Well hello and welcome to Understand Men Now. I'm your host Jonathan Asley of johnathanasley.com and I'm so excited to be shooting this short video for you today. Our topic, The Five Signs A Man Sees You As A High Value Woman. Now before we get into this video really quickly, if you post a comment below regarding this video and share something that you learned from this video, you might be eligible for a special prize at the end of this video. So just make sure you post a comment below. Okay, let's go back to those five, wait, is that five? That's 10 signs. Let's just stick with five signs he sees you as a high value woman. Now, here's the thing I've noticed with a lot of men as well as women is that there's a lack of respect going on for another human being. You know, it's so interesting, but in the dating realm today, oftentimes people are dating very myopically. They literally have got their lenses on. In other words, they're only focused on themselves and they don't recognize that there's another human being at the other end of this table we're sitting across, maybe at a restaurant or something like that. And I alluded to earlier about respect is that there's this saying that men want to feel respected to men want to feel respected to feel cherished in the relationship and a woman wants to feel cherished to be respected in the relationship.  You either, you want both. You want to feel cherished and you want to feel respected. And I don't think feeling cherished makes you feel respected because if a person doesn't respect you, they can cherish you. I don't even know if they can cherish you. I want to lean into respect. So I want to give you those five signs that a man sees you as a high value woman and it starts with valuing yourself, starts with valuing yourself. And if you're not familiar with the book, The Four Agreements, The Four Agreements, I highly recommend you checking this out because this is all about learning self-respect because ultimately a man can't respect you until you respect yourself.  Bump, bump, bump. Do you have the emotional maturity be respected? And by the way, this isn't just for women, for men too. This is the challenge with dating today is people are operating with a lack of emotional maturity, a lack of emotional grown-upness, grown-upness. I always talk about emotional grown-up, but I'm really talking about grown-upness and whether it's, are you growing up emotionally? So the five signs that you're emotionally mature, number one, your actions match your words. And whether it's a man or woman, if you say you're gonna call someone at a certain time, you call. If you say you're going to be available for a date, you're available for a date. If you say something, your words match. In fact, going back to the book, The Four Agreements, one of the first agreement is being impeccable with your word, being impeccable with your word. And sadly, how can we respect, how can we see you as a high value person if your words aren't met, your actions don't match your words? So that's my invitation for you. And by the way, we are humans, we're gonna make mistakes, men make mistakes, women make mistakes, but it's the exception and not the rule. Okay, the second sign is that you take personal responsibility for your choices.  People are so victim oriented, they want to complain about their past relationships instead of taking ownership as to why they even chose that relationship.  Because I've seen this, ladies, you're talking, you're complaining about your past partners, you're not taking ownership for your part. And that represents victim consciousness and not victor consciousness because the way we see you as a high value woman is you come across as a victor in life, you come across as empowered, you literally say, I'm here to take on the world and no one's gonna stop me. So there's no need to complain when you're coming from victor consciousness, okay? Okay, number three is you've learned how to fight fair. You've learned how to fight fair. And I say this because every relationship is gonna have some friction, it's gonna have some tension between it. And fighting fair basically means that you're going to listen to the other person's point of view. You're going to accept their point of view even if your point of view is different. And the partner you're with is also going to listen and accept your point of view. Because again, you can agree to disagree but ultimately, do you wanna be right or do you wanna be happy? A high value person says, I'm choosing happiness, I'm choosing the good. But not compromising yourself either. I'm not here to suggest that you ever compromise yourself, you express your needs, wants and desires and you want to be with a partner that's also going to listen and accept what you have to say. The fourth sign he sees you as a high value woman is you have empathy. And empathy is really not just feeling someone else's feelings but also appreciating someone else's feelings. It's almost like the fighting fair is I accept your feelings for the way they are. I don't have to judge them, I don't have to critique them, I don't have to criticize them. I accept your feelings the way they are. It's not just necessarily you feeling their feelings but it's also accepting their feelings because that's a deeper level of empathy and that really shows that you care about the other person's feelings. And let me just say this, if you're in relationship with a man, he should be doing the same thing for you. Okay, and high quality men do this. They care about your feelings and you care about their feelings. And the fifth sign he sees you as a high value woman is that you're transparent. Transparency means that you're open to expressing yourself. You're not holding back. Ladies, I see so many women holding themselves back in relationship for fear of scaring the guy away. And I'm here to say, don't ever hold yourself back because self love, where's my book? Where's my book? I guess my book isn't here. Oh, here it is.  Honoring yourself. And being transparent means you're honoring yourself and your feelings with respects to a relationship. And I'm here to say, if it's sincere and from the heart, you can never say the wrong thing to the right person. Breathe into that for a second. If it's sincere and from the heart, you can't say the wrong thing to the right person. And that's how we see you as a high value person because you're unafraid to express yourself in a non-confrontational way. And just remember, I always talk about the book, non-violent communication. Just remember that because you can express your feelings in a confrontational way. And that's a huge turn off. But as I said in my book, what the heck is self love anyway? Chapter one, speak your truth, do it with kindness. And again, if it's sincere and from the heart, you can never say the wrong thing to the right person. And transparency is the ultimate pathway to relationship success because it demonstrates emotional maturity. And while I've covered some broad strokes of what that looks like, I think you get the gist of what I'm talking about. All right, so I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. Remember, I said, post a comment below. If there's something in this video that you'd like to share with me or you learned something, please post a comment because you're eligible for a small little gift. One person is gonna be eligible for a gift from this and I'll weed through it within a day or two, a couple of days after this video comes out. All right, and if you'd like to learn about working with me as a coach and you'd like to get on the phone to have a discovery call, click the link below as well. All right, I'm gonna wrap up this video as I always do, giving you a big gigantic shot at the bear hug if I have your consent. Oh, thank you. Wishing you a wonderful day. Thanks so much. Bye bye now.


Well, I didn't actually know for sure what the path would turn out to be. When you're eight years old, you don't know what it is. When you're in college, you still don't really know what it is. So the first real taste that I got of what it was to be a scientist was in graduate school where I started in on a research project. And that's where you begin to discover whether you can do something and discover something that's not ever been done before, because that's sort of the essence of science is discovering stuff that's never been known before. So that's where I found that it was pretty hard, pretty challenging, but I might make some progress. And as it happens, the problems that we were working on are partially solvable. You can build stuff that will measure the thing you want to measure. So that's how I got started. Some partial success and some encouragement and some discouragement, but anyway, here I am. So it works.


Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com Today I will have another episode of life in Toronto in COVID-19 shutdown video and I'm taking you to the heart of downtown Toronto using public transit The first public transit I'll be using is the streetcar and we'll take a streetcar in front of my condo to Union Station so I'm boarding the streetcar right now and you'll see that inside the streetcar it's totally empty there's not many people, probably one or two people I saw and it's hard to see a streetcar, especially a Toronto streetcar this is kind of empty If you look on the street and at the gas station you'll see that not many people and the cars on the street not many cars but this time on Saturday usually there's a lot of traffic and a lot of people on the street but today you can see that it's very empty and at the harbor front not many people are jogging or walking around but this time usually this place is really crowded and lots of tourists and other people hang around at this area It's a beautiful sunny day the cold or the temperature is not too cold it's around minus 2, minus 3 in that range which is a very good weather for Torontonians but still you can see that not many people are coming out to enjoy the sun and the weather so right now I just hit Union Station and this is not the Union Station you have seen or this is not the Union Station I have seen any time before so you can see that it's totally empty it looks like a ghost station there's no people I think the gentleman in front of him is the only people I saw and this is really scary that there's no one at Union Station which is the station hub of Toronto here you can take many various trains to different locations different regions so the hub of Toronto is empty so we're boarding on a train and you can see that the subway is empty as well there's no people and all the seats are empty no one is standing, no one is sitting once in a while you come across one or two people so this is not what Toronto looks like or what a subway looks like this time so I'm going to be getting off at Queen Station and then from there I'll go up to the heart of downtown Toronto and we'll head towards Dundas Square which usually is very busy all the time that's where you'll see lots of Torontonians and people hanging out or having street food or shopping, walking so we'll see how Dundas Square looks like today as you can see that I'm getting out of the Queen Station and then there's no one here and it's really empty so most of you probably haven't seen Queen Street Station this way before so the whole concourse level is empty there's no one here the stores are closed and I haven't seen, I don't see any other person except one or couple of other people so we're going to get off this building and then we'll be in the middle of downtown Toronto let's see how it looks like today at this time so this is the heart of downtown Toronto and it's around about 2-3 o'clock and you can see that the streets are very empty the roads are empty this place is crowded at this time or any time you come here even if you come here at 2-3 o'clock at night it's crowded, lots of people on the street but as you can see that today there's no people, no cars the cars you're seeing once in a while that's nothing compared to what it would have been if there's no COVID-19 or there's no fear of catching something from the environment so I'm just walking towards downtown the square and if you notice on the left or right you'll see that all the stores are empty and the street is empty so this is not the usual picture of downtown Toronto especially this is the heart of downtown Toronto and after a few minutes I'll be hitting the downtown square and then we'll see how things are there so here I'm showing you some of the stores especially big stores on the left and on the right and you can see that all the stores are empty some people are walking on the street but not a lot of people so I'm passing Burger King McDonald's Tim Hortons the Tim Hortons I saw in downtown actually it was closed but some Tim Hortons are open and some of them are closed but those restaurants are in coffee shops or cafes which are open you cannot sit there you have to just grab your coffee or your food and you have to leave so it's just take out our delivery so you're not allowed to sit anywhere and even if you wanted to sit you couldn't sit because they flipped all the chairs and tables so no one can sit so I just reached the downtown square and you can see that this is really empty there is no one here you might ask why it's empty because you can see some people's parts but if you compare this to any regular day or average day this is not what it looks like this place is so crowded it's so noisy because people are talking having fun, eating out shopping but comparing every day every other day what I'm seeing today is hard to believe just kind of believe that this is the in the middle of downtown Toronto in the heart of downtown Toronto this is what it looks like right now so basically it's very empty it's scary that no one is here Father, we don't know all the reasons why things happen the way they do but we pray however I found some people who are preaching religion and you can hear them I guess they are just like you know everyone is talking about this COVID-19 and some people are just using to attract more people towards religion and the news media and other news channels have something to talk about 24 hours because of the outbreak thank you for watching this video forget about subscribing to this channel forget about liking this video there will be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you


Alright, so let's bring in our new top HDA into Unity and cook out a terrain with Asset Link and see what happens. Alright, so let's go and get our new PDG Landscape HDA here, so I'm just going to copy it and paste it over the old one, because this old one doesn't have all the latest and greatest. Alright, so let's go back up into Unity over here, and we're going to select the PDG Landscape HDA and do a rebuild asset. Cool, so you can see now we have the erosion time, awesome. And I usually like to put those guys on collapsible, but tabs are fine for now. Alright, so then you want to go to the PDG Link and you want to hit reset and then refresh, and basically that will load up all of the new stuff, and look at that, I forgot to name the last node, that's the texturing one. And in fact, that's the one I want to use. So with that selected, I want to select that guy, and I want to autoload the results. So whatever comes out of this particular node is going to be loaded into Unity here, okay? Meaning if you were to go and check on autoload results for all these guys, it would load in the BGO file or the terrain for each one of those steps, and I only want the result out of this last one here, okay? Cool, so with that we should be good to go. At this point, all I need to do is hit cook output, and we should be good. Let's do it. So while this is cooking, you can see that currently it's telling us one HDA processor or one top node is cooking and two are waiting. So that means it's working on the train generator. When that's finished cooking, you'll see another one is cooking, which will be the erosion, and basically they'll just basically go in order there. And you'll notice that we get this three failed. That's because in our PDG link, I didn't actually set the working directory appropriately. So I need to set this to the project. That's why I can't basically find the HDAs, all right? So let's go and assign this guy. So we're going to say not there, we want to go to there, all right? So that's our working directory. And that's weird that it didn't actually put it in there. Let's try that one more time. Let's go current projects. There we go. I don't know what happened there. Cool. Yeah, so now that's the proper working directory. So that's why that failed. So all we need to do is say dirty all, and then we should cook the output again, and then it'll start cooking again. So let's see if we get through this time. So we just generated the terrain. Now we're eroding it, and the texturing is waiting. So I'm going to be right back once this is finished cooking. It should normally take a minute and a half, maybe about two minutes for this terrain. So I'll be right back. And there we go. We have a 4k terrain. Now, I should explain a couple of things here. So if we go into the PDG outputs right here, all right? So this is basically where PDG is sending or the asset link is sending all the resulting geometry from PDG into this output game object. Now this is created dynamically for you to keep everything nice and clean, all right? Keeps it nice and organized so you can see where all your stuff is. All right? So if you dive all the way down in there, you'll see that this is composed of all those different pipe fields, and they're all blended perfectly. The layers are all blended perfectly. They all have their own terrain data, and so it's working great. So if we were to actually click on this, it's a good time to mention where all this stuff goes so you can see where all the inside of the Houdini engine asset cache is where all of that terrain data is going. So you have a terrain data file per tile here. But yeah, there we go. So one other thing I want to note, I noticed when I was messing with the shader right off the bat when I first was testing out the latest 2019 and the universal render pipeline, I actually had to toggle this enable height-based blend on and off. And that actually made or forced, I should say, the draw instancing. Let me actually go and select this here. It actually fully enabled this draw instance because right off the bat when I was messing with it, it came out really blurry. And now it seems to be fine. And so all I did is I just went in and just toggled this guy. So I'm still getting used to the universal render pipeline too, and the custom shaders that come with it. And so still learning, but I just wanted to point that out. So yeah, there we go. We now have a full terrain. This is huge too. Like, if we were to go, let's go down here and make something like a capsule. Let's do a capsule here. Very tiny. Yeah, super tiny. So I just want to give some reference to how big this terrain is. There we go. Oh, I still missed it. Let's get this all the way up here. Where are you? Let's just reset it and then lift it. Oh, there we go. Cool. So yeah, super huge terrain. Awesome. So now at this point, with your PDG graph, you can go and start adding roads and stuff. So what I'm going to do, this is the free section, basically, of this course. Really, I wanted to make sure that everyone who had taken the previous PDG course, that's free up on the SetFX website, got to see how the latest stuff in Unity 2019 and the latest PDG work because a lot of things have changed when it comes to terrains and how they work in both applications. So that's why I wanted to make this first section free for everyone. So moving forward now, in the next sections, we're going to start talking about foliage and roads and bridges and stuff like that. So lots of plans. I really want to make this more kind of an evolving course because PDG is so new. So definitely let me know if you have any specific requests or things that you really want to know about. When it comes to PDG, the Houdini engine and Houdini or Unity 2019 stuff, I'll be more than happy to answer your questions as best I can. There are things that I'm still learning too because the software is updating like crazy these days. All right. So I'm going to leave you guys there and we are going to do a quick review of all the core concepts that we covered. Thanks so much.


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For two years he was in command of all Gestapo agents in Spain. Yes? Mr. Burley? Yes? We received your message to come here. When? Day before yesterday. We were in Boston. Come over to the table. Just sit down, please. Now she will establish your identity. Now this is my lady friend, Dora Lester. She worked with me under Hanson. Now for a moment. Remove your hat, Dora. Right. Yes, yes. This picture is a very good likeness of yours. Yes. You've got a picture of me? When was it taken? The important part is that it was taken for identification. So you use the name Charles Pierce? You wish some identification, Mr. Burley? Unnecessary. I was standing unobserved right at the desk of the hotel when you signed in last night. I wanted to see your handwriting. Well, no wonder, Mr. Burley, you're famous for your precautions. From now on, you two will take orders from me. Come along. I ask where we are going. To the eight-floor balcony of a certain building. You'll be very surprised at what you see. A person could very easily fall to his death from this balcony. Good indeed, Mr. Burley. Very easily, Dora. Not Charles. Isn't that a long, low building over there? The one sensed in with the barbed wire? Yeah. That building is the United States government laboratory. It covers these two acres. And the guards who are patrolling there. Here's the moment that I close the fire door. There are twelve guards there. Night and day. There's a beam of an electric eye which goes all around the building. There are automatic protective devices of every description. They'll be protected gold, something even more valuable. Bugs. Bugs? You're fooling. No. They have bugs in their worth as much as $5,000 each.  I couldn't hate any bug worth $5,000. What is the mystery of them, Mr. Burley? These are the most allies of the Japanese. Disease caused by jungle bugs. Disease Americans have never experienced. Well, the United States government has had hundreds of specialists capturing these odd bugs in the Pacific. These bugs are brought to this country and placed in that building. Each species, especially heated rooms, tropical conditions, their own special food. They're bred there. Millions of them. There are bugs there so the United States can experiment on them to develop poison sprays to kill each different kind. Exactly. New poisonous sprays cannot be developed to kill these bugs if there were not thousands of those different species to experiment on. The breeding of some of these bugs is a very complicated process. For instance, Mr. Burley, United States marines land on an island. Yes, and possibly in 24 hours a certain percentage of the marine invaders suffering from sickness caused by some kind of a bite from these little non-bugs. Each island, each jungle has hundreds of different kinds. But suppose the marines do know about the bugs before they land. What can they do about it? If a certain poisonous spray has been developed, effective against the type of bugs they know they will encounter, American planes fly over the island. Thousands of gallons of the spray spray the jungle. Many of the bugs will destroy it. I wonder those bugs in that laboratory are valuable. But the way that laboratory is guarded, it would be impossible to get near it or destroy the bugs. Impossible for anyone but Lou. See that building just at the end of the laboratory? Yeah. That is a scientific library. And it is open to medical students who wish to do research there on insecticide is it guarded? Certainly. The guard at the door searches everyone when they enter or leave. The guard's name is Connors. Connors. In the evening when he's off duty, Connors often drinks beer down the street over at that restaurant with a sign. Yeah. You ought to meet him. Find out what his hobbies are. What he eats. What he likes. I don't want to report to me that telephone. Come to my apartment 11 tonight. When you visit the scientific library again tomorrow, I will have had something planned. Hello, Connors. Hi, Charlie. Well, a little bit.  How do you like him? Come here, boy. Come here. Hey, that's a piece of a dog. It's a golden shepherd. Boy, let's see him out. You liking dogs so much, Charlie? You sold me the idea. So I bought this one. About two years old, huh? Now you got something. Yeah, and he's highly trained. I don't want to lose out on my reading at the library here, so can I take him in with me and tie him to the leg of a chair? Well, I don't know if I should let you, but... That dog's almost human, ain't he? Okay, take him in with you. Hey, Charlie! Wait a minute. I got a searchy, you know. You still have to? You're still knowing me so well? This library section's right next to the scientific laboratory, you know. I wouldn't let my own mother in without searching it. Okay. Arms up.  I got two kids in the Pacific. You bet I'm thorough. Okay, Charlie. If you keep them quiet, you can take them in. You know, Dora, this dog doesn't like Mr. Burley's apartment here. I can see from the way he looks, Charlie. Well, Charles, get it? For three weeks now, you've been taking this dog into the library next to the laboratory. You're sure the guard likes the dog? Can't he? Crazy about him. That ammo potassium I gave to the dog. Really, it made him look good and sick. Oh, yeah, yeah. His nose was hot and dry. His eyes glassy. And you did not bring the dog's apparent sickness to the attention of Connors. Oh, no, no, no. I was just going into the scientific library with a dog when he looked at him and he said, uh, your dog's sick, Charlie. Give him soft of fire, sir. And if I was you, I'd put a blanket on him for a couple of days. Keep him bundled up. Perfect. So the guard himself suggested the blanks. Sure did. Wonderful. Easy, boy, easy. It's our big moment, Charlie. A climax. Now, that's the centerline. Centerline. What's that? It's an explosive, more powerful, and TNT. Explosive? That's right. And a little time watch. That'll set it off. You will sew the explosive and the time watch right into the underside of the dog's blanket.  He'll search you. But with this type of mind, you'll never think to feel under the dog's heavy blanket because he himself suggested the blanks. Yeah, yeah. But what about me? You'll tie the dog to a leg of a chair in the library. The time watch will set the charge off at exactly 11. Five minutes off, 11. Make an excuse. Walk out. Disappear. The green is such a thing.  It'll take him years to collect and breed new ones. Seems like the dog knows what's going on. Tomorrow morning, Charlie. Take the dog in a taxi cab. Drive right to the laboratory. You'll have enough explosive wrapped around him to blow a city till kingdom come. And now, ladies and gentlemen, we come to that part of our program known as Be Fresh or Be Fired. Yes, the Be Fresh or Be Fired Department. 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They don't like your dog. Stop it, stop it, hey there. That woman's having trouble holding her dog. Hey, hold on to your dog. Stop bringing him over here. Gonna be some action. Hey, hold on to that dog. Boy, come here, come here now. You're too late, mister. Why, you gotta hold that dog. Explosion on sidewalk. Blowing taxicab and two or more persons to pieces. Emergency. A lot of government laboratories. But I want you to leave for Baltimore with me at once. This is the craziest case I ever heard of, Mr. Harding.  You think it was an attempt to blow up the laboratory and it went wrong? Definitely. The guard in the research laboratory saw it happen. And the explosion resulted from a dog fight. A dog fight? The most fantastic thing. We're up against a very unusual mind, Everett. Anything left from the explosion to examine? The man who had one of the dogs, the woman who had the other dog, the taxicab, the taxicab driver, all were blown to bits with a terrific explosion. As soon as we reach Baltimore, we'll set up a thorough investigation. Baltimore Field Office, Harding speaking. We located the kennels, Mr. Harding, where the dog was bought. A man came in, bought the dog without leaving his name or address. What do our agents report from the scene of the explosion? Another thing. It must have been a terrific explosion. What about the man who drove the taxi? He's a discharged veteran. Good American. Well, Everett, this is one of the most uniquely conceived plots. There just isn't any starting point. Let me think a minute. We've got to find the starting point. These agents will make another attempt to destroy that laboratory. Enemy agents had a dog. They now don't have a dog. We could start a house-to-house canvas. Well, that'll take us months. Come back to the field, Everett. I've got an idea. We'll work out of here. I'm feeling very nervous, Mr. Billy. Can't we leave this apartment and go someplace? What time is it, Dora? Almost midnight. All right. We'll go out to eat. It seems funny not having Charlie around.  He bungled my whole plan. Have the newspaper said anything about the explosion? Just one little item. The government must have clamped down its censor. You're going to try some other way to destroy the laboratory? Of course. But this time I'll do it myself. You're on that pretty end, Dora.  Who's that? You don't suppose Charlie really wasn't killed? Strange. This time of night. I'm frightened. Stop it. I didn't leave one possible clue. Yes? Are you Mr. Burley who lives here? Yes. I'm David Harding of the United States Counter Spies. This is one of my agents, Mr. Everett. May we come in, Mr. Burley? Yes, yes. Come in. This is Mr. Dora Lester, a friend of mine. How do you do, Mr. Lester? This is Mr. Everett. How do you do? May I ask why you've called Mr. Harding? Well, three days ago, Mr. Burley, which caused an explosion in front of the Baltimore Scientific Laboratory. Oh, that's great. Yes. Very strange, Mr. Burley. In fact, peculiar. These are government orders. Neither one of you is to move in charge. The whole minute at all. I'm fricking you. No gun. Everett, check, Mr. Lester. No gun either. Mr. Harding, your attitude is uncalled for. Mr. Burley, my men have been covering Baltimore. Restaurants, meat markets, pet shops, formulas, everything. Well, we found a restaurant right across the street where a man had been buying food for a dog every day. He hasn't bought any such food for the last three days. I suppose you're referring to me. Yes. What am I supposed to say? You're supposed to do some pretty tall explaining. Where is your dog, Mr. Burley? He, uh, died. He didn't die by being blown to bits, did he, Mr. Burley? No. My dog died a natural death.  Why, uh, yes. Where is your dog's body, Mr. Burley? Well, I was very attached to him.  Suppose you show us where? At this time of night? Yes. All right. Must I drive out, too? I'm afraid, Miss Lester. You must. 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You evidently don't believe me about burying my dog here, Mr. Harding. I'm afraid I don't, Mr. Burley. Look, Mr. Harding, there is something down there. Let's forget it.  Well, I've had a dog for quite a while. Three days ago, you got taken with cramps. Died before I could get a doctor. I've had so badly, I brought him here and buried him in this field. Mr. Lester, we owe you an apology also. I'm nervous and upset, frightening me so much, where you came into the apartment. We do make mistakes sometimes, and this is one. Well, we'll just have to start from the beginning again, look for another clue. I'll arrange immediately, Mr. Burley, for one of my agents to drive you and Ms. Lester back to your apartment. It seems so good to be back in the apartment again. Poor driver running out of gas. All over being upset from your experience tonight, Don? Yes, Mr. Burley, I guess so. Everyone makes mistakes, you know.  You'd be like a calming man. I don't see how you ever found in that darkness where you buried that dog. Oh, that was simple. That was a dirty trick you pulled on me, Burley. I'm not in the habit of calling everyone everything.  Why do you think I felt all that time when you were claiming you didn't? I thinking as soon as we got out there you were caught. You might as well learn to trust my judgment.  I go out to a restaurant and get something to eat. Charles used to tell me everything he was doing. And Charles spoiled my whole plan and got himself thrown to pieces. Just the same. We had fun together.  What's the meaning of this? Put your hands out. These cups are going on you. Wait a minute. I can explain. You've already done your explaining, Burley. I hoped you wouldn't suspect anything about bringing you two back to the apartment. It gave me time to go to the police station and see if anyone during the past three days had lost a black shepherd dog with a tooth missing from the lower right jaw. What does that prove? It proves that when your other dog was blown to pieces you didn't dare go to the kennels and buy another. So you looked until you could steal one.  Will I be put in prison if I tell everything I know?  What you do, Burley, is throw you to a whole panel of dogs. They give you what you deserve. But instead, you're going to go to the electric chair. And a lot of men will be coming home from the Pacific who wouldn't be if your fiendish plan had worked. Burley, consider yourself under arrest by the United States government for espionage and murder. And now here is Mr. Harding to tell you about next week's case. I have before me a report of a German minesweeper which had just sailed into an Atlantic port and given itself up. I have here a report of a suspect living at an expensive, exclusive summer hotel overlooking that same port. This girl has recently fallen in love. And here's a report of a body just found in the same harbor. 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Hello and welcome to International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from across the world. Our headlines. Protesters across the world set to resist Israeli annexation plan, Polish presidential election will move into the second round, New York City Council passes a one billion dollar cut for police, but protesters say that's not enough. Industrial accident in Thermal Power Plant in India kills 6 and injures 16, and Kosovo's president may resign over looming war crimes in Titanium. We begin today with an update on the COVID-19 pandemic. Over 10.6 million cases have been reported around the world as of today afternoon. Of these nearly 4.3 million are still active cases and around 514,000 ended in fatalities. The United States, Brazil, Russia, India and the United Kingdom continue to be the worst affected countries. The five together have reported over 53% of the total reported cases and 50% of the fatalities. Excluding the UK, which does not record active or recovered cases among the reported infections, the other four account for nearly 58% of the active cases worldwide. Meanwhile around the world, people have begun a plan to begin protests today against Israel's proposed annexation plan of occupied Palestinian territories. The protesters are demanding international sanctions against Israel if it goes ahead with the move. Reports have emerged in the meantime that the Israeli government might postpone the annexation. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted as much on Monday. This may be due to protests by political parties, civil society groups and activists across the world, as well as diplomatic pressure by countries otherwise allied to Israel. At least one country that is in Netherlands has seen a bill being passed calling for sanctions if the annexation moves forward. Bills have also been tabled in other countries. Earlier yesterday Netanyahu was cited by sources in the government of being wary of diplomatic problems that could entail the annexation. Surprisingly, Democratic party legislators in the US Congress have tabled a bill calling on the government to withhold nearly 4 billion dollars of annual US aid to Israel in the event of an annexation. Over 191 members of the US House of Representatives have written to Netanyahu to halt his plans. According to this proposed plan, large parts of the occupied West Bank and the Jordan Valley will be occupied by Israel. The land is where a lot of illegal settlements have been built. They will be formally annexed to the Israeli state. In our next story, the Polish presidential elections are set to go for a second round after incumbent Andrei Duda failed to secure the required majority in the first round. The first round was held on June 28. In the second round, he will face civic platforms Rafael Sarkowski on July 12. In the first round, Duda, who is backed by the incumbent right-wing law and justice party, garnered 43.5% of the votes, while Sarkowski, the current Warsaw Mayor, came second with 30.5% of the votes. The presidential election has become an arena of ideological battle between the right-wing PIS and the liberal civic platform. The presidential polls were originally scheduled for May 10, but were postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The law and justice party, that's the PIS, attempted to conduct the polls in May, trying to cash in on Duda's strong approval ratings at the time. The move was strongly criticized by the opposition and even PIS's ruling coalition partners, forcing the postponement. The PIS, which has lost its majority in the Polish Senate in the October 2019 elections, requires Duda's re-election to secure its control over the government. We now go to India where a third industrial accident has killed several people in less than a month. At least six were killed, 16 workers injured, and many were trapped when a boiler exploded at a major thermal power plant in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The blast occurred in the government-owned Naivelli-Lignite Corporation. The mishap occurred at a fifth unit of the thermal power station, too, where workers were in the process of resuming operations this morning. According to reports, accidents are not new in the plant. Eight workers from the same plant had suffered burn injuries in a similar incident in May, but there were no fatalities at that time. This comes close on the heels of another industrial accident, a gas leak in the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh that claimed two lives. Earlier, 12 people died in hundreds of hospitalized following a gas leak at the LG Polymers plant on May 7th in the same state. Today's blast is another addition to several industrial accidents in the country, occurring in circumstances related to counter-pandemic lockdowns. As the country eases these restrictions, there are concerns that more such accidents could occur if authorities are not careful. In the U.S., over a month after the killing of George Floyd, debates rage over defunding the police. In New York City, the city council passed a budget claiming a cut of $1 billion for the police department or the NYPD. The total budget of over $88 billion was passed yesterday, even as thousands protested outside the city hall. Activists are not happy about the budget cut, though, and have criticized the city administration for engaging in accounting tricks. The budget cut, even though significant, still leaves the police with close to $5 billion in direct operating funding, with a similar number to a match under other services. The NYPD continues to be among the highest funded departments in the city. Protesters have pointed out that they only reformed the police budget cut pranks about shifting away such services such as homeless outbreaks and school safety to other departments. The rest of the cuts come from overtime reduction, cancelling police classes and shifting crossing gardens. Protesters have also criticized the overall budget cuts of close to $5 billion this year. They say this translates into freezing of hiring and incentives, social welfare, education, and healthcare. The city administration justified the cuts as a result of the revenue shortfall of over $9 billion due to the pandemic. The NYC public advocate, Juman Williams, has publicly stated that he will use the reserve power of his office and block the budget. The Kosovo president, Hashim Tachi, is facing the heat over impending war crimes indictments. Last week, the HAG-based Kosovo Specialist Chamber and Specialist Prosecutor's Office filed an indictment against him and former parliamentary speaker, Kadri Veseli, among others. The indictment has been made on 10 counts, including murder and forced disappearances, persecution and torture during the Kosovo war by forces of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Both Tachi and Veseli have denied these allegations with Tachi announcing his resignation if the court approves the indictment. A year ago, former KLA leader and Prime Minister Rammush Haradinaj had resigned from his post after being summoned for questioning by the KSC and SBO. Tachi and Veseli were among the top commanders in the KLA at the time when the alleged war crimes against ethnic Serbs and political opponents were committed. The court established in 2017 and recognized by Kosovo war law is led by a team of international jurists to deal with the KLA's actions during the war. The KSC and SBO was established following widespread criticisms against the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia or the ICTY for solely indicting Serbian political leadership for the atrocities during the Kosovo war. The progressive sections across Europe have been demanding an indictment to the various crimes committed by NATO and its allied forces like the KLA. That's all we have in this episode of the International Roundup. We'll be back tomorrow with the latest news developments from across the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch.


Hello. I have the very unenviable task of attempting to summarize what has happened since noon. Those of you who know me, my name is Heather Lowe. I am legal counsel and director of government affairs at Global Financial Integrity. Many of you will know that I am a very detail-oriented person. And so summarizing is sort of anathema to my approach to life. But I will do my best. I will tell you that I did a better job of summarizing the first half of this than the second half, of course, because I was just jotting down notes for the second half. I didn't have a chance to go back and fully summarize. However, I will attempt to do so. And I am certainly happy to talk to any of you in the cocktail reception afterwards about any of these issues as well. So Raymond really started us off today with talking about where the term illicit financial flows came from and how each of those words was very, very carefully chosen way back in 2006. He really talked about the critical support of the Ford Foundation in those early years to bring us to the point we are now at, that we are at now of international recognition of both the issue as a problem and the fact that we need to be working toward solutions. And he really focused on the fact that right now, our task is to shift toward curtailing and not just talking about the problem, but really, really focusing on those solutions. Professor Poghi then came up to the stand and gave us a really interesting philosophical discussion about the relationship between poverty and illicit financial flows. And we now understand that there is a very clear relationship between poverty and illicit financial flows. And he then brought in the concept of the impact of inequality on that equation and the importance of looking at that whole picture together. He really said that today we're in a position to avoid poverty and that that's what we should be focusing on, the avoidance or perhaps abolition of poverty, because we have the tools we need at the moment to do so. We understand what the problems are. We are able to figure out what the solution should be as a result. Dr. Poghi observed that this really doesn't take a political miracle. It takes political focus. And those are obviously two very different things. Les Meyers then came up to facilitate our first full panel. And that was on trade-based money laundering, which is essentially trade-miss-invoicing of things that are very clearly criminal funds. I think John Casara and Rob Suburski really grabbed everybody's attention with the examples that they use, showing you exactly what we're talking about when we're talking about trade-miss-invoicing. It's not things that are, well, on the line, it's very, very, very expensive Chinese toilet paper, right?  Rob and John's passion for the subject is so evident. They truly recognize the economic and societal destruction that criminal trade-miss-invoicing creates. And that's all part of poverty, but it's also part of the fabric of our society. And that's also important to recognize whether that's a developed country or a developing country. Rob made a very clear case for both money and political attention being focused on trade-miss-invoicing, which really complimented Professor Poghi's call for very similar action. You get LaBelle. Every other sentence could have been an entire presentation. I kind of don't even know what to do with that. There was, everything was in there. Very impressive. So I'm going to attempt to do some summarization here. She really began with where we were right now with Addis Ababa and the declaration. One of the key sort of phrases in that is the commitment to redouble efforts to substantially reduce illicit financial flows with a view to eliminating them. That's a pretty good declaration, I think. She talked about a lot of the supporting initiatives in the Addis declaration as well, focusing on financial accountability and governance and corruption, but also the cooperation and transparency needed to achieve those things. She spoke about how we got to this point of the Addis declaration, beginning with Norway's leadership on these issues, the financial crisis and the part that that played in getting the developed countries to understand that, well, actually this is a problem that affects them as well. The United States Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act or FATCA as you may know it, really being a game changer in the recognition of tax evasion as a huge global problem and one that you actually can approach and try to solve, right? She talked about the OECD and the G20 and how they're working together to try and move forward on these issues in a way that is somewhat politically acceptable. I think that they're walking a line at the moment and we'll see where that goes. And she talked a lot about the early adoption of different forms of country by country reporting and transparency of beneficial ownership by the European Union, who I think are certainly the most advanced in these areas at the moment. I think that that recognition I think by society within the European Union, which was the result of the austerity measures that have been put in place in different countries is something that I'd like to see translated around the world. Journalists have had a big part in helping average citizens understand those links and I think the journalists in the room, we thank you for your efforts and ask you to continue. She also talked about beneficial ownership, transparency and trade misinvoicing as two of the really key things that we need to be getting on top of globally. Transparency International has been doing fantastic work on beneficial ownership transparency as have many of the other organizations in the Financial Transparency Coalition. And she also was the first person on this podium to bring up the idea that we really need to be working with developing nations hand in hand. I think goes to the comment from our Nigerian friend at the end of the discussion today. Let's see, she also said that a lot can be and needs to be achieved through the extractive industries, it's an area where there is a lot of corruption and movement of illicit money and would be a great place to start to sort of phase in these type of initiatives. I would throw the construction industry in there as well. Let's see, she also said that data is critical in this area and I think that our last panel certainly underscored that point pretty well. And I think her final point was possibly the most important to me and that is the Addis Declaration to achieve those goals requires the cooperation of civil society, leaders of industry and government together. It cannot be achieved alone and we really need to work on that cooperation that is very critical and we don't do enough of that. So I'll move on to Porter's panel, Porter McConnell's panel. Well she moderated the final panel on trade-based, on trade and balance of payment data and her distinguished panelists were Devkar, Anders Agarskov and Tamara Ratzin. They really dug into this topic, I think. Data people often think of as a very dry topic but I think our panelists did a great job of making it very engaging. So Devkar started out by talking about the fact without data we can only really make assertions about things and so data really is the underlying element that we need in order to both identify what the problems are but more importantly identify obviously the solutions. GFI talks about measurable illicit financial flows and he made that point very clearly which is very much less than the total of illicit financial flows based again on the data that's available to us. He said that it's difficult to determine where the money's going because we don't have that data as in we know where it's coming out of but we can't see really where it's going and we can only very, very basically estimate that at the moment and that is definitely some of the data that's missing. It's data, some of that is data that's collected and simply not made public and that's another part of this identifying where data exists that is not made public and where we need to be collecting more data which was a great question by Porter at the end. Let's see. Anders began by telling us that he has identified many murders at the World Bank or the economic equivalent thereof as the case may be and he began looking at trade data anomalies within World Bank projects and found actually quite a lot of them. He's really been thinking outside the box I would say with respect to illicit financial flows. He's thinking about what are the different avenues we can take to looking at these issues and addressing the individual cases as they arise and what that tells us about what is out there and what we need to do from a policy standpoint as a country or as a World Bank or globally. Some of the things that he found within the World Bank to be problems were that they can't sanction for tax evasion or trade misinvoicing and so that's a challenge. He's identifying these problems and he can't actually sanction for them. Likewise sanctioning for trade misinvoicing can be difficult on a country level too because of the way that we do or do not criminalize trade misinvoicing as a problem. So there's very much a World Bank position which mirrors the global position on that issue. He was also looking at other policy implications. Really identifying that both developing countries and non-developing countries share a lot of the same problems. He focused on needing to improve data analysis. Again the criminalization point and the need to really support law enforcement and customs around the world which echoed obviously the earlier trade-based money laundering panel as well. He also highlighted the importance of international cooperation and intelligence sharing. Intelligence sharing is something that we didn't hear a lot about today but it is also critical. We have a few people here from financial intelligence units and I know that they think that that is certainly critical but intelligence has to be collected before it can be shared and then it has to be shared in an effective and efficient manner and we are still I think globally falling down on that particular point. Anders highlighted the idea that we could probably be pulling tax evasion as an issue into the corporate social responsibility sphere which I think people are dallying with a bit at the moment. I think there is a little bit of pushback from some folks in the CSR world but hopefully we'll be able to marry that up in the foreseeable future. We will see. Another idea was the global tax identification numbers which actually is sort of underway in not specific to tax but specific to companies by the legal entity identifier project or LEI which would assign a global identification number similar to a barcode to companies around the world and that number would be used on invoices and on international financial transactions so that you could identify exactly which company was engaging in that particular trade. In addition, when registering for an LEI number, shortly the companies are going to have to provide both their immediate parent information as well as their ultimate parent information. All of this information is going to be or is entirely publicly available. There are no IP restrictions on it and so there's going to be a lot we can do with that data when that starts to be fully collected and I'm happy to talk to Anders more about that certainly. He also suggested we should be looking at the maritime bodies because they've been doing a lot of work in this area, something that I hadn't thought of and so I'd be interested in pursuing. Tamara spoke a lot about the collection and compilation of data that is clearly where her heart lies. I love the enthusiasm with which she spoke about this issue. She says the challenge is consistent methodology for compiling the actual statistics, right? Sort of what is a peach and what is a plum and what are you calling those things and are you actually accounting for them in the right way? She said the IMF manual requires capturing trade in both illegal and legal flows but an actual fact, compiling the information on illegal flows is incredibly difficult and they really struggle with that. In fact, she said we have to sort of become investigators in that area, which I think resounded with most people, Anders, I'm sure very much so. Let's see. She says really that there are no ideal data sources for identifying illicit financial flows and that the macro data sets certainly aren't the best because they're not as tailored to what you're looking to find. The problem is that they're kind of the only data sets available to the public. She'd rather that we use micro level economic data and that makes perfect sense but we actually have to have micro level economic data that's publicly available in order to do that analysis. So obviously there's a really big gap there that we could be working on. And finally, I liked the point that we need civil society organizations to push for more and better statistics. I think that that's certainly the case and I think that civil society organizations are starting to do that now and I think that we're gonna see a more coordinated approach on that in the next year or two. So the panelists were asked what data do you need? What's missing out there? And Dev said really trade in services info was critical for him in order to really round out that those estimates of illicit financial flows. And also he wanted to see clearly identified related party transactions where you could actually just check a box on an invoice so that you could identify what was a related party transaction. So you could do the analysis of trade misinvoicing between unrelated parties versus trade misinvoicing which is also known as abuse of transfer pricing between related parties. Tomorrow would like to see what's not collected. She knows what's collected. She can see a lot more than we can see but she knows that there is a lot that is not collected and until we get there we can't get that really precise estimate. I would say for my part I think we have enough to know that there is a problem and that we need to do something about it however. I think we're at that point. I think we can move on on that basis. It's always great to see, you know if you can get that more specific data so you can identify more specific issues but it certainly shouldn't stop us from moving forward at this point. I think the world has identified that illicit financial flows are a problem. We need to move on it at this point. So Anders would like to see action taken on the data which I would agree with and Anders was also asked at the end will country by country reporting in all sectors help? And he certainly said yes but he'd really like to see transparency in more innovative ways as well not just country by country reporting but for example publishing data about how much companies are paying in customs duties that's published in the newspaper in a country. I personally have heard the discussions about budgets being literally painted on walls in Indian villages as well as the list of people that are getting paid for a certain project that is happening in that village and the villagers look and say that person's dead and that person moved out four years ago. So that kind of transparency those really basic transparency elements and initiatives are critical. I will stop there because really that is the end and I will say that I hope to see you all tomorrow I think we're gonna be digging into some very specific case studies on different countries and the implications of the numbers and policy initiatives that have followed them and we'll be hearing from Jean Ross from the Ford Foundation tomorrow morning as well and that's fantastic because as we have all said they were really seminal in putting the funding out there to make illicit financial flows an issue that everybody recognizes now as critical for development. We also have a reception right now and that is in the fourth estate lounge which I'm told is to the right and I look forward to chatting with everybody at that reception and I'm sure all of our panelists will as well so thank you very much.