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So luckily they had already taken the compressor out for me, chopped it here, unscrewed it there on the flare fitting, because you don't really want to do it on the rotolock fitting unless you've got a new seal for it, flipped the oil upside down, threw it into the container down here so I know how much was in it, which, you see that mineral oil doesn't look all that tempting there. This thing's had several leaks over the years, so as you can see right here, it was recharged several times, so they finally got the authorization to replace the evaporator, and that's what was done here just a little bit ago. As you can see, some of the equipment's a little bit tired, and some of it's still running surprisingly. So what we've got going on right now, what I did when I first got here was just went ahead and cranked my valve in all the way. That way I was open to the compressor, went ahead and filled up my pan here in my little dedicated bucket that I use for oil, whether recovering, whatever, measured it up to about the same area the other one was, pumped it into the system with that suction valve, like I said, cranked all the way in. That way it would shove right into the compressor. Once that was done, went ahead and backed it out and just cracked it, so most of it was pulling on the system, put on the vacuum hoses there, and now we're pulling the vacuum on it, which right now we're kind of twiddled in here. Come on, give me some light. So right now we're kind of twiddled in here because you've got so much refrigerant that's going to be boiling off in the receiver right there and in the compressor.  I just guarantee generally one change nowadays is enough to make the system run. This system here has a low pressure cutout, which I believe it has a thermostat on it. So we got here. Yeah, it looks like that's just for pump down only, which means thermostat should be doing a job. Do not believe this had a defrost clock on it, which it is what it is. We're just going to use what they had so if it worked before it should work again. This is going to be your start components here. Yep, all of them still look a little tired. But otherwise, I'm not really seeing any defrost clocks at all. I asked about that before I got here and he said it was off the side. But I'm not seeing any. Actually, none of them have defrost clocks unless it was upstairs. So we kind of bogged out around 2000 there. Let's go ahead and change this oil. It's been needing changed for a little while now. It's pretty easy with this pump. It's one handed. Here we go right into the pail. And it don't take a whole lot of oil, which is why you can change this oil pretty quick and fairly inexpensively because it doesn't hold a lot of oil. So it works out around the well. All right, put us right at the top there looking good. We're back together here and see if we can get a little bit better. We are holding right in there at 2030. So we haven't reused a whole lot. Let's go ahead and see if it does any better now with some better oil on it. Because that definitely should make a difference. We'll open that gas valve back up and see what we get now. So I'll go ahead and let that speed up there. It's kind of slow and startup. Trying to save battery power as it goes. Batteries weren't very happy with the cold weather. So they've got a new evaporator in here. I do not see anything in here for Gefrost clock. They reuse the existing line set and just tie it on to it. So there's thermostat. Looks like it's set to about 32, 34, which is pushing it. I'm assuming they're hoping they're going to get off cycle to Gefrost. So if it worked before, hopefully it works again. Guess we'll let that deal with the powers of B that did the quote. See if we can get in there and get to that TXV. All right, this TXV, I'm reaching around the back side. If you can move it like that, it's not tight enough. So we need to take that apart and tighten that up. That was snips or something. That's enough to cut your finger wide open right here. That's sure. You have to be careful not doing stuff like that. Geniuses are was the helper that did it. Because I know the guy normally installs it does really good work. So unfortunately, you got to double check their work. That's why we usually have the service guy a lot of times follow it up. Because we're going to have fresh eyes and we're going to look at things like this and get it done. So that hopefully we don't have problems with super heat stuff like that after the fact. Because you figure once they put this money into the coil, they're going to expect the compressor to continue running though it is old. And if we're flooding back because it doesn't think it's cold enough, that's something that could happen. All right, I see why it's loose. You got it on that. You can't do that. That needs pulled back into the unit a little bit further. So that it's actually flat. Another deal will get fixed. We ended up doing is moving back here. Now you've got a good contact with that bulb and it's not moving. No matter how hard I push, it's not moving. So now we'll go ahead and reorganize this lead going back to the head. We can reinstall it and then you don't have to worry about it getting nailed by somebody in the cooler with, you know, people are throwing things up here.  Just fold that over. There's no reason for that. That right there is now a razor blade to cut some nice fingers off. You're going to do it. Use a pair of snips and brown the edges. That's just going to cause people to get more cuts like that right there and there. All right. Well, we ended up doing putting about a pound point three in there charged just a pound.   There's no solenoid valve on this. We basically fed it through the suction, which is going to go up to the evaporator and come back. It's not going to just set in here in liquid form in the compressor. We just got enough in there that now we can hook onto our high side. And I was hoping that, you know, by keeping things sealed up, we'd have less leak points. You've got issues there with these valves possibly leaking. You've got problems with that one there leaking. All these things I think are contributing to a slow evacuation. Our sight glass back there does show purple. So it doesn't hear that, you know, it even thinks that it's dry.  But that's what we're at right now. So we're going to go ahead and get our high side hooked on there. We'll finish charging the rest of it in liquid. As you see, we're at 75 psi there. So it did positively pressurize that side. Hoses moved a little bit. So we've got a little bit here. So we're going to go ahead and kick this thing on and we'll start charging it up. Actually, let's go ahead and start dumping some into the liquid side now. Finish charging it in. Let's go ahead and get about two and a half pounds, three pounds in here. And then we'll go ahead and kick it on after that. Disconnect right up here. I put our gauge on here. I wanted to see how good our oil is. As you can see, we're at 54 microns. So our oil should be good for one more. Okay, we'll go ahead and stop that there. Yeah, it does appear that we do not have a solenoid. I didn't see any wires running. Liquid cyclase over here. Let's start adding a little bit more to it here slowly. Now, it's a pretty hungry little hippo. A decent size little receiver for all the bigger this system is. We are finally at seven pounds times 15 percent comes in about a pound. So we're going to go ahead and add about another pound here. And that should give us plenty. That way we know we've got it full for all conditions. If we could get the core tool removed there. And we're just about there. That pressure don't look too out of line since we could add liquid. Then we can start checking our super heat. Well, as I figured the gauges aren't reaching up here. So I did get me some test approved now. So I'm able to do my testing with my phone remotely right at the unit, which makes it nice. There's a decent spot to clamp there. We're below the last of the manifold lines coming into it. So it should all be close to the mix about that point. Normally you want to be somewhere along by this the pole. Which in this case here, I did get that all cleaned up. And now let's protect it away from getting hit. No capillary tube from the pole hanging or anything like that. We do got her set right around 30 34, which we're going to raise that up some here. Definitely when you're trying to go naturally frost. I've got some screenshots and super heat. It started dropping down to about two degree area. So he started to crank it in a little bit. And last I checked was about six and a half. So we're going to double check it here and see where we're at. Just got her to 8.5. So we're going to go ahead and get this thing put back together. And it seems to be holding there. Definitely don't want to leave anything behind. As always guys, you can get all your test-o tools. Any kind of tools you're looking for, tree tech tools. Save 80% off most everything with Provo Survival to check out. There's links down in the bottom below on some of the most common tools that I use. So you can always check those out. Okay, it looks to me that we're right down at 35 degrees. Which is about where that was partially set at. Let's go ahead and click this thing and see where we're at. Let's take her up to about 36 area and we'll see how that does. See if she's shut down. It's kind of hard to tell. I hate to wrap it, cycle it because there's no contact or downer on that thing. It literally is powering directly to it. So let's go ahead and get our stuff cleaned up. Let's go downstairs. I have been liking this bag so far. It's not too overly heavy. MB5B. I showed it last video or two. I keep my probes here on the side which is kind of sweet. I also got my pressure one in here too. And then my door jam. And then my gas pressure test one is down in here too. My dual monometer, the 510i. It does a really good job. I got my basic hose there. Then I keep my meter on the other pocket. I haven't overstuffed it. Jumpers and stuff over here on this side. Got my lock out there. These are switchable. You can put these pockets inside these pockets. Same thing with this one over here. You can take them out and change those. This here pops out. This whole back plate pops out. So it's pretty slick. Got a big old monster pocket here on the front. Now there's zipper dipper there. Another zipper hopper hopper there on there. Lots of room for everything. And then on the back here you can unhook and remove these straps. And then you've got a spot back here for your iPad or whatever. And then another pocket up here which is where I keep my markers and stuff at which is out of way here so we don't forget it.  I'm running 202 on head. It's dropped quite a bit. Check our cyclists. See if it's still full. Cyclists still full. I'm gonna go ahead and get maybe turn that up a touch because we were 35 degrees in there.  Okay we've got everything tightened up. We're gonna go ahead and spread it for leaks just in case. Let's go up the stairs and see if we can turn it up a little bit. It's I think it's getting probably too cold in there. Well I just turned it up some almost about 38 and it's still not shutting off. This is why you replace everything and not just some of it.  Who knows. All right I had to turn it all the way up to almost 42 area.  Well you've got a knob here on the side which says number seven and it goes up to number 11. Of course it goes down to number one. Well they didn't put anything inside here so I'm assuming one means tighter tolerance. This is one of the ones you know basically you got to further spread between it to give you that natural defrost that might be maybe what they're doing. But sucks is you don't know when it's going to come back on otherwise. So yeah 30. There's a 10 degree difference there. Take her down tighter say to number three. I'll get here and click on okay it's a little tighter. Yeah I guess we'll just set it on seven like they had it. We'll set it around 40. See what they get. I mean my feeling is it should replace the dad along with a lot of the other stuff. I can't be held responsible how things work when I didn't ever look at this stuff. This is one of the troubles you run into sometimes and once you touch it it's all on you. That's what's kind of troublesome. I'll tell you what I'm going to go ahead and set her about 38. Let's see where it's at. It's too cold. I mean you've got kigs in here. Everything in here is alcohol except for the pop. The pop's going to break probably right around 31. The alcohol is going to be able to go a little bit colder but you've got your kigs in here so you want them cold so you've got to mix up both. I guess you know they should know they're on cooler. So that temperature gauge work before it should work again. I'm going to leave it at that noted on my paperwork. I'm just here to start up and as far as my part's done. Superheat is set correctly. The system shuts off. What you got to go down to make sure. And that wraps my stuff up. Let's go downstairs. All right it is. Condenser fans not running. I don't think the compressor's running. It's warm on top which that means it's been off for a little bit. Okay now let's get things cleaned up and we'll see if it comes back on before I leave. The low pressure switch it's set at cut in about 32. So they could be using that as part of their defrost system. You can do that too so that it only cuts in once it gets above like say 38. But you better have her set up perfect and that's not what I was asked to do. And I'm not going in that deep when you're told you have to get this done quicker than what they originally quoted. I feel a vibration but I think it's these units over here. It came back on. We got everything cleaned up. All the caps are on. Everything's good to go there. Don't think we're forgetting anything.  One box. Take that with us. But short of that I think we're good to go. I'm gonna go out and double check that cooler. See what the temperature's at. Spray it down. That's not mine. I didn't put that in at 38 when I got here. After that spray down let's see.  I'm good. Assuming that's accurate. We're at 30-ish. It's not right in there about 38-39. I think it had a little lower than that earlier. We'll set it at 35 and see what happens. That way you can say that I definitely should have been able to stay under 40 no matter what. I'm thinking adjust it from that point. So let's wrap it up guys. If you guys enjoyed the video and you want to see more like it make sure you subscribe hit the thumbs button. Check out some of those playlists that I put in the beginning there. Until next time we'll catch you on the next one. Thanks for watching. Later.


Welcome back to every way woman. So let's chat about the book extra large love recently released by Sarah Barney and in it she tells the story of obese girls who are having riskier sex And they're taking more health risks Because they're larger You're me. I mean you made a face Stacy. Yeah, that's tough Self-image, I can't say how important self-image is and for a young woman who's overweight Who we've told her because society would tell you because she's not gonna see anybody magazine It looks like her that she's not important the first man who says the right things to her. She is going to absolutely Absolutely go and make her Feel like she's important, but I don't I don't think there's a point to that That would be any girl any size who's having issues of self-worth. You're right And it's someone who's having issues of self-esteem self-worth, which we were talking about earlier You're right. If you say the right thing then yes It will open up that girl to have risky sex at a very young age become promiscuous I think it may be a reason why it might be more of an issue with obese girls is there's no going around it It when you are when you allow your child or if your child is obese at a very young age They start to develop Much faster than other girls do you know? I recently read that some girls who are obese are starting their menstrual cycles as early as first or second grade That could happen to you but wait man Let me cuz I want to make sure I'm hearing you to correct So you're saying that even young women that are not obese What was your point about I'm saying even young women who are not obese but who are having issues with self-image Maybe they're too thin maybe they're anorexic and they have issues with their body And they have this body dysmorphia and a man comes along and he makes them feel loved and makes them feel wanted But they might the difference is those society we will be more embracing of someone who's thin Then someone who is morbidly obese Okay, but yes, Stacey you're taking the point of society if you are in the mind of A woman who is too thin or the mind of a woman who is overweight? That's not about what society feels. That's about how they personally are feeling about themselves in that moment We contribute to that let's take that part out of it And we just focus on let's say it is because it is the child is obese or the young lady is obese And I think a big part of it is Which we kind of glossed over a little bit is that they're developing a lot earlier as early as person second grade Wow, that's huge. Okay, but aside from that they're being developed earlier They're getting poked on picked at the hot Can you imagine what the boys and the other kids are like at that age? And what kind of things that they must say and to to that young girl who's developed so soon And then the kind of attention she's getting from boys who are two or three grades above them I mean how many third fourth graders do you know that think about? Yeah, but but okay, you know you have the young then you have these young girls who are in their classes and that's Available to them, but I wonder why are they making riskier choices? What is it that it's already been laid out for them? Yes, they're not worth it So they don't have to use a condom or be careful having constant contact with them at a very young age When girls are supposed to get it later when they develop in their teens But if they're getting it before their teens that implant has already been put in their minds for it's a seed That's been planted very early on age and boys are promiscuous teenage boys are promiscuous So they see these young these women as an easy target Oh, I can just you know I see fat Susie and I'm gonna get with her that's one notch on the belt and because the fat Susie is not valued That's what I don't want us to dismiss what we do to that. I don't need internally we can do that But so they do they just pick them out It might just be Susie's got some tits Let's not just it of girls Obese boys too, because you know biologically when you're heavy the man part which is referred to as the penis Right, okay, I'm learning all kinds of You know what, okay, let me give you a little shout on that for every 50 pounds. You're overweight Right no matter your age you lose an inch of your size true story So those obese young boys as well are probably feeling like oh, you know what let me Any type of relationship I can have Yes, I'm just gonna do this because we as a society don't dismiss the job we I work in HR. Let me tell you somebody come in fat. We automatically make a judgment So you can imagine a person. What do you want me automatically make a judgment? What do you make a judgment that they're not disciplined? Discipline interesting because they're not being disciplined in their sexual life, nor are they Nutrition so you've got a person who's going through all these hormones and these feelings and somebody rub up on it You know what you That is a real issue for them.  Yeah, that's all they do Because the girls are maturing earlier I think because they're developing earlier if they're being approached in a much younger age So they're more apt to be open to exploring but yes, if you take it and enjoying their curves Yes, but if you also take it in the face of wanting to feel loved of a self-esteem thing too Then yeah, maybe they will be willing to step out there and do things that most girls wouldn't do They want to ladies no matter your size play it safe. We'll be right back with more every way woman


Thank you Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in making his contribution earlier the Prime Minister mentioned that the fact that he is extremely focused and that he will not allow anything to distract him in the discharge of his duties and in keeping with the utterances of the Prime Minister Mr. Speaker I am finding it extremely difficult to remain focused on my presentation and not respond to some of what we heard coming out of the other side in particular the member for Choiselle Saltybus. Mr. Speaker he tried to draw a parallel between employment at Ojo Labs and the initiative that is before the parliament this morning as it relates to skills training for young people in this country. As I said Mr. Speaker this morning I will allow those comments to go by outside the Ofstam to use a cricket analogy and focus on what is before me. Mr. Speaker I want to crave your indulgence to reach out to the substantive holder of the chair who is unwell and unable to be with us this morning I speak of the honorable Claudius Francis. Mr. Speaker I wish him a speedy recovery and it is my sincere hope that sooner than later he will rejoin us in this chamber to do what he does best Mr. Speaker and that is to provide order and guidance in the Honorable House. So Mr. Speaker I wish Mr. Deputy Speaker I wish Mr. Speaker a speedy recovery. Mr. Speaker I rise in support of the motion presented by the Minister for Finance and the Honorable Prime Minister and Mr. Speaker this particular motion is one that is justified and one that can yield untold benefits for the young people of our country and the motion is to secure monies for the execution of a very necessary project spearheaded by the OECS Commission and Mr. Speaker skills training and innovation are more necessary in the development of young people today than ever before but Mr. Speaker I cannot present on the motion without paying homage to the staff at the OECS Commission in particular those persons in the Education Management and Development Unit. Mr. Speaker there is merit in working together as an OECS as a subgrouping of islands in the Caribbean space. Mr. Speaker we have been able to collaborate on a number of areas of national development and areas of programming across the islands and so we meet very often at the technical level and we also meet at the ministerial level as what is known as as council. So for somebody like me Mr. Speaker in the government of St. Lucia with portfolio responsibilities for education, sustainable development, innovation, science, technology and vocational training I find myself being part of two councils of ministers. COM, COME, the Council of Ministers of Education and I'm also on the other com Mr. Speaker the Council of Ministers of the Environment and Mr. Speaker when we meet at the ministerial level we have an opportunity Mr. Speaker to deal with common challenges as they manifest themselves across the islands. When we meet as at an OECS level Mr. Speaker we are able to address some of the issues as they relate to economies of scale because you know St. Lucia is the largest of the OECS territories demographically for a population of approximately 180,000 people Mr. Speaker and sometimes as big as we might be in an OECS context the numbers are insufficient to cause us to do a lot of things that we perhaps could have done and achieve greater results doing when we collaborate as a subgrouping with almost half a million people. Mr. Speaker it's an opportunity to share best practice and Mr. Speaker we learn from each other's challenges as an OECS and there are a number of initiatives that we've been able to collaborate on particularly in the realm of education and one such initiative is the rule out of the PUL, P-E-A-R-L, the program for educational advancement and relevant learning, a four-year program supported by GPE the global partnership for education where the OECS collectively we are benefiting from ten million dollars to help improve the education system and sector in the OECS on a number of fronts. One such program under the PUL Mr. Speaker deputy speaker is the pre-K project. You would have heard me in this parliament before speak to the fact that we have had a significant decline in the enrollment of students at our primary schools and when the numbers drop Mr. Speaker space is been made available at the school whereby we can incorporate what we call pre-K programs where children from areas that are deprived of early childhood services, those children Mr. Speaker can find a space at the existing primary school in the community thereby exposing them to the rudiments of education and nurturing them in an environment that that fosters proper child development. Mr. Speaker also under the PUL we've been able to harmonize and improve the primary school curriculum for students across the OECS. So I say all this to say that there is merit in collaboration at the level of the OECS and from a ministerial standpoint in solution Mr. Speaker I am particularly pleased with the work that has been done by the Commission and in particular the Education Unit at the Commission. Mr. Speaker this new project seeks to strengthen skills and employability by improving educational opportunities in high value added sectors and fostering quality and innovation sorry among OECS national colleges and institutions or what we call the higher or the wider post-secondary space. Mr. Speaker our education system has one primary focus and that is to prepare the young people entrusted in our care for life after school so that they one day will take the rightful places in society. Mr. Speaker there was a time in the history of this country when we had junior secondary schools and if you had completed forms one two and three at the junior secondary school you had done sufficient by way of educating yourself to land a job in the government system and the expectation of every child who was graduating from a secondary education program was to land a job with government. Today in the year 2024 we know that the public service no longer has the absorptive capacity to employ the 2,200 school leavers we have annually and so Mr. Speaker we must begin to think out of the box. We must create avenues and an enabling environment whereby those young persons they can become employers themselves and they can also become employable Mr. Speaker even beyond the shores of our country. Mr. Speaker our education system is about producing global citizens so that the child from the bus Laguas combined school in the constituency of Labry Oji or the child from the Olio combined school in Denrenoff or the child from the Fonga So combined school in Babono irrespective of where that child is enrolled Mr. Speaker. The educational experience that we are looking to impact ought to be one that prepares that child to be on the same wavelength as his or her counterpart whether they happen to be in Singapore, Canada, Ghana or anywhere else in the world and you can only do so effectively by having an appreciation for the times in which we live. So Mr. Speaker it is not enough for a child to graduate from secondary school and just enroll at the Sao Paulo East Community College follow the program and believe that this child is ready for the world of work. We live in a very dynamic global environment and professionals have to constantly be retooling and that is why it has become so necessary for us Mr. Speaker almost on a monthly basis to be looking at ways of improving the curriculum and the opportunities that we give to our young people. Mr. Speaker we have a huge gap deficit in terms of how we train our people and their readiness to take up some of the jobs that are available in this country and I'm sure the minister responsible for Labour, Member of Parliament for Babylon will tell you Mr. Speaker that almost on a weekly basis she is inundated with requests to sign work permits for individuals whom we have to import into this country to do work that some of our people have not been adequately trained to do up to a standard that would make it acceptable at the international level. So Mr. Speaker this project, this is money well spent, this is money well allocated and this is a project that receives the full support of the Ministry of Education not simply by virtue of we being the executing agency working collaboratively with the OECS what we believe there is merit in this. Mr. Speaker qualifications matter and it is against that backdrop very early when we assume government as a political party one of the first memos to come out of the Ministry of Education was the National Qualifications Framework. Mr. Speaker today whether you are pursuing a civic you program whether you are you are following a program at the CSEC level any form of certification or qualification you receive in St. Lucia that is juxtapose against some of the best standards established globally. So when a child leaves St. Lucia Mr. Speaker and migrates to North America and you present your CVQ or your NVQ it speaks to a certain degree of competence that will make you acceptable in that particular environment when you race there. So Mr. Speaker we are fully behind this program we support this program the South Hollywood Community College will benefit immensely from from monies from that program to broaden the horizon its horizon in terms of the relevant skills and training that our young people need to function effectively today. The National Skills Development Center in SDC will also benefit from this program Mr. Speaker and it is part and parcel of this comprehensive training program that we have for our young people in secondary school and in particular those who are in the post-secondary space. Mr. Speaker the Prime Minister spoke of the need for the incorporation of technology and this is one of the strongest areas of programming for the Ministry of Education today. We have reinstated the one laptop per child program because we believe Mr. Speaker that in the year 2024 that every child should have access to a device to help with the learning and teaching process. But Mr. Speaker we also know and it is a point that I have made before not with standing some of the rhetoric you hear coming from the other side being in here or on social media. I am on the record if you just have to peruse hands-on Mr. Speaker of saying that it is not enough to give a child a device and that is why our government the Prime Minister through the senior minister sat down with the service providers in this country and were able in the first instance to secure approximately five thousand bundle packages to give connectivity and access to internet services to students and families who come from indigent and marginalized communities. Mr. Speaker connectivity is critical and it is important so that a child can stay in in Bhutto or a child can stay in Marsha or a child can be in Monkitong or a child can be in Forestier and he or she not withstanding the inability of his or parents to pay an internet bill the government led by the Honorable Member for Caspis is has come forward and said to them here is a bundle that gives you access and you can access the internet and you can access the teaching material in much the same way that your counterpart from other parts of the country can do. Mr. Speaker we have gone further. We have gone further Mr. Speaker and I'm hearing the senior minister saying that in addition to the first five thousand that I mentioned he has secured another four thousand thereby reaching more partners but that is not all we've done in the laptops Mr. Speaker to accentuate our appreciation for the incorporation of technology in education and in lesson delivery. Mr. Speaker we took professionals within the school system our teachers we did not pay them any additional monies we didn't have to pay them license fees and Mr. Speaker I need to invite you to the Ministry of Education to see for yourself how they were able to take the subjects that we teach and develop content that they are uploading onto those devices for the children of St. Lucia. That is what we have done Mr. Speaker but instead when we came in when we came in Mr. Speaker on the laptop program you know what we found the government of St. Lucia was paying millions of dollars to a foreign entity Mr. Speaker that had developed software and embedded the software or the subjects onto a very flimsy device that could not devices that could not have been repaired by the technical staff of the Ministry of Education and that money Mr. Speaker was being paid being expatriated and whoever was happy was happy today Mr. Speaker today I invite everyone of the parliamentarians in here to come to the Ministry and if you don't have the time to come to the Ministry you can put in a request for me and I will make the technical team available to you to show you how they were able to develop content that is relevant culturally relevant Mr. Speaker to our circumstances and we pay no license fees. Mr. Speaker you know what we've been able to do with the savings from that we have increased the number of scholarships that we are giving to Mr. Speaker we all know it when we grow up in places like Japan and other parts of the world at the age of 21 22 children are beginning to entertain thoughts of graduate studies, masters and even PhD. 10 15 20 years ago the average solution would have had a bachelor's degree when you were about 25 26 particularly if you were not from an affluent community where your parents had land and materials to use as collateral to face the bank. Mr. Speaker today and I will say it at every opportunity in this house and elsewhere the children of ordinary solutions today who demonstrate that they have the aptitude and the ability they too will be putting on graduation gowns because they would have completed university education. That is what we are about. So Mr. Speaker when you hear people who cannot come to terms with the fact that they have been rejected by the people and their primary concern is to create this quiet and to try and encourage discord and to not want to give the government a chance to govern Mr. Speaker when you hear those things Mrs. what it does Mr. Speaker I can speak for myself it fires me up it ignites the passion for me to cross the bad little with even more purpose to take my place on the waterfront to lead the charge in giving a better educational experience to the children of this country. So Mr. Speaker this as I said is money well allocated. This is not money being borrowed to use against our opponents. Mr. Speaker we embrace all the young people in this country for programming and in everything that we have done as an administration Mr. Speaker our policies have always been predicated on equity. Whether it is CDP Mr. Speaker when the Prime Minister gets the check from the Taiwanese embassy and he passes it on to the Treasury he ensures that every single one of the 17 MPs in this house is so empowered that he can execute a project in his constituency. But Mr. Speaker I remember the experience that I had in opposition and I sat there Mr. Speaker and I watched the PowerPoint presentations on this screen over there. And Mrs. Speaker I wondered when on earth or when in the five years would I be able to dig a drain for a unaffected family in then renaissance. Mr. Speaker I was denied and I've said before Mr. Speaker when I leave home on a morning to come to Parliament on the way to this Parliament no fewer than five hardwares and I couldn't procure a bag of cement by Yosak Sima to do a project and we will laugh that and really pull. But Mr. Speaker in as much as we denounce that and I'm happy that the Prime Minister with his wisdom has decided notwithstanding what some of our own supporters think that he is not going to follow that pattern and that he can rise above that pettiness because he understands that we are in that for the people. We are putting people first irrespective of which constituency they're from. We are putting people first irrespective of which political affiliation they are carrying into the Parliament and that is what we are about and this Mr. Speaker this motion working collaboratively with the OECS and the Government of Grenada we are putting the young people of this country first. Mr. Speaker I support the motion to borrow the money. I support the arrangements to work with the OECS Commission on this and Mr. Speaker I can tell you that the benefits to be derived from this can only make for a better cadre of young people who will be taking their rightful places in the public sector in the private sector and very important to Mr. Speaker they are being skilled, tooled and being trained to start their own businesses to make themselves employable and they too can become employers of their peers who otherwise would not be in a position to be able to do that for themselves. So Mr. Speaker with those few words I support the motion and I look forward to working very very closely with the OECS Commission and the staff of the Ministry of Education for a successful implementation.


So I'm Lieutenant Colonel Melissa Hoblin. I am the commander for the 3rd Division Sustainment Troops Battalion. So right now we're in the middle of a multi- company battalion level live fire exercise where we are practicing area base defense. So as a battalion headquarters we are responsible for ensuring all of our companies can conduct their individual defenses and then we can consolidate that information to make sure everybody has the same common picture and the entire area of operation that we're responsible for is safe and has the security that it needs to make sure our soldiers can continue on with their missions. I think they're doing great. So this is not something that our sustainment soldiers get to do every day. So we have our heavy weapon systems from five different companies that are out here integrating together, managing sectors of fire, sharing the fire line, reporting casualties with each other. First sergeants talking to each other, commanders are talking to each other, so everybody's kind of getting together and making sure again that we have the right resources in the right place at the right time. My name is Sergeant Newton Oliveira. I'm with the HAC Terra DSDB. So in this live fire exercise I'm currently a safety and my role on my job right now is to help ensure that the soldiers are the AGs and the gunners are actually facilitating the movements, engaging the targets at a very safe, effective manner, providing guidance as well for the means of different communications. Honestly I hope that they would take everything that they have gotten thrown at them because you know in real life combat this is very important for them to actually understand the reasons behind this type of training. So when they go overseas you know and something pops up you need to actually be able to understand what their role is and how to engage based on the scenarios or the threat that comes their way.


Welcome back to Think Tech, Community Matters. I'm Jay Fidel. It's a nine o'clock block on a given Wednesday, and we have a very interesting show for you with Jennifer Strong-McConnacky about her book. Her book is a book about endurance sports, and the title of the book is How Endurance Sports Can Help You Win At Life. Welcome to the show, Jennifer. Thank you, Jay. So you wrote this book. Let's see the cover of the book so we can get the the feeling of it. Okay, go far. How endurance sports help you win at life. And so let me ask you, Jennifer, why did you write this book? Well, Jay, I have been a lifelong outdoor endurance athlete, and I started as a child, and I competed in lots of different sports locally, regionally, nationally, and as I continued growing and getting older, I added in more and more endurance sports. I did more mountain climbing. I got into ultra running, and I traveled around the world competing in several of these sports. And so all of my friends and family would always say, you've got to write a book. You've got to write a book about your amazing travels, running across the Canary Islands, running through geysers in Iceland, running through the foreign forests of New Zealand, climbing mountains in Africa. And so I wanted to do that and share some of these awesome, amazing endurance stories. But I also wanted to share the principles that I've used behind endurance to help other people. And so I have outlined the three main pillars that I have used as an average athlete from the middle of the country, from the Midwest, I live in Kansas. So I don't have the advantage of living in California by the ocean or in Colorado by the mountains. But I have found a way to use what I have around me and to find adventure in everyday life. And I've been able to kind of use this three-pillar life approach that I outline and go far to use endurance sports to frame my approach and my view of how I approach and do life. And then I also share some really fun things, some travels and adventures and things that I've gotten to do through following those tactics. Wow. Okay, I can hardly wait. What are the three pillars, Jennifer? Well, I talk about those extensively in the book. But I can tell you one today. So one that we can start with is an explorer's mindset. So a lot of training comes down to having the right mindset and the right attitude. And so by having this explorer's mindset, you can approach your life in a way that encourages you to seek out discovery, sink out adventure, find freedom. I happen to use endurance sports to fuel that. But if endurance sports aren't your jam, you can still use an endurance mindset or an explorer's mindset through the frame of endurance to in your business world, get new clients, learn new skills, try new things, and just in your everyday life too, to go out and discover the world. What's the relationship between that and confidence? Oh, 100% endurance sports build confidence. As a child, I had an opportunity to compete a lot in running races and swimming races and triathlons. And as a young person doing sports, specifically endurance sports, because oftentimes they are individual sports. So you're not part of a team. You really have a chance to build that inner confidence and that inner ability of that. If I'm going to do this, it is up to me. I don't have teammates to rely on. So individual sports, endurance sports can help build competence, ability, mental toughness. Not to say there isn't also a place for team sports as well, but there are some unique things that you gain from endurance sports that you really can't get unless you're the one out there getting through it alone. Yes. So one thing that strikes me as endurance in this context is synonymous with pain. How do you deal with pain? Where does pain fit in the equation? Well, one of the famous quotes that I love from the inventor of the Leadville 100 run, 100 mile run through the mountains of Colorado is that make friends with pain and you will never be alone. Very good. Well, if I'm feeling pain, say it's a marathon, and I'm at 18 miles and my body is not doing as well as I had hoped, maybe because of the weather, humidity, training, what have you. What's my mindset on that? Well, again, you've got to find that motivation. So maybe one of the reasons that I got into ultra running is that a lot of times I wasn't doing a city marathon that was outlined on the city streets. It wasn't mapped. Sometimes I had to navigate through the desert. It might be, okay, you're here. You're going to run to that next tree. And so I was able to adopt that Explorer's mindset. I might be the first person running through the deserts of Namibia who's ever taken this route from this tree to the next tree to the next sand dune. And so, yes, I was in pain. Yes, it was hard. But I was out seeing a part of the world that was beautiful and unique and the middle of nowhere that I had had to jump through a lot of hurdles to get through. And so I turned in my, my motive, I turned to my motivation of why I was out there. I was seeing the world. I was discovering the world. I was experiencing it. I was living it. And so having those thoughts of why you're doing something, it can help you not focus on the pain because it's always going to be painful. I could go out my door right now and run three miles around my walk. And it would still probably have, you know, because running is inherently somewhat uncomfortable. So I'm trying to find those mental keys that help you want to keep going. Yeah, right. Well, it's a high, isn't it? I mean, you're running along there. You're looking around. You're feeling your own body. You're seeing, you're seeing the world and maybe in a different way, in a different way. You know, I rode bike for many years and I always felt that riding bike allowed me to see the world in a different way. And running does too. So I think that's what you're talking about also, isn't it? Absolutely. And I, that's one thing I absolutely love about riding my bike. You know, you can drive through, through the countryside of Kansas and the wheat fields and the cornfields. And you drive by and it's a whoosh. And I'm sure it's the same, you know, biking in Hawaii. You get to experience the environment. You're part of it. You're, there are no walls keeping you safe. You're feeling the wind. You're feeling the temperature. You're feeling the raindrops and you're getting to see things. And walking does that too. Running does that too. Each has its own little unique way. And I think each is situated, you know, for biking is a great way to go a longer way than you might be able to go. Walking is a little slower pace. And then running, you're, you're kind of, you're kind of bored. You're kind of uncomfortable. So you really look for those environmental distractions. And it does help to see the world in a different way. Yeah. Most of the sports you named and most of the sports in your book that I saw are, are personal sports that you're alone. I mean, this is you're running against yourself, so to speak. But do you prefer that to team sports? And another question related is, do you prefer to run and walk and climb alone, or do you prefer to have people around you? Well, there definitely are some solo moments. And I think you do have to be comfortable achieving your goals a lot of the times by yourself. But a lot of the sports that I do cover, adventure racing, mountaineering, you do need a team around you. And you are part of a team. Adventure racing, you're often on a team, at least with another partner or group of people. And you're working together to navigate, to solve problems, to keep going. A lot of times in climbing, you need multiple people to work the rope systems and have a spotter and a lead person. And so some endurance sports that I do are very much team sports. And I particularly did a swim run event in Sweden where I had to swim next to my partner and then run next to my partner as well, which was my dad. And so we had to do this in and out of the water over the rocky foothills of Sweden's coastline and out of the Baltic Sea. And so that very much was a team sport because you had to stay close to the person you were with. And so you had to share in your pacing and your energy levels and even kind of your form sometimes if you're going through a narrow trail section or trying to keep an eye on someone else in very muddy, dark, gray water is also kind of a challenge. So within that, there are ways, I think definitely any kind of the harder big summit climbing, it definitely does take a team of people working together. So really more of going it alone is more within some training and kind of having that mental toughness to see your goals and then being able to work with others because we don't achieve things in a vacuum. It does take a community. True in all ways. So you mentioned your father, has your family been an encouragement here? Has it been a model? Has he encouraged you to do this? Has your family encouraged you to do this? Yeah, absolutely growing up. My parents drove me all over the state to run in races and all over the Midwest to swim competitively. And I did triathlons all over the United States as a young person. So I had a lot of that set up and instilled in me as a young person. And I went to college and I rode on the rowing team and continued to that. That's another example of an endurance sport that is very much you and your own power, but you're with a team. You're with a group of eight rowers in a boat or four or two. So that's an endurance sport that is a team sport as well. And then I got into adventure racing, more triathlons, longer distances, ultra running, desert stage racing, the swim run that I mentioned climbing several of the seven summits. So part of that is, again, having that explorers mindset. Okay, so I've done a lot of running. What other kinds of running can I do? What other kinds of endurance sports can I try and keep adding more and more ideas and keep finding that creativity within the realm of endurance sports? You know, we all have physical impediments, some more than others, some many more than others. But I wonder, I mean, do you find yourself without impediments? You find yourself a kind of human being who is stronger than the average? Or you said before, you were an average athlete. I want to know about that. And if you do have impediments, what have you done to deal with them? How do you deal with them when they get in the way? Absolutely. And what I mean by average athlete is that I'm not an elite level. I'm not a professional athlete. And that's the kind of the fun part of my book is a lot of times people that write ultra running books or write sports books, they're at the absolute top of their game. They're winning races. They're just sort of the superstars of their sport. And I want to share with people that you don't have to be the very best. You can still set a goal, whether that's walking to the park, riding your bike to the park, getting out with your dog a little bit more. And you can achieve that by the pillars that I talk about in the book.  You can use the pillars and the frameworks that I talk about to go far in your own life and decide what going far means to you. And so it really does speak to people of all abilities, even if you're just wanting to read the book and use some of these tactics in the business world to win new clients, to get new business, to come up with new creative ideas. Those pillars absolutely speak to that. So you can use the ideas and the theories behind the endurance athlete mindset or the endurance sports and you can apply them to your personal life, your professional life, goal setting, achieving. You don't have to go run the sand dunes of Namibia like I did. You can just go rock it in the boardroom. Well, I want to I want to explore that a little bit.  I couldn't get the basketball and the hoop if I tried a thousand times. I suppose I really don't run well or swim well for reasons, you know, many reasons I suppose it make me hypothetically someone who is not only not an athlete, but a terrible prospect for athletic activity. Tell me, tell me how this helps me in the boardroom. Well, one of the things that the book recommends is going outside, going outside and starting hyper local, exploring your city, exploring your region, going for a walk. If you are not able to walk, try to recumbent bike. Where can you go? What can you do? Maybe you go try some wild swimming and you think differently and you get outside and you get into the outdoors. And so that's going to help you mentally. It's going to help you physically. And as far as the boardroom, I have another section that talks that just about I don't want to give too much away, but just thinking differently. So being able to approach problems and come up with creative solutions and apply some different areas that aren't often talked about in sports books. These are some ideas that are just a little bit on the realm of they're not stuff that everyone else is talking about. These are some unique principles that I've implemented in my own life being from the Midwest. I've found ways to compete on a global scale without being a professional elite athlete just by thinking differently. Global scale is interesting because travel is part of this, I think.  So what has the travel aspect of your activities, your endurance sports done for you, how has it changed the way you think? The kind of a person you are, Jennifer? Well, travel has been super amazing and it's a big part of the book. And even right now when we're not able to travel as much, it is fun to read about some of the places, read us out some of the experiences to get ideas for future, to implement items from different cultures in our lives today. So maybe we're not able to travel to Patagonia right now, but let's listen to some local music. Let's study the culture. Let's watch a few documentary films of other people doing adventure races in the area. Let's cook some dishes. Let's study recipes. And so we're learning about different cultures of the world. We're not just focusing on the physical aspect. We're focusing on the mental aspect, the emotional aspect, perhaps the spiritual aspect comes into play. And so you're really becoming a broader mindset. You're becoming a global citizen. You're learning. You're growing. It's great to be able to train for something and then go out into the wilds instead of just going to St. Petersburg and checking out the art. You're also able to go out into the countryside and hang out in the Caucasus Mountains and do some mountain climbing as well. So you're getting multiple areas of enrichment. And I know in the age of COVID and the pandemic, we're not able to do that as much. Hopefully we will be able to again someday. But you can always read. You can always and then my book is inspired by the classics of the world, right? So we have so many great books. I particularly love Russian literature. So if you can't lose yourself on an actual travel trip, lose yourself in a book.  So check out the classics, check out Go Far, and stay entertained in the meantime until we can all be boat trotters again. One small point. Would you ever take a trip that did not involve endurance sports? I have absolutely. And I do kind of talk about in the book as far as injury prevention and finding balance. I love to take a girl's trip to somewhere easy and fun where I'm not working out. I'm not doing any training. I'm hanging out by the pool. I'm having fun dinners. I'm spending quality time with people. I think there's definitely a place for balance. So you can't just be, you can't be to be working hard. You can't be pushing yourself all the time. You have to find, I have a section in the book called Find the Sweet. So you have to find something that is a reward and is light and easy and fun as well. Yeah, the sweet spot, so to speak. So here we are in COVID. And I couldn't give you stats, but my own perception of it is a lot of people who are staying at home who don't leave the house really except to shop, go doctors, get the things they absolutely need to have. Otherwise, they're in the house and they're being entertained by media. So my question to you is, how has COVID affected you? You mentioned before it's affected your travel to some extent. Has it affected your endurance sports? And if so, how? And what is your advice to somebody who is staying in all the time and for the foreseeable future will have to continue to stay? Well, my advice is get outside every day in some way or another. I've gotten really creative in the age of COVID. I've done a lot of backyard workouts.  But I know in different parts of the world, people are even limited to certain radiuses. So I have a swing set in my backyard. I've invented workouts on my swing set with a trapeze bar and rings. And I've invented workouts using a spare tire. I've invented workouts with a kettlebell and a steel mace and steel clubs. I do yoga on the patio. So these are ways to go outside. And they're not, you don't even have to leave the area that you're at. You can find, if you don't have a backyard, you can find a local park. So I just want to encourage people to take some of this different thinking from GoFar from the book and implement ways to get outside every day, come up with creative solutions and practice moving your body. And that is going to be different for every person. Do as whatever you need to within your modifications, but focus on getting movement and getting fresh air at the very basics and then build from there. In the age of COVID, my family, we've just done a lot of hyper-local activities. We focused on, okay, we might not be traveling out of state or that far out of state. So let's go to our state parks. Let's go explore this new area. Let's take time to do things that we didn't take time to do when we were focused on global travel. But there's so much that we can learn and discover. And it doesn't even have to be a sanctioned park. There's all kinds of areas that you can check out and explore and kind of take on and find something new in some way or another. Yeah, what's Wichita like? Wichita is the biggest city in the state of Kansas and we're kind of in the middle of the state, kind of towards the southeast corner. And we have some really great bike paths. And one of my favorite things to do is, of course, they all don't connect. But I like to, I'm a fellow in the Royal Geographical Society. And so I study geography quite a bit. And one of my favorite things to do is create local adventures. So I study the maps, I study the routes and I create my own way to circumnavigate our city, linking different bike paths together. So I found a way to do like the inner city core, which is about 40 miles. And if I wanted to get even more, I could do the entire city, which might might get me over to like 100 miles, like a century bike ride. So that's a way that I said, okay, what do I have around me? What can I use? And I create various local activities to do and go far. The book has some really cool ways that people can do that, ideas and tips and suggestions that people can do that in their own location. Wichita, Kansas, sorry, this may be wrong, but it makes me think of cattle and beef. Well, we do have that outside the city. Of course, we do, as this does, produce beef. And we also produce a lot of wheat and a lot of other crops. But within the city, I mean, it's a city. You don't see that unless you're leaving the city area. But the question is, for an endurance athlete like yourself, where does beef fit? A lot of people, at least at the progressive end of things, are giving up beef. And they're changing their appetite in their diet. Is your diet special because you're an endurance athlete? I have a very specific way of describing how I eat. And it is inspired by my Siberian husky and a lot of the mid-range predators of the world. And I call it opportunistic eating. So if you want to think like a fox, they might find some berries. They might catch a fish. They might catch a piece of meat that they can eat, but they also might find something else. So whatever the situation calls for, whatever the training calls for, whatever I feel like I need at the time, that's what the meal plan I'm going to follow. And that could include beef? It can. It can include small amounts of that. If that's what my diet, particularly during pregnancy, my husband always knew when I was pregnant because he would mention steak and I would say, that sounds good. Okay, another thing that comes to mind for me is we live in a time of COVID and a lot of athletics, especially endurance athletics, is about breathing, about breathing. And I wonder how you handle the issue of masks and, for that matter, vaccines as an endurance athlete? I think you just have to make the decision that's right for you and your health goals. And luckily, where I live, I try not to exercise around a lot of people. So I don't have to worry about wearing a mask when I'm exercising, especially if I'm out running and there's not a large amount of people around. So I'm not someone that's wearing the mask while I'm exercising, but of course, being inside, trying to practice that, putting other people first, practicing that safety of I'm not necessarily doing this to protect myself, but I'm doing it to protect others. I'm doing it to protect our children, my children, and kind of just that attitude of putting other people first. Maybe it's my observation, but back a few years ago, I thought that, and even here in Honolulu, the local people in Honolulu were so excited about the marathon, and they came from far and wide to run in our marathon. At the height of it, I want to say there were 20,000 people here. Now, that's not New York, but it's pretty big for a population of just over a million. So the question is, and in more recent years, I don't think that the kids, I don't think that the average family or 20-year-old is doing as much in terms of athletic activity and endurance activity. I can recall we had a whole bunch of 100K type runners here, and same thing with the bike and the swim and all that. I don't think it's like that anymore. So my question to you is nationally, or at least globally maybe, do you find there's an increase or a decline? What is the dynamic of people who could do what you are doing but maybe don't? Are they increasing, decreasing, or staying the same? Well, it really, it really adds and flows. Recently, Amazon Prime had a world's toughest, world's toughest race, and it was in kind of like the modern day answer to the Eco Challenge Adventure Race. And so that alone kind of made everybody excited about adventure racing again, which had kind of a spurt in the early 2000s. Again, I had a lot of average athletes, a lot of friends that got into triathlon in the last couple of years. And I think triathlon kind of ebbs and flows. I did it a lot in the 90s, early 2000s. And then I got into ultra running, and ultra running has blown up a lot. So really, my message is that don't be limited by what everyone else is doing, by what's popular. There's always more to do. There's always a newer combination. There's always something else that you can try. If you're tired of running a marathon, try an ultra. Try a trail run. Try a swim run. Try a do-athlon. Try a biathlon where you're shooting a shotgun in the middle of it. Of course, not add anything out of target. So you're running and then you're doing some shooting and then you're running again. So there's always different combinations and ways to take whatever your sport of choice is to the next level. You don't have to do the 20,000 person marathon. You can go do something that you create in something else entirely. What about the schools, Jennifer? You know, it strikes me this is important. Because my observation, you can agree or not, is that if you are athletic at a young age, saying your teens, your 20s, that's likely to affect and improve your health for your whole life. And certainly, it's likely to make you feel confident about sports and endurance sports for your whole life. All totally positive. But the schools are a big influence as our parents. And I wonder if you feel, I wonder if you see schools, you know, encouraging this sort of thing. Schools adopting programs for endurance sports. And if not, should they? They absolutely should, Jay. I don't think schools do enough. And that's why it has to start at home. They can't be responsible for everything. But just as long as people are getting out, thinking creatively, exercising their minds and their bodies in some way every day, that's the message behind GoFar. Okay, we settled on a paragraph you were going to read to show people the essence of what you were saying in the book. And to show them your writing style too, I think. Can you read that paragraph for us, Jennifer? Sure. My personal motto has inspired the title. And it is run long, climb high, swim deep, GoFar. All an example of excellence of exceptionalism. The kind of thing that gives you a better life. And so I think your book is valuable. Where can I get it? Amazon? Yes, you can get it on Amazon. It's also available anywhere books are sold. So check out your local bookseller. You can preorder it right now. And you can also order it anywhere else online, Penguin Random House, lots of different options. Wow, terrific. What's your next one going to be about, Jennifer? Well, stay tuned for that because I have lots more ideas to come. Well, that's one thing I noticed in this discussion. You are bristling with ideas. You're bristling with enthusiasm. Maybe that's a function of what I would refer to as the loneliness of the long distance runner. You remember that movie? Lots of ideas percolating around. In my own experience, you know, when I ran, even when I ran with other people, my mind, you know, could range far and wide. I could think of things. I could write if I wanted. I could solve problems if I wanted. I could do any number of things within the four corners of my mind while I was running. And I think that's what you're referring to. So really, it's a brain game.  And then when you're out there, your mind works better. And it's like refreshing for you somehow because when you get back, you feel better, not only physically, but mentally. That's very true. Totally true. Well, thank you, Jennifer. Better for strong McConaughey joining us here on Zinc Tech, talking about how endurance sports can help you with life on community matters. Thank you so much, Jennifer. I hope we meet again. Yes, me too. Thank you so much. Aloha.


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Being a private investigator means two things. You can be sure you'll run into trouble, and you can never be sure you can get out of it. Well, there's not much you can do about it, I guess. Except, like Julie always says... Walk softly, Peter Troy. And now, Peter Troy investigates the minks in mink.  Walk softly, Peter Troy, or...  Always optimistic. Always looking on the bright side of things. That's my girl, Friday. Anyway, you'll meet her again soon, and you'll wonder why I didn't take more notice of her. Especially when there are women like Evelyn DeVere Hennessy floating around London Town. Now, Evelyn was a high-toned girl. She liked to keep her mind on a higher plane. She had rave and black hair, the figure that could give a man sleepless nights, and the voice that could send shivers up her spine. But Rexy Kramer never got the shivers. But it's all quite straightforward, isn't it? I want my husband killed, that's all. That's all. Who put you on to me, lady? Frankie Faber. Oh, now, come on. You think I don't know, Frankie? Well, not exactly, but I get around to asking myself how DeVere Hennessy's wife comes into contact with a slick operator like Frankie Faber. I wasn't always Hennessy's wife. I was a pretty slick operator myself before. You married into half a million pounds. Exactly. You do take commissions like this, don't you? Frankie said you were a specialist. Yes, I'm a specialist. You'll do the job. Well, there's a little matter. I know you're expensive. Very expensive. For instance, this job? You're getting DeVere Hennessy out of the way 10,000 pounds. For that, you get a Grade A first-class deluxe job. No questions asked. And satisfaction guaranteed. Absolutely. 5,000 now and... 5,000 after the job's done. No checks. I like the money in hard cash. You have that much lying around here? Yes. But I think we can do business, Mrs. Hennessy. How would it be done? That, lady, is a professional secret. But it'll look like an accident. When would it be? That's another professional secret. But I can tell you this. You'll be a grieving widow before the week is out. Now, about the down payment. Cute little playmate, Evelyn Hennessy. Certainly not the popular conception of the sweet, devoted little wife. She preferred homicide to housework. But even Evelyn had a conscience. Came to dawns, she had second thoughts about her husband's coming to my's. Maybe she got around to thinking that his death would not only make her a widow, but also an accessory to murder. And in England, they take unkindly to homicide. In fact, if you indulge in it, they're very liable to hang you. Or maybe this is the reason why she presented her mink-coated figure at my office the day after she made her deal with a professional killer. I was out of my mind, Mr. Troy, some sort of madness must have come over me. You can say that again. And now I realize that I'm a dreadful thing, and I want to make amends. Just like that? Yes. Well, listen, I tell you what to do. Please. You get up off the chair, Mrs. Hennessy. You do an about turn, you take yourself out of my office, down the hall and into the street.  Now written on the blue lamp and big white letters is the word police. Do you think they'd believe me, Mr. Troy? Well, that's a risk you're gonna have to take. And while they're making up their minds, whether to lock me up in jail or in asylum, my husband died. Oh, now look. A thousand pounds, Mr. Troy. A thousand pounds to stop that man from killing my husband. I had the money here in my handbag. Furthermore, all you have to do is tell the man I've changed my mind. Just like any ordinary red-blooded woman is entitled to do. He can keep the money. He gets five thousand pounds for doing absolutely nothing. Oh, just one point, Mrs. Hennessy. Yes? Why did you want your husband killed in the first place? Very old, sharp one, Troy. Well, I'm listening. He's found another woman. He wants a divorce. Uh-huh. I don't want to let him go. Neither he nor the half a million pounds is worth. I happen to love my husband, Mr. Troy. And I have money of my own. You don't believe me? Maybe I have to.  Five thousand pounds here, a thousand pounds there. All right, you do have money. Rather cancer-dive the money motive, doesn't it? When Richard said he was going to leave me, I just went berserk. I was distraught. I didn't know what I was doing, but...  I don't want anything to happen to him. I do love him. Uh-huh. Please, help me. Oh, I must be my day for the psychiatrist couch. Okay, Mrs. Hennessy, give me the name and address of this professional gunman. I'm afraid that's impossible. What? Oh, I don't know his name or his address. Oh, good night. Well, how'd you contact him? Through an advertisement in the newspaper, I had to insert a message in the lost and found section of the daily record. Go on. It read, Mark as he broached lost on Tuesday morning last between Hyde Park Corner and Green Park Tube Station. Sentimental value reward. And my address. This boy plays it smart. Now tell me, who told you about this ad routine? Frank Faber. Frank? The Frank Faber? The hoodlum nightclub owner? Yes. Ooh. Look, lady, for your information, the smooth Mr. Frankie Faber is one of the toughest gangsters in this town. And right at this very minute, he's crashing in on Tony from Laney's territory, dope gambling, the protection racket. Frankie's a regular little Al Capone. I know. Before I married Richard, I did some silly things. I was a debitant with too much money and not enough sense. I thought it was smart to be seen around with Faber. Well, that sort of smartness can land you in a whole heap of trouble. Already has done. Look, why don't we just ring up your husband and tell him?  Yeah, I'll see what you mean. Look, get me out of this, Mr. Troy, and I swear to you I'll make it up to Richard somehow.  I'll spend the rest of my life trying to make him happy. That'll be nice. Well, I'll go and see Frankie Faber. Oh, thank you. Now, be so kind as to deposit a hundred pounds with my secretary outside. Oh, I said a thousand. Lady, gunmen and hired killers deal in thousands of pounds. Private investigators come a little cheaper. All right, Faber. All right. The joke's over. It wasn't all that funny. Oh, come on, Troy. Get out of here, will you? You think I was born yesterday?  You really expect me to give you this gunsling's name and address? I'm trying to do the fellas in good, Faber. You think he'd be happy if I was to give away his identity? He gets to keep 5,000 pounds. And you get to put the finger on it.  Beat it before the joke goes sour on me. All right, Faber. Give him a message. Oh, it gets better as it goes along. Oh, look, I haven't got... Look, how do you come to get this reputation for smartness, Troy? Can't you do simple arithmetic? Can't you add two and two together and make it come out four? Oh, I get it. Well, good. Go to the top of the cloud. Richard Hennessey dies and you move in on the grieving widow. Oh, that's half a million quid to her own sizeable fortune. Everton and I were pretty thick before Hennessey came out of the scene. Maybe we'd, um, take up where we left off. No, not a chance. She happens to love her husband. So she pays a gunman 10,000 pounds to kill him? Look, I'm a busy man, do you mind? Faber, you're one meter close.  They take it to light and fake seeing you. All right, you've made your point. Yeah, I'll send you an invitation to my wedding. Thanks. Will it be formal? Or should we just come in shrouds? Ha, ha, ha, ha. Yes? There's someone else out here to see you, Mr. Faber. Oh, is it Joan? Uh, Mr. Smith. Smith? I don't know any Smith. Well, he says he's come to see you about a market-eat brooch. Oh, that's Smith. Yeah, send him in. Then he can go home. Joan, I won't need you any more tonight. All right, Roxy. Come in and sit down. Well, there's a coincidence for you. You just had Peter Troy in here wanting to know who you were, what your address was. And did you tell him, Faber?  Got the tightest mouth in the business. Uh-huh. What are you doing in this part of town, eh? I'm on a job. Someone put an ad in the paper last night, an ad offering a reward for the return of a market-eat brooch. Last night? I thought Evelyn put the ad in last Tuesday. No, she did. She did. I haven't got around to her job yet. This is another one. Business is pretty brisk. That's the way I like it. My, uh, new client is an old friend of yours, Faber. Oh, really? Tony from Mani. From Mani? That's right. Offered me an interesting assignment. Seems he's getting a little sick and tired of the opposition around town. Who's the victim, Roxy? Seems he doesn't approve of small-time hoodlums barging in on his territory. Who's the victim? Can't you guess, Faber? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, wait. It's, uh, you, of course. Oh, no, no, wait, Roxy. I'm sorry about this. But a job's a job, Faber. Bye for now. Roxy, don't listen to me! BAM! And the identity of the killer remains a mystery. Furthermore, Frank Faber's secretary, John Cramer, who may have seen the gunman came to the deadman's office, has disappeared with that trace. Any information? Pete! Don't say it, honey, but just don't say it. Well, you were there. You think I killed Faber? No, but... But if the police find out I went to his office last night... And they probably will. They'll hang this wrap on me. The logical suspect is Tony from Mani. Oh, Pete, on page three of that self-same paper is a big three-column picture of from Mani, sunning himself in the south of France. He wasn't even in the country when Faber was killed. My only lead to the hired killer lies in the police morgue. Not your only lead, boss man. Huh? Faber had a secretary. John Cramer, yeah. Oh, she may know the name of the killer, Mrs. Hennessy Hyde. Oh, she might have dead. Yeah, she was his confidential secretary. But she's disappeared. So we have to find her. And very quickly. Because the police will be looking for her, too. Well, if they find her, she'd clear me. I doubt it. She was there when I left Faber and he was still alive. And she knows that his second visitor was the one who pulled the trigger, Pete. But she can probably identify him. Well, that's right. She can put the finger on him. And that makes her life worth about two cents. Well, there is a way out for her, Pete. Oh, yeah. I've just thought of it, honey. She just forgets that I came out of Faber's office so the police can still hang the rap on me. And she, on the other hand, gets off the hook with the killer. Doesn't have to worry about stopping a bullet some dark and somber night. I wonder how long it'll be before she starts thinking along those lines. Eh, still Mrs. Hennessy's rented killer to find. Oh, they got me over a barrel, Julie. I wonder how the plane schedules run to Afghanistan. Joan Cramer, the late Frankie Faber secretary, might just be able to give me a lead on the identity of the killer Evelyn Hennessy hired to murder her husband. But even if she couldn't, she could clear me of any implication in Faber's murder. Trouble was, the girl had disappeared. And I don't blame her, because the gunman would realize that she could point the finger right at him. It was more than possible that she'd feel inclined to have me take the rap for Faber's death. You see, all she had to do is to say she hadn't seen me come out of Faber's office. So I just had to find her. I got her addressed from the London telephone directory. She's in a quiet street in Belgravia. I knew there was nobody at home, so I started picking the luck. I needn't have gone to the trouble of getting out my skeleton keys. The door wasn't locked. The place was in darkness, so I took the Smith and Wesson from my shoulder holster. He used off the safety catch, switched on the light. That's the gun you killed Faber with, Troy? Oh, no. I wondered just how long it would be before you showed up here. All right, Inspector. Let's get it over with. Get what over with? Formalities of the arrest. Wait a minute, aren't you supposed to have another police officer present as a witness? Yes, that's the routine. But then you've always known that I'm not such a stickler for orthodox procedure.  Yes, that's right. But then I'd have to remind you that that's not the way you play the game, Troy, so let's just relax for the moment, shall we? You know, I suppose I was one of the last people to see Faber alive. Yes. And doubtless, you know, that John Kramer's evidence could either clear you or hang you. So I don't have to explain why I'm here. No, on the contrary, I was expecting you. Well, I didn't kill Faber. No, who did? Well, for you that I wouldn't be here now. Are you going to take me in? No. Well, thank you. Dan, thank me yet. There's a catch. Isn't there always? All right, give. Well, now, we've agreed that I don't always stick to the conventional orthodox procedure. Sir? No, policemen's hampered by red tape, Troy, and sometimes we find ways and means of circumventing it. Go on. Now, I've often found you to be an ideal help in cutting that red tape. And you want me to do it again? Yes. How? By clearing yourself with Faber's method. Oh, that's easy, isn't it? That's your neck. Well, Dan, I get any help from you. Yes, certainly.  Well, thanks. Faber's death was trademarked, huh? You know, murderous operand, I have a small list of similar killings. And ballistic shows that the gun that killed Faber has been used before, up and down the country. We've been after this boy for a long time. Well, and you know it wasn't my gun. It was a Smith and Wesson same caliber as yours. Look, there are thousands of Smith and Wesson. Yeah, but I know it wasn't yours. Now, as I was saying, this killing seems to be the work of a professional gunman. Now, we have one small lead which only came to light recently. What is it? That, unfortunately, I'm not of liberty to say, officially. I'll give you a hint though. Well, let's stop playing games. Then read through yesterday's lost and found columns of the daily record. Lost and found columns? Ring a bell. Like a four-armed fire. Good. Someone lose a marcoise brooch?  What, you mean you know that? I don't mean anything. It's just a lead we've been following. Then you must know about a client of mine. Maybe, yes. But the particular advertisement that was printed yesterday before Faber was killed gives rise to some complications, Troy. It needs the unorthodox approach, hmm? Your approach. Why? Oh, you'll find out. Yes, you'll find out, all right. But I've got the feeling you'll handle it. Then if I don't? As I said before, it's your neck, Troy. Yes, here it is. A marcoise brooch, Troy. Oh, skip that, Julie. What address did I give? Uh, 45 Montreux Place. Belle Grave here? Why, yes. Do you know the place? I've just come away from it. You mean? It's Joan Cramer's place. Well, she's the advertiser? She wanted the hired killer to get in touch with her? That's right. Oh, I don't understand. Neither do I, yet. There is a glimmer of light going through. And Inspector Caswell gave you this, Lee. Hmm. And that, honey, bun is a significant point. The police had latched under the method of contacting the killer. Oh, Pete, I don't like it. Why would a girl who works for Faber want him killed? Who works for Faber? But supposing she didn't. But you know very well she did. I know she was in his outer office, but supposing she was a plant, Julie. A plant? Yeah. You mean she was working for someone else, as well? Why not? Who? Frankie Faber's enemy. Tony Framani. Right. But I still don't understand the advertisement. Framani was a way, remember? Now, someone else, someone working for Framani, had to give the killer his assignments. Joan Kramer. Exactly. So the instigator was Framani all the time? Via the sweetness Kramer. And police? What are they going to do about it? Well, the inspector figured that I'd kind of sort it out from here on. Why? Well, because he can't just walk into Framani's place and accuse him of ordering Faber's death. Now Caswell has to have definite proof he can't get it himself, so... So he sends you out to get it? Yeah. Well, there's nothing to stop me barging into Framani's place and creating a ruckus. Oh, Pete, you can't do it. Look, honey, if I'm ever going to find out who the hired assassin is, I'm going to have to do it. Well, that makes you to 10,000 pounds exactly. Thanks. I'd like to know the name of the man I've just employed. That's a trade secret, Mr. Framani. Yeah, now listen... Don't raise your voice to me. You never can tell, Framani. Maybe someday one of your enemies may advertise in the lost and found section of the daily record. John Kreiman knows who you are. That's right. Won't you sketch him a tip someone off? No. And she works for me, you know? Only for as long as it suits her. What do you mean? Work it out for yourself. Frankie, Faber, knew who you were. That's right. And look what good has done him. He's dead, isn't he? And he'll excuse me if I go now. Sure. And I'd be really happy if you kept away from me from now on. What do you want? A shabbat outside to see her. Who is it? Ah, a Canadian bloke. He says his name's Peter Troy. Troy? You know him? He was around when Faber got his. Listen, if you bungled that door... That door over there. Closet. Good. Send Troy in. And don't worry Framani. I'm just going to find out whether or not Troy's become a problem. And if he hears... Well, this may be a job I'll do free. Gratters. Send Troy in. And you, was he, sir? Yeah. Okay. Well, Mr. Framani, I'll see you. Thanks. I somehow thought you would, Zoni. Yeah, what is it you want? Just some information. About the what? The whereabouts of Joan Cramer. I think she works for you, doesn't she? And I want to know something about an advertisement for Mark as he broached. And then... You must be out of your head, Troy. For just blindly walking in here, you mean. Well, the fact of the matter is I've got some insurance, Framani. I left a letter with my secretary. If I don't get back before a certain time... That is the oldest gag in the book, Troy. Well, well.  Listen, you can't touch him here. If anything happens to him, that letter gets to the police. That ain't the rap on you, Framani. And that's no skin off my nose. I've got it. Roxy Cramer, stick-up artist. Oh, no. He's in the big time now, Troy. He's a killer for hire. Cramer? Joan Cramer's brother. Sure, that's all. Like I said, she only works for you as long as it suits her. And me, Framani. So now you both know who I am. No, Roxy. We can't do a deal. Well, you can't do any deals with him, Framani. You've got nothing to bargain with. Money! It doesn't stack up against his life. Troy's right. You've got to die. You've both got to die. Don't do it, Roxy. You'll never get out of here. My boys would come. Hey, nuts. Whistle at them and they drop dead with fright. If you had one amongst them who was worth a cracker, you'd have got him instead of me to take care of Frankie Faber. All right, Roxy, you hold all the trumps. That's right. Except one. Huh? Look at the way Framani and I have placed, Roxy. Me on one side of the desk, Framani on the other. Now, we both carry guns. All right, you may get one of us. But as sure as bullets are bullets, the other one's going to gun you down before you've got time to pull that trigger twice. Yeah, that's right. How's it look now, Roxy? I'm fast. Change direction and make sure your second bullet kills. I don't think you carry a gun, Troy. Try me. OK, Framani. Walk slowly towards him. You get it first, Framani. I'll play along with Troy. All right, at least a minute. I have nothing to lose. Get back. How's that? Framani? You're trying investigation? Julie, it's all over. Framani and the professional killer are both dead. What? Roxy Kramer got Framani and I had to take care of Roxy. Oh, please. Listen, honey, have Inspector Caswell come on over here and clean things up a little, will you? You'll never learn, will you? Learn what? Mix and mink, Mrs. Evelyn Levere Hennessey made a full confession to her husband. Now, he has to make up his own mind what he does with her.  As for me, I've been spending the last few days hunting around for a nice orthodox-type policeman. One that I can nominate for Inspector Caswell's position. One that simply revels in red tape and wouldn't dream of setting up a poor, confused private investigator as a patsy. This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.


Land navigation actually still serves a practical purpose even in this day and age. You never know when equipment is going to go down or when the fastest way to find something is going to be your ability to use some old-fashioned equipment like a map and a compass or even basic terrain association. I'm senior and drone starter gunnery sergeant Pettus. I work with Alpha Company first recruit training battalion and right now we're out here. We're on track with Papa Company one of their series in the land navigation course. We give them the opportunity here in the map and compass course to get to practice that. So they have that skill set to fall back on but for most of them I think the biggest thing that it gives them is a sense of confidence. Even in this world of Alexa and GPS where if someone isn't telling them how to get to their destination they develop the confidence to realize they always have another skill set that they can fall back on.


How many vowels do we find in English? Many students with no prior knowledge in phonetics would say 5. I, E, A, O and U. However, this answer is based on orthography, with little or no relationship to speech. If we apply articulatory phonetic terms, we are confronted with a completely different definition. Vowels are speech sounds that involve pulmonic air and a free air passage to the vocal tract. They cannot be produced with glottalic or v-laric air, so these two types of air stream are clearly out in the production of vowels. Unlike consonants, which can be described among others of different places of articulation, vowels cannot easily be described by means of articulatory criteria. Instead, they are defined in terms of an abstract vowel space that serves as a coordinate system known as the cardinal vowel chart. The development of this cardinal vowel chart constitutes the first focus of this e-lecture. Further topics that we will deal with are the difference between the so-called primary cardinal vowels and the secondary set of cardinal vowels. Let us start with the development of the cardinal vowel chart. The cardinal vowel chart defines four reference points in purely articulatory terms representing the extreme limits of possible vowel quality. These limits depend on the tongue position that is where in the mouth does the tongue create some sort of narrowing and what about tongue height? Hence we can define four extremes.  Here it is. This is the highest sort of e I can produce. Here is the place where the narrowing occurs. The second vowel that serves as a reference point is the opposite.  The vowel would be something like this. So now my tongue is back and low in the mouth. Now we need two further points. The next one is a reference point where the tongue is extremely low and has a very much front quality, the most front quality and the result would be something like ahhh and finally we need a vowel that is produced with a back quality where the tongue is extremely high in the mouth. The result is something like ahhh As a result, if we combine these extreme points we get a quadrilateral. And now in this quadrilateral, if we take it out of the mouth we have four reference points. Here they are. E, E, R and U. In a modified form with clearly defined geometrical proportions this quadrilateral may now serve as a reference model for the definition of the articulation of further vowels. The proportions of this reference model or coordinated systems are clear and this is how to construct it. First, we need a top line which is four measures in length and it is drawn horizontally. Then we need a second line which is the right hand vertical line which is three measures in relationship to the four measures of the top line and the angle between the two lines is 90 degrees. The bottom line is half as long as the top line and again we have an angle of 90 degrees between the vertical right hand line and the bottom line. And finally, we now link the free ends of the two horizontal lines so that we get the basic dimensions of the cardinal vowel chart. This reference chart allows us to define two main parameters for the classification of vowels. On the one hand we have the parameter front so that is vowels that are produced in the front of the mouth so where the position of the tongue is creates some sort of narrowing in the front of the mouth and there contrasts it with back vowels where the narrowing occurs in the back of the mouth. The second parameter is the parameter high versus low. Vowels that are produced with a high tongue position and vowels that are produced with a low tongue position. So we get our four reference points of the cardinal vowel chart. E, which would be a high front vowel, A, which would be a low front vowel or which would be a low back vowel and U, which is a high back vowel. Between these four main reference points we can now insert two auditorily equidistant steps in terms of two horizontal lines and can define further vowels. So here are our horizontal lines as auxiliary lines and the two further vowels are another front vowel which would now be mid high E a second one would be E and here we have a back vowel A and another one O With the third parameter the parameter of lip rounding you may have noted that some of the vowels were produced with rounded lips like U others were produced with spread lips like E and with this parameter we can now create two sets of cardinal vowels the primary set and the secondary set let us look at them in more detail here is the primary set of cardinal vowels cardinals number one to five are produced with spread lips here they are E E A O and these vowels are just produced are produced with spread or unrounded lips now cardinals number six to eight are produced with rounded lips here they are A O now if we reverse the parameter of lip rounding we get a secondary set here it is now the secondary cardinal vowels have received the numbers nine to sixteen here is my advice how you can produce them produce the respective primary cardinal vowel keep the tongue in exactly the same position and then change the lip position let us do it so here is cardinal number nine I first produce cardinal number one E and then I round my lips E E is cardinal number nine rounded front vowel cardinal number ten next cardinal number two is A so I produce an A first E and there you are cardinal number ten here is cardinal number eleven and again I first produce cardinal number two that is with spread lips E and I rounded my lips to get E cardinal number eleven cardinal vowel number twelve again let us first of all produce cardinal four and then I will round my lips number four is A and A with rounded lips E and here is cardinal number thirteen first of all the back vowel cardinal number five would be A and A with rounded lips A another remaining cardinal vowels fourteen to fifteen are produced with spread lips so I first of all produce cardinal six with rounded lips A and then I round my lips cardinal number fifteen again first of all with rounded lips cardinal number seven E and finally we have to produce cardinal vowel number sixteen first of all cardinal eight with rounded lips E and then I will round my lips E and here we are with the primary and secondary set of cardinal vowels these two sets can now be extended by a set of central vowels that is vowels that are neither front nor back let us draw some auxiliary lines for their representation on the chart first we need a central line from the middle of the top line to the middle of the bottom line this allows us to define a set of central vowels the central vowels are extremely hard to produce they involve an articulation between front and back and the lips are in a neutral position the main central vowels are here the two high vowels mixes between E, U and U so it's something like U something like U, a fronted U which would be something like U here we have for example this is an interesting one the so-called schwa now the schwa is the central vowel that exists in many languages of the world so a vowel like U in English mother would be a good example then we have this mid-low vowel U and finally the low one would be the vowel A as in German Mutter so here we can relate the central vowels already to some existing vowels in some languages of the world to complete the vowel chart we have to draw parallels one with the back and one with the front of the vowel chart and they extend from the bottom middle of the central line to the upper end of the vowel chart and finally we need intermediate lines so these dotted horizontal lines that complete the geometrical pattern of the cardinal vowel chart so here is the cardinal vowel chart in accordance with the international phonetic association depending on the position of the tongue that is more precisely depending on the location of the narrowing in the vocal tract vowels can now be defined as front, central or back so a vowel like E would be a front vowel O would be a back vowel and A would be a central vowel and the second parameter tongue height allows us to define vowels in terms of high vowels like E and O mid-high vowels like A and O mid-low vowels like A and O and low vowels like A and O this chart now serves as a reference system for all sorts of vowels that are used in the languages of the world they can be classified by means of reference to these cardinal vowels as a result of this first e-lecture about the articulation and phonetic description of vowels you should now have understood not only how vowels can be classified using articulatory criteria but also how the cardinal vowel chart can be constructed in our second e-lecture about vowels you will find out how the vowel chart can be used as a reference system for the classification of different types and realizations of vowels one thing should be clear already the orthographical definition of vowels which are mentioned at the beginning of this e-lecture should no longer play any role at all and secondly to become familiar with the system of cardinal vowels you have to practice a lot I recommend that you use the interactive tutor on the Virtual Linguistics Campus with its e-training options or simply join our phonetics and phonology classes and you are supplied with a wealth of exercise material so see you there