Okay. Thanks. I've been with the agencies since 1998 in a number of different capacities, not all with the grants office. But first, I want to say welcome. And it's good to be with you. I actually work out of California. So it took me a while to get here. I came flew in yesterday, so flew in to San Antonio, then drove on down. So I got to see the great scenery from San Antonio down to McCollum. And it was breathtaking, yeah. What can I say? But anyway, this was my first time in this part of the country. So it's good to be here with you. And a couple of things before I start. I just want to let you know that the grant that we've given to MHM is the first SIF grant that we've given in the state of Texas, number one. Number two, it's the largest SIF grant that we gave out last year. You know, $5 million a year is a pretty sizable federal grant. And third, you're the recipients of all that. So you should feel, you should feel pretty special because I know you went through a rigorous selection process. So, you know, it starts off obviously with MHM applying to the federal government and going through that process and getting funded and awarded and then they go and sub-grant out to you guys. So you're the beneficiaries of all that work. So you should feel, I think, a little special. And particularly since you're doing work in areas of great need down here in Texas, I think that's important because we haven't really had a significant SIF presence in Texas. So you'll be literally marking history in terms of Social Innovation Fund here in Texas. And that's, I think that's pretty important. And you're the first. So you have to understand that as the first, you're going to be a little bit of the guinea pigs as well. So because that just comes, anyone, I'm sure all of you have at one point been in the first year of a new program and know how that goes. So you'll be a little bit of that. But you also have a very, very capable team behind you. So you're really good hands in terms of the folks here at MHM. And to the degree that we can help and support obviously the grantees at the corporation, we will do that as well. Some of the things I may be talking about may be repetitive of things you've already heard. So I may skip through a few things. And there's some things I may want to just kind of emphasize from the, you know, from the subgrantee perspective. So we're going to talk a little bit about CNCS rules and laws, although those have been hit upon before in regulations, the grant terms and just general accepted financial principles and some of the things you may need to do. Now, we have the corporation is bound by various OMB circulars that were referenced to earlier. And also in terms of there's going to be a news general circular that's going to be incorporated or already out, but it won't be an effect for you as well. But in terms of the OMB circulars that apply to you like A110 and A122, I think you're all nonprofits. And so those are the applicable circulars that will apply to you. If you already have federal grants, then we're just one more grant that you have to accept. So you won't really need to do too much in terms of your overall policies. If you're new to federal grants, then yes, you'll need to adopt some new policies to ensure that you're in compliance with the required circulars. And we'll talk a little bit more about what those circulars are as well as where you can find those circulars and get more information. Thanks. So what are the key characteristics of organizations with highly effective financial management? We've already talked about written and filed policies and procedures. And we talk about that, but why do we talk about it so much? Well, because these are federal dollars you're responsible for. And some of you are getting some very sizable federal grants. We need to be sure that the federal funds are being used in appropriate manner. We need to be sure they're used in a consistent manner. We need to be sure that the federal funds are treated just like all your other funds. So specific policies need to be in place to ensure that that happens. That's okay. Trained financial staff, as I indicated, you're responsible for significant amounts of federal dollars. So we need to ensure that you have staff who are trained and who are knowledgeable about financial practices and general accounting principles and those kinds of things that we expect. Communications is so important. I can't tell you how many times I have as a grants officer gone out and do site visits because just like MHM is going to do site visits for you, I do site visits for various grantees. And it becomes obvious that at some point the program people and the fiscal people have not been communicating because I get them into a room and I make them talk, right? And you can tell at some point that communication hasn't happened in terms of what these grant requirements are, what the time reporting requirements are. Very important for everyone involved in the grant, you know, your fiscal people, your program people, your evaluation people. Very important that you have those communications. Very important everyone is on the same page. If you want an effective program, that has to happen. And it doesn't mean, you know, emails every couple of weeks or whatever. It really means, I think, you know, consistent communications, joint meetings, making sure that everyone understands. Particularly with regard to program and fiscal people. Sometimes in certain organizations, there's just kind of natural walls between them. But when it comes to managing a grant, you really need to be sure that you're all working as a team together to accomplish your goals. Succession planning and cross-training. Some of it's pretty obvious, but people need to be cross-trained. Particularly with regard to various reports.  Right? Just like we expect our reports to come in on time.  She's not going to be back until later. Can I have an extension? That's not a reason. That's not an excuse. You need to plan for all your reports and you need to have the necessary backup systems in place. When I tell my grantees, you know, that they're going to be late, or they're asking, I said, well, unless it's a hurricane, tornado, storm, or some other significant thing, then we're just not going to give an extension. And obviously that's a little bit of a push, but the point is, is that you're responsible for making sure that everyone is cross-trained enough to get your required reports in. Because it's important to be on time. And the Board and Finance Committee, obviously you're non-profits, so you have to report to them, and it's important for them to know what's going on with your grant. All of you are getting new federal dollars, and I'm sure your Board is going to be interested, particularly our Finance Committee on your Board, in terms of how those plans are being implemented and how those dollars are being spent. So important to keep that communication. So again, a little bit of extra in terms of policies and procedures. They're written documents. They need to be in place in terms of what needs to be done, how it needs to be done. And the other important thing about policy and procedures, remember is that if someone's coming down, an auditor's coming down to do your a site visit, or if you're selected to be an auditee, the first thing they're going to do is ask for your policies and procedures. They read those policies and procedures, then they are, in effect, going to measure you against those policies that you had written. Are you following your procedures as indicated? And if not, there's going to be a problem. If there's no policies and procedures, in effect, there's certainly going to be a problem, particularly with the handling of these federal dollars. So I know many of you already have some in place, and some of you're going to have to add additional policies and procedures, but those are key. And I know we kind of repeat that over and over again, but it is important. And that's something that when MHM comes down and takes a review, they're going to be looking at and want to see those. Obviously, keeping up to date, important. You don't want to come in and see a policy as dated. 1989 has been updated. And everything else with regard to the rationale and the transactions completed form. So we're just kind of emphasizing that fact. Get them done now. Get them done early in their program. And then the bulk of your work is completed. Then it's just a matter of keeping up to date and keeping them current. Next. So we've already talked a little bit about accounting system, but here's a little bit more information. Obviously, our dollars, our federal dollars, need to be kept separate and tracked separately from your match dollars. And obviously, from any other operating dollars that your program maintains. So your accounting system must be capable of doing that. And you must be capable of separating those accounts. It must be capable of tracking them by program. You want to be able to track them by budget year. Essentially, your accounting system should be able to produce any kind of report you need at any time on any expense. You also need to make a difference between direct and indirect costs if you have an indirect cost rate. And of course, it's key that each award and grant be done separately. So most of the time you'd have a separate cost center assigned to each grant that you track. Many of you have multiple grants, federal grants, state grants. All those obviously need to be tracked separately. And if you're having state money that you're using to match your federal money, then you obviously need to track that and see in terms of how you're spending that money in order to meet your match requirements. So all that needs to flow. Now, that's something that your accounting people will take care of and handle. But as program people, you need to know that stuff as well. You need to know, particularly, in terms of what your budget is, right? Don't assume, because I've had instances of this happening where program people assume that they have permission to do something and the finance people never approved it, or even the other way around, where the finance people are producing reports. And producing reports are fine, but you have to communicate with your program people on what they mean in terms of your budget. I've had situations where program people overspent their budgets and they had to wind up coming up with some other way of paying off salaries and other expenses. So very important, as we're talking about communication, but very important that the program people get budget to actual reports. I would recommend monthly reports where you're looking at them and making sure that spending is going as you intended. And if there needs to be correction, you can correct them then, as opposed to the end of the year when it's too late. Next, please. And this is just a little bit more information. I think it's important. This is kind of budget 101 that you'd be able to compare your outlay with your budgets for each grant. That's what we call budget to actual.  And so they've established terms in terms of they've said they wanted to know about any budget changes. So make sure you communicate those budget changes with them. But in terms of your money and how it's spent and how much money you have, that's something that as program people you need to be very mindful of and responsible for. Typically, the fiscal people will produce the reports and give you the numbers, but you as a program folks have to be able to interpret them and know exactly where you are in terms of spending and where you are in terms of allocated work and work that remains to be done for your grant. Okay, next. So this is just a little, a little schematic or a little drawing of terms of how to separate your funds. You need to be able to, this is a scenario where you have a department education grant, then you have a social innovation fund grant, and then you have a Ford Foundation grant, which is obviously private money.  I mean, this is by as elementary as we can put it, but essentially, make sure that you're tracking each grant separately, that you can account for each grant separately, because actually all your funders, no matter where you are, whether you're getting federal funds, state funds, private funds, you probably already know this, they want you to be able to report accurately on their funds. So we don't want to see in the bottom a hodgepodge of money just all together. We want it split and accounted for separately. Next. Documentation obviously is important for these specific information to track incoming information, to review information. You want to provide evidence of accomplishments and your MHM will want you to be able to do that, and some of these accomplishments will be programmatic as well as financial. And the other is to prepare for an audit. I think the key that I would say in terms of you as new programs in a new federal grant with a new grantee in terms of MHM is just be sure that if you can document all your costs. So if I were to come in and I were to look at each and every receipt, you want to be able to show or let's say if I went in and looked at General Edger and I saw something for $12.50, you want to be sure you have a receipt or some documentation for $12.50. So I'm kind of getting down to the real basic level, but you want to be able to be able to provide that global documentation for several reasons. For one, you want it for your own peace of mind and for your own system to make sure that you know how you're spending your money. Number two, MHM may come down and do a review and start pulling information. And they already indicated they're going to start actually asking for all the documentation for I think you said the first three months or so. It might sound like burdens some, but the reality is establishing a good pattern for your good habit for you because if you have that information, you don't have to worry about somebody coming in and questioning those costs like an IG audit or something of that nature. As long as those costs obviously relevant and equitable and allowable. So you know, if you have a receipt for $500 for, you know, a tab at a bar at a hotel, even though you've documented that cost, that cost is not going to fly. So I'm pretty sure most of you are aware of some of those prohibited costs, but alcohol is certainly one of them. Also, one of the prohibited costs just in general is which kind of makes sense. You certainly can't use the federal money to pursue or sue the federal government. Number three is you can't use federal dollars to lobby. So you can't use it to go to Austin to lobby for more funds. So there's a number of key prohibitions in terms of federal funds across the board, but kind of keep those in mind. So don't lobby and don't drink. And I don't know how that works in Texas. It seems like those two go hand in hand, but in any event, I know in California it doesn't and actually in D.C. it does as well. But that's a couple prohibitions. Okay, next please. And we've talked, I think, a lot about staff time and I think Peggy and her staff did a good job of going over what we're talking about. The term is time and effort reporting, but in reality we're really talking about the time sheets and we're really talking about the fact that it needs to report actual time, not budgeted time. So you might be budgeted 30% on the grant, but you need to charge the actual amount of time that you're actually working on the grant. And that needs to be done on a regular bi-weekly or monthly basis. So if I come in and if I see miraculously that every day you're spending the exact amount of time that ties to the budgeted, I probably have some concerns about whether or not you're really doing actual time reporting as opposed to it would fluctuate from day to day. Now if you're 100% on the grant, are any of you going to be 100% on the grant? Probably not, okay. Because you're 100% on the grant that makes it simple because all your time is spent on the grant, right? But if you're not, then you need to separate that out.  So your whole time sheet has to account for your full day, right? So it needs to tie out to eight hours a day. And one of the things we kind of press on time sheets because that's one area that we've found that we've found significant problems with in terms of compliance and that grantees have had issues with or problems with not accurately completing these time sheets. So as you start your new grant, it's very good to get in that habit. It's not just a habit's requirement, but it's good to start with a solid foundation in terms of ensuring that you're doing your time sheets accurately and regularly and ensuring that someone's monitoring that and making sure it happens. There's nothing, there's no scarier feeling than being sitting in an office and having someone from the state or federal government come and want to look at your time sheets and you're not able to pull those time sheets. Because what happens from that is what we call question costs, that is we're questioning the validity of your charges and what can happen is that we can actually go in and disallow those costs, which means that you have to pay back the federal government. And that's a situation you don't want. We've had those situations in the past and it's not, hasn't been too great for everyone around. Also talking about equipment, just to kind of piggyback on that more. Equipment in the federal terminology is items of $5,000 or more. And so for those things you would require approval from MHM and then MHM would have to get approval from the federal government for any of those items. So it's very important you don't go out and buy any cars or vans or any item over $5,000 unless you have specific written prior approval. If you don't then you could be liable for those costs. We had one grantee a couple years ago that authorized the subs of purchasing several cars. They did not get prior approval and they wound up having to pay the government about $95,000 for that. So we want to be sure that you have those approvals in place. So this is just another little sketch in terms of tracking your various revenues and expenditures. I won't kind of go through it but you have that actually on your sheet and it's just a kind of a way of just tracking your CNCS funds, your federal funds, the intermediary funds, your sub-grantee funds and ensuring that they're all separate and you're all matched, they're all separate and they have the systems in order to track it for each and every one of those funding sources. So as we indicate before we look to the general ledger which is your accounting system to have the capability of producing all these reports and all this information we would expect would be in your accounting system. It's obviously important to review and reconcile the information and ensure that they're accurate. For you as sub-grantees you'll be submitting reports to MHM and so you want to make sure that they're all accurate and also you have to remember that MHM has to submit financial reports to the federal government to us every six months so they need to use your data as well as their information in order to prepare accurate financial reports and the financial reports they submit to us includes all the expenditures of federal dollars it also includes all the match expended which will be your match and their match so it's important that you submit accurate data to them so they can submit accurate data to us and submitting reports on time I can't kind of I can't stress enough of submitting them time we have a system in the federal government and and the corporation national community service which we call e-grants which is our overall grants management system so all those reports are filed electronically now as a grant officer I can do a number of different kinds of things with grantees one thing I cannot do I can't turn back the hands of time so if you submit it those are electronically date stamped and they're automatically considered late one day or three days or however many days so it's it's really important for those to be submitted on time now for you you'll be won't be submitted electronically you'll be submitting them to mhm on the required dates but still as part of their overall monitoring and evaluation of you as a program one of the things are going to look at do they submit their required reports on time so you know there's a lot of different ways to manage that simple as getting a big old year calendar and circling those dates on the calendar when they're due as well as a lot electronic tickler systems or whatever but ensure you get them on time and if there's some reason legitimate reason you can't be sure to request an extension for that and don't request extension the day before it's due okay I mean that's we go with some recommendation in terms of how I would look at things when I get those so if there's some real emergency situation that prevents it we do know that those things happen from time to time but don't wait till the last minute to do that and so I know you already had a session on criminal history checks so I'm not going to go over all of this just to note that those are very important and very critical in terms of criminal checks for those individuals who are going to be on the grant next okay next so I think in and kind of in summary I just would like to say that even though you're getting federal dollars and it may seem a little bit intimidating at first particularly if you're new I would suggest that you have capable staff who are willing to help you and assist you and you can do research on your own as well but I think the the key thing is to treat them with with a lot of diligence in terms of how they're spent how they're tracked and we don't want to put the you know the overall situation of well you know track them because someone else might come down and look at them track them carefully and keep the expenditure no you want to do that because you want to be a responsible steward of the federal funds that you're getting and that's you know that's the key and you know just applying some of these simple techniques particularly from the very beginning of the grant will yield lots of success and will put you in compliance with all the various requirements and things so with that I'm certainly open to any questions you have have you had enough financial compliance spoken to you this time okay well great well thanks for your time and attention


last war with Hezbollah. There are serious concerns here about the group's intentions. I'll be speaking to a panel of experts about that in just a moment, but first this report from our Middle East correspondent Ariel Ossaram. What you see here are three flag poles, but only two flags. The Hezbollah flag on the left and the Palestinian flag on the right. This is in Lebanon, mind you. So where's the Lebanese flag? That's a great question. The chances of an escalation that could deteriorate into war are not low. Nasrallah is close to making a mistake that could plunge the region into a big war. He's close to making this mistake from Lebanon or Syria. Israeli defense officials have been sounding the alarm. Hezbollah and its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, are preparing for war. Israel could miscalculate and make a mistake, which could lead to blowing up the whole region. Your miscalculation could be the reason leading to the big war in the region, which will lead you to the abyss, if not to your demise. Our troops are excellent. If Hezbollah makes a mistake and starts a war against Israel, we will strike Hezbollah with a heavy blow and send Lebanon back to the Stone Age. Driving along Israel's nearly 50-mile scenic border with Lebanon, one can visibly see how Hezbollah has been preparing for war. These observation posts, beyond their regular task of tracking and documenting Israeli movements along the border, also serve Hezbollah in its psychological warfare, saying we are here. This is a closed military territory belonging to Hezbollah, and there are now dozens of these zones in southern Lebanon. You won't see the Lebanese army enter these areas. Up until a year or two, posts like these were hidden from view. Within minutes into our conversation, we realize we're not alone. And here, suddenly a car has arrived. Who are they? They're filming us. They're filming us because we are filming the area. These are Hezbollah operatives, three operatives in civilian clothing. As you can clearly see, Hezbollah's observation posts work great. In recent years, Hezbollah has increased its presence along the border under the cover story of an environmental organization called Green Without Borders. Using the idea of planting trees, the organization is actually a front for the group's terror activity along the border to cover up its violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 to maintain peace on the Lebanese-Israeli border. And in the past year or so, we've seen that they've been joined by fighters from the Radwan unit. That's Hezbollah's elite command their units. Named after the late leader of Hezbollah's military wing, the main mission of the Radwan unit is to infiltrate into Israeli territory and conquer towns or bases in the Galilee. Last month, this unit of 2,500 fighters, which gained much experience in the fighting in Syria, conducted a military drill depicting a wide range of scenarios. The main one, bombing a hole through the security barrier and hundreds of fighters storming into Israel by foot and on ATVs. Hezbollah isn't deterred by Israel. If they decide to carry out an attack against Israel, if they believe at that moment it serves their interests, they will attack. And we've seen this very clearly in recent months. Back in July of last year, at the height of negotiations between Israel and Lebanon over a maritime border, Israel downed three Hezbollah drones headed towards the Karish offshore gas rig. In March, a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the border from Lebanon and carried out a bombing attack near Megidon, the north, injuring one Israeli. All assessments point to Hezbollah for sending him. And in April, Hezbollah allowed Hamas to launch dozens of rockets at northern Israel, in the worst attack since 2006. Driving further along the border, we come across another Hezbollah post. This time, at least six operatives are visible. This, too, in violation of UN resolution 1701. Oh, it seems like a real party's going on. Yep, there's a party. But beyond the ground scenario, in the next war against Hezbollah, we will see capabilities and firepower that we have not seen before, not what we saw in 2006, or what we experienced from Hamas in Gaza. What scope are we talking about here? I'm talking about thousands of rockets a day on Israeli towns. And the ranges of these rockets and missiles cover pretty much the entire territory of Israel. In total, Hezbollah is believed to have in its arsenal over 250,000 projectiles aimed at Israeli towns and infrastructure. Add to that swarms of drones like those Iran is providing Russia and its war on Ukraine. This will pose a significant challenge to Israeli air defense systems that will manage to intercept the vast majority, but not all. So with all these threats that you illustrated, the rockets, drones, anti-ship missiles, their presence along the border, all these things that we do see moving forward and progressing over the past two years, as you described, where does this place us on the timeline of the next war? You see here a process of increasing audacity. They are becoming more daring along the border with their towers and their weapons. And you see it in their actions against Israel. So what's next? It seems like they are striving to start some kind of escalation that will lead to a war. So what are they waiting for? That's a good question. But I think that they are not waiting. It's already in effect. They reach the understanding that the time has come to open a conflict against Israel. The only question is when? So as you can hear, very real threats. Israel is taking those threats very seriously. We'll hear to discuss with me Dr. Jacques Neria. He's the former deputy head of assessment for Israeli military intelligence. Great to have you with us. Lieutenant Colonel Sariq Tzahavi is the founder and president of the Alma Research and Education Center. And to my left Brigadier General Ilan Lavi, former chief of staff for the IDF's Northern Command. So welcome to you all and thanks for being here. And Sariq Tzahavi, I'll start with you. How did we get to the point where a very well-funded, well-armed militia essentially is in control of the border with Israel? Simple. Nobody's stopping that. Hezbollah in the past year and a half is building positions everywhere on the border. We see the military operatives of Hezbollah, part of the commander brigades of Hezbollah that fought in Syria and came back over here. And actually it was kind of an evolution of the organization since 2006 until today that brought us to the situation today. General Lavi, is Israel ready for such an event? To say the word ready and to think that you are in a point that everyone is ready won't be too much wise to say. Israel is improving its readiness all the time. We just completed the last week a drill of two weeks in which all the IDF capabilities were executed during the training. But we must continue to improve our capabilities. And if I can divide it to two main issues, I divided it to the military readiness and the readiness of the population. Regarding the military readiness, I think that we are on the right way, although we have, as I said, still to do and to train ourselves regarding the readiness of the population, the on-front arena, there is much to do in order to prepare the population for the next one. We will talk about that in a bit more detail. Very quickly, Jacques Léviard, how do we get to this point? Well, as Sarit said, I mean, nothing was done since 2006. All Israeli government chose not to confront Hezbollah in Lebanon and chose to fight Hezbollah in Syria and Iraq and maybe sometimes in Iran. And the result is that Hezbollah had about 10,000 rockets in 2006. And today it's about 200,000. We've seen two weeks ago the parade, the military parade, the grand design, the grand circus about all the weapons that were presented there, all weapons came from Iran. And so nothing was done in order to stop them. And what was done was too little and too late. Jacques, hold that thought. We're going to take a very short break. And it does feel very real sitting here in somebody's home, just a few hundred meters from the border. We'll be back in a moment with more discussion. Stay with us. Organism that pulsates through millennia. Listen to it. Smell it. Taste it. Experience the Holy Land like never before. Holy Land uncovered every Sunday only on I-24 News. Sometimes it's tough to get past all the noise and get to the heart of the story. Even tougher to make sense of it all. I'm David Matlin, and each weekday I'll take on the most important topics, breaking down the issues so you can decide for yourself. Zoom in. Each weekday here at I-24 News. This week, in Malar at large, my guest will be Salome Zorabishvili, President of the Republic of Georgia. Nobody knows how it will end for Putin within Russia. But for him, the war is already over. Malar at large with Christian Malar this week on I-24 News. Welcome back. You're watching a special edition of Middle East Now. We're discussing the growing threat on Israel's northern border from the Shiite terrorist organization, Hezbollah. So just to pick up where we left off, Jacques Neria, is it a question of not if, but when Hezbollah launches some kind of offensive? Well, as far as we know, and maybe we don't know much, but the operative plan of Hezbollah was more or less known in 2011. The fact that Hezbollah did not act since it was because it's involvement in Syria. So right now I think that I'm much more better for the Syrian regime in Syria, and much of the units of Hezbollah has been brought back into Lebanon. So this is more or less the time to provoke Israel on new issues. And from the plan that was at the time thought of by Hezbollah, the thing is that they are thinking about launching an attack on three fronts along the border with Israel, three fronts with five brigades that were supposed to, the first one was supposed to take over Naria and then Karmiel in the center, and then of course around Kirachmone on the Eastern border. And of course, this would be preceded by heavy bombardment and the salvoes of rockets on Israel. So this is what we have to prepare. The stuff of nightmares really aside, why the theater, I mean, you're an expert on Hezbollah, why the theater, why this kind of highly stylized war game where the media was invited and they're showing off their capabilities and their weapons. I mean, if you're going to invade someone is perhaps not best to warn them first. What is the purpose? Who's the message for? The message is for the Lebanese. Simple as it's not for these realities. It's first and foremost for the Lebanese that everyone in Lebanon will understand who is the boss, who is the biggest bully in the neighborhood. And you know, this is a hand in hand at the same time with trying to take over different areas in Lebanon or create more influence in different areas in Lebanon that are not necessarily Shiite areas. So I think the parades and all these filmed demonstrations that we see of Hezbollah, they first speak in Arabic, then they speak in Hebrew, then they speak in English. Multilingual war games. General Lavi, did the IDF learn anything from that in terms of as well as weapons capabilities? IDF is detecting Hezbollah for many years. Okay. I don't think that such a drill is a drill that the IDF is learning things that he didn't know before. As I said, Hezbollah is doing those public drills in order to talk with his own population. We are looking at Hezbollah for many years. We know his capabilities, his strengths, but we know also how to deal with his weaknesses and how to act against them. Now, I suggest that we want to look at Hezbollah as a monster. The organization can take a strip inside Israel, a narrow strip, let's say they take over a community. So when they talk about invading Carmel and made towns and population centers, that's not in the scope of Hezbollah. It's not a maneuvering military. It's a force, a good force that was trained and that fought in Syria. And this force, especially there are one for us. We count something like 10 to 11 battalions, okay? Something like 250 soldiers in every battalion can maneuver, a limited maneuver on the border and to have here and there achievement. Those achievements meant to create a chaotic atmosphere in Israel. We must educate our population that not every success of the enemy, the mean of that is that we lost the game, okay? A war will be long and tough. Yes, the second issue of this limited maneuver is to avoid the IDF forces that are coming from the rear to advance towards the border. They want to delay us, okay? And to cause us casualties in order that we won't be able or we won't succeed to accomplish our plan to maneuver inside Lebanon. That's the second reason. But to talk about Carmel or other cities in the depths of Israel, I suggest that we put it on the right level. Okay, all right. Do you agree with that? And in terms of talking about Israel's reluctance to trigger some kind of conflict with Hezbollah, I mean, let's cast our minds back to what happened over the Passover holiday when there were some rocket attacks, not from Hezbollah but from Palestinian terrorist groups inside Lebanon. How would you rate Israel's response to that? What was the message sent by Israel back then? I can only judge by Hezbollah's reaction. They believe that Israel is weak. Every Israeli move is analyzed, biased by their mentality, the way they think. And they think that we are weak. And this is the reason why we don't react in force. I'll give you an example. When if you look on your left, you'll see the wall that divides, that protects Israel from Lebanon, from the terrorist, from the Israeli point of view, this is a defensive wall. This is meant to protect our population. From their point of view, this is a proof of weakness and so on and so on. So while they see that we are weak or they believe that they are weak, they just try to challenge us. And this is what Hezbollah is trying to do, certainly when Hasan Nasrallah himself, that his policy would be silence. He would not react about anything that happens on the border, even if we know for sure that Hezbollah is behind it. This is the way he's behaving right now. And provocation after provocation, he has a definite agenda. And the agenda, we can discuss it afterwards. Saeed, if I could come back to you then, would you agree with that? And one area or one field of operations perhaps where Israel has acted decisively against Hezbollah is of course in Syria. Has that had a sustained impact on the group's operations and its ability to transfer weapons? I think first and foremost it influenced the ability of Iran to transfer the weapons into Syria. The IDF published that it had about 70% success against the shipments from Iran and about 90% success of the manufacturing infrastructures in Syria. Hezbollah itself continues to train its own commando, Radoan forces to the scenario that Ilan spoke about. But I think it is very important to understand one thing that the Radoan companies that you all mentioned obligates. It's one scenario. The second scenario is the amount of rockets. And these are hidden inside the populated areas, making the Lebanese human shields. And that's the main challenge that we are going to face. How do you defend Israelis while Hezbollah is using the Lebanese as human shields? There seems to be a feeling, General Aviv, that successive Israeli governments have been kind of kicking the can down the road on this issue. They don't want to engage with Hezbollah for obvious reasons. Do you think they're just delaying the inevitable to a certain extent? We have to look at the reality and to understand. First of all Israel doesn't want to go to wars. Wars, although eventually you will win the war, you will pay high price. First of all, second, a normal state want to delay the war as much as it can in order, especially a state like Israel, in order to continue and to advance in our capabilities, not only our military capabilities. We want to flourish our economy. So wars create a situation that people do not like to invest in a country that is based on human capabilities. The second issue is the government would have to choose the right point and the right time to go to a war. I don't think that we are now still in this situation. And I want to add another main thing. We are near the border with Lebanon, but the next war won't be the third Lebanon war. And it won't be the first northern war. It will be the all arenas war. Our main enemy is Iran. Iran is conducting everything. Iran is willing to pay with the blood of its proxies, but Iran is conducting everything. So the next war, when it will break up, I hope that we will initiate our movements will be not only against Hezbollah. It will be against Hezbollah in Syria. It will be against proxy forces in Syria. It will be against rockets that will be launched from Iraq, from Yemen, from Gaza. And even in the internal situation in Israel, we will see riots. So we have to keep and continue to improve our capabilities because when the D-Day comes, it will be a very hard and tough war. I must say something in this regard. First, you mentioned that the rockets were launched by Hamas in Lebanon. The rockets in Passover were launched by Hamas in Lebanon. And these were intercepted above my home. I live 20 minutes from here. But I can tell you that it is clear to us, I think all of us, that 36 rockets from Lebanon, it's not without at least the knowledge and probably the assistance of Hezbollah. These rockets were launched from orchids, like orchids of olives of oranges. Palestinians are considered refugees in Lebanon. They don't own properties. So it is clear that these properties, Hezbollah has the hand in bringing Hamas to over there and enabling them to launch from over there. So when Arrow and Shield started in Gaza, we were not completely positive that the scenario that Ilan is talking about is not going to realize. We were here over here. I stopped the groups from coming to the border. I was not positive that Hezbollah will not join in. And actually, though Iran encouraged different parties to join in, it didn't happen. It didn't happen. The multi-front vision of Iran was not realized just a month ago in Shield and Arrow. And I think this is a little bit encouraging because it gives us a hope that maybe we can find a way to create more rifts between the different players. And each of them has different. I agree that all of them are proxies of Iran. But they also have their own interests in this. And they will not jump to defend some commanders of Palestinian Islamic jihad, for example. So we must, as Israelis, we must, or even international community, try to find a way to create more rifts between all these players. And you've written about this, how Hezbollah and Iran are waiting for kind of a perfect storm for everything to align before they launch an offensive. Yes. Well, I mean, I can only concur with what was said here earlier that Iran has a ground design to surround Israel with, to suffocate Israel around the, with its border from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, even the West Bank, Gaza, and Yemen. And this is what is the ultimate goal of Iran. The fact is, between saying and doing, there's a big difference. And then, you know, the difference is that what's happening on the ground. And certainly what we are doing in, what Israel is doing in Syria to prevent the flow of the, even though it's not enough, the flow of weapons coming into the, into Lebanon and hitting at sensitive, sensitive targets, they're making, hurting the Iranians and Hezbollah also. This, this delays, in my view, the confrontation between us and Hezbollah. Okay. I must say that when we speak about Children Arrow, Nasrallah was probably watching the IDF capabilities with regard to intelligence and the capability to kill commanders of the PIJ. 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It's something that the Israeli army and government is taking very seriously indeed. Jacques Nariah is still here with me, former deputy head of assessment for Israeli military intelligence. And with us as well, our Jonathan Regev, our defence correspondent. Thanks for being with us, both of you. And we're going to talk a bit now about the regional developments and the impact on the tensions between Israel and Hezbollah. And Jacques, the obvious one that comes to mind is the US-brokered maritime border agreement between Israel and Hezbollah a little over a year ago under the previous government. That was supposed to bring down tensions. It doesn't appear to have had the desired effect. Well, as you say, it was supposed to bring down the tension between us and Lebanon, and certainly not between us and Lebanon and the state, but between us and Hezbollah. The fact is that we got finally to an agreement, which was, I mean, to the detriment of Hezbollah, to the detriment of Israel. And it was not a good agreement anyway for both sides. But the thing is that right now, the French total, the French company total, is beginning to drill. And if they find gas, we'll be happy because Hezbollah will be satisfied. But if we don't find, even if that means revenues, if they don't find gas there, then Hezbollah will say that he has been fooled by again by Israel and so on. And he has on his agenda three more three different files. The first file is the tunnel on the Roshan Ikhara, the border crossing between us and Lebanon. They say that they have 800 meters taken by Israel. And then there is the file of seven Shiite villages that were abandoned in 1948 that are around the border. And Hezbollah is claiming to get them back from Israel. And finally, we have the Shaba Farms, where the Hezbollah and the Lebanese say this is Lebanese soil. And we say no, this is definitely Syrian because we conquered that in 1967 from Syria. That's right, isn't it, Jonathan? I mean, Hezbollah have had these kind of long term stated goals when it comes to Israel about territory that they see as theirs and they want to take back. Yes. And stay just for the sake of conversation. There is some kind of an agreement on these Shiite villages, which we're mentioned here on the tunnel in Roshan Ikhara and the Shaba Farms. There's not going to be any, but let's say for the sake of conversation, there is. Well, that means that peace will arrive and Hezbollah will put down its weapons. The answer, of course, is no. Israel left Lebanon all the way until the blue line. This I'm not saying this. The United Nations stated this back in 2000. Israel left all the way until the blue line. Is there peace since 2000? Were there no kidnapping incidents on the border? Was there no war in 2006? All this happened. So I don't think that anything will appease Hezbollah. Eventually Hezbollah is a goal that is much bigger than the Shaba Farms or those villages here in the upper Galilee. That is something far bigger. And that's the extinction of the state of Israel. So you can appease them as much as you want. Would that bring peace to the region? The answer, unfortunately, is no. And of course, as our defence correspondent, you've spent a lot of time along the, I think, it's a 50-mile border between Israel and Lebanon. And there was an international agreement back in 2000 when Israel withdrew. There's a lot of concern about what Hezbollah is doing now on that border and how it's kind of concealing its activities. That's true. And let's remember it was in December of 2018 when Israel revealed those six tunnels at the time crossing from Lebanon into Israel, the biggest one just about a mile or so from the place where we are here in the village of Ezzarit. Do we know for sure that there are no other tunnels? The answer is no. They're based mostly on intelligence. But of course, Israel has fantastic intelligence on what is happening around with the neighbours Hezbollah included. But does that mean the Israeli intelligence is aware of every little piece of detail? The answer, of course, is no. So the concern is correct because there can be many, many other tunnels which we don't know about. We have to say that prior to 2018, people here in the area, including here in Ezzarit, they would say again and again, we're hearing sounds. Something is happening under the ground. And it seemed as if everyone was ignoring their call until one morning early in the morning in December 2018, suddenly came the news that Israel unveiled these tunnels. So work was obviously done not only on the Lebanese side, but on the Israeli side as well. Is the IDF aware of everything happening in Lebanon? I assume the answer is no. Jacques, talking about regional developments, I mean, we had the Iranian Foreign Minister recently in Beirut showing up his support for Hezbollah. There are two major developments recently. You've got the rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran. And you've also got the rehabilitation of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Arab world. How is that having an impact on the situation? Well, definitely on a negative point of view. This is not what Israel would have hoped to see. I mean, we see that the rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran is at the expense of Israel, certainly. So because Saudi Arabia will not be the part of the alliance that Israel was hoping to create around it, a Sunni alliance against the Shiite North, and certainly the welcome back to the Arab world of Syria doesn't add, I would say, vitamins to the Israeli regional relations. The thing is that we are on the Saudi issue. We are confronted with three actors, the United States, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia would like to normalize the relations with Israel if Israel would accept its peace plan, meaning going back to the 67 lines and creating a Palestinian state and so on and so on. The Americans would act to normalize if, of course, we would let them agree on a new agreement, a nuclear agreement with Iran. This puts Israel in a very difficult position. But the Saudis and the Israelis are on the same page, essentially, when it comes to Hezbollah. Well, on Hezbollah, yes. I mean, because Hezbollah is definitely acting against the Saudi interest inside Saudi Arabia in Yemen and in Iraq, we saw that Hezbollah had trained operators to fire attack drones on Saudi Arabia twice. And this was the job of Hezbollah. So, I mean, definitely Saudi Arabia is clashing with Hezbollah. And this is the reason that this is one of the core subjects to be discussed between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Jonathan, in talking about the international aspect, the Americans and the French are constantly trying to find some kind of solution for the Lebanese. Is the Israeli army somewhat held back by the efforts of the Americans and the French to stabilize Lebanon? I'm not sure, because, as you mentioned, the United States and especially France, which has a special relationship with Lebanon, they are trying to work things out with Lebanon. That is very nice. But the state of Lebanon is not controlling the state of Lebanon as crazy as it may sound. The state of Lebanon is a secondary player in Lebanon. The main actor is Hezbollah. Hezbollah is the strongest factor. It's stronger than the state itself. Therefore, you really want to negotiate with Lebanon? Go to the patrons. They're in Tehran. They're not in Beirut as good as important as the American and French efforts may be. And they are, eventually, you have to discuss with Hezbollah. And that means discussing with the Iranians. They're playing all the cards there. Jacques, do you agree with that? The French seem particularly hesitant about upsetting Hezbollah? Well, you know, the French have a very special role playing in Lebanon. Macron came to Lebanon after the port explosion and he promised funds to be sent to Lebanon, all the funds that were sent to Lebanon were never the discovered where they arrived to. And then France tried to impose a candidate as a president, the Slayman Fungi. Who is the candidate of Hezbollah? Well, the Christians in Lebanon said, no, we don't want Slayman Fungi because he's a pro-Syrian and pro-Hezbollah. We want the jihad as well. A Christian Maronite, who is a very talented economist. We want him to be the president. And this is going to happen on the 14th of June. Hopefully they will succeed in electing the president. My view is that we will go back to zero point again. All right, Jack, now, yeah, thank you very much. Indeed. We're going to take a very short break. 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It's also the closest large community to any of Israel's borders. Some of the houses here lie just a quarter of a mile from the Lebanon border. It means Shlomi will be a sitting duck for Hezbollah's rockets in a future war, but as far as defensive solutions for the residents, there's still a lot to do. Our main issue at the moment is the shelters. About half of the houses in Shlomi, the ones that were built after 1992, they have a shelter in the house. The main problem is with the other half that do not have shelters inside the house, only communal shelters at the bottom of the building staircase. This is what it looks like. The same shelters used to protect the residents from PLO-Katusha rockets in the 70s are expected to shield residents from Hezbollah's modern missile arsenal. Elderly people live in this building, very old, who live in the third and fourth floor, people with physical or mental disabilities. They can't run to get to the shelter. Those living here understand they have to rely on something else to survive. We live in such close proximity to the border that you can hear the missile landing at the same time the sirens begin. My husband is disabled, he has no way to get to the shelter downstairs in time. By the time he has got there, many rockets will have landed. I will not leave my husband and run to the shelter when I know he is disabled and alone, cannot walk, certainly not in time to avoid getting hurt, so we stay home. It should be noted the community shelters are well kept. They're clean and air conditioned, there are toilets, running water and even beds. They were a good solution 30 or 40 years ago when tense periods would send the residents to the shelters for a few days, but the reality now is completely different. The worst scenario Israeli authorities are preparing for is approximately 30 to 45 days of fighting. These shelters are not suitable to shelter people for that length of time. A future conflict will not feature dozens of Katyusha rockets like in the past, but hundreds or even thousands of rockets fired every day. With an alert time of only five seconds, sometimes even less, the only way for people here to be relatively safe is for all the houses in Shlomi to have a protected shelter. There are roughly 1,000 homes lacking that shelter. Residents were promised many times this will happen. They're no longer expecting anything much. Whenever there is a new government, they always promise us shelters, budgets, and then the government changes and the budget goes somewhere else. By the time this government makes that promise, a new government will be in its place. Right behind me is Shlomi just above it, the Israel-Lebanon border. If and when a war erupts, thousands of rockets are expected to land on this community, with residents having practically no time to respond and many of them having no shelters in their homes. This means that all they will have to do is pray for the rockets, not to hit directly at them. Jonathan Regev, I-24 News. So as you heard, there are a pretty frightening situation for the people who live in these communities. And Jonathan Regev, our defense correspondent, he made that report and he's with us as well. And we're also joined by the former mayor of Kvav Radim, a nearby town, Sivan Yechieli. Welcome. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me. And with us, well, Reenat Karmel, we're delighted to have you with us. Reenat has very kindly invited us to her home today. And she, as you can see, lives very, very close to the border as well. So Reenat, we'll be speaking to you in a moment. But Sivan Yechieli, we just saw that report about what's happening in Shlomi. Is it a similar situation in your town? Kvav Radim is not as close to the border as Shlomi. We differentiate between three layers, two kilometers, four kilometers and nine kilometers. These are the confrontation lines, as it's called. And Shlomi and Zarit, where we are here, is the two kilometers, which is at the highest risk, including a risk of invasion, a physical invasion of troops from Edoaduan, a force of Khizbala. And when you talk to people in your community, young people, old people, is this something that is, is something they're worried about? Are they concerned in their daily lives? I think that people don't realize. I think there's a dissonance between what's happening in the south. And, you know, there's a lot of, every time there's an event in the south, there's hundreds of missiles or thousands of missiles. And people assume that it's going to be quite similar here. And it's going to be very, very different. And I think that people don't appreciate that enough. And the result may be quite a shock when it happens. And I'm talking about this, especially about the two kilometers or four kilometers from the border where they're subject to rocket and mortar attacks. And they're subject also to very, very heavy missiles, which can break the security rooms or the shelters, the local home-made bomb shelters. And I think that when that happens, that may bring quite a bit of panic in the north of Israel. And I think that this is something that the government should take into consideration and work very strongly in preparing this region for the war. Renat, you were born here. You grew up here. Your father helped to found this community. I mean, its paradise is beautiful, but there is a looming threat. I mean, just talk us through, how does that affect your life? Okay, that's right. What you said is exactly right. And there is a dissonance between the feeling of a paradise, a true paradise. But I cannot say that in the back of my mind, I'm not thinking about it. There is a fear. The unknown is very unknown. And as Sivan said, we really don't know how to arrange ourselves to be ready for this countdown. And then it will be from zero to 100 in some minutes. I don't know. Maybe we don't have a minute to get into the room, the shelter. Yeah. So we live with that fear. But as you said, I grew up here. And I can say it is usual, but we have it in our mind. It's something you've learned to live with. Yes. Do you think you get enough support from the government, from the local authorities? As always, you can answer about this question. There must be more. We must have more, more confidence, more resources, more attention. We have some problems with the economical situation here, with the agriculture and other issues. We don't have bank or anything, no grocery, nothing. There's a lack of infrastructure, you feel? Right. Do you think this is something that the young people, the children talk about? Are they aware of that? Yes, as you can see behind me, there are some buildings here that the young generation started and thought we will live here near our parents, which are getting older. And there is no place, there is no work here around, is there it? So the economical situation is a great issue. And most of the young people, which didn't live here most of their lives, are afraid and they will not come. So we have empty houses. Yeah. Sivan, is that something that you agree with? Do you think people have put off coming to live here because of the threat? I think so. I think Renat gave a good answer in terms of there is a security threat, which is very present. And I think people are aware of it. And there's also an economical issue that is not being addressed by the government. The Israeli government, especially the current government, is not very interested in the periphery. They're busy with their own thing. And I think that that kind of shows in this region, especially. Do you think that it's worse now than it was, say, 10 years ago? Or is it approving? I think that it's getting worse. I think things are getting worse. I'll give you an example. Back in 1970, in 2017, I was the chairman of the Northern Confrontation Line of the cities here. And we decided to have that plan that was five billion shekels in order to fortify this region and prepare it for war. And it took us a while. But then the Defense Minister at the time was a liberal man, and he approved it. He resigned from the government, Bibi Netanyahu came into office. And the first thing he did was cancel that plan. Okay, so then it was reinstated, but much in a much shallow way and much less budget. And I think that that really shows where the priorities lie. Instead of investing in these regions and making them into the paradise, they could be actually kind of neglecting them. Both on the economical side and especially on the security side, which is so the political uncertainty has had a negative impact on on your region, the political uncertainty. And I think the cynicism of politics, you know, oh, yes, well, we see that everywhere. Jonathan, and just just to wrap up, then you reported you spoke to lots of people in these border communities. Is that something that you've been seeing as well? Yes, absolutely. People people are are concerned by this. I have to say that in communities, I sit in the north and I sit in the south, even with with all the security tension, if if there was work, if there were economic opportunities, and more infrastructure, and perhaps easier and faster way to get to to employment, employment centers further south high Tel Aviv area or so, people would come here despite everything that is happening. And this is true for the north. It is also true for the south. There are many times we constantly speak of the Gaza border, for example, the Gaza border communities are growing because there are in places, not everywhere, but there are economic opportunities. And they that means people come there. This can happen here, even with all this threat of his bala, people will come here. The security threat is putting people away. True. I think the economic effect together with that is even worse. There is a way to counteract that very interesting Jonathan, Renat and Sivan. Thank you very much to you all. And thanks to you for watching. That brings us to the end of this special edition of Middle East now from the border with Lebanon. Stay with us on I-24 News. Much more still to come.


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yo what's going on leafrination asleeper back again and welcome back to the channel and that is right it is NHL 22 season NHL 22 is officially out and uh you know it's time to do my yearly thing and try to help you guys learn some uh deeks um so you can uh you know style out on uh some of your opponents here so that being said i'm going to go through every uh deek that uh there is an NHL 22 i'm going to try to help you guys uh learn them um because some of these deeks can be very useful in game and i mean some of them just look really pretty so uh let's get right into it so the first thing i'm going to show you guys how to do is the backhand and forehand tuck so first things first uh we will be showing you the backhand tuck and i will be doing this with right-handed players so when i uh say these um moves with your controllers going to be with the right-handed player but you can see the graphic on the screen it does show you guys how to do with the left-handed player as well so regardless the backhand tuck what you're going to do is you're going to hold your stick out to your forehand and then you're going to hit both rb and lb and it will uh you know tuck it on your backhand and then with the forehand tuck you're going to hold your stick to your backhand and then hit rb and lb and it will uh do the forehand tuck for you as well so pretty uh very easy deeks to do uh they were op back in NHL 20 i want to say 21 they got toned down uh 22 is probably toned down as well but hey uh you know it could work next thing i'm going to show you guys how to do is the backhand windmill um this is another very simple deek to do you're going to hold lb then uh go out with your right stick and that will do the uh backhand windmill for the forehand windmill uh same thing you're going to hold down lb and then out with your left stick again pretty simple deeks here um and this can be useful in game to get around opponents so these uh deeks that i'm going to show you guys here were new last year um they're still very useful they are very useful in games so the first one is the bank pass is what i like to call it uh so this is what it looks like um you know just you know you flip the puck off of the boards and you can get around your opponent if there's someone uh close to the boards there uh so what you're going to do to complete the bank pass is you're going to click both lb and rt at the same time and it performs a deek again pretty simple deek the other new move they had last year uh i call it the Crosby uh it's where you're behind the net and you perform the deek like this um so again very uh simple to do uh very similar to the bank pass uh click both lb and rt at the same time but you just have to be behind the net to uh bank it off of the net obviously now moving on to a bit more of a complicated deek this one's called the behind the back so this is what it looks like uh it looks simple to do but it ain't that simple to do so what you're going to do uh for this deek is you're going to hold the puck out to your forehand you are then going to hit and hold rb and then rotate your right stick to the left and put your left stick inwards and then both stick outwards now i know me saying that i i mean just hearing myself say that sounds difficult uh but make sure to follow the graphics on the screen as well uh it does take a little bit of time to learn how to do it took me a long while to learn how to do back in the day but uh once you get the hang of it it is one of these simpler uh harder deeks to do if that makes any sense so keep practicing that uh go over it and you should get it in due time we're gonna go back to some simple deeks um i don't know if you want to call these deeks but they are uh something you could do in game uh that can be useful and this one is the between the legs pass so uh what you're gonna want to do for the between the legs pass is hold down lb and your right stick and then hit rt like you're going to pass the puck normally uh very simple uh deek to do and uh honestly uh it can help trick defenders um when performing this pass we got another between the legs deek this one's the between the leg shots again similar to the between the legs pass you're gonna hold down lb in your right stick and then you're gonna flick up on your right stick like you're going to shoot it and uh it performs the shot so um i don't know how OP this shot is it is an OP actually um but it looks cool so the next deeks i'm going to show you are uh some datsoek deeks so the first one being the datsoek flip so to perform the datsoek flip what you're going to do is click your right stick in and push down on it and then hit rb to flip the puck up like you're going to create a saucer pass but once you're doing that uh datsoek uh deek you hit rb and it flips a puck up for you this can trick a gold tender uh where you know maybe you're shooting the puck and then you flip it over your shoulder uh very cool deek to perform the next datsoek deek i'm going to show you the datsoek shot so very similar to datsoek flip you're going to click your right stick in push it down and then flick up on the right stick like you're going to shoot the puck which you are shooting the puck so uh pretty simple deeks again this can trick out the gold tender once you're dragging the puck back you're either expecting a shot or a flip it's 50 50 at that point this next deek i'm going to show you isn't very um useful in game but it's a thing uh this one's called a jump deek so to perform the jump deek it's very simple you're going to click rb at the same time flick up on your right stick and uh that's the jump deek the next deek i'm going to show you is the kutra this one is another complicated deek to pull off and last year apparently i taught you guys how to do it uh an alternative way there is an easier way so this year hopefully uh this will make more sense so what you're going to do is you're going to hold your puck to your forehand you're then going to hit lb and then you're going to put your left stick to the left and your right stick to the right and it should perform the kutra now reading that it does sound pretty simple uh way better than i described it last year so again to do the kutra of uh you're gonna hold the puck your forehand lb uh then you're going to uh put your left stick out to your left and then your right stick out to your right and that'll perform the kutra of deek now this deek is complicated very very much complicated and very very hard to pull off in game but it is a deek and i'm gonna teach you guys how to do it this one i'm sure you guys know what it is it's called the michigan um i'm not even sure if i'm going to be able to pull it off in video here for you guys but i'm going to try my hardest to show you guys what it looks like so what you're going to do to perform the michigan good luck get get a no pad ready what you're going to want to do is hold the puck to your forehand you're going to hold down lb you're going to hold in your right stick and then rotate that right stick to the left and then to the right and it should perform the deek now like i said it's it's very hard to pull off in game um so good luck again uh practice makes perfect you can get it down uh you just need a very good player to uh pull off this deek with back to the easier deeks uh this is the one touch backhand to perform the one touch backhand you have to hit lb and at the same time l with the right stick and that'll perform the deek and then you got the one touch forehand obviously to go along with that again very similar hit lb and at the same time you're going out with the left stick instead of the right stick so um that's how you perform the one touch backhand and forehand deeks next week i'm going to show you again this is just more for style and skill it's called the skate kick so what you're going to do to perform the skate kick deek is you're going to hold down lb and at the same time down on the right stick and that'll perform this um you know uh nice looking deek so the next deek i'm going to show you guys is a through the legs deek this is something that could be very useful in game uh this is what it looks like and i'm going to show you guys how to perform it so we're going to do to perform the through the legs deek is hold the puck to your forehand you're then going to hit the right uh bumper and rotate your right stick to the left and that'll put the puck through your legs to complete the deek the next deek i'm going to show you guys how to do is the toe drag again a very simple deek to do you're going to hold the puck to your forehand and then rotate your stick to the left and uh yeah there you go you got the toe drag now this is the deek that i left out last year uh goes along with the toe drag this one's called the toe drag shot so if you've ever seen awesome athus play a game of hockey um surely you seen him do the toe drag shot um so they have it in game and this is how you do it you're going to hold your puck to you're going to hold the puck to your forehand uh you're going to rotate your left stick to the left and then uh while he's performing the toe drag you're going to flick up to shoot it and uh that's a toe drag shot next is the henrik zeta burg uh deek this one can be used um in game obviously uh what i meant to say is it's very useful in game it can be very useful in game uh when performed at the right time so what you're going to do to perform is that a brick deek is you're going to hold the puck onto your backhand you're then going to hit and hold down the left bumper what you're going to do after that is go outwards with both sticks and then inwards with both sticks and that'll perform this deek it's a pretty good looking deek and if you perform it at the right time you can definitely um you know break someone's ankles and make them look like a pylon uh no offense deon but yeah guys i think i pretty much covered every deek that there is in the uh video game hl 22 um if i was able to help you uh be sure to drop a like uh down below be sure to drop a comment down below let me know if i helped you if i left out any deeks as well uh drop a comment i can try to help you guys out in the comments um but yeah guys um if you guys are also new around here and you want to see some hl 22 content i will be producing videos three times a week hockey ultimate team es hl franchise mode be a pro you name it uh you know if you want to see some videos from me make sure to subscribe button down below and hit the notification bell to stay updated but that is it guys for today's videos thank you guys very much for watching and i will see you guys very very soon on hopefully i was able to help i'll talk to you guys later peace


This study aims to estimate the green, blue, and gray water footprint of wheat production and consumption globally using a high-resolution approach. The assessment is based on a grid-based dynamic water balance model that takes into account daily soil water balance and climatic conditions for each grid cell. The results show that the global average water footprint of wheat per ton of crop was 1,830 m and l t, sup and gt, 3 and l t slash sup and gt slash ton, with about 18% of the water footprint related to production meant not for domestic consumption but for export. The major portion of virtual water export comes from the USA, Canada, and Australia alone. The study also highlights the large total blue water footprint observed in the Ganges and Indus River basins, which are known for their water stress problems. Additionally, about 93% of the water footprint of wheat consumption in Japan lies in other countries, particularly the USA, Australia, and Canada. This article was authored by M. M. McConan and A. Y. Hoekstra. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


I'm going to talk about the arts and a very, very little bit of the science behind how we engage people, and in particular the people who depend on and impact nature. And I'm going to give you a few examples of how the Natural Capital Project has been doing it in ways that are both imaginative and fun and creative. So I hope to inspire you to get involved and try some of these things out. I'd like to begin first with a confession, use this as a bit of a confessional, that I have been involved with many projects that have failed. They have failed to have impact. And I hasten to add that most of these projects were before I joined Natural Capital Project in WWF, obviously. When I was young and foolish in previous roles, acting as an environmental economist in government agencies. And what I would tend to do is hire some very good consultants who I respect their work. I would hire them. I would ask them to do a report on the value of ecosystem services. And there would be very limited engagement with people. So these consultants would fly in and out, maybe do a choice experiment, maybe do a survey. They'd write up a really nice neat report about each ecosystem service and the value of them. And they'd put it all in some sort of total economic value framework. And they'd hand back their report. And needless to say, those reports gathered a lot of dust and had very little impact. And one of my favorites, and I dearly love the people who worked on this, if they get to hear this, was in Monster Rats, which is an extremely curious place in the Caribbean, a very small island that in 1995 had a previously dormant volcano erupt. So two thirds of the population had to flee Monster Rats. And about 1,000 people stuck around. And I tell you, those people are fierce and fearless because they stayed even when lava was running down the hillside towards them. But it meant that we didn't really hear even that many people to engage, but still we didn't do it. So we built a lot of these reports. They had great titles. This one was called Value After the Volcano. But they didn't really have a lot of impact. And if you look at the broader picture of ecosystem service studies globally, there's also a kind of worrying picture. So this is some work done by Jan Laronce in Paris with colleagues back in 2013. They took about 450 ecosystem service valuation studies and they looked at whether they had documented a real use case of use in decision making or even had some analysis of use or had cursory or no reference whatsoever. So actual use cases was 3%. Some exploration or analysis of use was 6%. And the rest, the other 90%, barely mentioned it at all. So there's obviously a large part of the community that is doing this without exploring use in decision making. And this is obviously dated to 2013. And this report actually then kicked us to really write up and explore some of this in earnest in the subsequent years. So based on my own personal failures and the subsequent, you know, I would say some successes, some really, I believe successes we've had at NACAP, I've come to the belief that our work, this community's work on natural capital, will only have impact if we engage with people. If we do not engage with people, we're going to have no impact. And that is a challenge to all of us. So we need to learn the skills and the strategy for doing this. And it's more important and it's more difficult, in my view, than the science and the data itself. So we need to come down from our ivory towers or our NGO offices or whatever walls you like to live within and get over the fact that we have few incentives and we have few of the skills and few of the tools and too little time to do this. Because if we don't do it, we're not going to achieve what we're all setting out to do. And this shared sort of two-way communication is really important. Now this slide I'm going to whiz through. I was once told by a mentor of mine that when giving a talk you should have one really wonky framework slide that shows you thought about this deeply. So this is the slide. We thought about it deeply. We've studied a lot of places. Great, you can take some pictures and study it later. This is from a paper we did where we looked at three NACAP case studies on spatial planning. And we looked at the different ways in which knowledge was used. Now the one takeaway I want you to take from this is that in all three of those cases, we found that this way of using knowledge, which is called conceptual use, was foundational. It was not the only way it was used. And this is about understanding and beliefs and values. People had to use knowledge in that way before they could then use it more instrumentally, you know, to change a policy or change a plan or more strategically to maneuver their way through the political and power dynamics. But that underpinning of conceptual use was the first thing in all three cases. And so for me the takeaway is that, and we also found that to get that kind of use, you need to have regular, meaningful participation with stakeholders engaging diverse groups regularly. And so we understand the importance of all of this. So now I get to the fun part, the creative part. And I'm not saying these are all the answers. There are going to be many, many other ways we have to engage people. And especially if we're working with different groups, private sectors, different power dynamics, we've got to be very thoughtful about this. But I want to give three examples where I think the Natural Capital Project in the last 10 years has done this really well and has also had a lot of fun doing it. So the first is playing games. The second is being creative with communication. And the third is listening actively and earnestly to others. So starting on games, and Henry, who you've all got to know and love because he organizes the symposium, and Greg, and if Greg Verruches is in the room, could give a hand wave. He's not here. Oh yes, there he is. He was behind a lot of this work. That we've developed what we like to call, some people have liked to call serious games, although you can see from the quantity of beer and wine on this table that we also have lots of fun doing it. And these games are really about examining the impact of alternative development paths. We tend to play them with different groups. And one amazing moment we had with a partner in a financial institution that's pretty mainstream and hadn't at the time thought about the environment much. We'd been talking to them for about a year and it wasn't really clicking. And then they came to this event at the symposium and they played one of these versions of these games. And then they said, I get it. I get it. I get what you're trying to do. So it's a really nice way of people having those aha moments. So there's a whole series of these games that Henry and Greg can tell you more about. There's ones that first one we did was based in the Belize example that you've heard about. There's an agriculture one based on terrestrial and freshwater services. There's an arctic one which I've worked with a lot looking at arctic development and one which is more around linear infrastructure. And all of them are available for people to use and to print out. And what we find that they're useful for doing is conveying the concepts of how people, how nature contributes to people, bringing home the difficult decisions that need to be made between development and conservation, what you lose and what you gain, and demonstrating how spatial information can be particularly powerful for locating where development takes place. So they've been really powerful and fun tools. So the second example is around creative communication. So this is a group that is playing the game, but can anyone do spot the difference and see what's different in this picture? No beer. Oh yeah, there's no beer and wine. Also, we haven't done an online version. Those two guys on the phone are not playing an online version. Any other guesses? Yes, easel is great. So there is art in the background. So, and I'd like to credit a colleague of ours, Jill Schwartz, who's at WWF, who in our communications team, who has really pushed us and inspired us to be more creative with our communication. So this is a forum for sustainable infrastructure that Kate Newman organized also, I'm sure in this room, where we played the linear infrastructure game and as well as how playing the game, they had this art in the background to get people thinking. And in Myanmar, WWF commissioned a young local photographer to take pictures of how people were interacting with nature in the countryside and then hosted this gallery art show, both in Yangon and in Darway, showing people interacting with nature. So they framed the photos and they laid them out side by side with the natural capital maps. And according to Hannah Helsingen, who works at WWF, Myanmar people are still coming two years later and saying how much impact this had on them, how much they took away from this, how much they understood about not only the people they were seeing in the photos, but their own interactions with nature. So many people came, more drinks, that's a bit of a theme. And yeah, some really, some really powerful moments. So as well as working on art, we also developed this interactive website. You can go and have a play around on this. It's miamarnaturalcapital.org. So we visually enhanced the natural capital maps and posted them online. So the underlying data is much more accessible. So it's really beautiful. It's really interactive. And it makes the concepts much easier for a lay person to understand than many of the maps that we've been looking at for the last two days, which for this community, nice, you can interpret them for the average person, mean absolutely nothing. This is the video. We also, those of you who are here at the lunch break, got a chance to see this video that we did about natural capital in Mozambiques, also using videos as a creative forum. So finally, our final tactic here is active listening. And I've put this last, but I think it's probably the most important. And this is, obviously, we're engaging with people in that gameplay and in those creative communications. But this is really down at the project level. So where the natural capital project team are working in places with conversations. And Ann Gehry spoke yesterday about this importance of listening, patience, I would add, emotional intelligence, different ways of knowing, reflecting back that you've heard people. And this is something that I would say many people in the NatCap team are really good at. It's an absolute joy to be with people who are so good at this. So I wanted to give a brief example from the Bahamas work, which Catherine Wyatt and Katie Arkimer have led where they developed a development plan in Andros Island with the Office of the Prime Minister and Inter-American Development Bank. And in that, I think it really epitomizes how the work was done. Chatting with people, asking them simple questions. What do you want? What matters to you? Then coming back with things from education to health to transport to food security to water security, coming back with things that really matter. And then the NatCap team translating that back to how ecosystems and ecosystem services support all of that and how we can explore those trade-offs. So there's some really lovely examples. One of the quotes that Katie shared with me was a profitable land crab that put our children through college. I love this concept. And then there's a thing called the bone fish, which brings $50 million annually to Andros Island and this recognition of the importance of these fisheries for their communities. So you're probably quite familiar with these kinds of maps now, but using that kind of conversation to have insights and influence into what matters to people so that ultimately the kind of science we're doing does have impact. So in conclusion, I would like to encourage all of you to come out of our ivory towers and get onto the street or the beach or the lagoon or the forest or the river, whatever, or maybe into the finance institutions office, but get into the street. So we're talking with people and I encourage you all that we have lots of tools, lots of experience that are impactful and also incredibly fun. Thank you. This is really important work and I love the creativity that went into this. One of the things I'm curious about is how organizations learn from their mistakes. And I talked about this in a previous session, so I apologize, but we're pretty good at doing an evaluation and figuring out what did work and what didn't work. What we're not so good at is creating organizations that actually know how to learn so that these lessons are learned and implemented. It sounds like you've figured this out. And I'm just curious what you do within NatCap and WWF to make you capable of actually changing your plans based on knowledge that you've gotten from the field. I'm looking at Rebecca, who's our chief scientist. I'm sure there are many better answers than the one I'm about to give off the top of my head. But what I found, I would say what we've done in NatCap and Archie, it's emerged almost this meetings emerged from it is a culture of reflection. So we have something called our Olympics, so called because we run many different events that are quite tiring. It's like an inter for people who are involved with the NatCap project partnership. We come together once a year, a bit like with the symposium, a smaller group and we reflect on what we're learning and what's going well and what's not and we share. And I mean, I think that would be my instinct is it's pretty informal, but having a safe space where you can be open and where people again are good at listening and sharing across disciplines is very powerful. Hi, Emily. This culture of active listening, I also really appreciate and I'm wondering if you can give a good example of a case where this kind of active listening led to a real sea change in the kind of work that was ended up being done because I can think of a lot of examples where we listen to people and we integrate what they say into the way that we were kind of planning to do things anyway. So I mean, that's not being entirely fair. But you know, like is there an example where it really shifted fundamentally the way that you approached a problem? The way I approached a problem or where they, the way they did? Oh, either. Me either. Yeah. Yeah, so I'm looking at Spencer at the back. Spencer and I have been working with an institution that doesn't typically work on environmental issues and learning about how they make decisions in the finance sector, how, what their constraints are, what they, the way they operationalize things internally to really, like we spent many hours and many meetings really understanding their incentives and their structures and their processes. And through that thought about how we could adapt the way we work, the way we do use and produce a natural couple of information to meet their needs. So that's one specific example. I mean, I think you need to get yourself into the headspace and it could, you know, those examples I gave were communities, but it could just as well be a business or a financial institution or a government, but understanding their positions, their opportunities, their constraints, and then being imaginative and patient and all the many things that Spencer is. He's hanging, being put on the spot. To think about how we would have to adjust the science we do and the way we work to meet their needs. Can get me later, Spencer.


As Ukraine braces itself for a second full winter of Russian attacks on energy facilities, air defense units use all available resources to bolster their efficacy. Although Ukraine is banking on newer and better weapons systems to help prevent their country being plunged into darkness again, air defense units make use of all that is available, including guns and systems dating back to the Soviet era. We can see that even old Soviet era equipment works in the skilled hands of our boys. All the shots I witnessed today were accurate. All the targets were shot down, said Sariai Naiv, commander of the Joint Forces of Ukrainian Army who observed the exercise Maxim Gunn, the first fully automatic machine gun in the world, produced in 1936 for the Red Army featured prominently among other types of weaponry used by soldiers taking part in a drill conducted in central Ukrainian region of Chernihiv in November 11. Nearly half of Ukraine's energy system was damaged by Russian attacks last winter, when Moscow pummeled power plants and transformers with cruise missiles and Iranian-made Shahid drones. At times, millions of people had no electricity.


What makes for excellence in heart care? It starts with one of the most amazing teams of heart surgeons and cardiologists that I've seen assembled under one roof and the region's leading technology in a new $40 million facility. This is the nationally recognized Heart and Vascular Institute of Eastern Kentucky at Pikeville Medical Center. A team of researchers at the University of Kentucky are studying strategies to prevent child sex trafficking across the state of Kentucky. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2021, Kentucky had the nation's highest child abuse and neglect rate for the third consecutive year. Having that ability to traffic an individual sometimes in either setting is what keeps that situation essentially occurring in check, meaning not with law enforcement and notification, is keeping it quiet. A lot of what we're doing with our Bicenter intervention is really helping to identify and to reduce the stigma around child sex trafficking. And that's true for middle school staff, that's the focus of our intervention, but really for all of us because the idea of Bicenter interventions that help keep all of us safe. No one deserves to be trafficked, abused, you describe violence, no one deserves to have violence, but with the Bicenter intervention we can really focus on keeping each other safe and learning how to do that in a way that is effective. The first phase of the research involves a billboard campaign in more than two dozen randomized counties across Kentucky. So CSTOP now we worked a lot on coming up with our logo and it's really the child sex trafficking and concurrent to that stop. So remove the C, you have stopped and we want to do that now. So that's where the letters to our intervention come from. But the idea then is that when we know how to see it, we can stop it, which is the words behind the billboard. And that's a lot of what we're doing with our mass media campaign and to use an individual who is who is more androgynous because this child sex trafficking can happen essentially to any child. So what we're trying to do is to bring people making increasingly awareness and then also bringing the individual to our website.  And you can find out more information, more information about the study as well. And other links to resources within the state of Kentucky and nationally. Researchers are now asking any Kentuckians who see one of the billboards to visit CSTOPnow.com to find more information about the risks, warning signs and resources for reporting child sex trafficking. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.