Do you, too, have a question or questions about humes? Put them down below and they will be answered. Question. What do areas of high or low-hume concentration look like? Dr. S. Answer. An area of low-hume concentration is a very strange place indeed. Without the stability of ordinary reality, regular humans can alter the area to their limb, granting temporary reality-bender-like abilities. These should not be confused with the real thing, of course. They are merely a projection of a higher-hume frame of reference on a lower-hume environment and the abilities vanish as soon as the subject leaves the area. In addition, since reality is much less dense in these areas, the incidence of spontaneous anomalies and universe breaches are significantly higher. However, these anomalies or breaches do not vanish when taken from the vicinity. The reason for this is unknown at the current time. An area of high-hume concentration, on the other hand, is a very strange place. To normal humans, it appears vivid and overpowering, a place of a superworldly aura. Remember how the Himalayas have a high-hume concentration? This applies to all mountains. There's a reason they're often sought out as a place of enlightenment. To reality-benders, on the other hand, these areas are flat, grey and earthy. Since the hume concentration in these areas are usually close to or higher than the reality-bender's own levels, they have significant trouble exerting their powers in these areas, in some cases being completely restricted from affecting the area. As such, reality-benders tend to avoid these areas, instinctively or otherwise. The currently in construction site 35, augmented with special scranton anchors and located in the Himalayas, promises to act as effective containment for reality-benders when completed. Question. Is it possible for a regular human to become a reality-bender? Dr. S. Answer. Yes. And there are many, many rituals and gimmicks that promise to do so. However, the list of actual techniques to do is very small and is currently being compiled. Question. Is it possible for animals to have heel fluctuations as well? Dr. S. Answer. Yes. At least one cat is suspected of it, as well as several dogs and some fleas. There is evidence coming in that certain whales may be capable of it as well. It is also hypothesized that inanimate objects are capable of this, but testing has been difficult and the hypothesis is unproven. Question. Do we have any methods by which to test for heel fluctuations at a great distance, such as interplanetary or further? Dr. K. Answer. At the moment, no. As I understand, a great many options on this front are being tested, but until then, we can only measure human concentrations locally. Question. What are our options for detecting reality affecting entities at such distances? Dr. K. Answer. As mentioned above, effectively none. Question. Does being in the vacuum of space alter the nature of human variance in any way? Dr. K. Answer. Short answer. No. Longer answer. Space is a little strange. Its baseline human concentration is slightly higher than Earth concentrations, with the same variations seen on Earth. In fact, it is hypothesized that most of space has a human level equal to or lower than Earth's norm and that galaxies and clusters act as human concentration areas in the same way that mountains do here on Earth. However, this is only an educated guess, until we can find an actual method of testing it. Question. Are large and low human ratings expected to remain unusually high or low in parts or organs of reality bender? When detached or their user becomes deceased? Are there different human concentrations in certain organs, rather than others? If so, which? Dr. R. Answer. A good question and one we haven't studied much at this time. Preliminary results seem to indicate that all organ and human concentrations are higher than the baseline, with the heart, liver and brain possessing the most concentration. But these levels are not as large as those present in the reality bender when alive. As the reasons for this are unknown and as the possibility of some freak-human fluctuation or contamination cannot be crossed out, all of this is speculation at the moment and needs to be verified by further research. Question. Are any noise or interfering background signals when measuring human concentrations in areas supposed to be clean of reality-bending effects? Dr. R. Answer. Yes. Basically, what we've seen is that in a completely isolated area, freed of outside influences, the baseline human concentration seems to fluctuate up to plus or minus 9 centi-humes. So two readings taken in the same place in different times can yield significantly different human concentrations. The reason behind this phenomenon, by the way, is unknown at this time. Question. Has any cognitohazardous, infohazardous or mimetic effect been related to alterations in human ratings? To clarify, this is a question on the respective effects these agents have on human psyche and brain chemistry, and not on the various anomalous effects affected individuals may display after being exposed to them. That is, can information alone and its knowledge change human ratings? Dr. R. Answer. No. None of the above materials or effects have been linked to human concentrations. It appears that these effects do not affect the local reality, instead, creating changes solely in the affected person's thought processes and brain. However, the anomalous effects displayed after exposure can and have multiple effects on human concentrations. See SCP-1425 for more information on this. Question. Finally, this is partly a request. Several medical doctors and health officers of the Foundation Medical Branch have requested access to miniaturized scranton reality anchors to test their prolonged effects on human beings, particularly on possible relation to altered mental states and the general well-being of operators and civilians. Is there any way to request access to them for testing purposes? Or have these matters been looked into already? In case this has been tested, when will you publish a paper on it? Dr. R. Answer. Well, from what we've seen on personnel working on SCP-2000, scranton anchors don't seem to have any negative effects in the short term. All such requests for long-term testing would have to be funneled through the Ethics Committee, and all papers produced thus can be published on the SCP Foundation's internal servers. Basically, the Foundation's private archive. Question. Have any locations or objects with zero or negative human values been discovered? What might such values represent? Dr. T. Answer. As of yet, no. In nature, the lowest human concentrations we've ever encountered have been in the vicinity of around 0.27 or 0.28 humes, which, well, low, is still quite far from an absolute zero concentration. Artificially, we've been able to get concentrations down to 0.15 humes. Again, low, but still quite far from that perfect zero. While it is theoretically possible that a zero-human concentration can exist, it is incredibly unlikely that such a thing can exist naturally in nature, or can be artificially created without massive repercussions, as such a thing would not be considered reality as we think of or experience it. As for negative humes, we haven't even put any negative numbers on the can't counter-dial. So how do we even know what we're measuring? And that's ignoring the fact that negative humes probably indicate that something's gone horribly wrong in the general structure of the universe, and that, as such, whoever's hold in the can't counter should probably be getting the hell out of dodge. Question. It has been mentioned that the SRAs work via siphoning off reality from other universes for lack of a better term. Are there any effects negative or otherwise that are known or theorized to be caused by the SRAs outside of their desirable primary effect? Dr. N. Answer. For the universes we're siphoning the reality from, probably quite a lot of negative effects, including, but certainly not limited to, generalized reality breakdown, an increase in anomaly instances, increased reality transparency, an upswing in nonlinear time areas, chronological anomalies, spontaneous localized reality collapse, and a whole host of other things that we haven't even considered. That's why we calibrate our SRAs. Nice acronym, I like it, to only drain reality from dead universes. These include universes that are already in their last legs, i.e. undergoing heat death. Universes that have been through one of the K-class scenarios, except for IK for obvious reasons, and thus have no surviving life. And universes that, for whatever reason, had no life, sentient or otherwise to begin with. While the SRAs likely hastened the death of these universes, it's generally considered an acceptable trade-off, since these universes generally have nothing worth protecting. And since there are an infinite supply of other identical universes floating around as well. As for other effects of SRAs in our universe, that's a good question, and one that definitely merits a long-term study. As mentioned above with SCP-2000, short-term exposure to SRAs do not appear to have short-term detrimental effects, and no long-term effects have been observed. As for any actual long-term effects from short-term exposure, or effects from long-term exposure, your guess is as good as mine. Question. One of the junior researchers in my department recently theorized that human levels propagate in the form of reality waves. Is there any merit to this theory? If so, couldn't object become out of phase, invisible and incorporeal, with normal reality? If its reality waves were out of sync with its surroundings? Dr. F. Answer. From what I can make of it, no.  While there are ways to become out of phase with normal reality, these methods don't directly involve humanipulation. You could just pop into another universe, or try to stay in half these universe and half another, or you could change your matter states or stuff like that. But while these things are cool, they do not sadly involve humans. Question. What is the average human level in vanilla humans? In normal reality? Researcher W. Answer. That's a very good question, and one that we've already answered in this paper. Question. Are there any known reality benders who can increase or decrease the human concentrations in themselves or the surrounding reality at will? Researcher W. Answer. Under the human-centric definition of reality bender, all known reality benders exhibit this property, with the possible exception of SCP-343. Question. If an entity with higher-than-average humans is a reality warper, what happens to entities with lower-than-average human levels? Researcher W. Answer. Good question. Not much research has been done on these people yet, but the initial results seem to indicate that they are unable to push back against reality, leading to lives that end up being, well, whatever reality wants them to be. These are the stereotypical, charmed or cursed people, and their lives usually end up resembling certain stories or tropes. Out of the five people, the preliminary tests followed. One recreated the original Grim Brothers version of Cinderella. Down to the dialogue used, one had a string of unusually terrible bad luck. Among other things, they owned several thousand dollars worth of shares in Enron, were struck by lightning five times, hand lost a finger when their cell phone batteries exploded. Two were middle managers, and one had served as an O5 for over 50 years. What this means is still hotly debated, and more research must be done. Question. Since human concentration determines the ability to manipulate reality, but not the individual states of objects within the area, then SRAs can't actually negate anomalies, right? As in, they can prevent reality vendors from making further changes, but they can't actually negate existing anomalies that do not actively acquire low-humed settings or changes inside settings. Researcher T. Answer. Right. SRAs can only fix the ambient hume level in its area of effect. Most anomalies catalog so far are not exerting hume influence on the surrounding area, or indeed demonstrating hume variance at all. And so, SRAs cannot be used as a one-size-fits-all negation device. Question. What is the relationship, if any, between humes and thermatological processes, as outlined in the Seminoid transcript we got from the GOC? Can said processes interact with humes? And finally, does the type green designation that the coalition's headgear gives to reality vendors have anything to do with their higher hume content? Doctor. Answer. As of this time, research into, obviously, inferior. The GOC reality cum bender meteorology has not yet been implemented. If one's musings are inclined towards such topics, it might prove a fruitful field of further figurations. As for type greens, well, despite the, obviously, inferior terminology, they are effectively reality vendors. As such, all previous musings on the topic can be applied with little to no problems. Question. Are humes composed of matter? And if so, do they have mass? What state of matter are humes? Doctor Woods. Answer. As far as we can tell, individual humes are both massless and infinitely massed. This is not correct. Humes are not a particle. They are a measurement. See below. Question. I thought that humes were how reality stability was measured, like degrees and temperatures, but now you're telling me that particles? Doctor Sch. Answer. You are correct. Humes are a measure of reality, not a particle. The previous answer was an error. See above. I'm curious how these two concepts would interact, and indeed, whether they are even reconcilable or whether like some other pairs of theories, I forget which, relativity and quantum mechanics may be, they could both be accurate representations of the universe, and yet contradict each other. The concept of human levels that can be measured on a linear scale, and the concept that the universes within the multiverse are layered on top of one another. With any universes below another one, constituting what that universe considers fiction. Though if you look into the premises behind Operation Overmetta, they clearly aren't arranged in a neat stack, but more like a fractalizing spiral web. So question one.  Question two. Do humans created via SCP-1304 exhibit abnormal human readings? Would a character use a device similar to an SRA to pump themselves full of an insane number of humans and jump to a higher layer, effectively becoming an author god to their home universe, but feeling no more powerful, because the universe they can now rule just by rewriting it is nothing but a fiction to them? What if a real person tried that? Rambling one. Or could it be the other way around? Yes, fictional universes and the real universe existed independently of each other from the start, but those we see as fiction are able to bleed into the minds of our world's authors because they're even more real than ours. That would certainly make SCP-1304 make more sense. Rambling two. The potential discrepancy between the theories of linear cube measurements and layered realities arises when you connect them in references to universes that aren't stacked, but rather tangled up like a web, as I mentioned earlier. For example, what if I wrote a story about three men, Abel, Brian, and Chris, and said that each wrote a story, and that Brian was a character with an Abel story, and Chris a character in Brian's story, therefore his reality is to Abel, a story within a story, and yet Abel is a character within Chris's story. How can the three have human levels corresponding to their relative levels of reality when each one is simultaneously above and below the other two? Or would they end up all having the same human levels? Would the human levels be thrown into turbulence by the three realities competing for influence over each other due to their circularly referential natures? Question. Could that be the source of the anomalous fluctuations in the real world? Mr. J. Answer. Humes have as much relation to meta-fiction as fish do to... not fish. Humes only serve to describe individual realities, and cannot be used to compare separate realities due to their inherently subjective nature. Thus, there is no contradiction between meta-fiction and humes. However, humes also cannot be used to make any observations or assumptions about meta-fictional constructs. Question. East Asian thermatologists, such as Taoist or Shugenjas, prefer to live in the high mountains. Isn't it contradictory to your explanation? Dr. Relpac from Korea. Answer. While high-hume concentrations make reality-bending more difficult, they do not make it impossible. In this case, reality-benders who live and train in high-hume areas got the equivalent of strength training. This made mountains an attractive place to live for reality-benders, as it provided a way for them to improve their skills. The practical 90th percentile limit is 6,000 meters. However, even after this point, reality-bending is possible. If prohibitively difficult, only at a concentration of 100 humes is reality-bending completely impossible. Question. Then, why the western thermatologists didn't do that? Dr. Relpac. Answer. Most western wizards were frauds, liars, or not reality-benders. While some wizards may have went to mountain ranges, such as the Alps for similar reasons, it never developed into a persistent tradition. Question. What does a zero-hume universe look like? How about a 100-hume universe? Dr. L. Answer. There is no absolute humescale. This means that a global hume level of zero is just the hume level of the pocket universe we've chosen to be zero. It is the differences between local hume levels that is responsible for hume-based phenomena. A universe that has been globally set to an arbitrary value, see below for more on this, will look like our own, only with a greater or lesser imbalance in localized or individual hume levels, meaning more or less reality-bending. Question. Hypothetically, if the foundation was able to somehow change the universe's hume levels to one for every person, place, and thing, would all anomalies cease to exist, or at least stop being created, and in turn, answer? No. As mentioned above, it is the differences between localized hume levels that result in hume-based phenomena. It has been hypothesized that there is some inherent feature to reality-benders that causes them to create a hume imbalance in their surroundings. Without addressing this feature, a hume imbalance will still exist? In theory, if every part of the universe was fixed at one hume forever, then all anomalies that involve humes would cease to be anomalous. However, we have no ability to even comprehend what would be necessary to fix all hume readings at the same level, and we have not been able to establish that all anomalies are due solely to hume-based effects. This is a good time to announce that, following extensive study, the global hume scale has been renormalized to a scale of 0 to 100. To see this in action, please visit the original paper here. For historical reasons, mentions of centi-humes on this page have not yet been changed. However, please multiply them by 100 to get the proper hume levels. Question. I've seen above that an entity which hume level is below average lives a really spectacular life. Is SCP-503 one of these examples? Or is it an independent anomaly? Dr. Hell. Answer. Unfortunately, we have not studied SCP-503, and cannot draw any conclusions either way. More research in this area is definitely needed. Dr. Bob Graham. Two. Doctors James Kaldman and Carlos Rzewski. Subject. Regarding hume disturbances. Question. If humes are altered in such a way that they become distorted and malformed, if possible, can it alter reality? If so, will it create anomalies, be it in phenomena, physical objects, and or entities? Mimetic anomalies, cognitive hazards, etc. Alter certain objects. Directly respond to pre-existing hume-altering anomalies, or just straight up in the world? I apologize for the rather long question, but I am doing some crucial research. I am writing an SCP that does this, please help right now, and it would be appreciated if you could respond as soon as possible. Answer. In a word, no. Humes are just a measurement scale. What you're proposing is analogous to modifying a Kelvin and making temperature and the world or something. Humes aren't a particle, they're a unit. Question. If two objects that could change hume levels of those around them tried to change the hume levels of each other, would the changes happen or would both objects be able to cancel out the changing hume level? Dr. Kostya. Answer. As of now, hume-changing anomalies are few and far between, so research is limited. The best answer I can give now is pretty simple. It depends. If two objects used equal amounts of energy to change the hume level of an area to two different values, the value created would be the average of the two. For instance, if one wanted to change the value to 100 and one to zero, the hume level would change to 50. This means that in specific circumstances, hume-changing entities can cancel out. If one object used more energy, the hume field would skew towards its outcome. This is consistent with the tendency for the hume levels of an area to even out. The generalized formula for this would be x equals e1 over e2 multiplied by open brackets x1 plus x2 close brackets divided by 2, where x is the produced hume level, e1 is the energy level of the hume-changer, which is attempting to create the highest level, e2 is the energy level of the hume-changer, which is attempting to create the lowest level, x1 is the higher hume level, and x2 is the lowest hume level. Basically, as e1 moves up, the produced hume value also goes up, and as e2 goes up, the produced hume level goes down. Question. In the previous paper, it was stated that there are a few node waves to increase one's own hume level. However, is it possible to decrease it? If so, could this be used to initiate more research on beings with low hume levels? Dr. B. Question. Are SCPs with inconsistent intermovtopologies or inconsistent internal time streams? Examples of environments where some anomalous aspect of the site has a reality-bender level of humes and is able to reshape the site as it wishes. Site 12 question box. Question. If I carried around the device which lower the hume levels in an area around me and increased my hume level, would I effectively become a temporary reality-bender? And if so, with a strong enough device, could I become more powerful than even SCP-343? Dr. Gray. Question. Reading through this had led to questions about the nature of nobody. If someone had a perfectly average hume level, could that lead to a person who can't do anything to change the world around them? Dr. Wright. Question. Where exactly were the highest and lowest hume levels ever recorded found? Researcher B. Question A. What would I value hume level B? Like the square root of negative 1. Would it not exist because I doesn't exist? Question B. Then what about negative I? Does a being with negative I hume level be less nonexistent than I? Or being the opposite, meaning it's more existent than anything? Dr. Bone. Question. Theoretically, could negative humes exist, despite their obvious contradiction of Kejo's laws of reality? Containment specialist Mattism. Question. You both said that zero humes is both absolute zero, but also an arbitrary value needed for comparison. Like, which one is it? Dr. Foreman. Question. You said what activation of SCP-668 temporary rises hume level, 2-2 astronomical, more than 670, or 67, humes? It has become very more worse to understanding, after renormalization, levels across all known space. This effect must to interact with other anomalies in all the world, which are related to humes. Is it not? For example, activation of SCP-668 must temporary suppress, or make weaken abilities of reality benders and thymatologists. Also this activation temporary must make all normal people, as people with lower than average hume level, is it not? Or maybe information from previous part about SCP-668 is incorrect, partial, or simply outdated, and new researches of SCP-668 have shown new details? Dr. Mirzee. And a file. To learn more about the SCP Foundation, subscribe to SCP Orientation today and turn the notification bell on, so you don't miss any of our videos.


Hello, my name is Tim Paradis. I'm the host of an occasional interview series at the Portland Media Center on topics of political and social interest to mainers. I'll be talking today to Larry Gilbert, who is a former mayor and police chief of the city of Lewiston. Also has a long time and passionate interest in the Palestinian people. This interview is a follow-up to a conversation I had recently with Bob Scheibel, the chair of Main Voices for Palestinian Rights, in which we focused on the police training exchange between Israel and the United States. So we'll be combining a number of topics here. Larry, could you start by telling me how you became police chief, the evolution of your career briefly, and your interest in the Palestinian people? Well I started in 1969 and as a patrol officer, I worked my way up through the ranks to chief of police. Then I was the U.S. Marshal for the district of Maine for eight years, five years of the Maine Community Policing Institute, and then five years as mayor of Lewiston. I became, I guess, interested in the plight of the Palestinian people. We now winter in Florida, and in Florida I belong to an organization called World Beyond War, and I'm a Vietnam veteran, so I am also a member of Veterans for Peace. The lady in World Beyond War had an interest in the Palestinian issue, and I consider myself a people person, and I could see the plight of the Palestinian people, so I met with her and got more information and then became more involved in the issue and doing a lot of research and so on to see what is really happening there that we don't see here through the corporate media here in the United States. And how do you stay informed about issues related to Israel and Palestine? Well, I subscribe to the times of Israel for one of them, and World Beyond War, and also Veterans for Peace, they've had members go to Palestine and see what is actually happening there where the Palestinians are oppressed in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank. So they're caught there and are policed there by the government. So let's talk about your experiences as a police chief in Lewiston. Lewiston is a demographic lane, has increasingly become a culturally and racially diverse city. When you were a police chief, were there issues in community relations and the type of policing that you inherited that you needed to address? Can you speak to that? Well, no, actually, I brought community-oriented policing to Maine in 1990 when I was police chief and we trained, it's a philosophy, not a program, and we trained all of our officers in the CERA problem-solving model, scanning analysis, response and analysis. So and we trained all of our officers in that. We placed our officers on bicycles. We were the first department in Maine to have bicycles. And we had a lawyer, I mean, a landlord on the street with the highest number of calls for service and gave us an apartment to have our officers work out of there, right there in the community. So we were able to reduce our crime rate and so it's a department of service to people. That's what I wanted as a police chief. And obviously with the protests nationwide following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the perception among the public and the reality, I think, of most cities is that model of policing is not the norm. Can you speak to some of the issues that you perceive about policing in the U.S.? And I will also add, because we are trying to cover two topics here, the relation of the police to training from Israel, whether you have encountered that mindset and whether you've encountered that training exchange between Israel and the U.S. in your experience. But if you can speak to police culture in general. Yeah. Well, my encounter with it is not positive. You know, it's so militarized that even starting at a police academy where it is a paramilitary type of training where it's sort of like entering the basic training for the military. And you're talking about the basic training in U.S. here. And so where you have to bounce a quarter on a bed and you have to have inspection and you have to, you can't talk during the meals and all of that. I went to the police academy in 1970 and it was nine to five, it was a college type atmosphere. And I think I turned out all right. So I think that training for police should be like we want them to be professionals. How do we train other professionals? You can still do all of the force type things, but treat them like you would a professional in any other profession. So I think it starts there and I think it starts even before that. It starts with recruiting, how you recruit. You can recruit for the spirit of adventure and that really attracts people or in the spirit of service. But if you recruit in the spirit of adventure, you're going to get that. It's much more difficult to train that person to be of service versus one of service to learn all of the use of guns, use of force and all of that stuff. So because you're a service organization, you're there to serve people. When we talk about protect and serve, serve is a key word there. So now to look at training for police, U.S. police in Israel and Israeli police training our officers here, Israeli police there are in occupying force, keeping people oppressed and use of force against them, imprisonment, torture. Is that what we want here? And we spend $7,000 an hour to the military, to the Israeli government. And so of our dollars, our tax dollars, U.S. government funding that goes to Israel. And so the problem here I see is that the corporate media doesn't show that side of the issue between the Israeli and Palestinians. When you say that side, you mean it's focused on Israeli security and Israeli needs and never the Palestinians. And the Palestinians are being made to be terrorists and are treated as such when they are not. The Palestinian people are just ordinary family people who want to live as they used to live before it was created as a state of Israel. So that's all they want is just to be able to live like we do here, raise your family and live in peace instead of in fear, constant fear, constant fear of the police. And so and I kind of see that happening here. And I don't like it, you know, we see our our police being more militarized with uniforms and, you know, you know, there's there's so much body armor and this and that it's a fear factor as well. And police shouldn't be there to put fear in people. They're there to serve. I can tell you that as someone who's been to dozens, if not hundreds of protests and demonstrations over the years. I look at the rows of police in their Kevlar vests and helmets. And I've always asked myself, are they here to protect my right as an American citizen to express dissent or to express free speech? Are they here to make sure that, you know, I don't step out of line or that that they enforce the will of the state? Now, in terms of the political and cultural determinants of what's been happening increasingly in the U.S., what do you think those those forces are? And how much chance do you do you give our society to change the model of policing that we currently have? Well, since it's an issue now, and it seems to be an ongoing issue. And it's it's it's been placed in the forefront. And so now as a result, people don't just want to, you know, they've heard reform reform and then it goes back to the same thing. I think now the issue is right there on the front burner and people are demanding change. And for example, here in Maine, Mike Soschuk, the former Portland police chief and public safety commissioner, I contacted him last week and he sent me some reports that the Police Academy Board of Trustees have gone through and has been signed off by the main chiefs of police association, the main sheriff's association and the main department of public safety. And they reviewed all of their policies. And so and they're going to do periodic reviews as well. And they've they've made some changes. And this has been since what we've seen here this year with the protests. So I'm glad to see that. And I think Mike Soschuk really cares greatly. I think he was a great police chief here in Portland. And so I'm glad to see him. That Governor Mills appointed him as the Commissioner of Public Safety. So I feel good about Maine. I don't feel so good about Florida. And can you speak to your perception of Florida or some of the sort of national trends? Well, national, the trend and the trend can happen here, too, because we get military equipment and some of it can be helpful, for example, to bring officers in an armored personnel carrier in a barricaded subject situation or whatever. But some of this equipment is just so huge and so on. And and so when you dress like that and you feel like that, well, well, who's the enemy? So, you know, I think we've got to draw back from that. So I think, for example, uniforms, I think we need to soften the image of police officers. Everything is sort of is paramilitary. We have military type uniforms. We have ranks, you know, corporal, sergeant, lieutenant, captain. We don't have that with other other professions. And so we can call them supervisors or whatever. But in the uniform, I think soften the uniform. For example, when we had the bicycle patrol, I had officers in a certain bicycle uniform, which was nice. And it was softer polo shirts, slacks like this. I think softens the image and I think it becomes people become more officers are more approachable to the public. And I think we need that coming together. And those kinds of changes, it sounds like, would be made at the municipal police level or at the state level, perhaps, in terms of policies. And can you speak to national level changes that might need to be made? Because I know there is the issue of qualified, I think it's called qualified immunity, yeah, where the police are given pretty much the almost the doubt in any situation, because police face situations that the normal individual does not face, right? So, yeah, that's why there is the qualified immunity.  So but you see any national legislation that would make a difference? Or is it really a state and municipal? I think issue in general. I think I think the mindset of. Elected officials has to take place in terms of saying, we require that police be more approachable, be more of service, and we will support you in doing that. And so so I think that happens with elected officials at all levels of government. And and yeah, I think we we need to. When we hear that defund the police, I'm not for defund the police. I support Black Lives Matter, but I think that we have to. Just really change the mindset of service. Well, I can't speak to folks holding their defund the police signs in terms of their intention. But I think a lot of that is about channeling funding in different directions. It's not the total defunding of police departments. I don't think anyone's advocating that. No, and I'm not I don't think there is. But there's been that wide brush. That's right. OK, and not all police officers are like the officer who had his knee on the on George Floyd. But that's the type of training that you see in Israel. Right. So, you know, do we want that here in the US like the Israelis are treating the Palestinians and in terms of the cultural change or both policy, politics and cultural change that needs to take place? I saw a recent video that I think you've seen as well of police in Tampa. This is after the George Floyd murder with the neck on the police of a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest. Right. And that did happen in Tampa last week where the officer had his knee on the person's on a woman's neck. Right. OK.  So let's segue a little more fully to Israel, Palestine. You talked about the mindset changes and the political changes that would need to take place to reform policing in the US. What do you think needs to change in US policies with respect to Israel that would eventually change the policing and the culture of policing as it affects Palestinians? Well, I think. I think it it requires. Good, faithful negotiation, equal negotiation when we, the United States, are supportive of with our dollars, with our tax dollars on the Israelis. And we say, oh, gee, it's a two states. The two parties need to negotiate. Well, we're not negotiating at an equal level here. So there's an imbalance. So I think we need to bring the balance and then have the negotiation. So what I would like to see is one government there represented by both sides like we have here. So you're talking about a future single democratic state, which has been floated as an option. Um, in my experience, the US politicians will constantly parrot the idea of the two sides sitting together and negotiating a two state solution.  Why? Well, because it's unfair. Number one, one one oppresses the other. So already it's unequal. So how do you balance there? But how do you balance that so that you do have good negotiations? So I think one of the one things we need to do is withdraw from the process and let the two parties negotiate evenly. And that doesn't happen, nor do they want it to happen. So, you know, so if you're oppressing people, why would you want to give up anything? You know, now from my reading of the general media just in the last week, we've seen more of sort of normalizing of relations with Israel by, in this case, the United Arab Emirates and the Palestinians seem to be as ever an afterthought. Do you see any scenario where that's going to change over time? Well, you know, there was the United Arab Emirates. You know, the agreement was to stop annexing the West Bank, for example. Well, it's already annexed. So I mean, there are settlements developing every day there in the West Bank, where the Israelis are coming in, knocking down homes, destroying the crops of the Palestinians and then establishing settlements there. So they're moving people away and they just actually want them to go away from their own land. You know, how would we feel here in the United States if some if the government came over, bulldozed our house and said, you know, go on because we're going to put someone else in your house. And even in the same house they're putting people in. So it's just totally wrong and we're supporting that. And I find it strange that it's coming from Jewish people. And believe me, I have many, many good friends who are Jewish and and and many agree with me that, you know, what you've already gone through and why do this now? You know, when I was police chief, it was the Holocaust Survivor Month and I always brought in when I was mayor, I should say, brought in survivors of the Holocaust to come and speak at the library. So, you know, the Holocaust Museum in Augusta. I've been to the one in Washington. I I my one of my best friends when I was a little kid, my next door neighbor was Jewish. As a matter of fact, his older brother became the magistrate judge here in Portland, David Cohen. And when I was U.S. Marshall, it was my job to protect him, my next door neighbor. Well, if I can editorialize briefly, my own perception is that the issue in Israel, Palestine is far less about Jewish versus Muslim, Israeli versus Palestinian, then it is the powerful versus the powerless. Exactly. And you referred previously to the corporate media rarely reporting the reality. Why do you think that is? And do you see any sign that that's changing over time? I would ask anyone watching, when have you ever seen the Palestinian side represented in any news outlet and and you don't. And so there is another side to the story. And I think people here have to on their own look into it as I did. And when you do, you see what is really happening. You know, Palestinians are being referred to as terrorists and even with the training when U.S. police go there, they refer to the Palestinians as terrorists. So that's the belief that comes back here. As a matter of fact, the U.S. ambassador to Israel has said he likes it when U.S. police go there for training because they come back and they're pro Zionists. Well, you know, that just adds to the problem. So we need to get away from that. And we need a media that is more fair, that is more balanced, and we're not seeing that. Are you aware whether Israeli security forces, police, army have participated in training in Maine? No, I'm not aware of it in Maine, but I am aware of it in the United States. I do believe that the head of perhaps it was the police union did go to Israel and spoke highly. It was the former colonel of the main state police. I see who had gone there and was impressed with the training. And yeah, for certain things, OK, but I don't think the Israeli police were doing the service type of thing like serving all of its people, OK, instead of just some people. Yeah. Now, are you hopeful about the future of policing in the U.S. in terms of the types of reforms that you've been talking about? Or do you think we are going to kind of retrench back to always once it's very it's very difficult to break bad habits. And I say that because it was a chain smoker at one time. And but I haven't I haven't smoked in 40 years, but it was very difficult. So but I think the more attention is given to it, I think more pressure will bear on on the politicians to demand the changes. And so we just can't have lip service to this. It really needs to be addressed because we're getting away from it. And how we're getting away from it is the type of military type training that the police are receiving. And so, yeah, it's it's tough out there. I've been there. I've I've had my battles, you know, out on the street. You know, I've been knee down and in slush, you know, handcuffing someone. So I know what it is. But on the other hand, you can get so much more with sugar, right? So I think the human interaction between police and the people they serve has to happen. So that means coming together. That means getting out of your cruiser. That means getting out and talking to people, talking to kids.  You know, more of that has to happen. Yep. And and and have community meetings and and sit there because problems in a neighborhood, who knows the problems? It's the people and who knows what what will help solve it? The people and and so all they need is the police to help them in solving the problem. Now, we've only got a minute or less or two left. Yeah. To our viewers and the average citizen, what can they productively do in your view to have an impact on the direction of policing in the U.S. And for that matter, the direction of Israeli, Palestinian politics as it's influenced by the U.S. I was sitting out in the audience. What can I do? I'd say speak to your elected officials demand. You have a right to demand from them because they represent you demand from them these changes. I think I'm being signaled that we have one minute left. OK. Well, I've got notes here and we could certainly explore all sorts of other areas. But I'll just end by saying I really appreciate your coming here. I appreciate your experience and sharing it with our viewers. I never thought I'd be sitting across from a former police chief because my experience has often been viewing them at a remove as the problem or the enemy. And it's good to really hear your your direct experience and the perspective that you bring to this. And it's a very hopeful one. And there are a lot of police officers, very good police officers, caring police officers, you know. We're done. Thank you very much, Larry.


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What are you doing? Cut it out.  If so, I'd be glad to join your vigil not praying Not quite. I was just Practicing an incantation No, there's more to it than that. I know devotion when I see it. Oh my gosh. Are you kidding me? Here roll again I got this There we go The character looks like you. Yeah, that's what we're doing complete and total character immersion I didn't realize the depth of your devotion magic is My life I've been in touch with the weave for as long as I can remember. Wait your hair is not real nothing like it. It's like music Poetry physical beauty all rolled into one and give an expression through the senses Would you like to know I do not lock at would you like to experience this? Uh No, I have no interest in such magic or should I say yes Yes, or no Then follow my lead Wait, what are they doing? Now you Let me take the gesture slowly and precisely as you can I failed on a five again I'll re-roll re-roll re-roll So does this does this make me learn magic feel something strange Like a kind word and a kind touch at the same time It's warm and comfortable. Like if I can get like like fire damage Repeat after me Arthron Contrack Ayo Performance repeat the words bold and proud There we go Suddenly the scent of rose water and a sense of well-being A sliver of weave that tastes sweet on the tongue Very good Now I want you to picture in your mind the concept of harmony as true as you can Bro I'm sorry It looks like magic's not on the cards tonight Perhaps I'm not quite the teacher. I fancy myself to be In any case, don't blame yourself. Mr. Can be a fickle mistress Call you to a tea. Should we try again? No How dude how All right, uh, I'm like chat. No, it's a sign. It's a sign Who's this? So I just walk up to this guy's desk and I still all his gold Ender sort of who's there Please keep your distance You're welcome to shelter here, but we've grave injuries to tend to Uh, who or what attack you the most deadly foe we've yet encountered. Okay We are paladins of tear lord of justice He sent us after an infernal being Straight out of the nine hells Hiding in the form of a one horned tiefling Let me help I can hunt down the water she ran toward the river when she saw we were merely wounded not dead Down the hill from here if you capture her you will have served here where we could not This is the sword of justice Blessed by tear I've wielded it since I swore my oath It's all I have But it's yours if you stop her Bring me her head and tear will consider her crimes repaid Nice So they give me a sword. Where's the sword? Are you getting after the quest?  This is the devil will and the paladins of tear want dead Are you all right? Never been better Wait, okay, hold on.  If you kill her I unfollow You're not even following right now. The thing is dude. I'm a I'm a paladin Wait, she's saying they're not actually paladins. They're imposters. Nobody likes an imposter Your name is literally imposter edits Literally killed two innocence attacked farmers and cows kicked the squirrel. This is sus Look, I killed those guys on accident and the other guys I was just testing I was reloading. I just want to see what would happen Did you I oath break down accident? I miss clicked Rewriting history to fit the narrative. Okay. I'm literally telling you what happened So are those paladins really fake paladins?   Are you guys real paladins Any sign of a tiefling fiend? I meant her.  Carlac is going back to avernus and if she won't go quietly She dies.  Oh my gosh Guiding bolt.  Dude, I literally got wreck bombed man.  I'm looting the sword of just wait the sword isn't even as good.  What just what range attack? I hope this kills her Nice Okay, it's what we do.    That's so cool, dude That's actually so cool So now I'm like, I know what it is.  How do I get there and technically can I just jump down here? Okay, we're testing right now chat Wait, isn't this kind of nuts that we're doing this Dude, I'm like sneaking into the goblin city, man. I'm stealth mode dude going in from the back side and nobody knows I'm just gonna open the doors Wait, I just walked right in I so much boy I'm part in here. We're doing the absolutes work State your business Love it us dream. Thanks, man.   Didn't I? You have and I'm telling you to mind your manners Oh, no. Oh wait difficulty two Just don't roll a one.  No way, dude. How does that happen?  Okay, roll again Blurges reeling suddenly isn't bitten The true soul. Why are you calling me a true soul? Because that's what you are in it One of them is is our faults and the voice of the absolute Oh Boss wags me And you and all now I reckon go ahead, please. I'm sure you're expected Yep The Um, who do I need to kill?  I wonder if this is a mistake.  It involves you putting your trust in the absolute simple Uh, I'm ready.  You ain't going nowhere Isn't the parasite the reason for psychopath is why would you want to remove because it's going to turn you into a mind flare Like it's going to it's going to like it it's like It's like zombie blood like you're going to turn eventually a mind flare infect me with this thing That much I saw the whole horrible story in your memories And I know what happens next Your teeth fall out your skin rips off and you turn into one of them You're gonna be my new pet A ferocious squidy All for myself You test the weight of the chains looking for weak points Oh My gosh, I have to roll a 20 wait. I like the blue The blue is a better. Okay Dude, are you kidding me, man?  Wait, what? Sorry, I made a little late No lasting damage. I hope Who's this? I'm still breathing at least thank you It's my master. You should thank When you got yourself in this predicament. Who is this me to help You'll meet him again soon and have a chance to show your gratitude In the meantime try not to get yourself killed I won't always be watching Huh, who is that? Karilla strange power resonates within the corpse It calls to you Follow your instincts Don't be afraid Okay Wait, what while as its host's memories go to waste The tadpole is absorbed at all its experience could nourish you Strengthen you Do I welcome the tadpoles and influence? I just see what happens This one is a true soul parasite It can enhance you I feel like as a paladin. I shouldn't shouldn't take this I'm going on the oath break. Okay. I just haven't done it yet It seems everything the tadpole has to offer Everything it was and everything it was destined to be Pure potential Pure power You have grown your power and improved your chances of survival So what did that dude that increased my my stats or like what what did that do top right icon built in powers Wait, what your first attack roller ability checking making as any target as opposed to your proficiency bonus Oh my this into this with great weapon master. Oh my gosh Oh a chat chef. It's my oath You are between worlds paladin. Have you made a choice? What happens if I reclaim my oath returning to your oath means relinquishing the darkness within you Its evil must be banished. So I'm not an oath breaker. My oath is broken, but I'm not an oath breaker I wish to take my oath First You must pay the agreed price Material sacrifice is required to prove your words have substance Do you wish to pay? 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My fellow Americans, over the years we Americans have faced many hard choices and politics being politics. There have been a few who've tried to obscure the issues and exploit them for political gain. But time after time the common sense of the American voter has outsmarted those who would mislead us. Abraham Lincoln had a simple motto, trust the people. I don't think anyone's sense has improved on that advice. Given the facts, the American people can be counted on to make the right decision. So today in the midst of this noisy election year, let's clear the air for a moment and talk facts, not opinions. Specifically, let's expose six big myths that are being spread by people who ought to know better. Myth number one, and I'm sure you've heard this one again and again, is that increases in defense spending in recent years are one of the main causes of projected federal deficits. The fact is that the defense share of the federal budget and the gross national product has been shrinking sharply over the last 20 years. It was 9% of the gross national product in 1960. This year it's only 6%. It's non-defense spending that's been growing. During the last 22 years, while defense spending was shrinking as a part of the gross national product, non-defense spending nearly doubled from 9% of the gross national product to nearly 18%. If it weren't for the drastic growth in non-defense spending, we'd actually have a big budget surplus today. Myth number two is a whopper you've been hearing a lot from the people who'd like to take back your tax cuts. They claim that the other cause of big federal deficits is the well-deserved tax relief we won for you over the objections of the big spenders in the Congress. That just isn't true. The reality is that the effect of the tax cuts enacted in 1981 was mainly to hold tax rates even, to keep the hard-pressed American taxpayer from being bled even drier through further hikes and the bracket creep caused by inflation. Between 1980 and 85, taxes as a share of the gross national product will drop by less than one percentage point. The real culprits for those whopping deficits are the same congressional big spenders who voted down the balanced budget amendment. Myth number three, and I'm sure you've heard this one too, is the charge that this administration has slashed federal social spending and caused a lot of human hardship. Well, that sounds bad, but is it true? The answer is no. This administration is spending approximately three times as much on non-defense spending as the Kennedy administration spent in 1963, and that's even after you adjust the figures for inflation. Yes, we're doing everything we can to cut waste and root out cheaters, but the budget for the Department of Health and Human Services is greater than at any time in America's history. It amounts to 36.2% of the budget. It was only 33.8% of the 1980 budget. There are only two budgets in the world, larger than our 83 Health and Human Service budget of $274.2 billion, the total budget for the United States, and the Soviet Union. It's easy to see how the myths persist. Not too long ago, a family of six in a northeastern state was portrayed on television as destitute. That family was eligible for programs totaling $1,159 per month tax-free. Myth number four is an especially cynical one because it tries to exploit the real suffering many people are feeling and feeds on the kind of fear and despair that I spoke of last week and which can slow the recovery we all want. It claims that the 11 million people who are currently unemployed won't find jobs until after the recession is completely over and we're back to full recovery. In effect, this myth cruelly condemns millions of our friends, neighbors, and family to a future without hope. The reality is a lot better. Bad as current unemployment is. In most individual cases, it's a temporary problem. For example, of all the workers who became unemployed last July, one-third were no longer unemployed within 30 days, and two-thirds were off the unemployment list within 60 days. Now true, some of those people had withdrawn from the job market, but the majority of them had found new jobs and were helping achieve the economic recovery we're all working so hard for. Myth number five would have you believe that America's best days are behind us, that we're falling behind our foreign competitors and our standard of living. Well, what's the fact behind the myth? The good old USA is still the most productive of the world's major industrial countries. In 1980, the last year with reliable information, real per capita income in the United States was 14 percent better than Germany, 20 percent better than France, and a whopping 35 percent ahead of Japan. In the last two years, with those countries suffering from the same worldwide recession we're experiencing, the United States is still number one. And finally, there's the biggest and cruelest myth of all. The doom-peddling argument that there is no end in sight for this bitter recession. The reality behind the myth? We aren't out of the woods yet, but we're getting there. Inflation and interest rates are down. Yesterday, a leading bank lowered its prime rate to 11.5 percent, and others will follow. Real wages and retail sales are moving up. Housing starts and car sales, so vital to recovery, are both heading up again. And the strong surge of investor confidence we've witnessed in recent weeks means new growth for our economy and more jobs for our people. It's been a long, hard fight, going on for much more than the last two years. And it isn't over yet. But thanks to your patient courage and your ability to see the truth behind the political fairy tales, America is on the road to lasting recovery. Until next week, thanks for listening and God bless you.


Chris, congratulations. You just announced a mapping and sampling program at your silver project basically in Mexico. Yes? Yes. Thank you, Tracy. And of course, I read the news release well written as usual. You explain, how about you explain to our audience why you have selected this process? Okay. Well, first of all, the company is set up with cash flow, which is our model, because we have to control the issuance of shares. So at this point, we have 160 million shares outstanding, but the target that we have, the geological target is an IOCG in a mining camp surrounded by, on the one side of us, a Cisco development, Barksdale resources on the other side, 28 claims in the middle of an established mining camp. But our target there, geologically, is a silver IOCG. IOCG, Iron Oxide Copper Gold deposits, some of the biggest deposits in nature, and they get names. They're big enough that they get names. Ernest Henry in Australia, Sasego, Brazil, Candelaria, Chile, Olympic Dam, probably the biggest of them all. So if it's this deposit type, and we have a significant accumulation of evidence to suggest that, then it's going to be a very meaningful, substantial discovery. Silver in this case, because really these deposits, they come from the mantle. Iron is one element that they share in common, and they come from deep in the mantle. And in the instance of Mexico, there's a ton of silver in the mantle, which is why it's manifest through deposits north to south throughout Mexico. In Australia, you have copper, gold, and uranium. With more uranium and in Chile, you have copper, gold, and more copper. So Candelaria has more copper. In this instance, because it's Mexico, we see a real abundance of silver, and we see the key indicators that suggest to us that it's IOCG geological. Okay. And I read in your news release that you've got 28 contiguous claims in this mining camp. Is that correct? Yes, that's right. In the middle and throughout the camp, yes. So Chris, when I was reading the news release, if I understand this correctly, you selected this area due to the magnetic survey you did in 2021. Can you talk to us a little bit more about this, please? Yes. Okay. So one of the characteristics for IOCG deposits is magnetite iron. And we found massive magnetite on surface veins with silver, high grades of silver, high to bonanza grades of silver in veins that had been, you know, our first indication was artisanal mining that had occurred there. So we conducted a magnetic survey and found three very distinctive magnetic anomalies, the biggest of which is the one that we're targeting now. And it has, it's about, it's almost a kilometer long, 500 meters wide. And it's about, it, it's about 400 meters, 300 meters to the west of where these veins daylight on surface that carry silver. We also, we also did a soil survey above this magnetic anomaly and had highly anomalous silver and soils. So there's a lot of indications that this, this magnetic plug effectively could be carrying silver. And it's the dimensions are large, IOCG type large. So, you know, I mean, I can go through how you could get to several hundred millions of tons pretty quickly on something of this size. Well, I think what you're also suggesting based on what I read is your location is fantastic. And so there's a lot of promise here. Can you tell us what the timeline is for the sampling and mapping and what will happen next? Yeah, the location is in the middle of a mining camp, 10 kilometer trend of copper gold with a Cisco development on the, on the eastern side of this and Barksdale resources on the western side where offset, we're through it and offset. This major anomaly is in about the middle of it offset from by about a kilometer, kilometer and a half. And the preponderance of metal that we're finding is silver. There's lots of copper and gold, but, but we also have very strong numbers for silver, which is perhaps a different donation than the copper and gold part of the system. The timeline is we need to, we need to vector in on, you know, for our next drilling campaign, we have effectively the anomaly that is most suggestive IOCG potential. So what we're doing now is further sampling of all the veins that manifest themselves to the east of this anomaly, mapping of the structures that are around above and through the structure and then, and then drilling. So I, we anticipate drilling in four to six month timeframe and our objective is significant discovery. IOCG is the target here. The metal inventories for these are, are, are, are massive and, and high grade and valuable. Wikipedia has a great definition for this deposit type. As I mentioned earlier, they get names and they build, you know, mines, substantial mines. So there's a tremendous amount of value. We're looking for a silver endowment in particular. There's tons of evidence of copper and gold. There's lots of copper and gold here. And that's consistent with the model, but our particular, in this particular part of it, we're looking at the silver donation and silver, silver is what we find in the magnetite. Magnetite is what's providing the magnetic response and the magnetic response is very large, a kilometer long, 500 meters wide. Okay. And for those that may not want to go over to Wikipedia, can you please tell them what an IOCG deposit is? Because, you know, clearly this is something that an experienced individual in this industry would get excited about. You know, the classification started, I guess late 80s, early 90s. Dr. Murray Hitzman was, was one of the key who called this project, 2006, visited it. At that time he was head of the, of the School of Economic Geology, the Colorado School of Mines, but basically they started classifying these deposits, IOCG, in the early 90s, late 80s. And in this area, Mike Kodeshi did his PhD on this particular one. And the, they have iron, they have, they come from the mantle, so they come from lower, and they usually are where there's major crustal faults because you get, you know, you get material from the mantle breaking to surface. They bring high concentrations of metal with iron and usually very high grades and substantial, substantial size. So those are the, the characteristics, they're all a little bit different. In this instance, one of the biggest indicators that we have is that the silver type that we see is silver halides. We're getting 75% of the silver that we see here that comes with the magnetite is silver halides, which is quite uncommon. There are silver deposits north to south throughout Mexico, all up in the west, in the western U.S. and, but principally in Mexico, it's a fantastic jurisdiction for silver. But that silver is, is, is principally in the form of, of acathites and in silver sulfides. This is silver halides. Why? Because it's different. So silver halides are, are those that come with halide metal, like of silver chlorine, fluorine, bromine, iodine. And, and in normal circumstances, you might get 10, 10% would be silver, silver halides. In this instance, it's 75, 80%, quite unique and a key indicator that, that this is a different sourcing of, of mineralogy. So that as well as the massive magnetite and now the very large magnetic anomaly, these are all corroborative pieces of evidence that support the potential, as well as really, you know, some of the world's leading experts in this, having already called this in this area. So it's a matter really for us, we believe, of finding, finding, locating the source of the fantastic mineral endowment. It's already evidence at, at San Javid. Lots of copper and gold. And as I mentioned in our, in our, in our case, we're looking at, at silver coming with magnetite, which, which has all the hallmarks of an IOCG deposit type. So that's what's making us quite excited for our further work here. Well, of course, further to that excitement, you're going to know pretty much many of the answers to these questions by the end of the year. Would that be correct based on the timeline you were suggesting to me? Absolutely, Tracy, we'll be, you know, we're systematically going to carry on the further work that we need to do now, mapping and sampling around these structures, and then we'll be drilling them. And, and our aspiration there is to, is to, is to confirm this deposit type with a silver endowment, which would be very substantial. So that's our aspiration. And there's a, there's a lot of evidence, a lot of work goes into it. We have important claims in the middle of a mining camp. And, and, and, and we believe also very important knowledge that, that these, that the, the, the central features of the entire mineralizing event for this to let 10 kilometer trend, maybe, maybe located on the ground. Yeah. Well, further to that, if I can just get you to step aside for a second as well, because those of you now who are going, okay, connect resources, let's go to the website and find out more. I thought it was interesting. I think I read the number 2.6 million you've brought in over the last many years from eight producing natural gas wells in Texas to help subsidize your initiatives here. Is that conclusion correct or can you correct me and please provide an update for our audience? Yes. So we have, we had a, we were involved in a gas play in Texas in, in, we started there, I guess as early as 2009, 2011, we, we had started into the company. We, there's oil and gas. We had a very successful well into a gas field and very low decline rate. So it's providing cash for the company. Basically, all of these companies dilution is an issue. It costs you a quarter of a million bucks a year to run a public company. So that fits our model of trying to pay for our corporate costs without selling shares and diluting the company unnecessarily. We have, it's been very long life. There's oil zones behind pipe and further gas zones behind pipe and further potential to drill gas wells within the field that we're in. So we'll be doing this for a long time, provides a nice cash flow for us to, to, you know, avoid unnecessary dilution of our shares. That's number one. And number two, we seek these types of projects to do exactly that because so we, we, you know, we advance and we look for other opportunities to enhance our cash flow to restrict our share issuance. And the other part of the model is major discovery potential with our, with the geology that we're after. An IOCG, a silver heavy IOCG would, would fit that bill. If we're successful in that undertaking, we could achieve major revaluation. It's our aspiration and our supposition for, for the value of our shares as we get recognition for that prospect in. And so, so that's how it fits the model, Tracy. We have cash flow to, to minimize unnecessary dilution so that we can create value on a per share basis with discovery. Well, I personally enjoyed your website. And for those of you interested in finding out more about Kanak resources, please go to the following website. And thank you so much for the update, Chris. I hope you'll keep us updated, updated through 2024, as it sounds like there's some very exciting updates to occur. Thank you. Thank you, Tracy. Happy New Year.


What is going on everybody my name is Roddy and today we're going to explore Teowind CSS. I'm gonna super quickly powerpoint you and then we'll get started. So in short Teowind CSS is a utility for CSS framework packed with easy to use predefined classes. Some of the benefits include not needing to spend time coming up with logical class names, it uses the approach of use what you need and it's easy to customize. The negatives are messy looking markup, you have to learn a little syntax and it's up to you to follow the accessibility best practices when adding interactive behavior and last but not least I wanted to mention a few useful resources starting with the official documentation obviously. Teowind Play which is essentially a playground where you can mess around with Teowind. We have hero icons which were designed by the Teowind CSS and we have Teowind blocks which is free resource for ready-to-use Teowind CSS blocks. That's pretty much it. Let me know in the comments below what you think of Teowind CSS and now let's jump on the computer and get started. Hey welcome everybody and let's get started. The first thing I'm going to do is create a new project folder and I'm going to call this one Teowind CSS. Inside this folder is where we're going to be adding all project files. I'm going to open this folder with Visual Studio Code super quickly. Here is Visual Studio Code, I'm going to go to file, open and select the Teowind CSS folder that we just created. To get started let's go to TeowindCSS.com and click get started. So today I'm going to be using the Teowind CLI but you can also use the post CSS. You can choose a framework or you can play with the CDN. As we're using the Teowind CLI you will need to have Node.js installed on your machine and if you don't you can just navigate to Node.js.org, download Node.js for your operating system and follow the installation instructions. Now let's start by installing Teowind CSS. The first thing that we need to do is install Teowind CSS via NPM. To do this we can use the following command here. So I'm going to copy this, I'm going to open Visual Studio Code, go into the terminal and click new terminal. You can also do this with your command line or PowerShell whatever you wish. As long as you're a CD to this folder it should be good to go. So I'm going to right click to paste the code in here which is NPM install minus the Teowind CSS which means that this is going to install Teowind globally. The next thing that we need to do is NPM Teowind init and this is basically going to create this Teowind.config file for us. So let's do that, paste in here and press enter, job done. The next step that we need to do is actually configure or template paths. These are going to be where or HTML and JS documents are stored. So it's pretty much up to you how you want to structure your project but for this example I'm going to use exactly the same file structure in here just so we're on the same page. So I'm going to copy this, I'm going to open the Teowind config.js, let's remove this a little bit like so and I'm going to replace the content. So this means that I'm going to have to create this source folder and inside this source folder I'm going to have my HTML and JavaScript files and I'm going to show you how this works in a second. So let's go back and have a look what else do we need to do. Step number three is adding the directive so or CSS. So we need to create the source folder and inside this source folder we're going to have to create an input.css file and add detail with directives for each layer such as base components and utilities. So let's copy this, go to our project folder here, create a new folder, source like so and then inside here I'm going to create an input.css like so and paste the code that we just copied. Save this, close it as we want needed for now and let's have a look at the next step. So the next step is to actually start the CLI build process and I'm going to explain this. So let me copy this first of all and let's paste it in the terminal. So inside here we have npx teowind.css and we are basically looking for changes every time we make a change on our HTML file which we're going to create in a second we want to basically take the input CSS file from here and and build it into a folder called dist with a file called output.css. This is the file that we will need to include in our HTML as well so this is going to be this is going to be kind of like the process file and the last thing that we have is watch me which means that we want this to keep watching for changes if you're familiar with scss is pretty much the same thing. So if I press enter this should give us a warning and the reason for this is because we actually haven't got any classes to in our HTML document and that's because we don't actually have an HTML document but what's happening here is that teowind has taken the input CSS and it's compiled or output inside here. As you can see let me just move that to the bottom as you can see we have some basic teowind styles in here which is great. So let's close this and by the way this is going to be running from now on so let's close this let's go back to the installation guide and the last thing that we need to do is create or index.html page inside the source folder. So I'm going to copy this example just to speed up the process and explain everything. Copy this let's go back and inside the source folder let's create a new file called index.html like so and let's paste the HTML. As you can see the teowind CSS automatically started a rebuild process because there was a change in the document. Every time I save it's just going to rebuild it which is great. Let me first of all explain the HTML and I will show you what's happening. So we have a very basic HTML in here and we have a link to the output.tss which is in this this folder. We also have an h1 tag inside here which has three classes text 3xl, font bold and underline. So technically speaking we should be able to run this project and view in no browser and for this I'm going to be using an extension so if you go to extensions the extension is called a live server you can install it basically kind of like saves you time so you don't have to refresh the page every time you make a change. So I'm going to be using this to start a local server. Let me just go to explorer and I'm just going to click go live this is going to open the browser somewhere here we go and as you can see we have had a world and if I was to inspect the page you will see that we have some basic teowind classes in here which is great. All right let me close this let me zoom in and let's go back and let me explain a few other things. As I said every time we refresh the css is being rebuilt and one thing that I wanted to show you is that the teowind css only adds the classes that we are using so if you know those three classes the underline, font bold and the text 3 xl and if we go to the dist output.css scroll right to the bottom you'll see that we have those three classes in here so these are only added because we have them in our html file. Let's close this okay before we begin writing html and css I just wanted to show you a super useful extension that you can install which is called teowind css IntelliSense here you can go to extensions and install this and I'll show you why this is super helpful to have so if I close this super quickly and if I go back to my project and if I hover over on any of the teowind classes it actually tells me what this class does. Obviously underline is very descriptive so this one adds text decoration line underline, font bold adds font weight of 700 and text 3 xl adds a font size and a line height so this is super useful it also shows killers and so on speaking of killers let's have a look at how we can use them. So if we go back to the teowind documentation and if you want to do a quick search you can do control and k so what I'm going to do is scroll down and I'm going to show you under customize click on killers and inside here you will be able to see the full library of killers that teowind css comes with. So there is a lot of choice in here and if you want to use any of those killers you can pretty much choose the name so for example let's say blue and you can choose the number so let me show you if I wanted to make the background of or page blue I can do I can give this body a class name of bg as a background and then dash blue and then dash the number of the blue that I want so I think I wanted like something like 700 and as you can see the extension is already working for me it shows that this is a blue color and if the rebuild process is successful we can go back and you will see that the page that we have is blue obviously I've zoomed in quite a lot that's why the font is so massive but that's how we can use the colors so for example let's say I wanted to change the text to be that cn 50 so what I can do is I can do text dash cn and then I can choose 50 and as you can see the extension is already working for me here and it's giving me a lot of options and I can just choose from this so I'm gonna put cn 50 save this and if I go back you'll see that the color has changed and you can pretty much do this with anything for example border colors anything that you can think of that you can put color on you can do that obviously you will have to go through the documentation as you work on your project and find the things that you need I'm not going to be able to cover absolutely everything but that's how you use the colors now in most cases you probably already have branding colors in mind all right if you go to colors and scroll down quite a bit there is a lot of examples but this is one of them so if you want to use custom colors this will completely replace the ones that come with terwin css and that's absolutely fine if you have your own branding so I'm gonna use this as an example and also make sure that you put your transparent color in here and current color because that could become useful as you are developing your website so I'm going to grab the whole thing here just to save you some time and paste this inside the terwindconfig.js and this goes under theme here I'm gonna list it like that close this and let me explain what's happening here inside here you can pretty much name your colors whatever you like and you can add a limited amount of numbers and basically give them a hex code so technically speaking if I save this my colors will no longer work from terwin css and I can only use those colors in here I can name them whatever I like and I can give them whatever and value I like let's say for example I want to give my background color of purple so I can use this name and I can just go background purple like so and that should work here we go and let's say I wanted to change the text to something else like the silver I can just grab this and I can replace it here text silver that's it here we go that's it the text is now silver which is perfect obviously there is a lot more that you can do it Killes but this is the basic over the next thing that I wanted to show you is the font configuration so if we go to team and scroll down as you can see here we can add a custom font to do this I'm gonna grab this super quickly go back to our terwin config file and just add it in here obviously I don't want this font so I'm going to change it slightly let's go to google fonts super quickly okay and the font that I want is called outfit so I'm going to click on this font here select the weights that you want so for example I can choose regular let's do that and I can choose both from here let's do that and if you go here to view selected families you will see the selected families that we have and let me zoom in a little bit and then I can grab the link from here and put that in my html festival so here it is underneath here underneath my css let's indent this a little bit like so save it and also I need to grab the name of this and this is sans serif so I'm gonna grab the name of the font family and replace it here and sans serif is the default so that's gonna stay the way it is so this is the first font obviously you can add more if you wish with a comma and that's it so technically speaking if I save this and if I save the index dot html page the font should change here it is the new font has changed I can see the difference maybe I should have used a totally different one the next thing that I wanted to show you is the breakpoints and then we're gonna build some responsive examples super quickly so for example if you go here under core concepts and responsive web design basically if you want to build adaptive user interfaces you can use the following breakpoints which come with tailwind css but you can also modify them I'm not gonna modify them now but I'm gonna show you how to use the default ones so we have small medium screen large screen excel and double excel and these are the minimum widths for each breakpoint so you can pretty much pair them with whatever you like here is an example of an image so on mobile the width is 16 on middle screens the width is 32 and on large the width of this image will be 48 let's do the same thing with the h1 that we have so what I'm gonna do here is on smaller screens this is gonna be the default value text free excel then on middle screens I want this to be text for example six excel and on large screens I want this to be text maybe nine excel like so and safe so if this has worked let me go back I think I need to zoom out a little bit for this example to work okay so this is a big screen so the font is quite big but if I scale down my browser super quickly look what happens the responsive breakpoints are kicking in so small medium large so this is how you can use the responsive breakpoint and you can use them on pretty much anything as you saw here the example with the image you can use them on everything the beautiful thing is that you can use them with pretty much everything that makes sense to use breakpoints one thing that I wanted to show you is that nothing in tailwind css is actually start as the food what I mean by this is for example h1 let's do a couple of headings so heading one and I'm gonna do heading two three four five let me just change this super quickly so we have five headings one two three four five and if we go to the website you will see they will look the same so obviously I'm zoomed in quite a lot now but as you can see they will look the same so what that means is you need to style pretty much every single element manually this can be a good thing but also it could result in duplicate classes and that's why it's probably best to use tailwind with kind of like a component based framework such as anglia react svelte view and so on so saying this we can definitely style them the way we want just like we have in here so maybe I can do text let's say class text nine excel and maybe for the second one I can do a class of text six excel and so on so let me zoom out a little bit and as you can see then I'll start of course I can give them a text color as well just like so and I can make them responsive with the responsive breakpoint so this is how this works and now let's build a super simple header just to show you how you can do responsive web design with flexbox so I'm gonna remove all this and I'm gonna make the rest in here so let's build a super simple header and my header and I want my header to be full width this means that I'm not gonna use the container from tailwind but we'll get to the container in a second so let's start a header so I'm gonna use html5 and start a heading here and for this header all I want is a logo so I'm gonna give it a link href with slash because this is our home page and then I'm gonna have a few classes here and this is gonna be my logo all right let's create a very simple menu and you can do this however you like I'm just gonna build it with a simple URL and inside here I'm gonna create a list with some links so inside the list obviously I'm gonna have a link and this link is gonna go it's just gonna be blank to be honest and I'm gonna be adding a few classes to the links and let's say we have home and let's duplicate this super quickly let me put in one line and let's duplicate this two more times and we're gonna have we're gonna have about and we're gonna have contact okay save this and let's have a look at how this looks so at the moment we have probably it's probably best to remove the hello world as well let me just remove it and I am zooming quite a lot but the moment we have logo and we have all links so I want the logo to be on the left side and I want the the menu on this to be on the right side and when we scale down to mobile I want to turn this into a mobile toggle I'm not gonna write the JavaScript but I just want to show you how the responsive design works to do this we can use flexbox so what I'm gonna do on the header I'm gonna give it a class of flex and I'm just gonna do justify between save this and as you can see the logo is now on the left side and we have the navigation on the right side which is great the text doesn't look great so I can do text white maybe we can give it a little bit of padding on the y-axis so something like four and padding on the x-axis of let's say eight and then that could be that could look okay let's have a look as you can see this is getting better now for the logo maybe you want to make this a little bit bolder so what we can do is use text large dash large and then maybe I can do it with font bold like so save this as you can see the logo is now bolder and if you want to style the links what we can do is also convert this into flex so I can do class flex and we can do flex row and this will hopefully put every single item on the same row as you can see but we have a little bit of an issue here where there is no space between them and to fix this we can use gap so with the gap we can just do gap and choose a number nothing specific here maybe we can go gap four there is safe gap four and as you can see this leaves a little bit of a gap and that's looking good the next thing I'm spotting is that the logo and the items here are not aligned so what we might have to do is give this a flex item center so items center like so and maybe we can also align them in the middle like so and save let's have a look at how this works think yeah I think that's now in the middle the look in the middle now which is great a little bit small but that's not a problem okay that's already looking good but let's have a look at how we can style the buttons for example so if we go to home I can give it a background of bogum which comes from hotel in config and if I save this you will see that this gives it a background of bogum now accessibility is not great here obviously I might have to change this to a darker color so I can maybe do text color to be midnight I'm not sure how this is gonna look and also the padding wasn't great so maybe we can do padding y of two and padding x to be something like four let's have a look at how this looks that's already looking good and one more thing I wanted to do is maybe we can give it a nice rounded edges and to do this we can do rounded and maybe rounded md which is kind of like a bigger rounded radius as you can see set this and let's have a look did I save here we go we have rounded corners now which is great so the next thing I want to do is when we shrink down the browser so if inspector put the responsive mode on here and if shrink down the browser I want the menu this menu to disappear and I want to put a burger menu so to do this we can actually we can hide this on small screen so because we are mobile start with mobile first what I can do is just put hidden and then the flex here I can do md flex so what this is saying is that on mobile this is going to be hidden but on middle screen it's going to be flex so let's have a look as you can see mobile it's hidden and middle screen it's coming up so in the same way I can add an icon here with the hamburger menu so let's create that what I'm going to do it's just a button for now so let's do a button and this button is going to be an SVG so so Terwin CSS has its own library that they've developed they've designed which is called hero icons okay if you go to terwincss slash resources and if you scroll down you will see these hero icons they look amazing so if we click on them no more we can actually grab any of the SVGs here and I'm going to look for menu and the one that I want to use is maybe this one here so I can copy the SVG and I can put this SVG inside the button let's save this and let's have a look what we get so this icon is white so that's why it's showing I'm not able to zoom in here maybe I can zoom in like so so you can see a little bit okay as you can see this icon is white and it's added in here but it's also not disappearing so what I want to do on when we go to medium screens I want the icon to disappear to do this we add a class to the button so class and just like here we can do exactly the same thing but the opposite so on middle screens we want to just hide this so hidden middle screen is hidden save this and to be fair that's pretty much it so if I go back and if I open the browser like so you will see that the menu disappeared and this one appeared and this is how you make the responsive layouts happen so let me show you one last example in the next example I'm gonna show you how to use the container and I'm gonna show you how to use grid okay we had our header full width in here but what about if you want to containerize your website well you can use the container class now so let's do container like so and put something inside here then like so and save it so this is going to containerize or layout and if I put maybe border 2 just so you can see how this is behaving you will see that it's full width on mobile but when we go up it you can see the break points in here and at the moment it's not in the middle and the reason for this is because we need to do that as well so there are two ways of doing that you can either do it with the MX auto which is basically margin zero auto so if I was to put MX auto this should center aligning for us and the other way of center aligning the container is to actually go to the config and you can go down here under maybe from family and add container and then you can put center to true and then maybe we can even give it a padding if you wish to your left and right so let's say padding of two ram like so let's save this and I think I broke my 10 win tss so I'm gonna have to restart super quickly and it's because I missed the comma save restart super quickly and we should be good to go and now if I was to remove the MX auto save this the container should be still in the middle and it should have a padding of two rams on the left and the right side of it so this is how the container works obviously you can modify to work however you like with the responsive variants but as a default this is how it behaves using those breakpoints the next example I want to show you is using grid so what I'm going to do I'm actually going to use this container I'm going to remove the border for now and I'm going to create a few cards so what I'm going to do is wrap all of those cards in a grid element okay let's create a div element with the class name of grid so grid and maybe we can add grid calls to be two to start with and then we'll modify so let's start by adding two very basic cards so I can do maybe let's create a div with background of white and maybe rounded mx md sorry which is around the corners a little bit more rounded corners in this case and then we can have dot padding padding to the x axis of dash four and then we can have padding of the y axis with four or something like that and then maybe we can have a little bit of border just so you can see what's going on and we can change the border color to border midnight boom just like that let's add an h2 in here just to make it look a little bit pretty so it makes sense and let's say category category and for this h2 let's add a couple of classes as well so this can be tracking why this text we can set to xxs and then we can do margin bottom of one let's create an h1 as well and then this is gonna have a class name of title font text large text gray do we have gray text text silver and margin bottom of three then we can give it a heading of the wincss and let's create a paragraph in here paragraph with the class of leading which changes the text line height as you can see let's put this as text small and margin bottom of three and for this i'm just gonna put some lower version text cut to view well wrap just so we can see and last but not least let's create a button this button is gonna have a class name of background midnight text small and then text dash white and then round it and the just so we can stay consistent padding to the x y axis for padding to the y one and and save so this is gonna be click me and now we can duplicate this card super quickly and let's have a look at what we get so we have the grid the grid the grid is set to two columns and we have two cards so if we go back you will see that we have the two cards in here the text is a little bit hard to read so maybe i need to change that and i need to have a little bit of a gap so let me do that so gap we can do gap of four we can use maybe text midnight for the headings and let's put that one in here as well and let's have a look at how this looks oh and one thing that i noticed one thing that is really good about the extension that we're using is that it tells you if you have duplicate class names so obviously this is i have i've put the text to be silver and then i've put the text to be text midnight which is not good so i need to remove the silver from here which is awesome and i need to remove it from here so i'm kind of glad that this happened and now let's save and as you can see we have two cards now let me show you what happens if we add a few more cards so i'm going to copy those cut and paste them like so and let's have a look at what happens so first of all if we go down we only have two cards on every single breakpoint but what if we wanted to change this what if we wanted to have four cards in one round on large screens and maybe two on medium and so on so for example on our grid we can do grid calls one from above and then for medium screens maybe we can do grid calls two let's say for large screens we can do grid calls four let's save this and let's see what happens so on large screens we have four columns which is awesome and if we go down a little bit like so we have two and if you go even further to mobile we have one and this is how you can use responsive breakpoint with grid it's super easy to do it takes a couple of seconds and the last thing i want to show you is how you can actually create your own classes by standing the by standing the tailwind ones so for example let's pick this button here so i can say custom button now i can use this class name let's go to the css the input dot css and inside here i can put custom button and i can extend the tailwind css classes inside here so i can actually use them by doing add apply and then i can say maybe i want the background to be purple for the buttons like so and maybe i want for the buttons to have a shadow so apply and shadow md which is kind of like a bigger shadow so let me save this and let's see what happens so if we go back to the website as you can see the color has changed and we have a little bit of a shadow so this is how you can kind of like extend make your own classes using the classes predefined from tailwind and if i wanted to do a hover for this maybe i can just do custom button and i can just do hover and i'm not sure what color to use for this maybe i don't know bubblegum i think that would do so maybe you can just apply bubblegum and maybe we can remove the shadow from so let's have a look did i save yep let's go back okay i applied bubblegum but i didn't put it as a background so bg-bubblegum and shadow md okay that's it let's save and as you can see now we have a hover over and now i can apply this class pretty much to anything and that's pretty much everything alright this is gonna be everything from this tutorial i hope that you found useful it's kind of hard to cover absolutely everything but this should get you started i hope that you enjoyed it i hope that you learned something new consider subscribing to my channel and give me a comment below thank you very much for watching