um Welcome to college. Hi, bitches. My name is Lord Farquaad today Ignore the band-aid on my lip. I don't want to talk about it for the video starts I just want to say that yes, this is my own merch.  So get it while alas now back to the actual video I've made like two skin care videos in the past and I find that each time I make it it upgrades again I think two years ago. I had about Maybe half of this shelf a year ago that doubled and then now it's Tripled and it's because I now go to Sephora, which is dangerous Now you guys may think that I have clear skin and that is true to an extent my face is pretty clear now But I worked for this I paid good money for this Okay, this tiny ass bottle is $18 before coupons and shipping. But yeah, my family doesn't have like the clear Asian skin gene I know a lot of Asians and just some people in general do they can get away with washing their face with olive oil for all I care and they still magically have clear skin than me for those people.  That's a lot of pollution.  So I'm just gonna say right now Why do you watch me basically I got cystic acne and I had not had that for a year if you go back to my older videos I have a lot of it and it made me really insecure and the fact that I was around all these new people Just did not help so I did do a subscription with cure ology to see if it will work because I was like none of my current stuff is working and this is like a freak breakout that I've never dealt with before so This video is sponsored by cure ology. Thank you for paying for like 1% of my college debt and I know that a lot of people have gotten these ads lately on snapchat and instagram and trust me I got the same ads. That's the reason I bought it in the first place. I did the free trial I did that one month trial where they give you a sample size and all you do is pay for shipping and it worked great I reached out to them. That's right YouTuber reached out to his sponsor and I'm really happy with the results So I just want to get into my skincare routine now and talk about how cure ology also is added to that routine Just to be clear. I've been using this stuff for two months. So I know what works and what doesn't I want to talk about my daytime and nighttime routine because both matter greatly by the way Every product will be linked in the description.  I did email them to confirm and this says use twice daily morning and night gently massage onto Damn face and rinse off I think it's the most gentle cleanser I've had because I'm typically used to like exfoliants. I remember way back in eighth grade I would take that alba botanica scrub that just made my skin feel like and I thought that was great Turns out that's terrible for you because if you get rid of all the natural oils on your face You start making more oil and that's why you got oily skin and not me anymore And yes, I have normal skin now because it's wintertime. So keep that in mind. Usually I have combination to oily but for now I'm living the life of just Not being an oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico. So yeah, the cleanser works great It doesn't dry out your face and I feel moisturized still after using it Sometimes I'll combine it with angels on bare skin from lush just because I think that I need more Exploitation especially here.  And it's it's very customizable and there's a link in the description below because right now They're giving people like a free trial that only costs They're doing a free one month trial for you guys and all I have to do is pay for shipping and handling That is initially what I use. I just wanted to see like Maybe it could work in a month and it did treat my acne pretty well. It doesn't cure acne Okay, that's don't get it twisted for me personally. I'm not going to say this is working for everyone My acne went away within two months I currently only have some scars right here from the acne that I puffed because I have no self control So yeah, thank you corology for sponsoring me and let's get to the rest of the skincare routine After cleansing I use a toner and currently I'm switching between the mario bedesco Rosewater spray and this four men only toner that I got sent in but Honestly, I don't like the fact that it says four men because I don't like the small Sexism inside of it. I don't know. I just don't like the fact that it says four men only in there But a toner is a toner. You don't have to get like an extreme 64 dollar one if you don't have the money There's plenty that work. I still use the theyers one I'm just currently going through all the extras that I have the right To have one from literally every drug store works perfectly fine. It's in the description below I'll only link that one because I honestly don't think you need these two I will say this pump is very nice So I might just reuse it because it's a fine-ass mist and by the way I use reusable cotton pads just to dab the toner on please Do not drag your face if you drag you're going to create wrinkles early on and after you cleanse Just take a face towel and gently dab do not rub your face at least to inflammation Which also can lead to dark spots. So yeah pat gently. Yes, I like being sustainable So they're reusable they can wash up to a thousand times get them on amazon They're really cheap and I do one side for the morning and the other side for night And then I wash it because if you reuse this shit that is disgusting to me And yes, I do take my fan in between products to make it dry faster before the next one next up I'll take a hyaluronic acid serum I'm currently using this one up But I would recommend another one on amazon better because it's cheaper I think and that's a vitamin c serum too. This one is just hyaluronic acid Now the word acid sounds scary But hyaluronic acid is just a humectant and if you don't know what that means It sucks moisture in if you ever look at a sheet mask most of the time They'll have something called sodium hyaluronate and basically the moment you take off the sheet mask where you use this The next product you put on which will be moisturized or typically will help keep your skin more hydrated than normal Just because it locks it in and keeps it like Stuck however because it draws moisture in if you don't put anything else over it It'll start sucking moisture from the air and from your skin out And that is the reason why they say don't leave a face mask on for more than a set amount of time Because when it starts to dry your skin is losing moisture because the sheet mask is taking it from your skin So you don't want to let that dry too much the moment you put on the serum immediately put on your other stuff I will quickly put on this I'm not recommending this because it's $90 So the reason why I bought this was because I had a lot of scars This is keel's clearly corrective dark spot serum I've used this for a month and I've only gone through this much So I will say it'll probably last at least six or seven but for $90 If you don't pay my college debt if you don't walk me to school if you don't give me a six pack I'm not gonna recommend it. So I'm not recommending that to you guys I'm not gonna put a description you completely do not need it I was just being impulsive But I do put that on after because it'll help absorb better now that I have hyaluronic acid on after that I would use the chirology moisturizer. It's a very simple moisturizer I don't find it too oily because I don't think there is any oil in it. Nope no oil I like this moisturizer just because it seems like a universal one. It's not extremely oily It doesn't dry me out either after that. I will put on this rose hip seed oil This is 100 pure seed oil. That's cold press and organic and I got it from tj mag They had a sale, but some of you guys might be wondering Frederick Why do you put on an oil if you have oily skin?  Let me just say this the viscosity level I can't believe I just said that. The thickness of this oil is like water I originally used castor oil, which I found was way too thick for me. This I like much better so I will link that in the description and Because I'm extra And I'm asian. I of course did some research on a jade roller. Do you need this? No Never.  I use the smaller one around the sides and my eyes And I just find it relaxing and sometimes that's a part of skincare You just want to feel good doing it So I won't say you need this but if you have some money and you want to splurge a little Not too expensive. It also comes with a gua sha and let me tell you I'm too lazy to do this Okay, it's too much work But keep in mind do wash it with soap and water after every use and you want to make sure you have like some Oil or moisturizer on to have a slide because you don't want it to grip and drag And my face does get red for like one minute because that's the blood flowing to the skin But after it just cools down and then my face looks like I've already been awake for three hours Finally after that I'll put on this facial sunscreen. This is another form of moisturizer But it's also spf 50. It's uva uvb broad spectrum. So think of uvb as burn uva I'm pretty sure correct me if I'm wrong. It's more for aging and getting cancer and stuff And this has ava benzone homo salate octa salate and octa caroline It doesn't have oxy benzone, which if you don't know Could be bad for the coral reefs But either way I would say that to be safe don't do this if you're going to go into the ocean Use a physical sunscreen. This is a chemical sunscreen, but it works fine for me Um, it does feel greasy when you first initially apply it on but if you tap and long enough It'll just mat down. That is my daytime routine. That takes about 20 minutes Let's go to the night time one where it takes 30 minutes more So if you can't tell my shelf is set up So up here is daytime and down there is nighttime first. I will take my cleansing balm Most of the korean stuff I got from yes style, but this is my cleansing balm for when I put on makeup It's the only one I found that doesn't leave an oil film after washing I'm very picky about cleansing oils because I always feel like they're too oily for me This works great. It doesn't feel like coconut oil even though it looks like it And yes, the whole thing might be white, but I've dug into that for a while I find that just a little dime size amount works enough to get rid of all your makeup So I first rub it with two of my hands to get it warmed up Then I rub it on my face gently you also know ring fingers the weakest and most delicate and your eyes are most delicate So you want to do this also while you're washing your face try to go in upward motions because gravity is already doing This to your skin after that I wash it off of warm water and then I just pat my skin dry However, you have to double cleanse. That's an important thing I learned it from a tense of korean skincare routine But basically that isn't enough to get rid of all your makeup And if you want proof take a cotton pad put some toner on it and then do this Because you'll see it now for nighttime when the sun isn't out that is when I want to make sure all of the dirt from the day Is gone all my makeup is gone. I want to put my active ingredients on so we can treat my skin while I sleep So I use a glycolic acid toner warning if you have sensitive skin Caution with this start off once a week then two times a week three times a week And if you can do it like me you can do it every night because it's not really sensitive skin friendly I'd say but it's a chemical exfoliant I typically straight away from physical exfoliants, especially like ones with walnut shells The last one I have is just ground almonds and that's very soft and gentle But when I really want to get in there I use chemical because I feel like that gets into every pore literally And a little pro tip all the stuff I get from mario budesco is found at urban because what I do is I'll do giveaways and just go in the app until I get a $5 coupon come in there with my app Yes, I would like my $5 coupon. Yes, I would like the receipt just in case I don't get enough product And that's how I save money there because guess what that was $18, but I've been using it for six months And I've gotten through that much you really don't need a lot You just take it on your cotton pad and gently swipe away Especially around your neck because I feel like that's where makeup piles up around your ears around your hairline Remember guys excess product on your hairline produces acne right there A lot of people found that helpful and I was like thank god because I had that same problem back then If you find that you've toned with that and your skin still feels very like Tingly follow up with the gentle toner like the tires red cap one.  I use it after toner next I'll take this thing from yes, sell again. It's called a bha blackhead power liquid It's basically my serum and I'm just trying to get rid of it. I don't think it does much So if anything, I recommend like a normal nighttime serum But I don't really recommend you needing a serum because you already have a lot of active ingredients If you're like me and eventually those active ingredients will With each other. I'm pretty sure vitamin c and glycolic acid are not friendly So don't put that on your face at night. So after that serum thing I take this red cream if you don't know what red cream is basically it's vitamin a and A lot of people will say that it's dangerous for you and that you shouldn't put it on in the morning Which is true if you put red note on you're basically doing nothing because red note in the daytime Cancel each other out, but at night time Oh, oh it does Mm that red cream has been with me.  It just smooths out your face and it works like butter So after that I'll take my final chirology product This should only be done at night because it's your active ingredients and you want to sleep and help this work Mine personally has niacinamide 4% Clinomycin 1% azelaic acid 4% and on the website it does tell you what they do But it's a very short description So I wanted to make sure and do some more research for myself So I went to my sister the pharmacist who said this is all for acne and I was like Perfect. Yeah always research the chemicals you put on your body, please And I do like one and a half pumps and if you don't want to buy both red knoll and this I would just say skip the red knoll because this combo is pretty good for like the price range And I think me doubling up is just doing nothing, but I love doing it So I don't think you need both. So once that's done. I just put on my moisturizer I'm currently getting rid of this thing from yes style. I don't really know It's just a normal moisturizer to me But what I do really like is this lush facial oil, which I constantly keep talking about you guys know This was in the last skincare routine.  Like I think my skin It's pretty rocking lately, but thank you for going through this Really long skincare routine. I'm so tired now if you want to learn more. I recommend mixed beauty There are an amazing youtube channel. So watch one Jackie Aina skincare routine and you'll be fine Is it a lot for me to bring all this stuff to college? Yeah Do I care? No, just because I have these products doesn't mean I want you to buy them buy stuff that have these ingredients in them What I mean is try to get stuff that has spf in it try to get stuff that has hyaluronic acid in it I'm just telling you what works for me And what might work for you. 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So natural gas. Let's get into natural gas. Okay. What do we get going here? What do we get going? We know that it's cold in the northeast. It's cold in the Midwest. It sure is. And natural gas will probably go down. We pulled it up. So Chicago, temperature right now like 23 degrees. Of course the wind chill brings it down to, you know, feels like something like 11. But Boston, man, the raw temperature, 15 degrees, man. And I'm sure they have a feels like that's below that as well. We'll jump into commodities. Let me just refresh this real quick. Get all the active contracts in here. Natural gas. It's 1022. We're looking at the January contract. I'm going to jump into the 11 a.m. So we're trading at 225 right now, which is nice as the contracts line up right with 225 as an option. I'm going to jump while this loads to the whisper numbers over here to see what we're looking for. Oh, you came in number three yesterday. You see that? We did. Yeah. So oil number. We were close, man. We were close. All right. Let's see if we can get a little bit closer today. So what do we got? Let's see. We got natural gas. I'm jumping around screens, but we're trading at 225 too. And it looks like they're charging almost a penny on the bullish side. And then, and then you need paying a similar trade on the bearish side because the contract is trading right basically at that inflection. There you go. You're paying a penny. You're going to 21 bucks or about two pennies, give or take that you need in action and pulling the screen over. So the market looking for a decline of about between 91 to 95 billion cubic feet. Last week was right next to it. Remember, I mean, they only missed it by like one or two. We're going to go 96. There you go. Decline of 96. And we'll see where we come in. We got about a minute. That's bullish. Yeah. Yeah, a little bit. There'd be a little bit less than the market's looking for. There's not much room to go down in natural gas, you might say, but the market continues to defy that logic, right? So that's the 11 a.m. expirations. If you want to go out until noon, let's see what kind of different volatility. You still have the same contract. You're going to be paying about it. Looks like now this is where again we covered it. Look at the bid offer spread here. Just be careful. Let's see where we are here. Yeah, same thing. You're paying seven ticks, man. Big, big spread bid offer when you got to pay it on both sides. You know, you as the buyer are able to buy this at 226.5. The market maker is only willing to buy it themselves at 225.8. Just something to be aware of, man. So you're paying 15 bucks on the bullish side. This is to go out until noon. You're probably going to be paying, let's see. You got a little bit as this ticks away. We're now trading at 225.6 almost. So you're paying 10 here. Two and a half pennies. Two and a half pennies till noon. Away from what, 225. 225, okay. So 227.5 somewhere around there or 222.5 becomes your break even. And let's just see if the dailies line up at all. So those would be 230 on the big dailies. Let's see if these, so no real action. 11s or 12s would give you the option of 225 right in there. Let me look at this. So NQ, no, NG. NG, active. Okay. So let's see. Oh, it's trading. Even this is delayed quote, but it's trading right where we just looking at this. Yeah, it's just kind of been hanging, right? Oh, look at this, man. It's right at the lows. Wow. Okay. Yeah. It's going to get interesting, man. Okay. Looks to me like you're going to get out of that 215. Okay. Got a high volume low there. Okay. So that would be saying that, yeah, you went over, which is good. No, it would be the other way. Oh. I went over on a negative side. Okay. Okay. You might be looking for less of a draw, which would mean more in the supply chain. Right. And maybe some cheaper prices. But you know what, man, like we see in this natural gas, we might get a bigger drawdown than you might expect. And the price still might go down. That seems to be the trend recently. I know. No matter what happens with the EIA inventory numbers, natural gas can't find a bid, man. Right. Right. And so picture what does happen, folks, and this is important to understand. Natural gas is traded. Let me see if it says exactly where it's traded. And this is important to understand in the context of that's all, like coming out of the city that is coming out of is important because natural gas is not transferable like from, let's say if it's Louisiana out to California immediately. Okay. Yes. And that's a big problem. You know what I mean? And that's what we're talking about here. Sure. Okay. Then that's what's traded. Staring at you, folks. Welcome back, folks. So natural gas, what do we have here? We have a decline of 107 billion cubic feet. So quite a decline. Much more than the market had expected. We put in there a decline of 96, probably not going to get us on the podium as that's 11 billion cubic feet off the actual number. But that type of decline, you should expect a pop in the price of natural gas. Is the market going to cooperate? Oh, it sure is. No? No, that's crude. Excuse me. Hold on one second. Where's our chart? Is it hiding? Well, let's just pull it up. Let's see. I think we're going to get a pop. $227,000. Fundamentally. $227,000 pennies. We did. We got a little bit of a pop. Two and a half, almost three pennies. Yeah. So there's the acceleration. We were sitting at about 225. When we were covering that number, we ticked up to about 225.5. And you see the pop on a decline. But as we said, we've already lost a penny, penny and a half since that number came out. And we'll see if natural gas can hold that bid as the price, like we said, right? No matter what happens, we said continues to struggle to find a bid. And in the face of a decline of $107 billion cubic feet in the EIA inventories, you have natural gas basically right where it was trading at. At what time is that? Right. $5.30 this morning. So picture, you know, going long natural gas folks is like going shot Tesla. Both whoever's long natural gas and shot Tesla's got to be going over that in mind. Because when you look at it fundamentally, it makes zero sense. But guess what? It is what it is. That's so dead. That's the market is what it is. Right. And it is what it is. Crazy. It is.


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We're not open source, obviously, as you're alluding to, and everything that we're doing in the engine around performance and integrating all these modular parts, we feel it's very important that we own and control that. In order to build a real-time, high-performance analytics system, it's critical to us to have a great understanding of all the code, control the code, et cetera. Obviously, we want to monetize that as well as a business. When I said that, this company was founded on the premise that one size does not fit all. Now, there's a huge movement of NoSQL, and we actually do very well with some of the largest NoSQL companies in the world using our SQL engine as well. From our perspective, we like to integrate with open source. We were the first analytic database company to come out with a Hadoop connector because we see a lot of value specifically to HDFS as a file system to store all different types of data. You don't have to define a schema in advance. It can be unstructured. It can be structured. Then, what we do with our connector is very easily allow you to move that metadata into Vertica to do the real-time analytics. Hadoop is very batch-oriented. We're very real-time, but they're very complementary. I mean, Hadoop's great for storing a lot of unstructured data in low-cost commodity machines. Yep. Using open source, it's free. Maybe you get Cloud Air. You pay for the Enterprise Edition. You just kind of bark it everywhere. Bark that data. You're sitting in the universe like a processor. Your connector just connects to that data source. Exactly.  That's our product. Exactly. Do you have a developer strategy or no? Well, what we've been doing is building up our own community. We have over 350 customers now. Those customers are contributing a lot of best practices. They're contributing, in many cases, their own connectors, their own plugins, if you will. We have a user-defined function framework. Customers are contributing? Customers contribute it to it and are contributing to it. We're building up now as a community around that, so people can share that information. Our Hadoop connector is actually open source. We did contribute that back to the community. We really want to make sure that that's being shared back and that people can use everything that's been developed by our customers.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you with 2020, 2021, Panini Contenders draft picks, hoops, basketball, two box, random pack break number five from jaspyscasebrakes.com. This just dropped the other day. Pretty nice stuff. We're gonna open both of the boxes, number all of the packs, randomize your names, randomize the pack numbers and match you up with something. So a big thanks to you right here. Really appreciate you getting in. And here are the boxes right here. Here's my knife. All right, then we got all the pack numbers right here. So if you're re-watching this video, you can always just fast forward through this part. If you're watching live, you're just stuck with me labeling packs. But we gotta get this all on the recording, all on wax. All right, so there you go. So all the packs are properly numbered. It's a little bit cleaner than when you just sharpie up the packs. All right, now let's flip back to this screen right here. Let's roll it, let's randomize it. One and a six seven times for each list. One, two, three, four, six and a one, seventh and final time. After seven, we've got Nick down to Natalie. One and a six seven times for the pack numbers. One, two, six and good luck seventh and final time. After seven, after seven, there we go. We got pack 11 down to four. So Nick with pack 11, Ron with 10 and three, Brandon with eight, Oliver Smith with one, Matt with six, Ron with nine, nice. David with two, Nick with 12, Natalie with seven, Ron with five and Natalie with four. We're gonna do these in numerical order. So Natalie will still have pack seven and four when we group these by number right there. So there we go, she still has seven and four right there. All right, now let me print up the labels here again for two box RP random pack number five. All right, so I guess we're looking for the guys on the box, right? That's pretty much what we're looking for. James Wiseman, Isaac Acoro, Lamello Ball. We've got Onyeka, Okuanku. We've got Denia Vigia and Anthony Edwards. These two guys I think the warriors were raving about them. They saw that they were doing a little training here. So I don't know, we'll see. Maybe we'll find those guys in pack number one for Oliver. Thanks Oliver for getting in. Just one pack for you. Okay, all it takes is one. See what we've got. Got Al Horford in that foil, Steph Curry, and behind him is Robert Woodard, the third. Prospect ticket on card autograph. It's got some good penmanship there. Gonna get all these other cards too right here. Nice, thanks Oliver. Let's cure it right here. David Baker, I think just has one pack as well, just pack two. There you go, David, good luck. There's a John Morant sitting there. Second-year John Morant. Lonzo, his brother might get drafted pretty high. There is Davante Graham and Christian Dool. Wow, nice low number. Finals ticket, auto two out of 10. Nice from Oklahoma. I don't know much about, I don't know much about a lot of these upcoming potential draftees, but now we're rooting for him in the draft. Maybe he gets drafted pretty high. That's what we wanna see. There's a nice old second-year John Morant right here. I think this year there was a trend where second-year players like Lucadange and Trey Young were reselling pretty well on the secondary market, so hopefully that trend stays the same for guys like Zion and Jop. Let me put this away. So, Adam, happy Friday to you too. All right, next up is Ron Wester. Ron, I think, had a few packs. So, this is your first of a few. Here's pack three. Lori Markinen, Ben Simmons, and we've got Ray Sean Hammons from Georgia. There's a second-year Zion. All right, so that's your first right there, Ron. We'll keep track of your stuff right here. Move on to Natalie. I think Nat also has a couple packs. So, here's your first one. Zion right out of the gate. Blake, John Wall, and Daniel Oturu. Prospect Ticket Autograph from, looks like, Minnesota. Let's get this camera angle fixed up on the top cam there. All right, we'll set that right over here. All right, Natalie, we'll save your cards up on this side over here. Back to Ron Wester, pack five. Trey Young, Jason Tatum, and Dwayne Sutton. Prospect Ticket Auto. All right, there you go. Matt, I think Matt just has one pack here. Pack six. Good luck. We need more top-loaders here. Matt, here we go. Carl Anthony Towns. Deandre Aiden reveals a Steven Enoch. Another Louisville Cardinal. Right, back to Natalie. And pack seven. D'Angelo Russell, Dearon Fox, and we've got Conference Finals Ticket Autograph. Payton Pritchard. That's 14 out of 20. Nice little number on that. Nice, there you go, another Zion right there. All right, Brandon. Pack eight for you. Got Pascal Siakam, James Harden, and we've got a Lamar Stevens Autograph from Penn State. All right, Brandon Bullock, there you go. Thanks for getting in. Back to Ron Hollins. Oh no, this is Ron Wester's over there. Ron Hollins, different Ron. Got just one pack, there you go, Ron Hollins. Ron H, Ron Dubb, Drew Holliday, Kauai Leonard, and we've got J.J. Culver. Prospect Ticket Autograph. All right, thank you, Ron. All right, just a little bit more to go, ladies and gents. Ron Wester, your final pack here. Pack 10. You know, Alonzo Ball in the old pack 10. Demarda Rosen, you've got a John Morant Conference and a Oduka Azubiuke Prospect Ticket Autograph. And this John Morant is numbered, it looks like. It's a Conference Ticket John Morant, five out of 99. That's pretty solid. Nice, thank you, Ron. And guess what, look at this, Nick Fisher with the last two packs. There you go, Nick. Good luck. Another John Morant, not numbered, but good-looking one right here. And we've got Xavier Snead, Prospect Ticket Auto. There's a Campus Ticket John Morant card. Another John Morant. Got a Buddy Heal, the Camel Walker, and an Omar Yurt Seven Prospect Ticket Auto for Nick Fisher. And there you go, ladies and gentlemen, that was a two-box break, two-box random pack break of the brand new 2020-2021 Panini Contenders Draft Pigs Basketball. This is the upcoming draft class. Hopefully the future stars of the NBA, and we'll see that draft suit in NBA season, looking like they're gonna try to start before Christmas, so it should be good times, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for watching, thanks for breaking with us. I will see you next time for the next one, bye-bye.


We are from University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics. What we developed is the brain-computer interface shown here and also explained on the board. That's the device that enables mainly disabled people to operate the computer, to communicate with the world without using muscles. So the person sitting here has not to move her arms, legs or anything just to operate the computer by looking at flashing fields. We also have implemented different modalities like the simple switch button and on P300 is our limit. What it really did is that the person can read the text, hear the music without any help of other people. She can just look for a while and then the music will play or the text will display and the pages will change so she could read on her own and watch the movie or something.


The characteristic of the program is that students get substantive expertise in marketing and they get to learn with really practical problems, for instance, analyzing what the impact of Facebook likes is for a company's revenue. And then on the other hand they learn a quantitative toolbox, a set of skills that helps them to answer these questions. How to get data, how to work with data, how to analyze data and produce outputs. What did you choose to study at Tilburg University? I chose to study this master at Tilburg University because when I studied my bachelor's in international business administration here at Tilburg University my favorite courses were marketing, mathematics, statistics, and I really like to write my bachelor's thesis. Next to that I've always been passionate about marketing and I've always liked to be analytically challenged, so therefore this master was perfect for me. The career perspectives are enormous and only growing because increasingly companies are collecting data of all kind of different market processes and consumer processes and they need to get the information out. Data is not the issue information is. Companies know this and this program teaches students to get the information out of these big continuous data sets. Students should choose this program if they're interested in basing their decisions on facts and not just on intuition. So we're not interested in attracting students who want to design colourful ads, but it should really be students that want to look at the data and then make informed decisions. The interesting thing is in our department, the department that offers this program we have on the one hand people who are trained in the basic statistical disciplines, econometrics but also in economics and that's combined with people who are trained in consumer behavior and social psychology. The unique aspect of this program is that it unites these different perspectives in one specific program. I really like that we students get the opportunity to solve real-life problems companies are facing. For example, I'm writing my master's thesis now at the company called Metrics Lab which is a global insights and analytics provider and their clients are increasingly wondering what the specific effects are of TV program sponsorship. And since I really like this topic I chose to write my master's thesis about it and so therefore I investigated the effects of TV program sponsorship during the FIFA World Cup 2014. Thank you.


Hey everybody, today we're going to take this Ender 3 and we're going to upgrade it to Direct Drive Extrusion for only $35. My name is Jim and this is the Edge of Tech. So I know what you're thinking, why in the heck will we take this Ender 3 that's printing very good now after we got it all set up and add Direct Drive Extrusion and change it all together? Well, the reason is I want to check out Direct Drive Extrusion. So there's been a lot of debate either on the forums or on the groups or Facebook groups, whether Bodin Tube is the way to go or Direct Drive is the way to go and the guys over at printermods.com reached out and said, hey, we're going to start making and selling this Direct Drive Extrusion. It's called the MDD version 1.0. MDD stands for Modular Direct Drive. Do you want to check it out? And I was like, yes, I do. I really like getting into projects like this and, you know, so I started looking and there's a bunch of reasons why you would want to go to Direct Drive. Some of the reasons they list on the website are better flexible printings, easy loading and unloading. There's only this much in there. So that is a lot easier than pushing it all the way down through the Bodin Tube. Shorter retractions, you can really shorten up your attraction times, which is going to help on speed. Also increased extrusion accuracy, they list lighter weight than others. So there's a lot of, there's a few other Direct Drives on the market and this one actually comes in lighter weight than the other ones. This thing is really light. You get everything you need and you should be able to do it in about 20 to 30 minutes. So you take your factory Ender 3 or slightly modified Ender 3 like we have here or Ender 5 or any of the other printers that they offer and within 20 to 30 minutes you should have Direct Drive extrusion, should be printing and you'll be rocking and rolling. The other cool thing is it's made out of 6061 aluminum and right here in the USA. So I think that's pretty awesome, but I think we should get down to it. Let's do this. So when you get this in the mail you open up the package and this is what you see. A plastic bag, it has all the parts we need and we're going to go through those parts now. So this is everything that comes in the package and it's everything you need. So we got the new X carriage here. We got the extruder spacers, the wire holders, the motor spacers, the hot end spacers. The new bolts we're going to need here. The boat and tube, the push to connect the PTFE fitting here and that is a nice one with metal teeth on the inside. Very similar to what you get from TH3D and the wire harness that you're going to need to extend the E for the extruder there. This right here is awesome that it comes with that. So that's everything you get in the kit there and you should be good to go now. We're going to start the install. The next thing you want to do is grab the extruder stepper motor wire and go ahead and pull that out. The next thing I'm going to do is go ahead and cut the zip ties that are holding everything together here. The next step is to actually remove your boat and tube and your coupler, but the issue is I've been using this machine for quite a while and it is heated and cooled several times and this is stuck in there. So what I'm going to throw in there now is to leave the ex-gantry at the top, go ahead and turn on your Ender 3, go to control, temperature and turn the nozzle up to 220 degrees. So once you get to 220 degrees, go ahead and let it heat up and we're going to remove the boat and tube with a heated hot end. Okay, so now that we're heated up here, what we want to do is go ahead and push your coupler in and see how it doesn't come out. Well, that's because it's all nice and hot in there and it's stuck. So what we need to do is go ahead and grab the wrench that came with the kit and once you get the wrench that came with the kit, go ahead and loosen the coupler here. So you want to be very careful because your hot end is 220 degrees C right now and you do not want to burn yourself. There we go. So get that loosened and start turning it and it might be hard to get out. So what we're going to do is take your wrench and just go ahead and remove your coupler. So when you're all the way loose, go ahead and give that bad boy a pull and it should pull out just like that. Remove the Bowden tube from your extruder. In this case, I'm using the EZR extruder and we're going to go ahead and remove the whole tube out. The next thing you want to do is remove any extruder you're using from the stepper motor. In this case, like I said, I'm using the EZR extruder. If you're using the stock Creaudier extruder, it's still four bolts. It's very easy to remove and you can do it just like I'm showing here. The stock one, you'll remove the tension spring and then the bolts as well. Remember when you get all the bolts out of your current extruder to hold the extruder itself and the stepper motor because that stepper motor will fall out. We want to grab the small Allen wrench and we're going to go ahead and remove these two M3 bolts here to remove this. Now I do have the EZABL and that will take that mount off as well but we do want to do that at this time. So grab your Allen wrench, make sure it's the correct size. Use the small side and we always use the small side to break them loose and tighten, finish tighten because you don't want to round off that long side. It's very easy to do, especially when you're trying to tighten or finish tighten. Get both of these broken loose and remove them with your Allen wrench or an Allen driver. So once you have those two screws removed, pull out the two screws or the mount. In this case I have the EZABL mount like we talked about. I could have removed the bottom nut and pulled this out but I didn't really need to and I'm hoping to reuse that bracket. Take the cooling block off just like that and now that exposes the hot end. Once the hot end is exposed take your Allen wrench and what we want to do is remove these two here so that will remove the hot end from this carriage. Once both are pulled, pull the screws out and lay the hot end inside the cooling block just like this. Remove the belts from the carriage here and you can do that by pulling them down and out and then this should move down and pulling them down and out. Now you do not need to remove this from the pulley just from the carriage itself so your carriage is now free moving. We're going to go ahead and remove the roller wheels from the X carriage and install them on the plate that came with it in the exact same order. So this is the plate that came with it and we're going to take these two wheels and install them here, the bottom wheel and install them here and they need to be just like they're on that carriage there but on the brand new carriage right here.  We're going to do the same thing for this one and then we're going to put those two on the new carriage and we'll be right back to do that. All right now that we have these top wheels removed I just want to point out how they're going to go back on.   We're going to put this side on and then we'll do the bottom as well. I'm going to put this side on and I'll be right back.  This one is going to go on backwards on the trolley so remember that when this all comes off, oh you know what this one actually has a washer but because this is the eccentric nut it's a little bit different at this time if you want to take and wipe off that dust and everything that's accumulated that's fine take your eccentric nut your wheel your bolt everything that's already on throw it on like that put your washer on and then your lock nut the correct way and just like the others hold your lock nut in position with your wrench flip it over and it's going to look backwards and that's right and go ahead and tighten that in you want to make sure that's good and tight on the trolley you don't want it to come off and this your eccentric nut will adjust in a little bit it's time to start installing our extruder so take your spacer plate throw it on there and take your extruder whether it is the easy R or the stock under three or the metal one and throw it on there as well once you've got it setting on there assemble the extruder in my case it'll screw down to the stepper motor here on the stock creality extruder there's also four on the metal replacement there's also four there always be four extra screws or bolts that attach to your stepper motor from the extruder we put these two in so we got all four in and now your extruder is attached to your stepper motor it is tight and I would just go double check all your bolts you want to make sure it's good and tight on there now we're going to go ahead and take the 3d printed piece the spacer I got from the teaching tech video Michael over there created the spacers specifically to use with the easy R struder so we're going to take his spacer and we will place it on the plate we will take our extruder and the extruder normally will go on face like this so your motors here extruder is extremely close to the plate because your hotend will sit here and it'll go directly in so we want to take a screw I want to push the screw through the there we go and then through the back plate and go ahead and put your nut on the back so I tightened these two down real tight and I'm actually going to get some lock washers to replace these but I didn't have any so I'm going to do that at a later date but just to throw it out there if you're using the stock extruder or the metal extruder you're going to want to use this injected mold injection molded part as a spacer but we didn't need that because we're using the easy R that's why I did not use that part but you will see that in the instructions so if you do see that using a stock extruder don't forget to use this part now what we want to do is grab the Bowden coupler they included and twist it into the top of your hotend you want to twist it all the way down till it's tight and then release it about two turns now grab the PTFE tube they included and go ahead and push it down into that tube I went ahead and I cut a piece of TH3D tough tube and I'm going to use this push that down in all the way into the bottom make sure it's good and pushed so it's all the way in and tight you always want to make sure that your PTFE tubing is pushed all the way up against your nozzle grab your wrench and tighten that Bowden coupler all the way down all the way in and what that'll do is hold that PTFE tubing nice and tight down into the bottom of the nozzle there for the next step we'll need the two screws that came out of the hotend and we are just going to remove the lock washers from them and then we also need the hotend spacer right here the next part is going to be just a little bit tricky we are going to take our full assembly here that we've already started putting together and we're going to put the spacer behind the hotend we want to take your hotend and get that put on now the tricky part of this is the PTFE tubing has to go up into the extruder okay so when we turn around and put this on see if I can show you a little better here this hotend is going to go on here we're going to push the PTFE tubing all the way up as far as we can into that extruder and then we're going to tighten it on so push it in there as far as it goes then take your spacer put it behind there once it's behind there take one of your screws go ahead and push the screw in just like wow like that get it started take the other screw push it in make sure you can feel get that one started and you should be golden just go ahead and tighten those two down now we're going to install our cooling housing I have the easy ABL as well and the easy ABL should fit in the same holes is the original housing as you can see I have the mount on these two screws are now tightened and if you did not have an easy ABL you would just install those two screws and your cooling mount will be attached I will be printing the hero me and we're going to be fitting that on as well but not at this time I wanted to show you stock as much as I could and that's how it goes so once I found out we're not going to be removing the whole ex gantry from the machine and the new version of the instructions what I did was I went ahead and put the carriage back on the ex gantry I got the ex gantry back on the machine put the top extrusion back on and then I re-leveled everything per our instructions in Lucat fields help guide so both sides are dang near perfectly level which is great so right now I'm going to install the tensioner we're going to wrap the belt back around and install that to the bottom of the carriage I went ahead and I got your belts wrapped around and on there and I got the belt tensioned again and I was just going back and forth I wanted to make sure it's running straight in the channel you want to make sure you're running perfectly straight in here otherwise what you may need to do is shim this if you built this with our help guide with Lucat fields help guide with my video you know that and you may already have a shim so just put it back in we're running real good right now as far as belt tension goes you want to make sure you have a little bit of a snap or a twang and we do so I'll just keep an eye on this I may need to tighten it just a hair more but I think we're okay for now which is awesome so now we got everything assembled the belts back on tensioners tight everything's level on the next step something important happened and I wanted to point it out if you look at my last shot this cable was actually through underneath here and through the back it cannot be like that it needs to be around the front just like this so I had to actually remove this put it back on and start over but I wanted to show you that because I don't want you guys to make the same mistake so please remember this cable needs to be in the front it does say that in the instructions but I missed it when I put this back underneath and that was my fault going forward with the new instructions since you don't have to move the excantary that probably shouldn't be an issue but just in case remember this cable is in the front and all your cables running right in the front just like that grab your screwdriver and take out the top left screw of the extruder once it's loose it should just pull out so get it loose and then pull it out just like this then what you want to do is grab this big screw here and one of the wire holders and just install it back into the top left it's going to come out with a Philips head and go back in with an Allen wrench make sure it's good and tight because you want your stepper motor to be tight so now that that's here this can hold your wiring up like this with still enough slack here but it'll keep it out of the way everywhere else in the kit we didn't talk about this earlier but it did come with zip ties I didn't see in the envelope but they were there next find the stepper motor extension cable this one plug it into the bottom of your stepper motor once you get your stepper motor plugged in here the cable run that up and around and we're going to plug it into the stepper motor cable that is on the side of your harness so it's basically just an extension cable it'll run up and around and then plug in like that so what we're going to do now is some cable management they did include some loom that you can use for your wiring right here the problem with mine is is I already have the easy ABL wires along with the other wiring and it's just a little too small so what I'm going to do is attach it like this on the underside for now so that's what I'm going to do now I'm just going to clean this up down to about right here and then we'll go through this part next all right so we got these cabled up decently it looks pretty decent here I may change that up in the future but for now it looks okay we have our loop in our easy ABL we want to make sure we always have that loop I clipped the cable ties we needed to clip and the next thing we need to do is get rid of the QR code feel back that sticker slowly if you have any residue a lot of times you can just do this and pull it off so it cleans up very nicely so after you get this QR code off go ahead and take out the top left screw right here under that QR code and it's a long screw but once you get it started it should just pull out like this then what you want to do is grab another one of the cable holders with the 50 millimeter m3 and that's going to go in the top and also screw in like we did the other one and it's going to be situated like this and then you'll tighten it in pretty good there and then use a zip tie to connect it so it doesn't go anywhere one more thing they give you is actually a cable management piece for this back of your Z screw here or this Z stepper motor right so they actually give you this piece here you can pull those two out and then put this in and then you can zip tie your cables right down which is a really awesome I actually use this printed piece here it allows you to slide everything in one by one and it holds it all really secure in here and I prefer this one it gives a little bit of give just in case but they include this one here which is also a great alternative you can actually use that and that'll be awesome for you all right so one of the last things you have to do or the last thing is make sure your spool holders on I went ahead and flipped mine around that way when I grab a spool of filament and I drop it on here like so it'll go straight down into my extruder like this that's going to be awesome I'm going to get this thing fired up make sure it homes okay and get some test prints going and let's see what it does all right as you can see I did some testing here so the first one on this left side here is actually the print before I made the change so this is with the Bowdoin tube how the Ender 3 came stock the only thing that had on it was an easy ABL as you can see I did a retraction test and I did the micro all-in-one now I realized this is a little bit easier to read than these because I put the wrong filament in when I went back to print these I actually this is a stone gray and this is a metallic silver both by coax but this was a stone gray and this is the metallic so you it actually shines a little different you can't read it as close or as good as this one over here this is the first print that I printed with the direct drive and I didn't change anything all I did was fix the easy ABL so it leveled properly and then I printed it I didn't change any settings I didn't do anything like that and as you can see this is pretty similar actually and this one though is quite different this got a lot of stringing as you can see in there not only is there heavy stringing from the sides here but there's heavy stringing well I'd say light stringing between them but there's definitely some heavy stuff coming out the sides that the first one never got probably because I have my ender three dialed in for this and then I dropped the direct drive on it without changing anything so if you look here this is the third print all I did was tweak the retraction a little bit same thing I printed this right here and this is almost the same as the second one this all was teaching text files credit to teaching check for throwing these out there for us to test so these were just retraction tests to see where we should be and then this here I dialed in the retraction a little more as you can see not nearly as much stringing in the sides nothing across the front and the back actually looks pretty good too there's a little bit between there but that's it otherwise overhangs look pretty good and that was overall a pretty good print now I will need to dial this thing in a little better but I just wanted to get some tests some demonstrations out for this video of you know before and after all right as you just saw I dropped the direct drive straight on this ender three now we did modified it to use the EZR extruder which was pretty awesome using teaching text adapter my initial thoughts were this is gonna be pretty awesome I've never used a direct drive before it was only $32.99 on the website and this kit is pretty awesome I definitely suggest it it comes with everything you need to transform a stock ender three to use direct drive and get rid of that bowed in tube so you can judge for yourself if you like it or not but I tell you what I do and so far this thing is gonna be pretty awesome especially with that EZR extruder because we all know that the Karate extruders the plastic ones don't last very long now if you wanted to upgrade to a metal one you could still use the stock kit for this direct drive and it wouldn't change anything if you do go with the EZR extruder you definitely need to print that teaching tech adapter like I did and make it work I really like it I think it's worth the money $32.99 I spent way more on my ender three for a lot less of quality of parts and I really think this is worth it time will tell when I get my settings dialed in how awesome this really is but you know based on everything I came up with today and the install which is actually really easy if you're not filming it it really only takes 20 to 30 minutes tops and I think when you walk through it all it's actually a lot faster than it looks on film especially if you're not trying to film it like I did but I guess we'll see you can determine what you think you know from the results I got and how easy of an install it was it really was easy especially because in the new install instructions you don't have to remove the top and you don't have to remove that excantry which means if you already did the excantry rework you don't have to do it again and that is a huge time saver I really think that's awesome that they changed the instructions after we went through this and I definitely appreciate that once I found out that was changed I had already filmed most of this and I didn't go back I didn't want to go back and re-film it but check out the new instructions you don't have to remove that excantry which is pretty dang awesome well I hope you learned something today and as always keep printing hey everybody thank you so much for watching the channel if you liked it give me that thumbs up hit that subscribe button below we are growing we're going to do another giveaway at 5000 subscribers so keep hitting that subscribe button let's get this up to 5000 and if you want to follow us and see the next great video that comes out please cook that little bell right over here you guys rock


I want first of all to thank the members of the press for attending this press briefing, which comes at the conclusion of the 65th meeting of the OECS authority, the meeting of the heads of government of the OECS. We have here at the press briefing the immediate past chairman of the OECS authority, Prime Minister of St. Lucia, Alan Chastonay. We have the Prime Minister of the Federation of St. Gitson-Yves, Prime Minister Timothy Harris, and the Director General of the OECS, Dr. Ducos Jules. My name is Ralph Gonzales of St. Vincent and I am the current chair of the OECS. At the meeting, all full members of the OECS were represented, including Montserrat, and we had an associate member in the President of the Martinican Council. He was there at the meeting also. A special guest for this authority meeting, as you are aware, is the distinguished Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Motley. You heard her at the opening, but we had a very productive caucus last evening, where the Director General presented a wide range of areas of cooperation. It was agreed upon that the Prime Minister of Barbados, she agreed and we concurred in this agreement that she would immediately examine the question of ease of travel for OECS Nationals passing through Barbados, for example, to use the picture ID, which we can use throughout OECS territories to travel, that you are passing through Barbados, you can use that also while you are transiting. Then the question of making the transiting more accommodating, and there are a number of practical suggestions in that regard, cooperation on the matter regarding to Sargassum, and the range of other matters which we have put down for discussion, practical matters of cooperation, touching on deepening integration between Barbados and the OECS countries. A very important outcome in that discussion was that a special meeting would be held of the heads of government of the OECS and Barbados on Liat. With the aim of understanding better where we are with Liat, you know, there is an analysis which is ongoing, there are consultants on the project, and we'll have the consultants there and the Caribbean Development Bank, which is very much involved in this exercise, and the management of Liat. And we are hoping that out of that discussion would emerge a new shareholders agreement, hopefully with other members of the OECS, other than Antigone, Barbuda, Dominic, and St. Vincent, and Renegades. Others can join with us in Barbados, and then you share the agreement and strengthen the way forward for Liat. So that's a very important conclusion which you also are right about. The meeting itself, we had a very thorough work program, which included a caucus this morning and full plenary discussions this afternoon. In the caucus this morning, we addressed the matter of the appointment of an ambassador to Brussels, as you are aware at the moment. The three saints plus Dominica are the countries which are represented through our Brussels mission, and there's the occasion for the appointment of someone, and we are very near in the end of that process. And then the government of Antigone, Barbuda, has agreed to become part of that arrangement. So the only country which would be standing alone, so to speak, in Brussels would be the government of Grenada. Historically, since the days of the People's Revolutionary Government, they have had a representative in Brussels, and we understand that historical phenomenon. So this is strengthening the question of representation overseas. It was also agreed that we would make and organize the march towards representation in Africa. We don't have to spell out the origin, the importance of this. It's long overdue. And the idea is that we would have an ambassador from each of the countries in the OECS, where we have missions in the United Kingdom, that we'd have non-permanent, non-resident ambassadors to several countries in Africa. One, for instance, the Ethiopia and the African Union, which is headquarters in Addis Ababa. One for Nigeria. One for the Southern, for South Africa. One for Egypt, Algeria. And also, we are working with the government of the Kingdom of Morocco to establish a permanent, a resident mission for the OECS countries in Morocco, as you know. We have been doing a lot of work with this North African country, which is, would Arab and African. And we have selected these countries very carefully to represent the broadest range of interests in Africa. We had a discussion, a very interesting discussion on the implications for some recent changes in the United States of America's foreign policy, the implications for OECS economic union. We got an update on the Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority, a very detailed discussion, and the ways in which we can strengthen this in preparation for the audit, which is going to take place of ECA in February next year by the International Civil Aviation Organization. But that audit will involve security issues that's dealt with otherwise. There was a presentation by the government of saying it's on Nevis on security. And among other things, the paper which was presented, we are going to circulate this to Barbados, which is the other member country of the regional security system, and the meeting which would take place in another few weeks' time that would get a central place for discussion and the RSS. We got a presentation from the Caribbean Court of Justice of the APEX, APEX system. And unfortunately, we were not able to have a discussion on the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court budget. We are hoping to do that in the next couple of weeks because the Honorable Chief Justice was unavoidably absent because she had a prior engagement, an important matter which she had to deal with, I had been advised in Canada, and we are accommodating her at a very special occasion, sometime over the next two or three weeks, and we are working on this specific date. Then we adopted the OECS work program and budget for the year. As you are aware, or to be aware that the OECS commission, each country has commissioners and the Secretary General, the Director General is at the core of the commission. And through the budget committee, we have had the work plan, the work program approved, the budget, and it's a matter well recommended really, and it had to come to us for final approval, which we did. Very important discussion on deepening the integration movement in terms of the economic union, and in that regard, there was a discussion, it started at the opening on issues in Karakum. We know that the Golden Commission in Jamaica had presented a report, I myself had appeared before that commission, and after the commission had presented this report, you're also aware that I presented a detailed paper on the question which paper was circulated, and which no doubt would form part of the wider discussion which would take place at the Karakum Heads of Government in July in Montego Bay. We looked at the issue as to how can we have carved out within the revised Treaty of Chagoramos a special place for the OECS territory so that we can move, recognize that we are moving at a faster pace in the integration process. The Dr. Antwine reported also on the Article 164 of the revised Treaty of Chagoramos where the certain protections offered to certain commodities for the OECS, and in Guyana at the Council for Trade and Economic Development, there was a decision for a continuation of the Article 164 protections for another 10 years subject to the objection from Haiti, which I don't see a problem with, and Montserrat, these are legal requisites, and we want to commend all those who have been involved in this particular exercise because this is an important bread and butter question for our flower, or bear, or animal feed, and a host of other commodities which we export. And then Commissioner Murdoch gave us a very good summary, and we took a lot of these decisions in relation to the free circulation of goods within our Economic Union. Then the OECS had taken a decision for the re-establishment of the Diplomatic Mission in Canada, and we got an update on that as how we are proceeding. Similarly for the regularization of the status of the Eastern Caribbean Liaison Service, which relates to the farm working program and the Government of St. Lucia is assisting very much in that regard, and I want to thank Alan. There was a report on the accession of St. Martin to the OECS, you know they had a terrible, we were having a discussion, it was on stream for associate membership, but then they have their hurricane and all the rest. So before we even finalize all that with them, we will accord them observer status, they can come see how we are proceeding, and trying to strengthen our links with the non-independent countries, as indeed we have done with Martinique and of course Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands, and in that light we got an update too on the accession of Guadeloupe, and that is proceeding in a pace. The Chief Executive Officer of Liat came and presented to us the Carb Sky Initiative, the coordination of routes between three airlines, Liat, Winair, and Antilles, they have between them 25 aircraft, visit 30 odd countries, and we just trying to streamline our air transport system to make things better for all of us who are traveling, you know the difficulties in traveling in the region. We received reports from the Council of Ministers relating to agriculture, environment, education, health, foreign affairs, and there's a declaration on the support for resilience in the OECS, and a short while ago I signed the terms of reference for the audit committee, a very important pillar in the organizational apparatus of the OECS. I would say that that is a broad summary, I don't really want to take up a lot of time in doing more than what I've done in this regard, it's a very successful meeting, our next meeting is going to be on the 25th and 26th of October, in Zindan, Zindan, and Grenadines, which should be on the eve of our independence anniversary on the 27th, and I'm sure they would love to stay overnight and be with us at the parade ground on the 27th, and we all show a solidarity to one another, and I believe that would be a privilege to us coming across in February to be with Alan for St. Lucia's 40th anniversary, so it's all, we're moving along pretty well. I'm sure that there are the members here who can add, or perhaps the better thing we do is to hear the questions and give answers as best as we can, thank you very much. My other colleagues would like to say something while your colleagues are a little slow of the mark, may I ask them a question, why are you taking so long? I bet you're the first person who's going to ask a question as a female journalist, is that what we have? Huh? You're not sure yet, let's, let's, they're advancing, the women are rightly advancing in every field, seem as though saving except in politics, and we need more women to come forward, yes? Thank you Chairman, first of all I want to very much thank Prime Minister Gonzales for his well-experienced stewardship, I think that was a very productive session that we had here. I also want to thank the Prime Minister, Mia Motley for taking time out, we all know how busy her schedule has been, and I think that we should read into it what we're supposed to read into it, in that she's recognized, and Barbados is recognized, the importance of having a closer relationship with us at UACS, and I wanted to say that that's a feeling that's very neutral, this is not a one-sided approach, I think that Prime Minister Motley is no stranger to all of the heads, and clearly we recognize the work that she has done in Caracom wearing multiple of different hats, so I think that the timing of that meeting also was important as we are about to go to another significant meeting in the beginning of July, which is going to be the Caracom meeting, and clearly that meeting is being paved because of the document that was written by Bruce Golding, which has been well circulated, and I know that Prime Minister Gonzales has spoken on many of our behalf, on behalf of many of us, in articulating a lot of issues that have been brought up, and clearly the OECS is going to be going to that meeting with a very clear strategy of strengthening our own position, because CSME has been successful in many years and are not so successful in others, and if I was to say boldly that I feel that the OECS as an organization has been from a solution perspective much more successful and much more of a meaningful organization for us, and therefore I think Caracom has some things to learn from what we're doing here at OECS. I think what we did before and after the hurricanes, and clearly some of the other negotiations that we've been involved in, the OECS has really stood head and shoulders above other regional organizations. I'm leaving this meeting comforted in the fact that that is in the shared opinion by my other colleague heads, and that there is a renewed commitment to this organization. I think it's also important to point out the Oman's work that the Director General himself and his staff have been doing. They have certainly kept a pace despite the fact that we've not had many meetings, but they have not allowed that to be a distraction, and the Director has stayed in touch with not only me when I was chairman, but with many of the other members, and stayed focused on the job at hand. So I want to say that I'm very, very pleased with the new direction. I think that we are leaving this meeting with renewed hope in several fronts, and one of them is clearly Liat. We've agreed that we're going to be having a follow-up meeting, I believe, in Barbados to be announced very soon, in which we're going to be looking at whether we can broaden the shareholder base of Liat. We have seen some substantial improvements in Liat, but clearly there are some of us that still want to see some other structural changes at Liat. So in terms of the governance of Liat, particularly the appointment of the Board, the independence of the Board, the ability to make independent commercial decisions that may not necessarily be the ones that some states want to see, but we've got to be able to get to a structure that's successful, and therefore a mechanism to support the routes that aren't as profitable. So it's not to say it's not to fly those routes, but let us clearly understand what those costs are, and who is going to pay those additional costs, because continue to ask Liat to react to all of our needs without taking into consideration what the cost is, and who's going to pay for that is very unfair to the shareholders. So I myself am looking forward to that meeting, because aviation is critical to the continued development of our region. In the area of trade, I think the idea of improving the trade amongst the OECS, but also trying to strengthen our position within CARICOM, was something that was tackled very seriously at the meeting here today, and I think the timing is very opportune for us. We need to be able to grow our economies, and there's no point in being part of a CSME if in fact it's in name only, and it's not resounding to the economic benefit of the citizens of our country. So I think that we're certainly anxious and prepared for the meeting that's going to be taking place in July, and I can say to you that I'm leaving here strengthened and optimistic about the future of the OECS, and more importantly than I am looking forward to the meeting in July, and it's certainly not the intention of any of the heads to allow any of the issues to be put underneath the carpet. These things have to be thoroughly discussed. We have to determine how we're proceeding, but I think that we're strengthened knowing that should anything happen to CARICOM or changes take place in CARICOM, that we here in the OECS have a very strong regional organization to fall back on. So I just want to again thank the incoming chairman, and also to thank the director general and his staff for the support they've given me over the last year, and I'm looking forward to the agenda we've established for ourselves. One of the meaningful things I think is that the commitment among heads to meet on a more regular basis, so that our support and recognition of the importance of OECS has to be manifested in our actions, and I got a very strong sense there was a commitment by all the heads to make that happen. Very much Alan, question? What are the questions about? You know actually one of the things we spoke about, and in addition to what I said and what Alan has said, you know we have this form which we fill out, all an ED form. Now all of us know some, they're so long, and they repeat all these questions, the pain in the neck, many cases, and really the case for this form is becoming really less and less important. We have a computer system, people bring your passport, well you know I always have to be very careful when I talk Alan because we have some immigration officers across this, and chief immigration officers who are lords and ladies onto themselves, so I have to be very careful how I speak in public sometimes, but you bring your passport, or you show your ID card or whatever it is, and they check you to make entries to you there. If the tourism department wants to know which tourists come from where and so forth, you can get the information otherwise, and in any event we have an advanced passenger information system, when somebody under the law, and we just strengthen the law, we pass it in St. Vincent, I don't know if you pass it yet, you're just about to pass it. The advanced passenger information system, you'll even say to Lucia, come into St. Vincent, by the time you board it, we know who the passengers were coming in, and we know whether they're any bad boys and girls, who we must look out for, and so on and so forth. So this long piece of paper, you have to be filling out, and sometimes I see some old men and old women struggling, I mean I'm almost that point where I'm struggling now too, with these things.  I must say there are some things which we have spoken about, which we can't talk all about for reasons of tactics and strategy, because we have been taught both by the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament that the leaders don't talk everything. They can't talk every single thing. You have to know when to talk, what to talk. We had a very good meeting to seek to improve people's lives, and as you can see from the subject which we touched. I think Timothy wants to say something. Thank you, Chair. Let me begin by commending the government and people of St. Lucia for being an incredible, excellent host in the context of this, the 65th meeting of the authority, and of course to commend equally the OECS commission for its work in preparing the documentation. Clearly we could say that this meeting has been well organized and well put together. The addition, if you will, of Mayor Motley, I think was an important one. I should say the Honorable Prime Minister of Barbados, Ms. Motley, was an important one in the context of the lead role which Barbados plays in the context of our CSME engagement, and that particular matter had for a long period of time been given leadership support or in order his successors to it. And now, Mayor, as we look at what is to happen at Caricom, as we look at the golden document, it was important that we amount to small states which have their own peculiarities. Indeed, all countries within Caricom, one could say, small by the way of the population, but we in the OECS and Barbados represent the smallest of the small. And in that context, I think it was refreshing to find in the Prime Minister of Barbados a new partner, a new partner in the context of the CSME agenda which Barbados would provide leadership to. And we reminisce of the good old days of Orinata when I think he somewhat also inspired a lot of us in terms of his leadership of that particular agenda within the Caricom context. So we hope to see better deepening and perhaps widening of the functional cooperation with Barbados. And we look to see that then a plethora of issues that are there before us that we could find some harmonized framework between Barbados and the OECS countries. So that to me, if I were to attach to one single element that was different and which augurs well in terms of translation into tangible benefits, I would say that meeting was helpful in that context. And the place we had always wanted Barbados to be and the hope that he should have offered, we are well aware of the Maori case and long before that and subsequent to that the difficult challenge that many ordinary people felt that some way Barbados was not as open and as engaged in terms of issues to do with free movement and the associated matter of contingency rights. And so we believe a new order will come in that regard. I think we were able to discuss a number of difficult foreign affairs matters of international relations, how we will work together as a single unit to deal with the evolution of foreign policy challenges from our partners, strategic partners, the USA, North America and elsewhere as they evolve or we will deal with issues with our special friends like Venezuela, I believe that those conversations are conversations that we have to from time to time at the level of heads engage one another so that they be better coherence of policy and messaging and these critical matters. Overall I would say that we, the Senkitsa Nevis delegation is highly satisfied that this has been a useful engagement and I would want to commend all those who prepared the papers which we had to produce and to discuss all those who made arrangement with respect to other aspect of our comfort, security and hospitality and again to say thanks to the good people of St. Lucia who carried the torch and the candle with respect to this meeting. Very well and final note of commendation that perhaps from this meeting we could really believe that there is a redemption song for us as a region working together and doing great things that would be down to the benefit of the people. And the first night I was touched and I'm going to end in that one. Touched with some of the presentations that we had in particular the show of entrepreneurship coming from young people taking up new and difficult challenges such as that to do with environment health and conservation vis-a-vis the new worry of Sargasm and the potential devastation of our tourism product. To me that was an eye-opener that is more of what we would want to happen throughout the region to see young people rise to the challenge and being given the support of governments of private sector of the rest of the society so that they could well achieve their fullest potential with downed in to an upliftment of the Caribbean civilization. From the perspective of the OECS commission I want to pick up on where Prime Minister Harris left off because for me first one of the highlights of the meeting of the head there were several highlights at least four of them but one of the significant ones was the involvement of one of our 30 on the 30 youth entrepreneurs in the briefing of the heads on the Sargasm issue. The government of Grenada had made a request of the commission to take a lead in shaping a regional solution to the problem of Sargasm and we were very proudly able to present a young entrepreneur from Saint Lucia Johannes Dujon who has found a way to turn a problem into a solution and a potential industry and feel extremely I think we should all feel extremely proud that heads of government could so readily embrace a young on the 20 on the 30 entrepreneur and give him the fullest support and look at ways in which government and the youth can work together to create different solutions to major problems that we face. I want to again go on record to thank Prime Minister Shasini for the very energetic role that he has played in as former chairman in his tenure as chairman of the OECS and the very aggressive advocacy that he led on the international stage. We expect that a lot of that will continue because he's also the lead head for climate change and environment at the Currycom level and continues to push the advocacy front. Prime Minister Gonzales as we all know is an old warrior and a very strong academic so I think he brings to the chairmanship of the commission at a very critical time when we have to think very strategically about the issues confronting us that quality of leadership that comes from years of experience and political savvy. I must say that this meeting I think also marked a watershed in the conviviality and the solidarity among OECS heads. Not all of the discussions were comfortable discussions but they were very cordial they were very very frank and I think that is a very positive sign because too often in our region issues are never confronted head on and at this meeting in particular the heads were able to discuss any points of difference and at the end of the day arrive at some convergence of positions on those issues. The presence of Prime Minister Mia Motley as indicated earlier was a high point for us because she too I think has brought to the Currycom stage a new level of energy and commitment a level of commitment and clarity that is going to be very helpful in pushing the entire regional integration agenda forward and certainly I would think it fair to say that she exceeded expectations because we did make a presentation to her on areas of collaboration between Barbados and the OECS and her response to that exceeded expectations because she too had come with her own ideas far beyond some of what we were proposing on the solutions and I think it is only prudent that we see the results and the results will speak for themselves. Lastly the final high point first at the commission was the presentations made on the Caribbean Climate Smart Accelerator which as you know is the coalition pulled together by people like industry leaders like Sir Richard Branson, Bill Gates etc and spearheaded by Prime Minister Keith Mitchell and Prime Minister Alan Chastney and Barbados has indicated an interest in coming on board. There were some very concrete low-hanging fruits that looks very possible for us to implement with support from those private sector interests and we expect that to be a useful fast-track mechanism to solve in a lot of the problems of vulnerability that we face in the Caribbean and the OECS in particular. Questions? We received a report from the health, the health ministers. Different countries are looking at the national health insurance system but clearly there is a good situation would be if we can all whatever systems we devise or if if all those systems are devised we do them in a way that we can have a regional approach because clearly the more people you have the greater the risks could be spread and therefore the smaller the premium I mean it is a it is an elementary principle and and that is something it's not a it's not a very easy thing but whoever has the question they they they are very cognizant of the importance of of of health and especially our people are living longer the over the last 10 15 years the group 60 years and over increased close to one third the growth is about one third and though the new segment of the population remains still the largest single segment of the population proportionately the over 60s are growing at a faster pace know that that has all kind of implications for health for social security for participation rates in in the labor force and so on and so forth but we in the OECS we have done quite well with primary health care we have done very well with water a lot of people don't take that as a health issue good consistent quality water supply or pretty much universal into the homes of people at a fairly low price a lot of people take that for granted immunization of children under the age of five almost 100 percent we have good primary health care systems good public health care systems and we collect our garbage every week and we dispose them mile and wide to do it so these are things which again many of our people take for granted you don't have the percentage of persons using pit toilets for instance have fallen immensely and water closets are the one which are almost universal now all these things are very important we have a good primary health care system good secondary health care system tertiary health care there are gaps that's why many of us have to go to other countries but more and more we are seeing in the region efforts being made to collaborate for instance in the area of oncology antigas developed as a center of dealing with cancer in the case of symptoms in the grand deans we have your OECS has recognized that we are a center of excellence for critical pediatric care we have done so in conjunction with the world pediatric project a lot of same patients children from there and listen get free treatment F R E E and when I say free don't pay one cent because the high class professionals who come out of the united states they come 12 14 times a year they have a prominent presence in symptoms we have built a separate theater for them we have equipped it together and they don't charge anything for their services and when your children from st. dutcher come to symptoms for operations the heart operation scoliosis of the spine or to be the problem they have their knees and all sort of things cleft lips they all of these things come across the region the sub region they come and we do not charge one single cent because we have taken the position that whatever little we have to share it with our brothers and sisters you know is it's an unsung and untold story and I'd like you to come and and look at that particular project and by the way if we have the the for persons who if for instance you you have a complicated heart operation and you need a to have better supervision on a ongoing basis we fly you free under this project of course to virginia comworld university or the companion hospital each in hospital in saint louis missouri or in philadelphia we work with the united states embassy so that the visas can be issued for the children and parents the period it's and and then the the the recurrent expenditure I I suspect in in in um in saint usher would be in the region unhealthy vision of 10 percent maybe 11 percent the same thing in sin Vincent grenade and so on these are high percentage numbers but our people are demanding rightly more and more and better healthcare service and we are seeking to deliver but it is not cheap and I'm very glad that the question has been asked so that we can take note of many good things which we have the the the real problems we have in now in health lifestyle diseases hypertension diabetes you know cardiac arrest connected to the lifestyle disease diseases um you know um the answer so that and we'll live in longer so there we are I mean your question I've given us a synopsis I can I can talk always on this question because and I'm sure allen can and and and timity because contrary to what a number of people may think is a subject on which governments certainly do is yes in my experience that that that we always think in an acting on and a lot has been done but we have much more still to do but we've been that since I think it's any of these holes the the lead with respect to health matters in the quasi-caricum cabinet and to support the chair to the extent that we have a problem largely now with respect to lifestyle issues and our response to ncd's non-communicable diseases it was interesting because before the caricum intervene to make the matter of ncd's one which require urgent global attention not enough focus was being put upon this this area having a high level meeting at the UN in September devoted to the issue of ncd's and indeed it is in my view somewhat of a tribute to the lead role which a caricum leaders had played including of course the then head of of paho who had given excellent leadership to the scores and so in september that matter it's down on the agenda a while we have to find appropriate responses and still the messages prevention is better than cure and so we want to address these at the level of our primary engagement in the health sector or health clinics health centers etc throughout the islands particularly rural and urban centers have to again develop very strong public education programs that help people to become more health conscious issues to do with exercise and diet and stress reduction are critical was we deal with this and and and that aspect of it largely has brought perhaps some of the most significant mortality rates within the region but equally we have the communicable diseases and equally we still have a challenge of dealing with the infections with respect to hiv within the region last week in senkits we had pancap we had several carfer and so on having a series of meetings and one of the statistic that came out that within the oasis the matter of hiv infection rates was a mixed bag amount member states but within the critical cohort of 15 to 29 they were now seeing a spike in relation to that and so that is a worrying phenomenon um and we also are seen in some countries the infection rate gets higher the those who are in the 50s and so on so it would appear that post-menopause the people get a bit more less conscious of the risk factors associated with the lifestyle so we are going to have to look at that because the 15 to 29 is our most critical age in terms of product activity in communities etc and so we want to to put that on the agenda we also have to look at how we are going to finance health care because health care is a significant portion of our budgets and health care has had the support particularly the the the fight to have diminished incidents of hiv from a number of entities the global foundation pep far and so on and we have been advised that in relation to the pep for support which according to our regional health professionals have been one of the most significant contribution we have advised that the pep far will transition out of all countries by 2020 except for the Jamaica and so within the OECS we are going to face another mechanism of graduation and the question will be how do we continue to achieve success how do we continue our programs now that they will have to be carried on the state budget as opposed to being as it will be in the beneficiary of subvention we still have not yet achieved the 90 90 90 commitments that we have made with respect to hiv in particular and so the triple 90 if you will was that 90 percent of the people in our respective countries should have been tested so that we could determine whether there was a presence of hiv 90 percent of them we aspire to have treatment and anti vet arrival treatments to be provided to them and we are expected that 90 percent of those who are being treated would show viral load suppression so 90 90 90 90 percent of our people tested 90 percent of them are on treatment and 90 percent are responding positively because in future tests you are going to see a suppression of the viral loads within them that is going to be critical and that I think is still a standard which we are far behind but we have had some good news in the last December we noted that a number of countries within the OECS Senkitsa Nevis and Tiga I'm not sure which other country from the windward had joined Cuba as being the only countries in the world that had been certified over a consistent period of testing to have eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV so that is a commendable achievement it's really how do you maintain that high standards so there is no worsening of our situation and at the same time help comes with a tremendous cost we have to do all that we can to avoid getting ill by living healthy and helpful lives so again this is a significant matter all of us are grappling with challenges our people when they become sick many of them become challenged to the state that must show compassion and I believe in part that has been responsible for all of us now talking about national health insurance scheme so that we could find at least one response mechanism that doesn't bankrupt the state in curing for those who become ill and unable to care for themselves in Senkitsa Nevis we have had UV consulting and provide support to us their own economic department I think it is and this significant matter and we are hoping that sometime in September we will get advice as to how we may proceed in a more deliberate manner to bring the national health insurance scheme into being in in Senkitsa Nevis any other question well if we don't you see I would have won my bet about the woman being the first one to ask the question I didn't ask you whether the question only or if you are if you had said to me which of the prime ministers would best anticipate what the people of St. Lucia would ask I would say Alan but that's not the question that's not the issue I had raised okay well thank you very much for coming by and I hope we have helped to provide a little more information and I'm sure you various countries would get more information from their governments as we go along all the best thank you very much