleman. It went entirely into the office, and his foot was on the accelerator so that it quickly filled up with smoke and the tire spinning, so the exhaust, et cetera. The bad thing is that we were just before performance. I didn't have a backup for any of my financials or my donor information. And I had no idea where we were kicked out of the space. I did a little cat and mouse game with the codes officer, who still remembered me when I moved back two years ago. He, to try to get my laptop out of there and get information. So not only back up your files, but make sure you have a backup location where you can work and also make sure you have access to the same software. Somebody can let you have use of a laptop or even a regular PC, but if it doesn't have your e-tapestry or whatever, you're in trouble. Okay, this is the bomb threat. Interesting. It was the first performing arts center brand new, and it was the first performing arts center that produced Angels in America. So they were used to getting some bomb threats. This was a magician whom you will initials our DC. Anyway, we get the, she got the bomb threat, and what are we going to do? It's in the middle of the performance. And he actually had the idea, since nobody had been trained for evacuation, they didn't want to create the panic. He said, I will go out on stage and I will tell everyone that my next act is going to be performed in the plaza and that everyone needed to leave in an orderly fashion and meet up at the plaza. Meanwhile, the police came in with the dogs sniffing for bombs, and it was a false alarm. However, it was just the brilliance of the people who were there and a lot of luck. And I suggest to you all, don't leave it to luck. And this is my clogged flu. I was exhausted, didn't know why, and my office on the second floor, all the exhaust of the furnace. And I was away and I was actually feeling better when I get the phone call that one of my asthmatic staff people had passed out driving home, taken to the hospital, and she had carbon monoxide poisoning. So the architect owner of our space had assured me that everything was up to code, it was not. And so even if somebody tells you that, make sure you do a hazard workplace condition update on a regular basis. That's all I can say is we were lucky. So preparedness makes good sense and makes way for prompt resumption of service. It expedites response and recovery, saves time, trouble, and expense in the long run. It does, if you mitigate beforehand. And it minimizes damage and replaces chaos with thoughtful response and recovery. So start now. Why do readiness planning? And there are many reasons that hopefully I've just pointed out, but protecting community and cultural assets, demonstrating sustainability to investors. And it can show, it can help you with your insurance company as well. And also just the ability to get up and going after an incident. And out there we have a postcard about Arts Ready 2.0. It is an online emergency preparedness service that will be for everyone. It's similar to, those of you in the audience know, D-Plan. Well, we're actually, the museum side and cultural side will come in through D-Plan. And the performing arts side will come through Arts Ready. And it will be an online service. And we are hoping this will be ready to go for beta testing by the end of this month. So please do as I say, not as I have done. Thank you. Well, it's my pleasure to introduce our next speaker. That would be Ben Rose from Vermont Emergency Management. And as he makes his way up to the lecture, and I just want to thank him profusely. The fact that he has been so, oh my, we could have mitigated that a little better. The fact that Ben's been, he's just trying to distract me so I don't compliment him. The fact that he has been involved with our process and has shown the commitment of the emergency management side of state government from the beginning has been tremendously important. And it's just going to be fabulous to be working with him throughout this entire process. Because he's also going to be on our steering committee. We also have had the advantage of having Doug Babcock, who you'll hear from later, who's a public safety officer and is the president of the Vermont Emergency Managers Association, a new group. So they're committed to working with us as well. Because as Meg alluded to, there's a real importance to having cultural heritage organizations work in conjunction with emergency management. And make sure that they know more about us and we know more about their ICS, EOC, and all the other stuff y'all do. So Ben's going to talk a bit now. You also have the opportunity to hear more from him this afternoon, talking about public assistance. But now he's going to talk about Irene. Thank you. All right. Now sit down. Be quiet. And also, I know there are about 60 of us in the room. Show of hands if you work for a state agency. One, two, three, four, five, six. OK. Show of hands if you are an emergency manager. Doug, anybody else? Are there any local emergency management directors? EMD is here. No. Well, Doug. OK. And show of hands if you work for an organization, a non-profit or some other organization, and you are sort of entrepreneurial and you're here looking for how is this going to help me and my organization. And how many of you actually worry about funding and where money comes from if something really bad happens? OK. Well, so my session this afternoon at 2 o'clock is going to be down in the weeds of the alphabet soup and where the federal money comes from and where it doesn't come from. So I really want to try to be helpful to you. And I spent a good chunk of my career in the nonprofit sector and I feel you're angst. In this phase of my career, I find myself as an emergency management bureaucrat. So I guess I wear a bright tie and try to mitigate the alphabet soup that I'm about to present to you. And by the way, who is listening to VPR on the way here this morning? Anybody? Every second word was disaster, resilience, emergency. I mean, between the Bahamas and Dorian and the global situation, the language that we use of disaster resiliency, emergency resilience is it's in danger of becoming the new resilient, the new sustainability. I mean, the words start to blur together. And later on, I'm going to try to engage you a little bit in thinking about the language that we use. We need the artistic community. We need help with our words, I think. All right, we know what happened eight years ago on August 28, 2011. 11 inches of rain fell on the summit of Mendon Mountain. This tropical storm came right up through Vermont. I live in Williston Village, and that's in the green. So we thought it was a rainy day in Chittenden County. And the next morning, much of Vermont was destroyed. And the numbers were big. I was not involved in emergency management at all until February 2, 2012, four-plus months after Irene. And Sue Minter, who was then the Irene Recovery Officer, asked me if I would help with the Irene Recovery. And a few days later, I walked into the FEMA Joint Field Office, or JFO, in Essex Junction. And there were a couple of hundred federal people there writing project worksheets for Vermont communities that had had their infrastructure destroyed. And there were no state people there. And we were getting run over in ways that we really didn't understand at the time. And region one of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, had never dealt with anything like Irene before. So this was two orders of magnitude bigger than what either the state or the feds were used to dealing with.  And within a couple of weeks, dozens and dozens of community officials had me on speed dial. And I ran around the JFO for 18 months with my hair on fire. And at the end of that two years, the state had filed over 30 appeals on behalf of Vermont communities. We had won more than half of them. We had learned a lot. We had become a much more muscular emergency management agency. And we had come to understand all the cycles of emergency management. So this is some of the money that flowed through various Vermont state agencies. You'll notice that the local impact, the local property taxes, was only in the order of $10 million. $30 million was just money lost. My dad had a small building in Brandon that he rented out. And it flooded. And it never really occurred to him to ask anybody for help beyond his insurance settlement. There are lots of slow stories out there. Lots of neighbors help neighbors. Private insurance, we think, covered about $60 million. But look at the federal number, $600 million. That's between federal highway for the major roads and FEMA public assistance for the local road infrastructure and the state office building. Over 1,000 state workers were displaced. Yeah, this is a breakdown of the federal dollars. I guess one thing I want to say is that when you drive through Vermont now eight years later, unless you're looking for you don't really see the scars of Irene, the state is mostly put back together now. It is a great country in that the Stafford Act, named for a Vermont senator, allows communities to recover from something like that with federal assistance when they need it. So this is a messy diagram of how FEMA emergency management planners conceive of the emergency management disaster response cycle. And there's this short term thing. There's a disaster. Boom. But here's a disaster. And the people we think of as emergency managers are the first responders, firemen, policemen, EMTs, and they're adrenaline junkies. They're sprinters. And then there are these waves. And here it is eight years later. And we're still doing the paperwork to close out the last projects from Tropical Storm Irene. And what we discovered is that, whereas response is a sprint, recovery is an ultramarathon most of the time. And there are actually four phases of emergency management. That's a circular, it's continuous. There's preparedness. It's what you do in advance, which is what we're doing right here today. There's what the first responders do. And then there's the recovery, which goes on in cycles and waves forever. And then there's mitigation.  And we'll come back to that. And that's where the vocabulary comes into effect. So just a couple of data points on Irene. I don't know if you can see the numbers, but what I want to call your attention to is that Bethel had over $5 million of damage. Jamaica, with a half million dollar road damage, had almost $5 million of damage. These are basically the top 10 towns in terms of the big hits. And most of the infrastructure that got destroyed was transportation infrastructure. Why? Because our roads and our villages are built where the water was. So when the rivers decided to move, the towns were in the way. What I'm supposed to talk about is the lessons learned from Irene and what has changed. So these next few slides are going to be very text heavy. But I'm going to try to focus on the things that I think are relevant to you all. We learned some things that are mostly inside baseball for state bureaucrats, like the fact that our fluvial erosion hazard mapping is needed to be improved and that FEMA focuses on inundation flooding, like what happens on the Mississippi River, whereas what we have is fluvial erosion, where a flashy mountain stream decides to move. And so it's sideways, violent action, and it's hard to map. And it's hard to explain to FEMA that a house that just got wiped downstream and is gone now should be eligible for a buyout. And FEMA would say, this really happened. FEMA will say, well, those five houses that got wiped away in the town of Jamaica, they weren't in the special flood hazard area. We say, what do you mean they weren't in the special flood hazard area? They're down the river. They're gone. They just got wiped out. And FEMA says, well, we have to go by the maps. And it's not mapped, the special flood hazard area. And we say, well, the map is wrong. Reality just really happened. And fluvial erosion is harder to map. And what Vermont river engineers, who are really on the cutting edge nationally, have been trying to say is the water course has a meander belt. And anything that's in that meander belt is ultimately in harm's way. The rivers and streams haven't done anything wrong. We've just built in their way. And we're fighting that. And the more we channelize those rivers and streams, the more hazard there is. So anyway, I don't want to get into fluvial morphology, but I just did. We learned that we need to strengthen interagency communication coordination. One of the good things that came out of Irene for the state of Vermont is it just totally busted silos in state government. The agency of natural resources, the agency of transportation, the agency of commerce and community development, Vermont emergency management, and the Department of Public Safety, we talk to each other a lot now, a lot more. And we coordinate so much better. We know that there is a great and ongoing training need. We know that we needed to update some standards and policies. I don't want to get into all that today. We've applied some lessons learned. And again, I'm not going to talk about these top lines. We're doing that. We've done that. We'll talk if we have time about planning. But I actually want to talk to you a little bit about this one and the fifth one in particular. The Vermont Economic Resiliency Initiative was a project done by the Agency of Commerce and Community Development to really look at specific communities. And they drilled down and looked at, and then we'll also look at this one. So very, if you will, VERI looked at specific communities and targeted five. The three Bs, Brattleboro, Brandon, and, sorry, was I drifting from the mic? Now I get it. Sorry. Brandon, Barry, and Brattleboro are the three Bs. And Enosburg and Woodstock were the five that they focused in on to say, what can we do to make these communities more resilient? And specific actions have been taken, especially in the three Bs. We need to do that level of planning work in all of our communities. And I'm going to talk a little bit about Brattleboro Project in particular. And then the fifth of those things, this one, this flood-ready website is something that we did with federal funds. It's a really cool website. There are tremendous resources there. And you can actually look at your community specifically and find out, do we have a hazard mitigation plan? Do we have an emergency operations plan? Are our transportation codes and standards up to date? Who here from an organization knows who your local emergency management director is? Good. Does anybody not? You don't have to raise your hand. That's a really good thing to know, because all disaster response starts local. The state only gets called when something escalates. And by the way, something I've meant to mention is that my pager could go off at any time. And that's because this week, I'm the state watch officer. There are six of us in the rotation. And this week, I'm on 24-7 call. And if this pager goes off, that's essentially a first responder somewhere in the state calling 911 to the state, just as individuals call 911 if they have a need for help. If first responders have a need for state resources, they call an 800 number. The pager goes off. And the state watch officer is then responsible for deploying whatever state resources we can bring to bear. So hopefully, the pager won't go off for the next few minutes. That's the response piece, but resources for the long-term recovery are on this flood-ready website. It's pretty cool. Oh, this was January. I was the watch officer on a really bad day, January 24th. And Flower Brook and Paulette decided to be somewhere else because of an ice jam. And the fire chief's house got flooded. OK, this is what I really wanted to get to. Mitigation is one of those words. Mitigation. So I want to talk to you about what can be done. Granted that Vermont communities were built where the hydropower was, typically right next to streams. We have whole, beautiful, charming, quaint, little downtowns full of cultural and historic resources that are eight feet below base flood elevation. I mean, they are built where the stream was or is and will be again. So we could pour an infinite number of dollars into mitigating flood hazard, and we'll never spend our way out of being flood vulnerable in Vermont. And it's important to recognize that nobody, including a government official, can completely mitigate or offset the risk of natural disaster. But the federal government has, in fact, had a pretty good recognition that if you're going to invest in helping people recover from disasters, it's a good investment of public dollars to spend some dollars reducing the long-term vulnerability and mitigating future risk. So the way the Stafford Act works is that for every dollar of public assistance, for every one of those $210 million of public assistance that the federal government contributed to rebuilding infrastructure in 225 towns after Irene, for every one of those dollars, $0.15 was provided to the state of Vermont to make hazard mitigation grants to any community, anywhere in the state, or to a qualifying non-profit in the state to do an eligible hazard mitigation project. So for Irene, that was $34.5 million. And the state used over $20 million of that to do home buyouts. Mostly it served double duty as a humanitarian mission because we had hundreds of people who'd lost everything. And we were able to buy out about 150 homes and let people essentially restart their lives. I mean, years after Irene, there were still people couchsurfing because of Irene. But we were able to mitigate a lot of personal suffering by doing buyouts of homes that just should not have been rebuilt in those places. The first thing to say about this hazard mitigation funding is that to be eligible, the community has to have a FEMA-approved hazard mitigation plan. So this is a map. Green is good. It means those communities have approved hazard mitigation plans. And there are a few like, I don't know. I don't worry too much about Somerset and Glastonbury because basically nobody lives there. So most of the population of the state is covered by a hazard mitigation plan. There are a few that are just against planning. But less than 40% of remote communities had hazard mitigation plans at the time of Irene. And so we've been trying to chip away to the number of towns that actually have plans either approved or in draft is over 70% now. So anyway, that's one thing. So what do we do with hazard mitigation? Well, the best thing we can do is to take something that has been damaged or is repetitively damaged or is in imminent danger of being damaged by flooding, which is our number one hazard, and demo it and get rid of it. And the land is then owned by the town or a nonprofit as open space in perpetuity. And essentially, we give it back to the river. And it's a happy river. That's a good thing. Another other things that we can do with hazard mitigation funding are we can upsize culverts. So the river has a place to go. And there are co-benefits. The trout have a place to go. The debris has a place to go. So better drainage structures is a great investment for communities. We can invest in generators for critical facilities. We're fighting with FEMA to provide a generator for the Emergency Operations Center in the town of Brownington. That's a long way from anywhere in Brownington. And on a really, really cold snap without power, it could be a life safety issue if the Emergency Operations Center doesn't have a generator. So we can do elevations. Now, that's interesting because let's say you've got a beautiful historic building in a beautiful historic downtown. We're not going to move the downtown. We don't want to just disappear the building. FEMA will pay to elevate the thing. And you've seen pictures of beach houses elevated up on stilts to get out of the rising tide. The problem is the aesthetics of that. And in our experience, elevations tend to cause heartbreak. Because FEMA is very finicky about what they approve because they really don't love elevation projects. Sorry, I don't want to get sidetracked for elevation projects. The bottom line is that when you elevate a structure that's in the floodplain, you're not really mitigating flood hazard. You're just moving it downstream and reinforcing the thing that's in the river's way. And FEMA won't pay for you to bring in more fill to landscape up to the new level. So the thing just looks, it's up there. Better to just buy it out, or else to just move everything out of the basement and have an unfinished basement. We can do really cool visionary things like we're doing in Brattleboro. Downtown Brattleboro is right in the crosshairs of the Weston Brook. And we're doing a series of multimillion-dollar projects competing for federal funds based on having a really good benefit-cost ratio for the projects we're doing to pull out old historic fill, get rid of an old lumber yard that's basically raising the flood elevations in Brattleboro. This is a project that's being done through multiple phases. It started with demolishing Melrose Terrace that got really destroyed by Irene. This is where a lot of very vulnerable people in Brattleboro live. And so it's a big, ambitious, multi-phase mitigation project. And by the way, we had our state emergency management or preparedness conference this Friday and Saturday at Lake Maury. And Rachel was there, and Anne Lawless from the American Precision Museum, and John Potter from the Lachis in Brattleboro were there. And a picture is worth 1,000 words. That really put a fine point on me how it connects. So here's a cool project. This is the Burnham Library in Lincoln. And what they did is they built, this is called dry flood proofing. They basically have these shutters that keep the flood water from getting in. That was a FEMA funded mitigation project. That's if you're in the flood zone and you don't want to flood, there are things you can do. And these are the people who are part of my team who you talk to if you're interested in a community hazard mitigation project. So in closing, what did we learn and what has changed in Vermont from Irene? Well, so now we're focused much more not just on preparedness and response, but also on recovery and mitigation. I think learned a lot of lessons from Irene about the need for ongoing communication. We're fortunate in that we've had 10 smaller disasters federally declared since Irene. Lots of floods, a few ice storms. And they keep the state and the communities up to date as the FEMA programs constantly change. Whatever comes next, the next big one, won't be Irene. It'll be something different. And what it really comes down to is that Vermont did pretty well by the national metric in our response to Irene. Eight years later, it's just about wrapped up. And when you talk to FEMA people about that, they say, well, Vermont has tight communities. And so resilience is a hard thing to quantify. But you know it when you see it. Part of it is that in a community, often the people who think about long-term land use planning and submitting plans are different people from the first responders. And emergency management was always the purview of the people in the firehouse. And the people who are really thinking about the future of the community are volunteers who show up on Tuesday night to work on plans. And the people who really tell the story and hold the conscience of the community may be people in your organizations. You're the storytellers. And you have a lot of power and a lot of importance in how communities learn from disasters and adapt for the future based on what they've learned. So it's a little all over the place I know. But I just want to say that I think that you in this room have a lot to offer to emergency management. And if I can go on for one more paragraph, I think we're OK. I want to go back to that word mitigation. So obviously, climate change is part of this. We're seeing more precipitation. We're seeing more violent precipitation. We're seeing less predictability. We're having to think about things like drought and invasives. There are creeping hazards. It's a very complicated world. And as Janet would say, based on her experience, there's a lot of things that are happening. And I think we're going to have to think about climate change and climate adaptation. Climate mitigation is let's put less carbon in the air so that we'll slow down climate change. We're mitigating the effects of humanity on the climate. When we think about climate adaptation, that's OK. The climate is changing. How do we adapt for a more flooding future? So on the emergency management side, when we talk about mitigation, we're talking about climate adaptation. The word mitigation is being used in different ways by the climate people and the emergency managers. So the word mitigation from the emergency management side means, OK, there's a lot more flooding coming. How do we get out of its way so that we can coexist with the future climate? It's not to say we shouldn't also be mitigating the impact of how much worse the climate is getting and how fast. That's a lot. Thank you for your time and attention. And I hope that if you're really worried about funding and specific tactics that are helpful to your organization, catch me or come this afternoon and I look forward to working with all of you. Thank you.


All right test one two one two. Could everybody hear me right now? I think I am good. I could already tell. There we go I appreciate your patience all of us collectively inside our live trading room as well as on social media Facebook Live LinkedIn Twitter YouTube the works, but finally now you folks can hear me Michael Sid Brian Ronnie David five by five from him perfect Small little glitch there. I'm not gonna explain what happened. It's a bonehead mistake from my end Didn't waste much time at least so let's hop right to it markets are breaking down towards the lows right now So like I said, great to see all of our students great to have all this back on social right now So hey AI easily enough. We're gonna put on our watch list actually Well, at least for those that could short it because this stock has been trending down all throughout the day I just got nipped on a false breakout right now folks where I just told you inside the chat board a 2588 a very big level very strong level to watch Well, it wasn't wrong Wasn't wrong, but of course I was wrong with looking for the pop and the move-off support You know from that point potentially so I ended up jumping in once it re broke above the level Well, just like I do teach you folks unfortunately didn't work out my way, but if it's such a big level We should be getting a pretty big move momentarily right so I was very privy to that I ended up getting out it was like an 18 cent loss on a small small share size Don't think the 18 is like bigger what not especially, you know compared to the morning session This stock was dropping off so much, you know from the open You can't be doing this on like a thousand shares or 500 shares even so with a smaller size You could allow a tinier cushion, but you should still know it's like hey It should make a pretty decisive reaction off that price momentarily So definitely not in this trade now is a long at this stage now Rebreaking towards 25 and under so yes seemingly we'll put this back on our list though more as a short than anything You know if it shows higher lows across like 315 330 in the afternoon at that time Maybe maybe then you get a bounce, but otherwise follow the direction here first if you can't short AI Then don't let this be noise to you if you can't short it don't let this be a distraction There's probably plenty of other shorts that are following the market here heading into the close You know but also on the same side of that I always like to point this out at least Days like today are really my favorite types of days They really are the markets tanking and as a new student here you may think well Hell I can't trade anything that especially if I can't short or don't know how to short Why would I try and buy in a down market? well, it's because not every stock moves with the S&P let alone the markets has a hole You know there could be stocks like the seco that were making moves on their own accord off their own News or off their own momentum So obviously this ended up popping right out the gate after the market opened up this morning this seco It's still top percent gainer right now actually so You know with that in mind technically there's still a chance since it didn't completely tank in and wash out the other way There's a chance for this to actually continue now with that though how much of a chance you know Let's get this to start going really soon because hi the day is roughly off 188 190 So it's still pretty far away from that Although it is making higher lows, you know showing good trends still right I'll come back this at the end here at least as far as putting this back on the main list for the afternoon Nice trade from the morning though. We'll see what it's doing in a moment But hey, it wasn't just seco I can really just keep going down the list for right now from cldx number two Which it's still seemingly chugging on up here at the high still so yeah I'm more likely to put this on our list at this point here the cldx as a long Alongside the AI is a potential short It does still seem to be right at that historical level though. I plotted this a little earlier I think I was on a coaching call at the time. This was not traders talk material This is actually exclusive on a coaching call if one of our students but more or less you could see what I'm looking at They're roughly around 618 roughly around 620 ish and it's still won't hey roughly around those prices right now So should it snap under this historical level here? Then that could be the end of the run You'd really want to see this hold this support Coming up right now Maybe a dip under and then back over but otherwise it is kind of at a do or that do or die here I feel I'm gonna put this on our list, but I'll come back to this at the end if it ends up flopping like 60 70 cents on the way down then Obviously, there will be a better opportunities from that point I'd imagine so NFT G another one from earlier today We did talk about this extensively in our traders talk workshop again for any of us on social media We do that normally inside our live trading room every Tuesday morning Just go right down to the link on the bottom there and green just to get yourself set up on a day Day free access pass with us there. We conducted that earlier this morning So for any of our students like Brian or Grant or Glenn or Ronnie or David? Of course you folks were tuning in live there and we'd cover this move off 150 152 as icebergs support Thankfully it ended up bottoming out exactly at that point led to a phenomenal entry and a really nice run up to boot So yeah 50 60 cent plus gain on that train on that trade I should say and it's still kind of showing strength Still holding over to for right now the issue on this stock compared to the others and especially compared to like CLDX or whatnot The order book is definitely skimpy throughout the day. It looks kind of liquid But for a $2 stock to have a four cent spread. I don't know that something about that is a little fishy So, you know, that's not normally the type of liquidity. We often look to trade, but You know, I'll put this with the seco. I'll put it on our side list here NFTG it is a crypto related stock NFT company So to say I know Fausto brought this up earlier during the audio commentary we do but you know There's some big expo or conference in the city I think in a week and a half with NFTs and all that even if that's not up your alley if that's not what you were interested in as a person Well, you're interested in making money So this ended up making a really nice trade for us to make some good money on so it will come back to this at Least we'll see if this is still showing strength by the end of this call This one we're done with but had a really nice push in the pre-market breaking all-time highs early in the morning This stock and then from there ended up just kind of diving off afterwards right around that 10 30 ish 11 o'clock time frame All right, let's see what else we got here. This is not trading room specific actually this on social media I'm seeing on my streams here getting a little Whackiness with my cursor here every now and then so try and disregard that cursor kind of blink in there Good to go inside the live trading room though AUST we're gonna step away from this one definitely wacky stock with the liquidity CLSD nice push from earlier this afternoon not even from the morning like right around 12 o'clock it started to pop But looks really lackluster right now not really trading good volume per minute Probably not gonna find a whole lot on the gainers side this afternoon folks right even with the markets You know or with the markets pulling back right now Branted be did well in a bunch of trades from the morning and hey, we got a couple on there already, but Probably gonna find more on the loser side. I'd imagine oh cup not much happening there BLPH former runner familiar name from the past, but yeah, this one too up and down VHC from earlier, you know what actually one of our students had a good call out on this on one of my coaching calls throughout the day I mean, it was just worth looking at at the time. It wasn't moving. Well, but I said alright, you know it maybe SPRO it was actually from Friday last week on a gap up so it doesn't look great It's still flat at 154 but just wanted to check in with it at least but yeah Not for this afternoon. Maybe if this gets more momentum going into the close or tomorrow Let's see if there's anything else looking good from the gainer side though. Otherwise, you know fat here I mean it pH 80 fat ended up having a pop-up early in pre-market then dumped off Well pop up and then afterwards just kind of went nowhere from that point So we didn't really focus on this since pre-market even just looked at it early in the pre-market hours, but that was all Alright, so let's see if there's anything looking just as good on the loser side right now I got a bunch that's down like huge like 65% here. So 60% few of these trades So no GN what goes up comes back down, but she's this thing just kept breaking new lows. Yeah all-time lows That's crazy. So this stock from from yesterday from yesterday actually on Monday ended up having a big run-up back down All within the course the first like couple hours. This was and then dumped off. So, you know, we're not expecting it to Continue to like break new lows per se We just say what makes the percent gainers list one day does tend to make the percent losers the next Maybe it would be like five bucks or three man. This thing is breaking new all-time lows already So those to show these are day trades not swing trades that we're recommending or calling out at the least year certainly not those Cal this one actually had a crazy bounce back up Fausto caught this one pretty early on when it reopened up from a halt Thing was down like 70% at one point and it actually got kept getting halted over and over at first But then over time it actually broke back above resistance off of 230 led to a really good squeeze time up to three But much like with any short squeeze once the volume peaks and then dies off like you could see here Typically the stack also peaks and dies off from that point. So Let's see if there's anything else looking good as a short again AI is on our list as a short, but it's actually hard to borrow from my end on trade stations So I'm gonna need to follow another stock myself, but for those that could short AI still looking pretty good PYXS Dropped off earlier from the morning, but not much happening on it now Shortable on trade station for it now at least Space this is getting well. It was getting close to the all-time lows once again back from earlier this year Fausto is looking at this as a potential swing trade though. Should it hold support? Should it? technically right now you happen to have a higher low, so I'm not gonna put it on the main list just for this afternoon I don't think it's down enough percentage wise for the debt for the dead cat bounce But maybe over time as a swing trade opportunity throughout this week should this continue to hold support then No, it's definitely worth watching. I think he's on to something with this then Stem as a short down over 11% It is easy to borrow on my platform at least trading over 10 million shares total on the day right at the lows It's hard for us to not put this on our main list another like crazy stock back from last week had a gap down It dropped off. What happened here? What happened here on March 29? That's what I want to know Let me take a quick look here if I could I'm just gonna go back a number of days like I just check I don't remember that one exactly. So what happened here on the 29th? This was dropping off early in pre-market. It opened up It got smashed dropped below five It hit a low here at the time of like 467 and then spiked right back on up and close positive technically I really don't recall that one as much the stem trade interesting But you know obviously over time has been pretty wacky since and including today a big gap down and hey at the lows So as a short just to get to the chase here get to the point Yeah, I'm gonna put this on our list as a potential short should this look to break lower perhaps off this 13,000 share iceberg Alright, so folks. Let me know if there's anything else looking good presumably on the way down first But if there's any like pops right now that we're missing let me know on that side as well Michael with SOUN if you could short it That's that's something with the AI trade the AI though just in terms of like the AI stocks And that's the only one I'll throw on there at least The seco trade hasn't tanked. You know what I'll put this on our main list. It hasn't Doven off yet hasn't broken lower. So still showing strength going into this afternoon. I don't mind putting this back on our list Not I mean it's looking better than the NFTG this one's not looking as good Honestly, I'm gonna skip this one for right now I'm not a fan of the liquidity if it holds over to and breaks over to 13 in particular. There's a chance But right now I'll stick with what we got so far Sydney saying here at least BF RG working its way down Nah, this one's not it's just You've been looking for that down move then for a couple hours Sydney if that's the case So, you know if you could short it and it holds that's one thing, but just bad volume out here. It's flat And that's okay. It's good to go over this right the more we go over these things It's it'll be easier for you to just realize like quickly in the moment yourself and you know as I turn to Benzinga pro stock NIR is up nearly 30% Hey, look at this, but also look at the liquidity. It's like, yeah, it doesn't really check out too great here I'm definitely more of a fan of the other stocks so far on our list Looks like a lot more volume is trading on this stack from earlier today Yeah, even for right now, I'm gonna pass on this one. Maybe I'll put maybe rich will call this out as it gets closer to 330 in the afternoon All right, I definitely think we're at the bottom of the barrel here folks when we're looking at stocks like FW BI Right when we're looking at stocks like this and this is when you know the meeting is over So, you know what? I think that we're pretty much all set.  It's down 3% not looking that great. The be though doesn't look too bad Let's see if there's anything else otherwise here. Just that I'm missing looking from Benzinga pro right now Got a Lowes, but like kind of a skimpy order book not a great need to put that on our list and hey, we got Neo Not that Neo and EO not NIO, but an EO neo dropping off really well actually Yeah, I'll put this on our main list looks like the liquidity might be a tiny thin but spread pretty tight for the meantime Looks like this also has a bit of a gap to fill 1508 the low back from end of February here All right, well aside from that 15 would be your next major support likely on the bid but as far as direction I'll give this a look All right, folks so in total hey not a big list and that's just fine by me I always say like the difference between myself and Fausto as long as I've been doing this Not doing as long as Fausto Fausto at this point keeps it extremely similar He's extremely good at keeping it simple where sometimes you'll tend to see myself pump out a larger list because now I'll tend to see the opportunity and a couple of these trades here and there at times But you know hey That's where Fausto would probably not even have AI on the main list here at this point because it's probably hard to borrow for him It's hard to borrow for me probably hard to borrow for most But if you can get the shares to short that would be one of your best trades to work with at least and again There could be a couple of others out there that are on the list so far like NEO seco stem or the CDLX All right, so folks we're gonna call it right now Hey, I appreciate all of a sudden social media Facebook live LinkedIn Twitter YouTube the works especially with a little glitch in audio from the beginning There's any questions that you folks have feel free to shoot me a quick email Josh at c2 trading comm is the handle If you're interested in joining our live trading room You can sign up by going right down to the link on the green banner below the stream right there to get yourself set But for students like Grant and Lita and Sydney and Ronnie and Warren and Brian and Scott I look forward to catching up with you folks in the chat board coming up here in a bit Rich will be on the mic taking you into the close from 3 to 4 p.m. Take care


Canada's parliament celebrated an actual Nazi. What is happening in that part of the world? Japan, South Korea and China are conducting discussions to bring some normalcy in a region which has seen a spike in tensions recently. What were the conclusions of this discussion? This is the Daily Debrief. These are your stories for the day and if you're watching this on YouTube, please hit that subscribe button. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called the incident deeply embarrassing. The speaker of the country's parliament is apologized. This is after a 92-year-old Ukrainian man who was in a Nazi military unit was honored in the Canadian parliament and received a standing ovation. The incident took place in the presence of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. 98-year-old Yaroslav Honka who was hailed as a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero, was thanked for his service. He had served in a unit made up of Ukrainians who fought alongside the Nazis against the Soviet army during the Second World War. We go to Pravir Purkayasar to analyze this decidedly weird incident. Thanks Pravir so much for joining us. So very rarely do we speak about what could be considered maybe a bit of a faux pas, but definitely this is, I think it's more than a faux pas. There are larger political dimensions at play because you have an actual Nazi being honored by the Canadian parliament. After that, of course, Trudeau calling it an embarrassment. Everyone's calling it a horrendous mistake, etc., etc., calling it a one-off incident. But also in some senses it reflects, I think, a political sort of tendency or trend that has been going on since the Ukrainian war has started. This is a very strange issue because the person concerns 98-years-old, okay, but he was supposed to have fought against the Russians in 1940s. The obvious question for anybody with a modicum of history would know that the only war at the time was that it's going on against Nazi Germany and Russia at the time was Soviet Union. It wasn't Russia. And Ukraine was a part of Soviet Union. This is something which people would have known with really a modicum of Jim GK. So how is it that an entire secretariat of the parliament and the speaker of the parliament both seem to have been completely ignorant of history? How is it that history has been so now molded by the current scenario where Ukraine seemed to be fighting Russia and therefore thinking this is a much older battle and Ukraine was fighting for independence, taking as Russia, which seems to have been the underlying theme that was being presented when Mr. Runka was presented with this medal of honour, so to say. So it does seem not only a very shoddy exercise but a complete ignorance of the history of Second World War, history of Ukraine, history of Soviet Union and Russia. That could have led to a mistake like this and particularly it just takes about a minute to know that the so-called Galician unit that was being referred to was nothing but a part of the SS Nazi Germany's military main. So it is something which is elementary, I would say in terms of historical knowledge. So how could they do this is the question. I think the argument here or what I think is happening that the Ukrainian versus Russia theme has so become so dominant and this is something the agenda which has been pushed. The history of the Bandarite section in Ukraine, the alliance between the section of those who are Stephen Banderas followers and Nazi Germany alliance is totally airbrushed out of history if not forgotten in real terms. Now this is not only something the group not only fought against Soviet Union which is what they did as a part of the German army but they were also involved in number of atrocities both against Polish population, against their own population and of course against the Jewish population. Again, very well documented. All of this is known and I think somebody a historian who pulled all these facts out within a very short period and put it on the internet in what is now called X but what we knew as Twitter and that created immediately a backlash that how could Ukraine how could somebody claiming to be Ukraine fight freedom fighter was actually a part of the SS Galician unit. How can some in Canada such a person be not only feted but you know hand-traps with Zelensky there to know being there all of it how could such an embarrassment take place and I said it's really ignorance of history ignorance of their past and not knowing much about Ukraine or Soviet Union or Russia or about Europe which some of them claimed to have come from all of this is really I think a part of what we see and a quick attempt to make hey win some cheap kudos by honouring a Ukrainian who fought in the 40s for independence of Ukraine against Russia for getting what was the actual history of the terror. Also of course ignoring the hundreds of thousands if not more of Ukrainians who were in the Soviet army fighting against the Nazis as well but you made a very interesting point which is it this is also a sign of the times which is why we are discussing this today as well where for instance the person concerned was declared as an Ukrainian hero and a Canadian hero and that is how he was feted. So also this is attempt to sort of link the Ukrainian people and the Canadian people you have seen this in many other countries in the west as well portraying this what was made similar speeches portraying this war as a frontier of the fight for democracy for freedom against authoritarianism etc and this incident for instance very neatly fits into that kind of a narrative that is domestically being they're trying to do it in the west. You know this part of what you're talking about of course is the rewriting of history that is one part of it but also it's very important to understand who are rewriting this history what of this and this is not dissimilar to what's happening again in for India as well you have the emigre population who go abroad who migrate to countries like Canada like United States trying to become a part of the politics of those countries then push the politics of those countries for your agenda which really predate your migration in this case you have the Ukrainian agenda the so called Ukrainian nationalists who were co-opted by the United States for the second world war who had actually cooperated with Nazi Germany in fact Nazi Germany supporters in Eastern Europe were taken over essentially by the United States for two reasons one is to operate as a fifth column against the Soviet Union because a lot of them either joined the socialist block or were a part of Soviet Union itself because if you remember Nazi Germany had penetrated inside Soviet Union particularly in the Ukraine area so this is one part of it the second part of it is that it fitted in very well in the larger agenda that the United States had which is the battle against Soviet Union and if you have people who have come from this area then the ability to raise fifth columnists at home in these areas and therefore the Emigre population were actually taken to their bosom so to say and used for this kind of activities and one of the issue was how to whitewash for instance in Canada I think 2000 of those who were in the SS Galician forces actually were taken to Canada similarly a large number of them migrated to the United States and then they were whitewashed over a period of time and presented as nationalists not because the United States didn't know who they were but all of these were essentially thought to be people who could be used against the Soviet Union let's not forget you had the intelligence chief of Germany who defected with his whole intelligence apparatus and this contains the Americans particularly that he had a lot to offer it's not very different for the Japanese for instance did there is an important group which involved itself with experiments against the use of biological and chemical weapons against the Chinese soldiers and of course North Koreans who were again taken over lock stock in battle by the United States and they became the core of what the United States then their attempts at chemical and biological weapons who become so all of this history is very murky and the US of course has been a major player in all of this but what we now see that Canada is also a player in this let's not forget for instance the Punjab divisive movements that existed what is called in India the Halistani movement to try and create an independent state of Punjab which is no traction in India at the moment but it seems to have traction amongst the Canadian immigrant population from Punjab so these are things which the Canadian state has been using these internal elements in their external foreign policy and whether it is Ukraine whether it's India the Canadian objective seems to be very similar how can they align how can these groups be aligned with foreign policy objectives is really the issue and in this case of course it is clear that the issue is Ukraine versus Russia and how therefore to co-op the fascist forces which of course also exist in the Ukrainian military how to co-op them is a part of the larger agenda of the NATO countries. Canada unfortunately along with the United States is home to many of this emigre groups and a lot of the politics that plays out in the west plays out in the interest of the small emigre populations because they act really a small what shall we say ginger groups trying to change their policy of the countries which they have emigrated to and quite often that between the intelligence agencies and these groups there is a meeting of minds which is what seems to have happened in this case as well except it became highly embarrassing that the way it sort of blew up in their face. Thank you so much for that analysis definitely more than meets the eye there and I think it would be a mistake to dismiss this as just a for-power or one-off embarrassment which is what the Canadians are now desperately trying to do. We will be following this. Thank you so much. Diplomats from China, South Korea and Japan met to try and ease tensions in the region after the summit it was announced that there would be a meeting of their leaders and they would be an attempt to get them all together to meet soon. This is a tough time for the region as a whole South Korea have right-wing governments which are moving closer to each other and the United States. In fact, President Joe Biden recently hosted the leaders of these two countries in Camp David. We go to Anish to get a sense of the meeting. Anish, thank you so much for joining us. This is a region we have discussed a lot in recent times and episodes of Daily Dispatch especially the increasing meeting of minds so to speak between the US, Japan and South Korea. So this is a meeting with the difference. We are Japan, South Korea and China having a discussion on this topic. Could you maybe take us through what was on the agenda, what was the context of the meeting for instance? Well, let's be in the fact that this was supposed to be a routine meeting. It began in 2008 and it has happened almost on a periodical basis since then until 2019 when because of the war reparations and colonialism reparations dispute emerged between South Korea and we have talked about the forced labor dispute as well with Japan is yet to consider to be valid or pay compensation for it. Nevertheless that was completely swept under the rug recently and there has been some what many of the mainstream media calls a thawing between South Korea and Japan but it never was frozen to begin with. But what we see right now is a very different kind of context because while newspaper and news media houses have been talking about how it is significant for South Korea and Japan to hold this meeting for South Korea to hold, post the meeting to begin with the significance is the fact that as we said China is involved and China is back on the table in a trilateral discussion and diplomatic connections with the three countries and that is significant just in and of itself we do not see much significance in the agenda of the meeting we do not know there is no surety if there will be a meeting of the leaders possibly presidents and prime ministers of the country in the near future but this is definitely one step forward but how many steps backward is a different question because we have already spoken about how South Korea and Japan have taken to a very belligerent position when it comes to China especially when it comes to Taiwan and them involving themselves into other disputes that they do not have any stakes in especially in South China Sea with Japan having is making ties with Philippines even pushing for a militaristic sort of arrangement that can actually have Japanese bases in the region so all of these factors are definitely going to be at the forefront China is definitely raising these issues especially with Taiwan it's a very you know it's pretty much the red line for China in most cases and the fact that both these countries have taken very questionable stand on this is something that is going to be a matter of concern for coming meetings if there are going to be any issues right Anish but also we are talking looking at a time when there has been of course some discussion about further US China engagement as well we have seen various visits by ministers there are talks of at least pre talks of Biden and Xi Jinping maybe having a meeting as well so how do we see this you know this meeting in the context of that larger trend is it more of a can we even call it a trend just individual instances whereas the larger trend is towards escalation there is a trend but it's a very confused trend let's be we have to be very honest about it China is quite very of these diplomatic overtures it is definitely open to stocks and you know diplomacy with all of these countries to deal with pretty much all kind of disputes whatever they be but what we have seen and if we refer to some Chinese media reports you actually see a great deal of not just from the government but also from its intelligence here civil society even its media houses and that clearly shows how and that is primarily has to do with the fact that they have all of these countries have reviewed some of their earlier commitments they have you know crossed some of the lines they have provoked China especially when we look at expansion of the power missiles systems for instance South Korea or the fact that Japan is moving towards militarizing itself in the next couple of years as during its pacifist constitution and all of these factors are definitely going to be a match of concern for China and of course we have to talk about the Fukushima waters as well so all of these because aside China is definitely open to diplomacy and that is pretty much why these meetings are having but we do not see the same level of enthusiasm from the Chinese side as it used to happen earlier when you would have you know very high level meetings happening on matters of disputes but right now what you're seeing is secular third run leaders and diplomats running these meetings leading these meetings and not necessarily people with actual power on foreign policy or you know national security so this is a very you know we have to be very careful of how we look at this as I said the meeting in and of itself is significant and the fact that it kind of opens up a trilateral forum for these three countries to resolve their disputes and their contentions but it will achieve is a different question and it pretty much you know remains on what action South Korea and Japan will take in the coming months Ben Anish thank you so much for that update like you said it's a very you know a region which is actually going through a lot at this point of time we also of course recently saw North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's visit to Russia that's probably on the minds of Japan and South Korea as well and you know the possibility of say escalation is on everyone's minds matter of concern thank you so much for talking to us and that's all we have time for in this episode of Daily Deep Brief we will be back tomorrow with another episode until then go to our website peoplesdispatch.org follow us on all the social media platforms and if you are watching this on YouTube do hit the subscribe button


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What's up everybody? I'm Jason here for jacobyscasebrakes.com 2022 leaf metal draft football just sold out This is hobby edition five box break random first name first letter number one And I get guys 15 total spots everybody has a random letter from the list below This is first name first letter. So example Bryce young autos would go to a letter B Now remember this is a five box hobby break, which a hobby case itself has 15 boxes They have been starting to I think include a one-of-one box per case So there's technically 16 total boxes. Just remember the one-of-one box is not included in the breaks only the hobby boxes I think we'll be using those boxes for like one box breaks or Mixers and stuff like that in the future. So just remember those one box Those one-of-ones are not included and you do get five autographs per box. And then of course the list of letters are down below Now here's a dice roller. Here's the customer names and then the letters So let's click the dice roll and it is a one and a four or five times. Good luck one two three four five One and a four or five times That's Adam Kuperman down a nester and then of course we got five times here One two three four Four five five times there M down to J Now again, you'll have some current rookies in the NFL now. You'll have some You know feature NFL stars that are in college You know so good mixture here guys and cover them and you have letter M as well as Q and R Jeremy poor with letter S nester with N and P Barry with a Alan Murdoch with H and I nester with B Adam with letter D nester with the WVW XZ combo the item covered him with E and K Nester with G Barry with C Rick Thomas with T and nester with J So if anybody wants to potentially make a trade Give you guys a quick couple minutes Andrew also gets three spots in that filler as well So now we're down to five left in the Merlin filler gets a spot in the pack filler. Did you get Johnny Manziel? Well, yeah, I think he has been signing with leaf as of recently. I Trade with a close Crazy to say it, but some people still actually buy his stuff Why are people dumping them because he's on the 10 day DL. That's it. We're just just forget about Julio in his future career Why would people be doing that? So again, this is the one-on-one autograph numbered box. I don't know I sound like something you would do What is this a five box break? All right, so one two three four five five five We got Three different stacks there Let's roll a little die here So if I go with the first act if I roll one two, we'll go with the first act three four the middle of five six We'll write that and It's a five So one two three four five six So again, we could run this back guys if you guys want our first one we have is a little Kyle Hamilton draft bound Little tiger stride in the back and it's numbered five out of five nice Kyle Hamilton So remember that's first Letter correct first letter first name So letter K Is going to Adam Coberman Next we got is Derek Stingley, Jr. State pride numbered one of seven Letter D going also to Adam Coberman We have a Jalen Weidermeyer going to letter J and That is three of five. It looks like a like a snake skin Letter J going to Nestor We got a Reggie Robertson, Jr. Going to letter R. That's a Adam Coberman QR 69 to 20 and then last one here in the first box little Matt Carell Yeah, let's get that a Mac that going Rex. I think we can do one of those tonight Six out of 15. So Rex is saying he'll get a spot in the Mariners R&B. He just doesn't want to be the first spot Six out of 15 letter M. That is going to Adam Coberman Again guys, that's just one box Four more to go. All right. First thing we got here is draft bound Jaquan brisker That's number 10 out of 30 Letter J going to Nestor We have Dylan Gabriel for letter D 11 of 40 Letter D is Adam We got a little zebra K Tron Allen. That's three of five Letter K going to Adam Coberman We have Kylan Robinson another one for letter K Going to Alan going to sorry Alan go to Adam. Sorry 17 out of 20 And then we got a Quinn Ewers That is 16 out of 25 still in college But a good prospect there letter Q that's going to Adam Coberman with a QR combo. All right, we got Jaden Dillara That is a letter J going to Nestor 20 of 20 We have a Jalen or Jaden Reed. Sorry draft bound another one letter J 4 of 10 We have Ty Simpson letter T. That's going to Rick Thomas That is 17 27 out of 30. We have a Jerome Ford Touchdown Kings 1 of 7 letter J going to Nestor and then last one here is a Kenneth Walker There you go draft bound 205 letter K going to Adam Coberman. Yeah, J is killing it There will be of course just like anything else better letters than others don't get me wrong But you know like I said There is all those possibilities If there was and we wouldn't have put out those letters like that, so there definitely is a lot of possibilities for all these letters all right But so far in the first five boxes letter J is doing well Kyle Phillips letter K going to Adam Coberman 625 Hasan Haskins, I believe we do Rex, but I'm not sure we're gonna post up more I mean, it's kind of stalled after the first four or five of them honestly So, I mean we could be just selling those on Instagram or doing something else with them Letter H Alan Murdoch Nicoby Dean for letter N. That's Nestor for NP combo That is six of 20. We have Grant Letter G Going to Nestor that's two of ten and last one here is a Bijan Robinson 11 out of 25 Letter B. Let's go to Nestor Our last one here you guys again, we can run these back guys. We can run these back, especially if we haven't seen Certain players since it is a whole 15 box case For my ducks pick it up the dub didn't look good, but pick up the W today. That's cave on Dibbadoe state pride three of ten letter K going Adam Coberman We got a Eric Kamma Touchdown Kings number three of five Little Zebra Isaiah likely four to 25 Letter I that's going to Alan Murdoch in the H I combo. This guy's actually a great tight end for the Ravens honestly we have a Jamar Gibbs Going to letter J five three of five and then last one how about more for letter J armed and dangerous Joe Montaignea 28 out of 40 and Joe Montana going to letter J Nestor So to get no price young No other bigger quarterbacks. I'm pretty sure Malik Willis is in this and can you pick it potentially? So there you go a lot of nice stuff still popping out there But hey the remaining boxes could still have some pretty nice stuff, so let's get the next one going guys Appreciate everybody Jaspies case breaks calm


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In case you missed it, yesterday's speaker of the house Kevin McCarthy hilariously slayed CNN for their lack of credibility on classified documents and the weaponization of the media by the government after they hired multiple disgraced intelligence directors Andrew McCabe and James Clapper then use them to attack Democrats political opponents. We want to make sure it's equal justice for all. We want to look at its big weaponization. Now are you with CNN, right? Okay, so let's talk about this even further because when somebody weaponizes government and they actually get removed from government let's take Andrew McCabe, okay? Former deputy, no, let me answer the question. This is a different set of circumstances, right? Wrong. And today on CNN, Jake Tapper seems to inadvertently prove both those points during an absurd segment where Andrew McCabe, who once again was fired from the FBI for leaking classified information to the media, then lying about it. That same guy is now paid by CNN to defend Hillary Clinton. Someone else who had classified documents she shouldn't have had on an unsecured private server. You know the facts. What are the facts? Well, Dan, as you know, cases come down to facts and evidence, not politics. You know the facts. What? What are the facts? Okay, Dan, as you know, cases come down to facts and evidence, not politics. And these two cases could not be more than that. So let's talk about what the facts are about. Yes. That's right. That's right. That's right. Notice how many times the known line corrupt former FBI director says the word facts. He must have gone to the Karen Jean-Pierre School of Bullshittery. And they want you to know that it's not about politics. No, no. Even though the guy talking right now got off the hook where any normal person would have been charged and convicted. And these two cases could not be more different on the facts. So let's talk about what we actually found in the Hillary Clinton email case. Yes, Hillary Clinton maintained private servers. Emails went across those servers. Ultimately, she returned 30,000 emails to the Department of Defense work-related emails. You sure about that? In reality, Hillary Clinton had around 30,000 of her emails deleted, which were supposedly recovered from the FBI later. In addition to those, we found thousands more emails that she exchanged with people. The total classified materials sees from that review. Now it's important to remember, those weren't classified documents. That was simply the content of email exchanges that was later deemed to be classified. These weren't documents with classified stampings on the tops and bottoms and cover sheets and all that kind of stuff. Okay, first off, have you ever seen this kind of full court defense of a Republican in the media? Ever? No, you haven't. It's always done in defense of Democrats or someone connected to whatever they're running cover for. Characters like Peter Struck or this disgraced public servant. Second, Hillary had no right to that information, much less on an unsecured private server, which Comey admitted was likely accessed by foreign actors. And we already know a lot of that classified information ended up on the laptop of felon Anthony Wiener, which is exactly why these are worse than paper documents because those have to be copied, faxed, mailed, or delivered face to face. It's kind of weird that none of that is mentioned during this segment. Did it have happened? No, but what we didn't have was evidence that Hillary Clinton had intentionally exchanged or withheld classified information. And that's just what we could and could not prove at the end of the day. Oh really, Ford? The reason that's all you could or could not prove might have something to do with the fact her underlings destroyed physical devices and wiped all data from hard drives. 17,500 emails that she lied about turning over. The server wiped. Within weeks of there being a report that she had a private server, it was wiped. They destroyed blackberries with hammers in the State Department. That's not what we want the president to say. That's actually, Evan, Evan, Evan, Paul. Can you fact check that, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, Evan Perez, hammer us, fact check that for me, please, on the fly. Yes, they did, Brooke, as you mentioned. Which seems to show intent to cover up the truth. But instead, it's just proof that this isn't a two-tiered system of justice. Okay, so next, Jake Tapper goes after Lindsey Graham for defending Donald Trump and you just have to see it for yourself. So, okay, first of all, just as a factual matter, charges under the Espionage Act do not necessarily mean you actually committed espionage. I mean, I'm not a lawyer and I know that because- And you can guarantee that he knows that very well. Oh, he knows that, of course, but because it's called, I mean, leaking documents to the press, you can be charged depending on how serious the documents are under the Espionage Act, but that's not espionage. Anyway, he knows better. What? I love how McCabe just shrugs after Tapper says, quote, you could be charged for leaking classified documents to the press. That's exactly what McCabe did and was fired for. So, of course, he gets covered, hired, and paid by real journalists who are supposed to be a check on power. This deceptive state propaganda was sponsored by Dove and Lee Filter. Don't spend your money on people that are destroying this country. All right, folks, that's all I have for that one. Thanks for watching. I'd appreciate it if you hit that like button, share, subscribe, and leave a comment to continue the discussion. Thanks a lot. I'll see you all in the next one.


I'm not sure who the international community thinks they're actually gonna be working with in Vietnam on the Jet P when so many of these civil society experts are sitting in prison. That's Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch. He's talking about Vietnam's Just Energy Transition Partnership or Jet P, a climate deal where developed nations would help fund Vietnam's transition away from coal. But in the years since announcing their $15.5 billion deal, Vietnam has arrested two environmental defenders. Including the latest arrest, Vietnam has jailed six environmental defenders over the past two years. Vietnam targeted the civil society leaders because they advocate for a shift away from coal in Vietnam, calling for greater accountability in the country's energy investments. In a webinar on Vietnam's Climate Prisoners, 350.org spoke with people that knew two of the six arrested climate defenders, Hong Ti Minh and Dang Dinh Bach. We are concerned for Bach's well-being and physical safety. The members of our coalition will be submitting a complaint to the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, documenting the numerous violations against Bach. And finally, of course, in light of the recent visit by Biden to upgrade the U.S.'s diplomatic relationship with Vietnam, we must reiterate that strengthening diplomatic ties with Vietnam without raising these concerns enables Vietnam to continue its pattern of persecution and violence against environmental defenders. Hong is a former colleague who started an NGO named Change Vietnam, which focused on tackling environmental issues ranging from pollution to illegal wildlife trade. My name is Hong. I'm from Vietnam. But because of Vietnam's shrinking civil liberties, Hong was forced to shut down her organization in 2022. As it turns out, that wasn't enough. I always wondered why she didn't flee. I've rethought about that so many times. Why she didn't leave Vietnam, but because of her principles, because of her family, because of the gay, she decided to stay. I want to encourage you to check out the webinar and listen to the story shared by the panelists that knew both Hong and Bach personally. And if their stories move you, I want to invite you to join our call for their freedom. These jet peas actually allow an opportunity for us to invite in greater participation. And for governments to turn to civil society with this genuine invitation to do as we were saying, you know, use the expertise of people like Hong of Bach to shape what their country's energy future is going to look like. Tap the link to watch the full webinar. It is a beautiful conversation about the way forward. Remember, there cannot be a just transition without the participation of civil society.