Welcome to the NTN Nightly, I'm Nisha Charles, this edition's top stories. The first phase of the DSH investment project in Vierfort is coming to fruition with a company and opportunities for St. Lucia's. The NCPC to focus on research and innovation in the drive for competitiveness. St. Lucia's award-winning, lovely Sheridan gets buddy support for Sophia Primary School. All that was the latest in youth development, sports and the NTN Nouvelle-Arcoyol. The first phase of the Desert Star Holdings DSH investment project in Vierfort is coming to fruition with a company and opportunities for St. Lucia's. The newly-built horse racing track on December 13, 2019 will welcome the Pito Cup. In anticipation of this new economic avenue, the National Apprenticeship Programme has facilitated the training and certification of more than 20%'s Genel Nouvelle reports. 24 individuals have successfully completed an entry-level training course in the grooming of race horses. The training was facilitated by Groom Elite Programme Inc. out of Stanford, Kentucky for the National Apprenticeship Programme. Executive Director of Groom Elite Programme Inc. Dr. Reed McClellan explained that the individuals received extensive training in the caring and maintenance of race horses. The training began with learning horse behavior, anatomy of horses, health of horses and diseases and injuries they may be susceptible to, and how to treat these injuries and prevent these diseases. Dr. McClellan emphasized that regular horses and race horses are very different and the specific training is required. One of the horses you might have seen, Charm, is the name they gave this chestnut that's in the stall right beside me here, and all of these horses that are here are what they call half-breeds or beach ponies and stuff, and we measured them the other day. They're around 14 hands tall, and they weigh between 600 and 670 pounds. The horses that are going to be coming in here are going to be between 16 and 16 and a half hands tall, and they're going to weigh between 1,000 and 1,200 pounds. So they're going to be about twice as big as the horses we're working here. They're also going to be faster, they're going to move quicker, and as I've been telling them, you have to stay on your toes to keep that horse from being on your toes. The training is in preparation for the most anticipated event, the Peter Cup, hosted by the Royal St. Lucia Turf Club, scheduled for the 13th of December 2019 at the newly built horse race track in Viewfort. Some 42 race horses age ranging between 2 and 3, purchased by the China Horse Club and participants, expected to arrive in St. Lucia sometime in October. Participant Jessrin Andrew indicated that the training will assist participants in securing employment. I think one major limitation with young people being able to access employment is the fact that there's a limitation in terms of training opportunities for those young people, and I think that it's imperative that we often try our best to give them the opportunity to receive those training, those programs. I think also it is necessary that we notice that many of those young people here today are young people who are passionate about the industry. They come here because they have a love, they have a drive, they're interested in horses and it's a career that they want to develop for themselves. So I'm very pleased that this program has been rolled out here in Viewfort at the horse race facility and I think that I'm hoping that it is something that is continued and not just for the grooms but we see training for the turkeys, we see training for the farriers, we see training for trainers and other persons who want to develop themselves within the industry. Participant Moza Mofat expressed gratitude for the opportunity. Basically my goal here is to become a farrier and stuff like that. Over the two weeks we guys have learned a lot and based on what we knew and what we're learning now is very important because we learned the very new things, things that was alien to us and I think they're the docks for giving us the knowledge. The group commenced training on September 17, 2019 and is anxiously looking forward to what's in store. For the Government Information Service, I am General Norville. The Government of St. Lucia welcomes the news that the Government of Canada has opened a visa application centre in St. Lucia. This follows continued dialogue and advocacy by the Government on behalf of the people of St. Lucia with the Canadian Government. This means that St. Lucia's wanting to travel to Canada will save on the additional costs to process applications in other islands. The Government of Canada was asked by the Government of St. Lucia to consider among other things the deployment of a mobile system that would alleviate the need for travel. While other OECS countries have been the beneficiaries of the mobile system, beginning late August, that operating framework is periodic and necessitates travel to those countries by officials from the Canadian High Commission. The permanent visa application centre in St. Lucia will process a visitor, student and work visas. The centre in St. Lucia is managed by an outsourcing and technology service entity that provides visa processing services to the Government of Canada. The National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, NCPC, has unveiled its week of activities for the sixth edition of Productivity Awareness Week, October 14-18. The week also coincides with the sixth anniversary of the NCPC establishment on October 18, 2013. This year, Productivity Awareness Week focuses on the vital role research and innovation must play to stimulate and drive competitiveness in St. Lucia. Productivity Awareness Week was created to build awareness of the issues related to productivity in St. Lucia, while increasing dialogue between public-private sector entities. The event is organised by the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, NCPC. Director for the NCPC Fiona Hingson indicated that the theme for this year's observance is embracing competitiveness through research and innovation. For Productivity Awareness Week, we always say to the public, you know, it takes this time to reflect on what you've been doing for the year, have I been productive? What can I do differently? What can I incorporate into my business processes to make a difference? How can I motivate my staff in order to be more productive? Creativity is not only about the worker, it's also about the business owner. It's about everybody doing their part. Productivity Awareness Week will be launched on Monday, October 14, and will feature a theatrical presentation produced and directed by Drenia Frederick. An exhibition and health fair will also be staged on the grounds of Finance Administrative Building in Point Seraphine, and the day will culminate with a television panel discussion on the topic, How do we achieve a more competitive St. Lucia? On October 14-15, the Research and Policy Unit in the Department of Finance will stage a research symposium under the theme, Research, a platform for innovation, competitiveness and growth. Gemma Lafayette is a director for research and policy. So the areas of focus for this year's research symposium are on the real sector, more specifically agricultural production, also on the social sectors, looking at issues related to education, health and poverty, as well as environmental concerns, looking at the impact of climate change and natural disasters, and also on financial matters, also looking at some issues surrounding deported growth, as well as electronic payment systems. Resident representative for the ECCB in St. Lucia, Sharon Ferdinand, said the ECCB is happy to once again partner with the NCPC, and will present the future of the EC currency, the digital EC dollar, on October 16. She said the information is relevant to everyone, from the small to large business operation, the A-level student, to the ordinary man on the street. We are proud to present on the digital EC dollar. We want persons to know that this is not any way involved with the other digital currencies out there. It is just a different format of the EC dollar, offering another alternative for payment methods. On October 17, the NCPC will host an open day for select businesses to utilize the NCPC's productivity measuring tool, called the PRO tool. It is expected that 12 businesses will participate in this exercise. The Department of Economic Planning has also partnered with the NCPC to stage the final event for Productivity Awareness Week on Friday, October 18. Stanza Deligny is the representative for the Department of Economic Planning. Well the final activity to commemorate Productivity Awareness Week is the Department of Economic Development's Exposition des Developements économiques. So on the 18th of October, students will be educated by ministry officials on the six key areas for the medium-term development strategy, also how it links to sustainable development and our overall national development plan. For more information on the activities for Productivity Awareness Week 2019, you can visit the NCPC's Facebook page by searching St. Lucia, NCPC. For the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, Glenn Simon reporting. St. Lucia has joined the Republic of China Taiwan in celebrating its national day. The Honourable Prime Minister, Alan Shastney, along with a delegation visited Taiwan to join in the celebrations there, while at home, the Governor-General, Sir Emmanuel Neville Snack and Mr Snack, Raquel Jubilee Shastney, Honourable Andy Daniel, as well as Cabinet colleagues and the diplomatic corps celebrator. Acting Prime Minister Honourable Ezekiel Joseph said the decision to establish relations with the Republic of China Taiwan some 40 years ago continues to be a tremendous fruit. We are seeing that both of our countries are benefitting from that decision. And I remember my Prime Minister, when we came back in 2016, when we had a dialogue with the Embassy, he made it clear that the relationship should be a two-way relationship. The government and people of St. Lucia should benefit. Likewise, the government and people of Taiwan should benefit from our relationship. And we can say here today, we are accomplishing this. The acting Prime Minister highlighted the accomplishments in agriculture where farmers are getting back into the banana industry. Technical support led by the Taiwanese is also forthcoming in other areas. Apart from agriculture, we are seeing that in the health sector, we are benefitting. In the education sector, we are benefitting. In the IT sector, we are benefitting. And we can go on and on as potential areas that we, the people of St. Lucia, are benefitting based on the relationship that we have established with the government and people of Taiwan. As part of the celebrations, a St. Lucia contingent traveled to Taiwan to take part in the Tai Chiang Jazz Festival and Tai Chiang Instruments Festival, including Ronald Buhingsen, five members of the band and technical personnel. Taiwan's 108th National Day celebrations took place on October 10th, 2019. Some 768 graduates from across 16 Caribbean countries will graduate from the University of the West Indies open campus on Saturday, October 12th, 2019. The presentation of graduate ceremony will be held at the St. John's Pentecostal Ministries, St. John's in Antigua, starting at 10 a.m. Of the graduates, 561 will receive undergraduate degrees, certificates and diplomas, while 207 will receive postgraduate qualifications. During the ceremony, the University of the West Indies will confer honorary degree on Governor-General of St. Kitts and Nevis, his Excellency Sir Samuel Weymouth Tapley-Steaton. He will receive the degree of Doctor of Lawyers and LLD for outstanding public service to his country. And this is the NTN Nightly. Ryan O'Brien is up next. How do I decide which telecommunications service provider to use? When choosing a mobile, landline, cable TV and Internet service provider or changing the one you currently use, here's what you should think about in order to get the best service to meet your needs. Why do I need the service? What is the quality of service offered? What are the rates? Are there hidden charges? How much can I afford to pay for the service? What are the customer service obligations of the provider? Not satisfied with the service? The choice is yours whether or not to use the service. This message is brought to you as a public service announcement by Ectel, the NTRC, and this station. Welcome back. We join Ryan O'Brien for the latest happenings in youth development and sports. Thanks, Misha. Welcome once again to your update from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports on the NTN Nightly News. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Work on the Sufremini Stadium upgrade continues despite some setbacks due to interventions by adverse weather conditions. Base work for the FIFA size football field and the athletic track are at an advanced stage. Stephen Brighurst is a contracts manager at CEO Williams. The company engaged during this phase of the upgrade of the facility. Essentially, you can see from behind us the progress they've made. We've done the main cutting and filling and the grading. You can see the rectangle in the middle, which will be the soccer pitch eventually. What we're working on at the moment is the base for the running track. The project includes the full-size soccer pitch and athletics track. Not only will you have athletics, running events, you'll have long jump, short-pots and all other sort of subsidiary events associated with athletics events basically. Site Severe Hayden-Thomas disclosed that the surveying aspect of the project went as expected. The field is of FIFA standard, the size, and the levels, the drainage, the sloping is like a crown from the center of the crown. And then if you can realize we have the restruct all around it, which is over 0.75% with a drain at the middle of them, just between them. It is expected that start turning ceremonies will be held in the coming weeks in various districts to mark the continuation of the sporting infrastructure redevelopment policy of the government of St. Lucia. Now for some results of Indusco's netball competition under 19 Division II, Beanfield Comprehensive defeated Clendon Mason Memorial 26-21 Beanfield Comprehensive goal shoot Zoya Jamari scored 23 from 35 attempts and goal attack Diaz-Fontaleo 3 from 17. For Clendon Mason Memorial, McAlina Hunt scored 17 from 25 attempts and Grisa Sealy 4 from 5 attempts. Under 15 netball, Schroeser Secondary defeated Barbono Secondary 22-9. For Schroeser Secondary, goal shoot Nadine Rages 14 from 26 attempts and goal attack Valeny Gustav 8 from 15. For Barbono Secondary, goal shoot Vincentia Edwards scored 3 from 7 attempts and goal attack Jozan Lewis scored 6 from her 10 attempts. And that's your update from youth development and sports for this weekend. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Thanks, Ryan. In the wake of the issue of bullying in schools, Bank of St. Lucia and founder of the internationally applauded Buddy Ambassadors program, Leverly Sheridan, are fighting back. The bank donated a buddy bench to the Sufre Parmi School to help foster friendliness and inclusiveness among the students. Bullying is a global epidemic happening in St. Lucia and all over the world. While it took the likes of a local video gone viral to alert some to the dangers and reality of bullying, there are others who have taken a more proactive approach. Bank of St. Lucia recently partnered with the founder of the Buddy Ambassador program and donated a buddy bench to the Sufre Primary School. Branch Manager Aleta Raid Mitchell says that BOSL Sufre is always looking for ways to positively impact the community it serves. We've done quite a bit of work in Sufre, especially with the schools. So this was easy for us to come in and to donate this buddy bench to the Sufre Primary School. It's important to us to have the children in the community be positive influences on each other. And so we like to be part of this as well. So today, this is what we've done. We've donated this bench and we hope and expect that the Sufre Primary School students will use it to their own benefit. According to founder Laverly Sheridan, the Buddy Ambassador Initiative is an anti-bullying program that aims to create a culture of being a buddy in schools that is encouraging students to be more kind, friendly and inclusive to each other in and outside the school compound. Today at the unveiling of the Buddy Bench, Ms Sheridan spoke to the students about the importance of being a buddy and utilizing the Buddy Bench. The Buddy Bench basically is a tangible tool to put the message into practice. So basically, I'm telling the kids about being a buddy and being kind, including others. So with the Buddy Bench, if a child is feeling left out, if they feel like they need a friend, they need somebody to talk to, they need somebody to play with, they will sit on that bench and a buddy will come up to them and say, hey, is everything okay and talk to them and include them? And so sometimes children don't have ways to express themselves. So it's just sort of like a serve as a metaphor, a tool for them to go there and for others to reach out to them. The principal and staff of the Souffre Primary School were more than happy for the initiative and support from BOSL, who was able to bring it all to fruition. Since we are CFA school, a child friendly school, we have come on board to take the initiative because we have seen that many of our students complain about bullying. We at Souffre Primary School, we want to reduce or eliminate bullying and taking on that initiative. We are assured that our students will be able to be good buddies and don't bully others around. Bank of St. Lucia over the years has supported several initiatives, geared at combating some of the social ills plaguing the nation's youth. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. What's in the food you're eating? Do you really even know? All the chemicals and hormones used to accelerate their growth. All the artificial flavoring, sweeteners and colors too. We consume and we don't spare a thought for the damage that they'll do. No. Think about the children. How will we save them? Chemicals and GMOs are not the solution. Use organic and join. Excessive agrochemical use, additives and genetically modified foods are harmful to health and the environment. Join the Good Food Revolution. Grow, buy and consume organic. A message from Rye St. Lucia and the Ministry of Sustainable Development with funding from the GEF Small Grants Program, UNDP. The Good Food Revolution. Welcome back. We join Primers Hutchinson for the NTN Nouvelle Arquille. Mr. Niche, Mr. Madame, Department of Universities and Information and Government Services, CIGIS, National Television and NTN, what's the name of the Nouvelle Arquille? What's the name of Primers Hutchinson? Department of Universities and Police, National Security, What's the name of the fire brigade? What's the use of the fire brigade? And besides that, we do need to be able to avoid exposure of the wrecks. And besides that, we do need to be able to avoid exposure of the wrecks. How do we do this? First, let's take this initiative to provide support and their problems and provide information on your special telephone. to the most vulnerable areas of the country. This police officer immediately took action to conduct an investigation and did not have to volunteer to speak. In response to the situation in Trinidad, the police discovered the most vulnerable areas of the country, the National Security Agency, and the Public Council, to pay attention to the situation in Trinidad, and the police found the most vulnerable areas of the country. This police officer immediately took action to conduct an investigation and did not have to volunteer to speak. The Police discovered the most vulnerable areas of the country, the National Security Agency, and the Public Council, and the Public Council, to pay attention to the situation in Trinidad, and the result was that the police had six months of connection with the situation in Trinidad. The Public Council found the most vulnerable areas of the country to use the information tools of the agency that was working on this case, which I developed specifically to make the public aware of the situation in Trinidad. In the address of the Special Police, for the National Security Agency, the National Security Agency, you have observed a set. You have observed for the National Security Agency, the Minister of Agriculture. We havevsical Joseph. Congratulations to the Government of Taiwan on their big day work! But more often, for all the friends that have been in this set, and Taiwan. We havevsical Joseph spoke about the friends from these paid salaries. I have accomplished it and I will show you the benefits, of Taiwan from these paid salaries in the diplomatic relationship. Opposite to the Prime Minister, Placianville and Portas, as well as the Financial and Technical Association, who are here, I have received and will continue to receive from Taiwan. They mentioned the great support for agriculture, education, health, and education in general. We have taken care of Joseph Bay to continue to support Taiwan's country to find an acceptable nation. Among the officers who were present, it was Governor General, Senator Snack, and Governor General, as well as the Prime Minister, as well as the Minister of Government. Fourteen members of the Opposition have been present in Taiwan recently, who have observed the national youth celebration with the people of Taiwan. We are a group of students who have finished their studies with the help of the National Programme to assist the youth to learn about the state. The Programme has been held in Monroe College in V4. The program has been set up with the initiative of the government to try to address the situation of the young people who do not work in the country, especially in the south of the country. The National Programme has been adopted by Wendy Moschery. Congratulations to you to find success in finishing your studies and wish you all the best in the future. Thank you to the Cabinet Office, Governor General Benjamin Emmanuel, and to all the students who have taken control of this country. I would like to thank all the professors who have supported the studies to guide and advise us on the situation of this country. That is all for today. Thank you so much for watching. I would like to invite you all to continue to support us in the future. I would like to thank all the students who have taken part in the study. Miss your pill promise. And here's a look at what's happening to us weather wise. Partly cloudy to cloudy skies with scattered showers and a chance of isolated thunderstorms over the southern portion of the Lesser Antilles. Elsewhere, fair to partly cloudy with a few showers. An upper-level trough and the intertropical convergent zone are maintaining above normal cloudiness and some showers over the southern part of the Lesser Antilles. A tropical wave located several hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles is moving westward near 17 miles per hour or 28 kilometers per hour. This wave is expected to bring cloudy conditions with showers and a few thunderstorms over the eastern Caribbean islands from late Sunday continuing into Monday. Another tropical wave located over the far eastern tropical Atlantic is moving westward near 17 miles per hour or 28 kilometers per hour. The tide for Castries Harbor was high at 2.30 p.m. and will be low again at 8.17 p.m. The tide for V4 Bay was high at 3.37 p.m. and will be low again at 9.44 p.m. The sea is a slide to moderate with waves three to six feet or 0.9 to 1.8 meters. The sun will rise Saturday at 5.54 a.m. And that brings us to the end of the NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7 p.m. with a repeat at 7 a.m. You can also catch up with us anytime on the Saint Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I'm Nisha Tross.


Okay, top secret this week. Okay first up. This is at speed up. What is this speed up of I don't remember? I have to watch it to it was some breakout board. Yeah, I'll tell you which one. Sorry. I don't like it I make you know so much electronic. You don't even know what electronics to do anymore. It was Oh the AVXL, that's right. Yes. So, you know, we're revising old accelerometer speaking of the MSA 311 The ADXL 345 and the 343 are actually two different breakout boards that are both non-stem Acutee compatible. And so we're going to merge the two into a QT compatible board. The ADXL 345 is one of the oldest accelerometers we stock. It's like a very early product, but well loved, well trusted accelerometer. So this is me putting together two breakouts, one of the 343 and one of the 345. One's how fast she is. And there's music. Okay, so the next top secret has a little bit of a story. And first up, Adafruit doesn't do NFTs. We don't have any ETH. We've never minted an NFT, we've never brought NFTs. We have had to have people remove our content because they stole it and tried to make NFTs out of it. When the more does things like events and stuff we put in the clause that says you can't use as NFTs because someone tried to do that. But despite all of that, because once we had an author on our site that really wrote about here's a brand that's doing some NFT things and we edited the post, still was a good enough. And then we had stockers and harassers. Someone put pictures of not only me, but our staff up. So anyways, we have a thing Adafruit.com slash NFTs where we say we don't do NFTs. Still not good enough. That's okay.  There's nothing on Adafruit about NFTs. We don't have any ETH. Never purchase NFTs or ETH. We have never minted NFT zero. Adafruit hasn't asked many times to participate in NFTs. We've always said no. Yeah, that's the other thing. We've been asked to participate and do NFTs every single day. Pretty much every day. And I'm not even getting to the point of if we even like them or not. This is what we've done. This is our statement. There's a lot of people that are being really shitty to each other online. And so what we decided to do is be really clear what we're about. So this is a shirt that'll start in the Adafruit store. It's from the share zone. Women's only size is start. That's our policy.  So Lady Aida, can you please, please, please, please debut the shirt. It's a nice shirt. Yeah. So it's a beautiful shirt with rainbow. It's a really nice shirt. Yeah, it's a really nice shirt. And it's got like a rainbow skeleton.   So anyways, and then we're going to have something special. So I'm going to go to the overhead. So we contacted the share zone and they sent us a bunch of stuff that I think we're going to include because we have to get these shirts kind of at cost. And so what we're going to do is have like a little thing. So this is legalized jaywalking. It's very important to share a zone. And then if you don't like things, just walk out. You can walk out of work, social thing, the movies, home, class, dentist, clothes shopping, cops if you're quick, friendships. If it sucks, hit the bricks. Real winners quit share zone. You can leave. So we're going to do this.  Yeah, you've said that. I say that all the time. So despite all of this and all these statements, we'll continue to get death threats about NFTs that we don't do. So that's our type secret. We'll have that soon. So many skulls.


This is Think Tech Hawaii. Community matters here. You bet. Energy in America. Lou Puliarisi in Washington and me, Jay Fidel here in Honolulu, talking about energy in America. More specifically, we're going to talk about the U.S. interagency client assessment. Is it a real crisis or is it doomsday mongering? Whoa. Hi, Lou. Hi. How are you doing, Jack? Pretty good. It's quite cold here in Washington today, so. We are less than sympathetic. What can I tell you? Exactly. Yes. So, yes, I think there's been enormous media coverage of this interagency report, 1700 pages of it, and we should all be quite thankful that it was released on Black Friday instead of prior to Thanksgiving, then we didn't have to talk about it, and Thanksgiving dinner. And if you watch the media coverage of this report, I just think it's been almost irresponsible and just terrible.  And so the question is, what did the report really say? And why did the media focus on actually the absolute worst case, most least likely scenario? And was that a wise way to think about how we are to work our way out of this problem? So I thought what we'd do today is go over some basics of where we are in climate, like we observed so far with the model, say, where people are and trying to get down to 1.5 or 2 degrees, and then talk about the real world for a little bit. Yeah, we need to do that. I mean, it's refreshing to hear you say those things, and I can hardly wait until you describe what's in the report and how it compares with the media reports. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So why don't we start with the first slide up here, right? And this slide shows actually where the gap, what we might say is what the models are predicting or what the models are generating and what observations to date show. And remember the trend lines of this to 1900, and I'm going back thousands of years to the global, you know, to the middle-aged warming period and all these other times, we're just looking at a relatively short snapshot in geologic time. I mean, just a minuscule amount, 1900 to 2100.  There's a huge body of literature for those who are interested in that. That's not my thing. And then there's this forecast going forward, right, on expected temperature change based on the model. What you need to understand about the difference in these future scenarios, they're driven largely by kind of exogenous or external assumptions. Among them are population growth, whether the national economies of the world are dominated by fossil fuels, are dominated by, you know, more industrial process or more service sector, and how balanced their fuel makes it. But you can see the degree of uncertainty going out to 2100 is quite large, and it's really important to understand that even based on the fundamental drivers, there's considerable uncertainty, right? Can I ask you this, Lou? So you have a pink line, which goes higher on the scale, and you have a gray line which goes slower, and I can't read on the 90-degree tilt. What do those two lines represent? So they are different special report emission scenarios from the United Nations. They are very similar. The high one, the absolutely highest one, the high end of the red period, is RPC 8.5. Don't ask. That's the aggressive growth scenario in the climate report, the interagency climate report, which was just issued on Black Friday. So if you're thinking about where did the U.S., where's the media drawing its attention from, it's very similar to the very top end of the red line. And that's a so-called series A2 special report emission scenario from the U.M. and the interagency report there. And it's basically a pretty rosy report on economic growth. But the way the climate science works is the richer we get, the worse off we are. That's sort of where we go. The more we have to lose. Yeah. So I just wanted to understand that this uncertainty is not driven strictly only by kind of the nature of the calculations of the emission foreseeing models, but also underlying assumptions in economic growth, population growth, the structure of the national economies. And so there's lots of uncertainty in this stuff. And we're going to get to why worst case scenario planning may not be the way to think about problems, but let's go to the next picture which shows kind of a consensus of modeling and on where, you know, what people have agreed to in Paris and what the gap may be from what they agreed to and what a lot of the, let's say, the doomsday mongering folks want us to worry about. Okay. Or, you know, responsible people as well. So if you look at this next one, this is the gap between something called nationally determined contributions. That means you showed up at Paris and actually it's technically intended nationally determined contributions. And you said, well, I'm China and I plan to do this. Okay. That was, so you put that in the pot, right? So if everybody in Paris achieves their nationally determined contributions and which they are not obligated to do, you will lower the emissions from the gray line there to the yellow line. Okay. So you can see the total reduction from Paris for which everyone's just horrified that Trump pulled out of us, right, has almost no effect. Okay. So Paris is a more political theater than anything else. Okay. You could argue it's a start-up, but you can see from this graph here the gap in emissions ranges, right? And I think, and this excludes LULUCF, this excludes land use and land use changes in forestry. So you don't, in this model, you get no credit for planting trees. Okay. But what I want to say is that the thing your viewers should take away from this chart is that what we've agreed to in Paris versus what you would have to do, at least under the modeling, to get to 1.5 degrees is a big number. Not even close. Okay. So that's it. Now, let's go to the next one. And I think that this shows you for the G20, right, and the G20 are the richest OECD countries in the world, including South Korea, Japan, Argentina, Europe, US, Canada.  In emissions, right? And emissions per capita, you can see the red line there. That's kind of, that's kind of flat. And emissions intensity in the energy sector, right, and has flat and energy intensity of the economy of the G20 has actually fallen, right? And emissions have grown, but they have not grown exponentially because we have become to, we've become a less, a less heavy industry society, more service oriented, and we've become more efficient. It doesn't meet the, it doesn't meet the objectives of many in the environmental community who want to literally end fossil fuel use by 2040 or earlier. In other words, to meet some of these targets of two degrees, you literally have to stop the use of all fossil fuels in the next 20 years. That may seem like a long time, that's a very difficult thing to do. So let's go to the next. Now you said this is the G20 that's meeting in Argentina just in a few days from now. Yes, right. Do you think I'll be talking about this report in Argentina? I doubt it, but it may be a little bit. Point out that in France, I ask anyone who thinks that this stuff's easy to do, look at the riots in France, right? This was only because he decided to increase the taxes on diesel fuel. And, and when they surveyed these, all the French farmers and the truck drivers and everyone are like stopping traffic and engaging in these massive strikes, they say, well, yes, we're very sympathetic to, you know, environmental initiatives and improving the environment. But the thing we're really sympathetic about is our survival. I can't argue with that. Well, you can't argue with that, but our politicians sometimes are disconnected. So, and I think you might take a look here at how the G20 is doing on our last picture here on decarbonization, right? And this is from a group Energy Transparency.  But I think what you can see here is that nobody is really engaged in massive coal phaseout, our biggest carbon emitter. And in fact, Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Korea, Turkey, actually they list the United States. I don't quite agree with that. No consideration or policy in place of phasing out coal, right? I think that's true for the US, except the market is driving out coal to our cheap natural gas supplies. Well, I mean, do you think, is this going to change? That's really remarkable that coal is sort of the enemy of clean energy. Wouldn't you predict that it will change? Coal will change in the US, keep in mind the notion that somebody in the US decided to write this big report on a territory which is in the United States, and they're going to measure the impacts on a territory which competes 1.6% of the entire global space, you know, the space of the earth. It's kind of, you know, bizarre. Why would anyone think you could do that in any reasonable way?  And so I would say, and this is what we learned in our LNG work, and LNG is more expensive than coal. You go to India, yes, you're getting some progress in China, mostly driven by local air pollution issues. But in much of Asia, you're part of the world there. The cost of electricity is much more important to the political structure and to the folks living in both democratic and autocratic societies than concerns over climate, which is not the same as the concerns these populations have over air pollution. That's a much different thing. They can see it, they can feel it. So what I'm trying to present here is that, yes, the report presents, and I'm going to, we can talk maybe after the break, I don't know, we can go through, OK, what part of the report did the media draw on, which exaggerated what it actually said? Yes. Good question. Let's take a short break. Lupu-Dirisi, E. Prink in Washington, D.C., will come back and answer that question. This is ThinkTech. This is ThinkTech Hawaii, raising public awareness. Aloha. I want to invite all of you to talk story with John Wahee every other Monday here at ThinkTech Hawaii. And we have special guests, like Professor Colin Moore from the University of Hawaii, who joins us from time to time to talk about the political happenings in this state. Please join us every other Monday. Aloha. No, you won't. OK, we're back with Lupu-Dirisi. This is Energy in America. And we're talking about the US Interagency Client Assessment, rather climate assessment reports that came out on Friday, Black Friday. And the title of our show is That Report. Is it a real crisis? Is it talking about a real crisis? Or is it doomsday mongering? We're going to see now what the elements of the report are that you could draw conclusions either way. Right. And I want to sort of make, we don't want to make too light of this, but I do think that this is serious stuff. It requires a lot of thoughtful initiatives on the policy side. It requires some hard-headed thinking, not just aspirational goals. I mean, a lot of people, I mean, I've been looking at this for many years. And we understand how people feel about it. But just because you feel bad about something doesn't mean you should do, you know, you should bankrupt the entire country to do it. You should be thoughtful going forward. So the first thing I would say about the report is that the reporting on it drew upon the most dire economic outcomes. In other words, and actually, even those outcomes are not that bad. So in the report, they said that US GNP would be reduced, it would be 10%, right? Less than, you know, there would be 10% loss in the GNP of the US by 2100. And actually, if you step back from the reporting on that, 10% sounds like it's greater than the great recession. The US economy between now and 2010 is a likely to grow four times. If you took the worst scenario from this report, it would grow 3.8 times. OK, so then you might start, that's even the worst one. That's the most serious outcome. OK, that's bad. But how bad is that really, right? We grow four times, we grow 3.8 times instead of four times. Yes, it would be better for us to grow four times than 3.8 times, but we should have an intelligent strategy to do that. It also, and the reporting on the report only takes the most extreme and least likely climate scenarios. If you go through the whole report, it's a theoretic, so it's known as the so-called representative concentration pathway 8.5, OK? And in that one, they use four representative trajectories to project different greenhouse concentrations. But in this scenario that was used, they use the fastest population growth, a doubling of the Earth's population to 12 billion, the lowest rate of technological development, which is something I refuse to believe is going to happen, right? And slow GDP growth, a massive increase in world poverty, which is completely different which we have seen over the last 20 to 30 years, and high energy use and emissions. Despite what the climate assessment says, this RPC 8.5, it's not a likely scenario. And we always say, worst case scenarios are useful, but do we really want to plan everything in the world? From defense planning to dance for only worst case scenarios, if that's the case, we're going to be quite poor. There's some risk we have to accept, right? Well, whether the predictions are true or not, whether the assumptions are an appropriate ray of assumptions, I mean, it seems clear to me that we're going to have some kind of negative effect. And the negative effect... We are, okay. So it's hard to put a kind of metric on it in the sense, well, are we going to lose 500 million lives or maybe a billion lives? Yeah, but how do you... But someone has to decide if we're going to have a command to control or our governments are going to tell us to do something, right? We have to decide how much of our economic well and our well-being we're going to put into this, right? It's just like anything else we think about in society, right? Big question then, does the report go into that? Does the report say, well, because of these assumptions and these predictions, you have to do this, that, and the other thing? Does it say that, talk about that? It doesn't or just describe what we don't make policies. Okay, that's what the report says. It doesn't say, but I would say that but I would like to point out that it estimates nearly impossible levels of coal consumption. It takes almost no account of the massive increase in natural gas production from the shale revolution. It ignores any kind of technological innovation that occurred both nuclear and renewable technologies. And if you go to more realistic things, what happens is when you look at some of the work by climatologists, Judith Curry and some others, if you use a more kind of realistic view, most of the catastrophic outcomes disappear, right? They don't kick in. And I think a big issue of this is in the report, they also, I think they overdo it of hurricanes and floods, you know, heat waves and wildfires. We look at current events, right? A few years worth of data was okay, this shows it's all based on climate. Might be a contributing factor, I'm not saying that, but if you look at Professor Pelkey's work, and I think we've talked about this before, he, this was a report he did in August, 2017, shows no increase in drought, no increase in frequency magnitude of floods, no trends in intensity hurricanes, and low confidence, right? Climate change and detectives in Western United States, right? So, I mean, I think, and if you go through this, and it depends the trend you use, the period of time, you can, the framing of heat wave data from the 60s today makes it appear there's been more heat waves in recent years, but if you frame wildfire data from 18, 18, 1985, you get the same thing.  Well, you know, it strikes me. Go ahead. Go ahead, Lou. Go ahead. So, I think that that's one thing we need to do. We need to kind of, okay, and we go through the report, we say, okay, what is a kind of responsible strategy which is robust against the uncertainty? Because just, I think if you try to scare the public all the time with this, with these, frankly, doomsday-mongering scenarios, they become inert to it. And I say, you know, this is just like the old cancer research, well, everything causes cancer, so I'm just gonna have an extra stake today or something like that. You have got to kind of educate the public on this in a much more systematic way, and say, okay, here are the sacrifices worth making, and here are the ones we're not gonna make you do, okay? Because it's not, you know, it's, the probabilities are too young. Well, I don't understand, just about the report in general, is it, as I recall, it came out of the White House. The White House had something to do with releasing it, and yet the President doesn't agree with it, he makes a public statement yesterday, day before, that he didn't agree with it, so how much credibility should we attach to this? The government is a little tossed on it, no? So I think the report is required to be issued every four years by Congressional mandate, right? And it's a process through the interagency process. And as far as I understand, the White House did nothing with the report. They didn't want to be seen intervening with it, it's okay, they released it. And then Trump does what Trump does, you know, he just makes it come, I mean, I'm sure he also did not read the report, okay? And I don't know if anyone's summarized it for him. I mean, there is a technical, rational discussion we can have on climate, but that goes beyond the attention span of people who watch cable news. That is going to be, we're going to have leaders who are gonna have to be willing to spend the time to say, okay, look, here's a cost-effective approach to proceed, right? Well, you know, the other thing I wanted to mention who is this, is that maybe the assumptions and the way of presenting this information, making predictions is at the pessimistic end. And maybe it is, let's assume that it is. But doesn't that have a role in trying to motivate government, motivate people? Because up till now, you may know more about this. I don't know if the government has done very much in order to make us more resilient, in fact, more resilient to deal with climate change, either on an optimistic or a pessimistic level. And maybe there's a purpose in all of this to try to get us excited enough to go to action. Yeah, so keep in mind, since the beginning of time, man has been adapting to climate change. He invented clothes, fire, shelter. We built sea walls, dams. So it's not like we are not trying to adapt to climate. We've been adapting to climate since the Roman Empire. So I don't think that, so the question is, what adaptive measures, if in fact, most of the preventative measures, and you saw from my chart, I don't think, we can wring our hands all we want. We are not going to substantially reduce. We're not going to reduce fossil fuel use to zero in 20 years, okay? I don't care what the UN said, it's not happening. So just wake up and accept that, and then start to talk about what's a responsible, adaptive strategy for a range of outcomes and be prepared with adequate research and stuff for the more serious outcomes should be a core, a core. But that is not a dramatic, religious, all-encompassing spiritual fight. That's a kind of technocratic solution we use to solve lots of problems, for which it's not very exciting politically. Don't we need that? I mean, I would have, I haven't read the report, and nobody I know has actually read it, although we're going to have a show about some of the people who wrote it in a few days, about the Hawaii chapter anyway. But wouldn't it be better if this report actually included options and alternatives and took all these findings? So this is a kind of one of these issues, right? Well, no, most people do not want to spend their life. We talked about this in the last show, the climate tax went down in Washington, a very liberal state. It's not one of which the public has been convinced outside of California that a massive amount of money should be spent on this. So I do think there's a lot of homework for people to do. And one of the things is to even educate the media, because I actually don't think the media reporting really reflects what the scientists think. But actually, most of the scientists are pretty thoughtful, and they've done some serious work. There are members among the community and people who are not scientists promoting different agendas, but they are not really part of the mainstream thinking of this issue in my view. So you have the possibility that it's a real crisis. Maybe some of this can be translated into that conclusion. And other parts of it would be doomsday mongering, which is not good for us either. But what is the next step here? It seems to me there should be somebody waiting in the wings to come out and say, okay, we have read the report, and we've analyzed the report, and we've integrated all the possibilities. And here are some action points for you in New York, you in Washington, you in San Francisco, and Los Angeles to actually do now. And let's get on with it, and let's find a reasonable way to do it at a cost we can actually afford. Where is that coming from? Yeah, I think, so I don't know. It's not coming from our current political leadership on both sides of the aisle. But some of the states have promise of doing responsible things. I think Florida's looking at, you look at Florida, they changed a lot of their building standards for hurricanes. There's a lot of interesting work being done on sea level rise and subsidence and Louisiana and other places. So yeah, a lot of this is like local, is gonna take place at the state and local level. And probably what the federal government ought to do is provide some research, overarching research and maybe some funding and some support for demonstration projects and things that make sense. As you know, my own bias is that we spend much too much money trying to put the carbon in the ground, keeping it from getting into the atmosphere and not enough on adaption. I would think the adaption is likely to be that is what mankind has done for 5,000 years. There's no reason to think you can't keep doing that. Well, maybe we ought to put this in the hands of the think tanks, the energy think tanks. Energy think tanks just like your energy think tank and you could write a report putting all this together and giving us away a path. What do you think Lou? We don't work on climate. Well, if I asked you how this affected your thinking as a researcher and analyst on energy policy around the world, has it affected your thinking so far? I guess more to- It doesn't really affect my thinking very much at all because I look at the data and I don't see anybody rushing to impoverish themselves to meet some problem that's 100 years away. And I do think that, yeah, the way it shapes my thinking is look, you should be putting more money into research and development. You should be looking at some interesting adaption issues and you should sort of follow Bill Gates' strategy. When the alternatives become competitive, they'll emerge. And the way and what you might wanna do is accelerate when they'll become competitive but put more money into research and development. But to try to centrally manage the national economies or to wrench them into alternatives that are very costly, that's a strategy for getting kicked out of office. But we have to find one, don't we? We have to find a strategy that will be useful, that will be manageable and that will take all these points into somehow into account. Otherwise, it's sort of like, you know what it's like? It's like the frog in the water.  If you just go ever so gradual, that's the end of the frog. So we have to remain completely aware and conscious of how these things are going. And we'll look to you for that, Lou. We'll look for you to tell us about. I'll keep telling you about it. Okay, Lou Putirisi, President, Chief Executive of E-PRIG, Think Tank on Energy in Washington. And I look forward to our next discussion two weeks hence. Thank you so much, Lou. Thank you, Jay. Aloha.


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Lair of the Mountains, a story of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. Our scene opens at Fort McAllister in the Canadian Northwest. The Fort is a survival of the old days, when the great Hudson Bay Company held sway over that vast region under the ancient title of the Gentlemen Adventurers of England, trading into Hudson Bay. The glory of the old days has departed, but the Fort is still a company post. Here is the company store. Here, too, is the small Northwest Mounted Police post, where we find Sergeant Blair. The big stove, piled full of green birch logs, is red-hot. Outside are blizzard rages. Entering the cabin as our story opens, is Blair's trusted assistant, Angus Cameron. Oh, hello, Angus. Man, man, Sergeant Jordan's a hearted nest. Listen to that wind, will you? Yes, it's a bad night, all right. Did you phone Marshal Fort Douglas about that fur case? Ah, I did not. He'll be out on it in the morning. Anything else doing? Marshal said a dog team went by at four o'clock. What? In this weather? Who was it? It's Bella Tour, heading this way. Bella Tour? Good lord fancy a woman on the trail, a night like this.  Worth a million, they say, and yet she's no satisfied. Just built a dance hall in the new Tuned Dawson. Calls at the circle. Yes, hope she gets it all right. Yes, she will. She got the best dogs in the Northwest. And Antoine's the finest driver from here to Hudson Bay. She'll be showing up soon. Lesson, will you? There's something new. Ah, can't hear a thing for that wind, Angus. It's a team, Sergeant. Listen. Oh yes, I believe you're right. Open that door. Will! Hello, there, Angus. Hello, Sergeant. Gee, what a night. Hello, there, Angus. Give a hand to the dog. Aye, Sergeant. Sit down, Belle. Thanks, Sergeant. Gosh, what a trail. Bucking that blizzard clear from Holy Cross Lake. Where you heading, Belle? Oh, just going down Edmonton.  Got to make the Saturday strain. This wind's too tough even for me. I'll lay up here and quit. I see. Well, I got your wire from Holy Cross. What's in your mind, Belle? Plenty.  I know. What about him? He's out of jail. Yeah, so I heard. I've been Alaska, I believe. No, he ain't, Sergeant. What? Now, he was up there on the landing last night and heading this way. Hmm, that's interesting. Too interesting to suit me, Sergeant. Fingers never forgiven you for picking him up at battles for that time. He's been doing a lot of talking and said he was going to get you. Oh, see here, Belle. Yeah, I know. But you better watch out, Sergeant. Fingers is bad medicine. He's got a couple of tough birds with him. I see. Well, thanks for tipping me off. Coming back this way? Yeah, I guess so. Well, got to be getting out of the store. All right, Belle. Good luck. Thanks. Hmm. Fingers Smith again, eh? No rest for the weekend. Hello, it was singing. Oh, Fingers. Hi, Sergeant. You hear about Fingers Smith? Hi, Anton was telling me. What do you think of it, Sergeant? Well, we'll have to watch he doesn't spoil that good record we have in this district. Oh. Sounds as if the wind's up. Aye, it has that. And look at the north and left. Yon's a magnificent sex, Sergeant. Yes. What has the thought? Ah, it's the wee woman who's starting to do the trail again. Yon's a long trail, she's stacking. Yes, Belle's trail will never end. So that brave little heart of hers stops beating. Well, better bank that fire, Angus. I'll be turning in. Aye, Sergeant, I'll do that. Good night, dear. Good night, Angus. Hello. What's that? Hey, wake up, Angus. Oh, man, I was having a faint sleep. Oh, I'll go. Wait, wait. Good Lord, Belle, are you back again? Yes, it's me. Sergeant Quick, I've been robbed and all I good for are cleaned out. What? Sure, they held me up in Long Cooley. Held up? Why, look here. They don't hold people up in this country. Oh, no. I'll tell you the truth, Sergeant. Oh, for heaven's sake. Let him out, Belle. Take it easy. Sit down. Start the beginning.  Aye, I'm coming. Oh, where in the world did I put my socks? Put them on my feet. All right, Belle. Let's have the story. Well, I was right in the middle of Long Cooley and I was riding and pretty near asleep. And all of a sudden, there was a shot from the bush. Antoine's lean dog went down and three men jumped it. Recognize the men? No, not a chance. Too bad, Belle. But I'll tell you one thing. One of those men was Finger. Finger Smith, you sure? Sure. I'm dead certain. I know his voice in a million. What happened to Antoine? I shot him. And I got the dogs clear. Poor old Mishka is dead. The best lean dog I ever had. Gee was I mad. Is Antoine dead? Sure. Never made a move. Gosh. Thirty years in this country and that's the first time anybody ever stole a nickel's worth from me. And as for losing Antoine, poor old Mishka. Oh, jeez, Sergeant. All right. Take it easy, Belle. That's fair. Yeah, sure. It's in my handbag. Oh, Angus. Yes, Sergeant. We leave the Indian trackers. I wonder who's around the fort. They're all here, I'm thinking. Well, get Joe the man and Little Bear if you can. Get him out ahead of us. And get Marshall to start for long, coolie at once. All right, Angus. Slip into it. We'll start in half an hour. Aye, Sergeant. Gosh. I hope you'll get them guys. Change the money I mine so much. It's the idea of being held up at this cheap, poor flesh and gang and losing old Mishka. Oh, jeez. He was a grand dog, Sarge. I feel like murdering somebody. Oh, no, you're getting so, Belle. I don't think we'd pick him up. Well, how's we getting along? Well, so long, Sergeant. Good luck to you. Thanks. So long, Belle. You're the coolie just ahead, Sergeant. Yes, there's Joe the man and Marshall. All right. Lead the dogs here, Martin. Angus. Oh. Please come in, Chief. Your form. Hello, Joe. Morning, Marshall. Good morning, Sergeant. It's a pretty bad business. Yes, where's the place? Just ahead under the high bank, Sergeant. Find anything? Not much, Sergeant. There's a lot of blood on the snow, and the place is swarming with tracks. I see. Joe, what do you say? Well, three men here. One man atop in Bushier by trail. One man on the side trail. Another man on top, big bank. Watch for slaves. Yes, I know. I don't want that. What happened after the hold up? Which way they go? You'll no find them yet.  Look for slay tracks. It's a getaway I'm interested in. Ah, here you go. You think they had to slay up there? I'm afraid so. Well, that might be it. But I couldn't get these Indians away from the main trail. That's an Indian all over. They have a sense of the dramatic. Always want to sit down and reenact the tragedy. Yes, that's right. Joe and little Bear were having quite a power down here in the Coulee. But what's your theory about this getaway, Sergeant? Well, they wouldn't keep the main trail. They settled country north and south and east of us. Oh, you think they went west? I think so. If they head for the foothills, it's going to be tough. But they have to cash in on that fur. Oh, they might figure on laying up on the hills till things quiet down and make a break south. Oh, I see. Well, here's Joe again. Oh, this one there. Yes, Joe? Oh, Joe him find them slay track up top of bank. Yes, which way they go, Joe? I think maybe head for Snake River. Oh, that's nice. Five hours start. They'll be over Snake River for nightfall. We have no chance in the world. They'll be in the hills tomorrow. No, policeman chief. Maybe you go fast. You'll catch them tonight. What? Oh, you're crazy, Joe. No, I say you'll catch them tonight. Have his sleigh. Bad trail. You catch them. And hold on, Joe. Either they have to break trail. We never catch them this side. Snake River. Pretty soon. Big Chinook. He comes. Chinook. Here, hold on, Joe. You sure? Joe, him never make mistake, policeman chief. Well, that's different. Gosh, that's right. If a Chinook comes, we've got him. See here, sergeant, this is all Greek to me. What is this Chinook business? Oh, yes, I forgot. This is your first winter in the West, Marshal, eh? You see a Chinook has a warm wind that comes suddenly in winter out here. But what difference does that make? Well, it looks funny, I'll admit, but the Chinook raises the temperature rapidly. It melts snow like magic. If we get a real Chinook, there'll be 10 feet of water over the ice in Snake River for midnight. Oh, I see. Then they'd be stuck this side of the Snake River. That's it. Well, it's guessed right. Me, sir, big Chinook, here come. You catch him. Yeah, it's a chance, all right. Marshal, shake up your dogs. I'll get Angus and we'll shove on to Snake River. Light sleighs, we ought to gain on those fellas pretty fast. Eh, so that's why it turns so warm. Anything doing, sergeant? Not yet. It looks all right. Joe and Little Bear have gone to see if they can find the camp. Well, the river's in flood, all right. And it's just as hot as a summer night. Where's Angus? Here, sergeant. Right. We're about 100 yards from the river. Wonder where those Indians have got to. They've been quite a time. Wonder what's the matter. I'm probably having another power. Good Lord, what's that? All right, look out. That's Joe's signal. Stand by. Look here, sergeant. Yonza men coming for the trio. Hold on. It's all right, Joe. Oh, this one's here. Well, Joe, what do you got? My fandom camp. Three men close by the river. You come while I'm asleep. Yes, we come. Angus, Marshal? Yes, sir, then. All right, I'll drive with you. This is the plan. Now listen, Joe. I'll be careful with this now. You two follow Joe. Get round behind the camp, then work in close enough to jump these fellas. I'll go straight for the camp. When you get set, I'll walk straight in on them and make the rest. Got the idea? Yes, all right, Sergeant. Right, keep your guns handy. Don't shoot unless you have to. Move in quick, and I challenge them. How about those dogs, Joe? Oh, dog, him plenty tired. That trail, heavy load, him played out. No, make no noise. All right, you fellas keep close to Joe. Watch your step. I'll shut off now. Hey! Who's that? Come on, Marshal. Angus, come on! Hey, what is this? Hey, wake up, Bill! Hey, what is this? Look out! Hold it! Hey, what's the idea? What do you mean? All right. Stand him up, Marshal. That's it. James Ennis Smith. I arrest you in the King's name for the murder of Antoine Leclerc at Lawn Cooley. Huh? Anything you say will be used against you as evidence. Ah, so sure as it. Of course, yeah. I won't have to run into you again. Too bad, finger. What about that fur, Angus? Oh, here I'm thinking.  Nice work, Joe. Ah, Christmas Eve. So, him, he, the father. Again, Joe the man, famous Indian tracker, has proved his worth. Tune in for our next episode in Blair of the Mounties, entitled The Track.


There's so much here. America is the only country that's had a civil war and gone back together. And that's the thing to celebrate that we are so different that we're able to settle our differences and move on. The past and present are without a doubt linked through Gettysburg. The American Civil War and President Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg address during that war will forever be associated with this Pennsylvania city. Today, Gettysburg is the site of preservation projects that have resulted in the restoration of Civil War-era architecture, important public lands, and historic sites with plenty of rugged beauty. Visitors will enjoy Gettysburg National Park, where they can see the battlefields and hundreds of monuments and memorials. Sailors, soldiers, marines and airmen can step back in time and visit the city's numerous reenactment camps where they'll be treated with the sights and sounds of the past brought to life. My name is Doug Murdler. I'm from Albion, New York, and we are giving a living history presentation. I just, I like history. I want to be able to relate what happened and my ancestors important to me and honoring my ancestors and what happened to them here is important. I hope my children will carry it on. Gettysburg is the reenactors' paradise, if you will. Everybody wants to come to Gettysburg because there's always something going on here, and it's so big and it's so large and, you know, and everything. And there's a lot of great places in town to stop and have a beer or two. So if you're stationed nearby or you just have some leave coming up, take a trip and revisit America's Civil War from the battlefield. Come to Gettysburg. It's your military history.


Whatever we are building, it's not something which is finding traction into the day-to-day world. Like when you build an e-com company, you build a food tech company, it's very easy to take it out of the market and do a scale thing, right? So your brand actually gets recognized. What we're building is in deep tech and as of now, we have been sending it to certain corporations, certain agencies which has very confidential nature and business, right? So we talk about defense, right? So whatever stuff that we're doing is not really in public domain, right? So thank you very much for recognizing, do your research and then acknowledging what we're doing. On top of it, I guess, one thing that makes great and very unique is our core DNA, right? So me and my partner, Pranjil, both of us have certain things in common. One is that we are k-mers, second is we are movie buffs. So we like a lot of super evil movies, we are Marvel fans and all, right? And third is we have not really done substantially well in our early set of education, right? So somewhere or the other, when we corrected three of the dots, we realized that it is important for us to think about gamification, think about how do we utilize technology and gamification in the way HCI is driven. So human-computer interaction. We talk about man-machine interfaces and all those things, you know? So that's where we started doing certain things, right? So one of the key ideas that we have been believing and we have been actually building in houses, it's not an overstatement or could be taken out, right? So you have seen Javas. Imagine when you have a force like Javas guarding your borders or patrolling your borders, right? So these are the kind of initiatives that we are trying to build. So building tactical aids for defense forces, getting them better training and assessment tools, you know? That's the key motto and that's the technology that we are building. Guess the kind of futuristic forces, the kind of a watch that we are going to see in future, if at all I'm not very optimistic about watch, but we have to be always ready if something comes in picture, you know? So the kind of a watch that we are going to have in, see in next decade or maybe end of this decade, if at all there are threats like that, then it won't be really run on directly manpower of the human resource and there is no point having casualties where you can actually drive a lot of watch using technology, right? So that's what makes our proposition very unique and we really feel we can add a lot of value by saving human lives. By guarding or patrolling our borders, our country, our nation very well, you know? And in India, we are one of the only sort of people who have been focusing on it. We have been having a long term vision that makes us very unique. I really am learning, so I'm not really right set of person to preach people about what we are doing. But one cool thing that I have learned so far is you have to say start dreaming today, right? And whatever dreams that you get, right? Even in the nascent stage, you have to believe in it, you know? And you have to stay there, right? One of the core lessons, the first lesson of my entrepreneurship life was given by one of my bosses. He said money would come, maybe a bit late, maybe it doesn't arrive at all in the next one, two, three years, but you have to stay there, you know? Perseverance, persistence is the key of what you do in your life, you know? I guess that's the only thing I can talk about.


Hello, my name is Jackie and welcome back to my channel and in this video I am having a minor identity crisis about who I am as a writer and what prompted this is that for the last almost two months now I have been either preparing for Nanarimo or doing Nanarimo. So all of October was focused on preparation and plotting and then the last few weeks have all been about getting my 50,000 words out. What prompted this identity crisis was that I always wanted to be a plotter, I always thought I would be a plotter and then when I started plotting in October it didn't go well or maybe it didn't go that badly but it didn't go as well as I'd hoped. You see I had an entire month of preparation time and I thought by the end of that month I would have a completed outline for my book so I would have every single scene listed and mapped out so that when I sat down to write I'd know exactly what I would be writing that day and I wouldn't be, I wouldn't get stuck. And along with creating anxiety about the fact that I was probably going to fail Nanarimo because I hadn't achieved that it also made me question who I was as a writer because the thing is so before starting this YouTube channel and even now in my day job my background is as a non-fiction writer so for the past 12 years I've been working as a copywriter and a content marketer and I also used to have a publishing company that helped entrepreneurs write awesome books and in that company I wrote the book on how to plot for non-fiction so I wrote a book called Book Blueprint how any entrepreneur can write an awesome book and the focus of that book is outlining the argument is that if you have a thorough outline or in my words blueprint when you sit down to write you will write successfully you will know what you're going to write every day you won't get stuck doing research and googling or just looking at the curse of blinking on a blank page and you will write well you will know exactly what you need to cover you'll know which order it needs to be covered in you'll know which questions you need to answer to make sure you discuss everything you want to discuss in depth and as a non-fiction writer and editor so as someone who edited these books and as someone who ghost wrote books for some of our clients that was the process I followed and in fact even in writing the book on blueprinting I had a 10,000 word blueprint before I started writing and that meant I got my first draft out in three days admittedly it was not a publishable draft it didn't need a bit of work but having the blueprint was what allowed me to write it so quickly and even though it did need a bit of work it was probably 80 percent there in its first draft form so it's not like I wrote this first draft really quickly and then had to throw everything out like 80 percent of it was good to go the other thing I thought was that if I was a pancer surely I would have panced by now like I've been wanting to get back into writing fiction since I was at university because the last fiction thing I wrote was when I was at uni and then I got a real job and I stopped and I thought part of the reason why I wasn't writing was because I didn't have the time to put to do the plotting and to put that thought in and to have the creative space that you need to get ideas together and I thought that if I was a pancer then I would have been hit by a lightning bolt of inspiration at some point and would have just been able to type out scene after scene and they all came to me in this beautiful experience where I was inspired by some sort of muse and that never happened either so I was at this point where I was like well I've never panced I've never plotted successfully and maybe that means that I don't have what it takes to start writing fiction maybe I should just even before I'd started really I was thinking that maybe I didn't have what it took to write fiction and maybe I should just give up then now side note maybe I don't have what it takes to write fiction I am still just getting started but at least I'm trying so this was where my mind was at when I saw a video by Kat Cho where she talked about plotting and pancing but she used different words she talked about architects and gardeners which came from George RR Martin so this divides writers into the same two categories those who plan and those who don't but he describes it a little bit differently so I'll just share those definitions with you so in Mr Martin's words I think there are two types of writers the architects and the gardeners the architects plan everything ahead of time like an architect building a house they know how many rooms are going to go in the house what kind of roof they're going to have where the wires are going to run and what kind of plumbing there's going to be they have the whole thing designed and blueprinted about before they even nail the first board up the gardeners dig a hole drop a seed and water it they know what kind of seed it is they know if they planted a fantasy seed or a mystery seed or whatever but as the plant comes up and they water it they don't know how many branches it's going to have and they find out as it grows so before I saw this video and I saw these definitions I thought I needed to be a plotter or I wasn't a writer I just didn't see pancing as an option for me simply because as I said earlier if I was a pancer I would have had some moment when I'd written in that way however when I saw these two definitions so the architect and the gardener it made me sit back because I thought well in every other area of my life I'm a gardener so I don't have a roadmap for my life I've never had a five-year plan at most I know what I want to do in maybe the next year or so so five years ago I had no idea I'd be living in Estonia at the moment working for a financial company five years before that I didn't know I'd have a publishing company I didn't know I would be working for myself full-time or that I'd go to all of these international events that I went to and do all of this traveling because I had the freedom because I was working for myself five years before that I don't maths is not my strong suit I think five years before that I was in uni so then I had no idea I was doing an arts degree and didn't really know anything about online marketing and copywriting and content marketing which is where the corporate side of my career has developed so every stage of my life my approach has been let's figure out the next step and then once I'm in that step and I learn more I'll know what to do with that information and I can figure out the next step from there so when I was in high school the next step was university I was going to do an arts degree no idea what would happen after that got towards the end of the arts degree I knew I wanted to travel I went to London for 18 months and worked there didn't know what would happen next spent the next couple of years bouncing around to different countries got back to Australia decided I was going to give corporate ago which didn't really work for me and that led me to starting my business but every time it was just I had a next step and didn't know what would come after it so why did I assume that writing fiction would be different and why was I putting all of this pressure on myself to try and have every single step mapped out when in every other part of my life I only have the next one or two and what's interesting is that I think the reason I put this pressure on myself was because I'm an outliner and a plotter for nonfiction so when I do nonfiction books I have everything mapped out but the reason for that is because one most of the time I'm working on a book that isn't mine it's not knowledge coming from my head so I need to get the information from the author which means it all needs to be mapped out otherwise it's just going to be constant back and forth and me asking them questions as I get to the next part of the book and don't know what's supposed to be there but the other thing is that even if it's your own nonfiction book assuming it's like a nonfiction how-to type of book the goal of those books is to share your knowledge it's to share like the process that you already go through with your coaching clients or your personal training clients or whatever your business is and to distribute that in book form now that assumes you already have that knowledge you already have that process so mapping it out is infinitely simpler because you already have the information it's just a step on the way to writing a book that gets the information out of your head and onto the page and that makes the writing process easier because you get you do the thinking before you do the writing if that makes sense fiction's a different ball game because you at least I don't have all of the information so when it was October the idea that I ended up deciding to work on for November the only thing I knew when I started planning it was this one scene I'd had that I dreamt so I knew it was about a girl in a family of superheroes who didn't have superpowers and she was kicked out and told not to come back until she had powers that was all I had and even though I know there are people who plot I know there are architects I know there are plotters who would probably map all of that out before they got started and maybe I could have if I had a bit more time telling myself it was the only way I was going to get the book done probably wasn't the healthiest way to go about it and even when I think about the nonfiction things I've written the plotting and blueprinting approach only really applies to books like if I'm writing an article or a blog post or even like an ultimate guide and they tend to be sort of five to ten thousand words usually I don't have an outline I just I either have the knowledge and I know what I want to say and I start writing and it generally generally comes out somewhat articulate and I can go back and edit it or or I research and I cobble it together as I'm doing the research but I don't yeah I don't outline it up front so it's just it's just interesting that I put all this pressure on myself in terms of fiction and I imagine there are a lot of other new writers who are doing this especially when you read a lot of the plotting type books so story engineering save the cat take your pants off and all the others that tell you that this is the only way to success so if you've been in this position maybe rather than thinking of strict plotting and pantsing try thinking about architects and gardeners because I think those definitions are a little bit more forgiving in terms of me and my writing what I've noticed with Nanorimo is that even though I didn't get as far as I wanted with the plotting in October now I'm into week four of Nanorimo at the time of filming this video I have over 36 000 words and I'm on track even though I didn't have the complete plot or the complete outline I'd hoped for and what's interesting is that even when I go back and look over what I've done already and there are clearly scenes in there from the original outline there's a whole lot in there that was never in the outline even in those scenes there are things that you know puzzles my brain put together as the world started developing and as the characters started developing and if I had waited until I had the entire thing outlined I mean I would have missed Nanorimo because you know time is time days keep passing but I might never have written the book because I never would have given myself the opportunity to sort of discover as I went so yeah if you're like me and putting pressure on yourself to be a plotter and it just isn't working maybe think of yourself as a gardener where you know the shape of your idea you might even have a few scenes or a few of the next steps mapped out but just because you don't know the whole thing doesn't mean your death your sentence to failure so hope you enjoyed that ramble if you did please like and subscribe I generally do videos about twice a week and I'd love to hear from you are you a plotter or a pancer or are you an architect or gardener and have you experienced a similar identity crisis to what I did when you thought you should be one and that just wasn't working for you until next time bye


Hey everybody, it's time for another edition of Tactical Book Review. This is a series where we examine books in the tactical world because I'm a reader and I want to know what kind of books we should be reading, what kind of books we should not be reading, which ones of those marketed in this area are worth our time, which ones are not, stuff like that. So that's why I do this series and I hope that you find it helpful. This book is The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker. I read this book because John Lovell over at the Warrior Poet Society mentioned it on his channel and when John Lovell mentions a book and tells you to read it, you read that book. So that's what led me to this thing. Now I want to offer a couple of caveats that he did not that I think are very important in helping this book fit in your framework because I do think there's some helpful stuff on it. I'm going to rag on it here for a second, but after that I do think there's some helpful stuff. First thing that you need to know about this book is that Mr. Gavin De Becker is not a gun guy.  I don't know if he's actually a Democrat but he's certainly a late 90s anti-gun person which is kind of funny for a guy who owns a company that provides armed security among other things for its clients. So that's funny and kind of annoying and really it only comes out in two places in the book and so you can kind of just swallow it and move on and really not deal with it. By and large it's not really a part of the book. There are some conspicuous places where I think being armed or recommending that people be armed is absent and it's conspicuously so and so I think that's a problem so you got to fill in the gaps in there of kind of what is the proper role of an armed American or being armed. Where does that, where does that fit in this book? You have to fill that in yourself but rather because like I said he's an anti-gun guy but beside that I think it's a very valuable book. The other thing, the other caveat that I need to put in here to help you understand this is where this book fits. This book fits in the category of preventative measures. That's where this book fits.  This book is what can we do before the threat occurs to recognize and prevent the threat. That's really where this book shines. That's what this book is about. When you put it, you give those caveats to it, it's a great book for what it sets out to be. It really is and I would recommend it to you in that regard. The gist of the book is this. It's about following your intuition or following your gut. That's really what it is. His whole premise is you as a human being can predict other human beings behavior because you do it all the time and predicting violence is possible and if you have a weird creeped out feeling about some person, there's a reason for that and your intuition and your gut is telling you this is what's happening because your brain I don't know if he consciously says this in here but this is how it summarized it. What he's saying is your brain can process information faster than you can consciously arrive at logical decisions. So if you have a really bad feeling about a person and you don't like the look of that guy, there's a reason for that and you should follow your gut, you should follow your intuition. That's really the gist of the book and he walks through how to do that. He walks through how to deal with special weird cases like having a stalker or extreme cases of people being out to kill you, something like that. Some of it, right, you don't deal with neurarity. He also talks through more mundane everyday violence like domestic violence and how to deal with an abusive spouse and stuff like that. So I would recommend this book in that preventative category. I think it's very, very helpful there. I also think it's a very good intro book for the women in your life for two reasons. One, because it's not a tactical book, like I said, it's just a book. And it plays to, let's be honest, a strong suit that women in general are better at than men, which is following their intuition. So it reinforces what they already know and it takes it a step further to help them understand the world around them to hopefully help prevent those things. So I think it's a very good book and you can kind of get yourself in the back door to open them up to this whole world of violence that's out there and say, hey baby, maybe we should start carrying a gun if she's more remiss to do that. So for all of those things, I recommend this book. I think it's good. One of the other things I appreciate about this book is that it gives a very wide view on violence. This is not just getting munger in a dark alley. This is not the stuff that we typically talk about in the gun world. It's a much broader view of violence in general and how to anticipate and deal with that violence, which I appreciate. And the other distinction I really like that he calls out at the end of the book is he talks about the difference between worry and fear. And the book is called The Gift of Fear, right? Again, when you get that gut feeling that something's wrong here, there's a reason for that. And he differentiates that between worrying, which again, I'm not going to give you the whole explanation of the book, but very helpful and good explanation that I found helpful. So again, with the caveats I gave in the beginning, knowing, understanding when this book fits, that's where I'd recommend this book to you. It's not a terribly short read. It's about 300 pages. I recommend it to you with the caveats that I gave earlier. Again, The Gift of Fear by Gavin DeBecca. Do brave deeds and endure.


For what this is trying to do, this is pretty much a flawless product in my opinion. Hey, what's up guys, it's Josh here today. I want to do a little review on this Pi brand Delta 8 concentrate pen now. The main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis is THC and it is nine THC. So this is just eight THC. So it's like modified just the slightest bits, but it becomes Delta 8. It becomes something differently entirely. And I think this naturally occurs in marijuana in very low doses. And they give you like a warning when you search this up because people haven't concentrated it that much. Like it's somewhat of a newer thing. So I put a lot of warnings on there. So I do want to say please use this at your own risk. I'm just going to give you my personal experience vaping this entire pen. And I really, really liked it. So this is just going to be my personal experience. Please do your own research before jumping in. Let's jump into the pros of this pen. The pros is that it has a very strong noticeable feeling, something like CBD has a lot of benefits, but it just doesn't have any of that psychoactive property. So to be trying to have a little bit of that THC like feeling without it being the classic THC, I was a little bit worried. But I do want to say this stuff was really, really strong, very noticeable, had a very similar taste to cannabis, great effects, really relaxed. I think this is more of the indica. So I don't know if you guys are familiar with indica, sativa and all of that. But indica usually means you feel a little bit more in the body and it is a little bit more tiring. They have a couple other pens, you know, you might want to go based on what you want, maybe you want more of a sativa, maybe you want more of an indica. Someone told me they gave an influencer a sativa version of this and the taste was very, very light. For me, the taste was actually really, really good on this one.  It's hard to describe. It's a very specific kind of taste. It's very similar to, you know, normal weed. And I guess this is eight THC. So it should smell very similar because they're both THC. One has an eight before it. The other one has a nine. I'm not a fan of a lot of fruity flavors or just overly flavored anything really in as far as baked pens. But this one has just this right amount of flavor. I would want to say about five to 10% of this berry flavor in here. And it just makes it taste so, so, so good. And you never get too much of that sweet, syrupy berry. It's just mixed in perfectly. And I just really, really enjoyed the taste of this one. And then I had no issues with like the cart or it breaking or not hitting right. It delivered amazing hits from beginning to end. And on top of that, this is a disposable unit. So usually when it's disposable, it's just going to break a little bit easier versus if you were meant to keep it. I had absolutely no issues with the quality on this one. Everything worked as I wanted to every single time until the cart was done. And then the other pro to this one is that it is legal in more states. Now that's probably the biggest reason someone would jump into this one. I know as far as California, the only one that's made it illegal is like San Diego County, which is like 200 miles away from me. So I don't usually go down there. And then I kind of thought this was legal everywhere, everywhere else, but I did do a little Google search in about, I want to say about 25 to 30 states have legalized it. Some other states have kind of gone against it. But if you're in a state that really punishes weed and cannabis, but this is available, that's pretty much who this is designed for. And you're going to be super, super, super happy because I really wouldn't trust something that's supposed to feel like weed to feel like weed. And this one really delivers that punch that you're looking for. I have tried some THC pens in the past. You know, they always feel really good. They're really nice to get into, but it's just so expensive. You look at something like Stizzy or things like that. So I have had concentrate pens. I'm not somebody who's used it for like three months straight. I probably have been given like a pen a few times. And then the last pro of this one is that I really liked the logo and the look of this. If somebody had told me this is the new weed vape pen, this is like the brand that's taken over the game. And they're just the best that you could get or like trying to beat Stizzy or something like that. There's nothing about this whole product that alarms me or looks cheap. Everything about this was of the highest quality you could possibly get. And I do want to say that I did save my pen. I used the entire pen and I saved it for a few days to be able to do this review, but I just cannot find it absolutely anywhere. And I've just had it like literally waiting for this review. I know I grabbed it at one point today and I don't know where it is. So unfortunately, I can't show you the pen. Maybe if I can get a picture online, I'll show you, but it's just it's about that size obviously.  So I really enjoyed it. I really wish I could show you what the pen looked like, but unfortunately it's pulling a Houdini on me right now. To be honest, guys, I have almost no mixed or cons on this one. I do have one mixed. And that is I do not know the price of this yet. They're still working out a deal to get this website up and running.  Just because I fly through them personally and they're usually pretty expensive because it's a very high quality product. It works wherever you want to go and it's much stronger than any normal cannabis. So there is a really good niche for it. And I do not know the price of this. I would venture to say 40 bucks ish, maybe up to 50. If I find out, I will definitely put it down below. And as soon as their website gets created, I will put that down below as well. But besides that guys, I literally don't have any cons. Like think about what would go wrong with this. Like it doesn't feel good. It feels good. It doesn't taste good. It tastes great. It was hard to use. It was breaking down. Never once had a great charge the whole time for what this is trying to do. This is pretty much a flawless product, in my opinion. Who is this for? I would say if you're somebody like I was saying before, if you live in an area that completely bans weed, THC, or it's like really expensive or you have a job that bans it, but somehow there's a legal loophole to where you can have this, you're going to be really, really happy because if somebody gave me unlimited supply of pies, so long as that I never have a dab and I never smoke any normal weed again, I would take it. That's how much I really enjoyed this product and how much it covers all the bases of somebody who uses marijuana once in a nice pen. So anyways guys, have you guys heard of Delta 8? Have you guys tried any concentrate pens? I know a lot of people out there are really into marijuana and weed and a lot of other people are just super, super against it. So for me, I never really talked about it on this channel just because if there's somebody who's really against weed, I don't really need to talk about it. We can talk about a lot of other stuff and get interested in it. I kind of was avoiding trying to segregate the community with this one, but I do like how it's a little bit different than normal weed. You can kind of make the argument like, oh, it's not weed. Oh, I'm not doing a drug almost to a certain extent because it is altered. It is called Delta 8. It's not called weed. It's not called THC. It's not called dab. So I do like that little loophole around it. It kind of shuts some people up because to be honest, most cannabinoids are just extremely safe and possibly even good for you, in my opinion. So that's been my review of Pi Delta 8 Pan 900 milligrams. Really liked everything about this product. Let me know what kind of products like this have you tried. Have you tried Delta 8? Do you vape? Do you dab? Do you hate that? It gives you anxiety, screw it. I'll be very interested to see what your opinion are. I'll be very interested to see what your opinion of this product is down below. We're on the road of 50,000 subscribers and I could not do it without any of you guys help. You guys are the best. I'm having a great day out here. Hopefully having a great day at home. See you all in the next video. Peace.