Thank you for staying with us. You're still watching the breakfast on plus TV Africa. It's time for off the press We'll be looking at what the national dailies are saying this morning now We have our guests who's going to review the papers for us. We have Chris candy wonder. Good morning, sir Thank you for joining us Good morning, Merry Christmas to you and all our viewers. Thank you for joining us. Okay, so we're going to go straight into it. And we're starting with daily trust this morning I think the one that screams loudly to me is not the major headline, but this says how Naira scarcity devaluation Inflation and others dominated economy in 2023 2023 is almost over. We have just a few days left here but we're still seeing the cash crunch even at this time and Some would say yes is dominating our economy But we want to hear from you all of these things I have mentioned the Naira scarcity Devaluation the inflation and others have they really dominated our economy and what has the impact been so far even from your personal experience Myra, it's myra and that needs to have a lot of threat on it You will not see so many people lost their lives So many Benefits we were born to banks. We are borns. We saw women fighting in banks with some men tearing their clothes fighting We saw bank Staff and officials killing fence using ladder to scale fence to run away from banks and restaurant and everything was Equated to to have started from the policies of the central bank and then also in a fit from a couple of central bank And all the blings were hit on him then we were that storm and good reasoning Prevailed and later We had some kind of stability, but the question now is About six months down the line that So how come that we are still having the same problem and that was That's a question of what people continue to lay blames on individuals. I mean you come to realize that at times It might not just be directs. It might not be them directly because I don't know But if I remember that how come that We did not envisage what is happening and the most annoying part of is that central bank is not coming out to turn I didn't want to stop or you're telling us is that also people are holding the money I don't the same narrative that we're told before you've been doing the free election You'll say that those are going out in this money to use it to buy votes and rest of that Which was the reason why the federal government is excited for the color already designed in my life But what is the problem now? How come that you have money in the bank and you go to the bank and you cannot assess more than 20,000 million within the period like this during the hillside period I don't know what have been through a period of festivity and we are short when the When the time was getting closer I will some of us were raising the Raising this question that when would the central bank come out to be able to speak on the 31st December deadline On the face of the old Naira notes so that we can be able to have enough into Tata Bank a long time and it was just about three weeks or two weeks to Christmas I've Kept what you say. Oh, no problem based on since that's the Old Naira know to remain a little tender then the Supreme Court final is also But nobody is telling us why we cannot get the money I don't know Don't want the banks I don't know a bit of the but and the highest I've been paid to in this place is just 200,000 So I won't even give it a thousand and you go to the years we cannot be making me Now what they are doing now is not telling us to go to the POS I will not go to the PS want to do 10,000 and I charge it with 100 And you continue to ask yourself. What kind of a country is this which other part of the world use the cannot situation What are the economic team of the current government? What are they doing? It baffles me and it's Go through this route over and over and over again and nobody seems to be saying anything and to me This is our unassetable. It is really really unassetable I can imagine those if you ever talking about those of us in town What are the new villages my village in the state your village and the other villages Go in the east the south and you know who cannot be able to assess money at this point in time This may lead to a lot of problems So But people argue that if you pump more money into the system then inflation goes up and Right now we're looking at inflation at about 23% So I think that's even something we haven't touched on here because that's also here It says devaluation inflation and others dominated economy How is inflation right now and I mean what's the impact and do we even see a better 2024? Now we are trying to The government has been trying to bring their money to the bank to save Nigeria don't have this Was it not I don't know This page has to save money The problem has already been passed. Nigeria will have their money. Keep it in the house. Keep it under them. If you remember this I don't know why I know what you are talking about I don't know what you are talking about If you remember, I was one of the people that helped me understand Sometimes you didn't dig the ground to bury your money I think it was a very rich man in the world The man was keeping the money in his millions and millions Because there was a problem in the bank You know those banks were failing and the bank has failed The bank has failed So people decide to keep money in their houses And that in this way became a journey So the government has tried to regime the architecture to give confidence to people to take their money to the bank Knowing fully that whenever they want it But what is happening now An average trader, an average trader that has said come An average trader that sells tomatoes or whatever We don't want to take his or her money to the bank And that in this way is a problem So that is why he said that so much money is a creation Yes, so much money is a creation But for those who have their money in the bank How come they cannot be able to assess it? It's a contract that you have It's a contract I have with the bank A various contract as we say is a contract that is signed, seen and delivered So if you have a contract that I should bring my money to the bank Anytime I want it, I get it I now come to your bank and tell you that I want to go at 100,000 I tell you that I can only go at 20,000 There is a breach of the contract And I have a right to sue you To sue your bank for holding on to my money that I cannot assess And before, you know the problem we have with this contract We will take this for granted If it's not the advanced countries, other countries Most of this bank will be sued In fact, there will be billions of dollars and nilas in fine For what they are doing, you can't do that And they have to keep people's money And say they cannot withdraw it Then what you are trying to do is not to stiffen them From assessing their cash flow If you remember some months back In countries like in India And I think you like one of those two countries So people have to take on to the banks And force the managers in fact Take over the bank and say Except if you give me my money, I will not leave this bank And it was that bank I don't think that's something you should get to that point Which may break out with some other policies But the most important thing is that The minister of finance is not telling us anything The minister of economy is not telling us anything The central bank is not telling us anything Neither is the bank telling us Telling the engineers why they cannot assess their bank And their money at this point in time It's quite unbelievable The annoying thing is that While we are talking about money being in Or out of circulation Nobody is even addressing the fact that We could use e-banking And the only way to use e-banking Is if it is friendly Now I was sitting on a bus with somebody Who had just like one thousand three In his account Entire account And he was like Okay, when I get down I'll go to the ATM To withdraw the one thousand But now I need to load my Subscribe A daily subscription So he subscribed three hundred Naira And at the end of the day The first alert he saw Was the removal of fifteen Naira So before even they showed him their alert That they have removed the three hundred Naira The bank charges were fifteen Naira removed Which basically cannot collect the one thousand Anymore When he gets to wherever he's going to So the charges that are coming With the electronic transfers and all that If it goes at all Because sometimes it fails The charges are so high That some people do not want to Go to the bank to do this You might say thirteen Naira here Fifteen Naira there But it adds up But it adds up You know If you're going to the market For instance as a woman You want to buy condiments for your house You're not buying in bulk Because not everybody has the ability To buy in bulk You go there You buy tomatoes five hundred You buy this And you're doing transfers And you're given For each and every one of them You're paying fifteen Naira At the end of the day You leave that market You spend ten thousand on the goods And then you spend three thousand On charges So it doesn't make sense We're not even talking about this But let's leave the inflation thing Let's go to another thing That the minister of aviation Was talking about So a few weeks ago Or a few days ago As the case may be He was talking about the fact that Nigerian airlines will be compelled From now on Or in the nearest future To make refunds Or to be fined For flight cancellations And give them compensation Now this headline is saying Flight delays, cancellations Wasn't as NCAA pleads with passengers Now we're still pleading Only pleading But you think we'll get to that point Where the customers will have a say The customers will have rights That they can fight for The customers will be treated Better than they are treated now Even with the pronouncement Of the minister This is still happening Do you think we'll get there Mr. Wando Well, if we have the police Who will do what we need to do To get there Who is not there Not who we have And that is what we'll talk about Community and protocol But for us to be able to do that There's certain agencies Of the way that they'll Settle into responsibility Of making sure that The customers' interest Is put better up in their job And in Nigeria Consumer protection agency Yes, I don't know They are coming now But we have a Consumer protection agency And they are doing to mention that Not just the airline In other parts of the world If you go through The store Is for market Buy something And you find out that That store in Portugal Is not the best interest Of what you so desire You return it And you get your money What is it Is it good for You get your money back That is not just where A travel country In the United States Canada UK Is this world That has both Satisfaction Even that is Good material Shared And I take it to my And I find that This one doesn't size me up I would just go back To that store In Canada I just went to I just went back Two months ago And I told you What the label is on that That same label Is on that bank Taking from me And I ask You want that one Or you want a report And you say you want a report And you pay back your money But in this country So why these airlines You are even talking about airlines My brother During our days Of entry buses And bus repossess You're either emerging Bus from Lagos Going to go away Let me say go away My state I from here This vehicle You get to already This vehicle's price Or have the blow for it Do you know that That vehicle Will not That transport company Will not pay back your money Or let us say come down Go and take another one So if you say What on my mind We have left it Taking it back So those are the kind of impunity So if we continue to Go to the airlines And other agencies Accountable And they continue to pay The necessary money Let's get this clear There's no part of the world Where you don't have Flight delay Even in the United States Even in other parts of the world Yes, there's the flight delay But the fact is that What is the time frame Especially where you're going to You want to travel to You go to the You're told that your flight is 7 a.m. You get to the Lagos airport And they continue to delay your flight They move you from 7 to 10 From 10 to 12 From 12 to 4 From 4 They are being started Where I was supposed to fly From Abuja back to Lagos And I spent 9 hours At the Abuja airport Before I could come back to Lagos And when you go to them And say give me my money They will not be able to give you So that I can enter on that flight So Israel just I would rather think that The aviation minister should Walk the talk Rather than just all this Blanket talk If it had to take us To enact a law Making the composite that Airlines are not Be able to fulfill their obligations When you are When they delay the flight When they delay your flight There's no Apology There's no composition But go and miss your flight When they say You get there About 2 minutes 3 minutes At their check point They say Oh we have closed Our counter They will not allow you to By day that we delay your flight For 7 hours So Israel I just think that It's just meritory It's better Except we start testing it I remember there's a time That somebody Had to shoot One of the airlines And the airline was asked To pay him Certain amount For the flight delay Disruption Applied delay And it has also been said That somebody will That if you apply To delay more than An hour or so Within this country I remember people I can't remember Which of the Agency or government Said that You can ask for a reform But the question you ask yourself Is this people reforming? So it is Our regional Industry As it were Currently Does not stand In test of time This is not What a cow Stated In its laws About air travel Our own style Of doing things Is something All you just say Oh, due to Because that does Along with the money You have forgotten now Whatever circumstances Beyond our control Or delay flight Or something Something that we have to And they continue Delay this life Especially at this period Even if it is What are related Of course There's nothing About it Because if the weather Is bad A plane cannot fly Because that is A person has to Realize that There is no Human nature Any part in this Then this issue Of flight To just be It should not be Accurate at all And something is to be About it I've had experience Once when I got to the airport Before I was told That It's like that flight But along here Okay When will it go Will it go tomorrow Will it go today Later or We will get back to you Almost everything Till date I didn't hear anything From them I had to make Alternative arrangements They just Yeah And there's no consequence So they can As well move Even if there are consequences You can spend more Than what you want to get So you're spending 200,000 on a flight And then when you want To get your money back Because it was delayed Or it was cancelled You end up spending 500,000 You'll be looking at it Like What's the point It's the 100,000 What's the point So I think maybe Sometimes that's the trick They don't want you To fight for that They don't want you to come They want to get your money That's not difficult For you to come back It's because our courts Are not the people That you can go to And know that you'll Have suit judgment Right now That brings us To the next thing The threat to Democracy So to speak Let me put Two unrelated matters Together Mr. Andu But they are both saying Something about our democracy And our judiciary Kwankwa so holds Special prayer in Kano Ahead of Supreme Court judgment It has come to a point Where you have to pray Before you can get pregnant Special prayer And up there Still on daily trust We are saying We saw the headline Implementation of Chinabu's resolution Not a detriment Or a detriment Of my freedom That's according to Fubara A lot of us were here Shouting that The president Didn't have constitutional Right to go there And do whatever he did Whatever resolutions Were in favor Of one camp And not the other But now The governor himself Is defending it I That's what I'm saying Is this not a threat To democracy Where our judiciary You will have to Resort to prayer And then Where the person That you're trying to defend Is now coming To defend the Indefensible I think We need to start On the human I thought that's where We'll start from We'll have to start On the human And I want to look At the main headline Of the daily trust And that should be A kind of Consent to me More than any other news As in any newspaper But this month The headline The main Major They were 45, right? Yes That should be We'll get to that We'll get to that Yes I know we'll get to that My heart bleeds And I don't think I can talk about Anyone that said That I did not They said back up About that issue That we have Over 150 people Killed In the last few days In the next few days Is something That should be A kind of Consent to us Because Even countries That are through You don't see If you look at the Ukraine What you call it Ukraine-Russia war You don't get to see Where they say 150 people Killed Where you only see That is the Hamas Israeli war We don't want this Understanding But on conventional Why that happens Between Hamas And Israelis Because It is a once-sided war The Hamas Don't have the Ammunition They don't have the Power To be able to Fight back And rest of them So that is Never here In Ukraine Where you see people They say Oh Three people Were killed in Ukraine Five people Were killed in Kiev Seven people Were killed But in the last few days Over 170 people And these are human beings And you Want you to ask yourself How do we Why do this Happen Over and over again And we don't seem To have a solution How do we Lose human lives And we Blood Asynotes Some of these Called me From the United Kingdom Somebody A friend of mine That She lost her Uncle The daughter No The wife And three kids In that In this particular Instance Electricity And this is not The first time And you Ask yourself What are security Agencies doing Yeah The defense The defense Chief is telling Nigerians To take Ownership Of security I wonder Maybe we should disband the army And let all of us Start buying AK-47 And keep To defend ourselves That's what it's trying to say Really saying that The whole team of defense Who is in charge of The Navy In charge of the Air Force In charge of the army And to some extent Also have some Spammer Street On the police To some extent Even though We have an NSA Then What are you saying That they are saying That you are On your own That is Everybody to himself God for us So In which country Will you have A defense chief Or a security chief Saying that And I ask the question What is the essence Of The essence of Governance The primary essence Of Governance Is the security Of life And property Of its people Any government That's not Be able to guarantee That there is Not a company So This is happening In that two states And nobody Is saying And let me Take it So They say No way To Go into state Policing The Governance We hijack it And use it But as yourself Even the police force Is present Majority of The pointing Of the police force Is by the state government Go and check it out My brother You realize That every state You see Every government Every time You see They are launching The 1950 Vehicles The 1900 Even Even though They have decided To have The vigilante group You can have They have gone And use it To face Something that Has happened In K-47 And I thought That this Civilian Military Could have Come up with Something like that So that most Of this Even they Be on that Supervision Of the Major police Of every Community But To attack me And you know That I'm having An AK-47 Or something Higher than you You think twice Before jumping To my company But when Most of these Killers Know that These guys Are just They don't Have any Miss of Defending Theirself That in itself Becoming A problem And our Securities Are telling us They are doing So much They are not So With those Those that lost their life We are going to Look into it And all the perpetrators Will be There to be arrested And as you said How many have been Arrested And there to That to me Is Is very disheartening That Only Things like this That will be Celebrating Christmas So many People are Crying Just because They lost their loved ones And that to me Is very And we will do To I am No surprise By What I say So Because This man Is self I don't know The lack of All doesn't Know what Is being Probably That is Me Who I believe That That This one Can be Manipulated They cannot Be a man of Himself Because If There is What they have done I know that You are just Working on a So If the man That is In the heart of the Problem He has no problem I think Those of us That have been Fighting This is not Realism We will just Keep on Unless With That is For me For Because That is Another threat To democracy Another threat Tomorrow Are you here with me? Yes We can hear you Yes My brother Who gave him In this Who is going to Get him Is he not The government Am I giving anything If Reversed Is secured In what sense We as Nigerians We as Journalists Have come to us To say that This is Unconstitutional This is Not right But the man Do you do that Some Elders As senior Elders In Reversed I have gone to court To challenge That agreement I am a Six of them I have gone to court I don't know That Is Taking that Case I got In To Challenge That Agreement But the Government With What Is What Is Possible That is Not Slavery That Is Going to do Everything Is Possible Then Let me say it again I think I am The Who Ries On the Back Most of Them As of This If you Feel It Is I wish him the best of luck. But tomorrow, let him not come and shout and again, I think I care about that. Oh, I'll be persecuted and rest of them because we're not listening to you. So, come because it's praying for a favorable judgment. Yeah. Yeah, we pray a lot in this country. We pray. My dear sister, you know now. Yes. Every thing, we fire prayer. Every thing pray here, pray here. We pray more than other. Where other countries are working? During the work. During the work. Our own wisdom. Even though that gave us the religion, those in Mecca, those in Israel, and it gave us Israel. Right. They do more work than pray. By our own everything. Right. Pray than do the work. Yeah, we're praying. Even the federal workers are giving Christmas. And now they capitalise on it. Yes. There are two things that trade their work on. Religion, ethnicity. Yes. Those they use it effectively. Which is why we not see that. Once in anything, we just say, leave it to God. Somebody's coming to you, say leave it to God. Somebody has done something, you say leave it to God. Our country, leave it to God. If we leave everything to God, then what is the place of man? Why do God give us this sense? It's free will. Why do they give us the free will to do something? So I'm not the true religious. I'm a Christian, but there's a limit to which I do things. I leave everything to God. Certain things God has given me with the brain. So I cannot leave it to God. There are certain things that I should be able to do. But if some people believe that leave everything to God, that's all well and good. I have no problem with them. But for every action, there's always a reaction as it were. All right. Let's move over to the next paper. Let's look at the nation. And I think this would interest quite a number of people because it did interest me. Federal government extends the 50% rebate to non-luxury buses, bus passengers in Abuja. So last week, the federal government had talked about slashing the prices for people who want to travel to go see their family, their friends, their loved ones. And then the people on the trains is at zero cost. So they can go on the trains and they don't have to pay anything for their travels. But they mentioned about five companies saying that these five companies are to cater for the people that they're looking for. They're looking at, which is about 5 million Nigerians to be able to travel.  Now, Yamgo said it's a scam. Right? He's all about that. I said, let's be hopeful. I go to my stylist. My stylist said he knows people who went without this 50%. They traveled at the same time, and they did not get the 50% off. Now, the federal government is extending the 50% rebate to non-luxury buses as well. But what do you think of all of this? And is this just maybe a way for them to add more money to what they're already taking out? The first question he asked yourself, where is the money coming from? We asked that last week. That is the question we asked. He asked himself, where is the money coming from? It was not budgeted. You're right. It was not part of the budget. So where is it coming from? Is it from Central Bank? It's somewhere down there. Is it from the Ministry of Material Affairs or what? All these things personally I just think that is a scam for me. That's why I'm cutting. I don't know how they're going about it. But the first thing remains that if you go and check out how much is being used for this, and you ask yourself because and also how much you are using for palliatives, when you put all this together, compare it to the money they removed from subsidy and you come to realize that it may be more than what you removed from subsidy and for goodness sake. Then at the end of it, what is the essence of removing the material subsidy? And this is something that will benefit just less than 1% of the Nigerian people or like the petroleum subsidy that everybody benefits from. So to me, this is more like, yes, to me this is more like a policy somersault. It does not make any sense. I believe we are going to travel for this period and okay, let us even stay. Okay, after the travel and come back, what happens? Would your problem be solved? After the 50% are very good. Now, I added some of it and some of the people have already complained that when they get to the bus station there is limited number of people that they can carry. So if their location was given a profit, so if you have about 100 people, I'm talking of those that I don't, you are not going to be using the buses. For those that were in the cities, some of them cannot be able to access that. But I believe this is not the way to go about it. Let us have a right policy that can benefit every Nigerian. And I have said at the time my turn number that the issue of the removal of petroleum is the greatest problem in the problem. Yes, that is what we do. Look at the Chenane gas and the corruption around it. If we are able to cope with it, there is no country in the world that doesn't have, in Germany, power is subsidized. Germany, power, I mean electricity is subsidized. In the United States, they subsidize agriculture products and some other things. The same thing we told them, even the United Kingdom and the rest of them. So you ask yourself, you as a Nigerian, what do you gain from your government? And they want you to increase taxes every day. And you don't want to do it with taxes. So for me, all well and good, if that is just a populist listening by the government, all well and good, but for me, it's not that I am not there. Come and see what is happening. We said it when this issue was going on, when they were doing this. Go and see the scam that is going on in the ministry of material affairs. The last ministry as it were was funded the most of the thing they were doing. A ministry that was telling that they were feeding our children right away at home. How do you, is it possible? Now we have seen, talked about 30 billion Naira fraud. We've talked about 157 billion Naira fraud and everything and now it's coming to light. That is just one, out of so many other things that you talked about. And we talk of corruption. The biggest element in the house for us in this country is corruption. Right. We have to handle every other thing. But for me, back to this issue of politics, I don't believe in it. I hope it works for some people. Well, we only hope it works and we hope the federal government starts to rule out initiative that could cut across everyone and not just some celebs.  We are not going to sit down from this. Those are questions to be asked. Apart from bonus state, have you said this state here in Nepal? Apart from bonus state? I haven't. Personally, I haven't. Personally, I haven't. But anyways, like I say, we just hope that they start to rule out these initiatives that would work for everybody. And I mean, everybody can benefit from the country because one of the questions you asked was what do we benefit from this country? So hopefully we start to benefit. But this is where we have to wrap up this segment. Thank you so much for joining us and reviewing the papers with us this morning. Thank you, Mr. Chris. No. Hopefully it's that same prayer that we were talking about. Well, good for you. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right, we'll be speaking with Chris Cain, who is a member of the Chatterd Institute of Obitrators in the UK. And he was joining us from here, from Lagos State here. We'll take a quick break and when we return, we'll be talking to another guest in our hot topic. Please stay with us.


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he only people who didn't win are all the people that are angry that rogers is money growing And it's like but he gave the packers the flexibility they needed to sign people He did what you wanted them to do just because he's getting paid money on top You know, I don't know like why do you care? It's not your money. Ultimately, it's not it's not our money Why do we care? You know Well, it's a 28 mil cap hit Um, when he got to remember his cap hit originally for this season because he was already under contract was 46 million So he saved the packers 18 million in cap and 28 million You know, it's not that much for a guy of rogers caliber I think that even knocks him out of the top 10 paid quarterbacks Like that's actually him That's him doing a very tom brady like salary tom brady made 26 million last year. That's a very tom brady like seller cap it So like we praised tom brady for it and there and rogers is basically what he took a couple million more than tom Okay, you know so honestly I think it was a good deal for everybody And the deal is only better and better for if he keeps playing um Tom brady takes away less So Tom brady's cap hit last year I'm getting I'm getting to his cap hit from last year His cap hit last year was Let's see here That's that that's that's sports illustrator talking about what they could do to mess with mess with tom brady's cap this year because tom brady's cap hit this year is supposed to be 32 million, but um There's ways that can mess with his contract. Basically. It's the same messing with that erin rogers got where they're going to be Converting the salary into like a bonus and then extending it out So basically tom brady could be like only a 10 million hit against the cap Meanwhile, he's really getting paid 40 million Um, that's basically what they're What they do with rogers, but that but that that's for this upcoming year last year. I know he was paid 20 He last year he was a 20 Uh 22 million hit against the cap now the reason it would end up being 22 was it was originally 17 But he hit a bunch of bonuses and those bonuses pushed it up to to actually ending up being a 22 million hit Because he hit his bonuses whereas rogers is all like fully guaranteed Now he has a couple performance bonuses in there, but they're not like millions like 250 thousand dollar bonuses Like if he wins mvp again, it's like a 250 000 bonus probable 100 000 But uh tom brady got an extra five for hitting incentives um On his uh on his deal So he ended up at 22 uh This year he actually technically hits has a 32 mil cap in but They're they're going to mess with that. Um, it sounds like from what I read that they'll be able to reduce it to 9 10 mil um It's all it's all about it's all about playing with the numbers. It's all it's all it is Tom Brady's not actually only making nine million this year as an example like The thought that tom brady is playing for nine million dollars is false The thought that his cap hits only nine million dollars That can be correct Because again, it's it's so much fudging with the numbers. That's really all it's about They're just fudging with the numbers and they're fudging with them Really bad um, so Yeah rogers getting paid 28 and we we can we can Hooten holler if we want he's getting paid less than math staffer again You know for cap hit wise cap hits less than math staffer to just want a super role less than petrol homes less than Like everybody, but I don't know like The bottom 15 quarterbacks in the nfo bottom 15 starting quarterbacks in the nfo like that's the thing he's It might not be tom brady esk, but it's also significantly better than what it was. It was supposed to be 46 million hit So i'll take it Right. He he gave us enough room That with with basically either cutting or restructuring rando cob we can re-sign jair alexander resuel douglas and do a contract for um Adams of course Don't know if tevante adams is even going to sign a contract with the packers because Tevante adams is starting to go full diva right now, which Fine get your bag But he wants like 70 plus million guaranteed dollars, which is like quarterback money And I just don't think the packers are going to budge and give him 70 million guaranteed so I I just I'm very curious what's going to happen with the diva to adam situation because yeah, he he can't be signed by anybody else But he can just hold out and not play Um And that appears to be what he's what he plans to do So I i'm very curious what they're going to do because he wants to basically make 30 million a year He wants to make more than rogers makes this year and he wants it fully guaranteed and he wants it fully guaranteed for like three seasons It's just I just don't know that the packers are going to do that.  I don't know In the end. It's not my problem I don't work for the packers. I just watch them like That's the one thing I as a fan like a lot of us get like Numb to the money because there's so much money being spent Um, and I just go look. I really don't care.  I ain't paying me into my pocket I'm not the one paying these players. I don't care.  It wasn't just that he took small cap hits He had very little bonus money too like Like bill bellichick just would not pay him money like he they could have kept his cap hit small and gave him a big bonus And they just never did like not that tom brady didn't make any money for new england He still made many many millions of dollars, but it is still like Man He not only did he keep the cap hit small he kept the money small and that was that was the weird thing in new england Now to be fair Tom brady's wife is worth more money than he is so he's also in that unique position where He doesn't really have to care that much about the money because like his wife's a mega superstar so And they haven't been divorced and they don't look like they're going to be divorced looks like they Looks like they're one of the few, you know, celebrity couples that stand together for life. So Yeah, pretty interesting um And jake jake never has to worry about taking me out top of here all good Now this this would be like if camalot if he's still here if my buddy here started talking about nascar I wanted me to get talking about that.  I do tom brady's wife is she is mega rich Tom brady two weeks ago. I need to spend time with my wife Kids tom brady now after no kids are 40 days ago. Yeah, I did just spend some time with my wife and kids 40 days later. He's back and here's the thing I don't think tom brady wanted to retire, right? I don't think retiring was his idea Yeah So I definitely because he loves he loves the game of football too much and he's playing at such a high level Uh, I highly doubt he ever wanted to retire I think he I think tom brady's the kind of guy that if it's up to him alone He will not retire until he's physically unable to play the game at a high level at a super bowl winning level So for him, I don't think he ever wanted to retire But he might have felt a little pressure from the wife a little pressure from the kids to be more present with them And what happened? Here's what happened. This is just a theory But I think this is a very plausible theory because think about this tom brady has been fully present with his wife and kids 25 years 26 years However long has been however long he's been in the nfl A majority of his time is spent preparing for nfl seasons steady and film Etc. He hasn't spent every waking minute with his family ever until the last 40 days and I bet what happened is in doing that His family realized one damn. He really wants to play football.  Just do it. Just go play like It's kind of like a you're really not that fun to be around when we know you don't want to stop That's my theory on what happened in the last 40 days The family realizing look we might want him around but also If the guy really wants to play he's not really as present with us as we want anyways Just go play football. It's what we're used to go play football. It'll be all right That or there's also the more cynical man. It really sucked having been around all the time He really wasn't that fun to have around all the time. Please go play football. That's the more cynical take That's that's the more cynical take it. Oh, his family didn't actually like having marauders like they thought they would So please go play football But I doubt that was the case.  I mean, I'm a I'm a full-time dad. So I'm not gonna you know, we hit we Yeah, let's just let's just leave it at that I will never say ask my kids but man There are times that you just need to be away need to be away um All right, I think we are going to Wrap things up Thank you guys so much for everything and all the support today. Uh, I think I can actually shout out all the super chats Uh, I think it'll actually work So let me try shouting everyone out. So eric win says start us up with $25 super chat. Thank you so much Double dead cat with the 999. I appreciate you. Cindy estus estus with $5. Thank you so much gi rocky with the 999. Thank you trust fly with the one dollar the one dollar than the two dollar Thank you so much jake randall with the five and then we had eric winstead hit us with another 10 You guys are awesome. I really had a great time tonight. Hopefully all of you guys had a good time as well We back at it tomorrow a new video Um Is it Wednesday? It's wednesday. So we get the podcast tomorrow. So we got new video and podcast for sure And then thursday, I don't live stream on thursdays. That's my night off From live streams and we're back at it on friday with a stream for marty card 8 deluxe We'll do a tournament and play the new dlc. So you guys are awesome. Catch you on the flip side I don't know why I just did that. Isn't there someone youtube content creator that does that? I feel like I've heard that somewhere


This is Dennis McMahon and welcome to Positively Vermont. My special guest today is Anson Tebbitt, the Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets. And we have a very interesting program in store for all of you about Secretary Tebbitt's and the work the Vermont Agency is doing now. We have a host pandemic and through the crisis and all of those things that should be of great interest. Welcome, Mr. Secretary. Well, thank you, Dennis. It's great to be with you again and also great to be with all your viewers. Right. Well, first of all, would you just tell us a little bit about yourself and your role as Secretary of Agriculture Food and Markets. A little bit personal information and when you started and what you've been doing. Well, thank you. Well, I grew up on a dairy farm in the town of Cabot, traditional dairy farm. We had milking cows. We did a little bit of maple sugaring. At one point we had sheep as well. And from there, you know, I went to graduate from Cabot High School in the 80s and went on to school in Boston. And actually, I have a degree in something in your field that was in communications. So I worked in radio and I worked in television along the way. I worked at radio station WD EV in Waterbury. It was my first paying job outside of college. And then from there, I dipped my toe into television. So I was a television reporter and eventually ended up as the news director at WC X TV on Joy Drive there in Burlington. And then about, I guess it's going to been going on six years ago, Governor Scott asked me to come aboard and be his Secretary of Agriculture Food and Markets. So that's what I've been doing for the last, I guess, five plus years going on six years now. That's great. Give us an idea of the scope of the agency, how big it is and what it does and also the role of Vermont nationwide and worldwide in agriculture. Well, the scope is quite wide. You can actually think about it as agriculture is going to touch you with just about everything you do every day. So for example, we have, we regulate gas pumps. It's something that folks may not know. But if you next time you're pumping up at the pumps and you're putting gas in your in your car, look to the gas pump and you'll see a sticker on it. And it likely you'll be inspected by the Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets. So we work in weights and measures. You go into a supermarket and we want to make sure you get accurate pricing. So we may look at the pricing to make sure the pricing in the aisle is consistent with the pricing at the checkout counter. Deli counters, we may be in there from propane to gas. We do that. We also have regulations about animal and food safety. So we have a division that works on consumer assurance and that may be inspecting the milk dairy plants. We may be inspecting on farm dairies. We do meat inspections. So we'll be in the meat plants. We'll be doing that. We also have an entomology department looking at bugs. So we have a number of things we're keeping our eye on about invasive species. We also look at economic development. So we're, we're helping farms and businesses try to make sure that they're profitable and economically viable. And we have support for that. And we have a division that looks at water quality and making sure that we're protecting the waters of Vermont. So we have a number of people that, whether they be engineers or inspectors working with our farms to make sure they're complying and supporting the water qualities of the state of Vermont. So it's really quite wide ranging what we all do. And we have about 100 and 135 employees full time stationed across the state of Vermont and all sections of Vermont, many of them working in the field so they may not physically be in an office but they're up there everywhere. So that's just an overview of some of the things we do Dennis. Great. Well, this show is not only viewed locally, but it gets around the world. In fact, many contacts I have in Europe. I just like to describe the picture of Vermont in terms of agricultural resources, trade and what we're known for, or perhaps locally in the United States and Canada and around the world. Well, probably our biggest commodity is dairy, whether that be in milk, cheese, butter, yogurt, you know, about 60 to 70% of our revenues in agriculture related to dairy. So that may be a dairy farm that's just producing milk and just selling to two of our major co-ops, one being Agamark and Cabot with a Cabot brand, or one may be DFA St. And that milk may go across the United States, it may go to the region. So I would say dairy is probably our principal commodity. We also have tremendous influence across the United States in maple. Most of the maple, about half of the maple produced in the United States is coming directly from the Green Mountains. So half of the crop in the United States, we're the number one producer of pure Vermont maple syrup in the United States, and that may go across the country, may go across the world. We also have folks that are doing tremendous things in fruits and vegetables, whether they be apple orchards, whether they be supplying some of our institutions with fresh vegetables. We have that. And then we have a lot of value added ag-based companies, whether they be specialty foods, whether it be jams and preserves that are relying on local products to produce another product. And we have a robust wine, beer, and spirits industry in Vermont, and some of those products are made from Vermont agriples or products. So it's really wide-ranging what we do. Everything from honey to maple to dairy to cheese to apples, it's all wide-ranging across the state of Vermont. Well, the last time we spoke, I believe, was at the height of the pandemic or the beginning of the pandemic. What challenges did that pose to you and your agency, and how has Vermont agriculture coped or is coping with right now? Well, clearly, Dennis, there was a disruption early on in the pandemic. We saw a tremendous crash in some of the markets. Take dairy, for example. Many of our cheese makers were, their markets were in restaurants. They might have been in institutions, and those were closed for a considerable amount of time. So they had to decide what they were going to do to pay their bills. So many of them switched to going online. So e-commerce became much more of a focus and continues to be a big focus. So a tremendous amount of cheese right now is being shipped across the United States in the mail to various folks directly to the consumer. Some of the markets have come back. You know, our restaurants have opened up again and some of our cheese shops, of course, have opened up again. So those markets remain there. But I would say e-commerce was a big change. Also, there was a tremendous amount of milk on the market, which couldn't reach everywhere. So that was a disruption for our dairy farmers. Recently, the price of milk paid to farmers has been good. Historically, it's been some of the highest prices they've been paid on the conventional side. But it's being offset by some of the inflationary problems we've had over the last few months, particularly the price of fuel to run tractors is extremely high. The transportation that's involved in moving product to the region has been very high. The cost of rain to feed our animals is very high. And also if those that are using fertilizer, those have been very high. So everything from the pandemic to the war in Ukraine have impacted several things for agriculture across the region. So it depends where you're standing. We did have a lot of folks return to shopping at farm stands and farmers markets and thinking about maybe more of a regional and a local approach to their buying habits. So that's been on the positive side. So I guess it's hard to say where it all landed, but it's been some positives in some aspects, but some negatives in other areas. So depending where you're standing. Well, this being harvest time coming up, how would this harvest time compare to last year and the year before and anything other comparisons you could make? Well, as we speak here in mid-September, the apple harvest seems to be very strong. I'm hearing good reports.  And we have a number of orchards that are doing that. They're also producing value added products like cider and also pies and so forth. So those seem to be going well. It's been a challenging summer in some aspects because of the weather conditions for a lot of our farmers. It has been dry in some regions. Particularly, you know, the farther south you go, we're hearing more folks in maybe the Windham, Bennington counties have had more challenges of being dry, particularly Addison County, which is a very intensive agriculture county. So it's, and some of that's impacted some of the forage for animals and other places have had just enough rain. So I guess, again, it's one of those things where you're standing. But I think for the most part, it's been a challenging summer because of it's been dry. And the rain that we did, that we have received has come at a very strong, you know, quick downpours. And we haven't had those really soaking rains that are really valuable to replenish the crops and the gardens and so forth. Maybe we can discuss some of these initiatives that have been going on this Vermont Future of Agriculture Commission action plan. What is that about? Yeah, so the governor Scott, this comes out of the pandemic, you know, we've been talking about the pandemic. Following the pandemic, it was really noticed by a lot of folks, including the governor and us at the agency and the agency of Commerce and Community Development, that agriculture really became the focus when people were shopping and realizing, you know, agriculture is pretty down important because it's feeding us. So the governor charged us with taking a look at various things to support agriculture. One thing that we found is we need to work on, you know, distribution processing, our infrastructure of our agriculture is very, very important. You know, we have a small population of Vermont, about 660,000 folks. So, you know, we need to send a lot of our agriculture products outside our region to bigger markets. For example, Boston, New York, Washington, Philadelphia. But to do that, you need a system in place where it's easy to distribute those products. So one of the things that we looked at is infrastructures. So one of the priorities of that was to make sure that we made investments in storage and transportation, all those things that make it more affordable for folks to get agriculture products throughout the region. So that was one of those recommendations that we made through the Governor's Commission on the Future of Agriculture. Let me ask you about the agency's funding to support farm, food, and forest businesses. Tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, we have, let's start with an example. We have the Working Lands Enterprise Fund, and the Working Lands Enterprise Fund has been fortunate over the last year or so to have about $5 million that helped support farming, whether it be a sugar operation, maybe a vegetable operation, maybe it's a dairy operation. And that can also work on infrastructure. So if they needed that really critical piece of equipment, take a slaughterhouse, for example. The equipment in slaughterhouses is very, very expensive, but there might be a saw, there might be some packaging that would really benefit that industry. So the Working Lands Enterprise Fund can give folks a grant to make that purchase. It's a competitive grant. There's an application, there's a process to go through that, and an independent board that's managed by the Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets works on those grants. That's one example. We also recently, because of this disruption in the dairy industry, Vermont is host to the Northeast Dairy Business Innovation Center. And we recently received a infusion of money to help with the dairy industry in Vermont. We received about $19 million to work within Vermont and the region to support dairy farmers. They may be looking at everything from on-farm practices to maybe processing. We have some dollars that are going to be available for our cheese makers or our dairy processors to make considerable infrastructure improvements. We're also looking at distributing some dollars to the on-farm businesses. So if that dairy farmer needs improvement in the millhouse, maybe needs a new bulk tank, more storage, better efficiency with that, we're going to have a granting program for that. So it's wide-ranging what we have for programs. We actually, if folks wanted to go to our webpage, there's a calendar of events there. And on that calendar, it has the funding opportunities and lists all the programs that we have that may benefit agriculture. It's called the annual calendar of funding opportunities. And it's everything is available year-round for financial assistance for our agriculture community. That's great. Let's talk about an initiative that is fairly recent and seems to have obtained a lot of interest. And that's the importance value and concepts of agritourism. Tell us about that. Yeah, Vermont recently hosted an international conference on agritourism. This was organized by the University of Vermont Extension Service. And we were partners in helping to support that conference. So we had, I would say, about 50 different countries participating on this in the Burlington region. And more than 500 participants took part in this three-day conference that was hosted by Vermont. The last time they headed a couple of years ago, it was in Italy. And this is taking a look at some folks that may want to bring folks to their farm or their business, and maybe it's a farm state. So maybe you want to spend a couple days on the farm. You've got a place to sleep there. But they learn hands-on what it's like to run a dairy operation. For example, we have one in Rochester, Vermont. It's an agritourism operation. It's a working dairy farm. They have a place where folks can stay. They also can get a nice breakfast every morning. But they also can learn exactly what it takes to run a dairy operation in Vermont. So I think there's been a trend to see if that's another revenue source for some of our agriculture enterprises. And I think there's potential growth there if we can support more of those across the state of Vermont to bring more people looking for authentic experiences. And I think that has been the trend across the nation. People looking for real experiences that are meaningful. They can see how the land is taken care of. They can see how the water is taken care of. And they can see how the animals are taken care of. And they can learn more about what it really takes to produce something from a farm. That's great. And we're recording now in September the 12th. And what other projects is the agency of agriculture food and markets looking into or planning for the rest of the year? Winter is going to be coming and season, holidays, pumpkins and all that stuff. Tell us a little bit about what the next few months are going to look like. Well, fall is again a very important month for agriculture. We're going to be supporting many maple initiatives called Maple 100. You know, we think about maple when maple is produced in, you know, February, March, early April. But we're also introducing maple to folks that may be visiting Vermont during the foliage season. So I think it's important that we focus on maple being a year round product. So there's places to visit and see maple operations, although they may not be producing maple at that time. There's still a lot to learn. And it's all focused on our foliage season. Of course, the sugar make maple is so vital to our fall tourism season. We'll be talking about one big fair that's coming up and from September, you know, 16th for 17 days after that. And that's the Big E in West Springfield, Massachusetts. Vermont has a building down there where a number of our companies sell their products and give those visitors to the Big E a very authentic experience. When they come into that building, whether they want to see the cheese, whether they get a beverage, where they see some of the arts and crafts that Vermonters are so good at doing. So they'll have an opportunity for that as well. And of course, anytime folks can get out and visit, pick your own operation. We have some incredible pick your own operations, whether they be at the apple orchard, or they'd be, you know, grabbing a pumpkin somewhere. So everyone's kind of cherishing that and really important time for the fall before we head into winter, which is another season. But we have a little bit of law there during stick season that we catch up on things before we head into the winter season. Great. Let me ask you this. One of the things that our legislature, of course, concluded its session. And what types of initiatives is the agency interested in? In the state, I guess now the federal level or what initiatives have been passed as a result of interest by the agency this past session and the new session will be coming in January. Let us get a little bit of a legislative outlook. Yes, so I think, you know, one thing is to keep our eye on on the budget. You know, as we speak in September, our revenues can are still pretty strong and the revenue forecast continue to run ahead of schedule. And that has a lot to do with, I think more people are visiting Vermont, more people have come to Vermont and purchased homes post pandemic. We've seen a population increase in Vermont for the first time in a very, very long time. So that's that's helping our economy and in some aspects. So we'll be looking at more initiatives that grow our economy, you know, make it more affordable. And of course, we're always keeping our eye on the less vulnerable so we have to make sure that people are being fed and they have those folks that need assistance there. We'll be looking at those particular projects. And again, we're going to continue to use those federal dollars that have come to Vermont to focus on projects that are long term so have a lasting impact. I'm not just in the year 2022 that are going to be with us for a long time and again that speaks to working on our infrastructure making sure that our, our farms have the proper equipment to be more efficient more affordable. So they can get those products to the public in a way that's affordable. And it may be, you know, water sewer will be investing in those will be making sure that we continue to invest in a broadband and cell service, which is so important to our rural economy. We need those things ticking so we can possibly move products through e-commerce if we want, we can communicate together. So all those things will be priorities as we continue to try to grow the economy, make it more affordable and take care of the less vulnerable. A lot of people will be watching this here and other parts of the country, and particularly with the upcoming months and issues you mentioned this whole issue of food security and food safety. What can people do? How can people get more involved in the agriculture and food scene in Vermont from your perspective? Well, I think it's important that we all, you know, take a pause and learn before, you know, maybe we react, you know, if you have the opportunity to buy something locally from a farmer. Maybe you're shopping in a supermarket and you see there's a Vermont product there. If you could purchase that, if you have the means to do that, that would be fantastic. If you can visit, you know, farm stands, maybe you want to purchase some products directly from that company online to do that. You know, send gifts to your friends, send Vermont products through the mail for them. And also get to know your neighbors, get to know what it's like to farm.  You know, farming is, you know, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So some vehicles may, you know, move at odd hours, not the nine to five schedule that a lot of us are used to. And I think education is important. And anything you can do, whether it being school, whether it be in your community to pay attention to your farmer, support them any way you can. So they're there to keep our land open and in production. And of course, at the end of the day, what they're doing is they're feeding us all. That reminded me of just one more thing, the idea of education and career in farm. What if anything is being done to interest young people and students, college students, even high school students in careers in agriculture. Yeah, there's tremendous opportunity now for folks. You know, we need, we need young minds, young workers. And that may be, you know, working on a dairy farm and you're in charge, you're the mechanic on a dairy farm. And to keep that equipment rolling so the crops can be harvested, the milking equipment keeps going. So there's opportunities for that. So our, our regional technical centers are valuable with that. We have some FFA, Future Farmers of America chapters throughout Vermont that are important. We have a couple of colleges, one in Randolph, formerly DTC has an agriculture school that's adapting and changing. We also have the University of Vermont in our backyard, a working farm there, a number of folks working in agriculture at the School of Agriculture there as well. We have Sterling College up in Crasperie as well, a smaller institution been working on various aspects of agriculture that are important. So there's tremendous opportunity, whether it be, you know, growing a school garden in elementary school, farm to school programs are very important to learning about where your food comes from, how to grow it. And then through high school and right up through college is a number of opportunities for folks to really be involved in agriculture. So it remains viable for the future. Well, that's great. Well, thank you very much. And I want to have you back a lot sooner, maybe in the next season to explain some more things that of interest and all your great work. I want to commend you and your employees and your agency for just the pivotal role that you have been playing in the success and the quality of life. Well, thank you. Thank you. It's great to chat with you and wishing you and all of your viewers best of luck. Thank you. This is Dennis McMahon. My guest has been Anson Tevitz, the secretary of the Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets, speaking with us here on Positively Vermont. Thank you for watching.


A locus, plural loci, is a figure that satisfies a certain relationship. Some common loci, given a point O and some distance r, the locus of all points in the plane distance r from O is a circle. Or given two points P and Q, the locus of all points X, where XP equals XQ, is a straight line perpendicular to PQ. Plaintian authors noted that the conic section solves certain types of locus problems. For example, given a point and a line, the locus of all points equidistant from the point and the line is a parabola. On the other hand, given a line, the locus of points where the square of the line drawns ordinal wise are equal to the rectangle of the line and the abscissa is also a parabola. And this raises an important question. How can you tell if an existing and well-known curve solves a locus problem? More generally, how can we solve an arbitrary geometric construction problem? For that, we turn to a mercenary. Rene Descartes fought as a mercenary in the wars of the 17th century. After he retired, he studied philosophy. And among his philosophical contributions are what we now call the anthropic principle. In modern descriptions, the anthropic principle is the following, the universe is conducive to life because if it wasn't, we wouldn't be here to ask why it isn't. Now Descartes had his own take on it, and this sounds better in Latin, cogito ergo sum. I think, therefore, I am. Descartes had the following insight. Every problem in geometry can easily be reduced to such terms that a knowledge of the length of certain straight lines is sufficient for its construction. What Descartes meant was this. Suppose you had a geometry problem. You could reframe the problem as an algebra problem, solve the algebra problem, then translate the algebraic solution into a geometric one. Now this only works if we know how to interpret an arithmetic expression as a geometric one. So addition and subtraction pose no problems, nor does division or multiplication buy a whole number. For example, suppose a, b equals a, and b, c equals b, we can show a plus b, 3a, and b over 2. So a plus b would be a line equal to a, b, and b, c joined together, 3a, well that would be 3a's joined together, and b over 2, well we could take b, c and cut it in half. However, products are a problem. Traditionally, products of two lines were interpreted as the areas of rectangles. And products of three lines were interpreted as volumes of solids. So products of four terms don't make sense. There's another problem. The product of two or more numbers can be interpreted in two different ways. So if I have the product 2 times 3, I could view this as the area of a rectangle with sides of length 2 and 3, but it can also be two lines of length 3 joined together, two 3s. And Descartes realized the theory of ratio and proportion could offer a solution. The addition and subtraction of lines didn't change, but to multiply or divide, we need to introduce a new line, the unit line. This would mean that lines corresponding to specific numbers would have specific lengths. So how can we multiply two lines? To multiply two lines, bd equals a by bc equals b, we'll set the two lines down at any convenient angle and mark a b equal to 1, the unit. We'll join ac and draw de parallel to ac, then be is our product ab. And this result follows from the theory of ratio and proportion. It's worth observing that we can reverse the construction. We'll set down two lines, be, bd, again at any convenient angle, and join de. Again we'll mark ab equal to 1, our unit, and draw ac parallel to de. Then bc is be divided by bd. We can also find square roots this way. To find the square root of gh equal to a, we'll extend gh by fg equal to 1, our unit. Then we'll draw the circle with diameter fh and construct our perpendicular gi. Then gi is the square root of a. And this follows from the properties of circles. So for example, let ab equal to 1, bc equal to a, let's construct a line equal to a squared plus the square root of a. So we'll set down bc and bd of length a, again at any convenient angle, and then mark ab equal to 1, the unit. Join ad, then draw ce parallel to ad, and be is going to be a squared. Next, to construct square root of a, so extend be by bf equal to 1, our unit. Draw the circle, construct the perpendicular, and the perpendicular will be square root of a. And now we'll join the lines together. So if we extend our line be, which is a squared by bh equal to the square root of a, we obtain he a squared plus square root of a.


The wait is finally over. We now know the teams and the date of Bemidji's most anticipated event of next year. Hockey Day Minnesota, which for the first time will be held over three days. Things will kick off on Thursday, January 17th, as the Bemidji girls hockey team hosts Woodbury at 7 o'clock. It's so great. I can't wait. I've been watching Hockey Day Minnesota for years now and getting out there to actually play. It's great. It's going to be awesome. I hope they're old enough to really appreciate it. I think all the excitement today is kind of starting to sink in and now we're still waiting until January 19th to get here. January 17th in our case, playing that Thursday night game. The next night, the Bemidji State Men's Hockey Team will play in the first outdoor men's college game during Hockey Day Minnesota as they host Michigan Tech. Our sport is full of experiences and this is just another experience that everybody's going to be able to have. Again, not only the coaches, the players, but also the fans. So we're really excited about it. It's going to be a lot of fun.  There's going to be a lot of people watching and it's pretty special that it's going to be here in Bemidji with the strong hockey community we have and obviously the state of Minnesota, so yeah, we're really excited. Kicking off the main event on Saturday, January 19th is Minnetonka and Andover Boys Hockey. At one, the Bemidji girls team hosts Minnesota State Mankato outside live on FS North. They have the opportunity to be on FS North, to have it televised statewide. Not just for our program, but just for women's college hockey, for girls hockey all over the country. It's really, really cool. When I was younger, I definitely dreamed about it as a young girl and now I'm here and I've worked so hard. So it's very exciting and very humbling and I'm really excited to be able to play in front of everybody that I know. And at 4.30, the main event, the Lumberjacks Boys Team, taking on Greenway.  I look forward to it. Our team looks forward to it. We just can't be any happier than looking forward to January 19th next year. We can't wait either. There you see the first half of the schedule. The Beaver's Men's Team will also wrap up the weekend with another game against Michigan Tech inside at the Sanford Center and the Wild will host Columbus in St. Paul. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


The reconnaissance marine shapes the battlefield for follow-on forces, so provide intel or information back to the force that's going to be coming in to do whatever they're going to be doing, array it, or a lot of times array it, or whatever it may be. So we provide that information and we shape the battlefield for them. For all the different, everything we've been doing in the Marine Pack has been different, but for the patrolling we were with CLT-1. The first five days, we did five days of amphibops, Hearst, and helocasting. Big heavy on the amphibops, especially small boat work, finning, stuff like that. Then we moved into helocasting. We did a full day of that, throwing cricks out the back of a helicopter and jumping out. And we did a full day of Hearst with the Japanese as well, doing fast-robe, spy, and repelling off of a CH-53. There's a little bit of movement, a little bit of pivots here and there, but for the most part it's pretty static. We're not running around doing IA drills or anything like that. So we would call it a square bay chute, basically, with 45s as well, not just M4s. Reconnaissance in the Art Canadian Army, they're a little bit less on the amphibious reconnaissance side. So when we did small boat work, that was some fairly new stuff for them. We've been working real well with them. They're very similar to us. And their reconnaissance has a lot of simliers to ours. So everything's been going pretty real smooth. Everyone gets along real well, and it's been a good experience.


On May 24th, 2021, I graduated from Yale University and the blast that was my college experience came to a very poignant end. So what's next? Adulthood? An office job? Classic nine to five? Ah, not for me, at least not yet. I always told people I'd rather take the Peter Pan route, you know? Stay a kid forever, leave all the stress and adulting for later. So where does that leave me? Well, I just booked a flight to Hawaii. Made it to L.A. Is it cheap that I packed a sandwich instead of buying air for food? So, 15 hours of travel. I look like a mess. 15 hours of travel later, we finally made it. To the island of Maui is where I am. I decided that with my last couple weeks of freedom before I become an adult, I was gonna escape to the tropical island and try to have as much fun as possible until I enter the workforce. This is my travel buddy. Use yourself, travel buddy. Yeah, my hair is too bad. Well, that's going in the video. Hold stop that frame. Okay, rewind. Yeah, pause. Yeah, right there. Zoom in. Okay, this is Laura. She isn't just my travel buddy, but she's someone who I've known for a while now, and she makes me very happy. Please be nice to her in the comments. That is all. Anyways, we spent the rest of the evening exploring the beach across the street from our Airbnb in the town of Kihei in Maui, and then woke up for an early start for our next day exploring the west side of the island. So, after our scuba diving endeavors were canceled due to low visibility, we are now in the Waihei. I'm gonna pronounce stuff wrong. Ridge trail. Just walked like 400 feet straight up. Look at the view. We'll keep you updated. It's absolutely insane. This is so pretty. Nearing the top or what, but I think the vegetation is to finally bend out. I don't think we're near the top. Supposedly a four mile round trip. I think we're three quarters of a mile a mile into it right now, but it's been all straight up. But the views so far with the clouds over the mountains have been insane. To the top. I'm now wearing a hat because so much sweat has dripped into my eyes. I should probably not be looking at the camera and be looking at where I'm stepping because we are on the top. After the hike, we stopped by the nearby Iao Valley State Park to snag some quick pictures and continued our drive around the west side of Maui. Our favorite stop was definitely the Olivian Pools, which provided for some great swimming and an absolutely incredible view. Luckily it wasn't too much further to see our very first blow hole of the trip, the Nakalele blow hole. Sick tree. All right, it is now later. We've been driving around the west side of Maui today. Really sketchy roads. Like really like one lane roads where I don't. How do they expect two cars to pass each other on a one lane road when one side is a cliff and the other side is like a brick wall. And there were no guardrails either. So we have we hit up some really cool pools. Kind of sketchy. And then a blow hole. I'll insert some footage of that stuff. But now we're at Honolulu Bay, which is apparently like one of the best places to snorkel in Maui. And we will see what happens.


Hello and welcome to This Week in the City. Highlights brought to you from the Public Relations, Media and Marketing Department with the City of Columbia. I'm your host, Alicia Utsi. This week in the City, on Monday, February 24, the U.S. Census Bureau, in conjunction with South Carolina Department of Employment Workforce, will be hosting the Career Coach partner in front of City Hall, located at 1737 Main Street. If you are interested in applying for a job as a Census taker or other positions with the Census 2020, please visit City Hall at 1737 Main Street from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. The Career Coach is a mobile unit that will be parked outside City Hall on Main Street, again located at 1737 Main Street. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday for anyone seeking employment with Census 2020. On Tuesday, Columbia City Council will conduct a City Council Work Session at 2 p.m. and a 4 p.m. evening meeting. Both meetings will be held at City Hall at 1737 Main Street. For agenda items, visit our website at columnsc.gov. If you cannot attend the meetings but would like to view them, please watch the live stream available on our website at columnsc.gov as we roll into the week on February 26 on Wednesday. Please join us for a community-wide informational meeting regarding road improvements that are scheduled for Millwood Avenue. The public meeting will be held at Drill High School starting at 5.30 p.m. and ending at 7.30 p.m. Again, this meeting is open to the public and you will be provided with information regarding improvements that are scheduled for Millwood Avenue. Again, February 26 on Wednesday from 5.30 to 7.30 p.m. For more details about this meeting, please visit our website at columnsc.gov. On Thursday, the North Columbia Business Association will be hosting a business breakfast with City Manager Teresa Wilson. Please visit our website for details regarding this breakfast. This event is hosted by the North Columbia Business Association. Also on Thursday, community development will be partnering with the Columbia Council of Neighborhoods and they will hold a public meeting during the Columbia Council of Neighborhoods meeting which will be at Eau Claire Print Building starting at 6 p.m. that evening. The public meeting and public hearing will provide information to neighborhood presidents and to the general public about upcoming projects and developments in community development and they need your input. Again, that's Thursday evening 6 p.m. at the Eau Claire Print Facility. Visit our website for more details. On Friday, we have a busy weekend starting with the completion of the Black History Month movie series. The movie will be airing at 6 p.m. at Busby Community Center and the movie to be shown is Harriet. Again, this will complete the Black History Month movie series on Friday, February 28th at Busby Street Community Center at 6 p.m. Also on Saturday, join us at Busby Street Community Center at 1 p.m. for the Black History Month Trivia Bowl. These are two events that are closing out our Black History Month events for the month of February 2020. If you're looking for more events for the weekend, check out Destination Hometown, which you can find on our website and our social media platforms. And of course, if you have questions about any meetings or events this week, contact Public Relations, Media and Marketing at 545-3020. Email us at pio at columbiasc.gov and of course visit our website columbiasc.gov and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram as well as YouTube. We hope you have a great week in the city.


Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from around the world, our headlines. Activists denounce Germany-Namibia Agreement on Herero-Nama genocide, Colombians mark one month of protests as government deploys military in Cali, Mali's constitutional court declares Colonel Assimi Goethe as interim president, and in our video section we take a look at the lack of vaccine access for Afro-Brazilian communities. In our first story, the Ova Herero and Namakoa have rejected a reconciliation agreement between Germany and the Namibian government. Germany formally recognized the colonial-era genocide of the Herero and Nama people on May 28. The foreign ministry further announced a 1.1 billion euro package for reconstruction and development. However, as per reports, this sum will be paid over 30 years. The statement also clarified that no legal claims for compensation could be derived from this. The agreement will now have to be ratified by both countries' parliaments. Community leaders and activists have condemned this agreement since it does not provide reparations. As reported by the Namibian, they have argued that the aid money should go to the community's traditional authorities and not the government. The Ova Herero Genocide Foundation and the Nama Traditional Leaders Association also had a petition to the government on May 28. Following an uprising in January 1904, German colonizers forced the Herero people into the Omaheke Desert. The Nama people were subjected to the same shortly after. They were left there to starve and die, while those who survived were placed in concentration camps.  Between 1904 and 1908, German colonial forces killed an estimated 65 to 80,000 Herero people. Around 10,000 to 20,000 Nama and unconfirmed number of San people were also killed. The Ova Herero Genocide Foundation and the Ova Herero and Nama Traditional Authorities have now launched a petition. They have demanded full reparations to be paid to the descendants of victims. They have rejected the so-called reconciliation agreement and have demanded that Germany recognize its responsibility towards the genocide as per international law. In our next story, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Colombia on May 28 to mark one month of the national strike. The landmark day was marked by demonstrations, rallies and cultural events. Indigenous communities who have continued to organize mingas also held rallies across several departments. Protests were held across different locations in Bogota, including the bus station now renamed Resistance Portal. However, police forces began attacking protesters late in the evening. Colombia informer also reported that there had been electricity blackout in the area. As of 2 a.m., local time, at least 80 people had been injured. Police also deployed tear gas and stun grenades in the Santada department, targeting protesters, medics and journalists. Police brutality has increased as the state has continued to call the protesters vandals, terrorists and members of illegal armed groups. Violence has been particularly severe in the city of Kali which has emerged as the epicenter of the strike. At least three people were killed during the protests on Friday. The organization also verified reports of armed men in civilian clothing firing at protesters. Attorney General Francisco Barbosa claimed that one such agent was allegedly killed after firing at civilians. Following this, President Iván Duque announced the deployment of the military to the city on Friday. In additional 7,000 personnel, including the Navy, will be deployed to remove road blockades. Meanwhile, talks between the government and the National Strike Committee stalled following the announcement of a pre-agreement. The government claimed that it was because protest leaders had refused to condemn the road blockades. As per reports, negotiations will now resume on May 30th. We now go to Mali where the constitutional court has named Colonel Assimi Goeta as the country's interim president. Goeta who was already serving as the vice president seized power after coup on May 24th. The crisis began following a cabinet reshuffle on Monday which saw the removal of two soldiers from the transnational government. President Bahanda and Prime Minister Mokhtar Oane were then detained by soldiers and taken to the Kharty military base. They were released on Thursday after they were resigned. Meanwhile, Goeta declared himself president on Wednesday, accusing the head of state of trying to sabotage transition. He stated that he was not consulted about the cabinet reshuffle. This is Mali's second coup in nine months. Goeta also led the coup last year, which ousted President Ibrahim Babu Bakr Keita. This is following mass protests in the country against alleged corruption in the presence of French troops. A new transition government was set up in September, composed of both civilian and military leaders. It is a mandate of 18 months with fresh elections scheduled to be held in February 2022. The military has had a heavy influence over the government and controls key portfolios, including defense and security. Colonel Goeta announced on New Friday that a new prime minister would be named within the next few days. He has also claimed that the elections will be held as planned. And for our final story, we take a look at the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in Brazil. The Health Ministry reported over 49,700 new cases within 24 hours on May 28. Nearly 460,000 people have died so far. President Jair Bolsonaro's mishandling of the crisis has led to severe shortages in oxygen, ICU beds, and other supplies. While the government has now expanded its vaccination campaign, some priority groups are still struggling with vaccine access. Among these are the Afro-Brazilian Quilambola people. The national coordination of the black rural Quilambola communities had requested to be included as a priority group last year. However, they are pointed to the continued lack of government planning in terms of supplies and distribution. Here is a video feature from our friends at Brazil de Fatso on this issue. The Quilambola communities were guaranteed the right to be in the priority groups for immunization against COVID-19. Due to being vulnerable to the effects of the novel coronavirus, it is recommended that Quilambolas be vaccinated inside their territories. However, in the state of Pará, they reported the vaccination campaign as full of flaws. On the municipality of Monju, we had to file a motion with the public ministry because the municipal administration had few vaccination posts and people would have to travel for their communities on public transport or school buses in order to be vaccinated in these places. Faced with the Monju case, members of Quilambola associations called on the public ministry of the state of Pará to intervene and a task force was created after the complaints. The mayor's office affirmed that it has already made changes to the immunization campaign so that Quilambolas wouldn't have to commute in order to get the vaccine. Nevertheless, Quilambola leaders say that many have still not received any doses of the inoculation in the state. The amount of vaccines that the state government is sending to the municipalities isn't enough to cater to the entire Quilambola population of certain towns. Another issue is that we don't have population data on the Quilambolas and the health ministry is basing its efforts on information that, in our opinion, is unrealistic. This process of struggle by the communities continues to be arduous. The communities are still demanding more information in many municipalities. A task force was created to monitor the vaccination proceedings in the state, but we still don't have palpable results for this group. But we hope that this will generate a response and a certain expediency in the proceedings. That's all we have time for today. We'll be back on Monday with more news from around the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch.


Hi there, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hem. I am so excited to show you my latest make, this awesome trench coat. But first, I'd like to thank our sponsor for this video, Ana Luisa Jory. They are a jewelry company based in New York City with designers that previously worked with brands I love, like Tori Birch and Alexander Wing. Each piece is individually handcrafted with the same materials used by companies like David Yermann, Gucci, Hermes, and Celine. They gifted me these super sweet flower stud earrings to show you all. These delicate earrings feature a pearl and an artistic enamel layer. With a vibrant pink color and feminine design, the Irish pink gold-plated studs feel and look amazing. They are 14 karat gold-plated stud earrings and each one is individually hand-painted. I love that custom detail and as a crafter, I can appreciate the work that goes into jewelry like this. There's not a better time to shop Ana Luisa jewelry as they have several sales going on right now for the holidays. In fact, these exact earrings are marked down almost 30% right now. Additionally, Ana Luisa Jory has generously offered my viewers a coupon for $10 off your purchase with the code LindsayJ10. Head to the link in my bio to shop. Okay, back to the trench. When I saw Simplicity 8554, I knew that I would have a version all my own. It didn't take much to plan out the project as I wanted to copy the sample garment almost exactly. I just fell in love with the drape and flow of the design and in my opinion you can't have too many olive green jackets. Am I right? This soft trench coat and jacket are the perfect layering pieces. Length options include short, mid, and long with side slits and optional pockets and ties. For my version, I took the basic jacket and then added in all the bells and whistles of a traditional trench including the length of A and the wrist ties and chest flaps from C. Interesting fact, these chest flaps are actually called gun flaps. They were included on a soldier's trench coat to prevent early wear during the firing of a weapon. Some of them even included an opening under the flap where the soldier could easily access a pistol. They are obviously pretty pointless now since most people wearing trench coats aren't walking around firing shotguns, but they added a classic detail that I wanted to include. I made a straight size 14 and shortened it by six inches to make sure it hit me just below the knee. The length is really just a personal preference and I didn't think that ankle length would be super flattering on me. For fabric, I found the perfect balance of drape and structure in this soft tinsel twill from Stylemaker Fabrics. It comes in a whopping 14 different colorways. Mine is the color Hunter. Tinsel is actually the brand name of a fiber called Lyocel. It's environmentally friendly made from a sustainably sourced natural raw material wood. Tinsel is known for its great strength, efficient moisture absorption and gentleness to the skin. Another fun fact, Lyocel was developed in 1972 by a team at a fibers facility in Inca, North Carolina. Check the description box for a link to the Inca North Carolina Wikipedia page. There's a lot of great information there, especially if you're familiar with the Asheville area. I really enjoyed reading it, so I thought you guys might too. For fun, I lined the gun flaps with a bright floral quilting cotton I had in my stash. So what do you think of my new coat? I've worn it a couple of times this month and it's proving to be the perfect layering piece for our mild fall temperatures here in South Carolina. I hope you like it as much as I do and don't forget to go check out Anna-Louisa jewelry. Until next time, bye.